Is Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi REALLY That Bad?!

Today, we venture back to what I believe is the worst Dragon Ball Z game of all time. Ultimate Tenkaichi is an insult to the very series it stems from and is purely fun to watch... not play. Is it truly that bad? Well, you know the answer.
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[@GhostlyGrimace]

Buying this game without knowing anything about it beforehand other than it having Tenkaichi in the game felt like the ultimate betrayal as a kid 😭

[@DrojmanGaming]

I remember hoping they had showed off the game badly and that the character Roster was better than it actually looked. Disappointment in its finest. Didn't stop me from completing the game though

[@Dante9985]

That happened to me. It is like they decided the rock paper scissors mechanic in budokai 3 was cool and made that an entire game. It looks flashy, but playing with it is awful.

[@Thatguyyoudontknow594]

Thank god i knew as a kid theres no fucking way the released a fighting game with no fighting

[@s.o.l.o777]

Facts 😤😭😂😂😂

[@baddworld]

On god

[@GamingArcane]

Never forget that they had you fight Giant Metal Cooler, when Cooler isn't even in the damn game.

[@reallyhimongod]

Yup 👍🏽

[@seb24789]

Worse. A friend of mine got the Collector's Edition that came with a Gohan statue. Adult Gohan isn't in the game.

[@rcarfang2]

@@seb24789 how is a main character not in the game? So Gohan isn’t in the Buu saga in UT?

[@KegOfMeat]

@@seb24789 not quite the same but Slug is in the Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans OVA but not In Raging Blast 2.

[@The_WIll_OF_D99]

FUCK THAT BOSS FIGHT

[@Kotasake]

I remember wanting this game, my best friend at the time got it day one and invited me over, we both literally were so hype we were told to be quiet, then we played it.... First time I learned not to be hype for games

[@adammatis5527]

Ultimate Battle 22 did me in man. I feel that pain my man

[@Kotasake]

@@adammatis5527 I'm so sorry that game is pain..

[@s.o.l.o777]

Facts

[@jotto3251]

This is the boss I gave up on. Just didn't have it in me anymore. Never touched it again.

[@Eeveethegamer26]

It's not as bad as the Dragon ball evolution psp game

[@jahidthechosenone1313]

Lets not forget how OP Piccolo was in this game as well when you had to unlock super saiyan lol...when I was a kid I legit almost cried because I couldnt beat him😂

[@shulkisreallyfeelingit2251]

Vividly remember this

[@JTTest]

Same. Ost was fire tho

[@Redbird-dh7mu]

I think the worst part is that his cutscene special beam cannon did damage to you, in fact, you could die from it. This made it worse because of the difficulty spike that the fight suffers from.

[@mousiletung426]

Oh no, please not those memories again. NOOOOOOOOO

[@shinobuu__]

i remember this

[@dxBIGBOSSxb]

The one good thing I remember about this game was the visuals. It's still nuts to me that it took until Fighter Z, 7 years after Ultimate Tenkaichi came out, for us to get a better looking Dragon Ball game. Then Kakarot a while after that. Even then the visuals still hold up a decade later and it blows my mind. So much hard work from the artists and graphics team for such a steaming piece of crap.

[@nok4799]

Well they reused the raging blast models, which was a good series unlike...ultimate Tenkaichi 💀

[@nicksrandomreviews]

Eh, I still think Burst Limit is the best looking DBZ game.

[@LeRodz]

​@@nicksrandomreviewsI think the lighting effect is awful most of the time. Scenarios look great tho.

[@SolidSnake240]

@@nicksrandomreviews lol

[@damienbreslin5781]

@@nicksrandomreviews yea but that wasnt as good as the raging blast and tenkaichi games

[@NSignus]

I grew up on Budokai and eventually Budokai Tenkaichi. Budokai 3 to this day is still my favorite. That being said, when the ads for this game came out, it was like somebody took the dragon rush mechanic from Budokai 3 (which I hated since it was all luck), and made an entire game out of it.

[@KegOfMeat]

Budokai 3 is my favourite as well, high five!

[@DonKrieg-382]

Budokai tenkaichi 3 was the goat

[@Go-get-a-Job]

@@DonKrieg-382and now it finally rests w the new best db game, SZ

[@supersayinmaster]

This was the first DBZ game that I didn't want. As a kid I would want to buy any dbz game I saw, but this made me actually look more at reviews. Also, don't forget this game was designed by data they got back from fan surveys; this is the most control the fanbase had in voice what they wanted

[@rcarfang2]

In 2004, I bought Final Bout over Budokai 3 XD. So is Ultimate Tenkaichi worse than final Bout or Ultimate Battle 22?

