CinemaBlend Games - By Rich Knight, 2007-12-29:
With the interesting Street Fighter IV on the very distant horizon, Rich thinks a more immediate concern is that fighting games in general are pretty much dead, save for the really crappy anime titles that have since graced the consoles.
Dragonball Z pretty much started this whole transition of Cartoon Network to video game console with Budokai on the PS2, and many others followed.
One of the most prolific game series in existence despite being licensed, Dragon Ball has seen its fair share of the good, the bad, and the why did they even bother.
legacy of Goku. Still, want a console-style game like that instead of fighter #9837648932. I remember a lot of good times with the Budokai games on gamecube, Xenoverse was pretty fun but I joined too late so trying to play online was nearly impossible and Future Trunk's new voice actor was so terrible I didn't want to play the story. FighterZ looks freaking awesome, can't wait for that. Did not believe my friend when he told me about the rumor of a Blazblue style DBZ game and the E3 footage did not disappoint.
Welcome to Retro Review Friday! Be sure to stop by BagoGames each Friday and join us as we dive into the vault and take a look back at a Retro game! I loved Dragon Ball Z. If there’s one show from my childhood that I somehow managed to retain the most information from, it’s probably DBZ. […]
The first Budokai game was probably the closest they got to making a game actually look like Dragon Ball. This isn't the best Dragon Ball game ever made, but this game got the character models just right. Look at all of the games after this one, the characters just look overly shiny and bit off model.
Such a great game. I spent so many hours battling my buddy as we drank many a beer. Personally, I wish they would've left in the original Japanese voices and I thoroughly loathe the Funimation voice dub, but aside from that one gripe, that'd be about it.
Tony Brasel of Gaming Rebellion aims his Braselspective on the original game in the series of anime fighting games from the Playstation 2.
I actually blame Capcom for abandoning the franchise/genre in general.
Its all for money, man.
I've got to disagree. Fighters didn't die. They just are no longer the number one genre. They lost some of their universal appeal. One of the top 5 best games of all time is still a fighting title (Soul Calibur 1).
Just like the FPS titles of last few years, fighters were dominant genre in the earlier 90s.
Street Fighter 4 is coming. Soul Calibur 4 is coming. Mortal Kombat 8 is coming, Tekken 6 is coming, Killer Instinct 3 is probably coming. Is that death of fighting genre? Plus we also had the excellent Virtua Fighter 5 last year.
But I do agree that anime based fighters are hurting the genre. God, I hate them.
I have actually NO clue what exactly is he complaining about? first he starts with anime titles..the he goes to the lack of 2D game in which he includes Smash Bros for some reason >.> apart from technically omitting what 6-7 other good fighting games?
SO is he complaining about the avalanche of anime titles coming out?
OR the lack of new 2D fighting games? is he talking about 2D graphics or 2D gameplay?...does he even know himself what was the point of his article? why the title even? if he even recognizes there were a LOT of anime titiles a LONG time ago...like DBZ for the SNES?
and Ironically enough many of his complain were answered in the last few weeks specifically by Capcom when asked the whole "2D revival" and why is not really viable to do anymore (they said its much cheaper and faster to make a 3D fighting game than a HD 2D fighting game according to them)
my only recommendation for this guy...start reading and importing more since you don't only have Guilty Gear and Smash bros as your...mmm...well what ever he was refereing with those games
there was always this funny idea i had a long time ago. remember erghiez? that was that 3d fighting game with the charatcers of ff7 and desgins all by the namco team (you can tell). well, i always thought that ff7 as a fighting game should've been done 2d style, like street fighter.
and remember street fighter ex? that was the 3d fighting game, that should've stayed 2d.
now, the gundam fighting games were 2d, but imho should've been 3d: it's SOOO limiting, and we're talking mechs here!