In a time where Dragon Ball news were probably at the lowest they've been in the last years, we got an unexpected surprise in the form of the latest videogame of the long-running franchise.

After more than a decade cherishing Budokai Tenkaichi 3, relying on fan-made games wanting to be the sequel and the never-ending hopes of seeing a return of the franchise (though Raging Blast did more than a decent job at trying to fit in its shoes as a worthy successor), we now have the official confirmation that the franchise will see a new entry.

The information right now is very scarce, with just the announcement and a very short trailer being shown. However, it has set the hype on fire for the fans who were eagerly waiting for this since the seventh generation of consoles appeared. But the world has changed a lot since then, the industry is not the same as before and thus we might get a very different game than we could expect.

It does look like the developers want to keep the spirit of the franchise alive, seeing how they included footage from previous entries in the trailer. It also seems like the game mechanics will be kept mostly intact, if anything updated to the modern times and maybe including things from other games like Raging Blast. And we can also expect very detailed stages, which will surely be given a boost with all the destruction animations the franchise had back in time.

The downfall will for sure be the roster. Equaling the 180 characters of BT3 isn't hard, given all the new additions in the anime, movies and also in Heroes, but the big question is how many of those characters will be available in the base game, either from the start or by unlocking them in-game. DLCs will surely come, and given what Namco has done to other franchises like Tekken or SoulCalibur it's to be expected we will get additional characters that could have been perfectly included since day 1 as paid DLCs.

Despite this drawback, and surely more that can potentially come, I think we will get a decent game for a much anticipated concept. We'll see for which consoles does it come out, I don't discard PS4 because of it not being one of the true powerhouses of Namco but we'll see what ends up happening. More information will come in time, and hopefully we will see this game hit the shelves before the year ends.

How is everybody feeling about this? Feel free to share your thoughts, impressions, fears or whatever about this game here.

When I saw pokemon x post the trailer in the Vizzed discord my first thought was oh it must be a scam but then my next thought was oh it must be well done to trick pokemon x into believing it but after watching the trailer I was just in shock a new Budokai Tenkaichi after 17 years... just wow.

I think no matter what the game is likely to disappoint a lot of people because it's been so long and I know how high a lot of people expectations are for it I think the best way to maybe lessen the impact of less characters would be naming this one Dragon Ball Super Budokai Tenkaichi to start a new trilogy of games now I'm pretty confident they won't since Dragon Ball Z is still a more powerful name I believe but if you say it's the first new one compared to calling it BT4 I think maybe people would be slightly more kind to it. I also think it'd be a lot more realistic to try and hit the 58 the original budokai tenkaichi had for characters (90 counting froms) instead of the 98 characters (161 counting forms) characters that BT3 had.

As for my hopes, I just want the game to be fun and if it's good I'll gladly support the game as much as I can assuming it's on PS4 cause I know my pc won't be able to run it lol.

SonicOlmstead : Yeah, as long as the game is fun most of the fans will support it. We've gone for too many years after we had a "classic" Dragon Ball game, simply following the franchise instead of having a story specifically created for it, so people will welcome that with open arms.

As for the roster, I'm pretty sure we'll exceed the numbers of previous entries. The new movies as well as the Super anime and manga have introduced enough big-name characters, more than enough to compensate the "duplicates" we saw in the prequels as well as filler characters like the stupid Frieza Soldier or heavily outdated characters from the early eras of Dragon Ball, despite their classic status.

I'm inclined to think that Namco will follow the example of Smash Bros. Ultimate, given that game's reception and a similarly huge roster to pick from for both characters and stages. But I don't want to get too hyped on that because Ultimate is precisely the one that has broken the trend for fighting games to include smaller rosters to be expanded after release via DLCs (Ultimate did get DLCs, but its base roster is well beyond those in the prequels so DLCs are just the extensions they were always meant to be).

EX Palen : I guess I'm not as confident in Bandai to give the game the time it needs to be a smash ultimate kind of game since they said it's in early development and I'd be shocked if it didn't come out either this year or next year but idk if they still have the contract they used to but they used to have to release a dragon ball game every year and if that's still the case I get the feeling they push games out, that said I hope I'm completely wrong and this game has the most characters yet I just don't expect it to be the case.