[@supersayinmaster]

@@rcarfang2 Wow, that's fun memory to look back on 😅. I didn't like U22, but I was a dumb kid and it was too hard. Can't say anything about Final Bout

[@rcarfang2]

@@supersayinmaster Final Bout is playable. Every time you do a special move, the computer counters with its own special move.

[@reginaldremble2655]

Which is why fans don't create video games.

[@nok4799]

Dbz fans deadass say "I want a QTE every second! Hell, I don't even want to play the game!"💀

[@dennisbergkamp17]

“Soul crushing” is exactly how I felt when I got this game. I remember being SO disappointed, and same as you, I really tried to like it and get the most out of it, but man, what a bummer this game was.

[@Nephetssings]

Did you just not watch a single video of the game before it came out?

[@dennisbergkamp17]

Nah I remember just seeing it on a shelf at a Walmart, and I was such a Dragon Ball diehard, I bought it no questions asked. I learned a valuable lesson. I think this was the first time I was this disappointed in a Dragon Ball game.

[@rcarfang2]

I got this game cause I wanted to make my own character. However, this game plays itself. Should have had RAging blast two but with an actual story mode.

[@zeroxenoverse9251]

But hey. At least Tenkaichi 4 announcement is made up for it right?

[@kcjc]

This was the first game Dragon Ball game that came out when I finally got a current gen console. I grew up with the Budokai games and at the time I was still loving and playing Tenkaichi 3. Man it was it really depressing to hear how bad it was.

[@sethmikai]

I have a soft spot for this game it was the first game I ever gotten a platinum trophy in and played a lot of it and the soundtrack was absolutely phenomenal

[@sethmikai]

There are also mechanics in this game that people wants in the next xenoverse game

[@heavenly2k]

One dope thing is that when you pick a mentor, your basic combos change to their combos. Would've loved to see this in xenoverse

[@KUPSMusic]

So glad I only bought Tenkaichi 1,2,3 (and the OG Budokai 1,2,3 games) This one looks like the combat got stripped back HARD Edit: Its cool to see you talk briefly on Xenoverse 1,2 as well because I'm currently playing through Xenoverse 1 again (its pretty damn fun and the combat is not too shabby)

[@Facade953]

Infinite World and Burst Limit were great too and the same goes for the PSP games...minus DB: Evolution.

[@prollydatboi8841]

When I was a kid I preordered this game in hopes it would be like a Budokai Tenkaichi 4 🥴🥴 I played it for the first like 2 days and then had my mom return it

[@xanderx9988]

I’m here from the future to tell you that your wish will be granted with a BT 4 in the works.

[@TheLegendaryCheeto]

I really hope they do this right and make the return of Budokai tenkaichi worth it. ​@xanderx9988

[@Koodllez]

@@xanderx9988 gt and movies in the game it coming out in a couple of days

[@AxelxFlamesVIII]

I truthfully really did enjoy this game when I was younger. I loved the custom story, character creation, the boss fights, the master system. I even enjoyed the fighting system, it felt pretty strategy based…excluding the 50/50 scenarios.

[@xenoknight7187]

Same here man.

[@Moneychaser24.7]

Same it was one of my favourites

[@andrewtheguy6190]

Loved the custom story! Exactly why I love it

[@senseismoove]

Felt this I had no other dragon ball game got hella good wit the combat even beat the main story. Game was fun as a kid

[@steveleopard6761]

I did too it was easy enough for my 7 year old brain, and I still play the ost every now and then banger in that right

[@Aerthkil]

This is like the first dragon ball game ive ever played like 6 years ago and loved it

[@Dontcutitoff]

Eww

[@ssjgabe5383]

While the gameplay mechanics were less than desirable i did love the created player mode and I feel it was the catalyst that inspired at least partially the creation of xenoverse.

[@Koodllez]

@@ssjgabe5383 funny how your hair changed when you transformed but it doesn't do that in xeno

[@ok_but_why]

Is anyone gonna talk about the fact that he says "rock, paper, scissors SAYS shoot!"

