He, Daigo, and Majima are DLC but Saejima is kind of missing some the impact feel he has in 4/5. He does good damage because regular enemies have lower health in general, but his attacks are kind of missing the feedback they had in 4/5, most likely due to the physics/ragdoll in the dragon engine compared to 4/5 having set reactions to certain attacks.
He, Daigo, and Majima are DLC but Saejima is kind of missing some the impact feel he has in 4/5. He does good damage because regular enemies have lower health in general, but his attacks are kind of missing the feedback they had in 4/5, most likely due to the physics/ragdoll in the dragon engine compared to 4/5 having set reactions to certain attacks.
Also, they didn't give him or Majima heat actions which is super lame.
This rips, but man the receive you for 8 kind of sucks, it starts fine but the second it transitions into nothing but wubs and shit, the song just doesn't feel like receive you anymore which is just lame. Which is a shame because 7's remixes of both versions of Receive You own.
Yeah I've never seen a song just fall apart like that. I wouldn't mind as much if the bits inbetween were better but even the first minute is kind of generic boss fight fare
The english version of honolulu city lights is unironically good, that's actually kind of shocking given how bad the dub karaoke in 7 and some of the other 8 voices are
>have to reach a certain point in the story to see your completion list
I hated this shit in 7, and I'm angered to see it return.
Just hide whatever good boy points you earn for doing it if you have to, just let me know up front what I'm gonna be doing.
Yeah.... but when i first started playing, I noticed that i kept bumping into walls and just missing obvious stuff right in front of me. Its because i was looking at the minimap too much, I just turned it back on Hopefully my Retard phase is over.
>most games aren't
I hate that fact so much. I always end up looking more at the minimap then the world
a minimap is very bad game design and there is no way anyone could convince me otherwise
Imagine being filtered by Yakuza 7 which offers some of the most tactical combat in the series that actually requires you to THINK about your actions during combat..... as opposed to a braindead boring button masher like every other generic game in the series
how retarded are you to actually believe this? lad is fucking trash and requires zero thought, it's just another menu prompt for people who have the dexterity of a 2 year old. the combat in lad is sleep endusing, I really hate secondaries coming into this series.
>in Yokohama again >not as Ichi >not as Yagami >not as based Kaito >as Kiryu >still feel kinda bummed I won't get to see the comfy high school after dark anymore
I assume we're not staying in this city long before we bounce to Doten..I mean Sotenburi.
Also, why is everyone talking about the price of the bonus fighter pack? I got it for free; wasn't it part of a pre-order bonus?
I don't even know why Yokohama was in the game. Just to tease Ichiban and shill Seiryu clan a bit? The port from the first mission may as well have been one near Sotenbori.
I have to go to sleep to wage tomorrow so I only got to play an hour, but so far so good. It tosses us right back into the 6-7-Judgment political mess story arc with the Daidoji Faction
before i buy it, how is the game? does it feel "low budget"? i was worried this would feel like a shitty kiwami game since they apparently made it in only 6 months
It doesn't feel as budget as Majima Saga or Kaito files. A story mission in chapter 4 was pretty pathetic but they didn't wince on the enemy design (actually some new movesets) and story cutscenes. Even in engine dialogue are more animated than ever.
>0
Obviously the best game in the series. Best combat system and pretty good story. Majima storyline is kino >1
Great story. Story matters till this day. Kiwami just being a copy of 0 holds it back. >2
irrelevant story, entire plot is thrown out immediately after this game, Kiwami 2 is also a mid remake >3
comfykino but it's pretty slow and the combat system isn't very fleshed out >4
new characters but this game is basically trash with quite possibly the worst story in the entire franchise >5
BLOATMAX, the game. There's way too much content and most of it isn't fun. The story is meh, Shinada is a pointless addition, Akiyama is just there. The only fun parts of this game are Kiryu, Haruka and Saejima's sections. >6
comfykino like 3 but done right. Extremely well done story (this and 0 are the only ones that got me to shed a tear), new fun combat system, absolutely stellar new cast like Nagumo and Someya. The villains are great and it's still the most beautiful Dragon Engine Yakuza game. The only thing that could be seen as a negative is that the original PS3 version ran like ass and only a limited number of minigames. >7
it's fun but barely a Yakuza game
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>2,3 irrelevant story
uuuuuh
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>calling 2 irrelevant when 3 exists >which is the most irrelevant title in the series
Hell, even the orphanage didn't get established there. You could easily remove 3 from existence and most of 4 could still happen.
2 is literally irrelvant beyond introducing Daigo, (who is NOTHING like his later incarnations) and the Omi, who are basically an entirely different faction when they get reintroduced in 5 anyway.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Why yes I loved when kiryu's nakima all stabbed him in the back over a FUCKING BOAT truly top tier story telling
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>calling 2 irrelevant when 3 exists >which is the most irrelevant title in the series
Hell, even the orphanage didn't get established there. You could easily remove 3 from existence and most of 4 could still happen.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah man it's crazy how there wasn't a single mention of the orphanage in 3 at all
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>2 ends with Kiryu running away from his responsibility to take care of orphans instead >in 3 he is with those orphans but gets pulled back into the Yakuza life because Daigo fucked up >in 4 he gets pulled back again because Daigo fucks up again >same with 5 >in 6 Daigo didn't do shit but Haruka fucked up this time by running away and getting knocked up by a fucking chinese
Especially 4 however doesn't really make much sense at the end. Considering that the game literally ends with Kiryu admitting that running away from the Yakuza life is a hopeless case for him. And how does 5 start? With him literally doing the same thing again.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
correct
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>>in 3 he is with those orphans but gets pulled back into the Yakuza life because Daigo fucked up >>in 4 he gets pulled back again because Daigo fucks up again >>same with 5
That is not what happens >3 is because Nakahara got shot and the deed to his orphanage was stolen, and the possible suspect is also possibly the same guy who shot Daigo and he goes to Kamurocho to get to the bottom of it >4 is because Hamazaki gives Kiryu a logbook showing that the 10 billion yen from the first Yakuza game were tied to some weird money plot tied to the metropolitan police and then runs into Yasuko who was looking for Saejima(who he had met earlier in the game) >In 5, he is actively trying to avoid getting involved in the missing Daigo situation and is pulled back in because Kurosawa gives him a lead and causes a chain reaction unravelling a conspiracy with Morinaga and Aoyama and the revelation that Majima is "dead"
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
ZASED
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I mostly agree except I thought 5 was fine.
And 2 won me over by the end, almost inexplicably because I had several complaints at the time about the story.
1 is like a logical crime story with extreme levels of pathos (most of the characters die, in a series that quickly became a "no one is allowed to die" IP). 2 at least had the same pathos.
Then 3-5 were slowly improving flavors of shit, beyond the opening of 3 which I liked for how daring it was.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
5 is a gold standard, its the most content rich game outside of emulated sega games.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>its the most content rich game outside of emulated sega games
nigga i just wanna punch people as Kiryu
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>0 >Obviously the best game in the series. Best combat system and pretty good story. Majima storyline is kino
Wrong right out the gate, not reading the rest of that
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
curious whats the best game in the series? I would guess either 5 or 2.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Original PS2 version of 1, Kiwami is shit. I don't expect people to understand why I feel that way, but I do.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
respectable, its a great story but part of why i love the yakuza series is that it builds off each last game and there is plenty of bad with the ps2 1 game.
>5 >2 >best
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moderately based
ok name your fav mine is 0 during the summer 5 during the winter
excluding lost judgment, for me its either 5 or ps2 1 or 0. ps2 2 had bad mission guiding But i loved how much it improved yakuza 1's combat
yeah combat is a huge thing for me which is why i really love 0 and sidequests and minigames are also a big factor. But i have to love ps2 2 for its presnenation and the inclusion of sotenbori my 2nd favorite area. Kiwami failed in alot of areas but i still think they are excellent action games. Judgement is its own thing, though that might just be coping
>curious whats the best game in the series?
0, 6 and Lost Judgement
I don't understand the love for 6 its just so flawed and feature starved. Can't even ufo capture man.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>5 >2 >best
Original PS2 version of 1, Kiwami is shit. I don't expect people to understand why I feel that way, but I do.
moderately based
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
excluding lost judgment, for me its either 5 or ps2 1 or 0. ps2 2 had bad mission guiding But i loved how much it improved yakuza 1's combat
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I think the entire ending segment with the endless koreans to slaughter is a real momentum killer. I actually enjoy the ending itself, but lord almighty I have enough korean blood on my hands by the end of it all.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>curious whats the best game in the series?
0, 6 and Lost Judgement
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I dunno I love 2 for how many times someone goes "Actually I'm secretly Korean AND I'M FUCKING EVIL AND CRAZY!!! I PULL OUT MY GUN!!!! *BLAM BLAM BLAM*". Kiwami 2 also gets points for the old man baby teenager flashback with the one face scanned guy
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
But muh cabaret mgmt
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I agree with you until you hated on Shinada in 5 and liked 6
That and the texas holdem approach to the hostessbars was a highlight of 6. It's gonna be a really tough argument to convince me that 6 isn't in the bottom 3 though.
isn't coloring your hair illegal in Japan?
Pic related, super criminals
>dumped everything from 6
The plot heavily relies on the nippon glownaggers 6 introduced.
I haven't finished man with no name but plot wise I'm getting 3 vibes with how much the CIA is involved.
I don't know dude. This game so far feels like Yakuza 6.5
Which is fine? I guess?
The combat does not all feel like 6, that's a huge point for me i know its a turn based series now i'm ready to let it die i'm just glad we get this one last game that has good frame rate and depth in a combat system in the dragon engine
it's fucking cringe. not only they reuse assets and animations out the ass to save time, now they reuse the exact same missions and ideas for them as well. same as with that retarded chicken that keeps on showing. just because a vocal minority of retards started shitting themselves over how "funny" the nugget shit in Y0 was doesn't mean the rest of the fanbase enjoys it.
>make joke in Y0 >fans like it >same joke in every game now
Yakuza has become so self-referential and stale like this. Meanwhile yokoyama gives interviews where he pretends he ignores western fans even though it's obvious half this shit is catering to them
they could try to at least make some new jokes but either their incapable or the fans are legit just shitting themselves in laughter over and over again over the exact same jokes just because they can point at it and be like "OH I REMEMBER THIS JOKE HAHAH IT SHOWED UP IN A PREVIOUS GAME!! XD"
The whole lack of toilet paper in a public bathroom is just a common joke in Japan because it used to be that most public bathrooms didn’t have tp and if there was you had to pay for it. This isn’t really that much of a thing these days but sometimes you won’t find tp in some park’s public bathroom similar to the ones you see in the games. Using the pocket tissues as improvised tp is also a thing people do.
So while they are trying the same bit as older games, it’s something people in Japan can relate too which is partly why it keeps showing up.
Yes but then you have a dripping wet asshole
TP is just for drying off pretty much
Not all Japanese people use it though my gf said she was afraid of the ass blaster ever since she was a kid
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
So you're telling me their toilets doesn't also blow warm air like those hand dryers to dry your ass?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Not in any of the apartments and workplaces I've been in, no
The good ones at least have seat warmers and temp/pressure control for the ass blaster water
its the opposite for me. yakuza style feels to sluggish, and im much comfortable just using the more faster agent with the occasional spider to rope in long distance enemies.
