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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
hope you stopped being that persons friend lol.had a friend who i let borrow gundam battle assault 2 for ps1 and he traded it in to gamestop. luckily he had let me borrow a snes and super mario rpg which i kept. until i moved out and my parents gave away all my collectables 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
Yeah, tbh the only thing I prefer from 3 is the character roster being the biggest, everything else like the soundtrack, menus and story mode just feels superior in BT2 in my opinion
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
3 had the worst music, good gameplay, but I will ALWAYS remember 2 purely because the music it played during cutscenes and fights, like the tracks are awesome.
@@nok4799 woah woah woah. There is no doubt in the world that Tenkaichi 2’s music is superior than 3, but saying Tenkaichi 3 had the worst music??? That’s where I gotta stop ya there, that game had solid music and it was pretty good, just not better than 2.
Considering they had been using the same music since the 1st Budokai, it was such a huge breath of fresh air to power up Tenkaichi 2 for the 1st time and not be met by the same music I had gotten used to from the last four games. Tenkaichi 2 is easily my favorite soundtrack from any DBZ game out there. Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not saying the Budokai games had bad music. Far from it, just kinda got old when we were four games in and were getting one or two new tracks at most. Tenkaichi 1 being the worst offender since it had no new tracks at all.
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.
@@komokeo the majority thinks bt3 is much better and I’m one of em More characters better fighting system and all the good songs from the previous bt games You don’t know what you’re talking about They even talked during the fight so bt3 story mode is much better Much more details were added to each character So yea Bt3 is number 1 by far
@@cloudx15x I'd disagree. My personal favourite is Tenkaichi 3 but both games offer better experiences in certain areas. I've had the chance to talk to a lot of people in the competitive Tenkaichi community and there is a lot of agreement that Tenkaichi 2's combat system offers the same or more depth than Tenkaichi 3's due to various movement options available in T2 that are not present in T3. Also small details such as being able to block left, right up and down in Tenkaichi 2 compared to up and down in Tenkaichi 3 mean both games are pretty level. Tenkaichi 3 is definitely the much more adopted of the two but both casually and competitively both games are neck and neck. For a good comparison of the two check out the RUclips channel "jagger1407". He'll make you appreciate both games even more and how genius they really are.
@@TotallyAmSam more depth than Tenkaichi 3.. yea that’s bullshit That’s the one thing that was superior when compared to 2 Im a pro at both games.. just believe me 🤦🏼 Each character had its own stance and different combos Tenkaichi 2 lacks that Tenkaichi 3 is the best without a question
I loved the z evolution stuff to I like games were I feel like I’m progressing while I play I hate in 3 that it’s just a 1to1 retelling of the story in game that’s boring give me a open world semi rpg
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!
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.
I bought the budokai hd collection hoping they would release a budokai tenkaichi hd collection but then dbz ultimate fail came out with dbz kinect also....
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.
Tnekiachi Has multiple what it's you just have to go back and beat the missions where the clear conditions are "?????" Aka the missions you purposefully lose in order to win
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.
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
You can also turn super saiyan 3 against frieza if you play the story mode again or do fusions in some battles. I spend a summer playing a lot of bt2 xD
I bought BT2 a couple of years ago and I can say I'm pretty much satisfied with what I got. For a ps2 game it contains a good gameplay, a lot of characters, quite a few extra modes and a long campaign/story. The majority argues that BT3 is better overall and improves most of BT2 aspects but personally I believe (without having played BT3 or being a game expert) that those improvements are not that much different compared to BT2 to justify that there is a huge gap between those two games
@@kwylde1978 BT3 is a much better competitive game because the meta combos in BT2 are extremely simplistic and require little timing where BT3 has a much bigger skill gap with both of those aspects. I'd argue it was a huge improvement from a competitive standpoint.
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
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!
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.
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.
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)
If you used a GameCube controller on the Wii, Tenkaichi 3 would play exactly like the PS2 version. The Wii version of Tenkaichi 3 is probably the best version to emulate nowadays, since Dolphin (Gamecube/Wii emulator) is better than PCSX2 (PS2 emulator).
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.
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.
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 RUclips 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.
