Yes.
they ruined Majima.
if you really want to play another Yakuza, then just play Yakuza 1.
the rest are garbage especially 3,4,5,6.
>0 and 7 trannies
every time
Franchise was great until 7. 7 sucks and turn based RPG is a shit way to "shake up the series". Why would I want to watch them slowly punch people instead of just do it myself. Not to mention its not even a good JRPG. They should have just ended it with 6.
Also frick all of you saying 3-6 are terrible theyre great. 5 is literally the best game in the franchise.
I've just finished 0 yesterday, it being the last Yakuza game aside from 8 and Judge Eyes I haven't played. The story is pretty good, but gameplay-wise there are some things that could've been better.
I still believe Y5 was the pinnacle of the series and Gaiden has finally made the DE combat fun and engaging (before you break it with unnecessary attack upgrades and overpowered Agent style heat mode that is more broken then Akiyama's broken Tekken combo chain mode in 5). 7 is fine. Kiwami 1 is meh.
>can we all admit the gameplay in 7 was severely flawed
this implies that people were praising the gameplay as perfect when even people who liked the switch to turn-based had criticism of the combat systems
Did 8 fix the problem 7 had where you had frick-all for control over positioning, which affects how your AoEs or counters line up against enemy targets? It was my main complaint about 7.
yeah but it's not perfect because the enemies also won't stop moving around so if their 'not getting stuck' behavior triggers they can just dash out of your AoE row and frick you over.
The plot is better and more emotionally resonant than the first game’s. Granted a lot of that is due to it having a literal 11/10 antagonist, but I’d say it’s overall better than the first game aside from the detective elements being dumbed down.
>>muh sawa
The argument was never refuted because it honestly can’t be refuted aside from saying “I don’t give a shit”.
I’m torn between 0 and LJ as the best game in the series honestly.
You can’t defend the deaths of innocents in your desire to achieve justice without outright admitting that you don’t give a frick about collateral damage. And if you do that, and still claim to be seeking justice, then you’re being hypocritical. That’s what Yagami is saying.
>The argument was never refuted because it honestly can’t be refuted aside from saying “I don’t give a shit”.
this guy gets it. It might be annoying seeing Yagami parrot this same argument, but it's still consistent with his character, especially considering the fact that Kuwana sees Eri in Sawa, so Yagami probably shares that same view
>I’m torn between 0 and LJ as the best game in the series honestly.
honestly, I'd put Lost Judgment just a little above because of the fact that Kiryu's styles aren't that great, and his side of the story is hard carried by other people, not him
Personally, I feel Rush style and Brawler are crazy amounts of fun, but that’s because I like being an agile fighter.
I think the thing that makes it a debate for me is because 0 has much better side content than LJ (I really didn’t care for the fact that a ton of side content is locked behind grinding the school mini-games) and also I miss being able to use lethal weapons and the more brutal heat actions in 0.
As good as LJ’s combat is, the Dragon Engine still feels a bit jankier to me compared to the PS3 engine.
I came in from 0 but knew the series from the start, 0 hits pretty much every step to be a good game. Going into Kiwami 1 was like being slapped in the face in comparison but still alright. Liked Kiwami 2 though. Playing 6 made me fully understand the hate for the dragon engine at the time.
The rest that i've played so far are okay. You can see a massive jump in quality with 5 but it also comes with dumb YUME and practically 4 different storylines that only really converge close to the end.
>people say 0 is the best >play 0 first because it seems to make sense (chronological story order) >it's ok but I get caught up with just fricking around in the city >just play ufo catcher and do some subquests >story isn't compelling whatsoever, beyond the mysterious realty man (then it just immediately takes you away from that because now it's Majima time)
I have some laughs and good moments with it, but the core gameplay loop is extremely repetitive and not very fun at all. Best part of the game was the beginning when I fought Kuze but I learned that was because I was on hard. I guess the game is just too padded for me, it's kinda fun but nowhere near deserves the hype I've seen so far. Does it actually get good? I want to like this series but it's not convincing me.
I wanna give it an honest chance. It's not like it's boring, it's just nowhere near the hype that people have said, I'm extremely underwhelmed. It's all mostly just ok. I feel like subquests could've been reduced by like half just to have them be longer or better than just "talk to a few people and give them items" or a short escort mission.
I wanna give it an honest chance. It's not like it's boring, it's just nowhere near the hype that people have said, I'm extremely underwhelmed. It's all mostly just ok. I feel like subquests could've been reduced by like half just to have them be longer or better than just "talk to a few people and give them items" or a short escort mission.
Keep in mind that these games aren't high budget and they work with what they've got. You will have repetition and reuse, it's sort of the name of the game. Substories are almost always going to be either you going somewhere to beat someone up, you delivering someone something, or you beating them at a minigame. The things that bring it together are the story and characters in said substory. 0's substories are some of the better ones so if you do continue in the future just understand that like half of 1's substories (Which K1 itself uses) are literally just scams. Five of them are people bumping into Kiryu, he gets text messages about scams, he gets stopped by random people who try to scam him, etc. It took them years to start heavily getting away from those safety nets and while they still have scam substories nowadays it's like maybe 3 or 4 out of 50+.
Combat is also something they give you some options in but they don't expect you to really "play fair" if that makes any sense. They want you to get overpowered, they want you to sort of roll over your enemies, the bosses are supposed to be the "main" challenge and everything else is for you to make your own fun in. Think of street fights as "How can I weave stuff into this fight to make it visually more interesting?". When you get bored or tired of them there's nothing wrong with ignoring them or using a 2H item to just sweep them all up in like two hits.
I think you went into this expecting something it's not or at least something maybe more refined, but it's just a fun beat 'em up series that's primarily a season of a Jdrama each game. It's not trying to be DMC, it's just trying to be something you can go "I beat up a guy with a bike I picked up off the ground and then plungered his face, then I went over to a store and some old lady hit on me before I went to a cabaret club to beat up a guy groping some breasts".
Yeah, I think if the games were just shorter they'd be a lot better for it. Packing all this content in when it all feels exactly the same just makes it feel bloated, yet I am compelled to do it because of fomo and I just get tired or playing after a bit. If the draw of the game is subquest writing, that's pretty bad, because I haven't found any yet that feel worthwhile besides a quick chuckle at the Michael Jackson clone.
it's by far the most refined and mechanically realized of the "pure" brawler yakuza games, but the main draw of yakuza has always been character writing and side quests, of which the other games have plenty.
Franchise was great until 7. 7 sucks and turn based RPG is a shit way to "shake up the series". Why would I want to watch them slowly punch people instead of just do it myself. Not to mention its not even a good JRPG. They should have just ended it with 6.
