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>no thread
what killed the hype?
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Can you make a harem party in 7 too?
There is only 2 girls in the party in 7.
No, not enough female party members
You can pretend that Joongi Han is a girl. He's wearing enough eyeliner for it.
>look up saeko porn
>all of it is her packing a 6ft wiener
How did this happen?
I don't know.
whenever a franchise becomes mainstream and gets a huge influx of porn artists always expect 70% of them to be subhuman futaBlack folk
sadly the fanbase is mostly fujoshis. can't be helped when majority of the cast is males.
saeko is a dickhead so it makes sense
Hate it all you want, this is what Infinite Wealth™ looks like
Endgame Chitose is such a glowdown with her new haircut
How did you feel when you won the Gayest Man Online award?
I missed her bangs when she first changed, but short hair Chitose in her Yokohama jacket or maid outfit is so fricking cute that I don't even swap her hairstyle back in PA.
I put her out of party, i can't stand the glow down
what the frick is a glowdown
Going from good looking to fugly
Ichi the pimp
Wait a second.... Ganker told me that not only was this game woke, but they didn't use any hot Japanese girls, gravure girls, or JAV girls as characters because they were cheap/woke and only included girls like Kson who I am supposed to hate because (????????).
Was I lied to????
IT'S A WOKE PIECE OF TRASH YOU FRICKING TARD
WHY THE FRICK ISN'T THIS PIECE OF SHIT FAILING ALREADY
Getting mixed signals here.
IT'S ESG GARBAGE
On this subject, anyone know who the 2 asian girls in the tinder minigame are? I know the white girl is Peachmilky.
Wow those are some extremely nice feet.
People only like Chitose for her breasts, she has a typical Asian bug face.
I like Cheetos because I love her
oh, i don't know. Maybe SEGA releasing three games back to back in the midst of an already crowded quarter?
There's not a whole lot of discuss about the plot of this game. It feels like nothing aside from Ichiban's new friends and Kiryu's renewed interest in living has a chance of being relevant to the next game.
Yeah, it’s only purpose was do undo 6’s ending
Ichiban and Akane sound cool, but the execution ends up being pretty boring overall
To add to this, The Akane scene is nice but it’s nowhere near as good as ichiban and arakawas final scene in 7
Yeah, the Akane scene on the beach is incredibly short and it didn't feel like Akane or Ichiban connected with each other in a meaningful or lasting way at all. After that scene, I don't recall Ichiban ever speaking to Akane directly again, or mentioning anything about how he felt about meeting her. Replacing Akane with any other random woman wouldn't change the story at all, and it sure doesn't feel like Akane will ever appear or be relevant again.
I think it’s because at the end of the day, blood relatives were never really that important to ichiban. Series hammers home that blood isn’t what makes a bond strong, but the time spent together is.
I’m not against him meeting her, but when they first showed he was gonna meet her I thought “this isn’t going to be that interesting” and “maybe Akane’s been dead for years and this is just a ruse to get ichiban involved”
yakuza is for homosexuals
kiryu is a cuck and who cares about Black person hair or whatever this like a dragon protagonist name is
Why is 'there hasn't been a thread for 10 minutes so there hasn't been one for days' have to be a trope
/vg/gays
Why can’t I do a drink link with Kiryu
Because he has his own party to do those with, same with the bingo. He's just a guest for half the game. But he still has his own Bonds meter so wtf.
Also can anyone explain to me Yamai's taste in women? Is it because he's cold and big ladies provide insulation, or what?
Yamai has been into strong-willed older women since he was young. He fell in love with his patriarch's wife when he was 20 and murdered his patriarch for her, but she was just using him. Her heartlessness is what left him cold, but 30 years later, he still can't hate her and he remains weak to older ladies.
Okay, that makes sense. I was just baffled and glossed over that detail.
Do you think Yamai would lust over Yayoi
Probably. He likes 'em old and abusive.
It’s a classic trope in Japan where the women destroys a clan based on hatred for his husband. Ran has a beautiful fine story about this, the women is butchered by the husbands best friend who was trying to look after him despite her constant evil meddling
I would lust over Yayoi.
not fat enough for yamai i'm afraid
He doesn't need them to be fat. The woman he originally fell for wasn't, and his old-woman weakness applied to Akane too.
Oh so it's just an age thing? That's based
Yamai is a bbw milf hunter
best jobs post-game?
barmaid seems really strong, idk if freelancer is good on it's own, but stuff like the german suplex are great to inherit
imo, with ultimate weapon
1.) Action Star
2.) Aquanaut
3.) Taxi Driver (with Tomi's armor for the combo)
3.) Pyro
4.) Geodancer (with Cheeto's armor for the combo)
5.) Gangster
6.) Linebacker
7.) Desperado
stuff like Samurai is great, but its ultimate weapon sucks wieners and its stats are whatever, so you can take it's best moves elsewhere, like giving basically everyone the fire arrow.
how do you start getting ultimate weapons? i never really did the post-game in 7
I started getting them in chapter 5. You get the 5 star weapon and then upgrade it at the shop. The special starter class ones are from drink links, the DLC ones are from the dungeons, and the other ones are all drops/in chests but you should be able to look them up easily.
Linebacker's first Kiwami is my go-to spam move. Can cast it infinitely because it's cheap (MP after battle accessory) and on bosses, 3 casts gives you 3 defense stacks (1.5 turns because Adachi is the class as well and I have Ichiban with the move).
>stuff like Samurai is great, but its ultimate weapon sucks wieners and its stats are whatever, so you can take it's best moves elsewhere, like giving basically everyone the fire arrow.
That fire arrow is fricking amazing, it's like it practically ignores enemy resistances.
>No Barmaid
Holy cringe.
barmaid is bad, sorry champ. I guess '3rd tier caster behind Tomi, Ichiban, and Namba' is fine for coomers.
that class isn't even as good as maid doe
Frick you
now pick Songhee and give her Assassin and see what her damage looks like at 53
it's going to change your world view
I am literally using her too and it'S worse, even with a backstab.
well, there you go. She was on the bench for me because it seemed bad early. I guess the ultimate weapon turns it around to have good damage but I don't have the mats to do any other weapons atm so that's that.
Here's a comparison between an Essence of Bonebreaker Crit (Damage rating : Extreme) from Seonhee vs a israeliteel Breaker Crit (Damage rating : Medium) from Saeko.
Freelancer is WAY better than it was in 7 but it's still not even in top 10.
I got tired of the ESLs infesting and shitting up the threads, although "You live under your parent's house!" was pretty funny.
HAI! POZU!
Being woke
How do I get these women to frick my ass with a strapon?
>Chitose
Just be cool and ask.
>Seonhee
Be Joongi Han (she'll use you like an onahole) or Kiryu (she'll work hard to satisfy you).
>Saeko
You can't, she's impossible to please and will give you nothing for your efforts.
Probably releasing the same week as 2 other anticipated jrpgs including one Sega also made
i teach all women kunoichi + idol
and all men samurai + aquanaut
then a class that has the missing element or attack
Ebinabros...
Does anyone actually give a shit about Ebina? He's competing with Aizawa for Least Interesting Final Boss of the series.
He’s down there with iwami for me
If they actually did something with the half brother thing, he’d be a bit better
He’s just a lesser masato, and even masato wasn’t that good to begin with
There was no reason to make Ebina Ichiban's half brother other than to add fuel to the "Arakawa actually wasn't a saint" fire, but 8 never actually makes Ichiban address the questionable parts of Arakawa's past. The game SHOULD have made Ichiban recognize Ebina and Eiji as the products of Arakawa's failings, and Ichiban would face them as the person taking responsibility for Arakawa who can no longer do it himself. It would have fit perfectly with the "taking responsibility" theme woven throughout the game, but Ichiban ends up getting no development in this game at all while the story scenes focus on everyone else but him.
I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen anybody mention the simple idea that Ichiban and Kiryu should have teamed up for the final fight together. Not having Ichiban confront Ebina seems like a total waste.
I don’t think they should’ve split up in the first place
You are absolutely right. Bryce shouldn't have been a final boss to begin with, i would have made the game 15 chapters long and Bryce the boss of chapter 14. Then Ichi and Kiryu team up for taking down Ebina in chapter 15. The fact that they just meet in the first chapter and never again is outrageous
I was infuriated because I assumed the groups would merge in the end - nope got to use two groups joke's on you
Stopped caring when Nagoshi departed.
THE GIANT SQUID IS ABOUT TO EAT CHITOSE
Should I avoid the tennis and football jobs? Are they OP?
