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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#9451: Dec 5th 2014 at 1:56:51 AM

  • Offline 1 vs 1 is only allowed on the tournament stage.
  • Moves and transformations are tied to costume. So you don't have the freedom of costume and special attacks or transformations - huge step back.
  • It appears you can only have one transformation equipped, and the costume decides that.
  • No beam struggles.

Only four bad things out of that, but the first 3 are huge problems IMO.

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#9454: Dec 5th 2014 at 3:09:43 AM

Beamstruggles have been a part of DB fighting games for a very long time. You can't just remove them!

So this is basically Battle of Z all over again, in how disappointing it's going to be, huh? At least it seems creating characters won't be as horribly limited as it was in Ultimate Tenkaichi.

edited 5th Dec '14 3:10:07 AM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#9455: Dec 5th 2014 at 3:13:28 AM

Really wouldn't compare it to Battle of Z. Battle of Z had very few good things about it.

Also, they gave a reason for no beam struggles - they don't work with 2 v 2 and 3 v 3 battles. I don't think they're a very major thing at all, really. Fun but they're not essential.

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#9456: Dec 5th 2014 at 3:23:09 AM

They're the coolest fucking thing in the game.

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#9457: Dec 5th 2014 at 4:05:07 AM

Tell me that a Three VS Three Beam Struggle wouldn't be insanely awesome.

Sure, it'd probably be ass to program from the mechanics side, but it'd be glorious.

I'd also like it if they added Combo Techniques, such as allowing the characters who have Kamehameha as a technique to combine it into one big beam, or, say, a team attack between Goku and Vegeta like the proto Final Kamehameha in the second Cooler movie. But that is probably asking too much.

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#9458: Dec 5th 2014 at 7:42:22 AM

The more I hear about Xenoverse, the less excited I am about it.

Dragon Ball perfected its formula a long time ago. Since then, it's been like the Sonic franchise. "New game, throw it all out! Do anything but what works!" So busy trying to reinvent the wheel that they've lost sight of the fact that the wheel they had years ago was a fantastic wheel.

edited 5th Dec '14 7:46:03 AM by TobiasDrake

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#9459: Dec 5th 2014 at 8:08:30 AM

Much like how the Sonic Games have forgotten all about being fun and fast platformers, the DBZ games have long been trying to remove all the fun aspects of the game.

The worst, by far, is Ultimate Tenkaichi, which turned the game into a coin toss simulator. In which the AI cheats like crazy, at that.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#9460: Dec 5th 2014 at 8:32:05 AM

I'm sure Dimps have something up their sleeve. They've never disappointed before, have they?

Also, if you count each of Goku's costumes as a different variation character like the Tenkaichi games, there's 15 playable Goku's. 17 if ya add God Goku and SSJ4 Goku.

edited 5th Dec '14 8:34:44 AM by Rinsankajugin

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#9461: Dec 5th 2014 at 9:46:14 AM

Is SSJ 4 Goku even going to be in? It wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't. I mean, it's not like they added the Fake SSJ from the Lord Slug movie or the Super Kaioken from the fight with Pikkon.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#9462: Dec 5th 2014 at 10:31:09 AM

They confirmed SSJ4 Goku months ago.

edited 5th Dec '14 10:31:24 AM by Rinsankajugin

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#9463: Dec 5th 2014 at 10:35:03 AM

Let me rephrase that.

Why is SSJ 4 Goku even going to be in?

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#9464: Dec 5th 2014 at 11:16:43 AM

From what I know, they put in GT characters (there are more than GT Goku and Vegeta due to the datamining showing off files for other characters) because the fans demanded it. I should remind you, they said GT and movie characters will not affect the main story, though.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#9465: Dec 5th 2014 at 11:44:33 AM

Which makes sense.

I would take Future Gohan over all the GT characters, though. He is kind of a memetic badass and just flat out awesome in BT 3. Any ideas on that? I'd be okay with him being a costume for Buu Saga Gohan.

edited 5th Dec '14 11:45:42 AM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#9466: Dec 5th 2014 at 12:19:45 PM

They confirmed over 70 characters, so I'm sure Future Gohan might make an appearance. He has a different fighting style from Buu Gohan, so I think he'll be a different slot.

edited 5th Dec '14 12:20:21 PM by Rinsankajugin

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#9467: Dec 5th 2014 at 1:56:09 PM

I'll see if, once I get the movie on my hands, I can make a small AMV with Tada Kogoeru Elegy, starting from the moment the chant starts all the way to I'll teach you your place you lower life forms.

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#9468: Dec 7th 2014 at 10:26:50 PM

The healthiest relationship in the series.

NSFW because of (joking) mention of kinks.

Not explicit though, so.

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#9469: Dec 7th 2014 at 10:37:04 PM

His/her drawings are cool and all, but his/her understandings of characterization baffles my fucking mind.

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#9471: Dec 7th 2014 at 10:44:06 PM

Like, his/her Vegeta is so far removed from any form of Vegeta I've read in even the crackiest fics that the only reason I even know he's supposed to be Vegeta is because of his hair. And the amount of scars covering Vegeta's body is only justified if you assume that Saiyan body armor is literally worthless.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#9472: Dec 7th 2014 at 11:41:19 PM

[up] That's not uncommon in a lot of these cute/funny tumblr comics. They're pretty far removed from the actual characterization or logic of the show.

Which is really weird when they try to pass it off as the opposite.

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#9473: Dec 8th 2014 at 7:14:38 AM

A lot of people either Leather Pants or Death Eater Vegeta - the latter is typically from Yamcha fans.

I wouldn't have thought it necessary to make Vegeta uncharacteristically assholish since his characteristic assholishness should be reason enough to make a viable case of why he's a dick, but there it is. Anti-Vegeta portrayals usually make him a wife-beater.

edited 8th Dec '14 7:16:05 AM by TobiasDrake

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#9474: Dec 8th 2014 at 7:30:12 AM

Nevermind that Vegeta is liable to go absolutely batshit if someone inflicts violence on Bulma, and the fact that Bulma and Trunks had been killed was enough to get him to give up his individuality forever to become Vegetto.

Guy might be a colossal asshole... and he is... but he does love his family.

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