Best thing to happen to the franchise

OP here, sorry, posted the wrong pic, I actually meant THIS

>>713360862 (OP)
agreed, he saved the series

>>713360862 (OP)
Why does he wear Kiryu's suit with the colors inverted?

>>713361064
He's the opposite of Kiryu, which is exactly what makes him a good protagonist

The franchise saved the franchise you dingus

>>713361183
I saved the franchise by buying every game, they couldn't have done it without me

>>713360862 (OP)
wtf mugen on /v/

>>713360862 (OP)
Based schizo

>>713360862 (OP)
didn't they drop him after 2 games because of poor sales?

>>713361465
The second game didn't even sell two million copies in two years. Worldwide. The series is too overwhelming for people. But not even the funny pirate game sold well

>>713361454
this

When are they going to announce Yakuza 9?

>>713360862 (OP)
he is the gintoki of vidya

>majima meme spinoff game still almost full price
what the fuck is this bullshit. put this kusoge at 50% off already.

>>713361545
people are just burned out on it. once you've played 2 or 3 yakuza games that's enough

>>713360862 (OP)
Yes

>>713361750
you need to buy it at full price and fund the next ichibankino for me

>>713361821
Fair. They don't do yearly releases so I'm confused who is getting burned out on them but I guess it happens. I think people interact with this series by marathoning it and that causes burn out

>>713361885
i paid full price for 7 and almost fell asleep multiple times and had to take a 3 month break halfway through. bought IW on sale and enjoyed it a lot more but decided i will not pay full price for this series ever again.

>>713360862 (OP)
kiryu should've died at the end of yakuza 2
3 should've been rikiya's game
4 and 5 entirely about akiyama

>>713362231
>4 and 5 entirely about akiyama
Yes, poor lad is becoming more irrelevant by the minute

>"What should we do to revitalize our games that are often criticized for being too long and reusing too much?"
>"How about we make them 100 hour long turn based games with massive side games in addition to the reused stuff"
>"Perfect"
These games drag on (heh) past hour 30, always have. 3 for all of its faults at least had the right amount of length for what it was

>>713362095
>fell asleep multiple times
Anon that's supposed to happen, it's a status effect

>>713361750
I wish zhao actually replaced majima but they fucked up his character so badly

>>713360862 (OP)
If your man looks like this, he'll choose violence

>>713362808
wtf

>>713360862 (OP)
Why did they do it?

>>713362030
I played every RGG game in the span of a few months this year. I'm dying for more

>>713360862 (OP)
Worst replacement for kiryu, especially when working with him.

>>713362970
I have been trying the same but I am stuck on 4. Trying to spice it up with Judgment and 7 but 3/4/5 is a wall to climb and I don't want to just rush through for the sake of it

>>713361123
Literally how is he an opposite >>713361696
Holy fit, it's true

>>713363006
kiryu is a shit character
even the secondary protagonists in 4 and 5 are better than kiryu

>>713362231
>rikiya's
God, no

>>713363053
Wait for k3-5, skip 6
>>713363119
He's awesome, but gets worse with every entry, after 3 he's just Mr punch.

>>713360862 (OP)
Man... infinite wealth baited me hard. Once i gained control of kiryu back in japan i lost all interest to play. It doesnt feel the same at all.

>>713361696
Actually true

>>713363220
They are never going to Kiwami 3 and 5, at best we're getting 4 because it's the right mix of somewhat popular, ambitious, and relevant to modern storylines RGG wants to tell

>>713363053
Skip 4-6, you're not gonna remember the plot anyways, it's all autistic conspiracy bullshit

>>713362030
you should check the release dates again, they actually do make yearly releases if you count the spinoffs, too

>>713361696
Both of them are dragon quest chads too

>>713363614
PYIH is a Gaiden game, it's nothing super stressful to beat

>>713362231
Kiryu shouldn't die but he should've stayed retired after 3.

>>713363493
They will never jump over 3. 4 is much bigger than any of the early main titles.

>>713363586
Worse than Koreans in 2 or Chapter 9 in 3? I just got to Saejima in 4 and immediately it is already more appealing than all of 3s plot

4 should have been Kiryu's last game, it came full circle with him helping to run the Tojo.

>>713363793
The plot in 4 and 5 is a mixed bag as its stretched to death. Ultimately, I liked it, but 5 drags on for forever. Gets better when you ay as kiryu, saej8ma is the worst chapter, lots of talk. Mini game is fun.