I still have to finish Ishin, but in principle I really like the idea of a stripped-down Yakuza game.
These games have become bloated to the extreme, as someone who really loves the scope of the PS2 games.
no one is forcing you to play all the side content
you're advocating for less content for everyone (you still pllay the same 60 bucks) because you're a little bitch
i hope they continue making spin-offs like this, they Fucked up the main series with the turn based combat. So i atleast hope for some brawler gameplay spin-offs considering judgment is dead
1. It's hilarious to say this when the way the game actually functions is that it pulls you away from the story to introduce the umpteenth minigame to you over and over. Those scenes are less shippable than the story itself, and litter the Kiwamis which used to have relatively tight pacing.
2. The games have only become longer and longer over the years, it's an objective fact.
3. The new game is only $50 IIRC.
An ex-Hoe-boive vtuber who used to be the #1 superchat on youtube and has known to be a Yakuza fangirl since way back. (merch was fan stuff with Yakuza and she picked her family name to be Kiryu)
People seethe about her as being a sign of pandering to westoids but they don't really know shit, her streams are like 90% JP-only and her paying fanbase are primarily older JPs. (if anything all the JAV girls are pandering to the chinese since that's their main fanbase)
mmm i love slop so much when it comes out of japan..... yum yum!!!! sloppity slop slop so guel gruel game yahmy!!!!!!! christ you retards complain about others being reddit and cringe while you'll gladly just eat up anything without question
When did (You) get into Yakuza?
What got you into the franchise?
Which game did you start with?
For me it was 2008 when I saw an ad for Yakuza 2 at a local mom n' pop game store.
I got the first game and fucking loved it. Been importing since Kenzan and 3.
Yeah this was me as well but I never actually got to play the games until 0. I had 4 and eventually 5 from psn plus but I had a launch ps3 with no upgraded hard drive which made it basically impossible for me to try it because yakuza games had huge file sizes. But it was a series that I was curious about for the longest time so when 0 came out and I heard it was beginner friendly I took the dive and never looked back.
I knew the series existed back when it released on ps2 but iirc the first game came out close to ps3’s release so younger me had already moved on to that, despite having a BC ps3 I just never bought a ps2 game after that . Missed out on some good games
2009 because of Brad from 4PP on justin.tv playing 3. I saw bits and bobs and it looked interesting so I hunted down the first 3 games and fell in love.
I started with the first game around the time 4 came out. Saw a gif on here of some heat actions and it looked pretty cool, plus I had just hacked my PS2 and needed something to do with it.
2016. I bought a used PS3 and got GTA V with it, so I went to a used games store and traded it for the first PS3 exclusive I saw on the shelves, which was Yakuza 3.
Took me over six years to catch up with the series. Gaiden is the first time I'm playing a Yakuza game on release day.
>When did (You) get into Yakuza?
2019 >What got you into the franchise?
baka mitai meme >Which game did you start with?
yakuza 0
yes, i am a homosexual. however I HAVE played the ps2 originals and imported ps4 ishin and kenzan and 1/2 hd remaster, One of these days i will be competent in japanese to Play those games...
With Y0 when it released on Steam because you homosexual were constantly shilling it on here leading up to the release and now I hate everything about the fanbase surrounding it as well as the direction they're heading towards because everything just starts to feel disjointed as fuck from what the old games story used to be like. I don't even know where the fuck these people are going to steer this shit towards in Y8. They legit had to move out of Japan and into Hawaii where instead of dealing with the Yakuza, they deal with the Mafia in there because everything about the original setting dried up. I don't want to enter enter another fandom in my life if this is what the lifecycle of it and the series itself looks like this.
I feel the same way
I can't even get myself to play 6 or Ishin at this point; I'm just not invested in the series anymore
Acknowledging the west was probably the last thing they should've done
>>all the original games before westernization are bad
0 and 1 is good and 2 was ok. The PS3 only games were extremely mediocre though and almost killed the entire franchise.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Says who? You?
PS3 only games sold better than ones on PS4, how did they "almost killed the entire franchise"?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>PS3 only games sold better than ones on PS4
lol
lmao even
Yakuza 5 was only localized because of a very vocal minority and it still took years after the JP release.
0 was quite literally the last chance and if it had flopped like the other games, Yakuza was finished in the West.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>almost killed the entire franchise.
By what the franchise and fanbase of it looks like now, I wish it would've just fucking died.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
cry more 🙂
WesternGODS saved this series so it's only natural that Yokoyama appeals to us.
God I know I shouldn't spoil myself with the leaked 8 tracks but the amon theme sounds so good
Newfag here who bought 0 almost 2 years ago, I saw a supercut of a playthrough that technically spoiled things but was out of context they joked Makoto faking her blindness which made me think that was real until I played it and it made me want to check it out
If I knew I was gonna be addicted to the series to the point of playing 3,4 and 5 all in a row with no breaks and getting to Amon in all of them I would've started with 1 on the PS2, honest
I literally went up to a gamestop employee and said "I'd like a game where i can hang around a neone strip and beat up dude" and motherfucker handed me yakuza 3. Been my favorite game series since.
>When did (You) get into Yakuza?
When 5's localization had all those announcement threads with people rejoicing. I usually check threads randomly when something big happens people here are happy about. Gotten me into a lot of series actually, Deadly Premonition being one of them.
Based on my knowledge years later I realized back around 3's launch I had seen at least one or two 3 threads but never bothered checking them out. >What got you into the franchise?
Ended up asking where I should start and eventually emulation tips. Played a bit of 1, really liked that I could just grab a bike and slam it in a guy's face. Sold me on the series ever since.
Later on as I was playing I found out about Amon after I tried to figure out why the trading sequence substory in chapter 4 wasn't progressing and then completely missed the casino a chapter or two later causing me to drop the series temporarily out of "I am not doing a full playthrough."
Bought 1&2 HD a bit after that along with Kenzan and 3 for playing later. When 0 PS4 came out people here were hyping it up and reminded me I had it on the backburner. 100%ed everything ever since. >Which game did you start with?
1 PS2 but my actual first completed playthrough was 1 HD because I wanted the platinum to go along with playing it.
Just keep in mind that the perspective is a bit skewed on HD for both games. For some reason the original lets you see more vertically while the HD lets you see more horizontally. Picture related is an old comparison I made to show the lighting issues above native on PCSX2 vs. RPCS3 but ignore that part, you can see the vertical vs. horizontal thing there.
Same as it was in 1. They just added item boxes to phones in both games instead of just the hideouts, 1 HD has checkmarks on the menu, the load times for battles is like at most three seconds if installed to HDD, and obviously the higher quality textures and stuff including on signs.
Ideally these older remasters should have included the original 4:3 aspect ratio. Bottom is your typical scenario where they crop out the top and bottom of the original 4:3 aspect ratio to create a fake 16:9 that looks weirdly zoomed in while also missing visuals the devs intended for you to see in the original 4:3 version.
About 1-2 years after 0 released on PC.
I saw it on a sale, it was around 5-10 euroshekels. At first I thought "nah, I don't like fistfights, I don't like gangster themes, I don't like GTA (thought it was similar), there's nothing for me in this, and to make matters worse normalfags love it and keep spamming retarded memes, so it can't be good", but then decided to give it a try and refund if I don't like it.
Two years later pic related.
I feel like 2009 or so because I had found both Yakuza and 2 at a deep discount at some place that didn't really sell games.
I was a weeb is really the easiest answer. It was a game set in Japan that touted itself as about Yakuza, so obviously that would appeal to me.
First game was Yakuza on the PS2.
I played 1-2 on release and did like them, but not enough to drop $599 on a ps3 so I fell off the series until 0. I’m simultaneously an oldfag and a 0babby.
>Kiryu meets Omi guy at the bar >Kiryu bravely bullshits in spite of fucking up the dude's underlings in customary Dragon style fashion earlier >getting real tired of your shit, "Joryu", here's the directions to the next dungeon gauntlet, now get outta my face
>casting yong yea as the dub voice
i mean i only ever play the jap dub anyway but decisions like this and it's addition of streamers make me a little hesitant. either way yong is a homosexual
just pirate. if you buy it, you support the retards putting additions like those into the games.
they also added those stupid "optional DLC" trooper cards in the Ishin Remake with e-celebs and fucking nyanners of all people into them. never bought. not going to bother pirating either.
You literally have to go out of your way to add the ecelebs. Why are you malding over trooper cards that don't even exist without you explicitly downloading them?
>ishin remake
got bad vibes from this game too. honestly thinking about emulating the original tbh
Isshin Remake has some issues but they're things that sucked in the original too.
they shove the cards in your face even if you don't have that shit installed. the moment you reach some training area or whatever, pic related just shows up all over your screen tell you that you should definitely go install those right away!!!
>2 second tutorial >never mentioned again
LOL. You're picking the wrong thing to get mad about. The recasted Yakuza 0 pandering and the obnoxious level of grind are the actual problems.
no, those one are annoying as well but this is worth mentioning as well since it's a useful obnoxious addition that serves nothing to the game whatsoever but pander to foreigners and basically beginning them to come play the games cause they have their favorite parasocial e-celebs in them.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You're on a foreigner forum complaining about foreigners lmao.
The dlc isn't even installed by default. You have to manually search up the dlc to download it on Steam.
Also, all these "ecelebs" are literal whos.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
doesn't change anything. they still wasted time and resourced having them added to the game and their cards and everything are hardcoded into the base game. downloading and installing the dlc only activates it so no thanks. no buy from it. i'm not supported retarded pandering tactics.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You could've just said you don't want to buy it instead of coming up with all this cope lol
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
? that was the entire point you retard i already said i'm not buying nor pirating it and the guy replying shouldn't either because they're supporting retarded choices from RGG like these
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>i'm not buying nor pirating it >still in every thread
mental illness
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
because no one else should either
RRG needs to go bankrupt for their retarded decisions
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Ok buddy retard
Celeb cameos have been a thing in RGG for a long a time, literally who cares about some streamers being DLC
It's like people mad about the v-tuber, I never heard about her but is it that bad there's a reference model female character that's not a porn actress one time?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
i dont mind the wrestler guy because his portrait is the most well done. The rest look pretty shitty and having an anime vtuber just fucks everything up, I dont care about nyanners or what she is/does. its just weird to see some anime girl next to all these yakuza guys and humans
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>abloo bloo it's liek.... just one time broe.... what's so bad about it????
feed them scraps once, they'll take your entire hand the next time. you're retarded if you can't see the problem with them starting to do shit like this and it not devolving into absolute cancer.
Only played the tutorial fight, but brave of them to start the game by reminding us of how retarded the ending of RGG6 was. Boy, I sure hope nobody gets shot by a gun Kiryu conveniently forgot to remove from a guy he just beat up.
Different ambiance and atmosphere.
Different music.
Different minigames and in 2's case exclusive minigames.
Different fights and gauntlets.
Different coliseums.
Different progression in the case of 1 vs. K1.
Different boss movesets.
