A note about your comment about Future Gohan, the reason he has both his arms is due to censorship reasons. They can't use one-armed Gohan, but to make sure that's still represented as accurately as possible, they animate him like he's still missing the arm anyways.
It’s kinda crazy that showing an amputee has to be censored considering that it’s a slightly normal thing to have. People are even born without arms. It’s just interesting
It’s actually because of how these models are used in 2d games and when it flipped the model in a 2d game the model flips which mean Gohan is missing a different arm. So instead of making his 3d model accurate they just used the 2d. It wasn’t censorship more of them being lazy. Kakarot isn’t the first example of one arm Gohan, Sagas did it too.
It feels so surreal to hear a retrospect on this game. I played it so much that I was among the top 100 or so players 😎, but never had anyone really stopped to talk about it. We mainly learned by doing Appreciate the absolute sheer level of depth in this video. It really takes me back a couple years
@@justinwechsberg643 That would be the year of the release date, although I started playing a few years after. I'm curious to know what console you were on? Maybe I might've fought you hahah
i put an ungodly amount of hours into this game as well man, i love the combat so much. once you understood the controls fully, everything just flowed so well and was pretty quick, ESPECIALLY on higher difficulties. this game, BT3 and Budokai 3 will always be my “Big 3” of the DBZ games, until Sparking Zero at least lol.
@@westont98 hell yeah bro. theres so much depth to the combat when you master it, and every character has their own nuances. at one point i was so good at rb2 i could beat people who were competitive with just my right hand and saiyan armor trunks.
I remember trying online one time and completely annihilating this one kid, then the next match getting locked in a combo and completely unable to do anything about it. If I remember right Goku has a way to permanently stunlock people. Also you can use upgrades in online mode, I remember having the health regen while playing online because it's broken lol.
I played a lot online and the health regen didn’t matter when you decimated the other player. 😂 What was broken was the item that prevents you from being flinched as well as the item that lets you guard without it breaking. People who had those items were incredibly annoying to deal with lol, I hope BT4 lets you keep only accessory items for online play
6:55 correction: no REAL story mode, because certain teams & matchups as well as maybe the use of certain stages give the characters dialoge mid battle to to basicly make a little story mode in it, maybe as far as i remember with cutscenes here & there as well, like when you have goku & krillin in 1 team & lose as base goku first, i'm not sure but i think it triggers that cutscene that let's goku give the spirit bomb he made to krillin
Nice review, this takes me back. I used to watch a lot of game play before I was able to buy it. I was very disappointed that my copy didn't come with the raging blast 2 ost but the tenkaichi 2. It's minor but I feel like the RB2 music was better, shame about the composer controversy.
I experienced this when I repurchased the game awhile back. I genuinely forget what I did to my old copy, I think I sold it but when I got this new copy, I was very confused about the soundtrack. That’s when I learned about the composer’s “plagerism” and so the OST was changed. Made me lose motivation since the soundtrack wasn’t as hype :/
I actually love that it has the BT2 music but the original was good also. I had two discs of RB2 (with original music) and they both stopped working (second one loads but freezes at times) I just play on my gaming laptop.
12:07 I wouldn't call this misleading, Ssj Goku and Base Goku have different attacks and the like, which means for all intense and purposes they are different characters
Hopefully the new Tenkaichi will fix a lot of RB2's faults. SSJ4 Goku better be in the base game and not future DLC. Raging Blast 2's character roster plus GT and Super saga characters would be perfect. I hope it also has a really deep and extensive story mode with beautiful cutscenes similar to Kakarot. An open world would be pretty dope too. Even with it's irritations, RB2 still remains one of my favorite DBZ fighting games of all time.
Its possible raging blast was under a different team than bt3 possibly why it felt like a regression. You can look at tthe game as a reimagining of the bt series
As much as this game stumbled in some aspects I wish we’d have gotten a 3rd game so they could possibly address them also Battle or Z should be your next restrospective right...?? That’s gonna be interesting 👀
I really like how we can turn ring outs on and off in the tournaments and we can use the participants also which I can't remember any other game doing. Such a shame we didn't get RB3. Probably would of surpassed BT3
14:32 The claim was "100 customizable warriors" which is actually fair, because you can customize each character independent of their form; base, ssj, ssj2, and ssj 3 goku can all have their own set of customization items, unlike the tenkaichi games which had the customization being universal for the whole character...