[@TheToaprimezilla]

Funny thing is I actually liked this game and had good memories with it

[@KSmanderes]

11:46 To be fair, the RPS element was first introduced in Budokai 3 via the Dragon Rush mechanic. You could negate someone's whole super move just by guessing the same button. To your point, it seemed like they were copying ultimate ninja in that game too. The problem started earlier than people realize

[@HackSlashGaming]

This was coming out around my birthday and I used my one gift on this 💀I was crushed

[@violadavidson2067]

As a kid I absolutely adored this game but it all makes sense now

[@GamingintheAM0801]

What a plot twist that Matty would self-report as being "that" customer. I remember a local game store where I live had to put up a sign about people who did that stuff that said "We are not a rental store. You buy a game, you keep it."

[@jackrenda3143]

it’s weird looking back at this bc it was my first dragonball game that was like my own I owned and I loved it at the time and would beg my older brother to play it with me and I have a ton of fun memories but i’m sure if i were to go back to it now it would be awful

[@10ALundstrom]

There is a glaring flaw about the story mode’s presentation. They reuse some of the voice clips from Raging Blast while adding new dialogue. It clashes a lot since characters like Kid and Teen Gohan, Frieza and most of the Ginyu Force have different voice actors between this game and RB1

[@Gol_D_Garza]

I loved this game as a kid, hero mode and the impact and destruction of supers had my little brain going crazy.

[@rohanpurohit4217]

Unpopular opinion ... i liked it

[@knightxd8897]

I don't like playing rock paper scissors to see who wins but like how it was the first dragon ball game where you can create your own character and they had a pretty good story for it

[@unboxreacts7435]

Got it as a gift for my birthday, played for about an hour, and I was pissed. Never played it again. Terrible game.

[@neazy9925]

This game is what introduced me to dragon ball and for that it'll always have a special place in my heart. I loved it as a kid, until I played Xenoverse.

[@BrickFighter13]

So. How you feeling about the announcement of Budokai Tenkaichi 4?!

[@LordSiah]

Honestly I really like this game even though I played the other Tenkaichi games don't get me wrong the combat is kind of dumb but the way the story is presented you can create your own character and the story of your own character is really cool the boss fights the action sequences within the combat like the destructive environments and the fact that they stay that way is really cool the beam struggles the way the game just looks in general is really good I think if they wouldn't have dropped the ball with the combat it would have been probably better than xenoverse 1 at least

[@NMbones98]

I agree the sound track was 🔥 to imo

[@3awsomekid]

@@NMbones98 agreed

[@JustSendMeLocation]

This game was ass there’s no justifying it, nobody buying a game for a soundtrack we want GAMEPLAY

[@LordSiah]

@@JustSendMeLocation eh I enjoy it when I played it I'll have to play it again but nah from memory it wasn't a bad game

[@JustSendMeLocation]

@@LordSiah it was definitely a bad game, it’s literally rock paper scissors it’s like you’re not even playing the game, I remember buying it as a kid with my brother lol we played it for a day and we’re so pissed off we returned it and got mk9, I love dbz but ultimate tenkaichi sucked.

[@Junan1995]

Never played it but this battle system sounds absolutely fantastic, watching the npc doing all the cool stuff while you just watch and press sometimes a button sounds like a dream come true.

[@FrancisYorkMorganFBI]

you might aswell hit the pause button on your remote once in a while, while you watch a episode of dbz. you will get about the same experince.

[@zoltanwilson4277]

@Junan LMMFAO 🤣😂🤣 Good joke, bro.

[@home9dog2blue199]

Not at all. It might as well be a fkin "TellTale" game 🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

[@UWG3]

I think you're trying to be sarcastic... can't really tell since it sounds like you're making fun of the game but then also feels like your true feelings at the same time. I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic as this was the worst DB game most of us have EVER played and the publisher should erase it from all shelves, second hand stores and store fronts - it was really that bad!

[@codycray8461]

It’s funny that this was probably my favorite dbz for a long time. It was due to the fact you could create your own character. Also the destruction and visuals were amazing for the time.

[@king666mikey]

As a kid I really had fun with this game

[@dragonvolt1875]

This was my first Dragon Ball game and I was so stunned by the visuals that I loved the hero mode and was on it almost all the time especially the boss battles

[@Kotasake]

I'm so sorry to hear that

[@dragonvolt1875]

@@Kotasake I still do enjoy the hero mode aspect and I can stomach the trash gameplay to see my character shoot strong blast and punch hard lol

[@shisno316]

Hero mode was sick espcially when you go super saiyan while training with piccolo

[@inkchariot6147]

Hero Mode and the graphics were the only positives.

