Remembering The Dragon Ball Z Budokai Video Games

Nothing defined my adventures to Blockbuster more than picking up the latest Dragon Ball Z: Budokai video game. From Budokai 1 to 3, Infinite World, and even Shin Budokai, these were all fantastic adventures offering something a little different each time around. Join me as we celebrate Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and reminisce on the S tier era of anime video games!
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[@retrorebound8887]

Thanks to many of your requests, we have decided to dive deep into the Legacy Of Goku 2! Is it as good as some have said? I played and found out... - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHSzcnWiebeLZ7s

[@Beregond1861]

I have Legacy of Goku 2 for GBA, but haven't played it yet. After finding your channel through the LOTR games and then THIS review series as well? I'm subbed, bro!👍♥️🎮

[@killinsoftly756]

I love how he's breaking down the the covers and boxart. A very lost experience in todays video games.

[@shootah_mcgaven3424]

I really miss the game manuals in the box. I used to read em on my way home to play my brand new game.

[@HD-nt8ng]

@@shootah_mcgaven3424 same

[@secredeath]

I remember wanting to buy the one with goku and vegeta on the cover with Chinese letters and the dragon on the background. Man I remember wanting to buy it just cus of the cover

[@Be_Baruk]

When I was little I remember staring at the box art for the 1st budokai and trying to figure out why it was different than other pictures and media. It has a softness to the drawing. And the second game again I was figuring out it was sharper and had a holographic foil look to it, shiny and sharp. Super saiyan against freeza is soft blonde hair. After that it becomes more spiked edges and shiny with electric effects. They captured that with the box art

[@maeschder]

Although its kinda pointless unless you compare the different versions. The US often got generic "action" boxart even back then, compared to the original JP ones (we mostly got those in Europe too for PAL releases)

[@Nightxx9199]

Budokai 3 actually had a bunch of secrets around the map if you looked, Such as unlocking spirit bomb early, Finding Cooler, Getting SSJ4 and or finding Broly etc.

[@uckbritley1305]

Yeah a bunch of stories had alt endings you could find, like beating Buu using Gogeta (I think?)

[@somethingsomewhere.2613]

Yeah idk why he said it didn’t have secrets I remember combing the map each time for stuff 😂

[@twinkletoes8094]

Hope he does a new one based around the secrets he missed

[@zachkamran9688]

Exactly! I remember as a kid just stumbling upon SSJ4 thinking it was just gonna be a random item. I had never even HEARD of SSJ4 at that point so it BLEW ME THE FUCK AWAY Finding secrets before everything was easy to find on the internet really was special. Wish I could go back

[@jamesheather6667]

Funny thing I remember on the PAL version BUDOKAI 3 actually didn't have secrets like SJJ4. you had to get the 'platinum hit's' version which added those secrets. I didn't know that in high school so my friend kept telling me I was lying because he couldn't get those characters.... it was only a few years later I realised....

[@mexiwolf009]

These games were my childhood. The amount of time I spent playing Budokai 1 will always be some of my favorite memories.

[@chimuoma390]

I Like The Boss Goku Hack From Supersonic Warriors 2!WAY MORE FUN THAN BUDOKAI!SUPREME KAMEHAMEHA!SUPREME SHOTS!KI BLAST WAVE!SEVEN DRAGON BLAST!SUPER SAIYAN 3!

[@KingdomHeart556]

Yes I spent hours using that capsule store exploit to finally get Friezas spaceship good times

[@bobafett8768]

Used to play budokai 1 with my next door neighbor almost every day after school. Great memories

[@toxicsaiyan7109]

I had played budokai 1 and infinite world the last of the budokai series so much and then raging blast 2 which are my top 3 dbz games.

[@dreamxhollow]

Budokai 3 deserves a current gen release. It was honestly my favorite DBZ game of all time. Nothing comes close.

[@ext609]

True dude imagine this game have online like today anime fighting game it would be fun

[@cecilcool1000]

Yeah but the og ost is not there anymore

[@HTAD111111]

Facts!

[@dreamxhollow]

@@cecilcool1000 what happened?

