>muh sawa-sensei
Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

Come up with a counter argument then, you can't.

>>715128837 (OP)
JITSUWA anooooooooooooooooooo yagami-san, you've been spending a long time around the dance club girls and i have heard strange noises at night while you're there.

Judgement was so fucking amazing, why was lost so fucking garbage.

>>715128948
Sawa-sensei was a horrible piece of shit who:
1) Failed to stop the bullying after the student told her, and only her about it.
2) Failed to tell the truth in the trial because she is a fucking coward.
3) Still had no problems in working at the same fucking school 4 years after the fact, even though she knows how fucked that whole thing was.
4) Failed to stop bullying in her own fucking class and Yagami has to save the day.
5) Had no problems about helping the bully Mikoshiba learn the job.

She can burn in hell.

>>715129254
god she's cute

>>715129254
>>715128837 (OP)
Lost Judgment is peak Male fantasy

>>715128837 (OP)
>>715129793

>>715131472
h-hot

>>715129254
They reused her geometry for Ran lmaooo, also she shared her skin with the dance team chick (the one that came to detective club)

Kuwana was a rabbid dog, Yagami did more for the cause in one day than him an entire life

>>715129793
With that logic every student in that class also deserved to die.

Sawa-sensei...

>have chemistry
>Nothing happens between them

>>715141893
You don't understand, they're setting up an epic story 5 games down the line...

Remember that serial killer that killed 7 people? He was a good friend

Sex with the parkour twink

>school stories are full of "who wrote this shit" moments
>look up
>it's the guy who wrote Kaito Files
Now it all makes sense, all that guy can do is copy anime tropes or in the case of Kaito Files copy the story of Yakuza 1

>>715140921
nta but lying in court to cover up bullying is a lot worse than just ignoring bullying

Why can't we have good boss fights in J? Just because it's a detective series, the bosses have to suck ass? I don't see the logic

>>715128837 (OP)
Were these games any good? I never got around to them as there were too many Yakuza titles already.

>>715143492
I love them.

>>715143343
They're not bad boss fights, they just lack aura

>>715143492
Better than any mainline except 0.

>>715143343
The fights in J shit all over basically every mainline fight though?

Is Lost Judgment worth playing? I despised the trailing missions, but general themes and writing were surprisingly fresh.

>>715143492
The worst thing about Judgment is Kim constantly calling you about the Keihin Gang. Lost Judgement is more of the same but with high school stuff.

>>715144047
You're in luck because Lost Judgment has one trailing mission and it's the first thing you do as a movement tutorial for 2 minutes.

>>715143343
that's a very bad bait even picrel had an epic theme and action sequences, the hospital long fight was also kino. Darkness and Destination are unmatched

>>715144047
good news: barely any trailling if not at all and combat got refined (crane is now actually useful)
bad news: the story is inferior and the fourth style is an op dlc

>>715143343
The Kuwana fights are kino, although admittedly a good 60% of that is because of the god-tier music.

>>715144371
I liked the action sequences because for once the boss was evenly matched with you, even Mine in 3 didn't have this much offensive on the MC

>>715144371
They're alright but the final one just doesn't go far enough. Compare it to the last fight of 7G and it feels like a wet fart in the wind

>shibaraku yasundete

>>715144296
>dlc
The boxing one? I bought the default PC version and it was included

>>715144523
I’ll agree that the final fight could have used at least one more phase, but the actual final boss theme is the best final boss theme in the franchise and possibly one of the best of all time. They did NOT need to go that hard for the final boss theme of a detective game.

So ummm why didn't we try to convict the serial killer
>we had no evidence
We made no fucking attempts to collect evidence

so, third part never ever? that would be fucking sad

>>715145017
Feels like Stranger of Paradise is going to fill the same niche now. They can't handle J in addition to that and they're not dropping Gaiden because those turds are made in 2 weeks and sell pretty well

>>715128837 (OP)
>oh cool a detective game
>it's just yakuza
fuck this shit

>>715128837 (OP)
He's right though. Everyone gets mad about it because Kuwana is too likeable but even he can't give a good retort because he knows Yagami is right. And they're not arguing about the methods because everyone involved was already way past that point, what's being argued is to stop going even further and dragging more people like Kusumoto into the revenge blender.

