Regarding B3,whats the difference between the vanilla and SE

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Regarding B3,whats the difference between the vanilla and SE

Post by EXBadguy » Sun May 03, 2015 10:00 pm

Besides having the Japanese voices, of course.

Yeah, to start, I just (re)brought a PS2 a few days ago at a local store that sells old games and brought the vanilla version of Budokai 3 along with it(also brought Budokai 2, Naruto UN3, Soul Calibur 3, Tony Hawk Underground 2, Bully, Midnight Club 2&3, and GTA: San Andreas). I was bummed that the Special Edition/Greatest Hits version wasn't there for a second, but then I thought that it didn't have that many changes, so can anyone tell me what's the difference between the two? I remember over a freaking decade ago having the special edition, but, I can hardly remember the changes.

Felt so damn good hearing Yammamoto's Budokai soundtrack again too, after 7-8 years, I think.
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Post by Lord Beerus » Sun May 03, 2015 10:37 pm

There are practically no differences between the regular edition of B3 and the "Greatest Hits" edition of the game. The only features that the "Greatest Hits" edition version of the games has over the regular edition is that you can choose Japanese voices, a few more alternate character costumes which were basically Trunks's with long hair and with Bulma's battle armor and his sword, Piccolo's as Demon King Piccolo and Goku's with a Halo above his head. The "Greatest Hits" edition also had "Baba Crystal Ball Movies".

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Post by DBZAOTA482 » Sun May 03, 2015 11:24 pm

-The animation cut-outs of characters in the menus have moving mouth flaps
-There is an option for Japanese voices
-There are a few extra costumes such as Goku w/ Halo, Armored Future Trunks, and Piccolo Daimao
-There is a full move list in the pause menu that covers all the combos, strings, and attributes
-There are a few visual tidbits and tweaks as such Gotenks puffing out an actual ghost instead of white mist or Broli's Dragon Universe having dark clouds to it
-There are a few gameplay tweaks such as non-working capsules now working, moves are balanced with different priorities, combat is slightly faster, and the occasional glitching in Dragon Rush is gone
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Re: Regarding B3,whats the difference between the vanilla an

Post by Hellspawn28 » Mon May 04, 2015 1:47 am

The new outfits in the Greatest Hits edition of Budokai 3 are from the Japanese version. Oddly enough Bluma didn't became a outfit for Videl in the Greatest Hits edition though.
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Re: Regarding B3,whats the difference between the vanilla an

Post by 90sDBZ » Mon May 04, 2015 7:21 am

DBZAOTA482 wrote:-The animation cut-outs of characters in the menus have moving mouth flaps
-There is an option for Japanese voices
-There are a few extra costumes such as Goku w/ Halo, Armored Future Trunks, and Piccolo Daimao
-There is a full move list in the pause menu that covers all the combos, strings, and attributes
-There are a few visual tidbits and tweaks as such Gotenks puffing out an actual ghost instead of white mist or Broli's Dragon Universe having dark clouds to it
-There are a few gameplay tweaks such as non-working capsules, moves are balanced with different priorities, combat is slightly faster, and the occasional glitching in Dragon Rush is gone
Also there were more character dialogue images added to DU Mode so that instead of Goku looking serious all the time he also looked happy sometimes too. And there were more backgrounds added for dialogue parts such as Inside Buu.

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Post by EXBadguy » Wed May 06, 2015 12:05 am

DBZAOTA482 wrote: -There is a full move list in the pause menu that covers all the combos, strings, and attributes
-There are a few gameplay tweaks such as non-working capsules now working, moves are balanced with different priorities, combat is slightly faster, and the occasional glitching in Dragon Rush is gone
Dammit! I remember those now. Out of all these features, these two are the only ones that are worthy changes, other than that, meh, I'll be fine with the vanilla version. What could've made the SE perfect were way more costumes, a few more characters(King Piccolo, Pikkon, Tao, Baby Vegeta, Nouva Shenron, and Eis Shenron) and the Dragon Universe mode being available for all of the characters.
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Post by johnboy1 » Thu May 07, 2015 8:02 am

What were "Baba's Crystal Ball Movies"?
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Re: Regarding B3,whats the difference between the vanilla an

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Thu May 07, 2015 8:46 am

johnboy1 wrote:What were "Baba's Crystal Ball Movies"?
The opening sequence for Budokai 2. The Japanese version and the Instrumental one.
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DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
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I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.

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Re: Regarding B3,whats the difference between the vanilla an

Post by 90sDBZ » Thu May 07, 2015 12:01 pm

DBZAOTA482 wrote:
johnboy1 wrote:What were "Baba's Crystal Ball Movies"?
The opening sequence for Budokai 2. The Japanese version and the Instrumental one.
Those were actually both in the standard PS2 edition too. It's only the HD version were they're absent.

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