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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    never enough gokus

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Neveron wrote: »
    I'm just surprised base Goku and Vegeta wasn't there by default.

    After a certain point base Goku kind of just stops being a thing, and 90% of fights are as some variant of Super Saiyan. I want to say this began in late DBZ? The big fights have been Super Saiyan-only since Frieza, though, with base-level Goku usually signifying weakness.

    In most other DBZ fighters they'd be there by default since IIRC they tend to go for a "power up to Super Saiyan" thing, but since DBFZ decided to make each transformation a distinct character that didn't happen.

    On the one hand this means that base DBFZ just has Super Saiyan Goku and an unlockable Super Saiyan Blue Goku, but on the other hand this means that each season of DLC had at least one Goku in it.

    But base level Goku features very prominently in Super. It's his default start to a fight and Super Saiyan only comes out once it's clear it's not enough.

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Which is every time.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    never enough gokus

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Sorce wrote: »
    Which is every time.

    Of course, but he tends to get relatively far before he needs to upgrade. Big difference from DBZ

  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    I miss the easy-as-breathing Super Saiyan state from the end of the Cell saga. That was a neat direction to take things, and it led to krillin hitting Goku with a rock.

  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Neveron wrote: »
    I'm just surprised base Goku and Vegeta wasn't there by default.

    After a certain point base Goku kind of just stops being a thing, and 90% of fights are as some variant of Super Saiyan. I want to say this began in late DBZ? The big fights have been Super Saiyan-only since Frieza, though, with base-level Goku usually signifying weakness.

    In most other DBZ fighters they'd be there by default since IIRC they tend to go for a "power up to Super Saiyan" thing, but since DBFZ decided to make each transformation a distinct character that didn't happen.

    On the one hand this means that base DBFZ just has Super Saiyan Goku and an unlockable Super Saiyan Blue Goku, but on the other hand this means that each season of DLC had at least one Goku in it.

    And the reason adult Gohan isn't Super Saiyan in the game is that as part of his Z-Sword training, he supposedly reached a level more powerful than Super Saiyan that was.. I dunno, incompatible with turning SS.

    Which we never got to see because Gohan then got immediately eaten by Buu and didn't fight again in Z.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    SimBen wrote: »
    Neveron wrote: »
    I'm just surprised base Goku and Vegeta wasn't there by default.

    After a certain point base Goku kind of just stops being a thing, and 90% of fights are as some variant of Super Saiyan. I want to say this began in late DBZ? The big fights have been Super Saiyan-only since Frieza, though, with base-level Goku usually signifying weakness.

    In most other DBZ fighters they'd be there by default since IIRC they tend to go for a "power up to Super Saiyan" thing, but since DBFZ decided to make each transformation a distinct character that didn't happen.

    On the one hand this means that base DBFZ just has Super Saiyan Goku and an unlockable Super Saiyan Blue Goku, but on the other hand this means that each season of DLC had at least one Goku in it.

    And the reason adult Gohan isn't Super Saiyan in the game is that as part of his Z-Sword training, he supposedly reached a level more powerful than Super Saiyan that was.. I dunno, incompatible with turning SS.

    Which we never got to see because Gohan then got immediately eaten by Buu and didn't fight again in Z.

    He says in Super during the ToP that he chose to grow in a way that is focused more on his human side than the saiyan side, so Super Saiyan is a downgrade for him

    He then gets jobbed almost immediately in the manga

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    His training prior to the TOP got him to unlock his clear-mode mystic stuff again. He went fairly far with it in the anime version.

    I’m not sure what the “essence of a super Saiyan” line means when he uses his unlock potential move in Fighterz, though. I feel like there’s an explanation in the anime that I flossed over.

  • AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    Neveron wrote: »
    I'm just surprised base Goku and Vegeta wasn't there by default.

    After a certain point base Goku kind of just stops being a thing, and 90% of fights are as some variant of Super Saiyan. I want to say this began in late DBZ? The big fights have been Super Saiyan-only since Frieza, though, with base-level Goku usually signifying weakness.

    In most other DBZ fighters they'd be there by default since IIRC they tend to go for a "power up to Super Saiyan" thing, but since DBFZ decided to make each transformation a distinct character that didn't happen.

    On the one hand this means that base DBFZ just has Super Saiyan Goku and an unlockable Super Saiyan Blue Goku, but on the other hand this means that each season of DLC had at least one Goku in it.

    And the reason adult Gohan isn't Super Saiyan in the game is that as part of his Z-Sword training, he supposedly reached a level more powerful than Super Saiyan that was.. I dunno, incompatible with turning SS.

    Which we never got to see because Gohan then got immediately eaten by Buu and didn't fight again in Z.

    The ritual unlocked his full potential. My understanding was that his full absolute potential was available at all times, the same kind of potential that Super Saiyan serves as an unlock for was already unlocked, so turning Super Saiyan would literally just be changing his hair colour because he's already using that power.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Wait did he get his full potential unlocked two times

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Yup.

    Gohan is a growing boy.

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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    I wonder if that could be a translation or cultural issue.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Guru seems to be Chi based where mystic is a spell. It could just allow Gohan to go full power all the time with no harm to his body

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Wow the whole first part of the Android 21 arc is such a pain in the ass. Give me a third character, damn it!

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    in DBFZ?

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    in DBFZ?

    Yup!

