https://www.metacritic.com/game/yakuza-kiwami-3-and-dark-ties/
Some blue haired liberal cunt rated it a 2/10 because she doesn't like the rapist playing Hamazaki.
oof.
>>732624052>>732624336>professional reviewers arent slurping it upgrim especially if you apply the vidya-journo-rating-scale-correction (1-5 dont exist 6-10 is actually 1-5)
The only good part about this is that they hired a basedguy for nu-Hamazaki and kept him despite redditroons protest. Old Hamazaki was iconic, but I don't care about Yakuza and SEGA anymore so I rather watch them burn.Yokoyama has been sucking westerners cock in the past few years. Not sure why he changes his mind now. Maybe Kagawa (and his agency) are more important than the DEI shareholders.
>>732624336>tainting casting choicesagreed, i don't know what the fuck sega is thinking still casting yongyea as kiryu but you shouldn't be playing these games in english anyways. at least the japanese voice acting is fine and doesn't have a shitter like yong doing voices
Maybe they should put this series on hiatus for a while
Okay. So it's great.
Have they fixed the lighting
>>732624262>she
>>732625424im hearing bad thiings about the combat, one saying it's miindless
>>732624336Heavy handed story changes and ruining the atmosphere are pretty big deal breakers.
>>732625627Yakuza games have always been mindless. Lost Judgment has the best gameplay in the series but at the end of the day you're still performing linear combos except occasionally you can juggle an enemy in the air unless you upgraded your attack stat, in that case they die in 3 hits. The reviewers probably upgraded attack which is a big no-no in Nukuza.
With the controversy and still 7.4 on metacritic without the stupid reviewers it is around 8 to 8.5 in line with the mainline standards. Worth buying and the same day of the release a new trailer of stranger than heaven in state of play
>>732625085Sega is close to the new pm but they still get the esg money
>>732626041Nah, ever since 6 Yakuza feels more like randomly mashing Square and Triangle.The old fighting styles have good flow and they weren't too samey or mashy
>find a /v/ thread I'm interested in>it's dead or dyinghappens every time on this faggot board
>>732624336>heavy-handed story changesOh my fucking god RRRRUUUBBBBEEEEEEERRRRR BBBBUUUUUUUSSSSHHHH is fucking real
>>732627141OG Yakuza 3 was literally the Square, Square, Square, Triangle, Triangle game until you unlock R1+Triangle and then use that to trivialize the rest of the game.
>>732624336I like the Daidoji and character death retcons unironically so I see this as a total win.
>>732627262Yokoyama literally said you should be able to play this game holding the controller upside down, that's the design philosophy. Half of the people buying these games are women who just want to get to the beefcakes aura farming as soon as possible
>>732627262so it wasn't mindless, you actually had to do something specific
>>732624052For me it's how they took the most iconic substory in the game and made it about a single mother for no reason other than to provide a self insert for fujos
>>732627408Yeah, you had to specifically mash buttons.
>>732627594literally every game is a button masher according to your definition
>>732627665Some games you have to mash a variety of buttons besides one combo sequence and one parry input.
>>732624052How much side content is there? Is this a sub 100 hour 100% Yakuza game or a 100+ hour 100% Yakuza game?
>>732628129There's no 100+ hour brawler Yakuza game except 5
>>732627884as you said it yourself, you don't randomly mash buttons in pre-Dragon Engine Yakuza games, at closest it's Akiyama and Rush style, because it's the actually the point of these styles to do a lot of quick light attacks
>>732628163Yakuza 0 took me 130 hours and Judgment and Lost Judgment both too about 100 hours each.
>>732625181I assume you're being mostly facetious and are aware they're talking about Hamazaki's replacement actor being a groper who got off with a slap on the wrist, but I want to pretend the journies are tired of ChongYea as well.>dubfags are swapping over to EN purely because of Hamazaki>are now becoming aware of that time Daman Mills jacked it in front of a minor and threw an army of Funimation lawyers at the grown-up minor when he dropped the story on Facebook and are equally as disgusted and outragedPottery.
>>732624262Just liek don't molest, sweaty. It's not complicated.
>>732624262Another one of the lowest reviews, VGC, is written by a woman additionally claiming the game is misogynistic over new side stories and the removal of one involving a transwomanAlready people rushing to defend both authors acting like the games were purely reviewed on their own merits, no agenda
>>732627884if you played Yakuza 3, you would know all combos are useless in the remastered version on PC since they block all the time, only grappling does damage
>no one mentioning the butchered soundtrackClay Doll On The Cradle and non-mexican Lyricism Without Tears I will remember you.
>>732624336Sounds more like a 4 than a 6.
>>732624052Yakuza has been dead since 7.
>>732624336>tainting casting choices>current year the chud still can't wrap his mind around getting engagement baitedLife is bliss and we're all lucky to participate.
>>732624052>none of the major characters die anymore They ruined Yakuza 3 with this. Pretty much everyone survives somehow. OG Yakuza 3 was seinen kino with a good balance of gritty and goofy moments. Nu Yakuza is just shonen slop for brown third world One Piece and Dragon Ball fans. I hate what this series has become. It’s a complete joke now.
What changes to the story did they make? I remember the story of 3 already being pretty fucking stupid>Nooo Daigo is in a coma at the hospital, I can't stand to see him in such a pathetic state so I must kill him instead of just waiting a couple of weeks for him to get better
>>732628639I stopped taking journalists seriously when Sekiro made them rope in 2018
>>732624336>heavy handed story changes>atmosphere is becoming homogenized>uneven minigame choices and main story segways with themthis sounds very similar to the issues i've had with 8, grim.
>>732628972Mine survives falling from the rooftops, stops Hamazaki from stabbing Kiryu and becomes "another Man Who Erased His Name™"
>>732628972Spoilering in case anyone cares: Mine falls on a bush after jumping off the roof, which somehow miraculously doesn't break his neck on impact, and a Daidoji guy recruits him. Mine shows up and stops Kiryu from getting stabbed by Hamazaki, talk no jutsus Hamazaki down, and recruits Hamazaki to the Daidoji. This actively fucks with Saejima's story in Yakuza 4 and will make it so Saejima doesn't get motivated to break out of prison without Hamazaki, unless a serious rewrite occurs.
>>732624336Gaming Journalist are retards
Did they bring back the Michiru substories, the imperial Japanese flag and one of the girls at the orphanage stating that she doesn’t date negros?
>>732624052>managed to make the chuds and sjws both hate the gameWhat was his endgame?
>>732629217To square all of these issues they're going to make a 4 remake and then a 5 remake. 6 might remain untouched since it's dragon engine
>>732629217If they end up remaking 4 then they're tacitly admitting that the engine Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 were made in is outdated enough to also warrant a remake. What the fuck is going wrong with this franchise?
>>732624052I played the demo on Switch 2. Ran great and the new additions seemed interesting, like Kiryu's new style with the little spear, but I don't like the new faces. Also why the fuck is there a segway? I had a Postal 3 flashback when I saw it and Kiryu looks pretty gay riding it.
>>732628972Actual spoilers from the demo datamining:We know that Mine survives with Wesker by falling onto a bush.Mine then disappears only to meet up with Hamazaki right before he's about to stab Kiryu.Hamazaki basically goes "Wait, didn't you fall from a roof?" and Mine goes "Yes but it doesn't matter, don't stab Kiryu, him being with the kids unable to fight is his own personal hell." and then they get recruited by the asshole Daidoji agent from 7G.>>732629372K5 likely won't happen due to the work required to do so it and because it doesn't require story changes in any way unless Aizawa is suddenly a Daidoji member.
>>732629328why the fuck would you even bother trooning out when you look like robert fripp
>>732629284Always putting his creative vision in the frontline that my favorite kind of developer keep it up yokoyama
>>732629217>a bushLmao. They’re laughing at us. I’ve bought every Yakuza game up to this point. But this will be the first one I skip. I’m still interested in Stranger Than Heaven but I’ve lost all faith in Yakuza.
>>732629447>Ran greatIt ran just as badly as post-patch 6 on a base PS4. It's the only version I saw framedrops in and visually looks downgraded.
>>732629328I actually had no idea it was a tranny. That makes it even funnier, he probably seethed about the removal of the tranny substory too.
Moose how long is Kiwami 3? Does it feel like a full Yakuzer game or a Gaiden game?
