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No I got filtered by Yakuza 3 and I’m stuck there
I haven't played one.
>Yakuza
meh
>I haven't played one.
based
Y0 only one worth playing
Maybe Kiwami as well but it's a monumental nosedive in quality after those
That's why you don't start with 0.
if you think 0 is the best one you are moronic and your opinion doesnt count anyway lmao
Just watched them on youtube
How the frick do you understand what is happening without playing the game? it's impossible
Uh there is a 12hour movie version?
do people actually think yakuza 3 has the best story or are they just letting mine do the heavy lifting?
Played 0 through 3 and I'm honestly considering skipping to 7.
Is it wise?
No, only 0. And that was enough. It's great.
Yeah, that's fine. Watch some story recaps of the rest if you feel like it.
No, dont rush to 7.
4th one is significantly better in terms of direction, substories, and it features three characters. It's the second best after 0 if we're talking about the main story. 5th one is probably the close 3rd because they botched the Shinada arc, story- and city-wise.
>skipping better entries in favor one of the worst ones
Do it so you can leave and I never have to talk to you, you giant homosexual.
7trannies should kill themselves
its kind of like saying rubber bullets without any context, just kinda silly
Story-wise, you should definitely play 6 before 7, then Gaiden, then 8 when it comes out next month. Personally, I wouldn't recommend skipping any, but if you're that desperate to rush, then you should at least consider 6
dude you already finished the ones that aged like milk, why would you skip the better games in the series (4 and 5) ?
if 3 made you feel that way, know that 4 and 5 are worse, and 7's jrpg gameplay is also a fricking slog
Did some streamer pest say in some 10 million views video that 5 is the same as 3/4?? Where are you brainlets all coming from? Jesus Christ almighty. It's the same game as ishin and 0.
if you really want to see whats going on in 7 its appropriate to jump in where you're at yeah.
although stopping before you get to 4 is a mistake 4 is probably the best one if not in the top 3
I started with 0>kiwami>k2>3 and now i'm near the end of 4 remastered, it took me more than 3 years to reach 4 btw, its annoying that i cant pause or skip anything or save anywhere in the remastered games :s. the remastered games are very important to the story and you cant skip them especially 4.
Played through all until 6, which I started and failed to be hooked by the story, gameplay or environments and gave it up after a few hours to go and replay 3 on Legend.
cute tummy
erotic child tummy uhhhhhhoooooohhhhhh
6 has some cool celeb cameos if you're into jap tv/film. and ono michio. its worth it just for him.
He's alright but I felt that they were just copying the Rikiya arc and that didn't sit well with me. When I feel like playing a Yakuza again, I'll give it another shot, but the appeal isn't there.
6 is basically 3 kiwami in way more than just Rikiya, it's fun noticing all the parallels
I tried to play 7 but couldn't handle the dogshit gameplay and Ichiban is a gigantic homosexual.
So how did it become so difficult for secondaries and morons to simply play the series as it was intended in release order?
Shut the frick up, homosexual.
I accept your concession.
They were made one after the other with the previous installment in mind. It's that simple, ape brain.
Who says that’s how it was intended to be played?
Literally all of these are wrong
playing 6 right now. story looks A LOT Better than 5 and 0, i'm trying also to master the new Battle system but it's so weird
the combat in 6 is kind of rough and it's downright trash until you max out your attack speed
There is barely any plot in any video game as well written as 0
5 story is abysmal and they just forgot anything halfway through kek
>6 best music
I don't remember a single track from it
>3 best story
I'd say 0 or 6
>combat
I'd argue Kiwami actually for the 0-styles giving you tons of moves, and daring to be more challenging. 4 is not very cheese-proof, but maybe you're right in terms of feeling the best to play because of the variety of characters, plentiful long battles, and biggest step up (from 3)
>I'd argue Kiwami
Oh no anon's moronic.
Not an argument
My argument is the fricking abysmal enemy design and Kiryu flinching every time he brushes by someone.
skill issue
Not an argument.
My argument is your inability to learn the game.
>Can't even stand up to his own level of scrutiny reflected back at him.
Absolutely pathetic.
Imagine being filtered by the combat in these games of all things.
>Noooo you can't just say Kiwami 1 has shit combat you have to compose an argument!!!
>Argue for why it's good? Uhm, it's just good sweetie, I don't have to justify anything. 🙂
Black person.
>waaah i suck at the game
I think you should tone it down to easy mode, little baby anon.
If you're not going to try, you're not getting any more attention.
I bet that sounded more badass in your head
This
Kiwami 1 really is the peak if you take the time to learn the little intricacies and how things work together in combat.
>>I don't remember a single track from it
you probably didn't use the music restoration mod
>I don't remember a single track from it
how?
this but yakuza 3
Just need a Yakuza mmo, they wasted their money on Judgment instead of making a proper online game for the consoles..
>It’s just Street Fighter 6 clone but you can travel to all the cities in the franchise
I’d welcome a full co op yakuza type of game at least.
Or just a co op mode in the battle arena would be cool too.
Yes.
playing through OG 2 and just got to the stabbing scene and I'm not sure if Kiwami 2 did this, but during the cutscene the controller vibrates during the point of impact and on removal as well. very nice little detail
Kiwami 2 did something fricking worse, it added a gay song and spoiled the stab by giving it a stock effect instead of having it silent like in the original
I'm aware of that, but I don't remember if Kiwami 2 also had the controller rumble for it
Jesus talk about a downgrade
The original song fits so well, I know it was due to liscencing issues, but frick
pretty sure everyone who played kiwami put the music patch on, if they didnt i feel so sorry
Boy am I glad I didn't fall for the Kiwamis israeli tricks
>friend is new to the series
>having to explain to him how good yet how shit Kiwami 2 is at the same time
It's fricked that I recommend playing both but I really do. I prefer OG 2 but K2 does have some stuff that I like.
i own all the yakuza games but only played the original on PS2 back in the day. looking forward to trying the others some day.
only managed to finish kiwami 1. the rest i dropped pretty soon in.
I played 0 and 7 and dropped both around halfway through, I had enough for a lifetime
The police guy in Y4 can do heat actions from normal combos and i love him for that, i dont think any other character can do that, most if the heat actions are done when grabbing or using a weapon or when the enemy is on the ground.
Playing 0 and loving it, but I hate the cabaret bullshit, mini game and story, is this shit always in the games?
no, there are games without it, and its typically not directly tied to your fighting progress too. 0 is kinda the odd one out there
Thanks, good to know. I just hate strip clubs and the degenerate scum that work there.
I think only 7 doesn't have it as a minigame but they stop tying substories to it in 5. 0 and Kiwami are the only games that have it as the big side mode.
They have the business management game but I really enjoyed it
Kiwami 2* my bad
>I hate the cabaret bullshit, mini game and story
You are objectively wrong
I said I hate it, not you hate it, moron. I despise scummy strip club people and don’t like having to hear stories about it, it has nothing to do with objectivity
>this is the actual state of zoomers trying yakuza because their favorite eceleb israelitetuber mentioned it
All besides 3, 4 and 5
3 REALLY needs the kiwami treatment
Didn't play the PSP games or finish Ishin but I've played everything else
Finished all the mainline games, Ishin Kiwami, and the two Kurohyo games on psp. It was a mixed bag at times not gonna lie. Really hopeful for 8 to be amazing.
I dropped 5 when Ganker told me it was insignificant to the overall story.
What moron told you that? The consequences of what happens in 5 sets up the entirety of 6 and then 6 sets up Kiryu's entire dilemma that he's going through in 7, Gaiden and 8.
I mean it is frustrating that 5 pretends that 4 never happened but you should play it so that it sets up 6. Honestly I'd say playing every entry is more important than ever before.
Yeah, especially since the end of Gaiden made it clear that 8 is going to start calling back to 5 in some way too.
NTA but the only important things that happen in 5 get recapped in 6
Every game that hinges on other ones recap on the previous games. Gaiden recaps 6 and the important parts of 7 too. That shouldn't be an excuse to just drop games entirely, otherwise why play anything but the most recent games?
>That shouldn't be an excuse to just drop games entirely
I didn't say that. I make an exception for 5 because the pacing is complete shit and it's boring. The parts of the plot that actually matter get recapped when important. I'm not forcing myself to finish a game I hate just for some story beats that I'll end up getting spoonfed later
that's fair i suppose, i only say this because i didn't like five either even tho i did finish it.
