Search on Youtube for Dragonball Z Abridged, or alternatively check out http://www.teamfourstar.com. Team Four Star are a group of guys and their friends/colleagues who years ago decided it'd be cool to make a parody series of Dragon Ball Z (Also Yu-Gi-Oh) with all filler cut out. Season one deals with the Saiyan Saga and is just over an hour long. There are 40-odd episodes right now along with some of the films as well (History of Trunks is due out soon). They're just at the beginning of the Cell Saga currently, with Cell interfering in Piccolo's battle against Android 17 as the end of the most recent episode. Some of the powers and plot will be influenced by the parody, which isn't to say they'll be unrelated to the actual show because TFS are very true to the source material.Long Con wrote:What is this TFS Abridged Parody series you speak of? I've watched the entirety of Dragonball Z, so I'm sure I could appreciate a good parody.
Do you have the roles worked out at all? Which characters will be in, how many roles do you expect the game to have? Just thinking about a DBZ game... serious cool fun potential! Will the Saiyans get to go Super Saiyan? Level 2, 3? Good characters, pick and choose from a number of great villains for the baddies. I'm signing up now.
I have a lot of the roles worked out - 25-30ish so far. Teams are Goku et al, Saiyan baddies, Frieza baddies, Androids (as indies), Cell, Buu... My main struggle has been deciding who to keep and who to cut. Cell will probably be an indy SK and Buu is problematic because of all his forms and such. I'm not sure whether to give him a team comprised of other baddies from his Saga, have three Buus as one team, or have him transform at certain points as I might with Frieza. As it stands, the Ginyu Force are all being compiled into the role of Captain Ginyu and he will just choose whose power to use.
Super Saiyans will definitely be a feature and transformations will be triggered by events similar to the story. I think I'll keep it to just the base form though, but every Saiyan will be able to do it - even Raditz. Transformations will probably be permanent and have actual effects for the players. Fusion may or may not also become a thing - Piccolo, Kami, and Nail are all in so I might give them the potential to become a 3-way BTSC group. Gotenks is possible too.
EDIT: In fact, maybe three small baddie teams of Saiyans (Vegeta, Nappa, Raditz), Frieza (Frieza, Ginyu, ?), and the Androids (16,17,18) plus Cell and Buu as opposing SKs... There'd need to be a lot of civs to balance it out though.