No, they are good and without Linebacker Adachi fricking sucks. Tennis makes Saeko not dead weight as well but it's not like you need it. Night Queen does more damage overall, probably.
you should have fun
Well I mean you would get the same result spamming Dondonko Beam and drinking MP drinks once in a while
I can't tell how to make tennis ace good but linebacker is an amazing job
put their moves on other jobs so you get some good gun coverage (that have elements too)
Lineback is OP for Adachi and Joongi. Tennis is good for Seeongooga, you want to exploit weaknesses with it.
>Lineback is OP for Adachi and Joongi. Tennis is good for Seeongooga
What exactly make these jobs good for them in specific?
Adachi has shitty stats and all he’s good for is tanking
Linebacker fixes some of his worse stats and makes him an even better tank
You guys seem to know the characters ver well, so if you don't mind me asking which job is typically the best for each character?
Don't fall into that trap unless you're just legitimately curious. The game's easy enough they obviously just want you to have fun dicking around with all the classes. Just relax and play.
Ichiban - Desperado (has a bit of everything, just get a heal and thunder)
Kiryu - Action Star (Huge damage)
Tomizawa - Pyrodancer (Support)
Chitose - Geodancer (Heal and magic)
Adachi - Lineback (without DLC, Pyrodancer for support)
Nanba - Entity with no Abode (Heal and magic)
Seeongooga - Tennis (Min maxed stats and element exploitation)
Saeko - Kunoichi (Give her big AoE heal from Idol, use sub jitsu if don't need her for kills or heals)
Zhao - Action Star (He does more damage at max HP)
Han - Lineback (without DLC I'm not sure, it felt he got the biggest nerf as Hitman)
Why would you EVER switch kiryu off his dod class
It's a great class and honestly all Kiryu needs if you inherit stuff right, but if you wanted pure high damage you would want Action Star.
because he does more damage as any class with a 7 star weapon, lots more damage with a 7 star +50 weapon, and a shitload more damage with the Action Star's weapon with a blunt seal? It's pretty obvious
Is Legendary NG+ beatable with an harem party?
Oh it's beatable alright
I ask because everyone seems to point out that Saeko sucks big time in this game compared to 7.
People a day or two ago were saying Barmaid is really good this time around since you can throw mage stuff onto it and her ultimate weapon is amazing in it.
I beat it like I beat my kids. (They beat me up instead)
Ichiban - Aquanaut - second best job in the game thanks to its ultimate weapon and has better magic than Kiryu so you can literally cover every weakness, have pure magic, and pure blunt
Kiryu - Action Star - blunt seal + ultimate weapon effect = lol
Tomi - Cabbie - Ultimate weapon + his armor + covering all elements = best mage in the game even with a lower mag stat
Chitose - Geodancer with attack spells
Adachi - Linebacker
Nanba - Homeless or Host, doesn't matter but my pick is Chef. Ultimate weapon gives a big flat damage boost. He's no Cabbie, though.
HeeHee - Kunoichi or her base job or Night Queen. They're all kinda the same and they all kinda of have shitty ultimate weapon effects
Saeko - bench or Tennis if you want I guess
Zhao - base class, his ultimate weapon is good and because of it you don't need to cover elements or types. Just spam the best move over and over
Han - also the bench
Linebacker is the best for Adachi specifically because he's just as garbage as he was in 7 due to his abysmal agility. Because they rebalanced 8 and now he doesn't get two-shot like everyone else on higher difficulties he's able to tank stuff which was clearly their intent in 7 he just couldn't do it. In 8 he can just Linebacker taunt everyone then absorb all the damage for years and him not getting as many turns barely matters at that point.
Yeah, what
said. It's very simple, you just need to stick SRMM in each game folder and then stick the mods there. Keep in mind that mods older than (Shin) Ryu Mod Manager require you to edit PAK files though, but those aren't as common anymore. Fake Kiryu in K2 is an example of you needing to edit files for example.
Adachi - He has high physical stats but low agility, Linebacker gives good Agility to let Adachi take aggro more often and put his HP/Defence to use
Joongi - He is the fastest party member which means he has more turns in combat, allowing him to take aggro more often. He's not as sturdy as Adachi but as long as you perfect guard he can take on a whole mob.
Seeongooga - Tennis statline is a min-maxed version of her base job, if you inherit her skills from there you just get a stronger Seeongooga overall. Tennis having easy access to a lightning attack means she has good coverage too.
I want to FRICK Saeko
I play for she
Is her outfit really appropriate for a 30+ years old mafia boss?
It's appropriate for a 30 year old mafia boss who is desperate for a 60 year old former mafia boss to impregnate her.
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Impossible as it is I'd kinda wanna see a spin-off focused on Seonhee's past. I wanna know how Kiryu ended up being her hero when she's ex-Jingweon Mafia.
i wanna know how smelly her pussy and butteholle is
Very given her diet of spicy foods.
I want to FRICK Cheetos. That's all.
Towards the end of the game, I just paid 5k every fight for these two hags to kill my enemies for me.
>yuki is almost 60 (SIXTY) years old
scientists in judgment were all about that alzheimer's cure when they should be studying her DNA instead, what the frick man
lazy model re-use from 0 kek
>yuki is supposed to be almost as old as majima
>still looks 20 anyways
only time i'm willing to look past this studio's habit of rehashing stuff like maniacs
57yo btw
ALL THE YAKUZA GAMES ARE ON SALE ON STEAM
which one do i get after playing zero?
not interesting the turn based titles
play yakuza restored and yakuza 2 in PS2 solely because the transition from kiwami 2 to 3R is a lot more jarring
The kiwami games, 3 4 5 6 and gaiden
you can play the kiwamis but only if you promise to play through 3-6 as well
7, and 8
don't bother with the rest, it's filler garbage
moronGOD
>after playing zero
every time
>people play the considered best in the franchise which is also the first chronologically and a great starting point
Woah.
0 and 7 are the only ones worth playing. The rest you can watch a youtube movie of the story.
>after playing zero
Tell me why have you played first the game that's a pure wankfest of fanservice from the entire series, and not the first installment.
you mean the one that kinda mentions 5 a little bit and fleshed out the villain from 1? moron
>Spoils 2
>3
>4
>1
>5
moron
>why do people play one of the newer entries that is chronologically first that Sega made explicitly to get new people into the series reeEEEEEEEe I don't get it ReEEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEE
gatekeeping doesn't work when the gatekeeper is a literal Downie
>Believing Sega's lies
Giga moron
>that Sega made explicitly to get new people into the series
They didn't, why is everyone parroting this all of a sudden? They made it as an anniversary game. They marketed it as an anniversary game. They released a bunch of CDs, books, and collaborations specifically for an anniversary. They didn't even realize it would make a good entry point until years later when it blew up in the west which Sato and Scott both noted in interviews.
https://jpgames.de/2021/02/interview-daisuke-sato-on-the-past-and-future-of-the-yakuza-series/
>The second was that the series had gone on for years at that point, making the barrier to entry on the higher end, but Yakuza 0 happened to be an optimal entry point since it was a prequel. In addition, Yakuza 0 was well-received, which was also a key to the success of the series.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2020-10-04/interview-yakuza-like-a-dragon-localization-producer-scott-strichart/.165894
>Did a goal to attract new players affect how you approached the localization at all?
>Scott: We knew Yakuza 0 was a great onboarding point, because it was a prequel, but we didn't really think that we needed to treat the localization any differently.
0 was made as an anniversary game for fans that by happenstance worked as an intro game.
>Scott: We knew Yakuza 0 was a great onboarding point
that literally contradicts what you said though?
Scott is a localizer, not a dev. Scott and his team saw that it was a good onboarding point. 0 itself was not developed as an onboarding point, they just realized it was after the fact.
an important component is the chinese localization coming out just after 6 months after the japanese release. it selling well was the start of gearing up localization
playing 0 basically ruins entire 4, it gives away whole story of majima and saejima
none of which is a surprise or contains shocking moments at all and doesn't ruin the super good and beloved plot device of rubber bullets
You can play Kiwami 1, but play the original at some point because it does the atmosphere better.
Don't play Kiwami 2, the original 2 is better in almost every way, yes even the gameplay as the combat 2 is really fast and snappy in a way it isn't in Kiwami 2 (even 6 which was the first DE game uses it a lot better than K2)
If only I could bring my boy Tonychan here
>Infinite Wokeness
nah
woke trash game.
This is Koshimizu, the most powerful crime boss in Japan.
Burning Arrow is completely busted. What the frick is this damage.
Here's my OBJECTIVELY correct opinion about IW. It's a good 'kuz, and a good 'za. Turn based gameplay is way better. The story is definitely weaker than 7, and has a lot of HUH? moments (and some really good moments too). Hopefully 9 will be better story wise since they won't have to juggle kiryu's party (r-right?)