Different way combat in general is handled.
Different exploration.
Different (and in my opinion, better) Amon fights for both games.
More unique substory backdrops in the case of 2 since K2 made them set in generic buildings.
Shinseicho in 2 vs. an NPC complaining it's not there in K2.
A better Kaoru VA.
Fart bomb hoodie.
it was impressive, and the lighting effects throughout the rainy environments were real nice. you can view magazines, you can stop and look at city ad screens. the only thing kiwami has over it is HD GRAPHICS!11!!!!!! and arguably better combat (i really like the meaty/heavy feeling ps2 combat)
Can someone tell me if there's actually any 60fps mode on gaiden for ps5 or not? And if yes, then where? There are multiple gaiden ps5 gameplay videos at 60fps but for me it runs at 30fps and I can't find any performance mode in settings.
Check your console settings. It's possible that there is no option to pick the mode in-game, and instead it uses your PS5 account's default preferred mode. That would be absolutely retarded but it's RGG Studio we're talking about.
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why are they hosting old women in their games now? this some kind of psyop to try and their their dwindling population to just impregnate christmas cake?
she's passable at least, the other girl is straight up hag-tier
The other anons replying are gay niggas. I've been told I only like 5-6's, and that's just fine with me. They're confusing a 6 morphing a models face scan to resemble hers, instead of appreciating a homely girl who loves kids and didn't fall for the feminism memes
why are they hosting old women in their games now? this some kind of psyop to try and their their dwindling population to just impregnate christmas cake?
You mean the bitch who had absolutely no buildup and was just introduce instantly into the game after a major timeskip?
Yeah, I'm sure that's a great a great canon true love for him, haha.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Yumi
whomst'dve?
Nice self report you two. How about you play Gaiden/the demo before coming back?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Personally, I loved the part where Kiryu embraces Jesus as his one true God, Savior and Father in Heavens and becomes a true Christian.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
This is all building up to Infinite Wealth turning into another JRPG where a bunch of guys kill God
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
It'll lead up to Ichiban's mom being one of those secret Koreans who partook in the Church cult who got Shinzo Abe assassinated.
This.
Just slap the jav whores into some of the minigames or something, like 6's live chat. Hostess shit has never been good and it only gets worse with each new game somehow.
>if you're 50 you should marry a woman who is no longer able to bear you any children because...... uhm just because i say so.. mmkaay????
There is ZERO reason to marry a "mature" woman, at that point just continue on being a bachelor. The entire point of marriage is to build a family together and you cant do that when the woman is unable to give you any children.
The thing I like most about original Yakuza 1 is it doesn't have any of the trappings of being a series they know they're going to keep making sequels for. They made a game with the knowledge that it might just end there and that's all, and it's a much tighter experience because of that. Not to say some games don't use being a sequel well, but I find that refreshing with the original when looking at the series as a whole. It's kind of like how Danganronpa 1 feels like a self contained experience that is kind of lessened from it being as popular as it was, and every sequel twisting everything about the original for the purposes of franchising further.
And there is something beautiful about that. I really do appreciate that aspect of ps2 yakuza 1. Danganon ronpa was such a bullshit crazy project that its a tall order to follow it up, I'm glad 53 went the way it did, but that's kind of my point. It's almost insulting to think that the yakuza franchise that focused so hard on the same town the same system for so long never got better. I'd be willing to say that the "story" of 1 is the best but as far as combat visuals music side quests minigames and quality of life goes, the series just improves and improves unless it doesn't.
This bitch is a confirmed lesbian who said she never wants to actually procreate because children are "disgusting" or something along those lines. What the fuck was the point of casting her in this game when she can't even do nor is into the most basic of things that make a woman be attractive to men in general?
She won't fuck you, she won't take your babies, if for whatever reason you do get to fuck her via rape, she's like 30 and the kids will either come out autistic or she just hits early menopause or something, and even then she's likely to just abort the children before they come out since she doesn't like the idea of taking care of them.
She's quite literally you're average progressive American but with the added coat of trying to larp as some traditional Japanese waifu.
shed used to live with another hoe-boive member while she was working for them as coco and the would apparently fuck each other or some shit then randomly make lesbian jokes on stream and encourage people to ship her with other women.
might've just as well been for the sake of entertainment and getting those sad fucks watching them to be like "OMG YURI KAWAII JUST LIKE IN MY ANIMU!!!" or whatever, but it was retarded nonetheless.
>Game tries to act like Kiryu, and the series as a whole, is moving on from the past by symbolically having Kiryu give up Yumi's ring at the end of the game >The next game literally brags about the fact that it's bringing back pretty much every fucking character in the series ever, including dead ones
getting mixed messages from you RGG, are you moving on or not?
you finally starting to realize they don't know what they're doing and that the story is shit and heading nowhere with no concrete message in mind or nah?
They're fucking retards who don't know what to do with the series, so they listened to EVERYONE. They listened to people who wanted Kiryu back, everyone who wanted real time combat back and they listened to secondaries who wanted their favorite funny Y0 characters back. I'd rather they just stick to one plan. I liked Yakuza 7 because it was a pretty big risk and made itself stand out but the new one feels like a bunch of compromises.
RGG obviously wanted to retire Kiryu and soft-reboot the franchise but they changed their mind, probably due to negative fan reaction in Japan or something
>JAV hostess was always cringe anyway. 6's livechat and 0's softcore dvd was better.
Based. The only good hostess minigames are the management ones.
I will never bother doing the other ones unless they add an "optional AO unlocker" pack for them otherwise it's less then even a gravure for a lot of effort
live chat was funny because it's insanely cringe. the softcore dvd stuff was lame. hostesses are fun even if the actual conversation mini game can be a bit boring or take way too long. It was worth it because you got basic substories as well as a permanent mini game partner and karaoke partner. Gaiden somehow did this the worst way by going in on the conversation mode, formatting it like the cringey livechat and gravure minigames in 6, rewarding you with the 0 softcore nonsense, and not even giving you the bonus of minigame partners or karaoke partners.
Bros i fucking hate I have to hold rb to dodge. Ruins the rhythm of the game for me. How is this game not as smooth as either remake.
Please tell me the combat gets better as I unlock stuff, so far I'm kinda disappointed.
who the fuck just goes outside, says aloud "man I could go for some takoyaki" and just have some underground fixer get her muscle to deliver it for you
>why do they keep changing it?
Because they're constantly trying to see what works and if something is more fun than the other. >1 and 2 were EXP + trainers. >Kenzan and 3 were EXP + trainers + revelations. >4, Dead Souls, and 5 were the Soul Orb system + trainers + revelations.
Correct me if I'm wrong on 5, it's been a while and I think I'm wrong. Last two aren't in Dead Souls. >BP1 and BP2 have you using money to buy stats and special attacks with EXP only leveling styles. >Ishin, 0, K1, and FotNS all use some variant of the orb system but do it in different ways with Ishin and FotNS having ones you manually set while 0 and K1 have you buying things linked to each other.
Ishin and FotNS lead to an issue of you potentially unlocking something you don't want and being stuck until you level up again. >6 and K2 use the food system which prevents grinding for a decent amount of the game but also railroads you into certain tasks in 6 to actually get any EXP.
6's method at least forces the user to experience all of the game instead of only some of it by forcing you to do minigames and substories for Charm and Tech without food combos. >Judgment and Lost Judgment go to a spendable EXP system that's used like currency rather than for levels.
I personally don't think they've found the perfect middleground yet. JE, LJ, and the Ishin/FotNS Orb system are my favorites personally. JE/LJ are also sort of like the 4 orb system in a roudabout way. Ishin/FotNS is probably the closest to how I feel like it should be done, but you should get to buy the orbs or something with increasing EXP amounts.
>6 and K2 food system prevents grinding
lol wat
It hugely incentivizes grinding because doing anything but eating and then using an item to be hungry again is pointless
The food system and dragon engine ruined K2
I'd say it ruined 6 but everything else about 6 sucks anyway
>because doing anything but eating and then using an item to be hungry again is pointless
You can't afford to do that for a majority of 6 because you have no real way of making large amounts of money, and in K2 you have to basically do all of Four Shine before you finally start making money which you'd have to intentionally stop and do.
hey moose, the dragon engine actually feels good now in comparison to judgement/6 its not just me right? Before it felt like it was struggling to keep up but now it feels right.
3 weeks ago
Moose
I felt like it was fine in Judgment outside of the bounce blocking, that was its only real issue. It looked fantastic at night and I really liked the particle effects.
7 and LJ still have bad morning and underwhelming afternoons but both had fantastic evenings, and LJ finally got the combat to a point where it didn't feel too stiff or too loose. Only real thing I think looks a bit off is the Heat but that's about it.
they fixed it, i know its hard to beleeb but they actually put the work in to make it feel responsive and impactful. I don't think anyone will say gaiden "feels sluggish"
>It's hard to beleeb
It's impossible to believe
Judgement and Lost Judgement feel sluggish and shitty but get around that by making you an AoE god with a wall run
No way did they figure it out now after four dog shit combat systems
One thing I don't like about the Dragon Engine games is that if you want to run/jog instead of break out into a full ass sprint you have to hold the stick halfway. The sprint button is already bound to two buttons (A and RT) why not make one of those run and the other one sprint?
Do you guys use "Always sprint in combat"?
NGL, i kinda hate the slow ass running Square attack in Agent style. Running attacks should only be on Triangle.
While I do think Lost Judgment has the best combat in the entire series Judgment implementing the run button during combat is one of the worst things this series has ever done.
>If you don't want to do a running attack hold RB before attacking so Kiryu will get into a fighting pose and stop running.
Thanks for the tip, I hate pressing "Run" in combat and the forced running Square attack in Agent style was making me just not want to use Agent.
7 has the worst exp system because if you want to max your characters you have to spend an ungodly amount of time grinding whereas every other Yakuza game you end up max level naturally if you're going for 100%.
No, but you do have to get to max level and max one of your Jobs and level up a bunch of the other ones too which is like a mandatory 3+ hour grind at the end of the game.
hey thats fine, 50 bucks is alot I get it. Just give the game a try when it gets on sale and get wow'd at how the dragon engine actually feels good for once.
in kiwami 2 on PC what should I cap FPS to? I heard some mechanics are tied to FPS so what's the target FPS? 60? I'm using third party software to cap FPS and setting the in-game FPS to unlimited since the in-game cap behaves strangely.
30 if you want physics to work properly because the game was only intended to be played at 30.
60 if you are okay with ragdolls being a bit broken but you need Silent Patch to fix minigames like Toylets.
Do not go any higher.
Unsure if Infinite Wealth will be peak or marvel tier fanfiction. They are seeding a LOT of stuff for this game. >Ichi's mother >More backstory for Arakawa >Teasing and end for Kiryu (this time for sure) >Closure on Yumi >Daidoji involvemt >Shishido and Nishitani as agents >More Jingweon shenanigans teased with Nishitani >Hanawa secret identity, possibly being Morinaga or at least someone else from Yakuza 5 >Still need payoff on the security company of Watase and Daigo >Seiryu Clan expansion and Sawashiro returning
We haven't even gotten to the new faction they revealed.