Silly anon, you play Yakuzas for substories and munchkin mechanics, trying to lvl up to OP levels via imbalanced gameplay mechanics. Story is just a side dish left to enjoy after you beat up Amon.
This guy gets it
Awwww
Playing Y4 currently. Just finished Akiyama's segment and now playing as Saejima. Liking it so far.
Why is kiwami considered bad? I literally entered the series from that one after l asked the Subreddit how to get into the series. Is this just mindless contrarianism?
Kiwami gets the reward for most boss moveset reuse in main story bosses
It's mainly
>grinding majima everywhere isn't fun
>boss healing isn't fun, especially in early game
>music is very divisive
Also when you look at it and K2 after you look at the rest of the series that, because of how low priority the games are, there's a lack of any new or interesting things it added
K2 is better than 1. 1 just has a shit story and Maejima sticking his nose up your ass every single second.
>after l asked the Subreddit how to get into the series
False because they would've told you to play 0 first. Kiwami is a shit retelling of the original game with worse artstyle, worse soundtrack, worse voice acting, worse facial expressions, more reused assets and less environmental detail AND it's both a remake of 1 but also a direct sequel to 0 so you chose wrong twofold
2nd post is on point, after five years I completely forgot what parts were in 0 and what in 1. It all felt like the same game so I started to ask myself after a while, "how come the Florist installed all these cameras back in the 1989?"
BTW, what happened to him?
rgg realized hes just a deus ex machina and deleted all knowledge of him from reality.
Got sent to the shadow realm for being a crutch
Considering that Akiyama got fricked over in 6 and has to go in hiding, I don't know why they couldn't do the same for Hanaya. Just say "hey my operation was infiltrated and destroyed and now i'm on the run."
Every game from 0-6, all spinoff including Judgement and Dead Souls. Never played 7 or Gaiden, have no plans on playing 8 either and probably never will.
> LAD
> Best Graphics
Anon, you're either drunk or trolling. It's a huge downgrade compared to Y6 and Gaiden proves that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzLwKp-YRY
It's just different lighting and contrast.
Nah. LAD looks even worse than Judgement. The texture quality alone is a big downgrade. Here's a comparison between Y6 and Judgement.
Best green?
Yes
I only beat Kiwami. Went back to 0 and got filtered by Mahjong, so I haven't touched the series since.
I played 0 and watched Youtube movies for the rest
>3
>best story
????
I'm behind and haven't played Lost Judgment, Isshin remake or Gaiden yet. Also not played Kurohyo (waiting for 100% translation patches) and Kenzan (for obvious reasons.)
Weird marketing but ok
Except Kenzan and Gaiden and original Ishin and original 1-2. But the rest, yes.
Best classic 3D Yakuza: HGG Lost Paradise
Best netxgen Yakuza: Lost Judgment
Not memeing. It's just that the dev team gains experience from 0 to something with every engine change, so it takes a few iterations to build a few mechanics that work.
>Yakuza 6
>Best music
ENTER
>also Yakuza 4 has the best combat
you mean the easiest?
Yes
I legit can't say which soundtrack is the best, I love all of them apart from the kiwamis
For me it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1r6iuX1bug
>I legit can't say which soundtrack is the best
i can. its 4, easily.
Don't forget Teufel mit Liebe, fantastic boss theme
Yeah I think some forget 7 has been very positively received outside of this board
yes, but i havent finished 7 yet. its really not fun. the only one i could never see myself revisiting. i genuinely feel bad for the people that played 7 first and never played another one.
Have you seen positive reviews on Steam tho.
why would i ever willfully look at those to make an informed decision? if im on the fence about a game, ill just look at the top negative reviews.
and here the negative ones for reference. which one looks more informative?
It applies to everything. Even if it's a good product, most people will leave five stars and comment "OK". A handful of negative reviews will be elaborate on what's wrong but consider that people are more likely to leave negative reviews than positive ones, there are so few of them, it's fair to suggest that most people liked the game.
>it's fair to suggest that most people liked the game.
the hard part is getting them to explain why they liked it. meanwhile, i can name a ton of reasons why i dont like it.
I may guess it's a fun game if they just complete the main story.
i dont like the game and i only plan on completing the main story. why would i play more? if someone liked it, id imagine theyd do a lot more than just the main story.
>You do realise it being more difficult to find detailed positive reviews is gonna apply to the games you do like, right?
the point was, i was asked if i saw all the positive reviews. i did not, because i dont look at ANY positive reviews to decide if i want to play a game. if it looks interesting, ill play it. if im undecided, ill look at negative reviews. y7 is an outlier though, because ill play any yakuza at this point. sunk cost, and all that.
I like RPGs set on Earth instead of some fantasy world where you're like some swordsman or mage going around doing fantasy stuff. Bonus props if they take place in smaller areas instead of being world-spanning adventures because the devs usually put effort into the smaller locations. It's cool being a Japanese high school kid solving a mystery after school or a Yakuza guy running around. I'd have more examples but only Japs make these games.
Ichiban is just done in the head and that's their explanation.
>I'd have more examples but only Japs make these games.
South Park Stick of Truth does this.
I only know of Earthbound, and maybe River City Rampage counts. I love the gimmick of "real life presented as a RPG".
Got any good recs?
Persona series, Alpha Protocol, VtmB if you believe vampires are for fricking rather than staking but that's not me and people seem to like the Shadowrun games but I haven't fricked with them yet. If you're okay with the modern setting without rpg part then adventure games are where that is.
You do realise it being more difficult to find detailed positive reviews is gonna apply to the games you do like, right?
I agree the TFMT isn't worth getting there which is why I never bothered with it but with what's mandatory it's definitely not 6 hours
These calling the arena an 'insane grind' is very funny to me
It's fricking boring. Press X to win for 6 hours straight or more, just for rare materials to lvl up weapons for your team.
And then there's sewers grind guide with Invested Vagabond to lvl up quickly and then there are Millenium Tower dungeons to grind money. Hours and hours and hours of button mashing for nothing in the end.
This is always the case with a overrated trash series like Yakuza.
The fans are all cringy weeb zoomers with shit taste who only like the game because of memes they saw on twitter
The haters are all critical thinkers with great taste who know the games are actually trash.
Should I remind you how Bakamitai got popular? Algorythm high chasers were doing deepfakes with le funni sad guy looking at the ceiling dramatically. They didn't even play vidya at all, set aside Yakuza. In reality it's the actual fans who are living in perpetual almost physical pain because of the trashy bandwagon reddit memes affecting any discussion. Is it worth it? Since muh Dame Da Ne, Yakuza 7 LAD, Lost Judjment, Ishin LAD and Gaiden came out. Three great games and one demake mutilated by this very meme culture influence. Basically the very existence of Ishin Kiwami destroys your point of view with no survivors.
It's even more peculiar since Baka Mitai is only average among Karaoke songs.
swap 6 and 3 and i can pretty much agree with this
>6 in A tier
based
>3 in C tier, below fricking Kiwami 1
cringe as frick, senpai
playing every single entry is the true way forward. If RGG cares about both the OG and Kiwami games, then I should do my best to experience and appreciate them as much as I can and just enjoy the ride with the new releases and their eventual references to past games.
K2 is still shit. Still an above average game, but it's definitely the shittiest entry in this franchise
If Yakuza 3 had better combat it'd be much higher.
filtered by Kurohyo and Denuvo
They are on GOG now. 30€ for the whole serie. Like a dragon is there too. Ishin hasn't made it yet, neither did the man who erased his name.
>Best music
*blocks ur path*
THERE IS A HOLE IN A BUCKET
I'm currently playing 5.
I played everything besides the turn based bullshit.
Still haven't finished LAD, only game I haven't beat yet, mostly because I've been playing judgement more
>amazing track to close out the game
>just don't put it in the overseas release
FRICK YOU SEGA
THE SELFISH DEED, IS NOT FREEDOM
Romantic and Wholesome Kiryu-Haruka Ovulation Nakadashi SEX!!!
Haruka did nothing wrong.
Sorry, I meant to type Haruka did everything wrong
What she did wrong was not discuss this with anyone else at the Orphanage beforehand. would've been at least acceptable if everyone knew what they were getting into.
She is the product of many many mistakes of adults surrounding her. My favorite one would be that beach talk with Kiryu. The one with Kiryu basically telling Haruka someone needs to feed and college the fricking children and that someone is of course her.
yea, 0 is good intro, kiwami is good, kiwami 2 is carried by PS2 version, 3 is the best in the series, 4 is the worst game in the series, 5 is good, 6 is comfy but meh story and 7 has the worst gameplay.