It's good. It's kind of like Yakuza 5 part two, in that it tries to do too much at once and loses focus, but there's a lot of shit there too which is a plus.
i'm at chapter 7, party is level 45 and i'm getting my shit kicked in by robo michio.
any tips
Charge the ultimate attacks, when he starts spamming the beam, kick his shit in.
Also Tomizawa's water attack is very good for removing his buffs.
I beat him at 40 with shitty weapons and 4 star armors, but it took a few tries and I had to get lucky with him not casting beam 4 times in a row.
Coffee gay poundmate saved my ass and if I think I did it again I would use a Geodancer for heals and Chitose's agility down move.
What jobs are worth leveling up for their skills alone? Any standouts?
Is this another game where the healer jobs are worthless unless you're playing on a high difficulty setting?
Skill inheritance allows you to have everyone in offensive classes and still be able to pop off a healing move if you want. There are also so many healing items that you don't need to spend your MP healing if you don't want to.
Kinda insofar that I just smashed Bryce without healing once but Geodancer can also get stupid high Magic, so she can nuke with the spells from Maid/other classes
The game is too easy and you get trivial healing from items, Hero class, and lv 1 abilities so staying as idol or whatever is pointless
I hate women.
What's up with the Alo-happy mascot literally abetting the registers girls actual rape of Ichiban?
So is Shishido not in 8 at all? I could have sworn he was in one of the trailers, or did they fuse 8 and Gaiden into a single trailer for their announcement because I'm pretty sure that's the only one I watched.
Anyone just auto battled through the whole game just to see what happens to Kiryu and ended up throwing up your hands up in the air at the end of it all???
Frick you
I hate how fricking vague it is, just spell out that Kiryu is gonna die in 6 months but he spends it on his wheelchair with the kids. It leaves it open. WHY WHY WHY this is so overly drawn out, no need to be cryptic at this point.
>He thinks that Yokoyama the fricking hack incarnate will have the balls to actually kill Kiryu ___________
Hahahahahahahaha
Kiryu isn't going to die in six months. You should know that even before the game ends. His whole Bucket List menu is about embracing his reasons to live and in the end he decides to get treatment and even take back his name. There's absolutely no good reason to kill him off now. He just needed to be crippled by cancer so that he's not fit for fighting anymore by the next game.
>so that he's not fit for fighting anymore by the next game.
That's cute that you think cancer is going to stop someone who magically heals from bullet wounds in a day
doesn't he get the treatment because there is actually nothing he can do?
clearly kiryu wants to live, but who knows how severe his cancer is?
Rubber cancer; Yokoyama would never kill him off like that, especially considering that he based parts of the story on his own fight with cancer that he won.
If he has any shred of competency, then this will just be the justification as to why he can't be playable anymore.
Realism doesn't mean shit in this series. There's nothing to gain from killing off Kiryu now that couldn't be gained from finally retiring him. Kiryu being shipped back to Onomichi and physically unable to fight the next bad guy even if he wants to is the best course of action for the next game. He doesn't have to die so long as he's just not physically within the blast radius of the next shitshow. After his last battle atop the millennium tower ending with him collapsing in tears and needing to be rescued by helicopter, the underworld can now see that an old man with cancer is neither the cause nor solution to their present-day problems.
Have you played the game? Kiryu just accepts his death sentence from the doctor because he's practically suicidal, but throughout his part of the campaign he changes his tune and decides to get treatment.
Even in real-life, people can be told "you have six months to live" and continue to live for years beyond that. The thing that's really killing Kiryu is how he's given up on a living a good life and trying to work himself to death, which the narrative says explicitly. Endgame Kiryu deciding to get chemotherapy and take care of himself with the hope of having a future is what will save him, regardless of his diagnosis.
the game never says that he gets treatment
Thanks for confirming you didn't play it.
i genuinely missed it. mind me when this happens
all i got was that ichibans friends accompany kiryu for coping
It's the very last scene in the game, homosexual. You didn't miss it, you just didn't play the game.
lol i thought it was just the visitors appoitment or a regular check up or something
There are IRL cases of people recovering from terminal cancer with 0 treatment.
Yamai should have been a party member
kiryus side should have been the tojo guys
Maybe next game
Does anyone want or expect Ichiban to be together with Saeko in the next game? The romance subplot was the worst part of 8 and if anything can ruin Ichiban as a character for me, it would be another game or more of him trying and failing to get together with Saeko who doesn't want him as he is.
Probably not
they chose to write Saeko as an utter sociopathic b***h for some reason so no, but I have a feeling they will keep that 'haha so fuhnay joke' going as long as they can with him chasing her forever.
>she did this while ghosting Ichiban for a very stupid reason she admits was stupid after Kiryu tells her it was stupid
>they chose to write Saeko as an utter sociopathic b***h for some reason so no, but I have a feeling they will keep that 'haha so fuhnay joke' going as long as they can with him chasing her forever.
I easily can see it happening too, but I hope to frick it doesn't. I really hope the team gets feedback about how shitty it was in 8 and makes Ichiban decide that he and Saeko are only meant to be friends, whether he meets someone new or just focuses on other priorities in life. Literally anything else that could go on in his life is more interesting than his shit-tier dating drama with Saeko.
Frick, how I wish 8 had been all about Ichiban's yakuza-related work instead of his inconsequential Hawaiian vacation and "Sa-chan".
like I thought Kiryu's relationships were infuriating but them vanishing from his life is 10000x better than this haha
Seriously, as much as I don't want Ichiban's story to rehash Kiryu's, I'd rather see Saeko die in the next game than watch Ichiban fumble to please her for the rest of his series.
>than watch Ichiban fumble to please her for the rest of his series
this is 1000% is what's going to happen. Japanese humor haha
Yakuza's primary audience is western now so there is a hope that they will remove the whole Saeko love thing because she just looks like a b***h to western audiences.
Also didn't it seem like her and Nanba had a thing for each other in 7? My memory is hazy but it really surprised me that it was Ichiban who is in love with her in 8. He would be better off with even the Ichiban's confections girls than that c**t tbh.
>infuriating
Ichiban's oneitis was annoying, but when you put into perspective that he was locked in the slammer for most of his life and that he's not real it becomes more understandable; Having zero romantic experience coupled with not having interacted with a woman in a decade does funky things to you. On top of that Saeko behaves similarly to most modern women; vain, selfish, bipolar, insane from not having children before their 30s, etc.
But it is weird that Ichi is this much of a sperg despite having been raised in a red light district.
The real issue though stems from the fact that, instead of his friends having his back, Ichiban was lambasted for being a "traditionalist" and not being respectful of Saeko's MUH STRONK FEMALE independence. They were the ones pushing him towards this relationship in the first place.
Now whether that's a sign of tampering by the localizers or a sign of terrible writing, I don't know.
>not having interacted with a woman in a decade does funky things to you
he should've just gone the Saejima route
Saeko wasn't angry about the "traditionalist" justifications he was giving. It was the fact that he was treating a relationship like a transaction he had to sell her on. That he wouldn't just be himself and use his own words, inexpert as they may be.
she was mad he never said he liked her and went into all his bullshit - which is valid
what is NOT valid was her response of pretending she didn't hear him twice, then ghosting him for a fricking YEAR
I assume she was expecting him to apologize and set things right on his own, and she didn't want to keep dealing with the same awkward bullshit before he actually understood the problem. Ichiban was never going to get it if Saeko kept letting him try variations on the same thing.
I agree that she could have just told him that he was being a shortsighted dickhead going through motions that weren't his own and just said outright that she didn't want him to think of things that way.
It's really stupid of her to be hung up on Ichiban saying the "I love you" words when she KNOWS that he wouldn't be pursuing her if he didn't actually feel that way. She knows Ichiban isn't trying to frick with her, so going silent and walking away from him instead of communicating with him like the friend she's supposed to be just makes her seem like she doesn't actually want him in return. If she expects him to change into something he's not in order to be her boyfriend, she should just pass.
Ichiban's conception of what a romantic relationship actually meant and how he should conduct himself was fundamentally wrong at the beginning of the game. He always deferred to Nanba and Adachi's taste and their limited experiences instead of doing things his own way. He wasn't being himself, and Saeko knew that she couldn't indulge that mindset.
She literally says the reason that made her walk away is because Ichiban was being unrealistic and presented no flaws in his proposal. His proposal pushed Saeko out of the picture of her own life.