>>713360862 (OP)
I liked him in 7 but he felt flanderised in 8
Also I feel like the devs don't really understand the RPG dynamic, you have a party but really the game is all about Ichiban and the party doesn't feel much more involved in the plot than your usual allies in these games do for the most part, they often disappear in cutscenes even

>>713361545
I have no idea how the Japanese fans have played these fuckhuge games every for over a decade now

>>713363793
I loved 4 and 5 mainly because I loved the alternate characters a lot

>>713363793
4 is my favorite but they find a way to ruin Saejima.

>>713362231
3 shouldn't have been Rikiya's game, but it should've been set entirely in Okinawa with Kiryu getting mixed up in the yakuza antics going on there. Maybe Daigo & Majima can show up later on but they shouldn't be a huge part of the game. Also Kaoru should've never been sent to America but whatever, she probably would've just been killed if she stuck around anyway

GTA VI will ruin this series
Our new protagonist after Ichiban is gonna be a woman

>>713363235
worst for me were his heat moves, the only kept the worst ones and seemingly deleted all the sound, making them look worse and less impactful than the heat moves back on PS3.
Infinite wealth made me consider never buying a game from them again.
Gaiden was about Kiryu coming back to his old form and retaking control, only for them to make him a little bitch again in infinite wealth, made the whole entire storyline of gaiden a waste of time.

>>713363793
4's story is fine until pretty much the last few chapters at which point it gets completely off the rails with the twists and it does them at breakneck speeds on top of it because there's several within a two hour period.

>>713364071
Actually, kiryu shouldn't be the main char in 3, just a side chats tear. Ideally, we get a new character each entry.

>>713363119
I think I'm the only one who liked Zero Kiryu more than Zero Majima, he's amusingly autistic in that one.

>>713362231
3 with no Kiryu would most likely have you play as Mine as you try your best to make sure Daigo is okay

>>713361282
And playing them, right anon?
And playing them.... right?

Reminder to not watch any more trailers for Stranger Than Paradise or to pay attention to any more news about it, RGG spoils the shit out of their games in their pre-release media
Atlus does it too now, maybe it's just a Sega thing

>>713364568
I like to watch

I'm bored of Ichi
I'm bored of Kiryu
I'm bored of Memejima

Hopefully project century or whatever it's called now ends up being good.

>Villains whose motives are hard to find fault in and are arguably better than the hero's

>>713364626
>maybe it's just a Sega thing
It's a Japan thing, it's not company-related at all. Even in TV shows you'll have a character "die" or become "evil" and then end on a cliffhanger with a next episode preview two seconds after the cliffhanger not only showing the character alive but best friends with the cast.
The latest Sentai season of Gozyuger just did that two weeks ago where the entire world ended because the big bad won and then five seconds later you have the sixth ranger prancing around being buddies with the red ranger.

>>713363793
4 is without hyperbole complete gibberish nonsense but that's what makes it kino

>>713364626
revealing that Kiryu, Majima, & Saejima would show up in 7 in a famitsu article was crazy

Why didn't they just turn Like a Dragon into a new continuity like Judgement? I still believe the reception would've been better if they left the main Kiryu 'Yakuza' timeline alone and just branched off into LaD after 6

>>713360862 (OP)
I really loved Yakuza 7 but 8 was kind of a disappointment overall. They made Ichiban a lot more annoying and split his story in half to shove Kiryu back into the plot as a main character. It feels like Ichi didn't get anything done because of it.

>>713365312
kiryu cant live forever

>>713365424
tell that to the writers

>>713365424
Tiger Drop negates all damage.

>>713365424
cyborg kiryu. we can rebuild him, we have the technology.

>>713360862 (OP)
I like Ichiban and the plot of LAD7 but the turned based combat fucking sucks. LAD8 on the other hand has shitty combat AND a shitty story.

>>713365312
They want Kiryu retired except not really.

C*in L*cker Baby

>>713365424
I still want Like a Dragon: Space Ranger on Mars starting Haruto and set in like 2045

>>713365681
TWO of them in the SAME area at the SAME time. Is this kino writing or is Japan a shithole?

>>713365681
Why did the other guy end up paralyzed but Ichiban turned out fine? Was it sheer willpower?

>>713360862 (OP)
>I am actually the protagonist the entire time also I have autism
whoa, is this good story telling?

>>713365751
Kabukicho is a shit hole IRL so yeah

>>713365312
Because they want to milk Kiryu forever after they saw the success of 0.
Truth be told, nobody gives a shit about Yakuza beyond Y0, Y(K)1 and Y(K)2. Y3 is jank shit, Y4 is just shit and people are afraid of 5 and 6 not knowing what happened in 3 and 4.
Sega also created the expectation that you need to go through all Yakuza games by shitting out the low effort remasters all at once for no reason instead of milking the franchise slowly with Kiwamis.
After this mismanagement they panic brought Kiryu back. Too bad it also failed.

