>tell them about tanimura
>tell them that yakuza 3 blocking isn't that bad
>tell them that yakuza 0 is overrated piece of shit
>tell them that shinada was the weakest character in the whole series, both story and combat wise
>tell them that the turn based combat is shit and it doesn't fit the series
>tell them to play the ps2 originals instead of playing the shitty kiwami remakes
>tell them that the series peaked in terms of combat with the original yakuza 2
>tell them that they should play at least one samurai game (kenzan/ishin)
>tell them that yakuza 4 was peak yakuza in terms of story and rubber bullets is a decent plot twist
If they disagreed with you or got mad at one of these points then they are secondaries and their opinions doesn't matter.
The 0 hatefag never gets tired, for his entire life's passion is hating a video game because other people like it too much
Seethe more secondfag
Gottem to say the line and everything, it's a completely mindbroken puppet. 0 is a good game and you'll never, ever get over it.
Seethe more 0fag
In 10 years you will still be here doing this same jester dance, unable to cope still
10 years?
IN THE JOINT?
Its a tendie still mad yakuza 0 got so much love here during botw years
I know 0 is what made the series mainstream and brought in a bunch of newfags but it was a good game and I'm tired of pretending it's not
What about you shut the fuck up And stop ruining the thread with your dickriding to 0?
have a nice day 2fag
"What about" you have a nice day, ESL retard
it should be "how about you" not "what about you"
0 is still a good game btw
No I don't think I will.
fbpb
I started with 0 and still enjoy 0 but I think these points are all correct.
Ultimately Yakuza 3 was unironically my favorite because the parts where Kiryu golfs with his local political rep. to keep his orphanage funded and constantly takes care of the kids made it fatherhood kino.
I also hate that they did not let Kiryu retire and are giving him cancer or some shit instead of letting him take the place of the old mentor like Komaki training the next generation(s)
is that the dame dame guy
>anyone who has a different opinion than mine is a secondary
How is Mine's opinion relevant? He's a daigofag
Keep zooming you worthless nagger he's not wrong.
>being a lad fan is defending the worst aspects of the series in an attempt to appear interesting
I see.
>tell them that yakuza 3 blocking isn't that bad
This one is actually true though. I played it and the enemies weren't blocking any more than they did in the other games. 5 honestly had me much more frustrated about blocking than 3.
You either played the original release of 3 or the remaster on normal difficulty if you legitimately think this
Why would you play it any other difficulty?
It's named normal therefore it's canon.
The worst fighting in all of Yakuza is my sadly my favorite character, Saejima only has that one move where he isn't frustrating to move, that is the Dash, any other move he is way too slow (makes sense for the character ofc) and gets hit way too often, it becomes frustrating.
So I basically just dash all enemies when I replay 4 and 5.
Remaster sucks, after beating the game and finding out about the dodge bug everything made more sense.
When your one tool to get around even basic enemies doesn't work it's not great. I barely ended up doing the side content just because the combat just felt miserable because of it.
Outrun filtered me
>the devs are secondaries because they made the Kiwami games
yakuza 5 is boring
The plot in 5 is schizo kino.
>yakuza 3 blocking isnt that bad
post your yakuza 3 save file right fucking now or your actually a bugman
I finished all of the substories on legendry so have a nice day 0fag
In your dreams maybe
post the save larper
0 is the best game in the series and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
0fag shilling bots on suicide watch
I don't get why people hate 0
what did 0 specifically do wrong to you
Majima fans
There's nothing wrong with being a Majima fan.
He based his entire later personality on one guy he met in prison kek, I mean I get it that it isn't really possible to play the Majima we know from the main series (unless they wanted to do some kind of GTA V stuff, which doesn't fit the main stories of Yakuza games), but they went from some normal ass guy who is almost as stoic as Kiryu to full on Majima by adapting to one guy cause he sacrificed himself for him.
>but they went from some normal ass guy who is almost as stoic as Kiryu
Kiryu is legit stoic, Majima is faking it
Majima spent a long time being in a cage and having to dull himself just to cope. He decided that escaping into a batshit crazy persona was more freeing than being a zombie.
so basically, nothing
Not liking Majima is the #1 sign of a secondary.
what does secondary even mean
not him but seems pretty simple to get
Secondary ACTUALLY means a person who engages with a series and its content in literally any way other than experiencing the series themselves firsthand. For instance, if you hate gatchashit but jack off to its characters, you're technically a secondary because you're engaging in something pertaining to the content without engaging in the content itself yourself. Even people who watch let's plays or whatever qualify because it's not the same experience you'd get if you played a game yourself.
>what does secondary even mean
Someone who watched the anime adaptation instead of reading the visual novel
Majima fans aren’t the problem. It’s Makoto Makimura fans that I hate. They always push this shitty idea that Majima has oneitis and lives in constant sorrow over not getting the girl. In actuality Majima has long gotten over her and got married to another woman and even got her pregnant before she aborted it. I blame Kiwami 2 for this stupid line of thought.
I am fully convinced that the entire Majima saga in Kiwami 2 exists solely as an excuse to have that fanservice shit with him and Makoto
It's the most popular one and the first one to release on PC. That's enough of a crime for autistic people to hate it.
it's the first one that secondaries actually played and brought the series into mainstream popularity, therefore "popular game bad," if it'd happened with any of the others pre-0 or the kiwami games guarantee they'd be called just as shit
>secondaries
>actually played
that would make them not secondaries, because they actually played the game
It contributed to the Redditification of the franchise and the fanbase with how popular it is and it attracted the "lol it's so wacky!" crowd. Yakuza had a lot of silly side-content but people back then talked about the story and weren't full of irony-poisoning. A lot of 0fags complained how limited the combat is in the previous games and then when you tell them to play from release order, their FOMO brains get triggered and say they don't want to do that. Now that the mainline "Like a Dragon" games are basic-bitch RPG and you can't complain about it because it fits "Ichiban's mindset" since the irony-poisoned crowd don't care, they just want to laugh at the crazy ubereats minigame and don't bother with the actual games. This shit doesn't even mention the censorship the remastered version got because of them.
Based yakuza 3 chad enjoyer teaching the 0 fags how to become men.
>remaster bad because it doesn't make fun of trans people
Okama are not your typical trannies for one, there was no need to remove except it appeased the irony crowd which is full of trannies to begin with.
Go back to twitter/Reddit if you don't like reality staring at your face.
meds
>All these secondaries genuinely angry and don't even have a retort
This is why 0fags will always be laughed at.
Chad
What is there to retort when the compaints are about a perception of a fanbase and nothing to do with the game itself
The original Japanese Yakuza 3 had a tranny host girl (who's also a real life employee at Sega & was Nagoshi's 'female' co-host.) and Kiryu calls him a her every single time he speaks to it lol. This predated woke culture by nearly a decade.
In the original Y3 USA version they censored the host girl tranny thing but kept the It's MA'AM trooon.
your brain is genuinely rotted from other people's opinions, holy shit.
unhinged
boo fucking hoo
>Redditification
kys
0 fags btfo
You know how you interact with something once and/or for the first time and then you suddenly start feeling like you're noticing it everywhere? That's what you're experiencing with the Yakuza series. 0 brought a lot of the silliness a bit more to the forefront and now you're feeling like you're just now noticing how it permeates throughout the entire series. Truth of the matter is, nothing changed after 0 aside from your own perception of reality. Maybe try getting off the internet for a while.
have a nice day 0fag
Your anger fuels me.
>"Dude just log-off"
The most NPC response. Everytime someone notices something or wants to talk about it, people like you just want to shut them up and stop complaining.
his complaints are worthless and wouldn't exist if he just played the games and enjoyed them. his enjoyment of the games depends on it being niche and normalfags not enjoying it. that is cringe behavior.
Literally retarded. I started from 0 and played every entry, even learned japanese to play kenzan and ishin. 0 is overall the best game but 4 is my favourite because of raining soul
>started from 0
opnion discarded esl homosexual
they hated him because he spoke the truth
0 was the first Yakuza released on the PS4, and was released at the right time to get noticed, and made the franchise very popular.
Ishin was the first yakuza on ps4
Sorry you're right let me correct myself
0 was the first Yakuza released on the PS4 in a country that matters, and was released at the right time to get noticed, and made the franchise very popular.
