A Viewpoint

    The reason there have been so many Dragonball games over the years and yet very few actual decent ones, is that most of those games have completely missed the point of a DB game, on what a game based on the iconic franchise should really be all about. Instead they experimented with different blend of genres to mixed results like how the relatively successful Xenoverse series had tried to merge the usual combat mechanics of a fighting game with the progression system typically found in a Role Playing Game, or how the more faithful Kakarot aimed to be a full blown Dragonball simulator instead. But in between all of that, they largely missed the core of what a Dragonball game is supposed to be about--and that's one of the reasons why the upcoming Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero could turn out to be one of the greatest games in the history of the series.   Cause unlike those previous games, Dragonball: Sparking Zero seems to understand what truly makes a great DB game ...

Although there exist plenty of reviews, critical analysis and all other forms of ‘verdicts’ on any videogame, there’s only one ultimate form of judgement that stands above all of them—Time. How much a videogame stands in respect to time is the one ultimate yardstick that holds true, all the time (pun intended). It means that no matter what the critics say, no matter what the numbers are—in our hearts, the greatest games are simply those that we find ourselves keep coming back to, with time. Time also shows ultimately what truly matters in a videogame—it’s always the gameplay and the sheer amount of fun that it allows the player to get out of from the game. Graphics get ‘older’ with time, as well as most other design elements that form the ‘exteriors’ of a game, but it’s the core of a game (which is the gameplay) that’s single handedly responsible for whether it still holds playability or not, over time. That’s why only the truly great games stand the test of Time, while the res...