I get that, but assuming she's not moronic, as someone who knows Ichiban as a person and supposedly cares about him, she should have tried talking to him like a person for a minute, instead of just giving him the "lets be stay friends" shit then ghosting him. Maybe her behavior is completely normal by Japan's shitty dating standards, but it just makes her seem like she's neither a good friend nor a good potential partner for Ichiban.
It's a Japanese thing, I watched some interviews and a lot of Japanese women geuinely think that if you don't confess before you start dating, then she assumes you aren't serious about a relationship and just want to fool around before eventually ditching her.
>But it is weird that Ichi is this much of a sperg despite having been raised in a red light district.
Ichi is a virgin in love, not in sex. It's pretty clear he's fricked before but has 0 experience with women outside of a transactional basis.
The lovematch NPC literally calls him a virgin and he doesn't deny it.
But how do you even respond to such an accusation without getting mad?
By not reacting all flustered to "You-know-what".
Thinking back though, I'm very sure the romance plotline in the previous game implies he does have sex with one of them, but I guess they forgot about all that because of Saeko.
The romance/sex-related substories and other optional events have never been canon.
Well, he's not a virgin anymore LEL
Of course not. He was raped by the Alo-happy tours girl and the Alo-happy mascot abetted said rape. The jury's still out on Kiryu's v-card status though.
Kiryu has had sex, he just doesn't know what sex is.
That is literally Ichiban. Kiryu knows what sex is but has never had it
>rape a man
>tell him he was a third-rate rapee afterward
damn
Which he is, having sex doesn't automatically make him not a virgin.
That may sound like an utterly ridiculous statement to make but this is an actual thing in Japan, due to how ubiquitous prostitution is a lot of people think you're still a virgin until you got sex without having to pay for it.
Ichiban doesnt get with Seako? What bs. I always knew that Seonhee was better. Ichiban deserves to male it. Not freaking Kaoru 2.0 situation.
Kiryu actually gets closure on her though. They went their own separate ways although they retconned her marriage very specifically (showing her hand is free of a ring in a close up) for some reason.
When was she married?
one of the games said she married some cop in the US. You'd have to ask the photographic memory autists which one and when
she was never married
in 3 you get a text she is working with a male agent
that's it
sorry bro, she got PIGGED
Checking her character profile at different points throughout the game reveals the following lines:
"Refused invitation to dinner by handsome American cop."
"Rushing out to buy outfit after invitation to dinner by handsome American cop."
"Eating at fancy restaurant after invitation to dinner by handsome American cop."
She is single in Infinite Wealth, no rings on her finger and Date even asks her about it. She still loves Kiryu, she says it.
It was Y3.
Blame Yakuza 6. They completely intentionally didn't mention her, going so far as to say Yumi was the only woman he's ever had feelings about.
Every bad story thread can be traced back to 6.
You say that like she didn't basically get written out after 3 so the herbivore males in Japan could continue self inserting as Kiryu.
I thought I heard somewhere it was because yakuza 3 got a new writer who wanted to throw away everything from Y1 and Y2
Y3 acknowledges her though; it has these updates
and her picture on Kiryu's desk
Yes, all things done so she could never return
I havent played the game, but I just read the wiki. Wtf kinda closure is this? What I read says that Kiryu didnt even talk to Kaoru. And when Date was going to tell her that Kiryu was alive he stopped her? Fricking why? This is worse. Can Kiryu really not have a wife? Ffs.
Kaoru never married. There is no source that says she married, Literally never. Theres just the thing about her going to dinner with handsome american cop. Ok, in my head cannon she is still waiting for Kiryu, but the writers said no again. Stupid.
>Ok, in my head cannon she is still waiting for Kiryu, but the writers said no again. Stupid.
Bro dafuq are you talking about.
Pic related.
And then Kiryu pussies out of meeting her lmao.
What a fricking disappointment
the eyes look like fnaf animatronics when they stare at the camera in the dark
>Not freaking Kaoru 2.0 situation.
Kiryu DID get with Kaoru though, it was the first time he loved someone that loved him back. The problem was then 3 got made.
Kaoru playable next game CONFIRMED.
I just want Kiryu to end up with Kaoru
That's literally the only thing I want from this series at this point
I wish they updated her fricking model to show her age at least slightly.
It's perfectly fine. She's younger than Yuki and Yuki still has like 4 years before she hits the Asian wall.
It's just a slow build up romcom thing. Also they most likely will keep him single for the purposes of lol so funny female interactions unless they go push the series forward with a new protagonist.
All Yakuza games play the same, I'm still burnt out after playing Yakuza 4 so many years ago.
everything after kenzan was a mistake
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SUKINI NARERU HITO WO SUKI NI NARETA NARABA
I like hans version better
these threads are very nice while the phoneposting ESL is asleep. Around 6-9 PM PST is when he starts shitting things up.
So, I've learned a few things grinding for all these Sujimon to look like their Dossier piecture.
>Red gacha tickets raise your rate slightly but I don't know by how much, I just know I typically see twice the amount of silvers and golds when I use them compared to using money.
>You have an extremely small chance to get a brand new Sujimon in general from the gacha. Not because it's got a lot to pick through, but because ones that you haven't obtain a single copy of are intentionally made harder to obtain.
>Once you obtain a Sujimon in any way (Gacha, evolution, raids, or fights) that Sujimon will now have its appearance rate on the gacha rise significantly.
I noticed this on several separate characters (Dancing Madman, Unquiet Rioter, Death Sentencer, Championship Wrecker, Slycanthrope, Executioner, Captain Cruncher, and Sewer Rat) where I didn't have a copy at all, obtained a copy, and then I would regularly see one, sometimes even two of them in pulls.
>Raids are beyond worthless because it's easier (and cheaper) to just do a couple draws and spam your Squid Game guys at the character than pray for 2*s randomly. The only purpose they serve is for a 100% guarantee for Kiwami characters.
>IVs aren't a thing, certain variants of characters have 1 higher HP or ATK and there's no reason to care at all because I believe the amount you get on a fully leveled one is only a difference of like 10 points?
>Using Master Japan Tickets is a much higher chance to get you Kiwami characters than the regular gacha.
>You can't get all the dossier looks of the characters.
Suji Sumo will always be black. You can't get the bearded Asian guy.
Suji Black Belt will always be black. You can't get the old white guy.
Suji Partier will always be black. You can't get the Hawaiian mullatto look.
Penalty Boxer's variant on the Dossier does not exist. The only beardless one is black.
As far as I can tell Jetstream Samurai can't be that level of brown though he can be light mulatto.
i'm going to kill myself having to listen to these fricks greet me every 3 seconds while i'm fishing
Same thing happened to me, I'm not sane anymore
I just turned down voice and SFX when fishing. You don't continually have to hear the pings and people greeting behind you are completely silent.
Hey!
Hello.
Hello.
Hello.
Hey!
Imagine those 3 beauties slowly pumping up with whipped cream
they captured the generic obnoxious english language podcast really well
>walked right into that one hahahaha
>is soup actually a food or a drink?????
the clearly white guy has the most perfect generic 'radio jock' voice I've ever heard
I love when this game and the Judgment games go to really off looking scenarios like the hospital, schools and now this whole religious cult thing.
What the frick is this Receive You remix? Sounds terrible.
There's no free version. Nobody on cuckchan is playing it.
What was the point of Hanawa being Morinaga?
dunno, why did they kill him like a b***h?
He'll have survived and return with Wong Tou in Yakuza 9.
He isn't. Gaiden set him up to be Morinaga, but it was written independently of 8 and just introduced a giant unnecessary plot hole that never got resolved in order to add intrigue to the plot of Gaiden.
Gaiden actually overstated the Daidoji organization's power and influence and that's why they feel so useless in 8. The actual plan for 8 was that Kiryu wasn't being coerced to work under the faction by holding Morning Glory under threat and that it really was just Kiryu's commitment to the deal he made at the end of 6 that was keeping him under their control. Both 6 and 8 show the Daidoji faction as a relatively small scale fixer organization that has little in the way of real power outside of a limited ability to carry out a small number of assassinations and blackmail. In 6 they needed Iwami Shipbuilding's help to keep the treaty violation a secret. In 8 they only have a few operatives to send to Hawaii and they rent a cheap room as a base of operations. But in Gaiden, they have a huge compound and an entire Shinto temple as a cover. In Gaiden they have the resources to bundle off two different people on Kiryu's level and coerce them into working under them. But that doesn't match up with what they had to do to get Kiryu on board in 6. The faction as it was presented in Gaiden wouldn't have even given Kiryu a choice.
yeah it's really fricking jarring and I'm surprised they didn't give a shit to try to reconcile the games considering how closely they were releasing.
