We all agree that they've gone past beating a dead horse and are now doing things to the horse which you can only find on the darkest pits of the internet?
Duplicate anime, meh movies, piles of games exactly the same as the last. I say they make something 100% new or just drop it.
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True, SW has trumped everything but the mass of games. Though SW still has canon going for it, while the last canon thing from DB was the mangas end in '95.
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And man, who cares about the EU canon or whatever it is? I don't. What I do care about is my friend wasting money for a 4 hour crappy game. I could hear him silently weeping into his pillow the night he got FU II...and then beat it later that same night. :T
I wouldn't call Dragon Ball pathetic. You'll have your eventual cheesy movie or update every now and then. But that's what? Two or three times per decade? It's more for the fans than for the money.
I personally don't appreciate the new material, but I can respect the producers for putting it out.
The Star Wars movies on the other hand have gone through so many unnecessary edits and cuts to make money it's ridiculous. I feel bad for the fans for having to deal with it.
The canon stamp is just there to make money. It's not even put there by George Lucas from what I've read.
The backstory Dragon Ball Online is supposedly canon.
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The only reason we have a new Dragon Ball game every six months is because people buy them, which is stupid because the games are poorly made. It's almost as bad as with Fifa, Madden, NHL, and NBA.
I mean, who cares if they've added thirty new characters including Oolong's half-sister whom we've never heard of before, and Broly's new Super Saiyan 3.5 form?
And the worst thing is that the Dragon Ball setting has so much potential, and they waste it all on poorly programmed beat 'em up games.
The only decent Star Wars game I've played was Knights of the Old Republic. The other titles I've played are outright horrible. It's almost as if they expect the gamers to play their games just because of the franchise.
The reason is that they don't have to. The fans are stupid enough to buy anything with Dragon Ball in the title. Why put money and effort to make a good game when it will sell regardless of it?
Back in the day a friend of mine bought Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout for $500 on ebay, and he then had to buy a PSX from the states just to pay it, it was a horrible game and the graphics were completely outdated at the time since the PS2 had been out for an entire year at that point. And he knew that the game received horrible reviews even before he bought it.
Kai I felt was necessary. It fixed the worst things the original anime did, had some better voices (while some worse ones on the flipside) and dialogue, etc. As for movies I don't think they'll top the best of the them at this point (Bardock, Cooler, etc). Everything else I agree with you on completely, especially the latest games. Ugh.
I personally thought they did a service by skipping the Buu saga (which had the most fillers from what I remember), but I guess giving it the Kai treatment would've been better than putting GT back on the air at least.
After Force Unleashed II and SW Kinect, "trying" to make good games is one of the last things I'd say for them. Kinda makes me want to replay Shadows of the Empire, one of the Rogue Squadrons, and some other decent older gen SW stuff.
Overall I see Dragon Ball Kai as a failed project. Mostly because it was poorly planned, so they never managed to get past the Cell arc. Which of course would come as a great disappointment for the fans who looked forward to collecting it.
They could've hired any Dragon Ball fan and he'd be able to divide arcs, and cover everything that's important in a 100 episode in an outlining script that he'd finish in a month, two months at the most.
I also don't see why they couldn't have reanimated it. In a style similar to what we saw in Ultimate Tenkaichi.
Because that style would definitely get the new generation into the series. Covering all three main arcs in 100 episodes, and then put out on Cartoon Network or whatever kids watch these days. It would definitely sell better than the Full-Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood crap we got.
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