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#23951: Aug 26th 2015 at 7:19:17 AM

Yeah, the way everyone was holding back their power on the punching machine makes it impossible to use it as a gauge of anybody's battle power. Except Vegeta, who got to reenact his fondness for making scouters explode on Namek.

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#23952: Aug 26th 2015 at 9:20:35 AM

No, it makes sense. When you have great strength and don't want to crush something, you be gentle with it.

When you want to hold back but still want to score in a certain range, that can be difficult. It's easy not to smash and egg and easier to smash it. Break off the top shell while leaving the rest intact though? Much harder.

It also makes sense, considering Gohan and Goku did every day tasks while in their super modes as a form of training, so they should have the most restraint.

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#23953: Aug 26th 2015 at 9:21:54 AM

Having the punching machine rather than an actual preliminary round is supposed to show how the Tournament has lost its heart, right?

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#23954: Aug 26th 2015 at 9:24:00 AM

I never thought of it that way.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#23955: Aug 26th 2015 at 9:54:15 AM

Announcer Guy did complain about the fights not being that exciting after Goku's match with Piccolo, didn't he. Other then that comment, I hadn't thought of that either.

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#23956: Aug 26th 2015 at 9:58:38 AM

Ya know, given how much fans seem to love him, I'm surprised that the Budoukai Announcer has gone unnamed.

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#23957: Aug 26th 2015 at 10:00:36 AM

So has Bulma's mom.

I'm assuming Toriyama just doesn't care enough to bother.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#23958: Aug 26th 2015 at 10:01:51 AM

[up] He apparently said he wanted to name her "Panty," but forgot.

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#23959: Aug 26th 2015 at 10:02:14 AM

Bulma's mom isn't even really named "Mrs. Briefs", she's just Bulma's mom.

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#23961: Aug 26th 2015 at 10:12:56 AM

[up] That's a pretty badass intro.

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#23962: Aug 26th 2015 at 10:32:11 AM

I rmemeber seeing that. Really made me angry I couldn't play it.

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#23963: Aug 26th 2015 at 10:50:58 AM

I always wondered what that red-eyed, lightning aura transformation that the Namekian warrior had was all about. It seemed to be on par with the Human warrior's latent Super Saiyan powers.

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#23964: Aug 26th 2015 at 12:01:53 PM

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#23966: Aug 27th 2015 at 10:36:34 AM

Spoiler: It'll be anyone but Super Saiyan Pan.

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#23967: Aug 27th 2015 at 10:53:14 AM

Oh, my God of Destruction guys:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1YX7tpN0L74

This is awesome.

Edit: I fixed it. Mixed up an O and a 0.

edited 27th Aug '15 10:57:56 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#23968: Aug 27th 2015 at 10:55:53 AM

Or it would be if the video wasn't inaccessible.

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#23969: Aug 27th 2015 at 11:48:37 PM

Looks like Kami (Old) will be playable in God Mission 4 as well!

Lots of Piccolo Saga stuff being introduced in this DBH mission.

Also, Skot wrecking shit.

edited 28th Aug '15 2:44:03 AM by Rinsankajugin

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#23970: Aug 28th 2015 at 5:37:33 AM

You're googling this stuff, right?

Why does this game have so many updates? When did this game start, it has to have been years by now. The only games I've heard of still being updated for this long are MMO's.

edited 28th Aug '15 5:38:57 AM by Soble

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#23971: Aug 28th 2015 at 5:47:58 AM

It's an arcade game. This isn't unusual for one so popular.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#23972: Aug 28th 2015 at 5:51:45 AM

Tekken and Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers and Mortal Kombat and King of Fighters and Aliens vs Predator and Marvel vs Capcom, I'll admit that barely scratches the surface of the sheer amount of arcade games that have been released since their inception, but I've never heard of one being constantly updated in this fashion - Street Fighter at least had to come up with a different name and re-release as "Ultra/Turbo/Super".

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#23973: Aug 28th 2015 at 6:22:05 AM

All of those franchises started before updating cabinets was as easy as it is now, meaning sequels were the only practical way for updates. And now they're developed with the intention of being ported to consoles (well, for Tekken/SF/KM and MvC at least) so separate games is still the best model.

A card game like Heroes is extremely easy to update now, there are plenty of others like it.

Oh, and Zenkai Battle Royale is still being updated. It's only been out a year less than Heroes.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#23974: Aug 28th 2015 at 6:30:58 AM

Zenkai Battle Royale is still being updated

o_o

What, someone physically accesses the machines and updates them, or they all linked to a server and the new characters/stages are thrown in.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#23975: Aug 28th 2015 at 6:45:25 AM

Dragon Ball Heroes is a Japanese Data Carddass Arcade Game. (meaning it uses trading cards as part of it's controls)

You chose 1 out of 21 avatar characters (3 male Saiyans, 3 female Saiyans, 3 Majin, 3 Namekians, 3 Changelings, 3 Androids and 3 Supreme Kais) and can have a team of 5 characters during each battle. You control each character by moving their respective trading card on top of the special card playing surface of the arcade machine.

As of God Mission 4, DBH has been going on for 5 years now and currently has well over 300 characters (including transformations and fusions) has gone through 4 "sagas": The Original Saga (8 Updates), the Galaxy Mission Saga (10 Updates: The First Half of GT and some Movies), the Jaaku Mission Saga (8 Updates: The Second Half of GT) and currently the God Mission Saga (4 Updates so far: Dragon Ball Super and Online). The game has been ported to the 3DS twice as the Ultimate Mission series and has an official manga by DBAF author Toyotaro called Victory Mission.

Here's a gameplay trailer of God Mission 3 to help you visualize what kind of game DBH is.

edited 28th Aug '15 6:50:13 AM by Rinsankajugin


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