Also frick all of you saying 3-6 are terrible theyre great. 5 is literally the best game in the franchise.
5 is pretty good until the last few hours which are all horribly shit and drag the game down tremendously
3 is dogshit
4 is kino
6 is the second worst
Making it a turn-based rpg is a bit silly even 7's combat is infinitely better than the abomination of dragon engine action combat
Kiwami 1 is mostly a remake of the first game with the 'big' criticism of it being that it kind of feels like a dlc to 0 instead of a real remake, but is still mostly ok.
Kiwami 2 is fun but heavily marred by the dogshit dragon engine.
Yakuza 0 has the worst narrative in the series by literal tier gaps. You only think differently because it was your first Yakuza. Don't forget you aren't a real fan just a parasite who jumped on after most games released.
0 has the best or second best narrative in the franchise with the other contender being 4.
0, 1, 2, 4, and 7 are all pretty decent, though I haven't played the interquel or 8 yet.
Also both judgment games are kind of whatever on the story side though they're fun enough.
>0 has the best or second best narrative in the franchise with the other contender being 4.
4 is literally the absolute shittiest narrative of the entire franchise.
All of RGG's absolute worst qualities bunched into a single game >protag can never be a killer >twists upon twists upon twists for absolutely no reason >dumb fricking deaths, why did nobody learn to disarm villains before Y6? >Yokoyama having no clue how to tie everyones motivations together so the ending is literally Akiyama putting a bunch of money on top of the millenium tower >absolutely no reason to have Kiryu in this game, Akiyama deserved a bigger part, instead we have Saint Kiryu descend from the heavens to solve everyones problems >The ending was so bad that 5 just straight up ignored its existance
I'm a bit concerned by that switch as well. Turn based is ok when you have superheroes throwing magic around but swinging boxing moves like this is a hard sell. Imagine turn based super punch out.
yeah thats kinda moronic, if the fans wanted to play a jrpg they wouldnt be playing yakuza
I'm a bit concerned by that switch as well. Turn based is ok when you have superheroes throwing magic around but swinging boxing moves like this is a hard sell. Imagine turn based super punch out.
>Franchise was great until 7
it still is, even if 7 is underwhelming
>Also frick all of you saying 3-6 are terrible theyre great. 5 is literally the best game in the franchise.
fricking based. My opinion on 5 became a little bitter after trying to replay it, but it's still fricking great
Post your rankings, c**ts.
>only played the mainline and samurai era games
what the frick are you doing, just go play Judgment. Also >6 that low
>putting 7 alongside Lost Judgment
anon, remove the rose tinted glasses. 7 is fun for the first playthrough, but the side content is mostly mediocre, exploring Ijincho is a pain in the ass, the combat is poorly balanced, the story drags on and on, and character motivations are inconsistent. I'd never go as far as to say 7 is a bad game, but it should be licking the dirt off of the shoes of every single game in your S tier
>6 that low
So many things ticked me off about it, hence the tier title being 'Yokoyama is a Black person' because it's mainly narrative shit, which I seem to care about more than most. Gameplay wise, it was alright despite Dragon Engine jankiness. >just go play judgement
On my to-do list once I get paid and get back into the mood. Been burned out for some time and have less time on my hands since I took on a couple extra shifts at work.
7 is by far the best game on the franchise, the entire rest of the franchise is repetitive button mashing dog shit with a thoroughly boring main character and his gay lover
Essence spam is still there but less attractive due to them not always being full enemy team ones but rather giant AoE attacks instead paired with you having lower MP and them costing like anywhere from 45-70 MP per cast. It's still viable but there's way more reasons to use normal skills now.
Jobs are necessary if you want skills since you can take any skill from any job and you don't lose anything from doing so. I don't know if I could have cleared Hawaiian Haunt Sector 3 if I didn't have at least one person as a Linebacker since I was like 3 levels below everything. The boss there took me genuinely like 15 minutes of healing, debuffing, item throwing, and making sure I didn't mess up how the battle was flowing to get greedy for an attack, it was great. In general going to the Hawaiian Haunt at level 30 is a great experience although it's been Poundmate heavy to survive sometimes.
I really need to play x zone or whatever that seires is called with the capcom and sega
Project X Zone. The more you've played from Capcom/Sega/Nintendo the better.
yeah thats kinda moronic, if the fans wanted to play a jrpg they wouldnt be playing yakuza
So it's okay for franchises like Final Fantasy to swap from turn based to action but not vise versa?
And before you say "hurr durr, it's okay to do that because turn based is shit!", you're just admitting that you're okay with taking away one franchise's appeal but not the other.
i only care about the one with the fist of the north star skin, though after watching the souther fight on youtube and how cucked he is in that game im not that interested anymore
Lost Paradise is basically a CliffsNotes version of the game. Souther didn't even get it bad he was just rushed. Mamiya isn't even in the story at all outside of a single substory while Rei is there just to be a boss fight and then immediately leaves the main story to be part of two substories, one of which is the Mamiya one. Only Rin and Bat are around regularly. Raoh also just appears for a fight and immediately leaves.
i've seen videos abou the story in the game, is its own story but at the same time wants to have the original characters so they find excuses to have them only for them to leave right after, kinda lame but still want to play that game
oh yeah i've seen it, its pretty funny, i also saw that you can find the fist of the north star game for the master system out in the wastelands and actually play it
>have you finished 8 yet?
I've been doing the Hawaiian Haunt the past like six hours. Thinking if I should progress with the story or not since I kinda want to finish it in chapter 5 but it means doing floor 1 of the EX floor for a while. >or do I have to play the rest before it for optimal enjoyment
The entire Kiryu section is literally just references and closure for him in addition to setup from multiple games prior. Everyone who has finished the game has said the Ichiban stuff feels like it's secondary and he's basically a side character once the story starts moving.
Does doing NG+ on Legend also get the cheevo for Hard?
No, you need to have a save before the final boss then drop it.
>No, you need to have a save before the final boss then drop it
Well that's unfortunate. I've played indie games with the foresight to just unlock both cheevos.
Yakuza 0 has the worst narrative in the series by literal tier gaps. You only think differently because it was your first Yakuza. Don't forget you aren't a real fan just a parasite who jumped on after most games released.
>You only think differently because it was your first Yakuza. Don't forget you aren't a real fan just a parasite who jumped on after most games released.
Same can be said about gays who started with 7 but your moron ass don't wanna talk about it
Y7gays were never going to be into the franchise in the first place because its a 3d brawler instead of a turn based jrpg. Its the same reason why no one but console warriors gives a frick about them bringing the games to pc, pcBlack folk were never going to buy a ps3/4/5 to buy the games in the first place
Checking that tweet, one guy said on Xbox it wouldn't let you search for guests sometimes so maybe it fixed that? I noticed Eric's Cabbie's Wrench got added to the pawn shop on the top-left of the right half of Hawaii.
