Less than 24 hours until the RGG (Like a Dragon/Yakuza) summit.Hopes? Expectations? Fears?RGG chads... rise.
Judgment 3 or some sort of action game.
Personally I think there'll announce 3 games>LAD Gaiden or Judgment game>Pirate Majima game>Yakuza 9 w/ IchibanThose are the 3
fears: New RGG gameshopes: announcement of the studio closing
>>689305730kys
>>689305489Kiwami 3, mobile trash and idiot spinoff.
>>689305489Is that Y1 og?
>>6893057760fag
>>689306454Best yakuza game
>>689306231ye>>689306454now Im praying for 0 kiwami
Kaho is going to be there so expect tits
>>689305489god i hate how stiff kiryu's expressions were in the kiwami games. Kiryu actually passes as a normal stoic guy in the ps2 titles
>>6893072470 kiwami would be christmas.New game dropped dragon engine, huh?
>>689307341his kiwami 2 face being a very slightly modified version of the y6 face was so cheap and dumb. It made sense to make him look permanently angry in Y6 but definitely not in K2.
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>>689305730same honestly
>people think there will be new Judgment gameskek
>>689312684why not
>>689305489>hopesIt becomes less gay and retarded>expectationsIt's more gay and retarded than ever
>>689307247Why? It's too recent, I don't even want to replay it yet.
>>689305489>Hopes?Someone other than Ichiban, Majima, Kiryu as a MCBrawler combat>Fears?Ichiban and the gang againThey continue to parade Kiryu's battered corpse around for ez profitMore turn-based shit>Expectations?Ichiban and the gang againMore Kiryu obviouslyMore turn-based shit
>>689307247why do you even want a 'kiwami' of 0? that's so retarded
>>689306454yakuza 0 mogs dogshit y1 and y2 combat and stories ;)
>>689305489Kiwami 3 on dragon engine
>>689305489Early 2026 Yakuza 9 Kiryu solo protagonist with some Ichiban on the side, they hire a detective so Yagami comes out during an unvoiced scene and you can only see the back of his head. In the meantime Kiwami 3 comes out Spring/Summer 2025.
>>689305489Sujimon excluded from all future games thanks to PALS.
Spinoff game where Nishiki went to prison and Kiryu didn't
>>689317598Would be kino, but only if Yokoyama works with the same dude who wrote Gaiden
Judgment 3Yakuza series ending + akiyama spin off
>>689305489My biggest hope is Judgment 3 but it's probably not happening. My fear is that it actually ends up being a pirate game
Kiryu will go to jail for a crime he didn't commit and we he comes out things will have changed.Alternatively, Kiryu will attempt to distance himself from the Yakuza until something happens that draws him back in.Those are your options. So what's it gonna be, huh, huh?
Anyone watched the vid? Check it out if you have nothing better to do
>>689305489Gacha trash gameJudgment 3That's it
>>689318987Kys shill, not gonna watch your vid
LAD 9: kiryu and the gang hit the California coast and start a burger shack LAD 10: kiryu and the gang join the circusLAD 11: kiryu and the gang are lost in the deep jungles of the amazon LAD 12: kiryu and the gang go to space
>>689318987I too am angry that this video exists
>>689318987Disliked it on principle. Yakuza games are consistently good and the best gaming has to offer these days.
>>689319287This but Yakuza instead of LaD.
>>689319521>Yakuza games are consistently goodlol, yakuza 5, 3 are one of the worst games i ever played
>>689319689No lol, 3 janky because of the port but 5 is great, hunting is comfy but the shit side is too much street battle encounter
>>689318987Not watching your video retard
>>689318987Yeah, Yakuza games were shit and now they're good wowowow
>>689319928you mean the other way around?
>>689318987Stop shilling your garbage ESL. You're a drop in the ocean.>>689319521Retard
>>689319798Saejima is the only good part of that game, the story is shitty soap opera even by yakuza standards, Haruka is just abysmal. It's extra jarring because it came after 4 that was great.
>>689320034name better series with yearly releases. I'll wait
>>689320270literally anything in existence
>>689320006>1ok pretty good>2 shit, sorry reddit. ryuji is a shit-tier le angryman villain>3mostly shit but has some kino>4 mostly shit>5mostly shit>6mostly okay but the ending is literally retarded and ruins the whole thing>0masterpiece>7kino>gaidenp good>8pretty kinoyour point, anon?
>>689305489I went from huge yakuza fans and tire6less amount of shilling for free to now I'm just sick of it.
>>689320356you forgot to put Kiwami after your 1 and 2
Where did you faggot get the news about the pirate game?Also hope for Judgment 3, Kiwami 3, or new Gaiden
>>689305489YAKUZA 0 KIWAMI
>>689320270No, you're a retard for clicking on that video and giving it a thumbs up. No one can see dislikes and all you did was gas it up.
>>689320536google "return youtube dislike"
0>3=5>1>4>6>2
>>689320536Dislikes and clickaways do hurt a video retard. Also after the first 48 hours, the vid is pretty much dead. It will remain unseen on youtube unless the guy blow up which is never going to happen.
>>689320356You didn't play half of them. You are not fooling anyone. Also you need to be 18 to post here
>>689320683I have that installed not my point, faggot.>>689320735Clickaways sure but all engagement is good for videos.
>>689320898I did. I will not apologise for having taste.
>>689320342Great then you will not have trouble providing an example?
>>689305730The thing I didn't know I wanted
>>689305489>Hopes?Recently trademarked "Yakuza Wars" is a prequel that's set during the most violent era in the 60s>Fears?Yakuza Wars is a live service gachaCensored Kenzan remake for EOPs>Expectations?Another Kiryuslop game because they know the series is dead without him
>>689305489yakuza 1 and 2 HD port would be nice
>>689321316Kenzan is never getting rereleased, Haruka being a prostitute in training is too major of a plotline
Its a One Piece game
>>689320932nobody watched the entire vid THEN gives a dislike you fucking moron. Also no, not all engagement. Algo pretty much reads everything, including the comments. If comments are toxic and mention stuff like : "clickbait, toxic, offensive" it will hurt the impressions. Dislikes hurt the impressions. Retention time below 40% for a vid longer than 15 minutes will hurt the impressions. Sure when you are big enough and have subs then it doesn't really matter but for a nobody that is still chasing those first 1000 subs? It's enough to make an entire effort pointless.
>>689305489Kiwami 3 (and 4, 5) have to come eventually, right?
>>689305489They will announce a Dragon Quest style fantasy rpg spinoff with pixel graphics.Source: The wind told me.
DON'T FORGET SAWA SENSEI YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS.
>>689305489Yakuza 1 & 2 HD localized for PC.
>>689305489More westoid appealing
>>689319281>>689319378>>689319884>>689320034>Here check out this video if you want to I wonder what you think>autistic screechingWhy does this happen? Is it jealousy (if so, of what?) or do you hate that it supposedly shits on the series? If you don't care about whatever ESL guy has to say just ignore him. Even if it's him shilling his stuff, so what? Not like he is earning money from 5 views on 4chan and the board is shit anyway. >oh man we were having such a great yakuza discussion but then this evil man came from youtube and posted a screenshot of a video. Not even a link but a screenshot of a video reeeeeee
>>689321316>Yakuza Wars is a live service gachaWe've already seen leaks of Yakuza Wars and it's exactly this. It's a shitty gacha game that looks exactly like some garbage mobile game you would see in a youtube ad. It's by someone they licensed the franchise out too, so it probably won't be at RGG Summit thankfully enough
>>689318987I want to physically hurt you
>>689322391Not watching your video no matter how much you samefag
>>689305489>HopesOther franchises, honestly. Binary Domain was great and they should remaster it and/or make a sequel. I also think they should do racing games, like a new OutRun. It's be amazing if in general if RGG did more than the Yakuza style stuff, and emulated the Sega of old. More realistically though, I'd like it if they announced a new Judgment, and then ended it there.>ExpectationsMaybe a new Judgment, some more info on Kiwami for Switch. >FearsThat they only announce DLC for Infinite Wealth or something like that. We're in such a drought right now.>Pipe dreamsI know this would never happen, but I really think with all the popularity of action games in the last few years, that they would bring back Shinobi. A campy-ass Shinobi game with Joe Musashi done in the Dragon Engine would be the most amazing thing in the world.
>>689305489I haven't played anything since LJ and I don't feel much desire to. 8 looks really offputting even though I liked 7.
>>689322948There's already a new Shinobi coming out, not by RGG though.
>>689323182It looks like a port of the 3ds game
>>689323182>>689323414I thought he meant the real PS2 shinobi games, those were cool. Who plays 2d games in 2024?
>>689323586>Who plays 2d games in 2024?2/3 of indie games on steam are 2d
>>689324151reported
>>689322391to be fair people were actually discussing the series until that post
>>689305607What's the current word on Yagami coming back, now that Kimura's agency threw a shitfit about the PC port? Will they change his face and VA or something?
I hope my favorite vtuber appears in the next game
If it's not some sort of turn based RPG then the series is forever dead.
>>689305489It's going to be Majima's pirate game, we already know thanks to leaks.
>>689321647the faceapp smile is more natural on him than his in-game one kek
>>689305489ETA?
>expectKiwami 3>hopeJudgment 3, Akiyama/Saejima/Majima gaiden>Fearsgacha shitgoods/collabs8 DLC
>>689324757No one knows. The PC ports happened because the founder of the agency died and they were slowly becoming less restrictive about the likeness of their talents. Since then the company has imploded because it emerged that the founder was a nonce and it was both an open secret within the wider Japanese entertainment industry and covered up by Japanese media.
>hopesno remakesshinada baseball management simulatorakiyama gamea new franchise?>expectationsnone of the abovemobile gacha slopanother kiryu game>fearskiwami 3
>>689305489>Hopes?Prequel about Makoto Tojo or Judgment 3.>Expectations?A new gaiden and a trailer for 9.Fears?Another game in UE.
>>689328491>Since then the company has imploded because it emerged that the founder was a nonceWas that after J2 or before?
>>689305489>Hopes? Judgment 3 and Kiwami 3 with LJ style gameplay NOT Gidens shit floaty ragdoll bs>Expectations? Shilling for the amazon show and Judment / K3 and a teaser for Y9>Fears?Next game will be a live action series tie in
>hopeNew game with a new protagonist>expectationMore Ichiban faggotry
>>689305489Fist of the North Star: Paradise Found
>>689305489i'm kinda bored with this series 2bh
>>689332892No shit. Everyone who played more than a couple of these feel the same. It's literally the same shit for the past 10 years
>>689332892I'm with you anon. We've done everything that needs to be done with Kiryu except watch him show up in a surprise cutscene where he's walking somewhere with a wife and young kids.I liked Ichi but don't care about him enough to want to play more yakuza with him. I'd be okay with RGG switching off between more mysteries both in Judgement and a series with one of their cops, like Date in the 80s going after yakuza.
>>689333187I enjoyed all of them until 7 fucked it all up. Now I just don't care. Oh Tojo clan is disbanded huh. Ok I guess I'll be leaving then
>>689332892I'm not ready for another Kiryu or Ichiban game.Please just give us anyone but them
I haven't played any RGG games to completion since Yakuza 6. What's the deal now?