UH OH ZOOMER DETECTED WEE WOO WEE WOOO ZERO BABY IN THE THREAD EVERYONE THIS GUY LIKES ZERO HE ONLY LIKES THE MEME GAME WOOP WOOP CAN'T SAY ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT ZERO ZERO IS SHIT BECAUSE ITS POPULAR. WOOP WOOP BET YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED ANY OTHER GAME ZERO BABBY ZERO TASTE DETECTED . EVERYONE LOOK ITS A GUY THAT LIKES ZERO, HERE HE IS THE ZERO FAG!
the finale was kinda dumb, i mean all yakuza plots are dumb but the main bad guy's monologue was kinda shit. I liked beating his face in for it but it wasn't like aizawa who had a understandable motovation after what kiryu did throughout the whole franchise
I feel like he was only written because judgement is an action game and they needed a final boss
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
That's kinda shit writing, you can make someone who is a satisfying final boss but is also a direct opposition to the themes of that game. You know like the final boss in lost judgement.
Yeah, i have to agree with this. Judgement is kino for 98% of its runtime but the final boss fight against the "killer" is pretty mid and felt like it barely belonged in the game.
I haven't played LJ yet so not sure if they improve things there.
Yes. It is pretty much the peak of the series in terms of writing.
I really do hope we get a third game because it feels like it's on a more solid path than LAD at this point.
>I really do hope we get a third game
I kinda hate Yagami acting like a zoomer while being a mid 30s fart. I feel like the Yakuza cast are vastly superior protags.
>denuvo >can't purchase this game from my country because of the currency region lock
the fuck do I do? I can't be fucked with risking my account using a vpn.
its stupid but, i kinda like how stupid it is? Its intended to fight yakuza style in seirous one on one boss fights but like if you are mopping up goons its just fun to throw in some spiderman shit.
I can see what they meant when it was originally designed as DLC.
dlc for what
Y7
Is this game a normal yakuza game or it plays like a gay yakuza (like 7) game
Normal yakuza game. i cried when i was playing as kiryu and fighting with the agent style. Its just like yakuza 7 never happened...
Might give it a try then
I dropped 7 because of that
Is it on gamepass? My xbox could get some use
yes,,,
Oh that's nice then
Thank you
So, is he playable?
Pre order bonus
He, Daigo, and Majima are DLC but Saejima is kind of missing some the impact feel he has in 4/5. He does good damage because regular enemies have lower health in general, but his attacks are kind of missing the feedback they had in 4/5, most likely due to the physics/ragdoll in the dragon engine compared to 4/5 having set reactions to certain attacks.
Also, they didn't give him or Majima heat actions which is super lame.
>no heat actions
what
No Coliseum fighter has any.
Akame's Like a Butterfly is the second best version of the song, Kirara in Kiwami 2 still has the undisputed best version
s e x o
her va is great
What's up with the graphics? You got mat_fullbright on or something
thats just the lighting in her room
isn't coloring your hair illegal in Japan?
the dub version of Judgement is honestly even worse when watching it in game... it really sets in how unfitting Kiryu's voice is
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I love how Yong Yinged that Yong. Yong Yea!!!!!
I wasn't sure if anyone but Kuroda could pull off Kiryu, making it unfair for Yong
But Chink Kiryu is surprisingly passable based on this
>3DPD hostesses
eurgh
game is kino otherwise
istg did they bring back the speed correlates to heatbar nonsense?
i’ve not unlocked the next bar upgrade but i pray it only turns off at no heat
This rips, but man the receive you for 8 kind of sucks, it starts fine but the second it transitions into nothing but wubs and shit, the song just doesn't feel like receive you anymore which is just lame. Which is a shame because 7's remixes of both versions of Receive You own.
Yeah I've never seen a song just fall apart like that. I wouldn't mind as much if the bits inbetween were better but even the first minute is kind of generic boss fight fare
my favorite dude is back ! So cool
I thought Yakuza 8 wasn't out yet? Am I confused.
The english version of honolulu city lights is unironically good, that's actually kind of shocking given how bad the dub karaoke in 7 and some of the other 8 voices are
>have to reach a certain point in the story to see your completion list
I hated this shit in 7, and I'm angered to see it return.
Just hide whatever good boy points you earn for doing it if you have to, just let me know up front what I'm gonna be doing.
i don't get it
i can't already see shinies on the ground without these
It adds icons to your map. It's fucking cracked. I already have almost all of them and I haven't even been on the boat yet.
oh i didn't even notice the map
nta. But i turned off the minimap, I like Actually... Looking at my surroundings... tyvm
>But i turned off the minimap
These games are not meant to be played with them off. Hell, most games aren't.
Yeah.... but when i first started playing, I noticed that i kept bumping into walls and just missing obvious stuff right in front of me. Its because i was looking at the minimap too much, I just turned it back on Hopefully my Retard phase is over.
>most games aren't
I hate that fact so much. I always end up looking more at the minimap then the world
a minimap is very bad game design and there is no way anyone could convince me otherwise
i think they show on the menu map not the minimap
They show on both.
wehre do i get contact lenses. help a Yakuza guy out
i got it from one of the lockers
nvemind
Game is great. Spoderman Watch is dumb as shit but gameplay-wise it's fun as fuck so whatever, I'll ignore how silly it is
Imagine being filtered by Yakuza 7 which offers some of the most tactical combat in the series that actually requires you to THINK about your actions during combat..... as opposed to a braindead boring button masher like every other generic game in the series
how retarded are you to actually believe this? lad is fucking trash and requires zero thought, it's just another menu prompt for people who have the dexterity of a 2 year old. the combat in lad is sleep endusing, I really hate secondaries coming into this series.
stop falling for that stale bait
And I can't stand third world ESL disgusting monkeys on my board
I'm australian you retarded fat fuck, is that the best you can do? you can't defend your shit taste and your too retarded to understand english.
XD
How long is Gaiden?
>in Yokohama again
>not as Ichi
>not as Yagami
>not as based Kaito
>as Kiryu
>still feel kinda bummed I won't get to see the comfy high school after dark anymore
I assume we're not staying in this city long before we bounce to Doten..I mean Sotenburi.
Also, why is everyone talking about the price of the bonus fighter pack? I got it for free; wasn't it part of a pre-order bonus?
I don't even know why Yokohama was in the game. Just to tease Ichiban and shill Seiryu clan a bit? The port from the first mission may as well have been one near Sotenbori.
is it worth the price and what is the frame rate and resolution on ps5?
I have to go to sleep to wage tomorrow so I only got to play an hour, but so far so good. It tosses us right back into the 6-7-Judgment political mess story arc with the Daidoji Faction
let's go boys
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before i buy it, how is the game? does it feel "low budget"? i was worried this would feel like a shitty kiwami game since they apparently made it in only 6 months
It doesn't feel as budget as Majima Saga or Kaito files. A story mission in chapter 4 was pretty pathetic but they didn't wince on the enemy design (actually some new movesets) and story cutscenes. Even in engine dialogue are more animated than ever.
alright thanks, that's good to hear
You better not be shit talking the mission where you need to Continue the debauchery that was peak comfy and I was laffin my balls off
so does anyone know who matsuhita@congrats on marriage is? I kinda want to give him props for his kareoke score.
I beat it and it's better than 0, top 3 for sure.
>the gauntlet at temple with the boss movesets AND kanai's moveset
dare i say...
kino?
This feels like this the first new yakuza game since zero thank fucking god they dumped everything from 6
acquire some taste nigga
>people are now pretending 6 was good
the second town was comfy but the game overall is pretty shit
kinda the same case as 3 but worse
are now pretending 6 was good
6 is the best game since 0 nagger.
I like how you had to throw in nagger because you know just how terrible your bait is.
>bait
Ok I'll elaborate.
>0
Obviously the best game in the series. Best combat system and pretty good story. Majima storyline is kino
>1
Great story. Story matters till this day. Kiwami just being a copy of 0 holds it back.
>2
irrelevant story, entire plot is thrown out immediately after this game, Kiwami 2 is also a mid remake
>3
comfykino but it's pretty slow and the combat system isn't very fleshed out
>4
new characters but this game is basically trash with quite possibly the worst story in the entire franchise
>5
BLOATMAX, the game. There's way too much content and most of it isn't fun. The story is meh, Shinada is a pointless addition, Akiyama is just there. The only fun parts of this game are Kiryu, Haruka and Saejima's sections.
>6
comfykino like 3 but done right. Extremely well done story (this and 0 are the only ones that got me to shed a tear), new fun combat system, absolutely stellar new cast like Nagumo and Someya. The villains are great and it's still the most beautiful Dragon Engine Yakuza game. The only thing that could be seen as a negative is that the original PS3 version ran like ass and only a limited number of minigames.
>7
it's fun but barely a Yakuza game
>2,3 irrelevant story
uuuuuh
2 is literally irrelvant beyond introducing Daigo, (who is NOTHING like his later incarnations) and the Omi, who are basically an entirely different faction when they get reintroduced in 5 anyway.
Why yes I loved when kiryu's nakima all stabbed him in the back over a FUCKING BOAT truly top tier story telling
>calling 2 irrelevant when 3 exists
>which is the most irrelevant title in the series
Hell, even the orphanage didn't get established there. You could easily remove 3 from existence and most of 4 could still happen.
Yeah man it's crazy how there wasn't a single mention of the orphanage in 3 at all
>2 ends with Kiryu running away from his responsibility to take care of orphans instead
>in 3 he is with those orphans but gets pulled back into the Yakuza life because Daigo fucked up
>in 4 he gets pulled back again because Daigo fucks up again
>same with 5
>in 6 Daigo didn't do shit but Haruka fucked up this time by running away and getting knocked up by a fucking chinese
Especially 4 however doesn't really make much sense at the end. Considering that the game literally ends with Kiryu admitting that running away from the Yakuza life is a hopeless case for him. And how does 5 start? With him literally doing the same thing again.
correct
>>in 3 he is with those orphans but gets pulled back into the Yakuza life because Daigo fucked up
>>in 4 he gets pulled back again because Daigo fucks up again
>>same with 5
That is not what happens
>3 is because Nakahara got shot and the deed to his orphanage was stolen, and the possible suspect is also possibly the same guy who shot Daigo and he goes to Kamurocho to get to the bottom of it
>4 is because Hamazaki gives Kiryu a logbook showing that the 10 billion yen from the first Yakuza game were tied to some weird money plot tied to the metropolitan police and then runs into Yasuko who was looking for Saejima(who he had met earlier in the game)
>In 5, he is actively trying to avoid getting involved in the missing Daigo situation and is pulled back in because Kurosawa gives him a lead and causes a chain reaction unravelling a conspiracy with Morinaga and Aoyama and the revelation that Majima is "dead"
ZASED
I mostly agree except I thought 5 was fine.
And 2 won me over by the end, almost inexplicably because I had several complaints at the time about the story.
1 is like a logical crime story with extreme levels of pathos (most of the characters die, in a series that quickly became a "no one is allowed to die" IP). 2 at least had the same pathos.
Then 3-5 were slowly improving flavors of shit, beyond the opening of 3 which I liked for how daring it was.
