how about every Tekken to stay with the fighting game theme if you want to spent some years of your live every dragon quest game every dark souls game? every darksiders?
The nostalgia i get from the tenkaichi games is immeasurable, truly one of the greatest fighting game series to date i really wish they would make another one
i dont want a bt3 game today. Just imagine -Delay netcode -half the roster is DLC -way less game modes because they're not marketable -pre-order exclusive Z items and shit like that -maybe even microtransactions nah bro, leave these legendary games as they are
Don't forget about Super 17 and now each andoird has a anime accurate motion like gero and 20 sticking there hands out and Super 17 allowing the attacks to hit his body directly
funfact, the first tenkaichi game was repurposing music from previous budokai games. because the original japanese DBZ tenkaichi games (named Sparking, Sparking neo and Sparking meteor) are all using anime music, so the english version had to come up with something else to change that, they just reuposed budokai OST for the first one, but they made original music for BT2 and BT3, which is pretty cool
And I'm so glad they did. The original OSTs for the English versions of BT2 and BT3 are SO good! I much prefer original compositions than reusing old music.
@@GigaMan91 same, back when i find out about this i was angry since i love the anime music and wanted to listen to it while playing the game. but nowdays i came to appreciate how great and unique the BT2/3 tracks are, and of course they are really nostalgic
Honestly i've always prefered the original Tenkaichi OST over the other two but i like some of the songs from Tenkaichi 2 that was reused in Raging Blast 2
Thats gunna steal the show if they add Dbs characters as Dlc to the Remasted Version but Realistically even if there aren't any changes besides graphics every single Dbz fan will get hyped x10
You forgot to mention the unique way you unlock characters in tenkaichi 2. You'd have to fuse 2 or more items you got from the story mode, which was imho the most entertaining feature in the game.
I remember mixing random shit to get Great Ape Bardock and Nappa lol holy hell I miss BT2 and 3 so so so much , I love xenoverse but nothing will ever hit in the way that the tenkaichi games did
I remember stumbling upon this by accident and getting Buff Roshi somehow. I spent hours unlocking shit and realized I could now play as every character.
One thing that wasn't mentioned but I appreciated in these games is the sequels started replacing generic moves with character specific ones. I remember in T1 even some main character would have "Full Power Energy Blast" or something that was a generic beam attack with no dialogue. Sequels added new moves and even added some voice lines for characters to call out attack names
yea, and Cell transforming in Tenkaichi 2 was just a regular power up, in Tenkaichi 3 you get to see him looking and actually absorbing the Androids, stuff like that makes the game experience much better
YES! Thats kind of what got me back then too. Tenkaichi 1 was all I ever had, so I played it to my heart's content and, well, I think I kinda screwed myself since I think Tenkaichi 2 and 3 were out by then, but oh well, semantics lol. Still, it was fun, but the movesets got a bit too generic for a lot of them haha
@@TheReZisTLust yeah. When they added Partner/Mentor custimization it thankfully helped with it, but still not as good as actual character specific moves. I still like having Bardock learn a combo of Goku and Raditz moves or Zarbon Freeza moves
@@bluecanine3374 yea but its either that or the stupid energy volley and sometimes the character can have a certain special you liked. For instanced I prefer the last saibamen over the other variants
One thing I liked from this series was a visual thing for Super Saiyan. When first unlocked by Goku, it's a fluffy bleached blonde. When Goku masters it, it looks more golden and sharper.
I almost mentioned this, not sure why I didn't. It's super cool looking at the model viewer and seeing that his Suwpr Saiyan 1 hair has no outlines if you're using his early DBZ outfit.
@@johnboona4048 I think he's referring to in Tenkaichi 2 where Goku's character model only has the less detailed hair if you use Costume 6 (the half destroyed blue gi from near the climax of his fight with Freeza).
Day/Evening/Night variations is a thing I wish more DBZ games would do with their maps. Tied to this, the developers showed great attention to detail with Great Ape transformations because characters like Raditz and Kid Goku need to look at the moon in a night time map while Vegeta and Turles can transform anywhere by creating artificial moonlight.
@@broken120z Is basically like Tekken, only with beam struggle and instant transmission techniques. Tenkaichi 3 is by far the game that it looks exactly like the series.
A combination of Tenkaichi 3 with Tenkaichi's 2 roaming story mode would be insane, specially with Dragon Ball Super's content, ugh a man can only dream.
Aww, you missed a feature in BT3: Disc Fusion. Instead of net battle, the Ps2 version let you insert the BT1 or BT2 disc to unlock some modes from those games.
@@mustafaLY2631 Yes way!! he also forgot to mention red potara earrings. you can use a few of them in the story fights but the only way to unlock them is to put the passwords in. They bring crazy stats
remember playing all these with my brother but when 3 came out he became god tier with frieza saga goku just so he could give me playing future gohan a decent fight. We spent hours if not days just fighting eachother with those characters win for win loss for loss and those are some of my best memories i've ever had with him.
I played most of the dbz games since budokai 1 but I feel like I mastered tenkaichi in a way like I never did any fighting game. I learned all the tech in the 2nd one and used to plsy my brother all dsy
@@thamostgangsta12 did you every have those moments where friends would come around your house and you'd fight each other and then you'd swap to your best character and they wouldn't be able to touch you haha
Same i remember fighting my older brother on this all the time as a kid those were great times then xenoverse came out n we was like wtf did this game turn into n never touched it again tenkaichi will forever be goated
Dude! This is my childhood - so many memories - I even made all my friends while playing this game! I know a lot of people go crazy for Tenkaichi 3 but I personally loved Tenkaichi 2. I wish I could give you 1 million likes for this! Mad respect my man!
To this day i still think Tenkaichi 2 was the better sequel while Tenkaichi 3 was the better game. The jump from Tenkaichi 1 to Tenkaichi 2 was insane.
Man this video brings me back. I remember being in my early teens playing tenkaichi 3 for an insane amount of hours. I remember fulling beating the mission 100 mode if that shows just how long I played that game
If you have maxed build of SS4 Goku and Vegeta and fusion during the battle instead of starting with SS4 Gogeta, you could have the most health bars in the game I think, and your power would be just unfair.
