"Dragon Ball XENOVERSE" Official Discussion Thread

[Nickolaidas]

It *could* be Treevax and his groupies being very very very loud...

In the end, sales will speak.

[budokaifanatic007]

It *could* be Treevax and his groupies being very very very loud...

In the end, sales will speak.

So if Xenoverse sells well you think that makes the chances of a new "Budokai" higher?

[Nickolaidas]

No, it will mean more chances for a Xenoverse 2, or a game in the similar vein. This game plays nothing like the Budokai, so why the hey would BN take good sales as in 'we want Budokai back'?

At best, it means 'more DIMPS', 'less Spike'.

And I'm game for that.

Yeah, I know DIMPS made the Budokai's but now they seem to have grown past that gameplay ...

If we wanted more Burst Limit, we should have bought Budokai 1&3 HD like, a gazillion times.

[budokaifanatic007]

No, it will mean more chances for a Xenoverse 2, or a game in the similar vein. This game plays nothing like the Budokai, so why the hey would BN take good sales as in 'we want Budokai back'?

At best, it means 'more DIMPS', 'less Spike'.

And I'm game for that.

Yeah, I know DIMPS made the Budokai's but now they seem to have grown past that gameplay ...

Because they know people want another Budokai and they said themselves that they are on the same page as us.

[sangofe]

Guys, I just had this theory. In one of the shots, we see one of these new characters (I don't remember her name) with the Dragon Balls... What if she'll be in the new movie and her wish is the "worst in history?!"

[Nickolaidas]

I think it will be completely unrelated, but hey, it's too soon to tell, right?

[Nickolaidas]

Because they know people want another Budokai and they said themselves that they are on the same page as us.

Source? Because I remember hearing they *know* we want more Budokai, but I don't remember them saying they're in the same page ...

Of course, if it was DIMPS talking - and not Bandai, I can believe that.

[budokaifanatic007]

When I spoke to Namco last month at the NYC Press Event I asked them if Xenoverse was a Namco decision or a Dimps decision and they told me Dimps was the one who presented them this idea.

They just fund their projects from what I understand. I also mentioned that Budokai needs to come back and they were on the same boat. I guess it just depends on if Dimps hears voices (which is hard because it usually gets drowned out by Tenkaichi fans)

Lastly, they were very impressed with that Dragon Ball Mugen game reaching over a million views so there's some hope.

If Dimps ever comes to comic con I could probably ask these questions (since I'm under press) but to my knowledge they never been to NY Comic Con before. I only met the CC2 President and Hideo Baba (Tales Guy) goes every year.

[Nickolaidas]

Maybe DIMPS is trying to win the Tenkaichi fanboys and ensure strong sales to attack with a 2D DBZ fighting game? We'll see. Or they just didn't want to hurt the guy's feelings.

Nevertheless, I appreciate you skimming through pages to show me this. :thumbs up

[Chuquita]

Guys, I just had this theory. In one of the shots, we see one of these new characters (I don't remember her name) with the Dragon Balls... What if she'll be in the new movie and her wish is the "worst in history?!"

Time Kaio, or Towa? Either way, I don't feel it'll go down that way because with new enemies they like to debut them in the movie. Towa's been around for a while now. I'm almost sure I've read on here somewhere that Toriyama was still designing characters for the movie as recently as this summer; though I have no actual evidence to say if he was designing the villains of the movie or other movie-only characters.

There's been so much XV news in the past couple days that I'm almost certain there won't be anything new about DB15 until October's Saikyou Jump at the earliest, or December's Jump Festa at the latest. (Much to my dismay--I wanted there to be news in this month's VJump. T_T Movie itself is starting to feel like a rumor.)

[SingleFringe&Sparks]

When I spoke to Namco last month at the NYC Press Event I asked them if Xenoverse was a Namco decision or a Dimps decision and they told me Dimps was the one who presented them this idea.

