Like I can understand wanting to facescan faces but can't they just facescan better faces?
>>721882174This actor has such a punchable resting bitch face, is he someone's nephew or something?
>>721882174imagine buying this at full price
>>721882356Goddamn man, why does simple clean graphics look so much better than oversatured realistic ones. I can't believe the remake is making me defend yakuze 3 but the orphanage area is gorgeous in the original.
>>721882471Ps2 and simple PS3 graphics had better lightning and better art direction.Now everything is fucking dark. Look at the remake of fatal frame 2, no more good fixed angles
i think what angers me more is they won't even try to make remake kiryu look like original 3 kiryu in the slightest.
>>721882174Really that's what the original 3 looks like? That's a modern game
>>721882174He went from "You wanna start somethin?" to "CHING CHONG BING BONG", lol.
>>721882174Is this Jomon erasure?
Looks fucking nothing like Rikiya
>>721884375He looks like a nobody mook who would try and bully Kiryu in a tutorial right after starting the game
>>721883676He looked kind of weird in 3/4, to be honest, that's like being upset that he won't have that shitty running animation anymore.
>>721884375>>721884440The funny dork aura also doesn't fit with this ugly serious actor like, at all
>>721882174They got the "first act minor villain" look right, but they forgot that Rikiya becomes plot relevant.
I genuinely thought I forgot Yakuza 3 since I had no fucking clue that guy was supposed to be Hamazaki
>>721885334>original unique faces>mocapped faces of failed or B-tier actorsshameful
>>721882174>I can understand wanting to facescan I don't. I'm sick of facescan in video games, especially one based off real actors.
>>721885403They just keep facescanning literally whos for some reason
>we need to fill our celebrity quota
>>721885486Reminds me of Japanese pornos. It's run by the real life yakuza. Naturally they pick themselves to star in the films, which is why the guys are usually ugly as fuck or super old.
I fucking hate RGG and their retarded celebrity casting, i don't care if they do it for one off characters lieutenants from 0, but doing that shit to actually important characters and god forbid THE main characters is plain retarded.Literally the only reason Judgment is dead is because they were retarded enough to celebrity cast Yagami.
>>721882174>they gave the fat dude his old face from Y3>Rikiya somehow doesn't get hisbut why??? it's like RGG doesn't understand their own games. people love Rikiya, you can't just change his face. imagine how people would react if they did the same to Majima.
>>721882174Okinawans don't look like that...This is kind a racism
>replacing all these characters with real people>the main cast is still handmade uber chadskek
>>721885767It's such a fucking shame man. Judgement seemed like it had such a bright future, the characters and combat were great, I was really hoping they'd stop doing all the dating minigame shit and just focus more on Mafuyu in the next game but now it seems like there never will be another. At least Kaito, Saori, and Hoshino got to have happy endings I guess.
>>721888107But why? If they want these shitty actors so much just make them new characters
>>721882174Here's the thing, Rikiya's narrative is a two-bit blowhard that grew as a character through tough schooling, so it kinda makes sense they picked a punchable face.BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE TO LOOK THAT PUNCHABLE!
>>721885334So are they doing Kiwami 4 with this face too?
>>721885334Why would they do that? Hamazaki genuinely came across as intimidating in his introduction with that face chewing duck neck like candy. How are we supposed to take that scene seriously now
>>721888315>give me the most punchable face you've got>no that's too punchable
>>721882174>Japanese devs>gives a chink face to a Japanese guy
>>721885767The real crime is dressing up Kimura like a clown. This is an iconic veteran actor, and his face wouldn't feel out-of-place in a yakuza story, but no they went and put him an outfit 30 years too young for him. What the hell were they thinking
>>721888538RRG is woke for japanese standards
>>721888538You’re right he needs that weird asiatic jew nose japs have for some reason.
>>721885334The guy on the right doesn't look like he could chew a duck's head
>>721882174He definitely looks more chinpira than hardened fucking killer now, that's for sure.
>>721882174Y*koyama wants to cozy up to his favorite celebrities, that's why he replaced the original with Show Kasamatsu, a superstar.
>>721882174>I can understand wanting to facescan facesI can't. Fucking cancer upon this industry.
Sick of the remakes desu, are they gonna kiwami all the way up to 5 now so 0 makes even more sense a s a starting point?5 is a perfect game already
>>721882174Should I stick to the original PS3 version of Yakuza 3, or the Remastered versions? I heard the PC version of Y3 Remastered has a glitch where enemies do nothing but block and it makes the combat tedious. Is that been fixed yet?
>>721892425just wait for the kiwami version
>>721892425>heard the PC version of Y3 Remastered has a glitch where enemies do nothing but blockThat's just Yakuza 3
>>721892110What else are they going to do? Drag cancer-ridden Kiryu out the hospital for a new punchy yakuza?
>>721892425Do you care more about gameplay or more about aesthetic and "soul"?Having played 3, the gameplay is dated but the new face scans are so ASS especially for the guy in OPs image, who plays a huge part in the games story. The environments don't look as beautiful as that PS3 apeing that early 2000s tropical aesthetic either. But to someone who hasn't played it yet, you wouldn't hold that nostalgia for it.
Will you guys be playing Dark Ties or 3K first? Mine's game is just about how he's gay for Daigo, right?
>>721888561Picrel is kino, really hooked you up from start to finish but dunno about the sequel. In-game Yagami is around 30 and with the OG PS4 version he's not too far fetched but with the remaster version he's looked older than his in-game face.>>721885767>Bringing up Johnny's shits againI'm tired hearing this shit. He's dead now and the reason this series can't and won't continue is because it's Nagoshi's project and i also think Kimura won't work with RGGS unless it's Nagoshi asking him again because he mould the character along with nagoshi and yokoyama will ruin his character because JE series is off limit to yokoyama. Also like it or not Kimura is the reason that JE sold pretty well especially with woman which is their customer hence the reason the game also dubbed Kimutaku ga gotoku
>>721892425You better stick to PS3 version because the remaster screwed up the fps logic so enemy blocks twice as often and your heat will dissipate twice faster. 4-5 is fine on PC but you won't get pachinko minigame because they cut that shit for unknown reason
why hasn't sexyama made a cameo in one of these games
>>721882174It actually gets worse as I saw multiple gameplay footage and I have already my autismo list of how fucked up this remake is:>Okinawa map is 100% confirmed to be smaller (northern region with hostess club district completely removed), with less shops and as a fuck you bonus - still having loading screens for the fish market>Actual premium cutscenes REMOVED or cut short - first example is Rikya and Mikio eating ice cream cutscene. It has been gutted in the remake and they just stand there, have 3 jrpg dialogue box shit and then you get shorter cutscene of "Rikya" showing off his tattoo>Nonsensical, random changes - mainly to character design - take Hamazaki for instance, his tan, face scar, whole suit has been changed for no reason. From one of the more recognizable and memorable villians to another old grumpy businessman jap that we've had for the past 10 years>Another bonus, it's confirmed that all of the new cool arcade games like Sega Bass Fishing, Spikeout, Fighting Vipers 2 are not in K3, enjoy your VF2 and FV1 only lolI am genuinely so sick of those remakes. Even putting aside subjective things like revamping the og story of 3, there were other gameplay-related things like maybe including Hamazaki as a proper boss fight in the remake. But it seems unlikely given how they are doing yet another K2, with reusing content from prior entry all while removing unique content of the game they are supposedly remaking.
>>721894762thankfully you can go back and enjoy Y3 on the PS3
>>721885767>Literally the only reason Judgment is dead is because they were retarded enough to celebrity cast Yagami.No, it's because Nagoshi was behind pushing for the series, Yokoyama doesn't see it as that important, and everyone is being relegated to side characters now. Judgment as a whole only sells because it's a game where Kimura is the playable protagonist. It does not matter if you don't find him the main attraction, in Japan he IS the main attraction and everything else is tertiary. Kaito, Higashi, Sugiura, Saori, etc. all don't matter in the grand scheme of things compared to him because he IS the Judgment seriesThe whole issue with Johnny's and the PC ports has been moot for years and anyone who brings it up to this day is just willfully ignorant for no reason just to bitch about his casting. Can you buy JE and LJ on PC right now? Yes? Why the hell are you still bringing it up? Let's also not forget another important fact in that Kimura himself has said he likes the series, personally plays it, was pissed with the LJ PC situation, and was actively saying he wanted to be in more games so it's not even anything to do with him.
>>721894183>but you won't get pachinko minigame because they cut that shit for unknown reasonThey're not in the western PS3 release either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Ym8ySgIqkWTF 2 dame dane guy?