I grew up with the Tenkaichi games and I’ll always recommend anybody to play 3. These games mean a lot to me as they’re really what got me into Dragon Ball as well as a group of games that me and my family would play together. Thank you for covering these, can’t wait for part 2
I love how in Tenk 2, you can upgrade a character’s speed!! I would do that to Burter who already had quick animations, and that turned him into an unstoppable force with super rapid melee attacks. So cool, wish they had kept that in 3!
Broly was a great counter to burter or any character that uses close quarters spam attacks. Brolys clothesline attack broke through the opponents attacks everytime
Mid match transformations were one of my favorite parts of 2 and 3. Me and my friends had a rule were we always had to start as the character's base form and work our way up throughout the match. Our fights felt super dramatic that way.
That was fast lol. Thanks for listening to my recommendation, these games to me are definitely the magnum opus of Dragonball games and I don't think there's a gameplay formula that fits Dragonball more. It's a shame they stopped using it because they where so close to perfecting it with the Raging Blast games. Can't wait till part 2 when you start talking about Raging Blast 1 & 2 and Tenkaichi Tag Team as they are both underrated in their own right. I've probably spent 100s of hours play TTT on my phone, especially with the fantastic mods people made for it.
Im proud to say im a working ps2 copy of Tenkaichi 3 but (but still have my saved data for BT1 & BT2) I really dont understand why they wont remaster them. Im sure they know theirs a big market for it. I was sold on Xenoverse being Tenkaichi-like and i was massively let down. Xenoverse played like crap compared to Tenkaichi 3 and i havent touched any Dragon Ball Z game (i brought Fighter Z but dont play it) But i stand by Tenkaichi 3 as the best DBZ game they have ever released. Followed by Budokai 3 as a close 2nd.
tenkaichi 3 is my nostalgia. When i was very little, i used to play countless duels with my cousin. I would be at his house and forget about time and figureed everything and mastered almost all. Im 18 now and its been 10 years since the first day i bought ps2 and this game with me, still in great condition. Keep up with these videos, much love.
Even though Tenkaichi 3 was better in almost every way, I still played Tenkaichi 2 more because of the massive story mode, and the fact that characters could level up from playing story (I love grindy games).
The scenarios behind many of the Ultimate Battle Z towers were nice too, such as Saiyan Blood, Giants, Transformation, etc. As an experience, I'd also say Tenkaichi 2 was more rewarding in unlocking characters with things such as long story progression or Z Item Fusion, whereas the majority of characters are already unlocked at the start of the game in BT3.
Yeah same here. As someone who enjoys story mode in games, Tenkaichi 2 is so much more satisfying than 3's story mode. Like I gotta disagree with Niosai that Tenkaichi 3 had the best story mode because sure there was cut ins and animation cutscenes but the story was severely lacking. It skips so many battles from each saga that I was disappointed at how quickly I finished the story mode of that game. The Cell Saga especially was insane at the amount of fights it skips over.
Yeah same here. As someone who enjoys story mode in games, Tenkaichi 2 is so much more satisfying than 3's story mode. Like I gotta disagree with Niosai that Tenkaichi 3 had the best story mode because sure there was cut ins and animation cutscenes but the story was severely lacking. It skips so many battles from each saga that I was disappointed at how quickly I finished the story mode of that game. The Cell Saga especially was insane at the amount of fights it skips over.
I honestly preferred BT2 to BT3. So much love was put into the soundtrack (especially, Lost Courage) that it totally made the game for me. BT3's music felt a little blander and generic to me, which sometimes made the story mode feel like a real slog even when there were much cooler moments than BT2.
Yeah I think the uploader is just a boomer who struggles to put his two brain cells to good use if he thinks a simple menu change makes bt3's story mode,which in itself just a summary of events ,better then the fully fledged campaign of bt2. Like all you do in bt3 is fight a while and press r3 for a boring cutscene.
As a kid I loved BT2's OST way more than BT3 and thought BT3 was bland but now I actually value them mostly the same. There's a lot of tracks in BT3 I didn't really appreciate before but that being said I'd probably still put BT2's OST just a bit higher.
Bt2 is superior its no debate, the only reason i know for why people liked bt3 was the character roster but most characters in that game would hardly get used.
I started off with the original Budokai back in 2002 and as much as I love that series, the Tenkaichi series just holds so much more nostalgia for me, I replayed Tenkaichi 3 the other day and ended up playing it longer than I expected
These videos are fantastic. A pure nostalgia trip for me. I grew up playing nearly all of the dragon ball games that came to the west with a huge emphasis on the Budokai and Tenkaichi series as well as Legacy of Goku. There's not a lot of videos covering these series on TH-cam so it's nice to see someone going through them once again, thank you!
A very nice overview of these games. I personally would've liked more focus on the gameplay itself, but I'm sure that would've been very ambitious to do. Like for example how BT3 removed the whole Move Cancelling system the first 2 had, or how the entire combo system from BT1 changed in BT2, stuff like that. Doesn't even need to go too much in-depth. Still, content-wise this has been a great showcase
It was a miss to ignore the gameplay changes from 1 to 2. BT2 was a colossal leap over the first. Losing the feints/guard-cancels in 3 was a backwards move.
@@EternalDahaka so was taking out cancels, the way you could chain together strings with cancels, then end a combo with the medium charged smash into Blast 2 is always so satisfying to do
Would love to play Tenkaichi 3, but too bad it's kinda rare these days. Understandable given that it's pretty much one of the biggest fan-service DB games ever. Pretty sure it held the #2 spot for largest playable roster in a video game too for awhile.
I have never seem more satisfying beams than the ones in these games. Perfect size, so bright they darken the whole screen, excellent lighting effects in general. These games spoiled me so much I couldn't play another DBZ game until xenoverse and I still find most of those beams lacking.
One thing I love from Tenkaichi games is how damn colorful the games are, so many shiny effects when exchanging punches and kicks. And the environment is so enjoyable when you completely destroy it in the middle of the battle. Let's not even get started on the soundtrack. It's DRAGON BALL at it's finest.