Also, something you would not realize if you are not super into the game, a lot (if not most) of the transformations change the character's attack patterns, cancels, signatures and ways all these combo into each other, so they are not just costume changes. If I remember correctly, even with Goku, Base Goku and Super Saiyan play way different when attacking, with different attack speed animations, cancels etc. Same is the case with SSJ2 and SSJ3 etc. So if you would count Devil Jin as another character in a Tekken game, I think it is fair to consider most (if not all) transformations separate characters in this game as well
Raging blast series is underrated it took dbz games to the next console generation(ps3 and xbox 360) the graphics was amazing and the fighting maps were HUGE
To this day, I strongly believe this game has THE BEST combat of all dragonball games. Really wish the fan project of Raging Blast 3 came to exist. But my hopes for Tenkaichi 4 to be its successor is something I’m wishing for
Yes... & no... I haven't played BT3 on PS2 (my PS2 was stolen during house robbery back in the day) and Raging Blast (1) was my first Dragon Ball game that I've played (before I was forced to play MUGENs on PC). Later then I played Raging Blast 2 when it came out (demos etc.) and I was going crazy with combos on RB2, I was having best time of my life with this game, reaching S++ rank online etc... but... I've played Budokai Tenkaichi 3 eventually on PS2 and later then on my PC (a proper rig, no lags on PCSX2). My opinion: RB2 did it the worst, where you are close to the ground you character automatically sticks to it. This "gluing" animation part, makes you vulnerable, being unable to do anything with your character, and your opponent can strike at that specific time. That was game breaking. Another thing, broken in RB2 was (still is btw.) Ki blast + Square + X buttons (teleport around player, from the other side of the map etc.) Instant Transmission literally had no point (sometimes). RB2 also did it wrong, where game was freezing time when doing a Heavy attack. People abused the L1 + L2 (super-flying-up) and X buttons to flying behing other players when time in game froze. They must make sure the game does not have bugs like this, or just simply fix them later on, don't abandon the game like RB2 was... Another part to take a note is RB/RB2 movement was so slow & sluggish. Budokai Tenkaichi character movement was faster. Another thing.... You are able to move at the same time in all directions in BT3 game (for example up & right). In Raging Blast, you are allowed to move only one direction at the time... All that leads to BT3 movement being fluent, better and that should be reimplemented in Sparking! Zero but... some things should come down from RB games. Buttons layout. R1 is better than circle to guard. D-pad down is better than L2 + circle to charge KI up. R2 + Triangle/Circle/Square/X is better than L2 + up/down/left/right to transform Right analog stick in cross-path (Up/Down/Left/Right) is better than L2 + up/down + triangle/circle etc. to perform a Super-Attack. It's confusing. Pressing R3 is better to perform Ultimate Attack than what Budokai Tenkaichi 3 did. So, honeslty... they should give us an option to remap the keys, not force us to use a specific key mapping. edit:// Look at Vegeta SSJ3 at 19:28 (he's gluing to the ground after his super-attack)
Great job as always, I liked this one just for the movie since it was one of the few pieces of media drip fed to us during the great dragon ball drought. Good job with your video
The only games where I recall him being one-armed where legacy of goku 2 and sagas, which were developed in America, which of course follows different ratings guidelines, so you're probably right.
The Kai cast is the Funimation cast, just with a few choice people recast due to trying to get more accurate voice work, scheduling, not wanting to return, etc.
Well to be fair - Linda Young (Frieza's OG actor) was replaced by Chris Ayres because she couldn't keep up with Frieza's more accurate manga dialogue. I think Stephanie Nadolny either had beef with some actors, or wasn't invited back as Gohan (interview on Geekdom101's RU-vid). I also think 18's original actor had moved away for while
My favorite Dragon Ball Z Game of all time! I played this so much on the PS3, I hated the freezing loading screen bug though, lost so much rank to people from that bug lol, what great memories though! I used to lock people into combos that they could never get out of, what good times it was. You actually felt like one of the characters when you really got into the combos and blasted music for this game. I miss the multiplayer so much! One thing is for sure, time flies, and these memories will never be the same. Grateful I lived through the 90's onward! What a time to have lived!
Played through all the budokai tenkaichis and raging blasts via emulator, getting ready for that BT4 hype, but Holy shit these classic Z games are incredible, absolute gems and makes me appreciate my childhood even more
2:02 😂😂😂 one of the main reasons why I chose to buy Raging Blast 1 over 2 was precisely because of RB2 art style, I don't like it one bit that they look like plastic toys
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I’m pretty sure when you get the 7 dragon balls, you get Shenron, then Porunga, then Shenron and then Porunga again. They take turns lol Also disagree with Raging Blast being the de-evolution of the BT series. Both games, in my opinion, have their own fair share of flaws and big ones at that. That’s why I hope that BT4 will be an amalgamation of BT and RB. Like the mechanic when you roll and dash back at your opponent after getting knocked back, I wish BT3 had that mechanic. But I wish RB2 had the mechanic of, after you and your opponent dodge each other a couple times, it goes into a sequence where either player must press a button on screen fast enough. In RB, it’s an endless dodge fest and I feel like there has to be a sequence to break that lol. The first Raging Blast has such an amazing menu and character select. I never understood why in RB2 or BT3, you never got a preview of what costume you’re picking where as the first RB game, you can see from the very moment which costume is costume 2, 3 and so on.
