Budokai 3 or Budokai Tenkaichi: Which is Your Favorite?

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:35 am

I'd have to go with Budokai 3.. the game over all feels so much smoother, and looks a lot better. Sure, the Dragonrushes got really annoying, but it just kinda kept the speed of the game up.
I really didn't like the Sparking! character models.. they were so emtionless, and it just felt so cheap and taky.. not that its a bad game, hell no, it was awesome. But Budokai 3 wins for me, as a combo of:
Amazingly over the top graphics, and effects.
Great new music, felt really fresh(For most of the levels)
The game seemed to.. 'flow', as in the gameplay never slowed down.
Controls were easy to remember.
Fuuuuu-Sion! HA! (Hehe).
Sparking just seemed to leave a lot of important stuff out, such as transformations, fusions, and huge explosions XD, but we all know this'll be fixed for NEO.

Anonymous Friend · Post by **Anonymous Friend** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:28 pm

Quick question on Budokai 3: I was playing against one of the charater who has one of those giant energy orb attacks like the spirit bomb and when i won the tap battle, i pushed the orb back at them. Can anyone tell me who it was? i can't seem to remember.

Mr.Piccolo · Post by **Mr.Piccolo** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:24 pm

Anonymous Friend wrote:Quick question on Budokai 3: I was playing against one of the charater who has one of those giant energy orb attacks like the spirit bomb and when i won the tap battle, i pushed the orb back at them. Can anyone tell me who it was? i can't seem to remember.

Could you describe him/her/it a bit? As of right now, I have no idea what your talking about...

Eclipse · Post by **Eclipse** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:31 pm

I prefer Budokai 3. Yes, we know about Sparking!'s huge story mode, and that's all right. But I like fighting games.

And Budokai 3 is a fighting game =)

DB_Fan · Post by **DB_Fan** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:33 pm

I prefer Budokai 3. I know that Sparking has more characters, a bigger story mode and the japanese voices, but Budokai 3 is in my opinion the best Dragon Ball fighting game, I prefer in-game transformations rather than 20 Gohans or 10 Vegetas.

Anonymous Friend · Post by **Anonymous Friend** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:50 pm

Mr.Piccolo wrote:
Anonymous Friend wrote:Quick question on Budokai 3: I was playing against one of the charater who has one of those giant energy orb attacks like the spirit bomb and when i won the tap battle, i pushed the orb back at them. Can anyone tell me who it was? i can't seem to remember.
Could you describe him/her/it a bit? As of right now, I have no idea what your talking about...

For the life of me, i can seem to remember who i was fighting or which character i was using. I tried to recreate it, buit nothing works. I tried with Cooler cuz i thought it was a recreation of the movie but that didn't work.

SkylarEC · Post by **SkylarEC** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:48 am

I bought both games without playing either first. And I've decided that I absolutely can't stand Budokai Tenkaichi.

1) I'm a close up kind of fighter, and I prefer punching, kicking, and throwing, with the occasional ki blast thrown in for good measure. So the amount of freedom just didn't matter to me at all.

2) Yes, there are a ton more characters, but even that doesn't matter to me; since everybody plays exactly the same. I just didn't feel like I was playing seperate characters.

3) I hate not being able to attack my opponent because I wasn't locked on. yet I could see them clear as day, and my character could sense where the opponent was.

4) The camera angle was, in my opinion, stupid. I don't want to see my character's back.

5) I beat the game too quickly. Some of the whatifs were interesting, but ended too soon.

6) I just didn't feel compelled to go back and replay any story mode, save to get the dragon balls.

7) I didn't feel compelled to replay the game on the hard difficulty mode.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:21 am

I love Budokai Tenkaichi. It's my second favorite DBZ game of all because it captures the feel of DBZ perfectly.

First, of course, is Legendary Super Warriors for the Game Boy.

Casual Matt · Post by **Casual Matt** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:03 pm

Anonymous Friend wrote:
Mr.Piccolo wrote:
Anonymous Friend wrote:Quick question on Budokai 3: I was playing against one of the charater who has one of those giant energy orb attacks like the spirit bomb and when i won the tap battle, i pushed the orb back at them. Can anyone tell me who it was? i can't seem to remember.
Could you describe him/her/it a bit? As of right now, I have no idea what your talking about...
For the life of me, i can seem to remember who i was fighting or which character i was using. I tried to recreate it, buit nothing works. I tried with Cooler cuz i thought it was a recreation of the movie but that didn't work.

Maybe it was Yamcha. It isn't quite what you describe, but he gets hit with his own Sokidan if you defend against it.

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:16 pm

Did you mean Sparking 1?
If it's between Sparking Neo and Budokai3, i'd say Neo.
But, if you throw in Super DBZ, that's more fun, at least on short terms

But, in the long run, it's Neo.

Mr.Piccolo · Post by **Mr.Piccolo** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:19 pm

Rocketman wrote:I love Budokai Tenkaichi. It's my second favorite DBZ game of all because it captures the feel of DBZ perfectly.