>>732629570Nor did I. I posted on leddit saying their review was stupid and they should review it properly or not at all and all I got were a bunch of spergs replying saying I was transphobic.I literally had no idea nor do I fucking care
>>732629516>>732629217>rubber bullets>rubber bushes
Yokoyama doesn’t give a fuck about western fans what a shame he has to kneel down to sega esg hope sega drop that bullshit soon
>>732625445It's never looked this dark for me, both the PS3 and PS4 versions. Maybe you need to change your settings?
>>732629516theyre also making virtua fighter 6
>>732629663Dark ties around 3-5 hours Kiwami 3 a bit more than the original
>>732629663It's not even out yet and my copy isn't even getting here until the 22nd at minimum. All I remember reading is Dark Ties is just barely a bit longer than The Kaito Files which itself was scraping 3 hours if you 100%ed it.>>732629774That's K3, not 3 or 3R.
What ones do I buy on Steam if I want to play this series
Rgg is the best developer, currently they are working on:Stranger than heavenVirtua fighter A Gaiden or remake yakuza 4Virtua fighter No one can top them
>>732630039>Rgg is the best developer, currently they are working on:Capcom?
>>732630030You either emulate 1 and 2 at native resolution on PCSX2 so you don't get lighting issues and then go in release order or you buyhttps://www.gog.com/en/game/yakuza_0because the DC is a downgrade and you can't get it anywhere else on PC now.
>>732630030You should kindly fuck off, we don't need anymore newfags of your kind
>>732630039I mean like a dragon 9
>>732624262That's a fair thing to be mad about, but the reviewer is ugly and fat so it shouldn't hold any weight
>>732630030you cant buy yakuza 0 original anymore, which is unironically better than the directors cut.pirate 0, buy kiwami 1, 2 and 3. get 4 and 5 remastered. watch 6 (its dogshit) and play yakuza like a dragon, and like a dragon infinite wealth.then play judgment and lost judgment.
Don’t buy it yet (or at all.) This is obviously going to flop like the pirate memejima game did. They somehow managed to piss off a bunch of different people with their retarded decisions. This is the first time I’ve seen Reddit tranny secondaries and true Yakuza fans on /v/ that have been here since the daily Yakuza 5 threads both hating on the game (though for different reasons.) This will be $30 or less in a few months. Especially if you’re a physical chad. Amazon always has sega slop going for cheap.
>>732630091Don't forget the undub retranslation for Yakuzer 1. Does Yakuzer 2 have a retranslation too?
Can you still eat the worm in Kiwami 3?
>>732629424>What the fuck is going wrong with this franchise?Well for starters the guy that originally created the series left the company. Japanese developers usually never recover from that unless they have a successor already lined up like Nintendo does.Since then they've been caught in this endless loop of having no real concrete direction to go into, having to remake/remaster older games because new fans aren't going to understand 2+ decades of story without playing those, appeasing diversity niggers to avoid being blackballed by western game "journalists", several cast members being caught up in drama shit (sometimes real, actual crime shit because they're actual criminals), etc.
>>732630214I will buy it with the deluxe included because I want to help them to make stranger than heaven better than this shit
>>732630259Yes, both 1 and 2 got them. The same guy has done some work on the superior 1&2 HD release but said he's only going to get that when he feels like it and there's no timeframe for it because it's an enormous undertaking due to all the hacking required for the text.
>>732629449what in the jeet...
>>732630312Shut the fuck up retard. The "original" guy is responsible for some of the worst stuff in the first few games.
>>732630449No, Yuke’s outsorcered
This isn't even that far off.
what is happening to modern gaming? its february and NOTHING great has come out
>>732624336oh do they have segways in this game too? i thought they were only in infinite wealth
I just realized I can pirate them allSo still start with 0?
At this point they should go rtgi, they obviously don't want to do light maps anymore. I survived 30 fps dragon engine before, I can do it again. PC can power through it.
>>732630662Or 1 on an emulator.
>>732630674>PC can power through it.Didn't you faggots learn through Dragon's Dogma 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds that you can't just bruteforce 60 fps in any game on PC, even with Ryzen 7800X3D?
>>732630674they're still releasing PS4. it's not happening. they need all the sales they can scrap up.
>>732630656Yes, it's also in 8G. They even had this line in 8 to justify its existence in older games even though it really doesn't make any sense because that would mean Kiryu's explodes or something at the end of K3 forcing him to experiment more.
>>732629448>him being with the kids unable to fight is his own personal hellOh okay cool. wow I really hope I'm interpreting that wrong or it's a lie since iirc the whole thing Yakuza 3 establishes is THAT is what Kiryu wants in life after 1 & 2.I thought I was done getting pissed about the story changes before we actually see how bad the cutscenes are.
>>732630904i hate how they're retrofitting all this crap from the JRPGs. those two systems don't mix. it just cheapeans the brawlers.
>>732624336>kagawa listed as a negativeUtter woke nonsense.
>>732630854These are crap games in the technical aspect. There are enough good running rtgi games now. If your PC can't beat a PS5, get a job.
Should I buy this or Dragon Quest 7? I’ve already accepted that both are raping an old game, but which one does it in a more tolerable way? I’ve already played the originals. Which one actually improves on them in some way?
>>732630982Mine basically says that he sees that Kiryu is at his happiest when he's fighting fight people and doing the Yakzua stuff. When he's with the kids he's unable to actually do what makes him feel alive and instead has to settle down and be a normal person which Mine views as Kiryu's hell of his own making since it forces him to restrain himself.Keep in mind this is Mine saying it, the guy who hates Kiryu's guts and doesn't understand what love looks like, so his entire mindset and opinion is skewed and jaded. But it's what he uses to convince Hamazaki not to stab him.
>>732631118all the dq7 reviews say they made it too easy
>>732627341RGG have always been retarded with character deaths, killing off basically any good new characters they write for no reason, so I'm not going to complain that they've learned their lesson.Imagine how interesting the Omi could have been if they didn't kill off every Omi character every game, imagine how much better the Tojo could have been if they had built it up with more of the great characters they lost.It's a shame they have to do it this way but it's preferable to whatever the fuck they were doing with new characters in IW.
>>732631118That just my opinion, but playing the original DQ7 and juuust sometimes looking into a guide, to not run around like a headless chicken, is a way better game than the reimagined one.
>>732629448>K5 likely won't happen due to the work required to do so it and because it doesn't require story changes in any way unless Aizawa is suddenly a Daidoji member.they don't care. it's a quick buck. you'll just get dragon engine mini games as replacements rest will be done in the most shoddy way possible.
>mine story is just rggo storyis this true?
>>732631071I've got Ryzen 5700X3D and 9070XT.Still got sub-60 fps in the first village.You act like Yakuza devs are good on technical side, when Hokkaido on PS3 in Y5 ran at slow motion for most of time, Yakuza 6 ran particularly poorly on PS4 and original Kiwami 2 PC port was really demanding on GPU.
>>732624052All the negative reviews are just seething about Kagawa
I've got Yakuza 3 remastered, guess I'll stick with that one instead.
>>732631513Why? It plays like shit
>>732631274Thanks for proving Dogma is technical crap. In the end without good light maps give us optional rtgi, poorfags can turn it off and get the crappy light maps as a fallback. They never will make good light maps again. Pirate was ugly as shit.
I like that they put in more effort with this kiwami but that's not going to change a re-tread with some minor differences.Less remakes and more gaidens please.
>>732631565Why do you expect Yakuza not be technical crap as well?If they're going to target 30 fps on PS5, it's going to run like shit on the CPU side in particular and these days you'll have easier time upgrading GPU, than making a significant CPU upgrade, unless you already DDR5 for the future CPUs
>>732631251They would have to remake:>All of Nagasukai.>All of Tsukimino.>The mountain town.>The entire mountain.>All of Kineicho.Bare minimum. Yes, they can handwave the minigames like using LJ's dance minigame for Haruka and Dragon Kart for Kiryu, and they can use the boss movesets for Akiyama and Saejima while repurposing Ryukyu style for Shinada. But they would still have to remake five separate storylines, all their substories, all those maps, retool tons of boss movesets since they have only used parts of them in the DE games, revamp Kamurocho again unless they plan on using the K2 version of it for the third time, and then revamp Sotenbori again since it has to have Don Quijote there instead of the Battle Arena.There's just so many issues with making K5 and it's wholly unnecessary unless they randomly want to show that Morinaga got recruited by the Daidoji and randomly have Aizawa be recruited by the Daidoji. Unless they plan on doing those two things K5 doesn't need to exist. K4 does because they changed the story that much that they have to do it now otherwise 4 makes zero sense at all how it comes off of K3.K4 would also not require any changes to the K2/K3 Kamurocho map outside of adding some more sewers (Which they can take a bit from 6), adding some planks on the rooftops so you can traverse them, and utilizing the Kamuro Theater Underground they had in LJ I think it was? 7? One of the DE games let you go through it just not the full thing.