[@cecilcool1000]

@@dreamxhollow the composer plagiarized the ost from other songs

[@drasticbread249]

Man, I remember a time when I was 11 or 12 years old when I was foaming at the mouth for months waiting for the first Budokai game to come out. Such a great series, glad this video came out so I could relive those good times.

[@SSJ491]

It's been 20 years since Dragon Ball Z Budokai originally released back in December 3, 2002 on the PS2. I remember when my young brother and I were excited to play Dragon Ball Z Budokai when we were kids at that time in the early 2000s. The 3d graphics of the Dragon Ball characters were awesome, the story from the Saiyan Saga through Cell Saga was phenomenally amazing to relive the Dragon Ball Z storyline, the World tournament mode and the duel mode was amazingly fun. I had a great time playing Dragon Ball Z games during my late childhood through my adulthood years.

[@chadzard4]

Me too man. It was right after they stopped airing DBZ on CN. So I was able to relive almost all those moments through this game.

[@SSJ491]

Yeah I remember when Dragon Ball Z was finished its run on Toonami on Cartoon Network, the original Dragon Ball was still running on television at that time, and GT was began airing on Toonami on November 7, 2003 in the United States while the Budokai games was its prime.

[@glenrodriguez9002]

I was 21 bro lmaooo went in a snow storm to buy it on the day it dropped.. maaaannnn take me back

[@youngcity4241]

Crazy cause I was 11 also lol

[@ElGaby323]

Got the first Budokai game on Christmans 2002, I was 14 years old. For weeks before the release date, I remember looking at gameplay pictures in Gamepro magazines and being blown away. It's all I would talk about in school with my friends. Being able to play through the DBZ storyline was simply amazing. Some of the best memories in gaming! I know the sequels improved on it, but nothing beats that first experience I had with Budokai.

[@bronzesausage]

B1 was amazing! I got it for GameCube that same Christmas!

[@officialwindythefox463]

I love the fact that you could absorb different characters as buu in budokai 2. I remember kicking butt as cell buu.

[@bronzesausage]

I’d say 1 is my favorite, I loved the alternate timeline type missions…like if vegeta became a SS when he first ever fought Goku, or when Cell absorbs Krillin and becomes an orange version of The baby cells. God I loved Budokai so much.

[@onilao]

I loved all of these but Bukokai 2 has some great memories, me and my bro would co-op the story mode and take turns with each character on the map!

[@CanadianDude]

Oh yes. I used to do that too a while back on the Gamecube version of that game.

[@onilao]

@Corey Parker right!? they was so many, even tiencha!

[@lucasguimaraes3029]

Budokai 2 was my GAME! It felt so satisfying to press square square square circle to do a kamehameha.

[@officialbackfiremedia1315]

Miss this type of side by side simple combo gameplay

[@EvilGeniusRANIK]

Burst limit would have been perfect if it actually went past the Cell saga and included the Buu Saga.

[@HDGaminTutorials]

Never knew why it didnt get a sequel it sold close to 600,000 copies which is allot for any anime game

[@youngcity4241]

Burst limit had so much hype around it the graphics were insane for its time

[@webbiefade14]

Honestly would have enjoyed a Burst Limit series more than the Raging Blast series

[@EvilGeniusRANIK]

@@webbiefade14 Same here, especially if it covered more of the story, added more characters and increased the frame rate. Would've been the perfect DBZ game series.

[@ca8550]

Yea these companies ruin their chances to make money what was the point of even skipping the buu saga that was just a very stupid decision and doesn't make any sense just complete all the sagas and make profit they are always trying to milk something and lose money instead

[@agentbuckshot4697]

Budokai 1 is still my favorite: Best story mode, Legend of Hercule, no annyoing gimmicks like Dragon Rush, & overall just a really solid game. (Gamecube version also looks really good with the cel shading)

[@SkandiTV]

The Budokai games hold such a very special place in my heart. Budokai 3 in particular, probably has my favorite fighting game roster, not to mention the best anime game opening of all time (the international version with lyrics, obviously)

[@b4ooks233]

The amount of detail these games have is really amazing for the time I would’ve loved to be on the Development team.

[@nathanebrecht1407]

I found your channel a few months ago and love it. Keep up the awesome videos. Fun Fact, for those who don't know, the snow maps are actually from Dragon Ball, when Goku rescues a girl's dad from the Red Ribbon Army's tower (which is in the background) and meets Android 8.