>>715145239
Not really because Yagami also had unintended collateral damage before. This is why he's seething but it's also why he looks like a hypocrite as he's seething. If they're guilty because of what happened to Sawa he's guilty of that other hoe's death in J1 and should shut the fuck up

>>715145334
How is he a hypocrite when that's literally the reason why he's so up-in-arms about it
He's probably more ticked off because Kuwana keeps brushing it off compared to his own reaction to that girl's death in the first game, which he made up for by blowing the lid off of the whole case

>>715145571
Yeah I know it's why he's up in arms. But he brought up Sawa way too many times and was more critical of the people involved in that than he was ever critical of himself in J1. At some point he crossed the line into looking like a hypocrite. At least from my point of view

>>715145334
Yagami was responsible for unintended collateral damage before, that's partly why he is so insistant on reminding people about Sawa. All of the others, even his own friends, are satisfied by the idea of dropping the whole thing and letting Kuwana get away with it because his crime is easy to justify. It is pleasing to see a guy take the law into his own hands and dispense some hard justice against some pieces of shit who would go unpunished otherwise, so they are making themselves ignore and forget the fact that it also got an innocent school teacher killed. Yagami keeps reminding them about it because it's the one thing that makes Kuwana's whole argument fall apart and they are conveniently trying to sweep under the rug.

>>715145795
Yeah it doesn't really come off to me that way. Sure he lost his way after the girl died but when the opportunity came, he made good use of it to correct what he did wrong in the past by uncovering the whole conspiracy. That's basically what he did too in LJ for Sawa, just as an outsider, and his motivation for both these scenarios is very consistent to his character. Sure he's sticking his nose where it doesn't belong in the context of the whole bully saga the plot revolves around but he's a goddamn detective, that's literally his job.

>>715145239
>stop going even further and dragging more people like Kusumoto into the revenge blender
Well Kuwana offer his service and she accept, same like Ehara. If the victim parents trust the justice system then Kuwana would never did all this shit, that happens because japan justice system is dogshit. I'm in Kuwana dindu' nuffin side because Yagami final argument is retarded (believing that the justice system will change for good lmaooo never gonna happen you fool)

>>715128837 (OP)
Does the word eyes just sound cool to the Japanese? Judge eyes, the whole beautiful eyes thing

>>715148304
I mean the story was literally about eyes in that one so it kinda worked

They should've just said that Kuwana dindu nuffin in all 7 of the killings and he just encouraged parents and covered up their crimes just like in the 2 crimes we were shown. The story jerks him off too much for him to actually be a killer. If he's supposed to be Yagami's rival with a rival rogue sense of justice it's better if he's not actually a killer

>>715129254
>Yagami-san, let's dance like nobody's watching...

>>715150274
She ugly but she does have a nice tummy

>>715150274
The whole game was an ageing actor pulling a "How are we doing fellow kids" with skateboards and everything

>>715150526
Yeah and it was based at least the School Stories portion.

>>715145017
Just make a spinoff with Amasawa and Itokura as detectives.

>>715150526
>actor is 52
>face scan looks about 45
>character is actually 38
>acts like he's 16
sad

>>715150685
>he actually prefers school stories to main plot
stop watching anime NOW

What did we think of his standalone

>>715150815
The main plot is retarded nonsense only saved by Big Daimsu Akutsu. School Stories had a more sensible plot and all the great characters.

>>715150935
>lost love resurfaces years later
>MC is still into her
>MC babysits her kid the entire game
>her husband is the villain
Did they not play Yakuza 1 when they wrote this? Because it's literally the same fucking story

>>715150935
deep plot for a small boobs- i mean story

>>715143492
Judgement is janky but has better story. Lost has way better gameplay, graphics but the story is worse. Over all these games ate better than 99% of Yakuza games, which is why is a strange seeing them flop this hard. Like how can you care about Yakuza at all but not even know these games exist? Fucking hate fake fans.