>>732624052No real reason to get this game, perhaps only for that Ambulance Arcade game and the SEGA Gear mini games. Might be worth when it's $20 bucks
>>732624052>Kiwami game>badOh noo how could this happppennnn!?!?!?!
>>732629774It happens when you wear the luffy hat in a cutscene
>>732631161Just took a quick refresher and I GUESS? It still feels like it ignores their post fight talk before his now attempted sacrificeBut I'm just not looking forward to morons spouting that as gospel about what Kiryu really wants in life because the game told them, much like I'm not looking forward to more from K3.
>>732631985The lighting is bugged, they've said they will fix it for the full release but it's SEGA so they will probably mess it up somehow.
>>732624336tbf it's kinda crazy how in japan someone can accuse you of doing drugs and all your fans will turn on you and your career is over but if you actually rape someone people will go out of their way to defend you still getting roles
They got rid of the trans sub story lmaohttps://x.com/dastanovich_/status/2020903277022298536?s=46
>>732632621They got rid of the tranny stuff in the localisation, the game was heavily cut during the original localisation 20 years ago.
>>732629284Yokoyama’s hate is entirely western only and he doesn’t give a shit.Japanese fans still love him and take photos with him for the game’s release.
>>732624052The reviews all say its kino except for redditors mad about rape guy and complaining about the story changes (which are actually a good thing)
>>732631538So will this one lol
>>732629448>"him being with the kids unable to fight is his own personal hell."I know this ain't verbatim, but it offends me just how much they're trying to actively punish and mock people who get invested in the emotional core of these games. "Those kids? All those stupid minigames you did and substories you worked on? Fuck 'em, they're actually bad. This Daidoji secret government agent stuff's the real fire."This is as close as I'm going to get to my own personal Ultima IX Sir Dupré moment, up until Yakuza 9 comes out and breaks my brain 90% into the game.
>>732632621Now reddit trannies know how chuds felt when they removed the other tranny substories (the Michiru ones) from the remaster. Bet they’ll think twice about defending censorship now, wont they? Who am I kidding, they’ll seethe over this while still thinking that sega was in the right to remove the other “problematic” bits.
>>732628505I guess after the first 2 kiwamis these threads were already expecting what little song remakes would be included here to suck balls.Me personally, I'm salty as fuck about Fly, never have I ever heard a song try as hard as Fly Kiwami does.
Everything I’m reading here is telling me Kiwami 3 is the best Yakuza game if it’s managed to filter redditors and chuds alike
>>732624052I dont care about the story or casting changes so it sounds perfect to me. Just wish Dark Ties was longer
>fucks up Kiwami 3 on purpose so there'll be no more KiwamisPatriots are in control
>>732633881>so there'll be no more KiwamisYakuza 4 now canonically makes no sense lmao
>>732632958The changes are only good if it means we get more of that character and less shit new ones like Chitose.
>>732633948We will probably at least get a kiwami 4, it will be really funny seeing new people react to the rubber plot.
>>732633948My building schizo theory is that they’re doing this solely so they can rewrite 4 to not have the Saejima Haruka scene in dragon engine graphics
>>732634139there are "people" who genuinely think that rubber bullets refer to car chase scene in 1 and 0
>>732629449This can't be from Kiwami 3
Even Resetera hates it LOLThis game is thoroughly fucked
>>732633881>*laughs in Kiwami 4*In which Akiyama's role is severely cut because his actor's too expensive, Saejima gets pissed on by more mammals and has a buddy cop sidestory with the kappa, Tanimura's actor is changed again, and that guy from the beginning who got shot in the head comes back as a secret Daidoji agent who was manipulating the whole event from the beginning to stop the Ueno Seiwa Clan.
>>732632621>removing leftist brainwashingI will now buy you game
>>732634075Chitose is the most beautiful woman in the yakuza franchise and the second best is the granddaughter of the dadoji that only appear a few seconds in the intro of gaiden.
>>732629449looks like a gmod map
>>732634301Resetera hate it because of a man touched a woman without signing a contract first.
>>732634301oh nooo not resetera!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>732634393Seonjee tops Chitose so hard.
>>732634075>We have to drag characters who died, into more games, because people don't like the ones who get created afterwards.Is this really the stance, you want to take? Just relying on nostalgia for the end of time for everything and anything?
>>732624336>uneven minigame and the story segways with themOh great the stupid bike minigame is introduced with a mandatory sidequest you can't skip, nobody likes when this happen but they double down, thankfully i already made peace and i'm skipping this mess.
Well lad 9 setting already sounds great kagawa, mine, shishido and the Korean nishitani are better than whatever villains were in lad 8
>>732634568It's not nostalgia, Mine is a top 5 yakuza character and he wasn't even a main character in his game, he was great in Ishin as well.Killing Mine off was always a mistake.
>>732634902This but unironically, they've only jumped the shark on this if Nishiki comes back.
>>732629449Kek, this remake is the gift that keeps on giving. Here's the same shot from the original for reference.
>Years of Yokoyama jestering for the """"Western audience""""" >Shit like incel line in LJ and Nanba being well-versed in feminism >Doesn't matter in the end, xhey still mauling his work because of one thing xhey don't like kek
>113 substories cut to 31oh brother
>>732628349>Daman Mills jacked it in front of a minorDoes sound like something Frieza would do, desu.
>>732635337I doubt it's below 50 unless I've missed something, I do believe they could have cut some of the scamming ones though since they basically just repeat the same scenario over and over.
>Yakuza 3 had 70 substories>This piece of shit Demake only has 31 sub storiesSasuga Sega (RGG)
>>732624262Nice try, Woke CIA.
>>732635337https://www.powerpyx.com/yakuza-kiwami-3-dark-ties-trophy-list-revealed/There's only trophies for 10, 20, and then 8 for the kids.
>>732629449>>732635151LMAO THEY CUT THE WATER FROM THE FOUNTAIN
>There's a shill ITT defending this demakeI'm almost sure that it's a tendie as well
>>732635546Whoops, meant to quote >>732635421.
>>732629449surely this is because the textures start loading the closer you get right hahaha
>>732634354>In which Akiyama's role is severely cut because his actor's too expensiveI think RGG would actually be in physical danger if they shapeshifted Akiyama into a new person. People are pissed off about Rikiya or Hamazaki etc. but imagine the shitshow if it happened to him
>>732635563It's a rubber fountain now, u rike?
So we’re pretending we like substories now, huh?
>>732635651Um yes?
>>732635651I mean, yeah.As long as they have some effort behind them.
>>732635651are you seriously being a contrarian regarding the shit that made the series as popular when it started taking off just to piss off the people that hated the recast
>>732635753>It’s another Kiryu-san has to beat up a child trafficker, only to be revealed that they were only trafficking children so they could save up to buy their own kid a Switch 2 story
>>732635651Yes? They're a big part of the fun of the series.
>>732635546I will have to look through the trophies for the gaidens but in general they've been making the achievements way easier for the last few years, I don't think it's a brillian bar as to how many quests there will be for now.I think IW caps out at 40 for achievements but has 12 more, it doesn't look great but I would be really surprised if they cut over 50% of the substories, it's been ages since I've played it but no way yakuza 3 had that many cuttable substories.
Should be lower.
>the leaks were real
>>732636039They've definitely made them easier, but they're usually within a certain margin of the total.
>>732635651>pretending
>>732636083And me? I WISH I WERE ANOTHER MAN WHO COULD ERASE THIS DOGSHIT GAME
>>732636083I clappedBRAVO RGG
Could care less, just waiting Stranger than Heaven
>>732636014Diarrhea is a big part of life, but that doesn’t mean we want to experience it, does it?
>>732636083>The man who changed ze pran
>>732636083>"You've really Lost Judgment, Mine!"
