They could do an Online, like if Demigra is defeated, Towa and Mira could retreat and try to build up the Time Breaker Army. They could include things like the new androids, mutant Namekians, Cyborg Red, Naraka and a Cell-X boss fight.
With that, they could add missing characters, pre-timeskip characters and movie characters to the sequel.
EDIT: I've been noticing something really bad. This fandom has been expecting a roster as big as Tenkaichi and is calling everyone trying to defend the game "Paid DIMPS Drones." It would be expected if it was just Gamefaqs, but I'm seeing all this shit everywhere. Come on, a lot of work is being put into this game, but it's like almost everyone wants quantity over quality. Everyone wanted DIMPS to make a new game for a long while and now that they are they're complaining!
Why want almost 200 characters if they're gonna play the same. We already get way more characters than most fighting game series, why not think about competitive gameplay rather than getting more obscure characters.
edited 31st Jan '15 1:23:47 PM by Rinsankajugin
Because a majority of the people on the internet are never satisfied. Give them what they want, they'll complain that it wasn't exactly how they wanted it. Give it to them exactly how they want it, they'll complain that it's still not good enough. If they got those 200+ characters, they'd complain that all the characters play the same. The internet can please you, but you can't please the internet...I feel like I used the wrong word or something here but hopefully what I said is still understandable.
edited 31st Jan '15 2:06:19 PM by Raven666
What started out as a pleasant afternoon of drugs and surgery has not gone as planned.But that's ridiculous. Dragon Ball has so many characters, what's the point of including ones that NO ONE is going to play as? Heck, half of the villains can be scrapped most of the time. I'd rather have less, more interesting characters than a whole bunch of characters that play exactly the same.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!Exactly, a quality roster is better than a quantity roster. Having both would be fine, but if to choose one, it'd be the former than the latter.
Anyways, I looked at every trailer, gameplay and screenshot to get this final roster list.
As you can see, that’s 53 characters in the main roster, 59+ with DLC characters, 62+ with the unconfirmed characters, 70+ with the created character types and a SHIT TON if you include every costume variation! Pretty hefty stuff!
And remember, EACH CHARACTER ACTUALLY PLAYS DIFFERENTLY!
edited 31st Jan '15 3:15:22 PM by Rinsankajugin
To play devil's advocate here, I loved how the Tenkaichi games gave you 200~ characters to play as. Sure in practice it basically amounted to like 200 reskins of the same 5 characters, but when you have a roster size to rival Mugen then that's something to brag about.
Of course I'm looking forward Xenoverse more. 50+ characters is still nothing to sneeze at, and unlike Tenkaichi they all aren't the same character re-skinned.
#IceBearForPresidentI'm a hardcore Dragon Ball fan who knows fuck all about more competitive fighters and Dimps beats Spike in almost every aspect.
Just wish they'd stop fucking up transformations.
The whole "give us 200+ characters" thing annoys me because it's not like Dimps can just make that happen and choose not to. That is a lot of work, they've got serious time constraints - Shuiesha (the rights holders) are absolutely brutal in their demands, it took a lot of screwing around to give Dimps more than a year to work on this - and it looks like some characters have already been cut so the game could be completed on time.
This is still the biggest roster Dimps has done, it is their first game on the new generation, and they're developing it for more platforms than ever before. It's just unreasonable to think that a huge roster would've actually worked, and it's unfair to compare it to Tenkaichi 3 who got there after 3 games.
...ok, I know this is a tired topic, but I was just watching DBZ Kai, and they were showing the fight between SSJ 3 Gotenks and Super Buu. For them, SSJ 3 is supposed to last 5 minutes. In the show, it took 26 minutes until it wore off. 26! It's not as bad as Namek blowing up, but still. You can't use the same excuses as Namek (like how Freeza might not know what a minute is).
Plus, this was Kai, and it STILL took too long.
edited 31st Jan '15 4:34:43 PM by LOLypop1224
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!The Buu Arc of Dragon Ball Kai is a classic case of They Just Didn't Care. The pointless edits, the ridiculous green tint, the butchered home releases, the horrible pacing with filler that the could have easily been cut out but chose not to and the non-existent advertising for the show in Japan, all make Dragon Ball Kai 2014/15 a huge failure. Toei really don't care for Dragon Ball all that much anymore. It's an ancient license in their eyes that's not worth investing much into.
Dragon Ball Kai was always They Just Didn't Care for me anyway. The Latin Dub wasn't very good, and it's likely because the dub company doing it didn't give a fuck. I don't care, I still have the original to watch whenever I want.
edited 31st Jan '15 4:57:36 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariAfter being bored and thinking about it for a while, I started counting every character variation slot (the sub-slots each character has) since each variation is like a separate character in their own right and it's very surprising! Counting every variation in the main roster, putting numbers together on DLC variations and CAC variations and it all adds up to around 200+ variations to choose from.
In Spike terms, that's over 200 characters to choose from. Boom.
Eh.
So long as it has the characters I'm going to play as (mostly Vegetto, Freeza-saga Goku and Super Perfect Cell), I don't really care. Loads of characters is nice for when I want variety, though.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariConsidering there's no real reason to include base form Vegetto, I really am curious what they can invent to make three of him.
Maybe one has his own fighting style and super moves, while the other two are one that fights like Goku and the other that fights like Vegeta, 'cuz that's pretty much all I can guess.
Incidentally, if it were reasonably priced, DLC in the form of God Forms for all of the Saiyan characters, including the ones made by myself (though admittedly, that is easily made on one's own) would be something I'd pay for.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariAfter seen so much shit the past few days, I just went up and made this rant.
Any thoughts? TL;DR: I'm trying to stress the point towards others that DIMPS is about quality over quantity and if people want both, we're gonna have to support Xenoverse as much as we can for such a sequel.
Personally, I could care less about the 200+ characters that played relatively the same, because to me I thought that Budokai Tenkaichi was a better Dragon Ball fighting game series than Budokai ever was.
With Budokai Tenkaichi, it actually felt like you were playing an actual Dragon Ball game, being able to fly around, blow shit up, and damage the environment; not to mention the attacks actually caused huge explosions by the third installment. By contrast, Budokai just felt like a generic 2.5d fighter; movement just felt slow, you could barely fly around like they could in the show, the attacks barring the Ultimates were lackluster at best, and let's not forget how transformations worked. Being able to knock Cell, Frieza, and the other fighters out of their permanent transformations just felt weird. Now, I'm not saying that the Budokai Tenkaichi series are perfect, Budokai's Ultimates blow the ones in the Budokai Tenkaichi series out of the water, I'm just saying that I felt that it captured the spirit of Z better than Budokai ever really did.
edited 1st Feb '15 12:41:35 PM by Ssj3Gojira
Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!

Gamestop told me the game comes out on the 28th, Amazon is saying i'll get my Pre-Ordered copy on the 17th. Does this mean i'll get the game before it's officially released in the US? I checked and it's not like i'm getting a Japanese copy or anything, it's the North American version. Can I rub it in my friends faces that i'll be playing the game before them or is Amazon just being a dick and not telling me the actual release date? I need to know so I can decide in advance if I want to be an asshole.
What started out as a pleasant afternoon of drugs and surgery has not gone as planned.