>>689333316>We've done everything that needs to be done with KiryuWe've literally never seen him actually be a yakuza at his actual physical peak. We need to go back, and not just for 1 game but for an entire series centered around the origins of Tojo clan
>>689333618Play Gaiden whenever you get the chance.It's really good, Ichiban's games are just ok imo
>>689318987Unfathomably based. Fuck Yokoyama.
>>689333618Play Gaiden. Ichiban's games are average and the combat gets old much faster than the action combat does. Infinite Wealth's story is dogshit. The Judgment games are very good.
>>689333718This but we play as Kazama during his peakThat way RGG can keep their hecking wholesome Kiryu squeaky clean and allow us to tear shit up and actually do some Yakuza shit with Kazama.
>>689305489>hopesYokoyama fucking retiresAkiyama or Shinada gaidenJudgment 3>fearsDemakesKiryu showing up in a new release>expectationsDemakesLad9 announcementYakuza Wars or whatever that thing is
>>689322391its because your acting like its not your video and even so aggressive shilling like what you’re doing should be looked down upon. Its your fucking video and say that it is while being earnest and not demanding.
>>689305489Nothing. The series has been dead since Y6.Those devs clearly cannot into gameplay nor innovation of any kind. It's actually pretty pathetic how the only spin-off (black panther) that was outsourced to a "smaller" dev actually put more gameplay and new general features into a fucking PSP game than whatever they shitted out with Dragon Engine titles.My delusional fantasy? Just fire most of the devs and get someone passionate that actually worked on fighting games or similar (like the black panther guys).Make Kazama 40s - 70s games, honestly the idea is so enticing on its own they could easily make a series with few games set in each decade.Make real Yakuza 0 with Nishiki and Kiryu with optional coop (game would be the same as single, but you just drop in like in arcade games to play with a friend).Add back the fucking cool gang creation from Black panther in one of the games, remove the dumb faggot grind gacha shit trend they keep in shoving every new entry.
>>689319521>Yakuza games are consistently goodI've found it to be all over the place since 6. Judgment is consistently great, Yakuza proper is a rollercoaster of quality.
>>689334702k nigger
Kiwami 3
>>689305489A Majima protag game set in 1999 when Kiryu was still in jail starring Hiroshi Abe as a hitman gone rogue and Joey Diaz as the Boss of a New York familly
>hopesLast JudgmentDead Souls KiwamiA complete redo of 6 as a true endpoint for Kiryu>expectationsAnother rushed Gaiden, LAD9, Kiwami 3
Inshallah, I will live to see a full-fledged Akiyama game.
>>689305489JUDGEGODS IT IS TIME
but it's not my video and that's not my post shilling the vid. Besides the one you replied to, I made these comments.>>689320898>>689323906>>689323414It's also pretty obvious that the one who made the vid posted the video so my question was, so what? Not everything is a conspiracy retard. Why is the first reaction to tell someone to die lol? Unless the video is posted in every single yakuza thread, it seemed like an overreaction to me.
i hope RGG goes fucking bankrupt for what they've done to this series and yokoyama becomes a bum with no future workplace prospects
>>689324497underaged faggot spotted
I remember the old days, the pre-0 days, when people unironically would ask if 3 or 4 was a better point to start the series with
>>689322948>Binary Domain was great and they should remaster itIt plays fine on PC, no need.
>>689321009Haters never tell you what god awful slop they waste their time on because it's beyond pathetic.
DENUVO REMOVED FROM ALL OUR GAMESCLAP CLAP CLAPis what I hope for
>>689338091>It plays fine on PCnigger, you literally cannot launch it in specific cases where it can't identify your graphics card because it's too new
>>689305489My only actual hope is that we get a PC version of Hokuto ga Gotoku. Which is not fucking happening, they are going to force me to dig out my PS4 to play it until the end of time, but I can dream here.
>>689334326And they can reuse Kazama for a spin-off series about his twin brother in America lmao
I will pay SEVENTY BRITISH POUNDS for 0 Kiwami
>>689305489>Hopes Akiyama Gaiden or some other Gaiden (Daigo). Kenzen or Dead Souls or FotNS remake/remaster/portCabaret Club full game>Expectations New IPKiwami 3Pirate Majima>FearsKiwami 3 but they fuck it all upKiwami 0Coat hangersYakuza Warsor something else completely pointless
>>689338197Get a job and buy the games faggot
>>689338703No I don't think I will pay modern Sega a single cent
>>689336994it is posted in every single thread and he even makes threads about it. And it's not really his video, he commissions them from some spic or whomever. I forget the lore, but he's a shameless, shameless faggot
The problem is that every game we're set up against organized crime, which is fine we all know what we're getting into when we play a Yakuza game, but the problem is that in every iteration of the game with the exception of 0, the Yakuza and organized crime get weaker and weaker.
>>689320519A well known chinese sega leaker said a new Sega game had to do with pirates and we've got a few posts on 4chan from earlier in the year saying it's a Majima themed pirate game called Madlantishttps://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/676415305/#q676415305
>>689321647I could never forget Sawa Sensei AND HER FEET
>>689320519>>689339293Here's the plebbit link for the chinese leaker which links to reseterahttps://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1fhtipt/like_a_dragon_pirate_themed_game_to_be_revealed/https://www.resetera.com/threads/a9vg-chinese-leaker-teases-some-game-announcement-at-tgs-perhaps-a-new-like-a-dragon-or-ninja-gaiden-reveal.977925/
>>689338249I bought that for PS4 and I've yet to get past the training wheels -chapters, and I've tried 3 times.No other game from them is this fucking dull.
>>689338965>And it's not really his video, he commissions them from some spic or whomever.lol what? The guy in the vid is spic
>>689340139yeah that's what i said, I don't keep track of what kind of mystery a mystery meat is.
is judgment any good?
>>689340331Yeah it's alright
>>689305489>hopesthey put a bullet in Ichiban and start making dojima/baldguy/kiryus adopted dad gaiden or Y0-2Expectations and fears: game takes place in not Japan and stars Ichiban doing some inconsequential shit nobody gives a fuck about. Y7 and 8 are fucking dog movies
>>689340331J1 oh yeahJ2 oh yeah but who the fuck is writing this shit.Seriously Im a fucking detective and the best you got is some high school bully murderer shit? give me a break
>>689340615> some inconsequential shit nobody gives a fuck about.what do people give a fuck about though? There's no overarching story or plot threads. Nobody cares about Kiryu since y5 and he effectively has no character since y2. THe best course of action would be another historic spin off with unique setting and characters
>>689332176After. It was a big deal and most talent left the comany, but out guy stayed for some reason.
>>689340331Judgment is peak.Lost Judgment is technically an improvement but the writing is fucking dogshit, and it takes place in the most dogshit city in the series.
I just want them to go back to the brawler sort of gameplay. I fucking despise turn base combat, to the point that I dropped Y7.
>>689313136The company or whatever behind the voice actor of the MC is being a bitch about his likeness and is greedy. Unlikely to come back as a result. Plus there's already been two games.
Why do so many want a Yakuza 3 remake? Game plays fine, I'd argue it would probably play worse if it's on the dragon engine and they'll probably take away content like they did with kiwami 2
>>689341063>What do people give a fuck aboutthats a tough question seeing as Y6 not only bookends kiryu and the age of Yakuza(poorly mind you). But the answer wasnt secret alien tech koreans who are stealing my cable or Magic legswork surgery that make a hypoxic baby into a chad mayor, and it sure wasnt 2 GIANT PAINT BUBBLES or somehow....Nick Ogata returned.I think their best bet would have been to team Ichi up early on with some of the oldguard, Akiyama, saejima, daigo, as they uncover a new underground nonyakuza run by the chinks and the koreans and make them the big bad and also reveal that the government is mildly in on the take, maybe even give a plotpoint that they need to fight fire with fire by creating a new UNDERGROUND Yakuza under constant threat of discovery by the government. REDDIT SPACEotherwise yeah, 0-2 or Gaiden stories til people stop giving a shit, which is a shame because I was on the retire kiryu train clear up by Y4 and were 2 games deep with Ichi and I dont give a fuck about him. Hes an annoying braindead shounen anime protag and nothing he does is compelling./blog
>>689341783I'm fed up with Kamurocho. Just move the setting into 1970 not Tokyo and establish a new continuity.
>>689341745The company has a new CEO or president and they've softened their stance on using his likeness in a game. The problem is the model is over all the drama and doesn't want to be involved anymore.
>>689312684Johnys fell apart and no one even wants to be associated with it anymore after the rape scandal, especially actors who used to be under their label.>>689313136Johnys was an acting agency, the Judgement actors were under it. The agency was famously autistic about the their actors, even going as far as not letting them be photograph and censoring their pictures in magazines. The company had a falling out with Sega and that's why no more Judgement games would be made.In 2019 Johnny, like the actual guy the agency was named after, died, and in 2023 it was revealed by a journo investigation that the guy was a literal rapist who had been raping people for decades, guy was a complete psycho. It was a huge scandal in Japan, probably even bigger than the Weinstein thing over there because Johnys was behind so many jpop boy bands and the guy had been raping a bunch of them behind the scenes. The whole company imploded, so now i doubt the actors have the same guidelines.
>>689341762i only want 3 kiwami for the possibility of a much bigger ryukyu
>>689342225The company doesn't have a new CEO because it doesn't exist anymore. There is a replacement comoany but they are running away from the Johnys image as far as possible.
>>689342147Yokohama despite its massive size also fucking sucked, reminded me of the snow city in 5. Gigantic but fucking nothing of value on offer. >>689342225I cant even blame them, there comes a point where you cant care that the company that gave you hell is "fine now" You simply dont want to touch that can of worms ever again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sq5lQYkBqk
>>689342239>rapeI don't even know what that word means anymore in 2024. DId he violently assault and kick boys in their stomach before ass fucking them half awake? Or he pointed a gun to their head while ass fucking them?
>>689343193https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Kitagawa_sexual_abuse_scandal
>>689305489Haruka Gaiden
>>689343652funny how thats a better plot for a Yakuza game then everything that hack Yokoyama wrote in the past 20 years
>>689305489>Hopes?Akiyama or 'Jima games or fuck off>Expectations?No Akiyama or 'Jima games
>>689341231>stayed with the diddlerWell there's only possible reason let's be real here
>HopesYu Suzuki joining RGG and making Like a Dragon: Shenmue 4 >ExpectationsThis not happening>Fears It’s not happening
>>689342257Cause they're known to expand locations in the remakes lmao
>>689343893>shitajimaGo to prison and this time stay there you fat boring twat
>eh? i just killed Ryū ga Gotoku with my freaking wackiness......?
We're not getting more judgmentYakuza/Like a dragon is over fucking done, Ichiban and Kiryu are just not worth putting in another gameThere's not much left in there, we're not getting Akiyama back, it's not happening.
I want to be an actual Yakuza member that starts off as a low level guy all the way up to the head nip in charge, let me manage the clan by assigning people to do certain things and invest in businesses. Let me pay for security, make deals with other clans and stuff like that. Basically an actual Yakuza simulation with decision making, fighting and gambling.
