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>the best game of the year you never played and wont be even mentioned at the awards
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>>726071649
It's just a shitload of asset reuse, Anon. Did get me back into the series because it was so ridiculous though so there's that.
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>>726072030
>It's just a shitload of asset reuse, Anon
so? tears of the kingdom did the same thing and was praised anyway.
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>>726072227
ToTK added more than Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii did.
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>>726072424
>underground map
>sky map
>Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts mechanics
That's all I remember.
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>>726072424
>ToTK added more than Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii did.
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>>726072424
The difference is Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii wasn't built on the skeleton of a dog shit game. It was impossible for TotK to be good since it had to suffer from BotW's problems.
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>>726071649
It's good, but very middle of the road for the series.
Kiryu's Gaiden game managed to do more with less, in my opinion.
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>>726072727
All PYIH did was add an "okay" sailing minigame bro.
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Pirates in Hawaii is an asset flip tonfund Stranger than Heaven. Same thing goes for Kiwami 3 and Yakuza 0 Director's cut.

Difference between TOTK and Hawaii is that TOTK is the big splurt, Hawaii is an asset flip to fund The GTA VI of Japan. Go ahead and screen cap this, Stranger Than Heaven is gonna be big and /v/ is going to seethe whenever actual good ganes come out
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>>726073247
buy an ad.
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>>726073247
Delusional. Americans are not going to play a period piece set in Japan, they barely like period pieces set in America.
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>>726073247
Kiwami 3 it seems they've done at least some work with Dragon Engine, the fact that bowling is back shows that
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>>726073040
Funny how a middle of the road Yakuza game is still the best game of the year.
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>>726071649
I liked it
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Is it true this game has a really slow start? Because I tried to play Y7 and had to uninstall due to how boring it was. I say that as someone who 100% Y5.
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>>726071649
this series is fucking dead and raped man
stop trying to pretend it's still worth anything at all
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>>726074886
7 doesn't have that slow of a slow start. It's like an hour and a half and you can wander around half of Ijincho, and then another two hours and you should have jobs unlocked to mess around with as long as you haven't been detouring and exploring Ijincho.

8G spends about an hour on the island and setting up Jason, Noah, and Masaru and then another hourish before you can actually sail the map freely since you need to go to the pirate area, then to Hawaii, then back to the pirate area. The thing is that once you get to Hawaii all of it is open to you and like 80% of the game is available for you to do at that point so most people spend all their time clearing out Hawaii so it feels like it takes dozens of hours.
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>>726071649
not even in the top 5 yakuza games
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>>726075030
Other than the substory where Kiryu is disgusted by a tranny (doesn't even make sense because he also helps one) and Akiyama laughing when Hana says she could be raped I can't recall anything in the series recently that was woke, they still hire JAV stars
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>>726074886
I don't remember it having a slow start. It has a pretty lean story just like Gaiden, though, so if you're not into doing the minigames and side stories, you'd probably want to hold off for a year or something until it gets really cheap.
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>>726075213
Anon, 7 has somehow a slower start than even Judgment, a new IP. The first few hours is exclusively back-to-back cutscenes of the most boring Yakuza story told to date (makes 4 look like cinema). Granted, I know only a fraction of Y7s story, but the first 6 hours put me in a coma.

I threw in the towel at Chapter 4 because the story was going nowhere, the characters fucking sucked and this is the important part: Game was not even open yet. Chapter 4 was STILL all tutorial bullshit. I was already fatigued with the hobo drama in chapter 3.

No other Yakuza game has been this fucking boring and slow, though I can only speak for mainline titles.
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>>726076161
It's introducing THE new character, Anon. I want exposition.
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>>726076161
Chapters 1 and 2 are establishing Ichiban, Adachi, Arakawa, and the Omi takeover of Kamurocho. It's like maybe an hour to an hour and a half with cutscenes.
Chapter 3 is incredibly short as it's just establishing Ichiban in Ijincho and Nanba, and then you do like two fights, go see Hamako, and fight the Jingweon guy. This is like maybe 30 minutes long.
Chapter 4 finally gets Adachi, Ichiban, and Nanba together as they go get hired by Nonomiya and meet Saeko. This is like maybe an hour and a half long and where Hello Work gets introduced. At this point you can explore half of Ijincho with minigames if you want along with a few substories.
Chapter 5 is when Poundmates get introduced, Saeko joins, Eri gets introduced, and Ichiban Confections unlocks. At this point all of Ijincho is unlocked to you.

You're also playing a soft reboot with 7 and it has to establish Ichiban. Even then it's not that long, it's about as long as JE was to get to the closet scene that it takes you to get Hello Work unlocked and the story moving.
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>>726071649
but I did play it
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>>726076387
Judgment did it infinitely better, it was the game I finished before hopping into Y7. Entirely new cast of characters and factions all introduced and even fleshed out in not even half the time it probably took 7.

I'm not even a particularly big Judgment fans but it deserves its praises. Like having a better writer.
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>>726073563
lol, Ace Attorney fags ate up those two shitty spinoffs taking place in 19th century Japan
and Yakuza fags will do the same with this game regardless of the quality
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I watched it
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>>726076702
The Ishin remake flopped and Kenzan is never going to be localized lol
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>>726073247
RGG games are all identical
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>>726075243
It's not just about western woke. They're self-censoring on more levels and actively erasing their cultural identity, anything that could be seen as different or confusing by foreigners. Something that gets overlooked a lot is that the full English localization isn't the only one. There's full Chinese dub as well. I'll show you something straight from Sega:

https://www.sega.co.jp/en/recruit/episode/episode08/
>For example, on our Chinese localization team, we have a member from China who's been a fan of the "Like a Dragon" series since he was a student. His love for the series motivated him to study at a university in Japan. After graduating, he joined SEGA.
>When localizing dialogue into Chinese, just using a direct translation doesn't work. For example, the idea of gangsters using polite language to threaten someone is a situation that native Chinese speakers may find bizarre.
>However, he translates the lines so that they match a gangster's speaking style in Chinese, which allows for greater authenticity.
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>>726071649
this game was shit.
one of the worst yakuza games in a long time.

maybe I'm just fucking sick of Memejima
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>>726071649
I literally have it downloaded, but still haven't touched it. Been playing Mechwarrior 5 more.
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Is this a good place to start for someone new to the series? The pirate ship gameplay seems fun. Think I will drop this gay french Final Fantasy knockoff and pick this up.
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>>726076740
the Ishin demake flopped because it was just a demake completely outdated and inferior to the other Yakuza games released at the time
but this one is a new IP and it's going to be the most up to date Yakuza game in terms of gameplay additions, graphics and other shit
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>>726076740
good and good
original ishin is all I need and Kenzan sucks overall
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>>726076924
not really plotwise
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>>726071649
>the best game of the year that wont be even mentioned at the awards
That is Ai Limit
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>>726071649
Majima surE is a goofball xD
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>>726071649
I loved it.
I even got the frens you made along the way achievement, then reusing the Hawaii map was kind of lame but the stories were fun and I enjoyed how over the top things got.
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>>726074886
>tried to play Y7 and had to uninstall due to how boring it was. I say that as someone who 100% Y5.
you're definitely just burnt out on the series, Y7 is amazing
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>>726076924
Is not a good place to start the series
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>>726076924
>Good place to start
Hell fucking no. But by all means, be a coward and jump into the halfway point of a season of a long established TV show.
>>726076645
I know I said the story was supremely boring, but I'm not a cutscene/dialogue skipping turbosperg.

