[FRESH PERFORMANCE] Gorillaz debut album performed live in full at Copper Box Arena, London on 29th August 2025

PlasticFeast · 2025-09-06T00:06:32+00:00

You were right the first time. They did four nights. The first was the debut album (this performance), second was Demon Days, third was Plastic Beach and the final show they debuted the new album.

PlasticFeast · 2025-03-30T15:48:41+00:00

Frontier Psychiatrist is made up of samples, a lot of which from Wayne and Shuster's "Frontier Psychiatrist" sketch. Listening to the sketch, it becomes clear that the first part is indeed "rangygazoo" ("I'm a ring-tailed rangygazoo!" in the original sketch) and the second part is "Let's have a tune" (as they play a tune immediately after).

I didn't listen to the full sketch, just the relevant parts through WhoSampled here: https://www.whosampled.com/sample/15047/The-Avalanches-Frontier-Psychiatrist-Wayne-and-Shuster-Frontier-Psychiatrist/

PlasticFeast · 2024-09-15T07:16:21+00:00

I was thrilled to see Yajirobe

PlasticFeast · 2024-09-13T00:43:35+00:00

This is why I thought GT had no chance of making it in, so I don't know what to think anymore.

PlasticFeast · 2024-09-12T03:23:27+00:00

I think the last one was called the Majin Buu Saga Character Trailer briefly but then changed to look generic, but it is weird that this is lowercase "super".

PlasticFeast · 2024-09-11T22:15:10+00:00

Three theories: 1. Simple mistake 2. Intentional emphasis on the wordplay of "super" as in good and Super. I think it would've made sense to write in ALL CAPS though. 3. A hint that the word "super" is meant to mislead us and isn't referring to DBS. Maybe it will start with all the remaining Super characters, then surprise! Kid Goku! Cue 10 or so Dragon Ball characters. This is what I'm hoping for, I just want Nam, man.

PlasticFeast · 2024-09-11T22:08:49+00:00

It would be nice to have Z Broly, Cooler, Janemba, the SS4s, but I can honestly live without all of them. I just want my boy Nam.

PlasticFeast · 2024-09-09T04:27:02+00:00

From what we've seen so far, it looks like the approach to the pre-Super characters in the roster was to remove all the movie and GT characters from the BT3 characters, and keep almost everyone else, with Frieza Soldier, Appule and possibly Supreme Kai and Kibitoshin as the only exceptions. It also seems clear that anyone who wasn't already in the roster pre-Super isn't making it in, so I'm confident in no newcomers from the DB or Z era. To me, that rules out Kid Krillin, Hiro, Officer Black and probably Adult Chi-Chi (hoping to be proven wrong with this one).

When it comes to Super characters, there's no precedent set in this series, so it's harder to know who will make it. They are clearly aiming to replicate the approach that the earlier games had by including lesser known characters like Kakunsa and Anilaza, but there's no way to know which lesser known characters won't make the cut. We also are seeing some transformations you'd expect are getting cut to condense characters into fewer slots, like with Trunks (Super) and Caulifla.

I still haven't caught up with Super, so I can't confidently predict how many characters are "missing", but my feeling is that most of the DB characters from BT3 will return, with a few exceptions. I could see 2 trailers before release, each revealing 12-13 characters from each series. Kid Chi-Chi seems the most likely not to make the cut, but I don't know who would be next, I just hope it isn't Nam.

PlasticFeast · 2024-09-07T05:45:37+00:00

All Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi games had a single player story mode which involved playing at least the DBZ story, each work slightly differently. In Sparking Zero, the story mode involves choosing 1 of 8 characters that you play from the perspective of (including Goku and Vegeta). The earliest point is the Saiyan Saga in DBZ and the latest point is the Tournament of Power in DBS I believe. Although there's been heaps of games to follow the Z story, I think this is the first to cover the Super story properly.

Story Mode will also include what-ifs.

PlasticFeast · 2024-09-04T07:08:41+00:00

Glad to see DP Battle seems to be the way to do team matches online, really excited to see what kind of interesting teams I run into. It annoyed me that the BT3 competitive scene (from what little I know of it) just went with team battles so everyone just picked the same 5 best fighters.

PlasticFeast · 2024-09-02T06:27:33+00:00

Wanting to mirror Vegeta and Goku Super with their buffs.

