Dragonball Games at E3

MarcFBR · Post by **MarcFBR** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:45 pm

http://www.fanboyreview.net/2009/06/02/ ... s-from-e3/

All 3 games this fall, and it appears Atari has nothing to do with anything anymore.

VenomSymbiote · Post by **VenomSymbiote** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:51 pm

Huh. I guess Atari has finally lost it's hold on the Dragonball franchise, apparently. Well, at least we finally know the games are being released here.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:07 pm

Relieved to hear that DS game is indeed coming out; that's the one I'm looking forward to the most. :3

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:11 pm

Hmm...

...I wonder is Okratron and FUNimation are still being contracted to record this game...

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:21 pm

*dances on Atari's grave* Nothing personal - you brought us the modern video game, but you killed our Dragonball games. Goodbye Atari, this was your last chance I'm sure.q

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:24 pm

How exactly did Atari kill Dragon Ball games?

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:37 pm

Mr. Exaggeration is my nickname, especially when I'm in a bad mood. But basically:

-The insert tracks (Cha-La, even Makafushigi MIDIs replaced for no reason) were either not there or missing something (oh, like the vocals?)
-No Japanese language track on a good percentage of the games
-Missing characters
-Sparking! recycled music rather than the TV soundtrack

Et cetera. I would have bought a Sparking game by now if it had the Japanese music.

MarcFBR · Post by **MarcFBR** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:49 pm

JulieYBM wrote:Hmm...

...I wonder is Okratron and FUNimation are still being contracted to record this game...

As I've said in the past, audio was recorded for the Wii game (and I'm pretty sure I remember a conversation about the PS3/360 one) that the English audio was recorded the same as it ever was. Do remember that Funimation owns the license in this area, and more than likely was able to get a better deal from Namco/Bandai.

DNA · Post by **DNA** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:20 pm

bkev wrote:Mr. Exaggeration is my nickname, especially when I'm in a bad mood. But basically:

-The insert tracks (Cha-La, even Makafushigi MIDIs replaced for no reason) were either not there or missing something (oh, like the vocals?)
-No Japanese language track on a good percentage of the games
-Missing characters
-Sparking! recycled music rather than the TV soundtrack

Et cetera. I would have bought a Sparking game by now if it had the Japanese music.

Don't get me wrong but, the Japanese music in the Sparking! games... well.. each song is like 1 minute long or less, it gets repetitive, annoying and boring really fast. I do like the Japanese musics, but they could at least make longer remixes.

Thanos · Post by **Thanos** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:51 pm

DNA wrote:
bkev wrote:Mr. Exaggeration is my nickname, especially when I'm in a bad mood. But basically:

-The insert tracks (Cha-La, even Makafushigi MIDIs replaced for no reason) were either not there or missing something (oh, like the vocals?)
-No Japanese language track on a good percentage of the games
-Missing characters
-Sparking! recycled music rather than the TV soundtrack

Et cetera. I would have bought a Sparking game by now if it had the Japanese music.
Don't get me wrong but, the Japanese music in the Sparking! games... well.. each song is like 1 minute long or less, it gets repetitive, annoying and boring really fast. I do like the Japanese musics, but they could at least make longer remixes.

I actually preferred the new music Spike provided for the game for stateside release over the dozen-or-so minute-long loops. They were very unique pop/rock/metal/electronic BGMs that I think worked.

Hopefully, since this is the next generation, the discs will have enough capacity to fit all that content as well as full-length BGMs. Or maybe since Kai is out, it'll be Kai BGMs? Hmm.

In any case, the 360 has the option for playing music on top of in-game BGMs, so worst case scenario, we can always import the Japanese TV BGMs and play them when we fight.

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:14 pm

Thank god for this info, I am now a happy camper!

Thanos · Post by **Thanos** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:18 pm

JulieYBM wrote:Hmm...

...I wonder is Okratron and FUNimation are still being contracted to record this game...

I assume so, seeing as FUNimation still holds licensing rights for Dragon Ball -- so logically, they would continue to be the "liaison" for whomever is distributing the game -- so obviously they'd have all the voices and such.

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:45 pm

Thanos wrote:
JulieYBM wrote:Hmm...

...I wonder is Okratron and FUNimation are still being contracted to record this game...
I assume so, seeing as FUNimation still holds licensing rights for Dragon Ball -- so logically, they would continue to be the "liaison" for whomever is distributing the game -- so obviously they'd have all the voices and such.

It would make the most sense.

Although, as much as I hold the FUNimation cast near and dear to my heart, I'd be very intrigued if BANDAI went about hiring another studio (maybe in LA?) to do the games. Which is, of course, pretty much impossible. But alas...

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Tekkaman-James · Post by **Tekkaman-James** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:44 am

JulieYBM wrote:Hmm...

...I wonder is Okratron and FUNimation are still being contracted to record this game...

Not that this question needs anything more concrete to prove that the US voice cast is working on these games, but I thought I would share some.

Kyle Hebert revealed in a recent post on his Twitter page:

Kyle Hebert wrote:Yay for full day sessions at Funimation. Tonight: another DBZ game. Cha-ching!
6:01 PM May 28th from Tweetie

Of course, it doesn't say which game, but that at least proves that they will be working on at least one of these. I don't see why they wouldn't be doing them all, though.

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:17 am

This is great news as I have not read about these games in any other web sites. King Piccolo on the Wii is a day-one purchase for me.

jda95 · Post by **jda95** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:31 am

I'm so excited to get Attack of the Saiyans and Revenge of King Piccolo.

*crosses fingers for a Wii release of Raging Blast*

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:29 am

bkev wrote:*dances on Atari's grave* Nothing personal - you brought us the modern video game, but you killed our Dragonball games. Goodbye Atari, this was your last chance I'm sure.q

... By distributing products they did not make? And the LOG games that they were responsible for (at least 2 and 3) were good imo...

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:09 am

But they didn't make them, Webfoot did. It's a shame, but I"m pretty sure that's just about all Atari had going for them.

Post by **VegettoEX** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:18 am

bkev wrote:But they didn't make them, Webfoot did. It's a shame, but I"m pretty sure that's just about all Atari had going for them.

Yeah. Of all the American-made games, as far as I can tell, Atari themselves only actually internally developed Collectible Card Game on the GBA, which was the first new game in the revival back in '02 (other than Legendary Super Warriors, which was from Banpresto in Japan).

All three Legacy of Goku games (1, 2, Buu's Fury) were developed by Webfoot. Taiketsu was also Webfoot, as was Transformation.

Sagas was done by Avalanche.

I think that's it... missing any?

MagicBox · Post by **MagicBox** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:08 am

I'd be lying if I said I've ever followed DragonBall video games... well, at all, so from what I'm hearing, Atari being out of the picture means that we'll be getting a language selection option and even the original music for all of these games?

Well, that's just beautiful. I'm really looking forward to the Wii game, so that makes this even better.