>>689343652>hear say from bunch anonymous literally did nothing wrong
>>689344680>picks up a penny >YATTA!!!! NANBACHANNANBACHAN I JUST FOUND A PENNY :DDDDDDD>great.....>drops the penny>NOOOOO!!!! NANBASAMA NANBASAMA I DROPPED THE PENNY *cries for 20 minutes*Im not surprised Ichi isnt going over with fans.Bipolar people arent cute or fun
>>689344683Post-war hardboiled yakuza prequel series, fucking do it
>>689344730Oi you have a license for that crime simulator? Why would law abiding citizens make games like that?
>>689345045I'd love an honest portrayal of the come up of the Yakuza showing their deeds good and bad, rather than this cartoonish shit where the Yakuza(mostly good) consists of a tiny handful of Jesuslike Godmen and 99% retarded overambitious Hitler mooks power vacuuming themselves into the highest ranks of a mostly benevolent Yakuza
I 100% the weird hostess making minigame last year in Y3 and I will question that decision until my death. I don't even like 3.
They jerked off this series to death, didn't theyCould have been a little bit more obscure and not pop 3 fucking games in a year or so
I didn't like Yakuza 6 overall but I loved the atmosphere and feel that Hiroshima had. Kitano finally appearing in one of these games felt long overdue too. A game set there featuring a younger Hirose again voiced by Kitano would be cool, Sega would basically be free to do whatever they want with the story since Hiroshima is so disconnected to the rest of the series.
>>689345421I played that shit one timethe seconds leading up to it I swore I was going to 100% Y3, after that one time doing it I made the decision that I am not doing this bullshit
>>689345580Kitanos "twist" was so bad it would have been more subversive if he had a fucking twin brother or truly wasnt involved at all. An even better twist would be that he 1:1 represented a Kiryu that got out and did so well at being out, being dragged back in and having to pay the price of Kiryus sins the way someone from his past did for him.
>Make “Like a Bull: Cosa Nostra”>Have Sammy the bull do consulting to make it realistic>Set the game in the 1980s on a few blocks in little Italy>Put arcade machines in the pizzerias (like real life)>Story is loosely based around Sammy the Bull>Mini games includes making pizzas, Stick Ball, Poker, Dominos, etc. I don’t care if this makes weebs mad.
>>689344898I mean, i would do the same if i found money on the ground
>>689345876i would buy this
>>689345580I love Kitano's movies and I genuinely don't remember what he did in 6 outside of when you fight him that one time, was disappointed by how little he was in the gameSomeya absolutely would've been a beloved antagonist like Ryuji and Mine are if he were in a better game though
>>689345876Does the minigame collection include fantasy football???
>>689345876Yeah, they did the FotNS game why not do a Jojo one
Hopes:A new side game like Gaiden focusing on IchibanExpectations:Kiwami 3Fears:Kiwami 3 which means that Kiwami 4 and 5 are on the table which we don't fucking need and never did
>>689305489>hopesyagami gets another game>fearsyagami does not get another game
>>689342225Source: My ass
>>689345580Overall I think Y6 is fine game, but they really shot themselves in foot by saying it's kiryu story's finale. Worst part of game are beginning, finale and how many important characters to kiryu are missing from it. Kiryu deciding to go to prison and Haruka's actions feel forced just to kick off plot. Letter to Daigo at end just didn't work. Hiroshima and its cast were quite good and engaging.
>>689346072hes the aloof uncle who takes care of a bunch of streetrat kids(one of which is harukas babydaddy ) and SURPRISE SURPRISE TAKESHI KITANO IS The legendary fabled fixer the game props up for a million hours
>>689344898In true Yakuza fashion, he was fine in his debut and then in his subsequent appearance he feels like a flanderized version of what we got originally
>>689345876>Yakuza 9Italian mafia tries to expand into Tokyo and kills Ichiban (by mistake). The power vacuum left behind after the carnage lets neo-Tojo clan rise up with Majima in charge>Yakuza 9 GaydenAkiyama goes to Rome to follow the money trail behind the mafia attacks>Cosa Nostra 1Rome is reused for a game with an all out Italian cast and this cast continues to be used as the main antagonists in this international yakuza vs mafia story that involves the dark underbelly of globohomo corpsAnd w'allah you now have two GOOD franchises
>>689345876>Like a Bear: Russian mafia set in MoscowThey should explore different crime factions all over the world under the “Like A” name. Maybe even have cameos from yakuza members from prior games making business deals.
>>689346394Akiyama standing against Kiryu taking the baby after Kiryu saved Akiyamas ass from a sewer assassination attempt was retarded. I know Yakuza always has retarded plot contrivances but Akiyama of all people should "Trust the plan" Im sure theres 100 more moments like this in Y6, but Y6s best moments will forever be grumpy old Kiryu who is just about to break his nokill rule sprinkled in between a worse retelling of Y3 with 1000% more bullshit that doesnt make any fucking sense, like the fucking Secret Yamato 2
Can they re-release the FotNS spinoff on PC already please
>>689346394I generally agree but I actually liked the letter to Daigo, but I would've liked it more if he was in the game more and if they had actually killed Kiryu. All the scenes with the Tatsuro Yamashita music are great, I recommend nobody play Y6 without the licensed music restoration patch, same with YK2.
>>689346732Remember the Mafia boss?
>>689341321I liked Yokohama in LJ, the skateboard making traversal quicker helps a lot though. It does just feel less empty there in general too, while in Y7 everything relevant happened in a couple specific spots of the map
>>689344730This the first time I read an idea on /v/ that isn't retarded. This would've been a million times better than the Ichiban shit.
>>689346773>Y6s best momentsThe last steps was the kinoest moment of all of Yakuza. Especially when it actually was an ending
>>689346787I have a copy untouched that I picked up years ago. I really should play it.
we’re only going to get ONE (1) game, the other game is the leaked raidou HD collection
LJ has the best combat and widest variety of side content in the series, so it's the best one. The plot is bearable and has some great character moments which is really all I'm here for anyway.
>>689346773>Y6s best moments will forever be grumpy old Kiryu who is just about to break his nokill rule sprinkled in between a worse retelling of Y3 with 1000% more bullshit that doesnt make any fucking senseI do agree, but even serious Kiryu feels not nearly as 'good' as emotionally tired Kiryu from 5. In Y5, it felt like Kiryu is actually annoyed, angry that he has to go to show up in Kamurocho again. 'Magic' of town didn't work on him for first time.You would think after everything he went through then and realizing how important kids are for him, he wouldnt leave them.I should stop. This is general problem of series of not thinking further than one game or sometims not even further than one scene. It's damn shame when you look at whole picture.Sometimes I think I'd prefer if they just kept reusing characters if they want, but make completely separate unrelated scenarios in various time periods.
>>689344162I never knew why he couldn't just get RGG to work on the series moving forward, I don't think there's anyone with more seniority and respect in that company than Suzuki. That said, the series would've needed a complete reboot, without the robot dialogue.
>>689347245>still not releasing Persona gachaWhy
>>689347364Yu Suzuki did mention the idea of a Shenmue 0 game. The problem is that most fans just want to see the story end already.
>>689347330I like Y5 kiryu but he also suffers from a game that invents plot points and makes 0 attempt at justifying them. Tired and ready to say "Fuck it I quit" Kiryu is great, its just a shame that the mastermind is 9 steps ahead complete with doing shit arbitrarily that makes no sense for the master plan.>tfw kiryu and saejima despite 0 plot setup fight to the point of near death because.....well because the mastermind expects this! why? uhhhh......DONT WORRY ABOUT IT
>>689346918>I actually liked the letter to Daigo, but I would've liked it more if he was in the game moreIt's not problem of him just not being in game enough, but for something like that to work, they should've planned it better since Y2. There wasn't enough scenes between two and at best it felt like Kiryu is his aniki. Additionally Y6 had so many father/son relationships already that I thought that letter wasn't needed. Kiryu simply stating that he trusts Daigo to move Tojo into future would be enough.
>>689347254>I play Yakuza for the combat
>>689347663I most cases yes, the Yakuza series at some point takes a shit and the only thing dragging you in is the gameplay
>>689347656Yeah that's all true. I guess I only like it because I thought he was writing to Haruka at first then it surprised it me at the end.
>>689347656Daigo and Kiryu having almost 0 interaction between 3-6 certainly didnt help. They dont even make an attempt to call back to Kiryu being Daigos personal bodyguard or whatever they very briefly mentioned in Y2.Off the top of my head I remember a taxi cab scene in 5 which had 0 tenderness in it between the two.
If it is Judgment 3>make Yagami less of a sperg this time, "BUT SAWA-SENSEI" being his response to everything in LJ was infuriating, he wasn't like this in the first game>Kaito & the others don't need to be playable, I feel like multiple playable characters doesn't actually improve the story more often than not, but some slight level of command/control when they fight with you would be nice>Can keep it in Kamurocho but it's time to finally expand the Kamurocho map properly, include the areas at the edges of the current map that you can see but are blocked by invisible walls, bring back that underground mall from 4 but make it bigger, expand the rooftops, more enterable buildings, etc>Amasawa can come back but probably best to keep her a substory character, she'd probably end up being kidnapped or something like Haruka if she were made too story-relevant>just rip off Ace Attorney entirely for the court sections and make them more interactive than they currently are
>>689347563Shenmue getting an anime that also got cancelled prematurely is sorta hilarious
>played 1 on the ps2, 3 on the ps3, Kiwami 1, and I’m about to start 2 on the ps2. Im going to have a tough time playing every single game to catch up.
>>689348093Yeah but that was no fault to the actual anime. It did pretty well in viewership it just has such bad luck that it happened during a time when Warner brothers went on a complete purge.
>>689305489LOST JUDGEMENT2WITH COLOSSEUM MODEPLEASEI WOULD CUM BUCKETS
>>689348107New games are shit so don't worry about catching up and enjoy the old ones to the max
>>689348107Not the most popular opinion but I hate K2. its whack attempts at putting an unnecessary bow on Y0 and trying to codify it are retarded. Y0 is great on its own and adults can handle that Y1-2 never had a Y0 so new information can exist without needing to make all these memberberries of fucking 0 the same way I dont need Kiryu to recall that time he was a multibillionaire real estate agent
>>689347625From what I recall>they all found it weird that they ended up on top of hills, as if guided by someone>they had rational reasons to fight each other, yet they felt no animosity between each otherAll 4 of them (maybe beside crane) going with guts makes sense and I found it chuckle worthy how they had no way to progress further so decided to go with possible plan of unknonwn 3rd hand.It didn't work exactly, but I think it worked well enough for theme they were going for. Old gen, charismatic yakuzas proved to be too dumb to see mastermind and therefore decided to charge head rush at only idea they had. Mastermind shows up and new generation of yakuza- Daigo savaes situation. Now we truly see that Daigo grew up to be capable leader, oh wait nevermind. Goddamn Majima, you should've came out of hiding earlier. Why these games seem to go for 1-2 chapters too long.>>689347958I feel like they tried to quickly add something to it with those substories in 0, Kiryu being only guy treating Daigo like actual person. In 4 he just punches Daggo and doesn't really provide actual guidance.>Off the top of my head I remember a taxi cab scene in 5 which had 0 tenderness in it between the two.You mean prologue? Technically Kiryu was stuck in his stubbornes of pretending to not be Kiryu and having nothing to do with yakuza.
The story has ran its course. Where can they go from here?