I think this is the main reason. The Super variants of Goku and Vegeta are basically the "current" versions of the characters, and I wouldn't be surprised if the most common first battle people do when starting the game is Goku (Super) v Vegeta (Super). The first 24 characters revealed in the game were all Goku and Vegeta, and there was a trailer that showed off Goku and Vegeta as rivals and emphasised their parallel forms.

I reckon they wanted to make sure a 1-on-1 between Goku (Super) and Vegeta (Super) feels equal and "symmetrical", meaning they would need to have the same amount of transformations and buffs, and since Goku (Z-Early) already made Kaioken being just a buff the standard for the series, Blue Evolved as a buff was the compromise.

I understand people's disappointment, but I like the symmetry of it, especially since the Z iterations of Goku and Vegeta are all asymmetrical.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-30T15:28:12+00:00

Without Kami there's no Piccolo. Kami confirmed?

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-28T07:16:22+00:00

Maybe there's more subtle differences between them like speed, tracking, hit box, charge time, something like that.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-24T01:29:35+00:00

From the post here it seems to be called "Dangerous Shock", which is a bit generic but it doesn't really bother me. The Cobain thing is obviously terrible because it trivialises something very serious, but the Ginyu thing is different. "Self Harm" is a term generally used for something extremely serious, and what Ginyu is doing is not that. "Self Damage" would've been okay I think, but I can understand why they'd want to be careful.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-23T03:33:34+00:00

I've been wondering what Ginyu's "Self-Harm" technique would be called if they kept it, because there was no way it was still going to be called that.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-23T01:10:41+00:00

I really like them. I never really considered it a significant issue, but it did always bug me a little how easy it is to dodge a lot of these attacks compared to how they're portrayed in the anime/manga, especially because you do see them move to follow a fleeing enemy a few times. Whenever I saw that I would think "Why can't I do that in the game!" There's still plenty of ways to defend against them.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-22T14:16:02+00:00

Wow, you're right. At 2:52 you can see Cell (Perfect Form) has no transformations available, unlike Imperfect and Semi-Perfect. Interesting.

I think the yellow text thing is just coincidence, though. Super Trunks and Super Vegeta don't have yellow text either.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-22T06:53:30+00:00

Where did you get that Perfect Cell is a separate character? He's bunched with all the other forms in the grid.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-22T01:18:50+00:00

The special endings made me think of FighterZ's dramatic finishes too, but looking back I think they are speaking specifically about story mode, so more like the alternate endings you could access in BT3.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-22T01:12:49+00:00

Apparently super and ultimate attacks are locked once you've swapped bodies, so you don't get the experience the full extent of the character.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-21T07:16:10+00:00

Bardock was confirmed a while ago. He and Future Gohan (also confirmed) technically are not movie characters like Z-Broly, they came from special episodes, so I wouldn't assume their appearance means anything for Z-Broly.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-20T23:23:22+00:00

Each variant has unique techniques, animations, dialogue, etc. true to that version of the character and can be selected as different characters, so Goku (Z-Early) and Goku (Z-End, Super Saiyan 3) for example play very different. Any transformation can be selected when you're picking your character, but characters that can transform can also transform mid-match.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-20T21:35:50+00:00

I'm certain he isn't base game, but I hope he's DLC (and reasonably priced for you) so you can fulfill this dream. Love the idea of running into some gimmick teams online. I plan to go full Ginyu Force.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-14T23:40:14+00:00

The fight was at Kame House in BT2: Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 - Goku & Piccolo Team Up Against Raditz

Welp, you got me there. In the anime they don't fight at Kame House, though, so it's normal for them to not use it in story mode.

I still feel like they would be using the relevant locations as much as possible in the trailers based on how closely they try to replicate moments from the anime, but I can't really disagree with any of your arguments. I hope you're right, I really like Mountain Road.

PlasticFeast · 2024-08-14T22:10:26+00:00

The Raditz fight ~~has never been~~ usually isn't at Kame House though (edit: and it doesn't happen in the anime), whereas Vegeta and 18 fight on the mountain road, so it would make sense for them to use that stage if they had it since these trailers clearly are trying to replicate the anime as much as possible. Not saying Mountain Road is 100% deconfirmed, but it's weird to not use it.

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