Honestly I feel these games were just meh. This was also around the time I got burnt out on Dragon Ball games and it kinda felt like none of them were any fun after Burst Limit and even so Burst Limit feeling as rushed as it, admittedly, was, kinda soured my taste in them for years to come. And it felt like the only time Dragon Ball games intrigued me after that was with Xenoverse and FighterZ. And that was the semi new story that Xenoverse gave off and FighterZ focusing on being an actual fighting game
There is 2 more hints on gt, the 17 coat as a skin, and a nod on frieza's bio where they talk about an elisode kf gt, it is clear that they wanted to gt stuff on third game, but sadly never happened
Oh the anime images are a goldmine of uncomfortableness My favorite is Vegeta standing behind Dodoria with an evil smile while spreading his arms The image is titled “Terrified Dodoria”
DBZ Raging Blast 2 will always be one of my favourite DBZ games to play, mainly because of the gameplay factor approach, DBZ Raging Blast 2 it's the best representation of Modern DBZ games that all the current DBZ games should be like in my opinion... 🤷🏻♂️☯️✌️
heres the quick version: raging blast 2 improved on raging blast 1 in every single way possible except for the lack of a proper story mode. gameplay was more fluid, graphics were better, massive character roster.
Played through all the budokai tenkaichis and raging blasts via emulator, getting ready for that BT4 hype, but Holy shit these classic Z games are incredible, absolute gems and makes me appreciate my childhood even more
@@Rednos444You’ve gotta use a PC for emulators but PCSX2 is a PS2 emulator you can use for the Budokai Tenkaichi games and for the Raging Blasts you can use RPCS3, a PS3 emulator, pretty much the easiest one to use.
Er... The Kai cast is still Funi. But yeah... New Gohan isn't bad, just a little jarring initially. ... _Especially_ when you're used to Stephanie Nadolny's Bobby Hill-sounding ass🤣
Great video, okay game. Really wish Spike basically just kept remastering Tenkaichi 3, until Super came out then release Tenkaichi 4 with DLC packs for new characters and story stages as the anime/manga happened.
I got this game before I had played Raging Blast 1 so I have some nostalgia for it, but most especially for Battle of Omega, the games opening song. To this day, I still love the song and think it is the second best DBZ game song after Ore wa Tokoton Tomaranai!!, the opening song for Budokai 3. I did think it was cool that you could play as Android 14, 15, Dore, Neiz, Tarble and Hatchiyack who caught my eye when I saw the game cover for the first time. Choosing the attacks a character has was also a really cool addition. Allowed for more customisation and to create different versions of the same character from different parts of the series.
I personally like how the characters look. And in my opinion this game has the best super moves in any dragon ball game. And the counter attacks are awesome.
22:13 - I was thinking about it for what are they going to do with it in Sparking! Zero... It would be so cool if our character (only while flying) would change his position in Y axis, so always facing the opponent. That would give us freedom in fighting. But it's hard to implement and most likely will not happen (what if you want to move up/down etc. and your character is "laying" on its back in the air). Some other decisions will have to be made. Not sure what really.
7:23 - I mean I find the Gamecube to be the superior console but to each their own XD 12:06 - Oh lovely, echo fighters filling up the roster. I get it's more of a budget cost cutting tactic but at that point they might as well just be alternate skins.......
this is one of the few games that actually have cool transformations like the anime and have characters that you don’t ever see anywhere anymore. Tarble, Hachiack ssj 3 broly and Vegeta? This one is one of my all time favorite games .
I hate how slow you move in Raging Blast 2 like Budokai Tenkaichi 3 let you actually fly instead of slowly hovering forwards It feels clunky. Heck you can just lightly push the stick forward to move slow but Raging Blast nah constantly slow.
Lol I said the same over a decade ago, I had more fun with raging blast 1 than 2. Like....yeah They greatly improved the gameplay and added more characters...but that was literally it, everything else was worse.
Idc this my favorite. People didn’t like rb2 cuz of lack of story mode. Bt3 is cool but the graphics are garbage & bt3 music is a down grade from bt2 . Whereas imo rb2 still is the best graphic wise imo & it has great bgm
I wish there was a 3rd installment because for me raging blast was my childhood and I loved using hatchiyack, broly’s normal and ssj3 plus the models sold it I think they did that shiny ting because sometimes in super they’d shine weirdly as for that original story they did that in ultimate tenkaichi but….we won’t discuss that game ever the only good thing that came out of that one was out custom saiyan