Cry
why
>t. third worlder
Hatred isn't for the game itself, any actual Yakuza fan will tell you 0 is fantastic, the hatred comes from the people OP is talking about, the ones who've only played 0 and then youtube essay'd and wiki'd the rest.
No one actually hates Yakuza 0.
Most of the "hate" you see for Yakuza 0 on Ganker more recently has been from 1, maybe two schizos, who are actually 0fags falseflagging because they were bullied so hard for being 0fags.
People just hate 0fags because they're the type of poster who says "skip PS2 Yakuza 1 and 2, also rubber bullet meme, also dame dane guy is so le rizzed"
The OP was made by one such schizo.
nobody hates 0
people hate 0fags
tell that to OP
hating secondaries isn't the same as "new thing bad old thing good" retard OP
>yakuza 3 blocking isn't that bad
You're right, it's not bad. It's fucking horrendous.
This HEAVILY implies secondaries even played past K2
They boot up 3, see outdated graphics and drop the series but pretend to be a fan
https://twitter.com/hayasaka_aryan/status/1724821211815768528
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I hope when they finally release the Gaiden dub, Yong is completely replaced, just to see his meltdown
It's still not released? How do we have the karaoke video?
Nope. Delayed release with no date. The karaoke video is from the Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth demo.
Gaiden didn't come with the dub, it got delayed and will be released later as free dlc, but for some reason it came with a demo of 8 that still had the dub
Gaiden was supposed to be a DLC for Y8 and took only 6 months to develop, which is why there's no dub yet.
is it just me or he sound like vocaloid?
He's autotuned.
I head this so often in the recent days that I got desensitized to it to the point I think it sounds just fine now. I don't know how in the fuck happened because my first reactions to it were visceral cringe and I remember them vividly but now listening to it I just don't feel like anything and I can stomach the full dubbed song just playing over and over again without me even having a reaction to it.
I'll always play Yakuza with the original voicework, but I don't dismiss dubs off hand
but good god, this is such a miscast
0chads keep winning
I'm a filthy secondary and I can't imagine anyone would be against playing the samurai games
Play yakuza 3 on legendry then come talk to me
Maybe someday. I didn't even finish 0 kek
Anon you are making a big mistake and to be in the right track do these steps :
1 - Download PCSX2
link : https://pcsx2.net/
2 - Download bios
Link : https://m.coolrom.com/bios/ps2/
3 - download yakuza 1
Link : https://cdromance.com/ps2-iso/yakuza-restored-undub/
You shouldn't come near yakuza 0 unless you finished 5
I play the games since Yakuza 4 got released in the west in 2011 and I never finished any of the games on legendary kek.
I fail to see the point beyond some trophies. The games get extremely tiring. After I played Y4 I immidiately bought the first and second game for PS2 and didn't finished the first game till a year later because of the samey nature and then immidiately booted up Y2, this was the only time I somehow got 2 and a half games through in a row, after that I always needed some months between the games cause I got way too bored.
I can't imagine playing them on any difficulty higher than normal, except if the enemies have some kind of special move sets that just don't exist on the other difficulties and aren't just "bullet sponges" and you take less hits.
I respect your opinion
I don't give a fuck, I still like shinada and I don't give a damn what you have to say
my favorite yakuza games are 0, K2, and 6. I really like the dragon engine, actually
>>tell them that the series peaked in terms of combat with the original yakuza 2
This one isn't fair. I love Y2's combat, but 5 and LJ are comparable.
JUDGMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENT
its not my fault yakuza 0 is the best one
yakuza 3 is the best yakuza
>grind out mahjong asap to get cash early
>start struggling just shy of getting a plat plate
>give it a rest
>come back with Haruka later just before you go to Kamurocho
>win with ease
Haruka's gambling addiction might not be a totally bad thing after all, bros
>attempting to gatekeep long after the game series has become popular with general crowd, or even at least cultural osmosis
we will enjoy our yakuza bullshit and also enjoy poking the retard in the knees I guess, good job sport
>it's time for the Yakuza to end...because they just HAVE TO okay?!?!?
Fuck this nagger, Shishido did nothing wrong.
haven't gotten around to it, but isn't it because the yakuza IRL is basically getting killed off and they're just reflecting that?
The actual culture of the yakuza is declining and dying due harsher laws against them (they basically locked out of doing basic shit like opening bank accounts or renting an apartment if you get identified as a yakuza member) and most of the yakuza are aging old dudes that are having trouble recruiting people. Shockingly, cutting off your finger and having a full back tattoo easily marks you as a yakuza member. And even if you still have your fingers and hid your tattoos, people will eventually find out your a yakuza member when you're doing yakuza work.
I imagine most yakuza members that left found legit jobs in industries that yakuza would regularly occupy, joined regular gangs, or are just in prison. As the yakuza declines, I imagine the power vacuum will just go to younger gangs fucking around.
Not to mentioned some laws were passed that makes criminal responsibility go up the ranks of a criminal organization. Suppose a grunt does a crime for x group, then the leader of the group is responsible for the crime. Higher ups are instantly fucked.
Why should the ex-fourth chairman of the tojo consider the opinion of some omi shitscraper who spent god knows how long as the thoroughly buckbroken slave of a jingweon asiatic running a third-rate family?
Because it HAS to. RGG has a record of moulding everything to the plot they want to write, even the characters. And that's not counting the times they've left massive holes or just not even bothered to justify why things have to happen this way.
a trophy so nice i got it twice
Chad
>rubber bullets is a decent plot twist
I mean, it works because the tech was new and neither Majima nor Saejima ever fired a gun in their life.
Where it falls entirely flat is making Saejimas action any different. He went there to murder a bunch of people and rubber bullets at this distance can kill people. It doesn't matter if he was "set up", he went in there and got berserk on them, if it were rubber bullets or real bullets is kinda pointless.
it's a crime drama, so there's going to be some stretching of the facts, kinda like how "silencers" aren't really real but they're still in games/movies regardless.
people always forget the fact that the people who orchestrated it were immediately caught because of how retarded it was, or the fact that one of the people who orchestrated was planning on being one of the people who got shot. I think a lot of people just hate it because they think they wanted to make Saejima "not a real killer" like Kiryu
The argument for Saejima being a killer being that he did go in with the intent of killing those guys. The counterargument being that he hasn't killed a single person since attempting that.
>The counterargument being that he hasn't killed a single person since attempting that.
He only has an entire cutscene of telling a room full of people who were chanting for him to kill someone how the act of killing has scarred him for life, leaving him to constantly feel the guilt and shame at every waking moment.
Not everyone will have an "in for a penny, in for a pound" view on killing.
Arai not realising he shot Munakata with rubber bullets was utterly fucking retarded
Rubber bullets wasn't a "decent" plot twist but yeah 4 really probably the peakest of the peak stories it's ever seen as a series.
It doesn't get enough credit how well they managed to bring the 4 stories together.
You only really appreciate the straight forward story of Y4 after you played the schizo clusterfuck that was Y5 where they didn't even knew themselves wtf they are supposed to do with the story (everytime they have no fucking idea they just threw some mass brawl in).
at least 4 had good final fights
some shit like Shinada's final fight being Baba kind of sucked
motherfucker no wonder I can't beat some of them even by looking up guides
I like 3/4 of the fights at the end. I dunno if I missed something but Tanimura's fight is legitimately awful.
No, you're right. It's Jingu 2.0, and having him be the real final boss out of everyone in that set was baffling.
I mean I guess the police chief HAD to be the final final boss. But making the guy who's best off taking guys down one on one deal with a fuck off Kiryu sized crowd while you get shot every 5 seconds sure was an interesting design choice.
it made me go back to grind out all the blessed wood armor to beat it
still, it makes sense thematically
Schizo moment.
>mfw capping your fps to 30 makes your pocket circuit cars less likely to fly offtrack
>there's no way this shit would wor-
>instantly got 3s faster than my previous best attempt on premium course TA
Aaaand now im done with all time attacks
so will Ichiban ever learn that Majima was the one who busted up Shangri-La
How many homeless people are there in Sotenbori jesus christ
the game says osaka is #1 homeless capital of japan, I wonder if that's true
Replaying Yakuza 1, I didn't remember fighting the camera so much in tight spaces.
Is this still a problem in Yakuza 2? I know the lock-on/targeting gets improved.
Why does 0 make niggas seethe this much? Is it fear?