>>715128837 (OP)
>Yagami goes from a moral outsider who isn't afraid to break the law to a complete moralfag who lectures everybody and joins a motorcycle gang just to disband it
>Don't skate on the path even for one second, it's against the law
>Cast of characters from Judgment largely ignored, Kaito disappears from the plot, Higashi does nothing, Mafuyu does nothing
>Main plot mystery reveals itself completely halfway through the game
>Side content is shit, custom robo club, bike racing, skateboarding all worse than random PS1 games based on the same thing
>Dog, drone and disguises are useless
>Constant padding where you chase Soma around the map but he isn't there or is and escapes
>Never see Soma go to jail or learn what happened to him
>Kuwana the serial killer is let go because he'll be killed if arrested, even though he would receive the death penalty anyway
Lost Judgment is one of the worst games in the series.

thoughts on Judg3 3y3s?

>>715151306
>complete moralfag
>lets a serial killer go, doesn't even tell him off for his serial killings, just keeps babbling about his waifu
LJ was morally gray as fuck

>>715129793
>hits pipe
I know kids got it rough these days, 'specially all the ones who cant take it kill themselves (LMAO)
>takes a fat drag
But, y'know, standing up for yerself and protecting overs from just aint right, bullies deserve to live just as much as others
>downs a beer
*burp* I mean, y'know sometimes you just gotta take the L and put up with it. If your ass is getting bullied, then you probably deserve it haha
>throws the beer bottle down, smashing it
Fuckin score. I mean, killing bullies just aint right, lucky I'm here to put a stop to that. If you kill a bully, you're on my shitlist for life
>scratches ass
Now, who got that upskirt video of Sawa-sensei's lying around?

>>715151492
That's just bad writing. Yagami is mr don't break the law now, he doesn't even pick locks no more.

I'm trying to get into the Yakuza series but I have some questions
Do you guys just play all the same minigames each game or do they differ?
How jarring is going from kiwami 2 to 3?

>>715151679
He does though, like right there in the tutorial mission

>>715151734
K2 to 3 isn't very different from K1 to K2. K1 is also a PS3 game you know. So is 0. Yeah the minigames change, usually even if they repeat the mechanics change a bit.

>>715151734
Gambling games are often the same but they are also good or early sources of cash especially combined with cheat items.

>>715151734
Pick games to skip because you'll never catch up without getting burnt out.

>>715129254
Her autism is at 9000.

Best Girl.

>>715152460
Which ones should I skip?
I bought 0, 1, 2 and like a dragon
>>715152084
>>715152365
Cool, I figured the only minigames were like mahjong

>>715151314
Never ever now that Nagoshi is gone

>>715152460
>catch up?
who said anything about catching up? let the guy play the games at his own pace. i haven't even played the last 3 games. it's fine to be behind taking your time. there's so much stuff to play anyway.

>>715153527
>Which ones should I skip?
none, just play the ones you feel like playing, in order if possible.

>>715153527
I guess 3 and 4 are slightly skippable but 5 and 6 are key to finishing Kiryu's story.

>>715153709
3 is incredibly important for Kiryu's story

>>715129793
Ok incel

Fuck you I thought it was fun

>>715153746
Not really, you already know he cares about those kids whether you play 3 or not. He repeats it 10 times in every game. And other that nothing important happens.
4 introduces Akiyama and Saejima but 5 reintroduces them just fine. Saejima does the same arc twice basically, and Akiyama doesn't even have an arc, he just fucks around in both games

>>715153813
see
>>715153774

>>715153527
I'd skip 3, 5, Dead Souls, Lost Judgment and the PSP games personally.
They have some great moments but nobody can stomach that many games.

>>715154032
What about the Meiji restoration game?

>>715154032
>Lost Judgment
play it for the combat, the best of the entire series.

>>715153813

Fun:
Drone Racing
Robot Wars
Skateboarding
Boxing
Dancing

Shit:
Dice & Cube
Bike racing
Girl's Bite
Claw toy

>>715154059
nta but easiest skip, they're bad and non-canon
also anyone skipping 5 is retarded because the game has like 3 unique cities in it, never repeated again

This game's writing is such a downgrade from the first game. Wasn't shocked to find out it shares a writer with that trash fire Yakuza 8.