Maybe they expected Gaiden to flop? All I know now is it's best to consider Gaiden non-canon.
I view it as canon cause it has a good story while 8 sucks wiener
isn't the Daidoji weakening explained? Gaiden was during 7, wasn't it? The events of 7 caused Bleach Japan and the ruling party (that the Daijoji belong to) to lose power, and they're politically weak and not in charge of the diet at the moment. The agent beating Date explains this.
I'm not sure that that is a error and it seems to be accounted for in the plot.
>tfw liked Saeko in 7
>big ship a'cummin *fog horn*
>can't really defend the actions in 8
it's just bad fricking writing when it's all said and done
Chitose isn’t that hot either apart from her body, really all the nu-Yakuza girls are mid af
Now Seonhee, I'd marry her in an instant.
>Chitose isn’t that hot either apart from her body, really all the nu-Yakuza girls are mid af
eh, its only recently where the girls actually are somewhat relevant in personality and story, and actually are decent looking and freaksih with their character models.
they constantly improve the female characters look imo. saeko looks better than in 7
I disagree completely. Chitose and Seonhee are easily the best girls the series has ever had.
Chitose
or
Seonhee
or
Akame
Choose two
Chitose and Seonhee. You shouldn't have to ask after I said they're the best.
I liked her in 7 too. I could honestly believe that she and the guys were good friends. Now I'd be relieved if she was offscreened and never returned. Saeko doesn't have any good reason to be in the party anymore, and doesn't even have an interesting or amusing dynamic with anyone else. The only time she had a remotely interesting party chat in the whole game was when she was just playing "second girl" in a Seonhee scene.
>she was just playing "second girl" in a Seonhee scene.
Funny how often that happens throughout the game in general
>the 'jima trio fight shows each party member significantly backing kiryu up except for her
>the final fight has everyone in the group charging against ebina while she just stands there and does nothing until he throws Seonhee on her direction and knocks her down with 0 effort
it's funny as frick honestly, you could pull a kaoru on her and it would barely change the latter half of the plot, hell, it might even make the first half a lot more bearable without the whole romance drama bullshit
Saeko has literally no reason to be close to Kiryu, so her presence through the whole game feels forced and weird. Going on 13 months of ghosting Ichiban and taking care of a dude you only know as "the guy who helped Ichiban once with yakuza stuff that never had anything to do with me" is so awkward. If Nanba just hadn't invited her to the Kiryu babysitting squad, or if she decided not to participate because of the Ichiban awkwardness and her need to take care of her business, there wouldn't have been anything strange about her not being there.
Is there a reason to level jobs over 30 since stats don't carry over anymore?
yeah get the mod so stats do work as intended
Should've Eri'd her.
is this using that garbage dragon engine
yes
why is the fricking DLC so expensive
frick sega israelites
Battle is better in 8 but too much assest reused, not enough new jobs, story was mid and ending is shit.
7 is a way better game.
next game is either:
>in brazil
>in a fantasy isekai
>up in the snowy mountains with majima
saejima is king btw, kiryu confirms it
They should reuse all the cities from 5 at some point, I'm fricking sick of Kamurocho and Sotenbori.
Brazil does have the most Japanese expats in the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora
It's like the 11th Yakuza already, the series has about two dozen fans in the west and no-one else can be arsed to get into it for those reasons.
Where do I get 7 star armor
Does Komaki only appear at a certain time of day or something? I turned down the duel the first time I talked to him but now he's not in the Champion District anymore
He died, I'm sorry.
I should at least be able to reminisce about his corpse! I need my level ups!!
I think he only appears in the daytime, unless you are in the daytime in which case idk where he is.
Saejima is the best
frick you guys
I like Saejima more than Kiryu. I am sad I only got to play him a few times, though I did like when the game let you choose if you wanted to play as Kiryu or him and beat the shit out of the other guy.
One of my favorite moments in all the games.
people are down on him, but i down with him taking a major role again, just like akiyama. just think of something else and not prison again
homosexual
we don't sign our posts on Ganker, new friend
Saeko is an old hag in need of dick
working as a hostess makes you automatically psychopath no excpetion. ichiban needs to drop her like a stone
Game Kiryu knows Sega the company that made him is king
It was weird to see that the characters never said anything about the arcades being rebranded to GiGO. I guess that happened after the game was mostly finished and all they really could do was switch the textures.
How's everyone feeling about bakamitai 2?
Not as memeable
A dame disaster if you will
It's excellent.
Pretty fricking good, I dare to say I might actually like it a lot more than Baka Mitai
>every scene of Ichiban and Chitose together is a million times better than Ichiban/Saeko scenes
>Chi-chan is even touched by Ichiban's unassuming "pure love" that gets him nothing but shit on the Sa-chan front
>but Chitose is 25 years younger than him and when they finally drink together she immediately says that it's "like drinking with her dad"
There will never be a satisfying romance in this series, ever
>There will never be a satisfying romance in this series, ever
That's just Japanese media in general
yeah but is your love life satisfying lol
ichibans isn't
just like me fr is the appeal dumbass
wtf? they look ugly
I am playing yakuza like adragon and the models LITERALLY look the same.
Didnt they take their time to make better models?
in the cutscenes they look great
What are the canon ages of Seonhee, Saeko, and Chitose anyway? I figure Saeko is like mid 30s?
None of them have officially-revealed ages, as far as I know. Chitose is merely confirmed to be in her twenties.
It would make sense for Saeko and Seonhee to both be mid-thirties, but due to Japan's general distaste for women over 30, I wouldn't be shocked if Sega came out right now and said Saeko is 28-ish.
Most hostesses are in their 20s so yeah I'd say 28/29
I had fun with this game but so many things were wasted or done wrong in the story. The old party should've never come back and Ichiban should've had an all new team in Hawaii. Adding Yamai would've fixed this and they could have had him arrested at the end of the game if they still wanted to. Kiryu should've had his Tojo brothers doing his bucket list and convincing him to live, not just Date and the random leftover characters in Yokohama. And why did the Tojo guys just become pathetic wastes after their plan didn't work? That doesn't make any sense considering all they've been through. I'm starting to think the people in charge don't like the legacy characters anymore and are trying to force their new guys down our throats at the cost of the franchise itself. And what was with Ichiban and Eiji at the end? I get Ichiban he is supposed to be stupidly forgiving and naive at times, but save that for guys like Masato who he actually were part of his life. Eiji did so much to frick over everyone Ichiban tried to help, got multiple people killed, almost got a child and his mom killed. It does absolutely nothing for Ichiban's character to forgive him. I'm not even gonna start on how stupid the Hawaii plot is because even Ebina thought so. I truly don't know what they were trying to do with this game.
>And why did the Tojo guys just become pathetic wastes after their plan didn't work? That doesn't make any sense considering all they've been through. I'm starting to think the people in charge don't like the legacy characters anymore
This, to me, is by far the worst fricking part of the whole thing.
Eiji is a surrogate for Masato, whereas Ichiban managed to succeed in getting Eiji to turn himself in whilst Masato was killed before they could achieve that. The game makes a point of these parallels between the two characters. It's Ichiban managing to finally achieve what he couldn't do at the end of 7.
It’s a “sendoff”
It looks like they rushed the final boss fights + the ending, like they ran out of money
Eiji is a Masato surrogate (as the other anon said) and Ichiban wanting to help him would make perfect sense if there were just a couple scenes of Ichiban reflecting on Eiji's backstory and character, but instead it feels like feels like the game shipped with whole chapters missing.
At the end of the day, the game ended up being just a Kiryu send-off because absolutely nothing about Ichiban's character or the state the world changed.
I'm just not comfortable with Saeko on the party anymore bros... I just need some time to think...
i would have liked the shark to be the final boss
mother nature final boss
The plot is sloppy as frick, but I think what they were getting at is that they were trying to write the Hawaii plot like a traditional RPG in a sense. Change a few details (Bryce= ancient evil; nuclear waste=some magic plot device or whatever) and the more fantastical and far fetched stuff seems to make a bit more sense in that context. I think Adachi even makes a comment that infiltrating Nele Island is like entering the final bosses castle at one point. This is all just speculation on my part and despite this, its all still very one dimensional though.
Nele Island not letting you explore that castle as the final dungeon was such a letdown.
it was pretty cool. the plotline in japan detracts from it.
I liked the Hawaii section way more than the Japan section.
Nuclear waste is unironically meant to represent yakuza, something that Japan doesn't want and tries to bury, but you can't exactly bury all of that and expect everything to be done. They wanted to ship all of the yakuza to the same island as nuclear waste and forget all about them.