5 is a gold standard, its the most content rich game outside of emulated sega games.
>its the most content rich game outside of emulated sega games
nigga i just wanna punch people as Kiryu
>0
>Obviously the best game in the series. Best combat system and pretty good story. Majima storyline is kino
Wrong right out the gate, not reading the rest of that
curious whats the best game in the series? I would guess either 5 or 2.
Original PS2 version of 1, Kiwami is shit. I don't expect people to understand why I feel that way, but I do.
respectable, its a great story but part of why i love the yakuza series is that it builds off each last game and there is plenty of bad with the ps2 1 game.
ok name your fav mine is 0 during the summer 5 during the winter
yeah combat is a huge thing for me which is why i really love 0 and sidequests and minigames are also a big factor. But i have to love ps2 2 for its presnenation and the inclusion of sotenbori my 2nd favorite area. Kiwami failed in alot of areas but i still think they are excellent action games. Judgement is its own thing, though that might just be coping
I don't understand the love for 6 its just so flawed and feature starved. Can't even ufo capture man.
>5
>2
>best
moderately based
excluding lost judgment, for me its either 5 or ps2 1 or 0. ps2 2 had bad mission guiding But i loved how much it improved yakuza 1's combat
I think the entire ending segment with the endless koreans to slaughter is a real momentum killer. I actually enjoy the ending itself, but lord almighty I have enough korean blood on my hands by the end of it all.
>curious whats the best game in the series?
0, 6 and Lost Judgement
I dunno I love 2 for how many times someone goes "Actually I'm secretly Korean AND I'M FUCKING EVIL AND CRAZY!!! I PULL OUT MY GUN!!!! *BLAM BLAM BLAM*". Kiwami 2 also gets points for the old man baby teenager flashback with the one face scanned guy
But muh cabaret mgmt
I agree with you until you hated on Shinada in 5 and liked 6
6 and 0 are the only good games post ps3
That and the texas holdem approach to the hostessbars was a highlight of 6. It's gonna be a really tough argument to convince me that 6 isn't in the bottom 3 though.
Pic related, super criminals
I haven't finished man with no name but plot wise I'm getting 3 vibes with how much the CIA is involved.
The combat does not all feel like 6, that's a huge point for me i know its a turn based series now i'm ready to let it die i'm just glad we get this one last game that has good frame rate and depth in a combat system in the dragon engine
>dumped everything from 6
The plot heavily relies on the nippon glownaggers 6 introduced.
I don't know dude. This game so far feels like Yakuza 6.5
Which is fine? I guess?
He's coming back for sure right
>desperately linking your dead thread
classic XD
its funny, What?
it's fucking cringe. not only they reuse assets and animations out the ass to save time, now they reuse the exact same missions and ideas for them as well. same as with that retarded chicken that keeps on showing. just because a vocal minority of retards started shitting themselves over how "funny" the nugget shit in Y0 was doesn't mean the rest of the fanbase enjoys it.
Wait till you see the final boss
>make joke in Y0
>fans like it
>same joke in every game now
Yakuza has become so self-referential and stale like this. Meanwhile yokoyama gives interviews where he pretends he ignores western fans even though it's obvious half this shit is catering to them
they could try to at least make some new jokes but either their incapable or the fans are legit just shitting themselves in laughter over and over again over the exact same jokes just because they can point at it and be like "OH I REMEMBER THIS JOKE HAHAH IT SHOWED UP IN A PREVIOUS GAME!! XD"
The Japanese like it. He's catering to them. You don't matter. He doesn't give a shit what you think. Pretty simple.
The whole lack of toilet paper in a public bathroom is just a common joke in Japan because it used to be that most public bathrooms didn’t have tp and if there was you had to pay for it. This isn’t really that much of a thing these days but sometimes you won’t find tp in some park’s public bathroom similar to the ones you see in the games. Using the pocket tissues as improvised tp is also a thing people do.
So while they are trying the same bit as older games, it’s something people in Japan can relate too which is partly why it keeps showing up.
I thought Japan doesn't use toilet paper since their toilets are futuristic with buttons that washes your ass for you?
Yes but then you have a dripping wet asshole
TP is just for drying off pretty much
Not all Japanese people use it though my gf said she was afraid of the ass blaster ever since she was a kid
So you're telling me their toilets doesn't also blow warm air like those hand dryers to dry your ass?
Not in any of the apartments and workplaces I've been in, no
The good ones at least have seat warmers and temp/pressure control for the ass blaster water
is it just coz no upgrades or does Agent style suck? i feel way more comfortable using Yakuza style
its the opposite for me. yakuza style feels to sluggish, and im much comfortable just using the more faster agent with the occasional spider to rope in long distance enemies.
I still have to finish Ishin, but in principle I really like the idea of a stripped-down Yakuza game.
These games have become bloated to the extreme, as someone who really loves the scope of the PS2 games.
no one is forcing you to play all the side content
you're advocating for less content for everyone (you still pllay the same 60 bucks) because you're a little bitch
i hope they continue making spin-offs like this, they Fucked up the main series with the turn based combat. So i atleast hope for some brawler gameplay spin-offs considering judgment is dead
1. It's hilarious to say this when the way the game actually functions is that it pulls you away from the story to introduce the umpteenth minigame to you over and over. Those scenes are less shippable than the story itself, and litter the Kiwamis which used to have relatively tight pacing.
2. The games have only become longer and longer over the years, it's an objective fact.
3. The new game is only $50 IIRC.
Oh my...
who is this fat cunt anyway
some e-celeb?
An ex-Hoe-boive vtuber who used to be the #1 superchat on youtube and has known to be a Yakuza fangirl since way back. (merch was fan stuff with Yakuza and she picked her family name to be Kiryu)
People seethe about her as being a sign of pandering to westoids but they don't really know shit, her streams are like 90% JP-only and her paying fanbase are primarily older JPs. (if anything all the JAV girls are pandering to the chinese since that's their main fanbase)
>since way back
how long is way back
iv'e been into yakuza since 2 dropped and i've never heard of her but it's cool she's an actual fan
>how long is way back
Since before she started streaming so before 2016 at the very least.
mmm i love slop so much when it comes out of japan..... yum yum!!!! sloppity slop slop so guel gruel game yahmy!!!!!!! christ you retards complain about others being reddit and cringe while you'll gladly just eat up anything without question
When did (You) get into Yakuza?
What got you into the franchise?
Which game did you start with?
For me it was 2008 when I saw an ad for Yakuza 2 at a local mom n' pop game store.
I got the first game and fucking loved it. Been importing since Kenzan and 3.
>When did (You) get into Yakuza?
PS3
>What got you into the franchise?
It was free on PS Plus
>Which game did you start with?
Yakuza 4
I didn't truly "get into it" until Yakuza 0 released though after which I played the rest of the series.
Yeah this was me as well but I never actually got to play the games until 0. I had 4 and eventually 5 from psn plus but I had a launch ps3 with no upgraded hard drive which made it basically impossible for me to try it because yakuza games had huge file sizes. But it was a series that I was curious about for the longest time so when 0 came out and I heard it was beginner friendly I took the dive and never looked back.
I knew the series existed back when it released on ps2 but iirc the first game came out close to ps3’s release so younger me had already moved on to that, despite having a BC ps3 I just never bought a ps2 game after that . Missed out on some good games
2009 because of Brad from 4PP on justin.tv playing 3. I saw bits and bobs and it looked interesting so I hunted down the first 3 games and fell in love.
>justin.tv
christ that takes me back
I started with the first game around the time 4 came out. Saw a gif on here of some heat actions and it looked pretty cool, plus I had just hacked my PS2 and needed something to do with it.
2016. I bought a used PS3 and got GTA V with it, so I went to a used games store and traded it for the first PS3 exclusive I saw on the shelves, which was Yakuza 3.
Took me over six years to catch up with the series. Gaiden is the first time I'm playing a Yakuza game on release day.
>When did (You) get into Yakuza?
2019
>What got you into the franchise?
baka mitai meme
>Which game did you start with?
yakuza 0
yes, i am a homosexual. however I HAVE played the ps2 originals and imported ps4 ishin and kenzan and 1/2 hd remaster, One of these days i will be competent in japanese to Play those games...
With Y0 when it released on Steam because you homosexual were constantly shilling it on here leading up to the release and now I hate everything about the fanbase surrounding it as well as the direction they're heading towards because everything just starts to feel disjointed as fuck from what the old games story used to be like. I don't even know where the fuck these people are going to steer this shit towards in Y8. They legit had to move out of Japan and into Hawaii where instead of dealing with the Yakuza, they deal with the Mafia in there because everything about the original setting dried up. I don't want to enter enter another fandom in my life if this is what the lifecycle of it and the series itself looks like this.
I feel the same way
I can't even get myself to play 6 or Ishin at this point; I'm just not invested in the series anymore
Acknowledging the west was probably the last thing they should've done
3-5 are unironically the worst games in the franchise. The Yakuza games got significantly better once they started appealing to the west.
>all the original games before westernization are bad because i said so
have a nice day 7fag
>>all the original games before westernization are bad
0 and 1 is good and 2 was ok. The PS3 only games were extremely mediocre though and almost killed the entire franchise.
Says who? You?
PS3 only games sold better than ones on PS4, how did they "almost killed the entire franchise"?
>PS3 only games sold better than ones on PS4
lol
lmao even
Yakuza 5 was only localized because of a very vocal minority and it still took years after the JP release.
0 was quite literally the last chance and if it had flopped like the other games, Yakuza was finished in the West.
>almost killed the entire franchise.
By what the franchise and fanbase of it looks like now, I wish it would've just fucking died.
cry more 🙂
WesternGODS saved this series so it's only natural that Yokoyama appeals to us.
God I know I shouldn't spoil myself with the leaked 8 tracks but the amon theme sounds so good
Newfag here who bought 0 almost 2 years ago, I saw a supercut of a playthrough that technically spoiled things but was out of context they joked Makoto faking her blindness which made me think that was real until I played it and it made me want to check it out
If I knew I was gonna be addicted to the series to the point of playing 3,4 and 5 all in a row with no breaks and getting to Amon in all of them I would've started with 1 on the PS2, honest
I literally went up to a gamestop employee and said "I'd like a game where i can hang around a neone strip and beat up dude" and motherfucker handed me yakuza 3. Been my favorite game series since.
>When did (You) get into Yakuza?
When 5's localization had all those announcement threads with people rejoicing. I usually check threads randomly when something big happens people here are happy about. Gotten me into a lot of series actually, Deadly Premonition being one of them.
Based on my knowledge years later I realized back around 3's launch I had seen at least one or two 3 threads but never bothered checking them out.
>What got you into the franchise?
Ended up asking where I should start and eventually emulation tips. Played a bit of 1, really liked that I could just grab a bike and slam it in a guy's face. Sold me on the series ever since.
Later on as I was playing I found out about Amon after I tried to figure out why the trading sequence substory in chapter 4 wasn't progressing and then completely missed the casino a chapter or two later causing me to drop the series temporarily out of "I am not doing a full playthrough."
Bought 1&2 HD a bit after that along with Kenzan and 3 for playing later. When 0 PS4 came out people here were hyping it up and reminded me I had it on the backburner. 100%ed everything ever since.
