"DBZ: Battle of Z" (360/PS3/Vita) On-Going Discussion Thread

[TheMightyOzaru]

Heihachi has more personality in his hair than Link has in all of his games combined. I mean, I love Zelda but I love Tekken too. Spawn can go to hell and stay there.

This game has almost completely lost my interest, I dont even know if I'm going to pick it up later down the line anymore its just so, eh.

You do realize that Link was designed without a personality in order to match the players right? He's the link between the player and the game. The only game to break that tradition was Skyward Sword.

[Kamiccolo9]

Heihachi has more personality in his hair than Link has in all of his games combined. I mean, I love Zelda but I love Tekken too. Spawn can go to hell and stay there.

This game has almost completely lost my interest, I dont even know if I'm going to pick it up later down the line anymore its just so, eh.

Hear Hear! Heihachi is awesome.

To be fair though, like Ozaru said, Link isn't really meant to have a real personality.

[KentalSSJ6]

Heihachi has more personality in his hair than Link has in all of his games combined. I mean, I love Zelda but I love Tekken too. Spawn can go to hell and stay there.

This game has almost completely lost my interest, I dont even know if I'm going to pick it up later down the line anymore its just so, eh.

Hear Hear! Heihachi is awesome.

To be fair though, like Ozaru said, Link isn't really meant to have a real personality.

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[goku the krump dancer]

Heihachi has more personality in his hair than Link has in all of his games combined. I mean, I love Zelda but I love Tekken too. Spawn can go to hell and stay there.

This game has almost completely lost my interest, I dont even know if I'm going to pick it up later down the line anymore its just so, eh.

You do realize that Link was designed without a personality in order to match the players right? He's the link between the player and the game.

Thats just assuming that everyone who plays Zelda wants to be hero riding a horse saving a princess and her kingdom. I for one dont care much for being a hero, I just like the lore and mythos of the Zelda world oh and Ganon is the man.

[90sDBZ]

Heihachi has more personality in his hair than Link has in all of his games combined. I mean, I love Zelda but I love Tekken too. Spawn can go to hell and stay there.

This game has almost completely lost my interest, I dont even know if I'm going to pick it up later down the line anymore its just so, eh.

Hear Hear! Heihachi is awesome.

To be fair though, like Ozaru said, Link isn't really meant to have a real personality.

Hell yeah Heihachi ftw! If anything he'd make a good guest character for a DBZ game. Especially with his hairstyle.

[Kamiccolo9]

Heihachi has more personality in his hair than Link has in all of his games combined. I mean, I love Zelda but I love Tekken too. Spawn can go to hell and stay there.

This game has almost completely lost my interest, I dont even know if I'm going to pick it up later down the line anymore its just so, eh.

Hear Hear! Heihachi is awesome.

To be fair though, like Ozaru said, Link isn't really meant to have a real personality.

Spoiler:

We don't speak of that. Kill it with fire.

[mysticboy]

Tapion with Link's costume.

Anyway. DragonBall Z: Battle of Z.

[dbboxkaifan]

Tapion with Link's costume.

Anyway. DragonBall Z: Battle of Z.

That could've happen if BoZ were coming to WU because like Tekken Tag 2 it has exclusive Nintendo costumes/music which is really cool and makes it feel more than just a Tekken game.

But honestly, BoZ isn't worthy of being released for the Wii U.

[Xeogran]

That could've happen if BoZ were coming to WU

It couldn't. Developers from this gen must really hate Tapion, because it's the second game we're getting a Hirudegarn boss battle without him.

[DNA]

So I haven't been keeping up with this game at all, come back for news and I find a discussion about Link and Heihachi. Slow news then? Can anyone give me a few bullet points of the past weeks with this game? Last I heard, Goku was having a Naruto outfit.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

So I haven't been keeping up with this game at all, come back for news and I find a discussion about Link and Heihachi. Slow news then? Can anyone give me a few bullet points of the past weeks with this game? Last I heard, Goku was having a Naruto outfit.

This is the roster of the game:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

