Yakuza 0's western release may top it, 2017 is pretty stacked.

I don't know, Nier Automata is pretty good

>>738759209
Genuinely retarded to trust RGG after Infinite Wealth, Pirate Yakuza and Kiwami 3.

2017 was Japan's swan song, the final year of amazing Japanese games that were made for Japan first and amerisharts second, they were even still doing JP first release dates then.
Look what we have now. Fucking Snoop Dogg? Japan has been finished since 2020.

>>738759350
8 was good though.

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>>738759209
>2017
>Mario Odyssey
>Breath of the Wild
>Nier Automata
>Persona 5
>Xenoblade 2
>Hollow Knight
>Cuphead
>Resident Evil 7
>Dragon Quest 11 (JP)
I don't know, anon. The line-up was very fucking strong that year

2027 JP comeback let's go

>>738759350
>The best JRPG actually made in Japan in the last 10 years and two harmless spinoffs
>These took away your faith
What

have they said why he has glowing eyes

>>738761086
cum overload
balls full

I thought it was coming out this year? Is it a 2027 game?

>>738761218
"this winter" per the sega sammy ir presentation the other day
if gta 6 actually comes it in november it will easily get pushed to 2027 to avoid being overshadowed. the same will happen with many other games. if there's anything you want coming out november, i wouldn't count on it until next year.

>every clean version of the song gets taken down by Sega
Just release the damn song then, you fucks. I wanna listen to this shit without all the characters talking.

>you are the manager of cute singers like Ado instead of a bunch of literally who cabaret thots (Jav actresses)
A genius move from RGG

THE Snoop Lion?

>>738761086
Hapa powers.

I kinda miss 2017 now

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Yeah I'm thinking kino

>>738762448
same. I still played video games back then.

>>738759756
cuckhead was kino

>Main trailer on Sega's channel on its way to 2 million views
>Trailer in general is already over 2 million views if you count all the uploads.
Yup. This is going to be another Yakuza Zero for RGG Studios.
RIP Nagoshi

>>738763152
People just want to listen to the song, it's very good
>>738761787
That would redirect people into other videos instead of the trailer to listen to the song

>>738762581
ludokino

>>738763152
it even hit a million views on Playstation's channel this game is fucking blowing up big time

>>738761086
Sans undertale

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>>738761086
He's a Hafu

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I FOUND A GAME
THAT HAS NO HOME

they're purposefully not dropping the song and DMCA'ing clean version to rack up reviews

>>738765637
also heaps of reaction vids still popping up so lots of new views because it's trending hard

>>738762445
>>738765290
is his dad white or jap? or does it not matter?

>>738765751
his dad is white, but he is long waaaaay before any world war and is noted to "just liked to travel"

Why does Makoto look like Akira?

>>738761086
Indoctrinated like The Illusive Man

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>>738759209
He's so fucking /fa/

>>738765778
ok so the race of either parent doesn't matter necessarily so long as one of them is a jappy. i thought his parents or at least one of them would have major screen time.

>>738765884
He is the most handsome RGG protagonist

>>738766014
rip akiyama

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>>738760971
He's complaining about all of them specifically because of the various precedents they've set for the series and shown how Yokoyama's teams operate story and content-wise.
>8's main story was meant to be about Ichiban with Kiryu being the side character when instead it ended up being a Kiryu game with Ichiban as an afterthought, and almost nothing Ichiban does in the game matters or reveals anything outside of Chitose.
>8G's main story now introduced immortality into the universe in addition to continuing to canonize building-sized animals as real on top of pretending like any of its story could remotely happen even if you take
>IK and K3 were genuinely bad when compared to the original games. IK's gameplay changes completely ruined the game as a whole while the character changes not only spoil the main story twists, but they also all stick out like a sore thumb. K3's changes harm the main story because they introduced padding everywhere to justify the various cuts they made of the Morning Glory interludes. You also have the massive substory cuts.
You even have stuff like Tamiya coming to visit Morning Glory in chapter 2 or 3 and apologizing to Kiryu which makes the reveal that he wasn't actually against Morning Glory or Kiryu fly out the window.
>All of the games continue to utilize the major minigame structure of starting it, having a group of 4-5 quirky enemies, then a big bad is revealed and either the big bad has his own group of quirky enemies or it's just him being a monster to everyone. They can't figure out any other way to get it to happen.
Even 3G did this for no reason. I actually could not believe my eyes when it cut to this table and they all started talking because it was yet another group, but then they have no spoken lines after this and only the leader of Survival Hell speaks at all.
>Substories constantly keep reusing Estuko and Gondawara in addition to rehashing the same substories.