>Which game did you start with?
1 PS2 but my actual first completed playthrough was 1 HD because I wanted the platinum to go along with playing it.
Thought you're into them longer than me.
Also 1 HD on emulator looks really good, I should finally give it a go
Just keep in mind that the perspective is a bit skewed on HD for both games. For some reason the original lets you see more vertically while the HD lets you see more horizontally. Picture related is an old comparison I made to show the lighting issues above native on PCSX2 vs. RPCS3 but ignore that part, you can see the vertical vs. horizontal thing there.
This sucks. Is the combat of 1 any better on HD?
Same as it was in 1. They just added item boxes to phones in both games instead of just the hideouts, 1 HD has checkmarks on the menu, the load times for battles is like at most three seconds if installed to HDD, and obviously the higher quality textures and stuff including on signs.
Ideally these older remasters should have included the original 4:3 aspect ratio. Bottom is your typical scenario where they crop out the top and bottom of the original 4:3 aspect ratio to create a fake 16:9 that looks weirdly zoomed in while also missing visuals the devs intended for you to see in the original 4:3 version.
The thing is that you do end up seeing far more horizontally overall so it's not like they truly cropped it.
About 1-2 years after 0 released on PC.
I saw it on a sale, it was around 5-10 euroshekels. At first I thought "nah, I don't like fistfights, I don't like gangster themes, I don't like GTA (thought it was similar), there's nothing for me in this, and to make matters worse normalfags love it and keep spamming retarded memes, so it can't be good", but then decided to give it a try and refund if I don't like it.
Two years later pic related.
I started from 0 but not because of the shills, I just didn't think I'd get so invested. I figured a prequel is a good time waster.
I feel like 2009 or so because I had found both Yakuza and 2 at a deep discount at some place that didn't really sell games.
I was a weeb is really the easiest answer. It was a game set in Japan that touted itself as about Yakuza, so obviously that would appeal to me.
First game was Yakuza on the PS2.
I played 1-2 on release and did like them, but not enough to drop $599 on a ps3 so I fell off the series until 0. I’m simultaneously an oldfag and a 0babby.
SAWASHIRO'S THEME GOT REMIXED
Why does this go so hard? Is he gonna be the main villain?
maybe the late game boss
it reminds me of Majima's theme from 7
he seems to hold a position of power.
unironically nice panties
>Kiryu meets Omi guy at the bar
>Kiryu bravely bullshits in spite of fucking up the dude's underlings in customary Dragon style fashion earlier
>getting real tired of your shit, "Joryu", here's the directions to the next dungeon gauntlet, now get outta my face
>casting yong yea as the dub voice
i mean i only ever play the jap dub anyway but decisions like this and it's addition of streamers make me a little hesitant. either way yong is a homosexual
just pirate. if you buy it, you support the retards putting additions like those into the games.
they also added those stupid "optional DLC" trooper cards in the Ishin Remake with e-celebs and fucking nyanners of all people into them. never bought. not going to bother pirating either.
>ishin remake
got bad vibes from this game too. honestly thinking about emulating the original tbh
You literally have to go out of your way to add the ecelebs. Why are you malding over trooper cards that don't even exist without you explicitly downloading them?
Isshin Remake has some issues but they're things that sucked in the original too.
they shove the cards in your face even if you don't have that shit installed. the moment you reach some training area or whatever, pic related just shows up all over your screen tell you that you should definitely go install those right away!!!
>2 second tutorial
>never mentioned again
LOL. You're picking the wrong thing to get mad about. The recasted Yakuza 0 pandering and the obnoxious level of grind are the actual problems.
no, those one are annoying as well but this is worth mentioning as well since it's a useful obnoxious addition that serves nothing to the game whatsoever but pander to foreigners and basically beginning them to come play the games cause they have their favorite parasocial e-celebs in them.
You're on a foreigner forum complaining about foreigners lmao.
The dlc isn't even installed by default. You have to manually search up the dlc to download it on Steam.
Also, all these "ecelebs" are literal whos.
doesn't change anything. they still wasted time and resourced having them added to the game and their cards and everything are hardcoded into the base game. downloading and installing the dlc only activates it so no thanks. no buy from it. i'm not supported retarded pandering tactics.
You could've just said you don't want to buy it instead of coming up with all this cope lol
? that was the entire point you retard i already said i'm not buying nor pirating it and the guy replying shouldn't either because they're supporting retarded choices from RGG like these
>i'm not buying nor pirating it
>still in every thread
mental illness
because no one else should either
RRG needs to go bankrupt for their retarded decisions
Ok buddy retard
Celeb cameos have been a thing in RGG for a long a time, literally who cares about some streamers being DLC
It's like people mad about the v-tuber, I never heard about her but is it that bad there's a reference model female character that's not a porn actress one time?
i dont mind the wrestler guy because his portrait is the most well done. The rest look pretty shitty and having an anime vtuber just fucks everything up, I dont care about nyanners or what she is/does. its just weird to see some anime girl next to all these yakuza guys and humans
>abloo bloo it's liek.... just one time broe.... what's so bad about it????
feed them scraps once, they'll take your entire hand the next time. you're retarded if you can't see the problem with them starting to do shit like this and it not devolving into absolute cancer.
>black samurai
i mean i know that there was like one or two, same with white ones but i like to pretend that they don't exist (black people i mean)
Ofcourse samurai that looked like anime girls did actually exist.
I just embraced the bullshit superpowered cards to beat that game
won't be possible to pirate for a while cause of shit drm
Is this game full of naggerbop? As thats making me not want to play the game or purchase it etc at all.
I really don't care about Yakuza story, is all about the gameplay to me
>Gaiden thread
>Ishit posting
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New Amon theme it also goes electric, it's cool
So where Ichiban's untreated schizophrenia is going to take him in 8?
He had an orbital laser in 7. What's next?
He rides a dolphin to his fake island that he believes he build from the ground up
Kiryu is so powerful he can break out of the illusion and go punch some fools
ugh the tripfag is here, end of the fun
unironically when has moose been a homosexual? He's been a pretty cool guy for a while now
I like moose, he knows his stuff.
>get the coliseum part
>the fake Kiryu
>he's using the Wild Dance style from Ishin
that was pretty neato
All three of those fights were soulful.
Wow!
we are SO back
And Dame dame 8 will be the big middle finger to Kishida and Snoy, for having bikini scene.
such a ugly woman
Now I feel like a dumbass for making fun of people that think characters like Baba or Aizawa can come back.
Well what you said there sounds like a sign I should probably exit the thread now so bye
i'll browse 'em on the archive later
is there a 60fps mode on ps5?
where do i find some
do you know where is the 60fps option for ps5?
HOW DO i get this?
i would assume you find a latter and climb on a thing then get close that way
Where do I get the item that removes random encounters?
Only played the tutorial fight, but brave of them to start the game by reminding us of how retarded the ending of RGG6 was. Boy, I sure hope nobody gets shot by a gun Kiryu conveniently forgot to remove from a guy he just beat up.
That starman pose fucking iritates me on so many levels. I hated it when they did it in yakuza 1, 3, 4 (probably) and 6. Fucking. GAY
what is the best thing with the ps2
there's actual unique games instead of Kiwami being a 0 clone minus the SOVL and Kiwami 2 being a 6 clone minus the SOVL
Different ambiance and atmosphere.
Different music.
Different minigames and in 2's case exclusive minigames.
Different fights and gauntlets.
Different coliseums.
Different progression in the case of 1 vs. K1.
Different boss movesets.
Different way combat in general is handled.
Different exploration.
Different (and in my opinion, better) Amon fights for both games.
More unique substory backdrops in the case of 2 since K2 made them set in generic buildings.
Shinseicho in 2 vs. an NPC complaining it's not there in K2.
A better Kaoru VA.
Fart bomb hoodie.
it was impressive, and the lighting effects throughout the rainy environments were real nice. you can view magazines, you can stop and look at city ad screens. the only thing kiwami has over it is HD GRAPHICS!11!!!!!! and arguably better combat (i really like the meaty/heavy feeling ps2 combat)
how do i equip this?
boutique dressing room on the boat
oh i haven't unlocked a boat yet
Can someone tell me if there's actually any 60fps mode on gaiden for ps5 or not? And if yes, then where? There are multiple gaiden ps5 gameplay videos at 60fps but for me it runs at 30fps and I can't find any performance mode in settings.
>he's playing on pozzstation
>30/60fps
>playing on piss station
you could be getting 4k120 on pc bro
my pc can barely run kiwami 2 at 1080p 30fps on medium settings
Aren't you just playing the PS4 version by mistake?
I could tell if it was ps4 version because there would be ps4 logo instead of ps5
Anon, the native PS5 version is exclusively 60fps. There are is no performance/quality mode choice.
I launched game on usa account and it's 60fps meanwhile on european region account it runs at 30fps
that's fucking weird...
Check your console settings. It's possible that there is no option to pick the mode in-game, and instead it uses your PS5 account's default preferred mode. That would be absolutely retarded but it's RGG Studio we're talking about.
It has 2 modes. 4k/30fps or 1440p/60fps. This game is also on PS4 and all multi-gen games like these are always 60-120fps on PS5.
Sega are often retarded with the settings. Just go to the console's Saved Data and Game setting and choose Performance over Resolution.
what is Kiwami 2
6 but 2
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>this busted ass hoe actually won a competition to be featured in-game
i don't believe it
she bought her way in somehow
here's another ugly bitch who did
>just realized her name is hostage name is Kei because shes kson
she's passable at least, the other girl is straight up hag-tier
you niggas gay
you just like ugly fatties with shitty tattoos
shut the fuck up you inbred granny fucker
get some standards fuckin brownoid
>having standards is gay
okay
The other anons replying are gay niggas. I've been told I only like 5-6's, and that's just fine with me. They're confusing a 6 morphing a models face scan to resemble hers, instead of appreciating a homely girl who loves kids and didn't fall for the feminism memes
why are they hosting old women in their games now? this some kind of psyop to try and their their dwindling population to just impregnate christmas cake?
live action was a mistake
Why did we go from this
to this
Yuki wasn't face scanned and instead a proper "original" model.
the hostess conversations looked terrible in 6 and especially K2 so their only options were either try to improve those, do nothing, or replace them
Just remove hostess shit and give Kiryu a canon love interest.
no way fag
>thinking having a girlfriend would stop men from going to hostess clubs
Never going to happen, the fans NEED their jav hostesses.
His true love is Yumi.
You mean the bitch who had absolutely no buildup and was just introduce instantly into the game after a major timeskip?
Yeah, I'm sure that's a great a great canon true love for him, haha.
Nice self report you two. How about you play Gaiden/the demo before coming back?
Personally, I loved the part where Kiryu embraces Jesus as his one true God, Savior and Father in Heavens and becomes a true Christian.
This is all building up to Infinite Wealth turning into another JRPG where a bunch of guys kill God
It'll lead up to Ichiban's mom being one of those secret Koreans who partook in the Church cult who got Shinzo Abe assassinated.
nigga, gaiden hasn't even been out for 12 hours
>Yumi
whomst'dve?
