@ DEVS, Community in General and people thinking buying it.

[IIBADBUNNYII]

In short do I recommend it? yes and no. The visuals of the game is amazing, u couldn't wish for anything less. The content in general is fun, story mode is oke but could be better. MP ranked is toxic in general, keep that in mind so it doesn't come as a supersize.

Say what you want, you can deny it, you can trivialize it. You can defend some aspects with valid reasons or because you just don't want to see the problem.

But in short, in general, people who play ''competitive'' online in this game generally abuse the most ''broken'', overperforming characters or the related skills. They also integrate this into their playstyle.

Stun locking, time stalling afterimage may be "valid" strategies at the moment. But it doesn't take away from the fact that you abuse the most nonsensical things so that you can win a competitive match.

You may feel addressed when you play this way, and I'm not suggesting that you can't play this way, since it's intertwined with the game. But, if you're using similar playing styles and you're on the losing side, why do the majority of people disconnect? Because they get away with it as this time of writing there is no penalty for this in this game at the moment.

You can honestly ask the question who or what is the problem here. The desigers ? Those who have chosen to design the game in this way ? or the community that chooses to play in this way. I would like to emphasize that the customer paid around 60 to 100+ EURO/USD. From that point of view, they have the right to play the way they want.

I'm not suggesting I'm good or anything like that. I'm just average and I don't mind that. I'm a fan of Vegeta, first form Frieza, Beerus and Buu and the big bully Broly. Always hated Goku, Gohan and Trunks. Regarding the game aspect I always loved focusing on High Burst Ult builds, or suicide bomber builds. I do wish that some of these characters were performing better in general compared to there counterparts.

Some annoying flaws of the game currently is the ''lag'', delay of the input, camera reset, and to many characters that just dont feel good enough. Ability items should give more in value, regarding stats, it makes a difference but not to much.

I play the ranked aspect of the game with ability items because I'm fund of the RPG aspect and I also hope that the developers improve upon this. With new ability items or sets or even the cosmetics that are able to change your abilities. I think if they would emphasize and capitalize on this, they can make a decent revenue out of it. In general, a healthier game also means in general a longer life span and more content.

I even bought the V Jump magazines for my collection and also because it contained extra contend with even a DLC for ability items. This is more or less also because this was a childhood anime series were I grew up with and also was really excited for and yes the game is flawed, the visuals are Incredible. U can't wish for something better at the moment. This is literately what we wish for when the first game was ever released.

I do wanna say that my first review was negative and i changed it to a positive one because non the less of the flaws the game deserves a good review. But first impressions are important. the multiplayer ranked aspect of the game really gives a bad first impression. The community plays really toxic in general.

Rank doesn't means anything in this game u will encounter higher level of ranked players later on and they play like trash.

Note: u will hate Bulma so much u will mute the sound of your PC.

If u have anything to ad feel free, just keep in civil. There is no need for toxic comments, trolling or childish fanboy behavior. Cheeers!

[7xSven]

Put simply, if you want to play offline or splitscreen then the game is worth buying.

If you want to play online with your friends, don't waste your money since connectivity errors prevent you from playing online.
If you are lucky you can play one game out of ten.

Without talk about bugs, balancements and lack of contents

[Phil Leotardo]

nah for offline its definitely not worth it, not until they add actual offline content and fix the garbage ai

[Daviodraan]

Originally posted by Big Boss:

nah for offline its definitely not worth it, not until they add actual offline content and fix the garbage ai

Half agreed, what do you mean garbage AI? the AI can be brutal, that's good.

[Daviodraan]

My complaints TL.DR:

- Multiple camera issues
- Multiple tracking issues, specially on rush-in specials
- severe input delay
- bad input buffering
- PvP connectivity issues
- AI shutting off by various potential triggers
- Lack of base customization (meaning, alt colors by default and such. Multiple versions/costumes of various characters are also missing)
- KI blast and Half-charged KI blast spam having way too much stun locking potential
- Very minor optimization issues (mostly fantastic optimization by today's standards, but could use a little more here and there)
- lack of a complete Controller re-mapping
- KI-charge button potentially/randomly overlapping/getting overlapped by various other actions, or KI/Special(s) window getting stuck
- lack of responsiveness on most follow ups
- Very weak rumble
- Very slow to traverse Story Mode map
- No option to retry after failing alternative win-conditions in Story mode

To be honest, the last two don't matter to me anymore, cause I've 100% the offline content.
But still, I know I lost at least a few hours on successive tries due to the clunky Story mode.

[Buster]

To put short its worse then Raging Blast 2.