People are right to be cautious.

>>738766172
>even if you take
even if you take it at face value. None of the pirate ship story makes any sense whatsoever, especially when it's happening off the coast of Hawaii and especially not that these ships can just dock in Hawaii's marina.

>>738765998
It looks like we are going to get some insight into Makoto's childhood which seemed happy enough until his father died and then his mother died a few years later due to him and his mother being treated like outcasts due to being Japanese. It's pretty much the setup of why Makoto runs off to Japan.

this is not good
for the gate-keeping
yakuzabrso.. stop this..

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TESTING MY FAITH

>>738762581
It looks like he's on a Yacht looking at some coast city. He's with Snoop Dogg's son, i guess Snoop dies early and takes care of his son

>>738766172
>now introduced immortality into the universe
Not that guy, but it is not immortality. People who used the Ambergris can still die, as what occurred to Rodriguez's father shows. Prolonging life beyond normal means is not the same thing as immortality.

kek why is snoop dogg in this shit

>>738766534
Rodriguez's father stopped drinking it specifically so he would die. Immortal people can die from outside means, they're just not gonna die from old age.

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Im pretty sure tori kelly is the better english singer

>>738760971
>Infinite Wealth
>Best anything
It's a shitty soap opera with a melodramatic Kiryu has terminal cancer but actually nevermind and also retconning more deaths.

The combat is vastly improved from 7 but it's still nothing special.

When is it coming out again? Hope it's before GTA 6

>>738766598
Masaru says that it was thought of as immortality in the past, and not something that would be that necessarily. In his opinion, eternal life was what he considered a stretch, but it is something that would extend your life abnormally, like a century or so, but old age was still on the cards as a cause of death. Admittedly Rodriguez's father finally deciding to stop drinking it as part of everything at the end of wanting to move on, is likely part of what happened to him.

>>738767175
Well, at the end of the day people's problem is that thing exists at all because it sets a bad precedent for keeping characters around and killing some of the tension they could be building because they can just say they got away and survived because of the thing. Granted, only Masaru and Jason even guessed what it meant, but they never told Majima based on the epilogue so as far as we know that knowledge stays in a tiny island off of Hawaii.

>>738767130
It's just this Winter, but I don't see it being December and probably will be January or February.

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STRANGER THAN KINO

>>738766172
I'm curious
Did RGG fumble so hard that they're beyond redeeming themselves?
What was their last product that you played didn't have much issues with?
And also, even if they mess up the stories, are the gameplay in the games you mentioned at least didn't get worse?

>>738768387
We were kinda here before during Y6 era when they finally decided to do sth else instead of more Kiryu sequels, which gave us Y0 and Y7 kino (Y8 is back to 70% Kiryu wank again and it’s mid)
So, it’s not that hopeless that they can recover, all depends on if Stranger than Heaven can deliver

>>738768387
Western troons and faggots overreacting as always. RGG mostly cares about their Japanese fanbase and that's what makes them based.

>>738768387
yokoyama just needs to fuck off with the daidoji bullshit

>>738768387
>Did RGG fumble so hard that they're beyond redeeming themselves?
No, not at all. They just need to stop going back to the exact same well every single time. There's no issues with asset reuse, just stop continually reusing the same jokes over and over again, or same story structure over and over again. 8G's best aspect is the brand new minigames.
The earlier games only reused a joke maybe two or three times and then stopped it for a while. Akimito and Mizuki stopped appearing after 3 and weren't seen again until Ishin and haven't been seen since. Munan Chohept is a good example of doing this right now as they used it in 0, K1 (Non-canon), and 6 and then never again until 8, though they did offer the character as a recruit in K2 I think it was.