[@KegOfMeat]

Some of us started with Budokai 1, some of us started with Tenkaichi 1, you started with Ultimate Tenkaichi, feel for you man.

[@NathanTG]

The only thing that makes me nostalgic about this game is reading so many comments that shared the exact same disappointment I felt at the time. I grew up on the Budokai series, I just started my work career at the end of 2011 and with my first ever paycheck...This is the game I bought. It was a bit weird that the game was barely promoted, I think I'd seen like 1 ad for it, and ofcouse I too assumed this would be technically "Tenkaichi 4". I remember clearly coming home after purchase, firing up the Xbox at around 8PM after supper...Here we go... And while I don't remember my word for word thoughts, I distinctly remember looking at the screen during a battle with a look of confused disgust. Seeing the idea of your own created saiyan was SUPER intriguing at the time, I was filled with ideas of creating fan fiction characters, The son of Raditz, Vegeta's older brother etc. And I don't know how long or how far that concept would have gone but I didn't stick around long enough to explore it. I played the first session for about 2 hours before quickly ejecting the disc, then I think I gave it a retry a few days later for MAYBE half an hour at most, that was all I could bare of it... then I never saw it again until the day I picked it up to trade in at my local store. Well, hey, atleast it's now 12 years later in 2023 and we're on the horizon of getting the proper successor to Budokai Tenkaichi 3.

[@gojidaisuke9395]

Yes, I can definitely say I feel nostalgic towards this game as It was the last game along with Raging Blast 2 that I played on Xbox 360 before I moved onto the Xbox One then a year later onto the PS4. And I played a crap ton with this game. I can’t exactly describe in full detail why I kept playing this game every day before I left the Xbox 360, other than with this phrase “It’s so bad that it’s good” to which is a phrase I usually hear with certain movies. That’s the best in how I can explain it on how I feel with Ultimate Tenkaichi. It’s not actually good, But I can’t help myself from being willing to play it back then. Though I obviously don’t play it anymore so that feeling is gone other than the nostalgia I have for it.

[@xenoknight7187]

I'd still play it to this day. The online mode surprisingly was full of life. Even through 2016 and 2017.

[@drakenstoc4885]

I remember the discussions and arguments I had with people before this game came out. The immense disappointment I felt when I saw the gameplay was just... ugh. It was also what caused some of the arguments that I ended up having with people. It looked incredibly dull, and nothing I saw in the trailers was encouraging me to get hyped. If anything, it felt like the more I watched, the worse it looked. Thankfully I stuck with my gut and didn't buy it. I have no regrets about that decision whatsoever.

[@blur8163]

I remember seeing screenshots, thinking it looked cool but kinda weird with the visuals/HUD, then I went to a friends house to play when it came out and JFC, it’s terrible. Easily on the level of Taiketsu

[@sasuke082594]

Taiketsu wasn’t that bad

[@blur8163]

@@sasuke082594 I mean I think it’s probably the worst DBZ fighting game personally lol

[@Wol1427]

The best exploit on this game is to dash behind them and hit them from behind. Instant easy combos and no rock paper scissors when you do it.

[@ViewtifulJae]

Raging blast 2 had the most potential and the worst marketing ! They need to just make 3 and take everything they’ve learned

[@crucifixmegabuster95]

I remember my friend letting me borrow this back in high school.....I was disappointed deeply disappointed

[@matthewbarrios1028]

Love these videos Matty! Thanks for posting another one and take care of yourself!

[@Gouto-Douji]

Ultimate Tenkaichi for me is a guilty pleasure. I genuinely enjoyed the game. As bad as that is to say, the Hero Mode was so good. The giant battles were pretty fun. I really didn't mind the guessing game. I don't know, it was just really fun for me. And A BANGER soundtrack

[@dudebroguyman]

Budokai 3 had a similar thing with Dragon Rush where if the opponent hit the same button as you they would counter but that was one mechanic. It wasn't like 75% of the combat. That's kinda funny to think about when you see this game

[@Kaimusic0]

I'll never forgive the mind behind this combat system. Till the day I die I will never forgive them. This game could've been the Tenkaichi 4 we'd always wanted. The graphics were there, a form of create a character was there. But it was just full of fuck

[@Snickritz]

I confused this one when i meant to buy raging blast 2. The pain was real.

