>>730982987
I knew they were going to do something Jewy. Why are they doing this?

It's actually insane how much RGG's reputation has plummeted since this demake got announced. Even the fandombrained retards on twitter who guzzle up everything they shit out are turning against them. The game will still sell 5 million copies week 1 because it's impossible for a big IP to fail nowadays, but still it's remarkable.

>>730982987
Got it all on PS4. Physically. Try to disable my games you fucking greedy bastards.

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>>730982987
another brilliant Sega/Yoyofaga move

>>730983861
>The game will still sell 5 million copies week 1 because it's impossible for a big IP to fail nowadays
The series only makes a lot when it comes to mainline stuff and even then 8 was half of what 7 sold despite selling 1 million the fastest according to them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250620210525/www.segasammy.co.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en/ir/20250618_Management_large_MTG_all_e.pdf
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Like_a_Dragon
7G was 980k but we've had no internal numbers at all on Ishin Kiwami or 8G, just what Media Create or whatever the physical tracker in Japan is called and SteamDB guesstimates.

>>730984179
I'm being a bit facetious obviously, what i'm saying is the pushback is not going to affect their bottom line at all and they'll just keep trucking along.

Better than outright delisting it I guess. If you're going to be a cunt about wanting more money, then you just tie the original as a bonus to purchasing the new version.

>>730984252
They got spooked when they couldn't release JE or LJ on PC so I can't imagine they're secure in how much they need to sell, or they're raising the budget higher and need to justify more sales. As it is you can clearly see the budget jump ever since 7 both in terms of visuals and content.
The games are seemingly still only selling about as much as the sales were at the height of 0 on PS4 when you remove 7 and 8 from the mix.

>/v/ suddenly hates Yakuza
What the fuck happened?

>>730984381
Yokoyama running the series into the ground.

>>730984381
SEGA spending more effort on pointless remasters/kiwami than new releases. They want to milk the Switch 2 audience now which means "Game re-release + 2hrs of new recycled content", to entice double-dips.

>>730984381
Yokoyama. 8 had the worst writing I have ever seen in a video game, people are clocking out due to how retarded things are getting.

>>730984431
>>730984479
What'd he do?

>>730984543
Constant non-sensical plot holes, redesigned kiryu to look like himself, e-celeb pandering.

>>730984613
yakuza has always had celebrity pandering

>>730984543
>fucked up Ishin Kiwami
>made original Ishin, 0 and soon 3 impossible to buy
>resurrected almost all major characters by now
>no game for 20th anniversary
>instead he organized a wedding event for roastie fans and dozens of self-congratulatory streams that air almost daily
>no news about Stranger Than Heaven during TGS or TGA

>>730982987
>delist cheaper titles in favor of selling worse and more expensive versions of the same game
>put the more expensive game in the bundle
>delist the remakes from seperate purchase so your only avenue of purchase is to buy the more expensive bundle now
it's actually insane how much good will RGG is pissing away with shit like this.

>>730984381
I want to like the franchise but the only game I've really loved since 0's original release was 7. I don't HATE Infinite wealth exactly, it was mechanically better than 7 but also a massive step down writing wise. with no 9 in sight and the compounding issues of basically erasing the yakuza from the setting and Ichiban's rapid aging thanks to massive gaps between titles the entire situation just feels bleak. and in the meantime we get another dragon engine remake of a game that this time doesn't really need one because of the availability of the original on modern hardware. doesn't help that their insistence on pushing the Y6 DoD style is so demoralizing, there are mods that port the original style into the DE just do that for the love of god the Y6 style is so fucking bad. why they've dumpstered Kiryu's iconic fighting style for the 6 moveset baffles me to this day

i can happily deal with a lot of RGG's fuckery, i loved 7G, 8, and Pirate Yakuza so it's not like i really have standards. but i refuse to buy this piece of shit no matter how bad i want to play it, fuck these faggots.

>>730984956
You lying nigger, we never had anything on par with nyanners dlc or fucking yong yea voicing kiryu.

>>730984381
The quality dropped when it became a turn based RPG and the Judgment games were better than the recent brawlers.

Yakuza got too popular, started to cave to westerners, and now the series is kinda retarded because it's all wacky dame dame guy moments. That's why Judgment is better, it still has the humor but it's not as constant.

>>730984543
>He writes the stories starting from the ending backwards mixed with vibes. People have been pulling up interviews he's done about 5's story in particular where he said he had no outline for anything. There's also one or two guys who browse 2ch (Maybe 2chan, can't remember) here who occasionally post about how they dunk on him and his ego. His writing has also led to nonsense like 8.
>In general the story has also been meandering ever since 7 since he has no idea what to do with the fact there are no Yakuza anymore and he's already done the "Yakuza are done" plotline.
>He ruined Ichiban in one single game, it's honestly impressive.
>He keeps referencing aspects of games that cannot be canon anymore because the Kiwamis have rectonned them out of existence.
>He changed Kiryu's design in 8 even at the opposition of the artist who was making said designs to look exactly like him.
>Most of the substories in the newer games are now "'member Yakuza 0?" and "'member Yakuza 7?" instead of like one or two sequel substories, a few references here and there, and the rest new content.
Pretty much every game since around K2 has had some sort of Chicken in it as a joke or as a recruit, same deal with Etsuko.
>He regularly vetoes options like Mack in Ishin Kiwami but then goes ahead with the eceleb cards.
>He's constantly greenlighting stuff like Ishin Kiwami or now K3 that cut content from the originals for no reason, cut corners, and make multiple aspects of the original games worse in these "definitive" version of the games.
K3 is looking like Mack has been cut entirely since Revelations don't exist anymore, Kiryu now has a weapon master style instead of just more Heat Actions he never uses in any future games, he keeps trying to retcon the Amon Clan for some bizarre reason, Ryukyu is looking like it might have aspects of the city slimmed down for some reason, etc.

The games are still fine, but there's definitely been a hit to the series since around FotNS.

>>730982987
These games are so awful.

>>730985216
>The quality dropped when it became a turn based RPG
there was literally nothing wrong with this move though. the problem is that Sega is pozzed and Yokoyama is a fucking retard

Putting the series on shit 1 and 2 was a mistake holy fuck. They're burning all the good will of their actual fan base to suck off shitendo

>>730985203
yakuza 5 had a mandatory game-spanning substory for every character solely to jerk off some celebrity chef

>>730985296
>the problem is that Sega is pozzed
That goes hand in hand with the western pandering, the timing just sort of fell into place where the soft reboot happened right when it got popular in the west and the games were made more for the western fans. I say the timing fell into place but a soft reboot was probably on purpose because Yakuza 0 made the franchise popular in the west and it allowed people to jump in without playing Yakuza 1-6 first.

>>730985236
>>In general the story has also been meandering ever since 7 since he has no idea what to do with the fact there are no Yakuza anymore and he's already done the "Yakuza are done" plotline.
Those absolute retards already had the Honest Living Association, which continued to operate after 3. All they had to do was make a storyline about HLA and similar groups struggling with the recent anti-yakuza laws.