You have no sense of time of how long it takes to get into the meat of Y7, chapter fucking 6. Its egregious.

I'll keep saying it: Judgment was a brand new IP and it got itself established infinitely faster. Granted, no new city.
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>>726077040
millaire's emglish voice is nice
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>>726076872
I like Memejima. He's got the best fighting styles.
I just wish RGG would bring back equippable weapons. From the look of of K3, they're replacing them with Kiryu's new "Ryukyuan" fighting style, which is lame as shit.
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>>726077067
Anon, I started with Y0 in 2021. Aside from going back to back on K1-Y3 like a retard, I've spaced these games out massively over the years.

No, Y7 was just slow fucking mess. I survived Saejima's prison antics and hunting but Y7 broke me.
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>>726071649
Good title for an essayslop video
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>>726073679
Agree, and the Kawagami or whatever drama is completely astroturfed. They got coke and gay sex in the white house prancy ass fake gamers need to stfu
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>>726073040
I would say it's a ranked or a- rank the gameplay pulls it up though.
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>>726076924
Not at all, it's 8 Gaiden. It's literally a direct sequel to 8 and the story expects you to have played 8 as it immediately spoils its ending as soon as you get to one of the first locations in the game.

>>726077246
You're right, I was a bit off because chapter 5 is Hello Work, I slightly remembered wrong and Poundmates + Eri are 6. I do think you're overstating how long this takes because it truly is not as long as you're making it out to be, especially in the context of something like 5 where around 4 hours in Saejima's chapter are railroaded and you can't do anything but astral project in jail and do hunting tutorials before you finally reach Tsukimino. I will agree JE moves faster in getting you more interested though, but I myself had no issues with 7's intro.
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>>726071649
I never played a single game in the Yakuza series.
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>>726074886
>100% Any Yakuza
>100% Yakuza 5

Smoking fent is a better waste of time than foing what you did. Also Y7 is mid, the story starts and ends well but its 14 chapters of complete ASS!

Yakuza 8 may not have the better story according to faggots but at least it's fun every step of the way. Also Kiryu's story goes full circle and it's a nice retrospective for those who played the whole series all the way through
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>>726071649
I played every single one of these games, got most of the platinum trophies too. This game was kind of a slap in the face. Short, basically just 8 again. It's still fun but it's so whatever.
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>>726076924
It's the furtherest in the yakuza timeline and relys on a bunch of member berries.
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>>726071649
I like Shinada. Will they bring him back?
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>>726077696
It's funny, i skipped 8 since i hated the turn-based combat, so i was in the same boat of confusion as an amnesiac Majima. Made it more immersive.
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>>726077696
>astral project in jail
A game about astral projecting into girls locker rooms when?
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>>726076924
>the most asked question in any RGG conversation
>when the answer has existed for almost 10 years
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>>726076857
I want Chinese gangsters to be authentic
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Yakuza 7s story was legitimately awful it felt like they rewrote the story near the end of the development cycle.
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>>726076862
ive been in that sub. they actually think japan is some sort of woke society and not a conservative monoethnic society
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>>726078009
Let me guess, you think Kume was right?
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>>726077932
Yeah, the first game on PS2. With the restored patch from archive.org.
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>>726077932
>Recommending anyone start with 0 DC.
>When 0 DC doesn't add the Walkman back, changes the font for no reason, ruins the story with the new cutscenes, and the new content is essentially just a multiplayer mode.
0 DC shouldn't be recommended at any point over the original, it's an actual downgrade to the original.
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>>726078101
It is, that's what Yakuza 7 is a criticism of. Bleach Japan is a parody of late 2010s Trump-inspired nationalist groups
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>>726071649
It's one of the worst Yakuza games.
It's always very low on the lists.
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>>726077973
Jap gangsters should conduct themselves like japs, and those chink translators can help RGG create more true to life chink gangsters. But they shouldn't adjust the behavior of native japs just because other breed of bugmen might be confused.
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>>726071649
>and wont be even mentioned at the awards
Why do you require the validation of game urinalists whose only care in the world is complaining on xitter?
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>>726078101
>conservative monoethnic society
They have millions of secret koreans and secret chinks. Shenmue and Yakuza 2 weren't all bullshit.
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>>726077808
Believe it or not, but 100% Y5 was kind of accidental. I had already done so much it wouldn't require much more to take it to 100%.

It's also the first and only Yakuza game I'll ever 100%. This was the one and as such, I have nothing left to prove.
>Only start and ending of Y7 is good
Is a sentiment I've seen a fair share of. A pity that people are stupid enough to praise shit stories as long as the endings are good, as that's all they will remember.
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>>726078362
Y5 is the only yakuza game whose endings left me angry for being so retarded.
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>>726078459
I don't regret playing Y5 at all but it's just not very good, especially the story.
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>>726078459
Fun fact, Haruka isn't even in the top 30 for most popular Yakuza characters in Japan according to a recent poll because of her actions in 5 and 6, Japanese gamers fucking hate her lol. Shinada and Tanimura are above her lol. I don't blame them, she had every negative trait of both her mom and Kiryu and her kid is going to be fucked up
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>go out 30 times in mahjong (already won at every table and tournament with 15)
>spend an unreasonable amount of time in the batting center to get two of the most useless technique primers in the game
>Haruka's poker request requires coming out 1000 chips ahead in one sitting while playing with stakes lower than your fucking dad's basement poker game with his buddies from work, and the cheat items are barely helpful since the other players could still end up with a better hand than you depending on what it gives
Any time I think a 100% is going to be not too bad, I get the rug pulled on me when I've already invested enough time that I don't want to quit. It's ironic that Gaiden's is actually quite easy to finish, but optional if you just want all achievements.
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>>726078362
Thank you, it goes like this

The Good
>Ichiban goes to Prison to cover for his boss
>Upon release, he's found that the whole Yakuza landscape has changed, The DoD has been gone and corpo-Yakuza have once again poisened the families.
>his boss shoots him (a Yakuza red herring staple) and misses his heart, they dump him in Yokohama

Then the majority of the game deals with Ichiban and his new friends trying to unite The Japs, The Koreans, and the Chinks into fighting against Bleach Japan, a mockery of MAGA

Then the ending of the game is PEAK, won't spoil it too much but there's almost as many chapters in 7 that were in 0 and that game had the excuse of two protags

Oh and the jrpg mechanics sucked and were only fixed in 8
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Is Mine really better than Ryuji?
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>>726078657
Haruka isn't even the worst part of it regardless of that whole plot.
Everything from the idol concert to the tower to the final fight was just fucking eugh.
They took a great setup and then made the villain, who was good up to that point, boring at the tower, made the final fight with someone you couldn't give less of a shit about and let's not get into kiryu.
Y5 had one of the most stylish early parts to it too but they just fucked it all up in the end.
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>>726071649
Great music and gameplay.
Story was shit though.
Majima deserves a real game.
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>>726078845
majima and kiryu need to fuck off for about 5 years
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>>726078674
Dragon Engine baseball is a joke so that shouldn't be a complaint of yours at all, especially since every single throw is predetermined so you know with 100% certainty where to aim every single time.
I also have no idea how you won with only 15 rons/tsumos since that means the average hand you had to have made is a haneman/baiman every single time while never getting ron'd/tsumo'd.