>>732636014>Slopkuza>FunPick one
Fly: https://youtu.be/awe3EmApGoY?si=miG2uCPvAfyqqhUqReceive and Stab You: https://youtu.be/CWb3iO13a4I?si=c9KuX-hVwHAr9wQOIndependence for Violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJd1FF6llo4Ogre has Returned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLJrHMlqlt0Sounds Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK75GPSHDMoLyricism Without Tears (phase 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSJ6DR5wblALyricism Without Tears (phase 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFEcNH1XfTgToto Hospital battle theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Pj1T0F6KoDark Ties final boss theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXfhPhErGSsFirst 7 links (technically just 6 songs) are the only tracks they bothered to remix that weren't in the demo.
>>732636440WHY ARE YOU PLAYING A YAKUZA GAME IF NOT FOR THE SUBSTORIES JUST PLAY GTA OR MAFIA THEN YOU FUCKING RETARD, YOU ARE A LITERAL CANCER TO THE SERIES AND A HUGE CONTRARIAN FAGGOT
>>732636083Man, creativity is dead even Japan couldn't hold on.
>>732636546>Playing Slopkuza
>>732636546This, but more capslock.
>>732636591THE LEAVE THE YAKUZA THREADS IF YOU DON'T PLAY THE GAMES, YOU INDIAN FAGGOT
>>732636546This is the same board who thinks every Yakuza besides Yakuza 1 (2005) is garbage
>>732636439Same
>>732636083Kino
"Review: Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties is a remake built on disdain, not reverence, looking to fix a game that wasn't broken, and ending up with little to show for itself.">Cut Cafe Alps substory>Cut trans substory>Janky combat styles for Kiryu>Mine Gaiden is just Majima Saga but slightly lengthened thanks to content bloat>31 substories out of 3's 100>Rehashes from previous games, like golf course, or Gaiden's coliseum for purgatory>Extremely poor animation data transfer from 3 to K3, especially compared to newer scenes
>>732636083When will Yokoyama be taken out back?
>start releasing on shitendo>the series starts getting badYou don't hate those fucks enough...
So is the combat any good?The Mine bullshit was always coming once they brought back Ruff man in IW, Dark Ties existing just removed any doubt.
>>732636083The Japanese fanbase 100% thinks this is the coolest shit ever.
>>732624052>Game cuts all dateable women from the OG and replaces them with face scanned irl hostesses. >This means cutting the trans girl>Reddiots complain and say they are done with the series because this is the worst, most terrible transphobic thing that ever happened. >Point out its a general thing and not because the character was trans>Forget am dealing with redditos. They dont care about facts, kiwami 3 is transphobic and should be boycottedLesson learned, never talk facts with reddit
>>732637124Play the demo and see how you feel about it because based on these reviews it's mostly what we experienced in that.
>>732636952Is it over?
>>732637167The problem with Reddit is they're mad at the game because It's not heckin wholesome enough.They're mad at Hamazaki being recasted because It's "problematic". If it weren't, they wouldn't care.They're mad at the trans substory being cut because that's a "problematic" change. Not because cutting is inherently bad.Personally, I'm glad they did so many "problematic" things so that they can finally be ragged on for their shitty remakes.But It's annoying that for a large portion of westerners, the only way for this remake to be a steaming pile of dogshit in their eyes, was for the changes to be "problematic" and not because they're just really piss-poor artistic decisions that disrespect the original.
>>732637135They should watch Groundhog day. They will literally lose their mind.
>>732629449Why is everybody freaking out? This looks honestly very impressive for a roblox game
>>732636952>Cut Cafe Alps substoryThat's a shame>Cut trans substoryBased>Janky combat styles for KiryuWe pretend to like Blockuza 3 now?>Mine Gaiden is just Majima Saga but slightly lengthened thanks to content bloatExactly what I expected, don't care if it's fun.>31 substories out of 3's 100Good. Most substories are forgettable bloat.>Rehashes from previous games, like golf course, or Gaiden's coliseum for purgatoryThat's nothing new for RGG>Extremely poor animation data transfer from 3 to K3, especially compared to newer scenesDoes this refer to junky walk animations?
>>732637135They are smarter than the westerners
>>732624052Why does every single game that gets put on/built for the switch 2 suck ass?
>>732637537>>31 substories out of 3's 100>GoodShut the fuck up
Kiwami means extreme
>>732637167I got banned from the yakuza reddit board for making a big deal out of them cutting the tranny rapist substories the in the yakuza 3 demaster. It feels great seeing them having to deal with the same thing now that the tranny substory they liked also got cut. This is why you never defend self censorship and pandering. Eventually the thing that you liked will also get cut.
Deluxe edition reserved and waiting for the stranger than heaven trailer in the state of play
>>732637625Why are you bringing the same post they’ve made in Reddit?
>>732637625>tranny gone>puzzling misogyny I will now buy your game (at a deep discount.)
so i'm guessing the massage minigame got cut too, yes?
>>732637625Yet this person said nothing when Ichiban gets raped like 4-5 times in Infinite Wealth for laughs.
>>732637906Kek
>>732637625>the new biker gang minigame story is rife with puzzling misogynyWhat's puzzling about it?
is there an actual source that they cut the wrestling substory
>>732637885I jerked off to that mini game in the PS3 version. Then later found out that they face modeled the massage “girl” on some tranny. I then went back and did it again. Not one of my proudest faps, tbqh.
>>732637863>(at a deep discount.)It was all worth it at the end.
Hope they don’t pander to the woke crowd again. Yokoyama will be really pissed
>The wrestling substory is outLol.
>>732638043>>732638252I won't believe this until I see this one with my own eyes on a longplay or something.The remake, for all of It's flaws, seems to have at least zeroed in on the fact that the most important part of Yakuza 3 is the orphanage, and that it could use some fleshing out.There's no god damn way they would cut out a pretty heartwarming substory related to the orphanage.Not a chance.
>>732638153They will if Kiwami 3 flops. Expect them to be more “careful” about casting next time and a possible tranny party member for Ichiban. They will take all the wrong lessons away from Kiwami 3 flopping. They’re that out of touch.
>wokies don't like it>fans don't like itThey better hope that Stranger than Heaven is a success.
>>732638704*fans* havent played it, mongoloid
>>732638704Define “fan” because white people only seem to like 0 and 7
>>732638796What? Fucking faggot secondary
>>732638796>and 7Just made a good gritty story with a TOUCH of chungus. How hard is that?
>>732638796Nigger thinks he's white
>>732637625Sounds based as fuck.
Ok I just bought 3 remastered before it gets delisted. Fuck all these changes.
>>732637704Based
>>732637704>stranger than heaventhis title sounds stupid
>>732639170And Like a dragon doesn't?
>>732639263No? You get the idea, he's like a damn dragon, dragons are cool. Meanwhile: stranger than heaven?Why? Is heaven something that's really strange now?
Yokoyama thinks too highly of himself. You can’t be doing shit like this with a franchise that still barely sells given all the marketing they do. The last sales report I saw for Infinite Wealth from a few months ago said it sold 1.6 million copies.
>>732639356Heaven is a place on Earth, and Earth is quite strange.
>>732639356Like a Dragon sound stupid in english.Like is a vague, mid sentence word that could also mean to LIKE something.Stranger than Heaven is bold.
>>732639356>>732639423>>732639464kek'd
>>732629449I can hear the>RDM! RDM! RDM! RDM! RDM! RDM! echoing through this map
>>732638796Lol wut? 0 and 7 are the most brown coded games in the series. They even made Ichiban look like some racially ambiguous amerimutt to pander to westerners. Actual white weeb dorks have been playing since the PS2 or PS3 days. /v/ threads for Yakuza 5 were full of Europeans. Thepatrick (one of the early gamefaqs guide makers) was some white blonde weeb dork and devilleon (early yakuza video maker on youtube) was from some Med country (I know, I know, >white.) It was rare to see black youtubers talking about Yakuza back then, they’re now everywhere after 0 and Ichiban slop made the series popular in the west.
>>732639413This is the budgetest of budget games in a budget series made by junior staff with some senior supervision, It could probably make it's money back in Japan alone.As for Infinite Wealth, that had to sell and 2 million sounds fine for a yakuza game.
I think I'm going to get Romeo is a Dead Man instead.
