Remembering The Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi Games 

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BT3 is one of the only games I’ve purchased multiple times lol The first time, my cousin broke the disc. The second time, I let a friend borrow it but then according to them I “never lent them” a game. The third time, it cost me $80 and that one will never leave me lmao

One thing I like about Tenkaichi 2’s story over 3 is that 2 goes over a lot of smaller things (for example 3 would go straight from Raditz to Nappa, but 2 would have you play Piccolo’s, Tien’s, Krillin’s, etc training in between). Plus the z items, level system, and flying around thing of course

These games were my introduction to the Dragon Ball rabbit hole back in the early 2000s.

Tenkaichi 3 is one of my most played games of all-time as a kid. So much nostalgia

So who here is watching this because Budokai Tenkaichi 4 was announced?

I played BT2 so much as a kid, I could confidently place bets with neighborhood kids and play against the computer on the highest difficulty with ease. I was a complete menace in that game. BT2 will always hold a special place in my heart.

So glad you brought up the music of Tenkaichi 2; so many people talking about these games completely skip over the music, which is the best I've heard in any DBZ game. Literally every single track in this game is a banger

FINALLY I found someone who also considers BT2 their favorite! I always loved 3 but 2 wins my heart for the story mode

The best dbz game series ever made to this day. The rosters man, too good

Dude you have the copy with the bonus disc!! That’s sick!! I had a bonus disc edition as a kid I got used at gamestop for 30$, lost it, then bought it again when I was older for 60$, sold it, bought it again for 90$ before college, then sold it. I swear I am having 3 degrees of seller’s remorse rn!

Tenkaichi 2 actually has a what if as well. You have to beat Raditz with Piccolo and it creates a whole new what if story

Tenkaichi 2 was the first Tenkaichi game I played. Beforehand I only played the Budokai games so when I first played T2, it absolutely blew my mind away. It was literally what I wanted in a DB game.

who's here after the budokai tenkaichi 4 reveal?

I wish they'd remastered the Budokai Tenkaichi franchise. (Minus Ultimate Tenkaichi) Edit: i grew up with Dbz: Bt3. And it still holds up as one of the greatest dbz games.

DBZ games peaked here, we will never have quality like this ever again. I miss Spike and Atari 😭

They just showed a teaser for 4

Shoutout to anyone who got Budokai Tenkaichi on Wii. We are all very special/strange people.

THEY ARE MAKING A NEW ONE

Bt2 &3 are still to this day the best executions of a DBZ fighting game. Story mode was good, movement system spot on and combat deep. God I remember getting into teleport battles with my brother that lasted what felt like a minute and we couldn’t land hits on each other. If it had one flaw is was the joy stick rotation movement you had to do, god wore through so many pads on the ps2 controllers. Few times my hands would start bleeding while playing against my bro during a beam struggle. Lol

One little thing i like in the BT games well to me BT2 is the one i played a lot is when characters get to their 2nd to the last health bar, their stance changes to looking injured like vegeta clutching on his arm. Its really good at showing a desperate battle vibe especially when you finish a fight with little health left almost no other game does this. Plus getting hit by a special attack also destroys some clothing just adds more to the vibe. And yeah the levels showing up during the pre story battle screen kinda adds some intimidation plus the fact that "unwinnable" battles are actually winnable and unlock special story events just motivates you to push your skills to the limit.

Who's here after budokai tenkaichi 4 was just released?

I’m here after 4 just got announced still feels like a fever dream.

I prefer BT2 overall. Playing as Devilman is neat in BT3, but doesn't make the game for me. I prefer the gameplay from 2 and the story mode had more to chew with unlockable story bits and What Ifs

Get ready for this video to blow up thanks to BT4’s announcement today

Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi 4 just announced!!!🔥

Good job RU-vid algorithm! Tenkaichi is back!

DBZ BT3 is my favorite out of those. ! I have it on Steam as a PS2 Rom & i STILL love it. !