>>689347993>include the areas at the edges of the current map that you can see but are blocked by invisible wallsHave always wanted to cross this road in the games
>Majima Pirate Gaiden>main script by Furuta>wacky Majima amnesia will somehow make sense and be moving>fan favourite new characters>Kiryu will be reintroduced with a pirate hat and a new fighting style as a story boss>next mainline game will retcon everything that happens and kill off the new character(s)
>>689348613YK3-6 YK0Y MINUS 1 starring Kazama and Shimano(cant happen, sega are weird and faggy about playing characters who kill people)
>>689348613this has been said about the story for the past few years now, Kiryu is never leavingalso I do expect them to just hard reboot the series eventually too
>>689348748Nah tired of this reddit tier shit, they need to go back to the tone of the original 1&2
>>689348613Remake 1-6 as 3 giant games. Rewriting big chunks of story.
>>689305489Hopes:>Yakuza 1 & 2 Remastered PC Port>Judgment 3>Seonhee GaidenFears:>Yakuza Wars takes up most of the presentation>Some shit that uses the same exact formula as Yakuza but in an IP I don't care about (Like the Hokuto no Ken game)>The Yakuza TV show takes up most of the presentation
>>689348737When I first played Yakuza 0 I thought I could go there
>>689348613Im deadass serious when I say they could do near carbon copies of the setups of Y1-6 but now with Ichi and his crew to show how Ichis path would rhyme but still have great discrepencies between the kind of character he and Ichi are. Is that original? no. Is it better than Ichis meaningless Hawaiian vacation? I think so
>>689348897Play Judgment.
>>689318987Stop shilling your garbage.If you weren't so unironically edgy I might give your video a chance, but that on top of the rambly ESL narration means I can't give less of a fuck about your video, even if I agree with the thesis.
I wouldn't mind a musuo RGG game, but just one.
>>689322948>We're in such a drought right now.Nu-Yakuza fans don't know what a drought looks like.We literally got an 60 hour game this year, just 8 months ago, and 10 months ago we got a 15 hour game.Most fans of videogame franchises would envy us.Hell, western Yakuza fans from 2006 to 2016 would mock you for saying you're in a drought right now.
>>689333618Don't listen to those dorks.Give Ichiban games a go.Gaiden is mediocre, Lost Judgment is the best game in this franchise.
>>689349427This I remember when Sega had to be begged to bring 5 over from Japan. Yakuza was dead in the west for awhile after 3.
Where are people getting pirate majima and yakuza wars from?Also, I just finished gaiden. Should I play Isshin Kiwami or just skip to 8?
Yakuza gacha number 3DLC for yakuza 8New trailer for Gaiden 2 showing Kiryu with even more cancerYakuza 0 remaster with english voice acting and special twitch streamer cameosStandalone yakuza minigame collectionYakuza netflix whateverYakuza 3 remake on switch 2, it's turn based RPGYakuza metroidvania
I know someone in the industry who knows a person that knows a developer. They told me that they’re doing 0 Kiwami. Will be released on the switch 2 as well. I know it sounds like bullshit but I believed him.
>>689341762>I'd argue it would probably play worse if it's on the dragon engineI feel the opposite.I think that Yakuza Kiwami 3 will play so extraordinarily good that it will immediately set off cries from nu-Yakuza fans for Yakuza 4, 5, and 0 to get remakes because they will pale in comparison.Zoomers don't have an appreciation for a natural progression in gameplay mechanics.Think about it for a second, you'll go from Yakuza Kiwami 2, which is arguably the most dogshit combat in the franchise, to Yakuza Kiwami 3, which presumably will play like Lost Judgment & Gaiden which have the best combat in the franchise, but even more improved, then go straight back to PS3 Yakuza with 4.If nu-Yakuza fans feel the transition from Kiwami 2 to 3 is jarring, (despite Kiwami 2 being objectively worse) they'll be especially butthurt about going from Lost Judgment level combat to Yakuza 4.I can see why Yokoyama wants to drag his feet on remaking Kiwami 3.
I'm gonna miss the stream sadlyPrediction:>game set in ginza>majima pirate game (it'll look jank as fuck)>possibly another RGG take on a different IP (city hunters?)Hopes:>faithful kurohyou remaster with Tatsuya's original voice actor and not the one from the second game>Shinada gaiden>another RGG take on a horror monster (I'd love a werewolf or vampire hunter type of game)Fears:>Yakuza 9 (with even more flanderised ichiban)>kurohyou kiwami>actually any kiwami>anything involving celebrities from 0
I want the hokuto game on pc
>>689305489>RGG chads... rise.No such thing exists.All RGG fans are insecure beta male sissies with bad taste, cringe humor and extremely abhorrent taste, they are as equal to the typical Ubislop consumer.
>>689342147>I'm fed up with KamurochoWhy? We haven't had a game that was truly set primarily in Kamurocho since Judgment (2018).This is the problem with perspective of newer fans of the franchise, is that when you blitz through the entire franchise your perception of it is fucked.
>>689349584Yakuza Wars was trademarked by Sega a while ago. Doesn't necessarily mean anything, companies trademark stuff just to stop others from using it or whatever all the time.Pirate Majima is a forced meme.Ishin if you want something a bit different, otherwise yeah feel free to go to 8.
>>689350261are you fucking retarded? I am not a new fun I played 12 fucking games set in Kamorocho
>>689343123Out of all the games in the franchise, Yakuza 4 makes me feel the most nostalgic.
>>689347364>I never knew why he couldn't just get RGG to work on the series moving forward, I don't think there's anyone with more seniority and respect in that company than Suzuki.I don't think SEGA wants anything to do with Shenmue given it kind of killed them.They respect and like Yu Suzuki enough to let him use the IP, but not enough to fund it themselves.
>>689350472shenmue homos need to get over it>Why wont sega fund another dud after 4 instances of this awful brand losing money
>>689347364Yu Suzuki still wants the series to have a dozen more parts and to dripfeed the storyit's a shame but I'm not surprised Sega doesn't really want to entertain the idea
>>689349143To each his own I find it funny. It's not some high art thesis it's just a dude having fun and trolling to an extent. From the accent to the delivery and the boomer humor racism. The vid is obviously trying to irk the apologist of the series.
>>689347993>"BUT SAWA-SENSEI" being his response to everything in LJ was infuriatingYou can immediately tell someone is a brainlet if they parrot this take.
>>689350350You are a new fan.
>>689350261And we haven't had anything done with kamurocho since 2016 when yakuza 6 came out and redesigned it. That's eight years of more or less the same kamurocho. Go back eight years from 2016 and you had kamurocho getting its redesign, getting the rooftops, getting the underground mall, and the sewers leading to purgatory. It's not that kamurocho needs to go, but it desperately needs some new life.
>>689318987Thank you for shilling my vid. Very kewl.
What is a “new fan”? I’ve been playing these games since ps2. Who gives a fuck if someone is new? If there were no new players we wouldn’t get any more games in the west. This happened with the series before.
>>689340331what the fuck is this disgusting thing
>>689350857I agree with you 100%.If anything, I find it frustrating how little they touch up Dragon Engine Kamurocho.>Little Asia is still burnt up and under construction almost a whole decade since Yakuza 6>They're so lazy with touching up Kamurocho that they couldn't even be assed to make North Pink Street for continuity purposes in Kiwami 2 because Little Asia was there in 6.>Shangri-La a whole 20 years later is still in the same exact shape and hasn't been touched>Kamurocho Hills has ZERO life in it, you can't go into it, it hasn't had a purpose in the story since Yakuza 5, 12 years ago, where it was finally completedI don't know why they put so little effort into Kamurocho nowadays.It used to be a running joke that new things would pop up in Kamurocho every year, the city was known to constantly change, but due to a shift in priorities the devs refuse to even give it small touch-ups anymore.>>689351243>I’ve been playing these games since ps2No you haven't.
>>689351560>No you haven't.Yes I have stop being retarded
>>689340331Don't listen to any plebs who say Lost Judgment's writing is dogshit.It's literally the best written game in the franchise next to Yakuza 0
>>689351639Stop LARPing.
>>689351714Why would I larp about playing ps2 games?
>>689351560>I don't know why they put so little effort into Kamurocho nowadays.This can be answered by common sense, look at the games that have come out, look at the cities they take place in. Kamurocho mostly exists for legacy purposes now, it's not the main setting and hasn't been for a while. Judgment (a side game) was the last game that focused on Kamurocho and that was 6 years ago
>>689351796Because you're a retarded zoomer.
>>689340331Judgment is great. Maybe top 3 RGG -studios game. Lost Judgment is a massive downgrade in every way except combat and soundtrack.
>>689351917I’m in my 30s. Yakuza wouldn’t exist in the west if it weren’t for “new fans”.
>>689350845Playing all the games since 2008 makes me a new fan? No dipshit.. If anything it made me having little to no patience with Kamorocho and the same locations all over again.
>>689305489>Hopes?Akiyama Gaiden, Judgm3nt.>Expectations?9 announcement, Yakuza Wars announcement, some sort of Gaiden.>Fears?Kenzan Kiwami in the vein of Ishin Kiwami, Kiwami 3, Majima Gaiden.
>>689352127>>689352224LARPing still.You started playing the franchise sometime after 2017, why pretend otherwise on an anonymous image board?
>>689350708I defend LJ more than most people on here do I swear Yagami had a genuine point on the stance he held, but 99% of the time instead of elaborating on his stance he just insists on repeating "but what about Sawa-sensei?" to every moral dilemma he runs into, it felt like unnecessarily lazy writing that made him seem dumber than he should've been and could've been avoided easily
>>689352127weird cope but ok
>>689352307>You started playing the franchise sometime after 2017What’s your problem? Here’s a random trophy from 2013. I would have timestamped by ps2 copies but those are long gone.
Link?
Hawaii was alright but I hope they go back to Japan for the next game and don't just make each new entry american-pandering shit with westoid actors
Dead Souls 2Or a Kiwami that completely overhauls it since the original is far too flawed to just 'fix the controls + improve graphics' and call a day on
>>689352773Trejo felt weirdly at home in Yakuza I thoughtSteven Seagal, Arnold Schwarzenegger (will never happen), and fighters like Bad Rutten or Bob Sapp (who are bigger in Japan than they are in the west anyway) are the only other western guys I'd be fine with seeing in a Yakuza game
>>689305489
>>689340331It's crazy, when I played the Judgment games for the first time in June, I was expecting Judgment 1 to be this masterpiece in writing and combat, and for Lost Judgment to have even better combat but a retarded story because of what I see peddled here.And yet, Judgment 1 has mid combat for the first 80% of the game until you upgrade Yagami to a decent point, and a story that's good, but nothing special.While Lost Judgment has the best combat in the franchise despite being Dragon Engine, and the story is also damn near a masterpiece.I don't even hear anyone have any valid criticisms about the story of Lost Judgment.They just say "B-b-but he says Sawa-Sensei a lot" and think that meme is a compelling argument for the game's writing being shit.
>>689340856Considering the RGG series loves to stand on a soapbox and talk about Japan-specific social issues, I guess they had to tackle bullying eventually because that's the big elephant in the room in the youth of their society that no one wants to talk about.
>>689353391The Sawa thing gets repeated a lot despite being a nitpick because it would've been so easy to avoid writing it that way, it's just annoying that it's thereIt's generally well regarded otherwise, people just think the overall mystery and Yagami's character arc was more tightly written in J1
>>689353210Seagull would be absolutely hilarious but he'd be an awful decision for them considering how much of a diva he is and how much of a lazy ass he is.Ahnold would be too expensive, I don't think they could get him.
