I will thanks! I for one liked yakuza 3. I will enjoy it even more when 9 comes around and that guy who was like a one off character crammed into the back end of a combat heavy chapter shows up as actually super important all along.
Genuinely, I can't imagine anyone being satisfied with the ending. I genuinely can't believe they blueball you TWICE by never showing Kiryu actually meet Haruka.
6's final boss moment: Kiryu takes a shot "sacrificing" for Haruka and Haruto in the same exact way so many people sacrificed themselves for him(same pose and all), including Haruka's mother.
8's final boss moment: Kiryu gayly pins down the final boss and just starts crying about how everyone should be allowed to atone and how forgiveness is good
this series is done
It was NOT done well in Gaiden, they turned a masculine badass into a blubbering baby, hunched over a tablet and sobbing while his master stood over his shoulder watching. Way over the fricking top
He was seeing his kids doing fine after not being able to be with them for years man. It was a fantastic moment and I even think it was a better ending for Kiryu than every other one we've got.
This. All they needed was a Rikiya tier crying scene. Men don't cry like babies, my God. Grow a fricking spine and have some class.
4 months ago
Anonymous
There's a way to show a guy like Kiryu crying and they've even done it before, that portrayal was just pathetic TV-drama tier shite
This. Real men cry manly tears. They don't bawl their eyes out with snot dripping from their nose.
4 months ago
Anonymous
The only reason he was not crying a river and snot was because technology wasnt there yet.
Kiryu never cried and screamed louder than he did for Rikyia.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Then we need to go back. Technology has gone too far.
4 months ago
Anonymous
you calling that shit fricking manly tears is hilarious
have you actually watched the scene recently? he's fricking bawling. he has a full on breakdown and his voice starts cracking
if they did that scene now he'd actually look even worse than he did in gaiden
4 months ago
Anonymous
Yep, it's based. The manly LIGYAAAaAAaAA~ scream is fricking kino and it's laughable you would think the snot shit is better in any shape or form roflmao
It was the most heartbreaking moment in the entire series.
I was really hoping they'd resolve things in 8 and Kiryu could finally go retire in Okinawa with his kids, but no, beach filler episode it is!
Bravo Yokoyama! You've done it again!
It's like how to some degree the first three yakuza villains are all Kiryu but something went wrong. Ichiban gets characters that are him but something went wrong. The issue here is that they use this character for Kiryu instead of him while he's Ichiban's villain is completely different and has no real thematic connection to him
How can it be filler? Is there an overarching plot across the series that needs to be resolved? Isn't every game mostly self-contained? What does filler mean in this context?
Nothing matters besides Kiryu getting to reunite with Haruka
I’d argue the other games did more substantial shit than what 8 does
Frick, even Gaiden set up more Daidoji shit
The dumb parts about 8's plot especially are how they don't even tell you anything about what happens to the daidoji at the end, you do the final boss and all of a sudden they're gone, he's just done with them. and you don't even see him reunite with haruka, you're just told it happens
SEGA really gave up on Ichiban... his finale is overshadowed by Kiryu's, the ending is overshadowed by Kiryu's stuff, his actual antagonist is undermined by Kiryu's, the guy who should've been his antagonist is given to Kiryu, and his story ends up amounting to nothing. Is SEGA just going to give up on the guy after this game?
They've been trying to drop Kiryu from the spotlight since Yakuza 4 and it's never stuck. Not even because the replacements themselves were bad, but because they really just don't want to commit to giving Kiryu a real sendoff.
None of Kiryu's "successors" prior to Ichiban were well designed for the role. Akiyama's a turbo-rich money lender with zero functional ties to the Tojo. Saejima's even older than Kiryu. Tanimura's a cop who, like Akiyama, isn't super relevant to the Tojo.
The writers put zero effort into setting these guys up as Kiryu's successors. That's why they failed.
The one with the best chance was Akiyama, but they dropped the ball by making him insanely rich and largely unaffiliated with anything. Being obscenely wealthy doesn't really do anything for a Yakuza protag, and being an unaffiliated nobody means that he can only really get involved in things via pure happenstance. He has nothing to do with anything, so it really just means that he's always getting dragged into things he has no business getting into.
>The writers put zero effort into setting these guys up as Kiryu's successors. That's why they failed.
Dude, Tojo clan and Omi alliance fricking collapsed and they still focused on the old Yakuza members and dragging back Kiryu AGAIN. No matter how much effort they try to replace Kiryu, he will still come back for one fricking reason or another.
7 was the sopranos moment for the series since they really are trying to put it forward that that Yakuza as a concept is a time piece and the series itself has no place to fricking go if their intention is to keep the game in modern times
Being connected with the Tojo was Ichiban's ticket in. The issue with Akiyama and co. was that the Tojo were still relevant in their games. Akiyama has no ticket into Japan's underworld shenanigans, so the only way he can get involved is through pure coincidence and contrivance.
The reason Ichiban's former Tojo is because he'd have NOTHING to do with Y7's plot otherwise. In the end, even if the Tojo are defunct, it's the consequences of his former affiliations that keep bringing him into the limelight.
or maybe just stop caring about the tojo clan and do something unique for once. i thought in hawaii we'd get american mafias having a connection with his mom or some shit but no it always goes back to "muh tojo".
4 months ago
Anonymous
Seriously it was so cringe when Yamai was as some former Tojo dude and we had to do a fricking npc round up quest for info about another bottom tier 30 year old Tojo family.
4 months ago
Anonymous
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Being connected with the Tojo was Ichiban's ticket in. The issue with Akiyama and co. was that the Tojo were still relevant in their games. Akiyama has no ticket into Japan's underworld shenanigans, so the only way he can get involved is through pure coincidence and contrivance.
The reason Ichiban's former Tojo is because he'd have NOTHING to do with Y7's plot otherwise. In the end, even if the Tojo are defunct, it's the consequences of his former affiliations that keep bringing him into the limelight.
the tojo clan and organize crime families dont really function in the modern communication age. Its much more enjoyable seeing ichiban clumsily stumbling into elaborate underworld shit than trying to justify a functioning yakuza clan in 2024
4 months ago
Anonymous
People only care about him due to his actions in the previous game, and those actions only took place because of his former affiliations. If Ichiban didn't get involved and kept his head down, Y8 wouldn't happen.
It's like a domino effect. Akiyama's problem is that despite being in so many games, he keeps to himself enough to avoid people deliberately dragging him into things. He's not REALLY that important, hence why he always needs to fall into situations via contrivance and happenstance
4 months ago
Anonymous
Akiyama really has fricking nothing outside of his association to kiryu. I dont understand why anyone wants to see him centerfold
4 months ago
Anonymous
Doesn't matter. Even if you get rid of the Tojo, everything's a domino effect. Ichiban made big waves in the previous game, and he made a lot of important connections. Thus it's easy to bring him into the limelight by capitalizing on the consequences of his past allegiences and actions.
Akiyama didn't really make a large enough impact in Y4, and even in Y5 where he made bigger waves, he still failed to make any meaningful connections with anyone important other than Kiryu and Saejima. At his core, Akiyama is still a totally neutral party, which generally means you have to force him into situations through happenstance.
>Akiyama has no ticket into Japan's underworld shenanigans
It got worse since he got booted out of business by the Triads for being too friendly with the yakuza. Kind of a dead end.
7 was the sopranos moment for the series since they really are trying to put it forward that that Yakuza as a concept is a time piece and the series itself has no place to fricking go if their intention is to keep the game in modern times
Ichiban is supposed to be a more relatable protagonist but it's then played for laughs with Kiryu somehow still remaining this unsurpassable gigachad figure.
>None of Kiryu's "successors" prior to Ichiban were well designed for the role
...and neither is Ichiban. I would argue Akiyama was a million times better as a "successor" and I actually like him better than Kiryu.
The most telling thing about all this is that over the course of a week+ of spoilers barely anyone cared to mention anything about Ichiban's side of the story. Kiryu really Apollo Justice'd the poor fricker kek
They shot themselves by making 7 turn based instead of a brawler. Hell, if they wanted to keel the party member stuff then each member should have been a style that you switch to like in Judgment.
>Ichiban and co get their lives ruined by vtuber girl, which is why they're all broke and back to how they were in 7 >The vtuber ends up being Chitose(the hot girl that joins your party), who was being blackmailed by wheelchair guy(who is faking being disabled) >The main villains of the game are the cult leader and Ebina, who are colluding with world leaders to turn a remote island in Hawaii into a nuclear dumping ground. Cult guy is doing this so he can have power over all the world leaders in secret, Ebina is doing this so he can force former Yakuza to be forced into shitty working conditions and suffer forever because he's mad that Arakawa and the Yakuza ruined his life. >Ebina is actually Arakawa's other son, from a different mother(Ichiban never meets him in the story so this plot thread is kind of dumb) >Ichiban has to deal with cult guy, who is defeated because Chitose uses the vtuber account to reveal every detail. >Ebina dissolves the Seiryu clan to form a new Bleach Japan, which is just bait for former Tojo, Omi, and Seiryu men to be forced into his nuclear waste thing. >Kiryu fights him and pins him down in a homoerotic way and cries about how he's right to be mad at Yakuza, but all men deserve a chance to atone and get forgiveness and Ebina is never mentioned again >Kiryu goes to the hospital and is sickly with cancer and it's implied Haruka comes to see him. He's also able to go by Kiryu again(they don't explain what happens to the daidoji, they just get written out)
>Holy shit Yokoyama is a hack
Yakuza 5 didn't clue you in? Yakuzer 8 is pretty much making the same mistakes. >bloated game >bloated cast >instead of everyone looking like they're about to bawl they just do it >story is so big and the conspiracy is so grand it stops making sense after the first chapter
The guy even goes on a whole rant about how the two of them actually are very similar but opposite. How Ichiban is the one who revere's Arakawa while he's the one who despises everything about him and shit like that. A rant that would have way more of an effect if the two actually interacted and fought, but he barely if not never interacts with Ichiban throughout the story and he's Kiryu's final boss.
I was about to be in your position yesterday, so i can sympatize with you. But some anon posted leak about Sayama and it was just a side quest for Kiryu. Sayama and Kiryu didn't even get to talk to each other and maybe get together again. No, he was just eavedropping Sayama and Date having a conversation about the good old days. And that's when i decided to dropped this game and wait for a huge discount. But after seeing this shit. Man, i'm complete dropped this game for good. Not even a fricking pirated version could convince me to play this game.
Just drop your preorder, man. Shit is not worth it, from the look of it.
Does sawashiro have cool moments like in 7 ? Any good dynamic intros ? I saw the final boss intro and I think it's suck especially since the music slaps
He's a boss fight for Kiryu around the halfway point in the game. From there, he's secretly colluding with Kiryu to undermine Ebina's plan. Ebina catches on to him and he loses an eye for it.
>Any good dynamic intros ?
lol no
They can't do these anymore. Gaiden had like 2 out of the 25 bosses or whatever and neither were on par with the Judgment games' intros.
He gets written out in the prologue. Apparently his random teleportation powers can get him to coin lockers he should have no knowledge of but don't allow him to avoid the cops
>Kiryu fights him and pins him down in a homoerotic way and cries about how he's right to be mad at Yakuza, but all men deserve a chance to atone and get forgiveness and Ebina is never mentioned again
They did Kiryu's ending dirty. How did they go from Gaiden to this? I can't believe Kiryu would cry to Ebina a literal nobody to him while giving Daigo and co the cold shoulder. Granted he managed to get through to Daigo and gang but the execution is all over the place
This all sounds like the story was rushed. Keep in mind, I'm not excusing this. They had 4 years to make this game. But for so many plot points to get bizarrely dropped and so many other plot points just there for no reason screams to me that they didn't take the time to actually edit and reexamine what they wrote. They just shat out a first draft and made a game out of it.
This summary is really broad, there's a lot of explanations and ways other threads connect to each other, this is just the general bullet points just from what I saw from the leakers playing the games.
If you haven't realised this game just exists for sequel baiting. Since he's his brother they're probabaly saving him for Ichiban's part 3 (which is more than likely his final game)
this is yakuza, final bosses who don't die go to the magical disappearing prison where they are never seen again. Even redeemed villains like Kido and Arai.
>tfw the plot is unironically instigated by Vtubers
Even if you don't care about how stupid the other shit is, the fact that THIS is what kickstarts the plot is so fricking moronic because of how it makes the plot something that is dated instead of a more timeless one. It already sounds dumb now. It's gonna sound even dumber in 30 years when Vtubers are no longer in existence. It's no different than movies in the 2000s that talked about MySpace. Shit like this makes stories age poorly.
RGG has always already dated their games with political satire and tech trends.
The difference is politics go in circles. Everyone can relate to that stuff.
The tech trends were never really all that forward, they were mostly just there in the background. Sure you had cell phones, but the only time it felt really egregious was in Judgment with the bluetooth ear pieces, video calls (who the frick does this?), and drones and they toned that way back in Lost Judgment.