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>>730985367
>This series got worse because they put their games on more platforms.
3rd Party devs are not in a position to not have their games on most platforms now, with the economic climate being what it is.

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The Franchise That Erased Its Past

>>730985478
Switch 1/2 versions sold less than 10k copies for every title. The costs of porting them to tendie tablet and Nintendo's cut was greater than any revenue from this platform.

This has to be a record in turning your fanbase on you the fastest

>>730984381
>Jewishness, Japan

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>>730985598
I don't know why the suits at RGG/Sega are doing this shit

You know how loyal the fanbase is but for them to actually drop the reviews down to mix because of this shit must be baffling

>>730985296
>there was literally nothing wrong with this move though
There was as it changed the perception of the brand. JE and LJ should have been the JRPG games, mainlines should have stayed beat 'em up. As it is they're already having to have half the mainline games (The Gaidens) as beat 'em ups and the Kiwamis are all still beat 'em ups just to placate the fans. It also means in the future when Ichiban is retired (Which you and I both know he will be sooner rather than later since they can't let Kiryu go) they're going to whiplash us again with either a change back to beat 'em up or a new genre.

JE was outright established with a bunch of civilian mooks who could barely beat up guys Shinada, Akiyama, and Tanimura could with their eyes closed. Yagami constantly needs his friends to clear most of the main story in JE and a good chunk in LJ. The main story even regularly has everyone together brainstorming. You also have the Mortal Wounds system specifically to show you how weak he is comparatively. It was the perfect opportunity to slap the JRPG system in there and not have to do this whole "Hero vision" schizophrenia thing they have going on with Ichiban and Kiryu. Present it to the player with no attention or explanation and let them accept it as it being the combat system and that's it.

What they did was the equivalent of Microsoft releasing Halo 4 and it's an RTS while Halo Wars plays like an FPS. It's a baffling decision to make and the fact it succeeded was an enormous gamble.

>>730985760
i thought the genre switch was a fucking alpha male move, the only problem with the jrpg games is the writing

Do you guys think the original version will still be on GOG?

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>Bundle won't be discounted on Steam if you already own a few games because Sega changed it to "purchase as set" 11 days ago
HAHAHAHAH
THESE FUCKING JEWS
THEY COULD EASILY ALLOW IT
HAHAHAH
THATS SO SHAMELESS
https://steamdb.info/bundle/63575/#apps

>>730985750
PC is obviously a secondary market for them to make money from freely, the consoles are their primary market. They don't really care that modding breaks or the experience is somewhat worse on the PC end.

You can see this reinforced with how the behind-the-scenes stuff regularly has them showcasing stuff on PS4s/PS5s, demo and trailer footage is usually done with Playstation controllers unless it's for a targeted platform, and the whole reason these versions exist is so that they can sell them on a new platform (Switch 2 and PS5 specifically).

You can also see this further reinforced with a good chunk of the PC versions having exclusive glitches or issues not seen on console.
>PC 0 has broken minigames and save corruption the PS4 version doesn't.
>PC K2 can have the world randomly unload textures, there's now framepacing issues, and a higher framerate than the intended 30 makes the game unplayable without Silent Patch.
>PC 3R had broken fishing for months at launch.
>PC IK to this day has slightly worse lighting than consoles for some reason (Compare chapter 12 between even PS4 IK and PC for example). It also launched with Heat draining twice as fast even at 60 FPS which wasn't seen on PS5 from what I recall.
>PC JER has more small visual or gameplay glitches due to the 60 FPS than people on PS5 have like substories not starting or the drone not flying correctly.
>PC 7G can have Pocket Circuit and the coliseum rendered unplayable past 60 FPS.
>PC 8G for some reason has cutscenes move faster at 60 FPS and above where they skip slightly.

>>730985760
>(Which you and I both know he will be sooner rather than later since they can't let Kiryu go)
I really wonder what the hell they are going to do since they are kind of running out of line to use Kiryu unless they go back and add more shit to the timeline prior to Yakuza 1 or they go full fucking retard and "remake" Yakuza 1 but the story plays out completely different and it ends up creating an alternate timeline.

I'm getting so tired of the big side minigame just being the Team Coliseum from Man who Erased his Name gussied up with a new can of paint.

>>730982987
I feel bad for yakuza fans
What was once a respected franchise is now entering
THAT phase

I feel so gratified seeing this series come crashing down after taking a direction that a personally didn't care for.

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>>730986494
I'm honestly surprised they haven't done a playable version of RGGO. They still haven't finished the story (Sawashiro alluded to someone above him or something) so they could use it to do that, they have a free Gaiden game to make with it in the form of the Ryuji story, and they're already adapting random card substories into a full on game as shown with Mine and 3G. It's gonna EoS at some point, may as well make use of it to stagger mainline releases as you figure it out.

Santa game where you run the black market when?

>>730986782
Don't feel bad for me, I stopped caring years ago.
I like the first four and that's more good games than most IPs get.

Have they said how long Dark Ties is going to be? I'm not excited at all about playing a remake of 3.

>>730986494
the kiwamis shouldve been used to rewrite the OG games to make them less like soap operas and make kiryu not super bland. it makes no sense that they kept the story exactly the same, but then made kiryu and majima more like themselves from 0/5 in everything but the story

>>730985495
The Japan That Erased It's Culture.

>>730986782
Nagoshi is my king. I believe in him.

>>730982987
Copyright Laws need to be 15-20 years not 70 or 90. I am convinced Gaming companies, Movies, every single book publisher should lose their ability to be able to control their property and nobody to be able to have the ability to get it either.

>>730987516
I just want the ability to play the original as it was.

>>730987591
If they lose the copyright and it enters the Public Domain there would not be much they could do about you having the original.

>>730987591
rpcs3

>>730988057
I have an actual PS3 with the game, just saying that if you're going to remaster/remake whatever, do it as it was, or simply let me pick between the remaster and the original.

>>730982987
They did this exact thing with Sonic already. On the Series X (and I assume other platforms) they delisted Sonic Generations and Sonic The Fighters so now the only way to purchase them is to buy the Sonic Legacy Bundle for $60 that also includes SA1, SA2, and Sonic 4. That and the fact Sega delisted all their classic games like Nights makes me really question wtf they’re doing.

>>730982987
>release yakuza 0 directors cut that nobody wants
>nobody buys it
>now if anyone wants the actual yakuza 3 they have to buy their shitty 0 directors cut
bet they felt smart

>>730988440
I started looking for any sales data but they don't want to share it. It's only known that 22k copies were sold for Switch 2.
Pirates in Hawaii sold 83.5k on PS5 + 48.5k on PS4.

>>730988923
>Pirates in Hawaii sold 83.5k on PS5 + 48.5k on PS4.
Thats a fucking flop if true.

>>730982987
dead franchise

>>730984381
>suddenly

>>730988997
https://teitengame.com/
#34 and #52
Fucking Dead Souls sold 300k units domestically during its first week.