The battle 100 in BT3 from the disc fusion has you battle literally 100 characters in a row in a single map with a single character. You heal 1 health bar for every character beaten. The rewards weren't really worth the 2 hour grind tho.
I've bumped into your videos yesterday and now you present us with the Tenkaichi series part 1. I feel kinda happy to have met this channel bc I'm kinda a franchise/series freak and it's so nice to see someone else do what I do, playing every game from a franchise/series and review every aspect of it, covering even small details like Chi-chi's commentaries. Keep this up!
Something that wasn't mentioned, is that Ki charge speed is character and transformation-dependant. For example, SSJ3 Goku's Ki charges the slowest of all characters afaik, same for the (Super)Super Saiyan transformations for Vegeta and Trunks. Additionally, charging underwater is also slower. Another relevant piece to Ki charging is that Androids cannot charge Ki(unless it's full, then you can charge for Full Burst) but rather it passively goes up quickly. I don't know how later games handled it, but I think it's a nice mechanic that gives characters a more tangible way to feel how they handle their power
In BT3 Story mode, you could make your own alternate ending by finishing the story with a different character you're playing that wasn't supposed win, finishing off the opponent early on then intended, or winning without the player from transforming or the opponent.
Some interesting points you missed here concerning a gameplay mechanic. So you have these rush type moves that lock onto a character, in tenkaichi you can't adjust the trajectory you move so you get hit by beam attacks but in the later games you can move while using it which adds some extra strategy. You can even slightly adjust your beams when firing which ar some neat aspects that were added.
Thanks for the member berries 🤙🏾 high school me went in on this game, battle damage was SUCH a game changer! We had hyper dimension for a time too and to get budakai 2 later on in life was a solid upgrade. Between this and soul caliber 🔥🔥
The fighting mechanics were totally BOSS in this game 4 way blocks against charged attacks during combos was epic to me!! It's trim down is why I didn't give BT3 a longer run although BT3's roster was super impressive. Budokai Tenkaichi 2 started the fusion mechanic during tag battles as well I don't think you ran through that.
The upgrade from Tenkaichi 1 to 2 is bonkers. 2's story mode felt like the longest of the three, and the combat fun enough to make mock team battles in versus CPU. Tenkaichi 3's roster is isane too and making teams of CPU versus eachother in 3 with different builds was so entertaining to me as a kid.
DBZBT3 is my absolute favorite Dragonball game and at the very least in my top 10 games of all time. I know everyone always says it but it's the truth this game truly makes you feel like you're playing the anime loosing against a tough opponent or anhiliating someone as one of the toughest around
I played these tenkaichi games SO MUCH, that i can remember pressing the buttons in the exact order needed when i watch the combos. It's insane. Lol these games need to be remastered. Or even upgraded beyond that for online play and newer characters. Greatest games in the franchise. Even budokai 3 was an insanely good game.
Huge Tenkaichi 3 fan here, still play it occasionally with my buds today. The thing I absolutely loved about these games is that though that this was in my opinion the peak "arena brawler." This series (especially 3) had things like actual combos, tech, all sorts of things that I picked my brain with for years to learn. I really hope that someday they'll just straight up re-release 3 for the modern day (hopefully with better internet lmao) Thanks for this video
Great retrospective on the games! One thing I wanted to point out that I don't think was mentioned; difference between the tournaments. Obviously, World Tournament has ringouts. Hercule and Cell Games don't so you have to defeat your opponent all the way through. Cell games is also a survival tournament; your health doesn't fully recover between matches so you have to consider that when competing
In 3 you could actually ignore the R3 prompt and try to finish the fight. Certain story missions will have actual alternate endings because of it. If you tough it out you can defeat kid buu as hercule. Or if you don’t use the story finisher on king piccolo his son shows up and chi-chi tags in to fight. It’s insane
Its incredible to see the intense quality in your video, lord knows this'll age well when you've reached 2million subscribers, but personally, i'd reccomend playing every Metal Gear Game, that seems it'd be like a fun & really long video :)
There was also a feature that i loved you didnt mention. Not sure if it was tied to 2's story mode but you could break the enviroment to find dragonballs mid battle! I loved trying to find those.
You could do this in 1 as well in which it was the only way to get Dragon Balls, though I believe the drop rate was limited or best done on a select few maps (I mainly only found them on the Kami's Lookout fights in the Saiyan Arc).
I feel like playing these games as single player caused you to miss my favorite part of 2 and 3. Team battles for multiplayer. You can make teams of up to 5 characters each to fight a friend. And there is even a mode where each player has a limited number of points to spend picking their team members like a sort of draft.
Oh also the soundtrack for Budokai Tenkaichi 2 is SO HYPE. Easily one of the best video game soundtracks. God I'm getting chills just thinking about it 😂
Wow, you really have been playing them all. Awesome job. I've actually been playing BT3 on Wii recently and I didn't even realize you had to hold the prompt to power up the attack so thanks for that.
Love you content man keep it up and as for suggestions i would love naruto games and pre ps2 dbz games also would love your takes on the megaman series as always thanks for the great content.
Dragon ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi was the true evolution of DBZ games. It felt bigger, more dynamic, faster paced, explosive and expansive than the budokai series which felt like another second person fighting game. Tenkaichi 2 was the one played to death literally.
It would be great to see it get more popularity, though it probably wouldn't hit the wider fighting game mainstream compared to something like FighterZ due to the obvious lack in balance with some characters, unless there were major changes made to either general or online mechanics. With that tweak though, it could become an incredibly fun and strategic experience, as shown with the slightly modded version on the channel DBZ League. Sad that, due to the rights to the games essentially being in stasis due to the company behind it now being defunct, we'll most likely never see any remake or re-release.
