If a game is gonna need patches after it’s release to smooth things out it wasn’t properly completely, as an avid fan I’d dislike that if it were to happen. A lot of DBZ games tend to have one main section of the game complete with small subsidiary elements that either seem rushed and incomplete or lacking proper development time to be expanded upon. And I think that’s the case for any PS2-forward era DBZ title.
Got my pre-order down now anyway, looking forward to it!
Coming to Steam, that’s cool.
Really hope proper Androids aren’t some paid DLC bullshit. If using humans as the Base is required, that’s fine. More hyped to make Piccolos waifu.
Who would be making cyborgs, though? Definitely not Capsule Corp.
If Majin Buu can make a girl version of himself to fuck, Bulma can use those blueprints Krillin and Trunks stole from Gero to make her own androids and cyborgs. They can be programmed to be good. 17 and 18 went rogue because they had no programming and resented Gero for what he did to them; they were just there to be eaten by Cell and Gero woke them up as a last resort. The other ones were evil because they were programmed to be. 16’s only goal was to kill Goku so otherwise he was a swell guy. 19 performed as intended and could even be trusted enough to take Gero’s brain and put it in a robot body.
Capsule Corp mass producing android Earth defenders is a more reasonable plan than Gohan teaching the world how to manipulate ki IMO. Anyone could just blow up the planet.
I’m not saying they can’t, I’m saying they wouldn’t. Actual androids? Maybe, but who wants to play as a robot? Cyborgs have human bases, like 17 and 18, which CC would likely find unethical to mass produce.
Fully mechanical types would be the ones mass produced. 16 and 19.
Also, you don’t have to kidnap humans like Gero did. Surely there would be people who would pay for cybernetic augmentation.
Yea, that’s definitely a possibility. However, giving those kinds of augmentations to random people might not be a good idea considering what happened with Gero’s cyborgs.
I would like to see an Android “race” as an option, but I don’t think it’ll happen. I think Dragon Ball Heroes has them, though.
new combos
Earthling race includes androids. the customization allows authentic android creation.
Also 17 and 18 were humans before becoming androids, so it’s possible for even humans to start as humans and eventually become androids
for those that wanna RP that way. and in the future, Capsule Corp or a organization outside Capsule corp could pick up on the technology,
and people that want an android body, could sign up and androids could be used for various things, including security, law enforcement, etc.
as well on the flipside of things like syndicates that hire androids for private purposes, including military organizations.
making android will be easy in this and proper
choose Earthling race (the race already has built in Ki traits that fit androids)
choose android looking eyes (doesn’t have to be Red Ribbon inspired)
choose android sounding name (doesn’t have to be a number. )
making android as human looking (13,17,18) or “artificial” looking (16, 14, 15) as you like
gather and equip Android type skills.
get 18 as a mentor.
don’t equip scouter. Xenoverse allows scanning power levels without scouter, so they were thinking ahead with android builds. 
don’t equip energy charge type skills.
If it has an android name, and fights like an android, it’s an android.
Xenoverse already has the complete capabilities of being (or becoming) an original android without needing to categorize its own race.
Season Pass announced that’s adding some DLC characters and whatnot.
Literally fuck any developer that announces a Season Pass before release. I could care less about if it’s more content or not, if they’re planning on creating this content before the release, add it to your finished fucking product.
DLC characters?
If they’re not what-ifs like Adult Gotenks, SSJ3 Trunks, etc…no buy.
Normally I’d be up in arms at pre-release DLC announcements but in this case it’s a case of “Fuck GT, glad that shit won’t be in my copy”.
A revived Red Ribbon Army?
It’s adding a little more than just characters I believe, and the fact they already have a lot of what the Season Pass gives you I’m rightfully annoyed at the concept of more on-disc DLC practices.
Hoping it’s good anyway
Played the demo for the last one and was disappointed
Review scores from Famitsu
Battle of Z was complete ass… Xenoverse is galaxies better.
I’ve had a topic that’s been in the back of my head every time I’ve gotten even slightly hype for this game. I’m a huge DBZ fan and the series alone got me into anime/manga. I am in no way hating on this game, I have a pre-order placed and I’m heavily excited to play it, but I still have qualms I’d like to discuss.