>>730985760
>There was as it changed the perception of the brand. JE and LJ should have been the JRPG games
I disagree entirely, 7 not being a JRPG would change it entirely. It's filled to the brim with genre tropes, the hometown's "destruction" after the hero leaves, the building of the party, the omi dungeon in particular with how it's less of a gauntlet like Kiryu had to do but having it be about navigating the area, fighting each miniboss for them to reconvene at the end as their own party, the betrayal by a party member and his eventual turn back into being an ally and so on.

8 is a worse game because it just tries to be a normal yakuza plot but with ichiban and falls flat because of it (and also because Ichi's half of the story is just bad), 7 is very much toying with the notion of the JRPG but in the Yakuza setting. take that away and the game is lesser for it.

>>730985990
7's writing is fine, 8's however is mostly bad outside of Kiryu's bucket list stuff, which is the strongest stuff he's gotten since 5/0

>>730983861
I'll lose faith if LAD9 is shit. Pirate Majima and this game are obviously churned out to make money to fund bigger projects. VF6 and STH look neat.

>>730989456
most of 7 is fine but the entire ending is fucking retarded

>>730989359
Makes me wonder how much the Yak 0 re-release sold, seems everyone hated it.

>>730989456
7 was mostly fine imo but mirror face was insanely retarded and comes really close to ruining the end of the game for me.

8 is just really boring and uninteresting. ichiban gets no development and when he meets his mom, the entire point of him going to hawaii in the first place, he just kinda says hi and then leaves. kiryus side is also really gay with all of the "i cant say hi to my old friends, the evil secret agents will kill me!" which just makes all of the bucket list stuff feel like a cocktease. not to mention the cutscene with kiryu after you defeat the final boss feels like they might as well included another cutscene in the corner of a live feed of them snipping kiryus balls off

I feel like Yakuza 0 tricked newcomers into thinking the rest of the series had stories like that when they've always been nonsensical soap operas. I haven't played up to IW yet but could it really be that much more retarded than rubber bullets or the entire final hour of 5?

>>730989612
idk if i would say its as retarded in a soap opera way, but it does feel like IW jumps the shark purely to appease the western audience, its even more obvious in majima pirates

>>730989570
I liked the bucket list stuff, it really rubs in Kiryu's face how much he's given up and how YET AGAIN running away has done nothing for most of the people close to him but make them sad. The problem's with the Kiryu cancer plotline and the ending are twofold.
1. his source of cancer being from evil government radiation he got hit by because he's a big hero is dumb, just let him develop it naturally and
2. the tojo boys were given the backseat to Ichiban's friends despite the tojo boys being much, MUCH closer to Kiryu.

I don't think Kiryu choosing to give up the ghost and reclaiming his name works without the bucket list stuff. I would've also maybe made his final boss a son of one of the various tojo or omi officers Kiryu himself put down in Yakuza's 0-5, so he can actually be responsible for what happened to that person instead of Kiryu being Tojo Jesus.

>>730989612
Don't think it's necessarily any tricking, just that SEGA made the bone-headed decision to do the PC releases out of order. Should have started them on Kiwami 1's port, and then release 0 after 5.

>>730989419
>7 not being a JRPG would change it entirely
That's the idea. The story would change and so would JE and LJ's structure because JE and LJ would gain the JRPG side of things and 7 and 8 would be a traditional Yakuza game. You would have it having an identity crisis while JE and LJ mosey along just fine.

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>>730982987
wait a min, but virgins on /v/ told me that Japan is based and redpilled and they want the best for their consumers, what happen ?

>>730989727
I was going to say that the point of 7 is that Ichiban's schizophrenia meant more enemy variety but they weren't really that varied and it was mostly just people in retarded costumes that didn't work that differently between them. A Judgment game could work with 8's battle system. That game even starts without the schizo bullshit and it's pretty nice.

>>730989753
japanese businessmen are jews with slanted eyes

>>730989419
7 really shouldn't have been a mainline entry.

>>730982987
I knew Sega was stupid but, fucking hell.

For such a third rate developer sega love to act as jew as possible

>>730989845
>>730989727
it only really works as a followup to the main storyline though. Ichiban is a mirror of Kiryu, they go to painstaking lengths to compare the two. Both characters are introduced by a debt collection, both stories are about their brothers turn to darkness with the protags trying desperately to save them, only for their machinations to be their end. both end up with dead father figures, both are jailed for a crime their brother committed and are released from prison and put into action by the schemes of their fathers. The plot is set up this way so long time fans can directly compare and contrast Kiryu and Ichiban, put them in similar scenarios and see how they differ in their approach. I get you guys don't like the genre shift but 7 is well written and realized entirely because it's both a mainline title, and also a JRPG. it leverages both the franchise's history and characters, drawing upon them while also drawing on genre tropes to make it "Yakuza: the JRPG".

and that isn't even mentioning stuff like the actual direct follow up to the crack down on yakuza that 6 established (though it's the weakest aspect of those games and sets up big problems for the series going forward)

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>>730990089
Found the reason why theyre doing this shit for a quick buck

>>730989612
>I haven't played up to IW yet but could it really be that much more retarded than rubber bullets or the entire final hour of 5?
8's problem is structural and how it handles its subjects instead of reveals.

It uses Ichiban as an introductory character and then shuffles him off to the side as soon as Kiryu is brought into the picture with Kiryu constantly commandeering the scenes that Ichiban would rightly be leading. Even the side content is uneventful jokes for Ichiban while Kiryu's is basically an overview of seven mainline games of his life, his faults, and his successes.

Once the party splits up with Ichiban having his side and Kiryu having his side Ichiban's entire part is filler. Virtually nothing but filler content happens inside of it that is important to the main story outside of a single reveal. Once that reveal happens it's just filler content again until right before they join up again. Kiryu on the other hand has every single major story beat, learns of all the important parts of the story, and is involved with setting up everything important in it.
Another really annoying thing is that the final bosses are completely reversed. Kiryu's is responsible for all of Ichiban's problems and Ichiban's is responsible for a lot of Kiryu's problems. It's stupid.

It treats everything that happened in 7G as never having happened or irrelevant even though the story was being done in tandem with 8 and mistreats the stuff that 7G did set up. There's no payoff, only blue balls and middle fingers. We know more from a random Japanese fangirl talking to Yokoyama at an event regarding Hanawa than we do in his entire time in 8.

It has Ichiban doing something with a certain character which makes Ichiban look like a complete naive idiot, like he has a savior complex, like he has no spine, and feels like an insult to everyone regarding this character's involvement in the story.

>>730989941
It's pure desperation before the end of fiscal year. And dumb goycattle already proved it works because they panic bought original 0, K1 and K2 the moment it was announced that they'll be delisted and replaced with different versions. All they had to do was pirate or look for physical copies, used or from bargain bins.

>>730990097
>it only really works as a followup to the main storyline though. Ichiban is a mirror of Kiryu, they go to painstaking lengths to compare the two.
You're still viewing this as if it would be 1:1 what was presented as 7. I'm not just imagining the game as 7 but with beat 'em up content, I'm imagining it structured completely differently and not the same game at all. Ichiban wouldn't be a DQ autist, he wouldn't have JRPG schizophrenia, he'd basically just be like Akiyama or JE Yagami/Kaito in terms of a character and how he's addressed, etc.

