This series has become reddit incarnate and now we officially know that infinite wealth only sold a million copies. It’s time to turn it into a grim dark gta clone.

>>713278232 (OP)
Die 0fag

I got into yakuza 0 expecting free roam japanaese gta beat em up essentially and I got a soap opera with cutscenes every 5 seconds
I still liked the beat em up sections tho, I will keep playing other games in the series so I will play kiwami 1 next

>people like something
>shitty devs change it to appeal to people who never liked it
>franchise is forever ruined
so many games . not a single one wasn't raped and ruined forever

>>713278339
Whats wrong with 0?

>>713278381
play ps2 yakuza 1 and 2 not kiwami

>>713278339
I started with 1 on ps2

>>713278613
why would I play the inferior old games if there's a remake

>>713278420
A bunch of retards that don’t realize that without the success of 0 no other yakuza games would have been released in the west because they all flopped horribly prior to.

>>713278232 (OP)
Stranger Than Heaven looks cool

soi moral lessons the series

>>713278232 (OP)
the sales numbers for IW are a little weird
>game sells at least 1 million in a week
>from Jan 2024 to March 2024 it reached 1.16 million
>from April 2024 to March 2025 it reached 1.66 million (around 500k sales in 11 months)
also, the fact that Gaiden could actually reach 1 million copies sold is nice. This series required almost 20 years to reach 20 million total sales, but 2 of it's most recent titles have already surpassed 2 million copies

>>713278817
So this is definitely going to end with Hiroshima and Nagasaki getting bombed and Japan playing the victim, right?

>>713279292
yes

>>713278232 (OP)
Honestly 7 is the first Yakuza game that I'm having trouble getting into. I don't even dislike turn based combat the story and characters aren't doing it for me.

>>713278420
Nothing. It's what got people into Yakuza.

>>713278613
Nothing wrong with the Kiwami games. It's faithful to the originals unlike the remasters.

>>713278232 (OP)
>This series has become reddit incarnate
what does that mean? I don't use reddit

>>713279941
>having majima spam appear everywhere or entire chunks of game gone and worse animations and presentation is "faithful to the originals"

play the ps2 games

>>713278792
>0 no other yakuza games would have been released
good
7 and anything after that wasn't even worth playing

>>713278792
You say this but you did the exact same thing with Fromsoft and Fallout

>>713280118
How are the PS2 games "better"? If you mean some useless side missions most people playing 1 and 2 don't care. It's faithful to the story and that's the only reason your going to play those two games.

>>713280394
we ordered DeS from korea
so not porting the games to the rest of the world only fucks up retards

>>713278232 (OP)
There they are! The Yakuza 4!

>>713278817
>>713279292
If this game is just in the two time periods with one guy instead of being an immortal being as the protagonist between 1915 and 2015 (the century) I will be disappointed. The rare supernatural stuff in the series was always interesting.

>>713278232 (OP)
not playing the pirate one until they remove denuvo

>>713278232 (OP)
Didn't know Nakayama became a gangster after GCCX

>>713278792
The success of Zero is exactly why the series became reddit incarnate.

>>713279292
Are there Japanese-Americans working on it? Because if not then they will either ignore it or give a sort of yeah this was fucked but so was everything spiel.

>>713283602
The official Japanese history line is to compare the bombings to the Holocaust for some reason

>>713280396
if you want to argue the only value in a yakuza game is the main story (why the fuck?), the ps2 games are still better than the remakes that fuck up the animation and lighting in the cutscenes and interrupt your main story with needless gameplay gimmick additions

just play the fucking old games zoomer I promise you the old polygons won't kill you

>>713283968
Did Kiryu write this?