Because it’s popular
>tell them that the turn based combat is shit and it doesn't fit the series
Based. Turn based homosexualry doesn't belong in Yakuza, keep that gay shit in Final Fantasy.
Final Fantasy was never turn based
And your mom never stopped being a whore
Bro, I think you hopped universes or something.
1+
Too bad it doesn't matter what detractors think and RGG is sticking to their guns anyway.
Found the secondary
If you "winning" an argument on the internet with some nobody helps you sleep at night, I'll consider that my good deed for the day. Clearly it is a public service that needs doing around here.
I miss this lil' nigga like you wouldn't believe..
I wonder if Yoshinoya is coming back for 8
>don
>don
>don
>don
>ki
>donki
>ooooteeeeee
If you have to lie about things to filter people then you're not filtering anyone, you're just being a stupid contrarian for the sake of it.
Yakuza 0 is still by far the best one in the series and as things stand it'll probably always remain that way. The only games that come close are the Judgement games. Y1-7 none come close.
did he serve what happened to him
I dunno that he necessarily deserved literally being kidnapped by the Daidoji. If anything, it feels like a pretty cruel punishment for a guy who was basically just defending the only life he knew.
At least the other final antagonists usually get to die or be satisfied of what happened in the end. Dude would probably prefer death than being sent to the bottom again as a government lapdog.
The silver lining to the situation being that he'll at least be allowed to do the dirty work they surely have piled up after years of Kiryu saying "fuck off, I'm not killing anyone."
It seems like a better life for him than being relegated to a civilian now that the yakuza don't exist.
>yakuza don't exist.
they'll probably still exist but not walking around in suits with crest pins
they'll be reduced to underground thugs
just like watase said
That's basically not existing, compared to what the yakuza were before officially disbanding.
They had as much power as politicians.
Retard
>There is no random Hakujin NPCs on the streets of popular tourist destinations like Kamurocho and Sotenbori
>RGG somehow spent time and afford making a Kokujin NPCs roaming the streets and working in conbeni
Hmmmmmmmmmm
It's realistic
There's actually a fuckton of nigerians living in Kabukicho irl since the early 2000s
And there are fuck ton more white tourists in kabukicho than nigerians
Yeah, so?
A nigerian working as a store clerk is still realistic
Kamurocho has fallen.
Simplem They already filtered
0-7 are on GOG so that can't be it.
>he didn't play Dead Souls
Secondary scum
ahem
Haruka Seggs
How to be a homosexual:
>gatekeep Yakuza
It happens with any series that establishes more renown than fans are used to it having. There are people who would unironically rather have a series they like die than see it continue on with any degree of popularity. And Yakuza still isn't even fuckin popular really. Plenty of people who played 0 stopped there and called it good and done. Anyone else actually played through the rest of the series, and at that point, I don't really get the issue. It just becomes bitching for the sake of it, even when new fans do the right thing of embracing the way things are rather than trying to change shit.
Just finished Gaiden, the emotional payoff at the end was pretty heavy. Not even an outburst, just Kiryu feeling just how much he fucked up since 5.
Speaking of playing ps2 originals
How easy is it to play bootleg ps2 games on a real ps2
Can i literally just burn a ps2 game iso from cool rom to a cd rom and stick it in?
No, it has AP protection measures. You need to install a modchip, which requires soldering knowledge.
fuck no. You need either a toploader swap or solder-in modchip. Bother physical mods.
Of course i haven't kept up and maybe there's a software solution that came after its era.
Depends on the PS2 model and your resources. All methods are somewhat annoying but you can just buy a memory card with mcboot installed on AliExpress or eBay if your PS2 supports that. Check the homebrew general on /vg/. Another option could be hacking your PS3 or your Wii U if you know moonrunes
are you fucking retarded? no.
i had my ps2 chip many years ago that allowed me to play burned CDs. too bad the chip dosent work half the time anymore.
I just ordered used copies online to play the PS2 ones.
Get a modded memory card with either FreeMCBoot or Fortuna (if you're on a 90xxx console) on eBay and then if you're on a slim install MechaPwn to completely remove the disc authentication which also allows you to play games from all regions, it might fuck up PS1 discs depending on what model PS2 you have. You can also use Open PS2 Loader to run the game through a network share, HDD, or over USB (which tends to lag pretty badly). There are also some other methods but frankly they're outdated at this point and not worth looking into unless you have a Fat console and no hard drive.
i agree with all the points OP made
Chad
i have not played any of the yakuza games
i started with 0 but atleast i played the rest of the serise (well, i skipped 3, not played 6 yet and yes, i did play dead soul.)
Why was Dojima’s wife made acting chairman after Terada was “killed” anyway
Assumedly because her authority would be respected.
because the other members respected her (or at least, respected her husband) enough to take a temporarily leader role.
Neutral party in the know with enough face to hold things together while they sort their shit out.
>neutral party
>immediately installs her deadbeat fuckup son the second he kills the only other patriarch with any weight to throw around
Women.
Daigo might be an inexperienced jobber, but his lack of malicious intent was ultimately better for the Tojo than whatever stupid shit Nishiki Jr. had in mind.
Nishikiyama was the biggest family at that point so Shindo probably voted for her.
Perhaps it was to mirror what happened to the real life Yamaguchi-Gumi
post cute girls crying
https://www.youtube.com/live/c6LYCZTcJng?si=kSZs_KoM-GECauXi&t=8935
remind them that yakuza became big because of an undubbed game and we can continue to make do without shitty dubs
Why do people think enemies in yakuza 3 block so much? It doesn't feel that different compared to other games, if anything the game feels the most responsive and faster paced.
Because lots of them haven't actually played 3, or their minds are influenced more by youtube, memes, and le funny of the series that personal experience counts for nought.
How far are you into Y3? Are you playing on the PS3 version or the remastered version?
>mfw Snake Flower Triad Officer
>mfw Hakuho Captain
>>mfw Hakuho Captain
I almost dropped the game there. What the fuck were they thinking with that guy.
That and the grunts during the final section of game, ESPECIALLY Andre's swats. They did nothing but blocking and circling around you for minutes on end without throwing a single punch on Hard.
>just grab them/ komaki parry/ tiger drop LOL
During my playthrough I literally let go of the controller and counted how many minutes did it take for the enemies to stop blocking start attacking and not after 3 minutes did they start throwing jabs at Kiryu. Even if you try to grab them you still have to mash circle like a mad man.
I remember grabbing a ton of shotguns at the final section of the game, shit was fun, basically Doom (1993) but in third person with weird camera angles.
Love and hate Arai
>Triple agent that knows everything about everyone and their plans
>Fails to see that Munakata put rubber bullets in the gun
To this day I wonder if that was just shitty writing, subverted expectations because is fucking Yakuza 4: a new plot twist every 10 minutes or it was actually Arai intention to bait Akiyama.
I finished Y3's remastered version and Mine is a pretty fun finale.
Because Mine is the only guy in the fucking game that doesn't block the entire fight.
I actually find 5 to be the worst game when it comes to blocking
That's a first. Is it that bad?
The redpill is every yakuza is blockuza, 3R is just the worst in that regard.
Nah Y4 enemies don't block a lot, instead they grab you, a lot.
Enemies in 5 block less then 3 but its more apparent because Akiyama and Shinada can't really do anything to them.
Y3 Remastered enemies will sometimes literally turn around 180° in a single frame if you try to hit them in the back
i'm replaying Y3R right now and they absolutely do
Mind it's not as terrible as people make it but i get where they're coming from.
Usually in Yakuza in the first 5 hours you're limited to button mushing, once you unlock more moves and learn enemy patterns you can start styling. Y3 makes this initial period an absolute chore and forces you to cheese most fights with grabs and weapons. The first boss in Okinawa is the worst because at that point you have no counterplay to his moves and the quickstep si shit. Once you get Komaki moves, more heat moves and counters it's just like any other game in the series
Because if you play 3R on Hard or Legend they block twice as much as they do on Hard or Ex-Hard of the original because 60 FPS borked it. You can immediately see it if you compare fighting kickboxers on 3R to 3 as you will get a lot more basic hits in one the 3 kickboxer compared to 3Rs. I was double-checking to see if it was the same in 3 because I remembered it being prevalent but not even close to as bad as Kenzan, and it was true, 3R just borked blocking. If you play on Easy/Normal it's a joke and barely anyone blocks.
