"Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2" Official Discussion Thread

[Jaetinh]

Is Videl a playable character?

[Anime Kitten]

Is Videl a playable character?

See the second last post on the last page. Unless you were referring to that.

[Nejishiki]

Interesting. Looks like Videl is listed under two slots. Could someone please translate these as well?
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It's just Videl and her hair length (long and short, respectively).

[YonedgeHP]

We know XV3 is going to happen...

How do we know this? When did they say it, exactly?

I feel a lot of uninformed people (and probably to a lesser extent informed people as well as i think they could have done more given the dev time) will see this game as just the same as the first game.

For sure, considering many on this very thread have seen it as "Xenoverse 1.5", which really irritates me.

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Interesting. Looks like Videl is listed under two slots. Could someone please translate these as well?

The first is listed as Videl (long hair) and the second as Videl (crop)

[Jaetinh]

Is Videl a playable character?

See the second last post on the last page. Unless you were referring to that.

Yeah, I was.

So basically Videl is a playable character but Chaozu is most likely absent for the second time? He's nowhere to be seen in the character selection list I saw a couple of days ago on YT. I will still buy the game, but it's killed the hype a little for me.

[nato25]

Videl was in the last game. She had a few more costumes as well such as the movie 10 costume. If they remove content then I really have no idea what they are doing with the roster.

[Zelvin]

Can't even say they're giving us new characters since they were all characters we had in previous DBZ games that were omitted from Xenoverse for no explainable reason.

[nato25]

Some are really great inclusions that I like such as Gogeta, Future Gohan and Janemba. Yeah the included movie characters are cool but they didn't go all out like they should have. Still missing Garlic Jr, Wheelo, Android 13 and Bojack (I'm still thinking these will be late announcements) and Bio Broly (meh, I'd rather have base and restricted Broly).

It's pretty hard to get hyped over Zarbon, Dodoria, 16 and Imperfect Cell, all who probably should have been in the first game. In my opinion the other forms of each villian and gero and 19 need to be in to prop up the Z portion of the story, without those guys in there are so many holes.

I guess the problem with an ever growing cast now thanks to Super is that some characters may just start getting left of the roster.

[EXBadguy]

What about the Masked Saiyan?

Anyway, I wonder why the Great Saiya-duo are separate chracters this time? Will they have their own moves like in the Budokai series?

[SSJ God Gogeta]

Anyway, I wonder why the Great Saiya-duo are separate chracters this time? Will they have their own moves like in the Budokai series?

I sure hope so. If they're the same as they were in XV1 then I really see no reason for them to taking up separate slots.

[ArchedThunder]

What time does the closed beta start?

That's not surprising at all. That's the name (presumably from Toriyama since it's on his designs) used in the previous game and pretty much everywhere else for merchandise and the like. Blue is really only used almost exclusively in-universe.

Which is dumb, they need to start calling it by its name.

[Zelvin]

So the character roster still doesn't include Hatchyect, Hirudegarn, Tapion, Garlic Jr and so forth. Not even Tarble. Which means that's an extra $20-30 DLC please. That or they'll be the "special" characters for XV3.

[Anime Kitten]

It would be nice to get a break from all this "X didn't make it in, horrible game, buying anyway," and move to "So hyped for Y and Z here!" Otherwise I might just leave the thread for a while.

[ArchedThunder]

So the character roster still doesn't include Hatchyect, Hirudegarn, Tapion, Garlic Jr and so forth. Not even Tarble. Which means that's an extra $20-30 DLC please. That or they'll be the "special" characters for XV3.

They had to rework every character from the first game since they revamped the combat system, plus the focus was on custom characters and what you do with them anyways.

[Grimlock]

Damn, why every time I leave home something new pop up? This time merely 10 minutes after I left home the website was updated.

I'm glad they added a character roster. Really hate when a video-game website doesn't have it, and I hate even more when they create a section for it but doesn't add anything (looking at you XV's website).

[Zelvin]

They had to rework every character from the first game since they revamped the combat system, plus the focus was on custom characters and what you do with them anyways.

Which wouldn't be as much an issue, if some of the stuff they added wasn't just a gimmick to be used to shoehorn in microtransactions. Things like the hoverboards and nimbus in Conton City is nothing but a gimmick for players to show off their swag, and we all know the best way to get that swag is to spend more money in the online store.

It would be nice to get a break from all this "X didn't make it in, horrible game, buying anyway," and move to "So hyped for Y and Z here!" Otherwise I might just leave the thread for a while.

We criticize because we do enjoy the franchise and we want it to succeed, but we also want it to learn they can't pull these kinds of stunts and not get called out on it. It's these very things that will hurt sales for the company, thus lowering profits and diminishing their investors interest in doing more sequels. Some AAA companies can get away with this. I don't believe Dimps can afford that while working under Bandai/Namco.

[ArchedThunder]

They had to rework every character from the first game since they revamped the combat system, plus the focus was on custom characters and what you do with them anyways.

Which wouldn't be as much an issue, if some of the stuff they added wasn't just a gimmick to be used to shoehorn in microtransactions. Things like the hoverboards and nimbus in Conton City is nothing but a gimmick for players to show off their swag, and we all know the best way to get that swag is to spend more money in the online store.

If there were microtransactions we would have found out by now.
People are way too focused on the roster intead of looking at the whole thing.
We've got a hadful of new characters and stages, a revamped combat system with all of the original characters being reworked, we've got tons more quests, a new hub world, another full story that isn't paired back in comparison to the first game and the options for custom characters have been more than doubled, and on top of all of this the game was made in about a year and a half, which by modern standards is pretty damn impressive, especially considering that it didn't have a AAA budget. If you look at the whole package instead of just one part it is clear that this is absolutely a full sequel.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Which is dumb, they need to start calling it by its name.

I'm honestly glad they don't. "Super Saiyan Blue" is a fairly stupid name (Rosé too, by association). As cumbersome as Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan is, it's at least moderately descriptive of what the form is supposed to be. Which is helpful for a new branch that's nonlinear to the previous transformations. I'm glad it sticks around.

[Anime Kitten]

We criticize because we do enjoy the franchise and we want it to succeed, but we also want it to learn they can't pull these kinds of stunts and not get called out on it. It's these very things that will hurt sales for the company, thus lowering profits and diminishing their investors interest in doing more sequels. Some AAA companies can get away with this. I don't believe Dimps can afford that while working under Bandai/Namco.

I understand, and I fully encourage criticism, but there's been almost no optimism over the past few weeks. Everyone was gloomy over the TGS trailer, and people have mentioned Black a couple times, but there's been next to no hype for a while.

[ArchedThunder]

Which is dumb, they need to start calling it by its name.

I'm honestly glad they don't. "Super Saiyan Blue" is a fairly stupid name (Rosé too, by association). As cumbersome as Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan is, it's at least moderately descriptive of what the form is supposed to be. Which is helpful for a new branch that's nonlinear to the previous transformations. I'm glad it sticks around.

"Blue" is no stupider than throwing a number after it or adding ultra to the beginning, and besides that Blue is the official in universe name, so they should use it.