This.
Just slap the jav whores into some of the minigames or something, like 6's live chat. Hostess shit has never been good and it only gets worse with each new game somehow.
They're already bringing back Sayama
Shittiest post ever
why is her face melting off
that's how asian women look post wall
the wall has no mercy anon
looks fine to me tbh, Kiryu is like 50 at this point, a mature woman suits him better
>if you're 50 you should marry a woman who is no longer able to bear you any children because...... uhm just because i say so.. mmkaay????
There is ZERO reason to marry a "mature" woman, at that point just continue on being a bachelor. The entire point of marriage is to build a family together and you cant do that when the woman is unable to give you any children.
who said anything about marriage? Kiryu already has like 10 kids with Haruka and the other children at Morning Glory.
oh okay
Source of pic?
the guy that an hero'd over bjork
his video diary is probably still on youtube, look it up if you're that interested
Huh, thanks
It looks so fuxked i i tought it was from an analog horror series or smth
prompt?
it's not ai
blender settings?
it's a photo anon
camera lens???!!
Kiryu looks and fights like a 20 year old
PS5 owners really are fucking retarded
The thing I like most about original Yakuza 1 is it doesn't have any of the trappings of being a series they know they're going to keep making sequels for. They made a game with the knowledge that it might just end there and that's all, and it's a much tighter experience because of that. Not to say some games don't use being a sequel well, but I find that refreshing with the original when looking at the series as a whole. It's kind of like how Danganronpa 1 feels like a self contained experience that is kind of lessened from it being as popular as it was, and every sequel twisting everything about the original for the purposes of franchising further.
And there is something beautiful about that. I really do appreciate that aspect of ps2 yakuza 1. Danganon ronpa was such a bullshit crazy project that its a tall order to follow it up, I'm glad 53 went the way it did, but that's kind of my point. It's almost insulting to think that the yakuza franchise that focused so hard on the same town the same system for so long never got better. I'd be willing to say that the "story" of 1 is the best but as far as combat visuals music side quests minigames and quality of life goes, the series just improves and improves unless it doesn't.
i don't like this at all
bring back the 3D
this is fucking odd
although i wouldve preferred 3d modeled whores. Its kinda nice looking at 4k cleavage
can this bitch even ACT or is it just Yong Yea tier of cringe?
no, enjoy your fucking videogame
bazingas
just saying first time at Ganker
nagger
>NOOO YOU CAN'T JUST FORCE ME TO LOOK AT REAL WOMEN AND BECOME A HETERO
i think it's because kson's overacting is fucking cringe
Overacting? You mean that shit all japanese do?
nah she's way worse than that other chick
she's worse than anri doing live shit in Y6
its just fat cleavage
take the top off and they'll fall to her knees along her sides
>take the top off
she goes overboard
wait wait WAIT...theres no 60fps mode for this game on PS5. dont bullshit me now anons, please tell me the truth. no snarky comments.
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there is 60fps apparently
so far i have discovered launchers
Agent Style Spider grab > Circle (L stick works sometimes, not sure)
Yakuza style Square x4 > reverse Triangle x2
Square x3 > Triangle Hold
I have not checked out EX mode throughly yet
Circle is B
Triangle is X
What the fuck is reverse triangle
it means holding the opposite direction you attacked in
After this I'm 100000% sure kiryu will never die ever. Gaiden is basically the first chapter of john kiryu.
please respond? is agent style fake and gay? this feels so weird compared to the usual dragon style
You're supposed to use it for fodder shots until you've positioned it so you can spam the gadgets.
I haven't used it since unlocking Dojima style. I don't like how Agent has 5000 hits with square.
DUDE SHE'S JUST LIKE ME
>you can see her fat spilling out of the side hole on her dress
>you can see her fat spilling out of the side hole on her dress
FAT tits
Tbf, she actually does
She liked Yakuza before 0 iirc
whoa a real gamer gurl
This bitch is a confirmed lesbian who said she never wants to actually procreate because children are "disgusting" or something along those lines. What the fuck was the point of casting her in this game when she can't even do nor is into the most basic of things that make a woman be attractive to men in general?
She won't fuck you, she won't take your babies, if for whatever reason you do get to fuck her via rape, she's like 30 and the kids will either come out autistic or she just hits early menopause or something, and even then she's likely to just abort the children before they come out since she doesn't like the idea of taking care of them.
She's quite literally you're average progressive American but with the added coat of trying to larp as some traditional Japanese waifu.
even worse her eceleb career has convinced her that she's idol-tier and not a proto-hag at all
is she really a dyke tho? that's crazy
shed used to live with another hoe-boive member while she was working for them as coco and the would apparently fuck each other or some shit then randomly make lesbian jokes on stream and encourage people to ship her with other women.
might've just as well been for the sake of entertainment and getting those sad fucks watching them to be like "OMG YURI KAWAII JUST LIKE IN MY ANIMU!!!" or whatever, but it was retarded nonetheless.
>she never wants to actually procreate because children are "disgusting"
Based, kids are awful
maybe but it seems like sour-grapes when (You) can't have them even if you wanted to
happy to hear you'll never procreate homosexual
I am happy too, less problems in my life
>gun using mini boss
I can deal with it but man what a piece of shit boss
just annoying as hell to deal with
What the one at the end of the first long battle? Use the spider gadget.
>Game tries to act like Kiryu, and the series as a whole, is moving on from the past by symbolically having Kiryu give up Yumi's ring at the end of the game
>The next game literally brags about the fact that it's bringing back pretty much every fucking character in the series ever, including dead ones
getting mixed messages from you RGG, are you moving on or not?
you finally starting to realize they don't know what they're doing and that the story is shit and heading nowhere with no concrete message in mind or nah?
By all means Kiryu's story should have ended in 5. There was nowhere to go after that, it's why they made haruka retarded in 6.
They're fucking retards who don't know what to do with the series, so they listened to EVERYONE. They listened to people who wanted Kiryu back, everyone who wanted real time combat back and they listened to secondaries who wanted their favorite funny Y0 characters back. I'd rather they just stick to one plan. I liked Yakuza 7 because it was a pretty big risk and made itself stand out but the new one feels like a bunch of compromises.
To be fair, that's yakuza's schtick at this point. It's how they came up with games like Y5.
>they listened to secondaries who wanted their favorite funny Y0 characters back.
But Kaoru and Kashiwagi are from 2 and 3?
RGG obviously wanted to retire Kiryu and soft-reboot the franchise but they changed their mind, probably due to negative fan reaction in Japan or something
gonna give this bitch an egg
JAV hostess was always cringe anyway. 6's livechat and 0's softcore dvd was better.
I'm partial to the perverted ass gravure shooting in Kiwami 2, Rina especially.
i just looked this up, holy shit
how is that stuff allowed in 2023 lol
>not jav actress
my day is ruined, fuck you
I want to have sex with RINA
where does one find Rina videos?
maybe I'm gay, because I genuinely see nothing appealing about this image.
you are definitely gay
rina is a 10/10 compared to these gaiden hags
her ugly bimbo lips make everything unappealing
you are 100% gay, seek therapy and meds before it's too late
>tfw downloading 30 gigs of Rina gravure
based yakoomer thread
I can smell that post from here
i shower every day thoughever, i am not american
>white woman post
>JAV hostess was always cringe anyway. 6's livechat and 0's softcore dvd was better.
Based. The only good hostess minigames are the management ones.
I will never bother doing the other ones unless they add an "optional AO unlocker" pack for them otherwise it's less then even a gravure for a lot of effort
live chat was funny because it's insanely cringe. the softcore dvd stuff was lame. hostesses are fun even if the actual conversation mini game can be a bit boring or take way too long. It was worth it because you got basic substories as well as a permanent mini game partner and karaoke partner. Gaiden somehow did this the worst way by going in on the conversation mode, formatting it like the cringey livechat and gravure minigames in 6, rewarding you with the 0 softcore nonsense, and not even giving you the bonus of minigame partners or karaoke partners.
Having it live action feels even more cringe somehow.. It's too real. The cringe comes to life.
so what's different about this besides the story and locations
nothing dipshit
Bitch all you want but I'm having fun tbh
Joryu has a dope sukeban deka watchyoyo.
who is bitching
everyone seems to like it
trying to hard to hold that gut and gunt in
why's her face so greasy?
the makeup the girls are using are trying to make them shinier and brighter, but since she's a little chubbier, it makes her look greasy
she loves pizza
she looks constipated
She fat and thats a bad thing
why does it look like she has to poop?
Bros i fucking hate I have to hold rb to dodge. Ruins the rhythm of the game for me. How is this game not as smooth as either remake.
Please tell me the combat gets better as I unlock stuff, so far I'm kinda disappointed.
I haven't played gaiden but that's how I feel about judgmenet at first. Can kiryu jump over enemies or wall kick here?
my new waifu
>bogged first summers uika
>waifu
on second thought she's probably still the best looking girl in the game lmao
leave my wife alone faget
no problem
Shitty fashion
>Tonight's karaoke video is now semi-animated instead of being a slideshow
neat
the homosexuals have invaded the thread
With each passing game, he continues to prove he's better than Haruka. Spinoff about him and his firefighter adventures soon
Taichi no.1
the difference between this threads reaction and the kson thread is staggering. I don't know who to trust
trust me, i know what's best.
other thread is full of low test gay boys
>having standards and not wanting to fuck fat, post-wall hags is low test
i know you can't score anything better than that man but come on
>ummm ackshually, fucking women with huge tits is gay
whatever you say bro
nice hearing whatever you want you stupid homosexual, no wonder you're the way you are, nobody wants to be around you
>closeted homo suddenly lashing out after being identified
close your mouth you imbecile homosexual
can you change xbox button prompts to playstation on goypass
Where do I go use these?
>can do mahjong and do the weird japanese gambling games fine
>can't play pool for fucking shit
man
i'm really bad at predicting where the ball will go after the first bounce
>pool
oh it's back? kino. now just bring back bowling and we're good
>insecure subhumans fuming at anyone who doesn't share their love for hags
You lost nagger
>homosexual coping
just because you fuck your mother doesn't mean everyone else has to agree with your degenerate way of life
who the fuck just goes outside, says aloud "man I could go for some takoyaki" and just have some underground fixer get her muscle to deliver it for you
>just because you fuck your mother doesn't mean everyone else has to agree with your degenerate way of life
hot
ni hao!
>Pocket Curcuit, again
atleast i get to look at this cutie while doing it. So its not that bad...
0 came out like 10 years at this point. I barely even remember Pocket Circuit other than Pocket Circuit Fighter so it'll be fun to try it again.
please stop making me old
>so butthurt over not being agreed with he has to shit out wojaks
holy mother of all copium. glad to see you seething this much.
>>so butthurt over not being agreed with he has to shit out wojaks
>holy mother of all copium. glad to see you seething this much.
Better keep an eye on your time, yeah your in the final stretch AHHH you looking good
Bosozoku Kiryu?
thumbnail looks as if he's supposed to hold a baseball bat over his shoulder but in reality he's just doing the muslim terrorist finger greeting
Seeing modern UI and RPG elements together always fills me with a non-descriptive dread.