1. Son Goku
2. Son Goku (Super Saiyan)
3. Son Goku (Super Saiyan 2)
4. Son Goku (Super Saiyan 3)
5. Son Goku (Super Saiyan God)
6. Son Gohan: Kid
7. Son Gohan: Boy
8. Son Gohan: Boy (Super Saiyan)
9. Son Gohan: Boy (Super Saiyan 2 )
10. Son Gohan: Adolescence (Super Saiyan)
11. Son Gohan: Adolescence (Ultimate)
12. Son Goten
13. Son Goten (Super Saiyan)
14. Bardock
15. Vegeta
16. Vegeta (Super Saiyan)
17. Vegeta (Super Saiyan 2)
18. Vegeta (Majin)
19. Trunks: Sword
20. Trunks: Sword (Super Saiyan)
21. Trunks: Future (Super Saiyan)
22. Trunks: Future (Super Saiyan Grade 3)
23. Trunks: Kid
24. Trunks: Kid (Super Saiyan)
25. Gotenks
26. Gotenks (Super Saiyan)
27. Gotenks (Super Saiyan 3)
28. Piccolo
29. Kuririn
30. Yamcha
31. Tenshinhan
32. Saibaiman
33. Raditz
34. Nappa
35. Freeza Soldier
36. Gurd
37. Jheese
38. Butta
39. Reacoom
40. Ginyu
41. Freeza (1st Form)
42. Freeza (2nd Form)
43. Freeza (3rd Form)
44. Freeza (Final Form)
45. Freeza (Full Power)
46. Coola
47. Coola (Final Form)
48. Metal Coola
49. Artificial Human #16
50. Artificial Human #17
51. Artificial Human #18
52. Artificial Human #19
53. Artificial Human #20/Dr. Gero
54. Cell Jr.
55. Cell (1st Form)
56. Cell (2nd Form)
57. Cell (Perfect)
58. Cell (Super Perfect)
59. Broli (Super Saiyan)
60. Broli (Legendary Super Saiyan)
61. Dabra
62. Majin Boo (Innocent/Good/Mr. Boo)
63. Majin Boo (Evil)
64. Majin Boo (Gohan absorbed)
65. Majin Boo (Pure)
66. Whis
67. Beers

Spoiler:

1. Super Vegetto
2. Bardock (Super Saiyan)
3. Son Goku: Sage Mode Naruto outfit (Super Saiyan)

Spoiler:

1. Son Gohan: Kid (Oozaru)
2. Vegeta (Oozaru)
3. Bardock (Oozaru)
4. Metal Coola (Core)
5. Hildegarn (Final Form)

And this is Treevax's review of the demo:

Spoiler:

DBZ Battle of Z - PGW Demo review (english)



Hi everybody !


I just tested Dragon Ball Z Battle of Z, along with Sharnalk. Some people criticized the fact that I only judged the game based on the gameplay videos and trailers. Well then, sincerely, this test with the controller in my bare hands makes me confirm what I thought.


The demo proposes 2 missions of the so-called story mode: the brawl against Vegeta and Oozaru Vegeta that we know since july, and a mission that shrinks the Android17/18/16 and Cell’s last transformation part.


The game gives you the possibility to change the colors of the suit with L1, and a further customisation is available with R1 (health points, power, color of the skin + color of the outfit, etc…). This last option was visible, but not testable in this demo.


I started the first mission. We can choose any character for any mission, and that’s the same for the support characters. We can’t remove our allies, our team must have 4 characters. We can have the same character twice or more, even with the same outfit (for example, 4 Gokû with the same color). Some colors are inspired by the outfits from the movies (the orange dogi of Gokû, the dark one with a red belt for Piccolo…), but it’s very limited.


I came closer to the screen in order to listen to the music, but I couldn’t hear a thing. We’ll have to take care of this matter later.


Vegeta’s aura during the introduction cutscene of the fight has been upgraded, this is a positive point. Then, the chaos starts. I tried a lot of combinations and can tell you this: triangle is the only button for combos. A combo of 5 hits approximately. No variant possibilities with circle, no punch charge, no cancel, no variant possibilities with a direction at the same time. It’s not casual, it’s banal, lower than all the things that we have had in the past. Depth = zero.


The square button makes you rise, the X button to go down. Using this button with a direction gives you the possibility to go a little faster, or make some very useful fast dodges. The “classical” moves are fast (more than in the RB series, it’s cool!!), the gamepad answers quickly, and the fact that the character runs on the floor is stylish.


The kikoha button (round) throws one, two or three energy balls. No possibility to charge the kikoha to make it more powerful, in order to knock the opponent. You throw the special attack with triangle + circle, and believe me: if you play online, you will see it very often! I made a test, and tried to spam it in order to see how often you can do it. In 2 words: too often. When I tested the second mission, I could make a Final Flash every 30 seconds…


L2 and R2 are used to make a personal attack, it kinda looks like what we had in the Raging Blast series. I tested it with Trunks and Vegeta, it brings a little more variety to the close combat (in order to avoid making the 5 hit combo over and over again), but nothing really fancy.

If you hold the L1 button (guard), you access to some additional moves: a super dash, give ki, and 2 shortcuts for the personal attacks.

The directional cross lets you “manage” your team, just like in an action game. Old, but useful. R1 locks the opponent, and the right analogic stick changes the target. As this button is also used to move the camera, it can make you do things you didn’t want to. As soon as you’re against a wall, the camera problems start, and you almost can’t move it anymore with the analogic stick! When will a developer program a camera that goes inside the rock, making it translucent?

The destructible elements only break when a character is projected on it. The rocks don’t explode when you make a sprint anymore. Just like in the Spike games, a little puff of smoke would have been appreciated to hide the “magical” disappearance of the elements.