[@1fobas]

I saw the trailer for the game when I was in 11th grade and was excited by the graphics, the creation mode, and the boss battles. I watched gameplay and read reviews and knew not to expect much. Unfortunately, I wanted to get the game, the Christmas after launch so my dad bought it for me at full price. I enjoyed it for the aforementoned aspects but it was not worth $60.

[@Shlumbus69]

2:30 I remember I had a game that I beat and returned and I didn't tell them in the return. Later while I'm looking for another game the cashier asks me about the game I returned and I said I beat it, then he tried the whole "oh well you can't return something just cause you best it you have to not like it or it has to be damaged" so I hit him with the "I beat it and I don't like it anymore"

[@SpeezyOTB]

I vaguely remember this game, but I think I was satisfied because there was character creation although it was limited

[@opadrip]

Battle of Z was way worse. It actually killed my passion for games.

[@BetterForWho]

my memory is a little fuzzy on the exact spelling of the last name but i had an art teacher in highschool with the same last name as your in game character. not sure if that’s your actual last name but it’s a nice thing to imagine

[@kempvaughn1827]

As much as I was disappointed with this game when I first got it, I will say that the level of customization you had for your created character and the original story was my most fondly remembered aspects of this game.

[@dannyman808]

Agreed 100%. I firmly believe Xenoverse would SKYROCKET if it took some inspiration from Ultimate Tenkaichi in terms of character customization

[@shinobuu__]

@@dannyman808 does xenoverse have a million more options than UT?

[@zekraax35]

when i was a kid i found out that if you got a fighting style where the charged ki blast had good enough tracking you could fly up as high as you could and spam charged ki blast. the cpu would never fly up to get you and you could cheese them.

[@Yabberbabberdabbergabber]

And these guys are making sparking zero …. Hell yeah

[@BetterForWho]

i traded a friend multiple xbox 360 games for this game on the ps3 and i couldn’t get past the fight with great ape vageta. every time he’d squeeze goku, i could never mash the button fast enough to break free

[@isaacdiehl1362]

i am literally the only person on the face of the planet who loves this game to this day.

[@gameshock2916]

This game actually uses a modified Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2 engine for how the gameplay works. In Japan, this game was called Dragon Ball Ultimate Blast as it's technically the unofficial third game in the Dragon Ball Raging Blast series, even using the same gameplay engine, characters, and animations. They only had to modify the animations for this game or create new animations for the Dragon Ball GT Characters and the giant bosses for the boss fights. Also, this game came out on October 25th, 2011, so it did not come out in 2012. However, this got released twice as it was reused for Dragon Ball Z For Kinect on Xbox 360 which was released on October 9th, 2012. So, instead of a controller being used, you use your entire body for everything including story mode, hero mode with your custom character, and co-op. What's funny is that Dragon Ball Z For Kinect has an exclusive character to the game that isn't available in Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi: Super Saiyan Bardock.

[@gatotsusprite]

I've been playing DBZ UT very recently and even still right now, personally I'm glad it is the way it is, to me I love it much more than I did in my childhood. I'm aware some are not a fan of the rock-paper-scissors "battle mechanic", and while granted in online PvP I could understand, you can actually predict the opponent and/or burst your ki to throw the rock-paper-scissors out the window. I can accept that the general consensus is that this is a low point in Dragon Ball videogame history but I seriously love it, if you're looking for very casual gameplay THIS is it.

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[@taytmw18]

Some bosses you couldn't predict. Some were random.

[@iminyourwalls3698]

This actually was a game I enjoyed at the beginning but the moment we reached the cell saga was when I think the devs just gave up and rushed it out.

[@uglysamurai6826]

I bought this as a kid and it was such a weird feeling thinking "this is it?" when as a kid it was always a blast with new DBZ games

[@Sir_Slimbread]

It's a shame really. I finally played all the way through this game a few months ago(well, 80-90% of it at least). If they removed the Rock, Paper, Sizzors from the game, it'd actually be good. Also, on the topic of character customization... This game has 3 things people have begged for in Xenoverse since the 1st game. 1. Customizable Aura's. The ability to have a firey, green aura is sick. 2. Customizable Combos. You can pick what characters fighting style you want to use, which is cool(it barely altered gameplay, but it looked cool). 3. Different Skill Sets depending on your Transformation. Having 2 separate Skill Sets was cool, and basically meant you could carry double the skills.