>>721892425PS3 version with the restoration patch even though it has very minor completion list mistakes and sometimes crashes. The PS3 games were never meant to play at 60 FPS and the remasters causes a whole host of issues thanks to that including making enemies block twice as often as they ever did on the PS3 version, your dodge distance is either halved or doubled depending on what platform you are on (I think PS4 is halved, Xbox and PC are doubled), enemies with pistols don't shoot at all, enemies with shotguns "charge" their shots and then instakill you ranodmly when you punch them, Heat Action timings are halved making Tag Team Heat Actions almost impossible to do (Webm related took me like two or four hours to perform once when on PS3 I got them all within like five minutes), and your Heat drains even faster.>>721894183>4-5 is fine on PCNo, the remasters across the board all have issues due to 60 FPS.In 4R it increases grab frequency timings which is why everyone bitches about a boss that was not even difficult (Saito), the quickstepping is still broken, the snipers shoot twice as fast, Heat still has draining and timing issues, and the boat segment has your opponent way faster than you.In 5R it causes issues with the final Shinada gauntlet and also an ultimate mission tied to that gauntlet and I know there were a few other issues I'm blanking on. That's also not bringing up the worse translation despite the same people doing the translation.Across the board the remastered versions are worse than the PS3 versions.>>721895458Pachinko was in 4, Dead Souls, and 5 on western PS3 and PS4. It's also on the Xbox versions of the remasters. It was removed on PC. You can even find trophy guides for doing them.
>>721888561i don't like kimura takuya nowadays, yeah he used to look cool when he was in his 20's but now he looks like a "how do you do fellow kids" clown dress your age, you're 50 years old
>>721882174https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h0Nisr0qiIQlmao the downgrade
>>721899257I always had impression that they fucked up something with dialogue audio starting with 6
>>721882356I wish we still had graphics like those.Everything is so crispy
https://youtu.be/_1xq8QYHeSo?si=kIi4_5WFT1H6rAoS
>>721899846RGG 6 is the last one where they put minimal effect and shader for the game afaik in 6 they only add darkening filter but then after that they going crazy with light filter and change them each game
>>721899671They did. I'm not an audio guy, so don't know the specifics but all DE games have by default some weird surround sound filter that shifts the voices by like 90 degrees to mimic the speaking person being in front of you. You can change it to regular 45 left/right channel in the settings but I dunno, it still kind of sounds hollow.
>>721885334Hamazaki has a much smaller role in the overall plot than Rikiya or Nakahara but for some reason his recast is the one that bothers me the most. They should've kept the open shirt plus chain look at the very least.
>>721882174I think RGG has finally crossed my bullshit tolerance threshold.
>>721882174Man, i miss the original characters. The ones CREATED not based on real actors/models.
>>721882356
facescanning and its consequences have been a disaster for gaming.
Tell me, what can a Westerner do about this?
>>721888538arr rook same
>>721900739imo he could work in 3 where he's mostly a scheming cunt who set up other people to fight Kiryu, but wouldn't work in 4 as the absolute unit that literally got Saejima's back
>>721885334Are we going to defend nu-Hamazaki now that people found out the new actor is a sex pest and want him removed?
>>721904854Yeah, that's in character for Hamazaki and Yakuza in general.
>>721892425>I heard the PC version of Y3 Remastered has a glitch where enemies do nothing but block and it makes the combat tedious.I swear the original had that problem too. Is there really still no fix for the remaster?
>>721908170It did not have that problem. Bosses blocked more frequently than normal enemies (A carry over from Kenzan), but normal enemies block at half the rate you see in the Remastered version. I even did a sanity check of this while I was in the middle of playing 3R because it felt like I was playing Kenzan again with how often they blocked and when I loaded up my Hard save on the PS3 (Webm related) I was hitting enemies with things like basic attacks, 2H weapons, and actually getting combos off by redirecting hits unlike on the 3R run on Hard. A simple example is 2H weaponry like signs, bikes, or those small trees. On 3R you have to face away from the enemy, charge the attack with triangle, and then do a 180 with the spin to hit them at all. On 3 you you just face them and attack.In terms of blocking 3R on Easy and Normal is equivalent to 3 on Hard and Ex-Hard. 3R on Hard and Legend is equivalent to Kenzan on Easy and Normal.
>>721908170>>721908516Forgot to add: No, there is no fix for the remasters because the 60 FPS issue is baked in under the hood. Even if you drop the framerate to 30 the game internally still perceives it at 60, so you're just getting a worse experience with all the issues. There are combat overhaul mods but then you're not playing 3, you're playing an overhaul, and each of those have their own balance issues or they introduce stuff from future games backported into the older games which, again, change the experience.
>>721904854The previous actor, George Takahashi, was far more based.>actress Mika Mifune comes from a single mother household, her father had her in his 60s>Mika's mother pimps her out to old and wealthy men>George Takahashi starts dating Mika when she's 13>they marry the moment she turns 16, earliest legal age of marriage>they stay married for almost 18 years and have a daughter>Mika files for divorce and sole custody of their daughter, citing George imposing curfew hours on her
>>721894762Spike out and bass fishing are gay. I was missing fantasy zone space harrier and super hang on the whole time in IW.
I refuse to play any games that do facescans
>>721909896but feet scans are ok?
>>721909969yeah
>>721908642Fuck me thanks for the explanation. Are any of those problems present also in 4r and 5r? Am I right in thinking on PC it would be best to emulate 3 on rspc3 and play 4r and 5r?
>>721900739>but for some reason his recast is the one that bothers me the mostA couple other Anon's already said it, but his face completely ruins his initial appearances. Imagine that gook looking motherfucker trying to chew through a duck head menacingly.
>>721893982I'd play it if it was sold separately, but I'm not buying a phoned in remake of the worst mainline Yakuza game
>>721908516>>721908642Maybe it's worse in the remaster but there's still a lot of blocking in your webm. Either way they should've fixed it and some of the other problems with the PS3 games instead of lazily remastering them
>>721910032See >>721895854.>Am I right in thinking on PC it would be best to emulate 3 on rspc3 and play 4r and 5r?1&2 HD are the only remastered versions of the Yakuza games that are fine.3R, 4R, and 5R all have their own sets of issues due to the framerate and in 5's case the "once over" retranslation they seemed to have done that added things or just straight up got lines wrong like "Only children believe in dragons". 5R didn't even fix the issue with Premium Adventure locking your save to it so you can't make clear data out of it.The ideal best way to play the series would be>PS3 1&2 HD, Wii U lacks save data bonuses for 5 for obvious reasons.>Kenzan.>PS3 3 with the restoration patch.>PS3 4.>RPCS3 Dead Souls.>PS3 5, RPCS3 is still a mess with this game performance-wise.>PS3 Ishin since it's the only one with the translation patch.Do NOT use the 60 FPS cheat. It breaks how the enemies fight and a bunch of minigames. Only the PS4 version runs fine at 60 and even that has some minor timing issues in karaoke.>PC 0 for mods and better everything or the PS3 translation patch if you want the Walkman.Avoid the DC, it just ruins many scenes.>PC K1 for mods.>PC 6 because of the restoration patch and mods. 60 FPS also does not cause issues to my understanding.For this and any DE game until 7 you do not use the "No bounce block" mods. It breaks how the NPCs work in combat and allows infinite stunlocks.>PC K2 if and only if you cap the FPS to 30 or at the very least never go past 60. Otherwise PS4/Xbox.If you do go to 60 you need Silent Patch but that only fixes minigames, not the physics bugs introduced by 60 FPS.>PS4 Judgment.JER introduces bugs thanks to the 60 FPS like broken side quests, broken drones, people floating around, and other weird issues that weren't present in the original.Every game after Judgment is best on PC thanks to mods but with the framerate limited to 60 or even better 30. 60 still has issues as seen in 7G and its coliseum.
> Mentally ill> No friends or connections> Violent> psychopathic > But jacked ....he's.... JUST LIKE MEEEE
>>721911293Like I said, the blocking still exists but it's significantly worse in the Remaster and you can freely attack way more in the original version of 3. It's especially apparent if you've played Kenzan because PS3 3 allows you to actually hit enemies more than once. In the Remaster basic enemies require completely different ways of approaching them to even hit them like in my 2H weapon example. If you aren't facing away from the enemy and charging the attack you are getting blocked in like 90% of cases.
>>721912608He had plenty of business connections. Insider trading is all cronyism. Try:>actually competent breadwinnerLITERALLY ME
>>721882174Why don't they replace them with JAV actresses or vtubers? No one would mind if they were girls.
>>721914256statistically speaking the majority of their fanbase would being women and all
>>721903187Crazy how westerners are trying to cancel this guy again for something he did 6 years ago. He learned his lesson and already apologized, got punished, and stopped drinking.
>>721882174>>721885334the chigyus won
Did they slap on the Mine gaiden because otherwise people wouldn't buy the remake?They released the Kaito files as separate DLC for Lost Judgment and it was okay.