>>689353645The Sawa-Sensei thing gets repeated a lot because this franchise's fanbase turned into a bunch of parroting brainrotted zoomers after the pandemic.It's a """"funny"""" meme so retards just repeat it over and over like a broken fucking record.
>>689353210>Trejo felt weirdly at home in Yakuza I thoughtBecause the dude was an actual criminal in his youth, he knows how to play one. He has it in his contract that he has to either die or go to prison at the end of every film he's in where he plays a criminal, to make a point of how crime doesn't pay.
>>689344840>t. Yakuza villain talking out of his ass
>>689353210I could see some wwe wrestlers
>>689321447I gave up any hope of that when these retards decided to make some stupid Kiwami 1 port than runs like shit on the switch instead of the collection that would be perfect for that system
>>689353804It's not some recent thing, rubber bullets have been repeated for years now for example
>>689354105And yet, up until brainrot memes infected the fanbase, no one ever let "rubber bullets" color their vision of Yakuza 4's story, and it was actually a very well regarded game in the franchise.
Yakuza 0 Kiwami PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE My favourite Yakuza game slightly ahead of 2.
>>689354370Enough with the Kiwamis already.
>>689354105Rubber bullets is one of those things that's simutaneously dumb and makes perfect sense in the context of the story. Also, the problem isn't the big event involving them, it's that we then have like 3 more instances of people getting shot only for them to pull the rubber bullets reveal on us and expecting us to fall for it every time (which we did, but only because we never thought they'd be stupid enough to do it a THIRD time)
>>689305489No hopes, head empty
>>689354264nigga it wasnt a deal breaker but it was and still is the most retarded thing from Yakuza 4. People on Yakuza forums back in 2012 were shitting on it. I dont understand what happened to video games discussion.
>>689354370What the fuck
>>689305489Yakuza Kiwami Kiwami, a current gen remake of Yakuza Kiwami
>>689354623>but it was and still is the most retarded thing from Yakuza 4.I would say revealing a new character that was never mentioned before this point but is the most important people in Majima's life apparently is dumber. It only gets away with it because people like Saejima.
Thread was cool up until the American school children got out of class. You can almost time it.
>>689354734Ehh, Majima's past never had that much focus before 4 to be fair. It wasn't that wild.
>>689354734We're talking about a series where the previous game reveals your foster father has a secret identical twin brother that works for the CIA.
>>689354734Majima was never the focus. It was Kiryu's story.
>>689354734RGG is a soap opera, that's one of the oldest cliches in the book.
>>689354491You should suck me up I look exactly like Kiryu irl
>>689305489How many bongs?
>>689354623>People on Yakuza forums back in 2012 were shitting on it.It was a ridiculous twist when used for Arai shooting Munakata, but other than that, most people didn't care.Yakuza 4 is the best written game out of the first four games, people weren't that fussed about the rubber bullets thing because 2 games prior everyone was creaming their pants over the same story that contained "Secret Koreans" mainly because Yakuza 2 had better presentation and production values compared to Yakuza 1.And then the game before Yakuza 4 we had rip-off Wesker and CIA twin brother.>>689354734???Saejima has always felt like a good addition to the lore.Of course he's not mentioned anywhere prior, Yokoyama has never been the type to plan ahead, and Majima was never a character who was focused on much before.But his relationship with Majima slots right in perfectly in the story and doesn't feel out of place.Same thing for Majima's backstory in Yakuza 0, the events of that game slots in perfectly without much suspension of disbelief.In contrast, Majima's relationship with Park and Katsuya doesn't slot in well at all, ESPECIALLY after 0, but even just looking at Yakuza 5 itself, he literally has no interactions with Park or Katsuya in the game, It's clear that backstory was only included to give the writers an excuse to put him in Yakuza 5 at all.
>>689354623Byootifurr eyes was pretty fuckin dumb
>HopesA new action/beat em up titleSome kind of new engine or updated version of the Dragon Engine. it's starting to feel a bit dated and looks pretty ugly in 8 (I think that's more of an 8 problem desu, I didn't have much of an issue with Gaiden or LJ)>ExpectationsName/Title drop for LaD 9, it's still probably over a year awayYakuza Wars will get its own amount of time showcasing it as though it's a proper title and not some gachaslop with AI assets all over the placeThere will also be a decent amount of the show wasted on the upcoming Amazon showMore remakes because people have some irrational fear or getting the old games>FearsKiwami 3 on the same level of laziness as Kiwami 2 that series newfags will tout as an improvementSome kind of 'fate worse than death' situation for the Judgment IP (eg. rebooting with new characters, replacing Takuya Kimura, using someone like Sugiura as the new protag)
Judgement 3Kiwami 3 A new game featuring Akiyama or tatsuya.
>>689355496>new charactersisnt there some sidekick people were hot on? Kato? he had like a dlc or some shit
>>689355496>Some kind of new engine or updated version of the Dragon Engine.If they're doing a new engine it's gonna be in UE4/UE5 guaranteed. There's no way Ishin Kiwami wasn't a testbed for that.
>>689355343>2 games prior everyone was creaming their pants over the same story that contained "Secret Koreans"Honestly that's not the crazy part because unlike the Chinese who very doggedly stick to their culture in Japan, the Zainichi mostly chose to blend into society so unless their last name is Park or Kim, you'd never know if someone is secretly Korean.The ACTUAL dumb twist is literally every important character in the story was a personal witness of the massacre that night, we just didn't see their camera angle until later.
>>689355608Yes, he had his own standalone story DLC in LJ. He could come back as a protagonist and it would be an ideal thing if they can't/don't want to bring back Kimura as Yagami. But he did get a pretty satisfying ending reconciling with his old lover and trying to make things work out at the end of that so idk if they will want to have him be a protag
Hating Kiwami 2 is peak retardation
LJ was teased a while before it was formally revealed with random unexplained new scenes from the game being posted online by Sega with no further context provided to them, probably isn't Judgm3nt at this event because they're not doing that here
>>689355790Just say you haven't played the original, no need to be passive aggressive about it
>>689355739people really take secret koreans as a silly plot point while conveniently ignoring the giant japanese castle that splits in half and turns into a yet bigger GOLDEN japanese castle complete with european knights and tigers
>>689355496>Some kind of new engine or updated version of the Dragon Engine. it's starting to feel a bit dated and looks pretty ugly in 8 (I think that's more of an 8 problem desu, I didn't have much of an issue with Gaiden or LJ)I can't wait for the day that they drop PS4.We've been on the same engine for 8 years now.For comparison, the PS2 engine lasted two games and two years.The first iteration of the PS3 engine lasted 4 games (Kenzan, 3, 4, Dead Souls) and four yearsThe second iteration of the PS3 engine lasted 5 more games (5, Ishin, Kiwami, 0, FotNS) and 5 yearsAnd now we're on Dragon Engine still running on PS4 for the past 8 years which means we haven't been able to see any meaningful updates to the engine because they have to hold back to still make games on old-ass PS4.
>>689355872Why would I play the original when the remake is better in every way? And no I don’t care about pointless details in the background
Spin-off that follows an alternate timeline in which Kiryu succumbs to his injuries in Y6 and gets isekai'd to a fantasy world. There, he must save the land from the evil Dragon King. The Dragon of Dojima's fists are just as effective against fantasy beasts as they are against yakuza.
>>689356038>I can't wait for the day that they drop PS4.They're more likely to keep that engine and make games on the Switch than drop PS4. Remember how fucking long it took them to drop PS3 after all.
>>689356116lazily cutting entire parts of the original game and having a worse combat system than the original aren't pointless details
>>689355621I don't like DE that much but only shit RGG switching over to UE would be fucking devastating.
>rubber bulletsThey are dumb and I accepted them when unknownlingly used by Saejima. Hell the worst part of it to me was how this confirmed no mc is ever allowed to kill anyone.That said, when Arai shot Munakata, there was no blood and no kill confirmation, I just got irritated.
I'll take an anniversary game set in modern times where you play as Majima, Saejima, Akiyama, Tanimura, Shinada, and Daigo (no Kiryu)
>>689356352Is 4 worth playing despite this?
>>689355780Kaito shouldn't be the MC if they absolutely have to get rid of Kimura (Which I sincerely doubt considering he's still doing high profile stuff now). Sugiura like the other guy said is the only way to really work because Judgment would just be Kiryu 2.0 acting out of character. It was already hard to buy Kaito figuring out stuff and noticing stuff in the detail he did in TKF and drove me nuts because he was acting exactly like Yagami when the entire point of Kaito was that he makes off-the-cuff suggestions and observations that turn out to be so crazy they work out. At the very least Sugiura would have a similar moveset to Yagami and has already been established to be as attentive as him.>>689356038Thing is that Gaiden showed the engine is still fine and can look amazing even on the PS4. It's 8 which looks awful on the PS4 for whatever reason considering they dumbed down already existing textures (Like the Mexican restaurant statue) for no reason.Outside of their complaints about the lighting I have no idea what they could improve upon with the engine outside of particle effects like they intended with the DE in the first place. Groups are about as large as they should be without making it hard to see enemy groups, we can already enter buildings and climb over stuff, we can already have dozens of enemies in an encounter with physics effects, etc. I don't really know what they would need a new engine for just yet outside of morning lighting.
>>689356116>Remake is better in every way>Laggy combat that feels stiff and unfun to play>Limited and bland OST>Cut an entire location from the original game, one of the most notable and distinct neighborhoods in OsakaUnfortunately, RGG has a habit of putting minimal effort into their remakes because they know retards will eat it up because "NEW automatically means BETTER, right???"I'm sorry that you got the inferior experience.>>689356209>Remember how fucking long it took them to drop PS3 after all.It didn't take them that long. Only 3 games came that were cross-gen -- 0, Kiwami, and Ishin.So far we're already at three cross-gen games now -- Lost Judgment, 8, and Gaiden (I'm not counting 7 and Judgment because while they ARE cross-gen, they came out prior to the release of the XSX and PS5 so they are decidedly 8th gen games).
>>689355780Kaito can't main a game, he's a great character but a better side character. I would even argue Yagami doesn't work that much either. In the first game he comes off like a wet paper sack and in the second game, he only convinced me of his argument at the very end. So most of the game I was in disagreement with him, which made for an odd situation.Akiyama can lead a game, same with Mine and Ryuji. Date could even lead a game. Kaito is too dumb. Kiryu is dumb too but he's not pretending to be a detective. I would guess Judgment is done but they'll bring back the other characters in some way.
>>689356473I think pretty much every mainline game is worth playing (can't speak for all spin off games like psp ones as I haven't played them) and each one of them has some problems in story, Certain characters won't show up or do nothing despite having power to prevent something. On other occasion, they will make dumbest decisions to let plot happen. They will also pretend to carry baggage of earlier games, but then forget about it after 2 scenes.First one is probably most grounded one (they always try to up the stakes with next entry), but it already had plot points/events that you simply have to accept. This is why 'favourite story' can vary greatly. It all comes down to which events/twists you would consider too dumb or dumbfun, also which themes/characters you find most interesting.
>>689356990Akiyama can't lead a game. He's got nothing to do with anything and his character profile is silly. Mr. "I have literally infinite money" is probably the worst possible character to turn into the series lead.