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
Hahahah woaw cool to see i wasnt the only one. I didnt think he was a main character but definitely thought of him as someone hugely important. I never knew DBZ before Tenkaichi 2 aside from one time seeing a tenkaichi game at a friends game so basically same thing tbf.
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
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.
plus there was also the fact that picking anyone weaker than any main character or antagonist during the friaza to shadow dragon arcs can barely damage characters from said arc. so if i wanted to try to fight broly as say king piccolo, there's a good chance i'll lose because of the lack of power and his skill pool.
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.
In bt2 you can customize any character you play as and level up. In bt3 once you beat the story mode theres no point to do it again. Only thing bt3 has over 2 is the character roster. Also the online system on bt3 in the wii version was terrible but people often forget that feature.
I agree honestly. Bro if the story ain’t Budokai 1 fantastic where it feels like I’m watching the fucking show itself i don’t care 😭😭. I’m just here for the fighting. BT3 way better than 2
I mean 3 is better then 2 like that's an objective fact, however those talking about story mode are tripping. No body bought that game for the power point presentation, it was literally for pvp with friends.
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.
I feel this way Exactly! Like I seen DBZ Kai on TV but I beat the second game to learn the story, and it was so fun and interactive! Sure the cutscenes lacked with animations unlike how the 3rd one kinda fixed a little bit, it was still ahead of its time imo especially for anime games.
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.
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.
I think this is a great video, but your opinions feel shorted because you were making this for the video. I only say this because there's a pretty stark difference between Raging Blast and Budokai Tenkaichi 2, let alone 3. But it was a fun nostalgic romp to see you talking about this and especially dogging on Ultimate Tenkaichi. Even though I played that game more than any other PS3 DBZ game I own. I think you should eventually do a return to a retrospective because the jump in combat from BT2 to 3 is actually really expansive and a smidge insane, dare I say. I'm even a bit surprised you didn't mention RB1's perfect actions that encouraged you to mimick the show (which was big for me watching Kai on tv back then too), but you couldn't exactly spend time trying to comb through every tiny detail. Definitely an interesting series and I'm bound to watch more of your channel. Love this kinda stuff.
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 🤣.
Tenkaichi Tag Team on the PSP (which can be played in 10x the resolution if using the PPSSPP emulator) is exactly like Budokai Tenkaichi 1-3 but with the added option to fight 4 at once - you'd certainly enjoy it. The only negative is that the graphics are slightly worse where the characters won't move their mouths or eyes anymore - the PS2 was a more advanced system. But I'd say Tag Team is the same game but with 4 players as an option - it has fewer characters sadly. You can still play 1 VS 1 or 3 vs 1 even. It has a million cool mods as well. Unlike the PS3 titles it plays exactly like Tenkaichi 3 but with an RPG-mode like in 2.
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 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
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
If I'm being honest I was kinda happy when the music changed ☠️ The only track I liked from the RB2 soundtrack was Gallant (something, don't remember) but I love the WHOLE bt2 soundtrack. I didnt even know about the Budokai Tenkaichi games because I also started the the raging blast series.
@@nok4799 Then its a good thing it happened for you. We all like different music and we get to choose from the two sound tracks. That gallant song I think is the song that made me go after the original release lol
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.
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!
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
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.
@@MGrey-qb5xz Gameplay is great, but there's way too many spam after images allowed. This flaw was worsened in pretty much every third person fighter Dragon Ball game since. The soundtrack is extremely underwhelming, especially compared to just how great the soundtrack is in Budokai Tenkaichi 2. Also the story mode is not very good, and feels more like busy work that you have to get done so you can unlock all the characters.
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.
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!
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
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
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
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who thinks Tenkaichi 2 is the best of the bunch. Everything about it was so good! From the story mode to the music, it’s legit one of my favorite Dragon Ball Z games.
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 played the first 3 games and that's it. From what you've shown me, it looks like I'm not missing out lol. The first 3 Tenkaichi titles were amazing at the time!