Vtubers are such a niche thing today and they probably won't even be a thing in another 5-10 years.
>Vtubers are such a niche thing today and they probably won't even be a thing in another 5-10 years.
What makes you think that youtubers hiding behind digital avatars won't be a thing in the future? If anything, it will become more common as technology advances.
>>Ichiban has to deal with cult guy, who is defeated because Chitose uses the vtuber account to reveal every detail.
...That's it for Ichiban's fricking story? What the frick happened with him and Saeko now that their reputation IRL are permanently ruined? Also frick Yokoyama and frick Kiryu for being there in the first place, just put him in spin-offs and cameos. I still don't feel Ichiban will ever be the main protagonist.
>I still don't feel Ichiban will ever be the main protagonist.
You can tell the current RGG team has absolutely no faith that Ichi can hold a game on his own. Which is why they keep having Kiryu appear in important roles.
So with the Yakuza gone we've gotten "Bullying is bad but killing bullies is also bad" and "I am going to create radioactive sludge mines and force all ex yakuza to work in them because I hate my dead dad," truly we are all better off without the Tojo or Omi in our lives
hey there little anime girl, it's me, Ganker
take the money you saved for infinite whelks and buy a gun
trust me you will need it soon
xoxo
your friend forever,
/v/
Even with shit story, i am very much looking forward to the game because of fun. Every yakuza story so far has never reached the potential high that it could. I just want to piss around with side games and do fun side stories. It's a JRPG-lite so i dont even need to do min-max autism to finish the game.
>It's a JRPG-lite so i dont even need to do min-max autism to finish the game.
They bloated everything in the late-game so min-maxing is a must (just like they did in 7).
Theres a difference between min-maxing and forcing you to grind for resources and levels. And anyway if you do substories and dont avoid fights like a pussy you'll probably just have to do each dungeon once like in LAD.
I never did the kamurocho dungeon and finished the story with no issue
Getting crafted weapons are nice, which I did, but the arena prizes should be good enough if I remember them correctly
I never did the side dungeons and Millenium Tower was piss easy. Literally the only time you had to "grind" in 7 was the Battle Arena like he said. Even then, you can definitely do Saejima and Majima without it.
I've noticed that a lot of people who complain about 7's battle system are also total shit at JRPGs. >Business Management
Calling this a grind when it's a side mode with its own story is moronic. Not to mention it doesn't even take long to do, I finished that entire thing in one play session. The only thing that made it somewhat annoying was the money gathering animation, if you could skip that then you could finish it in half the time.
The more I talk about Yakuza here, the more I realize Ganker is fricking moronic
>I finished that entire thing in one play session
So you used the cheat managers and didn't actually engage with it. Nothing you say about it has any value.
>It's a JRPG-lite so i dont even need to do min-max autism to finish the game
lol. Remember how you had to grind for 10 hours for the Majima/Seijima fight in 7?
You have to do that for every major fight in 8. Everything's a total sponge.
I'm dropping this game because 7 was barely passable from a gameplay perspective and they've managed to make it worse.
I'll wait for the next beat em up, whatever that may be. RGG can't into JRPG combat.
>10 hours
What the actual frick are you on about, the arena does not take that much time in the slightest >Everything's a total sponge.
Are you taking that from the streamer who I kept seeing posts about them forgetting to get any gear for?
>the arena does not take that much time in the slightest
I did all the substories and still had to go through the arena 5 times before I was leveled up enough.
You did not, because I did none of the substories and had to only do it once with the last five floors one or two extra times. I literally only did main story and Ichiban Confections, nothing else because I wanted to get to NG+ and Legend for my actual playthrough.
>5 times
fricking how
I did it twice and even then that was just so I could get some character abilities from jobs and materials, I could've just used the arena prizes to get through the story if I wanted to
Did you not realise your stats mostly came from the job rankings, not levels (though 8 does fix this with the exception of Kiryu's dragon job)
Also there's shit like the rocket launcher for free damage
Well it's not balanced in terms of jobs but it gives people way more leeway than people on this board give it credit for, at least with completing the story
Again, rocket launchers for 1000+ damage per use
I've been playing Judgment, I think I'm getting close to the end
So far it's been better than some recent entries for me, having played Gaiden also recently is like they shat it out overnight and this was carefully crafted. What went wrong?
6 month development time I think was the statement
Also even if it's because it's a speedrun and people know what they're doing people have been able to beat Tendo at level 48 just by getting Eri, spamming darts and poison
There's also stuff like the rocket launchers doing 1000 damage per use
series is unironically done without the GOAT im glad his last game was lost judgment cause that right there was the goated game now we get this shit without nagoshi sega is done
I suppose we'll fine out. The game comes out in 3 days. I really hope that the Daidoji plotline being just written out isn't true. Though at the same time, the fact that one of the big twists for the character identities of one of the new characters is HE's AKSHUALLY YOUR HALF BROTHER!!!!!! is bad no matter what the context is missing from the summaries.
It's one of the signs of a hack writer. This desire to make everything akshually be interconnected! All characters actually have these secret prior connections with one another! It's terrible for worldbuilding. Instead of making the world of the Yakuza feel large, it just makes it feel smaller since the next person the franchise introduces is going to turn out to be a secret cousin's uncle's sister's father twice removed to Kiryu.
It's lost judgment's story that gets shat on to be specific
which is funny since I really enjoyed LJ's story, maybe I'll give 8's more slack when I see things in context
Also remember that there's more than two writers of these stories, you guys gotta check the credits more
I think it's funny that most of Ganker's complaint about Judgment was mostly the gameplay: >Tailing missions >Keihin Gang >Crane being mostly useless >Mortal wounds unless you're good at the game like me
While the complaints about Lost Judgment was mostly story related: >story takes forever to start >SAWA SENSEI
Writing in Judgement games is pretty shit I have to admit. Yagami often turns out to be right be complete coincide, characters appear and share info without justification, travel and strenght are written inconsistently too. The trend here is that we move smootly from plot-point to plot-point, even if it isn't justified. This sticks out less in Judgment because the characters were generally cool and had good interactions, not so much in LJ.
my biggest complaint about Yagami is that he's a total Mary Sue
at least Kiryu was tech illiterate dumbass who fell for every trick, con and scam, but Yagami just excels in everything he does, especially in LJ school stories
still hope for Final Judgment, I love Judgment games, especally LS
He has a couple interesting things about him, even if that's just the first game, but you're right in that he's the most 'player character' out of all the main characters, if that makes sense
I've been calling out the supposed GOAT story of Judgment ever since I beat it. AD-9 being a dud is such an easy, boring and unsatisfying way to end the story. You had 15 years of stoic mans doing stoic things and staying true to their ideals, being right every single time at the end of the story. For fricking once you setup a story where stoic man might have to question his ideals and you pussy out.
I think the point of judgment games is that nobody knows the answer to both social problems, so all the main characters can do is stick to what they think is right until someone hopefully find the perfect solution for everyone.
I hate Lost Judgement's minigames. Bike racing was painful and robotics club was lame with how it's just built around rushing squares. I've got to agree that the rest of the gameplay is great though. Crane getting upgraded allowing you to jump to dodge bullets and spin kick in mid air is fun. I hope that we get Final Judgement eventually.
Yakuza fans are never satisfied so it doesn't matter. I had fun with Like a Dragon, and I'll have fun with Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Ichiban is a cool character and I think the gameplay, characters, and story are more entertaining. If KT was trying to capture new fans to the series then I think they did a good job with Like a Dragon because it made me a fan, and as someone who tried playing the original series and couldn't get into it, Like a Dragon was more appealing to me. Kiryu has no personality and Ichiban is charismatic but can still be serious and emotional. I just like that the characters are less rigid and have more personality.
kiryu is too fricking predictable and it really dragged out later into the series. Ichiban has been a breath of fresh air and changing from beat em up to rpg was honestly the best thing they could do for the series because one can only handle dealing with the same fricking button mashing combat for so many titles.
I havent watched spoilers for the game yet and dont intend to but >have conversation about vidya with coworker >eventually start talking about yakuza >he seems knowledgeable about series so conversation gets extensive >finally get to the point of where we are talking about 7 and upcoming infinite wealth >he doesnt like jrpg combat >he eventually admits he only play zero and a bit of kiwami 1 then just watched the rest of the series on youtube
I know its anecdotal but still I didnt expect to run into a Gankertard IRL
kek, funny if true.
I will now give some based opinions. Yakuza games are before dragon engine. Then they turn into knob. Slop on da knob put me in tha club
Same. Kiryu's story is over as far as I'm concerned and people actually like Ichiban too so it's not like it would be much of a trouble to continue on with him.
Another Yakuza thread where Ganker dramatically whines about how next Yakuza game is going to be the worst and the series is never going to recover
Then the game ends up being OK with decent reviews, Ganker shuts up about it because it turned out to be good, and wait until next Yakuza title announced so they could return to b***h and moan
series is unironically done without the GOAT im glad his last game was lost judgment cause that right there was the goated game now we get this shit without nagoshi sega is done
My least favorite part of every yakuza game is how every major figure dumped all their 5d chess keikaku at the end of the game with no indication of them happening in the background while you're doing violent gang stuff earlier.
>"Yeah just stick with yakuza 0 and judgment. Ever since they went turn based the quality dropped hard. Yikes" >"Then just stick to it, why you're even here"
Where's the problem in telling people to save their money and stay away from this hot garbage?
I've been playing Judgment, I think I'm getting close to the end
So far it's been better than some recent entries for me, having played Gaiden also recently is like they shat it out overnight and this was carefully crafted. What went wrong?
I don't mind this though. From what I've seen, Danny Trejo's character is pretty fun in this game, so it definitely can be done well for Nagoshi's game.
>fake yakuza fans watched streamers play and now theyre doom posting to damage control their moronic expectations
Playing a game and experiencing the story first hand is always better than watching a homosexual streamer a week before launch.
Also the ending of 7 was good when you disingenuous fake fans were doom posting it after watching a vtuber
I'm doom posting the ending because of Kiryu's stuff. I think Ichiban's actual ending is a neat scene that definitely is another example of why he was an interesting direction to take the series, since they would never do an ending like his for the other protags
You drunk buddy? People loved 7's ending despite the moronic shit like mirrah face. Mostly because it was a brand new protag with new story, while keeping some parallels to old yakuza stories. 8 looks really shit because they once again blue ball everyone with Kiryu, despite the trailers implying something entirely different and Kasuga got shat on really hard. You are basically defending shitty and greedy marketing strategy of a multi-billion company, fool.
does kasuga actually get a big emotional moment like he did in 7? I mean, given the way the plot's been described, I can't imagine it hitting as hard anyway
Don't know about his story yet but since he isn't a face actor character it's more likely than the ones that are
He's a former tojo shmuck that killed his patriach to win his girl's love. That's why he's hiding in Hawaii. They use his confession to get Akane safely to Japan as a witness but he escapes once they arrive.
This isn't even reviewers leaking. Stores got their copies super early and more and more stores don't even respect the sell date and just start selling as soon as they get their copies. Same thing is happening to P3R in that retailers got their copies and are already selling them.
It's just going to be another justification as to why publishers are going to stop selling physical games.
Ichiban once again proving that he's far better than old man Kiryu. They should just kill that dull personality vacuum off so Ichiban can take the series to new heights.
Everyone here watched that stream from early on today where that homie finished the game, yes?
Was there anything in it that stood out to you other than the dogshit writing?
I really couldn't focus on any other aspect, I just took the scenes at face value as they happened and then I'd genuine go "What the frick is this dogshit writing? Why is this happening like this? People wouldn't actually be doing IRL, this makes no sense."
I know it's kind of moronic to be comparing this shit to real life, but I can't help but make the comparison due to the game wanting to look as realistic as possible instead of utilizing the older stylized looks.
At the end of the game, there's this one dude that just wails on Ichiban like a moron and Ichiban just let's him to as he wants then the whole crowd, including the person hitting him suddenly stops to "rethink" their behavior or some shit and now feel remorseful for beating up a man unwilling to defend himself or something. I thought that was completely moronic. In comparison to those three mooks in Y0 who beat up Majima, cause he let them since he was tethering on the edge of basically wanting to just die so he let them do whatever, at least they kept on acting like c**ts as you would expect someone like that to, and only got their comeuppance and began to grovel when Majima finally decided to just beat the shit out of them. None of that pretentious "kindness good" shit.
Cheap animations, dungeons from 7 reused, near zero gameplay improvement (the whole "new" balance around team tag attacks and movement range is useless as you still spam solely one best move ad infinitum, MP is once again never limited due to you having practically infinite recovery items).
So not "literally nothing", dumbass.
Also Kamuro Hills, also Majima's characterization, also Sotenbori, also korean vendetta things many things you frickers conveniently forget about.
okay but if he comes back, what about his sister, sayama? how's that plotline gonna go? do they get to reunite or we just completely forget all of that?
4 months ago
Anonymous
Sayama is in 8 and she and Kiryu never even meet.