I'm trying to 100% yakuza 0 right now
the point grind to unlock both legends sucks
There are worse grinds. Like getting 100 different weapons.
I did 100% ishin
pretty sure nothing is as moronic as the prestige grind or the seal search, so I'm fine
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Nah when I think of a theme for a thread full of Yakuza anons I think of this
The first of the great saga of substory battle themes that get hilariously underused
Seriously only the judgments and gaiden give them enough plays (though in the judgments it's a substory chase theme)
If there are western games that reused its overworlds and moves as shamelessly as RGG does I legit wanna see them
>substory battle themes that get hilariously underused
D 2 A is just one of the random encounter themes. I can't remember if Kamurocho and Okinawa have separate pools of random encounter tracks or not
Even if that's the case I barely remember hearing it in game so still
>it takes like 500 hours to get through all of it
Frick that
Only played the first 2 PS2 games and then 7 because it took the jarpig pill
>starting with 0
>counting the Kiwamis over the originals
>Y3 as the best story
Nice bait image. After all we all know no story is good unless it has secret CIA twin brothers.
>western copy pasted games: >:(
>japan copy pasted games: :OO
i played 1 of them
i didnt finish it
which one was it? im not trying to change your mind, im just curious.
the 1st one i think?
its been years
> Had to babysit my little bro yesterday
> he's only two
> so I had him in my room while he watched me play Lost Judgment
> I gave him an old controller and he pretended as if he's the one playing
> kept passionately watching as Yagami beated the shit out of goons
Making sure my bro grows up with good taste in vidya, Yagami will be proud.
What would Sawa sensei think?
Why is the Judgement guy so ugly compared to Kiryu or Kasuga
Because his face model is literally in his 50s
He is based on the real actor. You’re just scared of real life
0 through LAD, yes. Working on Ishin right now. Then I'll probably play through the Judgement games before doing Gaiden.
Infinite Wealth comes out the day before my birthday so will probably pick it up.
Yep. Even the PSP ones.
Frick Yakuza 5.
Yes but not kenzan, dead souls or fist of the north star
>Did you play ALL the Yakuza games anon?
No because the psp games were never released here. I also don't want to play the gacha one.
>the gacha one.
You're probably the 1st here who mentioned Online.
https://www.teamk4l.com/project-download
I'll never understand some people's mentality in these threads. You'd never see Souls fans recommending Bluepoint's version, or Team ICO fans recommending the PS4 version of Shadow of the Colossus; why the frick then is it so matter-of-fact to start halfway through the franchise with the Kiwamis?
If you start in release order you'll eventually end up playing 0 and the Kiwamis regardless while if you start with 0/K1/K2 not only do you go from the sixth mainline title made as a celebration and fanservice package of what came before to a game that feels like 0 DLC to a game based off of fricking 6 to the earliest PS3 title, you'll also just straight up skip the original two games and probably never ever go back to them because "lol why would I need to I've already played the superior inferior versions of those stories!". Same with the people ITT asking what games they can skip, I don't understand this mentality of getting into a franchise wanting to rush through it as if getting into Yakuza in December 2023 won't mean it'll be a several years journey regardless. Why the FRICK would you want to skip as many games as possible, what's with this absurd obsession with being "caught up" as if it fricking mattered. Might as well make the most of it and appreciate each game, ESPECIALLY the first two given how wildly different they are in retrospect to everything that came after it and ESPECIALLY given how much shit the Kiwamis change mechanically but also artistically.
you should play bluepoints demon's souls, it's just better
you should also play ps4 version of shadow of the colossus since it runs above 20fps
you should also skip yakuza 1 and 2 in favor of the kiwamis
simple as
(You)
Are the Kiwamis worth playing at all? The last time I replayed the series, I just skipped them and went straight to 6.
k2 has better combat than 6.
RGG weirdly considers an amalgamation of both renditions of the stories canon, in Gaiden they reference Kiryu having been a host which only happens in the original Yakuza 2 but the Bucket List Trailer for 8 shows Yuki and the cabaret club Four Shine which is only a thing in Kiwami 2. They're worth at least a single playthrough, just not as your first contact with their respective stories.
I have played them once and I had a fair amount of fun with K2, it's just been so long I forgot all the little things.
definitely worth playing. you should experience the differences for yourself, plus they're still fun games
I do it more often than not because these newcomers usually aren't willing to emulate.
Because my PS2 is in dialysis (and because 0 precedes the number 1)
>9 100+ hour games
>story still isn't done
>keeps being painfully extended to the point the characters action are now pointless
Story will never end because 7 is a new store, that’s why it’s not called “Yakuza” anymore.
yes i played them all including spinoffs except for dead souls, which i do own a physical copy of, i was just never interested in trying it. 8 is going to be kino for people like me since it will reference all the games.
I don't want to play Denuvo games so I can't play anything past Judgment. I'm not playing Yakuza 7 because turn based is fricking lame.
>dropped 5 mid Haruka dance battles, but luckly the intro of 6 has a 1 hour recap of the end of 5 so it's cool.
>also dropped 7 when you get back to Karumocho fir the first time, didn't liked the new gameplay.
>playing Gaiden now (just got to Osaka) and have both Judgments and Ishin on my backlog
Also
>visited nipponland in 2019 (and then again with a bro in 2020
>pic related is the first scene in the intro of Gaiden
>almost have a nostalgia-induced heart attack
ENTER
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1veZGNEN6KTmn4TNVircGAoaN8JRPL9uV3HY2W88JBF4
>Yakuza Restored
>Yakuza Rewritten
I just played their vanilla English release. How badly did I frick up?
As per that same list the Rewritten mod isn't a thing yet, I don't even know what's it supposed to be. Restored does pic related and came out a year and a half ago. The most important things are
>Japanese voices over the awful English dub
>changes Fuma to Kazama
>changes Kage to Florist
The same dude is making Yakuza 2 Restored right now which will probably eclipse whatever Yakuza Rewritten is
Got tired of it all after Kiwami 2 it's just so repetitive and samey, nothing ever changes in these games why should I play another
I haven't gotten to most of them yet, what's better for 'kuza, PS5 or XBSX?
Probably PS5, it's was a Sony franchise from the beginning
For the past 5 years I have played 1 Yakuza game each January. 0 Is up next. My favourites are 2 and 5.
Is it normal I can barely remember the plot of 4 and to a lesser degree 5?
Understandable, they're both behemoth of a game plus they constantly throw names of characters your way that you're supposed to remember in-between 15 straight hours of substories and changing playable character. I mean hell if I say the name Wataru Kurahashi in the context of Yakuza 2, do you remember right now who I'm talking about? Exactly.
I have so far, and I dislike 7 the most because of the boring JRPG combat. Leave it to actual JRPGs to make that kind of shit.
I just keep replaying Y0 don't need any of the sequels
KAKATTE KOI ORA!
I marathoned all the Mainline Kiryu games back to back to back a few years back. I loved them but I'll be replaying them with breaks in between.
Just play the first one Yakuza 0
Yakuza 4 is worse than Yakuza 3 and I am not understand how you can hate 3 and love 4. Literally trying to beat 4 for like half a year now.
because in yakuza 4 no one blocks and you can spam the parry button freely. people who dont like 3 literally got filtered by the combat
I started with 0 and played all of them including Black Panther kino and blindly navigating through Kenzan's moonrunes with a guide.
Where you start doesn't matter. If you dropped the series midway through it just means you didn't like it. Some people cope out by saying games burn you out. My melatonin infused brother, it's literally a leisure activity how can you get burnt out it.
>Some people cope out by saying games burn you out
i was with you until here. you didnt marathon the games, and if you did, you dont remember shit about them. you have to take breaks just so your brain can process everything. not even between games, but in the middle of them. otherwise it just turns into "WORDSWORDSWORDS ok now i have to punch this guy for some reason".
>you didnt marathon the games, and if you did, you dont remember shit about them
Yes to both.
>otherwise it just turns into "WORDSWORDSWORDS ok now i have to punch this guy for some reason".
absolutely not. They don't stick in my head after a few months, but it's pretty clear as I'm playing.
Nope. I played 0 until I burned myself out on real estate and cabaret
this. i finished the main story but i found out side storys and real estate/cabernet are canon and you were supposed to do them all alone the way.
I finished cabernet but burned out on the real estate and kiryu's side missions. Theres too much content in 0 and the game simple doesn't respect the player's time.
