I was never much of a Goku fan either, my favourite character from that series will always be Vegeta. He was just cool and a complete badass personality, but that just made his moments of frailty something more powerful (Specifically, when he's beaten by Freeza on Namek and lying on the ground telling Goku about the history between the Saiyans and Freeza and he starts to cry). Plus, the Final Flash is the greatest move/technique whatever. Other than that yeah, it got stale and repetitive. There were some cool parts, though. Piccolo vs Android #17 rocked, a major fight that wasn't horribly overdone. Same goes for Majin Vegeta vs SSj2 Goku. It also had it's moments for humour and stuff like that. Cut out the overdrawn crap, and it'd be way better than it actually ended up.

Also the big explosions on the Budokai games are fun. :D

Edit: Forgot, Mr. Satan/Hercule is also a legend.