So lets take a quick blast to the past and reminisce old games such as Tenkaichi 3, Budokai 3, Super Dragon Ball Z, Shin Budokai and a couple other fun titles. They were some fun games sure, but each of them suffered from the obvious signs of rushed development. I mean this in terms of the “meat and potatoes” of the game, it had it’s general concepts worked out in the story mode and challenge/trial types modes but none of them had real depth to them, they were very bare-boned and basic. Hell I’ll even say Tenkaichi 3’s combat system was a lucky fluke and that it’s pretty piss poor as a game anyways, it just caters towards fast-paced easy action, Raging Blast 1/2 at least built upon the structure of those games and finely tuned the system a little bit. I’ll get onto my point anyway.
Will Xenoverse be another victim of rushed development?
In my humble opinion, yes.
With an already delayed release date and generally slow progress in development shown, I refuse to believe this game will be able to be called a proper finished product on release. Watching multiple DBZ content creators on YouTube and then sifting through the comments section just shows me a lot of bias opinions on the entire matter; example -
“This game is going to be bad” < Commenter 1, has no backing for his statement but we’re all entitled to opinions, right?
“Don’t say that until it’s released it’s only in beta!” < Commenter 2, now normally I would agree depending on what was wrong with said title, if it was an extreme fuck-up beta > final version probably wouldn’t change something drastic. My main problem with this is that it was a mere 2 months away from release when “Beta footage” was being shown. A game in beta, two months away from release, I haven’t ever heard of something like this before and this is where I began to question this games development. Surely a game this close to release would be in it’s polishing stages with a final build ready for mass production, right? I’m no game development aficionado but things like this seem questionable at the least.
The problems with rushed development/underwhelming end products for this title -
Now if you watch through a couple of the advertisements they REALLY try to sell you on the new “Create a character, take control of the DBZ timeline” selling point, which is entirely reasonable considering it’s their unique selling point and it’s what’s really going to drive sales for this game. But is it really going to be what they make it out to be?
“TAKE CONTROL OF THE DBZ TIMELINE!”
So, in what scenarios is this applicable, and to what levels? Can we for instance have Goku die from the beginning and not have him resurrected to completely fuck up the storyline, or is it going to be Mass Effect 3 esque where all of our decisions lead to a boring A, B, C ending with completely no consequences for your choices throughout the campaign whatsoever.
Cell Saga -
I’ll use this as an example, let’s use the fight between Goku and Cell and create two varying scenarios of what I would like the game to be like, compared to what the game will PROBABLY be like.
Goku fights Cell, refuses to forfeit and continues to ascend to an SSJ2 remaining alive into the Buu Saga thus changing the timeline quite dramatically.
Goku loses to Cell, but instead of choosing Gohan your character and Vegeta fight Cell, Vegeta then ascends/becomes stronger than the other Z-Warriors, changing his character development from the original series where he quits his life as a warrior.
^ The above states two pretty decent outcomes that are differing from the original story. And even though Toriyama probably doesn’t want his story to be changed or touched, A ) He had that ship sail when he allowed the release of GT B ) This is one of the only remaining ways to create an interesting campaign for the DBZ games
Now, onto what the game will probably be like,
Goku loses to Cell, allows Gohan to fight Cell and he continues to ascend to an SSJ2 just like the series. Cell then gets this whole “dark” power-up with the red eyes and whatnot and your character and Gohan fight Cell to defeat his dark powered up state. The end. No differing timeline at all.
The main point I’m attempting to make is that I genuinely believe this game will not be able to live around the hype it has created for me and many other fans, and even though it’s promising an interchangeable storyline where your character can change historic moments in the series, it’ll probably just be the iconic fights with your character taking part in them, which to me seems underwhelming.
When considering a majority of fans in the YouTube comment sections look very young and impressionable, I think it may hit them the hardest. I’m wondering if anybody else is having similar thoughts about this game being rushed.
Merged with the existing Xenoverse thread.