It's looking like it wont be a big deal for Japan for long anyway. Apparently of late less of Japan's crooks wanna sign up with the Yakuza, with figures from Japans National police agency placing their numbers at around 30k back in 2019.
anyone else think it's missed oppurtunity to not add some puzzles in the dungeons like in dragon quest?
but then again, looking at judgment, they dont want the player to think.
>half assed turn based combat
>hiring shill youtuber Yong yea to voice kiryu
>homosexual friendship focused storyline
No thanks.
>dubgays
>human
pick one LOL
I've never played with a dub in any yakuza game, weeb homosexual. It's the principle. have a nice day, chink worshipping loser.
I really wonder what angry little gamers like you enjoy about a series full of stoic sad men fighting to be better people.
>I've never played with a dub in any yakuza game
>but also you're a weeb
>and I'm mad about Yong
LOL mental illness
Our series now.
%2FLiveStream
what the frick, she's northern irish. We spread the world like a virus fricksake
So do debuffs actually work in 8 or do they do LITERALLY NOTHING to enemies like in 7?
They actually work, you can notice a difference now when you debuff elemental resistances and defense for example.
>Kiryu and Kaoru don't even get to interact with each other
>there's no indication from Kiryu of wanting to contact her directly in the future to reconnect
What the frick did they mean by this?
Kiryu is intent on dying a virgin
Wow he's just like me fr
Kiryu takes the knowledge that Kaoru still loves him as a sign that he wasn't such a worthless man in the past, but this game also emphasizes that Yumi was really the one true love of his life, so there was no room to make him interested in getting back together with Sayama while he's not sure he's even going to be alive in a few months. Kiryu wanting to reconnect with Sayama while he can't even bring himself to speak to his kids and doesn't expect to be part of their lives in the future would be awkward. His family is a bigger priority than his love life.
Man Night Queen is still fricking stupid good. How do they not realize how good charm is?
Is this game hard to mod?
You mean as a modder or as a player? Because as far as I understand modders can't do much outside of change minor things under the hood. The "Like a Brawler" mod is the only notable exception to this. 7 even had people having trouble adding in already existing outfits into the lists and a lot of the mods ended up as replacement outfits to existing ones rather than additional outfits on a list.
As a player
Oh cool
you put Shin Ryu Mod Manager in the exe folder
Open it
Click the zip file of the mod
Click install
Done
So basically it works the same way SMT Nocturne HD modding does. Good to know, Nocturne is relatively painless to mod.
>fat americans
>gender specific classes
my judgment after beating this game
thanks
GIVE ME A FRICKING SHARK FIN
nevermind i made this post and immediately got one
Am I missing something or are there no personality rewards related to Dondoko? Was that the case with the business in 7? Either way that feels odd
I like ichiban because hes a 45 year old kiss less virgin just like me
There was absolutely 0 reason for ebina to be ichibans half brother
Yokoyama said they brought back Kiryu because it makes sense with the type of story they wanted to tell.
What type of story did they actually tell
Uhh the yakuza are bad criminals that deserve to get a second chance?
they don't need kiryu for that
Victims of the yakuza throwing a tantrum because they're trying to reintegrate into society with little reprecussions despite all the former yakuza being fricked over by that five year clause so they bring in THE yakuza to cry and apologize for the yakuza existing?
I dunno; Yokoyama is a hack.
Is he gonna be the new majima now that he lost an eye
I dunno what that has to do with my post but if you're talking about Sawashiro, no. Pretty sure Yokoyama said that Yamai is Ichiban's Majima.
I'm pretty sure the 8's story is supposed to be all about accepting the burden of responsibility [even if it's not really yours, or you don't owe it to the person(s) you're sharing the load with], because someone has to for the greater good (to stop cycles of spite/retaliation/self-destruction/etc). Many of the substories and plot threads tie into this idea, which is capped off with Kiryu begging to take responsibility for the fate of the yakuza, and Ichiban extending forgiveness and strength to Eiji so he can atone.
its like every game then
i do like how they mix up vtubers with religious cults lol
If it's "like every game then" then arguably it makes sense for Kiryu to be part of it. Kiryu wanting to take responsibility for the yakuza (in the way he failed to do in the past) as part of taking back his name and his life is very thematically appropriate.
i feel this and gaiden makes them admit that 6 ending was shit
A decent idea, but poor/boring execution
I agree that the execution was lacking. There certainly wouldn't be so many people confused and irritated by Ichiban's finale scene with Eiji if the game hadn't completely failed to develop and show the nuance to Eiji's character that you're expected to empathize with when Ichiban rescues him.
>Yamai roughed Tomizawa up just to toughen him up
>Yamai "forgets" who Tomizawa is just to tell him he's off the hook
>as soon as Tomizawa stops being afraid of him, Yamai treats him like he's still one of them
>gives up his own freedom just to get the party to safety
I knew something was good in Yamai when one of his men tells him he is struggling to see, and instead of punishing him, Yamai just asks for a light instead of hitting him with his crowbar.
None of the characters do anything in the story besides kiryu, tomi and chitose
I dunno why they even brought back zhao and joongi when they join so late and add nothing to the group
Zhao and Joongi have great drink links, party chats, and table talks though. They're good moodmakers, and I like having a Geomijul guy and a Liumang guy around to remind me that I'm playing a series that used to largely be about people living as members of the criminal underworld.
Why does Yakuza 6 look better than this game even though it's 6 years old?
i stopped at 4, with amount of spinoffs and shit i cant keep up with all this shit and frankly i dont care anymore
Live Sawashiro reaction
SUGOI
Sawashiro was buckbroken the whole game, they destroyed his character
You said this in a previous thread and we're wrong then too. Sawashiro didn't change, you just see him more clearly in 8 for what he was all along.
>Kiryu san I know I'm bleeding from my eye hole and need immediate medical attention but yappa you are so sugoi tbh ne
Kiryu totally stole an Ichiban moment lamo
SUKI NI NARERU HITO WO.. SUKI NI NARETA NARABA.. </3
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So is the standing of the Yakuza actually kinda good in the RGG world now?
The government looks real bad after 7&8 lol
No because at the end of the day, people still don't like criminal organizations that prey upon the populace.
I must I am a fan of how the status of the Yakuza and politicians change alot in 7&8. In previous games, it was all status quo all the time
It was more that for the longest time people just shrugged their shoulders and went "yeah I wish something would be done about them but nothing ever will."
The the Yakuza exclusion ordinances started getting passed in 2011 and with each year it chips away at more and more of the yakuza's ability to do anything. We're basically at the point now where you can be convicted for simply being a member of a criminal organization even if they can't pin you to any crimes.
>real Yakuza
>become wildly successful and have people come to your store expressly to support you
>fictional superhero strength Yakuza of Legend
>get a sad and move to Norway, Japan to fish
lmao
Ok, I finished Dondoko Island. Like actually finished, maxed out everything.
...am I just supposed to stand around now and wait for the 3 days to finish each time? I can't even leave the island during that shit, I have to be on the island?
If you want money just spam dungeons
Correct. You're better off just doing instant kills in the dungeons.
Dondoko island is only rewarding mid game. It's not worth farming it for money especially when you haven't unlocked most of the high paying customers. Dungeons are far better for that. Once you complete it the only reason to play it further is to design it how you want and such.
With how shit the game's ending is, it wouldn't be a surprise if they released a DLC to show us Kiryu beating cancer and reconnecting with everybody.
Then make it gaiden 2 because there's more money to be made that way
Bro, the ending literally does not need to show Haruka reconnecting with Kiryu to be a good ending. It's already inferred they do. Anyone who takes issue with the fact that the reunion wasn't being shown is just asking to be spoonfed with fan service like a toddler and probably baseded the frick out of their seats when the Jimas showed up in ch 12, even though their appearances are completely hamfisted into the narrative.
Why not show it?
I had the decency to sit through this fricking shit show, but they don’t have the decency to show them interact ONCE?
Because the intent behind the scene is to show Kiryu has made the choice to keep on living by getting treatment. The reunion with Haruka would just distract from that for the sake of fan service, in a game which already has more than enough fan service as it is (and already shows a reunion with Haruka in the memoir sub stories)
Him being in the hospital already shows that point well enough
Yeah... The scene is literally him in the hospital... What's your point?
So why not have them meet onscreen at that point?
It’s just a wiener tease
isn't everyone busy playing it?
There are threads every day that hit bump limit. OP is just talking nonsense to get a reaction out of people.
I finally beat it while at work today. I can finally lurk in these threads without getting spoiled.
I missed plenty of bump limit threads to avoid spoilers. You Black folk aren't going to stop me from enjoying my Yakooza.
