Day 0 for me.

We won't ever get a Budokai game again. So I'm all in for raw 2.5D fighters, not some 3rd person mindless brawler with jokingly bad environment destruction.

Holy effin' hell, this is even better than Budokai 3:




Some observations:

- Seems like there will be a total of 24 characters, if counting from the missing "blocks" on the character selection screen.
- MvC style tagging is very apparent.
- Rush and beatdowns are more akin to Blazblue than Guilty Gear.
- There seems to be a total of 10 super bars(?).
- Hyper moves like Vegeta's Final Flash will entirely "reform" the stage, just like in Budokai 2 and 3. LOVE IT!
- Ki charging is in the game.
- In-match transformation is part of the gameplay it seems, at least judging from Frieza's transformation into his Golden form.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Jun 12 2017, 11:48 PM

The only thing left to make it perfect is to have the original DBZ anime OST (not the bullshit Kai, not the English-bullshit edition, not the rubbish they're doing on Super now) in the game.

Probably a hard task, but damn... please do something Bamco! You have Funimation in your pockets already!

Licensing issues. But Toei is on board with this game, so here's hoping they allow it.


No GT stuff in this game, said one of the rep from ArcSys. Pretty sure SSJBlue will be in the game one way or another.

Oh yes! There will be chibi mode in the game!

So... I guess if they are going to break the "Z" rule in the title, might as well just add some GT characters then.

So.. Mystic Gohan or Great Saiyaman next? Also wondering if the fusion characters like Gotenks and Vegito will be part of the roster.

SSJ Vegito only please. I don't like this modernization of DB.

Take.My.Money.

Honestly speaking? I'm getting digital. This is a game where I will constantly play, so I'm not going to be arsed about changing disc when moving on to play a "big hit" title.

It's a mix of MvC with tag mechanics and Blazblue (it's more Blazblue than Guilty Gear if you ask me) - with the super/hyper attacks heavily influenced from Budokai 3/Burst Limit and Super DBZ (not to be confused with Dragon Ball Super anime).

The reason why it's so good is because of just how seamlessly everything feels, without looking stupid. This means button mashers who knows zero about frame data can have fun and those long time fighting game veterans can poke deep into the system.

Who would have thought a Dragon Ball game has the potential to be GOTY?

Every DBZ game before DBFZ was laughed at.

Here's hoping they would include Broly... I know he's a love/hate character, but in terms of technicality - his style always fits in a fighting game.

Absolutely pondering whether to get this on PS4 or PC.

My main concern is input lag. Although AcSys as been pretty solid with their GG/BB releases on the PS4, it still lags a little behind the PC.

Either ways, getting the Ultimate edition if those anime tracks can be used in game. Need some confirmation on this.

No pondering required if cross play supported... FFS.

So Japan gets an individual DLC release for the anime OSTs but the rest of the world need to buy the Ultimate Edition to get it?

There's a pretty convincing leak going around that doesn't spell good news for this game... considering that the Namcops are planning to support this game for 2 years.

- Regular Goku (Saiyan/Namek saga)
- Regular Vegeta (Saiyan/Namek saga)
- Broly (SSJ only, no USSJ?)
- Bardock (this is almost unlikely)
- Raditz (pretty much confirmed, he's actually already done)
- Goku Black (like Raditz and both Regular Goku/Vegeta, he's pretty much done)

So 3 characters from launch are being held back for... well, DLC reasons - because moneh.

Not long to go now.

That's a dumb question, sorry.

What matters is what you play better on, not what the game plays better with. It's not a racing game.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Dec 29 2017, 03:48 PM

Beta pre-load is up on UK PSN.

Believe that Asia and US PSN should be up by midnight or tomorrow morning. Size is only ~2GB+, so no one should be complaining about needing 624 hours to download the beta.

Open Beta is live right now.