/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6951275]

What's the best retro Dragon Ball game? Don't bother telling me Budokai 3, I hate the Dragon Rush and rock paper scissors bullshit that constantly pervades that game and I'd rather play 2.

[Anonymous No.6951282]

>>6951275
Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu for sure. The NES RPGs it is remaking are also good but its perfected in this one on SNES

[Anonymous No.6951283]

>>6951275
Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure

[Anonymous No.6951289]

>>6951282
I've tried it before but couldn't into the whole card system. Is it good if you just get over that hurdle of learning how to play?

[Anonymous No.6951293]

>>6951283
This one is really fucking good. So fun and awesome sprites and animations. Also Legacy of Goku 2 and its sequel Buu's Fury on GBA are really fun action RPGs. I 100%'d both games on my GBA SP back in the day. Avoid Legacy of Goku 1 like the plague, its so fucking bad. Unbelievably bad. If you only try one of them, go with Buu's Fury, it has the most side content and the combat is improved over 2.

[Anonymous No.6951297]

>>6951289
Yeah but if you really dislike the card thing you might as well avoid, you'll be doing it the entire game.

[Anonymous No.6951305]

>>6951293
Forgot to mention, the RPGs even have an open world map you get to fly around and explore like a Final Fantasy game, using Mode 7ish sprite scaling

[Anonymous No.6951308]

The best Dragon Ball game ever made is Attack of the Saiyans. Not retro but to be fair it's basically a SNES JRPG with SMRPG timed hits.

[Anonymous No.6951365]

Budokai 3

[Anonymous No.6951378]

Advanced Adventure for beat em up
Legendary Super Warriors or Attack of the Saiyans for RPG
Super Dragon Ball Z for fightan

[Anonymous No.6951380]

1993, still the best.

[Anonymous No.6951389]

The Legend

[Anonymous No.6951404]

>>6951380
THE BEST DBZ GAME EVER

[Anonymous No.6951413]

>>6951404
It really is.
Butoden 3 is also underrated. Sure it doesn't have story mode which is one of the big highlights of Butoden 2, but 3 still has great gameplay (in some ways improved upon Butoden 2).
A shame Bandai never did a proper followup to these games. Shin Butoden on Saturn sucks bad, and the newer "Butoden" games on DS and 3DS are Butoden in name only.

[Anonymous No.6951437]

>>6951413
The DS one was pretty fun, looked nice for the console and you could give people Piccolo's hat and Roshi's sunglasses.

[Anonymous No.6951456]

>>6951275
Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3

[Anonymous No.6951485]

>>6951293
LoG1 is that typical licensed GBA shit, true (though it was slightly "PC midi" comfy, and I will say it is better than some other FR-Atari GBA licensed garbage of the time, such as the 0.5/10 Yu Yu Hakusho first GBA game). I went through it last year just for completion's and relevance's sake, as it was really popular when it came out. Why did they bother making its sequels good when they could have continued churning out shit and still sell millions?

[Anonymous No.6951495]

>>6951485
Because the devs actually cared about the property and had a genuine vision for the game
The first one was obviously rushed

[Anonymous No.6951516]

>>6951275
Budokai 3. Dragon Rush was flawed but was cool. Still, you could go to Infinite Word if you disliked it.
Reminder that Tenkaichi 3 love is a meme and that most of the characters were just skins.

[Anonymous No.6951551]

>>6951437
I haven't played that one, but I tried the 3DS Butoden a bit. It's fine, but it's not really a Super Butoden game (no split screen).
It was cool that they included a port of Super Butoden 2 though. Just goes to show how much of a legend Butoden 2 really is.
A shame that because of all that Kenji Yamamoto drama they removed the original soundtrack though. New soundtrack they did for 3DS is actually not bad, but pales in comparison to the original. Also it doesn't have any option to play VS mode with another player, so they fucked up there too. But still cool that Butoden 2 still keeps getting love after almost 3 decades of being released.

[Anonymous No.6951571]

>>6951485
I tried completing it for completionist sake as well after I loved the sequels so much. Couldn't do it, think I made it to Snake Way and just couldn't do it anymore. God its so fucking shit. The soundtrack is comfy though, as are the other two.
>>6951495
It must've been extremely rushed. Its sad because that game was really popular when it came out and sold tons of copies on name recognition alone but I never met a single person who actually liked it and many people skipped the next two because it was so shit. Also dropping the Legacy of Goku title from Buu's Fury was probably a mistake because alot of people probably didn't even realize it was the third sequel, hell I can remember thinking it was a fighting game or something when I first saw it until I looked at the back of the box back in the day.