>>715154158
Nah main story was great except for the sawawank. Every twist was fun and I personally didn't see them coming.
8 story was retarded garbage however

>>715154145
Only skateboard races were fun, the score challenges were gay. Also homo of the dead was great

>>715154145
Agreed with this list 100%. Death Race is probably my most hated minigame in the entire franchise while boxing and robots were probably some of my favorites

>>715154245
Is Infinite Wealth even worth playing ?

>>715154145
>Fun
Dancing
>Shit
The rest

>>715154539
For the gameplay, which is improved over 7.

>>715143492
You get to play as the Japanese equivalent to Justin Timberlake

>>715153527
Skip
>kenzan
>ishin
>dead souls
>psp games
>3 maybe
>pirate gaiden idk
8
Do NOT skip 4/5, two of the last masculine stories in the franchise

>>715154539
It's mainline so you WILL play it gaijin
Honestly the game is still fun, the substories are good, the gameplay is addictive. But the story is embarrassingly bad, and somehow the location looks uglier than Yokohama without being any bigger

>>715143343
Nigger Judgement bosses mog the entirety of 6, Kiwami 2 and LaD. The one in particular is probably one of the best designed bosses in all the series.

Emi was a vile piece of shit cunt and I wish her death had been more painful. Fuck that disgusting murderous snake bitch whore forever.

>>715154881
6 and LaD maybe, not like they're known for their bosses. No way is anyone in J mogging Ryuji though

>It's a 'dress Saori up like a slut' episode
Are these supposed to be funny or arousing?

>>715154539
Yes, the story is cringekino featuring horrible voice acting, VTubers, and rubber cancer.

>>715150526
That's the best part.
Lost Judgment is the closesy we will ever get to a GTO game.

>>715156005
just a joke haha
very funny

>>715156446
Except GTO was funny and here the school drama is literally just some shitty school drama

>it's a "lets show the corpse" episode
Are these flashbacks supposed to be arousing or is this just me?

>stranger of paradise exists
>stranger than paradise exists
>let's name our game stranger than heaven even though it's neither strange nor features heaven
there's a writing crisis in RGG

>>715154245
Kaito siding with bully killer shit was retarded and the dialogue is way worse. So much needless exposition and repetitive yapping.

>>715158376
>So much needless exposition and repetitive yapping.
That's true for both J games. They repeat every explanation 3-4 times for the retards in the room. I think it's for the people who come back to the game after dropping it for a bit, to catch them up

>>715150935
It should've been 10 bucks at best

>>715140921
Yes, correct. Which is what they nearly did until Yagummi started to derail that plan.

>>715158550
Yeah, but it feels worse in LJ. I played them back to back.

at least the story was better than pic.

>>715143343
Final boss of the first game is basically the best fight in the series

>>715128837 (OP)
Ugh Tak you're back

>>715150935
Very good. I hope he lives happily ever after with his family.

>>715150935
'twas kino

>>715128837 (OP)
when the FUCK is denovo coming off of the last 3 years of yakuza games!??! i wanna play J, JL, IW, Ishin, and Kiyru's game!!

>>715163293
lel parasite

>>715163293
Get a job

>>715145017
>third part
Дoбpoe yтpo caap

>>715163418
yes
>>715163714
i refuse to give SEGA my money

>>715164227
Then why even bother with their games? Go play your ubislop?

>>715164227
>I like those games but not enough to finance them even on sales or keysites
>WTF IT TRIES TO APPEAL TO NORMIES REEEE

>>715162796
>>715162843
Did you guys not notice that it's the same story as yakuza 1 or something? How am I supposed to take that story seriously when it's copypasted

>>715163293
I waited for a while myself but they've been pretty cheap recently, well worth it for J1-2, 8 and sort of worth it for 7G. Maybe not for Ishin and Pirate

>>715164747
see >>715151086

Since this is a Yakuza thread, tell me
>favorite character
>favorite game
>favorie minigame
>favorite OST

>>715164969
Jackie Chan
MGS2
Virtua Fighter 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_WXGodtnw

>>715164969
Sawashiro
4
Hostess club
Deadly Strugle

>>715128837 (OP)
Maybe Yagami has a point...