They just weren't shy at making sure Chitose completely mogs the other two, were they?
Anyway, it really doesn't help that there's been zero response from devs/CMs in regards to the Job stat inheritance bug.
So what's the verdict on IW? I might as well think about picking up Gaiden too
Last time I picked this series up was Kiwami 2 and I dropped it because it was boring. I've played in release order and finished Kiwami but couldn't get into Kiwami 2.
It has problems but I can't in good conscience call it a bad game. There are no bad Yakuza games, even the absolute worst of them are still "pretty good" but general vidya standards.
If you're invested enough in the characters that you've gone through the story thus far then yes obviously it's worth it.
General consensus is:
>Worse story than 7 and in general is disappointing across the board for their choices with Ichiban playing second fiddle while Kiryu's stuff is all over the place if it's satisfying or not.
>Better gameplay than 7 by a significant degree but it's still way too easy.
>Even easier than 7 to get overpowered despite them actively trying to stop it more than 7.
>Hawaii is contentious with some people really liking it and some people thinking it's too big.
>Worse story than 7
tbf I wouldn't say that's that damning of a statement since 7 is imo one of the series' best stories. It does a lot to endear you to a 99% brand new cast of both primary and secondary characters and wierdly enough, the plot doesn't go full moron like a lot of LAD plots do. Like, the single craziest thing in 7 is Mirror Face and the reason it gets brought up is specifcally BECAUSE it's so out there in a relatively grounded story.
>double locker babies
locker babies were tragically a fairly common thing in the 80s. It's more the sheer coincidental nature of 2 being right next to each other that raises an eyebrow.
This also the last several hours of story content drags on and on and on
>Mirror Face
Hey I mentioned Mirror Face. Even so, both that and the 2 lockers is still less ridiculous than the rubber bullets (not how it's initially used in Saejima's backstory, but that it gets reused like another 4 times and they fall for it EVERY TIME). Or the assassin who's actually a CIA member who's ACTUALLY an evil arms dealer posering as a CIA member. Or whatever the frick 5 was doing.
The boat is not a dumb twist, the boat makes perfect sense with a cursory knowledge of Japanese-Chinese international relations.
>posering
posing*
>Or whatever the frick 5 was doing.
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ANON, HARUKA MUST BE KILLED WHEN SHE SINGS AT THE CONCERT BECAUSE THE OMI CHAIRMAN HATES DREAMS
Holy shit you're moronic
I thought he was just a simp for T-Set.
M8, the series is filled with contrived soap opera shit in literally every game. Remember Shimano's plan to make Majima fall in love with Makoto that just happened to work out flawlessly in 0. Pointing the locker baby stuff out is hardly a negative in 7 by comparison to other entries in the rest of the series.
*grinding teeth* It.was.a.reference.to.a.book!!! SO IT'S OKAY THAT IT'S moronic
It's not nearly as boring or shit as 7, the defacto worst game in the series on both the gameplay and story front, but it's an unabashed filler beach episode. Most of the villains suck and the plot is nonsense but I'll take that over burning Ijincho down because of Nanba's shitty brother who is actually totally fine and not in any danger at all in fact
>Better gameplay than 7 by a significant degree but it's still way too easy.
What makes it better? I 100% completed 7 and just finished IW and the combat plays the exact same as far as I'm aware.
You can positions your dudes
Aoe markers for attacks
Combo attacks
Items in basically every area you can fight with
Better job inheritance and balance
No moronic difficulty spike 12 chapters in
>Way better balancing allowing every character to work.
>Skill sharing is handled better and now you can choose to opt for what you want.
>Clothing has passive buffs allowing you to do stuff like the Pareo of Happiness to tank stuff, or constantly tank with Linebacker's 7* stuff.
>Battle items are actually useful this time outside of the RPG on low level runs.
>Debuffs actually work instead of being bugged.
>Combo attacks and enemies attacking people for you is expanded and very clearly explained.
>Essences take way longer to get online.
>You can't just buy your way into better gear because everything now costs appropriate amounts of money.
>You can move your characters around to get better vantage points.
>Physics are taken into account in general combat instead of just being for car accident meme attacks that never happen which allows for bowling gameplay.
>You are now shown exactly where attacks will hit, in what direction, and how.
>QTEs are now way more lenient and are on the button rather than the area outside of it.
>Skills have been balanced so that they actually feel like good uses of your MP instead of attacks that just one-shot groups with obvious exceptions like Samurai.
>You also have far less MP than in 7 and you can't spam as much until way closer to endgame.
Just stuff off the top of my head. 7 is a joke in terms of gameplay and balance compared to 8. You can head to Chinatown and for 300k (So, like one or two mahjong matches) you can immediately deck out someone in their third best weapon, or their fourth if you want to spent 200k instead.
Those are pretty big changes. But it still feels the exact same as 7 did imo. I didn't even notice they changed anything until you guys pointed it out.
How is Hawaii too big? It's a little bit bigger than Ijincho but there's a lot of unused space so it's not like it's every little street corner
No clue, I feel like it's as big as Ijincho, it just feels more filled with stuff giving the illusion it might be a bit bigger. I like Hawaii myself but people here were complaining about it being too big or never wanting to come back again.
>So what's the verdict on IW?
It's shit. Mostly due to it's shallow and tedious turn based combat. If Kiwami 2 already bored you then don't even bother pirating IW.
>So what's the verdict on IW?
Judgment 3 will be on Hawaii but with time travel
or aliens?
both would be overkill
What’s their excuse gonna be for reusing hawaii now?
I’m sure they wouldn’t let their biggest map yet go unused after just 1 game
some island some conspiracy done
Ichiban visiting his friend Tomi and Akane.
As for Judgement, they already kinda teased the next game being somewhere foreign in LJ.
Turns out that Lani is just as nuts as Bryce and they have to fight Palekana again.
Yagami is going to end the Daodoji
>yagami gets too deep investigating daidoji
>gets killed in the process
would definitely be an easy way to not worry about contracted actor hires anymore
I want a mod where all the Americans speak in the dub and the Japanese characters use the JP audio.
I wish the Americans just spoke Japanese. Or better yet just have the game set in Okinawa.
>what killed the hype?
denuvo
I will now play your game
The pacing and distribution of party members in 8 is such a mess. I hate the engrish and HELLO . I . AM . AMERICAN . MAN . CHEESEBURGER . BASEBALL dialog too.
this aint a show dipshit
I"LL SUE YOU!
>0babs who went on to play Kiwami over the original Y1 will never understand the feeling of hearing this when you got into a fight in Kamurocho in IW
>ESL spammers will never know the actual REAL kino of low res Kamurocho in 2D
get on my level you pissant
Finished 0 and Kiwami 1, started Kiwami 2
What the frick is this ragdall lmao
Was fighting chapter 3 boss and Kiryu was wiggling like a worm after every hit
Is there a way to turn this down because it looks moronic as frick
Are you playing above 30 FPS? Because it breaks above 30 FPS. 60 is a bit bad but it's still tolerable.
Frick I am playing 144fps
Yeah, you really shouldn't be playing these games above 60 if you're on PC. As it is the vast majority of them are only meant to be played at 30.
Thanks for the tip I will try to limit the fps to 60 tommorow
Make sure you grab this as well:
https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2020/01/18/silentpatch-yakuza-kiwami-2/
If you don't several minigames are completely unplayable above 30.
Taking a break/waiting for a patch before I do post game. Is Big Swell's level curve built around the assumption I do it right after the final boss or should I finish the EX level on the first two dungeons first?
I wish the story made Ichiban realize Arakawa isnt the saint he believed him to be.
I wish the story actually developed ichiban more
At the very least I still like him the same, unlike yagami
tbf, Ichi's personal story arc more or less completed in 8, he's kinda just along for the ride on this one.
There’s a lot of room for personal growth
That’s what the dragon fish is about
All thats changed is that he’s physically stronger, which is in line with the dragon fish, but still
I don't think he saw Arakawa as a saint, rather as family. Their final scene together is Arakawa querying why he has so much loyalty to him even though Arakawa has put him through so much terrible shit to him over the course of that game. I mean, the guy was a pretty prolific hitman.
Ichiban still worships the ground Arakawa walked on without acknowledging anything Arakawa did wrong or people he hurt in his life. The game hands you Ebina and Eiji as people who were trampled in Arakawa's path, but doesn't ever make Ichiban react to that.
It would make perfect sense for Ichiban want to take responsibility for the monster Arakawa made Eiji, because Ichiban considers himself Arakawa's family and Arakawa isn't alive to take responsibility for himself, but the game only expresses that Ichiban saves Eiji because they're "pals" after Eiji pretended to be his friend for a day.