They also need to stop reusing content like Aloha Links that exists solely to pad the game out.
>What was their last product that you played didn't have much issues with?
0, JE, LJ, and 7G. 6 was mostly just because they rushed it out the door, it was fine otherwise. 7G still has issues with doing the major minigame story thing again but otherwise was fine. Every other game since has a variety of issues be it in gameplay or writing.
>are the gameplay in the games you mentioned at least didn't get worse?
8 is a massive improvement over 7, legitimately impressive.
Ishin Kiwami is an objective downgrade in every way from Ishin. It's impressive how bad it is.
8G is barely an upgrade over the K2 Majima and Mad Dog is worthless because the balance of the game is horrific. Sea Dog is so broken and if you get any attack upgrades you melt stuff even on Professional. I only bought one group of Attack upgrades and that still had me chunking Amon's health.
K3 is a downgrade from the original in so many ways, especially due to attack magnetism which causes a good 40% of attacks to whiff and the constant enemy super armor which prevents you from doing anything with your combos since you just get hit by the enemy for free.

>>738763152
>>738764367
Maybe. But I think the Yakuza games are ass and this looks like it'll be shit too. But right now this is the only way I can listen to the song and the song is fucking great.

>>738769425
>8G's best aspect is the brand new minigames.
I mean its substories. The ship minigame is whatever. The substories were mostly brand new and they were nearly all solid.

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Yakuza flopped in the West

>Yakuza blew up as memes on the internet for western audiences.
>The sales tell a different story and are tepid and worse entry after entry, Japan and Asia are indeed the majority of sales and that share seems to increase game after game (despite overall sales being lower overall)

https://www.installbaseforum.com/forums/threads/bloomberg-netease-to-stop-funding-nagoshi-studio-as-it-cuts-back-on-gaming.4452/page-2#post-406650

>sales in Japan and Asia seem to have made up a big part of this momentum, as Yokoyama notes, “The game is incredibly strong in Japan. Sales in (the rest of) Asia are also quite strong, but the momentum in Japan is even greater than in the past.”

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/like-a-dragon-infinite-wealth-dev-surprised-by-unprecedented-speed-of-sales-and-big-change-in-sales-pattern/

>>738767494
>draw a japanese person
>attach blue eyes
>call him a hafu

>a clean version gets released
>sega instantly block it
Guy did too good a job.

>>738770209
gotta download each one the second you find it

>>738770109
Technically, the MC's face scan is a Japanese hafu whose mom is Spanish?

>>738770109
show me a full nip who looks that good

>>738770378
Spaniards aren't white

Might just be my first yakuza, well I guess yakuza like

>>738759209
This game really looks like generic shit. I can’t see it selling. That’s what Sega gets going after the modern audience. Why is snoop dog in that shit is cringe. They shouldn’t waste money on pop stars

>>738770824
They got a great song out of it. For once it's worth it.

>>738770824
shut up nigger

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>>738770290
Could you litterbox the best one you've downloaded?

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I FOUND A PLAAAAAAACE
I CAN CALL HOOOOOME

stop replying to such obvious bait

>>738769425
Thanks for the response
With the amount of people seen complaining about later Yakuza games, I thought the series were in a worse state than they actually are
Even if the stories are flawed, at least the gameplay of non remakes are still fun to play

>>738761086
They don't actually glow. It's something they're doing for marketing materials.

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>>738769425
>They also need to stop reusing content like Aloha Links
I was already rolling my eyes when that came back in Pirate Yakuza, and I just about shit a brick when I saw it was in Kiwami 3 as well.

>>738771910
Yeah, when I played the demo and realized what La-La-Mobile was I stared at it in disbelief. The blurbs it had were also less funny than Aloha Links.

>>738770109
He looks pretty believable for a hafu though
You immediately call him a Jap with blue eyes, which is the exact reason why whites wont accept him
And while he looks passable enough to be a Jap to try to immigrate to Japan, his blue eyes is still the reason the Japs still reject him

>>738761086
That's how japanese people see people with blue eyes.
It's obvious that's the effect of immortality stuff he took at some point of the game

>>738766398
when tori sounds like shes about to cry delivering that I got shivers

>>738772167
>only whites or hafu are allowed to drink the juice
What did RGG mean by this?

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Bros...what if he could be...

>>738772254
No way, he doesn't look like him at all

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>>738759209
I dunno, 2017 has some of the most beautiful Nintendo's girls ever.

>>738772356
Oh... boy.....

>>738772356
You know RGG can get away with a lot of shit just by retconning stuff

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The glowing blue eyes were the source of Makoto's power and he gives it up at the end in exchange for eternal youth which is stranger than heaven to become a virtua fighter while erasing his name

have you ever taken all your pain and made a weapon?