>>689356517>Outside of their complaints about the lighting I have no idea what they could improve upon with the engineIt's not just the engine, though I suspect that it is still giving them problems to develop on, It's the 11 year old hardware they continue to develop for.You can't have things like larger crowd sizes (It's still crazy to me that Yakuza 3 has the largest crowd size of any of the games), and a larger variety of detailed character models and hair when you're developing around a system that has a measley 8GBs of ram.I think the games still look good, but if they want to look better they need to develop on new hardware and maybe tweak the engine some more.
>>689357162I'm not saying the series lead, that's always going to Kiryu. I still think Ichiban should have been a spinoff. I"m saying new IP, Akiyama could definitely main a game. He doesn't even need any money.
Pretty wild that they literally just introduced a new protagonist which they can use and overall did a good job with how they introduced him but they already sorta messed him up by his second game
Anyone that pretends to like Yakuza 3 should be burned alive
>>689357321Having infinite money is a terrible character setup for a protagonist. Plus he's just a money lender so the only reason for him to get involved in shit is to just haphazardly stumble into shit that's none of his fucking business.
Was there ever an English-cover version of Gaiden released physically anywhere? I forget if the Asian versions had the English subs at all.
>>689357462Yes, the Asian version. There's an English cover version and a CN cover version but nowadays only PS5 is easy to find and PS4 is sold out everywhere. Copy and pasting what I said last week:https://videogamesplus.ca/products/like-a-dragon-gaiden-the-man-who-erased-his-name-asia-english-import-ps4https://videogamesplus.ca/products/like-a-dragon-gaiden-the-man-who-erased-his-name-asia-english-import-ps5But they've been sold out since launch.https://pnpgamesonline.com/product/like-a-dragon-gaiden-the-man-who-erased-his-name-asim-ps4/https://pnpgamesonline.com/product/like-a-dragon-gaiden-the-man-who-erased-his-name-asim-ps5/These guys are also a Canadian store that imports stuff that's also sold out but I don't know how long they've been sold out of it.https://www.play-asia.com/like-a-dragon-gaiden-the-man-who-erased-his-name-multi-language/13/70gpcvhttps://www.play-asia.com/like-a-dragon-gaiden-the-man-who-erased-his-name-multi-language/13/70gpd7Play-Asia is currently the only one who has the PS5 version with the English boxart in stock. They're sold out of the English boxart PS4 version.
If this post ends with 3, it will be Kiwami 3
>>689355739>unlike the Chinese who very doggedly stick to their culture in JapanThis isn't really true, otherwise there wouldn't be such a contrast irl between the Chinese in Yokohama who moved to Japan in the 1910s and have assimilated to the point of even their food adjusting to Japanese tastes, and the newcomers to Ikebukuro who are very much still like mainlanders.
>>689357394After reading a lot of things in random threads, I was surprised how fine it was, like some fever summer dream.My main problem wasnt notkazama, but how rushed main plot was. Not enough Mine and budding with thugs in okinawa.
>>689357903>and budding with thugs in okinawaThat was my biggest disappointment, I wish more of the game took place in Okinawa, and that Ryukyu were a bit bigger.In fact, I would have been perfectly happy if there was no Kamurocho at all and we got an entire game just set in an even larger Okinawa setting.
>>689357903Yeah 3's big problem storywise is that the slow start would be somewhat justified if it wasn't like a third of the actual story. It is funny though how they sweep Hamazaki or whatever his name is under the rug and just have ka long go apeshit for no reason
>>689357462>>689357650Also, just to confirm for you but I own both the CN and EN versions and the boxart and manual are English. All versions of Gaiden are in English, you get a menu when you boot the game up that asks you what language you want to play in.
>>689357650>>689358980>and PS4 is sold out everywhere.Well fuck, that'd be the version I'm after given I have the rest of the collection on PS3/PS4 that was in English (plus I'm not buying a PS5). Thanks for the info though, I'll be keeping an eye out.
I liked the Y7 dub a fair bit, every main character felt like they had a proper casting. How were the other dubs in recent entries in comparison?
>>689355790I played og 2 and this is true. You can like both.
>>689359153Good luck, I'm pretty sure the PS4 printing was smaller than PS5 because everyone had PS5 versions for months after launch compared to PS4 which constantly kept instantly selling out. I lucked out and I think VGP had both in stock at the same time so I blew the money on it. Only reason I have the CN version is because Play-Asia didn't have English boxarts when you pre-ordered with them and they'd either refund you or send you the CN version so I just opted for that.>>689359341I haven't played JE or LJ in English but I wasn't a fan of the voices I heard when going through Youtube personally. Watching Kuwana in LJ in particular doesn't work compared to JP and Yagami is fine but nothing close to JP. FotNS's dub sounded like a generic throwaway dub. I jotted down what I thought of 8's dub as I was playing it, my first playthrough was in JP.
can the series just fucking die already?it's been taken over by faggot trannies and the director now is a male feminist cunt.
>>689359341Nanba sounds ridiculous in the dub. I get he's cosplaying as a homeless dude but his VA sounds like a grizzled old war vet or something.
yakuza 1 is better than yakuza 2, outside of combat.... Sorry!
how does lost judgement compare to the first game?
Is 5 good?
Kiryu's cameo in Astro Bot was cute.
>>689359818better combat, less good story>>689359939if you like the other games then yes, it's basically the Yakuza franchise on steroids
hopes: livestream of yakuza fags killing themselves, it would be the only remotely entertaining thing to come from this dogshit reddit IP.
>>689359941ngl was expecting Kiryu to tiger drop him
>>689359817Cutscenes are better in Yakuza 2.Side content is better in Yakuza 2.It's nice to not have a million missable side quests in Yakuza 2.Characters are better in Yakuza 2.I will say the shitty Secret Korean shit was bad in Yakuza 2, though.>>689355739>the Zainichi mostly chose to blend into society so unless their last name is Park or Kim, you'd never know if someone is secretly KoreanMy problem isn't that everyone is secretly Korean, It's just the writing in Yakuza 2 is honestly REALLY bottom tier and the cutscenes past the first couple of chapters get REALLY stupid.>"Bwahahaha, I, a secret Korean who got plastic surgery to look exactly like Kazuki, led you up to this roof with the real Kazuki so you don't know who is who!">"Let me monologue evilly at you for 5 minutes before I almost pull the trigger, to give Kaoru enough time to show up and headshot me!">That laughably bad hacking scene with Kaoru in the Millenium tower that's literally just this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL335IA7sqs>Kawara's death was fucking stupid>The entire final cutscenes were EXTREMELY STUPID.
>Mainline sticks to RPGs but spinoffs like Gaiden keep beat em up combat and expand other charactersI'm fine with this. Here's to an Akiyama game
>>689359939Yes. great combat, the most variety in the series, and tons of content. The story is the only underwhelming part.
>>689318878wtf I didn't know we had RGG staff members on /v/
I want to punch younger-me for stopping JP studies 15 years ago. Granted, there are far more options to work with nowadays + ask questions vs. what I used back then. I just want to be able to actually understand these characters without subs or shitty dubs.Partly envy people growing up with the vast resources they have available for free on the net nowadays. Granted, they have less excuses to even learn another language with how much shit gets localized than they used to (or having to be stuck waiting years for one like we did with Y5 & Ishin).
>>689360457>It's nice to not have a million missable side quests in Yakuza 2.That's not really something that's a great benefit in 2 because you still have the missable substory if you punch your way into Riichi Heights, you have like eight or ten missable Heat Actions, and if you make a single mistake in any substory you can't fight Amon. Plus, going into NG+ or PA doesn't wipe your substory progress so that save is permanently locked into not being able to unlock Amon if you saved with mistakes.
>>689361178>you have like eight or ten missable Heat ActionsWhich you don't need to do to do Amon, which is all I care about.
>>689360937I feel the same way.When I first got into Yakuza 13 years ago now, I started learning Japanese and every day I think about if I just stuck with it, I'd understand the language perfectly already.But, I started some months ago studying properly and I'm going to stick with it, like you said, there's far better resources nowadays for learning, and I do think I'd have had immense trouble back then sticking with it even if I wasn't so lazy.Like they said, the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.I'd rather have regrets now than be even more regretful in another 10 years.
>>689360457i had more fun in yakuza 1 therefore its better.
What's Kuze up to these days?
I'm surprised they went to Hawaii first before ChinaSaejima is literally in China conducting "Tojo clan business" during Dead Souls
>>689360242same
>>689313647so was ishin kiwami but they did it.
>>689361715Doing anything serious with China will be walking on eggshells in terms of them feeling defamed whereas with the US you can have the senator of hawaii eat a baby and no one cares
>>689362049yet instead of senator babyeater we got WHOA ICHIBAN SWIMMING WITH DOLPHINS AND RIDING A JETSKII WHOOAAOAOAOAOAOAO
>>689362159I mean you had a corrupt cop and bureaucracy, openly wealthy crime lords, etc. all things that would easily butthurt individual Chinese consumers, never mind the Chinese government itself if they were just transposed onto China
>>689362039the best part about Ishin's 'kiwami' was that they used an inferior engine for itEasiest skip of my life once I saw the UE logo plus what they had done with the card system and shit
>>689362550they could have set it in Japan....
I played Mahjong Soul for 2 months, I'm ready to do the bullshit requirements in these games now.
>>689363126Just remember to play on the hardest difficulty because for some reason the difficulties are reversed. You'll get cheating AI that yakumans on Easy and braindead AI that 1 hans on Hard/Expert.
>>689305489How much time left for the RRG Summit?
>>689356237Which parts were cut?
>>689362687theres no hacked ps3 version with english?
>>689363332If they have to cheat to beat me then the people I play on /vt/ are already actually harder than the AI.
Never go full woke retard. I'm never buying a RGGS game ever again
>>689312684buddy the way the games are going the judgement series is getting blended into like a dragon series
>>689363538just dogshit machine translations, no 'real deal' yet
>>689363538No. The original team that was doing the Ishin translation patch said it was still going to come out after Ishin Kiwami was announced via a tweet and then it dissolved as a project late February this year.There's an MTL patch but it's completely unplayable, isn't translated correctly at all, has memes in it like picture related, and crashes more than just playing it normally via RPCS3.
>>689361470>Like they said, the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.That's pretty much how it's going atm. 1000'ish vocab, 200 kanji atm, and still just keeping at it 30min-hour a day, with lots and lots of Gaki on the side for listening material for the my day my brain clicks and can better keep pace with their speaking rhythms.If RGG games weren't so fucking dense with kanji I'd just use them as learning material while playing. That'll have to wait for another year or two.
>>689364206>If RGG games weren't so fucking dense with kanji I'd just use them as learning material while playingThey can still be good immersion material even if you can't currently read most of it.Especially for a replay where you already have a gist of what's being said or what's going on in the plot.
>>689318987I tried but I couldn't even get halfway through the fucking thing, his accent is kind of annoying
>>689363375>>689363375>>689363375PLEASE RESPOND
>>68936440510 hoursgo to sleep anon
>>68936440515 hours
>>689364206I mean in the spoken scenes you'll probably still get the gist of what they're saying. I'm basically illiterate with the language but if someone is speaking it to me I more or less know what they're saying as I was taught it by just talking to people.