[@LilLorThatGamerFoo]

Haha I actually just commented the same thing, it's "Muscle Tower" and Mr. White is the general of the tower.

[@SSJ491]

You mean the chief of Jingle Village who got captured by the Red Ribbon Army. That girl's name is Suno/Snow, the one with the red long hair and white sweater.

[@adammatis5527]

"So a puny Saiyan is it?! You, mock me?!?" *Blows hole through zarbon.* That animation is more cemented in my memory than the original.

[@oceanhunterjg]

Budokai 3 has remained my absolute favorite fighting game

[@jjkazempour]

I remember playing Budokai 3 religiously. I have no recollection of how difficult it was, but I remember thinking, as a kid, it was damn near impossible to unlock SS4 Gogeta (one of my favorites) and I was the happiest kid in the world when I finally got him. Love this game, definitely wanna pick it up again.

[@nick72799]

Boo was usually such a bitch of a fight for an 8 year old me as well

[@Mr_ULTMT]

My favorite now is for sure Infinite World which I’ve always seen as Budokai 4, but I love the trilogy. 1 had a great story, 3 had great mechanics and 2 was really charming. As a kid I always wanted to play 3 but I didn’t have a copy, but I did have a copy of 2 that I played til the cows came home. Great memories

[@LuminesBreezer--]

They knew what they were doing with Infinite World for sure. Broly was awesome in that.

[@eyecontrol4900]

@@LuminesBreezer-- yea, his new mini ultimate Mega Slam (i think?) is bordeline broken if you abuse it enough.

[@lucidmind9676]

Man the Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi games were my childhood and it was the first Budokai game that actually got me into DBZ as a kid alongside the classic Toonami

[@RollercoasterWriter]

I remember having Budokai 2 for like a year and a half before I figured out custom slots and selecting custom mode in the free fighting mode. It was like getting the game all over again once I figured out that I could go Super Saiyan 3 or use Big Bang Attack. What a time to be alive.

[@CT-4819]

The best dragon ball games

[@lilblanco7318]

Bt3 is way better

[@CT-4819]

@@lilblanco7318 I did really like that one, but nothing beats the very first Budokai imo

[@dr.wolfstar1765]

...... I mean..... fighterZ destroys these games. Let's be real here

[@CT-4819]

@@dr.wolfstar1765 it is a better game but you’re talking about generational differences. Of the PS2 era Budokai was king

[@cuiveirwin]

W

[@Chronoflation]

I can't believe you didn't bring up the what-if scenarios from Budokai 1, like Cell eating Krillin when he tried to get android 18 and him getting a new form to reflect that. Was great

[@CRWIMPY]

Thank you for making this brought a tear to my eye. I thought I was the only one who had a nostalgia bone for this. I'm not even a fighting games fan but these games drug me into the fighting games zone.

[@CRWIMPY]

Also Vegeta fan all the way best character in DBZ and Frieza in super lol

[@brizzybooy475]

Love your content my big fella ! It’s so NOSTAGIC !! Feeling old men😢😂❤ Keep goin !

[@TheOnlyGuy69]

I used to have all these games growing up and I ended up selling them for games I don't even remember. This brought me back. Great video!

[@hadinasrallah8928]

Loving the fact you’re covering dbz games now

[@randsome]

The budokai 2 dragon world was literally the most fun thing ever! So excited for budokai Tenkaichi 4. So fun to revisit these game of my childhood

[@sanjithechef]

those opening videos were the best - budokai 2 I bought on a whim and it literally rejuvenated my love for anime and I've never looked back

[@eddiecuevas7003]

These games were everything to me when I was a kid. The tenkaichi series never hit me like the budokai series. Budokai 1 was good and 2 was awesome with the what if fusions. Budokai 3 was just the best. I sunk so many hours into 3 and I loved it. I wish they would make a game like budokai but with dragon ball heroes story line.