I've already written this comment in another video, but whatever. The Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi series is not a continuation of the Budokai series, but a completely separate one. They don't share the same developers (the "Budokai" games were developed by Dimps and the "Budokai Tenkaichi" games were developed by Spike) and the name "Budokai Tenkaichi" was probably chosen to capitalize on the Budokai fans in the west, since these games are named DBZ Sparking! (Tenkaichi), Sparking! Neo (Tenkaichi 2) and Sparking! Meteor (Tenkaichi 3) in Japan while the Budokai games are simply named Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z 2 and Dragon Ball Z 3 in Japan.

Oh man this hits hard! I need to start retro collecting again, because I miss these games! I remember getting so deep into the DBZ and Naruto fighting games, I was practically undeafted by my friends!

Can't wait till he plays the NEW ONE!!!!!!!!

They just announced Budokai Tenkaichi 4!!!

I used to make mock 5vs5 CPU battles of DBZ dream teams I imagined and would watch to see who would win or see if I can 1vs5 the CPU using a weaker character lol Great memories with the Tenkaichi 1-3 series.

Oh hell yeah dude I love this kind of content. I like that you went through the booklets in the cases

Every one of these Tenkaichi retrospectives neglects to talk about anything gameplay related, I assume that's because they're meant to be casual retrospectives, which is fine, but it's crazy to me that no one talks about the gameplay of these games. The reason why T2 feels so much better than the first is *because* of the mechanics, the whole combo system was reworked, dashes were improved with more control, sliding speed was increased, cancels were improved, you can't say "the mechanics aren't the biggest thing, but the feel" because the latter is a direct result of the former Also, I cannot for the life of me call the Raging Blast part of the Tenkaichi series. Tenkaichi always emphasized movement options to the point where there's a damage increase if you attack the opponent from behind. Positioning always has been essential in those games, Raging Blast completely focussed on combos and offense instead. In RB2, your speed is abhorrent, you literally can't steer your flight while ascending/descending, there is no positioning to be considered here, you either combo or you defend. (Also Tenkaichi 2s cancels are 10x better than RB2 cancels fight me)

Honestly I prefer BT3’s story to BT2’s. I feel like BT2’s is a proof of concept that’s kind of pointless-you just fly around, land in places and there’s a tiny area to move around in and one NPC. Just a bunch of unnecessary load screens and set pieces that don’t really add anything. Whereas, BT3 just cuts to the chase and has dynamic dialogue in battles which actually feels really nice.

The huge rosters in these games got slightly less impressive once you realized about half of the characters had the same two-ability moveset: Generic Physical Flurry and Generic Ki Blast Volley. They were basically skins at that point.

Great video, so much nostalgia! Tenkaichi 2 was my favorite as well. I remember back in the day we had dial up internet so I didn’t have the privilege of RU-vid or all the streaming services offered now. I had 0 idea DBZ had all these movies aside from the original episodes. I was over the moon when I witnessed the story through the game. Immediately I made it my goal to watch all the movies and i was just one happy kid that I was able to get more of DBZ.

Matty Tenakaichi 2 was my jam aswell bro. Such an incredible experience to have had during my childhood, now im 26 and still think of these games.

BT3 is one of the most underrated games of all times. It had an immense roster with pretty much every character from DBZ, DB and GT as well as the movies and what ifs/specials. Additionally, the story mode was insanely good, to the point where I'm not sure if we have had a better DB story mode since. I found myself drawing out fights to get the interactive buttons to trigger all of the cutscenes and transitions because of how amazing they were.

The only funny thing about BT3 is that Gohan was included on the box cover in certain countries whether is PS2 or Wii

I love learning about dragon ball games, especially the more obscure portable ones. Keep the great videos coming.

Man I love your videos...it's very personal and feels extremely genuine. Subbed

Tenkaichi 2 was actually my introduction to DBZ as a whole, never touched story mode because I played it at a friend's place and I thought Killian was the main character because I thought his head looked like a dragon ball

BT3 is still my favorite DBZ game. I loved completing the story mode and fighting the cpu on very hard. The game has so much charm for me.

Yesss been waiting for you to make a video on these !!!

