Best Dragon Ball game?

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

Ah yes, my favorite dragon ball game character

Peter Griffin

In fact, this is my favorite Dragon Ball battle

 

[Yousef Yousef]

It was not possible including every game lol, XenForo limits. As compensation, you can vote multiple times and there’s no time limit for the votes. This is just for fun!

I’ll make a few shouts.

Sparking Neo! has to be my goat, not only does it let you unlock what-if sagas without beating the whole game but it’s got Takanori Arima’s score too, which is something you can’t experience dbz without, in my eyes.

And there’s my ultimate childhood game too, Budokai 3, at first I played the infamous 2007 mod budokai AF, which introduced me to System of a Down and many other music.

It got an HD update too.

These days I replay B3 through the deluxe edition mod created by Ryuken (custom cover made by me), I’ll put it on the REPO once I’m finished with it.

One game I think is undoubtedly underrated would be Idainaru Dragon Ball Densetsu (Dragon Ball: The Legend) on PS1, played it a ton on a jailbroken psp back in 2009.

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

Advanced Adventure is a very good beat'em
You make your way to almost all classic DB with punches, ki blasts and Kame-Kame-Ha with a smooth pixel art.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

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Advanced Adventure is a very good beat'em
You make your way to almost all classic DB with punches, ki blasts and Kame-Kame-Ha with a smooth pixel art.

It’s a cute game, and my first exposure to gba emulation (cuz one YouTuber I followed spammed it in every video back in the early 2010s lol)

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

It’s a cute game, and my first exposure to gba emulation (cuz one YouTuber I followed spammed it in every video back in the early 2010s lol)

Yeah, also is pretty hard, most bosses beat your ass lol.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Yeah, also is pretty hard, most bosses beat your ass lol.

There’s also a one piece game similar to it on gba, also really fun, if a bit simple.

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

There’s also a one piece game similar to it on gba, also really fun, if a bit simple.

Yeah, i played that too, i think that were developed by the same company.

 

[Clippy]

There will never be a better Dragon Ball game than MUGEN

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

There will never be a better Dragon Ball game than MUGEN

MUGEN is the equivalent of reuniting all your toys and make weird shit with them.
I like that pure chaos.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

There will never be a better Dragon Ball game than MUGEN

Ah yes, my favorite dragon ball game character

Peter Griffin

 

[Yousef Yousef]

In fact, this is my favorite Dragon Ball battle

Toni Cipriani solos dragon ball

 

[Viviana Santos]

I consider FighterZ the GOAT of all Dragon Ball fighting games (with Super Dragon Ball Z and Budokai Tenkaichi 3 coming in a close second). As for non-fighting Dragon Ball games, Advanced Adventure, Dragon Ball Origins 1 and 2, Attack of the Saiyans, Revenge of King Piccolo, The Legacy of Goku 2, and Buu's Fury are my favorites.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

I never got around to the modern games, but I've always felt charmed by DBZ Hyper Dimension for the SNES/SFC..

Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension (J+English Patched) SNES ROM – The Repo

Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension (J+English Patched) SNES ROM Languages: English Patched, Japanese. For the Super NES.

retrogametalk.com

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I never got around to the modern games, but I've always felt charmed by DBZ Hyper Dimension for the SNES/SFC..

Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension (J+English Patched) SNES ROM – The Repo

Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension (J+English Patched) SNES ROM Languages: English Patched, Japanese. For the Super NES.

retrogametalk.com

Sick pick!

 

[Rocket2049]

i'm biased to RPG games so legacy of goku 1 and 2
i did REALLY enjoy xenoverse 1 and 2
i NEVER really watched all of DBZ, i just DO NOT have the patience to
with those games above i got all the story that matters really.

 

[-------]

I played Budokai 3 for the ps 2 and I like it. But otherwise, nothing more.

 

[Pearly]

It was not possible including every game lol, XenForo limits. As compensation, you can vote multiple times and there’s no time limit for the votes. This is just for fun!

I’ll make a few shouts.

Sparking Neo! has to be my goat, not only does it let you unlock what-if sagas without beating the whole game but it’s got Takanori Arima’s score too, which is something you can’t experience dbz without, in my eyes.

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And there’s my ultimate childhood game too, Budokai 3, at first I played the infamous 2007 mod budokai AF, which introduced me to System of a Down and many other music.

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It got an HD update too.
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These days I replay B3 through the deluxe edition mod created by Ryuken (custom cover made by me), I’ll put it on the REPO once I’m finished with it.
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One game I think is undoubtedly underrated would be Idainaru Dragon Ball Densetsu (Dragon Ball: The Legend) on PS1, played it a ton on a jailbroken psp back in 2009.

