A topic I've had on my mind...

SuperSaiyan3Goku · Post by **SuperSaiyan3Goku** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 4:29 am

I was thinking, the most Dragonball Z fighting games, Infinite World and the newly announced Raging Blast seem so much like its predecessors, Budokai 3 and Sparking! METEOR. Here's some points:

What Infinite World has:

- A game engine pretty much identical to Budokai 3, with a few improvements making it identical to the Burst Limit and Shin Budokai series.

- Taking some elements from Budokai 3 out (Uub, DB Kid Goku, Tournament mode, beam struggles)

- The Capsule system returns

Now for Raging Blast:

- From what we've seen in gameplay Videos, this game looks like Sparking! METEOR with slightly improved Graphics. And slower powering up to the next level of Super Saiyajin.

- Has the same fighting style (Fly to other side of Arena, charge up Ki, fire Ki blasts at opponent and try to stay alive.) Some additions, like the "fast moving" fighting in battles.

So what I'm getting at is that these games are pretty much re-hashes of Budokai 3 and METEOR, just with a few minor gameplay additions, removals, graphics update, etc. Is Namco-Bandai running out of ideas to the extent of re-releasing games, just with minor updates? I hope that made coherent sense, it's 4:29 as I type this, and I'm Semi-watching DBZ movie 13, as well.

Captain-Sora · Post by **Captain-Sora** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:59 am

Er...Infinite World was intended to be a final game in the Budokai's ps2 series (and DB games on that console overall). It's from the same branch of games and made by Dimps as well.

Raging Blast is basically a sequel game(and possibly a series in the future) of the Sparking/Budokai Tenkaichi series made by the same developers, Spike. It's Basically their first step into the next-gen area of DB games similar to how Dimps did the same with Burst Limit on ps3 and the xbox360 as well.

It's not really them running out of ideas, they're basically just bringing out sequels with different titles(although no doubt there's some marketing scheme involved and that they think people will assume they are completely new games to the DB world thanks to those names resulting in more sales, mwahahaha).