[@chocolatelover19]

Don't bother with this one I couldn't even beat the first boss

[@donaldo141194]

When I played this game for the first (and only) time, I only played hero mode and I was like "as soon as I finish the tutorial this will get good" "I can't wait to finish the tutorial to kick everybody's ass" "oh no! this is not a tutorial, that's the gameplay" "what? I can't even fly to wherever I want during combat" I lost so many matches just because I pressed the wrong buttons. It was so repetitive, so tedious, so boring I only played for like two days and returned it. visually looks good, except for the super saiyajin, it looks to greenish, and the roster was probably small, I don't remember, as I say, I only played hero mode.

[@lolking714]

I remember I gave myself the BIGGEST pat in the back when I passed the the Metal Cooler big boss QTE. As a kid that was one of the hardest qte experiences I had 😮‍💨

[@OmnipotentPenguinn]

This was my first dbz game, and I remember enjoying it, but then I realized it wasn't that good until I played XenoVerse

[@biohazard2236]

To call this game Ultimate Tenkaichi was nothing more than a lie to push sales because they knew the name would sell. They also knew they had a game that could never live up to that name. That said, I love it to death and it's legitimately one of my favorite Dragon Ball games. I recognize its flaws, but they don't bother me.

[@Moosewangg]

Never thought it was that bad

[@Moosewangg]

Hero mode wasn’t amazing tho

[@MrFRESHNESS231]

Buying this forced me to be smart with my gaming purchases, and me fully understand this Game fly commercial where they destroy the store. I bought this game brand new for $60 at GameStop. Took it home played it for 2 hours and hated every second. Went to the store later that same day and they said it's a used game now and they could only offer me $5 of my cash back. I now understand why the person who left GameStop ahead of me tossed their used game in the air and ran it over with their truck after being offered 75 cents.

[@waverazor]

With videos like this, you'll always find the younger people or less fortunate people who had no choice but to enjoy the game. I bet there's some cool aspects to the game

[@RP4Friends]

You should play Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines. I think you said in an older video talking about the sequel that you haven't played the original.

[@sovietmaori]

i too was a budokai tenkaichi fan who got conned into this. gave up on it at the great ape baby fight

[@CallyMan90]

Never got a chance to play this game, so thanks for the summary. Really enjoyed the review, you have a good personality.

[@abstraction6212]

Here's my idea to how Ultimate Tenkaichi Coulda been great: 1. Just recycle the same fighting mechanics from Raging Blast 2, and tournament mode. 2. For the rock paper scissors stuff, make it done sparringly filling up some sort of combo meter THEN the rock paper scissors combo will come out and see which player gets it right so that way it feels earned to be in. 3. Make the whole roster be from dragon ball to dragon Ball GT. ((at the time, beerus from super wasn't thought out yet.)) 4. Add a special documentary movie on the history of dragon ball (kinda like the plan to eradicate the Saiyan's movie but instead it's a how dragon ball is made documentary) 5. OPTIONAL: name the game: Raging Blast 3.

[@VectorNinja1]

I will defend this game I really feel like the "rock paper" isn't really the way to describe it its actually a little calculated

[@n.henzler50]

Budokai: DragonBall fighting game Tenkaichi: DragonBall simulator Ultimate Tenkaichi: "two writers arguing over how a fight scene should go," the game.

[@Grown_B]

I remember this exact feeling growing up.. and at 30 yrs old im like maybe i just didnt know wtf i was doing... nope that was literally the game... Rock Paper Scissors

[@alecrambles3259]

This game was the first I bought with my own money… really regret it

[@Chtsht23]

So check this out, similar experience when I found this game. My friend and I went in half on this game. Years later, I pull my own GameStop hack and come to find out… this game sold for the most I’ve ever sold a game at GameStop. It was legit like $30.

[@Madara8989]

This game feels like it was the dev's response to the minority of fans who complained that for all the praise B3, BT3, and the RB games got for being fun, they didn't remotely resemble actually watching the show - that is, B3 was stuck on a 2D plane and the free range of movement in BT3 and RB made it near impossible to recreate the same flow of action from the show (which should be obvious since shows are scripted to emphasis drama and competitions aren't). For instance, 9 times out of 10, energy blasts in the show are used at to attack at range and the opponent typically either tanks or blocks it; but in games, the freedom of movement make ki attacks pretty useless at range because any further than 10m and you can just dash to the side to avoid it. What's more, no one playing a fighting game is going to intentionally take any amount of damage from an enemy super/ultimate just to recreate some false sense of drama or narrative flow. Then this game comes along and shows us that "No, we don't actually want a game to play out like an episode of DBZ" because it requires stripping almost all autonomy from the player and makes the gameplay loop too shallow to want to master and too luck based to not feel like skill doesn't matter.