Probably heard this a lot but play every Naruto Ultimate Ninja / Clash of Ninja / Ultimate Ninja Storm games cuz they all sick. Thanks for the videos man and happy holidays
Sweet. Wish more people would do retrospectives on this series If I could make a suggestion for a single-game video, maybe consider One Piece: Burning Blood. It was developed by the same team who does the Tenkaichi/Raging Blast games, along with the recent slew of Jump fighters. As far as I can tell, this team has been around as a developer within Spike years before they merged with Chunsoft
The tenkaichi 1 intro is godly, that music hits hard af, and its dope animation. Tenkaichi 2 had the best combo inputs and was definitely an improvement on the formula. Tenkaichi 3 back stepped a little on the inputs and the formula but I still cherish the game. Tenkaichi 2 is the best imo
I really appreciate these videos. As a recent Dragon Ball fan, I never quite knew the difference between Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi. Now I see that Budokai is more like a 2D standard fighter while Tenkaichi is a 3D arena fighter. Very cool. Glad to finally understand that difference. Based off of your comments, it seems like Tenkaichi 3 is overall the best of this bunch, but it might be worth it to get Tenkaichi 2 as well for its unique content. Conversely, for Budokai it's basically just Budokai 3 that's overall the best. Does that seem accurate to you?
BT1 is definitely the weakest of this series and it hasn’t aged well, but the foundation was always there and the next 2 games improved dramatically over its predecessor. Fights were faster, combos were expanded greatly, and the roster sizes were ridiculous!
It's biggest selling point was the fact that it was way more open compared to Budokai 3, unfortunately the gameplay was kind of lackluster especially compared to it's sequel but it was still a lot of fun.
@@derekmaullo2865 I agree. The only thing good they had was its gigantic roster, but everything else was pretty meh, specially the story mode. And for the gameplay, you knew how to play with one character and you know how to play the rest (we are talking about 50+ characters)
I can't remember why, but I prefer playing Tenkaichi 2 than 3. If I ever get the chance, maybe I can try them out again and see if it's still the case.
Part 2 will be out soon! What other games do you want to see me play?
Anime snes/nes games?
Guilty Gear series
Pre ps2 dbz games or naruto games or generally nes and snes anime games would love your take on licenced cartoon network or nickelodeon games.
You should play all naruto storm games
how about every Tekken to stay with the fighting game theme
if you want to spent some years of your live every dragon quest game
every dark souls game?
every darksiders?
The nostalgia i get from the tenkaichi games is immeasurable, truly one of the greatest fighting game series to date i really wish they would make another one
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Ultimate Tenkaichi was a thing..... unfortunatley
Raging blast 2
i dont want a bt3 game today. Just imagine
-Delay netcode
-half the roster is DLC
-way less game modes because they're not marketable
-pre-order exclusive Z items and shit like that
-maybe even microtransactions
nah bro, leave these legendary games as they are
@@blazejecar you telling the truth🙏🏽🙏🏽
Androids 19 & 20 can absorb energy attacks just like in the show. I always thought that was a cool addition.
I remember doing that constantly to my brother lol
Always did it with Super 17
Don't forget about Super 17 and now each andoird has a anime accurate motion like gero and 20 sticking there hands out and Super 17 allowing the attacks to hit his body directly
Super 17 used to make me rage so much lmao
Super cool , super annoying to play against lol
funfact, the first tenkaichi game was repurposing music from previous budokai games.
because the original japanese DBZ tenkaichi games (named Sparking, Sparking neo and Sparking meteor) are all using anime music,
so the english version had to come up with something else to change that,
they just reuposed budokai OST for the first one, but they made original music for BT2 and BT3, which is pretty cool
interesting
And I'm so glad they did. The original OSTs for the English versions of BT2 and BT3 are SO good! I much prefer original compositions than reusing old music.
@@GigaMan91 same, back when i find out about this i was angry since i love the anime music and wanted to listen to it while playing the game.
but nowdays i came to appreciate how great and unique the BT2/3 tracks are, and of course they are really nostalgic
Honestly i've always prefered the original Tenkaichi OST over the other two but i like some of the songs from Tenkaichi 2 that was reused in Raging Blast 2
English version or outside of Japan version?
I own a French version of bt2 and the soundtrack is the same as the English version.
I genuinely wish we could get a remaster of budokai tenkaichi 2 or 3 can't even imagine how hype that'd be
I'd play no other fighting game.
@@demetriusprime1505 fr fr especially if there was an online mode 😩
@@slntvrs5 There technically is.
i'd cream
Thats gunna steal the show if they add Dbs characters as Dlc to the Remasted Version but Realistically even if there aren't any changes besides graphics every single Dbz fan will get hyped x10
You forgot to mention the unique way you unlock characters in tenkaichi 2. You'd have to fuse 2 or more items you got from the story mode, which was imho the most entertaining feature in the game.
I remember mixing random shit to get Great Ape Bardock and Nappa lol holy hell I miss BT2 and 3 so so so much , I love xenoverse but nothing will ever hit in the way that the tenkaichi games did
Fr i loved this feature getting metal cooler by fusing “The big gete star” and “ Frieza’s Brother”
I honestly didn't liked that feature at all. Had to wait the grind to play what i wanted from the beginning wasn't this fun to me XD
I remember stumbling upon this by accident and getting Buff Roshi somehow. I spent hours unlocking shit and realized I could now play as every character.
@@sasuke65743 story mode was long as hell. Dont lose your memory card
One thing that wasn't mentioned but I appreciated in these games is the sequels started replacing generic moves with character specific ones. I remember in T1 even some main character would have "Full Power Energy Blast" or something that was a generic beam attack with no dialogue. Sequels added new moves and even added some voice lines for characters to call out attack names
yea, and Cell transforming in Tenkaichi 2 was just a regular power up, in Tenkaichi 3 you get to see him looking and actually absorbing the Androids, stuff like that makes the game experience much better
YES! Thats kind of what got me back then too. Tenkaichi 1 was all I ever had, so I played it to my heart's content and, well, I think I kinda screwed myself since I think Tenkaichi 2 and 3 were out by then, but oh well, semantics lol.
Still, it was fun, but the movesets got a bit too generic for a lot of them haha
Theres tooo many fpeb in xeno too
@@TheReZisTLust yeah. When they added Partner/Mentor custimization it thankfully helped with it, but still not as good as actual character specific moves. I still like having Bardock learn a combo of Goku and Raditz moves or Zarbon Freeza moves
@@bluecanine3374 yea but its either that or the stupid energy volley and sometimes the character can have a certain special you liked. For instanced I prefer the last saibamen over the other variants
One thing I liked from this series was a visual thing for Super Saiyan. When first unlocked by Goku, it's a fluffy bleached blonde. When Goku masters it, it looks more golden and sharper.
