18 November 2007
Ferry

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 might feature a character creator

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 is already talked about by the game’s creators. They mention always listening to fan comments and admit that was the reason why they added online multiplayer on Wii and many more characters in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 after Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 on PS2 and Wii. One of the features still missing is a character creator, but that might change in 2008.

To quote Atari producer Donny Clay: “Unfortunately there are some things that are requested by several different fans that we aren’t able to do just yet. For example, one of things we get asked for quite a bit is a completely custom character system from the ground up. Meaning players want to be able to build their own character with their own moves and their own look. This is definitely something I would love to do as well, we just haven’t had the chance to get this into a game yet. Don’t worry though I won’t forget.”

That should come as no surprise since the upcoming Dragon Ball Online MMO game also features a character creator tool that allows you to make your own Saiyan, Human or Namek.

In recent interviews the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 team mentions working on a next-gen game and being a fan of the Xbox 360, so my guess would be that the next DBZ game is coming to not just Wii and PS2, but also Xbox 360 and PS3. Makes sense for them to want to make the graphics look even better and have more online features. Throw in the character creator on top of even more than the 161 characters in the last game and you’ve got yourself Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4.

As the official DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi blog says: “When we’re coming up with a new DBZ game, we first think about what the fans on the forums and message boards have been asking about.” So what do you want in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4?

PS: There’s also a Dragon Ball Z: Budokai “Burst Limit” game in development for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Update May 19th, 2009: After 1.5 years of waiting, the first magazine announcement of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 has been revealed in Japan, where the next Tenkaichi game for Xbox 360 and PS3 is titled Dragon Ball Z: Raging Blast!

Update May 27th, 2009: Read the Dragon Ball: Raging Blast official announcement!

Update June 17th, 2009: Watch the first Dragon Ball: Raging Blast trailer!

Update June 23rd, 2009: Check out the Official Dragon Ball: Raging Blast character list so far.

9 July 2008 10:10
Broly

another thing they should add is more dragons.Why is there only two evil dragons when there were like 7 in the series, the power up time should be longer (when transforming), and better animations for example why is pikkons Thunder Blast attck so limited.

9 July 2008 10:13
Broly

I think it is a good time to add a charcter creator i mean come on if your gonna end the seoson with people whating it to return so they mod your original games you might as well add a charcter creator i could almost guarantee it would sell.

9 July 2008 10:40
dbz fan

and another thing that would be cool would be if they could add everyones theme song

9 July 2008 12:54
DominicDaDBZFan

F*ck yes
I want to be able to pick all the themes from Funimation’s DragonballZ

If they do have that
I would play Ginyu’s Transformation, Gohan’s anger (vs Buu), and most of all Ginyu Force theme? the F-ing Best

9 July 2008 13:49
sa dbz fan

5 days til e3. who knows. might as well repeat myself for the thousanth time and say
PLZ DEFINATELY HAVE GOTEN GT (ALL FORMS), EIS SHENRON (BOTH FORMS), HATCHYACK, GENERAL RILLDO (ALL FORMS) AND LEDGIC. ALSO HAVE NUOVA’S FIRST FORM AND IMPROVE HIS MOVES. I DID MAKE A COOMENT ON THE MOVES TO GIVE AGES AGO SO ATARI FIND IT AND READ IT.

also i know i repeat this a lot and others also repeat comments but the more a idea is said the better. as it puts emphasis on how badly someone wants it and how popular the idea is. so the more its mentioned the more popular the creators know it is and the more chance they will put it in.
so wen i repeat its jus to show how bad i want it and dats y i don’t reali care if others also repeat idea. like how some people keep repeatin story mode to be longer. dats a gd thing as it will get into atari’s head and if they don’t read all comments they are still bound to come across it if they read a majority of the comments.
also make the hopeful next game so u have to unlock almost every character apart from like 10 which u start wid.

9 July 2008 17:44
DominicDaDBZ Fan

If they do make a Tenkaichi 4

They need to put it on

PS2
WII
PS3
Xbox 360

I could just think of downloadable content

Character creator extra costome

Oh and one other thing. Please add Funimation music and music from past Tenkaichi games.

I dont want to say this but
The music one Tenkaichi 3 sucks

I know that you could be able to put funimation tracks in.

It would get the character in the mood of the fight

*when I pick Cell, I would put the song to his theme*

*in the story. When cell dies, the should play “Ginyu’s transformation theme.

Also I do not mind if you use anime clips. Sagas used it and i was fine. If it means to save up on memory, then use anime clips from the show.

Also please use the Co-op thing i said earlier

When in story mode vs cell. You should have to rotate the analogs for about 1min 30sec

Then when that 1min 30sec comes thats when vegeta joins you team and toss his big bang at cell. Then you should rotate the analog super fast and thats when you beat cell.
*then the anime clip rolls in and recape the whole kamehameha fight :)*

10 July 2008 01:11
Z

Hi people I think they have Gt Gotenks Gt Vegeta Baby (all-forms) Dragon Adventure was nice! and while in a beam struggle for example if vegeta is airborne and goku is on the ground and vegeta is wining the beam struggle goku should be pushed against ground causing the ground to crumble and while fighting u should be able to fly different place such as: cities,lakes,mountains etc. yea and Charter Creator when a character is powered up the rock begin 2 hover tress blow in wind the ground cracks depending on your power level when you get to choose the character’s appearance personality and weapons what color it would be and if they ki blast is done with fingers 1 or 2 with one hand or two if it comes from the mouth and launching a finishing move and watching the earth turn red was ok better stuff like that would be very good and btw like Tenkaichi 2 lock on that wasn’t a bad idea it was pretty cool and when you hit your Enemy and send them flying and they hit a building if you hit them hard enough they go straight though but if not they get stuck in the building mountain etc. and i like that Dodging when your Enemy is punching at you and kicking at you u dodge them that was rather neat. When a character is beaten up there clothes should be more teared up and stuff If you could make the story mode longer please do and the others said something about co-op mode and handicap not a bad idea at all
i think Hopefully its on PS2 & the other consoles PLEASE BE ON PLAYSTATION 2!

10 July 2008 05:46
DominicDaDBz Fan

I just watched a clip on Youtube where Vegeta used Final Flash for the first time

He was charging for like 5min, Ground dented in, trees were blowing, Clouds rolled in.

Then I played BT3, did final flash and it lasted about 5sec

WTF.
I think if atari wants this game to be an “A” game, they have to add cinematic moves again. It shouldnt take him 5mins but atleast 1-3min

10 July 2008 05:58
Dexter Boykin

nah the move should take only atleast one minute cause 3 mins when u think about would be to long

10 July 2008 09:33
sa dbz fan

1 min is still to long. but anyway wen a character gets stronger and uses a previous move he can do it a lot faster later on, like piccollo and special beam cannon. he first does it takes ages but wen he did it agen it was quick. but i do admit it shud be a bit longer.

also people shud stop worrying bwt memory size. because tenkaichi 3 barely takes up much so y wud a maybe tenkaichi 4 dramatically increase that. memory won’t rise dat much.
and yh dominic dbz fan. it wud be alrite to have cartoon scenes but i think it will make reduce the flow of the game but i wouldn’t mind either.