As it is RGGO Ichiban is a completely different character from 7 Ichiban. He's an asshole, he's overtly serious at times, he's a Yes Man, and he's more reminiscent of BP1 and BP2 Tatsuyas merged together.

>>730990179
Still a scummy move that's going to hurt them in the long term

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>>730982987
Yakuza is a shitty overrated series, the ps2 Yakuza was special but the new one ugh

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>>730990340
riveting post anon, please make another one.

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>>730989753
The chinese disease of confuscianism runs deep in their workplace culture. All of society's evils stem from collectivism, to push the individual into being nothing more than a gear working towards a vague "greater goal" that ultimately only benefits the bureaucratic clique.

>>730990340
I would give both my nuts for a mod for the PS2 titles that add side story markers because god am I sick of running around in Y2 to get these damn things done.

>>730984381
0 got too popular.

Trainwreck 3 news:

https://www.4gamer.net/games/947/G094758/20260115050/index_2.html
>some substories revealed in a demo booth
>Kiryu works as a host in Stardust
>porn mag and children substory straight from 0
>locker keys replaced by collectible hunt with the phone in hand
>Kashiwagi pays Kiryu to beat the shit out of former Tojo members - this means HLA storyline was completely removed and replaced
>Mine chases a serial killer
>pirate substory

https://www.4gamer.net/games/947/G094758/20260105060/
>Haruka's trust but for every individual kid
>updated map of Downtown Ryukyu - the north is still cut
>retro games on Sega's Game Gear

>>730986187
Looks like they only intended it to be a "complete the set" bundle during the duration of the most recent Steam winter sale. Japanese business men work in mysterious ways.

>>730991252
i dont mind kiryu being a hostess like in the original 1 or 2, but i already know theyre gonna use it as a way to appease the fujos instead of actually giving it any depth. everything else changed that you listed is gay

OH NO NO NO
https://www.4gamer.net/games/947/G094758/20260105059/
>Horii: We've packed two games, "Yakuza Kiwami 3" and "Dark Ties," into this release, which would have been sold separately [otherwise], making it a truly generous 20th anniversary gift.
GENEROUS

Ichicuck killed Yakuza

>>730991527
they're really pushing their luck man

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>>730991527
I mean in an age of $90 mario kart, two Yakuza games for $60 is pretty decent. Especially considering you can usually clock 50 to 100 hours per game. I guess it really all depends on how substantial Dark Ties is.

I was already not going to buy this wretched remake, this just ensured Im praying on SEGA's downfall entirely.
Yakuza 3 Remastered's port was released just five years ago, they've got a lot of fucking nerve delisting it to force people to buy the demake.

They've been butchering the original games for awhile now, but they got away with the first 2 because they're locked to PS2 for English speaking players.
Now even newer fans are seeing the complete disrespect RGG has for its past

>>730982987
The amount of bad will RGG has created with Kiwami 3 is pretty crazy. They better hope Stranger than Heaven is GOTY quality to turn it all around kek

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https://dengekionline.com/article/202601/63247
>The battles in Yakuza 3 are incredibly difficult. Even I couldn't complete it; it's said to be the hardest in the series, but we're not being held back by that. The engine has also changed, and we've made about 10 action titles since then, so we've created this game with the latest Dragon Engine and the latest action, without being held back by the past.
So we can expect the difficulty level of Pirate Memejima because current RGG staff from directors down to zoomer interns got filtered hard.

>[regarding Ryukyu weapons style] Why did you choose eight weapons this time?
>Horii: That was something I struggled with quite a bit, because there are a lot of Ryukyu weapons. So I thought about equipping them and switching between them, but it was too much trouble (laughs). I thought, "Nah, never mind," and decided to base it on the idea that you can just press the buttons repeatedly and the eight types will be automatically unleashed, allowing you to experience a satisfying action.
Press any buttons to win.

>By the way, in "Yakuza 3 Gaiden," Mine talks to himself a lot, or rather, Mine's inner thoughts come out a lot as if they're narration. It's a style that hasn't been used much in the "Yakuza" series up until now, but there's a lot of it this time.
>I think Mine is the type of person who will mutter things to himself

>>730982987
They should give me a discount if I already own the original and remastered.

>>730984381
This place has been one of the few clocking the direction the franchise has been headed in for awhile.
This was one of the few places pointing out how piss poor the first two remakes were, now the third remake is tripling down on what makes those remakes so poor if you've played the originals.

Yakuza 8 was poorly written slop, and I havent even played Pirates in Slopwaii.
The series is getting run into the ground BAD.

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We need to stop Yokoyama right now.

>>730992174
Chigyus are starting to realize that Horii is also pure cancer. The earliest signs of it go way back to Dead Souls, though they could be easily dismissed since it's a parody spinoff. Majima Saga in K2 should have been the wake up call but everyone slept on it until now.

>>730992074
>Enters a room with yellow paint toward that door
>Mine : "hmm where to next, maybe that door ?"
>Dick around the room for 5 minuted
>Mine : "It's probably that door over there"
>Open the door
>Mine "Thats it !"
>Mine enters and trip on a metal bar, he is now on the floor.
>Mine : "Shit, I tripped"
>On the floor, a message is written in blood, hidden behind a tarp.
>Mine : "Oh shit that's not good"
>The message ? Everybody do the dinosaur

>>730984179
To be fair, Yakuza is a series that sells over time due to going on sale a lot, so you can't just look at raw numbers. It took Y7 almost 4 years to sell 1.8 mil and in 5 years it hit 2.8 mil. Y8 hitting 1.6 mil in about a year and a half means it's selling a lot faster than 7 did, it just depends on whether it'll have legs as good as 7

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Apologize.

It kind of all started with 5/Ishin, but the amount of copy pasted "here's a friend, go grind his friendship status" and similar bullshit just killed my interest in the franchise.
Everything in Yakuza now feels like an offline MMO where every piece of the map HAS to have some dead NPC standing for you to talk and get a task next to a very obvious fixed loot points.
My heart sinks when I see K3 footage and all of those shitty icons fill out the screen and you see the copy pasted Dondoko Island loot garbage all over the map.
https://youtu.be/Whcb_HdHBc4?t=339

Bros I don't think I want judgment 3 anymore.

>>730991252
>Mine chases a serial killer
he's not the "bad guy" anymore? He's staying alive like Kashiwagi isn't he. Then he will be a playable character in Y4Kiwami

RGG just hasn't been the same since nagoshi left

why do people want Y3 Remastered?

>>730992074
>>The battles in Yakuza 3 are incredibly difficult. Even I couldn't complete it; it's said to be the hardest in the series, but we're not being held back by that
I cannot fucking believe it, Yakuza was always the most casual beat em up series, the literal fucking motto from the devs even starting from the PS2 games was that anu drunk salary man in Japan could beat the game.
And the Ryukyu style being discount Agent style (hold button to see shitty animation of a different weapon) is a major disappointment too. So much for the "remake" actively removing content instead of refining the weapons, oh well.

