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.

2 November 2009 14:30
SS5 Guy

everyone who wants a character creation feature copy and paste this comment

DBZ Raging Blast Custom Character Feature FTW!!!!!!!!!!

4 November 2009 14:19
Shifterx

DBZ Raging Blast Custom Character Feature FTW!!!!!!!!!!

they really need to add a character creation in the next game and an other thing make the maps bigger so that we can battle not 1on 1 but 2on 2 or 3on 3 that would be very awesome like teaming up

5 November 2009 16:54
dbz

0k listen when u do an attack lets u kamahamaha when the opposing player dodges it there should be a crater not dust

5 November 2009 16:58
dbz

if there is no character creation this game is a waste cause if there is no character creation then theres should be at least 200-300 characters not to mention one of my favroute characthers goku jr and vegeta jr they have never been in a game they should be in this one

5 November 2009 18:27
dbz

after a crater has been made from a blast there should be high smoke surounding the plyers like the real movie

5 November 2009 21:10
SS5 Guy

dbz goku and vegeta jr are characters from 100 yrs after GT and gt might not even be in the game so you know they probleby won’t either.

7 November 2009 07:56
dbz

@ss5 guy

even if its a gt charachter its only 2 characters gt has like 20 and so if they put in 2 characters goku jr and vegeta jr then there would be some gt and besides its onlu 2 super saiyans so i think they should cause they said 2 mystery characters brolly ssj3 and vegeta ssj3 but those are made up charachters so then they should put vegeta jr and goku jr both super saiyans so the game would be better

7 November 2009 13:05
tick

why dont they just have 162 characters like tenchei 3 and just say they will have the character creations and they will have a totally of 164 characters

7 November 2009 13:15
tick

in tenchei 5 i would like to see trunks super sayian 2and3 and super 17 with his abrosortion powers

7 November 2009 16:57
SS5 Guy

@dbz

how would adding characters from GT make the game better? Besides from SS4 Goku, and SS4 Vegeta everything else kinda sucked and many people agree.Plus most people probleby don’t know or don’t care about what happened after GT. and plus those two shouldn’t even be able to become SS cuz the saiyan blood line diminishes when ever halfies marry humans hence why pan couldn’t be a SS that would be why it wouldn’t be better they wouldn’t be played that much anyway(except if hercule was in the game then they would be played)