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Idainaru Densetsu is absolutely not underrated, it was considered the best dragonball game alongside hyper dimension until the release of budokai 3. I was there at the time in 2001 with an imported legit copy of the game and not a bootleg. It was THE game you wanted as a dragonball fan back then if wanted a more Z like battle experience than a 2d fighter experience.

As for my take on the best dragon ball game, I believe sparking zero will be a masterpiece of a game by the 3-4 year mark of updates added to it BUT the soundtrack will never be S tier, which is a shame as most dragonball games always had fire soundtracks even when the gameplay kind of sucked, I'm looking at you ultimate tenkaichi.

As for the the actual best game that manages to get the combat and visuals perfect and actually feel like I am playing a 1:1 version of the dragonball fighting experience from Z onwards, it would be Kakarot, bar none. Classic dragon ball, easily advanced adventure, which apes the 16 bit era game we should have gotten years before that.

Budokai tenkaichi is definitely being propped up by nostalgia for most people, as they had long nights playing it with friends in multiplayer, and the botched awkward story mode was forgotten, I hated budokai tenkaichi 3 on release as it felt like a watered down, shallower version of BT 2 with more characters. I enjoyed 2, but it was unnecessarily exhaustive when it comes to having everything in there. Budokai 3 aged like wine, shame they didn't have another year of development time for that game as Trunks and Bardocks Dragon universe got culled, dialogue and assets are in there, even the full English dialogue for them, imagine picking Tien and Yamcha for a story mode over trunks and bardock, that was some serious misallocation of quality that was. I'd take Trunks or bardock over a joke character and whatever the f**k Tien became after he was introduced as a villain, as far as I'm aware, Tien really is amongst the most disliked characters in dragonball, yet he got priority for inclusion

I have a huge soft spot for LOG 2, especially the soundtrack, but it has some odd design decisions that kind of hold it back, especially the dinosaur egg stuff. Take that out and the game is going to be a lot better. It is still easily the best western developed dragonball game though.

The best dragonball game though, that wasn't trying to ape the drgaonball experince, but also added to worldbuilding immensely, we should have gotten a trilogy and was a damned work of art was attack of the saiyans, I am still pissed that mild fatigue occurred in the fan base at the time, "It only goes up to vegeta bro, we should skip this", I EVEN THOUGHT THIS MYSELF AT THE TIME!!!, I maxed out everyone's levels and exhausted everything and anything that could be done in that game when I finally did play it. A bunch of games that covered only so much came out at that time and BT 3 created an expectation of, if it doesn't have everything, we won't buy. We should all go back in time and buy ten copies each. They were genuinely throwing sh*t at a wall and seeing what stuck during the ps3/360, DS and PSP era.

 

[Dartz]

the supersonic warriors - legacy of goku - raging blast/tenkaichi and extreme butoden there was also beat em up based on gt on gba that was nice but forgot the name atm

 

[Zeo]

I still have a fond spot for Budokai 2 even if it got so much hate for the story mode.... when said story mode was a re-tell!. Something that at the time was rare to see, instead to follow the same story from Saiyan to Buu saga we got an alternate version of the whole story

Also the runing joke of the Saibames and Goku funny reaction to them

Finally, this is the only Dragon Ball fighting game where Videl and Mr.Satan are NOT bad or a joke characters since there isnt teleport and the battle is more hand to hand combat. In fact, Videl is so fast and cheap of ki that i used her a lot in the other modes

Also, no one can deny that the music is one of the best ones out there. That instrumental version of "Go for It!" at the credits is one hell of "You did it" after beating that cheap ass Kid Buu

Budokai 3 got all the fame and stuff, but 2 was an interesting take that most didnt like (to the point it was take out of the budokai collection...)

Another very underrated one is Super Dragon Ball Z. The rarity that it was playable teen Chichi with her kid version armor was something need to see (plus Toriyama new upgrade to Mecha Frieza)

 

[kbcinharoxa kbcinharoxa]

Dragon Ball Kakarot and Budokai 3

I was gonna write and big text explaining my lore with these games but....
I’m feeling lazy :,v
In short: I love Story Mode, combat, and RPG elements.

 

[contrail_]

I've never played a single Dragon Ball game, despite the fact that I really liked the anime, especially the OG one with kid Goku. (there weren't any Dragon Ball games in my country).
Since I first saw it, I'd always figured it would make a nice semi-open world single player action game with some rpg elements, where you just play as Goku. You'd have the staff, the flying cloud, the dragon radar, the ability to use kamehameha and other techniques from the show, you'd occasionally go through some rpg-style dungeons like that underwater cave where they looked for one of the dragon balls, muscle tower, the red ribbon hq, the demon realm, etc. (I'm almost entirely convinced a lot of jrpgs got their ideas for dungeons from the show), you'd also have tournament arcs which would add some pacing structure to the game (the show had like 5 or 6, including 3 tenkaichi budokai tournaments). Is there a Dragon Ball game like that?