>I noticed Eric's Cabbie's Wrench got added to the pawn shop on the top-left of the right half of Hawaii
That was there before the patch. I know because I sold it by accident and combed through the whole city for a replacement.
>demolish everthing on dondoko once I have enough buildings unlocked to make a nice, structure island with districts to satisfy my autism instead of building haphazardly wherever I had enough space at the moment >still end up exactly like that
Pain
Illegal Detective Agency drops it a tier, and a good chunk of the School Stories (Casino, photography, eSports, and Robotics Club) were all pretty bad. At least RC had a decent enough set of characters.
>e-sports club is literally just 5 rounds of Virtua Fighter and a chase >meanwhile, the Boxing club might as well be its own game
There was a clear bias towards some clubs over others. Personally, I think the first Judgement did side quests better since most of them where cases you were paid to do and were actually the kind of work you’d expect a PI to do.
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>the Boxing club might as well be its own game
I wonder if they decided to sell Boxing as an extra fighting style before or after developing the club.
The peaks elevate the valleys. And the only real low point is Saejima's section. Everything else is pretty great with a couple of missteps here or there.
here's a Yakuza Bros tier list (the tier list didn't have images for the Judgment characters, so just imagine Sugiura and Kaito at Bros for Life)
regarding Kiryu's bucket list: I actually shed a tear during Nakajima's and Kaoru's sections. At least RGG didn't pussy out of acknowledging that Kaoru and Kiryu were a thing before they went their separate ways. The Bucket List also made me appreciate both Date and Nakajima so much more, they're the best friends anyone could ask for
I need 100 Dondoko guests but i'm at 80, commercials won't give me any more and i've scoured hawaii for all the substory guests I can find. Where do I get more?
Ichiban gets a general job EXP item called the Dragon Tenugui or Tengui or something like that. It's the same one you got in 7. You get it from rescuing everyone from sector 2 of the Hawaii Haunt.
>Ebina and Eiji are just Masato but done worse
There was no reason to rehash this again. >b-b-but Ichiban helped Eiji
And? Ichiban helped Masato, he just couldn’t turn himself in because the moronic writers decided to kill him off for no good reason.
Because it's interesting the whole way through and its only failure is Hamura asspulling the documents to nail everyone to the wall when Yagami had nothing and kept getting everything ruined for him.
I spent $55 on it from humble bundle and got my key 24 hours late and then bought the $20 new game+ dlc and ive put 45 hours into the game since launch
I also have 46 hours in reload
The series' english playerbase used to be almost entirely via forums rather than here.
Trying to be an oldhead contrarian when you're a johnny come lately yourself is amusing
Sega is convinced PC gamers are moronic enough to pay $20 for an old ass game just because it cane out on pc in 2022 even though its common knowledge that judgment was retconned by yakuza 7, a game they're selling for $12
7 starts with the tojo being gone and the omi having taken kamurocho from mid 2017 to whenever the game takes place(2019/2020). In judgment, the tojo(or at least the matsugane family) are still running around in 2018 and are doing things that would've sparked a war and gotten them all killed.
I really thought Kiryu was going to die. Then when he didn't I was disappointed that they didn't show an on screen reunion between him and Haruka. Like wtf give us a little moment? I feel like I spent an hour with Ichiban and Eiji (Eiji who btw was going to kill a child but Ichiban just says LOL I FORGIVE YOU BRO!!!)
Just shit
The speech from Kiryu was clearly meant for ichiban and them pulling the stupid death fake out for the umpteenth time made me roll my eyes
I get what they’re going for with Eiji, but they needed more of a bonding experience because it makes ichiban look more like a gullible Yakuza Jesus type character who’s willing to forgive any and all sins of people. It feels like his character regressed because he was better about this in 7.
Yeah true, I am interested to see what happens next but I feel like they advertised this as the "Final Kiryu sendoff" lol
>Ichiban gets raped in an alley and it's played as a joke
I'm not one of those "wahhhh this is problematic" guys but man that genuinely made me uncomfortable.
The "romance" substory with the Alo-Happy clerk. She leads Ichiban to an alley, insists on fricking him, Ichiban refuses and tries to get away, then Alo-Happy shows up to trap him in the alley before it fades to pink.
It fades back in to a shot of Alo-Happy smoking a cigarette.
>Ichiban gets raped in an alley and it's played as a joke
I'm not one of those "wahhhh this is problematic" guys but man that genuinely made me uncomfortable.
He gets raped in every single "romance" substory. >Alo-Happy forces him to bang Elizabeth even though he himself says she's insane. >Julie ties Ichiban down to a table and rides him raw while trying to turn him into a cyborg. >Matsuko pulls an Obatarian on him and rapes him and then proceeds to mount him as she's got him in a hold. >Chitose rapes Ichiban despite his protests and then Gary beats him up after he says he doesn't want to date her. >Laura begins to rape Ichiban as Ikari watches and then after it's all over Ikari comes to try and kill him.
The Alo-Happy one is probably the worst out of the bunch, at least with Julie or Laura he kinda consented before things get out of hand, as opposed to him trying to run away before getting blocked in, but yeah they're all pretty shitty
And it's weird because the dating app is excused as him just getting dating practice for Saeko later on, and they could've easily levied the same "it's practice for Saeko" justification and kept everything consensual.
Or just not have these substories to begin with. It's not as if they were a highlight of 7 or anything.
>this all culminates in a lame regurgitated persona gag where the girls beat him up for being "unfaithful" >they even drag chitose into it, who i actually really like and think is well-written, and make her look like a massive piece of shit
this is actually, by far, the worst shit i've seen in this entire franchise. i'm shocked people aren't talking about this on twitter or anything. i'd actually be right there agreeing with the SJWs that it straight-up shouldn't be in the game. absolutely nothing redeemable about this entire thing.
>i'm shocked people aren't talking about this on twitter or anything.
Because it's not something you'll see unless you 100% the game. You're required to give each of them a bunch of gifts from a bunch of different stores, Matsuko (I think that's her name) requires you to do all of the dates fully which takes like two hours before you can even see her event, Laura requires all the tests completed which takes like two hours, Alo-Happy requires I think $10,000 it was to do all the tours and then you still have to give Elizabeth a bunch of gifts, and Julie requires you to invest like $250,000 before you can do hers.
The people who even bother with side content to the extent like that is already very low, and then people who see stuff just through to Amon is even lower.
>and then people who see stuff just through to Amon is even lower
I didn't even get anything for substory completion, so this was totally unnecessary.
I could've moved on to something else without the last bit of writing I see for the game being THIS shitheap.