>>732624052I just want an original rikiya mod
>>732639356Humans and earth itself are stranger than heaven and angels
I don't know who in their right mind would pay for this shit.I played most of these games and I'd rather replay the original, which I didn't love. Fuck's wrong with you people.
>>732640040>all humans are stranger than heaventhen just call the game "average dude"
Meanwhile the Japanese fanbase is throwing a party over these new design choices
>>732627391also it's gotta be as braindead as possible for said "women" who stream. I had shared one server and one /vt/fag said verbatim he lived vicariously through the franchise by watching streamers play it
>>732640353The Japanese are retarded. We can no longer trust the plan.
Stranger than a dragon
I do think the story changed, while retarded right now, could lead them to making kiwami 4 or 5 be a totally sifferent game than the originals, and basically be new games.The problem is I doubt they have the competence to do that, and the surviving characters will instead just be easter eggs. RGG's obsession with erasing characters dying is just weird at this point
Stranger than heaven is the coolest name, rgg don’t deserve that title for reskin yakuza
>>732640580I don't get it...
>>732630030just find and watch a vtranny playing it at this point bro
>>732629217This shit is totally part of their way to justify hiring face actors for hamazakiI have to imagine they're going to bring Rikiya back too at some point because of the turbochink they hired for him for no reason
>>732639423But why the earth is stranger than heaven?
>>732630662did 7G and 8/8G get cracked?
Kashiwagi being alive-OkLau being alive-OkRichardson being alive-OkMine being alive-Not Ok.Explain this
>>732640353The recastings are famous Japanese actors, they're probably cumming hard.
>>732636952>looking to fix a game that wasn't brokenOkay the remake isn't looking too good but let's not get carried away now.
>>732631772They don't have to do shit.Kiwami 4 is going to make things go so far off the rails that Kiwami 5 will take place in just Ryukyu, Kamurocho, Sotenbori, Yokohama, and Onomichi maybe.
She looks HORRIBLE now
>>732637135The Japanese, notoriously infamous for having shit taste according to any character popularity poll ever posted here
>>732640523I wish they would be bold with remakes for 4 and 5, especially 5.If 5 was just Kiryu and Shinada it would be so much better.
>>732641040>Kashiwagi being alive-Ok>Lau being alive-Ok>Richardson being alive-OkFucking what, from which bubble did you just come out
Now, let’s say they never recasted anyone. Does the Twitter fanbase still review bomb K3, yes or no?
>>732640353No they aren'tEveryone in the comments of any Rikiya clip complain about the character losing his Okinawan-ness
>>732641135Shinada won't even exist. I can feel it.
>>732641232I doubt it, but it would probably get less attention in general because it's yakuza 3.
of course all the sexy content got cut...yakuza game with no jav idols, what's even the point?
>>732631161WASNT THE WHOLE POINT OF THE ENDING MINE LEARNING KIRYU WAS RIGHT?!?!?!? WHAT THE FUCK HOW ARE THEY SO RETARDED AAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>732641232No. The only thing they actually care about is the one dude being a sex pest. If it wasn't for that they would seriously look past everything else.
>>7326413233 and 4s hostess mini games are the worst in the series but I'm surprised they didn't just plop Cabaret Club Czar in there
>But you were DEAD>No, I was just hiding all these years even if not doing so would have been of great help for everyone, even for me.
>>732641253>Shinada won't even existLiterally the worst thing any kiwami could possibly do.
>>732641253That's a given. RGG doesn't like Shinada.
What was unironically the game that started the downfall for Yakuza4, 0, 6, Kiwami 2, 7, LAD: Ishin or Gaiden?
>>732641040None of them are okay and now this game is going to have to try and redo all their death scenes in a way that either explicitly spells out that they survived or tries to be subtle about Lau getting shot in the head for everyone to see.Mine's just the only retcon we know how they bullshit so far for 3.
>>732636952>Gaiden's coliseum for purgatoryAHAHAAHAHAHA
>>7326413957
>>732641040None of those are okay either. I’ve been shitting on this hackery for years now. It’s one of the many reasons I detest nu Yakuza.
>>732637625more like troonshi
>>732641232This game would probably have the best reviews in the kiwami trilogy if not for the casting and the tranny side story removal No matter how much people whine, few actually care about you know who not dying, and it even sets up potential future content for them. Troons are just grasping onto that to try and get more people to shit on the remake
>>732641253He will but he will be replaced with some pretty boy actor
>>732641374>>732641393He's the 19th most popular character and more popular than half the cast of 7 or 8 despite being in let's be real, the worst playing part of one (1) game 14 years ago. That has to mean something.
>>732641232twitter fanbase does not play games, anon, only make noise
>>7326413956
>daidoji again
i knew it was gonna be bad but not THIS bad lol, you'd think microsoft was in charge was of this demake with how utterly butchered it is.
>>732641826>you'd think microsoft was in charge was of thisretard
What does the Daidoji faction even DO?
>>732641873pretend to be the cia
>>732631538I don't mean to alarm you anonymous but every beat'em up Yakuza plays like shit
Okay so lay it on meIf I do NOT GIVE A SINGLE FUCK about the tranny or about if a voice actor raped someone or not, is this game better or worse than the remastered version of 3.Be objective including changes to combat etc
>>732641826didn't Sega's YoY profits crater?
Thoughts?
>>732641964Try having your own opinion, nigger
>only 31 substoriesOkay, that's the straw that broke the consoomer's back, I ain't getting this now.
>>7326419642/3rds of the substories being cut already tells you how low effort it is.
If you want to blame someone it is sega for making rgg to release yakuza yearly in top of that they are also working on 3 or 4 more games all at the same time
Aren't graphics supposed to improve overtime? What happened?
>>732641395At some point after 0 with the Dragon Engine. I can't pinpoint what game exactly but at some point the stand around and talk scenes felt somehow cheaper than prior games' engines. Maybe it's the characters' idle animations, I don't know, I've been trying to pin this feeling down for multiple games now.Also fuck you RGG! stop it! Stop reusing Gondawara and the Obatarian! They're the same goddamn joke from 0 and 2 again almost every time! They're better as one offs!
>>732642030neat story and setting but the game absolutely fell apart 2/3rds of the way through>t. 100%'d the ''''definitive'''' edition
>>732642138>Aren't graphics supposed to improve overtime? LOLFirst time?
>>732642030sandbox gta slop
>>732642014wouldn't surprise me. when they did investor relations stuff my main takeaway was how far away stranger than heaven still is.
>>732642174What's with the Willy Wonka UI? kek
>>732641395I would say 6
>>732642174NOOOO NOT THE HECKING REFLECTERINO!
>>732642138this shit is even worse than Kiwami 2
>>732641964If you have never played yakuza 3, leave these threads lolBut that said >if you play kiwami 3 first then 3 remastered you'll probably prefer kiwami by a lot >if you play 3 remastered first then kiwami 3, it'll probably be a mixed bag but you'll really dislike the story changes. The cut substories were ass, but people have nostalgia for them, so if you played them you might miss them as well. The combat is also atrocious in 3 remastered, but if you have nothing to compare it to you will get used to it.
>>732642213BLUEANDSANITIZED
>>732642213This is fake right? It looks so trash.
>>732642138Why did you post a Sims screenshot, huh?!
>>732642174mid 00s 2006 dark noir autumn art style and atmosphere status: GONE
don't care, still pirating yakuza kiwami 3
>>732642350Bottom looks better
>>732642474Even SEGA disagrees with you.
>>732628639>Hey! My industry is dying and I can only survive with dwindling rageclicks. Look at me!Engagement baiting is the last gasp of urinalists. I will continue to watch and enjoy their downfall.
>>732642030China is really soulless compared to Japan.
>over half the side content deleted>reviewers are still giving it 6s and 7slol game journos are so pathetic
>>732642597The 6's and 7's are way less offensive to me when there's a good amount of 9's and 8's in the mix right now.
>>732642597kek you said it
>>732642276Nothing is worse than Kiwami 2
>>732642664Yeah 6 7 is ok
>>732642597>>732642664>>7326428756….7?
>>732642875>>732642913I'm too unc to understand this shit.
>>732629449I audibly "bruh..." 'dbruh...
>>732624336Casting choices aside, this is actually very very fairRGG has devolved into a parody of themselves. Which is funny, because the whole thing is supposed to be a parody in itself
>kamurocho lullaby is cut>boxcellius is cutJesus.