>>715165854
???

>>715142909
Wait, all the school stories were written by a single guy? Given how some had tons of content and others were barely blips of a sidestory not to mention inconsistent story depth, I thought each school club story was written by a different person.

Yakuza 2 is pretty good. It's better than 1, and I think the gameplay might be better than 3.

>>715144816

>Reiko, you killed a man that physically assaulted your son and drove him to attempt suicide; that is wrong and you should turn yourself in.
>Ehara, I combed all of Yokohama to find evidence you killed Mikoshiba; that was wrong and you should go to jail.
>Kuwana, you orchestrated the kidnapping, torture, and deaths of several ex-bullies across the country and blackmailed dozens of civilians into doing your criminal bidding. But since I can’t prove the murders and I’m not even going to try despite being a turbo autist savant for finding evidence for obscure cases and even though I have proof that you blackmailed people, you’re free to go. Oh yeah you bombed a museum in Yokohama doing millions of dollars in damage but that’s technically not a crime. Okay maybe it is but I’m not going to pursue it.

>>715150526

>>715128837 (OP)
This game was really boring... The investigations were a chore.

>>715166906
He went Ichiban mode and decided to reform the serial killer somehow

>>715167068
your boring and your mom is a chore
i mean a whore

>>715150935
very good
no, I would say true kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqT06G7cICM&list=RDVqT06G7cICM&start_radio=1

>>715150935
It shouldn’t be called ‘Kaito Files’, it should be called ‘Everybody Loves Mikiko’ because everyone fucking loves Mikiko.

>>715154145
Death Race was such shit and I'm convinced no one playtested it, they just threw it together and launched it. I think it's funny that there's a biker gang that shoots fireworks out of missile launchers, a gang that blares ear burst noises, and a guy who when he gets bored does 360 donuts while holding down the trigger of his machine gun and Yagami's like, 'ah boys will be boys'

>>715128837 (OP)
>Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

>>715167068
>The investigations were a chore.

>>715154145
I appreciate the variety but most minigames weren't that good
I liked boxing dancing and the robots. Everything else was most bloat, bring back bowling

>>715150935
>beast and brawler in dragon engine
kinooooo

>>715162391

>>715156005
>>715156454
>Spend time dressing up Saori in both games
Did we really need to do this twice?

You retards LOVE the original's story, where Yagami openly admits he is never getting over Emi being murdered because he let Okubo free. And you're surprised when someone he had the power to save as a detective, which at the end of Judgment says is his true calling, dies on him he lets that consume him? Yagami's entire fucking thing is that no "justice" is worth more than a human life.
You fags have no media literacy.

>>715169519
Saori is the best girl in the series, Yakuza included, so yes.

>>715155205
From a gameplay standpoint K2 Ryuji is fucking awful

>Find Soma!
>...he escaped
>Find Kuwana!
>...he escaped
>Find Soma!
>...he escaped
>Find Kuwana!
>...he escaped

>>715169748
see yagami is a detective not a jailor

>>715169545
Its just a very repetitive plot point.
it makes yagami look borderline childish when he's confronted with a righteous vigilante hitman who has done more good for the world than bad

>>715169545
>Yagami's entire fucking thing is that no "justice" is worth more than a human life
Which explains why he doesn't even look into the other 5 murders right

>>715169615
It's angry looking Saeko for me

>>715128837 (OP)
I see judgement is still on sales beyond the main steam event.
I liked Yakuza 0 but dropped Kiwami halfway through, haven't played any other yakuza. Is the main fighting solid or does it revolves around meme minigames? What's the movie game ratio compared to total playtime?

>>715128837 (OP)
look I'm not saying she deserved it, BUUUUT she kinda had it coming

>>715128837 (OP)
I don't get why people get so upset over him bringing up Sawa as often as he does. It's relevant throughout and it didn't even feel like it was done to an obnoxious degree. It wasn't like 'muh yume' being brought up every other scene in Yakuza 5 or anything.