Yakuza 6 is way too overlooked. It is easily top 3 in the series
They did my boy Rikkiya dirty in it and also threw Haruka to the dogs after everything they did in 5. 6 is a mess that has its moments, but those pale in comparison to its myriad of little issues with an especially weak and confused story. it was like everyone wanted to make a different game and then the deadline got close so they had to spit out something at all, and 6 was the result.
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If you can't tell what each of these potential future releases and where in the series timeline they would fall you ain't shit
>Like a Dragon 9
>Gaiden 2
>Kiwami 3
>Yakuza 0.5
bros I'm gonna hotglue these
Yakuza has never had good combat. Ever.
Let me guess, mooks are useless and braindead just like they are in every other action game?
LJ's combat is pretty good.
God I hope they jettison all this stupid Daidoji bullshit in 8. Government conspiracy nonsense has always been a part of the series but this whole faction and Kiryu's relationship to them is so laughably retarded that it makes it so hard to take anything seriously.
There isn't really any good reason why the Daidoji can't just let Kiryu go back to Okinawa considering Kiryu was the one who requested they fake his death in the first place. The Daidoji were fine with paying him off and ignoring him in Okinawa, why is that so unacceptable now?
Yakuza 6's ending was such a fucking mistake, wanted the emotional impact of Kiryu dying without having to deal with the permanence of it, pathetic cowardice.
Either have the balls to actually kill the character or let him retire in Okinawa, this "Kiryu must suffer perpetually for no particular reason" shit sucks.
>Either have the balls to actually kill the character or let him retire in Okinawa
That's what they're setting up in 8
They should have done it at the end of 6. All this Daidoji shit is stupid and could have been easily avoided if they had actually committed to an ending for the character and not pussied out in the post credits.
>They should have done it at the end of 6
More like in the end of 2.
I fucking hate 3 but I do actually like the orphans and how much Kiryu cares about em so I wouldn't want them to end his arc prior to their introduction. Kiryu was basically a bonus character in 4 already though, they should have just stayed that course of having him get less and less of the spotlight in each new game. Woulda been better than the tedious misery porn that has been every Kiryu story post-4.
They won't have the balls for it in 8 either and you know it. They've been stringing retards along for what, 7 games now?
>tell them that shinada was the weakest character in the whole series, both story and combat wise
People who hate the remasters and especially 5 don't care about Shinada anyway the fuck are you on about
>tell them that yakuza 0 is overrated piece of shit
primaries hate 0?
It's one notorious Ganker schizo who can't shut the fuck up.
Contrarian retards who want to shit on the most popular entry hate 0. When 0 came out, Ganker was still in it's "every Yakuza game is good" phase, like Kirby. The 0 hate isn't about the game, it's about loudly proclaiming your superiority to the plebs that got into a series with a later entry than you did.
The real secondaries are those who defend this Final Fantasy 1 tier combat.
How to draw manga lookin bitch
my apologies to everyone in this thread (didnt read any posts) but im clearly better than you in every way and could easily kill you in 1 hit so if your next post is not a reply to me saying "sir yes sir your better than me i humbly beseech you to let me post in this thread" then your mad af and lose every future interaction automatically
I put peanut butter and jelly in the ass. I call it peanut butter and jelly ass sandwich, but you're going to be calling it lunch.
that's hot
wrong move
*teleports behind you*
you: wHAt?!?!?
*karate chops you in the neck and you instantly crumple to the ground frothing at the mouth*
well? anything else to say? oh wait....you can't speak
*walks away cool*
these netcafes look comfy as fuck
As someone who started with 0, I kind of lost the desire to play the series further after I realised that style switching isn’t a thing in most of the games and Kiwami was a step down from 0 when I played it. Plus, the Dragon Engine games look like janky dogshit mostly.
Style switching is what made the combat fun IMO because it opens up a ton of combo potential and allows you to form your own playstyle. I’m thinking of getting around to the Judgement games eventually because they have style switching and seem self-contained though. Plus, I’ll admit that PS2 Yakuza 2 looks pretty rad based on gameplay I’ve seen of it.
I've been playing Yakuza since the original two on PS2, and Yakuza 0 was easily the best of the lot especially after Yakuza 5. I just don't bother with english internet any more because you get either dumbass reddit opinions where they treat yakuza has one huge meme or you get these tryhard Ganker opinions where you're suddenly a secondary or whatever when Y0 really is better than Y1,3,4,5, & 6. I still have a soft spot for the original Yakuza 2. I hated Kiwami 2 though. The original PS2 game was darker & grittier, and had more badass music.
why is he so gay
Because he is a post 0 character.
bro thinks he can gatekeep a movie game
I just had a dream where Ichiban and Saeko forces me to crossdress wtf
I can't believe I have dreams like this at 54yo
If you didn't play the Japanese version of Ryuu ga Gotoku 1 on the PS2 in 2005 you're a secondary.
If you played it in English you're a secondary.
If you started with a PS3 game you're a tertiary.
If you started after ""influencers"" made it popular you're a quaternary.
If you started with Zero you're a quinary.
How to filter any "oldfag" in yakuza fandom:
>tell them you like the games released on PS4 and after
LOL
checkmate, homosexual
>tell them about tanimura
tanimura is based, even if he doesnt have a lot going on
>tell them that yakuza 3 blocking isn't that bad
its not if you get the fps fix mod, quickstepping right as an enemy attacks puts you at their back
>tell them that yakuza 0 is overrated piece of shit
its not, it is absolutely the best one
>tell them that shinada was the weakest character in the whole series, both story and combat wise
shinadas moveset fucking SUCKS, i didnt mind his story (personality wise he is S tier)
>tell them that the turn based combat is shit and it doesn't fit the series
didnt play
>tell them to play the ps2 originals instead of playing the shitty kiwami remakes
oh boy i sure do love having to use a guide to not get myself locked out of 100% and the superboss
>tell them that the series peaked in terms of combat with the original yakuza 2
didnt play, i guess its about dynamic throws? those are fucking awesome and i hate dragon engine doesnt have them
>tell them that they should play at least one samurai game (kenzan/ishin)
maybe? idc
>tell them that yakuza 4 was peak yakuza in terms of story and rubber bullets is a decent plot twist
yakuza 4 story is a trash fire, its not bad, you just cant follow it (except for that scene with tanimura in the warehouse with the police, that was straight retarded)
furthermore, no mention of kurohyou show op is not an actual yakuza fan and, in fact, has SHIT TASTE
>its not if you get the fps fix mod
There isn't an FPS fix mod that I know of. The only thing you can fix in 3R is the quickstep distance with mods, it doesn't fix the FPS issues otherwise pool and bowling would be fine. Silent Patch just fixes CPU usage and certain crashes.
There's a couple mods on the modding Discord and NexusMods that basically do a complete combat overhaul to give you more super armor and guard breaks on attacks which means you're not playing the original game as intended, but no FPS fix that I can see.
https://www.nexusmods.com/yakuza3remastered/mods/104/
https://www.nexusmods.com/yakuza3remastered/mods/134
https://www.nexusmods.com/yakuza3remastered/mods/80
>Yakuza 4 story bad!
No it wasn't
>B-bu-
Time for you to take a seat at the kiddie table.
>Get your entire fucking lives ruined for absolutely no reason because a spoiled little cunt decided to tell the whole country her daddy is leader of a mob on live television
Haruka was the true villain of Yakuza 5. Shinada should've let Baba-chan shoot her.
I played all from 0 to 5
but 5 is soooooooooo boring
can't help myself out of the Saejima section
and it's a shame because 4 was easily the best
>>tell them to play the ps2 originals instead of playing the shitty kiwami remakes
Is this actually real or just to troll? Im intrested in playing 1 and 2 after I finish 0 but it seems like a hassle since I don't own a ps2
Can't speak for 1 but I played 2 (PS2) after playing K2 first and ended up preferring it by a large margin
PS2 emulation is pretty capable. I was able to run Yakuza 1 Restored on my 8 year old laptop, using the nightly build. Just be sure to not change the internal resolution, it breaks the lighting.
Kiwami is okay, but Kiwami 2 sucks compared to the original.
Play on emulator and don't forget to get the undubbed version of the first game.
K1 has Majima Everywhere which ruins a lot of things about the game even though the encounters themselves are pretty humorous, got rid of many original boss movesets to lift movesets from Ishin, 0, 5, and 3, added styles for no reason when Kiryu should only be using DoD at that point, redid the Amon story so it makes no sense to future games, and it also makes enemies able to knock you to the ground with basic attacks of their combo, not even the finishers.