Haruka's poker request is ass, but Bouncer Missions requiring you to beat them three times each is even worse because Legend clears don't count as clearing the lower two.
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>>726078803
Depends on criteria. He was the first boss that could change his fighting styles, had a brutal QTE sequence too. And he wasn't overshadowed by another secret final boss fight.
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>>726078803
Ryuji is good but a caraciture of Big Bad Yakuza mobs. I respect him though since his end goal is simply to be the one true dragon.

Mine is a layered villain that will be expanded upon with Dark Tides, he's a pragmatist who's ideals differ from Kiryu's but are hard to refute.
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>only have Infinite Wealth, Pirate Yakuza, Judgement: Kaoti files DLC, Ishin and Kenzan left to play (well and Dead Souls but I probably won't play that)
Why is it that so many games now have entire sections I feel that I have to force myself through. Fucking Infinite Wealth's whole cringe Ichiban failed romance plot at the start grated on my nerves like nails on chalk.
The Man Who Erased His Name was surprisingly good though.
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I'm gonna be honest I burned myself out by doing literally everything possible in Hawaii as soon as I got to it and was already a Legendary Pirate without even sailing once
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>>726079069
>want to replay game
>that part
Its a problem that has plagued games for a long time. For me it's the flashback sequences in Judgment and the Saejima in 5
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It wasn't terrible, but I am so burnt out on this series, especially after how bad Infinite Wealth was. Genuinely thinking of skipping Kiwami 3.
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>>726078986
Dragon Engine darts are piss easy too
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>>726078696
Thanks for the review, anon. Not sure if I'll try to play Y7 and the mainline series again or if I should just stick to spin-offs.
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>>726079207
literally all they have to do to make 3 better is make it so enemies don't have invincible forearms
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I just finished Kiwami 2, anything else worth playing or should I wait for Kiwami 3?
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>>726079132
Same, I only have 5 substories left here in Chapter 3 so I just decided to go back to the ship and I forgot it was a pirate game lel. Been hunting down the pirates since
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>>726079132
Kek the island trap gets us all
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JORYU!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RGpih4u58w
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>>726079197
Funnily enough for me the 5 replays (I had to do it three times because Hard does not unlock the Normal trophy) were the worst on Haruka's part just because of how easy the songs are, how you have to do the tutorial songs with Okita/Christian, and then there's the really boring Akiyama sleuthing segments. I could stand astral projecting at 5 FPS and the hunting tutorial, but having to replay the same three songs (Hard playthrough, then 100% Ex-Hard which meant listening to the three songs for hours, then Normal) I was losing my mind.
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>>726079197
I enjoyed both of those no problem.
Only other time in Yakuza I recall getting annoyed like this was Lost Judgement's "let's have Yagami tell the kids to stop bullying over a speaker and have them act like they don't know what a speaker is" scene but at least that was just one cutscene and not the entire starting impetus of the plot where everyone acts like an obnoxious tard.
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>>726079276
Mainline is great, Honestly just watch the 7 cutscenes then move on to Lost Judgment, Gaiden is FUCKING GREAT and paced so well. As a 7 hater, 8 scratched every itch I had for both JRPG content and Kiryu's resolution.

Pirates is filler but we're not going to see a future mainline until after Stranger than Heaven, after which I'm sure Y9 will have so much new tech it will be refreshing even if we play as Ichiban only
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Is Ichiban actually a good character? Because I had nothing but utter contempt for him in the 4 and half chapters I experienced of him.

(Fuck nanba and that fired DMV asshole, too)
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Yakuza needs Nagoshi back to add some balls to the franchise again.
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>>726079503
He's fine in 7, he's terrible in 8. Ichiban in 8 is beyond awful and the ending is basically a middle finger to the player.
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>>726079482
Is Stranger than Heaven the real title for Project Century?
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>>726071649
Yakuza fans trying desperately to deny being retard idiots while Sega is putting out Yakuza: Captain Dan Pirate Ninja Edition XD is the only value this game has

Like, it's okay. Just own up to it. The same side quests over and over, the same settings over and over, the same stories over and over... you're like World of Warcraft players. And that's fine. It's okay.
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>>726079602
yes
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>>726079397
>trophy hunting
>shiggy diggy
Cmon moose, I've replied to you many times, you were my kyodai. To learn you're an achievment hunter, sigh
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>>726078362
>I had already done so much it wouldn't require much more to take it to 100%.
Really? Just looking at shit like having to do a shitzillion street fights in specific spots to unlock the colosseum for each character makes my eyes glaze over.
>>726078986
The baseball is just annoyingly time consuming purely because of the absurd cost of the primers. I was completely done with golf in like 20 minutes since it was actually skill based and not grinding for points.
As for mahjong, there was a table or two where I got a really good hand and just slowly bled out for the remainder until I won without a second ron/tsumo. I also used the peerless tiles on the tournaments and the rigged substory.
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>>726079602
Yes, it's going to tie the supernatural elements that were hinted in Pirates into the mainline universe
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>>726079397
>Self-professed LaD/Yakuza fan of the board
>Doesn't get the point of Haruka's section being repetitive
Come on Moose, you're better than this
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>>726079602
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L3XVVzsmHE

>>726079635
I'm a 100%er. Trophies are part of the 100%.
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>>726079516
Nagoshi is an old man who is busy eating lunches with celebrities, posting cats and sneakers, and rating cats and sneakers. I think his open heart surgery and the brush with death back during LAD development also fucked with his head.
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>>726071649
I played the demo for about 20 minutes. Everything was so bright and garish, it was burning my eyes. I don't know what they did. It's like they dialed up the bloom and contrast to 1000. Shame too, because I really enjoyed Infinite Wealth and the Hawaii setting.
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>>726071649
No yakuza game will ever be goty, but especially not that one. Lost Judgment was legitimately the best game of 2021, and it didn't even get a nomination.
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I thought Project Century was supposed to be set in the Bakamitai Period and be about Makoto Tojo
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>>726079602
Yeah. Japs already hate it because it's not catchy or memorable, and doesn't abbreviate well. Lots of them confuse it with Stranger of Paradise too.
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>>726072424
I added more shit into a toilet bowl than ToTK did to BOTW
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>>726079691
>I also used the peerless tiles on the tournaments and the rigged substory.
Oh, well that makes sense. Never use cheat items unless you're doing Haruka's slot requirement in 1, you're just wasting items you can never get again most of the time and it doesn't really help for the completion lists as you need to do way more than just win one match or earn some money.