I almost mentioned this, not sure why I didn't. It's super cool looking at the model viewer and seeing that his Suwpr Saiyan 1 hair has no outlines if you're using his early DBZ outfit.
Agreed. I do like how it was implemented in BT3 to represent the various stages Goku went through for each saga.
@@Niosai It's Goku Mid's Super Saiyan. It's not an outfit lol
@@Niosai Super Saiyan 1*
@@johnboona4048 I think he's referring to in Tenkaichi 2 where Goku's character model only has the less detailed hair if you use Costume 6 (the half destroyed blue gi from near the climax of his fight with Freeza).
Day/Evening/Night variations is a thing I wish more DBZ games would do with their maps. Tied to this, the developers showed great attention to detail with Great Ape transformations because characters like Raditz and Kid Goku need to look at the moon in a night time map while Vegeta and Turles can transform anywhere by creating artificial moonlight.
Hell yeah! The best DBZ game series of all time!
Budokai Tenkaichi best series, Budokai 3 best game
@@broken120z for me its Budokai 2 or 1 cause it was my First ever DBZ game
@@broken120z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is by far the best DBZ game.
@@flutterboypr6481 nah Budokai 3 better.
@@broken120z Is basically like Tekken, only with beam struggle and instant transmission techniques.
Tenkaichi 3 is by far the game that it looks exactly like the series.
A combination of Tenkaichi 3 with Tenkaichi's 2 roaming story mode would be insane, specially with Dragon Ball Super's content, ugh a man can only dream.
Y E S
If it was rereleased today it'd be filled with dlcs and microtransaction bullcrap tho
This aged well lol
Well what if that's what BT4 does? Man I can't wait for that game to be released.
Aww, you missed a feature in BT3: Disc Fusion. Instead of net battle, the Ps2 version let you insert the BT1 or BT2 disc to unlock some modes from those games.
I remember! I had to barrow those from friends lol
No way!!
@@mustafaLY2631 Yes way!! he also forgot to mention red potara earrings. you can use a few of them in the story fights but the only way to unlock them is to put the passwords in. They bring crazy stats
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Yeah Ik that one
@@aminomar6070 everyone's gangster, until they go up against red potara yajirobe
remember playing all these with my brother but when 3 came out he became god tier with frieza saga goku just so he could give me playing future gohan a decent fight. We spent hours if not days just fighting eachother with those characters win for win loss for loss and those are some of my best memories i've ever had with him.
I played most of the dbz games since budokai 1 but I feel like I mastered tenkaichi in a way like I never did any fighting game. I learned all the tech in the 2nd one and used to plsy my brother all dsy
@@thamostgangsta12 did you every have those moments where friends would come around your house and you'd fight each other and then you'd swap to your best character and they wouldn't be able to touch you haha
Same i remember fighting my older brother on this all the time as a kid those were great times then xenoverse came out n we was like wtf did this game turn into n never touched it again tenkaichi will forever be goated
Still have not played a DB game as good as Tenkaichi 3. They gutted every game after it for online play. Tenkaichi 3 was so polished.
Yeah the engine and the developer's skill itself were better then whatever the hell was going on with raging blast 1 and 2.
Dude! This is my childhood - so many memories - I even made all my friends while playing this game! I know a lot of people go crazy for Tenkaichi 3 but I personally loved Tenkaichi 2. I wish I could give you 1 million likes for this! Mad respect my man!
To this day i still think Tenkaichi 2 was the better sequel while Tenkaichi 3 was the better game.
The jump from Tenkaichi 1 to Tenkaichi 2 was insane.
I'm with you guys. Tenkaichi 2 ftw.
Both were great
I 100% agree with you bro
I made my friends play it... They stopped talking to me for a week.
Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and 3 are still one of my favorite games to play to this day!
Still the best Dragon Ball games
Facts best DBZ games
Yeah tenkaichi 2 for single player content and practicing against AI while bt3 for pvp
Man this video brings me back. I remember being in my early teens playing tenkaichi 3 for an insane amount of hours. I remember fulling beating the mission 100 mode if that shows just how long I played that game
Laughed at "for some reason they took every character and lathered them in grease for this intro" 🤣
I spent countless hours grinding the mission 100 with my broken build on ss4 gogeta Tenkaichi 3 was the best dragon ball game I've ever played
you rembember the build i buyed the game today :) for my wii mini
If you have maxed build of SS4 Goku and Vegeta and fusion during the battle instead of starting with SS4 Gogeta, you could have the most health bars in the game I think, and your power would be just unfair.
I grew up with the Tenkaichi games and I’ll always recommend anybody to play 3. These games mean a lot to me as they’re really what got me into Dragon Ball as well as a group of games that me and my family would play together. Thank you for covering these, can’t wait for part 2
I love how in Tenk 2, you can upgrade a character’s speed!! I would do that to Burter who already had quick animations, and that turned him into an unstoppable force with super rapid melee attacks. So cool, wish they had kept that in 3!
so what you are saying is... burter is the fastest in the universe?
@@MakenaForest guldo can stop time tho
Broly was a great counter to burter or any character that uses close quarters spam attacks. Brolys clothesline attack broke through the opponents attacks everytime
@@kildotgaming close line not clothes😂
@@reallyhimongod 🤣🤣 trying to correct me, and you got it wrong.
My favorite soundtracks from Budokai Tenkaichi 2 were
1. Gateway
2. Lonesome Wild
3. Dark Half
Great tracks! How did Lost Courage not make the list - that song was absolutely iconic
1) Lost courage
2) Dark Half
3) Awake
Mid match transformations were one of my favorite parts of 2 and 3. Me and my friends had a rule were we always had to start as the character's base form and work our way up throughout the match. Our fights felt super dramatic that way.
That was fast lol. Thanks for listening to my recommendation, these games to me are definitely the magnum opus of Dragonball games and I don't think there's a gameplay formula that fits Dragonball more. It's a shame they stopped using it because they where so close to perfecting it with the Raging Blast games.