[@statesminds]

After Ultimate Battle 22 and GT Final Bout these were so much better. love all of these. Budokai 1 was a game changer. I actually did like 2 as well but 3 was my favorite. Sucks HD versions didn't have 2. Then Budokai Tenkaichi was insane with the roster

[@budakaimaster3]

I bought Budokai 1 when it came out originally on PS2, and it actually came with a folded poster inside the case that showed all the characters in the game along with a bio(iirc). Not sure if this was just an initial run thing, or if it came with all PS2 copies of the game. Just a fun fact I wanted to share.

[@souljamarx]

Yeah it didn’t come with the GameCube version! I got budokai 2 for ps2 but I don’t think it came with anything:/

[@budakaimaster3]

@@souljamarx yeah it didn't other than the manual. I remember I was slightly disappointed when I got Budokai 2 for PS2 because of that LOL

[@GamingintheAM0801]

It's worth noting that part of the reason Tenkaichi 3 is so expensive now is because it never got a second printing like a lot of other DBZ games. The publisher lost the license basically right after the game came out, so the first run of copies were the only ones ever made.

[@spicypepperz]

Man that makes me glad I got mine when it came out

[@tyrone2423]

Now I'm even more sad my copy broke

[@stayfly5870]

I just bought one since I couldn't get my old one

[@RetroGhoulHQ]

I was NOT ready for that intro when I clicked this video! the nostalgia slapped me right across the heart

[@andrewmitchell8389]

To this day Shin boudikai another road is one of my favorite psp games. Just the fact it's strait up boudakai on ps2. I desperately want there to be collections of these, boudakai tenkaich, legacy of goku and may others just so they are available on modern consoles.

[@gamuhammad]

Huge Dragonball fan here, since I was 4, I'm 24 now so 20 years with this franchise, I remember Budokai 2 the most, I literally went and found it and brought it, for nostalgia cause I still have a ps2, i literally pulled the case and manual with the disc out right when you did. 1 and 3 I liked, but I never played early on, I wound up playing those two later on the ps3 hd collection (which I also own) but two was my fave, cuz when I was 8 in 3rd grade my mom had got it for me for getting straight As in school played it to death.

[@mediumsyllables]

Budokai 3 was insane at the time. I couldn't believe how good the graphics were. I wish I never sold my copy!

[@donkeykong9539]

Play it on emulator

[@kjo2130]

Budokai 3 is STILL the greatest DB game of all time!!

[@Colt_1888]

this is the video i was waiting for! Still get some childhood friends together most weekends and we play these and Mario Kart Double Dash all night. Great times

[@Vulpas]

Budokai was a blast, and the first fighting game I was obsessed with. It is so good.

[@DavidLucian]

Despite all the DBZ games that have come out over the years, BT1 has the most badass and authentic Intro of all of DBZ games of the Franchise. BT2 and BT3 in my opinion still remains the most Unique and the best DBZ games in terms of content, quality and fanservices. And from the gameplay perspective aspects, these DBZ games that I mentioned are very close to the anime itself because of the Vibe and Charm, I don't know how to describe it but it was, and still is the most Unique DBZ experience you could have with the combat factor. (- Sheer amount de of characters - Transformations mid-battle (powering up and down) - Fusions mid-battle - Fast gameplay that has that "woah" feel - Tons of extra content - Story mode covering all sagas + movies - What If sagas - Shenron having permanent impact on game (character unlocks and whatnot) - Great tournaments that rotate availability - Edit characters with items (buffs) - 5v5 battles - Really Great and Epic Soundtracks - Destroyable environments - Entire stages could be blown up into their "destroyed" alternatives - Mission 100 being a great challenge - Artwork is 10/10 - Sound effects are great - Combat feels heavy and satisfying) Only Budokai 3, Infinite World and the Raging Blast 1 and 2 are still considered also very solid DBZ games, also the hidden gem that a lot of DBZ fans missed from PS2 Era of DBZ games is "Super Dragon Ball Z" which is also a real Unique and DBZ game, especially for the different gameplay aspects perspective. ✌☯️

[@MK-ym7vx]

God i love this fucking channel

[@DaiBenduMonk]

Was anticipating what you'll say about Budokai 2, warm the heart to hear such praise, that was the biz for me, so many hours spent on that game, prob still my fav DBZ game to date.