K2 cut Shinseicho which was basically a long and unique street with stuff in it and moved most of it to Sotenbori while rewriting a chapter of the story to not go there, recast Kaoru's VA (I think she's far worse personally), removed The Marietta (Bad minigame but the building is in every game afterward) and Club Adam (Good minigame and several games reference it), removed the YF6 minigame for VF2 when 2 is the only time YF6 existed in the series, removed the pier so several substories and a fight don't take place there anymore, removed several unique substory locations and placed them in generic office buildings instead, changed the Amon fight to a worse one in my opinion since it's less unique, and removed small things like picture related for no reason.
1 is not K1. 2 is not K2. K1 is not 1. K2 is not 2. They are both worth experiencing and just because you played one doesn't mean you played the other. Ishin Kiwami should be avoided if you can and are willing to play Ishin though, I will stand by that statement. It messes up so much more than K1 or K2 do by a country mile.
If you are gonna play the PS2 versions 1 has an undub/retranslation patch that came out recently. Make sure you play at the native resolution internally, PCSX2 breaks the lighting if you go above native and RPCS3 is the only way to play above native resolution without the lighting breaking but 1&2 HD are JP only.
Kaoru's original VA was apparently difficult to work with, which is why she got canned. Let's say I believe it, what's inexcusable though is that with her new VA she still got absolutely shafted in the story and practically retconned out of the big picture completely because Yokoyama is a hack that thinks people give a fuck about cringe Yumi.
It's been ages since I replayed Y2, how do you obtain that tonfa in your pic?
I only played Kiwami 2, but you can buy it from the pawn shop. You need to watch the martial art video to wield them, though.
Beat everyone in the underground coliseum then beat the game. It'll be available on NG+/PA from Bob I think? It's the Chinese (Just) Dragon Tonfa.
how fucked am I if I just play kiwami 2 because I bought it before realizing its apparently the worse version
You're fine, particularly if you started with 0 because it sweeps away characters who wouldn't work with future games that are still around from 0.
would it be jarring if I went from kiwami 1 to yakuza 2 outside of the gameplay differences? I haven't really played 0 but I've been vaguely spoiled on parts years ago
You'll have to use a guide for substories because making a mistake in any of them locks you out of Amon, and you won't be able to 100% it without a guide (Like all Heat Actions since many are missable), but otherwise it's just getting used to fixed camera angles for exploration and stiffer combat. It'll make going into 3/3R easier.
I see I didn't realize the 100% completion would be that walkthrough heavy but it makes sense given the time it was released. I might just stick with the kiwami's since I've already gone through a lot of kiwami 1 so far and then I'll play the original's at some point to compare the differences and see how stark it is.
Thank you for the help
If you started with Y0 you have no reason to play the PS2 originals.
YK1 and YK2 build off Y0 and tie in directly with recurring characters, minigames and new plot content.
Before poeple like OP started shitting up every Yakuza thread the opinion was either go release order
>1-2-3-4-0-5-6
or chronological
>0-K1-K2-Y3...
But you already picked your path
Also for 3 don't bother with the PS3 original, it's objectively the cucked edition. They removed a ton of substories, minigames, changed names for no reason, fucked up many translations and have more trannies
>Also for 3 don't bother with the PS3 original, it's objectively the cucked edition.
Hasn't been for a while, it's now the superior version, but the restoration patch is still a bit buggy and I can only get it to work on the PAL version since the NTSC-U patch doesn't seem to want to work.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/950186-yakuza-3/80362479
Maybe if I become a homeless in Osaka Akame will come and pick me up
Is the Style Switcher mod for Y6 good or should I use Legend Remix 6?
>hurr durr play vanilla
Already played on PS4.
I played 6 with the mod that gives Kiryu his Y3, 4 and 5 moveset, forgot the name.
It was pretty well balanced, if anything it actually made the game harder since his pre-dragon engine moveset lacked crowd control and didnt have some of his best moves in 6 (sprinting attack, parry, charged triangle)
Can you even top this
Yu-Gi-Oh did it better.
No one cares about tranime.
Look at this picture, everyone here looks like gentlemen, not like 5.
Wait a minute... That symbol
>tell them that the turn based combat is shit and it doesn't fit the series
This is about the only thing you said that objectively separates actual fans and these so-called secondaries, but yeah.
Yakuza series shouldn’t have been a one-off.
The shallow Shenmue gameplay couldn’t carry a single 30-60 hour game, let alone a thousand yearly games and spinoffs.
This shit is worse than COD unironically.
*should
This is literally just contrarian opinions, what am I missing here?
>tell them to play the ps2 originals instead of playing the shitty kiwami remakes
They'll just play Kiwami after trying to play 1. 1s controls suck ass but the tone is far better than Kiwami. Kiwami 2 is actually horrible
I liked the baseball story in 5
>Finally beat OG 1 and 2
>get to 3R
>first boss
>I can't just unga bunga
>mfw
Get to komaki asap.
can't do shit about him
At that point in game you have no heat moves, no combos, not enough HP to tank him, he's resistant to grabs and quickstep is broken
the only way to deal with him is to stock on health and use weapons strategically
It only took me like 3 tries on Hard to beat him. The trick is just to keep running behind him and combo him.
it's not hard in the same way an amon fight or the climax battles are
It's just terribly tedious and inconsistent. You have to slowly nibble his health away and he has the ability to instantly turn 180 degrees while charging a punch
This is the boss room where you have to learn to wall bounce enemies or have sucky time with this game
>tell them that shinada was the weakest character in the whole series, both story and combat wise
I agree with this though
How little must you have in life to feel accomplishment because you played a very popular video game series before someone else.
t. bought yakuza 2005 in 2005
there's 2005 entries in this fucking series?!
that's right, all of you are only just getting started.
Moose, I'm the original poster of this thread, and I'm planning to play kenzan, have you played before and Is it more polished than yakuza 3?
>have you played before
Possibly.
>and Is it more polished than yakuza 3?
3 is the one that polished mechanics from Kenzan. Blocking issues are far more prevalent and you have significantly less options to deal with it, and if you think you can use hand to hand combat to circumvent the blocking then haha, you're funny. You don't even learn the Tiger Drop from Komaki.
As a simple example, you know the fat guys in 3? They're reskinned sumo wrestlers from Kenzan. In Kenzan these sumo wrestlers could run towards you at any point, gain iframes during all of the attack, and instantly parry you into a grab before taunting you. Bosses all require you to get to their back or you're not dealing any damage past like one or two hits.
Kenzan has a good story (Except the ending hour), characters (Except the final boss), map (Especially Gion), enemy movesets, and pretty cool new minigames. What it fails at are the combat, pretty much everything in the game being missable so anything that's not a story playthrough requires a guide, and the final hour of the game since it should have ended at the penultimate boss.
If you are gonna go for 100% I have some posts
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>new minigames
What are those? Maybe I missed them or maybe I'm too early but I don't remember any minigames
>Turtle racing
Chicken racing from 5 is based on it.
>Kakashi training.
Ishin's is a much better version of it because the time requirements are absolute ass and you have actual courses instead of a smalls square room.
>Jiraiya training.
Exclusive. You throw throwing stars at targets while on a frog that moves up and down.
>Horse archery
Exclusive. Webm related.
>Iroha Karuta
Exclusive. It's a poem minigame where you pick up cards, unplayable if you can't read kana. It requires you to pick a card with the kana of the first letter stated in the poem. AI outright cheats and knows where the card is even in areas it can't see.
>Tapping game where you either grab a rock or tap the table.
Exclusive. Great fun, I really like it. It's my favorite geisha minigame.
>Fan throwing.
Exclusive. I don't like it but I guess I didn't learn it well enough since we had a guy here writing a new GameFAQs guide (That didn't get published I guess?) who said he found it easier.
>Kabuki
Exclusive. It's basically normal combat but with money being thrown at you and you can only use an umbrella with unique Heat Actions.
>Melon Cutting
Exclusive. Ishin has a variant of it in the cannonball training which is much easier and has smaller requirements but it's not the same minigame.
>Waterfall Training
I don't know if I'd call it exclusive since Haruka's main story music minigame in 5 is kinda like it. Buttons converge in the middle of a circle and you hit them as women pose sexily and moan.