If there's one good thing to come of this it at least shows the western divisions have more than likely been pretty hands-off. Cause there's no way it would've remained if they really were intent on removing potentially offensive content.
>play 0 >enjoy it >play the other games upto 4 >realize I didn't enjoy any of them and there is no reason to play any other entries in the franchise
Now you frickers say 7 is actually good. I swear if I get baited into this stupid series one more time only for it to suck again
>Ganker supposedly likes Yakuza >yet everytime theres a Yakuza thread half the posts are just telling you to skip most of the games because only one or two are actually worth playing
the substory with ichiban getting raped is funnier with this whole thing in the back of my mind
"yeah we can't have le problematique depictions of lgbt anymore but the male protag getting cornered in an alley and raped as a gag is fine"
so that one substory from 3 would've been perfectly fine if it was a regular girl and not an okama
Wait there seems to be a running theme here with the romance substories
I guess because Ichiban's committed to Saeko they can't have him being "unfaithful" in these (even though it's okay in the dating app i guess?)
So instead of just dropping the romance substories in this game, their solution was to just have him get repeatedly coerced into sexual situations he's clearly not comfortable with
Just got started on 6.
Can I play Man Who Erased His Name before moving on to the Ichiban games? I heard it's a prequel to 7 and I don't really like the idea of flip flopping between genres.
As much as i enjoy these games, i cant remember anything about the plot of any of them. Its like i forget 90% of what happened as soon as i finish the game.
Always the gameplay is below average at best, at worst its a piece of shit.
The story is nonsensical and poorly written, its also poorly directed
Nothing note-worthy to be fair, its a game that was created to appeal to weebs so they can make memes on twitter, its really a bad series.
Even at its best it doesnt crack the 6/10.
1 in release order if you want the intended experience, 0 in the modern order if you want a strong game but to jump all over the place with different expectations.
Essence spam is still there but less attractive due to them not always being full enemy team ones but rather giant AoE attacks instead paired with you having lower MP and them costing like anywhere from 45-70 MP per cast. It's still viable but there's way more reasons to use normal skills now.
Jobs are necessary if you want skills since you can take any skill from any job and you don't lose anything from doing so. I don't know if I could have cleared Hawaiian Haunt Sector 3 if I didn't have at least one person as a Linebacker since I was like 3 levels below everything. The boss there took me genuinely like 15 minutes of healing, debuffing, item throwing, and making sure I didn't mess up how the battle was flowing to get greedy for an attack, it was great. In general going to the Hawaiian Haunt at level 30 is a great experience although it's been Poundmate heavy to survive sometimes.
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Project X Zone. The more you've played from Capcom/Sega/Nintendo the better.
People always compare Shenmue and Yakuza but Shenmue is more like a proper adventure game in terms of interaction and progression than "follow the marker" progression since time is a hard factor on available content.
Played 0. I really don't get the appeal. Sure it has its moments when it comes to story and outlandish humour. However the combat is basic and the minigames are nothing out of the ordinary.
Is the appeal of the series really jisybthe characters and story??
I'm going back to YLAD after putting it on pause for like a year and the combat already feels repetitive.
Has anyone here tried the Brawler mod yet? Is it something you can just enable in the middle of a playthrough and are you able to simply toggle it off without breaking your save?
0 and 7 are the only games worth playing
And 8
americanized trash
>0 and 7 trannies
every time
based
They are all fine.
I've just finished 0 yesterday, it being the last Yakuza game aside from 8 and Judge Eyes I haven't played. The story is pretty good, but gameplay-wise there are some things that could've been better.
I still believe Y5 was the pinnacle of the series and Gaiden has finally made the DE combat fun and engaging (before you break it with unnecessary attack upgrades and overpowered Agent style heat mode that is more broken then Akiyama's broken Tekken combo chain mode in 5). 7 is fine. Kiwami 1 is meh.
> 0
yes
> 7
no
Fpwp
Everyone knows 7’s shit now
Yes. 4~6 were especially underwhelming.
i keep hearing Kiwami 2 is better but the first filtered me so hard i never bothered
0 is peak and cannot be improved upon it seems
This tbh. They're all good but 0 and 7 are the best the franchise has to offer. The rest is the same shit but not as good.
In theory I like these games and I actually own several of them but I've been trying and failing to get into them since the PS2 era.
It just never clicks.
>In theory
theyre all bad dude, why do you feel like you have to like them
tertiaries deserve the rope
>Nyamogay
They’re right, though it didn’t fix also it’s issues and 8’s combat is still pretty shit
Go back
>can we all admit the gameplay in 7 was severely flawed
this implies that people were praising the gameplay as perfect when even people who liked the switch to turn-based had criticism of the combat systems
Did 8 fix the problem 7 had where you had frick-all for control over positioning, which affects how your AoEs or counters line up against enemy targets? It was my main complaint about 7.
yeah but it's not perfect because the enemies also won't stop moving around so if their 'not getting stuck' behavior triggers they can just dash out of your AoE row and frick you over.
I'm a 0 secondary. I like it but keep hearing it's by far the best. Should I really not bother with the rest?
Yes.
they ruined Majima.
if you really want to play another Yakuza, then just play Yakuza 1.
the rest are garbage especially 3,4,5,6.
>the rest are garbage especially 3,4,5,6.
>they ruined Majima.
Do you mean in the remakes of 1 and 2 or the nu-yakuza?
4 and 5 are great for the same reason 0 is.
the only game that hits as high as 0 is Judgement but the rest are fine too
3 and 4 are the low point but have some cool moments
Judgement is fine but it's too padded with fillers.
and Lost Judgement is straight up trash
>muh sawa-sensei
>Lost Judgement is straight up trash
The plot is better and more emotionally resonant than the first game’s. Granted a lot of that is due to it having a literal 11/10 antagonist, but I’d say it’s overall better than the first game aside from the detective elements being dumbed down.
>>muh sawa
The argument was never refuted because it honestly can’t be refuted aside from saying “I don’t give a shit”.
I’m torn between 0 and LJ as the best game in the series honestly.
>bullying is... le bad
>muh sawa sensei ad infinitum
yeah no it's trash
Neither of those statements are false.
You can’t defend the deaths of innocents in your desire to achieve justice without outright admitting that you don’t give a frick about collateral damage. And if you do that, and still claim to be seeking justice, then you’re being hypocritical. That’s what Yagami is saying.
>The argument was never refuted because it honestly can’t be refuted aside from saying “I don’t give a shit”.
this guy gets it. It might be annoying seeing Yagami parrot this same argument, but it's still consistent with his character, especially considering the fact that Kuwana sees Eri in Sawa, so Yagami probably shares that same view
>I’m torn between 0 and LJ as the best game in the series honestly.
honestly, I'd put Lost Judgment just a little above because of the fact that Kiryu's styles aren't that great, and his side of the story is hard carried by other people, not him
Personally, I feel Rush style and Brawler are crazy amounts of fun, but that’s because I like being an agile fighter.
