My MOST ANTICIPATED Video Game | Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 arrives in 2027, and every confirmed change so far points at a deeper MMO. Here is what Bandai Namco and Dimps have shown, what it means if you build your own character, and the one thing I hope they do not cut.
Xenoverse has never been a traditional fighting game, and that is exactly why it worked. You are not picking Goku. You are making somebody who lives in the Dragon Ball world, learning moves from mentors, and building a fighter nobody else has. Xenoverse 2 has been supported for almost ten years on that idea.
Xenoverse 3 changes the frame. The setting moves to AGE 1000 in West City, you join the Great Saiyan Squad, and Akira Toriyama designed characters for it before he passed. Androids arrive as a sixth playable race. Awoken Skills lose the timer and run off your Ki Gauge instead, with a dedicated Ki Charge added to the basic controls, so transformation becomes a resource you manage. Soul Assist and Soul Switch let you call in a mentor or channel one outright, and you trade your race transformation to do it. Fighting Styles are new: 130 characters to learn from, 130 styles that change how you fly, stand, guard, and chain combos.
I walk through all of it, plus the parts I am not sold on. The gameplay behind me is my own Xenoverse 2 run as a Saiyan, captured for this video.
Chapters:
00:00 Why I’m talking about Xenoverse again
01:12 What Xenoverse actually is (not a fighting game)
02:13 Races, and why they play differently
02:34 The premise of the first two games
03:07 Mentors and building your own moveset
03:37 Conton City and the MMO-light structure
04:24 Xenoverse 3: the confirmed changes
05:09 Transformations lose the timer
06:05 The Mentor System rebuild
06:41 Soul Assist and Soul Switch
07:50 Fighting Styles: 130 characters, 130 styles
08:24 The combat rework and Ki 08:54 Why I’m anticipating this
09:10 The PvP question
10:34 My biggest gripe: transformations for every race
13:14 What I actually want: clans, homes, and a real MMO
15:10 What I’m hoping for at launch
Playing: Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (PS5), my own Saiyan run