>>726079718
No, I get it. I completely get the idol life is monotonous. It's that on replays those forced tutorial songs drove me mad because you had to sit through them to get to the actual songs against T-set while Ogita, Park, Akiyama, and Christian blah blah blah at you.
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>>726079759
The HDR was fucked up at launch. I think they fixed it, but I don't actually know because I beat it the week it came out.
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>>726079759
I'm pretty sure they applied the lighting settings/changes 7G had because it's clearly different to any other game prior to LJ, and since 7G happened after 8 it wouldn't have those changes yet so 8G was the first time we saw them applied to Hawaii.
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>>726079691
>Y5 colosseum
Yep, always clear the colosseum in any game. It is pure cancer but I had to do it cuz of 'tism.
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>>726079865
It's memorable in English because it's borderline nonsensical. Stranger than fiction combined with randomly saying heaven? I don't get it.
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Dead Souls Kiwami when?
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Haruka is a piece of shit character and her story in 5 was hot garbage...

But that rhythm gameplay though!
(Not very good but I'll still take it)
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>>726080126
Never, Yokoyama hates it because it was the first game he wasn't invited to work on. Your DS Kiwami is an arcade cabinet in Judgment.
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>>726079431
first pengin
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>>726080126
Considering it barely sold at all in the west to the point you could pick up brand new copies for $10 for like two or three years straight I doubt we'll ever see that happen. It was the only PS3 game to not get reprinted either. I'd also imagine they'd have to put a lot of work into it getting it to work in the Dragon Engine too even if they have way more enemies allowed on screen now.
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>>726075213
Moose i need your help! Whats the easiest plush to catch in the kiwami 2 ufo catcher?
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>>726080247
bro that's House of the Dead
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>>726079503
>and that fired DMV asshole, too
Woah buddy, Adachi slander is forbidden on this board.
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>>726071649
Anon I have some harsh news for you

You don't like video games. You are stuck in a social performance mode because of your cluster B personality type. Video games to you are an aspect of showing off. You think you are liking the right video games publicly and loudly

But this is a barely interactive shovelware game, milking dry people who are considered social losers even among Japanese (lol)
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>>726080126
>Kiwami
YAMERO
just a straight port only will be fine
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>>726080395
For the DE games anything that's not the chickens or boxes. Penguins are pretty easy because if you get them dead center (When they're standing straight) it's a guarantee as you latch onto their flippers and they don't move. Monkey Balls are somewhat easy, dogs are a pain in the ass, and the cubes in JE and LJ are really easy.
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>>726080470
Lol no. Gameplay is dogshit in dead souls, they didn't figure it out until binary domain
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>>726080512
Now that's a game they should be picking back up instead of more pointless Kiwamis
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>>726080428
You'll never convince me in a million years this dude is a compelling character. He's just a repulsive cunt that gets surgically attached to Ichiban's asshole for no good reason.
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>>726079069
Pirate is better than Gaiden. It actually has proper substories.
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>>726080512
It's fine, they just need to fix heat sniping and it give it more lenient input timings. Maybe also double the stack size for Ryuji's arm gun ammo.
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>>726079883
>Never use cheat items unless you're doing Haruka's slot requirement in 1, you're just wasting items you can never get again most of the time and it doesn't really help for the completion lists as you need to do way more than just win one match or earn some money.
Eh, most games with cheat items allow you to just bypass some gambling games entirely with cheat items. I 100%'d 0 shortly before this, and I'm quite happy that I was able to knock out blackjack instantly with 21 amulets in K2 rather than playing one hand at a time and getting up from the table so my win could be counted toward the running total.
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>>726080509
Im finishing up kiwami 2 mini game completion list and i fucking hate the ufo catcher
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>>726079482
>Just watch 7 cutscenes
Honestly, would rather replay Saejima's chapters again in Y5.

But I appreciate the advice none the less. I'm done with mainline Yakuza titles and Kiryu retired in 6.
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>>726080126
I lack Infinite Wealth and Pirate, but I'm not all that interested in them. Moment I get a computer upgrade I'm tackling the Dragon Engine titles.
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>>726072424
>>726079875
>>726072736
>Yakuzasnoys seething at Tears of the Kingdom
Laughable.
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>>726080867
Library of a brown man
>Watch me have the same non experience over and over! I love reading gay Japanese soap opera!
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Just wait for Kenzan to get released.
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>>726081082
You're just projecting about your lack of anything interesting happening in your life, aren't you
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>>726080852
I distinctly remember Dragon Engine ufo catcher being super-charged cancer. Makes you wanna play the old kiwami engine crane games blindfolded.
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anyone from hawaii played it
I heard they did kind of a good job with kalakaua ave
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>>726081230
The same physics that make bar stools and bicycles explode if you stand too close to them.
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>noo why is this series being made for people who actually like the series? where are the ugly women? the gay protagonists? the sexless models for the faggots? where are the videogame equivalent of duchamp's urinal? where's muh "innovashun"?!
I genuinely don't think there is a more anti-white position than yours.
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story was the worst so far the amnesia meme turned Goro into Ichiban with a skin.

The fights were too easy, lots of button smashing.

Only good thing was the boat combat
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>>726080852
If you really want to no-skill it, here's what I do for all Dragon Engine games where it's just about the quantity of prizes, not counting each unique type.
Just go to a machine with Bunchan the Sparrow prizes, grab one that's directly in front of the hole from the back, and it'll tip forward and roll right in. Then you can just reset the prizes and do it again.
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>>726081342
I'd rather have button mashing than the input reading shit fest of kiwami 2 or the forced knockdown cancer of kiwami 1
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>>726081342
it's not Majima's fault he had lousy dance partners
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>>726081230
5's was pretty bad.
>Stick the pole in the hole to win Migu boxes.
I hated that one in particular.

>>726081272
I remember at 8's launch we had two guys here from Hawaii talking about how it was some weird mishmash of streets they recognized and then they got giddy talking to each other about stuff in their state.
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>>726080646
He's the Joseph Joestar of your party. He could have been a hard boiled detective in a spin off set in the same year as 0.

His main arc has been done for so long that now he's just a rough and tough comic sidekick.
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>>726081580
Adachi is also giga based in ishin
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>>726081423
God, I hope Kiwami 3 isn't going to have the same issue at launch 8G did where it would play those english combat barks when I was on japanese audio.
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I liked Matt Mercer as Majima
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so Project Century is about a guy who lives for more than 100 years
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>>726081737
Unrelated but Persona 5 has the best save room music in a video game PERIOD.
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>>726081272
Not a local but I've visited Hawaii multiple times before and after playing the Hawaii games. The map is scarily well done and makes me wonder how accurate the Japan maps are.
It's the sort of thing where I walked the street and had a moment of "Oh, that's a hamburger store in Like a Dragon because there's literally a McDonald's on this exact spot in real life.".
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>>726081334
Lol where's the fucking video game?? Where's the gameplay??

