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I'm not sure whether a topic like this has been done, it probably has considering Kanzenshuu has covered about nearly every topic and if so don't bother posting. I'm gonna keep it short and sweet, out of all the Dragon Ball games that have been released to this day and of all the one you've played, which video game has had the best original soundtrack in your opinion?
For me, it's the Budokai Trilogy. Yes, I know about the Yamamoto plagiarism scandal making everything harsher in hindsight, but it doesn't stop me from enjoying the hell out of the music.
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Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
I already liked some of the tunes from UB22 but I love how they have been rearranged. Every theme fits the characters, especially the villains. The overall persussive and pounding sound of the soundtrack is what makes it so infinitely memorable to me. My all time favorite DB video game OST.
Ah, the Alpha and the Omega. As all life was created from Chaos...so shall it be DESTROYED!!!
The wails of machines | Singing cold harmony | Shifting air upward | Entranced by the breeze | Light pours like blood | Into a cosmic sea | Of stars crystallized | In a frozen symphony
I already liked some of the tunes from UB22 but I love how they have been rearranged. Every theme fits the characters, especially the villains. The overall persussive and pounding sound of the soundtrack is what makes it so infinitely memorable to me. My all time favorite DB video game OST.
Oh man. Final Bout brings back so many memories.
I remember being so hyped up as a kid in the thought of playing that game. I was thinking to myself when I fight hear about, "A 2D Dragon Ball beat em up game on the PS1?! Man, that's gonna be awesome!"
Then I finally bought the game and played it....
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
Lord Beerus wrote:For me, it's the Budokai Trilogy. Yes, I know about the Yamamoto plagiarism scandal making everything harsher in hindsight, but it doesn't stop me from enjoying the hell out of the music.
Same here. Plagiarism or not, the OSTs in the Budokai trilogy are still favorites of mine. I still listen to some of the songs from the Budokai 1 OST while surfing the web.
The Infinite World OST is great too. Good variety of songs on that OST.
Lord Beerus wrote:For me, it's the Budokai Trilogy. Yes, I know about the Yamamoto plagiarism scandal making everything harsher in hindsight, but it doesn't stop me from enjoying the hell out of the music.
Same here. Plagiarism or not, the OSTs in the Budokai trilogy are still favorites of mine. I still listen to some of the songs from the Budokai 1 OST while surfing the web.
The Infinite World OST is great too. Good variety of songs on that OST.
my favorite track from infinite world is gogeta vs omega shenron
I agree, the Budokai trilogy had the best score even though several of the tracks are plagiarized but that doesn't make it any less headbanging goodness. Especially the Cell Games theme.
fadeddreams5 wrote:
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am
I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.
I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.
The music used in the First Legacy of Goku game, i have no idea who composed it, although it sort of sounds like a mix between the Bruce Faulconer and Shuki Levy scores. The great music sort of made that crappy game worth playing.
"I will literally dress as Goku and walk around jumping up and down, pretending to fly, in public if this ever gets an official release"
For years as a kid, playing Super Butouden roms, I really liked SB3 OST.
Later I really liked what I later found to be Faulconer score in Legacy of Goku series.
Now I like Budokai series ost from Yamamoto.
Tough I prefer the Kikuchi score in Spike developed games the most! It's pitty, that they are playing in the original short pieces and weren't rearanged same as the Legacy of Goku ones.
As it is weird as the track stops in middle of the play and after a short while resumes again. At least the ''random'' option during the battle will be awesome! - different tracks will play during your fight.
I can do this on XBOX with Raging Blast 2, playing Kikuchi soundtrack from the hard drive and it's fun.
But I do agree, despite GT Final Bout being an absolutely horrid game, it still had good music. Though I think some of my favorite DBZ music in recent years isn't from the companies, but from fans. Like The Enigma's SS3 Broly theme - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2CJD734z5E
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Challenger from Budokai 1. I love the soundtrack for Budokai 1 so much. I listen to hard rock and some heavy metal music in my free time, so when I hear electric guitars with Dragon Ball Z it's such an awesome combination for me.
Overall tho? Kenji Yamamoto's entire videogame libray before Raging Blast 2 is a joy to hear, from the specific character themes of the Butouden era, the history driven tracks of the Budokai era, the nod to Super Butouden 2 Trunks theme in Shin Budokai 2 and the "FIGHT IT OUT!" style he went with Burst Limit (get it?) and Infinite World. Despite the nod to C-18's theme from Shin Butouden in RB2, that score feels a little less spectacular than what came before it.
The Budokai trilogy and the BT2 soundtrack are a tie for me. Both have modernized and memorable soundtracks. For BT2, I was GLAD they didn't use Kikuchi for the international version, because, as I said in many threads now, I think most of Kikuchi's Z work sounds generic and outdated as hell.
Akira Toriyama wrote:If anyone. ANYONE AT TOEI! Makes a movie about old and weak major villains returning, or making recolored versions of Super Saiyan, I'ma come to yo company and evict you from doing Dragon Ball ever again! Only I do those things, because people love me, and they despise you....derp!
Marco Polo wrote:Goku Black is a fan of DBZ who hates Super and has taken the form of a younger Goku (thinner shape, softer hair) to avenge the original series by destroying the new.
EXBadguy wrote:The Budokai trilogy and the BT2 soundtrack are a tie for me. Both have modernized and memorable soundtracks. For BT2, I was GLAD they didn't use Kikuchi for the international version, because, as I said in many threads now, I think most of Kikuchi's Z work sounds generic and outdated as hell.
The Game!Kikuchi tracks have all been re-arranged, one might argue that in some cases they sound better than their TV counterparts. But yeah, BT2 had a sick international OST, IMO the re-release of Raging Blast 2 was enriched by it.