About to play yakuza 4 for the first time and then 5. Are they as fun with funny substories like 0?
>>738826060why did you play the 6th entry before the 4th?
>>738826282I fell out of the series after 3 and then just got 0 randomly one day and then fell out of it again.
>>7388263540 is better followed by kiwami 1 and 2, because theyre remade into direct sequels to 0. then you go back and play 3/4/5
>>738826060Akiyama is the only fun part of this game. Tanimura is the worst Yakuza protagonist which sucks because he shouldn't be.
>>738826764I played kiwami 2 demo and I wasn’t into the combat much it’s not bad just not what I like the feel of. I like the arcadey type feel of the old games they’re like modern beatemups for me which is my fave games to play.>>738826827Damn kiryu not even fun in this? Should I just skip to 5? I wanna try one of these at least
>>738826982It's the one I enjoyed the least personally. But don't skip it. It's relatively short and Yakuza 5 is as long if not longer than the RPG entries, 100+ hours easy
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Is there anywhere to get the original release of zero on PC anymore or should I just emulate the ps3 version?
>>7388260604 has some goofy scenarios via the revelations yeah. your enjoyment of the game will depend heavily on how much you like playing as each character though, you won't get to play as Kiryu until the ass end of the game.
Why does K1 lack psychological depth to such an extent compared to 0?
>>738829642yakuza 1 PS2 is a pretty straight forward crime drama. it's the same reason why the substories mostly pretty basic stuff involving Kiryu beating up scam artists and such. Yakuza 0 has 10 years of games to pull on when examining characters and their motivations.
>>738829642K1 is a gameplay remake, content remaster of 1. They literally copied the story animations from the O.G. Additionally, it was from Yakuza 2 onwards that really started to challenge Kiryu as a character. Y1's goal was to establish him as a rough, cool guy with a heart of gold.
>>738828815The usual suspects seem to have the original still. Steam has both that and the Director's Cut version.
>>738828815GOG has it.https://www.gog.com/en/game/yakuza_0The PS3 translation is technically better because it gives you access to the Walkman but there's chances of crashes, it uses that Japanese English font that doesn't look that great, and it's obviously stuck at 30 FPS because that's the intended framerate for the game.
>>738826282I wonder if people will start asking why they played the 10th entry in the series when they start with stranger than heaven
>>738826060It doesn't have constant wacky shit like in 0 but there's some really fun substories in 4 and it trimmed down on the filler substories like in 3 where you just have a random fight on the streets and bam that's a substory, it was also the last game of the old generation to feature full motion cutscenes in substories, each character has at least one substory like that i believe5 dropped the quality of the substories quite a lot, they're usually less creative with most of them being quite lame, for example we have a sequel to the substory in 3 about the movie shooting, remember that cool substory that puts you in a new location in the dojo and shit and ends with a cool cutscene where the actors see his tattoo and bow before him? Now you're filming in a boring recycled office with just talking heads and nothing in particular stands out. To be fair 5 does have some susbtories with a unique minigame to them and it has the Side Stories which is a gigantic substory for each character with its own mechanics and shit
>>7388260604 is fun but the side quests are not as fun as 0. I haven't finished 5 yet. 4 is still worth the play if only for Akiyama
>>7388320845 has Saejima playing Santa.
>you can play as a basic bitch mob in Gaiden's arena for no reasonGiggling at that is one of the only good things about it.
>>738826060I love and I mean love the Yakuza series, but the 4th is my least favorite, but I don't hate it in the slightest. Just my least favorite.
>>738834453It's actually objectively better to be one of them instead of Kiryu. The AI deals more damage than you ever could as Kiryu while you can use characters like the kabuki ninja guy and one-shot people, it's ridiculous.
Akiyama has better substories in Dead Souls. He peaked in this game, then they utterly ruined him in 5.