First, of course, is Legendary Super Warriors for the Game Boy.

The battle card game..? That game was awesome... for its sprites

Maphisto86 · Post by **Maphisto86** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:09 am

I like both equally for different reasons. Tenkaichi is not as linear as Budokai 3 and that's why I like it. There are also some more characters and of course the Oozaru (and Oozaru Vegeta) in Tenkaichi. I also like cutscenes rather than pictures talking.

Overall though Tenkaichi (oops sorry I mean Sparking! Mike :rol:) is not so "caged in" as B3. Still I like to play B3 because I love the cinematic attacks and I don't mind the "rock, paper, scissors" combo in the game though I admit it does get tedious after playing it for awhile so that's why I take a break from it. I still play Budokai 3 and I actually played it a bit today when I had some free time. I'm glad I'm not the only one who still enjoys it.

Budokai 3, Super DBZ and Sparking! (soon to be replaced by Sparking! NEO or Budokai Tenkaichi 2 which) are Dragonball games I still enjoy tremendously. Though I play several other video games of course. I am a professional geek you know!

chibi_goten · Post by **chibi_goten** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:50 pm

I prefer Budokai 2. Is that allowed? Anyways I loved 3 to Tenkaichi because I didn't like the fighting system all to much. I got it on Christmas morning and started to play it and was like ''what the hell is this shit''!

I didn't like the way they dramatically changed the fighting system (your probably thinking this guy should have read reviews, and seen that it was different in trailers etc, but I don't watch them. I prefer to play them as they come for the excitement of a new game and maybe a new system, weird...maybe).

Anyways, it was like 4 in the morning and I but it in, watched the intro and was like man that sucks. Then I got into the story mode and thought it was laid out cool then I started playing it, heh I didn't think it was cool at all!

I still completed it though and got everything (like you do) but haven't played it since. Also transformations, I hated it how you couldn't do it during a battle!

With 3 though, that was cool. The only fault I could pick was the button sequences etc that took ages and the Dragon Rush. (Think that's why I prefer 2).

I also didn't like 3 when they took out Babidi’s Spaceship, (is that what it was called?) that was cool!

AceSharp · Post by **AceSharp** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:22 pm

Actually, I agree with you a lot on that one.

Budokai 2 just had a kind of replay value 3 didn't. B3 got boring after a little while playing it, but B2, man I could waste hours on that game.

Dunno why (but probably due to dragon rush), B2 was just more fun .

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:19 pm

I personally loved Super DBZ, but I may be alone.

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:56 pm

Sun_Wukong wrote:I personally loved Super DBZ, but I may be alone.

I loved it too, very much, which is saying something considering I'm an anime purist and the game's based entirely off the manga. It's not quite as good as Budokai 3 (GH) IMO, but it is definitely a kick-ass game and my second favorite thus far. 23rd Budokai Chichi, my favorite female fighter in the Ps2 games!

chibi_goten · Post by **chibi_goten** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:05 am

Sun_Wukong wrote:I personally loved Super DBZ, but I may be alone.

I liked the game. Not so much to play by myself, but when I have friends over. It's a fun good ol' plain and simple beat them up.

(Which I do, mwahahaha as I have more practise

.)

Detective X · Post by **Detective X** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:34 pm

I don't quite understand why everyone says "Tenkaichi felt more like playing the show." I strongly disagree. Ever since I first laid hands on Budokai 3 I thought "Now this feels like DragonBall Z!"

Budokai 3 just does it right. All the models look way more accurate than Tenkaichi and have so much more personality to them, not to mention the gameplay is about a million times more fluid. I don't remember the fights in the show ever looking so stiff and slow like they play out in Tenkaichi. So what if you have "free" movement in Tenkaichi? If the system to utilize that freedom doesn't work right, the whole illusion's ruined. Budokai 3 felt like playing and watching a fight from the show. Hell, sometimes I'd just set it to COM vs. COM and just watch them duke it out. Tenkaichi didn't do it for me at all.

As far as Super DBZ goes into the equation, I don't really like it. I understand the whole gimmick of it playing like Street Fighter, and that's great. And yeah, the game is fun to play for a short while. There's just not enough in this to make me feel like I accomplished something by playing it. I know it's a port and I knew what I was in for, I just wanted more to it.

I am looking forward to Tenkaichi 2, however. I think they'll fix it enough to suit my needs in a DragonBall Z game.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:42 pm

Detective X wrote:Budokai 3 felt like playing and watching a fight from the show.

Bah!

Mr.Piccolo · Post by **Mr.Piccolo** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:59 pm

Rocketman wrote:
Detective X wrote:Budokai 3 felt like playing and watching a fight from the show.
Bah!

I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion and all but if I can recall, most of the show didn't remind me of a Street Fighter match(Street Fighter II, part 2, 2nd version, second re-release, on Feb. 2nd 2002)...Sparking! was designed to be a playable version of the show.

Kanzenshuu

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