Wanna be jap brown cocksucker lmfao

Will never get tired of laughing at you people who play this shovelware game after game like madden niggers. Exact same shit

>As proof yakuza is good I will post this fabricated image of a woman
Lol
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>>726081737
I have literally never played a Yakuza game with non-english voice acting. Even the first two PS2 games are now undubbed.
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>>726079976
Gaiden had amazing lighting, reminded me of K2, how did they fucked it up so soon with PY
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>>726081871
>that sentence structure
post hands brownoid
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>>726081761
I'm guessing we'll get history of the Yakuza development with time skips between games like the Battles Without Honor and Humanity movies
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>>726081824
It'll never happen but I kind of wish we'd get a Yakuza collab in the P5 gacha if only so I could see what would happen if Makoto interacted with them since she's a big fan of the series
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>>726081761
Yes, it's like Godfather 2 where the story takes place in 2 (3?) time periods, in a non linear fashion. It's going to be kino
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>>726081334
>Get a ron and we fuck
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>>726081896
You can actually still see it's really good lighting at night in 8G, especially if you go to that one handcuff bar near the Hawaiian Haunt or when you see light reflected on your person. It's the morning that looks horrendously bad now, and the evening looks pretty bad too.
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>>726081943
We lost Project X Zone far too soon.
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>He calls himself a Yak fan
>Plays dubbed
You're a subhuman. But I unironically look down on you, a lot.
t. Not even a weeb/japanophile
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>>726081935
ESLs always have a problem with natural English speech
>N-no you're brown

I'm rubber you're glue kids got sand stuffed in their mouth. Your generation doesn't have recess right?

It's always appropriate to make fun of jap shovelware players
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>>726081936
Yokoyama hates V cinema, don't count on him borrowing anything good from it.
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>>726081851
Yeah I stayed at the merriot at waikiki 2 years ago (not in thr game, it's east of the invisible wall on waikiki) but thr Mcdonalds there is the same place where you meet black chitose in her substory. It's fairly accurate
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>>726081951
>non-linear fashion
euuuuurgh
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>>726081272
yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKkvc2ru-P0
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>>726072948
>dragon engine
>not dogshit
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>>726082059
>posts in re-appropriated buzzword memes
>adds reddit spaces even when it makes the sentences read worse
>double question-marks like a spic
Whatever you say Juan.
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>>726081851
>makes me wonder how accurate the Japan maps are.
You can literally traverse the areas they used in Kabukicho and Dotonbori just from your Yakuza experience they're that accurate. Just go to Google Maps and try it. I know there's a few people here who went to Japan over the years that said they could walk around Kabukicho without issues because of how much they played the games. The only difference is the M Stores and Poppos are 7-11s and Family Marts, some of the buildings have changed like the Club Segas due to new ownership, and in Dotonbori I seem to recall something about the park not being the same?

No clue on Fukuoka, Nagoya, or Tsukimino but I have to imagine they're mostly the same.
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>>726082347
Because its not. UE5 Isshin is far worse and proves once again that in house engines are always better
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>>726082058
I play in Japanese specifically to avoid having to hear Yong

I fucking hate that they dropped Daryl for Kiryu after 7
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>>726082417
>Fukuoka, Nagoya, or Tsukimino
That was 13 years ago. From the very first Yakuza various characters including Kiryu repeatedly remarked how jap cities change beyond recognition every few years. Modern Dotonbori has very little semblance to the version seen in 2 and is almost unrecognizable for someone who played 0.
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>>726082614
Is there a fat guy in there who tells you burgers are good for your health?
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>>726082375
Kid you don't know what a buzzword is in any way and have now bastardized the word like twice past any actual meaning, just stop

>R-reddit
Yakuza is reddit the game lmao fucking sitting there pretending to laugh to give yourself a fake social group

Its always required to make fun of brown jap shovelware player chigyus

B....buzzword memes!!! Kids fucking suck at insulting now. Lmao you dumb estrogenated fucking bowl cut Indo chigyuu faggot
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ok, so which games do I have to play before I can play the pirate game?
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>>726082678
It's over for Dotonbori.
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>>726081580
>he likes y7 characters
>he's a jojo fan
No idea what the fuck you just said, but it was really gay.
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>i-it's not a buzzword I just used the exact words from a nig meme and replaced gacha with shovelware
>n-no don't call it reddit when I add reddit markdown spaces
>using the japanese term for incel so you're an ironic weeb to boot
Go drown in the river of shit that bred you faggot.
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>>726082897
And yet this will still fail to kill Wen Hai Lee.
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>>726082897
what did Majima do
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>>726082897
Colonel Sanders is getting his revenge for being tossed in the river by kentucky frying the whole damned city.
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>>726082786
Are you the same loser in E33 threads accusing people of being brown?
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>>726082967
>A buzzword is the same thing as a meme

When people older than you tell you you don't understand things, you don't have to repeat back to them that you don't

You are simple :(
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>>726083112
isn't "you're brown" just code for "I don't have an argument"
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>>726083195
No it's code for your genetics being objectively inferior and you being ugly and having black eyes and shit colored skin
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>>726083112
Not that anon but I have adopted calling people brown when I'm bored of a thread and I'm ready to burn it down and move on.
Really gets people going and it works way too well.
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>>726082821
In order
0
K1
K2
K3
4
5
6
Judgment
7 (watch the cutscenes)
Lost Judgment
Gaiden
8
Pirates

Theres going to be uncs replying that you have to play the original 1&2 on ps2, fuck em
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>>726083170
I note that you still haven't posted your hands.
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>>726082897
That's what happens when you hide 30 floor battle arena inside of the Don Quijote. Something's bound to burn.
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>>726083304
I'm white I don't do things at others behest lmfao fuck you kid some fucking nigger sitting in 4chan gonna tell people what to do

When in your entire life has anyone ever done a thing because YOU said to hahahahhaah fucking black eyed thing
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>>726083276
Guess I will just play 0 and see how I like it, but I will probably never play all those games you listed lol
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>>726082897
The Jingweon Mafia could be here
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>>726083364
>I'm white
lmao yeah i'm sure. Whites are well known for going into threads, whining that games aren't catering to the lowest common denominator (aka you simpering for the nu-shit), repeating tired memes and calling other people non-white without adding anything to the threads themselves.
That's definitely not something we started seeing after thirdies got their hands on the internet.
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Yeah I said the same but there's no other game series besides GTA that makes every game feel like a time capsule of a time now long gone. The 80's, early 2000's, 2010's and now 2020's, to see the evolution is charming on its own