BT2 was always my favorite, it's the one i played the most growing up even if i owned both 2 and 3,, the campaign was my go to game

I didn’t have play station as a kid so raging blast was my entry in the series. Such a fun game with a decent roster. I love the what if stories.

My childhood. I never had BT2 but my brother and I spent many hours on BT1 and a countless amount of time on BT3 with the latter being my favorite DBZ game of all time.

Man great memories with my bro playing BT1, that freaking Buu level where you played as vegeta and had to hold him off was the worst! Thanks for bringing those memories back man!

Man you made me go back through memory lane with the raging blast 1 & 2, and I remember going through a good chunk of my childhood summer to get enough coins to get all the secret scenarios in the game I wish they brought something like that back into future games

Finally, someone who agrees that liked budokai tenkaichi 2 better than 3

Spoke that shit into existence 💀

BT3 is one of my favorite games ever. I remember taking my PS2 on vacation back home in Jamaica and me and my friends held tournaments EVERYDAY

Honestly, my favorite was raging blast 2, but thats because it was fast paced and refined version of this. You must love that rb2 used bt2's music

BT2 is actually how I know the DBZ story. I've seen bits and pieces such as the movies and TFS but BT2 is how I best know the story. Credit to the game, it covers a hell of a lot of content.

Budokai Tenkaichi 2 has INCREDIBLE music. Easily my favorite DBZ game , next to Xenoverse 2. Utter nostalgia. Thanks for making this great video!

Absolutely killing it man, its seems we had the same exact childhood. When you talked about the big tv privilege i was like this guys gets it

Def earned a sub from me with this content I love the nostalgia I get from seeing these games thank you for this man I can’t wait for Tenkaichi 4

Who came after BT4 announcement?

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I remember combining items like crazy in BT2 trying to find combos that would unlock characters or stages. I wasn’t yet at the stage of looking things up for my games and thats a special part of that game I remember fondly

Recently bought a copy of 3, played it for the first time, and beat it. Now I’m playing through 1 (sucked at it, as a kid, just recently bought a new copy lol). Loving the series, now that I’ve actually learned the controls, like I should’ve all those years ago lol. Great series, and great video, man.

Tenkaichi 2 was amazing even in gameplay better then 3. it gave u more choices to move and fight more control and better speed

During one summer, I think it was 2008, me and my cousin went on a trip to visit and stay with my Grandma in Idaho. She really enjoyed going to thrift stores and took us one day and she bought me a PS2 and BT1 (I was sort of barely getting into DBZ). I played it with my cousin constantly, to the point where my grandma had to get us to stop playing so we could do literally anything else lol. After a while I found these other two and I definitely agree that BT2 is my favorite, it just was as good as a DBZ could get imo. Recently I replayed BT1 on my PC and ho boy yeah it's definitely the start of the series lol. It was kinda frustrating at points 🤣.

I loved Tenkaichi 2 because of the story mode and Tenkaichi 3 as an overall game was great. Tenkaichi 1 dropped the ball by not having in game transformations but this and the Budokai series made my childhood and Budokai 1 is what got me into Dragon Ball

I remember making BT3 Tournaments in my house during the weekends, me and my brothers would all call our friends(Keep in mind we were 10-7 years apart) so it would be people of every age, we would ban characters like SSJ4 Gogeta or Kid Buu, shit was amazing

Raging Blast 2 for me

I got huge into ultimate Tenkaichi back in the day. Got top 10 on the ranked leaderboard back in the day. Gets a lot of flack but I had tons of fun with it

I'm loving this retro rebound series/channel you got going on. 😄, Raging Blast was my jam back in the day lol don't think it's looked on too favourably now though lol.

Tenkaichi 1's intro is pure perfection and It never gets old I've watched it so many times✌✌❤❤

BT4 is Dropping🎉🎉🎉🎉

In the debate of 2 vs 3, if you want to get a full out RPG story play-through of the game, then 2 is the winner. If you want a “quick” paced story with all the fights and a big list of characters, then 3 is the game you want.