>>715169748
>beat Soma's ass during gameplay
>cutscene shows him beating Yagami's ass

>>715172027
She lied in court, she should've confessed and went to prison. Where was your sense of justice with her, Yagami you little simp shit? If she confessed she'd be alive.

>>715169615
>>715171492
i present to you, angry Saori scolding yagami

>>715171009
Yagami was painted as a moralfag (except when it comes to dating multiple women at the same time lol) since his first game. He also brings up Emi more and more from the midpoint of the game to the end.
>>715171175
Dunno what you're talking about. RK and Kuwana are the murders and Yagami brings them to justice at the end. And the point of investigations is to ultimately try and determine who killed the dead person, which Yagami already knows who did.

>>715128837 (OP)
Rate my Saori's glow up

>>715172252
>brings them to justice at the end
He literally lets Kuwana go. No, figuring out whodunit isn't the same as bringing them to justice. He made no attempts to actually pin any crimes on Kuwana, literally didn't try once.

>>715128837 (OP)
I'm playing this game and this nigga is one head taller than everyone, he makes kiryu look like a manlet

>>715172505
He's canonically 6'1. That makes you a giant in Japan.

>>715172169
Yagami forgot to switch to Snake in the cutscene

>>715142905
>has gigachads like yagami and kaito protect her
>doesnt care
>starts drooling over the kpop bait faggot who barely does anything instead
what is wrong with her?

>>715129254
I liked rat faced, betraying Itokura

>>715173028
Don't worry he's made for me not her

Why were none of the horny high school girls trying to fuck Yagami?

>>715174289
he only appeals to hags

>>715140921
Correct.
Kuwana was right and every one of those fuckheads should have died.

>>715156005
>>715156454

>>715174771
you ruined her

>>715150935
I wish I had the natty of the doctor.

>>715174289
personally i thought it was refreshing that for once a japanese game depicted high school girls without immediately being weird as fuck about it.

>>715174289
Yagami only likes legal jailbait. Not interested in losing his license over being busted

>>715150935
it's still funny to me how Kaito knows how to do the Kinniku Buster

>>715172261
cute/10

>>715174289
The detective chick obviously masturbates furiously thinking about him

>>715128837 (OP)
>muh rule of law
I'm glad Kuwana was able to escape KEKgami's gay sense of righteousness

>Arakawa's 3K plan is a huge deal that enventually kills the Tojo clan and the Omi Alliance
>no one mentions it in Judgment
huh?

>>715176446
It gets mentioned in LJ

>>715175856

>>715128837 (OP)
Literally a meme argument, he's right.

>>715128837 (OP)
Putting face-scans in Yakuza was a MISTAKE

>>715129285
Kazuki soma enters the chat

What's the actual worse Yakuza game?

>>715172169
Shut up Kiryu, you're now voiced by a venezuelan chink, the lowest form of life on earth.

>>715177313

>Redditors hate Yagami because he dates younger women
Why do they care so much?

>>715177381
Nobody uses the dubs except retards.

>>715177494
They are just jealous because Yagami gets all the cute girls

And the award for prettiest girl in all Yakuza and spinoffs go to.......

>>715179082
not even close

Judgement had the kino story
Lost Judgement had the kino gameplay

>>715179082
Hag

>>715177376
Easy answer is 3. But I saw some autist's video recently where he claims Yakuza 3 actually has a lot of combo depth and is very fun to play around with because how wall bouncing and bounding and back combos work. But if you aren't that autistic about combat, you'll more than likely find it annoying enemies block so much and you're forced to grab a bunch.
Other obvious answers are 4 and 5. Nobody likes Yasuko very much and think 4 pretty much kills Saejima's entire character in the very game it introduces it. But maybe people like Akiyama too much care.
5 is too long and convoluted, but I will say I think this game's Amon fight is the most fun set of bosses I've fought against in this series and frankly found it a little weird you guys wanted to discuss boss fights; to me they're not really all that great since in the Kiryu games I mostly just Tiger Dropped them and in Judgment 1 Legend I was constantly in EX Heat to avoid damage. Could be I'm just a shitter, though.
Another candidate is probably Yakuza Kiwami - the story is pretty weak because we don't have enough time to care about Nishiki or Yumi, Nishiki is helped if you play 0 I guess, and the Majima everywhere system can quickly become obnoxious.