>>713365917
Kiryu being the face basically killed trying to make 7 a soft reboot. The whole point was going to be you didn't need to pay 0-6. Now you apparently have to.

>>713365875
superior chad jomon genetics.

>>713365312
>into a new continuity like Judgement?
Judgment is the same continuity. The exact same one. Same deal with the two Black Panther games, Kenzan, and Ishin. JE is a sequel to 6, 7 is a sequel to JE, LJ is a sequel to 7 and even requires it to have happened for its story to work, and 8 is a sequel to LJ and 7G.
Dead Souls is the only game in a different continuity. I assume you mean a different story in the same continuity separated from the story of Kiryu.

7, 7G, 8, and 8G are all still mainline games in Japan, the name change only affected the western market and there is no distinction between "Yakuza" and "Like a Dragon" games because they're all "Like a Dragon" games in Japan. To Japan the only difference is 7 and 8 are JRPG games and nothing else, there is otherwise no difference in the games.

I assume they didn't want to go whole hog because the shift to JRPG was already extremely controversial and a gamble, and they had Judgment games being made on top of it until the whole drama with Johnny's happened during LJ so it wouldn't make sense to commit like that.

>>713360862 (OP)
Yeah, death really was the best thing. I'm glad it ended on a good note in Y6. IchiSHIT is a completely different series and I'm free to ignore it, that's good

>>713366005
I can't wait for Yakuza 9 where you play as Majima and a wheelchair bound Kiryu and also Ichiban is there too if you look hard enough.

>>713366215
It's it's time for a zoomerino protag to take center stage. What are those lil niggas up to?

>>713366097
>Dead Souls is the only game in a different continuity
Literally no proofs of that. The town gets restored by the end of the game, everything is back to normal. It could've all actually happened and the story isn't even that much more outlandish than the usual Yakuza stories. I like to believe it's canon and so far nothing contradicted me except for the non-canon mobile game.

>>713366215
I wonder what life debilitating illness they'll give Majima so he'll be weak enough to need a jrpg party and not just solo the entire game

>less than 2 million copies sold

>>713366443
They'll take his other eye.

Just make a game where you play as Haruto and rehash BP1's story.

He's a delinquent that gets roped into some bad shit and has to fight in the underground scene
Boom.

>>713366443
He was already so old he considered retiring like a decade ago. Is he allowed to just actually be an old man.

>>713366295
Haruto is now as old canonically as Haruka was in Yakuza 1

yakuza game that is actually a triad game and you play as a loser nobody chinese immigrant guy

>>713364515
Awesome

>>713366518
>chain of violence and poverty remains unbroken
grim

>>713366510
>Majima goes fully blind.
>He just so happens to meet someone that teaches him how to use echolocation so he can run around and fight perfectly fine.

>>713366518
Yeah I keep waiting for Haruto's game. It's not really Kiryu I give a shit about, it's his story that includes all those other characters that they don't give any screentime anymore.

>>713365151
I tried to see it as bubble gum k drama, but it doesn't work for me. Cheese kino can be kino.

>>713365751
Weebs don't realize how much of a shithole Japan can be. Japan is a rich developed country in the same way California is the best state to live in. In theory it has a gargantuan GDP, people on average are rich and they have a lot of good regulations like robust consumer protection but in practice half the state doesn't have water and cities are occupied by druggies and parts of them look like a Fallout game, prime example being LA. Corporations in Japan can essentially end your life if they feel like it, treat their employees like cattle and the government is surprisingly corrupt. Even seemingly benign parts of their culture have a dark side. Like their strong attachment to physical media stemming from draconian anti piracy measures. People there were hounded by law for installing CFW on a fucking Nintendo console and not as in someone developing an R4 or mig switch but as in individual people just using CFW or flashcards for piracy.
Japan is a paradise if you're well off but a massive shithole for the less fortunate.

>>713366097
didn't the devs say that every game is canon lol
dead souls ends neatly enough that it could've happened I think, well aside from Ryuji but he could just be chilling in a takoyaki shop somewhere

>>713366674
>dare deviru
I'd lowkey play this sounds like kino.

>>713366518
I'm pretty sure if Kiryu isn't dead by the time something like this happens, this would do it.

>>713366387
It's not canon because Ryuji is confirmed dead.