>>721917267>majima gaiden>mine gaidenI suppose it would be a decent tradition for kiwami>arai gaiden>t-set gaiden
>>721918578>t-set gaidenpair that with Baba gaiden and you'll have my moneyhttps://youtu.be/cNBtnDFPekY?list=RDcNBtnDFPekY
>>721916730Most of /v/ have the same mentality though. People will never get over how you are in the past, even if you stop/tone it down in the present.
>>721917267The Kaito Files is like 4 hours long, this is similar in scope to The Man Who Erased Haruto's Drawing
Is there a version of the kiwami 3 trailer with JP voices?
>>721882174WHAT DID THEY DO TO MY BOY RIKIYA
>>721882174I'm no anthroplogist but isn't the top guy a different ethnicity? A little more urban, Okinawan?
So did they bring Mine back to life or is it just a prequel to Y3?
>>721918748>Only Kids believe in DragonsWhat the FUCK was he talking about?
>>721885401Im glad they havent change kiryu to look like Yong Yea
>>721882174
>>721919634fuck and off
>>721895854What if I locked the fps to 30 on PC? Will that fix the fps logic issues?
>>721919634>begins paragraph with "no we haven't changed the character of rikiya at all">ends paragraph with "rather than comparing him to the past"
>>721919558did he get buffer? i don't think i want to make fun of his voice acting anymore...
>>721919634Yeah, here are you deep inner thoughts of Rikya - cookie cutter stilted head bobbing of the dragon engine with no voiced lines instead of the regular old cutscene:https://youtu.be/w-3mpp3OAkw?t=169
>>721920131This is just the demo. The cutscene was shown in the trailer.
>>721920071oh no a buff asian man, now he's at least 80% as strong as an average adult-sized white man
>>721920131RGG probably fired or chased away all the people who knew how to make the old engine style cutscenes or how to work with old face models and the way they were rigged. They changed Rikiya and Hamazaki to face scans because both of them are getting some new scenes, and the current RGG just had no idea how to animate the old faces.
3 was always my least favorite. The plot makes no fucking sense and they knew, hence why they dump it on you. Once Kanda is dead the game should really be over, the glowie shit comes out of nowhere and makes no sense.
>>721912608He was gay?
>>721882174Newflash: Asian men do not look like Kiryu
>>721900739The thing is Hamazaki's entire character matches his design. Rough, scarred, kinda ugly, looks like the person you never want to cross eyes with ever because he'd suddenly be amused enough to kill you or ruin your life. And intimidating enough despite his roughness to fit the position in the Yakuza he got. It not only does not even remotely fit the new casting decision, but flies in the entire face of his redemption in 4, where that nasty bastard subverts his old mentality and evil-looking appearance to genuinely help Saejima and Kiryu out even to his head (though they'd probably retcon it that he lives in a K4).I see this character and I literally cannot see his 3 or 4 depictions working with what's being put out here. None of the menace, just pure corporate-looking slime. He looks like the generic bad guy high rank officer we upend like a little bitch in most of the series, not Hamazaki.
>Rikiya's entire introduction up to the fight is removed and replaced by 5 dialogue boxes as they stand around in generic poseshttps://www.youtube.com/watchv=Mg4nJqOIWTohttps://youtu.be/w-3mpp3OAkw?si=2Kbn2NPazw_jt5KG&t=180We gotta kill everyone involved in this remake
>>721920597You got filtered hard. Some of the very first cutscenes introduce Daigo and Kiryu's plot of land being mixed up in some business with Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Then you see Daigo and a man from the Ministry in Nakahara's office, crashing Kiryu's bonding ceremony. There's also a TV news segment which tells you the Ministry of Defense is also behind this shit and they want a military base on Okinawa, which always means the amerimutt masters are involved.
>>721921169>>721920393
>>721921169>https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Mg4nJqOIWTohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg4nJqOIWTosomehow the ? disappeared in the link
>>721921169>Kiwami is low effort shitStop the presses
>>721882174which one is the "upgrade"they both are ugly as hell to mebottom looks like a pig, top looks like an iraqi immigrant working at a gas station
is infinite wealth worth playing? i heard its a slog
>>721922697The combat and other rpg systems are vastly superior to 7, but yeah the story can be a slog depending on how much you care about Kiryu.
>>7219226978 is the best yakuza game
>>721882174Top: a white man with yellow skinBottom: an asian manWhats the problem?
>>721922697If you're into this series mainly/primarily for everything gameplay related, it's a big step up compared to 7.If you're into this series mainly/primarily for the story, your experience might probably vary.
>>721922697If you can get through 5 then you can get through 8
>>721922697I'm currenly 35 hours in and enjoying it very much, although I'm a chapter 6 and I heard the game will go to the shitter very soon
>>721882174Rikiya's voice actor from Y3 has a wiki page.Rikiya's actor from YK3 doesn't have a wiki page.Also he is fuck ugly.
>>721924571The yakuza wiki is ran by a troon
>>721924870He meant wikipedia pages for actors. Old VA is much older and had some smash hit roles like in Death Note.
>>721919380Dark Ties is a prequel that will lead up all the way to the finale of Y3.And yes, if Wesker is alive and well, so is Mine, betting on a post credit scene that shows blood spatters near the hospital, but no Mine's or Wesker's bodies in sight
>>721895854I played Y3 to Y5 remastered on PC and can confirm what this anon says, it also fucks with the minigames, making them really frustrating to play
Can I just skip to Lost Judgment / Gaiden / Infinite Wealth / Pirate? Haven't cleared 3/4/5/6 yet.
>>721925294Yes.Play 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and maybe 6.
>>721925294Big thing is 7 has a large plot point that ends the summary of the Kiryu saga with yakuza plots despite it being an Ichiban game, and the games after that automatically assume you're in on the know. Technically the only reason not to skip around is mechanical progression in the franchise, since while the first Gaiden is largely a payoff for the franchise (and 8 continues that awkwardly), the stories are kind of a huge disaster class mess that barely tie together at all til this point. Otherwise, feel free to play whatever and be prepared for some real chunk if you ever dial it back to a prior game.This is one of those series where as much as I want to recommend to just play release order to folks, the Kiwamis are shit ways to play their games, 5 is too big for its own good, 6 also isn't that great, and these games are just too fucking big to work through individually anyway through the whole series without a ton of dedication.
>create the best-looking and atmospheric rain on PS3>never use it againWhat was RGG thinking?
>>721925265In interviews they already said that Dark Ties is going to be mostly the RGGO stories converted to a 3D format. You can find them translated on youtube (Hisanas channel) and various tumblr and wordpress blogs. The target audience was female, all translations are made and promoted by them.Over on 5ch japs are suspecting that Kanda might be resurrected as well, because in new footage shown during TGS they were showing some scenes about bonding with Kanda, being all buddy buddy, and Kanda not being such a bad guy after all.
>>721926648Kinohttps://youtu.be/5H7eT8ACI8k
>>721922697I like IW a lot but it really depends on how much you like Kiryu I think. I can understand someone coming from only playing 7 not liking IW very much because the entire game just jerks off Kiryu.
>>721926648kino
Haruka sexo
>>721927457kino of the highest order
Reminder there's an entire chapter in the game called "The Plot" where you play a visual novel. Do they have the BALLS to do that shit again?
Are they at least going to cut the racemixing part of the game? I could do without that.
>>721928512Your memes aside, they'll probably retranslate it. It's a character substory and animations gotta be reused.
>>721928859to be fair the original translation wasn't meant to be racial but they felt like it'd be more understood because orphan culture isn't as big overseas so they replaced "being an orphan" with "race"
>>721882471Take me back.
>>721929020Yeah well, now they're gonna have to English dub this crap, so they either try to make it appeal to westerners, or they change it back to the orphan intent because "the voice actors would feel uncomfortable" or whatever.
>>721928497Tamiya is a gigachad tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho2_2iMIv-4
>>721929240>English dubIs Mitsuo going to say the n-word and rap about discrimination?
>>721929240Oh good. Now I can hear Yong whine about racism in video games too.
>>721929490YONG OUT
>>721928859There's something really funny about the racism evaporating from Riona's body just because he defended her from being bullied once, so I hope they keep it all the same
Why does bottom look like a generic mook you beat up like 50 times while running around town looking for locker keys?
>>721928512>>721928859>>721929620I hope Yakuza 10 is about Mitsuo and Taichi
>>721929240That's fucked up. Originally Mitsuo was humbled by all the ostracism coming from other kids and really tried to be a decent guy. He wasn't falling for monkey impulses to spend his allowance on bling (unlike most kids in the orphanage). Later he got serious about baseball and even was awarded some scholarship. And now they're probably going to erase that whole part of his background because it's about self-improvement against all odds.