>>738826060>substories>wandering around the same ps2 kamurocho map for the 20th game>walk 2 meters>"oi grandpa, you bumped into me, you owe me 10 million yen!">square square square triangle 10x>spam x to skip 30 dialogue boxes>500 xp earned>phone call>"aniki!! there's a problem at the club, a creep is stalking one of the hostess please help!">there's a weird salary man creeping in front of the club>"who are you? are you suzuki-chan's boyfriend? i will beat you up!">beat the stalker by spamming square square square triangle 10 times>"i-im sorry... you see i'm just suzuki-chan's customer but i fell in love with her.... but i ran out of money and she told me she didnt want me to come see her again and banned me from the club....">suzuki-chan comes out the club "ohhh mitsubishi-san you fought for my honor??? now i fall in love with you!! we will be happy together!!">500 xp and one stamina drink earned>walk 2 meters>"oi what the shit! you asswipe, time for a beating!! shit fucker!!">beat street thug by spamming square square square triangle 10x>wait 10 seconds for him to get back up, cant attack him on the ground>"o-oh sorry... you are tougher than you look... gramps">pick up locker coin>get a phone call>"konichiwa its haruka chan kawai desu can you take me to eat ice cream">haruka's ice cream slips on the ground>"oi grandpa your girls ice cream fell on my shoes!! you owe me 100000 millions yen or we fight!!!">ok enough of this shit, time for a mission story>get to majima tower for 50th time>fight 3 tigers and a sumo in a hallway>skip 10 different cutscenes>turns out the real bad guy was majima's cousin's body double working with koreans and the cia who got surgery to look like you to frame you for the patriarch's murder that started the civil war between all the family clans but actually he was an undercover cop and faked his own death and zzzzz>shirtless bossfight on rooftop>square square square triangle>qte>500 xp earned>"...kino.."
>>738834918>Akiyama has better substories in Dead Souls.No he doesn't. Five of them are literally room transitions where a guy says "Okay, let's go" ending a substory and then "We gotta keep moving" for the next substory. His only notable one is the horror movie cliche one in that upper area of Theater Square, everything else is garbage. Majima is the only one to get any good substories in DS with Ryuji's only good one being about Kaoru. DS' substories are easily some of the series' worst by far. The only ones even close to as bad were the Illegal Detective Agency in LJ.
>>738834821Or you could be the chicken/sheep man. Whichever one sprays with the SMG and melts boss health bars.
>>738834821have you 1CCd Spikeout moose
>>738835128Nah, SMG guys are all best left to the AI as they'll Uzi as soon as you call in the buff typically in an optimal direction. With the kabuki ninja guy if you call in the buff and then R2 someone he does about 15-20 bars of health in that one stab. Without the buff he does about 8ish. This means you can go to a high value guy, stand right in front of him, buff, R2, and he's dead or got like two bars left. You see me do it in that webm at 0:18 and my party members take out the guy's last bar or two of health.Also, always have all three Uzi guys in your party. Even the bronze one is extremely broken. It's why in every game past 7G you only get one Uzi guy because of how broken it is, and they toned down the damage on top of it in K3 and the user is still absurdly good.>>738835383No, and I never will.
>>738835407>No, and I never will.why not
>>738835045I can't recall a single one of Akiyama's substories from either 4 or 5. Dead Souls had him actually work and collect debts and help save his employees from Elise.
>>738835435Because SpikeOut and SlashOut are some of the least fun games I have ever played in my life.
>>738835491i dont understand how someone can be this huge yakuza autist yet feel this way about spikeoutstrangewhy do you feel this way exactly?
>>738835585>Controls feel bad across the board.>You get stunlocked nonstop which is exceptionally apparent in the final levels of both games.>Enemies like the winged tigers can just pingpong you back and forth while you try to stand up.>The game wants you to charge attacks during combos but it's extremely awkward to do so and sometimes it just drops the charge during the combo when you try to use it even if you haven't hit the timeout.>Your damage output and defense is heavily tied to the buffs that enemies drop.>Many levels are clearly designed around co-op like SlashOut's final level with the eyeball lasers so you end up having to tank hits or play the levels incredibly slowly.>It's never clear which direction is going to take you where and always feels random.The enemy designs are the only good part about either game, especially SlashOut's enemies. When I found out I had to play SpikeOut again for 8G's completion list and SlashOut not only once, but TWICE for K3 and 3G's completion lists I was seething because a single run is like an hour long.
>>738826060Did you choose the order to play that series in by writing the names of the games on a dartboard and chucking darts at it while blindfolded?