Can't wait till part 2 when you start talking about Raging Blast 1 & 2 and Tenkaichi Tag Team as they are both underrated in their own right. I've probably spent 100s of hours play TTT on my phone, especially with the fantastic mods people made for it.
Don't forget Ultimate Tenkaichi
@@LionMob i just barfed thinking about that game.
Im proud to say im a working ps2 copy of Tenkaichi 3 but (but still have my saved data for BT1 & BT2) I really dont understand why they wont remaster them. Im sure they know theirs a big market for it. I was sold on Xenoverse being Tenkaichi-like and i was massively let down. Xenoverse played like crap compared to Tenkaichi 3 and i havent touched any Dragon Ball Z game (i brought Fighter Z but dont play it)
But i stand by Tenkaichi 3 as the best DBZ game they have ever released. Followed by Budokai 3 as a close 2nd.
@@ac04project i think bandai or the dev team or whatever said the game files were lost :,(
@@Kdawg4859 it always bothered me how did they mess up RB1n2 when tenkaichi has been going for 3 iterations
tenkaichi 3 is my nostalgia. When i was very little, i used to play countless duels with my cousin. I would be at his house and forget about time and figureed everything and mastered almost all. Im 18 now and its been 10 years since the first day i bought ps2 and this game with me, still in great condition.
Keep up with these videos, much love.
I honestly love all the content you put out I can’t wait to see all your other videos and see where you go from here
Even though Tenkaichi 3 was better in almost every way, I still played Tenkaichi 2 more because of the massive story mode, and the fact that characters could level up from playing story (I love grindy games).
Same here. If you could take 2s Story and 3s everything else, you’d have the perfect game.
The scenarios behind many of the Ultimate Battle Z towers were nice too, such as Saiyan Blood, Giants, Transformation, etc. As an experience, I'd also say Tenkaichi 2 was more rewarding in unlocking characters with things such as long story progression or Z Item Fusion, whereas the majority of characters are already unlocked at the start of the game in BT3.
Yeah same here. As someone who enjoys story mode in games, Tenkaichi 2 is so much more satisfying than 3's story mode. Like I gotta disagree with Niosai that Tenkaichi 3 had the best story mode because sure there was cut ins and animation cutscenes but the story was severely lacking. It skips so many battles from each saga that I was disappointed at how quickly I finished the story mode of that game. The Cell Saga especially was insane at the amount of fights it skips over.
Yeah same here. As someone who enjoys story mode in games, Tenkaichi 2 is so much more satisfying than 3's story mode. Like I gotta disagree with Niosai that Tenkaichi 3 had the best story mode because sure there was cut ins and animation cutscenes but the story was severely lacking. It skips so many battles from each saga that I was disappointed at how quickly I finished the story mode of that game. The Cell Saga especially was insane at the amount of fights it skips over.
Thank you for covering the Budokai Tenkaichi series! Looking forward to seeing part 2!
I honestly preferred BT2 to BT3. So much love was put into the soundtrack (especially, Lost Courage) that it totally made the game for me. BT3's music felt a little blander and generic to me, which sometimes made the story mode feel like a real slog even when there were much cooler moments than BT2.
Lost courage and Gatebreaker two of my favourite pieces of video game music in the same game
Yeah I think the uploader is just a boomer who struggles to put his two brain cells to good use if he thinks a simple menu change makes bt3's story mode,which in itself just a summary of events ,better then the fully fledged campaign of bt2. Like all you do in bt3 is fight a while and press r3 for a boring cutscene.
As a kid I loved BT2's OST way more than BT3 and thought BT3 was bland but now I actually value them mostly the same. There's a lot of tracks in BT3 I didn't really appreciate before but that being said I'd probably still put BT2's OST just a bit higher.
Bt2 is superior its no debate, the only reason i know for why people liked bt3 was the character roster but most characters in that game would hardly get used.
@@KelpyG. nah bt3s gameplay is way more refined and fluid
I started off with the original Budokai back in 2002 and as much as I love that series, the Tenkaichi series just holds so much more nostalgia for me, I replayed Tenkaichi 3 the other day and ended up playing it longer than I expected
These videos are fantastic. A pure nostalgia trip for me. I grew up playing nearly all of the dragon ball games that came to the west with a huge emphasis on the Budokai and Tenkaichi series as well as Legacy of Goku. There's not a lot of videos covering these series on TH-cam so it's nice to see someone going through them once again, thank you!
I haven't played any of the Tenkaichi Series i used to watch them like crazy back then, now this is my time to jump on the Tenkaichi with 4
A very nice overview of these games.
I personally would've liked more focus on the gameplay itself, but I'm sure that would've been very ambitious to do.
Like for example how BT3 removed the whole Move Cancelling system the first 2 had, or how the entire combo system from BT1 changed in BT2, stuff like that. Doesn't even need to go too much in-depth. Still, content-wise this has been a great showcase
It was a miss to ignore the gameplay changes from 1 to 2. BT2 was a colossal leap over the first.
Losing the feints/guard-cancels in 3 was a backwards move.
@@EternalDahaka so was taking out cancels, the way you could chain together strings with cancels, then end a combo with the medium charged smash into Blast 2 is always so satisfying to do
And the music bro the MUSIC WAS SOOO GOOD!!
Would love to play Tenkaichi 3, but too bad it's kinda rare these days. Understandable given that it's pretty much one of the biggest fan-service DB games ever. Pretty sure it held the #2 spot for largest playable roster in a video game too for awhile.
Its still the #1 fighting game roster even today
You can get emulators to run these games, it was pretty easy to do
Aether SX2
@@MrRaymania does dbl count?
@@yesalot whats dbl
The ability to choose what transformation form you wanted was available in tenkaichi 2&3. Love that your revisting this game series
I know Raging Blast is gonna be in Part 2, love those games!
Tenkaichi 2 was my first introduction to dragon ball games and I was heavily impressed honestly the reason i’ve brought all the games after it
I have never seem more satisfying beams than the ones in these games. Perfect size, so bright they darken the whole screen, excellent lighting effects in general. These games spoiled me so much I couldn't play another DBZ game until xenoverse and I still find most of those beams lacking.
