"Dragon Ball XENOVERSE" Official Discussion Thread

[DBZGTKOSDH]

Also, I'm sure we'll get Majin customization and probably Namekian too (this is the only one I'd be kinda worried about with some of them looking sooooo odd). Anyway he also sent me an image of the Namekian and Male Majn "hair" customization options from the DBO guides. So these are probably what we'll see for them, and maybe more.

Wait... not all of these were in the game, eh?

[Zenkashuu]

Some new info about CaC and gameplay.

Spoiler:

Dragon Ball Xenoverse is the new game in the series developed by Namco Bandai and once again aims to become what every fan finds " the ultimate game "based on the license. While it is early to say, we would greatly lower the expectations because what we have seen has been somewhat off putting. During Gamescom in Cologne, we approached the company booth to chat with producer and uncover the mysteries surrounding this first Dragon Ball for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One , but will also last generation platforms ( PS3 , 360 ) . Xenoverse will focus on Dragon Ball Z , in terms of choice of scenarios, and other characters available, although there will be other (isolated) from other stages of the series. Thus, covering the game in story mode will be from the arrival of Raditz to Earth to destroy Buu , in a campaign mode that moment they would not elaborate. However we know who this mysterious character with clothes Capsule , the scooter saiyans and look similar to Gohan . And it's not even a survivor of the planet Vegeta fruit or an egg Family Goku , but the player himself. Yes, the great distinguishing feature of this game is that we can create characters. demo we saw was focused on this main feature, having confirmed when four breeds total: Human , standard skills and good attacks ki energy Majin breed of Buu, tough guys with great attack power; Namekians as Piccolo, hard to peel, with ranged attacks; and saiyans , of course. As he explained afterwards in an interview, we can customize them in terms of appearance (clothes / accessories, making them thinner / fatter, change the face) or gender (male or female) but at its base, if two players use a human character Both have virtually identical skills. Change if, for example with a namekiano, decided to have the longest arms, which give access to a wider range of attack at the cost of being slower. We can equip these characters new abilities, though: are, aesthetics aside, default wrestlers. Not only can we create characters but will also have an area where they can expect to join the world Dragon Ball. In Xenoverse, the idea is to pick up our new hero and intervene in the classic 'story' of Dragon Ball Z, which has been justified as follows: from the future, in a town called Tokitoki City , has created a machine time that leads Warriors to where they want to go back there. Trunks of the future, through Shenron , invoke your presence and change the events that happened and at this point the game cycle goes like this: travel to the story classic fight and intervene in it, return to the city; repeat. This city is also a kind of lobby or waiting room where you can meet other players online, although not detailed this whole aspect of the game. Speaking and the mechanics of play, is a bit disappointing to see how little has lasted the 'hype' from your ad and attractive images and what first comes to mean see it in motion. Good thing it looks great , graphically it is very solid, using the usual graphic style cel shading with massive glitter to make the characters seem more energetic, all powered by the engine Havoc , allowing further scaling of the scenarios and make them more interactive, with many destructible items. Technically is hardly reprehensible in the version we saw for PlayStation 4 game But, we must also do something as simple as play. Which Dimps , the creators of Dragon Ball subsaga best selling of all (Budokai) and responsible for Street Fighter IV , cogieran charge of game development could give some hope about the quality of the title in its core base. What we have seen is, at best, questionable. In the demo they put us, the characters had free movement mapping style Tenkaichi , and although there was evasive moves such as dodging bullets, teleport, etc., the game looks even guided that Ultimate Tenkaichi . That is, when we make a special attack, a dialog is displayed with four options and each move is assigned to a button. What does this mean? A Kame launches with R2 + Triangle, without further complications. Thus you gain in accessibility for new players but what fans expected was more complex, especially now in the shadow of fangame Hyper Dragon Ball Z , which has been shown to be a game about really deep saga. Here, in the words of its producer, not even command actions, ie, something as simple as moving a hadouken (quarter moon + fist) will not lead to anything in this game. The control is mapped to punch and kick buttons on the remote but special and a little more complex things are made ​​from a shortcut that appears on the screen, rather large itself. We wanted to ask if this could be turned off to make the game experience richer, less guided; the answer was negative. The game has done so and can not be changed. Battles are 1v1 , as you know, but in which we can do with the characters created have a 2vs2 remember, in excess, the mod classic Quake III Arena "Bid for Power " . We saw much more mechanical level, the title is in continuous development and we will know much more about him in the coming months. So for now we suggest lowering much expectations if you expect a game with some depth and quality that you would anticipate a product Dimps: more guidance, more direct, appealing for the visual spectacle (the animations are very solid , and the faces and diversity) than anything else. Those who want a level playing EVO can continue with Hyper Dragon Ball Z, which incidentally Xenoverse producer knows and admires, but in your opinion what he is doing is best. Let everyone draw their conclusions.

soure: http://www.meristation.com/xbox-one/dra ... 90/2001558

I have no idea about the site, if is legit or not. So take it with a grain of salt.

[enjyu123]

Sorry, but I don't understand what that means, if someone could explain to me if it is bad or good news. For the most part I don't believe this since Dimps clearly wanted to keep the including of GT a secret and over here it says fight from the arrival of raditz to the destruction of buu.

[budokaifanatic007]

Sorry, but I don't understand what that means, if someone could explain to me if it is bad or good news. For the most part I don't believe this since Dimps clearly wanted to keep the including of GT a secret and over here it says fight from the arrival of raditz to the destruction of buu.

How do you know they wanted to keep GT a secret??