[@samamir8765]

Those were just the beginning of dragon ball z games coming to consoles but no where perfect as the ones you see on Xbox 360 PS3 xbox one PS4 Steam

[@stevestars2966]

Text me on telegram is back baby!!!!!!! 😂 😆 😝

[@peterparker346]

What makes you think people are watching the show telegram we just write comments like me I just read what the video is about and I just send my thought no watching but I happened to find you who doesn’t watch 😂

[@bryancook6345]

Text me on telegram has no girlfriend or boyfriend

[@mikekanner2156]

I think we going to have put telegram in the freeza

[@Suhadisgood]

Telegram is not just your baby he’s your fool

[@nickworthington2121]

Great trip down memory lane. Thank you.

[@YourAkiKun]

Love your retro content! my last Dragonball was tenkaichi 2 💖

[@andysanchez1215]

Happy Friday to you too bro! Thank you for an awesome episode! 👍🏻

[@mgia89]

Love the chill GT/z them in the background

[@joequinonez9656]

I remember getting Budokai 2 for xmas the year it came out, i was 5 or 6 years old and it was one of the last gifts I opened and it just seemed like Santa i mean my parents saved the best for last and like you said Matty about the shiny cover, i was just in awe unwrapping it and then on top of that my parents also got me a dragon ball with it. Then when Budokai 3 was coming out, I remember my grandpa took me to Gamestop to pre order it and to this day i still have the behind the scenes/making of disc it came with. Thanks for the video Matty and the massive wave of nostalgia i got from it. Earlier this summer I met Chris and Sean at Fan Expo and it was just a dream come true i was literally speechless meeting them. I got up to Sean and just said "Hi. Sean." and reached to shake his hand and Sean goes "Oh your name is Sean to?" and i replied "No you're Sean I'm Joe. Sorry i don't know what to say you're like my hero". Worth it

[@ultimategamer4969]

The year was 2016, 14 year old me went to the king’s day garage sale, my friend and neighbor sold some of his PS2 games. I was curious and looked through his games, two of them peaked my interest. These of course were Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 and 3. I grew up as a Nintendo kid, and while my brother really wanted the console DBZ games for GameCube and Wii, we only had Legacy of Goku on GBA as well as Supersonic Warriors 2 on DS (eventually when we got our first PlayStation, the PS4, we got Xenoverse as well). As a DBZ fan, I just knew I had to find a PS2 THAT DAY. So I scoured the entire area for a PS2, and I did! I found a PS2 Phat, 1 DS2 controller, 1 Third Party controller (Big Ben), the Memory Card, Component Cables, Power Cord, a Remote Control, and she even threw in GTA San Andreas as a bonus, FOR ONLY €20 euros! I then proceeded to purchase Budokai 2 and 3 for €5,- total (got me a discount because I was his friend). I got home, booted up Budokai 2, it won’t load past the Language select screen… Budokai 3 however worked like a charm, WOW, I FREAKING LOVED THAT GAME. And thus my PS2 Collection began, with Dragon Ball Z to kick it off.

[@alexchism5192]

Thanks for sharing the story man

[@JoeNayDoh]

Still feel like Budokai three is one of the best DBZ experiences you can get in video games for nothing else than the ability to have beam struggles. Some of the most iconic moments from the series center around those energy clashes and so few of the games actually put that mechanic in.

[@commycasty]

Actually the majority or probably half of them have beam clashes. The the raging blast clashes I think were the best.

[@J4M490]

Love the videos

[@kylepinkston7861]

Oh how I miss the Dragon Ball Budokai games I remember having these games back in the day for the PS2 unfortunately my PS2 stopped working when I was about 14 damn do these games bring up nostalgia

[@TheCreativeStoryMan]

My brother got the dragon ball z budokai HD collection and sold it like a week after getting it. He was a big fan on those games and I seen him play all of them. Never knew why he sold the HD collection untill I heard the music.

[@daniel_najar]

My dad used to take me to Fry's electronics and my cousin and I would play this on the huge TV. I begged my family to get me a PS2 for my Elementary School Graduation and they got it for me along with this game. LEGENDARY SERIES!!!