>>730992473
They don't, but they want to have the choice of getting it or kiwami 3

>>730992473
>people
Fren, it's "why do executive want Y3 Remastered?"
And the answer is as hold as our existence : money.

>>730992443
The fact that their hard push into the Switch ecosystem isn't working out is kinda funny because Nagoshi was hard against that KEK

>>730985367
niggy is STILL seething uh? You know damn well that japanese devs put games on Switch/Switch 2 in order to survive in their home market right? PS5 is doing extremely badly over there, its reaching Xbox levels.

>>730992336
7 had bad initial sales because everyone was mad at 6 being unfinished and the whole thing with Haruka. It took some word of mouth, that it's nothing like 6, for 7 to start selling.
The 8 had huge initial sales thanks to 7, and they sharply dropped off as people were finishing it and realizing it just demolished all the good things started by 7.

>>730992373
>look at video
>"final preview"
Why are they lying again? They just announced a new Ryusta TV stream on 1/23 that will have another new gameplay preview. There's also supposed to be a downloadable demo coming soon, they'll probably announce the date on stream. We're getting datamines and asset rips soon.

>>730992473
Because people want to play the original game...?
Thats like asking, why do people want Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) is right there!

Why do you wanna watch Oldboy, we got a new one right here for you!

>>730992537
Nagoshis reasoning was really shit though, claiming that Switch was a kid oriented platform during the time where Sony censored every fucking Japanese game (and even anime styled games in general) to appeal to tumblr-tards and make them kid friendly was just peak retard.

>>730982987
Why would anyone want to play Yakuza 3 Remastered? It has a fucked dodge due to the increased frame rate, censored content compared to the original, and Yakuza 3 as it is is just kinda not that fun regardless. Emulate the original if you want the true Y3 experience.

>>730992623
>Because people want to play the original game...?
Sure but /v/ are also the niggers that tell you emulate PS2 Y1 and Y2, so shouldn't they be gaslighting people into emulating PS3 Y3?

>>730992660
>It has a fucked dodge due to the increased frame rate,
Fixed with a PC mod.
Anyway, no one wants to emulate. Stop being retarded. The Y3 PC port isnt great, but its better than what Y1 and 2 have... fucking nothing

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>>730992659
He was right in the end. Kiwamis sold around 5-6k copies each on tendie tablets.

>>730982987
You can't even show goodwill towards a franchise, because they won't waste a second in trying to jew you when they get their hooks in. It's fucking ridiculous.

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>>730992074
>The battles in Yakuza 3 are incredibly difficult. Even I couldn't complete it; it's said to be the hardest in the series

>>730992738
>no one wants to emulate
Skill issue, unironically. Genuine intelligence check.

>>730992703
You should be emulating Yakuza 3 with the restoration patch, yes. 3 Remastered has too many issues due to the 60 FPS that can't be fixed whereas the worst 3 has with the restoration patch is some crashes here and there. 3R also has the restoration patch but it means crashes AND all the 60 FPS issues including enemies blocking twice as much.

>>730992757
And the games will continue to do badly since nobody is buying old port third party gkc games on the Switch 2 for full price

Will have to see how FF7 remake does but i doubt it will do well

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Love how the remake takes PS3 assets and doesn't fix anything, so now with dynamic shadows you can easily tell the bushes are floating above the ground.
Zero art direction, maximum TAA smear.

>>730992994
it's honestly impressive, I thought for sure Kiwami 2 couldn't be topped in terms of shit quality but Threewami is really doing it's best to prove me wrong

>>730992074
The idea of yakuza 3 of all games hard filtering RGG staff is funny as hell

>>730982987
Them making it still available is a plus from me. If you dont already have it you should grab it now. Also where the fuck is Kenzan?

>>730992394
They’re going to add a cinematic of him and agent fuckknuckle landing on a giant coincidental fallbreak inflatable that was set up for some TV drama or something. I’m fucking amazed that I got into a series just as it was being destroyed by its own writer. Fastest time I’ve gone from “Wow this is cool I want more” to “The series is doomed and there’s no point in supporting it or the studio”

>>730993032
I dunno. I think the piss green filter is still hard to top

>>730992927
Atleast FF7R is like 40 bucks so it isnt full price.

>>730993032
We're almost 4 weeks away from release and we're already getting peak entertainment value out of it. FOR FREE

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KILL RGG STUDIOS
NOW.

>>730992757
>>730992927
https://xtrend.nikkei.com/atcl/contents/18/01186/00001/?wovn=en

>—You've achieved initial sales of 10 million units. You need to build on that.

>Tsujimoto: That's correct. However, we also found that the "PS5 barrier" is unexpectedly large. The console costs about 80,000 yen in Japanese yen. When you factor in the cost of software and monthly subscriptions, it comes to about 100,000 yen at the time of purchase. This is not an amount that can be easily reached, especially for younger generations. This situation is not limited to Japan, but is similar overseas as well.

RE9 next month is a new release and will launch the same time as the other versions. Kiwami 3 is launching thr next month as a new release at the same time as the other versions.

>>730993058
green filter is the least of it's problems. the kamurocho map not even trying to mimic 2's map, the Y6 moveset replacing Kiryu's original and way more enjoyable combat style and the poorly reworked bosses are much larger problems that plague the game from the top to bottom.

>>730992994
>Love how the remake takes PS3 assets and doesn't fix anything
Thats the neat part, those arent even PS3 assets.
At best thats mid-gen PS4 assets from Yakuza 6, but either way, It manages to look worse than PS3 gen Yakuza 3.

>>730992893
See at least Moose is consistent unlike dese schizo niggas getting outraged over what they used call Y3 "demastered"

>>730993283
yeah they probably just used the orphanage map from 6, but because you couldn't go to the beach on that map in 6 the grass was never supposed to be visible from that angle

>>730993305
I never called Y3R demastered.
Ive never advocated for janky ass PS3 emulation. Even people who tell you to emulate will tell you they got multiple crashes for no reason emulating.

If a PC port were like that It'd be considered unplayable

>>730993376
Didn't Y3R have more content than base Y3 just because the English version of Y3 had shit cut out originally?

>>730993620
Yes.

>>730993376
Then what are you angry about? It's still available in the Y345R bundle so people that want to catch up with Y345 still have access to it.

people are fatigued of this lol so randum meme series

>>730993971
>You have to give us 120 dollars to play our game goy
Fucking retard

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>>730989753
god's choosen people

>>730994160
So you're angry because you're poor and can't wait for sales.

>>730994394
I have a 4090, dont talk to me about being a kvetching poor, kike, just because I see through your transparently greedy practices.

>>730994568
And everyone knows the trick to get around jewness is to pirate or emulate, which neither you can do because ur a retard, is that it?

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>>730994568
Yeah, I still think you're poor

>>730984381
>>730984543
Yakuza has been going downhill since new Ishin.
Gaiden was the best thing they put out since.

anyone that still buys these games is a fucking GAY ASS NIGGA

>>730982987
I buy all Yakuza stuff usually. But since 0 was a lazy remaster its the only one i skipped. There needs to be some value it brings to the table or i won't touch it.