If only RB1\2 got ported to PC when the NUNS series did.

[Phil Leotardo]

Originally posted by Daviodraan:

Originally posted by Big Boss:

nah for offline its definitely not worth it, not until they add actual offline content and fix the garbage ai

Half agreed, what do you mean garbage AI? the AI can be brutal, that's good.

ai in story mode is actually hard yes, "super" dificulty outside story mode is trash, ai sometimes stands there doing nothing, it never vanishes more then 2x, transforms then goes back to base form, overall is just pure boredom
i tried doing the custom battle mission 100 and i quit in the 1st one, is just boring, went to play the bt4 mod which imo is better then sparking zero and actually had lots of fun playing against ai, even in medium or hard dificulty the ai its actually fun to fight against
like dont get me wrong, based on my comments on other threads u would think i hate the game but i dont, this ♥♥♥♥ is just the biggest disappointment of the year, i was having fun while doing the story mode after i finished it there was nothing to do, thats when i realized how barebones this ♥♥♥♥ is

[Phil Leotardo]

Originally posted by Daviodraan:

Originally posted by Big Boss:

nah for offline its definitely not worth it, not until they add actual offline content and fix the garbage ai

Half agreed, what do you mean garbage AI? the AI can be brutal, that's good.

and honestly, woulnt surprised me at all if all the single player content they plan on releasing is payed content, like the dumb 15 euros anime music pack lol

[Daviodraan]

Originally posted by Big Boss:

Originally posted by Daviodraan:

Half agreed, what do you mean garbage AI? the AI can be brutal, that's good.

and honestly, woulnt surprised me at all if all the single player content they plan on releasing is payed content, like the dumb 15 euros anime music pack lol

Well sadly Paid DLC is the norm nowadays.
We can just hope they give us enough QoL and balance changes to improve the overall experience.
Free Offline extended content would make little sense this early, but hey, maybe in the future. Fighting games, even ones with a lot of Paid DLC are no strangers to complete overhauls. Guilty Gear would be a great example.
As a plus, the Dragon Ball IP moves so much $, it would be silly not to put it on Sparking Zero's long term replayability.

[Phil Leotardo]

Originally posted by Daviodraan:

Originally posted by Big Boss:

and honestly, woulnt surprised me at all if all the single player content they plan on releasing is payed content, like the dumb 15 euros anime music pack lol

Well sadly Paid DLC is the norm nowadays.
We can just hope they give us enough QoL and balance changes to improve the overall experience.
Free Offline extended content would make little sense this early, but hey, maybe in the future. Fighting games, even ones with a lot of Paid DLC are no strangers to complete overhauls. Guilty Gear would be a great example.
As a plus, the Dragon Ball IP moves so much $, it would be silly not to put it on Sparking Zero's long term replayability.

yeah this game is a big waste of 70 euros
BT3 that came out in 2007 had more offline content then this game which is hilarious to me, but im one of the few crazy ones that think a ps2 game having more content then a next gen game in 2024 is not normal

[Daviodraan]

Originally posted by Big Boss:

Originally posted by Daviodraan:

Well sadly Paid DLC is the norm nowadays.
We can just hope they give us enough QoL and balance changes to improve the overall experience.
Free Offline extended content would make little sense this early, but hey, maybe in the future. Fighting games, even ones with a lot of Paid DLC are no strangers to complete overhauls. Guilty Gear would be a great example.
As a plus, the Dragon Ball IP moves so much $, it would be silly not to put it on Sparking Zero's long term replayability.

yeah this game is a big waste of 70 euros
BT3 that came out in 2007 had more offline content then this game which is hilarious to me, but im one of the few crazy ones that think a ps2 game having more content then a next gen game in 2024 is not normal

To be completely fair, BT3 was the superior fighting game in the franchise, yes, but BT2 had the best single player experience.
Leveling systems, amazing campaign, world exploration (if at least cosmetic at best, but still there), loads of what ifs, better itemization, Ultimate Battle Z was a great endurance mode in a format similar to old MK games... Yeah, great times.

Also, no, you are correct, current generation games should by all means be packed with more content, specially if they cost twice as much. Hell, I did all kinds of stupid ♥♥♥♥ to lower the price as much as possible for the game+battle pass+early access deal, and still paid more than 60$.

However, for example, as a souls fan, I'd gladly trade 70% of Elden Ring's content, if it had a quarter of the mechanical polish, optimization, encounter quality, replayability, and genuine care as Dark souls 3.