>>732642913Get out.>>732642946There's nothing to understand. They go CURRENT MEME and then laugh because they're all irony poisoned and their lifes are going straight into the toilet.
>>732642964whatdid they put in new mini games?
>>732629449Is this Cities Skylines?
>>732642964If Kamurocho Lullaby is cut, what is Minami going to sing in Yakuza 4?
>>732641158They knew what they had to prevent.
>mfw this is a capcom situation where they have the B team work on the 3 remake while the A team focuses on the 4 remake
>>732642964Kamurocho Lullaby isn't cut, it's in the latest games as a CD so they still remember it.
>>732642597>game reviewer gives a bad review>doesn't get invited to next eventtale as old as timethat's why despite overall scores being from 0-10 pretty much only 5-10 are usedgaming 6/10 is basically 2/5
>>732642964>>kamurocho lullaby is cutwhy, at this point Kiwami 4 will have Pure Love in Kamurocho cut
>>732643106New arcade games like Slashout, Emergency Call Ambulance, and Magical Truck Adventure as the trade off. New mini games with the orphanage stuff.
>>732643106You can now sew in the orphanage.
>>732641158That’s a child
>>732643306woohoo...
>>732624336>atmosphere is becoming homogenizedWhat does that even mean?
>>732641158>dadThe fuck? Haruka never refers to Kiryu as "dad". He's Uncle Kaz.
>>732641158What are you guys talking about?I feel like Haruka is the one thing they put effort into here. She actually looks cute as hell.
>>732643359Are the normies just now realizing they’ve been re-using the same map for the last 20 years?
>>732643359It probably says in the full thing but I'm not reading some trannies seething review because of an actor touched some woman 10 years ago.
>>7326240527.5 sounds right, especially considering what games people play now. Am I retarded?
>>732643052>There's nothing to understand. They go CURRENT MEME and then laugh because they're all irony poisoned and their lifes are going straight into the toilet.City boooy city boy
>>732630030I'll be honest with you as someone who has played every single one of these games except the Mad Dog of Reddit's game just play Yakuza 0 and Judgment. They are mature games with the best aesthetics, stories and great gameplay and they are self-contained.
>>73264305267
>>732643536I would just suggest one of those to dip your toes in and see whether you like it anyway.
>>732643536>Mad Dog of Reddit'I knew Kiwami 3 would never be worth a damn after seeing this fucking cover.
>>732643384Yeah I had to read it twice too, what the hell
>>732643393>She actually looks cute as hell.she looks like a sex doll
>>732624052When are they gonna stop with these spin-offs and get me back to Ichiban? I love that nigga. Stranger Than Heaven looks sick though, hopefully if they find a new protag they can just let Kiryu die
>>732643790This. If this was 10 years ago we'd be on Yakuza 12 by now. It's been over 2 years since 8, over 6 years since 7, despite the JRPG games being the only good titles in the series since 0.
>>732643870>over 6 years since 7,heh...
>>732643384In the trailer for the side mode, they said you're basically building bonds to the point that Haruka would call Kiryu "Dad", which is likely why it was said that way.
What's with remakes releasing in February 2026 and cutting content from the original? First DQVII and now this.
>>732643976...is that cool or...? I don't know anymore.
>>7326437902028 is probably Kasuga's next game. The RPGs take longer to make, and probably have their own team.
>>732643976>to the point that Haruka would call Kiryu "Dad"Ah, like how she holds your hand in 5 after you get full trust? Still feels kind of weird. Her holding hands in 5 kind of was too.
>>732624336>segwaysAmericans lmao. One (1) language and they still suck cocka at it.
>>732632935You retard nigger, 5channel chigyus and various ameba bloggers hated him for years. Those "fans" who go to photo shoots and autograph sessions with him are almost all female.
>RGG cut "le heckin promemamic" substories like rapey LGTV >Leddits and Xisters coomed with righteous joy>Who cares about those substories chuds! >RGG cut another LGTV substory to avoid potential landmine because these people complain about everything>NOOOOOOO NOT MY HECKIN CHUNGUS WHOLESOME SUBSTORINO! BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT I don't get it, why can't they support the standpoint that all cut in the remake is bad?
>>732644094Kek
>>732644094segways with segwayswhy do they keep bringing this stupid thing back?
>people crying about a bunch of 10 seconds substories where you talk to one person then beat a guy up being cut
>>732643536While I somewhat agree, I think Kiwami 2 and Yakuza 6 are peak as well, and worth the trouble of kiwami 1/3, 4 and 5.Like a dragon and gaiden are also very solid, but again mostly dependent on having played all prior games
>>732644232Based
>>732643870>>732644057When do you think they'll switch to a Kingdom Hearts sort of ATB battle style for Ichiban rather than this this kind of HyperDimension sort of combat (my bad I can't think of another game off the top)
>>732644276>Kiwami 2OG 2 is better.
>>732644210Segways are amazing in the bigger maps, you can just set it to drive to the location while you listen to music on your yakuza phone.
Is Mine like the worst main antagonist in Yakuza game?
>>732636952>cut Cafe Alps substoryit's no secret that they always cut corners with the Kiwami games, but cutting out one of the best substories in the series feels like such a slap in the faceat least the bad reception might result in "deep" discounts in about 3 months
>>732632621And also about 70 other substories LMAO
>>732644094and where are you from?
>>732644396Bryce
>>732644374And yet, they shrank both maps from the original 3. There's no big map like Yokohama or Hawaii.
I kinda missed those sex card/video in Y0. Yes I want to goon and fun like that kek
>Massage minigame = sex joke = bad misogyny patriarchy power dynamic fascist trump MAGA>WE DEMAND THIS MINIGAME BE REMOVED >The LGVVQ substory is linked to the massage parlor minigame >RGG removed the LTGBBQ substory as a bundle deal because they can't be arse to rewrite a new scenario to replace the massage parlor kek, the monkey paw curled
>>732644328Why would they switch? Did they mention somewhere they stop with the system we already have or something.
>>732644396No, he kinda doesn't make any sense in the last minutes of the game, but he's still cool.
>>732644485They'll never do that again because 0fags found it icky. At best you'll get a minigame that's hidden and never spoken about unless you hunt for it for that type of stuff.
>>732644396the yakuza 5 dude who i can't even remember the name of
>>732644374>you can just set it to drive to the locationAnd then it bumps into enemies 10 seconds later and the fight starts. What were they thinking
>>732629217Yokofraudya's way of confirming a Kiwami 4 to continue on with his rewriting fan fiction
>>732644619THIS. He appears like twice and in the end he's suddenly the villain and he sucks kek
>hey guys, normal Okinawan Rikiya here
>>732629217Saejima's introduction will probably be totally different in Kiwami 4 because they want to avoid this scene.
>>732629217What the fuck...
>>732642160you're thinking about the early DE games. 6 in particular feels awful because you see these high definition models standing perfectly still for 10 to 15 min in the longest cutscenes Lost Judgment had a small revolution in the way that it played around with camera angles, it was the most refreshing thing in the whole series, and I'm still in awe at how much effort they put into the presentation, even in the most irrelevant substoriestoo bad that stopped being the case going forward, though it has never reached the lows of Yakuza 6 and Kiwami 2
>Instead of Hamazaki redeeming himself because he was moved by Saejima's brotherhood and sincerity, now he is the same slimy cunt working for the japanese glowie who wrote this and think it's a good idea
>>732644776true she was too hot in this scene we cannot have that today, kyodai
>>732644582>They'll never do that again because 0fags found it icky.????????????
>>732636952>>Rehashes from previous games, like golf course, or Gaiden's coliseum for purgatoryIt's actually worse. Instead of a full on golf course like the original Y3, the game just uses a generic ass score attack challenge inside a small golf stage that scores you on proximity to the hole. Most of the original golf mechanics are THERE for functionality, they just couldn't be assed to map a few courses for the sake of the original experience and shorthanded it, much less retune those old maps for the new thing.
>>732644909>he expected a /v/brown to have played the games he is talking about lol
>>732643790How the fuck could you possibly still be looking forward to playing as Ichiban after Infinite Wealth? He's a completely insufferable faggot in it
>>732644872I also miss the conversation history from Lost Judgment, I have no idea why they did it for one game and never again.
>>732644961Oh shut up I'm gonna cry, this is so shit, bro... why is it getting worse with every post?
>>732636083ugh what the fuck is wrong with these gooks.What is with their inability to let anyone just fuckin die.