I don't disagree with you about atoning for Arakawa but I think the point of the Eiji stuff is to act as a surrogate for Masato considering Ichi couldn't "save" him in the prior game, but now had the chance to save his surrogate (although Eiji isn't well developed in 8 to properly communicate this).
>Ichiban still worships the ground Arakawa walked on without acknowledging anything Arakawa did wrong or people he hurt in his life
They still refuse to make Kiryu acknowledge anything bad Kazama did, so I'm not sure why you're expecting otherwise.
>because Ichiban considers himself Arakawa's family
When does this happen? I'm back in Ijincho with Kiryu and from the start to that point Kasuga's been wishy washy about the situation.
Guy both goes "nah I don't wanna take a DNA test I don't care to know if he's my dad" while at the same time going "I'm lucky cause I had 2 dads through Jiro Kasuga and Masumi Arakawa".
moron-kun, Ichiban has clearly expressed in the very words you quoted that he considers himself Arakawa's family regardless of whether or not they're related by blood.
More like he considers Arakawa a father figure rather than an actual father. The fact that he does frick all about what Arakawa put those two through makes that pretty clear.
This Kiryu guy is pretty cool, they should make a whole game about him as the main protagonist.
Finally hit the Big Swell. Anything I should know going in? I've got most jobs leveled at this point so it's just grinding out mats for weapons, levels, and jobs to prepare for NG+.
bryce is the worst villain in the entire series. i didnt give a flying frick about him or his exposition. I usually don't skip dialogue when it's the main story but that must be the only time I mashed x through his dialogue right before his boss fight. "the world won't survive without my influence because i store radioactive waste on my shitty island" they say all game that kasuga has this wild imagination and all his henchman/underlings hype him up as this kind of god and when you get to him he's using GUNS AND GRENADES?? what a disappointment. and then they get some guy who doesn't even know english to voice his english sentences. the game went downhill as soon as they revealed halfway through the store that he was the overseer. they should have just left it at that until maybe the last chapter and the story might have been salvageable. i got baited by the 90's for the worst story in the franchise. it just goes downhill after chapter 4-5. yokoyama is a fricking hack, I thought nagoshi was holding them back and it might have been a mistake to let him leave
Bryce is a literal cult leader, his power is entirely in what influence he holds over others rather than real, tangible power.
Why does IW try to characterize Kiryu as "Mr. I Work Alone" to a point that the party has to lecture him on multiple occasions that he needs to be willing to let others help him? That's never been a trait of Kiryu, if anything, he's been TOO willing to trust others at times, but he's still typically presented as trusting of other people and willing to let others help him.
>Wants the Ryudo family with him in the final push against Mine and Tamashiro since he wants the Okinawa crew to be the ones to save their home
>Says he's willing to reach out to Hamazaki every step of the way on the path to redemption only to get stabbed for it.
>is in the Yakuza 4
>rallies the Yahata family to stand up to the Tojo Clan as a team alongside him
>is in the Yakuza 5
>takes the Hirose family with him everywhere in Yakuza 6
>Lets Someya come with him to Shangri-La even when he's pretty sure Someya will not honor their deal
Kiryu's never really been portrayed as the lone wolf type character, even if there's lots of moments where he is alone, he's always been a guy who is willing to work with others.
Because first Kiryu game without Nagoshi.
And they wanted to hamfist the shitty turned based combat on him.
Yeah, I don’t get it either
They had a whole point in 5 where he accepts help too, and all that shit
I dunno what they’re getting at
Kiryu became the "lone wolf" when he chose to disappear at the end of 6. He cut himself off from everyone he knew out of fear of bringing them to harm and after years of that, NOW he needs to be reminded that he's surrounded with people who can and will shoulder his burdens. Kiryu's problem is not wanting to burden others or ask for help with his own troubles/responsibilities, rather than not being able or willing to cooperate with others toward a common goal.
In 3 and 6, he does try to reject help of the family and fight alone, with family arriving later.
Also in 5 and 6, he's convinced to remove himself from the life of others because he believes they'll be happier without him. He tends to try to carry all the burden by himself.
Plus, he often has trouble with expressing how he really feels about people close to him, like Rikiya still thought he needs to prove himself to Kiryu which led to his death.
>In 3 and 6, he does try to reject help of the family and fight alone, with family arriving later.
in 3 he only does that because they're not equipped to handle it. Rikiya being too young and inexperienced to be trusted to handle big time Tojo conflicts when he wanted to go to Kamurocho, and Rikiya having just been shot by Tamashiro wanting to go to the bull ring for the final confrontation.
I like how Kiryu didn't go
>I wish he didn't die
>I wish I could've saved him
nope, he goes
>Remember that time he pretended to be gay. That was funny haha
>Ebina is full Joker about wanting to kill all the yakoozies
>Kiryu starts ugly crying and dies on top of him
>Well I guess I should reconsider
>>Well I guess I should reconsider
that doesn't even happen, the scene just ends and he's never seen again.
He's never gonna be seen again because Kiryu made him reconsider
I'm only at Chapter 7 and I keep reading spoilers but it doesn't matter because I never remember anyones names.
>what killed the hype?
the absolute state of yakuza, mostly
Why the frick has it taken me so long to play Yakuza 3?
This shit is great
>what killed the hype?
you need infinite wealth to buy the fricking game, and you have to buy new game plus on top of that. frick that noise
Video games are not for poor people
That's cool, I'm just gonna look at companies crumble under their own weight because they keep making AAAA games nobody buys
DW, the intended consumer base has infinite wealth so to say, so that's not happening anytime soon 🙂
Just get the game on pc and creamapi the dlc. Don't have a pc as an adult? Go back to Brazil.
>IW is currently their fastest selling Yakuza game
How's that whole "I'll look at companies crumble" thing working out?
How come there’s corporate wiener suckers on this site?
Officah halp I'm being lobbed!
Zat man iz no theef. Whu you shuld be arestin is ze driver
I want Judgement 3 not this turn based abomination.
My ultimate meta job list
Everyone - Their Default Job
>game with jobs
>too scared and plain to experiment
I played the other jobs for the buffs but those aren't their canon fighting styles.
pst - it's all in Ichiban's head
Namba isn't REALLY summoning a giant bird
Saeko isn't really shaking a bottle of champagne and spray gangsters with guns with it
How did Kiryu get infected by his schizophrenia?
story contrivance. I really don't think the player is supposed to think too deeply about it.
Early on set dementia accelerated by virginity. Kiryu's getting old.
The cancer spread to his brain.
Kiryu realizes that fighting in a party of people who are nowhere near his combat level boosts his morale when he's pretending that everyone is contributing equally. Same as with Ichiban. Every battle is a visual metaphor for how it feels to be on a unified team, rather than a literal depiction of street combat.
Kiryu gets that free counter for his memories so I feel like any other job is a downgrade since you lose all the buffs you get from nostalgia quest
yamai whiffing against a guy in a wheelchair in your first encounter with him prevented me from ever taking him seriously again
i've started committing to this in chapter 13, only exception being eric as a samurai but i might change that soon
is your ichiban freelancer or hero? i'm running with the former rn
In Yakuza 7 I did freelancer only but this time around I just stuck with hero.
>yamai whiffing against a guy in a wheelchair in your first encounter with him prevented me from ever taking him seriously again
I wonder how disappointed people like you will be when they all realize that Yamai is an unproblematic nice guy who didn't ever really want to murder an innocent cripple, old woman, or child. How many people will be surprised when Yamai never plays a villain and the only serious crime ever on his record is the love-driven murder he committed 30 years prior to RGG8?
He ended up being a bro. He earned my respect after what he did for Kiryu.
i am at chapter 13 lol i am past the point of the game trying to make you like him and i still don't give a shit
>didn't ever really want to murder an innocent cripple
doesn't really mean anything when he still tried to strike a (seemingly) wheelchair bound man and only hit air. moron is the prime example of being unable to hit the broad side of a barn
>chitosexo will never sit on my dick
Bros, it's too late, Yuki's dusty womb...
60 years old btw.
56. She's 23 in Yakuza 0.
>model your character after Daniel Dae Kim
>get Kim to voice someone else instead
???????????
They modeled a character that has like two scenes before dying on him. Might as well have him voice an actually important character if they're gonna shell out for him.
Still waiting for a crack
Anyone knows who dis?
This one.
Harbor Park.. I was not looking at the right place.
Run along the railing near the boats if I remember right.
Will material exchanging a weapon give me back the equivalent materials of what I spent on it ?
No
>what killed the hype?
Bad in-game lighting that made the character models look full-bright.