Damn..., what is it with rgg back in 2007 to 2011, was sega raping the developers to rush the games as fast as possible? From kenzan to yakuza dead souls, they were using the same engine that they for some reason doesn't want to say its name, and i believe that these game were good but felt weird, i believe that the engine that yakuza 1 and 2 were using was customized version of renderware, but i don't know about kenzan to dead souls engine, but i bet it was renderware pushed to its limit, just like how rockstar did with gta lcs and vcs
>yakuza 2005
>in 2005
>they've been making Yakuza games every years ever since Christ was born
Dance Battle songs > Disco songs
If we're talking about Shinada's gameplay then I genuinely think he's stronger than Akiyama gameplay wise
His combos are actually pretty consistent, his array of heat actions are decent and he can heal by himself
plus he can bring 3 shotguns to the komakis fight and go to town on em
Well anyone can do that, pretty sure that's how I did it with Akiyama since his counter's pretty bad
I also bring this up since I had a way easier time doing the 100-man battle with shinada because of the self healing
If we're comparing character strength might as well do it in one of the toughest parts of the game
His damage output is just low overall, but I liked him
When's the last chance to fight Amon in Yakuza 1 (PS2)?
Chapter 11 is the point of no return for Amon. You cannot enter Shangri-la, you have to do it before you enter there. Chapter 12 is the boat exposition chapter so you can't do anything, and the final chapter has Haruka following you permanently which prevents certain things from working.
Hope you enjoy the hardest Amon fight of all games anon, shit was downright aggravating for me
What are the chances old man Komaki still kicking in Gaiden?
yakuza 4... home
Sugiuchi was pretty great for the time he had, the end of part 4 was the peak of the game
True, but I didn't feel Akiyama's damage was that great either. Been a while since I've played though
Even if he doesn't have it in the coliseum Shinada's sturdy blades a nice thing to have as an easy unblockable attack during his story I'll add
>beat yakuza 3 and 4 in like 2015
>beat 0 in 2018
>started kiwami 1 in 2019, got to chapter 8
>just restarted
torn on if I should just pick up from chapter 8 or not
I mostly recall the story but I don't recall a lot of the exact context
just skip all the cutscenes from now on and do a legendary run afterwards
I like to imagine every female character in this franchise with a BWC in their mouth
I really don't understand how you people are so addicted to porn that it's on your mind 24/7
>>tell them to play the ps2 originals instead of playing the shitty kiwami remakes
>>tell them that they should play at least one samurai game (kenzan/ishin)
Uh oh, seems like someone play ishin remake and not the original ishin! Seems like you are a secondary yourself, secondary-kun!
I've played yakuza 3 remaster on easy, skipping every side content with like 17% completion rate at the end and I'm not ashamed.
what exactly is the majima retcon betwen 1 and kiwami?
just him being quirky with the deadpan to comedy switches and majima everywhere being worked into canon?
Majima wasn't that sticky with kiryu in 1
I may be misremembering because it's been a while but wasn't he pretty coy with kiryu by 4?
He starts being a more prominent character in 2 and 3. After Saejima is out, he's not that close with Kiryu anymore.
cheers, hate to listen to a tripfag on principle but I'll drop kiwami and emulate 1 instead
Basically in 1 the only majima scenes are the main story cutscene ones, and when he initially says he's going to leave in his introduction cutscene he does and the scene ends
It pretty much ruins his main story appearances. Majima didn't care about Kiryu because he was obsessed with him like in 2 onward, he was around him because he was part of the Shimano family who was out to kill him for killing Dojima and then shooting Kazama. He got in his way and kidnapped Haruka because it would give him a chance at Kiryu. The only scenes he's in in the original are the intro one (Without all the extra antagonizing Kiwami adds), the Yoshida Batting Center fight, and the Shangri-la fight. That's it.
Kiwami also makes it so that after he gets stabbed at the batting center you can immediately fight him again due to Majima Everywhere while 1 makes it seem like he might have died, and then you have the brand new fight at the pier for some reason where he gets shot and falls off the pier and Kiryu just walks away which makes no sense from Kiryu's perspective. You can then immediately encounter him again after it happens due to Majima Everywhere making that entire scene pointless so why did they even add it?
Yeah, 1, 2, Kenzan, and even arguably 3 are guide games. Kenzan especially is impossible to play without a guide even if was 100% English. There's just so much missable in it.
He was literally a comedic relief character in original 1 with twisted moral code and evil intent. Kiwami tried to change him into le wacky psycho but actually a nice guy, but please ignore the whole kidnapping Haruka thing.
>Haruka wants me to score 950 on Otometal MY LIFE.
will dondoko island be fun?
looks like better version of another life on ishin pretty fun
Nobody's opinion matters. Not yours, not mine.
>want to play yakuza for first time
>dont even know where to start
>option 1: potentially start at first installment and get burnt out and never touch the rest of the series
>option 2: potentially start later and miss kino
>autistic fanbase argue over ever title and dont agree on anything
>series gets another 10 releases every year making it harder and harder
Someone please help.
>get burnt out and never touch the rest of the series
Don't rush them and you won't though. Just have fun and appreciate each game for what it is, don't see any problems
You either start with release order and see the series advance as intended, or you start with the modern order gaining a different outlook on the series but jump all over the place.
Release order is harder to get into because 1 is a bit of a rough game due to its combat issues, its somewhat stiff combat, and its highly underdeveloped characters, but you'll see everything as intended. All the references, all the mechanical improvements, all the world improvements, all the minigame improvements, all the stuff that carries over in each game, etc.
>If you start with this order you will play both 1 and 2 and their Kiwami remakes.
Modern order is easier to get into because 0 is a strong game with solid mechanics, but it will make you jump all over the place in writing, engines, mechanics, etc as you go forward. Many characters 0 built up were literal whos in 1 and 0 was their way of giving them some backstory or development, substories took like nine years to reach the point where they are writing and structure-wise in 0, styles are for spinoffs with the sole exceptions of 0 and K1, and you'll be going from the fourth game on 5's engine (K1) to the second Dragon Engine game (K2) back to their second game on the original PS3 engine (3) in this order.
>If you start with this order you play 0, K1, K2, Remastered Collection, 6, Judgment, 7, Lost Judgment, Gaiden, 8.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is 7, it is a soft reboot but the main combat plays nothing like any other game and a decent amount of the last third of the game only matters if you played previous games. It's not recommended to start with 7.
It doesn't matter what side you choose to start with, just don't rush them. I got burnt out hard after Kenzan, then I did 5 and Ishin then burnt out again, and then 0, K1, and 6 in a row before burning out again. No one is rushing you here, and if you're not gonna 100% the games burn out won't hit you as hard.
What about: K1, K2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 6, 7?
K1 is not 1 in that you play it standalone. It's a sequel to 0.
Oh, and K2's Majima Saga outright spoils Majima's ending in 0. K1 and K2 are both 0 sequels before they're remakes.
Both K1 and K2 have a bunch of references to 0 in them, they're designed for people who played 0 first, so not recommended
I went
>0, Kiwami 1, K2, 3-5 remaster, 6, Judgment, 7, Lost Judgment
Someone will tell me this is wrong and I won't feel a thing. Judgment is my favorite so far and I haven't done Ishin Kiwami or Gaiden yet.
Take your time.
Something I will say is that either way you don't have to do them all at once and take breaks between entries when needed
If you're fine with playing an early ps2 game with slow overworld navigation and if you like appreciating where a series got its start the very first game isn't awful since there's an undub mod now. Yakuza 2 on the ps2 is considerably more fun also
Y0 is a prequel that is a good option if you don't know if you're gonna like the rest of the series, though it has its own qualities that even future games don't have
There's also Judgment which is basically a yakuza game with its own story and characters but will give you a different taste than the rest of the series, it can be played at any time
In gaiden, do the gambling events reopen eventually or if I do it once, that's it?
