Dragonball Xenoverse, wherein teen POS finally lives his dreams

POS Industries · 03-05-2015, 05:45 PM

So earlier this week I picked up Xenoverse, which for those of you not in the know is a new DB game that combines Budokai-style gameplay with MMO-inspired character creation, leveling, equipment, and customization. You play as your own super special awesome mary sue (your choice of human, saiyan, namekian, majin, or Frieza guy) traveling through time and space under orders from Future Trunks and the Supreme Kai of Time to stop a couple ~~sexy~~ evil blue people from mucking around with historical events because one wrong move and the big timey-wimey ball of the multiverse could unravel and kill us all.

There's also side quests where you can team up with players online and beat up on various canon characters in alternate timelines or whatever as well as online vs battles and the like. The sidequests (or Parallel Quests) are generally way harder than the story quests and can drop all sorts of nice equipment and attacks from whoever you're fighting, so they're definitely worth doing repeatedly, not to mention the exp is good to make sure you aren't underleveled in the story.

Also worth noting: the first official western release of anything including female super saiyans. So that's neat, although the hair transformation effects ended up kinda lazy all around. The blonde is there, but the spiking isn't up to where it should be.

The game's main drawbacks are the heavy, repetitive grind involved in the PQs to get cool stuff, the shaky netcode, hardware slowdown on some parts (especially on the PS3 and 360 versions), equipment stats being largely preferential to strike-based builds at the expense of ki attack damage, and a few bugs and lazy design here and there. For instance, almost all the dialogue will refer to you as male even if your character is female. This might have been a coding oversight though because in all of one cutscene my female majin was gendered correctly, so it stands to reason that dialogue for both genders was likely recorded but the triggers for them were coded wrong.

Anyway, if you've got 50 bucks to burn on DBZ fanwankery, I recommend it. There's at least a couple of us that have it on PS3, too, so if you ever want to team up and punch saiyans, there you go.

03-05-2015, 05:45 PM	#1
POS Industries Argus Agony Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Gotta go fishing! Posts: 10,483	Dragonball Xenoverse, wherein teen POS finally lives his dreams So earlier this week I picked up Xenoverse, which for those of you not in the know is a new DB game that combines Budokai-style gameplay with MMO-inspired character creation, leveling, equipment, and customization. You play as your own super special awesome mary sue (your choice of human, saiyan, namekian, majin, or Frieza guy) traveling through time and space under orders from Future Trunks and the Supreme Kai of Time to stop a couple ~~sexy~~ evil blue people from mucking around with historical events because one wrong move and the big timey-wimey ball of the multiverse could unravel and kill us all. There's also side quests where you can team up with players online and beat up on various canon characters in alternate timelines or whatever as well as online vs battles and the like. The sidequests (or Parallel Quests) are generally way harder than the story quests and can drop all sorts of nice equipment and attacks from whoever you're fighting, so they're definitely worth doing repeatedly, not to mention the exp is good to make sure you aren't underleveled in the story. Also worth noting: the first official western release of anything including female super saiyans. So that's neat, although the hair transformation effects ended up kinda lazy all around. The blonde is there, but the spiking isn't up to where it should be. The game's main drawbacks are the heavy, repetitive grind involved in the PQs to get cool stuff, the shaky netcode, hardware slowdown on some parts (especially on the PS3 and 360 versions), equipment stats being largely preferential to strike-based builds at the expense of ki attack damage, and a few bugs and lazy design here and there. For instance, almost all the dialogue will refer to you as male even if your character is female. This might have been a coding oversight though because in all of one cutscene my female majin was gendered correctly, so it stands to reason that dialogue for both genders was likely recorded but the triggers for them were coded wrong. Anyway, if you've got 50 bucks to burn on DBZ fanwankery, I recommend it. There's at least a couple of us that have it on PS3, too, so if you ever want to team up and punch saiyans, there you go. __________________ Either you're dead or my watch has stopped.