I dont see reviewers talk about manuals much anymore with older games. It's something I sorely miss for some reason. I remember reading through manuals for hours as a kid and leaving notes on them and what not
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
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
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It wasn't a gap in the game releases in 2005 Super Dragon Ball Z came out for the PS2 look it up and check it out its has the manga sytle
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
hope you stopped being that persons friend lol.had a friend who i let borrow gundam battle assault 2 for ps1 and he traded it in to gamestop. luckily he had let me borrow a snes and super mario rpg which i kept. until i moved out and my parents gave away all my collectables lmao
man I swear I didn't know it was that expensive until I went to buy it for myself, cost me a cool $74 😂
I found it just chilling in CEX for €3
That's no longer a friend on mine
It was bt2 for me
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
Same here. 3 feels like it does a PowerPoint Presentation of the story while 2 truly goes in-depth.
Ive always preferred 2 over 3 it's much deeper with the story which I love. Wanna grab a PS2 again just for some of these games
Yeah, tbh the only thing I prefer from 3 is the character roster being the biggest, everything else like the soundtrack, menus and story mode just feels superior in BT2 in my opinion
Never been a fan of the free roam. All I want is cutscenes and fights.
@@ReverendLamar Get a PC and you can emulate it on a PlayStation 2 emulator
Tenkaichi 3 is one of my most played games of all-time as a kid. So much nostalgia
Best one. Wish I can go back to the days my buddies and I played this after work
Same! I wish they would do a bt2 and bt3 remake or even just a port to current and last gen consoles
These games were my introduction to the Dragon Ball rabbit hole back in the early 2000s.
Best childhood memories
You speak for us all
No cap I picked these games up before I even knew what dragonball was if it wasn’t for these I would’ve never went back to watch the series ✍🏽
Remember having bt2 and thought it was the best . Until i got 3.😭
These new Dbz games suck to me tbh !
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
I swear you're not lying bro imo 2 had the best music and 3 had the best gameplay
3 had the worst music, good gameplay, but I will ALWAYS remember 2 purely because the music it played during cutscenes and fights, like the tracks are awesome.
@@nok4799 woah woah woah. There is no doubt in the world that Tenkaichi 2’s music is superior than 3, but saying Tenkaichi 3 had the worst music??? That’s where I gotta stop ya there, that game had solid music and it was pretty good, just not better than 2.
Considering they had been using the same music since the 1st Budokai, it was such a huge breath of fresh air to power up Tenkaichi 2 for the 1st time and not be met by the same music I had gotten used to from the last four games. Tenkaichi 2 is easily my favorite soundtrack from any DBZ game out there.
Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not saying the Budokai games had bad music. Far from it, just kinda got old when we were four games in and were getting one or two new tracks at most. Tenkaichi 1 being the worst offender since it had no new tracks at all.
I agree 💯 2 is my favorite
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.
BT3 is much better
@@cloudx15x bt2 has a far superior soundtrack and story mode as well as z item fusion. Better than bt3 imo
@@komokeo the majority thinks bt3 is much better and I’m one of em
More characters better fighting system and all the good songs from the previous bt games
You don’t know what you’re talking about
They even talked during the fight so bt3 story mode is much better
Much more details were added to each character
So yea
Bt3 is number 1 by far
@@cloudx15x I'd disagree. My personal favourite is Tenkaichi 3 but both games offer better experiences in certain areas.
I've had the chance to talk to a lot of people in the competitive Tenkaichi community and there is a lot of agreement that Tenkaichi 2's combat system offers the same or more depth than Tenkaichi 3's due to various movement options available in T2 that are not present in T3. Also small details such as being able to block left, right up and down in Tenkaichi 2 compared to up and down in Tenkaichi 3 mean both games are pretty level.
Tenkaichi 3 is definitely the much more adopted of the two but both casually and competitively both games are neck and neck.
For a good comparison of the two check out the RUclips channel "jagger1407". He'll make you appreciate both games even more and how genius they really are.
@@TotallyAmSam more depth than Tenkaichi 3.. yea that’s bullshit
That’s the one thing that was superior when compared to 2
Im a pro at both games.. just believe me 🤦🏼
Each character had its own stance and different combos
Tenkaichi 2 lacks that
Tenkaichi 3 is the best without a question
FINALLY I found someone who also considers BT2 their favorite! I always loved 3 but 2 wins my heart for the story mode
For me too, just the fact that you can cancel locking into characters in fights it’s a win for me
I loved the z evolution stuff to I like games were I feel like I’m progressing while I play I hate in 3 that it’s just a 1to1 retelling of the story in game that’s boring give me a open world semi rpg
I prefer 2 just for the soundtrack alone
@@dread1262 yes especially the intro of the game.
