I think I know how Dragon Universe was thought of:

[Conan the SSJ]

As anyone should know, Dragon Universe is the RPG-styled fighting/adventure mode in the PS2 game, Dragonball Z Budokai 3. Anyhow, you all should know how that mode works; your character flys around the world looking for objects and can sometimes run into story-events automaticly, while other times finidng alternate story routes. Anyhow, I think I figured out where Dimps got the idea for the traveling design:




That's right, the first DBZ game for the SNES: Dragonball Z Legend of the Super Saiyan. You can notice that the two modes have a little similarity, what do you guys think?

[spikemcruffy]

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[Mike D]

LoG2 could have played a role in inspiration as well.

[justpassinby]

I doubt Dragonball Z Legend of the Super Saiyan had anything to do with the idea of dragon universe. My guess would be that dragon universe was just an innovation of dragon world. Most people didn't like dragon world( I however, didn't mind it) so dragon universe was in idea that enabled more freedom and excitement...and control. -that, people, is my guess

[Xyex]

DW was ok, but not as fun as it could have been. Being required to replay it 40 times didn't help. Though, I do remember. The first time I heard about DW I was actually picturing something more like DU. Though, even DU isn't perfect. I'm wondering how they'll be handling Sparking! now, though. A story style mode like B1? Or a modified DU style system? So far we only *know there will be cutscenes.

*I say know rather loosely since we've only got one article from Gamepro to that reguard and it could change. Though, with what I heard about the extensive script involved in one of the game's modes, it's quite likely.