At least you finished the story. I was trying to push through the side stuff because I didn't know if the game would continue after the story
>delay playing ishin kiwami cause everyone says it sucks
>it's the best one since 0 and a true yakzua game unlike the nu-reddit dogshit theyve been pumping out lately
yeah the community is a bunch of fricking reddit troony morons with 0 taste, that's why the series is so fricking dire now cause that's who RGG listens to now
I tried. I played 1, 2, 3 and then 4. I played like a dragon. They were mediocre at best (Like a dragon started out really good then it shit the bed and ended up almost identical to the rest).
I finished the substories for all of them except 0 and 3
0 because I could never finish Showdown in Majahara and the phone club side quest is too much random rng to get the right sub story
3 because frick the minigames you need to be borderline perfect to activate the substory. And it's way too bloated. No, I will not do 118 substories and learn to play a golf simulation, I liked the one in Kiwami 2 which was way more arcadey (I also played 1 and 2 on the PS2 but this was ages ago and I never met Jo Amon)
another secondary filtered by 3
>wahhh it's too hard
>wahhh it requires you to be perfect
>wahhh i just want to play a visual novel
I finished 90 of the substories and really like the combat once you learn the moves from Komaki which makes it oddly more satisfying to overcome the constant blocking enemies with ease.
I just heavily dislike the minigames.
And the chase sequences are broken, Kiryu just starts a light jogg in the middle of them?
At least in the main story I could switch to easy for them, in the side quests this option doesn't exist so I am stuck in unfinishable garbage chase sequences.
no you just have to be literally perfect it's not "unfinishable"
Even if it is broken I played 'em and it's fine, tuna did not take me many tries. It more tries your patience a bit. I only really got annoyed at fishing in 5 where it felt even more time consuming
I legit really liked golf, bit tough but very much still possible
The combat I think is not very good... at the beginning where you feel way too weak. When you get the komaki moves it feels way more fair
My strat for chases is to let go of the run button for sharp turns then immediately start running again, works pretty well
Fishing in 3's remaster is literally broken.
But substory completion makes for a poor reason to drop these games as a whole.
ive played both the original on ps3 and the remaster on steam. just be better, the challenge is the most fun. it's not impossible
Anon, I've done it twice with the remaster and love Y3. Fishing specifically is understandably frustrating though, and I wouldn't blame anyone for getting filtered by that 1 thing.
>1.7% of Steam players defeated Mine but didn't "complete the game"
Nani the frick
probably have to finish the end credits, I imagine they just closed the game as soon as they started to roll
>50% completion
Man that's impressive. Usually it's around 10-20%.
>Fishing in 3's remaster is literally broken.
Only on PC. It's fine on console. PC has an issue where the line can instantly snap on a tuna grabbing the line and then even if you do get it on the line it's like twice as hard to reel it in. On console it has no issues with either.
Fishing in 3 and 4 are fine. Y3 in particular is challenging, sure, but once you get into the zone, it's super fast to clear each attempt. Y5 on the other hand may be easy, but it is an immense time waster by comparison. When I first tried it, I legit thought it was impossible on 60FPS, PC or with KB+M because I couldn't reel the fish in faster than it will retreat. All the guides claiming "it's easy, just hold down both reel in buttons and occasionally tap the release button" are full of shit too. Doesn't work against high tier fish like the marlin and tuna. Eventually I had to settle with a basic approach that involves reeling in until the red meter, letting go until it drops back down, then rinse and fricking repeat. What an agonizingly slow experience. I'd happily take Y3's fishing over Y5's without hesitation.
I played the first two on PS2 back in the day & then forgot the series existed.
No, I only played Yakuza 1 and Yakuza 2.
Nah, I've only played Zero and Kiwami. I have Kiwami 2, but I haven't even touched it yet.
Still grinding 0's business
I got REKT by the five stars (wealthy cabaret clients are picky b***hes)
I get PISSED by the five billionaires (YOU HAVE TO WALK ACROSS THE MAP TO BEAR UP SOME "strong" WIMPS)
besides Leisure King who had the easy Karoke gamble
I fricking dropped the series after this (190IQ!!!!!) Gay NERD
Frick SEGA
Frick racing
Frick the 80s
Frick this game
RAGE QUIT FOREVER
wut, an afk minigame was too spicy for you or what
>you have to do this gayass quest to unlock LEGEND DRAGON OF DOJIMA STYLE
No thanks please just shit in my mouth instead
You are not even supposed to know that, wikishitter. You probably don't even see the issue here, endorphine-stirfry-for-brains.
>tfw why cant kiryu get a radar for bad guys like majima
>*click clack click click clack
>ah thanks wiki!
>wow what terrible game design!
It's definitely the disco minigame. Losing means more afk
Is disco fps broken too or I'm just bad?
Disco works fine on all platforms. Just don't use Fever, it's a noob trap.
Oh, well that's up to you. Gaiden has stuff from Judgment in it but it's side content, not main story. We don't know if we'll see anything from Judgment or Lost Judgment in 8 so the Judgment series is mainly for fun but ideally JE after 6 and LJ after 7 but before Gaiden since one or two things from side content in 6 crop up in both JE and LJ.
Gotcha, thanks aniki
no I stopped after 0
I'm just glad they fixed skin walker face of y6 Kiryu in Gaiden.
i burnt out by the time judgement came out. there was a new one every other year and thats way too much
>0
Cool setting, One of the better stories. Pacing is kinda fricked due to the constant switch around between Kiryu and Majima though. Side content is fun but a b***h to complete
>Y1(Kiwami
First game and it shows. SEGA should have done more with the remake. Majima Everywhere is extra content that actually makes the game worse.
>Yakuza 2/Kiwami 2
Ryuji is still the best antagonist the series ever had. Kiwami 2 has the best minigame collection in the series and some very nice sub stories. Rest is kinda okay - Story has too many dumbfrick twists.
>3
Story is actually pretty good. Combat is super ass. Somehow i fell in love with the Golf in this game. The combat might make it the worst experience of all but its still a good game.
>4
Akiyama is kino. The rest is only kinda alright. Story is entertaining but dumb. Also very short despite 4 protags.
>5
Long as frick. Great side content. Lots of content in general and its mostly fun - basically everything except Haruka- Initial D minigame really needs to return at some point. Shittiest and most stupid final in the entire series.
>6
Felt like 3 reloaded - The combat was less ass but it being a young Dragon Engine game still shows. Baby Iwami would be the shittiest boss if 5 didn't exist. Everything about the baby is annoying and the game makes you hate Haruka even more than you already do. Rest is fun though.
>Gaiden
Actually really good. Made 6 feel unfinished with it basically being the epilogue 6 needed. Minigames have insanely high value considering its a side game technically. Best arena in the entire series.
>7LAD
Somehow the transformation from brawl to rpg actually worked. Also has top tier side content and the main story itself is one of the best as well - still has dumb Yakuza moments but it gets right what it needs to get right. Ichiban definitely has potential as Kiryus successor and 8 has the chance to prove it. Balancing was kinda off halfway into the game though - And grinding sucks.
>Somehow i fell in love with the Golf in this game.
based, it's seriously underrated and I kinda wish it was brought back proper
I want to finish 0 but for some reason steam doesn't support my pro controller and disconnects it every 30 seconds. I do really like it but the game is almost unplayable on keyboard
I'm going against my better judgement and starting Yakuza 3 which I will attempt to 100%
Is there anything I can miss during the main story or am I good to just go for completion in premium adventure
Sure they fixed that with the remaster. You should be able to do everything on premium adventure.
You can miss Rikiya's substories, the Wooden Driver, Pronto's morning menu, and Akimoto's substory. Otherwise no, nothing is missable, and in 3R you can do them all in PA. In the original I believe the Rikiya stuff wasn't available in PA.
Played 0 and 1, but couldn't stand the little b***h so I stopped there.
Is this when Yakuza first jumped the shark?
The over the top set pieces are half the fun, and they compliment Kiryu's juggernaut feats/endurance as well.
My point is that during most of the franchise the over the top setpieces are still "realistic" things like fighting people on top of skyscrapers or shooting at cars/helicopters with pistols/RPGs. During that section and that section alone Yakuza 2 does a 180 where you're inside a golden recreation of an Azuchi-Momoyama period castle fighting samurais and ninjas, complete with a vintage gatling gun and punching two tigers to exhaustion. It's the second game in the franchise. It comes out of fricking nowhere.
>fighting hundreds of guys with multiple skilled opponents at the end
>while bleeding out
>doing it again and again for multiple days
>tanking multiple pistol shots in a row
>"realistic"
Without even going into plot contrivances like never killing, Kiryu's very existence is about stretching what's technically possible far beyond blurriness. If there's a real life guy that can match half his feats, I'd be shocked.