>>715177434
Look how they massacred our girl

>>715179082
I like how the Kaito DLC had its final boss, then a "final" boss after that.
If a part 3 ever did happen, I'd be legit worried they'd undo it all and be like "uhh, they split up lol!", or not even mention her.

>>715179082
I played all the games and I have no idea who this is. Is this the presidents daughter in gaiden?

>>715180682
kaito's hag waifu

>>715180780
That's the one thing I didnt play

>>715180982
u should play it

>>715179939
I think Kiwami is a little underrated and kind of suffers from 0 not being a great prequel.

>>715164969
>favorite character
Kiryu, more specifically, from Y6
>favorite game
Lost Judgment for mainline, Kurohyou 2 for spin offs
>favorite minigame
Taxi from Y5 (the actual taxi sections, not the racing ones)
>favorite OST
Shishido tracks (but if I had to pick between the two, it would be Fleeting Dream)

>>715177376
it will vary from person to person

me, personally, it has to be K2, not just from the fact that it somehow made the mechanics of 6 even worse, making those go from mildly annoying to utterly infuriating, but also because it is just completely inferior to OG 2. It fails as a standalone game, fails as a spiritual sequel to 6 and completely fumbles as a remake of what I consider to be a game that's in the top 5 of best PS2 games of all time

>>715177376
The Ishin remake by a mile.

Should I try Yakuza: Like a Tranny? It looks like cringe.

>>715184436
If your attitude is that going in, then no.

>>715184436
what this anon said >>715185642
if you're the kind of guy that thinks those really emotional anime about friendship are insufferable, then you won't like Y7. The gameplay is below average, the side content as well. The story is the only saving grace, but since it seems like you'll hate,might as well move on to something else

>>715185991
I think the gameplay is far below average. The RPG elements were inecusably barebones twenty years ago.

>>715129254
It annoys me to no end that the conversation busts have no Anti-aliasing. What were they thinking?

>>715186305
They said "Let's take Dragon Quest (1986) and apply it's mechanics to our beat-em-up series! As a joke!" and they stuck with it.

Anons, can you pick up this rare figure for me?

>>715186507
>the conversation busts have no Anti-aliasing.
are you that same anon that spent days asking for solutions regarding this? If you are, why are you still complaining about it? It's about time you moved on

>>715145224
This. I expect the same of Project Century, a survival brawler set in 1940s Japan sounds awesome, but you just know it's going to be identical to the Yakuza series in every way. RGG is a one trick pony.

>>715186812
>are you that same anon that spent days asking for solutions regarding this?
No idea what you're talking about. I haven't played this game in many years and just saw the image and it reminded me of how ugly and offputting it was. Also annoyed me how they used these JRPG style conversation screens instead of doing actual cutscenes like they used to.

>>715186958
>No idea what you're talking about.
It fucking is you. Kill yourself you fucking no life faggot.

>>715186752
chotto mate, kora

you didn't think you could just take this ultra rare figure from me, The Red King, of The 5 Ultra Scalpers, did you?

heh, I was once like you, walking up to a pawn shop thinking that I could just buy cute anime figures and walk away back to my happy life...

...but there's no such thing. The former The 4 Ultra Scalpers were my teachers, showing me the utter futility of feeding a collection just to stare at it. They showed me that, in order to get ahead in life, I had to scalp cute anime figures from under the noses of all otaku.

IT'S SCALP OR BE SCALPED, SO HAND THAT CUTE IDOL FIGURE OVER BEFORE I BEAT YOU DOWN

>>715186812
>>715186958
>>715187225
kek

I know Judgment is dead, but I'd like to see drone racing come back in a future Yakuza game.