>>6893644054 hours
>>689364508Would be less of an issue if the vast majority of the cutscenes were voiced, but this series is well known for having crazy disjointed cutscenes, going from fully animated and voiced in one scene, right into a text-only follow-up for the next 30min of gameplay.
God I fucking love how Kiryu looks in the finale of Yakuza 8.I'm seeing a lot of discourse lately about how characters need to look hot or whatever because people are fed up with the hideous character designs of western artists.But I think that discussion is placing too much emphasis on conventional attractive character designs.In my opinion Yakuza 5 Kiryu and Yakuza 8 (finale) Kiryu are his best looking iterations because he genuinely looks old and rugged and I love that as opposed to his supermodel look in the other Dragon Engine games. He's more unconventionally attractive in these two instances and I love that.
>>689364329It grew on me but fair enough you either find it funny or annoying. For me it's not that different than listening to Americans doing fake Russian accents in movies. Like Niko Belic if he would talk faster. I'm subbed to a few ESL channels and ironically this guy is the only one I don't need the subtitles for.
>>689366069Where did you get that picture of me
I paid 50$ to fuck a whore but I came as soon as I entered. I feel like i've wasted 50$. Would it be better if I bought a video game?
>>689366760Where do you live that a woman is only 50 bucks?
>>689366069Old Kiryu is still hotter than 90% of modern western male protags is the problem.(against western game designs, not RGG)
>>689366948Eastern Europe. She is 42 yo. Younger ones or hotter ones are around 120 euros. Elite ones goes up to 500
nagoshi wrote the best games in the series and now he's gone from RGG so why should I care about what they announce next?
>>689367524Gaiden was pretty litty
>>689367297If all I had to pay for an elite hooker was 500 bucks I'd be getting laid every other week...
>>689318987It's fun
>>689367964Everyone's IQ goes down 20 points when someone pulls out a gun, the series is infamous for this.
>>689367929Well if you were living here, 500$ would be a fortune to you. That's a minimal wage and the normal living costs are 800-1000$ per month
>>689353532Amasawa was pure sexo. i wonder if someone got her model from the game to do some porn but i doubt.
>>689305489Hoping the "Dogshit of Dojima' doesnt voice Kiryu again.
>>689338249ShadPS4 will save us, hold the line.
>>689338249I wonder if that horrid witch bitch Holly has turned lesbian like the rest of the woke, nasty cunts.
>>689326435Actually good taste, more gaiden games would be fucking sick. I guess Saejima/Majima/Daigo are pretty accounted for, but Akiyama might be cool
>>689369251>he played the dubembarassing
>>689369786I didnt, but i still hate it.
>>689369640I need more Akiyamer.An Akiyama/Shinada gaiden game would be beyond kino.
>>689326435>Kiwami 3What would they even do it? The whole point of Kiwami 1 & 2 I thought was to get the PS2 games more up to the standards of the rest of the series at that point (full camera control, removing terrible load times, a small graphical facelift), and we already have 3-4-5 Remastered.
>>689370740Yokoyama's been hinting it, and because Yakuza 3 remastered is universally agreed to be the worst game of the series.
>>689371036It is the worst game but it's also not a bad game in its own right. It just was unfortunately a transition game.
>>689366069He looks good. He looks proper old yet still cool.
>>689371036>>689371440it's not the worst by any means. It's a far better game than both y5 contextually and y6 mechanically
>>689366069I actually liked Kiryu's wierd dyed hair and black shirt with grey pants. I don't know what it is but by the end of the game I was totally cool with that look.
>>689344159So Johnny Kitagawa was basically Japanese Epstein.
>>689371572Really? 5 is my favorite game in the series. And yeah, 6 is an incredibly barebones game but considering they were working with very new tech at the time and decided to voice EVERY substory, I don't entirely blame it for being low on content.
>>689371728>butwho cares why, It's an inferior game. > 5 is my favorite game in the seriesDo you think it has a better story than Y3? Yea of course not. So how is y3 the worst?
>>689371572I haven't played 4, 5 or 6 but this is a bold claim.I do understand the misgivings people have with 5, which are not the result of remastering process fucking with the game logic like it did in 3 that resulted in the obnoxious over usage of blocking.>>689371440Right.Certainly my least favorite of the ones I have played but enjoyable nonetheless. The engine has a certain charm to it.Also gotta say I was pretty disappointed with Mine by the end of the game. I appreciate what they tried to do with him and his parallels to Kiryu but I guess some people oversold me on it.
>>689371925>Do you think it has a better story than Y3?Yes.
>>689371036The only thing I disliked about Y3 (which happened to also be my first one) was the god-awful story pacing. It takes way, way too long to get moving at the start, and then the last two hours feels like a complete farce storywise.
Why hasn't RGG invited Moose to their events? He's by far their most based autistic supporter.
Majima and Saejima Gaiden would be kino.The wild west music edits also make me really want a Western spinoff.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci88R3OAChI
>>689371960I think you should play both games before spouting that nonsense. Y5 has one of the worst stories ever put in a video game that has story as the selling points. Y3 has over the top stuff. y5 has illogical mentally retarded nonsense and humans acting like anime characters.
>>689372002people really understate the orphanage shit. Literally nothing of importance happens with Kiryu til the second half of the game. The first 4-5 chapters are Kiryu doing gay kid quests and a golfing minigame
Roughly 10-11 hours until the summit, bros!
>>6893707403's story is scuffed as fuck but not to the extent where fixing it is an impossibility. Of course that would require them to actually make changes (at the very least they would stuff more Mine in the game due to his perplexing popularity)
>>689372110I really can't stress enough how 5 was made with absolutely zero planning.You could fix 3's story with some additions but 5 is impossible without a complete overhaul.
>>689372116>>689372002I didn't mind it that much. Found that comfy. I think the intention was to make you care about the orphanage and kids. If you just did the intro, saw a cutscene of Kiryu and the kids I don't think you'd give a fuck about the land trying to be bought.And for me, the story beats of when you get back to Okinawa are the best in the game, and that certainly would not be the case without that build up.But I do agree the pacing could be way better.
>>689372110Shinada's chapter alone makes up for Saejima and Akiyama's stories being a repeat of what they went through in 4. It draws an important parallel to Kiryu's own internal struggles in the game, both being two Tokyo men hiding from their past, pulled into the open by Daigo, realizing their identity has never quite been hidden, their run-in with a local crime family leading them to confront the Tojo, both wanting to set the record straight and clean up their identity. Like Kiryu took back his identity fighting the clan in the harbor, Shinada took back control over his life by fighting Daigo. Which directly ties into Haruka's story.>>689372378>even the writer repeats the meme of no one understanding why the final boss is the final boss.How do you not know that Yokoyama, YOU WROTE THE CHARACTER, YOU GAVE HIM THE SUBTEXT BEHIND HIS WORDS. He's the thematic final boss more than the narrative one. What, did he need a fucking MGSV intro where it says "AIZAWA: THE MAN DENIED A DREAM" for people playing to get it? Realistically whether he beat Kiryu is actually kinda irrelevant, the reason he's the final boss is his father thinks dreams are stupid and worthless while hypocritically sacrificing everything for the dream of leaving it all to his son. He's not just a brute like Ryuji, he has actually thought out the implications of the life he's been given allowed him success but at the same time never let him have any dreams of his own. That's why he says, "I don't even know why I'm here", because he's just been going through the motions his whole life, coasting by on what his dad gave him. He's saying, "I don't know much about dreams, never really getting the chance to have one...but if I beat you, that's gotta mean something."
>>689372921I dont remember Saejima hunting bears with what are hands down the worst fucking shooting mechanics Ive ever had the displeasure of playing with in 4
>>689373063First off, you've never played Dead Souls. Secondly, his story really is just a repeat of what he went through in 4, he didn't learn or experience anything new because his character arc was already completed in 4, there was nothing else to say. Much like how Akiyama is spinning his wheels being there in 5 but everyone expects him to be there so he is.
>>6893723785 is fun to PLAY though Haruka's rhythm shit gets old fast, bite me but christ is the narrative a trainwreck. Trying to juggle five characters' plot threads in a story as long as this doesn't work. Even four was pushing it in Y4.>I hadn't decided who the final boss of Yakuza 5 would beyeah NO FUCKING SHIT>>689372921>How do you not know that Yokoyama, YOU WROTE THE CHARACTER, YOU GAVE HIM THE SUBTEXT BEHIND HIS WORDS.If even the writer misses the "subtext" of his own character and writing, then maybe that "subtext" has just been a fanciful cope invented by fans this whole time.
>>689372921>almost dying in the coliseum to avenge your aniki that you killed as a performative act just in case a guy like Saejima(who youve never met before) shows up alllllllaccordiiiiiiingtoooooooookeikakuuuuu
>>689372321I just don't see a reason to re-release a game that's already available on modern platforms. If anything needs a "Kiwami" it's Dead Souls at this point given they'll never touch Kenzan or the PSP games which would also require similar amounts of reworking.
>>689373257Harukas rhythm shit is super cool until you realize she has like 3 songs total
>>689373257>If even the writer misses the "subtext" of his own character and writing, then maybe that "subtext" has just been a fanciful cope invented by fans this whole time.What I'm saying is directly backed by Aizawa's own speech before the fight, but no one remembers anything he says besides the meme line, nor do they bother to pay attention to the YUME unless it's directly being said.
>>689372116>Literally nothing of importance happens with Kiryu til the second half of the game. It's sets up the stakes. it flashes out Kiryu a bit and introduces the characters. > gay kid quests you need to be 18 to post here>>689372378Jesus Christ that guy is a hack I wish I had known this sooner >>689372921this has to be one of the stupidest thing I have ever read. Absolutely amazing if bait
>>689349508>>689372921fuck off cvit
>>689373628>this has to be one of the stupidest thing I have ever read. Absolutely amazing if baitDo you not examine anything characters do or say beyond the surface level? Did you also think Someya disliked the old ways of the Yakuza in 6?
>>689373789There is nothing to examine lmao the dude is a hack who wrote nonsense drugged out his mind. Cant you read? He literally says it. I feel bad if you think there's some deeper meaning. It was stated by numerous people throughout the years, even Nagoshi himself, that Yokohama writes for the sake of set pieces and its what he enjoys.
>>689373752Nta but I recognize that argument, that's not Cvit, that's tehsnakerer.
>>689372921I agree, this is either very well-constructed bait or you are certifiably insane.
Wasn't the whole orphanage thing just part of a money laundering scheme? I forget the specifics but Kiryu wasn't doing it all entirely out of the good of his heart.
>>689372378>>689374178I know what blurb makes him sound like a hack but you know who also wrote as they went without planning ahead? The writers of Deep Space Nine, what most people consider the Star Trek show with the best writing. Because you don't need to plan out a story from beginning to end right from the start, you just need to remember what you wrote before in the story when you're at later parts, so you can look back to the previous episodes, see neat things you wrote that work as good setup for what you want to write now, and followup on it. It's a very common technique in Hollywood, it's called backloaded storytelling.
>>689305489I'm hoping for a new Like a Dragon, but with a new protagonist. I like Ichiban and the gang, but I want some new stories.