4 months ago
Anonymous
i meant, if they do bring ryuji back, there should be some plotline happening between him and sayama reuniting as brother and sister and shit but i don't think they would bother even acknowledging something like that.
They're going to make a Ryuji game set between 2 and 7 because they know the series ain't shit without actual Yakuza to fight
4 months ago
Anonymous
Knowing Yokoyama, he'll bring him back from the dead and he'll be working some mundane job and you'll never even fight him or make any mention of it other than showing he's alive.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>go to survive bar in gaiden >kashiwagi just happens to not be there at the time
WTF Yokoyama?
4 months ago
Anonymous
couldn't be bothered to add an extra bucket list scene with him
4 months ago
Anonymous
I swear Yokoyama is just taking the piss at this point. He knows what the fans want to see, and he teases them with it, but never lets them have it.
I remember seeing normalgays on twitter praising EN Chitose VA, but when I watched the stream she sounded like they literally just got some random girl there.
every modern dub actor feels like someone they pulled off of youtube
if dubs still sounded like the 90s i actually wouldnt even have an issue since they were SOULful and felt unique, every voice actor i hear today is just the same gentrified funimation sounding shit
i still think snatcher's sega cd dub from 1994 is genuinely great quality acting, even if a little hamfisted it sounds so earnest and subsequently engaging in the process
im literally buying this game just to swim in the beach, this is the first game to showcase ocean physics since the gamecube era so idc about anything else, it can be a tech demo for all i care
arent there more areas? i played the demo and enjoyed the beach, but i was hoping for more maps around the hawaii area to swim in and simulate a summer vacation
Actually, what is Japan's obsession with Hawaii? I've never understood it at all. Is it like their obsession with Paris where they like the idea of it more than the reality?
It's the tourist trap for Japs ain't it? That should explain it. Still don't get why they chose Hawaii when they have Okinawa already, but I guess it's a slice of America closest to Japan aside from all the military bases so it's what they're going for.
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Okinawa is poor and not exotic, and in Hawaii they're restricted to Japanese friendly resorts
it isn't in america, it's in japan's idea of america
you seem to think setting a game in america immediately makes it an american game but the perspective japan has of america is incredibly funny and entertaining and ive never had a problem with this game's setting, it's the one thing i feel is good about it
WHY THE FRICK CAN'T HE JUST GET OVER THIS DAMN WOMAN?
IT'S NOT GOOD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT TO KEEP YOUR "MANLY" CHARACTER LOOKING LIKE LITTLE FRICKING b***h WHO CAN'T GET OVER ONE WOMAN EVEN 20 YEARS LATER.
HOLY FRICKING SHIT KIRYU YOU DIDN'T EVEN TAP HER ASS, YOU DIDN'T EVEN MARRY HER, YOU HAVE NO REASON TO BE THIS EMOTIONAL ATTACHED.
Shit reminds me of Lunafreya from FF15. You don't know the b***h and you don't give a shit about the b***h because you have no interaction with her, but the game want you to feel bad for her because she's the main heroine and she's dead. Now feel bad because the main character is feeling sad for her death.
Same shit with Kiryu and Yumi. I honestly don't give a flying frick about Yumi. They had their chances with Y0 to expand her but nope. Now i feel bad for Nishiki in Y1 because i fricking know him and he was such a nice guy to Kiryu and everyone before he went ape shit. And some frickers want me to feel bad for Yumi because Kiryu felt bad for her. I feel bad for Kiryu, sure, but i don't fricking give a shit about Yumi because i don't fricking know her.
Proof that reviews are paid. Sega paid out the ass to get social media influencers like druski to do commercials. Now they pay for reviews. Entire industry is just sad.
no, the game has denuvo.
I'm just going to priate the ps4 version but knowing how the piracy scene is dogshit, chances is that the only thing getting uploaded is the main game with no updates or DLC
I also can immediately understand what they mean with the story's pacing >spend 2 chapters establishing story and premise >spend 5 chapters establishing Hawaii and factions >LMAO WE'RE SPLITTING THE PARTY >spend 3 chapters on Ichiban's side establishing who the "True Villains" are >spend 2 chapters on Kiryu's side establishing who the other "True Villains" are >random 1 chapter tangent to see what the Jimas are up to >Oops the game's almost over
the entire structure of the game is honestly pretty bizarre and maybe even wholly unique as far as video game stories go
>maybe even wholly unique as far as video game stories go
Damn if this came out 8 years ago critics would praise it and it'd get uncritically analyzed by everyone.
>when they see PS3 screenshots of games they'll never play
Having friends who started with 7, they don't care. They won't play games that aren't in English. They're hyped as frick for 8, but won't go back to play the old games and instead ask me for about the lore behind the major recurring characters and such.
Eri was a special guest because she won a contest to be in 7. She won't appear or be mentioned ever again.
Kson won the contest for this game, but she appears as a hostess instead of a playable character.
I know, it was more of a joke for how she functioned. Although it's never the focus nor the highligt of the game, I always find one cute girl I like in each game.
Even if it's a random hostess who is a mortician obsessed wuth washing Kiryu's back
>well 90% of people were happy about happened to him, but I was sad
God, what the frick are the turning Ichiban into? This 110% optimistic personality is grating.
Like he was a pretty positive guy in 7, but not to this degree where he's happy if other people are happy even if they're walking over him.
That's what I mean. This is straight up moronation. The protagonist doesn't need to be Jesus Christ. Yakuza is a game about crime and beating the shit out of people.
Even from a story perspective making Ichiban this super forgivable guy that wants to help massively corrupt politicians and criminals is ridicilous and they don't say anything with it.
Kiryu was forgiven, yes, too people like Nishiki, Mine, Hamazaki etc who gave their life for atonement or seriously proved themselves changed. Ichiban would suck up to people like Munukata.
>Ichiban finally confesses to Saeko in a serious, meaningful way >they IMMEDIATELY destroy the whole fricking moment by having Ichiban act like a moronic cringe manchild that takes off his clothes to reveal a white shirt with a big heart on eating saying " I LOVE SAEKO" >she turns around and leaves immediately out of embarrassment and he has to go chase down after her yelling like a pathetic homosexual telling her to come back and forgive him for acting cringe
Can't they just drop that fricking shit for once and make him act like a man? Nothing from what I'm seeing so far makes me believe he would be a suitable husband for anyone, let alone be a father or anything like that. They just make him look pathetic and nothing else.
I really don't understand how they can frick up the writing so much that the scenes that should have been serious, and they almost managed to make them good, they sabotage them at the last second, but the scenes that don't really warrant a super serious tone, they trying to make them be the most serious, meaningful shit and then they just fall flat because you don't personally care and the writing didn't manage to make you care either.
>It even has a cuhrazey goat man on the cover of 7!
That was so dumb, put him there like he's the big bad or something. I really don't get why they did that, or the "Dreamworks face" too. Fricking worst cover they ever did.
Because they were marketing towards the West. And it worked. More people in the West played 7 than every other game combined. Really smart to drop the numbers in the West too for this reason.
The Japanese cover is much more traditional Yakuza.
>Ichiban on the hobo trolley to the side
But he's already front and center on the cover. At that point put like 10 Ichibans on it at least then it'll be funny
There's NOTHING of worth to this piece of shit game so there's no reason to even bother hiding the spoilers. You should know in advanced the moron shit that happens and that you're basically just wasting your time on this so you can hopefully be able to cancel your preorder.
first of all you are a crying moron and reddit might be more your speed you spoiled manchild, secondly why are you going into forums about a new game and be surprised your are spoiled
Only two things of consequence seem to happen that warrant any spoilers and those are the vtuber identity and the deal with the cripple guy. Never of which amounts to anything actually interesting or something you might not expect
EEEEEEEYIKES, THIS GAME IS A DAME DASASTER!
GUESS WE SHOULDVE PUT OUR INFINITE WEALTH TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAME AND NOT THE MARKETING OF THE GAME.
THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING I WANT TO BAKA MI DIE. I CANT FACE MY COLLEAGUES ANYMORE, ILL HAVE TO BECOME THE MAN WHO ERASED HIS NAME!
NAGOSHI WAS RIGHT, ILL NEVER TRULY BE LIKE A DRAGON!
I don't really get why they bothered with that. You still have to hope the enemis stay clumped together while you do aoe attacks and you still auto run to the enemy you attack. It changes literally nothing.
Genuine question here
Why is abusing Tiger's hidden arts and abusing the super armor of charge attacks, combined with damage upgrades, to wipe out any boss in lost judgment fine, but using the most powerful attacks over and over again in 7/8 isn't? They're both equally braindead
If people complained that 7 wasn't letting you be creative enough I'd agree, but if the complaint is that winning is too braindead then you probably should've started complaining starting with 6, arguably 0
since 4, really, since that was the first game where I thought 'damn this is really easy' since all your character progression has to happen in your character's quarter of the story and they didn't give the bosses many health bars
3 was difficult only because of the blocking, as was kenzan, and 2 was the last one where I thought that it was genuinely tough but fair
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>Ichiban finally confesses to Saeko in a serious, meaningful way >they IMMEDIATELY destroy the whole fricking moment by having Ichiban act like a moronic cringe manchild that takes off his clothes to reveal a white shirt with a big heart on eating saying " I LOVE SAEKO" >she turns around and leaves immediately out of embarrassment and he has to go chase down after her yelling like a pathetic homosexual telling her to come back and forgive him for acting cringe
Can't they just drop that fricking shit for once and make him act like a man? Nothing from what I'm seeing so far makes me believe he would be a suitable husband for anyone, let alone be a father or anything like that. They just make him look pathetic and nothing else.
I really don't understand how they can frick up the writing so much that the scenes that should have been serious, and they almost managed to make them good, they sabotage them at the last second, but the scenes that don't really warrant a super serious tone, they trying to make them be the most serious, meaningful shit and then they just fall flat because you don't personally care and the writing didn't manage to make you care either.
ok I dunno if I want them to continue Judgment anymore going off of the sound of the plot in this, Yagami was already erratically written in LJ as it is
Derailing this flame war thread for actual discussion since the Yak community is too busy being autistic and getting baited into flamewars to notice that LaD 8 is sitting at 90+ on metacritic.
Ichiban once again proving that he's far better than old man Kiryu. They should just kill that dull personality vacuum off so Ichiban can take the series to new heights.
Just scroll down from there and ignore the dumbass convo about vtubers,
I got derailed while grinding the tower in Chapter 12, hopping back to it tonight. I didn't realize I could actually leave the area so now I wanna switch up jobs to get a couple extra skills.
I wanna have the game beat before launch, feck.
>bucket list >Everybody expecting kiryu to finally get the sendoff he should have gotten in 6 >instead get characters from earlier games talking about their lives while kiryu hides and eavesdrops in the background
you are coping, you are not that important. This game will sell without your input
I played the demo and realized nothing improved from 7. This thread has shown me it's even worse than I thought.
Total skip. Maybe I'll buy it for $10 from the bargain bin in a year.
By all means get the game for sale. I hated the combat in 7, the changes to it in demo made me like it. Its exactly what it needed to be, a hybrid between turn based and action(kiryu’s DoD class)
I played the demo and realized nothing improved from 7. This thread has shown me it's even worse than I thought.
Total skip. Maybe I'll buy it for $10 from the bargain bin in a year.
This. I saw it for $10 off on Fanatical and couldn't help myself. Already bought.
This thread's making me really regret it, but I'll still probably sink 100 hours into it over the next week.
4 was ass too, piss easy and you never actually got long enough with a character to really enjoy them
series died with 3
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3 was trash held back by the PS3. Series died with 2.
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2 was a cheap follow up after they got unexpected succes from 1. This should've never become a series.
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the series was always cringe trying to hard to appeal to middle aged adults. Nagoshi's career died with F-Zero GX.
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If you homosexual say one bad word about GX, I swear to god
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Nah I wouldn't. I have ethics so I won't shitpost about the goat.
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3 was garbage and I'm tired of pretending it's not. >forced to spam counters or weapons since every enemy blocks all the time >side content was shit >substories were shit >plot was when the series started going full moron >
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You did not truly play any of the classic yakuza games (1-4) - Different enemy types had different threshold of blocking, you are just parroting a tired reddit meme and I'm tired of pretending that Yakuza 3 had more blocking than previous titles. By this merit we could just call y4 Grabkuza 4 because the remaster has the same timing bug, making enemies grab you twice as frequently.
Similar the side content was fantastic, the only issue was the hostess club not being as laid out as 2 different clubs in yak2, but admittedly that one wasn't too great either. Hitman list was really fricking great and was on point - actually integrating beat em up gameplay with enemies having revamped movesets instead of a shitty grindy gimmicky bullshit like we're getting now (oh wow, animal crossing autism crafting grind for 40h sure will be interesting!).
Plot I do agree with you, nothing that much interesting happens and only the Sonatine references carry this game.
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>oh wow, animal crossing autism crafting grind for 40h sure will be interesting!