Do more battles and you'll eventually get texts saying to talk to them to reopen them
ty
0-K2,J,3-7,LJ,G
It aint much but it's honestly climbing
for me its 0 k1/2 3-6 J 7 gaiden Ishin lookin to play lost judgment and black panther next
just say it's not a GTA styled game made for male weebs and that alone will filter half of the female and casual fanbase.
can someone explain to me why the daidoji faction
>has a legend of the criminal underworld at their beck and call
>only condition is that he has to remain anonymous and you cannot send him back to his old haunts
>but he can absolutely go fuck up dudes if needed
>make him do a bodyguard job
>then make him wait around for some gold bullion drop off that goes to hell
>then send him to Sotenbori, a place he's been to a good number of times, where he is likely be recognized by somebody
i'm not even shocked it's a vtuber that finds out that he's alive, the daidoji SUCKS at infomation control
based
I was completely right with my take on yakuza 2 combat, it was peak combat in the series
I don't get it
Yakuza 2 is an older take therefore it is dated, and Kiwami 2 is more recent therefore it's "modern"
There is no contradiction there.
You’re not a real Yakuza fan if you don’t 100% and Platinum all of the games.
reddit tier take
just do the main missions and sidequests and grind out whatever minigames you actually enjoy
they can't even 100% and platinum their stance on the 100% and platinum. some games want a full completion list and others don't. the former sucks when I have to play the same minigames for the Nth time. just steer me to the new content.
>Love 0
>1/2 pretty good
>3 is a total slog and I can't understand why people love it
Am I just filtered?
block"justquickstepandinstallamodonpc"uza 3
For me I enjoy Kiryu being a dad and Okinawa
'just buy some swords' gotta start being the new Y3 advice meme 'cause it does honestly work
That is the thing that gets me.
Abusing weapons seems like the only way to really progress but it feels so cheap
here's my yakuza serie reviews.
Yakuza 0 - I had fun
kiwami 1 - I had fun
kiwami 2 - I had fun
3-4-5-6, I skipped.
Yakuza 7 - kino
Ishinn - I had fun
Y8 ending cutscene leak
>he didn't drink his AH-HA water
>He drinks AH-HA Water.
>Not Divine Water.
Smoking finally caught up with him?
nah he was poisoned by the daidoji (they were taken over by the jingwoen mafia)
That sure is an impressive hairline for a 50 something.
kiwami and 0 naggers getting tiger dropped by ps2 and BLOCKUZA3 chads
I genuinely wanna see if someone has footage of them taking on Komaki in 3's coliseum with no issues or damage taken
3 has the quickstep and blocking issue people have talked about already but 4 & 5 play fine
People talk about the dialogue in 5R and I really don't think it ruins the game but it is like a dub script for a dub that doesn't exist sometimes (the most egregious parts you can notice on your own even if you don't speak japanese)
Oh right forgot to mention 5R has an FPS related issue with the forklift chase, to where in the ultimate match version you have to let yourself get hit to pass in time
that's pretty silly
>I genuinely wanna see if someone has footage of them taking on Komaki in 3's coliseum with no issues or damage taken
I don't remember struggling with him and I first tried Garrett, but for some reason some mid-tier Mexican wrestler kept annoying me
I legit couldn't land a finger on him without cheesing, he felt untested
If it's just me then that's a good thing
I mainly used it for the annoying group fights in substories
With bosses you can just use your counters
Morinaga because same VA
Recycling Mine's moveset over and over is truly in Yakuza's DNA
>Recycling Mine's moveset over and over
it's just not the same without his grunt sounding like he wants to punch a hole through your chest
Kiwami 3 soon hopefully
>kiwami 3 soon
I hope it happens
True
Yakuza 3 is unironically one the best games in the series. Best set of bossfights too
How well do the PC ports of 3-5 play?
Same as the console versions: Full of issues because of the 60 FPS. You can fix the licensed content being removed, the quickstepping issue, and the pool issue (If you use a controller) on PC but that's about it. PC also has some weird issues surrounding fishing timing that aren't present on console but they were apparently fixed in 5 and maybe on 3 but no one's given me a clear answer.
There is nothing more pathetic than thinking about what other men love.
Thou shalt not covet, after all
I like all the games. More brawler and turn-based games is a good thing. I hope for another Judgment or new IP from RGG.
7 was a slog for me I just wanted to grind levels quickly so I could finish the story
glad they made it more bearable judging from the 8 demo
>tfw enjoy JRPGs and enjoy Yakuza
my only issue with 7 is just that there isn't really much reason to conserve your MP since it's so easy to just bring it back up
wish there was harder fights overall honestly
I was optimistic about 7 being an RPG until I actually played it and then played LJ afterwards.
The brawler gameplay was getting stale after 6 and K2, but after getting through LJ I just kept wondering to myself why the fuck they even bothered with the half baked rpg system if they still had it in them to make combat so good for Yagami.
they need to get in on the (late) persona 5 hype
>objectively one of if not the best entry in the franchise
>"fans" of the series endlessly seethe over it, hating anyone who enjoys it because its the most popular
>hardly ever criticizing the game itself, only those who enjoy it for being good
does any other vidya franchise have a fanbase like this or are yakuza fans a special breed of autism
0 being the best isn't a terribly wrong statement but ultimately it's just an 8/10 in a franchise of 7/10s. It's not so amazing that it invalidates the existence and values of other entries, but 0fags act like it does.
>X/10 IGN raiting
have a nice day you fucking imbecile
People gotta change their targets to dubfags who want to bring up ecelebs at every opportunity
I'm sure these '0fags' exist but this thread has mostly been fags that act like 0 killed their parents
>hating anyone who started with it who talk like they know shit about the franchise and which games are good or bad
FTFY
its ok if you've started with 0 and played the rest onward. the fact that you've played them all makes your opinion no different than someone who's started with 3 or 4
and you're out of your mind if you've played them all and didn't think 0 was one of the best
shut the fuck up 0fag
If this is an example of the '0fags' we're supposed to hate you're not making me very convinced to take you seriously
fuck off 0fag
Don't see why
kys 0fag
started with 3 back when it was the only ps3 release in NA
I prefer K1 but 0/K1 are easily the best games in the series
Dragon Engine was a mistake
>does any other vidya franchise have a fanbase like this
Final Fantasy
fisherman majima is hot
thots?
Finished Gaiden not too long ago. Have these threads come up with any ideas who Hanawa was?
Yes
Yes, it's pretty obvious as there's only 1 person it could actually be
I thought there was a consensuses on him being morinaga
I see, pretty obvious that it'd be someone from 5 but I ruled him out because he died but with how RGG's been lately, I guess not. VA stuff went over my head.
It's probably Morinaga
people think it's that one dude who dies off-screen in 5 - people have already said the name
He said in the game he's not affiliated with Yakuza, so he's obviously the boss of taxi corp frrom 5. Morinaga is completly out of the picture since he had quite a large widow's peak, while taxi boss didn't!
why would he need a new life and hide his identity
Hair transplant exists
Also Nakajima is Shimano change my mind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroki_T%C5%8Dchi
People say it's Morinaga but I don't see how that could be the case because Hanawa says he doesn't, and clearly doesn't, understand the way yakuza do things.
Yong Yea version when?++++
K1>0>Lost Paradise>4>Lost Judgement>3>Judgement>5
GAP>>>K2>6>Dead Souls
should I get remastered collection for ps5? finished 0 on pc, K1, JE, LJ, K2 on console. Tried LaD, will finish it later.
pay a dollary-doo for 14 days of gamepass, it's all on there
6 is actually good.
4 protagonists is too much. playing a character for like 4 chapters and never playing them again kills the desire to invest time into them
y0 did it perfectly with alternating between 2 characters every 2 chapters. leveling up your movesets and doing side stories felt way more necessary
>the game that was made after 4 learned from it and made a better flowing narrative
Wow no fucking shit dude, that's what a developer is supposed to do
I like Saejima prison part in Y5. His relationship with his cellmates is quite interesting to see.
>Under 18 Saejima
>0fags thinking people hate 0 and not them
i love how they're trying to spin this now lmao
give me an example of a 0fag in this thread
Seriously?
nta but yeah
yeo I've been seeing it a lot lately
0fags make enjoying 0 for the great game it is feel like a minefield
Are the 0fags in the room with you?
I'm talking to one right now
I'm not a 0fag
I'm a 7fag
7fags are a little better than 0fags but mostly because they're just genuine normies and don't spend all day on imageboards shitting up yakuza threads
The only time ive seen "0fags" has been as low effort bait for (You)s
0fags don't actually exist
>can't enjoy the game you like because people will bully you online
Man, you're pathetic.
3 is only not bad when you compare it to shit like the bonus boss from the first psp game other wise its a fucking slog on hard its not difficult its tedious it does not help they had the brilliant idea to make the final boss heal himself making a already annoying fight do to all the blocking tedious.
