Namco Bandai publishing DBZ games in the US

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:20 pm

The Tori-bot wrote: There's no way that someone who describes DBZ as "dude's with bad hair punching each other in the sack" would take such obscure movies and specials into account. It's more probable that they pulled that number from the same place Fernley Phillips did: out of their ass.

Namco Bandai said there were 23 movies. Kotaku said there are "dude's with bad hair." You're mixing up two different quotes.

The Tori-bot · Post by **The Tori-bot** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:04 pm

Innagadadavida wrote:
The Tori-bot wrote: There's no way that someone who describes DBZ as "dude's with bad hair punching each other in the sack" would take such obscure movies and specials into account. It's more probable that they pulled that number from the same place Fernley Phillips did: out of their ass.
Namco Bandai said there were 23 movies. Kotaku said there are "dude's with bad hair." You're mixing up two different quotes.

Uh...

Um... uh...

Namco-Bandai suck!

Yeah, that'll do it... heh heh heh...

... D'oh!

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:15 pm

"Shiyonasan"

EDIT: I just realized this, but this means no more Donny Clay.

Say what?!

Super Sayian Prime · Post by **Super Sayian Prime** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 6:02 pm

I'm not sure if I trust Namco Bandai USA, especially given how they treat their Naruto, and One Piece licenses (they've yanked entire story modes from Naruto games for example). Hopefully DragonBall sells well enough so that it doesn't end up being like One Piece, Tales, Klonoa, .hack, etc. where they pick and choose which games to release (and sometimes they won't release games they've published that have English translations done from other releases), and which not to.

I also don't expect to see DragonBall Online here now.

They can't even release Battle Stadium DON either, even though they have the DragonBall, One Piece, and Naruto licenses because they didn't pick up publishing rights for the PS2.

SparkyPantsMcGee · Post by **SparkyPantsMcGee** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 6:30 pm

Super Saiyan Prime wrote:I'm not sure if I trust Namco Bandai USA, especially given how they treat their Naruto, and One Piece licenses (they've yanked entire story modes from Naruto games for example). Hopefully DragonBall sells well enough so that it doesn't end up being like One Piece, Tales, Klonoa, .hack, etc. where they pick and choose which games to release (and sometimes they won't release games they've published that have English translations done from other releases), and which not to.

I also don't expect to see DragonBall Online here now.

They can't even release Battle Stadium DON either, even though they have the DragonBall, One Piece, and Naruto licenses because they didn't pick up publishing rights for the PS2.

Does it really matter if they cut out the story though...I've personally have seen Dragonball too many times to count. I just want a good fighter with excellent gameplay...a decent story and an epic amount of replay ability. Also so what if we dont get DON...at least now there is hope for a DON2(or something similar for next gen titles)

Super Sayian Prime · Post by **Super Sayian Prime** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:40 am

SparkyPantsMcGee wrote:
Super Saiyan Prime wrote:I'm not sure if I trust Namco Bandai USA, especially given how they treat their Naruto, and One Piece licenses (they've yanked entire story modes from Naruto games for example). Hopefully DragonBall sells well enough so that it doesn't end up being like One Piece, Tales, Klonoa, .hack, etc. where they pick and choose which games to release (and sometimes they won't release games they've published that have English translations done from other releases), and which not to.

I also don't expect to see DragonBall Online here now.

They can't even release Battle Stadium DON either, even though they have the DragonBall, One Piece, and Naruto licenses because they didn't pick up publishing rights for the PS2.
Does it really matter if they cut out the story though...I've personally have seen Dragonball too many times to count. I just want a good fighter with excellent gameplay...a decent story and an epic amount of replay ability. Also so what if we dont get DON...at least now there is hope for a DON2(or something similar for next gen titles)

You misunderstand me. Namco Bandai took out an entire story mode from a Naruto game for PSP. All there was, were essentially arcade, and a broken tournament mode. They charged full price for it. Then the next year they release the same game, but this time with the storymode, for full price, and an updated move set. That doesn't bother you in the slightest?

And the game content shouldn't change. As the last time Atari fully paid for a game was DragonBall GT: Transformation, in what, 2005, 2006? Since then all Atari did was publish games Namco Bandai published in Japan.

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:24 am

If you live in the lovely continent of North America, expect all Dragon Ball games you buy (or your parents buy you) over the course of the next five years to have a Namco Bandai label on them.

Fuck yeah, only little kids who can't buy their own games like Dragon Ball!

SSJmole · Post by **SSJmole** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:39 pm

The Tori-bot wrote:
SSJmole wrote:Maybe movies =

3 Dragonball ones
Path to power
13 Dragonball films
3 tv specials
Dragon Ball (1990 film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_(1990_film) **
Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins*
Dragonball Evolution

*while not exactly official a lot seem to think it is.
** Not official but who knows if he counted it.

That's 3 + 1 + 13 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 23
There's no way that someone who describes DBZ as "dude's with bad hair punching each other in the sack" would take such obscure movies and specials into account. It's more probable that they pulled that number from the same place Fernley Phillips did: out of their ass.