>>721920405>now he's at least 80% as strong as an average adult-sized white mandon't believe the movies anon
>>721930515Wait a sec. Yokoyama should have cast Brad as Richardson.
>>721930335>Later he got serious about baseball and even was awarded some scholarship.His baseball shit didn't go anywhere, he's a salaryman now
>>721930705Might have had something to do with Kiryu going to prison when everyone told him to lawyer up and Haruka painting a target on the orphanage.
>>721926648I miss PS3 era Yakuza
>>721930705at least he isn’t writing whore reviews
>>721930816Why did Haruka completely fuck up everything in the late 2010s for no reason?
>>721930305>TaichiDamn, the kid became a firefighter by Gaiden. Not quite a wrestler, but good on him.
>>721930897Because she is a women.
>>721930897I believe she's like that because she grew up with Kiryu. She always acted like a brat and provoked people because she knew that daddy Kiryu would always come to her rescue, and he always did. Women are like that when they have a personal army of white knights.
>>721930816alot of athletes have terrible backgrounds if he was already awarded with scholarships then he should be solid, he's just a kid at an orphanage not much he can do on his end
>>721930897it's in her mother's genetics to fuck up her entire life on a whim.
>>721882174RGG needs to fire everyone, starting with their PR team. TGS was only the YK3 show and all their other projects got were... a jazz concert and a slideshow with a teaser of the same faceless guy walking. And now I hear they hired a rapist.
>>721926648The OG guy left and now we're stuck with overoptimized shit
>>721926648Why did games look better back then?
>>721883823I feel like people have been memory holing how good PS360-era graphics could be, and that hardware improvements have scaled mostly to load times, density of objects, and uncompressed assets
>>721932231Same reason why movies used to look better. There were people specialized in playing with lighting systems and creating set pieces that would look good despite being on a very limited budget.
>>721922697A few days after I beat it I think I decided it's probably on the lower end of the RGG games I've played.
>>721882471Modern game design is incredibly lazy and half of it is farmed out to Indians and Chinese anyway. Also as was pointed out a few days ago, Nagoshi was a film major so he knew how to make the games interesting on a visual level even with the limitations of budget and technology compared to Yokoyama who's a moron who came in from a marketing background.
>>721882174>>721885334completely ruined
>>721932231Restrictions from older tech availability foster a need for people to build experience and skill, and a desire for the outcome be worth the effort put in.Ease of putting a functional game together nowadays promotes just outsources various aspects to random disconnected studios who don't care about the final product and will just implement the easiest default global lighting and stuff.
i'm so tired of remake doomfags, we're really holding Rikiya and ape face Hamazaki up as the pinnacle of good character design now? This is a case where the original was just recently remastered, too, so this bitching is for nothing.
>>721933619Would you rather the non-events like the live concert (STH) and the slideshow + teaser of the same teased character just walking (VF)?
>>721933372>Nagoshiwas the one who wanted real actors to embody their characters like live action because he came from said background, face scanning started with Kenzan. Don't pull this retarded shit here
Yakuza games now are full full actor slop>Kek it was like that beforeYeah but after 6 it has been actor after actor after actor, and they stopped trying to put effort in stories and now its like "How can be make actor X fight Kiryu"Judgment is also full actor slop, but it works because the protagonist is a famous actor so he has to look good
>>721882174>scan an asian face>OP: "wtf, why doesn't he look like a black man with yellow skin?"
>>721933619I doom, because the game now looks cheaper. Compare the introduction to Rikiya in the remake:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxWmWwNLtY4&t=1078sand in the original:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg4nJqOIWTo
>>721933951They still make characters that aren't based on real people in the newer games though.
>>721933372This thing about Yokoyama is pretty funny, it goes beyond the in-game design. He said that he's been recording TV commercials for decades at this point. He's doing it to review commercials 10 years later and see which elements of graphic design, including fonts, typefaces, geometric shapes, etc, were used in the past, so that he can go out of his way to avoid accidentally reusing them in his current projects. His hipsterism will defy any good designs if they were already used in the past. He'll throw everything out of the window for the sake of forced originality.
>make character face scanned actor>actor injects a marijuana>character is deleted from games
>>721919270>playing dub
>hurr durr look how cheap they are>by hiring new actors, re-recording the dialogue, and making new models over re-using the HD versions they already have and re-using the old audio.logic
>>721933928You can compare Nagoshi's casting decisions against Yokoyama's though. Tetsuo Nikaido, DD, Tachibana, Sagawa, Kuroiwa, Ayabe, Genda. Some of them were strong opposites of what their actors are like IRL but they were chosen because the actor performances and additional touches by 3D artists could create characters that oozed personality from their first appearance.
>>721921169You're that upset they cut the cutscene by 15 seconds?
>>721934842Kuroiwa casting was a mistake on Nagoshi's part. The actor was good, but Japanese players almost immediately thought that he will be the killer since he was often featured on Japanese TV in 2010s. Only Yagami's actor was more popular than him and they thought that he will play some important part in the story
>>721935345Kuroiwa's actor is primarily a news anchor, pretty good choice for a character that's publicly known for being very polite and proper, playing it by the book. I figured from the start that he was probably a dirty cop somehow involved in the cover-ups.
>>721921169Kill everyone in RGG. They can't market or make games anymore.
How will they replace this for being le hecking racist?
>>721934842Right, like I think of the lieutenants from 0 and even though they're facescanned actors, their visual design still does a good job of allowing the player to immediately figure out what their character is. Awano looks like a sleazy kind of guy, Kuze looks rough and serious, Shibusawa looks like the quiet accountant type which in Yakuza is almost always the actual brains or most dangerous guy.Compare that to a lot of the casting decisions since Nagoshi left.
>>721926648Graphics peaked here, we dont need anything more
>>721937428PS3 face scans also received a lot of manual adjustments, in part to prevent them from looking too different from original characters.
>>721882471>orphanage area is gorgeous in the original.It is
>>721882356the morning glory beach always make me feel nostalgic for some reason. might be cuz it reminds me of the beach stage in Dead or Alive 3
>>721882174Not my aniki
>>721931495>And now I hear they hired a rapist.the old voice actor for Hamazaki is also a pedophile and married his ex-wife when she was in his 15 while he was in his 40s. absolutely cursed role
>>721882356Yeah, you'd have to be a fucking moron....ha ha ha
>>721937321Double down>I'm not dating a stupid nigger!
>>721938103Holy based
>>721888561Wasn't that kind of the joke though? Yagami comes off as a guy trying desperately to stave off middle age.
>>721895326Yokoyama really is a cancer.
>>721938204Started dating her when she was 13. Chigyus on 5ch were trying to find a way to spread this info in English-speaking internet to cause ultimate butthurt among the female nu-fanbase.
>>721938195Better than the remake, see>>721937854
>>721937428>Compare that to a lot of the casting decisions since Nagoshi left.Nagoshi was still in the team when retarded casting decisions for Kiwami 2 came.And for the soundtrack to be downgradedAnd for an entire area be cut Stop sucxking this man's diclk when he was already part of the problem
>>721919558I'm pretty sure they DID change Kiryu to look more like Kuroda when Kenzan was coming out. Not entirely, since Kiryu was the main character with an established appearance (not that this means much to them anymore) but they did change a couple bits.
>>721892425Unless you're playing the original Japanese release, there's not much point to playing the PS3 version. The overseas releases PS3 releases cut more stuff that the remastered releases did.
>>721938195the worst cover ever amerifats ruin everything
>>721938685wait until you see the german one
>>721938627During his last few years with Sega his studio was split in two. He was getting old and tired of constantly fighting Yokoyama and several other retards like Horii.
>>721938656There are enough mods now to completely restore everything in the pc version, Answer x Answer is still not translated but you can play it.https://www.nexusmods.com/yakuza3remastered/mods/224
>>721938195>>721938685>>721938809it is accomplished!
>>721938809featuring Majimbo from Pirate Yakuza™ series
>>721938627Nagoshi did nothing wrong, those were the other retards
>>721938873This mod is very recent too, still getting updates and bug fixes. I'll give it a few months and it should be good. If everything goes well it might be ready and polished before the demake comes out.
>>721920776>None of the menace, just pure corporate-looking slime.RGG Studios just needs to go ahead and make a Shima Kosaku game already.
>>721938627Nagoshi was only the producer/executive director for Kiwami 2 if i'm not mistaken, and not the actual director like in the original 2.
>>721938203well original text is more like >i don't want a nigger to make me happy
>>721939365That was his exact same position in Zero but people seem to put him on a pedestal like he did EVERYTHING
they aren't gonna remix the old battle themes like they did in kiwami 1 and 2...