[@experience_point6233]

Budokai 3 is my favorite of the series and my all time favorite DB game alongside Kakarot. Back then I was more into 2D fighting games than 3D ones and I didn't liked Tenkaichi that much. I even downloaded some modded PS2 version of the game where they had like super saiyan 6 or something from those Dragon Ball fanfics. I also remember my cousin rotating the analogue stick so hard that his skin peeled off during beam clashes and he was forbidden from playing because of it lol. Those were the days.

[@GamingintheAM0801]

Man, the GameCube port of Budokai 1 is really overlooked. The graphical updates alone make it worth the slightly poorer control scheme. I have a lot of memories with these games. I actually won a Budokai 3 tournament that the gaming club at my high school held.

[@jaynyce5923]

I used to grind TF out of the first Budokai game. Mannn childhood memories ❤️❤️❤️❤️😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@geoffnaggie961]

One of my fondest memories is my dear mother walking into our local game store and telling the clerk "I'd like the Dragon Booty Call" please.

[@FunkyPunk1995]

maaaaaan matty, you hit the nail on the head with the dbzb2 dragon world take and that snow map song. absolute freakin banger.

[@JCREDFANG]

Budokai 1 is great for the nostalgic cutscenes and story 2 is great for the co op board game story 3 is the best overall experience when it comes to the roster, and gameplay.

[@HDGaminTutorials]

I just miss how cool transforming was

[@youngprick95]

almost 27 now, i was a kid when Budokai 1 came out, spent countless hours on it, amazing childhood memories will always be one of my favourite games

[@emcee7777]

Love your videos man, some good stuff! Just found your channel too. it's great going back to and reminiscing about all the classics we grew up with in the ps2 era. Keep up the great work man!

[@souleblade32790]

I love the Budokai series. They were my favorite fighting games, especially Budokai 3. My brother and I played the hell out of it, but I only managed to beat him once (as SS4 Gogeta).

[@samye4249]

Going through life rn but your videos are helping me through in some type of way

[@Blietzflame845]

Excited for all the dbz vids. Budokai tencaichi 3 was my fav

[@HystericalCruelty]

I didnt watch the video before commenting this but it looks like a good place to share my passion with Budokai 3. This was back when blockbuster was still a thing, i loved the first two but 3 absolutely captivated me. Even though Dragon Rush was an incredibly frustrating mechanic vs cpu (i broke a controller fighting perfect cell) there was SO much content the story modes to unlock and explore, and the replay value was great with how you could spec and level characters. When you beat the story with all characters you unlock Dragon Arena which was SO FUN. I mained android 17 all dayyyy

[@waalex11]

I have to replay them all, but I think Budokai 2 is still my favorite for Dragon World, Training, Music, etc. Budokai might have the best story feel in the battles, while 3 has the slightly superior fighting.

[@timoaks3732]

These games were on rotation with NCAAFB, GTA3, and Yugioh games, and that was the bulk of my early 2000s gaming. Still remember how I felt the first time playing Budokai. Having been a fan of DragonBall Z since they were airing episodes on Fox in the 90s, it was a childhood dream come true.

[@TheJbones24]

Love for budokai 2 is very rare, glad to see somebody other than myself say good things about it.

[@dominiqueodom3099]

These were the Exact Games that made Me a Dragon Ball fan as a kid. I didn't have access to DBZ as a kid but I had Budokai 1/2/3 for ps2 and even in Video Game Form Vegeta and Piccolo were my favorite characters.

[@iisanulquiorrahara8]

