An actual online budokai 3 with ranked games and such would be great. This game was ahead of its time, same with RE Outbreak

I used to think "Com" always meant computer. Like if someone played against your character online some how. Those would be the results that they'd get to face. I guess I was ahead of my time tho. Budokai 3 would have made an excellent game to play online with people. This was in 2003 btw haha. 🤣

Best part of having the physical version of the game was having the manual, because it's explained what the stats did there :D

I always found fascinating how the Budokai 3 password codes for these characters are compatible with the following "Tenkaichi" trilogy

Fun fact about the "health" Stat. If you upgrade it to 19 instead of 20 for Saibamen and Cell jr. Is that you will have 6 lives with almost 2 bars of health each instead of 7 lives with 1 bar. So you get a lot more health in the long run and can use that point elsewhere. At least that's what I remember. Oh my gosh, it's been over a decade since I played this game.

Jfc this game was so ahead of it's time

I never knew what "ability" changed thanks! Great video!

I grew up with Budokai 3 so this game is my childhood and I’ve played it countless times but never fully understood the last 3 stats. Thanks for the very informative video with showcases. Damn, this was a good video. Take my like 👍

For the longest time I thought it was the ability skill that boosted “ability” capsules, like death moves and ultimates and so on.

Loved the ki aura design on characters. Felt exclusive with the different forms in the game

Wow, this video was really good and informative! Great work🙌🏽

So ability doesn't affect green capsules? That's unfortunate. I actually thought that was the case. Thanks for the detailed explanation 👍🏿

This theme is so good

tbh this game would make an interesting Roguelite with these systems, I imagine there's a lot of items people basically just never get to use, on top of there not really being much incentive to grind up stats besides Attack in the average playthrough of even Z-Difficulty. Probably too much work to actually realize it though...

All my life i wondered, but never really decided to look into it. Thanks for solving a long lost memory puzzle!

Awesome video this really help alot 🔥🔥

This was very informative! Thank you, always wondered what the last 3 stats did.

Nice. Super helpful 👌🏾

Dope video man

Haha, I've played this game since all the way back when it first released and I NEVER understood what com did. I saw a video years ago which explained the other two, but they were vague on com. That's such a useless stat. I used to think it made every cpu aponent you fight harder, but that was wrong. 🤣 Fantastic video btw, very informative! You more than earned my sub. ❤️

Seth the programmer with a lvl 1 Goku vs max stats Raditz is the prime example of why stats matter lol

I always thought "ability" affected the strength of equipment as well, like "Potential", "Miracle Power" and so on. This is really not the case? Thanks for your video Dr. Doppietta

After 20 years of playing this game all the time, I now know 🤣 ty 🖤

This is great!

Cool thanks for the information

I am just now learning items could have been used in budokai 3... I figured it was just for show to have it equipped

I knew the basics of this but didn't know the exact numbers behind it, so this was enlightening. And yeah, the COM stat takes me back to the days of the Official Atar Budokai 3 forums and their tournaments :)

Very interesting!

To be honest, I didn’t know how the stats work in budokai 3 because there wasn’t anyone explaining it. But I appreciate you explaining it.

Now knowing this, I would like to play again and do things better :'}

Wow i played this game so many times i didn't know that thank you for telling me that.

Quick note about Arts, that bonus stacks with the bonus from Attack, so it can be worth maxing out both if you want to really cheese your specials.

Amazing Channel , made me play this game again after years , and now im addicted to it

I miss this game

I remember saving loadouts on ps2 memory cards and button-mashing for hours with that thumb-stick with my friends until my thumbs had blood-blisters! So fun when I was 10 - 12 yrs old!

Mamma quanti ricordi nel far salire di livello i guerrieri Z nel arena:),facevo sempre fatica contro Broly e Kid Buu, anche quelli che non avevano un livello alto. Io da piccolo credevo che aumentando l'abilità il mio personaggio diventasse più veloce nel combattere🤣.

Ciao Mr. Doppietta volevo complimentarmi con te perché il tuo canale è unico e tratta argomenti in maniera fatta mai prima d'ora... Non mi perdo un video

I always thought "com" was the difficulty of the computer you fight in story mode. Like, the higher you make it, the harder the opponents you fight in Dragon Universe get.

