When did it jump the shark?
Rubber bullets
>>736349745when eng dubs began
When it started being about forced goofy shit instead of the goofy shit being a contrast to what's going on
>>736349745>nobody dies>story about yakuza, murder, criminals and corrupt politicians being dumb downed and infantalize into muh found family bs
>series has dragon in the title>600 hours in there's no dragon
Yakuza used to be a very serious game with silly moments.But we really it's when gameplay kept getting downgraded after Y5 and Y0.
>>7363497452 was already pushing it with that golden castle coming out of the ground, but after that they just straight up didn't give a fuck anymore.
0, because of the tourists.
>>736350291
When it became a pokemon rpg with a dude that had nothing to do with the previous 8 games
>>736349985the first game?
Is Ichiban a good protagonist compared to Kiryu? I kinda regret not giving his games a chance just because he's ugly and turn-based.
>>736350974no he's reddit
>>736350974The fact that they've spent several games already trying and failing to push him and falling back on Kiryu should tell you everything
>>736351130>several games So 2?
>>736349745Kiwami 1
>>736349745definitely when they made the games a fucking turnbased boring ass rpg
>>736353249Imagine getting filtered by turn-BASED kino!
>>736350065>Hey, I might traffic underage chinese girls to pimp out to gaijin with schoolgirl fetishes, but I'd never disrespect a woman
>>736350974Yeah the one bad thing about his games is kiryu appearing in them
>>736350974Ichiban is an enderaing goober, moreso in 7 than 8
>>736350974hes the epitome of everything wrong with redditkuza
>>736350974I love him but he's twenty years too old for his personality. He was already over 40 in his debut game when he was supposed to be the face of the franchise for years to come, all because they wanted him to love Dragon Quest for the turn based gimmick (because as we've seen from FF7R it's simply THAT unbelievable that modern Japanese kids enjoy classic RPGs instead of gachas nowadays).
>>736354116Yeah, I remember hearing that apparently 80 percent of the people who bought the FF7 remake were above 30.
>>736353376Nukuza's turn-based gameplay is total ass, even if you like turn-based games in general you still need major brain damage to enjoy Y7's combat.
>>736350974He has a good storyline in 7 but sucks in 8
>>736350974Yes, I love him and that's what matters>>736353376/thread
>>736350974He's fine in 7 even if he's a bit over-the-top at times.He's garbage in 8. Truly utterly garbage.
>>736350291The dragon is (You)!
STH will save it
>>7363497457
was I supposed to care about Ryuji Goda in kiwami 2? I know he's supposed to be Kiryu's rival because the game is always like "it's the Dragon of Dojima against the Dragon of Kansai OMG" and they both have the tattoo of a dragon on their back but there's so little interaction between them it falls flat and I never got the courage to finish the story because of it
>>736353192but k1 had bestgirl
>>7363497457. Series still can't recover from the damage dealt by killing Tojo and Omi
>>736349745"I wish Yakuza was more popular" is the biggest monkey paw wish I ever made when I played through 3-5 on launch back on ps3
>>736350457This sums it up for me, though lets be honest the bum spy network was also fucking ridiculous
