Is Yakuza / Like a Dragon dead?
You tell me
>>739463459Like a dragon killed the franchise.
I wonder what was the exact point where RGG thought>Oh shit it was probably a terrible idea to tell each game in the current day, all of the cast are elderly now!
changing it from Yakuza to Like a Dragon and changing the genre completely just as Yakuza got popular due to 0 is the dumbest fucking shit
>>739463459I fucking hope so.>>739463498I like Ichiban as a character, but turning the franchise into a turn based RPG and having the story be "The Daidoji are behind everything!" was an insane choice.
>>739463459It's a zombie, in that it should've stopped but will continue as a grotesque mockery of what it once was.
>>739463623They don't give a shit about the western audience
whomst this chigyu
>>739463459>STH is literally a Yakuza game and will probably feature the Daidoji since the last two time periods are after they are embedded into the Japanese political system.>K4 (Not called K4) is all but guaranteed because K3 cannot in any way, shape, or form carry over into 4. The ending will not allow it.>9 is being built up by like every game since 6, particularly with 7G and now K3 since it's very clearly going to feature the Daidoji heavily.
>>739463802>They don't give a shit about the western audienceis that why they went out of their way to add dubs and got snoop dogg for STH?
>>739463802retard
>>739463459>Is Yakuza / Like a Dragon dead?worse, it has time jannies
>>739464329holy fuck you're right
>>739463459How am I supposed to know who these disguised gentlemen are?
>>739464329depressingly true
>>739463459>Like a DragonYou mean Like a Daidoji?
>>739464834I swear to fuck.. they're gonna show up in STH aren't they?
>>739465187There will either be a substory revolving around a member of theirs doing some business with Makoto or they will be directly involved in the main story because of Makoto having to at some point deal with corrupt government members as the Tojo Clan founder. They're formed immediately after the nukes are dropped and take advantage of the rewriting of Japan's constitution, and the game takes place in '51 and '65 if I remember right which isn't that far away from the bombs.
Stupid games for faggot weebs
>>739466159only redditors use "weeb"
>>739465301i have a feeling they'll play a bigger role, knowing Yokoyama..
>>739464004>>739464834>>739465187>>7394653019 is going to be some capeshit team up with playable Kiryu/Ichiban/Majima/Saejima etc taking out the daidoji. STH will probably introduce some element like Kiryu's dad or someone close to him being one of the main powers behind it.
>>739463498>>739463640Infinite Reddit killed the franchise. Like a Dragon 7 was still fine.
>>739469612>build up tension between ichiban and his half brother finally coming to terms with arakawa's legacy>instead you fight some literal who old guy who unexplainably is immortal and has fuck all to do with the MC's personal growth journeyTurning IW into yet another kiryu game was a mistake and shows they lack confidence in having ichiban take the spotlight. It's a shame; we could've had more kino moments like in Y7, the setup was there for it.
>>739463459It died with Nagoshi
I just beat PYIH and it was worth getting through that shit just for ryuji akiyama hamming it up.
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>>739463459LAD is not dead, no.If 8 didn't shit the bed with it's story it would have been one of the best games in the series.Fucking Ichiban's story was horrible though. I have no clue why Kiryu was sucked off in 8 so hard.He had to have ANOTHER SENDOFF for the third or fourth time.All I can think is Kiryu's VA's manager twists RGG's arm to make sure Kiryu is the star in every Yakuza game. And every time RGG has to do it they write out a script where Kiryu dies "FOR SURE" only for this manager to like threaten them IRL to get Kiryu in again.Ichiban is better and I'm not joking. Let Kiryu die.
>>739470271Possible Daidoji shit aside I'm looking forward to STH because it generally should be a clean slate in terms of returning cast and even then those returning cast members could be people like Kazama who doesn't have all that much screentime in the first place.