>>713366746
>Japan is a paradise if you're well off but a massive shithole for the less fortunate.
that's every first world country.

>>713366861
Confirmed where?

>>713366997
at the end of 2 btw

>>713366935
Every country really. In Africa rich nibs are living in guarded compounds with harems full of jungle puss.

>>713360862 (OP)
I wish kiryu was my dad
and ichiban my big bro

>>713367064
That's not confirmed, people "die" like that all that time only to reappear

>>713366861
We don't use the 'D' word here.

>>713365424
Kiryu has been living forever for too long already, and they refuse to let him die still. He's going to get old man steroids and still play a significant part in 9 I bet.

>>713360862 (OP)
They were stupid to have him that old in his first game, -10 years would have been better to get more games out of him

>>713367064
Doesn't matter. Dying from a couple gunshot wounds is passe in a universe where people easily survive being blown up in car bombs and shot with miniguns.

>>713367564
it was the perfect age IMO

>>713366387
>Literally no proofs of that.
8 straight up says it's an alternate timeline whereas 8 specifically says Kenzan and Ishin are both memories of a past life.
Dead Souls itself cleans up after itself and handwaves the Godzilla repair they have to do for all the barriers they put up, but you can buy it because it's Japan. It's just that 8 throws a wrench in that by directly saying it's an alternate timeline unlike Kenzan and Ishin.

>>713360862 (OP)
And then they cucked him out of his own game

I love this franchise but it had overstayed its welcome. RGG Studio had more than enough games to tell Kiryu's story and he's had multiple proper send offs already. Ichiban's story felt finished with 7 and you could tell even the writers felt like that because the plot in 8 goes nowhere. Ichiban has no character development because his arc was finished in 7 and the entire story is just a chain of this then that. 8 progresses neither Ichiban's story nor any overarching plot.
I can think of just ONE franchise with this many entries in the same continuity, a single protagonist and recurring characters, that didn't lose the plot and the progress felt organic from start to finish never overstaying its welcome. I don't think RGG studio is milking RGG because of greed but rather because they're afraid to let it go. But they must.

>>713367308
>>713367610
He's dead, Jim.

>>713367890
So were the rest of them.

>>713361000
trips of trutth

>>713360862 (OP)
>turn based slop
disgusting

>>713361000
trips of transgenderism

>>713366997
They say in Dead Souls it's a split timeline where Ryuji survived or some shit like that.

Nishiki should have gotten his own game
Kazama should have gotten his own game
Mine should have gotten his own game
Akiyama should have gotten his own game
Daigo should have gotten his own game
Tatsuya should have gotten a non-PSP game

>>713367992
Yeah, except Ryuji isn't coming back.

>>713364724
Are painted nails the definition of a badass now?

>>713368416
4 was pretty much akiyama's game though

>>713368440
Isn't coming back YET. It's not like the writers are sane or good.

>>713360862 (OP)
true

>>713360862 (OP)
i liked him 7 but i hated him in 8

>>713367718
>8 straight up says it's an alternate timeline
8 is the alternative timeline, so I don't care. Yakuza ends at 6 for me, everything after that is like Disney SW. They can claim it's canon but for me it never will be

>>713368416
Daigo Gaiden would have been kino. Same with Akiyama Gaiden.

>>713368416
Ichiban should have not gotten his own game

>>713368090
They don't. They handwave how Ryuji survived and then studied under the takoyaki guy and that's all they bring attention to. 8's the only game to actually address what it is. The way they address other games is Arase also being alive, the HLA, GBH, Kaoru's substories, Michiru's character development is after 4 took place, one minor character who idolized Kiryu because of previous games, Hayashi being alive after 2, and then Amon yapping about his grandpa and hating Kiryu because of previous games.

Dead Souls doesn't contradict any game but right now 8 says it didn't happen in their reality. It also doesn't really have anything that cements it as part of the mainline outside of Majima's shotgun in 0, GBH's training area in 5, and the prosthetics shop being in 5. It's not like 5 where an actual descendant of the Houzoin's meets with Shinada to fight for Victory Road, or Komaki teaching Kiryu his ancestor's and Musashi's moves by name.

>>713363119
Yeah kiryu fucking sucks. He was good enough in zero, still a bit of a messiah-complex and pointlessly masochistic in a way that comes off very contrived.
Then in Kiwami 1 I could not stand him. Even Majima was unrecognizable.