No but they all show up on IMDB or Wikipedia and other such search sites that makes it easy to find.

SSJmole · Post by **SSJmole** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:33 pm

Super Saiyan Prime wrote:I'm not sure if I trust Namco Bandai USA, especially given how they treat their Naruto, and One Piece licenses (they've yanked entire story modes from Naruto games for example).

To be fair doesn't funimation own the rights to all things Dragonball Z in usa and so games they have say? At least I assumed so as it's their cast for voices. So they could say to Bandai "we want story mode and our guys doing it"

Super Sayian Prime · Post by **Super Sayian Prime** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:02 am

SSJmole wrote:
Super Saiyan Prime wrote:I'm not sure if I trust Namco Bandai USA, especially given how they treat their Naruto, and One Piece licenses (they've yanked entire story modes from Naruto games for example).
To be fair doesn't funimation own the rights to all things Dragonball Z in usa and so games they have say? At least I assumed so as it's their cast for voices. So they could say to Bandai "we want story mode and our guys doing it"

FUNimation doesn't do the voice casts for the games. Chris Sabat's Okatron 5000 company does. And no, FUNimation doesn't have much, if any input on the games.

NeptuneKai · Post by **NeptuneKai** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:42 pm

Super Saiyan Prime wrote:
SSJmole wrote:
Super Saiyan Prime wrote:I'm not sure if I trust Namco Bandai USA, especially given how they treat their Naruto, and One Piece licenses (they've yanked entire story modes from Naruto games for example).
To be fair doesn't funimation own the rights to all things Dragonball Z in usa and so games they have say? At least I assumed so as it's their cast for voices. So they could say to Bandai "we want story mode and our guys doing it"
FUNimation doesn't do the voice casts for the games. Chris Sabat's Okatron 5000 company does. And no, FUNimation doesn't have much, if any input on the games.

Chris Sabat has a company? Hm, interesting so he's in charge of the voice direction for most DBZ games?

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:57 pm

NeptuneKai wrote:
Super Saiyan Prime wrote:
SSJmole wrote: To be fair doesn't funimation own the rights to all things Dragonball Z in usa and so games they have say? At least I assumed so as it's their cast for voices. So they could say to Bandai "we want story mode and our guys doing it"
FUNimation doesn't do the voice casts for the games. Chris Sabat's Okatron 5000 company does. And no, FUNimation doesn't have much, if any input on the games.
Chris Sabat has a company? Hm, interesting so he's in charge of the voice direction for most DBZ games?

Yeah, he began it about five years ago. He's the producer and director of all DBZ games.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:39 pm

Which explains why the dubbing in the games is so much better as a whole than in the series. Someone like Mr. Sabat, who actually cares, is in charge of the scripting and direction.

Big Boss · Post by **Big Boss** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:36 am

SSj Kaboom wrote:Which explains why the dubbing in the games is so much better as a whole than in the series. Someone like Mr. Sabat, who actually cares, is in charge of the scripting and direction.

I thought Sabat was in charge of the series direction/scripting, also?

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:28 pm

Big Boss wrote:
SSj Kaboom wrote:Which explains why the dubbing in the games is so much better as a whole than in the series. Someone like Mr. Sabat, who actually cares, is in charge of the scripting and direction.
I thought Sabat was in charge of the series direction/scripting, also?

No, not really. I'm pretty sure that fell under Barry Watson's watch, but I could be wrong. Sabat only scripted Movie Eight and directed the Boo saga, if I remember correctly.

The Tori-bot · Post by **The Tori-bot** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:32 pm

JulieYBM wrote:
Big Boss wrote:
SSj Kaboom wrote:Which explains why the dubbing in the games is so much better as a whole than in the series. Someone like Mr. Sabat, who actually cares, is in charge of the scripting and direction.
I thought Sabat was in charge of the series direction/scripting, also?
No, not really. I'm pretty sure that fell under Barry Watson's watch, but I could be wrong. Sabat only scripted Movie Eight and directed the Boo saga, if I remember correctly.

I question how FUNi was stupid enough to not let him do the whole series; those two right there are the two best examples of the high-point of the dub in both voicing and scripting.

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:56 pm

The Tori-bot wrote:
JulieYBM wrote:
Big Boss wrote: I thought Sabat was in charge of the series direction/scripting, also?
No, not really. I'm pretty sure that fell under Barry Watson's watch, but I could be wrong. Sabat only scripted Movie Eight and directed the Boo saga, if I remember correctly.
I question how FUNi was stupid enough to not let him do the whole series; those two right there are the two best examples of the high-point of the dub in both voicing and scripting.

As I remember, Watson ran the show until he left to form his own Anime company (which than sank like a boat because he pulled the same crap he did on DBZ). Now that Justin Cook and Carly Hunter took over his and Coconwhathaveyou's jobs their dubs have become a virtual standard in the industry.