>>738772369
man gonzarez is such a shit artist

>>738772939
kek

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Man I can't stand playing Kiryu after Lost Judgement. Dragon engine is only tolerable with Yagami because he feels like has the fewest le realism movement trappings that make Kiryu feel downright unresponsive at times. At least the gadgets can be funny.

the new combat looks interesting

>>738761086
he was in SOLDIER

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>>738775068
It's call coming together.

>>738759209
The story and gameplay better be good because this looks like a PS3 game.

>>738775314
You've never played a PS3 game

>>738775647
You weren't even alive when the PS3 was released.

>>738775830
I'm not alive now.

>>738774858
I think they just got worse at making combat. Like Majima doesn't have these trappings yet pirate yakuza still doesn't have as good combat as lost judgment

Kek, someone put out an AI cover before the song has even been released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbtY7gxlJbA

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>>738775092

This game is going to be some mid UE5 tier third person walking slop by looking at the trailer "gameplay"
>Slow ass attacks and slowdown when you hit enemies too hard
Are we deadass?
>But muh story!
RGG doesn't know how to write story, it's going to be shit like every other Yakuza game

>>738761086
butifuru eyes

>>738776551
at least you get to explore japan in those eras

>>738776658
lol

>>738772207
yea hit gets me too

>>738775092
>>738776401
Pill time, Ichi.

>>738759756
Fuck man toure telling me odyssey came out 9 years ago? I remember buying it and playing it on night shifts in my ambulance

>>738771985
He still has white facial features too.

hapabros we won

>>738775007
i'm really into it

RELEASE THE FLAC FILES, SEGA

>>738780515
no please give us more views

>>738766708
FEATURING:
>Overbite PSA
>La Goblina de las Americas
>Sunken Eyes Johnson
>Post-retirement Jiro Kawara
>Chigyu Man
>El Negro (version mestizo indio)

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>>738780756
how long did it take you to come up with this dumb shit you thought was hilarious?

>>738759209
Im new to yakuza, who the main char? Kiryu?

>>738780814
Just a tad bit longer than it took for Sekiro's logos and intros to finish playing.

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>>738759209
>glorified movie game slop with Le hecking wholesome celeberties!!!!
also making the MC a hapa is yet another KEKED moment for the shubhuman nips sucking westoid cocks

Did they just turn the combat into Virtua Fighter?

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>>738759209
I beg to differ, sir

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>>738759209
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND dropped

>>738781159
severely overrated game
every dungeon after the first one sucked
the characters can't hold a candle to the P4 cast either

>>738781305
>every dungeon after the first one sucked
What a dog shit opinion

>>738781305
I agree that 4 is the better game but P5 is still solid and probably the most interesting game of 2017

>>738766398
Sorry to rain on your parade, but it's 'fate', not 'faith'.

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>>738781321
what a dog shit argument

>>738781489
I don't argue with retards

>>738781305
truth nuke

>>738781505
>ad hominem

keep going

>>738781521
Stop using buzzwords that you clearly don't actually know the meaning of.

>>738781551
nta but it's not incorrect usage of the term
you're hurling insults instead of explaining why you disagree with him or why he's wrong

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>>738781652
don't bother with fatlus faggots
they're just as bad as squeernix fanboys and FF autists are on par with Persona autists

>>738781668
man that pic is a classic

>>738781652
If it were a reasonable opinion I'd take the time to argue it but as I said it's so objectively wrong that it would be an insult to give it any credence since you're clearly shitposting.

>>738781924
>no argument at all
>y-you're shitposting

just fuck off already

>>738782084
ignore the retard

PS trailer just hit 1M views

>>738782090
done deal
seems my opinion really triggered his peanut brain
probably because 5 was his first Persona so he thinks it's flawless

>>738782084
>>738782090
>>738782137
Holy samefag, also defaulting to a strawman of me saying 5 is perfect and free of faults, good job proving my point that you're shitposting dumbass. Couldn't last 2 posts.

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>>738782280
Yes, I was replying to that anon and calling you a stupid faggot. Ya got me.

>>738782407
see
>>738782090

newfag can't even into timestamps

>>738781321
nta but I think the dungeons after the art museum are all weak

Why do FF and Persona autists always derail threads?

>>738759209
I'm worried that the majority of the cast are professional singers and musicians instead of real actors, especially for a game that will most likely attempt to have a very dramatic story. Hopefully they can actually give decent acting performances

>>738782494
why do you think nobody likes them and the board is always full of ff and metaphor shit-flinging?