>plot contrivances like never killing
Never happened
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that fact a direct quote from RGG?
As far as I know, RGG has never talked about it and whenever people online say so the direct quote or interview can never ever be found. It's most likely something made up by the fandom accepted by social osmosis. In any case the correct quote if there ever was one would be that Kiryu never *murders*, but he does kill. Intent is what matters, he'll never go out of his way to take a life but if it just so happens to... well, happen, then it's not like you can do much about it. I mean you think all the people he clearly canonically shot in the highways of 1 and 0 or the Jingweon in the trucks in 2 or the passengers in the helicopter at the end of 6 are alive?
That has been my working understanding honestly. I just chalked it up to whoever huffing a lot of fumes that day, same for the virgin quote.
The whole never killing thing is something I just rationalize as not applying to gameplay sections. If you take it in the context of only cutscenes then yeah he's never actually killed, and a bunch of the games involve him pushed to make that decision.
Unless you count that one guy from yakuza 1 but I just chalk that up to them not knowing entirely what they wanted to explore with Kiryu's character.
morons in-universe mixing the "Dragon of Dojima" fictional legend with reality. Tell that to pic related.
Kiryu didn't kill him though. The waiter with the gun did.
just one more instance of Akiyama being the true villain of the series
It's just some classic PS2 era goofiness and doesn't really bug me cause it doesn't impact the story at all. You climb to the top of a castle, confront Sengoku and Ryuji kills him, the extra set dressing doesn't affect the plot.
>you're inside a golden recreation of an Azuchi-Momoyama period castle fighting samurais and ninjas, complete with a vintage gatling gun and punching two tigers to exhaustion.
Yeah, it's fricking awesome.
yes except for 7, which I will start soon
Have played 6, 0, and KW1. Just got to chapter 4 of K2 and am going to go from there probably replay 6 as well. What’s the order for Judgment, Lost Judgment, and Gaiden?
After everything else.
Technically it takes place after 6 but it also takes place in the middle and near the end of 7 so events from 7 get spoilered. So you definitely wanna play 7 before getting into Gaiden.
Judgment is after 6 but contradicts 7.
Lost Judgment is a direct sequel to 7 and spoils its ending.
Gaiden is immediately after the ending of 6, during 7, and ends immediately after 7 ends. It also spoils almost everything from 7.
So go straight to 7 and play the others after?
7 and Gaiden both rely on a lot of stuff 3-5 set up. If you don't care about spoilers and worse payoffs with people you don't know, sure?
No I mean after I play through 3-5, sorry for the confusion probably should have specified.
3 is still easier to complete than most other Yakuza games.
I feel bad for anyone insane enough to attempt a complete run of 5. Or even worse - Fricking Ishin.
no because I have actual non-meme OCD and these games are a nightmare for me
My wiener can cure your mental illnesses
So do I and Gaiden is the only one I've felt the urge to complete it.
No, which one should I play first?
Yakuza Restored. Have fun anon.
Disgusting homosexual
You sound mad
Played 1-7 in release order and the two Judgments, gonna play Gaiden next, but haven't touched any of the spinoffs
switch 7 with 6 and I'll suck you off behind a supermarket
Reminder that the Black Panther games aren't canon.
Two years ago I played them all up to the beginning of 5 and dropped. I don't know why I never came back but maybe some day.
no, i'm slow as shit at playing these even though i enjoy them a lot. just started 4 a couple of days ago.
Kaoru bros we can't stop winning
>has to be in her 50''s now
>still looks 20
she looks older in 3 than she does in 8
i get re-using models is efficient but come on sega
25 in Y2, 42 in Y8
When MILF Haruka shows up and she's still using her yakuza 5 design i'm gonna blow up a building
They only showed her butt in gaiden, I'm sorry looks the same as y6.
>They only showed her butt in gaiden, I'm sorry looks the same as y6.
FOR FRICK'S SAKE
what's the point in redesigning her every game to demonstrate her aging if you're just gonna stop doing that when she comes into adulthood and becomes a mother
She could use shorter hair at least, don't they have a ton of those from all the makoto clones
I mean the game's on PC, surely someone can look into the files to find her model? Unless they didn't leave it in given she only appears in a cutscene
japanese women don't age at all until 60 when they turn into little grandmas so it's fine
Explain Yuki then
So this is from an 8 trailer and not Gaiden, right? I still haven't gotten around to it.
>EN sub on JP Trailer
ni-
>CANCER
>aren't I the faithful woman
FRICK
I never stopped believing
Haven't played gaiden yet. Dropped Kiwami 2. Played everything else.
Trying to see if it's worth upgrading my PC or just being a lazy shit and buying a PS5 for infinite wealth
Gaiden has the IW demo you coud use for testing your set up
OG1, OG2, 3R, 4R, 5R, 0, 6, LaD and now I'm onto Judgment. Its not blowing me away so far but I'm already a little fatigued on the formula. I finished 6 in January and waited until November for 7, so I probably should have waited longer with Judgment but I though its a different take on their games with proper combat opposed to 7's turn based.
Where the FRICK are the Y8 spoilers
Yakuza 0 is my favorite game all around
Yakuza 2 is my favorite story
Yakuza 7 has my favorite cast and my favorite moment.
7 honestly felt like a spin-off more than anything though and if it weren't for the story important moment between the Tojo and Omi, I'd cope by saying it is.
The only one I haven't played is 6.
7 is a soft reboot, that's why you feel that way.
I started with 4, played up from there and played the remakes when they came out, I tried so hard to play 3, but the blocking, oh my god it was infuriating., why have a combo string when you will NEVER land the final blow of it.
they can't block their back, just sayin
is man who erased his past any good? it looks like a filler game to me, would rather just wait for infinite wealth.
Yes, it’s a bit on the short side but it has one of the best final boss fights
thnx for the feedback but u didn't convince me...
dat Kiryu on rocket boots tho
>Kiwami 2 changes Kiryu sleeping on Haruka's lap
What did RGG mean by this
They probably just couldn't make that animation work in the dragon engine. Characters are a lot less physical with eachother in DE cutscenes.
I just rewatched the scene and the angle Kiryu is laying on looks really weird and makes no sense so it's good that RGG changed it to a more natural position.
Kiryu is such a gentleman that he knew a massive green yakuza in the future wants Haruka to himself instead
>what's that, a father showing a moment of vulnerability? eww he's literally touching her bare legs I can't even YOU SICK FRICK
Probably something along those lines
>can't find a single thing to disagree with
Are you me?
I'm your korean double
haven't played dead souls
So you either start with Kiwami 1 or 0, right?
PS2 1 or 0
Actually you can start with 7 and decide if you want to work your way back from 0 to 6 if you like the series
This is trolling
I was going to mention 7 in my post but I had the feel I was going to get yelled at for doing that. Also it's supposed to be so different from other entries that you could like it a lot but not the other ones, right?
>totally different MC
>very different storytelling
>literally a turn-based RPG instead of a brawler
any of 0-6 or K1/K2 would make a much better entry point
Should I play 4 or Kurohyo?
both
THE SELFISH DEEED
So the guy who tried to push the Nishitani III sexually abused Shishido headcanon was actually a troony editing for the yakuza wiki all along
shocker, I tell ya
Figures, I saw that on the wiki with no source and chalked it up to more head canon shit like the gay Mine claims.
I mean I can kinda see it with the translation we got but also I kinda can't considering Shishido's actions. It's easier to chalk up to "that one grunt was just talking shit"
Sayonara Silent Night is so fricking good, I just wish Gaiden included another new karaoke track or something.
GAIDEN DUB IS OUT BROS
is there NG+ in the patch
if not I don't care
https://twitter.com/CanadianZar/status/1735508306091810990
YOOOONG OUT
He just doesn't fricking have it
He sounds like shitty 90's anime dub
holy frick within the literal first second it's a complete wash
frick, he doesn't even get close to Kuroda's performance. The sobbing sounds fake as frick when compared to his lack of emotions when speaking, which is made worse by the fact that you can actually hear him trying to sound like he's suffering, but only by the end of the cutscene
overall, not a bad performance, just bland, which is sad, I really wanted to hear his natural voice with that shitty intonation from the STEP UP incident
>https://twitter.com/CanadianZar/status/1735508306091810990
WHY DOES HANAWA ENGDUB FIT KIRYU SO MUCH?!?!??!