I definitely grew up with Budokai 1 the most out of the games in this video. I loved the cutscene presentation, the unlockables, the what-ifs mode, and it was just an overall fun time that I still find myself coming back to for the occasional nostalgia trip. I will say that the final fight against Perfect Cell's powered up form was and still is one of the most ruthless fights I've seen in a fighter. But on the reverse end, playing the tournament mode as soon as I unlocked one capsule absolutely broke matches. At the time, it was with Vegeta's Final Flash move. As soon as I got a capsule equipped that set power to Max at the cost of not transforming, I could just spam that move all I wanted, and it'd win me every single one of them. I was honestly kind of surprised to hear Budokai 2 as endorsed as it was. I played that game one day as a kid and just couldn't get into it. It was nice that it had the added characters, but I also played Budokai Tenkaichi 3 beforehand, so that much didn't matter. What did matter to me at the time, however, was the presentation. And it just felt lazy. I'm not sure if it was Dragon World mode I played or something else, but I just wasn't having a good time with it. I can't remember if I was renting it at the time or had actually purchased a used copy, but I returned it back ASAP. It was funny when I found the HD collection later on and saw that Budokai 2 wasn't included and just thought "Well duh, it's barely a game". But I might try it again and see if maybe I've just been treating it too harshly all these years. Budokai 3 I wouldn't play until years later. Just never got around to getting a copy at the time, but I knew people deeply praised it for the added fighting mechanics. When I finally played it.. I think the overworld map and leveling were actually detrimental to my experience. The map was just too tedious to get through, and the leveling I felt just complicated things. While the fighting was nice, it was just so weird that I wanted to play something else. And, of course, those cutscenes were just not great. Infinite World I played with a friend as a kid. And if I thought Budokai 2 was bad, I just did *not* like Infinite World. I'm not sure what it was beyond the mini-games, but neither of us were getting into it and we both dropped it pretty quickly. I have not yet played the PSP games, though I'd like to. And I had no interest in the HD collection upon seeing it years back, and I really don't have any interest now. If I already have 1 & 3, why would I pick up a version with censored blood?

[@keybladewielder230]

I remember I used to turn the tv down all the way to Play Budokai 3 super early in the morning before going to school, around elementary. I was so hooked on the game, it wasn't even mine, but when I had to move out of town, my friend knew I loved the game so much he gave me the very same copy I own to this day!

[@witcherbruce94]

I remember getting dbz budokai 2 when it came out i begged my mom to take me to eb games and pick it up for 50$ back when games were 50$ new lol so many good memories and I remember going Christmas shopping with my mom and seeing budokai 3 wrapped up in a plastic bag knowing ill have to wait a month until Christmas to play it. I'm 29 and sadly I lost my mom in 2021 and my dad in 2022 a year and 3 days apart from each other. On his way home from work he'd stop and buy me a game and hide it somewhere in the house and make me hunt for it lol. Always remember the good times and the small things one day you'll miss them and its going to hurt more than you can imagine

[@aaronvasseur6559]

Budokai 2 was my first every introduction to the dragon ball universe I had never heard of it before then and after I played this game I fell in love with dragon ball and it now my favorite anime and one of my favorite things of all time

[@barkleyos8036]

Classic games I loved all the secrets and unlockables in Budokai 2

[@muigokublack6487]

I hate that Budokai 2 was left out of the HD Collection. It's such an ODD omittion because it's still a good game and the transition between Budokai 1 and 3. Plus it's soundtrack is rather unique given it was done in collaboration with Tower Of Power.

[@bikotheanimator6169]

Budokai 3/Infinite World is the best Dragon Ball game ever created. It is also the most skilled anime fighting game, or fighting game in general. Most people don't understand how to do combos. I learned how to do combos before youtube existed. There were no videos to search back then. I played that game night and day. I burned out my first disc and I had to buy a second one.

[@osoblessed303]

Budokai was my favorite dragon ball z game ever I remember I got this game for Christmas and it was the best Christmas ever this brought me back

[@FigWidIt]

i remember alot of people not liking the Budokai 2 gameboard mode but I thought it was pretty fun. It definitely stretched the runtime of playing through the main game lol. Never bought Infinite World but I wish I did at the time.

[@jellalshadow2318]

Dbz b3 and bt2, bt3 are my favorite of all time !

[@EuroCrow283]

some things I always appreciated from Budokai 1, were the Kaioken transformation having different levels, 2x, 5x, 10x, which is often nowadays just "kaioken", and cell's power-weighted (super buff form) he used against gohan out of desperation, something i havent seen in any other DBZ game (although sadly you dont go super buff when using cell in any other game mode, it's just the AI in story, but, just the fact that he's there really)

[@Chronoflation]

The old Dragonball movies weren't canon, they were technically their own universe, originally. They were canon to each other and had some differences with the main canon, like how Piccolo survived the battle with Vegeta before Lord Slug came, among other changes

[@Bluegundam13]

The only canon in dragonball is the manga or the anime. Theres no overall canon

[@Scantronacon]

All 13 movies are amazing

[@charleschase7945]

@@Bluegundam13 There is. The manga was overall canon until 2018 with the tournament of power. Going forward Now the canons are split but only with Super.