>>721919380He fell on the one spot of rubber cement right below Millennium Tower. He convalesced in a rubber hospital bed inside a rubber hospital while in a rubber coma and is now driving rubber taxis in Kyushu.
>>721938685They redeemed themselves by making this for 4 which is miles better than the japanese counterpart.Those retards at Limited Run Games ruined everything by using the japanese cover for the ps4 reprints, they don't deserve my money anyways.
>>721939776>SEX>SEXY STYLE CAFE>SEX PUB>SEXY GIRLThey really went all out with this one
>>721939615from what we know so far they remixed Pure Malice (its shit) and FM-Sound Storm (this one is alright). there might be some more songs though
>>721939595He didn't literally do everything but he used to be able to find the right people for the job. The single best thing he did for 0 was putting Furuta in charge of writing the main story. He also made Hosokawa direct it. Hosokawa was one of the guys with a good sense for art direction.
>>721929416Well my name Mitsuo and I'm here to sayThat Riona is one hot babeShe's real cute, I love her charmsAnd you know she's got the hottest arms
>>721930897Because Yokoyama is a bad writer who writes entirely based on vibes.
>>721919634You know what this sounds to me? It sounds like Ryosuke hates the original Rikiya and has wanted to change the character to someone of his liking.
>>721940546Funny that you post Majima because Ryosuke Horii was the guy who directed the Majima Saga and pushed Majima's lifelong obsession with Makoto.
>>721933951It also works for Judgment because the entire presentation of it is more akin to a serialized TV drama.
>>721940703Everything went downhill when they started treating their games like blockbuster Marvel movies.
>>721933951>Yeah but after 6 it has been actor after actor after actorThis was happening since 4, you zoomer.Only 3 people in this cover are not based on IRL actores, one of them at to be recasted for this exact remaster.
>>721941140Sugiuchi looks like they went scouting for actors in a prison.
>>721919558Achievable natty?
I dunno about anyone else, but after playing Yakuza 0 to Yakuza 6, I got my fill of the series. There are lots of reoccurring things I like, but there are also lots of reoccurring things I don't like, and the latter outweighs the former for me now. Yakuza 5 is the entry that drove me up the fucking wall, specifically Saejima's and Shinada's arc that I don't want to go through another meandering story again. Also, I hate the bait and switch when it comes to characters dying, only to be alive later in the game, or a later entry. That spoils their memorable moments for me.
>>721941736Good news is that it takes until 8 to force character switching in such a format again. Bad news is that the plots have gotten so retarded that they make 5 and 6 look tame.
where do i where do i download the haruker little devil costume mod for yakuza 4?
>Segways are in the gameso are these games just ignoring when they were supposed to take place?
>>721942805Segways have been around since 2001 and were have been sold to the public in 2002 or 2003.
>>721942805tbf Segways were made in 2001, Yakuza 3 takes place in 2009
>>721943043The question is - were they at all popular in Japan, especially outside of the flashiest districts of Tokyo?
I am not gonna buy kiwami 3, how was pirate majima? was it fun? i dont mind a shit story, i can just skip the cutscenes.
>>721943141holy fuck anon, you know you fight tigers in yakuza 2 right?
>>721943204It's fun but the pirate content is pretty ass
>>721943204>i dont mind a shit storyIt's story is the opposite extreme to the ones people find too over the top. It's the most straightforward one for the most part.
>>721943227That's not a good comparison. They were part of an instanced mission, not something you'd see just roaming the streets.
>>721938656This is even more based than the english line
>>721943428segways are just a ridiculous thing to break your immersion if they existed for years before when the game takes place. Yakuza and thugs flooding the streets, but a segway? Gotta draw the line there.
>>721943576They were a stupid fad that only existed in the biggest amerimutt cities, a toy for yuppies. Almost everyone in the world saw them in magazines, they were shilled like the biggest revolution in transportation since combustion engine, then got memory holed hard.
>>721943428sybau
>>721882471Because handmade graphics will always look better than automatic PBR graphics
>>721928497Theres a new scene where he comes to visit Kiryu at the orphanage, so it seems they are spreading out the info so that part can be shorter.
>>721944493It's not that minister who visits the orphanage. It's the other minister, previously only seen on TV.
>>721941140Anon, I know but they didnt make it a big ass deal as the most modern Yakuza games, they didnt have whole big roles in the story>But Tanimura is a protagI know, but they didnt make his scenes be a big stellar show or make him standout, he was incorporated into the game in a way that was natural, like in Yazuka 0, it felt natural but in Y6 and forward it was Guest appearance after guest appearance with bigger roles, this became a TV Video Game Show, instead of a Video Game and now they are making a big deal out of this, lets invite X actor and Y actor to "modernize" roles, because... modernization, its stupid and it shows that they want to grab a bigger audience because of X actor instead of their own story
>>721942321i was looking for it a few days ago too and turns out it either got mass reported to oblivion or the creator of the mod took it down himself because of a bunch of people leaving angry comments at nexus
>>721920631NOOO
>>721944638https://x.com/jack840A/status/1971114621055726056
I have a very high bullshit tolerance but rubber bullets really ruined Y4 for me. Nips are really retarded when it comes to guns, holy shit.
>>721944989Holy shit, it's on 0 DC level of bad. Like that new finance guy scene in which he tells Kiryu that Shibusawa is making a move, when the whole city escape sequence was supposed to be a surprise reveal. They're just going to drop spoilers throughout the story.
>>721925294Judgment is so disconnected it's its own IP, dumbass
>>721945315so true my doomposting brother
>>721942321>>721944896It's on based mods:https://arweave.net/Ywo5257ZK_POdRnJDcdwjlX2-s2Yn4cQnf2GYBKeLyA/[Y4R]%20Haruka%20Jacket%20-%20Devil.7z
>>721945072Rubber
>>721928142Haruka in Y3 and Y4 is the most attractive videogame character ever.
>>721945072Honestly it's kind of funny that the plan was so goddamn retarded that it's an in-universe cock up because the three guys involved had no actual deep consideration about how fucking stupid it was. Doesn't make it a good plot to center an entire twist around, but at least they knew it was bad internally. I really can't say the same for later plots.
>>721928497Originally it's 謀略 and that's the shady kind of plot, like a scheme or conspiracy. Still funny though.
>>721945714if i remember right, the original ps3 localization just calls it "the ruse", which technically fits a lot more than what people interpret "the plot" to mean.
>>721945072What's extra good about it is that Saejima shot a few of those guys in the head and chest. Those men would be dead, rubber bullet or not.
>>721882174>years ago, I was Chinese
cast who's gonna play Tanimura next in Kiw4mi
>>721939595Says whatever you want but with nagoshi still in charge all yokoyama fuckery won't happened because he still have final say. Also Nagoshi team brings us JE franchise which is wayyyy better that every shit yokoyama produce
>>721945953Tanimura's OG actor is back on TV since this year. He's not allowed on cable networks yet, but he's on streaming services, netflix style.
>>721945072They literally had to, same reason you always play as someone that isn't in the yakuza anymore.
>https://youtu.be/Nabv0dPQwwM?t=688>first thing we see in dark ties is kanda trying to rape a girlBold choice
>>721945575THanks!
>>721946245>We're supposed to sympathize with a rapist by having a bro time with himermm kinda problematic sister
>>721946245the later entries feel off sometimes with how they try to push such a le wholesome quirky chungus vibe but then one of the writers decides to do something extremely edgy in the middle of it alllike that one dude getting his eye gouged out in 7
>need to buy Yakuza 3 again to play Dark Tieslol fuck that
>>721945575youre my hero man
>>721946447Considering how his story ends, I imagine the opposite. They're going to make him a sleazy asshole so that when Mine has his head cut off no one is going to blame Mine for it.
>>721945792That actually fits a lot better I wonder why they changed that.
>>721882174Reverse eyelid surgery.
mine is handsome
>RGG please...I'm getting old
>>721946245Mine beats the shit out of Kanda when he first meets him. Then the whole main story will go on as usual with Kanda calling Mine a limp-wristed faggot and finding out minutes before being killed that Mine is stronger than he looks.
>>721932231There's games coming out today that look worse than Mirror's Edge (2009)
>>721885334Man they fucking ruined Hamazaki. He went from a very unique looking character to some random filler villain like that literal who from the Kiwami 2 Majima saga
>>721946970>and finding out minutes before being killed that Mine is stronger than he looks.They should probably change that line, doesn't really make much sense with dark ties.
>>721947000It's the face scan that's bad. The actor looks like Kevin Spacey with chink eyes.
>>721946245Mine is auto tuned
>>721946245Dont know what they're saying, but I think they are gonna downplay it like they did in Y3. All he does is massage women who look strong, he doesnt actually have sex with them.