I'm going to start playing the game for the platinum throphy on the HD Collection, so this is actually useful in a really convenient time

I would make the tier list of abilities to rank up like this: 1. Attack. Effectively halves enemy health. 2. HP. You start with 3 health bars. You get 4 at 20 for 7 total. 3. Guard. Doubles your HP bars effectively x2 at max. (But if it keeps getting harder to level, 10 hp and 10 guard gives you the same as about 6.67 health bars. 20 health is 7 health bars. 20 on guard is 6 health bars. 15 on both is 9.6 health bars. 20 on both is 14 health bars.) 4. Ability. Depends on the item but full health from half a senzu is insane. (Downside is taking up slots and needing to acquire items to work, otherwise put this at #1 based on best items.) 5. Arts. 50% more damage is only for skills and you could rank up attack for a better boost in damage overall. 6. Ki. 30% efficiency is cool but it messes with the reading of ki bars and ultimately does nothing if you can't find time to charge because you do no damage and get knocked out. 100. COM. This has no reason to really exist unless you really want to know what it is like to fight Ss4 Gogeta as Hercule with no items after grinding for hours just to lose or make a meme challenge out of it.

Wish I could go back to this time right now

A Budokai 3 vid 12 days ago?? Guess I'm not the only one playing this on my ps2

Crazy how the Com stat was kinda like the Nintendo Amiibos wayyyy before Amiibos were a thing. I remember leveling up my Vegeta and dumping every resource I got into the Attack stat haha fitting. Only ever got him to level 40 or so though. Wish they would bring this to Steam with online play. Or even better, remaster Infinite World instead.

Gon make me fire up the ole ps2 and play my budokai 3 😂😂

Com sounds like it was pre-amibo smash where someone plays their character with buffs by the computer. Thats kind of cool.

Too bad you can't level up everything completely. That always irritated me.

I am going to have to buy another copy of Budokai 3 one of these days lol

Great video! I never knew what was "ability" and "com" when i played this game as a kid, for a long time I just increased them and never saw any benefit (i didn't use items much), now I know after all those years, thank you!

Finally getting a : stats in story mode. In video . Loveing it.

Great Video i never knew some of these until now. Could you make this for Budokai Tenkaichi 2?

I'm willing to finally master and play a Budokai game since i never had the chance to get good at it, but i'd like to hear from you: which of the following do you consider worth more to play (gameplay wise) Budokai 3 or Infinite World?

Bro this video wouldve been super helpful to me like 15 years ago haha

I love this OST

Thats cool

Never could figure out arts and ability. I never used items, and noticed the attack difference with "attack" so I just upgraded the top 4 stats first.

Com was the original PSCX2.

While watching this vid Me in the background 🕺🕺🕺

Hey @dr doppietta, I love your work. I was wondering if you want to do a challenge. Tenkaichi 3, 1v5; your character of choice vs Super Buu:Gohan absorbed, Broly(LGSS), Hirudegarn, Great Ape baby and Omega Shenron; hardest difficulty. It was a way me and friends used to play it and it would be exciting to see if someone else can do it. Thanks for the great content!!! Keep it up!!!

It was crazy to think that I maxed out COM and was still able to beat it, albeit losing sanity in the process

Dr, one humble question, what video and speedhacks config you use to run smoothly lag-free? Cause my emulator is lagging af, i cant play it in slow mo. My laptop is i3, 8gb ram. Please

Just a reminder that the Budokai series, Budokai Tenkaichi and Raging Blast series are all better than what xenoverse and kakarot could ever dream of almost becoming

As a kid I thought com meant the computer would dodge your attacks less than normal so I always looked for battle areas

"Alright team, we got this stat that makes item capsules work better if you put points in it. What do we call it? "Ability!" "Give that man a promotion and the keys to my mansion!" seriously who thought it was a good name, was it a translation error?