I didn't like this scene in general. Kiryu would never blubber like a baby. He's screamed the name of his dead friends in the past and shed some manly tears, but this sobbing over the tablet is just unseemly, it's too over the top. And I hated how his homosexual handler just stands over this shoulder, imposing on what should be a private scene.
They should not have made it
Kiryu is beyond just lonely or lonely by choice, he has a disability called growing up as an unloved orphan. It's a good thing you don't understand what it actually means.
>kiryu finally breaking down and letting everything out after years of being separated from his family is somehow inappropriate
nah man it's a fantastic emotional climax after years of buildup and it's kuroda's best performance as kiryu
this is the shit we should've gotten in 6 but didn't for some reason
>this is the shit we should've gotten in 6
I kinda agree with that anon on this basis here. If he didn't bawled his eyes over seeing Haruka in the hospital, then unleashing a torrent of tears here, snots and all, is a tad excessive. It's just such a huge contrast to what we're used to. I disagree with the justification that his current circumstance warrants such a reaction when the man has been through so much shit that any one of them would have easily elicit similar emotions. But aside from Rikiya, they never did to this degree. It's borderline character assassination.
Every single extreme mental state comes from experiences snowballing over time. The man has been through so much shit that any one of them would have easily elicit similar emotions? Are you literally autistic or just that coddled by cushy life?
>Are you literally autistic or just that coddled by cushy life?
Don't know how you're interpreting my words to have apparently struck a nerve, but all I'm saying is that he's been through so many lows, game after game, yet has largely took it on the chin. I can accept the subject matter of his kids being more impactful or, as you said, the accumulation of everything that has happened to him finally reached its tipping point, but it still bothers the frick out of me to see him cry this much.
His crying is fine it's just how he paced it that's sort of mixed, but his voice simply doesn't work. No matter how he tries to spin it it just doesn't fit Kiryu. It's too young, it's too high pitched, it sounds like generic anime acting, and it immediately takes you out of any scene with him in it.
Did they change Daigo's VA or just make him do a new performance? Because 7's was pretty much as good as you're gonna get for the EN choice I thought. The one in Gaiden is way too deep.
the twitter posts claims that a new actor did dub daigo in gaiden
I don't see why they'd recast him. Majima if anyone needed a recast because the guy they got seemed super unsure of the character.
I don't know if I should replay 5 since I got to the last chapter but ended up losing my save or skipping it because I really don't like that game. It feels like a side game
If 5 feels like a side game to you I have no idea what would classify as a main game.
It's mostly the story for 5 and how the game drags pretty bad
I played 0 and it had one of the worst combat systems I've ever played so I didn't have any interest in trying the rest out.
Which part did you dislike?
KINO
i dunno if this is just a result of trying to translate songs but holy shit his deliveries are horrendous here
>no judgement
>no Kamurocho Lullaby
>He does the Ichiban low to high pitch YEAH at the end instead of Kiryu's cool but cheesy low "OH YEAHHHHHHH"
soulless
Like a Butterfly's English interjections not being properly metered bugs me more than anything in Yakuza's karaoke dubs. Part of that is on the localizer, but blame also falls on Yong for the lyrics that would've been metered had he performed it properly.
I'm currently playing Y6 and it's honestly quite bad. If the first half of Y3 was a huge slogfest, then this one is the other way around, it's too floaty.
I don't remember YK2 being this bad, meaning they must have improved alot with their Dragon Engine for that game.
Y4 was my favorite. that game was the perfect Yakuza game.
>Y4 was my favorite. that game was the perfect Yakuza game.
based
Played 0, 1, 2
YAKUZA ANONS
I just beat 4 and am going to 5. It is broken into chapters like 4 so I'm assuming I'll be playing different characters again. I don't know how to look this up without spoilers so I'll just ask here. Do I need to prep all the characters for end game again like Yakuza 4? Defensive gear, skills, etc. That shit was a bit annoying last second as I wasn't expecting it in 4 although I loved the story and characters of 4 regardless. It did add a bit of tedium to prep for the final fight at the end. So I figured if I knew ahead of time I could make small preparations as I play to cut down on the ending tedium.
depends on the difficulty, but you should be fine if you're doing substories. Worst case, stock up on Staminan and call it a day. These games are piss easy if you use recovery items.
If you mean tanimura's anti-bullet stun armor there won't be moments like that
but you'd definitely want to give your civvie protag a good infinite dura weapon though his side stuff rewards, or the golden gun, but it's more like "spending time to save time" than a requirement
Nah the game is too fricking easy. Colosseum is the only one that came close to being difficult because it's unbalanced as frick.
But for main story, you just breeze through everything. Kiryu and Saejima is just straight up broken, while Akiyama and Shinada final stretch is just simple boss fight.
You will only need to prep for Amon, and that's is only for Kiryu's Amon, because he's fricking unfair and tedious. The other 3 Amons is a joke, especially for Saejima.
>and that's is only for Kiryu's Amon, because he's fricking unfair and tedious
bro just tiger drop
There's nothing like 4's ending. At best just give Akiyama some healing items.
Are you a 100% completion gay? If so, read the following:
DO NOT UNLOCK ANY LOCKERS WHILE PLAYING AS HARUKA (picking them up as her is fine though)
DO NOT DISCARD SHINADA'S STURDY WEAPONS
God no, I'm just playing maybe 20-40% side stories and noodling around an hour or so with most minigames. I'm mainly in them for the story with a might about of side shit.
Does the new English dub patch for Gaiden have any bugfixes included? If not I'm not going to waste my time downloading 6 GBs of worthless bloat.
https://twitter.com/ShellTurbo/status/1735508359539753101
Yong haters, APOLOGIZE
No https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX0CXVsfotU
no lip lyncing like LAD hurts it so much
Was that for the full cutscenes?
LAD and LW both have proper lip dub syncing for all voiced acted scenes if thats what you're asking. Gaiden having the same scene from LAD but not properly synced up and with 2 dub actors changed really sours it.
oh I only recall them having lip dub syncing for stuff outside the full cutscenes, weird.
it’s not something that would be noticed until it’s gone.
For example, in LAD’s dub of the omi alliance cutscene, saejima straight up has a completely different expression from the sub when he says “finally, there’s the dragon of dojima”.
This really proves why the recast is bad. One of the tweet replies explains it well. Yong sounds like he's trying too hard to come across as tough, while Darryl's voice naturally feels tough.
Yes, in the span of 12 years.
It's my favorite series, but I don't get how some frickers can play all of them in 2 yers, Of course you will get burned out.
I can look up my ps medals to be sure but I think it was two months for me, I didn't play anything else in between.
>working on judgement post-game stuff
>still have to do all of the shogi and virtua fighter stuff
>start thinking about how i'll have to do all of the main story tailing missions again as well for legend new game+
>still have to do all of the shogi
i wish i could like shogi like mahjong but they made the game as incomprehensible as possible for gaijin
Just make a cup of soup for the tailing missions and kick back, I swear you gays are just too hyperactive for these slow burn games
Legend mode is such a drag. 10% mandatory combat encounters and 90% running between objectives, skipping cutscenes, being forced to do tutorials again, and other shit like minigames which are introduced during the main story and you’re forced to do to continue.
>being forced to do tutorials agai-
hol the fuk up, I remember skipping tutorials in Judgment, or is it just LJ
>shogi
there's a cheat item for shogi, I think this is the first game to do that. it does take a while to calculate moves however, so watch something on your second monitor or something
>virtua fighter
in VF2 just play jeffrey and spam L2. you'll ring out every enemy in like 10 seconds. in VF5 pick brad and spam R1, it's kind of the same deal.
no idea how to cheese fighting vipers though, I kinda just bashed my head into it over and over as Bahn
>in VF5 pick brad and spam R1
Actually it’s Vanessa and back, kick, kick
I'll try that next time, thanks anon
You're better off using Spear Shogi AI in Shogidokoro and putting it against the AI or downloading a shogi app and making it play against itself. The cheat item literally takes like 5+ minutes to thing up moves like Shogidokoro is like 1 minute usually.
the one where Kiryu was a FRICKING PUSSY
Still on 0. It's not fun to play more than a little at a time.
Real Yakuza fans remember the original Bakamitai
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Why was he so confident?
this dude looks like daigo and arakawa's son, stop reusing assets RGG
every game including the psp ones except 6 which i plan to save for when I am bored since even at a glance you can tell its really rough around the edges and didn't end up picking it up till recently.0, 5 and 7 and Gaiden are the best ones.