>>721943141It doesn't fucking matter, they're just reusing assets for sped up travel because they're fucking lazy. Also segways in IW were stupid too because segways have basically never been a thing for anyone who wasn't Paul Blart. Nobody used or bought those things. E-bikes and e-scooters would have made a lot more sense.
>>721947150oh shit i forgot that's his thing(or it's a woke transaltion)
>>721947249He just liked massaging them in Japanese too
>>721945072Sounds like you just don't understand rubber logic.
>>721946970In the cutscene after you "beat" him, Kanda asks Mine to stop dodging everything like a bitch and fight back, so canonically (atleast at this point in the story) Kanda doesnt actually know Mine is strong as fuck until he gets killed later.
>>721946245uh oh the xitter/leddit fags aren't gonna like this especially after the new hamazaki fiasco
>>721946245Is the green filter from k2 being used or am I going blind?
>>721947340Or at least that was the extent of what was explicitly mentioned.
>>721947420his introduction is 3 is also implied to be him fucking some girl, so i dont think this is gonna change how anyone sees this guy either way
>>721882174this guy but asian
>>721947047It's not just a a line, it's genuine shock on Kanda's face when Mine tiger drops his lard ass.
>>721944684>Anon, I know but they didnt make it a big ass deal as the most modern Yakuza games, they didnt have whole big roles in the story.All the fucking baddies? Kido?!brah
>>721947451He has a conviction of sexual assault on his record, so either he got too handsy for his massage fetish and the court system hit him for it, or discovered a love for them after trying to take women by force in the first place.
>>721946717Most trannylators are /here/ and 4chan has basically ruined the word "ruse" like how you can't really use the term epic anymore either. Even if they wanted to change it, something like "The Scheme" would have worked just fine.
>>721947585That part's fine, because until that point Mine has been pretty "subservient" to him (on the surface), so when he punches him he's showing him that it was all a show. But the idea of his strength just shouldn't be a shock anymore
>>721947083His actor had throat cancer not long after he voiced Hijikata in Ishin. They were lucky that he recovered enough to get back to work.
>it wouldn't have happened if Nagoshi was there>but Nagoshi was there with everything until LJ which includes K1, K2, 6>THAT WAS ANOTHER TEAM>HE WAS TIREDI hope his dick tastes good in your mouth at least
>>721882174I have a feeling this kiwami is going to be a flop and if stranger than heaven isn't a massive success don't be surprised when RGG gets bought out
>>721888398Duck neck is genuinely fucking delicious and I have no idea why it isn't popular outside of China.
>>721920739
>>721947954Preach it brother. This shit is insane.
>>721948042Sega already owns them though.
>>721947801Damn, didn't know that, thank God he's good now
>>721948090He looks more like Yuya
>>721948090
>>721948165DON'T BE SURPRISED
>>721947618Yeah he obviously got his kicks from it but there wasn't many details in the original script either.
>>721948325>hair, eyes, nose and even eyebrows looks identicali know he is supposed to be a completely original character but holy hell they do look alike
>>721885334I don't understand what zoomers mean when they say "aura farming", but after seeing this picture I think I get it now.
>>721948621Wouldn't be the first time it happened. They made Sera just similar enough to Ken Watanabe that everyone can tell but no so close that they'd have to pay him royalties.
>>721948165It turns out that RGG Studios was actually owned by the Senior Vice President of Advertising (who is also somehow the most powerful man in the company) and that Yokoyama was actually his agent looking to devalue the property so through a series of convoluted maneuvers he now owed RGG Studios. He is also a secret Korean whose plan is to sell it to Nexon who will use government contracts and secret Koreans inside METI to appropve Nexon's takeover of Sega thus allowing South Korea a foothold into the Japanese gaming industry and its eventual conquest.
>>721947618>Dark Ties will explain in detail the origin of Kanda's fetishinstant buy
>>721949153>no foot massage minigame
>>721948801Yokoyama wrote this post.
Can't i just get Dark Ties seperately and not deal with k3?
>>721949572It doesn't have enough twists and secret final villains.
>>721949651Horii said that you can play it separately, without ever starting K3.
I genuinely don't see the point in remaking HD-era games. I mean you can say that about remakes, but it applies even more here.
>>721949740Yeah, but cant i just give them like 20 bucks for Dark Ties and not having to install K3
>>721888538nah that's cope. japs look exactly like that. dont let animu fool you
>>721949845Yeah. Just wait a year for it to go on sale
>>721946957Prefer beta yagami
>>721894482Crazy considering both he and his wife are "Secret Koreans" which is a plot point in like half the games
>>721950483Today they revealed that a secret corean will be added to K3 in a new substory and she's going to be one of Kiryu's allies:https://www.famitsu.com/article/202509/53928Her birth name is Kim Bok-ja.
>>721885334
>>721949653The head of the secret Korean group is Yuji Naka who isn't Korean but is just looking to crash Sega and the video game industry as revenge for Balan Frauderland. Nagoshi returns to reveal that he was never actually working for NetEase, merely gathering information and allies at the secret true head of Sega. Yu Suzuki steps out from around a corner, the plan is foiled, Yakuza is restored and everythig after Y4 is retconned while Suzuki gives releases the real Shenmue III.
>>721950786Are they going to add whatever this is to Kiwami 4, following dark ties just being an RGGO story
>>721950786get this nigga away from her dude
>>721950898KINO
>>721920405chinks win all the olympic weightlifting medals though
>>721950786i still wonder how this kid dragged a 250lb gorilla from the Tamashiro Family office all the way to a nearby hospital all on her own and without anyone noticing
>>721941736why are they in dead center?
>>721892110I'm fine with 5 getting Kiwami'd if it means more scenes with Aizawa so he feels more fleshed out. What we'll probably get as a side game content after the game is possibly Morinaga and how he wound up joining Daidoji. If that's the pattern, we might get the same treatment with Saejima in 4 with us playing the events of the rubber bullets
>>721939882>pure maliceOh god, where is it at? I heard a bit of Sounds Storm and it just sounds like they added more instruments to make it grandiose when it's already perfect
>>721924870why do troons like this series at all? >>721925294i would skip 3/4/5. nothing happens in those games at all. literally the same story every time with >new evil yakuza boss shows up>kiryu "doesn't want any trouble" >has to fix the tojo clans problems (again). 6 is kinda worth getting into cause it's newer and is the conclusion to the kiryu sagathen 7 is the soft reboot with itchy balls>>721938543there's a female yakuza fanbase? what
>>721951542Nah we'd get a Watase Gaiden if Kiwami 5 ever happens
>>721943204Story is alright. Nothing to really write home about. But it genuinely had potential to be a great game had the pirate shit not just been "coliseum but with ships".They could have expanded on things and possibly let you rob other pirates, but it's just "FIGHT THIS SHIP OR SHIPS FOR 2-4 MINUTES" and the occasional "FIGHT THIS SHIP AND THEN JUMP ON THE BOSS SHIP'S DECK TO FIGHT THEM". Rinse and repeat, I never bothered to finish the coliseum fights in Madlantis. Exploring islands inhabited by the "dangerous" pirate crew was very linear and it was just the coliseum rumble, but you're being helped by 3 other people.
>>721951612https://youtu.be/2jzKjBEKisw?t=736after listening to it a few more times it ain't all that bad, but its still not as good as the original song in my opinion
>>721937321stop taking photos of your computer screen
>>721951463>why are they in dead center?Why do you ask stupid questions? Are you desperate for attention on an anonymous board? Seriously, if you want para-social relationships, go to other social media sites or pay an e-whore to say your name.
>>721951207Mikio was made out of rubber
>>721928497I fucking hope they do that shit. I hope we get through the BURAKKU MANDEI hour long explanation. Would feel soulless if we didn't.
>>721952381Revolutionary idea: split screen mode for this chapter.In one half of the screen, Kiryu is still getting lectured by Tamiya. The other half lets us play the Majima truck driving simulator.
>>721952215
>>721928497if they remove the plot im not buying it
>>721950786>へ。。。。へへ。。。。
>>721939776the western cover for Dead Souls also goes crazy, and so does the Judgment one
>>721885334https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCGLyFMQKmoI honestly cannot picture the dude on the right doing this scene
>>721953898>I honestly cannot picture the dude on the right doing this sceneI can. Skill issue
>>721953898Can someone find the whole thing showing the actor doing the motion capture? I think they changed the scene, I might be misremembering the subtitles but it seemed like he said "that's some good chicken" meaning they may have even toned down the duck head eating, but I don't wanna take an assumption like that blindly.
I'm waiting for Debra Wilson to make an appearance
>>721954413At this point I wouldn't be surprised if she appeared in STH.
>>721954413anon...she was already in pirate yakuza
>>721954579You best be joking.
>>721954579>its trueKEK
>>721955387As a white woman.