Got this on a ps2 emulator on my phone with a gamepad this game is a portable beast holds up to any modern fighter

I kinda figured COM did that but the other two I was less sure of. I figured maybe ARTS was supers too just less sure back then

good evening ,my fellow bodukai father

"Lastly but not least" 2 seconds later: NEVER level up it

Well yeah from the actual game manual explains it it's Arts - increases the amount of damage your character deals using special attacks Ability - makes equipped items more effective Com - this improves how well the computer controls your character when fighting against another opponent from around the world. Oh and that code it is actually different from the hd collection and the original from the PS2 I've tried it

THANKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSS

I know those stats very well I maxed Broly out I can tank super from everybody multiple times that's so bad my friends and cousins didn't want to play if I pick Broly

I believe he must have been pestered crack to make this vid

This completely true.

I miss this game so much. I was a beast back in the day no one could hit me 🤣 ever 🤣🤣🤣

Rocking the new intro.

So do the stats stack upon eachother? Like having max attack and arts, then using a attack boosting capsule and doing a special, would that all stack up?

Slightly off-topic, but do you know what stat influences the ki aura effect on the character level screen? I always thought "Ki" would have that effect, so I started maxing out the "Ki" stat to see that effect.

How much of a boost does a fusion dance or potara fusion character from the skill being used by a Level 99 character as opposed to a Level 1 character?

If I do level 20 in attack and arts is it additive or multiplicative? like say a special move does flat 100 damage before levels. would it be 250 damage or 300?

1:29 sad but ig make sense

Know your own stats & know your opponents’ stats & you will never be in peril 😂

bro lowkey sounds like mario but good tutorial by the way

i can feel your italian from here great video cheers from Napoli

Hey, any clue if the stats effect the story mode? Because when leveled up Goku and Vegeta after Defeating Super Buu. I got an alternative cutscene where both of them sense a Ki stronger than Buu which one of them have to check it out. And turns out it was Broly. I beat him without a single lost but I unlocked Super Saiyan 4 when having this route in a unknown place and got Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta as well (which it can only be obtained by finding the place where Goku and Vegeta transformed into Super Saiyan 4 before defeating Broly. Otherwise you'll get the Gogeta Vs Gotenks part without progressing to the GT Saga). Does that change the story?

I know Budokai Tenkaichi 4 is coming out but dude I just want a Budokai 4 so so bad

im not expecting a reply but i recently bought the ps3 and im playing budokai 3 and i wanna know what to upgrade first for the easiest time playing story mode

Finally a voice

Wait so I must ask If you're the battling CPU on *Z* difficulty while it uses the custom character with the +20 Com stat, does it make it harder or is it exactly the same as a custom character with 0 Com stat? By example . . CPU Uses Custom Character: Com (+20) on *Z* VS CPU Uses Custom Character: Com (0) on *Z* Specifically does the Com stat double the difficulty or not. I can only see the solution being a CPU vs CPU battle and seeing the number of outcomes between them.

As a kid I figured Com was Combo. It would make stuns and such longer or easier to pull off

The com was that yeah but it was like you remember that code thing that would come out during the DU in the game? That was a specific code to your character i think where the website or something like that would be like you would write that down and then post it like saying this is my build of this character i did go against him too i can write it down from the actual manual i have it somewhere hang on

I don't know how to check my game version. This is some hacked version my mom got for me 14 years ago lol. If you know how to check I can try doing it

Thanks about com i thought it would mean combo damage😂 thank god never use any points in it😂

Question @Dr.Dopietta why cant I get the Armored Trunks and King Piccolo and Halo Goku outfits in my PS2 Greatest hits version? It says each time I enter the codes that I entered them wrong even though I watched a KZfaq video on how to do it and entered them the same way the video showed. It won't let me have them and I bough the game from ebay back in October of this year.

Does the ability also increases the stats of green capsules like ATK and DEF power up ?

So there is no point in maxing defense before health? Or maxing arts before attack?

"Last but not least, the COM stat" Except it is the least.

This has me thinking: Just how much damage is possible in a single attack with max attack, art and ability stat with the highest attack increasing item possible? I'd reckon it be a ton combined with factors like transformations and fusions

there are totally 140 levels but impossible to go higher than 99 lv the Experience value not pass 9,999,999 so the important stats make it full are : Health 20 lv. Ki 19 lv. Attack 20 lv. Guard 20 lv. Arts 20 lv.

Just wish we could still play as great apes

L'ho scoperto vent'anni dopo

Is there a way to get permanent gogeta?- without the Ki running out?