[Deaavh™]

My complaint is weird input delay even offline, and the bizarre AI scaling.
I've played a lot of hard fighting games, and have even held my own against some of the more busted MUGEN creations but for some reason the AI in this game goes from either incredibly challenging which is fine, to straight up input reading which is not fine, to being incredibly dumb. It's ranges between those three.

I've had fights that were pretty hard but fun and others that felt like mortal kombat ai back in the day and some where they just stand there and wait to die.

[「eduard」]

don't buy it. save your money. this game is purely based on nostalgia and cash grab..

[Daviodraan]

Originally posted by Deaavh™:

My complaint is weird input delay even offline, and the bizarre AI scaling.
I've played a lot of hard fighting games, and have even held my own against some of the more busted MUGEN creations but for some reason the AI in this game goes from either incredibly challenging which is fine, to straight up input reading which is not fine, to being incredibly dumb. It's ranges between those three.

I've had fights that were pretty hard but fun and others that felt like mortal kombat ai back in the day and some where they just stand there and wait to die.

I'm gonna be honest: Stupidly hard AI is a fighting game staple.
The problem is the inconsistency more than the Difficulty ceiling.
If we ever get DBS Broly and Super Hero story mode, I WANT Broly and the Gammas + Cell Max to beat my ass as hard as they can, Current Dragon ball super scaling is ridiculous at best, it's good representation if anything.

Just make early story battles (Except the ones tremendously against the MC) easier, and late Z-Super battles as hard as they are, but be consistent about it. Sure, low tier DBS characters are what they are in their time period, but Bergamo would unironically Clap Z and a good portion of early Super, just to name a ridiculously easy AI fighter.
Realistically, anything that doesn't get one shot by Blue, should be a challenge.

[Daviodraan]

Originally posted by 「eduard」:

don't buy it. save your money. this game is purely based on nostalgia and cash grab..

Have you seen the level and amount of detail and references this game has? I wouldn't call it a Cash Grab. Just unpolished.
''Oh, You just proved the Nostalgia part'' well yeah, it's an old franchise, and a tremendously beloved one.

Give it time. Sadly, gaming as it stands now transitioned from ''Selling you an either good or bad game'' to ''Even good or fantastic games are released mostly unfinished and slowly become great through patches and updates, be it through paid or free dlc, and balance changes''.

To be completely fair, it's the first AAA in a while I played and didn't release in an absolutely garbage state, with below bottom tier optimization, 4 dozen game breaking bugs, and it had amazing content for a while. Aesthetics are fantastic, the core mechanics are there, it needs sever bugfixing and minor optimization.

[IIBADBUNNYII]

I personalty paid like 100+ for the ultimate pack , 1 dlc and 2 magazine. But the game is definitely not worth 100 Euro/USD. If upcoming DLC is like 5 (more or less) for some characters I'm oke with that. But regarding content. Its not much to be fair. Replay ability is like ? Ranked multiplayer? that just has become a meme atm XD. I play more against the AI and troll a little in Multiplayer I don't even take it serious. But fun Arena game with against friends maybe, for old nostalgia.

Yeah new releases are disappointing mostly for the past years. There were a couple gems I really enjoyed.

Helldivers 2 Really fun just to mess around.

40k Warhammer Didn't enjoy a good game so much in a long time the Single COOP part.

The asian Monkey king good one if u ask me, didn't play it yet do.

Elden Ring That was a surprisingly good game.

Warhammer 3 RTS game 1 and 2 where just cash graps if u ask me

Had my fun with battlefield 2042 until the made the balancing even worse. I was mostly a crazy littlebird pilot XD flying around tight building and structure doing 360 jumps with the helo hahaha to get in to cover.

We had cyperpunk but that a while back now.

COH 3 big flop if u ask me.

PAYDAY 3 I don't know what to say about that one I was speechless.

Starwars battlefield was fun not perfect but was fun besides the grinding of course

For Honor Buggy unfinished mess Was fun until they messed it up with balancing and DLC trash

Star citizen was oke... but mostly meh I build a star destroyer and was kinda dun after that.

The new start wars games single player are like prince of persia skin, was not my cup of thee way to boring just watched the u Tube vide for the lore but dont see me going back to that game to finish it.

Diablo 4 nice story, still looked ugly, was fun until they reset it, I aint doing that sh*t again

Any other titles I forget that where decent or just a big flop?

It true that the gaming industry is going downwards recent years, but some are really bad... I had more fun in some of the gachya game realeased over the year or older games while the didn't look that graphical good as recent games.

Elden ring online, I think most fun I had ever u had single player open world multiplayer that actually was good. Never forget my proxy detonation night blade build was Emperor on the XBOX that build was just mass murder. Good old times.