>>730984381
yakuza and remake fatigue

I'm just hoping nagoshi's latest game will be good and successful so he had a reason to dabs on yokoyama the terada of RGGS and sega

What is this pedo shit i keep hearing about?

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SEGA is fucking done. Move. Yakuza is dead.

DEI infected company to the core.

>>730983723
Sega were cheaters from day one

>>730983861
Not good with numbers, eh?

>>730985534
seethe harder snoygger
https://gamingbolt.com/yakuza-kiwami-is-selling-like-hotcakes-on-switch-rgg-studio

>>730985216
Both judgement are flawed masterpieces. Played two before one and do see the first story as better, but the pacing and telling in 1 is bad. Fighting is shit compared to 2, too.

>>730985236
>He ruined Ichiban in one single game
Flanderization should be called ichibanisation

>>730986187
if you were a fan, you'd already own them

>>730985236
Judgment's yagami has the same outfit as the previous director, so that's that.

>>730988440
you've had 15 years to buy "the orignal yakuza 3" you autistic fuck

>>730984381
>d-do you hate yakuza or something? just buy the shitty re-release or anything sega releases, for that matter

>>730985236
He also hates equipment, doesn't he? Likely that kiryu in k3 has no armor and weapons, just this style where he magically draws weapons out of his ass.

>>730985236
>K3 is looking like Mack has been cut entirely since Revelations don't exist anymore
Good fuck that nigger

>>730992660
>true Y3 experience.
>ps3 NA verison
full retard, especially considering you used the word censorship

>>730990156
>Ichiban's is responsible for a lot of Kiryu's problems
Which ones? Kinda skipped the story at a certain point. It's true that kiryu solves ichiban problems, which is retarded, as at least some of these characters shouldn't appear in iw and honestly, kiryu is like ultra strong, but somehow every boss in 1-8 can 2-3 hit him. Menu healing is really ludo narrative dissonance here. If kiryu would be strong, he would stomp most of his enemies without any effort.

>>730990639
Idk, while that's true ofc, the individual is nothing without other individuals and their corresponding group.
Obviously : individual > group from a philosophical standpoint.

>>730992074
>The battles in Yakuza 3 are incredibly difficult. Even I couldn't complete it; it's said to be the hardest in the series
lol what i button mashed my way through all the combat

>>730991861
I've heard it's 60/40 to 100%. Saw the maps and it might be true. Plenty of sidecontent. I mean, you get streets of rage for free, it's 10 or so.

>>730992070
You must be joking. It'll be flawed. Y9 will reboot the series and worst case be a bad 0 all over again.

>>730982987
>The company that killed their main cash cow (pso2) just because microsoft told them to focus on the west instead
>Thinking they would just stop being retarded
L
M
A
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>>730984381
Yakuza was never good

Until the judgment games

>>730982987
when shit like this happens, you know what you should do?
just don't buy it. pirate it. it's trivially easy to do so.
you don't need cloud saves and cheevos on your steam profile so bad that you should jump through hoops or pay a premium to buy a 17 year old game with no innate online features that require a legitimate copy. just pirate the fucking game instead of going, ugh, corporations are the worst! they're making it so hard to give them money! i'm going to do it anyways lol!!!
grow a spine. just pirate the fucking game.

>>730983723
they don't want to compete against their own product which logically would sell for far cheaper so they go

>still want the classic one?
>ok buy the ultra expensive bundle ;)

>>730997042
Buraisu was working with Ebina to specifically target Kiryu, Ichiban, and the rest of the Yakuza.
He's the direct reason why Lani has a hit put out on her since she's preventing him from being the ruler of Hawaii for infinite more years via Palekana and Kiryu specifically take great offense that he's doing that.
Even though Eiji called in the hit on the safehouse it's all Buraisu's Barracudas being sent there.
He's also facilitating the deaths of untold amounts of Tojo and Omi members which Kiryu personally feels responsible for.

On Ichiban's side Ebina, outside of being his half brother, is the direct cause of the guy in chapter 1 having his life ruined, is the direct cause of him, Adachi, and Nanba all losing their stable jobs, actively ruins Kiryu and co.'s lives, sends Eiji specifically to spy on Ichiban and betray Ichiban, and led to the entire Chitose situation happening.
The only reason he's Kiryu's is because of the whole "Please forgive me" stuff.

>>730995046
Yakuza's been on a downward spiral since Kiwami guys.
The only game that stood out as good in that time was Yakuza 7, everything else was pretty weak if not outright bad. Series peak was Ishin-5-0.

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>>730982987
GOG games dot com, nigga.

>>730997294
retard

>>730996819
>you aren't a REAL fan of the series unless you bought a bunch of censored games with denuvo
so in the yakuza community do you have your own definition of "fan" that means "coprophagist"? that's so interesting.

>>730982987
I dont play remakes sorry. Let me know when Stranger Than Heaven is releasing kek

who are the yakuza games even for?
no idea what is the gameplay like based on the screens

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>>730997452
>no idea what is the gameplay like
It's a 3D beat 'em up set in small open worlds where you can play minigames, do side quests, and explore real cities from Japan. Combat isn't meant to be difficult, it's just meant to be varied, flashy, and fun.

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>>730997452
for me

>>730997452
me nigga

>>730992373
>Everything in Yakuza now feels like an offline MMO
Well yes, because that is what Yakuza became after the series went into a RPG game. Those type of quests and details are also something that is heavily feature in RPGs where you have to build up your stats and overall group, instead since they are using the old combat you need to cram those type of designs somewhere. And from the looks of it, side-quests will be where those designs are.

>>730992994
It has to be something with dragon engine fucking up, The artstyle has been completely fucking destroyed the moment they used this new engine

>>730997282
How exactly did Bryce kill yakuza/too?
>ebina
Yeah, I see what they tried to achieve there, but it didn't work at all. Kiryu should've retired and if mine doesn't survive k3, they are all idiots beyond comprehension. The bar owners somehow survive a 100% death situation is just wonky. God, how bad iw is. Looking grim for Y9.
Somehow they can't top y0/lad story wise.

Can I just get a Yakuza beat'em'up game which is just strictly combat through a variety of stages, without the open-world story driven shit? Bro-op as a bonus.

>>730997537
I disliked y3 at first and played it on easy, just to be done with it. Now that the remake is announced, I gave it another spin and must say it's one of my favourite yakuza games. Somehow I doubt k3 will be that good. Kiryu as biker and host feels off.

>>730982987
i'm just glad i got the original releases on gog .

>>730992994
That looks rather bad for a 2026 game

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>>730997889
>How exactly did Bryce kill yakuza/too?
He was directly facilitating the shipment of Tojo and Omi Alliance members to Nele Island where they would work until they got cancer and then be buried in a ditch on it all in the name of making money. Ebina wanted to do this to spite Kiryu and Ichiban whereas Bryce didn't care, it was free money.