They just fund their projects from what I understand. I also mentioned that Budokai needs to come back and they were on the same boat. I guess it just depends on if Dimps hears voices (which is hard because it usually gets drowned out by Tenkaichi fans)

Lastly, they were very impressed with that Dragon Ball Mugen game reaching over a million views so there's some hope.

If Dimps ever comes to comic con I could probably ask these questions (since I'm under press) but to my knowledge they never been to NY Comic Con before. I only met the CC2 President and Hideo Baba (Tales Guy) goes every year.

The only question that would clarify this debate is, "If this game does well enough, will you consider making a New Budokai game or Sequel to Burst Limit for the older fans?"

[dualist]

Maybe DIMPS is trying to win the Tenkaichi fanboys and ensure strong sales to attack with a 2D DBZ fighting game? We'll see. Or they just didn't want to hurt the guy's feelings.

Nevertheless, I appreciate you skimming through pages to show me this. :thumbs up

But do people not see some Budokai in this game as well? The local multiplayer looks to be 2.5D with it's camera, that isn't enough to satisfy the 2D fans? Really? I honestly had no idea that the fans were so divided like this. The fighting style is similar to some of Budokai's best qualities in terms of combat depth, so what do people want?

[Big Momma]

Guys, I just had this theory. In one of the shots, we see one of these new characters (I don't remember her name) with the Dragon Balls... What if she'll be in the new movie and her wish is the "worst in history?!"

That would be a really awesome tie-in.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Guys, I just had this theory. In one of the shots, we see one of these new characters (I don't remember her name) with the Dragon Balls... What if she'll be in the new movie and her wish is the "worst in history?!"

That would be a really awesome tie-in.

Really unlikely though. We already know her and Trunks use the Dragon Balls to summon the player character, which may or may not be the wish the magazine says she wants to make and that the screens show us.

[Big Momma]

Of course it's unlikely, but it's still a really cool idea.

[dbboxkaifan]

will there be a public demo too?

Yes that comes later.

Source?

I'd like to believe that too but when did Bandai confirm it?

The only thing that appears up on Google is about the Japanese Network Test and TGS.

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

I really think people need to let go of Budokai. They are in the past. We are now in the era of high definition consoles where the developers can be focusing on more stuff to work on. Like Xenoverse.

[SSJ God Gogeta]

So with the closed beta out and videos spreading all over the web I'm starting to see more and more hate towards the game. I'm okay with constructive criticism but straight out bashing a game that is still in beta and not even on store shelves is kinda sad.

[Quebaz]

I take back when I said Xenoverse looked like Brave Soldiers with flight. Now it feels more like a combination of Burst Limit, Brave Soldiers, and Street Fighter IV.

In a good way or bad way?

Looks more like Zenkai to me, more so than BoZ.

Then you haven't been paying attention with either this game or Zenkai. I haven't played any, but just from the commands list and the dozens of gameplay videos you can see on the internet (more than a thousand for Zenkai now), you can thell they play nothing alike. Zenkai looks to be a modified Tenkaichi engine to be a faster-paced, albeit with less complex controls fighting game with 4 man battles (not counting the Team and 1v1 modes that were added later) and it shows. Xenoverse looks like they picked Brave Soldiers, removed most of the Cosmo mechanics for the usual DIMPS DBZ games mechanics (Dashing from SB2 instead of a more Naruto-Storm styled dash, Teleports both offensive and defensive (instead of being just defensive), charged strong attacks, ki-blasts, flying) and cranked up the shift mechanic to the extreme (the choose your supers thing).

They're clearly trying to do different things here and besides the multi-man battles (that by know shouldn't be that unfamiliar since we know of atleast 4 games that do it), the only thing that makes them similar is that they are Dragon Ball Z games, same argument can be said for BoZ, but my post is already lenghty enough.

[sintzu]

So with the closed beta out and videos spreading all over the web I'm starting to see more and more hate towards the game.

No matter what we get there will always be hate and not only on the games but the home releases,anime,manga,ect.