[Jaruka]

Some new info about CaC and gameplay.

soure: http://www.meristation.com/xbox-one/dra ... 90/2001558

I have no idea about the site, if is legit or not. So take it with a grain of salt.

The website is legitimate, they're well recognised in Europe.

That being said their criticisms seem to stem from the fact that Dimps hasn't made it as complicated as Street Fighter. I also am not quite sure of their criticism that it feels like 'Ultimate Tenkaichi' because specials are mapped to buttons similar to almost every game we've had whereas if one of us compared it to Ultimate Tenkaichi then we would be talking about the rock, paper, scissors gameplay, the restricted combo system and the two different 'play modes'.

Interesting that they mentioned that, as a Namekian, you can choose to have longer arms but it would make you slower, it seems like the system could be quite deep.

[enjyu123]

They said in treevax's interview that they can't reveal that at the moment when they were asked if their is GT. Also that character at the back looks like froze from Dragonball Heroes.

[dbgtFO]

A new character in the left side, no? May I see things...

Spoiler:

That guy in the bottom left corner? I would say it looks like a member of Freeza's race(Froze from Heroes perhaps?).

[omegalucas]

It's probably another created character... I mean we have Player Boo talking to the Original Mistery Guy from the Future... after all that city is a hub world connecting the various players through the internet.

[Gyt Kaliba]

I realize that if they don't give us insane options like that, that there's not nearly as much customization that could be done to Namekians as there can be for the other races...but those other looks from DBO have always looked really, really bizarre to me.

And not to speculate too much, but let's see here...we know for sure we'll be getting Saiyans (probably more or less Humans via this one too), Namekians, and Majins, the three races from DBO. And the way a previous thing was worded made it sound like we'll probably be seeing more races too, right? Heroes at least has Androids (both the 16/17/18/19/20 and Cell varieties), and Freeza's race...is that about all we've had before in terms of playable races, or am I forgetting something?

[enjyu123]

Hmm and we could have a kakaishin race based on the mystery character we saw that looked like whiss, and this last one is my wishful thinking but if we had Gt we could have a dragon race.

[Big Momma]

It's probably another created character... I mean we Player Boo talking to the Original Mistery Guy from the Future... after all that city is a hub world connecting the various players through the internet.

I noticed that, too...perhaps we'll be able to interact with other players' characters online? In a way that isn't just fighting?

[DonieZ]

I think Xenoverse is gonna be B3 and Bt3 tier.

I hope it's the B3, BT3 killer.

I second that.

[Shinnin]

Some new info about CaC and gameplay.

source: http://www.meristation.com/xbox-one/dra ... 90/2001558

I have no idea about the site, if is legit or not. So take it with a grain of salt.

So, in short, they expected Xenoverse to play like Street Fighter IV because Dimps co-developed it and they're upset that it doesn't.

[dbboxkaifan]

For the theme song it'd be nice if they included the original Heroes' theme song or Online's theme as this feels like part of either series.

[Dicrypter]

The game have some release date all ready?
I saw today in a store the pre order of the game and they have the release date somewhere in 2014

[Ryuman]

For the theme song it'd be nice if they included the original Heroes' theme song or Online's theme as this feels like part of either series.

I don't see why they'd reuse one of them, but it would be cool if Tanimoto did the theme. Would be nice to see Kageyama do a new song though...

[dbboxkaifan]

CLHCL was used in UB and BoZ and CLHCL is a theme song over 20 years plus old so I don't see why they couldn't use Heroes (1st theme song) for it, heck, I'd love if they did!

[Ryuman]

CLHCL was used in UB and BoZ and CLHCL is a theme song over 20 years plus old so I don't see why they couldn't use Heroes (1st theme song) for it, heck, I'd love if they did!

Yeah, but I don't feel like a former theme famously made for the show really equates to a song made for another video game. I mean, the name of the game is even central to the lyrics.
Sorry to be a party pooper. I just don't see it, is all.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

The "Dragon Ball Heroes" portions of the lyrics would be really off-putting as the main theme for Xenoverse. That said, I really wouldn't mind if they were in the game as regular BGMs or whatever. If we don't get an original theme though, I would be okay with a remix of the Base of Tenka'ichi opening from DBO (with lyrics this time).

[SingleFringe&Sparks]

So, in short, they expected Xenoverse to play like Street Fighter IV because Dimps co-developed it and they're upset that it doesn't.

So their objective verdict is that the game sucks because it doesnt copy + paste SF's formula? Yeah, I'm skeptical of this article. A lot of it sounds bias. DBZ has never preformed like SF, there is no reason to compare it to it just because SF holds the monopoly. It isnt the concept behind this game.

". In the demo they put us, the characters had free movement mapping style Tenkaichi , and although there was evasive moves such as dodging bullets, teleport, etc., the game looks even guided that Ultimate Tenkaichi . That is, when we make a special attack, a dialog is displayed with four options and each move is assigned to a button"
They're comparing the action display to Ultimate Tenkaichi's (Defence, Evade, Counter) thing? C'mon.

" What does this mean? A Kame launches with R2 + Triangle, without further complications."
Considering all DBZ games have been set up like that since Budokai 1 I have no clue why they assume that this game would become SF to appeal to their inability to play a fighting game any other way. I dont see why they should make the gameplay play more complicated just to pretend depth exists. DBZ games need to have a balanced manuver system and smooth fluidity. Not convoluted button imputs to do simple things. That is not depth. Burst limit could have been a competitive game if its ki system was fixed up, but because it doesnt have a semi-circle in its commands, they wont touch it.