Plus there's no other series where you can play as the hero from the time he's a punk 20 year old to the end of his days as a wise old man. Trust me you're going to love the journey
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>>726082428
Dragon Engine is shit, they gave the games "realistic" movement and lighting.
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>>726083526
????? Yakuza is the biggest example of lowest common denominator I can think of
>For losers
>Who are bad at games
>Want to feel cool
>Amazing pictures of women in bikinis!!
>This captures losers so they will buy the same 0 effort jap shovelware soap opera 10 times

Soap opera text reading small dick faggot retread shovelware lowest common denominator game

>Uh no you see I pushed square triangle triangle before doing the 40 fetch quests for Japanese marvel dialogue NPCs, so it's a serious game for discriminating

brown wannabe jap faggot
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Yakuza lost themselves the moment they went multiplat. There I said it.
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>>726071649
Unrealslop
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>>726083715
>I can think of
You and every other spiritual and physical pajeet.
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>>726071649
This is the real best game of the year which won't be even mentioned at the awards.
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>>726083714
Like grown ass men flying 30 yards when Kiryu shoves them or a whole row of bicycles and shop signs disintegrating when someone is thrown at them.
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>>726083265
you're brown
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>>726083879
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVmTTQmERjc
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>>726083839
Reminder people who buy the same game over and over have never been gamers and aren't nerds

Cluster B low iq faggot gooners

>I'll defend this shovelware to the death.
>Now I have somewhere I belong!
The alpha male of your group is yong yea
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>>726081647
>Adachi is in ishin
Oh god oh fuck, I already BOUGHT ishin.

I'll attempt a psn refund, fuck this.
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>>726083976
>chigyu
>gooners
lmao it's a hole
a thirdie hole
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This shit is the saddest weeb slop imaginable. This garbage franchise has more games the past decade than COD probably does, it gets like two a year.
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>you're brown you're a tranny you're reddit you're a woman!!!!
>IM NOT ALONE.
>I LOVE THIS CASUAL SHOVELWARE GAME FOR SECONDARIES
>I HAVE A FAMILY!!
*orders striped socks while sobbing*
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>>726083939
They should unlock Kiryu's dragon shouts already. It will outsell Skyrim.
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>>726084254
getting desperate
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>>726084056
He's in the demake. In real Ishin this is an OC character with some actor's face.
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>>726084254
>i'm definitely not a redditor woman or faggot (same thing)
>I just use their terminology, whine about sexualized and beatiful women and went everything to be ugly and for browns
No thank you. Go eat your shit somewhere else.
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My favorite is when you try to act like Yakuza is a hardcore taste haver game. Fucking Folgers video game
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>>726084413
I had a womans toes in my mouth the other day. How does that make you feel? Has a woman voluntarily touched you?

Voluntarily.

Since you're so into Yakuza maybe you could ask a woman to stand still and wear a marquee of tedious scrolling text
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>>726084571
>toes
>feet as a sexual thing
Underage or retarded I take it. Only retards and the underage mistake feet as something sexual because that's the only fetish they think is accepted because that's what streamers tell them.
To anyone with an actual sex drive you're just a fucking weirdo.
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>>726084571
How was it anon? Did you do that really gay thing where you closed your eyes and pretended to suck on a dick?
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>>726083276
this is considered a 10 in america btw
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>>726084571
>seething and going on about lack of sex and safe horny fetishes
Nayrt but i'm convinced you're a woman too
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>>726084689
I was on coke. It's not worth it. ARMPITS are where it's at. Far better than advertised

>>726084752
I don't like it, every part of a woman's body has a taste that I like except feet it seems. Haven't liked it on any try

Nonetheless they was still in my mofuckin mouth
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>>726085006
Maybe on the richter scale
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>>726084329
>OH MY SCIENCE! My heckin' chungus favorite weeb soap opera is now le PIRATE themed! Honey! Call Jamal over tonight, I'll be busy playing this quirky game!
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>>726085260
Hahaha it's the fucking video game equivalent of some "pet" monster that inevitably joins the hero in a marvel movie

I almost typed marvel mungus because I was thinking about quirk chungus.

Pirate Yakuza is Quirk Chigyuus
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>>726071649
If nobody plays 'the best game ever' was it ever good in the first place
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>>726072424
nu zelda is a fucking autism playground and nothing more, fuck off.
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How long until there's a new game and not a remake?
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>>726085548
Kiwami 3 comes with a new game
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>>726085592
Dark Ties is a 3D remake of all Mine episodes in RGGO.
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>>726085353
>responding to his own posts laughing at his own greentext while going on about his blacked fetish
Could not out yourself as browner if you smeared yourself in cow-poo.
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>>726072424
One took months to make and the other took 6 years. Compare where Yakuza was 6 years ago and they've added way more over time than ToTK did.
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>that hour long live action cringe with masaru near the end

jesus christ sega...
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Are there any big mods for yakuza 4 on pc that I should grab?
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>>726085745
you don't like a 5 second joke being drawn out for 5 minutes?
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>>726085818
Restoration/uncensor patch and quickstep fix is the only stuff you need. Mods that change movesets are very subjective.
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>>726078803
Mine has more layers, and he pulled an actual great subtle twist at the end because absolute unlikable young dick bag rich boy villain turned out to be the most honorable character in the game, he was only a prick because that was his a defensive mechanism to survive in a prick of a world he lived-in
Yakuza 3 has absolute goofy writing especially in the beautiful eyes department, but Mine I think was a masterful example of a great character writing.
Ryuji is a great villain for game covers and marketing, because you could clearly tell that he is the complete opposite of Kiryu with a single glance (I'm not being snarky about it, Ryuji has the best character design in terms of villains), but imo he's a bit disappointing in the game because he's just an up and coming young asshole who's desperate to go toe-to-toe with Kiryu but absolute fails at it as he gets schooled by Kiryu numerous times, even when Kiryu is injured sometimes. Even if the writer said Ryuji is stronger than Mine, it's very unconvincing from the difference in a way they present them in the story, also the biggest twist of him being a secret Korean on top of being Kaoru's brother, didn't really add anything to the character and it was only there for a stupid shock factor
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>>726082897
Majiima...
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>>726085459
You say this like Yakuza isn't a very autistic game.
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>>726086090
Mine is symbolically stronger and more impactful that Ryuji as well. When I've read Horitomo's commentary on his tattoo designs it turned out he's not even fully conscious of why he picks them. Typical example of the world of archetypes speaking to people on a subconscious level.
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>>726085006
Wood
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>>726085745
It was cringekino.
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>>726085818
Here, I made a collection of recommended mods you should use.
>>665863694
>>665863781
>>665863854
>>665864731
>>665864952

The only thing to add to those currently is 3R had someone port the restoration patch from PS3 3 to it.
https://www.nexusmods.com/yakuza3remastered/mods/224