Tenkaichi 3 was a big game we played as teens. Super dope game. I spent so much time memorizing SSJ4 Gogeta's combos especially.
I was wondering if this was going to be a separate series. SO happy it is. Tenkaichi 3 is my favorite DB game.
I remember getting tenkaichi 1 and 2 for Christmas and tenkaichi 3 for my birthday at a radio shack
One thing I love from Tenkaichi games is how damn colorful the games are, so many shiny effects when exchanging punches and kicks. And the environment is so enjoyable when you completely destroy it in the middle of the battle. Let's not even get started on the soundtrack. It's DRAGON BALL at it's finest.
Imperfect Cell was my jam in these games. Spam his drain attack to constantly heal and transform for free health bars as a backup.
The animation with his tail sticking into them was addictive 🤣💀
It doesn't work on some opponents like Android 16 and Eighter for example.
The battle 100 in BT3 from the disc fusion has you battle literally 100 characters in a row in a single map with a single character. You heal 1 health bar for every character beaten. The rewards weren't really worth the 2 hour grind tho.
I was literally just thinking about the tenkaichi games just now, and i was wondering if you had already do a video on it. This is amazing 😉
You have great timing :)
I've bumped into your videos yesterday and now you present us with the Tenkaichi series part 1. I feel kinda happy to have met this channel bc I'm kinda a franchise/series freak and it's so nice to see someone else do what I do, playing every game from a franchise/series and review every aspect of it, covering even small details like Chi-chi's commentaries.
Keep this up!
Something that wasn't mentioned, is that Ki charge speed is character and transformation-dependant. For example, SSJ3 Goku's Ki charges the slowest of all characters afaik, same for the (Super)Super Saiyan transformations for Vegeta and Trunks. Additionally, charging underwater is also slower. Another relevant piece to Ki charging is that Androids cannot charge Ki(unless it's full, then you can charge for Full Burst) but rather it passively goes up quickly.
I don't know how later games handled it, but I think it's a nice mechanic that gives characters a more tangible way to feel how they handle their power
In BT3 Story mode, you could make your own alternate ending by finishing the story with a different character you're playing that wasn't supposed win, finishing off the opponent early on then intended, or winning without the player from transforming or the opponent.
Like beating Broly with Max Powered Roshi .....good times...
I love budokai series. At first I hate 1st person style battle in Tenkaichi...but now I end up love it.
Some interesting points you missed here concerning a gameplay mechanic. So you have these rush type moves that lock onto a character, in tenkaichi you can't adjust the trajectory you move so you get hit by beam attacks but in the later games you can move while using it which adds some extra strategy. You can even slightly adjust your beams when firing which ar some neat aspects that were added.
Thanks for the member berries 🤙🏾 high school me went in on this game, battle damage was SUCH a game changer! We had hyper dimension for a time too and to get budakai 2 later on in life was a solid upgrade. Between this and soul caliber 🔥🔥
The fighting mechanics were totally BOSS in this game 4 way blocks against charged attacks during combos was epic to me!! It's trim down is why I didn't give BT3 a longer run although BT3's roster was super impressive. Budokai Tenkaichi 2 started the fusion mechanic during tag battles as well I don't think you ran through that.
The upgrade from Tenkaichi 1 to 2 is bonkers. 2's story mode felt like the longest of the three, and the combat fun enough to make mock team battles in versus CPU. Tenkaichi 3's roster is isane too and making teams of CPU versus eachother in 3 with different builds was so entertaining to me as a kid.
Budokai Tenkaichi 4 just got announced and I came back here to celebrate
Y'all are ON IT. I found out about it from a comment on this video lmao
@@Niosai you have the best deep dive of the games on the platform my friend. I just had to come back to this classic video
@@cloudtg462 Dude can't even complete mission 100 what deep dive. Also doesn't mention anything about bt3's amazing combat.
DBZBT3 is my absolute favorite Dragonball game and at the very least in my top 10 games of all time. I know everyone always says it but it's the truth this game truly makes you feel like you're playing the anime loosing against a tough opponent or anhiliating someone as one of the toughest around
Nostalgia. Would love to go back to when these games came out.
LET'S GOOOOOO
THESE ARE LITERALLY SOME OF MY FAVOURITE GAMES EVER SO THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AT THEM
i have never played these games but i am LOVING this content.
Budokai 3 and Tenkaichi 3 will always be my fav DBZ games
The best dbz games ever imo the open world was the best so expansive and the graphics for the time were great
Budokai tenkaichi 2 is my all time favorite dbz game and I still play it occasionally this day.
I played these tenkaichi games SO MUCH, that i can remember pressing the buttons in the exact order needed when i watch the combos. It's insane. Lol these games need to be remastered. Or even upgraded beyond that for online play and newer characters. Greatest games in the franchise. Even budokai 3 was an insanely good game.
Huge Tenkaichi 3 fan here, still play it occasionally with my buds today. The thing I absolutely loved about these games is that though that this was in my opinion the peak "arena brawler." This series (especially 3) had things like actual combos, tech, all sorts of things that I picked my brain with for years to learn. I really hope that someday they'll just straight up re-release 3 for the modern day (hopefully with better internet lmao)
Thanks for this video
Great retrospective on the games! One thing I wanted to point out that I don't think was mentioned; difference between the tournaments. Obviously, World Tournament has ringouts. Hercule and Cell Games don't so you have to defeat your opponent all the way through. Cell games is also a survival tournament; your health doesn't fully recover between matches so you have to consider that when competing
In 3 you could actually ignore the R3 prompt and try to finish the fight. Certain story missions will have actual alternate endings because of it.
If you tough it out you can defeat kid buu as hercule. Or if you don’t use the story finisher on king piccolo his son shows up and chi-chi tags in to fight.
It’s insane
Its incredible to see the intense quality in your video, lord knows this'll age well when you've reached 2million subscribers, but personally, i'd reccomend playing every Metal Gear Game, that seems it'd be like a fun & really long video :)
AMAZING INTRO!!! That first 3 seconds hooked me. Very well timed👏🏾
There was also a feature that i loved you didnt mention. Not sure if it was tied to 2's story mode but you could break the enviroment to find dragonballs mid battle! I loved trying to find those.