>>730997950
Kiryu was a host in 2, this is nothing new.

>>730994365
>23, somehow creates a country
Aha, how exactly?

>>730992381
Only way Judgment 3 is happening is if they make Sugiura the protagonist.

>>730998003
>host
Let me guess, was cut in k2? Y2 kiryu has little to do with new kiryu.
>cancerous work place
Omg, right. I forgot. That's how he got cancer, lol. It's so idiotic. Rubber cancer.

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I hope they remove the tranny sub-story (the other one)

>>730998071
Judgement 3 is in hawaii, according to the devs poster.

>>730998162
Who will be the protag?

>>730997359
>complains about not being able to buy them outside of the bundle
>yet is also saying not to buy the remasters n the first place because he's a demake spreg
peak autism

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>>730998351
It's called dishonesty, you keep throwing that word, i don't think you know what it means, he is a dishonest rat not an Autist
t.autist

>>730998286
The poster has "suigiura", kaito and tabo. Should be easy ro find online.

>>730984381
It became stupid and jewish.

This series is so fucking dead
The normalfag woke up and stopped giving a fuck about this series too
Gang of Dragon will take over

how the fuck did lau ka long survive getting shot in the head?

>>730999993
japanese healthcare system

>>730996667
Yokoyama catering to the west has bitten himself in the ass because how this tweet of him is getting flooded by piss angry western fags over the Kagawa shit lmao.

https://x.com/yokoyama_masa/status/2010577817969578154?s=46

>>730989753
>wait a min, but virgins on /v/ told me that Japan is based and redpilled and they want the best for their consumers, what happen ?
They started dealing with westerners.

It’s funny how virtually everyone in the west has turned on Like A Dragon/RGG studio now, I think this point, only Japanese fans are loyal.

Even the “WHAT IS YAKUZA FREAKING ABOUT?!?” tourists that they’ve been pandering so hard to recently is losing faith in this series because of their retarded #RemoveKagawa movement and flocking on to Nagoshi’s new project instead.

>>730991527
I don't consider remakes of any kind to be generous

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>>730982987
>>730988395
Reminder they delayed Sonic Mania by 14 days to add Denuvo incognito and gave preorderers Sonic 1 so they couldn't refund.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMhksxZG_zM

>>730989753
That hasn't been the case in decades.

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>>731000413
Good DESU.

>>731000856
>losing faith in this series because of their retarded #RemoveKagawa movement and flocking on to Nagoshi’s new project instead
Getting Genshin boycot vibes from this post. Nagoshi's new game looks like janky ass vaporware and is confirmed to not get any sequels and nobody actually cares about some nip fondling a literal hostess

>>731000413
Newfags hate YokoFAGma because of le heckin woman abuser
oldGODS hate him because he's ruining the series

>>731000413
I really hate that le heckin r*ddit chunguses cant be motivated to dislike anything unless they invent a moral reason.
Like, I saw someone who was like "I didnt dislike the Rikiya model change until someone told me it was erasure of Okinawan people!!!" Like, It's never enough to just be a poor creative decision, or overwhelmingly greedy, anti-consumer decision, it always has to be moral in some way or it "doesnt matter".

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>>730982987
>they raised the bundle base price during the winter sale so they could pretend the original price was the discount
how is this allowed?

>>730982987
have they ever addressed any of the backlash against them utterly fucking some of the character models for kiwami and making them look like entirely different characters?

>>731004583
they're doubling down on their decision making for the Kiwamis

>>731004348
It isn't, they can get fined if enough people report that shit
Not enough people do or even notice though, so basically everyone does this kind of jewish shit

>>731004348
It's not.
Please spoonfeed evidence so we can report

>>731000413
I don't get why they always change likenesses to different celebs

>>731004685
>they're doubling down on their decision making for the Kiwamis
Because the retarded nu-Yakuza fanbase never gave them any pushback.
Only now are they giving any pushback because some genius managed to make this a moral crusade.

I am excited for Dark Ties but I'm not paying full price for it when I don't care about Kiwami 3 so hope it's 50% off by summer.

These games have turned into pure slop but they're still the games I look forward to most.

>>730983723
Look up who originally founded Sega and it will all make sense.

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>>731007063
>berg
Every single time.

>>731006049
Aren't they (and Sega as a whole) chasing vtumors as their main brand ambassadors or some shit

>>730993115
>RE9 next month is a new release and will launch the same time as the other versions.
Please dont tell me you believe RE9 Switch 2 version will be the best selling version?

What did they change from the original in this version?

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He's in.

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>>731007991
90% of the secondary missions.

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>>730982987
Sar? Advise kindly

>>730982987
God this series has really lost its way.

>>730982987
Faggots had years to buy it when it was dirt cheap on sale.
>b-but think about the newcomers!
Who cares? They get to experience the superior Yakuza 3 with the new remake instead of that blockuza shit. Sega is doing everyone a solid.

>>731007448
Sega is American?

>>730985367
>>730985534
Yokoyama has been screwing things well before supporting the Nintendo, and he was originally against delivering Switch ports btw.
However I would sure have appreciated Switch 1 ports of the OG trilogy of 3-4-5, and running at 30fps to avoid the problem of the PC ports, instead of the Kiwami shit we're getting.

>>731009328
It's a Japanese company but the original founders were American.

>>731000413
If this was intentional then Yokoyama is one of the most based game developers ever

>>730982987
where's the sale

>>730984381
I don't hate the games, I just think SEGA have (once again) proven to be real dickheads about how it's funded

>>731009591
I see. Strange. When did yakuza join Sega?

Why is this outrage happening now? We already had Kiwami 1 and 2 and I haven't heard as much complain as now.
Did they fucked up the precious titles too, or just this one?

>>731009328
>>731014567
SErvice GAmes. Originally created to run gambling dens in overseas American military bases, later repurposed to salvage slot machines after they were finally banned. Jewish mafia relocated them to civilian game parlors across East Asia, so it was natural that yakuza would take interest. Jews gradually lost control as their old machines started falling apart and jap employees were coming up with all sorts of new coin gobblers. Arcade cabinets were a direct result of happy merchants thinking how could they make slot machines for kids.

>>731015130
I can only infer that coming from the lackluster couple of entries pus
>they delisted 0 for the more expensive director's cut launch last year that fucked with their own canon for a spinoff entry in the first place
>vanilla k1 and k2 got canned for the next gen update or whatever, saves aren't even compatible between versions
Now they're comfortable having 3Remaster only available through the giga paypig bundle (which you can't even get a discount for completing it anymore). People are finally getting a taste of complacent Sega when they go full jewish, I'm more impressed they looked the other way with other heinous shit like the NG+/jobs/dungeons and sold as DLC for Y7/8 which fucked with the completionist list iirc. don't worry tho, they'll just metaphorically jingle keys with some vtuber cameo

>>731015130
because most havent played ps2 1/2 but k3 is bringing the same kiwami issues to a game people did play so they notice all of it now years later

>>731016594
>Slot machines for children and women
Spooky, innit? Almost as spooky as the influence of zionists.