It's a shame they write videogames for mouth breathing retards

>>713360862 (OP)
it's actually 0, everyone got their eyes on the series after 0 came out

>>713368947
I thought this game wasnt playable on RPCS3

>>713368919
Shinada felt like someone who should've been in a substory for a Daigo story mode but he ended up being playable instead somehow

>>713369068
It's been playable for years, it just randomly crashes if you play for about two or more hours so you have to constantly save and back up the saves so they don't corrupt. I personally only had one crash in about eight hours of messing around with karaoke and taking screenshots/videos using my PS3 saves while guys who have actually only ever played it on RPCS3 complained about regular crashing but it was completely random when it did and the longer they played it in a single session the more it seemed to do it. Just make sure you use the settings on the wiki and then use the manual patch to fix the performance.

The actual unplayable games are 5, Ishin, 0, and K1 because the performance ranges from "Completely terrible" to "Selectively 30 FPS" worse than on an actual PS3 but Kenzan, 3, non-rain sections of 4, and Dead Souls all play pretty solid 30 at 4k internal.

>>713368947
Ok but consider that I have a vague recollection of it being true and it's not like anyone remembers the plot of that game anyway.

>>713369068
I beat it like 2 or 3 years ago on RPCS3.
That shit crashed left and right, made sewer runs a living hell.

>>713369504
You need a CPU with AVX512 to get good performance in rpcs3. This limits your choice to Ryzen 7000, 9000 and Intel 12th gen on a BIOS version that allows you to turn it on.

>>713369678
>it's not like anyone remembers the plot of that game anyway.
Gay man wanted to make a drug that made you live in ecstasy and have your mind filled with dopamine so you were always happy and a yakuza guy teamed up with him to get rich off the drug before becoming Saddler if I remember it right.
It was easily the most boring, barebones, and filler story they've ever written and it even extends to the substories. Ryuji's part is like a miracle it exists.

>>713369860
My 1070ti + 7700K ran RPCS3 pretty damn well
>Played Demon Souls at 60fps
>Played Drakengard 3 at 60fps
>Played Dead Souls
>Played AC4 and AC4A

>>713360862 (OP)
Ichiban Holdings and Dondoko Island are no Cabaret Club Czar but they're still peak, and Dragon Kart is good too.

For me, it's angry Saeko

pirate majima game > infinite wealth desu

>>713361000
>reddit: the video game

>>713367363
Literally kiryu

>>713371506
Not my Majima.

>>713371780
zero is the best game ofc but pirate yakuza was a fun spinoff game, funny how RGG made a better pirate game than Ubisoft did with skull and bones.

>>713371926
They were super confused why it was selling so well in the West, seemingly unaware people here are dying for a good pirate game after a ten year drought and being burned so many times. I'd bet a lot of people bought it without playing any other Yakuza game because of that

>>713372036
i'd like to see more of this stuff, like a game where Kiryu becomes a teacher, aka GTO

>>713369504
>>713369860
I played Ishin with the translation patch this year, Ryzen 5600. It was more stable and fluid than Dead Souls, zero crashes, stutters or saving issues. Only one visual bug in the scene where Mine pits Kiryu against Katsuragi. The sunlight is broken, making the scene look hideous as shit. Maybe it can be resolved with some settings, I just didn't bother because everything else worked fine.

>>713372128
Based on what Westerners want they should make a Bully clone starring Haruto in high school or something

>>713361123
I think Ichiban's problem is that they made him too sweet and saccharine. Even Kiryu was turning into too much if a good guy as the series went one and it wasn't really all that great either. The Judgment games actually had the atmosphere that you buy these games for, and it seems RGG got the message because Stranger than Heaven looks to be even more violent than the older Yakuza games.

>>713372696
Kiryu is a bulldog, Ichiban is a golden retriever

>>713373325
Where's shiva inu

>>713373453
Akiyama. Majima is a Chihuahua

>>713372696
Itchybum being a happy schizo had it's charm in 7, I didn't like it in 8 though, he seems too immature in it, especially with Saeko who he had nice heart-to-heart moments with in 7

>>713360862 (OP)
Not really. In japan 7 died in sales. Its thanks to that one why they're pushing to the western market

>>713361000
I'm so tired of all the new fags who raped this series thanks to zero. It's a good game, but I just don't care anymore.

>>713373902
Fitting

>>713372395
>Ishin with the translation patch this year
Damn you just made me check and there actually is an updated translation for Ishin

Kino, thanks anony

>>713377224
I'm waiting for Kenzan translation now, which might be coming later this year if everything goes well. It's made by a different team than Majdima's and they actually kicked out the previous sperg translator who knew Japanese, but couldn't word things in English.