>>721920739>he doesn't know about the jomon
>>721955467>in English dub only, and her fugly bug eyed face ain't in itPhew. It's a nothing burger.
so no new original games in 2026?
>>721958035Stranger Than Heaven maybe, by the end of the year.
>>721919770Hours and hours late but no, it will not fix it. You will visually see 30 but the game is still playing at 60.
>>721900739Nakahara and Rikiya can be salvaged by a good performance. It's jarring, but they are both emotional characters. It can be made up for if the directing is good enoughHamazaki is not them. Hamazaki has less presence, so he needs to make the most of what he'sot, and his design is integral to that. Hamazaki's appearance tells you everything about what this motherfucker is like and why he's a threat. You don't get any of that from this new guy. Not one bit of it. y3's casting was above average for the story, and its characters are the strong point (not strong enough to make up for shit gameplay though). It's a really bad idea when you fuck with that.
>>721948765>I don't understand what zoomers mean when they say "aura farming"You've never seen the picture of Piccolo doing this? It just means you're in place somewhere either posing or looking cool for no real reason but for the sake of looking cool.
>>721962036tuff
This is just Sonic X Shadow Generations again
>>721967118>>721967196No way. They got rid of the actual golf course for a driving range?
>>721885334I don't know why the facescans are suddenly complete misses. Even after they started doing the scans there are still tons of examples of charactes with distinctive memorable faces that suit the character.
>>721882174LOL
>>721967530Nepotism. They hire yakuzas (the real ones) nephews instead of people with a charismatic face
>>721969583>the single most amusing and interesting thing about 3 is not includedAs if the rest of the shit wasn't bad enough.
>>721969583Wtf this better be fake. Why the hell would they take them out?
>>721967370Why are you surprised? This whole thing is fucking lazy and just DE assets pasted poorly into Yakuza 3. Why spend the time making golf couses when you can just do another boring box with moving targets that you've been using for the last 10 years and call it a day? I'm surprised there's no Top Golf sponsorship to go with it.
>>721899257>lighting, audio quality, models got worse>new voice acting is just reading off the scriptalso if you focus on the eyes you can really notice the difference in quality of the facial expressions/animations
>>721899257kek, the new model looks plastic, the game looks worse than a game from 2009.
>>721970234Because Kiwami shit is stuck in a fucked up sense of series progression rather than story. Kiryu plays and acts like a Kiryu that has come after the rest of the series and looks to be super nimble, powerful and effective, only mixing a few Y3 strings in but generally playing more like his Gaiden self. So instead of having Mack and the Revelations, I can see them axing them entirely in favor of new systems and unlock methods, or just putting shit in a different acquire method altogether. Because modern RGG sees these games as "flawed titles that need to be fixed".It's like people don't realize a lot of these problems weren't already happening with K2, where a bunch of random shit from 0 was thrown in for the hell of it plus Kiryu playing like an incrementally improved Y6 iteration instead of his proper Y2 self.
>>721970771>Muh assetsNigger do you even play Yakuza games. Reusing assets has always been a major component of each game release. The issue specifically with YK3 not doing proper golf courses is that it hampers the theme of you being in Okinawa, it's what made this entry feel unique to the other games because the setting was unique.
Yokoyama is blowing away money I see
>>721972162>flawed titles that need to be fixed".Literally the main problem
>>721972290>Reusing assetsFine with me. More series should do this. Games should come out every year and have only slight iterations to gameplay, if any.
>>721967196>golfeverything i learn about this remake just makes me more and more sad. everything that made 3 unique and gave it personality just got sucked away in the most demoralizing way. and there are people who are going to praise it because "I CAN FINALLY MASH BUTTONS, THAT MEANS THE COMBAT IS FIXED, THIS IS THE OBJECTIVELY BETTER GAME!!!!!"
>>721974906Won't be worse than kiwami 1.
>gets cucked out of showing up in the fanservice ishin kiwami>gets cucked out of his own origin gamewhy do they hate my boy Mack so much?
>>721894762Already kind of lame they didn't even bother remaking the original arcade game they made for 3 and 4
>>721942805the better question is what's the point when the map is already small as hell in Okinawa
>>721975085Well anon there is no way to break this nicely.He is black.
>>721882174I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT
where are the best y3 mobs?
>>721973467 Yeah, but the problem is when those iterations are just worse. If you're gonna reheat leftovers, at least don't forget the damn seasoning. Golf, Revelations, even just the Okinawa vibes-they weren’t filler, they were the soul of 3. You gut that and paste in more sterile Kiwami jank and suddenly it’s just "Yakuza Gaiden Beach Edition." Series has always reused, sure, but it's the way they’re repackaging it now that feels cold and clinical instead of passionate craft.
>>721975085Yokoyama is racist
>>721977097Unfortunately true.>Golf, Revelations, even just the Okinawa vibes-they weren’t filler, they were the soul of 3.What's was revelations again? Agree on golf. Yakuza without sideactivites isn't yakuza.>but it's the way they’re repackaging it now that feels cold and clinical instead of passionate craft.Best seen in yakuza 7 to yakuza 8. I barely see yakuza 8 as yakuza. Feels like a fanfic story or a non canon fun chapter, without the fun albeit.
>>721882174>>721885334Do you guys like more some types of Japanese because they looks more white?
>>721978029yeah
>>721978029Yes
I will be eternally angry about what they did to Haruka. She had so much potential as a character but she was totally wasted for cheap emotional impact in 6. I wonder if Kiwami 3 will try to justify the blatant out-of character behaviour she (and Kiryu) display in order to make sense of 5 and 6's stupidity by altering her or adding shoehorned bits like the Idol interaction in Kiwami 2. She deserved more, especially the way 5 seemed to suggest things were going to go, and I just know that they'll ruin her this demake.
>>721977356>revelationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJJ4ol6QvTIhow you'd learn some special moves with really funny cutscenes
>>721978859Haruka goes through a change in 5 because you pretty much never see her in 4. A lot can change in 3 years, especially given Haruka goes through puberty.
>>721975085Yokoyama can't handle Eddie Murphy.
>>721979032Puberty Gaiden when?
>>721978926>Hell's Floor/Gauntlet, Essence of Self-Destruction, Essence of Poledancing, and Essence of TerrorI forgot those were all revelations. I thought Essence of Terror was the coolest goddamn thing when I first experienced it in 4 because I couldn't get a copy of 3 before the remasters came out. The very real idea that it's not in K3 just hurt me.WAIT WHAT ABOUT INNER FIGHTER 7!?THEY'RE GONNA GET RID OF ESSENCE OF SMOKING!
>>721980174>THEY'RE GONNA GET RID OF ESSENCE OF SMOKING!The fact you thought smoking as a mechanic was going to stay in is honestly crazy.
>>721980282I forgot they removed taunting for a few games. I figured if anything it could become akin to the snowman heat action in 5 with having something in your inventory, but they almost certainly won't do that. I hate this!
>>721979032In 4 she acts exactly the same as she does in 3, nothing suggests that she's changing character-wise and she and Kiryu are separated for at most a week or two by his involvement in the plot. My main issue is that she's out of character for no reason in 5's flashbacks in order to kick the plot events into motion, but when it comes to the story beyond that, she's exactly the same as she's always been, just in an unfamiliar situation and rotting in her depression cave, far from the people she loves. Her entire arc in 5 is about rejecting anything that gets in the way of her and her family, or to use the accursed word, realising that her YUME is to be with Kiryu no matter what. It gets worse in 6 where she acts as if this entire part of her life had never happened and promptly abandons her family and responsibilities at the first sign of trouble, which "she went through puberty" doesn't explain asides from the meme answer that she's now a woman and woman moments are to be expected. It's clearly a Yokoyama hack moment where he didn't think things through before committing combined with Nagoshi just really wanting to inject personal stuff into 6's scenario, reason be damned. And it sucks, because Haruka was shaping up to be a competent character who might have some significance. I guess I just put too much trust in slant-eyes to deliver kino.
https://www.loaded.com/yakuza-3-remastered-pc-eu-steamI'd grab one of these just in case, cheapest i could find.
>>721978926essence of rolling is still the funniest one, i don't care if people disagree, it's the simplest but funniest one in my opinion
>>721951149nords win all the strong man comps
>It's revealed in Y6 Kiwami that the Kiwami series is just Kiryu reliving his memories while he's in rehabBRAVO KOJIMA BRAVO
>>721979134Moose I just want you to know you're the only based namefag on this board.
>>721981057what about me?
why are japanese men so ugly nowlook at koreans, they look so handsome
>>721981095you suck
>>721981331you are my worst enemy...
>>721921169don't they just JRPG-fy cutscenes for demo versions in general? I remember Roman Reynold's fight dialogue being different in the IW demo compared to the final game
>>721981978Yes but unfortunately the yakuza community is full of retards these days who would rather doompost than actually look up info.