>>731016880
Who would that cameo be? Iird I paid around 5 bucks for the dungeon and it's atrocious to hide ng+ behind it. The dungeon is procgen afaik and there isn't even voice over. It's well written compared to main game, but the bosses are reskins or copies from the main game. Unsure if there are new items. Iw is piss easy, so without legend it's really not worth playing.

does the original yakuza 0 have save anywhere? I heard you could enable it with a config file but they patched it out near launch because it was buggy.

>>731008642
Yeah, arguably after yakuza 3.

>>731017163
Korone was their brand ambassador or some shit for a while. They could just pay nips and tease something with her and retards will eat that up and ask for more

>>731015130
>We already had Kiwami 1 and 2 and I haven't heard as much complain as now.
How deep was that hole you just came out of? especially during K2 launch.

>>731015130
Western trannies found out about the new Hamazaki actor groping a hostess over 6 years ago and now they're trying to boycott and sabotage every single thing because of their moral high ground

>>731018505
Hamazaki's OG actor was a washed up sleazy rock star who dated a 14 years old girl in his 40s and married her as soon as she turned 16.

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>words words words
I just need to know if there are naked ladies in here or not.

>>731018984
They let that one slide because it was a long time ago but they can't ignore this problem though

https://www.famitsu.com/article/202601/60437
This is an interview with Yokoyama.
>Speaking of the ending of Yakuza 8 , I originally intended for Kiryu to die.
>The final element remaining in the story was the theme of illness. I wanted to portray Kiryu's thoughts and his conflict as he faced the possibility of his life coming to an end, but along the way I wondered, "Is it fun to depict death as it is?"
>Also, around that time, my mother died of cancer. I was watching her doctor do everything he could to help her, but she never gave up until the very end.
>When I witnessed his efforts, I was reminded that it would be uncool for Kiryu to give up and ignore his illness just because it had progressed. He was putting in so much effort, so I knew he couldn't just give up. So I decided to portray Kiryu as someone who stands up to his illness, no matter how serious it may be.

>>730992074
Yak 3 isn't hard, its just annoying, everything blocks to much.

>>731019768
I kneel

How bad is 8 I still haven't played it. I liked 7 and I've heard nothing but bad stuff about 8.

>>731019867
>Nagoshi's parents zombify due to Alzheimer's and no longer recognize him
>he makes a spin-off game about a Deus Ex tier conspiracy of fraudulent research and selling false hope

>Yokoyama's mother dies of cancer
>he instantly derails a mainline entry, leaves it on a cliffhanger and proceeds to make spin-offs and remakes

>>731020040
Everything is basically better except for the story

>>731020153
Yeah but the story is half the point of those games.

So you have to buy K3 to get Dark Ties? I think I might be done with RGG.

>>731020040
Combat system is genuinely fun, I wish it would be ported back to Y7

>>731020224
This series only has like 3 good stories so I don't know what you're expecting

>>731020302
a 4th good story

>>731020521
Dark Ties is coming out soon

I will now join your Gang of Dragon

>>731020591
It's not good. It's exactly what was featured in a mobile game for women several years ago.

What are the odds of Mine somehow surviving his fall?

Objectively worse character redesigns aside, Y3K looks great and clearly adds content.
The fanbase is infested with nitpickers obsessed with irrelevant shit. The biggest issue in the series after 6/Judgment is writing related, not a potentially missing street and Mack probably not being there. Who gives a fuck.

>>731021581
>Y3K looks great
Lol, lmao even

Enjoy your removed city

>>731021850
Ok. Enjoy not playing anything.

>>731021581
Kashiwagi is gunned down by glowniggers the day Kiryu arrives in Kamuro but apparently he's going to be giving Kiryu some jobs now. They already said they edited the main story and added many new scenes for it, while also re-recording and rewording some other scenes.

>>731021959
Not even trying to hide it I see

fuck off shill modern yakuza is fucking garbage

>>731017486
Vtumor/‘vtranny’ fan here. Korone was the ambassador for SONIC, not SEGA. So she only represented the blue hedgehog. The actual ‘vtuber’ ambassador for RGG/Yakuza is KSON (well vtuber in massive fucking air quotes, she has a model yes but basically every stream shes done after graduating from hololive has been her irl/in the flesh, not even joining vshojo made her use it more).

>>731021982
Are you retarded? Same thing happens in the original yakuza 3. Kashiwagi gets gunned down and a Kazama family member has him do jobs for Kashiwagi since he's gone now.

>>731022116
You're the uninformed retard. They changed it so that Kashiwagi gives these jobs personally, or at least journos invited for a preview this week understood it that way.

>>731022256
>making up shit

>>731022296
https://www.4gamer.net/games/947/G094758/20260115050/index_2.html

>>731022353
Thanks for proving me right.

>>730986782
Don't pray for me, I'm already dead.

>>731022420
The whole article is about new substories and features that didn't exist before. They removed original HLA run by remnants of Kazama family trying to keep it together after Kashiwagi's death and replaced it with more Kashiwagi pandering because during that weddings and funerals event the acrylic stand of young Kashiwagi was selling like hot cakes. He's already retconned into being alive and well and Yokoyama is following the money trail.

Paste it into any translator you want or pick it apart with a dictionary, it says Kiryu gets the ordeers/requests from Kashiwagi himself:
桐生は、かつての兄貴分である柏木から依頼を受けて、彼らの確保に乗り出す。

>>731022046
>basically every stream
That's not true, normally it's massively outnumbered by the 2D stuff and there has only been more IRL stuff this new year because frequent business meetings mean she's already got makeup on and might as well show it.
Mind you, she has actually appeared in three of the games themselves now with her real appearance so the vtuber persona is beside the point either way when it comes to Yakuza.

>>731023552
It literally talks about reapers. You know, the same reapers from the original yakuza 3?

>>731024286
I know the gang and HLA. And it's obviously almost entirely scrapped and remade if it's mentioned about an article about NEW never before seen features.

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>>730998129
>was cut in k2?
Yes, but 7G referenced it happening anyway.

I played Yakuza 0 and fell asleep about 4 times in my playthrough. The story is kind of boring. Gameplay is fun but the long story runs just made me tired especially after long work days.

>>731023552
You’re fucking retarded if you think they’re removing the scene

>>730998129
Why do people say this? They never blame the cigarettes but the nuclear waste accident was what caused them to check for cancer and you're supposed to find Kiryu's "who knows what could have caused it" funny.

Giving Kiryu cancer was a retarded idea. I don't care what asspull they use to cure him.

>>730982987
Why are fans of SEGA published games a bunch of hussy fussy noise making retards
I saw the same shit over Persona 3 Reload and what it did or didn't do and everyone bought it anyway, then cheered when 4 Revival or whatever the fuck it's called got announced
It'll be the same here

>>731025181
They're not removing it. They already said they changed it to have Kiryu act more dramatic and that there are many new scenes after this. They've also shown snippets from Kuroda's recording sessions which hinted that the ending is rewritten in some ways as well. They're deliberately dropping these mysteries to make people want to buy it day 1 and find out how much was changed.