You should try and opt for the PS3 versions if at all possible, the glitches the Remastered versions have aren't exactly great even if you can fix some of them.
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>>726082897
Ichiban farmed too hard...
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>>726084056
>Refunding because of that
Is this nigga serious
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>>726079285
Thanks for the advice, fucking weebs.
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Playing this right now. Is it me or are the substories in this game mostly kinda boring? None of the ones I've gone through so far have been particularly funny.
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>>726088659
I think 5 and 0 were where they hit a hot streak of funny side stories.
Everything after doesn't hit the same, even though you could tell they're trying really hard in 7 and 8 to please the 0 crowd
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>>726088659
Nah, 8G's are pretty solid all around. Some of the better ones in the series. The Devil Flags are the only bad side content in terms of a story really.
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I'm like worlds biggest yakuza fan and its still only my 2nd fave game of year

(Death Stranding 2 if wondering)
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>>726087309
>restoration patch from PS3
Im using this now and its great.
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>>726088802
it's over
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>>726083879
That's bad physics
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I refuse to believe that Majima's pushing 60. That beard is doing 90% of the work. Shave it off (which the game lets you do) and he's maybe late 30s/early 40s at absolute max.
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>>726090216
In 2005 he was 41 and not giving any fucks whether he lived or died because of alcoholic liver failure. Now he's practically Peter Pan.
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>>726090216
they should just keep them from aging, who cares if it makes any sense
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>>726090513
Come next game, Kiryu will fully recover from his cancer and be rejuvenated by twenty years.
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Not everyone ages like shit.
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>>726071649
>basedface faggotry
reddit game
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>>726086090
>>726086507
good posts
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>>726076924
just start with 0. ignore all the ps2 purists.
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>>726092014
I could make some effortposts about tattoos if you're interested. The stuff found on tumblr blogs is embarrassing in how agenda-pushing and poorly researched it is. Some characters also rely on wordplays and chink numerology in their names.
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>>726086090
The biggest issue with Kiryu is that because he's already established as the "top dog" in the very first game, nearly everyone that comes after him is basically just an "up and coming young asshole" nipping at his heels. Mine's just unusual in that while he does resent Kiryu, he doesn't care about Kiryu's position. It's hard for any of Kiryu's enemies to really be on his level because he was already in his late 30s in the first game and already a major figure in the yakuza world, and each game only adds to his legend until eventually he's just this impossibly incredible guy that no one could hope to match up to. He's always punching down, even if it's against his will.

There are only two instances in which this isn't the case: in Y1 and in Y0. But the problem is Y1 establishes that despite managing to claw his way to the top and ostensibly being in a superior position, Nishiki as always inferior to Kiryu and has a massive inferiority complex, so his loss almost feels like a foregone conclusion. And in Y0, yes, Kiryu's a rookie up against three far more experienced yakuza, but the problem here is that Kiryu completely fucking crushes Kuze in the very first goddamn boss fight. What this entails is that for all of Kiryu's inexperience, his raw talent already makes him superior to his far more experienced seniors. This culminates the fight with Shibusawa, where while it's not explicitly spelled out, Shibusawa clearly feels intensely threatened by this up-and-coming newbie, and a good chunk of his motivation is to nip him in the bud before he gets out of hand. Which doesn't work out because it's clear that Kiryu's already completely surpassed him.
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>>726092972
You know it's bad when even in Y8, where Kiryu has fucking cancer, he's STILL not clearly the underdog. Ebina can only serve as his equal when he's crippled and on his death bed.
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>>726072030
>It's just a shitload of asset reuse
so like every yakuza game
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>>726093275
It's crazy that spinoffs had less asset reuse than mainline titles. Dead Souls required new, trashed assets for entire Kamuro except Nakamichi Street. It was also the only game with explorable interior of Kamurocho Hills.
Then Kenzan and Ishin needed everything, from environments to clothes and weapons. They also had to call in more music composers from other Sega divisions.
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>>726093563
Where is Kenzan?
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>>726071649
this game was weak. can't wait for the 40s/50s kino.
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>>726093615
Considering the story matter they probably don't want to touch it with a ten foot pole, they'd likely Ishin Kiwami it in some way so it would be a downgrade, and if I remember one of the interviews right Yokoyama said it would require so much effort to do it. Kenzan Kiwami is likely very low priority at this point considering how much effort it would require and how horribly they bungled Ishin Kiwami.
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Finishing this made me desperate for Stranger Than Heaven to be more like Judgment than any of the recent Yakuzas
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>>726093615
in the trash where it belongs
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I'm playing through Gaiden No Name Man now. Is it just me and my skill issue or is the agent style kind of bad?
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Jump and dodge being tied to the same button was a mistake.
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>>726094709
it's good against mobs
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>>726094709
Agent Style is flashy, but its main purpose is AoE. You can't take out a group faster than with it. Dragon style is for bosses.

That said, Agent Style is the easiest way to take down the extra boss.
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>>726094709
It's good for clearing trash mobs once you've upgraded the Spider-Man web enough to casually toss the entire group around.
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YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS
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>>726095528
THIS AIN'T A SHOW, SHITHEAD
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>>726095584
This is gonna be the best vacation ever
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Kiryu and Majima are gonna live to see 120.
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>>726095687
Today is gonna be a blast!
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>>726095770
What time is it?
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>>726072424
LMAO
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>>726094709
You need to upgrade it. In the early game it's fairly weak because you don't have many damage upgrades and will take quite a bit to deal with groups. In mid and endgame you're killing random encounters with 10+ people in like two hits, it's absurd.
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Kinda feel like this game actually sort of drives the point home that Yakuza games don't really need such huge maps. At least not the standard beat-em-up affair. Sotenbori was a bit small, but then again, it never should have been the main area of a game anyway. More of a side piece.
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>>726095528
I'LL SUE YOU!
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>>726071649
>like a reddit
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>>726079132
>and was already a Legendary Pirate without even sailing once
That’s how it should work in real life
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>>726071649
i enjoyed it but it was like a 7/10
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Literally who cares about Yakuza. It's the same shit over and over again.
>6/10 brawler mechanics
>grindy rpg mechanics
>wacky funny kill animations made for youtube complilations
>random and funny japanese humor
>oh but we gotta have SERIOUS CRIME DRAMA where grown up men act really emotional and melodramatic
>also don't forget that we NEED to pretend Japanese yakuza are respectable and have some sort of honor because otherwise we will all get beheaded by the real yakuza
Yawn
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>>726076740
The Kenzan english patch will release any day now...
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Next Gaiden game should star Akiyama and someone else. I don't really think Akiyama can carry a game entirely on his own, but I think one other character can make it work.
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lol I just realized.
The next gaiden game's probably gonna take place primarily in Okinawa, isn't it?
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>>726092972
ryuji had good rival potential