I think the thing that makes it a debate for me is because 0 has much better side content than LJ (I really didn’t care for the fact that a ton of side content is locked behind grinding the school mini-games) and also I miss being able to use lethal weapons and the more brutal heat actions in 0.
As good as LJ’s combat is, the Dragon Engine still feels a bit jankier to me compared to the PS3 engine.
the judgment duology is great, stfu
People here haven't actually played the games you can tell
I like 5 a lot.
Only play 0, 1, 2 and 3. The rest are horrible trash.
I came in from 0 but knew the series from the start, 0 hits pretty much every step to be a good game. Going into Kiwami 1 was like being slapped in the face in comparison but still alright. Liked Kiwami 2 though. Playing 6 made me fully understand the hate for the dragon engine at the time.
The rest that i've played so far are okay. You can see a massive jump in quality with 5 but it also comes with dumb YUME and practically 4 different storylines that only really converge close to the end.
>people say 0 is the best
>play 0 first because it seems to make sense (chronological story order)
>it's ok but I get caught up with just fricking around in the city
>just play ufo catcher and do some subquests
>story isn't compelling whatsoever, beyond the mysterious realty man (then it just immediately takes you away from that because now it's Majima time)
I have some laughs and good moments with it, but the core gameplay loop is extremely repetitive and not very fun at all. Best part of the game was the beginning when I fought Kuze but I learned that was because I was on hard. I guess the game is just too padded for me, it's kinda fun but nowhere near deserves the hype I've seen so far. Does it actually get good? I want to like this series but it's not convincing me.
if it didnt click yet, id still tell you to keep going, there are some very good story beats in 0 that could maybe still draw you in
I wanna give it an honest chance. It's not like it's boring, it's just nowhere near the hype that people have said, I'm extremely underwhelmed. It's all mostly just ok. I feel like subquests could've been reduced by like half just to have them be longer or better than just "talk to a few people and give them items" or a short escort mission.
Keep in mind that these games aren't high budget and they work with what they've got. You will have repetition and reuse, it's sort of the name of the game. Substories are almost always going to be either you going somewhere to beat someone up, you delivering someone something, or you beating them at a minigame. The things that bring it together are the story and characters in said substory. 0's substories are some of the better ones so if you do continue in the future just understand that like half of 1's substories (Which K1 itself uses) are literally just scams. Five of them are people bumping into Kiryu, he gets text messages about scams, he gets stopped by random people who try to scam him, etc. It took them years to start heavily getting away from those safety nets and while they still have scam substories nowadays it's like maybe 3 or 4 out of 50+.
Combat is also something they give you some options in but they don't expect you to really "play fair" if that makes any sense. They want you to get overpowered, they want you to sort of roll over your enemies, the bosses are supposed to be the "main" challenge and everything else is for you to make your own fun in. Think of street fights as "How can I weave stuff into this fight to make it visually more interesting?". When you get bored or tired of them there's nothing wrong with ignoring them or using a 2H item to just sweep them all up in like two hits.
I think you went into this expecting something it's not or at least something maybe more refined, but it's just a fun beat 'em up series that's primarily a season of a Jdrama each game. It's not trying to be DMC, it's just trying to be something you can go "I beat up a guy with a bike I picked up off the ground and then plungered his face, then I went over to a store and some old lady hit on me before I went to a cabaret club to beat up a guy groping some breasts".
Yeah, I think if the games were just shorter they'd be a lot better for it. Packing all this content in when it all feels exactly the same just makes it feel bloated, yet I am compelled to do it because of fomo and I just get tired or playing after a bit. If the draw of the game is subquest writing, that's pretty bad, because I haven't found any yet that feel worthwhile besides a quick chuckle at the Michael Jackson clone.
it's by far the most refined and mechanically realized of the "pure" brawler yakuza games, but the main draw of yakuza has always been character writing and side quests, of which the other games have plenty.
Play Ishin,Judgement and Lost Judgement. Especially, Ishin. That was great.
just play the fricking games for yourself in release order you fricking casual good lord how hard is it to find a PS2 game rom and see for yourself
Franchise was great until 7. 7 sucks and turn based RPG is a shit way to "shake up the series". Why would I want to watch them slowly punch people instead of just do it myself. Not to mention its not even a good JRPG. They should have just ended it with 6.
Also frick all of you saying 3-6 are terrible theyre great. 5 is literally the best game in the franchise.
Based
yeah thats kinda moronic, if the fans wanted to play a jrpg they wouldnt be playing yakuza
yakuza was already a jrpg long before 7
action games dont have 20 hours of cutscenes
5 is pretty good until the last few hours which are all horribly shit and drag the game down tremendously
3 is dogshit
4 is kino
6 is the second worst
Making it a turn-based rpg is a bit silly even 7's combat is infinitely better than the abomination of dragon engine action combat
what about kiwami 1 and 2?
finished 0 some days ago
Kiwami 1 is mostly a remake of the first game with the 'big' criticism of it being that it kind of feels like a dlc to 0 instead of a real remake, but is still mostly ok.
Kiwami 2 is fun but heavily marred by the dogshit dragon engine.
0 has the best or second best narrative in the franchise with the other contender being 4.
0, 1, 2, 4, and 7 are all pretty decent, though I haven't played the interquel or 8 yet.
Also both judgment games are kind of whatever on the story side though they're fun enough.
>0 has the best or second best narrative in the franchise with the other contender being 4.
4 is literally the absolute shittiest narrative of the entire franchise.
All of RGG's absolute worst qualities bunched into a single game
>protag can never be a killer
>twists upon twists upon twists for absolutely no reason
>dumb fricking deaths, why did nobody learn to disarm villains before Y6?
>Yokoyama having no clue how to tie everyones motivations together so the ending is literally Akiyama putting a bunch of money on top of the millenium tower
>absolutely no reason to have Kiryu in this game, Akiyama deserved a bigger part, instead we have Saint Kiryu descend from the heavens to solve everyones problems
>The ending was so bad that 5 just straight up ignored its existance
Yeah, great narrative there buddy.
I'm a bit concerned by that switch as well. Turn based is ok when you have superheroes throwing magic around but swinging boxing moves like this is a hard sell. Imagine turn based super punch out.
L take
Nagoshi's out, so I'm out too.
Don't need Kiryu becoming self insert cancer journey
Based
Do you think Nagoshi wasn't self inserting?