>>732644582brother, said 0fags went apeshit with kson flashing her cleavage
>>732644750>asian guy actually looks asian now Wow how dare they
the fags complaining about the tranny being removed literally have no right to complain about cut content or censorship ever, they're the reason those things exist in modern media
>>732644181Because reddit is perfectly fine with cutting things and censorship as long as it’s against “problematic content” and “chuds”. It’s why I’m enjoying the meltdown they’ve having on r/yakuza. They created this situation and now have to live with it.
>>732624336>tainted casting choicesBuying a second copy to spite r*ddit and journo tards.
>>732644909????????????????????????????
>>732641395Kiwami 2 was a disaster but I'd say it's roughly not a Dragon Engine game that REALLY started the decline: it's fuckin Ishin Kiwami. Nagoshi's supposed "last project" which released after he left, that ran on Unreal Engine 4 for no good reason, played like dogshit, had retarded casting and design choices for no good reason, and was simply a downgrade to the original game on top of MTX to circumvent the grind. You'll still see some vestiges of Nagoshi up to Lost Judgment, but almost immediately after Yokoyama took the full reigns everything has absolutely gone to fucking shit for the mainline games and remakes.
>>7326448726 looked beautiful, even better than all the later DE games, but the staticness of the animations really killed it. The engine needed a few more years in the oven. 6 and K2 should've stuck with 5/0's engine.
>>732644750What did they do to my boy?
>>732645094>Ryukyuan looks Yayoi now
KIWAMI MEANS SHIT
>>7326448726 had the excuse of being the first DE game and made up for it with other things imo such as the full voice acting. So I'd put it more on K2 than 6.Everything after that save for the Judgments really didn't have an excuse.
>>7326452047G had a great main quest though. Shit everything else but great main quest, and possibly the best final boss everAnd 8 was just fun despite having the worst story in the series.
>>732645030I'd say it's mostly due to the talent lost when Nagoshi left, maybe some code wizard was responsible for conversation log and none of the remaining staff ever figured it outthe sudden drop in quality in most games that aren't Infinite Wealth also tells me that the current RGG is filled mostly with newbies, and the A team is being left aside to work on Stranger Than Heaven and the mainline series
>>732645310No human being looks like the top guy. He's not jomon, he's just a cartoon man
>>732645310We must stop Jomon erasure.
>>732645419>>732645401Jomon /= Okinawan either arguablyBut bottom is undeniably yayoi chink who has nothing to do with okinawa
>>732645401>>732645419You're correct, he's not Jomon, he's Ryukyu
>>732645401This. When they switched to Dragon Engine, they should've gone with real face models for everybody, even Kiryu. It's just so jarring seeing most of the characters have face models and then you have a "realistic anime" looking character interacting with them. It would've been controversial at first, but Kiryu already looks nothing in 3 like he did in 1/2, so it's not like his face has never changed.
>>732645506>nothing to do with okinawaBut Japs occupied Okinawa and everyone living there now is a Jap rape baby
>>732645401This, so much this. This is everything. Finally Rikiya looks like a generic gook and not a unique recognizable character.
>/v/tards are just now finding out a good portion of Okinawans aren't ethnically the same as mainland JapaneseDid you retards think the original Rikiya looked like that because he was American or something?
>>732643790Man fuck that. Every party member in the Ichiban games fucking sucks and I'm tired of the "oh my reddit this is just like we're in a videogame" self preferential faggotry.
So who's the amon for Mine?
>it was real>all of it was fucking real>it wasn't just well made fan rendershttps://files.catbox.moe/zmbnma.mp4
>>732645736Self referential*
>>732645793No... this is so bad...
>>732645731>looked like thatHe just has that vague anime look that half the character had in PS3 era Yakuza games
Shan't be buying the game, but I enjoy telling Redditchuds that they made this bed themself by defending RGG cutting Kiryu beating up male on male molesters. Now it's time to lay in it.
>>732645094Rikiya was obviously supposed to be the type of nip that you find in Okinawa, Hokkaido and scattered about throughout the rest of Japan. One with heavy Jomon genetics like Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai. Now he’s just another generic yayoi cuck who may as well be k*rean.
>>732645731They all look the same and none of them look like the original Rikiya
>>732645736Didn't Ichiban die at the end of 8? They seemed to imply it with him getting stoned to death in the middle of the street. Are they going to resurrect him with the whale sperm to further fulfill the Jesus parallel?
>>732643790>find a new protag they can just let Kiryu dieWith how poorly SEGA is doing I'm not sure the series will go on for long enough to care about a new protagonist
>>732645960There's an entire post credits scene showing that he recovered from this and fumbled Saeko once again shortly afterwards
>>732645731This just looks like a regular asian person but with curly hair
>>732645960>Didn't Ichiban die at the end of 8If only
>>732624336they forgot to pay them off this time
>>732645960>he thought that game ended with MC getting stoned to death by strangersRead the room bro... It was a hopeful ending, it's not a misery porn flick
Is this new retcon of Mine basi6the oh my rubber nen moment?
>>732645896There's nothing "vague anime" about how he looks.Nu-Yakuzafags like to go "old games bad actually">>732645946Some of them do, most of them don't due to the fact that Okinawa was colonized and much of It's culture and people's erased.Hence why Rikiya is the only one who looks that way, but he's meant to represent the spirit of Okinawa nonetheless in combo with his irezumi.Stop being obtuse.
>>732624052I am so fucking confused about the ending change because I played 3 but not the newer games. What even are the Daidoji?
>>732645793>And me? I'm just another chungus who upvoted his postsWhy is Yokoyama like this?
>>732646181>old games bad actuallyIronic weebs really see "anime" and read it as "bad" huh
>MGS 1 >Reveal that the main bad guy is the evil twin of Snake>Climax ending of the story>Wrote it so Snake doesn't fight Liquid, it was Grey Fox who fight Liquid while Snake fucked off somewhere and beat up Decoy Octopus >Grey Fox cries on top of Liquid, saying that he's responsible for the sins of all soldiers That's how Yakuza 8 treated Ichiban
>>732646181Rikiya just looked like a white guy. No Okinawans look like that. Find something valid to complain about theres plenty of shit to pick from
>>732646217>What even are the Daidoji?Government organization introduced in 6, who Kiryu ends up involved with. They played a role in Gaiden and 8.
>>732646217Diadoji will return, 5 games later
>>732646217Kiryu fakes his death at the end of 6 to ensure the boat in Onomichi remains hidden (despite it being on the national news).Turns out Daidoji, the 100 year old man he promises to "die" for runs a secret CIA style organization that pulls all the strings behind Japan's politics. They kidnap strong people and turn them into their agents to use to forward their objectives.
>>732646275You said "vague anime"That's obviously pejorative.>>732646292>rikiya just looked like a white guyRetard>No okinawans looked like thatOther than the ones I showed already.Retard.
>>732646217Yakuza's Patriots
>>732646292>just looked like a white guyNigga more blind than a blackie that can't tell between white people
>>732646292He wouldn’t even pass for Italian. I always forget how many face blind autists use 4chan.
No one likes ichiban, and every change in kiwami / 0 DE is them trying to find a replacement
>>732624052So basically an 80+ if not for the screeching trannies giving it 4s and 5s
>>732646286Sega basically pulled a Capcom with him, considering how often the latter does something similar to their new characters to varying degrees.
>>732644094I notice you didn't say where you were from. Curious. It's because you are a seething impotent bongoloid lashing out in a socially acceptable direction. Sad.
>>732645204>Nagoshi's supposed "last project" which released after he leftLying whore. Ishin, including the original, was largely Yokoyama's project. In 2020 Nagoshi was busy working on Lost Judgment and was already in talks with NetEase, he didn't give any fucks about Sega or RGG at this point. He stayed with Sega just long enough to ship LJ, wrap up any remaining business and prepare 7 other studio leads to start their own studio. Contrary to what people repeat, Nagoshi didn't go alone. His new studio had 9 founding members, 8 of which came from RGG and one from Capcom.
Does Kiwami 3 have the Coliseum? I haven't seen it in any marketing, did they really just move it from 3 to Dark Ties to give that "game" an illusion of content?
>>732646673Hey, it's what I heard. If there's a lying whore, it's Yokoyama and Sega about that game.