>>739470271If Kiryu's VA manager had a spine he would have come to America and decapitated Yong Yea
>>739470271>He had to have ANOTHER SENDOFF for the third or fourth timeAnd what with him still being in the game, by the way it's looking, we'll see another sendoff in 9 before they do Gaiden 2: The Man Who Erased His Tapioca Pudding At The Retirement Facility
>>739470271>All I can think is Kiryu's VA's manager twists RGG's armkuroda has a zillion other roles in anime, tokusatsu, voice acting in other games, and plays in a band for fun. if sega cut him off it wouldn't be the end of the world for him.
>>739463459Narukami pulls more bitches and he looks better.
>>739463459It went semi-reddit after 2 and full reddit after 5, so I say let it die
>>739463550>We need a new protagonist>We need to explain why we never saw him before>Oh shit, him wasting so many years in jail made in him older than Kiryu in Y5>Oh shit, he's older than Kiryu in Y6 now and it's just his second game
>>739463459It should have ended a long time ago just let it die
>>739472136just like you lmao
>>739463459cause of death: infinite milking
STH looks fucking lame. The generic pop song with shitty rap over it did nothing for me. I really wish it was a Judgment-type game get in the 40s/50, but no it's just another bloated Yakuza game.
>>739474076I have no idea why people go apeshit over the song.
>>739474112normalfags gonna normalfag
>>739464206his son is a weeb and gamer and probably did it because of that
>>739463459No? what a retarded question
>>739463459STH looks like it's gonna be their most successful game so no
>>739463459Yakuza -1 may be worthwhile but we're currently staring down the barrel of normies completely overrunning the fanbase and steering it in an unsavory direction, if it hasn't done that already.
>>739474370snoop is also a gamer and has a gaming studio
>>739474429trailer reactions don't' mean much when the game is still so far out - most of those people will forget about it
>>739474531most of those people also only care about the song
>>739470271>Ichiban is better and I'm not joking.50 year old Luffy quirk chungus is the worst character ever fucking written
>>739474531I dont think it's gonna sell 12 million copies obvioudly but it definitely has more mainstream awareness than any of the other games
I'm glad the western LaD fanbase are such miserable retards because it means rgg is less inclined to pander to you people
>>739474761>it means rgg is less inclined to pander to you people>founder of the Tojo clan is half white
>>739469917One of the major points of this franchise is found family and how blood ties don't matter, Ichiban and Ebina fighting would have 0 emotional weight because them being half brothers would mean nothing to them. Ichiban didn't even give a shit about meeting his own mom
>>739474804kek
>>739474569Nu-Kiryu is walking around crying with a victim complex dudeHe's even crying at the feet of Yakuza bosses nowTo top it all off English Dubs aren't going anywhere - do you REALLY want Kiryu being defiled by YongYea any more after 8!?https://youtu.be/H_MnUKEVEUI?si=0zsWDEzoe1oCJjYp
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/
>>739469917>the MC's personal growth journeyIchiban has no personal growth journeys, he's a completely static character in both games because he serves to help along the other character's arcs by being inspiring. Learn how shounen writing works
>>739474887I just want them to actually commit to a reboot with a new cast that has 0 ties to the old characters
>>739474975>Learn how shounen writing worksShonen writing is exactly why this series' stories have sucked since Y6. Why write actual characters with arcs when you can just create walking trope vessels instead
>>739475108I didn't say it was good writing
>>739475072We had that with LAD nigga.There were no direct ties with Kiryu or anybody nigga.Then for whatever reason Kiryu had to come back.They even offscreened the Bleach Japan guy that killed Aoki for shitty ass YongYea Kiryu when said guy should have been the main antagonist for 8.
>>739463459The fact that they will change the timeline make me believe that yes, Like a Dragon killed the story with the dissolution of Tojo and Omi. They tried to make a story about yakuza without yakuza. So they are doing this different timeline bullshit with Kiwami 3
>>739464834>DaidojiFuck I can’t believe I began to hate that shit.
>>739464206>"Dad, I want to see cool Asian dudes, not your old ass."
>>739470140>pulls out a baby rattle in a impromptu shootBest celebrity insert in the series bar none
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>>739478416kek