Don't understand why they are wasting resources on English dubs, just nix it, nobody likes it and a majority of the games don't have it.
>Don't understand why they are wasting resources on English dubs
Because it's extra incentive to get people in the door. 8's demo even defaults to the English dub. Just because we're not gonna touch them outside of the novelty on a NG+ run doesn't mean the average person isn't going to avoid the series entirely unless it's got English audio.
We don't need people in the door. Stop with the English dub, now. Anyone who won't consider a piece of media because it's not dubbed in their language needs to find a different hobby. Imagine pulling this shit with foreign films by the way, it wouldn't fricking fly. "Oh I'm not gonna watch Parasite because it's in Korean and not English dub". Please.
>We don't need people in the door.
Sega wants them in the door. This is how they get them in the door.
selling through lazy streamers is the new marketing meta, stop living under my rock
>Ultimate battle 1
>Oda cant be knocked down in heat mode
I remember why i cheated now
Dude you have a gain health for heat thing with both sticks which is busted
>Shishido: Damn you Kiryu, why do you want to destroy the yakuza life, it's the dream we're all chasing
>Kiryu: Dude, just be a regular civilian, it's better practically, financially, and its unironically harder
>Shishido: KIRYUUUUU IF ONLY YOU DIDN'T RUIN EVERYTHING AAAAARGH
Civibros...Maybe being a wageslave...is based?
What would he even do with a fricked up face like his and no education? Yeah, wage slaving. More like literal slavery on the docks until either his back or his liver gives up.
I've finished 0-2 a few years ago, I might buy 3-6 this winter sale to see if I can finish them before 8 releases. I've played 7 but I haven't finished it yet, IIRC I was at or near the final chapter grinding the arena or sewer area, so I'll get back to it before going to 8.
I only have Dead Souls and the Kurohyo games left to play.
I might get Dead Souls over with soon since I snagged a used triple.
Just remember to use this accessory as soon as you get access to it. It completely stops you from having to rely on the janky Head Tracking that locks you in place and actually makes your ammo more efficient at the same time for absolutely no downside. You're not aiming manually anyway outside of quickly dragging it down/up from the HT activating on very specific special zombies. Akiyama is best to use in postgame/endgame when you can switch to him, everyone else is objectively worse due to not having access to Elise. You also need to go to Gary Buster Holmes' training ground if you want your partner AI not to be braindead.
If you're gonna 100% it be aware that the PAL version is missing DLC so it makes early game way more annoying (Free DLC gave you some crafting mats allowing you to get the Handcannon a couple hours earlier), and Ryuji's hostess content is agony since you have to run all the way back to the entrance of the QZ for an e-mail then return the whole way back again to the club.
Kino is back on the menu
holy frick, this might just be the best mod for Judgment right now
>retroactively adds animations and moves from LJ into JE
>also changed a few properties of the game to fit LJ and it's juggles
>QOL features
I might make a New Game save just to experience the game with this revamped combat
Oh nice this dude even did a mod replacing Ultimate Essence with Ultimate Slap from Y2.
interesting
Played Yaluza 0-2 with the latter being Kiwami. Some dozen hours into 3 which I put on hold because I got tired of the formula. They're fine games, but 0 definitely gripped me narratively a lot more than the others.
If a game like this doesn't have a hook that makes you want to push past the boring or less notable bits, then it is a design failure.
You should go back and play 0 and see how abysmal the pacing is, 0gay. It takes an eternity to get going and it sure as hell doesn't help when you swap to majima and essentially start over again.
Majima was a slowdown, but it sure as hell had a good initial hook. Kiryu's first act was slow enough to make his leaving the Yakuza such a huge spectacle. You can b***h and moan about it, but 0 was fantastic at dangling cliffhangers in front of you.
You fricking losers can't keep getting away with making fun of my voice acting. You basement dwelling losers couldn't even hope to do better, you're pathetic. All you can do is belittle others without even trying to appreciate the actual time and work that they put into their roles. I've put over 2000 hours of work into my career and it shows. I got the roll, they even told me they liked my performance more than the previous Kiyruu. I earned the roll and all of you know it.
I'm grinding out 7, I will hit 99 soon. Then, I will have to grind out two jobs for my main party to 99. I don't know how long it will take, since I only have one job XP item for each job.
I've only a few Part Time Hero quests left. I need to do the cabaret, kill a bunch of people in Kamuro, and I think get one more dealer weapon. All substories are complete.
Then, I intend to beat ass in the finale, and do TFMT soon after that.
>I don't know how long it will take
Each job with one equip is roughly 2 or 3 hours, 4 if you're not paying attention.
Played through 0, played through Kiwami, Kiwami 2 is on hold because I've gotten lazy halfway, 3-6 is in my wishlist, played through Y7 2 months ago
>finished 0
>got filtered by Kiwami
>Kiwami 2 is on the backlog but i never touched it
Why is the pacing so slow in these games? That prequel chapter where Kiryu wants to buy a ring for his friend and it takes 2 fricking hours with most if it just being pointless dialogue makes me give up on the game before i even install it again.
The ring stuff is a new scene for Kiwami specifically. Also because you're playing the first game just with some new cutscenes and added content. 0 was their 9th or 11th depending if you count BPs.
Moose, if you think 0gays deserve human rights too you need not to apply
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(You) have been hired by RGG and given the resources and the authority to make a new game in the series. You also have total freedom with its status, so if you want to make a spinoff or a game that departs from the current canon at a certain point, you can.
>what is the topic of the game?
>where in Japan will it occur?
>what time period will it take place in?
>who will you play as? What are their traits and styles?
>what will the story be about?
>will it be part of the main series, a spinoff, or an alternate timeline?
>if the latter, what in the current canon is the departure point?
>what other characters will make an appearance?
>what will the bosses be like?
>what gimmicks and minigames would you add for variety?
>what is the topic of the game?
Since they typically base a game around some sort of societal issue, focusing on karoshi would be an interesting take.
>where in Japan will it occur?
I'd love to see stuff taking place in a smaller town like Ueda.
>what time period will it take place in?
Modern day.
>who will you play as? What are their traits and styles?
New character. Untrained. Gets his ass beat at the start, but as you play the game he develops his own style through the help of people in his hometown who are his customers. I'd want him to be dejected and putting on a happy mask for his customers while trying to keep himself together emotionally.
>what will the story be about?
Guy owns a ramen shop with one employee. Work starts at 6am and ends at 10pm. His credit is shot so he's been taking out loans under the table to keep his store afloat, and he's near the end of paying the last one off when he finds out the money he's been paying off hasn't been reaching the people he loaned from.
We spend the first act of the game seeing how much of a zombie he is as a person when not at work, how his only friends are night owls who do nothing but eat, drink, and work, we see one of them kill himself from overworking and how the only hope MC has is paying off the loans so his store can stay afloat long enough for him to afford another employee. Second act would be hunting down the loan sharks to get answers, and last act would be dealing with a big firm that has been doing the underhanded loans then threatening people forcing them to overwork to pay it off.
Game ends with the MC able to work reasonable hours and his friends getting new hours due to the recent corruption bust of the firm shedding light on the karoshi stuff.
>will it be part of the main series, a spinoff, or an alternate timeline?
Spinoff.
>what other characters will make an appearance?
None.
>what will the bosses be like?
Lower end loansharks, then personal bodyguards, then a hired mercenary.
I'm playing Judgment right now and I'm really enjoying it aside from from those parts where you're stuck in a broom closet against 3-5 mooks + a boss. And those moments happen surpisingly frequently.
Also, is Flux Fissure bugged or something? After buying the upgrade for easier timing I can't pull it off at all, the square always goes all the way no matter if I time it right or even let go early on purpose.
>Also, is Flux Fissure bugged or something?
No, you're probably just doing it wrong. You hold square and then when it connects you wait until it hits the marker before letting go.
I know how to do it, and that's how I did it before, but now it just seems to not even matter when I let go of the button. It does a little "explosion" when you do it properly, right? So I go into fights specifically to try it out and can't even get one off properly.
Playing on PC with unlocked framerate, if that matters.
>Playing on PC with unlocked framerate, if that matters.
Yes, it does. You shouldn't be playing above 60 in any of these games, period. Even then 60 introduces issues. Give 60 a try and if that doesn't work then go to 30. JE was made to be played at 30, and while the remaster does pop the framerate up to 60 that causes issues with at least drones that I know of.
If that doesn't fix it you can try hitting earlier or later, but it should work 100% of the time if you let go when the square meets the bigger square.