We also tested the size of the stages, and to be honest, it’s not exceptional… Though, the invisible barrier is kinda discreet (a translucent wave).


The game didn’t make a strong impression in my memory. It was like playing a mix between Tenkaichi 3 and Densetsu on PSX, but far less technical (and yet, you know that I’m far from being a hardcore gamer). The number of attacks is very limited, it’s only entertaining a few minutes, not more. The occasional players may get their share, but I think that this game will be slaughtered by all the other players, including the specialized magazines.


Fromm y point of view, the only real selling arguments are the anime opening, the presence of Bills, Whiss and the ssj God. This is not enough to convince me buying it. Otherwise, it’s a lot of déjà-vu, and it’s not even better than the previous softwared, it’s less good and less beautiful. The 4vs4 engine sould have been integrated in a “mostly 1vs1” game, as 90% of Dragon Ball fights are duels! Here, Namco Bandai impose a concept, and disform the original material so it can fit with their concept. They will continue getting on the wrong size of the fans…


Shueisha is currently killing its licence by imposing a regular rhythm of production to Namco Bandai. Dragon Ball has been too much exploited the last 12 years. Releasing a game that doesn’t take the previous softs into consideration is incoherent, the sells won’t hightly rise this way. If NBG continue making reboots regularly, with inexperienced developers that must start all over again, the benefits will decrease, which will reduce the budgets even more… And the vicious circle starts again. If they go on this way, the inconceivable will happen: NBG will lose its licence…

And this is the latest trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ0mBmvWKCc

[DNA]

So a boring roster with boring game play. Sounds like a second hand buy for me, and only because I've recently have been collecting them.

[KentalSSJ6]

So a boring roster with boring game play. Sounds like a second hand buy for me, and only because I've recently have been collecting them.

Heres what a few of us think of this game. Think this sums it up nicely.

[dbboxkaifan]

Would it be possible that Namco Bandai changed their minds and kept Goku with Naruto's costume as the only DLC character?

It's the only DLC character they advertised on the new Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z - PS3/X360/Vita - A Fierce Battle of Gods (Trailer) despite what the website says, it's tad confusing. It'd be for the better because Super Vegito doesn't make any sense being DLC though I can kinda see why they'd do it for Super Bardock.

[Rukura]

It's way more likely that they're just no longer talking about it, waiting for us to forget about the fact that they're still keeping them as DLC. Personally, as much as I'd like to have Goku with the Naruto costume and be guaranteed to get Super Saiyan Bardock straight away....I'm starting to really not care. (For some reason, I would've been slightly more okay with it if the 3rd character was Chilled instead of Vegetto.)

At this point, I'm just hoping that the characters do have unique abilities that play a bigger part in the gameplay, like they seem to do in ZBR.

PS: In the arguement of Heihachi vs Link, as far as being the better Soul Calibur character, I side with Link. Y'know, the guy with a sword in a fighting game about people with swords that use swords to fight against each other.

[Hellspawn28]

I take it no one liked Spawn in SC2 ? I wonder how much the DLC characters will end up being? If they are $5 a character then I'm not going to bother with it.

[TheGmGoken]

I know we haven't really played the game yet. But from what we saw and what we know. Compare this to Ultimate Tenkaichi.

Roster
Gameplay
Trailers
OST(We've heard some OST in demos at Expo)
Graphics
Models

[dbboxkaifan]

I know we haven't really played the game yet. But from what we saw and what we know. Compare this to Ultimate Tenkaichi.

Roster
Gameplay
Trailers
OST(We've heard some OST in demos at Expo)
Graphics
Models

Roster - BOZ
Gameplay - BOZ
Trailers - UB
OST - We don't know what BOZ score sounds like, we have to wait for the demo in December. Maybe the new score that was on the first trailer.
Graphics - UB
Models - UB

For a cinematic experience Ultimate Blast definitely wins it but as a game, I gotta handle it to BOZ as it has actual gameplay.

[goku the krump dancer]

The similarities between Battle of Z and Tenkaichi 1 are uncanny.

Bland gameplay, playable giants and no in game transformations.

You know what? F**k it, I'm not spending a dime on this piece of trash.

[TheMightyOzaru]

I take it no one liked Spawn in SC2 ? I wonder how much the DLC characters will end up being? If they are $5 a character then I'm not going to bother with it.

Well, I only played the X Box version of SC2 once, but I did like playing as him. I'm just a nintendo fanboy so SC2 on the gamecube was an obvious choice for me. Especially since the Legend of Zelda is pretty much my favorite video game franchise of all time.

The similarities between Battle of Z and Tenkaichi 1 are uncanny.

Bland gameplay, playable giants and no in game transformations.

You know what? F**k it, I'm not spending a dime on this piece of trash.

I'd buy it off a disappointed friend for like $5 .