What? They added crafting to this game? Surely you can't be serious.
Lost Judgment is the worst game in the series. Ishin was 1000x better, but only because it was basically the same game it was in 2014, back when the series still was good.
Ishin was garbage the frick are you on? >took the grindiest game in the series and made it even grindier >balanced the game around trooper cards when they were only used in dungeons in the original
This. Hate action games, but now that its a JRPG, I'm interested. Like a Dragon was the best game I've played in the past 5 years. Hope they never go back to the shitty action games.
Honestly, story looks pretty shitty this time and Kiryu's bucket list is a big miss according to the leaks.
I guess the other side content, the island and side missions will be funny, but jesus what a disappointment.
I can't help but be curious about RGG studio making something like a platformer
I am optimistic to say I think there'd be some sort of unique innovation but there'd also be some frickery
You did not truly play any of the classic yakuza games (1-4) - Different enemy types had different threshold of blocking, you are just parroting a tired reddit meme and I'm tired of pretending that Yakuza 3 had more blocking than previous titles. By this merit we could just call y4 Grabkuza 4 because the remaster has the same timing bug, making enemies grab you twice as frequently.
Similar the side content was fantastic, the only issue was the hostess club not being as laid out as 2 different clubs in yak2, but admittedly that one wasn't too great either. Hitman list was really fricking great and was on point - actually integrating beat em up gameplay with enemies having revamped movesets instead of a shitty grindy gimmicky bullshit like we're getting now (oh wow, animal crossing autism crafting grind for 40h sure will be interesting!).
Plot I do agree with you, nothing that much interesting happens and only the Sonatine references carry this game.
>Similar the side content was fantastic
I now remind you of hostess maker and marietta
How come I can't find this game on any keysites? 70€ is bogus tbh I'm still boycotting this shit but this is the first game since Wo Long that I want to buy on release
>angry tendies pretending to be fans of the series
Why would tendies care. The games have never been on Nintendo platforms outside of 1&2 HD and that was only in Japan.
What is this schizo shit?
Tendies are preoccupied seething over Palworld atm
>Immediate excuses
No games on the Shitch eh? Please post your trophy list of the latest yakuza games you've played
>angry tendies pretending to be fans of the series
Why would tendies care. The games have never been on Nintendo platforms outside of 1&2 HD and that was only in Japan.
Tendies have been absolutely dabbed on the last few months. Losing GOTY to baldurs gate, switch 2 rumoured to be barely as powerful as a base PS4, palworld. They've gone into over drive now. If they can't be happy no one can.
>Don't know why they are so afraid to pass the torch to Ichiban definitively
Because the Japanese don't like him. If 8 doesn't outsell Gaiden, he's finished. 9 will be a Kiryu game again.
No idea, but both Judgment games and Gaiden outsold 7 there.
Perhaps they don't like the JRPG combat, but they love other JRPGs.
Japs want some type of strong male figure to aspire towards and Kiryu was kind of that... Ichiban is just a moronic manchild with no qualities they consider of worth or redeeming enough for them to learn from and it just reminds them of themselves with no way to guide them towards being more "masculine".
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>Japs want some type of strong male figure to aspire towards and Kiryu was kind of that... Ichiban is just a moronic manchild with no qualities they consider of worth or redeeming enough for them to learn from and it just reminds them of themselves with no way to guide them towards being more "masculine".
The yakuza fanbase in Japan is predominantly female, so bear that in mind when writing your next fanfic about them.
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>The yakuza fanbase in Japan is predominantly female
Clearly they want a big strong man too, not a goofball.
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same thing applies you moron
ichiban dries up pussy faster than being in the saharan desert would
Ichiban could have been good but that train set sail a while ago. 8 firmly cements him as the wacky hair goofball who cries when people are mean and can only take part in convoluted family drama plots
I will thanks! I for one liked yakuza 3. I will enjoy it even more when 9 comes around and that guy who was like a one off character crammed into the back end of a combat heavy chapter shows up as actually super important all along.
what is the point of this thread
I'll honestly talk about anything if it avoids....you know....them
bet you feel moronic now homosexual
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Genuinely, I can't imagine anyone being satisfied with the ending. I genuinely can't believe they blueball you TWICE by never showing Kiryu actually meet Haruka.
>try to watch gameplay
>dub
That only means when you won't be spoiled on the actually good versions of the scenes you see.
6's final boss moment: Kiryu takes a shot "sacrificing" for Haruka and Haruto in the same exact way so many people sacrificed themselves for him(same pose and all), including Haruka's mother.
8's final boss moment: Kiryu gayly pins down the final boss and just starts crying about how everyone should be allowed to atone and how forgiveness is good
this series is done
I’m fine with Kiryu crying, it was done well in gaiden, but him crying here felt more hamfisted than it was in 3
It was NOT done well in Gaiden, they turned a masculine badass into a blubbering baby, hunched over a tablet and sobbing while his master stood over his shoulder watching. Way over the fricking top
He was seeing his kids doing fine after not being able to be with them for years man. It was a fantastic moment and I even think it was a better ending for Kiryu than every other one we've got.
There's a way to show a guy like Kiryu crying and they've even done it before, that portrayal was just pathetic TV-drama tier shite
This. All they needed was a Rikiya tier crying scene. Men don't cry like babies, my God. Grow a fricking spine and have some class.
This. Real men cry manly tears. They don't bawl their eyes out with snot dripping from their nose.
The only reason he was not crying a river and snot was because technology wasnt there yet.
Kiryu never cried and screamed louder than he did for Rikyia.
Then we need to go back. Technology has gone too far.
you calling that shit fricking manly tears is hilarious
have you actually watched the scene recently? he's fricking bawling. he has a full on breakdown and his voice starts cracking
if they did that scene now he'd actually look even worse than he did in gaiden
Yep, it's based. The manly LIGYAAAaAAaAA~ scream is fricking kino and it's laughable you would think the snot shit is better in any shape or form roflmao
It was the most heartbreaking moment in the entire series.
I was really hoping they'd resolve things in 8 and Kiryu could finally go retire in Okinawa with his kids, but no, beach filler episode it is!
Bravo Yokoyama! You've done it again!
>Ebina’s actually arakawas secret son
What’s the point of this?
He's Ichiban but evil
but ichiban doesn't talk to him
That was Masato lol
I don’t get why they had to do it again but worse
This is more moronic than my secret CIA twin
It's like how to some degree the first three yakuza villains are all Kiryu but something went wrong. Ichiban gets characters that are him but something went wrong. The issue here is that they use this character for Kiryu instead of him while he's Ichiban's villain is completely different and has no real thematic connection to him
They did that already
>in full-on pander mode bringing back Kiryu
>Majima/Saejima still aren't fricking party members
That's the new innovation they'll add for 9. Please look forward to it.
Really? Guess I'll wait for 9.
wasn't there a leak of them having a party member icon except Akiyama
shishido was a much better villain, sucks he's relegated to a spinoff that genuinely meant fricking nothing for the plot of this game.
he'll be back in 9
How can it be filler? Is there an overarching plot across the series that needs to be resolved? Isn't every game mostly self-contained? What does filler mean in this context?
Nothing matters besides Kiryu getting to reunite with Haruka
I’d argue the other games did more substantial shit than what 8 does
Frick, even Gaiden set up more Daidoji shit
The dumb parts about 8's plot especially are how they don't even tell you anything about what happens to the daidoji at the end, you do the final boss and all of a sudden they're gone, he's just done with them. and you don't even see him reunite with haruka, you're just told it happens
Do they reveal who Hanawa is?
Tell me what was the point of story in this game again ?
SEGA really gave up on Ichiban... his finale is overshadowed by Kiryu's, the ending is overshadowed by Kiryu's stuff, his actual antagonist is undermined by Kiryu's, the guy who should've been his antagonist is given to Kiryu, and his story ends up amounting to nothing. Is SEGA just going to give up on the guy after this game?
They've been trying to drop Kiryu from the spotlight since Yakuza 4 and it's never stuck. Not even because the replacements themselves were bad, but because they really just don't want to commit to giving Kiryu a real sendoff.
>sendoff
people don't want their heroes to be "sent off". they should soft-retire him and let him become a Yoda kind of character
None of Kiryu's "successors" prior to Ichiban were well designed for the role. Akiyama's a turbo-rich money lender with zero functional ties to the Tojo. Saejima's even older than Kiryu. Tanimura's a cop who, like Akiyama, isn't super relevant to the Tojo.
The writers put zero effort into setting these guys up as Kiryu's successors. That's why they failed.
I strongly doubt they were attempted to replace Kiryu either. Why on earth would they make Shinada if one of these dudes was to be new lead character.
The one with the best chance was Akiyama, but they dropped the ball by making him insanely rich and largely unaffiliated with anything. Being obscenely wealthy doesn't really do anything for a Yakuza protag, and being an unaffiliated nobody means that he can only really get involved in things via pure happenstance. He has nothing to do with anything, so it really just means that he's always getting dragged into things he has no business getting into.
>The writers put zero effort into setting these guys up as Kiryu's successors. That's why they failed.
Dude, Tojo clan and Omi alliance fricking collapsed and they still focused on the old Yakuza members and dragging back Kiryu AGAIN. No matter how much effort they try to replace Kiryu, he will still come back for one fricking reason or another.
Being connected with the Tojo was Ichiban's ticket in. The issue with Akiyama and co. was that the Tojo were still relevant in their games. Akiyama has no ticket into Japan's underworld shenanigans, so the only way he can get involved is through pure coincidence and contrivance.
The reason Ichiban's former Tojo is because he'd have NOTHING to do with Y7's plot otherwise. In the end, even if the Tojo are defunct, it's the consequences of his former affiliations that keep bringing him into the limelight.
or maybe just stop caring about the tojo clan and do something unique for once. i thought in hawaii we'd get american mafias having a connection with his mom or some shit but no it always goes back to "muh tojo".
Seriously it was so cringe when Yamai was as some former Tojo dude and we had to do a fricking npc round up quest for info about another bottom tier 30 year old Tojo family.
the tojo clan and organize crime families dont really function in the modern communication age. Its much more enjoyable seeing ichiban clumsily stumbling into elaborate underworld shit than trying to justify a functioning yakuza clan in 2024
People only care about him due to his actions in the previous game, and those actions only took place because of his former affiliations. If Ichiban didn't get involved and kept his head down, Y8 wouldn't happen.
It's like a domino effect. Akiyama's problem is that despite being in so many games, he keeps to himself enough to avoid people deliberately dragging him into things. He's not REALLY that important, hence why he always needs to fall into situations via contrivance and happenstance
Akiyama really has fricking nothing outside of his association to kiryu. I dont understand why anyone wants to see him centerfold
Doesn't matter. Even if you get rid of the Tojo, everything's a domino effect. Ichiban made big waves in the previous game, and he made a lot of important connections. Thus it's easy to bring him into the limelight by capitalizing on the consequences of his past allegiences and actions.
Akiyama didn't really make a large enough impact in Y4, and even in Y5 where he made bigger waves, he still failed to make any meaningful connections with anyone important other than Kiryu and Saejima. At his core, Akiyama is still a totally neutral party, which generally means you have to force him into situations through happenstance.
>Akiyama has no ticket into Japan's underworld shenanigans
It got worse since he got booted out of business by the Triads for being too friendly with the yakuza. Kind of a dead end.
7 was the sopranos moment for the series since they really are trying to put it forward that that Yakuza as a concept is a time piece and the series itself has no place to fricking go if their intention is to keep the game in modern times
Ichiban is supposed to be a more relatable protagonist but it's then played for laughs with Kiryu somehow still remaining this unsurpassable gigachad figure.
>None of Kiryu's "successors" prior to Ichiban were well designed for the role
...and neither is Ichiban. I would argue Akiyama was a million times better as a "successor" and I actually like him better than Kiryu.
they are teasing the ichiban/seako relationship in the next game, so not yet
The most telling thing about all this is that over the course of a week+ of spoilers barely anyone cared to mention anything about Ichiban's side of the story. Kiryu really Apollo Justice'd the poor fricker kek
They shot themselves by making 7 turn based instead of a brawler. Hell, if they wanted to keel the party member stuff then each member should have been a style that you switch to like in Judgment.
*keep
7 kiwami with action gameplay
Trust the plan
Can I get a QRD on all the plot spoilers? I've read bit here and there that sound utterly moronic, but I just want to see the whole picture.
>Ichiban and co get their lives ruined by vtuber girl, which is why they're all broke and back to how they were in 7
>The vtuber ends up being Chitose(the hot girl that joins your party), who was being blackmailed by wheelchair guy(who is faking being disabled)
>The main villains of the game are the cult leader and Ebina, who are colluding with world leaders to turn a remote island in Hawaii into a nuclear dumping ground. Cult guy is doing this so he can have power over all the world leaders in secret, Ebina is doing this so he can force former Yakuza to be forced into shitty working conditions and suffer forever because he's mad that Arakawa and the Yakuza ruined his life.