The Dragonball Budokai series overall was the highlight of my childhood. From the The PS2 - PS3 playing these games were endless entertainment!

I have incredible nostalgia for the RB games. My brother and I bought the first one in the summer of 2010 when the Kai remaster was on Nicktoons Network. We got back into the series because of it (we watched a little DBZ when we were kids), and the game was a great time. I hold lots of memories from it. I echo Matty a lot concerning UT. I wasted a whole weekend when it first came out to beat the story. I didn’t even bother with the Hero Mode because of the gameplay. The anime cutscenes were great though.

When they replaced the whole sound track for RB2 with BT2 sound track due to plagiarism on the composers part, made me feel sad. I went looking for an original release of the game and found one after a while. Im surprised its not talked about more

BT2 is so underrated. Best soundtrack, imo better combat and gameplay.

BT2 was my favorite too! I remember having so much fun playing it. I had it on the Wii and it’s what really made me get into the dragon ball z story bc I was watching Z Kai on nicktoons at the time

Been waiting for this one to come out 😤

Soooo!!!.....

Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 my favorite one

Awesome video! I love Dragon Ball Z that’s my favorite anime!

I remember this was around the time of the internet blow up and hyping up and waiting for each at GameStop on release days. 2 was always my favorite. 1 did blow my mind the first time.

I forget what it's called, but there was a dope Naruto game on the GameCube, it was 3D free movement. Gain exp to unlock skills and moves, buy equipment, use 9 tails Chakra mode 👀 beast game

They r back

bro when you got to use your parents big tv that hit me right in the feels, i had the same up bringing haha

Raging Blast 1 feeling clunky seems to be a pretty common complaint. Most people prefer RB2. Pointing it out since you weren't able to play it

I also prefer Tenkaichi 2 to Tenkaichi 3. Tenkaichi 2 combat just feels better to play for some reason. And the soundtrack is a lot better.

BT3 is my all time favorite fighting game period. Yeah, BT2 had a better story...but BT3 refined the entire gameplay to perfection. Once you finish the story, most of my time was spent in 5v5 battles on the hardest difficulty or playing against friends, so I can't hold the story mode against BT3 when everything else is just so much better than 2. I really do wish I could own it on disc again...but I can't justify the price of it now. So I just use an ISO on my soft modded PS2 to play it.

Subbed as soon as I heard “Freiza…boo” lol touched my Saiyan pride

playing video games on the big screen when the parents were not home was the ultimate forbidden fruit. Id actually get in trouble if I didnt have my stuff moved back into my room before they got home lol

This aged poorly after the Budokai Tenkaichi 4 trailer debuted

When it comes to transformations BT2 AI was smarter... It knew when it was best time transform so it can start pushing you in battle... Idk what happened in BT3 AI is dumb with transformations, AI won't transform until there one health bar left on their end, by then the push is too late, I wish the AI they used was in 2 was in 3

We have a lot of the same love for the same game series bro it’s like if we met as younger kids we’d be best friends today haha same nostalgic feelings for these games!

This was one of my favorite series growing up and BT2 MIGHT still be my favorite 3d fighter

BT4 OTW BAYBEE LETS GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Not retro anymore bt4 yessir

My main introduction to DBZ games was Budokai 2 which is probably not the best jumping on point with the weird direction the story mode took I still loved it but Budokai Tenkaichi 1 was my first main exposure to the wider DBZ universe seeing all these movie characters my mind was blown I couldn't believe it and it was the first time I discovered Frieza had different forms I had seen DBZ on Toonami in the mid 2000's and it was in the middle of Goku and Frieza fighting on Namek no idea what was going on but it was very engrossing so Budokai Tenkaichi 1 has a special place for me but it has not aged as well as 2 or 3

I played Raging Blast 2 recently and unlocked Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta & Super Saiyan 3 Broly. Me and the homie was trippin. Salute to you ~ just found your channel. -LORD PENTUS

I remember running back and forth between my bedroom and the family computer trying to figure out what items to fuse to unlock all the characters in Tenkaichi 2. 3 is still my favorite but great memories all around.