[Anonymous No.6951576]

>>6951551
I tried the demo for the 3DS one and my biggest problem with it is that it was on the 3DS. I would like it better if it were a console game for sure
>>6951571
Back in 2015 when I was getting into Dragon Ball for real for the first time, I wanted a game that covered the part of the series that I had watched up to this point so I played decently deep into Legacy of Goku 1. I think I got up to the fight with Vegeta. All I remember is it being a pain in the ass and not worth the trouble.
It was actually the first GBA game I EVER played, my dad got a GBA for my distant half brother and I was allowed to play on it for a bit. I recognized DBZ so I tried playing it first, didn't even get off Roshi's before I got bored and turned it off

[Anonymous No.6951614]

>>6951576
Yeah, the attack animations (Goku extending one arm straight out in the approximation of a punch) and the horrible hit detection killed it for me. You can get stunlocked by enemies really easy and the little fly pad gimmick just felt like a cheap way to include Goku flying. Just so many boneheaded decisions and horrible implementation. It's really shocking how better the next two games are.

[Anonymous No.6951619]

>>6951293
It's cool in Buu's Fury how you can equip armor, boots, gloves and stuff. There was tons of different equipment and I thought it was super neat how you could wear weighted clothes and armbands/boots etc and gain more experience in combat at the cost of moving slower and attacking slower. Great way to functionally work the weighted training clothes from DBZ into the game.

[Anonymous No.6951639]

>>6951576
>It was actually the first GBA game I EVER played
What a shit introduction to the unironically best handheld of the 2000s.

[Anonymous No.6951641]

>>6951614
I feel like I spent a lot of time standing away from enemies, firing blasts at them, then waiting for my Ki to recharge

[Anonymous No.6951647]

>>6951641
That's really the only effective way, melee is fucking atrocious. At least the ki blasts would slightly knock enemies back.

[Anonymous No.6951648]

>>6951275
The Legend, Saturn port.
But actually Supersonic Warriors 2.

[Anonymous No.6951780]

Still the best retro DBZ fighter. Budokucks and Tenkaisois need not apply.

[Anonymous No.6951798]

Butouden 3

[Anonymous No.6951806]

>>6951275
Budokai Tenkaichi 3 would be my nomination, still has one of the largest and most varied rosters of any Dragon Ball game

[Anonymous No.6951851]

>>6951798
The chad choice.

[Anonymous No.6951875]

>>6951571
>I tried completing it for completionist sake as well after I loved the sequels so much. Couldn't do it, think I made it to Snake Way and just couldn't do it anymore. God its so fucking shit. The soundtrack is comfy though, as are the other two.
Yeah, I'm glad I played through it before the other two, then. I remember someone letting me borrow it back when it came out in 5th grade and I thought it was going to be a port of "Legend of the Super Saiyan" (Super Saiya Densetsu) for Super Nintendo, but I was so wrong and got bored almost instantly.

[Anonymous No.6951878]

>>6951275
Hyper Dimension, without question.

[Anonymous No.6951883]

>Tenkaichi 3 is now retro

[Anonymous No.6951885]

Of the non-fighting games, it's this one for me (and it's prequel).

[Anonymous No.6951892]

>>6951883
It's allowed.

[Anonymous No.6951916]

I was never able to fully come to grips with this game's mechanics but it goes through the entire DBZ series, looks pretty good, allows for a variety of tactics in battle, has RPG level up systems, and battles that can seriously feel like all out wars. Plus extra hidden unlockables including entire characters and a shockingly large number of playable characters for a Game Boy Color game

[Anonymous No.6952078]

>>6951878
If only it played half as good as it looks

[Anonymous No.6952221]

>>6951485
>as it was really popular when it came out
Until December 02 it was one of three DBZ games on the market, along with the CCG thing and LSW on GBC. Of these three I'm not surprised kids would go for LoG1 especially if they didn't know Budokai was coming in six months.

[Anonymous No.6952509]

>>6951293
I've tried to get into Legacy of Goku 2 but it always starts to lose me at the beginning where you 1. go on dumb fetch quests and 2. have to actually grind at times

[Anonymous No.6952520]

DB games > DBZ games

[Anonymous No.6952528]

>>6952509
Yeah the required grinding (certain areas are blocked by doors with a level requirement on them and you can't pass till you meet it) turns alot of people off. I assume they did it so little retarded kids wouldn't get themselves stuck by going to far ahead without leveling. I don't mind the fetch quests, I mean it IS a licensed game, we gotta take what we get considering.

[Anonymous No.6952531]

For me, it's Hyper Dimension.
Found a sealed copy in a French Hypermarket while travelling home from a holiday around the time the GameCube and Game Boy Advance were new. It was a must (also picked up Super Mario Advance at the same time, but who cares for Bing Bing Wahoo in a Dragon Ball Vidya thread?).

[Anonymous No.6952610]

>>6952531
>>6951878
I wish this game didn't have such laggy ass input.

[Anonymous No.6952637]

>>6952520
DB > DBZ
objectively

[Anonymous No.6953950]

>>6951806
And the third of fourth best combat system.

[Anonymous No.6953951]

>>6952637
Did Americans even get DB? It has tons of sex and sex is not allowed in the States.