>Ebina is actually Arakawa's other son, from a different mother(Ichiban never meets him in the story so this plot thread is kind of dumb)
>Ichiban has to deal with cult guy, who is defeated because Chitose uses the vtuber account to reveal every detail.
>Ebina dissolves the Seiryu clan to form a new Bleach Japan, which is just bait for former Tojo, Omi, and Seiryu men to be forced into his nuclear waste thing.
>Kiryu fights him and pins him down in a homoerotic way and cries about how he's right to be mad at Yakuza, but all men deserve a chance to atone and get forgiveness and Ebina is never mentioned again
>Kiryu goes to the hospital and is sickly with cancer and it's implied Haruka comes to see him. He's also able to go by Kiryu again(they don't explain what happens to the daidoji, they just get written out)
Holy shit Yokoyama is a hack. Literally has to reset hjs characters to the last game AND repeats half the damn plot points.
>Holy shit Yokoyama is a hack
Yakuza 5 didn't clue you in? Yakuzer 8 is pretty much making the same mistakes.
>bloated game
>bloated cast
>instead of everyone looking like they're about to bawl they just do it
>story is so big and the conspiracy is so grand it stops making sense after the first chapter
So they just took 7's villain and spread him across 2 characters?
that sounds a little gay
>Ichiban has another secret brother
Are you fricking serious
The guy even goes on a whole rant about how the two of them actually are very similar but opposite. How Ichiban is the one who revere's Arakawa while he's the one who despises everything about him and shit like that. A rant that would have way more of an effect if the two actually interacted and fought, but he barely if not never interacts with Ichiban throughout the story and he's Kiryu's final boss.
Should I just drop my preorder?
I was about to be in your position yesterday, so i can sympatize with you. But some anon posted leak about Sayama and it was just a side quest for Kiryu. Sayama and Kiryu didn't even get to talk to each other and maybe get together again. No, he was just eavedropping Sayama and Date having a conversation about the good old days. And that's when i decided to dropped this game and wait for a huge discount. But after seeing this shit. Man, i'm complete dropped this game for good. Not even a fricking pirated version could convince me to play this game.
Just drop your preorder, man. Shit is not worth it, from the look of it.
Does sawashiro have cool moments like in 7 ? Any good dynamic intros ? I saw the final boss intro and I think it's suck especially since the music slaps
He's a boss fight for Kiryu around the halfway point in the game. From there, he's secretly colluding with Kiryu to undermine Ebina's plan. Ebina catches on to him and he loses an eye for it.
uh that's a bit sad, thanks... At least he isn't dead.
>Any good dynamic intros ?
lol no
They can't do these anymore. Gaiden had like 2 out of the 25 bosses or whatever and neither were on par with the Judgment games' intros.
I saw Bryce's and it was akward as frick. Just a bunch of long pauses while some mooks hold the party still.
Damn, too bad because I liked the final one in Gaiden
Did anything happen with Kume? These spoilers are looking pretty grim.
He gets written out in the prologue. Apparently his random teleportation powers can get him to coin lockers he should have no knowledge of but don't allow him to avoid the cops
With him having no mention in any marketing that's not surprising honestly
>Kiryu fights him and pins him down in a homoerotic way and cries about how he's right to be mad at Yakuza, but all men deserve a chance to atone and get forgiveness and Ebina is never mentioned again
They did Kiryu's ending dirty. How did they go from Gaiden to this?
I can't believe Kiryu would cry to Ebina a literal nobody to him while giving Daigo and co the cold shoulder. Granted he managed to get through to Daigo and gang but the execution is all over the place
This all sounds like the story was rushed. Keep in mind, I'm not excusing this. They had 4 years to make this game. But for so many plot points to get bizarrely dropped and so many other plot points just there for no reason screams to me that they didn't take the time to actually edit and reexamine what they wrote. They just shat out a first draft and made a game out of it.
This summary is really broad, there's a lot of explanations and ways other threads connect to each other, this is just the general bullet points just from what I saw from the leakers playing the games.
Why don't they just commit to offing him
If you haven't realised this game just exists for sequel baiting. Since he's his brother they're probabaly saving him for Ichiban's part 3 (which is more than likely his final game)
this is yakuza, final bosses who don't die go to the magical disappearing prison where they are never seen again. Even redeemed villains like Kido and Arai.
>tfw the plot is unironically instigated by Vtubers
Even if you don't care about how stupid the other shit is, the fact that THIS is what kickstarts the plot is so fricking moronic because of how it makes the plot something that is dated instead of a more timeless one. It already sounds dumb now. It's gonna sound even dumber in 30 years when Vtubers are no longer in existence. It's no different than movies in the 2000s that talked about MySpace. Shit like this makes stories age poorly.
RGG has always already dated their games with political satire and tech trends.
even so, I feel like vtubers has to be the most dated one they have actually done, and it being so relevant to the plot is what makes it much worse.
>It's gonna sound even dumber in 30 years
it wont take 30 years
It sounds dumb today.
The difference is politics go in circles. Everyone can relate to that stuff.
The tech trends were never really all that forward, they were mostly just there in the background. Sure you had cell phones, but the only time it felt really egregious was in Judgment with the bluetooth ear pieces, video calls (who the frick does this?), and drones and they toned that way back in Lost Judgment.
Vtubers are such a niche thing today and they probably won't even be a thing in another 5-10 years.
>Vtubers are such a niche thing today and they probably won't even be a thing in another 5-10 years.
What makes you think that youtubers hiding behind digital avatars won't be a thing in the future? If anything, it will become more common as technology advances.
Streamers and online personalities are still a thing, I dunno why you're so upset at that particular part
Because vtubers have no place in a HARDBOILED CRIME DRAMA
don't the Yakuza own waifu gacha games? seems they'll do anything as long as it produces $$$
>Shit like this makes stories age poorly.
No, you dumb Black person
>>Ichiban has to deal with cult guy, who is defeated because Chitose uses the vtuber account to reveal every detail.
...That's it for Ichiban's fricking story? What the frick happened with him and Saeko now that their reputation IRL are permanently ruined? Also frick Yokoyama and frick Kiryu for being there in the first place, just put him in spin-offs and cameos. I still don't feel Ichiban will ever be the main protagonist.
>I still don't feel Ichiban will ever be the main protagonist.
You can tell the current RGG team has absolutely no faith that Ichi can hold a game on his own. Which is why they keep having Kiryu appear in important roles.
Man thank frick nagoshi is there back then to keep yokoyama in check
So with the Yakuza gone we've gotten "Bullying is bad but killing bullies is also bad" and "I am going to create radioactive sludge mines and force all ex yakuza to work in them because I hate my dead dad," truly we are all better off without the Tojo or Omi in our lives
They will break the emergency class eventually and get some bullshit out of the yomei alliance
This is unironically awful I don't think even hardcore yakuza fanboys will like it
Bravo Yokoyama
...maybe its for the best we dont get a Judgment 3
if Yakuza 8 is actually Like a Dragon Sideways-8 then will Yakuza 9 be Like a Dragon Upsidedown-9?
It'll be called Yakuza PhoenIX and contain realtime combat and reboot the series with a young Kiryuu in 2042.
Wow what a dissapontment this was. Ichiban's getting the trilogy treatment I guess.
is it actually bad or are you guys just memeing
infinite filler
>Believing Ganker
I'm assuming this is your first time here.
my Ganker friends wouldn't try to trick me
hey there little anime girl, it's me, Ganker
take the money you saved for infinite whelks and buy a gun
trust me you will need it soon
xoxo
your friend forever,
/v/
it's dogshit bro, i'm sorry.
the series is unironically dead.
I really liked 7 but I didn’t play any of the other games. Should I get this game?
very obvious yes
Why do people now care about things being filler when that's basically what Gaiden was?
Even with shit story, i am very much looking forward to the game because of fun. Every yakuza story so far has never reached the potential high that it could. I just want to piss around with side games and do fun side stories. It's a JRPG-lite so i dont even need to do min-max autism to finish the game.
>It's a JRPG-lite so i dont even need to do min-max autism to finish the game.
They bloated everything in the late-game so min-maxing is a must (just like they did in 7).
Theres a difference between min-maxing and forcing you to grind for resources and levels. And anyway if you do substories and dont avoid fights like a pussy you'll probably just have to do each dungeon once like in LAD.
7 had you go to the arena once, that's it
>once
>you had to grind Business Management if you wanted any gear progression
>and then the dungeon before the Millenium Tower
I never did the kamurocho dungeon and finished the story with no issue
Getting crafted weapons are nice, which I did, but the arena prizes should be good enough if I remember them correctly
>grind business management
business management was one of the best parts of 7
For the first tier, yeah. Going to #1 was a literal fricking chore.
nah it took me a couple hours, maybe one and half more looking for SR employees. You're just bad at it
I never did the side dungeons and Millenium Tower was piss easy. Literally the only time you had to "grind" in 7 was the Battle Arena like he said. Even then, you can definitely do Saejima and Majima without it.
I've noticed that a lot of people who complain about 7's battle system are also total shit at JRPGs.
>Business Management
Calling this a grind when it's a side mode with its own story is moronic. Not to mention it doesn't even take long to do, I finished that entire thing in one play session. The only thing that made it somewhat annoying was the money gathering animation, if you could skip that then you could finish it in half the time.
The more I talk about Yakuza here, the more I realize Ganker is fricking moronic
Yakuza became famous enough to attract your average Ganker contrarian schizos, congrats I guess
>I finished that entire thing in one play session
So you used the cheat managers and didn't actually engage with it. Nothing you say about it has any value.
>It's a JRPG-lite so i dont even need to do min-max autism to finish the game
lol. Remember how you had to grind for 10 hours for the Majima/Seijima fight in 7?
You have to do that for every major fight in 8. Everything's a total sponge.
I'm dropping this game because 7 was barely passable from a gameplay perspective and they've managed to make it worse.
I'll wait for the next beat em up, whatever that may be. RGG can't into JRPG combat.
>10 hours
What the actual frick are you on about, the arena does not take that much time in the slightest
>Everything's a total sponge.
Are you taking that from the streamer who I kept seeing posts about them forgetting to get any gear for?
>the arena does not take that much time in the slightest
I did all the substories and still had to go through the arena 5 times before I was leveled up enough.
You did not, because I did none of the substories and had to only do it once with the last five floors one or two extra times. I literally only did main story and Ichiban Confections, nothing else because I wanted to get to NG+ and Legend for my actual playthrough.
is speedrunning the story for ng+ going to be the route to go for infinite wealth?
>5 times
fricking how
I did it twice and even then that was just so I could get some character abilities from jobs and materials, I could've just used the arena prizes to get through the story if I wanted to
Did you not realise your stats mostly came from the job rankings, not levels (though 8 does fix this with the exception of Kiryu's dragon job)
Also there's shit like the rocket launcher for free damage
7 is the most balanced JRPG I"ve ever played. It required literally no grinding at any point.
You didn''t play the game.
Well it's not balanced in terms of jobs but it gives people way more leeway than people on this board give it credit for, at least with completing the story
Again, rocket launchers for 1000+ damage per use
6 month development time I think was the statement
Should I get this game or Persona 3?
Persona 3's on game pass
but Infinite Wealth and get a month of Game Pass for a dollar
if you have to ask p3
Its fine, its an xbox franchise now, even if this one fails they have infinite money to make the next one.
>Infinite Wealth was Microsoft Money all along.
THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
>endless shiting on the game cause they looked up spoilers
so many fake yakuza fans, i blame 0.
Want to talk about the "barely improved combat" instead where the game suffers from the same issues as 7
the game has plenty of quality-of-life changes, you're just looking for things to hate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXLJcaGEa4g
Also even if it's because it's a speedrun and people know what they're doing people have been able to beat Tendo at level 48 just by getting Eri, spamming darts and poison
There's also stuff like the rocket launchers doing 1000 damage per use
APOLOGIZE.
Nope
We unironically need him back
Apologize
For what? He is rightfully recognized as the most based antagonist in the series.
Seriously, where the frick is he? What does he do in 8?
Looking forward to when Yokoyama stops working on the series and nothing people dislike about the series changes
Reminder that judgment was all nagoshi with no yokoyama and Ganker still hated it.
Both men have similar brand of autism when writing their story.
>Reminder that judgment was all nagoshi with no yokoyama and Ganker still hated it.
Ganker loved judgement, lost judgement was the shit one.
It was done by the same staff, writer and everything was based on nagoshi's idea. Point still stands.
The first one was super clunky as a game anyway.
I suppose we'll fine out. The game comes out in 3 days. I really hope that the Daidoji plotline being just written out isn't true. Though at the same time, the fact that one of the big twists for the character identities of one of the new characters is HE's AKSHUALLY YOUR HALF BROTHER!!!!!! is bad no matter what the context is missing from the summaries.
>2nd spoiler
Yeah, that's super unnecessary and doesn't even add anything to the drama unlike coin locker baby. I hope there's more to it.
