Forgetting Raging Blast 1 & 2?

[Zekkah]

I'm seeing people claim, even in professional video reviews, that the last Budokai Tenkaichi was released 17 years ago. It's technically true, as this is the only named direct sequel to the 3rd game, but they make it sound like that game was the last with this type of gameplay when Raging Blast 1 & 2 got released for the PS3/360.

How Is everyone forgetting that these games exist?

[󠀡󠀡]

The Sparking mechanic + the daytime changing while in sparking mode originally came from Raging Blast, so yeah 17 years isn’t completely accurate.

You also had “Ultimate” Tenkaichi releasing after that, it was a garbage game everyone forgot about

[TheHuskyGT]

Not everyone has forgotten it. Raging Blast 2 was a true Tenkaichi game, and the last to have ever released. Everything after was either hot garbage, or decent, yet not true to the core mechanics.

I've been playing RB2 since it released, up until a few weeks from now. It was the last game that kept my old PS3 alive.

[SuperCrumpets]

thats because raging blast 1&2 are garbage button mashers where defence is impossible and skill irrelevant

[The22nd]

Yeah, the Dragonball community has selective memory. Acting as if Ultimate Tenkaichi, RB 1 and 2 didn't exist.

Budokai fans act like Infinite World and Burst Limit doesn't exist

Everyone loves Super Broly with his AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH dialogue, but a common complaint about Z Broly was him only saying "Kakarot" lol

All the people excited for Daima acting like they didn't spend the last 20+ years ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on GT

[TouyaShiro]

The TL;DR of this is that this specific game is a new entry in the Dragon Ball Sparking! series, which for us was localised as Budokai Tenkaichi (thanks, Atari), with its last entry being BT3.

Dragon Ball Z: Raging Blast, while having similar gameplay, was technically not part of the Sparking! series, and the overwhelming response for the most part I think is that BT3/Sparking! METEOR or BT2/Sparking! NEO are the games from their childhood that they remember fondly. Thus, Sparking! ZERO returns to and iterates upon the formula last seen in BT3 specifically, alongside other tropes associated with that series in particular - the flashy animations and skills, immersion in the battles, and the huge roster count, the latter of which is probably one of the foremost factors that the gap is considered to start from Budokai Tenkaichi 3 instead of Raging Blast 2.

[SuperSonicStudent]

its because RB wasent advertised as a sequal to the sparking series and because the gameplay is much more similiar to BT3 then RB. RB was its own thing. it was kinda slow if you ask me

[Zekkah]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

You also had “Ultimate” Tenkaichi releasing after that, it was a garbage game everyone forgot about

I didn't mention that one because it's drastically different gameplay wise, I believe. It's really an over dramatic game of rock, paper, scissors. Raging Blast games were recognizably faithful to the Budokai Tenkaichi series. Same for Burst Limit with the Budokai series (too bad that one never got released for PC).