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!
Das why you dont sell!
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.
This and update the games with Dragon Ball Super content. Also port the Raging Blast series to modern consoles
I bought the budokai hd collection hoping they would release a budokai tenkaichi hd collection but then dbz ultimate fail came out with dbz kinect also....
Nah remaster Ultimate Tenkaichi, and ass a matter of fact add some more to it too I need that game again
Well this aged well
Now we're getting a 4!
So who here is watching this because Budokai Tenkaichi 4 was announced?
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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.
DBZ games peaked here, we will never have quality like this ever again.
I miss Spike and Atari 😭
Why what happened to them?
@@DisMan42 They lost the license to make Dragonball games, Bandai took it.
@@DisMan42 And the downward spiral began.
@@inkchariot6147 thanks for the explanation, but will bandai plan on making a remastered versions of this franchise any time soon?
@@DisMan42 Nope, they probably lost track of the code and engine for it.
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
Tnekiachi Has multiple what it's you just have to go back and beat the missions where the clear conditions are "?????" Aka the missions you purposefully lose in order to win
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.
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
You can also turn super saiyan 3 against frieza if you play the story mode again or do fusions in some battles. I spend a summer playing a lot of bt2 xD
that’s literally the only reason people pick 3 over 2, because of the characters, not the gameplay. idk why.
@@KingJadInfiniteHope bt3 had better gameplay. Gamecube fans still seething pretending they played both games.
I bought BT2 a couple of years ago and I can say I'm pretty much satisfied with what I got. For a ps2 game it contains a good gameplay, a lot of characters, quite a few extra modes and a long campaign/story. The majority argues that BT3 is better overall and improves most of BT2 aspects but personally I believe (without having played BT3 or being a game expert) that those improvements are not that much different compared to BT2 to justify that there is a huge gap between those two games
@@kwylde1978 BT3 is a much better competitive game because the meta combos in BT2 are extremely simplistic and require little timing where BT3 has a much bigger skill gap with both of those aspects. I'd argue it was a huge improvement from a competitive standpoint.
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
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!
DBZ BT3 is my favorite out of those. ! I have it on Steam as a PS2 Rom & i STILL love it. !
how? you can do that???
@@cosasrandom21yeah u can download an emulator and play it there
who's here after the budokai tenkaichi 4 reveal?
I'm here after the launch
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.
I would make tournament soft mine on cpu.weird but dr.gero would win
i used to do that With ultimate
The bt2 on training had better AI , u could use it to really push yourself
@@MGrey-qb5xz didnt know this .training had better ai
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.
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.
Oh hell yeah dude I love this kind of content. I like that you went through the booklets in the cases
I’m here after 4 just got announced still feels like a fever dream.
Same
don't get your hopes to high, get ready for a dlc shitshow and a buggy mess of a game
Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi 4 just announced!!!🔥
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)
Tbh the main reason I like raging blast if because of beam deflects and the character models
Ive seen high level gameplay of this at tournaments and some events. Its a shame that there's not that much meta discussion.
It's because most game reviewers don't know what their talking about.
Get ready for this video to blow up thanks to BT4’s announcement today
THEY ARE MAKING A NEW ONE
Who's here after budokai tenkaichi 4 was just released?
Shoutout to anyone who got Budokai Tenkaichi on Wii. We are all very special/strange people.
All my friends make fun of me for playing that version
worked fine if you had classic controller or gamecube
If you used a GameCube controller on the Wii, Tenkaichi 3 would play exactly like the PS2 version. The Wii version of Tenkaichi 3 is probably the best version to emulate nowadays, since Dolphin (Gamecube/Wii emulator) is better than PCSX2 (PS2 emulator).
@@zaidabraham7310 didn’t know you could use a GC controller on that version. Damn I missed out.
Can't wait till he plays the NEW ONE!!!!!!!!
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.
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.
The only funny thing about BT3 is that Gohan was included on the box cover in certain countries whether is PS2 or Wii
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.
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.