It's one of the signs of a hack writer. This desire to make everything akshually be interconnected! All characters actually have these secret prior connections with one another! It's terrible for worldbuilding. Instead of making the world of the Yakuza feel large, it just makes it feel smaller since the next person the franchise introduces is going to turn out to be a secret cousin's uncle's sister's father twice removed to Kiryu.
>Reminder that judgment was all nagoshi with no yokoyama and Ganker still hated it.
[citation needed]
v never hated Judgment
It's lost judgment's story that gets shat on to be specific
which is funny since I really enjoyed LJ's story, maybe I'll give 8's more slack when I see things in context
Also remember that there's more than two writers of these stories, you guys gotta check the credits more
which edition are we all getting?
I think it's funny that most of Ganker's complaint about Judgment was mostly the gameplay:
>Tailing missions
>Keihin Gang
>Crane being mostly useless
>Mortal wounds unless you're good at the game like me
While the complaints about Lost Judgment was mostly story related:
>story takes forever to start
>SAWA SENSEI
Writing in Judgement games is pretty shit I have to admit. Yagami often turns out to be right be complete coincide, characters appear and share info without justification, travel and strenght are written inconsistently too. The trend here is that we move smootly from plot-point to plot-point, even if it isn't justified. This sticks out less in Judgment because the characters were generally cool and had good interactions, not so much in LJ.
my biggest complaint about Yagami is that he's a total Mary Sue
at least Kiryu was tech illiterate dumbass who fell for every trick, con and scam, but Yagami just excels in everything he does, especially in LJ school stories
still hope for Final Judgment, I love Judgment games, especally LS
>Final Judgment
Is that an actual title you saw somewhere?
nah, I made it up 🙁
the last game will be called blind judgment and it'll be a big lecture about prejudice
the last game will be called Judgement Day, and it's about Yagami coming to God and the antagonist is a false prophet
He has a couple interesting things about him, even if that's just the first game, but you're right in that he's the most 'player character' out of all the main characters, if that makes sense
I've been calling out the supposed GOAT story of Judgment ever since I beat it. AD-9 being a dud is such an easy, boring and unsatisfying way to end the story. You had 15 years of stoic mans doing stoic things and staying true to their ideals, being right every single time at the end of the story. For fricking once you setup a story where stoic man might have to question his ideals and you pussy out.
I think the point of judgment games is that nobody knows the answer to both social problems, so all the main characters can do is stick to what they think is right until someone hopefully find the perfect solution for everyone.
I hate Lost Judgement's minigames. Bike racing was painful and robotics club was lame with how it's just built around rushing squares. I've got to agree that the rest of the gameplay is great though. Crane getting upgraded allowing you to jump to dodge bullets and spin kick in mid air is fun. I hope that we get Final Judgement eventually.
Yakuza fans are never satisfied so it doesn't matter. I had fun with Like a Dragon, and I'll have fun with Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Ichiban is a cool character and I think the gameplay, characters, and story are more entertaining. If KT was trying to capture new fans to the series then I think they did a good job with Like a Dragon because it made me a fan, and as someone who tried playing the original series and couldn't get into it, Like a Dragon was more appealing to me. Kiryu has no personality and Ichiban is charismatic but can still be serious and emotional. I just like that the characters are less rigid and have more personality.
kiryu is too fricking predictable and it really dragged out later into the series. Ichiban has been a breath of fresh air and changing from beat em up to rpg was honestly the best thing they could do for the series because one can only handle dealing with the same fricking button mashing combat for so many titles.
I havent watched spoilers for the game yet and dont intend to but
>have conversation about vidya with coworker
>eventually start talking about yakuza
>he seems knowledgeable about series so conversation gets extensive
>finally get to the point of where we are talking about 7 and upcoming infinite wealth
>he doesnt like jrpg combat
>he eventually admits he only play zero and a bit of kiwami 1 then just watched the rest of the series on youtube
I know its anecdotal but still I didnt expect to run into a Gankertard IRL
kek, funny if true.
I will now give some based opinions. Yakuza games are before dragon engine. Then they turn into knob. Slop on da knob put me in tha club
Who dies
Hanawa and Danny Trejo's guy
I didn't even know the first guy was in the game
with the context of the final version of 8, you can pretty much just assume that Gaiden was only made to give context to who he is
I actually like Ichiban more than Kiryu. It's a shame that RGG regrets making him and just wants to go back to Kiryu.
Same. Kiryu's story is over as far as I'm concerned and people actually like Ichiban too so it's not like it would be much of a trouble to continue on with him.
Another Yakuza thread where Ganker dramatically whines about how next Yakuza game is going to be the worst and the series is never going to recover
Then the game ends up being OK with decent reviews, Ganker shuts up about it because it turned out to be good, and wait until next Yakuza title announced so they could return to b***h and moan
series is unironically done without the GOAT im glad his last game was lost judgment cause that right there was the goated game now we get this shit without nagoshi sega is done
Singing praise about LJ in a thread about a game's story is peak moronation since everyone says it's the worst part of LJ
>since everyone says
Have you ever just once in your life thought about forming your own opinion?
My least favorite part of every yakuza game is how every major figure dumped all their 5d chess keikaku at the end of the game with no indication of them happening in the background while you're doing violent gang stuff earlier.
Speaking of Akiyama, if what I heard about him in 8 is true, that's fricking hilarious.
Rest in peace, Ichiban
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>killing off both Kiryu and Ichiban
Very bold move. Can't wait to see them both back in 9.
>"Yeah just stick with yakuza 0 and judgment. Ever since they went turn based the quality dropped hard. Yikes"
>"Then just stick to it, why you're even here"
Where's the problem in telling people to save their money and stay away from this hot garbage?
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Is this the final boss theme?
Yes and the final boss is Ebina
why there's motif from Sawashiro's theme though?
People put too much stock in leitmotifs. It could just be a passage the composer likes.
I've been playing Judgment, I think I'm getting close to the end
So far it's been better than some recent entries for me, having played Gaiden also recently is like they shat it out overnight and this was carefully crafted. What went wrong?
>What went wrong?
Nagoshi and Sato left and took all the talented devs with them.
Ishin, Gaiden, and 8 all feel like amateur rush jobs.
>took all the talented devs with them.
W...where
To a Chinese company called Netease, mostly known for bringing Blizzard games to China.
I don't mind western actors, but chinese?
Chinese people.
Beware https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/yakuza-creator-nagoshi-says-theres-a-high-possibility-his-next-game-will-use-western-actors/
I don't mind this though. From what I've seen, Danny Trejo's character is pretty fun in this game, so it definitely can be done well for Nagoshi's game.
It's over, Palworld ended any possible future Yakuza could have
>filler
All video games are filler.
The wait for Twilight Princess was the last time I ever prioritized a video game over my own real life, so I disagree.
>fake yakuza fans watched streamers play and now theyre doom posting to damage control their moronic expectations
Playing a game and experiencing the story first hand is always better than watching a homosexual streamer a week before launch.
Also the ending of 7 was good when you disingenuous fake fans were doom posting it after watching a vtuber
I'm doom posting the ending because of Kiryu's stuff. I think Ichiban's actual ending is a neat scene that definitely is another example of why he was an interesting direction to take the series, since they would never do an ending like his for the other protags
you're right sister ! No one should read the reviews and buy the game day one ! And also we should pay for NG+, what are you ? Poor ??!
>Watching the game in its entirety before launch is the same as looking at reviews
Least Disingenuous Yakuza 0gay
You drunk buddy? People loved 7's ending despite the moronic shit like mirrah face. Mostly because it was a brand new protag with new story, while keeping some parallels to old yakuza stories. 8 looks really shit because they once again blue ball everyone with Kiryu, despite the trailers implying something entirely different and Kasuga got shat on really hard. You are basically defending shitty and greedy marketing strategy of a multi-billion company, fool.
he's a contrarian going against contrarians... it's full circle
does kasuga actually get a big emotional moment like he did in 7? I mean, given the way the plot's been described, I can't imagine it hitting as hard anyway
>le third coin locker baby shitposts ended up manifesting another fricking Arakawa son out of nowhere
Itchybum's games are cursed
By Yakuza 10, we're going to find out that Arakawa was single-handedly saving the birth rate
maybe not all Yakuza are bad
Do you think they'll keep Yamai around, or is he a one off?
Prepare for Yamai Everywhere system in Yakuza: Ryu Like a Dragon Ga Gotoku 10
Don't know about his story yet but since he isn't a face actor character it's more likely than the ones that are
He's a former tojo shmuck that killed his patriach to win his girl's love. That's why he's hiding in Hawaii. They use his confession to get Akane safely to Japan as a witness but he escapes once they arrive.
everything after 6 is filler
>Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Screentime
why'd they do him like that. it hurts so much bros...
had to drag kiryu back, please understand
Dumb and filler character. Seonhee was cool enough to be in the party in 7 and not him who should never even exist after the real Han died in 6.
>Infinite filler
But isn't that every Yakuza game?
You can just say you think snot is gross guys, it's fine I understand
>Look forward to Yakuza 9, everyone!
Glad it's probably going back to the series roots. No more of the JRPG crap.
Don't they realize that leaking the story too early to reviewers and kill off the hypes?
This isn't even reviewers leaking. Stores got their copies super early and more and more stores don't even respect the sell date and just start selling as soon as they get their copies. Same thing is happening to P3R in that retailers got their copies and are already selling them.
It's just going to be another justification as to why publishers are going to stop selling physical games.
The game is out in 2 days.
Ichiban brawler next yippeeeeeeee
Doubt it but I wouldn't mind being able to use Kasuga's crazy bat skills in real time, maybe in a spinoff of some sort
Ichiban once again proving that he's far better than old man Kiryu. They should just kill that dull personality vacuum off so Ichiban can take the series to new heights.
games been getting nonstop 9/10, 10/10 and 5/5 reviews.
i think so far the only outlier is Gamespot
first yakuza with over 90?
Yeah. Which means it's certified slop meant to appeal to the journos.
You can thank the marketing budget for that.
does marketing just mean the branch of the company paying journalist sites?
Yes. 90% of the budget went to paying off journos and hiring streamers to shill the game.
it feels like nu yakuza is in the same state today as dragon ball super
the story has gone on for longer than it should have just to shit out a marketable franchise and is currently searching for some story to tell
Everyone here watched that stream from early on today where that homie finished the game, yes?
Was there anything in it that stood out to you other than the dogshit writing?
I really couldn't focus on any other aspect, I just took the scenes at face value as they happened and then I'd genuine go "What the frick is this dogshit writing? Why is this happening like this? People wouldn't actually be doing IRL, this makes no sense."
I know it's kind of moronic to be comparing this shit to real life, but I can't help but make the comparison due to the game wanting to look as realistic as possible instead of utilizing the older stylized looks.
The animation quality is really poor. It reminds me of the ported cutscenes in Kiwami where they used the new models with the PS2 game's rigging.
At the end of the game, there's this one dude that just wails on Ichiban like a moron and Ichiban just let's him to as he wants then the whole crowd, including the person hitting him suddenly stops to "rethink" their behavior or some shit and now feel remorseful for beating up a man unwilling to defend himself or something. I thought that was completely moronic. In comparison to those three mooks in Y0 who beat up Majima, cause he let them since he was tethering on the edge of basically wanting to just die so he let them do whatever, at least they kept on acting like c**ts as you would expect someone like that to, and only got their comeuppance and began to grovel when Majima finally decided to just beat the shit out of them. None of that pretentious "kindness good" shit.
I only saw the ending, thought it was a relevant char. it's just a random bystander deciding to beat Ichi ??? Ok...
Cheap animations, dungeons from 7 reused, near zero gameplay improvement (the whole "new" balance around team tag attacks and movement range is useless as you still spam solely one best move ad infinitum, MP is once again never limited due to you having practically infinite recovery items).
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>Casaga
Can these people at least bother to get a pronounciation guide for once?
they have their visual arts degrees and pronouns listed in bios, pronunciations don't matter anymore
>90
Fricking APOLOGIZE
You can pay all the reviewers in the world b***h
>9/10 by IGN
the 7/10 review streak is over
>actual Samurai class job
>can finally make my Vergil Joon Gi Han build
I'm excited bros, I just hope the meta aren't too unbalanced
>filler
that's every mainline Yakuza game after 2
Yakuza 2 is the most irrelevant game in the series lol.
Literally nothing of what happens in Yakuza 2 matters, only Daigo becoming chairman is important.
So not "literally nothing", dumbass.
Also Kamuro Hills, also Majima's characterization, also Sotenbori, also korean vendetta things many things you frickers conveniently forget about.
Jingweon isn't reintroduced until fricking Yakuza 6 and then Han basically walks on screen and tells us to forget what they were like in 2.
Kamurocho hills is entirely re-explained in 4 and irrelevant after 5.
Majima doesn't matter in any game after kiwami.
They were really hyping up Ryuji in Gaiden.