Nagoshi was self inserting as Majima
>Franchise was great until 7
it still is, even if 7 is underwhelming
>Also frick all of you saying 3-6 are terrible theyre great. 5 is literally the best game in the franchise.
fricking based. My opinion on 5 became a little bitter after trying to replay it, but it's still fricking great
>only played the mainline and samurai era games
what the frick are you doing, just go play Judgment. Also
>6 that low
>putting 7 alongside Lost Judgment
anon, remove the rose tinted glasses. 7 is fun for the first playthrough, but the side content is mostly mediocre, exploring Ijincho is a pain in the ass, the combat is poorly balanced, the story drags on and on, and character motivations are inconsistent. I'd never go as far as to say 7 is a bad game, but it should be licking the dirt off of the shoes of every single game in your S tier
>6 that low
So many things ticked me off about it, hence the tier title being 'Yokoyama is a Black person' because it's mainly narrative shit, which I seem to care about more than most. Gameplay wise, it was alright despite Dragon Engine jankiness.
>just go play judgement
On my to-do list once I get paid and get back into the mood. Been burned out for some time and have less time on my hands since I took on a couple extra shifts at work.
i feel like 10/10 should be masterpiece and then 9/10 be almost perfect.
7 is by far the best game on the franchise, the entire rest of the franchise is repetitive button mashing dog shit with a thoroughly boring main character and his gay lover
Pretty much everyone agrees that 7 has the worst gameplay in the series now that 8 is out, contrarian
8 improved litterally everything about 7s combat
did they fix essence spam and pointless jobs? Jobs seemed only necessary for endgame shit
Essence spam is still there but less attractive due to them not always being full enemy team ones but rather giant AoE attacks instead paired with you having lower MP and them costing like anywhere from 45-70 MP per cast. It's still viable but there's way more reasons to use normal skills now.
Jobs are necessary if you want skills since you can take any skill from any job and you don't lose anything from doing so. I don't know if I could have cleared Hawaiian Haunt Sector 3 if I didn't have at least one person as a Linebacker since I was like 3 levels below everything. The boss there took me genuinely like 15 minutes of healing, debuffing, item throwing, and making sure I didn't mess up how the battle was flowing to get greedy for an attack, it was great. In general going to the Hawaiian Haunt at level 30 is a great experience although it's been Poundmate heavy to survive sometimes.
Project X Zone. The more you've played from Capcom/Sega/Nintendo the better.
So it's okay for franchises like Final Fantasy to swap from turn based to action but not vise versa?
And before you say "hurr durr, it's okay to do that because turn based is shit!", you're just admitting that you're okay with taking away one franchise's appeal but not the other.
0, 7, 8 are the only ones worth playing
i only care about the one with the fist of the north star skin, though after watching the souther fight on youtube and how cucked he is in that game im not that interested anymore
Lost Paradise is basically a CliffsNotes version of the game. Souther didn't even get it bad he was just rushed. Mamiya isn't even in the story at all outside of a single substory while Rei is there just to be a boss fight and then immediately leaves the main story to be part of two substories, one of which is the Mamiya one. Only Rin and Bat are around regularly. Raoh also just appears for a fight and immediately leaves.
i've seen videos abou the story in the game, is its own story but at the same time wants to have the original characters so they find excuses to have them only for them to leave right after, kinda lame but still want to play that game
It's got one of the better rhythm games in a yakuza game, I'll say that.
oh yeah i've seen it, its pretty funny, i also saw that you can find the fist of the north star game for the master system out in the wastelands and actually play it
have you finished 8 yet? is it playable if I've only played 7 or do I have to play the rest before it for optimal enjoyment
>have you finished 8 yet?
I've been doing the Hawaiian Haunt the past like six hours. Thinking if I should progress with the story or not since I kinda want to finish it in chapter 5 but it means doing floor 1 of the EX floor for a while.
>or do I have to play the rest before it for optimal enjoyment
The entire Kiryu section is literally just references and closure for him in addition to setup from multiple games prior. Everyone who has finished the game has said the Ichiban stuff feels like it's secondary and he's basically a side character once the story starts moving.
No, you need to have a save before the final boss then drop it.
>No, you need to have a save before the final boss then drop it
Well that's unfortunate. I've played indie games with the foresight to just unlock both cheevos.
Yakuza 0 has the worst narrative in the series by literal tier gaps. You only think differently because it was your first Yakuza. Don't forget you aren't a real fan just a parasite who jumped on after most games released.
stop hating newcomers
>You only think differently because it was your first Yakuza. Don't forget you aren't a real fan just a parasite who jumped on after most games released.
Same can be said about gays who started with 7 but your moron ass don't wanna talk about it
Y7gays were never going to be into the franchise in the first place because its a 3d brawler instead of a turn based jrpg. Its the same reason why no one but console warriors gives a frick about them bringing the games to pc, pcBlack folk were never going to buy a ps3/4/5 to buy the games in the first place
Alright I just finished the Big Swell and everyone's at level 71 with all jobs rank 30+
Is there anything I really oughta wrap up before starting NG+?
Me either. Get some taste, homosexual.
Does doing NG+ on Legend also get the cheevo for Hard?
So what did the patch fix?
job stat bonuses and dlss framegen stutters
The tweet mentioned sujimon and dondoko island fixes, any idea what they meant?
Checking that tweet, one guy said on Xbox it wouldn't let you search for guests sometimes so maybe it fixed that? I noticed Eric's Cabbie's Wrench got added to the pawn shop on the top-left of the right half of Hawaii.
>I noticed Eric's Cabbie's Wrench got added to the pawn shop on the top-left of the right half of Hawaii
That was there before the patch. I know because I sold it by accident and combed through the whole city for a replacement.
yamai needs to stop smiling
Did they patch the permanent stat buffs efter level 30 in yakuza 8?
>demolish everthing on dondoko once I have enough buildings unlocked to make a nice, structure island with districts to satisfy my autism instead of building haphazardly wherever I had enough space at the moment
>still end up exactly like that
Pain
Post your rankings, c**ts.
no
objective rating
how about TWO tier lists
I'm game.
>substories
LJ deserved S+ just because of the school stories.
A lot of the school stories are mid though. Only Boxing and dancing are good.
Would have preferred more actual cases over them.
Illegal Detective Agency drops it a tier, and a good chunk of the School Stories (Casino, photography, eSports, and Robotics Club) were all pretty bad. At least RC had a decent enough set of characters.
>e-sports club is literally just 5 rounds of Virtua Fighter and a chase
>meanwhile, the Boxing club might as well be its own game
There was a clear bias towards some clubs over others. Personally, I think the first Judgement did side quests better since most of them where cases you were paid to do and were actually the kind of work you’d expect a PI to do.
>the Boxing club might as well be its own game
I wonder if they decided to sell Boxing as an extra fighting style before or after developing the club.