    Android 21 doesn't exist outside of that game, does she?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    you got my hopes up for a moment that she did :P

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    So how exactly did they justify 21's existence in DBFZ? Gero died, his lab was destroyed, and everything about him was buried under rock long before Buu ever showed up.

  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    I think they just handwaved it away with "oh Gero had a bunch of labs".

  • TamerBillTamerBill Registered User regular
    Gero's supercomputer kept the project going after he died, took cells from Buu etc.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    in DBFZ?

    Yup!

    Android 21 doesn't exist outside of that game, does she?

    Dokkan Battle baby!

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Honestly on top of being terrible to play, nothing about DBFZ’s story mode makes any sense.

    I think the 3 arcs are meant to be separate what-ifs detailing what happens if the soul ends up in Goku, Frieza or 18 but even that is nowhere near clear at this point.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    Honestly on top of being terrible to play, nothing about DBFZ’s story mode makes any sense.

    I think the 3 arcs are meant to be separate what-ifs detailing what happens if the soul ends up in Goku, Frieza or 18 but even that is nowhere near clear at this point.

    What's weird is that the Super Warriors arc ends with Whis going "hey, maybe you still have some stuff to do to find out the whole truth?" but the stories never link up in a manner that that suggests.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    I'm surprised there weren't already androids up to android 42

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Tenkaichi Budokai had the best alternative storylines.

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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Platy wrote: »
    I'm surprised there weren't already androids up to android 42

    Definitely seems like they should’ve had a few more androids before they ran out of ideas enough to just have one be a guy wearing a trucker hat.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    On the DBZ MUD I built for I made an area with original Androids for all the numbers that didn't have one yet. Should still be there in the versions of the game still online.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    started reading some of the recent manga stuff and man, the end of the Tournament seems significantly less exciting than the anime, though I do like that Vegeta's still in it 'til pretty much the very end

    the Moro stuff though, is real good shit

    I had no idea that the chapters were so substantial too, kinda seems like every manga should do the once a month 40 pages thing! it's probably a much more livable schedule and every entry feels significant

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2019
    Mr. G wrote: »
    started reading some of the recent manga stuff and man, the end of the Tournament seems significantly less exciting than the anime, though I do like that Vegeta's still in it 'til pretty much the very end

    the Moro stuff though, is real good shit

    I had no idea that the chapters were so substantial too, kinda seems like every manga should do the once a month 40 pages thing! it's probably a much more livable schedule and every entry feels significant
    Hello have you heard of

    American comic books

    (I agree the manga schedule is super grueling to creators and needs to be reevaluated but the weekly installments and cheap price is absolutely a major reason Manga had such strong retention in readers vs. American comics)

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  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    Platy wrote: »
    I'm surprised there weren't already androids up to android 42

    Definitely seems like they should’ve had a few more androids before they ran out of ideas enough to just have one be a guy wearing a trucker hat.

    You leave Android 13 be. He's like... 5th best android.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    They peaked early with Android 8 and it's been downhill since then

  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    I like the callback in Dragonball Z Abridged where 17 is talking to Gero about bad android designs and mockingly goes "Howdy there, I'm Android 13. Look at my trucker hat."

    Then later when they did the Android 13 movie, that's the exact line that 13 introduces himself with.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I am kinda surprised that they couldn't make anything funny out of Bojack when they made Android 13 work.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    I am kinda surprised that they couldn't make anything funny out of Bojack when they made Android 13 work.

    Sounds like the way Lannie explained it the problem was that the villains are mostly separate from the heroes for more of the movie limiting what fun character beats they could work with.

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  • Fig-DFig-D Tustin, CA, USRegistered User regular
    They probably found that in order to create a coherent narrative they would have to cut almost the entirety of the film. Also most of the plot in Bojack Unbound is either retread or repeated in the Buu Saga. A martial arts tournament where the winner faces champion Mister Satan, Gohan witnessing his friends all eat shit before going Super Saiyin, Piccolo taking a shot for Gohan, the villain going "fuck it I'll just blow everything up," Gohan collapsing on the ground after firing a Super Kamehameha, and the movie ends on almost the same shot as Super 17.

    I feel like that's all ground they've covered or will be covering in the new season.

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  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    edited October 2019
    From their own reddit on Bojack:
    Kaiserneko wrote:
    As such, we struggled to find a way to change the movie up or even lampoon it, and constantly just... felt like we were rewriting the scenes to be slightly funnier. It kept happening, where we'd drudge ourselves through a scene just to find ourselves, "It's good enough" or "We'll go back later and maybe we'll have something better".

    Which sucks, because every time we felt like we had a truly solid idea, we'd find it untenable due to the constraints of the footage. The last time we'd felt so stifled was Broly, but we spent almost twice the amount of time on the Bojack script and could only figure out the first 2/5 before we realized... we were miserable.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I am kinda surprised that they couldn't make anything funny out of Bojack when they made Android 13 work.

    To be fair, most of what I remember about that movie was the erased from time joke following "WEAKNESS: IDENTIFIED!"

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Madican wrote: »
    I am kinda surprised that they couldn't make anything funny out of Bojack when they made Android 13 work.

    To be fair, most of what I remember about that movie was the erased from time joke following "WEAKNESS: IDENTIFIED!"

    Well it’s a pretty good nutshot joke.

    Maybe the best.

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