You could also do the same in 3.
You could do this in 1 as well in which it was the only way to get Dragon Balls, though I believe the drop rate was limited or best done on a select few maps (I mainly only found them on the Kami's Lookout fights in the Saiyan Arc).
I can’t believe you didn’t mention Tenkaichi 2’s legendary soundtrack
I feel like playing these games as single player caused you to miss my favorite part of 2 and 3. Team battles for multiplayer. You can make teams of up to 5 characters each to fight a friend. And there is even a mode where each player has a limited number of points to spend picking their team members like a sort of draft.
Oh also the soundtrack for Budokai Tenkaichi 2 is SO HYPE. Easily one of the best video game soundtracks. God I'm getting chills just thinking about it 😂
Damn these videos are coming out fast. Hope you’re taking care of yourself, you don’t want to get burnt out
I think I'll take a break from DBZ for awhile, that's for sure 🤣
Wow, you really have been playing them all. Awesome job.
I've actually been playing BT3 on Wii recently and I didn't even realize you had to hold the prompt to power up the attack so thanks for that.
Love you content man keep it up and as for suggestions i would love naruto games and pre ps2 dbz games also would love your takes on the megaman series as always thanks for the great content.
haven’t watched this yet but tenkaichi 2’s soundtrack is one of the best video game soundtracks of all time and i refuse to elaborate further 🤞
14:46 Personally, i spent a lot of time in that mode, love it!
Same bro
Dragon ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi was the true evolution of DBZ games. It felt bigger, more dynamic, faster paced, explosive and expansive than the budokai series which felt like another second person fighting game. Tenkaichi 2 was the one played to death literally.
I can't imagine what would happen if they released a remake with online mode on it
Chaos and hell will ensue
Would destroy that other trash dbz game known as xenoverse that’s for sure
It would be great to see it get more popularity, though it probably wouldn't hit the wider fighting game mainstream compared to something like FighterZ due to the obvious lack in balance with some characters, unless there were major changes made to either general or online mechanics. With that tweak though, it could become an incredibly fun and strategic experience, as shown with the slightly modded version on the channel DBZ League.
Sad that, due to the rights to the games essentially being in stasis due to the company behind it now being defunct, we'll most likely never see any remake or re-release.
Probably heard this a lot but play every Naruto Ultimate Ninja / Clash of Ninja / Ultimate Ninja Storm games cuz they all sick. Thanks for the videos man and happy holidays
This aged well.
bro i've binged ur vids over the past two days love you man keep it up
Sweet. Wish more people would do retrospectives on this series
If I could make a suggestion for a single-game video, maybe consider One Piece: Burning Blood. It was developed by the same team who does the Tenkaichi/Raging Blast games, along with the recent slew of Jump fighters. As far as I can tell, this team has been around as a developer within Spike years before they merged with Chunsoft
I might want a review of One Piece: Unlimited Adventure.
Tenkaichi 3 really holds up. There is an entire community around using the game as an online sports league
This channel is one of the best finds of the year!
Your work is great! Keep up with it, and lots of success in the future!
The tenkaichi 1 intro is godly, that music hits hard af, and its dope animation. Tenkaichi 2 had the best combo inputs and was definitely an improvement on the formula. Tenkaichi 3 back stepped a little on the inputs and the formula but I still cherish the game. Tenkaichi 2 is the best imo
When i was little i was blown away by how good Budokai and Tenkaichi were made, absolute beast of games, i hope they make a remake
It would be cool to have a character creator in Budokai Tenkaichi 4 for PS4 & PS5! It will sell lot better than Xenoverse series.
14:40 Seeing Chi-Chi's comments on Goku and Gohan is adorable, I love it
I really appreciate these videos. As a recent Dragon Ball fan, I never quite knew the difference between Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi. Now I see that Budokai is more like a 2D standard fighter while Tenkaichi is a 3D arena fighter. Very cool. Glad to finally understand that difference.
Based off of your comments, it seems like Tenkaichi 3 is overall the best of this bunch, but it might be worth it to get Tenkaichi 2 as well for its unique content. Conversely, for Budokai it's basically just Budokai 3 that's overall the best. Does that seem accurate to you?
Played all of them and yup that's basically right. Idk if I'd get Tenkaichi 2 though
Dude took a break from youtube for like 9 years and came back with a purpose. Dude blew up
I like your videos so much
That’s crazy I just found your channel yesterday and was trying to find a video about tenkaichi and literally the next day you upload one. Thanks!
Played all of these growing up and this brought back many good memories. I played Budokai Tenkaichi 3 so much it burned up the disc lol.
Ha! nice dude!! I just commented last night on the Budokai video asking for this exact video! THANKS DUDE!!
BT1 is definitely the weakest of this series and it hasn’t aged well, but the foundation was always there and the next 2 games improved dramatically over its predecessor. Fights were faster, combos were expanded greatly, and the roster sizes were ridiculous!
You're delusional and naive
BT3 aged....alright. it's fighting system is kind of repetitive though
It's biggest selling point was the fact that it was way more open compared to Budokai 3, unfortunately the gameplay was kind of lackluster especially compared to it's sequel but it was still a lot of fun.
@@MegaShingo97 It's boring as heck
@@derekmaullo2865 I agree. The only thing good they had was its gigantic roster, but everything else was pretty meh, specially the story mode. And for the gameplay, you knew how to play with one character and you know how to play the rest (we are talking about 50+ characters)
To think that games had more content for the base game back then than they have now.
I'm happy to say I still own both 2 and 3. Still play with my friends every now and then lol they don't make them like they use to 😂
These games were my childhood. I love them, especially the intro's to the games.
I can't remember why, but I prefer playing Tenkaichi 2 than 3.
If I ever get the chance, maybe I can try them out again and see if it's still the case.
3 has more advanced combat but 2 has everything else. I just love the Tenkaichi 2 soundtrack so nostalgic
After your previous dbz vid I SEARCHED for this but u didnt have it , so now its finally uploaded let's see