I guess it makes sense for the series to have fighting games, but that wouldn't be my first choice. What I like most about the OG series is the world, the vehicle design, the fashion and stuff like that. The artstyle was done in such a way that it could encapsulate any type of setting and still be interesting. Fights in Z were pretty cool too, but the show kind of got sidetracked with those and made a lot of its characters useless.

 

[DayBreak_Illusion]

I'm going to be the minority here and say Budokai 2 is my favorite in the series. I really love the cute board game they have going on and the music is so catchy and fun. I really do love the leveling up system and how the game plays out. Also one of the few dragon ball z games on the Gamecube with exclusive content.

 

[Zeo]

Is there a Dragon Ball game like that?

The close thing you can get are the Origins games for the DS, Super Gokuden/Densetsu for the snes and the Legacy of Goku/Buu Fury for the GBA

Attack of the Saiyans comes close if you dont mind a very expanded Saiyan saga with exploration and extra stuff with Goku and his friends

The Kakarot game is if you want a more modern take

Thats all that come close to explore and feel the Dragon Ball universe

Dragon Ball Online is also close one, but never played the fanmade online servers after the original shut down

 

[JellyjamLu]

Tenakichi 3 for sheer fan service.

But it may be dethroned by Sparking Zero once the new update hits, if only they added like at least another 2-3 more stages ontop of the announced 5, two of which are just palette swaps for the space stage, so technically 4.
anyway I would announce that 100% SZ is THE best Dragonball game of all time imo. (probably going to happen eventually, if updates remain strong)

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Idainaru Densetsu is absolutely not underrated, it was considered the best dragonball game alongside hyper dimension until the release of budokai 3. I was there at the time in 2001 with an imported legit copy of the game and not a bootleg. It was THE game you wanted as a dragonball fan back then if wanted a more Z like battle experience than a 2d fighter experience.

As for my take on the best dragon ball game, I believe sparking zero will be a masterpiece of a game by the 3-4 year mark of updates added to it BUT the soundtrack will never be S tier, which is a shame as most dragonball games always had fire soundtracks even when the gameplay kind of sucked, I'm looking at you ultimate tenkaichi.

As for the the actual best game that manages to get the combat and visuals perfect and actually feel like I am playing a 1:1 version of the dragonball fighting experience from Z onwards, it would be Kakarot, bar none. Classic dragon ball, easily advanced adventure, which apes the 16 bit era game we should have gotten years before that.

Budokai tenkaichi is definitely being propped up by nostalgia for most people, as they had long nights playing it with friends in multiplayer, and the botched awkward story mode was forgotten, I hated budokai tenkaichi 3 on release as it felt like a watered down, shallower version of BT 2 with more characters. I enjoyed 2, but it was unnecessarily exhaustive when it comes to having everything in there. Budokai 3 aged like wine, shame they didn't have another year of development time for that game as Trunks and Bardocks Dragon universe got culled, dialogue and assets are in there, even the full English dialogue for them, imagine picking Tien and Yamcha for a story mode over trunks and bardock, that was some serious misallocation of quality that was. I'd take Trunks or bardock over a joke character and whatever the f**k Tien became after he was introduced as a villain, as far as I'm aware, Tien really is amongst the most disliked characters in dragonball, yet he got priority for inclusion

I have a huge soft spot for LOG 2, especially the soundtrack, but it has some odd design decisions that kind of hold it back, especially the dinosaur egg stuff. Take that out and the game is going to be a lot better. It is still easily the best western developed dragonball game though.

The best dragonball game though, that wasn't trying to ape the drgaonball experince, but also added to worldbuilding immensely, we should have gotten a trilogy and was a damned work of art was attack of the saiyans, I am still pissed that mild fatigue occurred in the fan base at the time, "It only goes up to vegeta bro, we should skip this", I EVEN THOUGHT THIS MYSELF AT THE TIME!!!, I maxed out everyone's levels and exhausted everything and anything that could be done in that game when I finally did play it. A bunch of games that covered only so much came out at that time and BT 3 created an expectation of, if it doesn't have everything, we won't buy. We should all go back in time and buy ten copies each. They were genuinely throwing sh*t at a wall and seeing what stuck during the ps3/360, DS and PSP era.

That’s a pretty sweet story thanks for sharing c: