when was the point you gave up on Yakuza games?

>>713575209 (OP)
Infinite Wealth when the like a brawler mod broke. It's stuck in turn based again and I'm not doing that

I haven't given up but I need a break after pirate yakuza.
Every time I think they are getting better with dragon engine combat they make it feel like shit in the next game

>>713575209 (OP)
When i played Yakuza 0 and i realized its a terrible game

>>713575209 (OP)
Never and no matter how much you shill against Japan I still won't play american, korean or chinese games.

Dragon Engine was the final blow.

yakuza was always about fucking around, the main gameplay has always been ass

>>713575209 (OP)
when they changed the name and genre of the franchise for whatever fucking reason

>>713575209 (OP)
Pirate Majima footage and price tag. Total jumping the shark moment right there.

>>713575942
>>713575942
>Pirate Majima

god I've never been less interested by a game in this franchise and I've been a fan since a few months before 4 was localized
the 1940s one looks interesting though

>>713575209 (OP)
Completely lost interest at 7

>>713576006
I thought I was getting japanese black flag
but what I got was so mediocre. I feel like I was false advertised to

>>713575209 (OP)
i still haven't beaten 5 (started with the ps2 ones i'm no 0fag)
just lemme plays Akiyama and Kiryu, they're the fun characters, but nooooooo

Anything after Yakuza 2 has no reason to exist.

>>713575209 (OP)
When I played 0 and realized the franchise is shit propped up only by the early 2000s "japan is so weird!" fascination fat americans had.
>t-the combat...
It's shit. Stilted as fuck, moves are flashy yet immensely repetitive
>t-the serious story....
Boring drama with no stakes or satisfying resolution, endlessly sabotaged with the retarded nonsense "Kiryu never killed anyone!!" devs like to parrot

>>713575916
changed genre? from what to what

>>713576541
Kart racing to rage bait mountain climbing sim.

>>713575209 (OP)
I feel like the series is dealing with the Saint's Row issue now where the goofy-serious scale has tipped way too far in the direction of goofy

>>713576541
from a brawler to turn-based
don't give me that bullshit about there still being brawler games because they're still desperately trying to put the turn-based bullshit in the forefront

trying to appeal to the west always kills franchises
just look at monster hunter - wilds is fucking dogshit

>>713575209 (OP)
>when was the point you gave up on Yakuza games?
When Yakuza 7 revealed why Ichiban was shot in the prologue. There is only so much retardation I can take.

>>713576740
That's not even the worst of it. The target audience changed from grown up men tired of tendie shit to women and zoomers, with emphasis on women. They're making more money off selling merch to fujos, it doesn't even matter if anyone apart from streamers actually plays these games.

>>713576740
The people who want more serious stuff overall, are probably getting it with Stranger Than Heaven.

>>713576740
the difference is, SR was always tongue in cheek goofy and yakuza has 50 games

>>713575209 (OP)
3
only yakuza 1 and 2 (ps2) exist
the rest is secondary trash

>>713575209 (OP)
Why does RGG studios insist on bring Kiryu's corpse out of retirement but never giving him a happy ending, or even an ending for that matter?

>>713575209 (OP)
I don't know. I tried Judgment and OG 2 last year, and OG Ishin this year, but dropped all of them pretty early on. Even the normal brawler entries just don't hook me in anymore.

>>713575209 (OP)
7
Not interested in turn based RGG

>>713576935
It's written by Takeuchi, who came from a background of writing mobile social games for women. It has retarded shit like food and drink survival meters. It has a hapa protag born before hapas were even a thing, purely for the sake of western pandering. It copies some of the most pretentious movies and directors like Jarmusch. It's historically inaccurate, by 1943 the whole country was a year into constant blackouts and many cities were bombed to shit by amerimutts.

>>713575209 (OP)
Spoil the vid for me, I don't want to watch it. can't stand esl growling, even if on purpose.

>>713576382
Nah 0 is fun. You think that combat was bad, try Judgement lol

>>713576941
Maybe play the first 2 SR games before you talk, stalker child. Enjoy prison.

>>713577301
You are forgetting Snoop Dogg is somehow involved in the fouding of the Tojo clan. It's really getting way too crazy

I played Yakuza 0 because people kept insisting "Bro it's just Shenmue but modern and better!" And its nothing like Shenmue. Its more like a Streets of Rage RPG. With that said, there are way too many Yakuza games in the span of time that the series has been out. And for some reason Sega has been milking their IPs super fucking hard over the past 7 years or so. So they just keep making more and more Yakuza or Monkey Ball or Sonic and my mindset is usually "another one? I haven't even started the previous one".

With that said I think the series is really underrated. The visuals are also really good and it's a shame more games don't look like Yakuza but instead like generic unreal engine garbage.

>>713575209 (OP)
i've played yakuza zero through yakuza seven to completion with relatively short breaks between them and, man... i could not get into Judgement. i think i played it for 2 and a half hours and i started to feel the burnout hit me haaard.

>>713575209 (OP)
Why is pumping out a slop of turd's every year ok when Japan does it?

When they started mingling with e-celebs

>>713577726
judgement is a good game but the filler in it is really bad
Once you get to the conspiracy shit the story really picks up

>>713577612
If you go all the way back to PS2 games, they're a series of time capsules. You can see the country changing almost year on year, and I don't mean the obvious things like architecture or shops moving around. It's a gradual sanitization of public entertainment. You can also see the economy changing, bouncing back from the lost decades just to start silently falling apart, this time hiding things like homelessness in new, creative ways.

>>713575209 (OP)
I gave up when they made majima more into an annoying house wife rather than a component rival.

>>713575916
It was always called Like a dragon.

>>713578343
yes, now its called like a dragon like a dragon

>>713577612
kek shenmue is one of the worst games r3ver created and the only reason people played it was cause there was nothing else to play on dreamcast

>>713578343
in japan yeah but it was called yakuza in the west you disingenuous fuck

>>713579625
I thought /v/ hated localization

Still playing them
Stranger Than Heaven looks kino too

>>713578269
So you didn't even play the first game?

>>713575916
this

>>713580081
no. i waited 50 years for yakuza 5.

>>713580081
It would be like changing Mega Man or Resident Evil back to their original names. You already spent years building your brand with that name in the west and basically kneecap yourself for no real reason. Even then they're still localizing the names as "Infinite Wealth" is not 8's name or even subtitle in Japan (Because it doesn't have one), "Yakuza: Like a Dragon" misses both the 7 and the subtitle in it, "Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name" misses the entire "7 Gaiden" part of it which is fairly important for the name, and "Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii" is an actual bastardization of a perfectly good title in "Like a Dragon 8 Gaiden: Pirates in Hawaii". So good in fact the western version still has "Pirates in Hawaii" on the pause screen.

>>713575209 (OP)
if i'm playing a game called Yakuza I expect Yakuzers doing Yakuzer shit
series seems to have lost it's edge over the years even RGG knows that considering they are making Project Century

>>713575209 (OP)
I played 0-6 and saw my brother play 7 and while I was intrigued, the amount of fights and slow traversal across the city to do sidequests seemed really REALLY tedious.

>>713575209 (OP)
After beating Y7. Ichi sucks

>>713576541
from brawler to third person shooter

>>713575916
>FF and other classical turn based jrpgs turn into shitty action games
>Yakuza turns into a shitty turn based jrpg
There's some fucky monkey pawing goin on.

>>713575209 (OP)
After 2 for the PS2 as they made it seem like the finale.
But I returned for 0 as well.

>>713575209 (OP)
Infinite Wealth being as dogshit and reddit as it was was the tipping point, but when I saw the trailer for the pirate game was the exact moment that I decided to consider the studio dead or at least creatively bankrupt.
>>713577598
It's all so tiresome. Yokoyama raped RGG Studio into the ground

>leaving Japan

what the fuck

Why aren't you niggers playing OG Ishin right now?

RETVRN to ROOTS

>>713575209 (OP)
It just became too goofy. The last good game was Lost Judgment.

>>713575209 (OP)
Kino Senor

>>713587717
Dead Souls is unironically the most fun I had with the series followed by 5. Reminder that you can emulate it on PC if you haven't played it yet.

>>713575209 (OP)
Yakuza 0, I got a bit of that charm back with the Ichiban games though.

What the fuck Kashiwagi is alive in 7?

>>713601260
That's not even the most egregious retcon.

>>713575209 (OP)
i was a fan before it got popular. played the PS2 version with the dodgy dub. played and completed up to 4, started 5 but got bored right away.

recently completed 7 after a long break but yeah i think i'm done now

i played kiwami 1 and 2, i thought kiwami 2 had a good ending and really didnt see the point in playing another 10 of these games

they aren't very good desu, the combat is usually just kind of frustrating and not fun and the writing is awful for 90% of the story.

>>713575209 (OP)
I still play them but I really didn't like Infinite Wealth.
The pirates game was fun though.

>>713601865
Richardson was in heat mode when he hit the ground so he was left with one HP and no heat gauge.

He then found a stamina spark on the ground under Mine's corpse

>>713575209 (OP)
Decided too stop after 5 and waited for the series to redeem itself. The series just turned into a fucking parody of itself after 6. Judgement was close in saving the series but lost the plot (heh) with Lost Judgement.

>>713575209 (OP)
I have never played one, never will.

>>713575786
I hate how they just abandoned the 3-5 engine by 6.
It was very snappy, looked like your usual PS3 game but had nice clarity to the visuals, worked well enough for all the genre mishmash they did in 5, and also was overall geeat for non-yakuza brawlers (the FOTNS game) and they changed it for a shitty floaty blur-ridden mess because... uhhhh, ragdolls?
Jesus i fucking hate dragon engine.

>>713578913
Sorry you missed peak, retard.

Was so turned off after 7, i went and played Kurohyou 1 and 2. What the fuck happened with this series?

>713602671
im sure you think people will be impressed

>>713602671
I am impressed.

>>713602557
>Mine's corpse
He hit a rubber parked car and will be back as a substory in the next installment

I didn't, just finished 4 but man, has the writing dropped the ball
It was never high brow or intellectual, but it was fun to be there for the ride, to see shady characters scheming and shirtless guys beating the shit out of eachother on the roof of a skyscraper
Every cutscene in 4 had one or multiple twists that go over eachother it feels like a ping pong match
Also suddenly everyone is retarded. Sure, let's leave 100 bil in cash unlocked. Sure, let's leave a loaded gun next to a bad guy we just defeated. TWICE. Sure, let's give the benefit of doubt to the people that spent their entire life working as double agents. Everyone is a double agent now
Please tell me that 5 and 6 is at least a notch above

>>713603756
Play 5, it was written by the best writer of ALL TIME

>>713575209 (OP)
Its just a subpar crime thriller with a lot of cheesy comedy and boring ass repetitive filler gameplay. And dont even get me started on cancer baby mechanic QTE's.

>>713575209 (OP)
japs can't write.

>>713603845
He was on the writing team for all of the games after 3

I played every RGG game in the span of 3-4 months this year and not only have I not given up on the series, Im dying for their next game

When I saw they put streamers in the ishin remaster
I had a problem with them catering to the normalfag audience after 0 but that was the point that basically cemented the fact the series is no longer for gamers

>>713605857
and that's why every single game after is kino

>>713575209 (OP)
5 was a slog. [/spoiler]Kiryu should have died in 6

>>713575209 (OP)
when it became turn based
what the fuck they were thinking?

>>713575209 (OP)
ive been slowly playing all of them in order, so I got 5 next then 6 then like a dragon, but I might play the ps2 1 and 2 before like a dragon, I also will replay dead souls (my favorite)

>>713575209 (OP)
Plot-wise, only 1, 2 and 0 are decent, but the characters, interaction and general tone make up for it well enough that all up to 7 have been enjoyable.
Dunno about the rest because they still have denuvo and I ain't paying no matter how good a game is.

>>713576740
its also gone gay

>>713575209 (OP)
After it was all but confirmed they're never making another Judgement and even if they were no Nagoshi would mean it would turn into pure goofyslop like the mainline games instead of staying neo-noir detective kino