>>689374564We are not talking about a GRRM here. We are talking about a talentless nip who wrote 15 games and has yet to write a single cohesive story from start to finish. Theres a reason why the stories in y1 and y2 were at least cohesive and well told and bullshit was held o the minimum. It's because Yokoyama was following instructions and was even mocked by Hase Seishu for his Y1 script
>>689372378>>689373257i have been bouncing off of haruka's segment for the past year and a halfi should just booze up and force my way throughi hope the rest of the game is good because i enjoyed the first to acts
>>689374340I'll say it so I'm clear as possible: Tatsuo Shinada is unironically, without meming, the best character the series has ever written. Sure, he may not have mattered that much to the overarching plot, but he represents the YUME theme the game pushes more than anyone else, even moreso than Haruka. Yakuza's story seems to be at it's best when it has fresh new material that allows for self contained character-focused vignettes rather than a sprawling, interconnected, complex story, it just doesn't seem to be cut out of that like other series. I think that's why 0's story is so loved since there's less juggling in the plot to be done and it looks at how two characters we've come to know very well got to here they are as people. Everything about Shinada's story, for the short time we get to see him, works. And that to me makes up for all the other problems 5's storytelling has.
>>689375049Shinada's story is extremely good, but it still doesn't change that the rest of it is pretty awful.If anything 5 would be improved if it was just about Shinada.
>>689374880>and bullshit was held o the minimumnta but 2 probably has more bullshit moments and twists for the sake of having twists than any other game in the series, people just give it slack because.....because it was an old ps2 game, it was allowed to do that! And I don't just mean SECRET KOREANS, because that's just the meme answer, 2 gets so much stupider than just that.
>>689375049I like Shinadas story a lot, but his story being so good while also having very little to do with the rest of the games story and his weird fuckin fight with Baba are further indictments of Yakuza 5
Seriously, why can’t they just make a game with this handsome, rich-voiced nigga as the sole protagonist?
>>689375732too expensive. Also the parts of his story in 5 before he gets wrapped up in the YUME shit fucking sucks. his version of Baka Mitai is hands down the best
>>689375732koichi yamadera is very, very expensive
>>689376142>too expensiveAs opposed to hiring one of Japan’s top actors for two games? I’m sure they can shit out a Gaiden-type game for him and people would eat it up. Who hasn’t been waiting/wanting a Akiyama solo game? >spoilerAgreed, which is a giant part of why I want him to have his own game. Imagine two or three more karaoke songs with silky-smooth singing?
>>689376393Considering they bring him back for RGGO regularly with new lines for random cards I doubt he's that expensive.
>>689359941it's amazing they modeled all those things that I instantly all recognized. Incredible. Although...why didn't they use Ichiban? Personally, I'm far more interested and invested in Kiryu and would prefer him to continue being the main protag, but it's seems like RGG tried to move away from it and then did a 180 in Y8.It's all so hard to understand what they're doing.
Reminder.
>>689376808A few lines and an entire game worth of dialogue are not comparable expenses.
>>689377051Sure, but they repeatedly go back to the well which would further increase his prices because he's reprising his role, and he gets cards constantly. If they can fork out enough money to get him to sing for multiple games (4, Dead Souls, and 5) then I'm pretty sure they can fork over the money for a full game considering they couldn't even pay Yagami to sing in JE or LJ.
>>689375365>2 gets so much stupider than just that.The fucking underground golden Dr. Wily castle is easily one of the absolute most retarded moments in mainline Yakuza games. Rubber Bullets is tame in comparison and most people don't hate/mock it for the correct reason.
>>689305489I hope we could get a spinoff/retcon that gives us the potential kino we could have gotten after 5, like a properly violent Daigo warlord arc, a Haruka and Kiryu on the run arc including the tension between the two after their fucky wucky in 5, and a finale where Kiryu calls upon Watase and the Omi to prevent Daigo from getting too powerful and beats down everyone including Saejima just to put things to bed so he can finally go home. But RGG is fake and gay and can't see the sheer level of peak they could reach if they actually tried.
Why do women find some yakuza chars attractive? I thought they were more into pretty boys than manly ruff men
>>689378178Women's taste in men are varied my friend, much like how /v/ disagrees between hags and younger girls.
Takuya Kimura is still uploading his video normally instead of being busy. I doubt Judgment 3 will be announced
>>689378178Yokoyama writes soap opera shit. I'm pretty sure women masturbate watching Yakuza cutscenes
>>>689376808man im still on kiwami 2. i will never catch up. its not like you can binge these games either. punch punch kick gets boring as fuck after a while, and yea tiger drop is cool when you unlock it, but theres just so many fucking retarded minigames that i really don't care for sometimes.
>>689378538It'll be a Kaito game, already teased with Gaiden.
>>689371036Y3 is near the top of my list, next to Y6 and 7 when it comes to story. Y3 also has THE best combat in the entire series. It actually requires you to use your moveset. People always complain and whine about blockuza but there's a bunch of ways around it. Y3 is when they tried to make the combat more than just a button mashing mess. Also, the bosses all have gimmicks and require certain tactics. Almost every other boss in the series is straight forward comparatively. This is why I'm absolutely not interested in Kiwami 3 and hope it doesn't come (it will). They're just going to dump in Y0 or K2 combat that dumbs it way down. If they went full on dark souls and made it harder, then I would be hyped.
just a reminder that they're working on a new I.P that they've yet to announce, so don't expect big announcements related to stuff like Gaiden or Judgment
>>689379536>Y3 also has THE best combat
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Selfish sneed is not feedom
>>689375049my favorite part of Shinada's story is when they're all sitting around the table and they start trying to console him over being "falsely" accused of cheating in baseball. Instead of nodding along he basically calls baseball the most corrupt sport and that everyone cheats, implying that he also cheated. Ofc, we know he didn't cheat in the instance he was accused of as he proved during his final part at the baseball stadium, but I thought that was such an incredible monologue that cemented his character into legendary status. He could have whined about it or blamed someone else, but he treated it exactly like some kind of underground gambling den.
>>689305634>Yakuza 9 w/ IchibanI don't think they'll show anything Y9 related unless they do something like Bethesda did 4 years ago and show some kind of aerial shot of wherever they're making the setting. But since most people think it will likely be set in Okinawa, I don't see them doing that. Yokoyama said mainline games are every 4 years. At best, they've been working on it for a year.
>>689375049Haruka represented more teenage angst, depression, and "I want to desperately fuck Kiryu" in terms of theming than Yume desu. The YUME was shoehorned in after Park died because she was nice to Haruka literally once and they needed to somehow tie everything together.
>>689380338If I remember right, he even really did steal signs because that's just what everyone would do, but he didn't rig anything. So like he really was halfway to it.
>>689380882Yeah, it starts at 49:40 or so, I really had my own head canon going on there. He admits to cheating normally lmao. It's still a great monologue though.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClE12RTbmP4
>>689305489my hopes are PC ports for Kenzan, Dead Souls and the FotNS game, but my expectations and fears are that we're getting none of those
>>689382298They've already said if Kenzan is happening it's as a Kiwami and even joked about how the name would almost be entirely kanji (龍が如く見参!極). Considering how Ishin Kiwami happened I don't think that's a good idea anymore because so much of the story and side content relies on stuff they'd easily deem "problematic" nowadays. I wouldn't expect a port at all, I'd expect a full on remake, and far more people were asking about Ishin than Kenzan.Dead Souls there's zero chance. It bombed in the west as far as we know and in Japan it only sold ever so slightly better than Ishin. It would also very likely get a Kiwami because it would be raked through the coals for how most of the game plays since it mechanically is like if you picked up a gun in a mainline title and started blasting. Play it on RPCS3 and forget about ports. If that happens it's a full remake.FotNS I doubt they'll do simply because of the licensing. As it was they already skimped on music licensing for the western version since there's no Tough Boy or Ai wo Torimodose.
>>689382936What's "problematic" about Kenzan?Beyond perhaps the Kiryu-lookalike and Haruka-lookalike romance?
https://youtu.be/VCCO4TfSadUhttps://youtu.be/7CGH_FzUpjMhttps://youtu.be/2KICr1aXDYIhttps://youtu.be/yghfMEHZzkghttps://youtu.be/NjKPe-kMnwwhttps://youtu.be/vbWLhF1lmtQhttps://youtu.be/wIeDZPoAIXc
>>689383085There is literally no romance between the two in that game, fake news as fuck.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q83RjuhqcA
>>689381408Ah, so he said he actually didn't cheat the one time that he got called out on it. The part at the end of Shinada's chapter does have it so that he knew their signs, but he didn't have anyone to relay what the catcher was giving, so he did get that home run fair.But still funny that he absolutely was trained to cheat and it's in a way that in real life was so common place that it was basically impossible to stop beyond making it harder for the batting team to signal, or for teams to make up multiple signs to swap between so they aren't all learned. Really great character, loved him just sitting watching the concert at the end and slowly crying at Haruka realizing her dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc0LbR1V57Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWHD5gCO-_Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lfggzo7Xg0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ1h9ixHIschttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J564gmRLcu8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbWLhF1lmtQ
>>689383085The entire first few minutes of the game is a bunch of little girls being sold into slavery, some implied to be sexual slavery with Musashi not caring. Webm related.Haruka sells herself to a brothel. Western connotations would assume this means she's prostituting herself even though in the time period she'd be more like a waitress watching the older chicks having sex and bringing tea. Goblin (Demon?) Slayer apparently did this without much issue though, but I could see them panicking about this considering how sensitive they are about even minor things nowadays. The game itself already has an in-game glossary that specifies what a kamuro is and they could make an effort to explain this with additional dialogue though.Haruka around midgame nearly gets sexually assaulted before Musashi and Kojiro step in.Late in the game Haruka basically says she wants to stay with Musashi rather than be saved by Ieyasu so she's gonna stay in the Tsuruya until she comes of age to leave it. You can view this as no romantic feelings at all (Considering she's only known him for like three discussions) or romantic feelings (Considering she's turning down a life of safety to basically fart around in a whorehouse until she can stay with Musashi and says she wants to for him). It's very likely the former though based on the wording.One of the yuujo substories is about a grown adult stalking a little girl and making enough money to pay for her freedom for his own selfish wants and then trying to force her to do that before Musashi steps in.I also believe there was a crossdresser substory but it's been so long I can't remember. They removed the one from Ishin Kiwami though, and they have substory where a chick is essentially naked and Musashi checks her out while she's bathing but they've left other stuff in roughly like that so 50/50 on that.
>>689383591really snuck one on me there
>>689379850I hate that architectposting makes me giggle regardless of context.>tfw one of those JP matome sites explained to Japs what is architect-postingFeels weird.
>>689384376Architectposting is always funny.
>>689318987oh great, now people will think I'm parroting an e-celeb for shitting on the newer gameswhy does this keep happening
>>689385328try having less shit opinions bro.
>>689379850i only just noticed that the wheel says BBW lmao
>>689375732they'd have to recast the fatty since Aya Hirano got bopped for DV
It's funny how the first time I hear about this "Yakuza" series of games was when people were celebrating that Yakuza 5 was finally getting localised. I wasn't even aware that such a series existed until the fans were shouting and complaining about the lack of release in English.
I think 2 was the peak of the series and it's been getting worse with every game since thenThe newer ones don't even feel like Yakuza anymore despite them still reusing almost everything from the old games
>>689305730came here to say this.
Will they announce kiwami 3?
>>689326435Gacha already leaked
Roughly 7 hours left until the stream bros!!!See you in next thread!!!