i think they just need to stop using the same tired plot about some new scheming yakuza nigger. do triads, mafia, CIA, the government, the military or some other underground organizations that isnt a scheming up and comer yakuza
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>>726073040
am still baffled they managed to make such a great story where Kiryu actually feels like a character. I can bet this one barely had any Basedkoyama input
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>>726101704
The problem with those avenues is that it's a little difficult to create personal drama with those methods. They had to pull an identical twin out of Kazama's ass in order to pull the CIA card in Y3.
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>>726101937
I feel like they underutilized the chick though. They could have fleshed her out a little more. She felt more like a convenient plot device who just existed to give Kiryu what he needed to move forward on the plot.
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>>726101704
One of the main villains of 8 was a religious cult leader. The main villains of the Pirates in Hawaii were pirates. The main villains of the Judgment games wre also different.
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I'm playing through 0 for the first time, and it's a kino experience, and was wondering when does the series go to shit though?
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>>726102056
she's a plot device yeah and just an eye candy. I play yakuza for cool men not some chick, be glad she wasn't ruined by the plot or anything. I would have wanted more of HIM
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>>726101635
Well yeah, considering it's part of Kiwami 3.
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>>726102118
if you play in number order Kiwami 1 will feel like a bad dlc of 0, kiwami 2 jumping into a whole new engine which they haven't properly ironed, then 3 which feels dated as fuck then 4 which improves 3 and has the best cast and music of the franchise then 5 being an ugly 0. You need to understand 0 is the result of years of experiments. If you mean in release order, Judgment the spinoff is excellent and 7 is still salvageable it's at 8 it goes to shit.
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>>726102132
She was like the only other character in most of the game. Kiryu has like two friends here. Speaking of which, I do like that they just unceremoniously killed off the guy in Y8 and Kiryu barely reacted, almost as if these games almost certainly shared no writers and the staff who worked on 8 didn't really know that he e.e because they didn't write that shit.
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>>726082428
>worse example means bad isn't bad
embarrassing
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>>726083016
torching our retro game centers
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>>726101704
I had thought they were setting up the Daidoji Group as the next big bad to compensate for the downfall of the yakuza, but Infinite Wealth made them out to be a group of has-beens who have basically no real power anymore. But on a weirder level, Gaiden really made it seem like they have a lot of manpower and resources, but I'm not sure which is more indicative of their future direction since Gaiden was made after IW, but takes place before it.
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>>726102531
>but Infinite Wealth made them out to be a group of has-beens who have basically no real power anymore
When? They have power, Hanawa says the group in Hawaii is just them overextending their reach essentially. They still whip out the mooks quickly during the Life Links.
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>>726102531
Daidouji never really clicked with me because, to be honest, I'm not entirely certain what it is they're trying to achieve.
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>>726102192
That one's entirely kamurocho
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>>726082417
>You can literally traverse the areas they used in Kabukicho and Dotonbori just from your Yakuza experience they're that accurate
Only the bottom left half of the map (around tenkaichi and nakamichi) is accurate, the rest of the map is stitched together with random parts of Kabukicho and a lot of streets in-between cut out. Like for example, the Batting cage, Hotel district or Golden Gai placement is in a completely different place in real life.
And I'm just talking about the layout, because otherwise the actual visuals (the stores, how they look etc.) are way way different.
There is a lot of creative liberties in those maps, especially the newer ones like Ryukyu or the Y5 maps.
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>>726103905
Was it? I thought he's bouncing between both. My bad then.
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>>726101635
Give me Andre Richardson Gaiden
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>>726071649
Crazy Delivery is the best minigame

Don’t @ me
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>>726104127
>ahhh, shit
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>>726104064
The story will only really go until he's made the chairman of the Hakuho clan.
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>>726077932
>>726078183
>>726076924
Do NOT play Yakuza 0 directors cut - it actively ruins the original. It literally ruins the final scene for no reason whatsoever just because Yokohama was scared normies forgot about *it*

Even though that was the entire fucking point.
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>>726104478
Just to be clear, Yakuza 0 is the best. Directors Cut - never ever.
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>the awards
who cares, mate. be happy you favorite thing isn't overrun with normoids, though that might be too late for yakuza
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>>726104478
>It literally ruins the final scene for no reason whatsoever just because Yokohama was scared normies forgot about *it*
What?
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the light in Majimeme looks like shit
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>>726104571
Majima is told/reminded to fix the watch by some random bloke towards the end of the game.

It goes from Majima fixing the watch (which most players forgot about) to instead being like OMG DONT FORGET PLAYERS omg majima's gonna fix it right?!!
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>>726104739
They botched the HDR but to be honest I think all HDR is a nuisance. It just makes things look washed out and the colors crushed out to me.
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>>726085676
>Compare where Yakuza was 6 years ago and they've added way more over time than ToTK did.
That's genuinely such a fucking retarded statement, that you've mentally blocked my ability to reply accordingly. Congratulations, i guess.
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Why my nigga saejima constantly gets humiliated... He gets countered by a woman in 8 and his back scratched in majima
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>>726104816
You seem like someone who struggles with simple addition.
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>>726104848
If you want a serious answer I'll tell you to remember the scene where Majima and Saejima go out for grilled horumon (tripe) and Majima tells him "A Yakuza like us is worthless unless charred black like tripe". Basically his only value comes from going down, that's why he basically lives in prison most of the series.

But to be fair I don't think he's humiliated that much.
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>>726101937
Gaiden was pretty great. Probably the best combat in the series.
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0 was dogshit and ruined the series. majima is a gay clown now.
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>>726105080
0 is ludokino of the highest degree, but it's truly the mark of a tourist to say that it's the best in the series.
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>>726105080
>game which explained why he's can be deathly serious like in 4 or 5 yet acts goofy.

Please stop skipping cutscenes

>>726104997
more like the authors don't know what to do with him, 4's ending gave him a clan and Kiddo which he could have shaped to be the next brickhouse (maybe to ichi)
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>>726102380
Insurance fraud for sure.
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>>726104721
Goro hating Saejima gave me a good chuckle. God, I wish Saejima had more to do in this game. He's like a glorified cameo.
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>>726105343
Tiger v. Tiger, I loved it so much.
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>>726071649
But I did play it and even 100%ed it
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>>726079373
I want to suck turds out of her asshole, she completely won me over after her first drink link.

They wanna hook up my homie with a Kansai girl --but Kaworu is GOAT
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>>726082417
I just wanted to mention that the Tsukumino map is absolute horseshit.
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>>726104879
You're literally trying to compare 6 years worth of annual games, each with new features added and then reused to a single sequel to a game. That is genuinely pants on head retardation and is not something you can compare.
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>>726105927
>You're literally trying to compare 6 years worth of annual games, each with new features added and then reused to a single sequel to a game. That is genuinely pants on head retardation and is not something you can compare.
A team with far more money and far more staff. The yakzua team simply did way more with way less and it doesn't get more complicated than that
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>>726105554
Trying to avoid enemy encounters is like playing a rigged version of Pac-Man.
I fucking hate that place.
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Kenzan english patch... por favor....
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>>726078803
Yeah but Ryuji should've survived
Should've just showed up halfway through 3 to help Kiryu out and to tell him to fuck his sister
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I want to rape Kaoru.
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>>726072424
Can't tell if bait or ludicrously how retarded this poster is.



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