Hes going to come back from the dead in 9 isn't he?
okay but if he comes back, what about his sister, sayama? how's that plotline gonna go? do they get to reunite or we just completely forget all of that?
Sayama is in 8 and she and Kiryu never even meet.
i meant, if they do bring ryuji back, there should be some plotline happening between him and sayama reuniting as brother and sister and shit but i don't think they would bother even acknowledging something like that.
They're going to make a Ryuji game set between 2 and 7 because they know the series ain't shit without actual Yakuza to fight
Knowing Yokoyama, he'll bring him back from the dead and he'll be working some mundane job and you'll never even fight him or make any mention of it other than showing he's alive.
>go to survive bar in gaiden
>kashiwagi just happens to not be there at the time
WTF Yokoyama?
couldn't be bothered to add an extra bucket list scene with him
I swear Yokoyama is just taking the piss at this point. He knows what the fans want to see, and he teases them with it, but never lets them have it.
they'll just ape his RGGO plot
By that logic nothing really matters after 1, congrats on clearing that up.
Is there another meme character locked behind a minigame in this one?
No hidden characters, but there are now uncontrollable guest characters.
i fricking hate dub voice actors
I remember seeing normalgays on twitter praising EN Chitose VA, but when I watched the stream she sounded like they literally just got some random girl there.
every modern dub actor feels like someone they pulled off of youtube
if dubs still sounded like the 90s i actually wouldnt even have an issue since they were SOULful and felt unique, every voice actor i hear today is just the same gentrified funimation sounding shit
you might have a point, I can still recite Chris and Albert's conversation in RE1
>This is your saviour? you say this failure is your saviour?
i still think snatcher's sega cd dub from 1994 is genuinely great quality acting, even if a little hamfisted it sounds so earnest and subsequently engaging in the process
Do people still pretend to enjoy this series? They are a nice excuse to practice japanese while playing a game but nothing more.
im literally buying this game just to swim in the beach, this is the first game to showcase ocean physics since the gamecube era so idc about anything else, it can be a tech demo for all i care
>it can be a tech demo for all i care
It is. It's wholly irrelevant. If you want to just see, play the demo since it's there.
Where is the demo? I don't see it on the store page.
it's paid, you have to buy gaiden and beat the game to unlock it
Frick that shit. I'm not paying $50 for a demo of a $70 game. Just preordered instead.
arent there more areas? i played the demo and enjoyed the beach, but i was hoping for more maps around the hawaii area to swim in and simulate a summer vacation
The whole Hawaii map is in the demo outside of small story related areas.
i looked at the in-game map and there were farther darkened out areas to the northwest, i dont think the whole map is in the demo
>open thread
>see complaining about reused assets
>in Yakuza thread
>close thread
>set in muttland
No thanks. Wake me up when Yakuza goes back to where it's supposed to be.
in China
I'd take anything over America.
frfr
It's Hawaii, basically Japan II.
Yeah, Japan- except its full of Black folk and Americans, just like how I like my virtual tourism games set in East Asia. Frick off, muttoid.
Don't tell me every NPC will talk like that one american parody guy every game had.
>hawaii is japan
Actually, what is Japan's obsession with Hawaii? I've never understood it at all. Is it like their obsession with Paris where they like the idea of it more than the reality?
>suddenly imagining a yakuza set in paris
imagine the smell... from oi teme to WOUESH NIQUE TA MERE
wouldn't be the first time sega's done a japanese game set in paris
looks cliché haha, would they use frenc ecelebs ? Is the final boss Jean Dujardin
i have no idea because that game is still in untranslated hell
Oh god this would be hilarious. Now I want Yakuza 9 to be set in France.
>written by Alain Chabat
It's just relatively close by and is "America" (they don't know it's not like the rest of America)
Same goes for Guam
It's the tourist trap for Japs ain't it? That should explain it. Still don't get why they chose Hawaii when they have Okinawa already, but I guess it's a slice of America closest to Japan aside from all the military bases so it's what they're going for.
Okinawa is poor and not exotic, and in Hawaii they're restricted to Japanese friendly resorts
it isn't in america, it's in japan's idea of america
you seem to think setting a game in america immediately makes it an american game but the perspective japan has of america is incredibly funny and entertaining and ive never had a problem with this game's setting, it's the one thing i feel is good about it
WHY THE FRICK CAN'T HE JUST GET OVER THIS DAMN WOMAN?
IT'S NOT GOOD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT TO KEEP YOUR "MANLY" CHARACTER LOOKING LIKE LITTLE FRICKING b***h WHO CAN'T GET OVER ONE WOMAN EVEN 20 YEARS LATER.
HOLY FRICKING SHIT KIRYU YOU DIDN'T EVEN TAP HER ASS, YOU DIDN'T EVEN MARRY HER, YOU HAVE NO REASON TO BE THIS EMOTIONAL ATTACHED.
Shit reminds me of Lunafreya from FF15. You don't know the b***h and you don't give a shit about the b***h because you have no interaction with her, but the game want you to feel bad for her because she's the main heroine and she's dead. Now feel bad because the main character is feeling sad for her death.
Same shit with Kiryu and Yumi. I honestly don't give a flying frick about Yumi. They had their chances with Y0 to expand her but nope. Now i feel bad for Nishiki in Y1 because i fricking know him and he was such a nice guy to Kiryu and everyone before he went ape shit. And some frickers want me to feel bad for Yumi because Kiryu felt bad for her. I feel bad for Kiryu, sure, but i don't fricking give a shit about Yumi because i don't fricking know her.
How many schools do we see get shot up?
Proof that reviews are paid. Sega paid out the ass to get social media influencers like druski to do commercials. Now they pay for reviews. Entire industry is just sad.
doomposters btfo
>Walk around saying Aloha with a cringy hand gesture to passer-bys
Really on point for Ichi, fricking love him
Will CreamAPI work?
no, the game has denuvo.
I'm just going to priate the ps4 version but knowing how the piracy scene is dogshit, chances is that the only thing getting uploaded is the main game with no updates or DLC
There are Denuvo games where CreamAPI works. It depends if the game has SecureLock or not.
Why doesn't he speak English in-game then?
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Damn Gamespot is very negative on the plot.
From the stream last night, the plot seems to be absolute ass, even by Yakuza standards, so I can understand why.
>loved Kiryu and thought Ichiban regressed as a character and was used too much for shallow jokes
yeah this review seems on point
Ichiban is like the Homer Simpson of Yakuza. He just gets stupider and stupider, as a joke.
Gamespot has its own moment of clarity in its reviews sometimes, guess this is one of them.
it's on purpose, gamespot knows they're the "critical" site and push their reviewers to nitpick
I also can immediately understand what they mean with the story's pacing
>spend 2 chapters establishing story and premise
>spend 5 chapters establishing Hawaii and factions
>LMAO WE'RE SPLITTING THE PARTY
>spend 3 chapters on Ichiban's side establishing who the "True Villains" are
>spend 2 chapters on Kiryu's side establishing who the other "True Villains" are
>random 1 chapter tangent to see what the Jimas are up to
>Oops the game's almost over
the entire structure of the game is honestly pretty bizarre and maybe even wholly unique as far as video game stories go
>maybe even wholly unique as far as video game stories go
Damn if this came out 8 years ago critics would praise it and it'd get uncritically analyzed by everyone.
low IQ arguments
I wonder what people who only played 7 are gonna think of this game when they see PS3 screenshots of games they'll never play.
>when they see PS3 screenshots of games they'll never play
Having friends who started with 7, they don't care. They won't play games that aren't in English. They're hyped as frick for 8, but won't go back to play the old games and instead ask me for about the lore behind the major recurring characters and such.
wtf IGN gave a Yakuza/LAD game a 9? what happened to 7/10 IGN
Sega slipped a few million their way. They finally learned they got to pay to play and now we get to make up for it by paying $15 for NG+.
Is Eri making an appearance at all or is she holding the camera permanently?
Eri was a special guest because she won a contest to be in 7. She won't appear or be mentioned ever again.
Kson won the contest for this game, but she appears as a hostess instead of a playable character.
I know, it was more of a joke for how she functioned. Although it's never the focus nor the highligt of the game, I always find one cute girl I like in each game.
Even if it's a random hostess who is a mortician obsessed wuth washing Kiryu's back
is masato even mentioned in the plot or seen again in flashbacks or whatever? i wish they touched upon his and ichibans history more in depth in 7
He's mentioned in passing.
He's written off in the prologue at the same time as Kume, where Ichiban goes "well 90% of people were happy about happened to him, but I was sad :("
>well 90% of people were happy about happened to him, but I was sad
God, what the frick are the turning Ichiban into? This 110% optimistic personality is grating.
Like he was a pretty positive guy in 7, but not to this degree where he's happy if other people are happy even if they're walking over him.
>God, what the frick are the turning Ichiban into?
Have you seen this?
That's what I mean. This is straight up moronation. The protagonist doesn't need to be Jesus Christ. Yakuza is a game about crime and beating the shit out of people.
Even from a story perspective making Ichiban this super forgivable guy that wants to help massively corrupt politicians and criminals is ridicilous and they don't say anything with it.
Kiryu was forgiven, yes, too people like Nishiki, Mine, Hamazaki etc who gave their life for atonement or seriously proved themselves changed. Ichiban would suck up to people like Munukata.
Forgiving* not forgiven.
wtf are you talking about? he absolutely is like that in 7
>Ichiban finally confesses to Saeko in a serious, meaningful way
>they IMMEDIATELY destroy the whole fricking moment by having Ichiban act like a moronic cringe manchild that takes off his clothes to reveal a white shirt with a big heart on eating saying " I LOVE SAEKO"
>she turns around and leaves immediately out of embarrassment and he has to go chase down after her yelling like a pathetic homosexual telling her to come back and forgive him for acting cringe
Can't they just drop that fricking shit for once and make him act like a man? Nothing from what I'm seeing so far makes me believe he would be a suitable husband for anyone, let alone be a father or anything like that. They just make him look pathetic and nothing else.
I really don't understand how they can frick up the writing so much that the scenes that should have been serious, and they almost managed to make them good, they sabotage them at the last second, but the scenes that don't really warrant a super serious tone, they trying to make them be the most serious, meaningful shit and then they just fall flat because you don't personally care and the writing didn't manage to make you care either.
you type like you got the hots for him, the pic doesn't help mitigating that
They pulled this whole Ichiban x Saeko thing out of their ass in the first place, so I'm not surprised it went like that.
Didn't you know?
Yakuza is a wacky comedy series now!
It even has a cuhrazey goat man on the cover of 7!
>It even has a cuhrazey goat man on the cover of 7!
That was so dumb, put him there like he's the big bad or something. I really don't get why they did that, or the "Dreamworks face" too. Fricking worst cover they ever did.
Because they were marketing towards the West. And it worked. More people in the West played 7 than every other game combined. Really smart to drop the numbers in the West too for this reason.
The Japanese cover is much more traditional Yakuza.
I know it's cause he's a facescan but puttin Nanba next to Arakawa and Sawashiro lol
This cover is good because it puts the b***hass Arakawa family in the background like they deserve.
>Ichiban on the hobo trolley to the side
But he's already front and center on the cover. At that point put like 10 Ichibans on it at least then it'll be funny
Where the frick did the Ichiban x Saeko thing even come from? Twitter?
The original april fools trailer for 7.
>Just want a pre release discussions about the game
>Thread is filled with moron homosexuals who don’t bother spoiler shit
The game is out. You can play it right now. Go to your local Wal-Mart and buy a copy.
this wouldn't have happened if the series was still console exclusive
There's NOTHING of worth to this piece of shit game so there's no reason to even bother hiding the spoilers. You should know in advanced the moron shit that happens and that you're basically just wasting your time on this so you can hopefully be able to cancel your preorder.
first of all you are a crying moron and reddit might be more your speed you spoiled manchild, secondly why are you going into forums about a new game and be surprised your are spoiled
>>Just want a pre release discussions about the game
I know just the place for you
Yes, and it’s Ganker. You won’t fit in with that image you just posted.
The irony is that I've probably been posting here since before you were born.
Only two things of consequence seem to happen that warrant any spoilers and those are the vtuber identity and the deal with the cripple guy. Never of which amounts to anything actually interesting or something you might not expect
EEEEEEEYIKES, THIS GAME IS A DAME DASASTER!
GUESS WE SHOULDVE PUT OUR INFINITE WEALTH TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAME AND NOT THE MARKETING OF THE GAME.
THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING I WANT TO BAKA MI DIE. I CANT FACE MY COLLEAGUES ANYMORE, ILL HAVE TO BECOME THE MAN WHO ERASED HIS NAME!
NAGOSHI WAS RIGHT, ILL NEVER TRULY BE LIKE A DRAGON!
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UPVOTED + GOLD SENT~!
7 might seriously be the worst game in the series for me. Man I fricking hate that game. Ichiban is the only thing I really like about it.
Yakuza 7 seems to have sold better in Korea than in the West.