>Storyline
>Yakuza 5 this high
Really?
The peaks elevate the valleys. And the only real low point is Saejima's section. Everything else is pretty great with a couple of missteps here or there.
Well, if you insist.
here's a Yakuza Bros tier list (the tier list didn't have images for the Judgment characters, so just imagine Sugiura and Kaito at Bros for Life)
regarding Kiryu's bucket list: I actually shed a tear during Nakajima's and Kaoru's sections. At least RGG didn't pussy out of acknowledging that Kaoru and Kiryu were a thing before they went their separate ways. The Bucket List also made me appreciate both Date and Nakajima so much more, they're the best friends anyone could ask for
Did Y0 reall saved the franchise?
kiryu, she's right there, say something
Who is this "kiryu" you are talking about?
Did they patch the permanent stat buffs in infinite wealth
I need 100 Dondoko guests but i'm at 80, commercials won't give me any more and i've scoured hawaii for all the substory guests I can find. Where do I get more?
Spend $14.99
I DID
0, 1, 2 are the only relevant ones the rest are dog water (turn based SUCKS
is there an item that only increases job exp?
Ichiban gets a general job EXP item called the Dragon Tenugui or Tengui or something like that. It's the same one you got in 7. You get it from rescuing everyone from sector 2 of the Hawaii Haunt.
All franchises with more than three games are shit. All of them.
how do i get rid of this guys speech bubble? he doesnt have gift options
Go to the sujimon arena and do the fight there.
but it has scary level 31 men and i dont have the $5000 to summon nancy yet
>Ebina and Eiji are just Masato but done worse
There was no reason to rehash this again.
>b-b-but Ichiban helped Eiji
And? Ichiban helped Masato, he just couldn’t turn himself in because the moronic writers decided to kill him off for no good reason.
The whole story was just a big rehash and pretty derivative overall
Nothing interesting happens and it feels like it was made to undo 6’s ending
Why do people praise Judgement’s story so highly?
It’s atmosphere is great, and its competently written, but it’s kind of a by-the-numbers murder mystery at the end of the day.
Because it's interesting the whole way through and its only failure is Hamura asspulling the documents to nail everyone to the wall when Yagami had nothing and kept getting everything ruined for him.
i felt like it had the most consistently good plot
yagami is great, the cast as a whole was good to me.
the mole is great
I'm still playing them and will always play them. Sucks to be you, OP
how do i get pig
Kiwami 1 was so bad that I dropped the series
Name ONE Yakuza character who can defeat him.
Where the frick is the Assassin class xp item, I have everything else but this.
Should I stop being a PS2 games quaternary?
>Yes. 4~6 were especially underwhelming.
fricking secondaries lol
>0 and either of the 2 Judgment games always on S tier
What made them so good?
Great combat, good characters, interesting stories, fun side content.
bros they patched the ben exploit...
The cart? What did they change? How am I supposed to farm stat items now..
I’ll never touch 7 again unless they make 7 kiwami with brawler combat
I envy anyone who didn't waste $70 and 70 hours playing Infinite Wealth.
I spent $55 on it from humble bundle and got my key 24 hours late and then bought the $20 new game+ dlc and ive put 45 hours into the game since launch
I also have 46 hours in reload
The series' english playerbase used to be almost entirely via forums rather than here.
Trying to be an oldhead contrarian when you're a johnny come lately yourself is amusing
Why does judgment never go on sale as cheap as the rest of the Yakuza games?
Sega is convinced PC gamers are moronic enough to pay $20 for an old ass game just because it cane out on pc in 2022 even though its common knowledge that judgment was retconned by yakuza 7, a game they're selling for $12
>though its common knowledge that judgment was retconned by yakuza 7
Elaborate
7 starts with the tojo being gone and the omi having taken kamurocho from mid 2017 to whenever the game takes place(2019/2020). In judgment, the tojo(or at least the matsugane family) are still running around in 2018 and are doing things that would've sparked a war and gotten them all killed.
Judgment is set in 2017
It’s set in 2018 actually.
I’m assuming there might have been a discrepancy due to the game probably being worked on at around the same time.
judgment is free
Subdued and Secret Kiryu-Haruka After School SEX!!!
What are these last few substories? I'm in PA and i've done pretty much everything including the DLC dungeon.
Those are the "romance" substories.
Oh right I have to comb through every single store in the game to hunt down single gifts to give to people huh?
gay
How did we feel about the ending for 8?
Spoilers:
I really thought Kiryu was going to die. Then when he didn't I was disappointed that they didn't show an on screen reunion between him and Haruka. Like wtf give us a little moment? I feel like I spent an hour with Ichiban and Eiji (Eiji who btw was going to kill a child but Ichiban just says LOL I FORGIVE YOU BRO!!!)
I didn't rike it.
I liked the part where Ichiban spilled his spaghetti.
Sex with Ichiban
Ichiban is for Ichiban only.
Just shit
The speech from Kiryu was clearly meant for ichiban and them pulling the stupid death fake out for the umpteenth time made me roll my eyes
I get what they’re going for with Eiji, but they needed more of a bonding experience because it makes ichiban look more like a gullible Yakuza Jesus type character who’s willing to forgive any and all sins of people. It feels like his character regressed because he was better about this in 7.
Well I appreciate that they didn't just write away the cancer. Not yet at least. Now we wait to see it happen in LaD 9 or whatever comes next.
Yeah true, I am interested to see what happens next but I feel like they advertised this as the "Final Kiryu sendoff" lol
Did I miss a side mission or something
The "romance" substory with the Alo-Happy clerk. She leads Ichiban to an alley, insists on fricking him, Ichiban refuses and tries to get away, then Alo-Happy shows up to trap him in the alley before it fades to pink.
It fades back in to a shot of Alo-Happy smoking a cigarette.
lol
No way gay.
>Ichiban gets raped in an alley and it's played as a joke
I'm not one of those "wahhhh this is problematic" guys but man that genuinely made me uncomfortable.
I thought it was funny.
He gets raped in every single "romance" substory.
>Alo-Happy forces him to bang Elizabeth even though he himself says she's insane.
>Julie ties Ichiban down to a table and rides him raw while trying to turn him into a cyborg.
>Matsuko pulls an Obatarian on him and rapes him and then proceeds to mount him as she's got him in a hold.
>Chitose rapes Ichiban despite his protests and then Gary beats him up after he says he doesn't want to date her.
>Laura begins to rape Ichiban as Ikari watches and then after it's all over Ikari comes to try and kill him.