>>732645094Let's see how the Japanese feel about it
>>732646348>>732646415>>732646359Well that sounds pretty retarded. Thanks for the answer though
I just don't get why they use old ass 40++ like Kasuga as the new mc lol. Why not some younger 20++ yakuza guy to carry the torch? Is it because fans don't want typical shonen young protagonist?
>>732646952>Is it because fans don't want typical shonen young protagonist?Fujos like "dad" characters.
>laziest demake RGG has shit out to date>trannies primarily crying about rapist voice actor
>>732645793No wonder Nakamura Shido is so cheap and desperate for any jobs these days. His voice is completely busted after the throat cancer.
>>732646458While I don’t think he looks white at all. He definitely looks cartoony as fuck. Everyone in 3 did. It’s nuts how they’re still using some of those dated faces. They definitely should have cast someone less yayoi looking as nu Rikiya but going back to this same exact face would have looked jarring in dragon engine. As another post said, Kiryu should probably be changed a bit too. He really stands out when compared to the more hyper realistic looking Japs like Yagami and Kuze. I genuinely can’t think of a single human being who actually looks like Kiryu.
I agree with the sentiment that the PSP games should get remakes, not 3, or God forbid 4.The PSP games actually have some unique ideas that could be fun if tweaked a bit. It’s currently quite a flawed game, and even lacks an official translation. It’s more or less the perfect game for a remake.
>>732646739>Kiwami 3 have the ColiseumPurgatory turns into Gaiden Arena
>>732646952I think Yokoyama just needs to stop giving dates for the games then it just turns into Ichiban is a 40 something, but yeah. Ichiban should have been late 30s max.
>>732647023>chud cannot process real life precedes video game - colorized.
>>732647075Yeah fucking Michio just being a straight port from 3 is comical.
>>732646952Because part of 7's story was about someone from rock bottom, having to work their way back up and the theme is suppose to be hit harder for people who are older and have less chances, opportunities, and time compared to people who aren't.
>>732647104Didn't he literally just lick an armpit or something? I don't think that means he should be unemployed forever personally. It's weird but it's barely even a crime
>>732647082>God forbid 4.Imagine how bad rainy kamurocho will look in the Dragon Engine
>>732647218>It's weird but it's barely even a crimeTo trannies and LGBBQ's it's the most degenerate thing imaginable.
>>732646952How old is that Judgement mc again? I think mid 20 to early 30 is perfect for new mc.
>>732644464>>732646670>ummm... I'm illiterate and you aren't, so you're third world!typical amerifat behaviou*r
>>732647218Yeah, and the part that is left out all the time was the club's mama removing hostesses' bras in front of customers. A woman acting cruel and abusive toward her employees would ruin the narrative.
>>732647230LMAOActing like they just won't make it so that It's not raining at allThey'll just cut the cutscene at the part where Akiyama walks outside before it starts raining again.
>>732647309He's 35/38 played by a 50 year old man
>>732646952They wanted someone tied to Tojo drama but needed an excuse as to why that character wasn't around for Kiryu's stomps of the clan repeatedly, and then seemingly felt the only way to actually "appeal" to long-term fans was to make sure the protag was old too.
>>732647218No, that was the bald chinese guy from 7
>>732647230>performance tanks to 5fpsThose rainy bits on both Judgment games were ridiculous.
>>732644776they made the best haruka model and didn't use it for the perfect scene, dame dane
>>732647464>that filename
>They cut Murder at the Cafe Alps entirely
>>732647561you could say it was killed____
>>732647230Kamurocho has fallen.
>>732647327>admitting yookay is third world
>>732647464PLAP
>>732647561But why? I legit forgot what it's about ..
>>732647230Hawaii in 8 was the first time it rains in an open world on the Dragon Engine. There has never been free roam rain in Kamurocho on DE and I would be willing to bet they will not bother creating that for a Kiwami 4 either.
>>732647818too much effortit was a multi-part substory about a murder myster at cafe alps, believe it or not, complete with questioning suspects and a suspect board in the substory menu
All griping aside, are we still buying it/pirating it? I probably will. I have nothing better to do until RE Requiem comes out. Nioh 3 looks bad like the previous two.
>>732636083>"I guess what they say is right, kiwami third time's the charm"I CLAPPED
>>732647912>are we still buying it/pirating it?After playing the demo, absolutely not.
>>732647912Fuck no. It’s just a straight up worse 3.
>>732647912Better off pirating the original Yakuza 3 unless you're really curious about Nu-kuso 3 kiwamification
>>732647912No lol, Nioh 3 is a much better waste of time.
Can I immediately play Mine story or need to finish Kiryu story first?
>>732648140It's available immediately, but it's only a couple hours long including side content. It's like Majima Saga in K2.
>>732648140It's a prequel so you can just hop right in.
>>732648053I’ve played 3 multiple times. I’m just curious to see what they fucked up and (hopefully) improved.
>>732648181what do you hope they improved?
>>732636083>absolute shit animation quality>still frames with voice oversEven for RGG this is low.
>>732648218Combat mostly. Yakuza 3’s combat has always been trash and no level of contrarianism will convince me otherwise. Even it playing like Yakuza 6 would be a step up. Inb4>le filtered
>>732637167The "trans girl" wasn't a hostess, she was in the massage parlor minigame, which wasn't even in the original western Yakuza 3 release to begin with
>>732648338To be fair the Coliseum in 3 was an actual filter, high level fighters had combo strings that would stun you on an opening jab and they knew how to juggle and wallbounce you.On the other hand it somehow had probably the easiest Amon.
>>732647912I won't be buying it. I have no interest in it with all the changes made. It's not even just a boycott thing, they've genuinely made me disinterested in it.I'd maybe pirate it to test it out if that were possible, but It'll have modern Denuvo so that won't be getting cracked.
>>732629448>that spoilerThis is the most Jewish seen I've seen in a Japanese game series Sony did literally anything. This isn't a joke comment. This has surpassed a fuckton of shit.
>>732641395Ishin without a doubt. You can see the shit they pulled with that bleed into Infinite Wealth and the taint of the new business direction persists from Yakuza 0 Director's Cut to now. If Stranger than Heaven ends up sucking it'll probably be the final nail in RGG's coffin
I hate new hamazaki not because of the reddit drama but because the new design lost all personality and now looks like a regular middle aged businessman you could find in a substory.I'm kinda curious how they made the duck scene with him.
I get that they needed to recast Rikiya because they recast his voice actor as Haruka's baby daddy in 6, but why recast Hamazaki at all? Did the dude pass away or something?
>>732649159>I'm kinda curious how they made the duck scene with him.If the new Rikiya death scene is anything to go by then you should absolutely expect the jaw stretch to look even more awkward with Kagawa's face
>>732648615>they've genuinely made me disinterested in it.I even enjoyed Pirates in Hawaii for what it was and yet the Kiwami 3 demo was so bad I'm not sure I want anything to do with this series anymore. Hearing the story changes/retcons they made only makes it worse.
>>732633174You do recognize that's Mine's own biased viewpoint and not something the game is trying to dictate to the player metetextually right?
>>732649253Link?!
>>732649273Pirates in Hawaii isn't top tier but it had no right being that fun.
>>732649358Here before the thread dieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz20Ti9dt1g
>>732649408holy fuck that's awful, he looks like a malfunctioning animatronic
>>732649408I feel nothing for this new fake Rikiya's death scene.Not endearing in the slightest.
>>732649498Consequences of just porting the PS3 animations to DE without a care in the world.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3a-nKgQizk
>>732649528>akogare>loveDecades after they're still sticking to this horseshit
>>732649408>comments call it the botox enginelel
>>732630204More like go on the GOG pirate site and pirate Yakuza 0, Kiwarmi 1, Kiwami 2, 3-5 Remastered, and 6. Yakuza Like a Dragon is a reboot that is turn-based and is shittier than the rest of the series.Do not give Sega and the new RGG Studio CEO your money. Buy Gang of Dragon when it comes out.
>>732649828magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a3993755592b014cd90872dafa6057b7d0357abb&dn=Anthology%20Yakuza%20%5BGOG%5D&xl=245613906475&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnet
>>732649894Fucking magnets how do they work.
RUBBER BULLETSBULLETS
>>732650014In K4 we'll find out Akiyama's savings were rubber.
Yakuza is dead.Long live Yakuza.
>>732650057Audible kek
>>732650105didn't had a budget cut?