How’s it underrated lol. It’s regarded as the best dragon ball game ever made. It’s not underrated
Story was alright but it clearly wasn't the focus, you power point presentation fanatics are really weird
Underrated OUTSIDE of DB games. In the general gaming space, Budokai 3 is the only DBZ game. But for DB fans, Tenkaichi 3 is nowhere near underrated
BT3 story mode is as barebones as it gets and boring
The most beloved game from pretty much the most popular anime. And he calls it underrated lol
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 RUclips 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.
Good job RUclips algorithm! Tenkaichi is back!
They just announced Budokai Tenkaichi 4!!!
Budokai Tenkaichi 2 has INCREDIBLE music. Easily my favorite DBZ game , next to Xenoverse 2. Utter nostalgia. Thanks for making this great video!
For strange reason most Raging Blast 2 copies have the Budokai Tenkaichi 2 soundtrack
@@Graf27green I think it's because the dude behind the original music for rb2 got sued. So they replaced it with bt2 music
Xenoverse was so close to being good but they made the battle system trash
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
Hahahah woaw cool to see i wasnt the only one. I didnt think he was a main character but definitely thought of him as someone hugely important. I never knew DBZ before Tenkaichi 2 aside from one time seeing a tenkaichi game at a friends game so basically same thing tbf.
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
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.
Nah
Agreed but did you really notice that at 11 years old?
Omfg thank you!
Yeah, I've been saying this for a long time. I like Tenkaichi 3 but the movesets don't have as much depth as Budokai 3
plus there was also the fact that picking anyone weaker than any main character or antagonist during the friaza to shadow dragon arcs can barely damage characters from said arc. so if i wanted to try to fight broly as say king piccolo, there's a good chance i'll lose because of the lack of power and his skill pool.
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.
Right?! I know its all subjective, but who in their right mind picks BT2 over 3?!? 🤣
Yea bt2 & bt3 game only cost like 30000$ dollar damn near it’s ridiculous how expensive these old dbz game’s are
In bt2 you can customize any character you play as and level up. In bt3 once you beat the story mode theres no point to do it again. Only thing bt3 has over 2 is the character roster. Also the online system on bt3 in the wii version was terrible but people often forget that feature.
Playing as freeza and beating the hell out of the z fighters was fun too
I agree honestly. Bro if the story ain’t Budokai 1 fantastic where it feels like I’m watching the fucking show itself i don’t care 😭😭. I’m just here for the fighting. BT3 way better than 2
Finally, someone who agrees that liked budokai tenkaichi 2 better than 3
Only think I’d say better is flying around
I mean 3 is better then 2 like that's an objective fact, however those talking about story mode are tripping. No body bought that game for the power point presentation, it was literally for pvp with friends.
Look, the story mode and just all the other extra modes are better in Tenkaichi 2
BUT, Tenkaichi 3 was the all around PVP/ tournament fighting King!
@@thetechrealist I agree but overall I liked 2 better but I understand why people like 3 better.
@@thetechrealist of course and it was really really good
I love learning about dragon ball games, especially the more obscure portable ones. Keep the great videos coming.
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.
I feel this way Exactly! Like I seen DBZ Kai on TV but I beat the second game to learn the story, and it was so fun and interactive! Sure the cutscenes lacked with animations unlike how the 3rd one kinda fixed a little bit, it was still ahead of its time imo especially for anime games.
Tenkaichi 1's intro is pure perfection and It never gets old I've watched it so many times✌✌❤❤
Tenkaichi 2 was amazing even in gameplay better then 3. it gave u more choices to move and fight more control and better speed
But...It didn't though. That stuff is actually measurable.
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
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 my favorite one
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.
For how much
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.
I think this is a great video, but your opinions feel shorted because you were making this for the video. I only say this because there's a pretty stark difference between Raging Blast and Budokai Tenkaichi 2, let alone 3.
But it was a fun nostalgic romp to see you talking about this and especially dogging on Ultimate Tenkaichi. Even though I played that game more than any other PS3 DBZ game I own.