[Anonymous No.6954079]

>>6953951
The original dragon ball got a lot of home releases in the united states and most of the modern releases are uncensored. If you're talking about television syndication, It did run on toonami during early 2000's but it was censored, not 4kids bad or even ocean dub DBZ bad, but it did removed or edit certain scenes when there was nudity or sexual content.
>>6951275
I recommend Advanced Adventures, Legacy of Goku, Buu's Fury, Hyper Dimension and Super Saiya Densetsu

[Anonymous No.6954182]

>>6953951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxL3j26igoM

[Anonymous No.6954362]

>>6951293
man i played and replayed this shit so many times. log3 was so good.

[Anonymous No.6954468]

No game will ever touch Tenkaichi 3's roster.

[Anonymous No.6954472]

>>6951283
Probably one of the best gba games ever,

[Anonymous No.6954571]

>>6953951
>Did Americans even get DB?
Yes
>It has tons of sex
If by sex you mean brief moments of fanservice occasionally, mostly frontloaded in the beginning
I wouldn't consider that "having sex" but whatever

[Anonymous No.6954630]

>>6951293
Uh, I only ever played the first one when it launched. Got pretty burned out of running through corridors killing dogs. Never tried the sequels as I would’ve never believed they got significantly better.

There’s a GT beat em up too

[Anonymous No.6954637]

>>6952637
I know, but I wasn't sure if this board was ready for that take yet

[Anonymous No.6954658]

Was their an actual older gacha game similar to dokkan battle? because i remember playing something similar to dokkan battle when i was younger.

[Anonymous No.6954669]

There have been some trading card games over the years one of which was adapted to the GBA. Besides that there's Dragon Ball Heroes which has gacha mechanics. Otherwise I think that about covers it. Not sure what else you could be referring to

[Anonymous No.6954682]

this game had tiles if i remember correctly,much similar to dokkan,you could land on specific tiles to get equipments or items much similar to dokkan,but you couldn't build teams as the levels would give you a pre-built one.

[Anonymous No.6954691]

>>6954682
maybe Harukanaru Densetsu?

[Anonymous No.6955465]

>>6954468
Maybe, but roster isnt everything.
I prefer butouden 2 with its strange (yet soulful) roster rather than any bloated game full of characters but shit gameplay like ub22

[Anonymous No.6955617]

>>6952610
If you're playing on an emulator check that runahead is disabled, this is one of the few games that feature fucks with. Otherwise the input is pretty snappy.

[Anonymous No.6955842]

I remember playing Budokai 1 a lot when I first was getting into DBZ. I loaded the GameCube ISO through my hacked Wii. It was kind of a frustrating, clunky game but I still got all the characters and fucked around a decent amount with capsules and stuff. The capsule system is nice because it incentivizes the player to engage with its mechanics.
Then I got Budokai 2 used from my local video rental store that was finally giving up, got a few other games like Halo (didn't even own an original Xbox), SmackDown vs. Raw (didn't work) and Metal Gear Solid 2 (didn't really feel like playing it) and Budokai 2 ended up getting the most play. I think I played Budokai 1 more but knew 2 was the superior game. The board game thing was stupid but besides that it was a nice update to Budokai 1, I think I had recently finished watching the Buu Saga and I was prepared to be excited for stuff like Vegito and Kid Buu by then.
Finally played 3 on PS3 at some point after that and it's a mixed bag. Well mostly I don't like Dragon Rush and don't like that you can't turn it off, I would prefer matches to be more like in Budokai 2 overall, and I didn't like the guess the button type nonsense. Maybe the rock-paper-scissors shit would be better if you were playing local multiplayer against your friend all the time and could use it as an opportunity to play mindgames. I never did that so it just felt like stupid RNG bullshit.
Besides that the entire game is better. The story mode is finally cool, there's pretty much every character you'd reasonably expect, it looks great, etc. So it's the best but it's tainted by that one problem for me. I'd say Budokai 2 is better but to be perfectly honest with you I'm not the biggest fan of actually playing a game like Budokai anymore anyway.

[Anonymous No.6955847]

>>6955842
>I think I played Budokai 1 more but knew 2 was the superior game
To clarify I mean "I played Budokai 1 more at the time than I played Budokai 2 more at THAT time", I didn't bother playing 1 again until I got the dumb HD collection and even then I'd say it aged poorly.

[Anonymous No.6955865]

>>6951283
this game is fucking expensive as hell. i'm glad i picked up a complete copy for $20 way back when. does anyone know why the price hike happened?

[Anonymous No.6955868]

>>6955865
supply and demand I guess. the same happened with Astro Boy Omega Factor. I bought it for $4 in 2010, now it's like $50 minimum for a loose cart.

[Anonymous No.6955873]

>>6955868
very strange. i can't even find a complete copy on ebay. wonder what it goes for nowadays. i should play it again too. i've been rewatching the series with my nephew. he's been on a dragon ball binge lately.