Pocket Circuit was great in 0
So does this game not have an English sub option? I have to hear Yongyea the entire game?
so close..
should i get this now or unlock more accessory slots first
i only just unlocked all this shit from the gadget guy
isn't Tiger Drop dogshit in Dragon Engine games? I barely even used it in 6 from what I remember because of how finnicky it was.
>isn't Tiger Drop dogshit in Dragon Engine games?
iirc the window is just tighter so shitters complain
the damage was pretty bad too compared to the Tiger Drop in Kiwami and 5
why can't yakuza games have a consistent levelling system? they perfected it with soul orbs in 4, why do they keep changing it?
>why do they keep changing it?
Because they're constantly trying to see what works and if something is more fun than the other.
>1 and 2 were EXP + trainers.
>Kenzan and 3 were EXP + trainers + revelations.
>4, Dead Souls, and 5 were the Soul Orb system + trainers + revelations.
Correct me if I'm wrong on 5, it's been a while and I think I'm wrong. Last two aren't in Dead Souls.
>BP1 and BP2 have you using money to buy stats and special attacks with EXP only leveling styles.
>Ishin, 0, K1, and FotNS all use some variant of the orb system but do it in different ways with Ishin and FotNS having ones you manually set while 0 and K1 have you buying things linked to each other.
Ishin and FotNS lead to an issue of you potentially unlocking something you don't want and being stuck until you level up again.
>6 and K2 use the food system which prevents grinding for a decent amount of the game but also railroads you into certain tasks in 6 to actually get any EXP.
6's method at least forces the user to experience all of the game instead of only some of it by forcing you to do minigames and substories for Charm and Tech without food combos.
>Judgment and Lost Judgment go to a spendable EXP system that's used like currency rather than for levels.
I personally don't think they've found the perfect middleground yet. JE, LJ, and the Ishin/FotNS Orb system are my favorites personally. JE/LJ are also sort of like the 4 orb system in a roudabout way. Ishin/FotNS is probably the closest to how I feel like it should be done, but you should get to buy the orbs or something with increasing EXP amounts.
>6 and K2 food system prevents grinding
lol wat
It hugely incentivizes grinding because doing anything but eating and then using an item to be hungry again is pointless
The food system and dragon engine ruined K2
I'd say it ruined 6 but everything else about 6 sucks anyway
That is only relevant in postgame. 6 is pretty well balanced with XP (minus Green XP) from just playing the game normally.
>because doing anything but eating and then using an item to be hungry again is pointless
You can't afford to do that for a majority of 6 because you have no real way of making large amounts of money, and in K2 you have to basically do all of Four Shine before you finally start making money which you'd have to intentionally stop and do.
hey moose, the dragon engine actually feels good now in comparison to judgement/6 its not just me right? Before it felt like it was struggling to keep up but now it feels right.
I felt like it was fine in Judgment outside of the bounce blocking, that was its only real issue. It looked fantastic at night and I really liked the particle effects.
7 and LJ still have bad morning and underwhelming afternoons but both had fantastic evenings, and LJ finally got the combat to a point where it didn't feel too stiff or too loose. Only real thing I think looks a bit off is the Heat but that's about it.
I can't speak for Gaiden yet.
>Dragon engine combat
Hard pass
>its-not-going-to-happen-meme-template
>Phone filename
they fixed it, i know its hard to beleeb but they actually put the work in to make it feel responsive and impactful. I don't think anyone will say gaiden "feels sluggish"
>It's hard to beleeb
It's impossible to believe
Judgement and Lost Judgement feel sluggish and shitty but get around that by making you an AoE god with a wall run
No way did they figure it out now after four dog shit combat systems
Leapfrog is great, I can't go back to yakuza combat after that
Just wait until its on free service or on sale I guess? You are missing out.
>no way they figured it out after X times
hi zero fag!
3fag, actually
Thanks for letting me know when you joined the series though
engine combat
i'm buying it right now
>he didn't like Lost Judgment's combat
are you perhaps a homosexual?
One thing I don't like about the Dragon Engine games is that if you want to run/jog instead of break out into a full ass sprint you have to hold the stick halfway. The sprint button is already bound to two buttons (A and RT) why not make one of those run and the other one sprint?
Do you guys use "Always sprint in combat"?
NGL, i kinda hate the slow ass running Square attack in Agent style. Running attacks should only be on Triangle.
While I do think Lost Judgment has the best combat in the entire series Judgment implementing the run button during combat is one of the worst things this series has ever done.
Always sprint is good. If you don't want to do a running attack hold RB before attacking so Kiryu will get into a fighting pose and stop running.
>If you don't want to do a running attack hold RB before attacking so Kiryu will get into a fighting pose and stop running.
Thanks for the tip, I hate pressing "Run" in combat and the forced running Square attack in Agent style was making me just not want to use Agent.
Yeah, I hate them adding pressing run in combat. As soon as I saw the always sprint option in Lost Judgment I enabled it and never went back.
why is the running so weird in gaiden anyway? i press x to sprint and it seems like joryu goes back and forth between jogging and a full run
The graphics interfere with the input stream
Please understand
skill issue
same
between that and the skip prompt popping up repeatedly during cutscenes i'm convinced they goofed something that needs to be patched somehow
Just started Lost Judgment, why does Bottomless Stomach cost 90,000 SP? Seriously, what the fuck?
They clearly don't intend you to clear out shops from the start
its leaning into the japan tourism sim. You aren't supposed to scarf down everything on the menu.
>You aren't supposed to scarf down everything on the menu.
But I’m an American tourist.
7 has the worst exp system because if you want to max your characters you have to spend an ungodly amount of time grinding whereas every other Yakuza game you end up max level naturally if you're going for 100%.
Grinding those bugs and materials took me longer than anything in the game
you don't HAVE to max out your stats though in 7 its not like 6 where it is a strict requirement to do amon
No, but you do have to get to max level and max one of your Jobs and level up a bunch of the other ones too which is like a mandatory 3+ hour grind at the end of the game.
7's exp system was just "meh". 6 and K2's exp system is probably one of the worst ever made.
the only good Yakuza XP system was 0
No because the business minigame is mandatory if you to level up further
Yakuza 0 just lets you rob Mr Shakedown for infinite amounts of cash. It's the least painful grind of any of the games for maxing purposes.
I miss when this series had actually good unlockable costumes
hey thats fine, 50 bucks is alot I get it. Just give the game a try when it gets on sale and get wow'd at how the dragon engine actually feels good for once.
The best thing about Infinite Wealth is that there probably won't be a True Final Millennium Tower.
in kiwami 2 on PC what should I cap FPS to? I heard some mechanics are tied to FPS so what's the target FPS? 60? I'm using third party software to cap FPS and setting the in-game FPS to unlimited since the in-game cap behaves strangely.
120
30 if you want physics to work properly because the game was only intended to be played at 30.
60 if you are okay with ragdolls being a bit broken but you need Silent Patch to fix minigames like Toylets.
Do not go any higher.
I cap it to 30. Only 7 and judgement games actually support 60+.
Unsure if Infinite Wealth will be peak or marvel tier fanfiction. They are seeding a LOT of stuff for this game.
>Ichi's mother
>More backstory for Arakawa
>Teasing and end for Kiryu (this time for sure)
>Closure on Yumi
>Daidoji involvemt
>Shishido and Nishitani as agents
>More Jingweon shenanigans teased with Nishitani
>Hanawa secret identity, possibly being Morinaga or at least someone else from Yakuza 5
>Still need payoff on the security company of Watase and Daigo
>Seiryu Clan expansion and Sawashiro returning
We haven't even gotten to the new faction they revealed.
Does Gaiden have rain in it? We know that IW will thanks to the "new dynamic weather system"
K1>0>4>3>5>>>>>>>K2>6
>Kiwami
stopped reading
Is Judgement the best written game in the series? Holy fuck that was good.
>Is Judgement the best written game in the series?
Yakuza 0 is.
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>melty out of nowhere
what did he mean by this?
Yes.
Lost Judgment's plot is a bit more retarded but the gameplay is the best one in the series.
It is, yes.
the finale was kinda dumb, i mean all yakuza plots are dumb but the main bad guy's monologue was kinda shit. I liked beating his face in for it but it wasn't like aizawa who had a understandable motovation after what kiryu did throughout the whole franchise
By main bad guy, did you mean the killer or the mastermind? I wish the former had more to him than just a terminator villain.
The former yes, he was kinda nothing.
I feel like he was only written because judgement is an action game and they needed a final boss
That's kinda shit writing, you can make someone who is a satisfying final boss but is also a direct opposition to the themes of that game. You know like the final boss in lost judgement.
Yeah, i have to agree with this. Judgement is kino for 98% of its runtime but the final boss fight against the "killer" is pretty mid and felt like it barely belonged in the game.
I haven't played LJ yet so not sure if they improve things there.
YOU REALLY SHOULD PLAY LJ ITS GREAT
I'm waiting for a sale. The last sale I picked up Ishin instead of LJ 🙁.
understandable, make sure you play the kaito files too right after
I liked it, but I'm probably a bit biased because my grandma also has dementia.
Yes. It is pretty much the peak of the series in terms of writing.
I really do hope we get a third game because it feels like it's on a more solid path than LAD at this point.
>I really do hope we get a third game
I kinda hate Yagami acting like a zoomer while being a mid 30s fart. I feel like the Yakuza cast are vastly superior protags.
>I kinda hate Yagami acting like a zoomer
His "hello my fellow kids" phase in LJ grew on me.
i enjoy it because i started skateboarding at 31
>i started skateboarding at 31
damn, you braver than me lmao
Mid-30 is nothing. One of the core messages of the entire franchise is that the age is nowhere nearly as crippling or changing as some assume it is.
This is really drilled home by Ichiban saying, "Age is just a number" about 700,000 times in Yakuza 7.
>denuvo
>can't purchase this game from my country because of the currency region lock
the fuck do I do? I can't be fucked with risking my account using a vpn.
>Yakuza 7 has no hostess shit
>Ichiban immediately has 2 waifus by the time Infinite Wealth
Kiryu was robbed
>Ichiban immediately has 2 waifus by the time Infinite Wealth
he literally got dumped by Saeko, in this case nothing is better
The best Yakuza is Lost Paradise
Dragon Engine was a mistake
agent style is stupid so im glad u get dojima style early
agreed
its stupid but, i kinda like how stupid it is? Its intended to fight yakuza style in seirous one on one boss fights but like if you are mopping up goons its just fun to throw in some spiderman shit.
Agent style isn't supposed to be strong. it's literally just a LARP style that Kiryu picked up coz he was bored in the dojo.
I'm torn between gaiden and lost judgment. Which one first?
Gaiden. Lost Judgement is a spinoff that you can play whenever while Gaiden is the appetizer meal before Infinite Wealth.
Is that game worth getting jusf for the rk videos of the babes? Boner worthy?
Kiryu looks way too young in this game
he looks straight retarded in Infinite Wank
I just got the game and the thread is about to die someone make a new yakuza thread
no, play the game instead
the chick at the start looks weird
fine
that's just how Koreans look bro
bros...i'm getting all the wrong answers every time I talk to her
good.