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How to Reinvent Dragon Ball

July 07, 2010 in Blog comments 12

Dragon Ball games seem to pop up year after year, offering the same story-lines that fans mostly know by heart. The franchise needs to be reinvented and offer fans something new, while keeping it familiar. Read on for our suggestions.

More than a decade has passed since Dragon Ball Z first hit it big on Cartoon Network. But despite the enormous progress that other licensed games (Star Wars, Transformers, The Bourne Identity, etc.) have made in recent years, DBZ has only given birth to games that are merely fun, entertaining, or decent.
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    BlazinFaze Jul 8, 10
    My thoughts exactly. It gets really old after a while :-\
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      Giralga Jul 11, 10
      quote BlazinFaze
      My thoughts exactly. It gets really old after a while :-\
      super old
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    Solid Snake 4Life Jul 8, 10
    Yeah last DB game I bought/had was Budokai 3 back on the ps2. Now that was my shit but the tenkaichi series or whatever really messed it up.
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      Tenken Jul 8, 10
      This. A thousand times this. I always get angry responses when I say the Tenkaichi series was messed up, but it's true.
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    Gamesta100 Jul 8, 10
    DBZ Attack of the Saiyans on DS has a fair bit of story that isn't found in the source material. Basically it shows what happened in those missing years. You know between the end of a saga and "5 years after defeating Raditz etc."
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    Bale Fire Jul 8, 10
    I think the main problem with reinventing Dragonball is money. The franchise really isn't that big anymore now that the series has ended, and pumping funds and getting a good developer are probably not see as a worthwhile investment.

    As such the franchise sticks with what it knows. Though I do hear there is an MMO on the horizon.
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      Gamesta100 Jul 8, 10
      Depends on what you consider big. DBZ still has many people that talk a LOT about it. Just go to the Dragonball forum on neoseeker, it's one of the busiest forums on the site.

      There are lots of people like me who will buy just about anything to do with DBZ.


      DBZ is still rather huge, all be it in a cult classic kind of way.
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        Tenken Jul 10, 10
        The fact that people keep buying the games is reason enough that the series won't be reinvented. So long as sales are up, they can keep pouring out the same game year after year.

        To look at the series progression: Budokai 1 was worth buying because it reinvented the series, Budokai 2 wasn't because it was the same game with different graphics and easier use of Ki. Budokai 3 took it a giant step forward and became the best DBZ game to date. Budokai Tenkaichi reinvented the series and became worth buying, Budokai Tenkaichi 2 basically did nothing, but BT3 upped the ante again.

        The new games that have come out (Burst Limit, Raging Blast, RB2) are those games stripped down. Why buy them?
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          Gamesta100 Jul 11, 10
          I buy them because I enjoy every one of them.Funny people say Tenkaichi 1 was better than 2 because T1 is the only DBZ game along with Raging Blast to disappoint me. I go back to T2 and T3 but I can never play T1 because it's boring.


          I'm easy to please and so I don't care how little a sequel changes from the previous one.


          Plus with DBZ it's like a collectors thing, I want just about everything to do with DBZ.


          Anyway the thing is that lots of us like all the DBZ games so unless we get bored of them, we don't care if others like them or not as we get to play them so why would we care that others don't like them?
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          Tenken Jul 11, 10
          The point is that you should care that the games are getting worse, which doesn't make sense. They could have copy-pasted BT3 and released it with a major graphical upgrade and it would have kicked the shit out of Raging Blast, and RB2 looks to suck just as much.
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    screamingabdabs Jul 12, 10
    The two Origin games on the DS are really good, if they stuck to RPG's it could be a very good thing. The anime was good, but I lost interest
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    Gamesta100 Jul 13, 10
    Only played the first one but I couldn't get past the maze like level where you need to unlock these big doors.


    If you enjoy turn based RPG's then you HAVE to play DBZ Attack of the Saiyans.

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