[@thomassmith4579]

@@charleschase7945 wym the cannons are split?

[@charleschase7945]

@@thomassmith4579 Super Manga and Super anime.

[@hassandiamond2356]

The Best Thing I've Ever Heard Is This HD Collection Intro Music,Pepole Hate It,But Who Cares,ITS THE GOAT

[@MGall_Channel]

Loved the Budokai series. The fact it was releasing around the same time as the release of the series in the western market was what made it even more special. I remember PLAY Magazine released a save file where every character had breakthrough unlocked. My copy ot budokai 3 is still in the loft (attic) along with my ps2.

[@Makwood99]

I used to play every dragon ball game you can think of until i played tuknichi budokai 3, i couldn't stand any db game after that, it raised the bar so much, one of the greatest games of all time

[@FivesNZ]

I'm so glad Matty love Budokai 2 as his favourite it was also my favourite and will always be one of my favourite games of all time. The board game was so awesome a lot of cool strategies. I'll never forget fighting kid buu I had to much frustration on that board game. He was hard.

[@Koders333]

Got hit with so much nostalgia seeing the covers of these games!

[@chimuoma390]

Supersonic Warriors 2 Boss Hack FTW!SS2 Goku,Super Perfect Cell,Full Power LSS Broly!Play It!

[@materG360]

Been playing these gems since I was 5 these games & the tenkaiechi series defined my childhood 🔥

[@PDS24]

The abrupt shift of celebrating Dragon Ball one day and then mourning Akira Toriyama the next is brutal. Rest in peace, Akira Toriyama sama. 🕊️💐🩷🩷

[@SeanskiGamer]

I remember back in 09. When I was 10, I just got home from tutoring. My mom told me closes my eyes. Which I did anyway. Then, she told me to open my eyes. When I did, it was Budokai 2. After that, I rushed upstairs to my bedroom. Next, I turned on my ps2 and put the disc in. First, I went to world tournament and pick Goku. After an announcer said, "are you ready". I said " heck yeah". Then, I went to dragon world mode and blown away by the board game like appearance.

[@blinkachu5275]

Just as a fun tidbit: The reason the movies were non-canon is because they were marketing material basically. They basically put an entire saga worth of character growth and fights into movie form so that it could play at conventions and such to get more people on board. It's why Goku has that "false" Super Saiyan form in Slug, because the animators didn't yet know that Super Saiyan was gonna be blonde, only that Super Saiyan was gonna look like that with the spike hair and constant aura. It's also why a lot of the things in those movies feel like things we've already seen just in different context.

[@Itz_Marni-_-]

Bro soo much money would be made beside tha happiness. Budokai 3 literally is my 2nd if not fav dbz game of all time, neva got tired of playin it fr. 😩😭

[@KaoticReach1999]

One of my biggest regrets is not picking up Tenkaichi 3 from a local gamestore a few years back for 60 bucks, that game was my childhood but figured "eh thats too much" If only I knew.... Now I'm emulating and playin Budakai 3 which im loving

[@YomiNoYuzuriha]

Budokai 1 also came with a poster of SSJ Goku that had a short bio and special move combo for each character with their 3D sprite on the backside.

[@blinkachu5275]

Also, yes, DBZ Infinite World is hard. Even on easy you frequently run out of time in the minigames and the AI in fights plays as if they're set to hard. Maybe a bug or something, idk

[@eyecontrol4900]

its an oversight from the devs. even if you set it to Very Easy, the Ai literally behaves the exact same as if you set it to Very hard. I struggled A LOT with kid buu and majin vegeta on my first playthrough.

[@mcfeddz44]

I love Retro Rebound!!!

[@ssj2sanjifanboy068]

I also loved the Dragon World map, I know I’m a minority on this but it’s definitely a part of my childhood! Had some amazing memories with this game.

[@BlackEyedJester]

I'm so glad that someone out there has the balls to praise the Dragon World Board Game aspect of Budokai 2!