>Sakamoto: Yakuza 7" was quite popular in Korea. Perhaps it is because Koreans are more fond of RPGs.
>─ I have the impression that "Yakuza 7" is highly appreciated in all countries.
>Yokoyama: Yes. In Korea, the excitement was more than double the usual level, and in a sense, it was almost abnormal.
>Sakamoto: In a way, it was an anomaly. Other than that, the main overseas markets are Europe and the United States.
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/interview/220301a/2
>Game where you fight the Liberal Democratic Party
It just makes sense.
Liberals in Japan though are the conservatives in American... Like, unironically.
wait what? how can you be a liberal but adhere to conservative ideology? don't those run completely counter to each other??
They're nothing alike, moron
Did they improve the turn based combat in this one? Previous game was meh.
No. They did absolutely nothing. It's still dogshit.
Guess i'll wait for Judgment 3 then.
bros, should we tell him?
Then Gaiden 2 then, whatever. They're not going to stop making beat em ups just because their lead star of one spinoff turned out to be a pedo.
brother I think you got the wrong data
They added a movement ring but it does frick all since it’s still a braindead spamfest
I don't really get why they bothered with that. You still have to hope the enemis stay clumped together while you do aoe attacks and you still auto run to the enemy you attack. It changes literally nothing.
It’s a bandaid for something they don’t know how to fix
They did improve it but tt's still dogshit and a complete slog.
Turning these games into rpgs was a terrible mistake.
Genuine question here
Why is abusing Tiger's hidden arts and abusing the super armor of charge attacks, combined with damage upgrades, to wipe out any boss in lost judgment fine, but using the most powerful attacks over and over again in 7/8 isn't? They're both equally braindead
kek, i did that shit in gaiden too, you have a point there.
If people complained that 7 wasn't letting you be creative enough I'd agree, but if the complaint is that winning is too braindead then you probably should've started complaining starting with 6, arguably 0
since 4, really, since that was the first game where I thought 'damn this is really easy' since all your character progression has to happen in your character's quarter of the story and they didn't give the bosses many health bars
3 was difficult only because of the blocking, as was kenzan, and 2 was the last one where I thought that it was genuinely tough but fair
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Black person
what happens with Ichibum wanting to marry Saeko?
he fricks it up
is the prologue floating around anywhere to watch?
You can watch XQC play it
Rejected. Tries again in the ending but the scene is played for comedy, he gets rejected again.
damn
ok I dunno if I want them to continue Judgment anymore going off of the sound of the plot in this, Yagami was already erratically written in LJ as it is
If you willingly use the english dub in any Japanese game or anime then you have no right to ever complain about bad voice acting.
preaching to the choir my friend
Get in losers, we're saving RGGS
These shill threads are really great for yakuza beginners, so they can spoil themselves the whole series. Fricking tards
Shilling is the last thing I'd say we do here.
Derailing this flame war thread for actual discussion since the Yak community is too busy being autistic and getting baited into flamewars to notice that LaD 8 is sitting at 90+ on metacritic.
>critic reviews
worthless since they're paid off to give high praise
I don't give a shit, your rage bait thread is derailed. Capiche?
>derail close to bump limit
moron. not even worth spamming gore to prove my point.
Reviews were discussed earlier if ya wanna read
Just scroll down from there and ignore the dumbass convo about vtubers,
90 is the new 85 after a revolutionary game that totally changes the industry came out every 2 months last year
Nobody with half a brain cares about critic reviews
>Look forward to Yakuza 9
I will, thank you
What anime game would you like to see RGG Studio make next?
Initial D
It would literally turn out an F-Zero GX clone.
Very good.
double
I'd rather they make another funny spin off like dead souls
though I don't watch anime so honestly I don't know what would be good even
Akira for one
I got derailed while grinding the tower in Chapter 12, hopping back to it tonight. I didn't realize I could actually leave the area so now I wanna switch up jobs to get a couple extra skills.
I wanna have the game beat before launch, feck.
>bucket list
>Everybody expecting kiryu to finally get the sendoff he should have gotten in 6
>instead get characters from earlier games talking about their lives while kiryu hides and eavesdrops in the background
This is the worst. Like what a fricking letdown.
I hate this series so much.
You will cry at these jpegs of Mame.
How the frick is Mame even still alive?
I just pretend mame had puppies and they named one mame, otherwise he would be over 20 years old
🙁
well kiryu is a cuck after all, so of course he'd just eavesdrop
Donno about you, I just expected side content to be side content like always
>drop the series after 7
>it turns to shit
I have some foul power
keep coping, Game is looking real tight
I’m not coping though, I know it’s shit and I don’t care anymore
you are coping, you are not that important. This game will sell without your input
By all means get the game for sale. I hated the combat in 7, the changes to it in demo made me like it. Its exactly what it needed to be, a hybrid between turn based and action(kiryu’s DoD class)
You’re coping by replying to me
You have no answer for what I said, You lost.
Keep coping
I played the demo and realized nothing improved from 7. This thread has shown me it's even worse than I thought.
Total skip. Maybe I'll buy it for $10 from the bargain bin in a year.
you'll buy it the second it goes on sale and complain this same way when 9 is released
This. I saw it for $10 off on Fanatical and couldn't help myself. Already bought.
This thread's making me really regret it, but I'll still probably sink 100 hours into it over the next week.
mogged by Palworld
Yeah Yakuza is fricking dead
Lost Lost Judgment when
never
kimura is dead
Judgement already shit the bed with LJ.
This franchise is straight up done.
Lost Judgment had great gameplay at least. 8 doesn't even have that.
yakuza is dead
judgment is dead
kurohyou's been deed
you know who's time it is?
Don't care, still pre-ordering.
YOU CAN'T PREORDER
SIR DO NOT PUT IN THAT PREORDER
enjoying your garbage slop your dumb moron
I understand people's grievances but for me it's just gonna be another Yakuza 5, questionable story but pretty enjoyable everything else probably
Funny seeing the shills cry when you don’t lap up garbage because of game “critics”
>Nagoshi leaves
>franchise immediately nosedives
It's like MGS all over again. 8 is the Survive of the franchise.
do you have like a single brain cell?
Ishin = shit
Gaiden = shit
8 = will be shit
It's over. The series ended with LJ.
LJ was shit too. So was kiwami 2, 6, kiwami and 0. Judgment was a fluke, the series died after Yakuza 5.
This. But 5 was shit too. Series died with 4.
4 was ass too, piss easy and you never actually got long enough with a character to really enjoy them
series died with 3
3 was trash held back by the PS3. Series died with 2.
2 was a cheap follow up after they got unexpected succes from 1. This should've never become a series.
the series was always cringe trying to hard to appeal to middle aged adults. Nagoshi's career died with F-Zero GX.
If you homosexual say one bad word about GX, I swear to god
Nah I wouldn't. I have ethics so I won't shitpost about the goat.
3 was garbage and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
>forced to spam counters or weapons since every enemy blocks all the time
>side content was shit
>substories were shit
>plot was when the series started going full moron
>
You did not truly play any of the classic yakuza games (1-4) - Different enemy types had different threshold of blocking, you are just parroting a tired reddit meme and I'm tired of pretending that Yakuza 3 had more blocking than previous titles. By this merit we could just call y4 Grabkuza 4 because the remaster has the same timing bug, making enemies grab you twice as frequently.
Similar the side content was fantastic, the only issue was the hostess club not being as laid out as 2 different clubs in yak2, but admittedly that one wasn't too great either. Hitman list was really fricking great and was on point - actually integrating beat em up gameplay with enemies having revamped movesets instead of a shitty grindy gimmicky bullshit like we're getting now (oh wow, animal crossing autism crafting grind for 40h sure will be interesting!).
Plot I do agree with you, nothing that much interesting happens and only the Sonatine references carry this game.
>oh wow, animal crossing autism crafting grind for 40h sure will be interesting!
What? They added crafting to this game? Surely you can't be serious.
LJ was shit too.
This franchise has been a zombie for years.
Lost Judgment is the worst game in the series. Ishin was 1000x better, but only because it was basically the same game it was in 2014, back when the series still was good.
Ishin was garbage the frick are you on?
>took the grindiest game in the series and made it even grindier
>balanced the game around trooper cards when they were only used in dungeons in the original
I ignored the cards. It was great.
Ishin made Epic Games money and for that it is the most unforgivable game in the franchise.
terrible bait
Ishin was absolute dogshit.
do you?
>Look forward to Yakuza 9, everyone!
I will once they confirm it's a brawler.
>xbox version
absolutely BASED
frick cuckstation, but yakuza still belong on console
7 was the best Yakuza for me and the only one I actually wanted to play till the end so you just know I'm preordering this shit
This. Hate action games, but now that its a JRPG, I'm interested. Like a Dragon was the best game I've played in the past 5 years. Hope they never go back to the shitty action games.
Honestly, story looks pretty shitty this time and Kiryu's bucket list is a big miss according to the leaks.
I guess the other side content, the island and side missions will be funny, but jesus what a disappointment.
Every game in the series is shit except the ones I like, which is all of them.
I'm just posting to hold back a Palworld thread.
I hate that I love this series.
It's so fricking stupid, but yet I feel so attached to it.
Demo was kino. Definitely day 1 buy.
Can't wait to see Ichiban and Kiryu team up.
>Can't wait to see Ichiban and Kiryu team up.
never happens
You guys ready for the beach??
It really does feel like one of those early 2000s beach games everyone was doing.
Really exciting. I love beach aesthetics.
My Black
I can't help but be curious about RGG studio making something like a platformer
I am optimistic to say I think there'd be some sort of unique innovation but there'd also be some frickery
>Similar the side content was fantastic
I now remind you of hostess maker and marietta
So Steam gays get it on Thursday morning instead of Friday?
Yes because it releases Friday in Japan.
Woo, shame I'm too much of a moral gay to fake being sick for vidya but neat.
How come I can't find this game on any keysites? 70€ is bogus tbh I'm still boycotting this shit but this is the first game since Wo Long that I want to buy on release
Fanatical has it for $10 off, they always have Sega games.
I got it on mmoga for 40€, I don't even think steam will have it that cheap for the next year or two
I'm seeing it for 55€ but that's still something, thanks
What's up with the angry tendies pretending to be fans of the series itt and pretending the highest rated yakuza game so far is shit is dissapointing?
You fricks are so sad, go play mario or something motherfrickers lmao
What’s up with the bootlicking shills who get upset when they see any sort of negative opinions?
>Immediate excuses
No games on the Shitch eh? Please post your trophy list of the latest yakuza games you've played
>angry tendies pretending to be fans of the series
Why would tendies care. The games have never been on Nintendo platforms outside of 1&2 HD and that was only in Japan.
What is this schizo shit?
Tendies are preoccupied seething over Palworld atm
absolutely mindbroken by Palworld
Tendies have been absolutely dabbed on the last few months. Losing GOTY to baldurs gate, switch 2 rumoured to be barely as powerful as a base PS4, palworld. They've gone into over drive now. If they can't be happy no one can.
not even worth replying to you bootlicking shill moron.
the game is just straight up objective dogshit garbage and so's the story.
It's OK, the switch has lots of games out this year like....uh...uhm.........
guys I think the guy was just baiting
Without spoiling specifics, does Kiryu's story end or will he be in the next one?
nothing ends. nothing happens at all. it's just a beach episode.
Lame. Don't know why they are so afraid to pass the torch to Ichiban definitively
>Don't know why they are so afraid to pass the torch to Ichiban definitively
Because the Japanese don't like him. If 8 doesn't outsell Gaiden, he's finished. 9 will be a Kiryu game again.
>Japanese don't like him
Really? What don't they like about him?
No idea, but both Judgment games and Gaiden outsold 7 there.
Perhaps they don't like the JRPG combat, but they love other JRPGs.
Japs want some type of strong male figure to aspire towards and Kiryu was kind of that... Ichiban is just a moronic manchild with no qualities they consider of worth or redeeming enough for them to learn from and it just reminds them of themselves with no way to guide them towards being more "masculine".
>Japs want some type of strong male figure to aspire towards and Kiryu was kind of that... Ichiban is just a moronic manchild with no qualities they consider of worth or redeeming enough for them to learn from and it just reminds them of themselves with no way to guide them towards being more "masculine".
The yakuza fanbase in Japan is predominantly female, so bear that in mind when writing your next fanfic about them.
>The yakuza fanbase in Japan is predominantly female
Clearly they want a big strong man too, not a goofball.
same thing applies you moron
ichiban dries up pussy faster than being in the saharan desert would
Ichiban could have been good but that train set sail a while ago. 8 firmly cements him as the wacky hair goofball who cries when people are mean and can only take part in convoluted family drama plots
They can just asspull a reason for him to be protag again like they did already
nothing of worth happens at all.
the ending is a cliffhanger sequel bait.
This series is the sloppiest of slop. They shit these games out faster than Call of Duty or even FIFA.
Like a turdhead: infinite shit