>>738782547
the only weak one so far to me is Snoop's son
I'm on the fence about Tori and Ado as we haven't heard much but satoshi is pretty good and so is snoop as he's acted many times in the past

>>738770109
problem?

>>738782462
the one in space is easily the worst

it makes sense he looks more asian the older he gets - that's what happens to hapas
happened with eddie van halen kinda

>>738782635
easily

>>738782743
>EVH is a hapa

wtf I hate Van Halen now

>>738782605
Dean Fujioka's English sounded pretty shaky. Having Japanese actor's speaking English again after the Bryce debacle is a choice

>>738783019
it's pretty good for someone who has grown up in Japan

>>738783019
it's fine and nowhere near as bad as Bryce

>>738783128
>>738783105
Isn't his character supposed to have grown up in America?

https://x.com/ado_staff/status/2054513076133859624
so much hype about this song

>>738783346
Yeah

>>738783346
yeah but it's still nowhere near as bad as bryce

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stop laughing at Nagoshi you pathetic losers

>>738784465
You already posted your thread twitterfaggot, kill yourself

>>738759209
Why 2017? That's a random ass year to compare to

>>738784651
t. yokoyama

>>738784916
Yokoyama won bigly

is dong gay doing any voices

>>738759756
Holy shit what a year that was

>>738762581
>>cuts to this scene
>>his homie Shinjo's not there
In fact, we don't see Shinjo beyond the 1943 era, so he probably died tragically by then

>>738765884
>>738766014
It's the chiseled jawline. Dude just flexes simply by holding a resting face

>>738775314
games don't need to look better than this

>consolewar faggots have come to yakuza
grim

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>>738766014
Not so fast

Dude, look at the contour of his nose and his jaw line. If you see someone like that in Japantown he's gonna immediately stand out

Only took 10 years for the MGSV trailers to be topped...

>>738759209
I'd love to enjoy an RGG game again after not being pleased with their direction for some time, but because I've been unhappy with their direction it's hard to get excited for this.

>>738766172
>when instead it ended up being a Kiryu game with Ichiban as an afterthought
You act like IW would've been better if it focused more on Ichiban. There was no salvaging that Hawaii plotline.

>>738786238
It's pretty clear all their money, time and resources have been going into STH for the last few years while the yearly slop is phoned in and outsourced to pay the bills.

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>>738786240
Ichiban trannies can't stand that he got mogged in only his second game and that nobody gives a shit about him

>>738786457
It seems like they wrote Ichiban into a corner in Y8
Kinda hard to develop this guy, so maybe they should make a new mc with him as a supporting character

>>738786240
we needed more chapters of Ichiban not giving a shit about his mom

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>>738771278
Followed by the echoes till the lamp light dims
In the crack of the walls feel the weight of old sins
Nothing stays buried, no names, not a word
Dive through the silence where the memories blur
Ash in the wood and a hush in the air
Men come and go, but few leave a prayer
A secret they buried, the present is in the past
Rumors rise slow, but the truth will move fast
Under lock and death, the light still burns
Don't read between the lines, close your eyes and observe
The answer

>>738786606
I think he would work better as a sidekick type character desu like the funny best friend.

no modern japan no buy, don't care about some brown looking gradpa times

>>738786658
nothing screams 1940s japan like having nog music and an elderly old rap star in your game

>>738765637
Did anyone here manage to save a clean version?

>>738759209
Why is half the cast black?
Why are they not using music from the times and instead are using shitty contemporary music?

I don't want to see a single black character for at least 10 years.

Reject miscegenation.

>>738761086
Aryan Vrill

>>738784465
>only I can treat people like shit
Fuck Kamiya.

This game will bomb so hard. Japs don't like blacks, the identitary movement is stronger than ever among young men. Weebs don't like blacks in their games. Who is the audience supposed to be? Normalfags don't even know this series exists.

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He's literally Big Boss

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>>738784465
It's a myth that nips are polite, btw

>>738790467
more like BB+Kaz

>>738790520
>>not a single swear word
So are you actually saying japs are rude, or is this some kind of 4D irony?

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>>738791754
>implying you can only be rude if you use swear words
Gen z really does have the lowest IQ out of any generation, lol

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nah they wrong for this one

>>738792340
Anon, don't play games with me, this is /v/. Pick three random threads from this board right now and I bet at least one of them will have nine times the vitriol compared to Kubo's little prose on critiquing mangas.