Trying to replay some of the older games and not being able to run is filtering me. The lack of QoL in general is making me wonder how I got through these games back in the day. Also, maybe it's just me, but installing 3-5 on an SSD doesn't seem to affect load times at all.
I'm the original poster of this thread, and I'm planning on making another thread when this thread ends
thanks dude
You are welcome.
They should have just kept 3 small scale and in Okinawa with the orphanage and local Yakuza plot lines being the focus. Gameplay issues aside, the story had the potential to be one of the best in the series, but it torpedoes in the second half.
Japanese writing rarely stays small scale, things have to escalate to retarded levels no matter how much it might ruin the story. I assume it's a consequence of their market.
>0fags still getting triggered by being called 0fags
kwk
I cannot wait to see Yong try to voice Gaiden's finale, it's gonna be the funniest thing ever
oh god
ngl the samurai period would be pretty dope if done right with the action combat system rather than turn based slop, having all historical minigames as well and ability to romance a Geisha would be funny.
I burst out laughing when Shishido was thrown in the trunk felt very out of place
He was strong and the daidoji will get him to work with them
Kuroda crying in 3 and 0 is pretty cringeworthy.
Kuroda crying in Gaiden is really fucking good..
It pays off nearly 15 years of emotional buildup and it's Kuroda's most powerful performance to date
Pisses me off that people tried to spin it as "yakuza goes woke and deconstructs kiryu" bullshit
Ngl i tought Haruka was gonna die
he learned to not overdo it imo
yeah he went overboard in 3 especially
I think the biggest problem with that scene to me is how Rikiya is never brought up again
You think he'd at least be remembered in the post credits scene with Kiryu and Haruka or something
I could see that being a game after 8 if Judgment 3 doesn't happen
If it happened what characters would you wanna come back? Probably won't happen because his va did something stupid but I wanna see Nagumo again
ngl the crying felt out of place in 3 considering his more subdued reaction to the events of 1
Maybe it was just the straw that broke the camel's back?
yakuza fans, all rise for our anthem
https://x.com/2005Dojima/status/1722682342597333124?s=20
Fuma Oyabun?
Do you know that this cosplayer got caught grooming a child?
That's all cosplayers
Fuma Ohyaboon*
I only agree with playing the samurai game, being the geatest secondary to touch this series. Also I play with keyboard & mouse.
<3
you're not jingweon, are you?
>jingweon could be here, he thought
With a Segway you can go anywhere you want.
>still no Dragon Engine samurai game
Chances are the next time we see one it'll be in UE4/5 rather than DE. Fully expecting Kenzan Kiwami to be that going forward if it even happens after they realize the minefield that is their main story.
>Kenzan Kiwami
what the fuck was the point of Ishin?
Testing out UE5
Why Would they left the dragon engine? And how will they transtion the smoothness of it to unreal engine 5?
>Why Would they left the dragon engine?
https://www.ign.com/articles/like-a-dragon-ishin-hands-on-preview-tgs-2022
https://www.ign.com/articles/yakuza-dragon-engine-unreal-engine-5-masayoshi-yokoyama
https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/interviews/2022/10/16/interview-like-a-dragon-producer-masayoshi-yokoyama-on-how-yakuza-7-was-inspired-by-one-piece
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/developer-interviews/how-unreal-engine-helped-ryu-ga-gotoku-studio-reinvent-like-a-dragon-ishin-for-modern-consoles
They think the DE is bad for mornings (Which it is) but they've shown with Ishin Kiwami their solution for mornings there is also equally as bad so I have no idea what's going on with them.
>mornings is "bad" in dragon engine
That's their excuse for not working enough, isn't it?
The whole 'testing out UE' thing with ishin kiwami is funny to me because they barely tried using it, the game clearly had no effort put into it
If it was done in the same way as the other kiwamis then you know it'd be shit so eh I'm fine with using the fan translation when I get to it
we're never getting Kenzan because reasons
Yeah the game is too raw for "modern audiunces"
>they're abandoning the Dragon Engine
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They can't be serious
To be fair, it was to be expected because it's an in-house engine they have to train people on, and Yakuza isn't exactly a massive budget series. Everyone knows how to use either Unity or UE4/5 so it makes sense in the long run. It's not like UE4 was bad for Ishin Kiwami, the only real thing they have to work on is their lighting solution.
They used the dragon engine on virtua fighter 5 by the way.
I just wish they'd throw than shit in the garbage after 6
0 made Nishikiyama a good character he was bad before
I hate 4fags the most because they all got brought in by SBFP
Daigo with a pistol is on the level of prime Kiryu
When's kurohyou kiwami?
When they need another protag after retiring Ichiban
Infinite wealth will be a bomb, it releases too close to persona 3 reloaded. the yakuza series could potentially die when everyone buys persona 3 and no one buys yakuza infinite wealth
>Gaysona Pee: Retarded
Nobody cares.
but I don't care about persona?
lol nah
I am of the opinion that if they remastered regular ishin it would still be a mid game and considered as such but you're right anyway
Golf is indeed way less bad some people say
>it would still be a mid game
Only from the sense of the story and obviously the substories. The combat was still extremely fun with a bunch of unique Heat Actions, you have a lot of content that's new to most people, you have a completely new town, you have some solid enemy and boss fights all around as long as you don't go into Pistol, etc.
Yes, Ishin has its problems including a bunch of bosses just being Tennen Rishin users on repeat and most substories just leading to boring friendships, but a lot of it was fresh and enjoyable. Kenzan is the one I can very easily see being thrown under the bus if it was ever translated, easily on the level of 1, 3, or 6, but not as low as Dead Souls.
Because it's cheaper and easier to get new hires without having to go through the training period for said engine. Tons of people know Unreal Engine, no one but workers at Sega know the Dragon Engine.
My biggest problems with ishin are
>gunman is boring
>most substories I didn't like
>friendships are shit
>one of the worst upgrade systems in the series with how grindy it gets by the end
So it'd be mid to me anyway
>one of the worst upgrade systems in the series with how grindy it gets by the end
This only really becomes an issue if you want to 100% the game. If you just want to mess around you'll easily hit like 18-20 in a style.
It should never need to get to that state if I want to unlock every ability/heat action, no other game is like this
after I typed this I realised lost judgment if you wanna upgrade boxer is also like this
that does suck a bit but I forgot since I never used boxer anyway
1 and 2 completely stop you from gaining EXP by removing enemy spawns unless you advance chapters.
3 you can't even max out your stats when going for a 100% run, you actively need to buy a bunch of alcohol at Vincent I think it's called (The Okinawa bar) and do loops between the general store and the bar for 1000 EXP a drink.
Kenzan's Heat Actions and training are missable.
BP1 requires you to outright grind money (Which is almost impossible in that game) to level up and buy special charge attacks. There's also the amount of EXP grind you need just to unlock styles.
BP2 is the same as BP1 but money is easier to get while EXP isn't as easy to get and styles require even more EXP than in BP1 it felt like.
FotNS is like this. You even need to do two playthroughs just to get enough yellow orbs because they're only from the main story chapter completions.
Lost Judgment has a fair amount of SP grinding even for casual players.
>start a new sub story
>oh boy, I wonder what excit- it's yet another friendship
I don't care.
I found 4 and 5 fun, but I really have no interest in a remake of 3. Besides, I found interacting with Yakuza 7's cast much more fun to get to know.
Sega wins either way.
Why do I always find Yakuza threads right before they hit bump limit? I just want to discuss Yakuza 3
I will make a yakuza 3 thread, just wait
I can't be the only one who thinks the ruined Ishin with remastered version by fucking up the lighting and introducing that retarded zany card systemm right?
I was hoping for ishin to get translated for years and then when I saw what they did to it I immediately lost all interest in it. What were they hinking.
>playing Ishin
>reach the chapter where the town gets torched
>suddenly get 1/2 of the FPS
>for some reason everyone's is made of a strange reflective material so everyone turns blonde while everything around them is in flames
Unreal Engine was a mistake.
>jap devs ditching another engine they made
why is this a trend
at the very least they got 5 games out of it, I've seen worse
downsizing to increase profits to appease shareholders
eventually you no longer have enough skilled devs to work with inhouse software anymore forcing you to use goyware
qrd?
I haven't seen others do it?
Capcom at least is sticking with RE Engine