[@spiritandtimeakalilroachie7014]

I thought I was playing the game wrong when I was a kid.

[@ryanjonsson2468]

The only thing this game had going for it was your characters could get battle damaged and the fully destructive environments

[@The_WIll_OF_D99]

We had custom characters way before this. It's the first time the West was able to have something like this. Because Dragon Ball online was the first. In fact it was the first time Towa and Mira showed up. Way before Xenoverse was conceived.

[@spiral6928]

Storm generations is the equivalent to this game for the Naruto franchise

[@jorrellrichardson3181]

Who is your favorite fighterz team Matty?

[@joshuabradford8206]

I thought about that exact same GameStop hack before. It's pretty much infinite free used games if you beat them before the week is over

[@tehgxn4902]

Any recommendations on dbz games? I want to buy a good one. There are so many

[@deathoftheoldme8645]

I’m so pissed off because randomly at 4 am I remember the part where you power up against great ape baby but now I can’t even find the ost for it. 😭the music for this game was great even though I despised the button mashing parts for the big boss fights

[@editorgt8623]

I've never really thought of battle of Z as the precursor for xenoverse. Its always felt like dragon ball online had a lot more of xenoverses blood, at least in terms of presentation

[@lwandilengubane9638]

One thing I really hated about the combat in this game was the spirit gauge and how it controlled your battle options, like if you wanted to do certain attacks it would consume spirit gauge or how you needed sg to dodge, block or counter npcs super attacks instead of just being able to y’know move out of the way. Also I’m a huge ultimate ninja storm guy I still play some w my homies every now and then and yes it does have pretty simple combos, you just spam circle but even though certain aspects of uns combat system are simple, they’re well thought out and combine together to make you feel like a magic ninja wizard. The game encourages you to play fast and cautious, and because of how the simple combat works together with the movement options and how that works together with the blocking mechanic and how that ties to substitution- there’s so much room for variation and creativity that players often have different strategies and fighting styles literally no two matches are the same but ultimate tenkaichi’s gameplay mechanics work against immersing you in the game, after every 5 hits an unplayable cutscene triggers, you can’t spam super attacks, the spirit gauge feels like a grind and more of a punishment than a cool game mechanic and the tactical nature of the game is mainly presented as mini-games and qte’s. It’s not the worst game ever but it’s somewhere on that list

[@kazuhirokawamoto7213]

all Spike had to do was just use the gameplay, combo's and roster of tenkaichi 3 and graphics of ultimate it would have been so awesome

[@climacks]

I remember when I was a teenager and i was super broke and this game was coming out and I had no money so i saved every dollsr i could just to buy this game, and when I finally did the week it released, I felt like a complete fool after buying it and being stuck with it.

[@DeeGeeSeventeen]

On god, the only thing I ever liked about this game was the Main Menu music. Seriously, I go back and listen to it even to this day.

[@MyBurdenToBury]

This and Battle of Z dissapointed me the most out of the xbox 360 and ps3 Z games.

[@theevicerater96_97]

Watching this after seeing Budokai Tenkaichi 4 announced...anyone else🖐😏

[@MelloWyatt]

Best part of this game was the presentation and music. All they had to do was copy and paste Bt3 gameplay and this could of been great.

[@UnknownRoses]

Have you done burst limit if so link me if not, bro please do one

[@NoeLoFi]

See I asked my dad for this game when I was a kid, we played it, he hated it so much he returned it the same day.. I never got to play it again till I was way older and coulda kinda appreciate it even if it was bad

[@tyfan1000]

Remembering this game existing has me worried for the new tenkaichi

[@marcelmeyer6857]

Great video man. I am on a DBZ Marathon right now, reliving all the classics and this helped me stay away from a terrible experience. The rock paper scissors mechanic is what I hated so much in Budokai 3 (known as Dragon Rush there), which was really sad to me because everything else about this game is amazing, but everytime the AI drags me into Dragon Rush, I feel like rage quitting.

[@martygene]

You ain’t wrong my dude. I remember getting this game when it was brand new and holy hell was I massively disappointed.