>>721882174Nagoshi >Yokohama
>>721982601Nagoshi, the guy, is fatter than Yokohama, the city?????
>agent style moves are added to kiryu's dragon of dojima stylewhy? i wanted kiryu's classic style, not this dumb ass shit only thrown in there to appeal to babby button mashershttps://x.com/kingmerkus/status/1972455052356042789
> Betrays Ichiban, gets Wong and Hanawa killed, was working with a death cult, ruined Ichiban's life because of some petty shit, has no problem with an innocent kid dying.> Is forgiven and deserves a redemption > VS > Is a hothead with a weird massage fetish > Gets beheaded.
>>721983682you could replace Kanda with Hamazaki and the two wouldn't really be that different. Granted, Kiryu actually gets punished for trying to do the shit Ichiban did
>>721983661>That one guy defending it in the comments because "As if the Daidoji has control over backhands or roundhouse kicks".That's now the damn point, DoD hasn't been DoD since 5, maybe 6.
>>721983682Yokoyama is a hack
I have to admit that damage control for kanda's shenanigans being a side activity is kinda funny.
>>721983682Eiji's such an awful character.
>>721980494Yeah they lobotomized Haruka so they can push a certain narrative to happen.
I just finished Infinite Wealth while i loved Kiryu's side of the game, Ichibans was absolutely god awful which sucks because i love 7. Did Yokohama only spend 5 minutes researching how nuclear energy works? Holy fuck that made me mad ontop of them trying to make Eiji be another Ryo Aoki but with zero of what made Ryo a great villain. Fuck Yokohama probably only spent 5 minutes writing Ichibans part of the game. Yakuza 5 had a more satisfying plot than IW. I'm convinced 7 was a fluke with how shocking IW was.
>>721984539It's because Nagoshi is missing now. He was Yokoyama's tard wrangler
Haruka should've been a new matriarch of Tojo clan.
>>721980174Yeah they probably gonna remove doc brown in K3, it sucks
>RGG admits that Pirates was a mistake and that the series was getting too wacky>Their solution is to try and regain fan trust is to remake the most lighthearted and charming ones and remove everything unique and fun about it and hoping an adaptation of a gacha game plot is going to be enough to forgive thiswhat is their plan here?
>>721986563wasn't the pirate game a spinoff pretty much?
Can't wait for Saeko gang rape in Y9 and for Ichiban to forgive the rapists in the end last chapter because "we all make mistakes"
>>721987572>Y7 - Ichiban refuses to DNA test if Masumi is his father>Y8 - Ichiban refuses to DNA test if Akane is his motherY9 is Ichiban refusing to DNA test if Saeko's kid is his biological son.
>>721986883It's 8 Gaiden. It's a mainline game, not a spinoff.
>>721987794Like pottery
>>721987852dunno why i considered at spinoffguess since it wasn't yakuza theme and it was pirates not that i've played it anyway
>>721987852>8 GaidenGaiden literally meaning side story. So really, it's not a mainline game.
>>721882174Yeah, I really don't get why they made him look like a random goon.
>>721988508You don't have to, it's complete filler and the ship combat gets tedious fast
>>721988508It's because it comes off as a spinoff until the epilogue. It's essentially filler that exists to give Majima some time with underused characters and actually explain some things 8 glossed over.>>721988563Yokoyama explicitly said 8 Gaiden is a mainline game. Like, straight up. This also likely extends to how he views 7 Gaiden.>>>/wsg/5984257
>>721988663i will since its majima, at some point i still haven't even played 3
>>721987572 I wouldn't mind a game where the MC is in couple, would be a nice change of pace from the eternal celibacy of yakuza protagonists but considering even Akiyma/Hana went nowhere, I expect more Saeko woman moment bullshit, gotta keep the statu quo bro.
>>721951542The Loathsome Dung Eater Gaiden
>>721983682don't worry the head was paper mache
>>721983682At the end of Mine Gaiden it will be revealed that the thing in a suitcase was a rubber bullet all along
>>721983682No one's ever really gone...
>>721989946I'll forever be floored how this is a literal plot point for the mastermind of 5.
Wait a minute.....Did they deliberately make Y3K and Mine Gaiden after Yakuza Pirates so they can use the Sperm Whale Magical Hardened Cum to revive Mine and glue back Kanda's head???????
I hurt myself todayto see if I still feelI focus on the painThe only thing thats real
thank god I jumped ship
>>721984130Eiji is a great character. I was genuinely shocked by his betrayal. It was a kino moment, they read ichiban like a book and pulled out all the stops to deceive him, and it all ties back into the first game because he was the bleach japan's tokyo guy you just didn't know about it back then.
>>721984539There is literally nothing wrong with IW. Especially not with Ichiban's side of the game.
>>721987572Ichiban would forgive anything. We already know from the first game he forgave Waka despite him arranging Oyassan's murder.
>>721991842But the old man threw the rocks to the sea and died without saying where they were, I highly doubt they somehow knew where they were.
>>721952337you ok bro?
>>721978926Right, the bike and the grandma. Fits yakuza 1 and 2. Sigh, 3 was peak campy.
>>721994928Masaru and Jason during the epilogue already figured out it's just ambergris and because of Rodriguez they know it was simply made into a drinkable tea. You essentially just need to go find a whale, kill it, pull out the ambergris, and then make tea with it.
>>721997125does this work irl?
I actually had fun being a Pirate and the sub stories were kino.I even got the fren achievement
>>721997340Obviously.
>>721997125Wasn't it supposed to be a rare thing some whales developed inside their stomach?Plus, there's no fucking way those losers were able to successfully hunt a whale when they couldn't even beat a single dude with like 50 men.
>>721997870>Wasn't it supposed to be a rare thing some whales developed inside their stomach?Ambergris is essentially whale vomit, so yes, it's technically rare because it has to be expelled and then harden in the sunlight. You could theoretically hunt one down and manually force the process.
3 is the origin point of the Yokoyama brand of bad writing, from retardedly convoluted worldwide conspirancies (THE PLOT, BURAKU MONDAI), people acting out of character for no reason but to move the plot forward (Princess Daigo Peach falling for the most obvious trap in the world), unearned EMOTIONAL moments because they either make no-sense or there was not enough development for it to be earned (LYKYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA), schizofrenic story pacing until the very end (Kiryu i know we have to take care of some important business very urgently that might decide the FUTURE OF THE TOJO, but i think those kids from the orphanage kids are in love, LETS CHECK IT OUT LMAO)Anything short of a complete re-write by a new team is not enough.
>>721928142why does this hair look better than all the new UE trash?
>>722000620they made her hair a lot thicker in Kiwami 3. which is strange cuz her flashback model in IW looks way more similar to her older Y3 model
>>721983682>> Is a hothead with a weird massage fetish >> Gets beheaded.He destroyed Mine's collection of antiques worth millions of dollars in a fit of rage lol
>>721983682Ichi is a hero and does what a hero should do.Him running through the crowd of zoomers living through their phones at the end was amazing.
>>722002353in my opinion he shouldve performed a giga swing in the middle of the crowd to gain some free exp
>>721950951
>>721930910Funny how Riona has those slutty exposed thighs in that picture and also during the beach introduction but when you get to the orphanage devs covered them up
>>721899846The textures are blurry as fuck?
>>722004275New games give you 4k textures blurred with several post-processing filters and TAA, and made either blindingly bright or crushingly dark with lighting fine-tuned to simulate being freshly pulled out of the matrix.
>>722004535Which is better than being able to count the pixels of the textures on two hands.
>>721976632Go burn your arms some more Riona.
>>721983682>Gets beheadedRubber sword and special effects
>>721994928It's called writing.
>>721882174Japs are kinda ugly. All my favorite JAVfus go to the same Korean plastic surgeon.
>>721918748>only children believe in dragons>theme song: I believe in youwhat did they mean by this
>>722002068That's still not even close in comparison to what other villains did, nigga Mine destroyed a rucking orphanage he's no better than Kanda.
>>722011290Kiryu converted him by beating the crap out of him.
I ducking hate Ichiban for esse being a less faggy Steven Universe.
>>722011392>Nakahara tries to evict Kiryu>nah>Daigo buys the deed from Nakahara and says shit's about to hit the fan before biting his tongue>whatever, not my problem>eviction notices keep coming anyway>ministers Suzuki and Tamiya ask him to move somewhere else because shit's about to hit the fan>nahThere comes a point when being stubborn for the sake of it only puts one's family and friends in danger.
>>722011729Steven Universe actually got with a girl so he's less of a faggot than Ichiban.
The hostess club is still in the game right?
>>722013587They ripped out the old hostess maker and replaced it with Kiryu working as a host, complete with an emo wig.
>>722013669It's woke trash then
