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 December 2007 11:31
gokhan

Im from the atari forums and everythng u said has been asked, its a lot if we want it for a next game, so be patient people. A possible add could be a what if fusion.

I have bad news, AF can’t be approved because it’s considered fanmade…

we already have alot of what-if characters in the game. We have great ape raditz, nappa, bardock, turles; and we know that they never transformed, but we all know that they can. An adult gotenks could be a logical request, also goku and gohan fusion, cuz if gohan didn’t drop the potara earring we would have gokhan…

2 December 2007 11:35
gokhan

here’s the link:
ataricommunity.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=630

2 December 2007 14:05
JC

speaking of what if fusions they should bring back those two from budokai 2 tiencha and gokule

2 December 2007 22:17
Ultimate Gohan

Yo, I love the Tenkaichi serries! I liked the bT and i liked the bt2 even more. But Bt3 is preety good, but not whatI was expecting.

Anyways, You shuld include a longer story mode with a lot longer what if scenios. Make the what-if’s as long as a saga.

Also for character custamation, include a way for the player to design his character. For example in Virtual fighter 4 you can alter a character by ike giving him a mask or him have a parrot. do something like that for Budokai Tenkaichi 4. Like maybe have vests for Vegeta such as his ink shirt from the Andriods saga. And maybe have characters have actual weapons. Like maybe have Gohan (Buu saga) have the Z-sword and have attacks that use the sword. And add his suit Surpreme Kai gave him.

Also, to make transformations that are fussions better. For example when Surpreme Kai becomes Kibito Kai have him put on a potra and make Kibito fly into Surpreme kai. And when Uub becames Majin Uub, have Fat Buu’s pink particles be arbsorbed into Uub’s skin. And show parts of 14 and 15 fusioning into #13.

And make Piccolo (End-when he fuses with Kami) a transformation for Piccolo (Sayian and Namek saga) . Also have Piccolo have like a healing attack for him. Like once per battle, when Nail is damaged, make players use a blast 1 move to have Nail fused with Piccolo. And maybe like a half to one full life bar is recovered. And instead of Nail fighting, Piccolo from the namek saga is fighting.

Also dont have ss2 Gotenks since he has ss3 and he didnt use it.

And have what-if fussions such as:
Vegeta(Cell) + Trunks (Cell)
Gohan + Goku
Kid Gohan + Krillion
Gohan (Cell) + Krillin
Cell + Krillon=Red Cell from Budokai 1
Gogeta + Gotenks
Freeza+Cell
Uub + Gohan (Uub wanted to fuse withGohan in GT so I hink it be a plausible fussion. after all its never stated that you couldnt fuse with people outside your race).
Also have the bad fussions as well:
Fat Goteks
Skiny Gotenks
Fat Gogeta

Other characters you shuld add:
Gt Vegeta (base, ss, ss2)
Gt Goten (Base, Ss, ss2)
Ice Shensron
Riludo + Metal
Ledgic
Kami (Shen in alt.custome)
Chi-Chi (Z)
Bulma (Z)
Mr.Popo
Gt Truks (Ss2).
Golden Ozzaroo transformations for both Vegeta and Kid Goku.

Have alt. Costume GT kid Goku with tail and w/o tail.

Have alt.costume Future Gohan with Scar and without left arm. (Its prety cool you had him use his mentor piccolo’s move)

Have future Trunks with Masenko( It stated in bt3 that Gohan taught that move to Trunks).

Also have Alt. custom #18 with GT custom.

3 December 2007 00:11
daku465

New Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 Arenas

Planet Yardrat
Snake way
Upa’s Villlage
Ubb’s Village
Tree of Might
Fake Planet Vegeta (from Broly: LSS)
Other World
King Kai’s Planet
Planet Tuffle
Frieza’s Spaceship (Inside and Outside)
Space (can go inside other planets)
East City
West City
South City
North City

Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 Info

I’m really hoping for the City stage for the characters while during gameplay they should be able to go inside buildings to hide or ambush your opponent and another thing about the city stage eg. just say if you power punch your opponent to a building they should be able to get stuck on a building for quite some time other than just breaking down the buildings automatically.
About planet explosions eg. just say if you used one of your ultimate moves like eg. supernova it should destroy the planet but thn again it should have a time limit to get out of the planet before th planet explodes.
I’m also really hoping there to be every single saga and movie from Dragonball, Z, GT and make the story mode incredibly long so we can enjoy playing, either than just going into battle automatically

3 December 2007 00:31
daku465

another thing about the stages there should not be any walls cos its very like boring like that, i was really hoping for dragonball z tenkaichi 3 not to have those walls and also you should have been able to destroy the planet.

for the next tenkaichi 4 im really hoping for all the characters from db, z, gt and the movie characters to be in tenkaichi 4.

and you should be able to fly around and stop at cities and talk to people and go inside stores.

im REALLY hoping for the mini’s games to be in this next game, i read everything about tk3 and i played it and there no mini games, im just really hoping for the mini games to be in this next game.

also it should show the characters while fighting and talking eg. for fighting like when goku was fighting perfect cell and you could see the characters standing on the sidelines that should be in it, and for talking we should be able to see all the characters while talking to your enemy or opponent.

3 December 2007 03:20
sup yo

wot you need is a longer story mode and and make the fights real like cell hits like hurcul hes died and more characters and yer cant wait

3 December 2007 12:07
Sean

In the next DBZ game, i hope we get to fly around to different place and not just the limited of space of the area your in

3 December 2007 13:57
sajid

what you guys should do is that if goku fires a kamehameha you can deflect it for example piccolo can do that verry good with his right hand with was also see in de anime. you should also do ervery single caracter in the game sinds this is the last one.

3 December 2007 14:16
gokurulez

that you can fight with two character against 1 at the same time like they do in the movies (broly)