I think you should eventually do a return to a retrospective because the jump in combat from BT2 to 3 is actually really expansive and a smidge insane, dare I say. I'm even a bit surprised you didn't mention RB1's perfect actions that encouraged you to mimick the show (which was big for me watching Kai on tv back then too), but you couldn't exactly spend time trying to comb through every tiny detail. Definitely an interesting series and I'm bound to watch more of your channel. Love this kinda stuff.
They just showed a teaser for 4
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
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 🤣.
Tenkaichi Tag Team on the PSP (which can be played in 10x the resolution if using the PPSSPP emulator) is exactly like Budokai Tenkaichi 1-3 but with the added option to fight 4 at once - you'd certainly enjoy it. The only negative is that the graphics are slightly worse where the characters won't move their mouths or eyes anymore - the PS2 was a more advanced system.
But I'd say Tag Team is the same game but with 4 players as an option - it has fewer characters sadly. You can still play 1 VS 1 or 3 vs 1 even.
It has a million cool mods as well.
Unlike the PS3 titles it plays exactly like Tenkaichi 3 but with an RPG-mode like in 2.
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 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
Playing it on my channel right now I just finished the budokai games..ultimate tenkaichi is a underrated cinematic gem..in my opinion
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.
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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
If I'm being honest I was kinda happy when the music changed ☠️ The only track I liked from the RB2 soundtrack was Gallant (something, don't remember) but I love the WHOLE bt2 soundtrack. I didnt even know about the Budokai Tenkaichi games because I also started the the raging blast series.
@@nok4799 Then its a good thing it happened for you. We all like different music and we get to choose from the two sound tracks.
That gallant song I think is the song that made me go after the original release lol
The Dragonball Budokai series overall was the highlight of my childhood. From the The PS2 - PS3 playing these games were endless entertainment!
Spoke that shit into existence 💀
Man I love your videos...it's very personal and feels extremely genuine. Subbed
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.
The combat in that game is so great.
Get yourself the Japanese version. It has the original dragon Ball OST and can be found for around $11 :D
Yesss been waiting for you to make a video on these !!!
They r back
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!
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
Clash of the ninja 2?
@@JJContreras98 I was searching and almost gave up, it's actually Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles. Played the hell out of this.
@@itsoldtyde That's for PS2, it never was on GameCube.
@@Wol1427 my mistake, it's been over a decade so one can forget trivial details.
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.
BT2 is so underrated. Best soundtrack, imo better combat and gameplay.
Bt3 is better, it has better gameplay and varied transformations and stuff
@@MGrey-qb5xz Gameplay is great, but there's way too many spam after images allowed. This flaw was worsened in pretty much every third person fighter Dragon Ball game since. The soundtrack is extremely underwhelming, especially compared to just how great the soundtrack is in Budokai Tenkaichi 2. Also the story mode is not very good, and feels more like busy work that you have to get done so you can unlock all the characters.
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.
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.
it's tighter and slower.tenkaichi 3 is just faster with no weight aswell as 2 having more free combat u can break combos
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!
Awesome video 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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
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
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
Who came after BT4 announcement?
Yup
These games were my childhood.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who thinks Tenkaichi 2 is the best of the bunch. Everything about it was so good! From the story mode to the music, it’s legit one of my favorite Dragon Ball Z games.
Raging Blast 2 for me
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
BT4 is Dropping🎉🎉🎉🎉
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.
This aged poorly after the Budokai Tenkaichi 4 trailer debuted
This was one of my favorite series growing up and BT2 MIGHT still be my favorite 3d fighter
Not retro anymore bt4 yessir
Aye Matty you turning up on Ultimate Tenkaichi was hilarious. "This game looks fun, listen to my words, LOOKS good". LMBO dude I was so weak man.
Soooo!!!.....
I played the first 3 games and that's it. From what you've shown me, it looks like I'm not missing out lol. The first 3 Tenkaichi titles were amazing at the time!
I dont see reviewers talk about manuals much anymore with older games. It's something I sorely miss for some reason. I remember reading through manuals for hours as a kid and leaving notes on them and what not
Just the day before yesterday I bought the PS2, a 250 MB memory card and the Budokai Tenkaichi trilogy. How cool that is!
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
I only had BT1 when I was younger, but I played that same game for years.
Can’t believe we’re getting another installment after so long
It’s crazy how the play station 2 had such a wide arrange of dragon ball games that evolved over time
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