>And there’s no remaster of 1 & 2
There are, just not localized.
>Why is it not?
Because it's a sequel to 0 before it's a remake of 1. It adds a plethora of call backs and substories that are either direct sequels to 0 or rely on knowledge of 0 or its time period, reworks Majima completely with Majima Everywhere interjecting in the main story, most boss movesets are from previous games rather than 1, it adds in new cutscenes to expand on Nishiki as a character because he was barely a character in 1, it has the Kiwami system, it has the style system which is for spinoffs and didn't exist in 1, it relegates Kiryu's iconic DoD style to a Majima Everywhere unlock fest rather than being his only style, it adds the ring cutscene to pad out the start and explain exactly how Kiryu got the ring and give Shinji more than two seconds in the game, it extends Haruka with the dog for some reason, it follows 0's Amon story rather than 1's, and adds in stuff that specifically exists to explain stuff that doesn't make sense for someone coming from 0 like the Nikkyo Consortium stuff.
A lot of the stuff in K1 was not there in 1 and the stuff they did add mostly changes the flow of the story.
>relegates Kiryu's iconic DoD style to a Majima Everywhere unlock fest
Because Komaki is not Kiryu's teacher anymore, in this timeline it's Majima's teacher first and Majima's hand-me-down. Only fair Kiryu gets educated by Komaki's current best pupil first. Based best yakuza 0 just can't stop winning!
>Give 60 a try and if that doesn't work then go to 30. JE was made to be played at 30, and while the remaster does pop the framerate up to 60 that causes issues with at least drones that I know of.
I went all the way down to 30 and that seems to have actually fixed it, I started getting it right about 90% of the time. Then unlocked the fps and turned Vsync on (I have a 165hz VRR display) after a while because 30 fps is vomit-inducing and it "stayed" fixed. I genuinely didn't change my timing or anything.
Fricking magic, I tell you.
Well, at least it's fixed. If any issues prop up try lowering the framerate as that's usually the main culprit on any of these games. The second culprit is playing on PC in general since it has unique issues in all the games that consoles don't.
I've played YK1, YK2, Y0, YLaD and started YK3 but stopped because I was pretty burnt out after finishing YK2 and Judgment back to back. YK3 is very comfy so far though
Yeah, except Kenzan. Also 0gays are subhumans
Holy shit this is fricking hilarious, how did SEGA let this through
https://twitter.com/CentsOfLife/status/1735553928832413724
the fricking state
>can't even be bothered to retake a badly timed line
Embarrassing
Remember this is the biggest role of his life and he heckin EARNED Kiryu, you can tell how important this role is to him by his lack of giving a frick
>Shitty dub for a rushed remaster of a ps3 game no one bought
Who cares?
you might have brain damage
>Post irrelivant thing
>"who care"
>"UMMMM YOU DO"
frick off. Zoomers like you are why Yakuza is dead
Your moronation aside, "it's a dub who cares" argument is fricking weak
They are spending shit tons of money that we've spent on this joke of a dubbing work, when they could've just not do that, and save up that money to use it for something better like Kurohyou or Kenzan port
Thats not how budgets work
Especially if the lines are being recorded the same time the cutscenes are being made
Something must have happened with the localizing department, they single-handedly brought Yakuza to mainstream in 0, while producing a pretty decent job for a dub in 7, but since then the quality of localization dropped HARD
I'm guessing the decision to give Gaiden a dub was made late in development so they had less time to polish it up compared to Y7.
Does the dub for 8 seem like an improvement or is it more of this?
Gaiden was listed as having an English dub pretty much when the game was announced.
then why was the dub not ready for launch?
If I had to guess, it got delayed by the SAG strikes. 8's dub was recorded first so what we hear in 8 was done much sooner, and that includes the 8 demo. Meanwhile Gaiden was recorded afterwards and then SAG strikes started, and given Yong is SAG and SEGA was also going union for the dub in general, they had to delay the dub until it was done, so when the strikes ended, they quickly rushed one together.
I'm gonna be generous and say this is likely a directing issue and not a Yong issue, but holy shit that is bad
The fact that they saw the line was too short and chose to slow it down to stretch it to fit the line should've been proof that this dub had no effort put into it at all by SEGA
8 is a simultaneous worldwide release so it means they probably had to shit this out so they can focus their efforts on the big one
It's pretty clear that was the case because apparently the voices for a bunch of characters like Akame are literal nobodies, which probably explains why we got recasts like Daigo's recast. They just aren't allocating as much of a budget or effort on this, or they spent all their budget on Danny Trejo and Daniel Dae Kim and aren't really trying that hard for everyone else.
>proof that this dub had no effort
No effort would be like dragon ball games where if the English sentence is too quick they do literally nothing except just play the english line and leave the characters lips moving without any sound after its over
At least here someone saw the issue and tried to fix it. What most likely happened was the audio engineer got told to make it work because they didn't want to pay a unionized cuck, a voice director and rent out a studio to rerecord this single line
I feel bad for the audio guys, they have to spend time pulling every trick in their book to carry an amateur, and still ending up shit because its impossible to fix yong
should I start with 0
I played zero until the part where you kidnap the blind girl and realized yakuza was shit and skipped to 7
I enjoyed 7 and plan on buying 8 at full price day one on pc
Ive played yakuza kiwami until the part with the hobo camp and the bosses bastard son and the prostitute daughter of your cop friend who swears shes never actually gone through with prostitution and that she was just stealing old peoples money so she can be with some guy at a gender bent carabet club
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You don't care about yakuza because you don't even know what fricking game we are discussing. I will not be replying to your ignorance or bait after this so don't waste your time replying.
I played a few hours of 0 before getting filtered by the incessant amount of cutscenes/dialogues interrupting the gameplay.
if kiryu had shown up alone to confront nishiki he'd still be alive
>Kiryu gets to frick Seonhee
It's not fair ichibros...
Sorry it's clearly "too depressed to frick anyone" episode again.
Ok so I want to get into this series. I tried one of the newer ones and liked the gameplay. Which is the best option for me?
- play 0 first (I’d rather not if this is the best one, I know it’s a prequel)
- play Kiwami first
- play remastered collection first (because older games and not full remakes so I work up to better gameplay)
What you reckon lads
It really depends.
Normally I say that if you know you're gonna love the games and you know you're in for the long haul, just emulate 1 on the PS2 and play in release order.
Otherwise if you're just looking to play 1, maybe 2 games then starting with 0 and then Kiwami is fine. Yeah it'll be weird if you do decide to play the whole series, but 0 shows off the best elements of the franchise in a very good way.
If you can deal with PS2 jank, play the original versions of 1 and 2.
Otherwise start with 0 and play K1 and K2.
Kiwami 1 is not 1, it's a sequel to 0. You don't start with it like it's 1. You either play 1 first and go in release order or 0 first and go in the chronological order with K1 and K2 replacing 1 and 2.
>Kiwami 1 is not 1, it's a sequel to 0. You don't start with it like it's 1
Actually I did start with Kiwami 1 but only because it was included in Playstation Plus.
That’s really confusing because when you search it says Kiwami is a remake of 1. And there’s no remaster of 1 & 2 so things are pointing to Kiwami being a remake. Why is it not? It’s a completely new story?
>It’s a completely new story?
It's mostly the same story but a lot of additions have been made to reference back to 0.
I see, thank you for the explanations - especially
with that level of detail. That’s extremely helpful and I know where to start now
My thread is still alive :0
I played dead souls, 0, K1, and 7
>Haruka's English VA is also the voice of worst Persona 5 girl
fitting given adult Haruka is also the worst RGG girl.
What's wrong with Futaba's english VA?
First of all, Futaba's English VA doesn't voice Haruka.
But you said she's voiced by the worst Persona 5 girl
>worst persona 5 girl
Makoto?
I played a couple hours of 0, decided it's really not fun to try dodging people on the mouse and keyboard and haven't touched it since except to go play more mahjong
>check out the new dubbed scenes of gaiden
>it's actually not that bad
At this point I'm convinced you guys are hating on the dub just to fit in.
you won't fool me yong, you are not kiryu
Bring back haruka chan :3
Will Kiryu ever know peace?
No, so many sins..he killed so many and stole a lot of money, he is a criminal.
Literally every complaint people had about the dub just going off of trailers came true in the final dub yet dickriders act like that somehow makes the dub not bad
I will play 1 after I play BP2 and some other games
Haven't played any.
What's the appeal?
Do these games play like GTA?
If I only play one of them, should I opt for the latest one?