The Alo-Happy one is probably the worst out of the bunch, at least with Julie or Laura he kinda consented before things get out of hand, as opposed to him trying to run away before getting blocked in, but yeah they're all pretty shitty
And it's weird because the dating app is excused as him just getting dating practice for Saeko later on, and they could've easily levied the same "it's practice for Saeko" justification and kept everything consensual.
Or just not have these substories to begin with. It's not as if they were a highlight of 7 or anything.
>this all culminates in a lame regurgitated persona gag where the girls beat him up for being "unfaithful"
>they even drag chitose into it, who i actually really like and think is well-written, and make her look like a massive piece of shit
this is actually, by far, the worst shit i've seen in this entire franchise. i'm shocked people aren't talking about this on twitter or anything. i'd actually be right there agreeing with the SJWs that it straight-up shouldn't be in the game. absolutely nothing redeemable about this entire thing.
>i'm shocked people aren't talking about this on twitter or anything.
Because it's not something you'll see unless you 100% the game. You're required to give each of them a bunch of gifts from a bunch of different stores, Matsuko (I think that's her name) requires you to do all of the dates fully which takes like two hours before you can even see her event, Laura requires all the tests completed which takes like two hours, Alo-Happy requires I think $10,000 it was to do all the tours and then you still have to give Elizabeth a bunch of gifts, and Julie requires you to invest like $250,000 before you can do hers.
The people who even bother with side content to the extent like that is already very low, and then people who see stuff just through to Amon is even lower.
>and then people who see stuff just through to Amon is even lower
I didn't even get anything for substory completion, so this was totally unnecessary.
I could've moved on to something else without the last bit of writing I see for the game being THIS shitheap.
>SEGA say they ask SOA and SOE for what’s acceptable content
>this is apparently acceptable
If there's one good thing to come of this it at least shows the western divisions have more than likely been pretty hands-off. Cause there's no way it would've remained if they really were intent on removing potentially offensive content.
>play 0
>enjoy it
>play the other games upto 4
>realize I didn't enjoy any of them and there is no reason to play any other entries in the franchise
Now you frickers say 7 is actually good. I swear if I get baited into this stupid series one more time only for it to suck again
5 is goated
7 starts really strong but the battles wore on me so i eventually dropped it
story wise, its the next best after 0
true crime "content creators" are cancer though, and RGG is based for calling them out
whoops wrong reply
7 has a good story and great optional content but gameplay wise is the worst in the entire series. That fricking combat really makes it insufferable.
>Ganker supposedly likes Yakuza
>yet everytime theres a Yakuza thread half the posts are just telling you to skip most of the games because only one or two are actually worth playing
i only like the yakuza games that reddit tells me i can enjoy like 0 and 7
>Mine is actualy one of Heihachi's bastard kids
I guess he is coming back in 9
the substory with ichiban getting raped is funnier with this whole thing in the back of my mind
"yeah we can't have le problematique depictions of lgbt anymore but the male protag getting cornered in an alley and raped as a gag is fine"
so that one substory from 3 would've been perfectly fine if it was a regular girl and not an okama
rape is only funny when it happens to men and it doesn't portray someone from a currently protected group
yeah but SJW types don't really excuse men being sexually coerced like this
>game starts with getting called out by a titty vtuber
I hate modernity in video games
Wait there seems to be a running theme here with the romance substories
I guess because Ichiban's committed to Saeko they can't have him being "unfaithful" in these (even though it's okay in the dating app i guess?)
So instead of just dropping the romance substories in this game, their solution was to just have him get repeatedly coerced into sexual situations he's clearly not comfortable with
"Oi, don't do it to me, bruv."
"We'z all calm down, yea?... yea?"
Can you get Haruka as a guest for dondoko and if not, why
It would be so fricked up to have Kiryu and Haruka together on the island
Just got started on 6.
Can I play Man Who Erased His Name before moving on to the Ichiban games? I heard it's a prequel to 7 and I don't really like the idea of flip flopping between genres.
Definitely would not recommend doing that as it will spoil every major plot point from 7.
Alrighty then.
the whole daidoji storyline is fricking stupid tbh
>Character in the games called Daigo Dojima
>Kiryu works for people called the Daidoji
Who the frick writes this schlock?
moron
8’s the last turn-based JRPG, and dragon engine game
That’s why Kiryu was shoved into this one
Kiryu-san...
Moose, you got games on your phone?
Yes.
I've only played 0. What do I play after that one because I enjoyed the 3d brawler and am scared to be shoved into a shitty yakuza game
Judgment
>what do i play after game: 0?
uhhh idk man, maybe try game: 1?
As much as i enjoy these games, i cant remember anything about the plot of any of them. Its like i forget 90% of what happened as soon as i finish the game.
Garbage shovelware for weebs
Shit series to be honest.
Always the gameplay is below average at best, at worst its a piece of shit.
The story is nonsensical and poorly written, its also poorly directed
Nothing note-worthy to be fair, its a game that was created to appeal to weebs so they can make memes on twitter, its really a bad series.
Even at its best it doesnt crack the 6/10.
usually when people say something is mid it ends up being the greatest thing ever made. so I'll probably end up liking it.
They didn't even bother to script BGM into the Big Swell cutscenes, just 5 minute long sequences of ambient noise. What a lazy piece of shit content.
what game do i play first 0 or 1?
1 in release order if you want the intended experience, 0 in the modern order if you want a strong game but to jump all over the place with different expectations.
>in release order if you want the intended experience
ok so play Shenmue first. Got it.
Shenmue 1 takes place during 8 according to the radio show so it simultaneously exists in 1986 and 2023.
I really need to play x zone or whatever that seires is called with the capcom and sega
What are these screenshots from?
Project X Zone
Holy frick how have I never heard of this? Is it shit or something? I have a modded 3ds so gonna download it now
>between Capcom, Sega, Nintendo, and I think Konami
It's a direct sequel to Namco x Capcom
Bamco was who I was thinking of, yeah. It was either them or Konami and I was just too lazy to check.
Project X Zone, it's a crossover beat 'em up RPG sort of thing on the 3DS between Capcom, Sega, Nintendo, and I think Konami?
People always compare Shenmue and Yakuza but Shenmue is more like a proper adventure game in terms of interaction and progression than "follow the marker" progression since time is a hard factor on available content.
I never played a single yakuza game. I just used them for virtua fighter and nothing else.
Chi-chan is so cute. Best girl.
For me? It's Seonhee
Played 0. I really don't get the appeal. Sure it has its moments when it comes to story and outlandish humour. However the combat is basic and the minigames are nothing out of the ordinary.
Is the appeal of the series really jisybthe characters and story??
I'm going back to YLAD after putting it on pause for like a year and the combat already feels repetitive.
Has anyone here tried the Brawler mod yet? Is it something you can just enable in the middle of a playthrough and are you able to simply toggle it off without breaking your save?