Dragon Ball Online :drill:

[rk47]

http://feature.mmosite.com/content/2008-02-14/20080214225153525,1.shtml

 uhh...ok First Super Saiyan in the server?
how many players? over nine--------

[damijin]

I'm genuinely stoked for this, and extremely pleased that they chose a Korean development team. Way to learn from the Gundam MMO, DBZ IP owners!

[schild]

Goddamnit I fucking hate Akira Toriyama's art.

He's popular for all the reasons people should fucking hate the guy by now.

Fucking.

Fuck.

[Azaroth]

Hey, you can slam it but it has a built in userbase of OVER 9000!!!!!!!! spammers.

[schild]

This thing will be a total fucking cashcow. Not Pokemon Levels, but maybe, JUST MAYBE WoW levels in terms of just Korea and Japan. Maybe.

Not likely.

[Azaroth]

I have no idea how popular various animes are in chinaworld. Seems like it'd be the one to open to Western gamers as well, though.

It's not like there's a fourteen year old kid anywhere in North America who doesn't know what Dragonball Z is.

[Velorath]

It's not like there's a fourteen year old kid anywhere in North America who doesn't know what Dragonball Z is.

I think they might have missed the peak of DBZ's popularity in NA by a few years though.  I don't see nearly as many annoying ssj-prefixed usernames these days.

[Azaroth]

Yeah, but if you want money to do something you have to wait until everyone else has already done it first.

[K9]

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[schild]

Am I the only one who completely missed the appeal of DBZ?

No. It was ugly, stupid, and over 9,000 kinds of retarded.

[Velorath]

Am I the only one who completely missed the appeal of DBZ?

I once thought it was the shittiest cartoon to ever gain mass appeal here in the states.  Then the Pokemon craze took off, creating a generation of kids who think that rather than fighting your own fights, the ideal solution to every problem is to capture animals, train them to fight each other, and hold them in cramped living spaces until you have need of them.  Michael Vick can take some consolation in the fact that when that generation grows up, he will be looked upon as a martyr, locked up for trying to be the best Pokemon master that ever was.

[Azaroth]

I was just going to photoshop an amusing pokemon caption onto a picture of Michael Vick, but while doing an image search I saw several pictures of horrifically abused dogs and the gag ceased being fucking funny at all.

[Jeff Kelly]

So this MMO will be a neverending string of trite, boring and long drawn-out dialogue, interrupted by a neverending string of trite, boring and long drawn-out fights in ultra slow motion and supplemented by a neverending amount of trite, boring and long drawn-out streams of consciousness by players and npcs alike?

[UnSub]

Am I the only one who completely missed the appeal of DBZ?

Blowing up a planet during a fight was entertaining.

Said fight taking place over 25 episodes and filled with endless banter-->fight-->powerup-->banter loops, on the other hand, wasn't.

[Azaroth]

So this MMO will be a neverending string of trite, boring and long drawn-out dialogue, interrupted by a neverending string of trite, boring and long drawn-out fights in ultra slow motion and supplemented by a neverending amount of trite, boring and long drawn-out streams of consciousness by players and npcs alike?

Duh. It's an MMO.

[HaemishM]

I'd only be interested if it was on the Wii. 

[damijin]

It's not like there's a fourteen year old kid anywhere in North America who doesn't know what Dragonball Z is.

I think they might have missed the peak of DBZ's popularity in NA by a few years though.  I don't see nearly as many annoying ssj-prefixed usernames these days.

As a college-aged kid now, it was my generation who most watched DBZ in our middle school years. It extends up a bit and down a bit, but I still fondly remember catching the 13 translated episodes original Dragonball on the WB at 6:00 AM a few years before Cartoon Network picked up DBZ and ran with it. I always liked Toriyama's Dragon Ball world for it's uniqueness compared to anything I had seen in the west. This game seems to focus mostly on that adventure-driven world rather than the power driven, filler-tastic, namek-will-blow-up-in-5-minutes-which-actually-means-20-episodes DBZ world

Goddamnit I fucking hate Akira Toriyama's art.

He's popular for all the reasons people should fucking hate the guy by now.

Fucking.

Fuck.

Elaborate plz!

[stray]

I liked Piccolo, and not much else. I hear that dude from Buffy's playing him. I might actually have to see it for that..

[rk47]

Unlike most ppl I followed the manga form first before actually getting into the anime series. Which is probably why I loved the series more. Seeing the TV drag was a torture that no anime viewers should be subjected to. The manga spanned from the protagonist growing up from an innocent monkey boy to a guy who can destroy the entire earth if he wanted to. I found growing up with a protagonist (a little bit of a stretch) was quite unique and I'd be hard pressed to find other series to compare it to.

in the MMORPG front tho, I'll bite if there's a beta. :) I wanna pew pew power balls while my friend gathers spirit power for 10 minutes to beat the raid boss.

[Murgos]

I just have one question.

Are they still on Namek?