>>715186958
>actual cutscenes
they do, in fact, LJ has the most creative use of camera work in its side content than in any other game in the whole series, even nowadays. Gaiden and IW also played around with camera angles and framing, but not as well. At least the JRPG portraits emote a lot

or what, are you talking about doing it the same way as Y6? Where every single conversation in the whole game was exactly the same?
>Kiryu is talking
>static camera shows Kiryu from afar not emoting
>character 2 is talking
>static camera show character 2 from afar not emoting
riveting conversation

>>715187732
For me, it's Hama of the Dead

>>715187926
>or what, are you talking about doing it the same way as Y6?
This. Yakuza 6 was pretty, but it was the most static the Yakuza games have ever been. My favorite is when the dojo guy from Y4 screams "I'M GONNNA KILL YOU KIRYU!!!!" and he's just standing there completely unemotive. Absolute sloppy work. Y6 needed an extra year in the oven, to say nothing of how much of a downgrade the combat was.

>>715187732
>not posting the skirt flying up when you win a cup
please do
>>715188019
I was so sad to see they didn't even try to make any destroyed areas in Hama. The fact that Kamuro of The Dead actually emulates how Dead Souls looked makes it better in my eyes

>>715187732
idk, Kamurocho's felt too hard due to the density while Yokohama seemed too easy, it's like one of those things that don't have a sweet spot to balance.

>>715188391
>emulates
I figured they grabbed it straight from Dead Souls. RGG are the kings of recycling content.

>>715177313
>>715177434
My theory on why facescans can fuck up women's faces so much is that it's their actual faces but they put tons of makeup usually and we're just used to seeing that.
Would still fuck AIKA tho.

>>715188391
>>not posting the skirt flying up when you win a cup

>>715188510
>Kamurocho's felt too hard due to the density
That's what made it fun. It was actually exhilarating to win and trying not to fuck up speeding through tiny holes. I didn't like the idea of the minigame at first and it ended up being my favorite in the game.
LJ's was dumbed down to much and way too easy.

>>715188540
I thought so too, but the assets seem too high definition to be ported from Dead Souls. The only obvious Dragon Engine assets I noticed were the Millennium Tower and the cars, so I could be wrong
>>715188778
b-b-based
>>715188967
based take

After learning all of the tracks in Kamurocho, Drone Racing became exponentially more fun

>>715188778
Why'd they remove the piss filter from the PS5/PC version?

>>715150935
The final boss was gigakino

Judgement 3 when? Yukuza seems to have absorbed all the reddit. Its same for a new game.

>>715174914
This.

>>715188105

>>715189970
>Judgement 3 when?
Never since it was Nagoshi's idea and story. Yokoyama's soap operas are all you have left to look forward to. Who will he revive next? What wacky hi-jinks will Kiryu and Ichiban get up to as they head into their 60s and 70s?

>>715188967
I bought this body and never used it

>>715188105
The full va gimmick was almost worth it just for hearing pocket figher's va almost kill himself voicing a hundred different characters

>>715190335
I forgot that the special drones were paid DLC on PS4.
Only nice thing about the games coming to PC years late was they included everything.

>>715129254
I skipped the school cases
did I miss out?

>>715189771
The game was too soulful and they knew they could not keep it up for future titles so they took away some of the soul so later titles wouldn't look as bad in comparison.

>>715128837 (OP)
this story was horrible, what were they thinking?

>>715190727
Yes. There's basically an entire second game within the school stories, but there's a lot of teenage drama.

>>715189997
>Whoa, whoa, back off. Whoever asked you?

>>715190727
enjoyed it more than the main story

>>715190608
Real men don't use those cheat items.

>>715185991
>>715186305
>>715186690
I liked Yakuza 7. The sidestuff was fun, the cast was great as was the banter, story was good and ganeolay was ok.
But I do like Dragon Quest so there's that.

>>715190254
they will get in the kind of adventures that appeal to these types of people.

>>715191526
8 was a big step up gameplay wise, but a massive dive in the story department. There's some group trying to mod 7 to have brawler combat, but I'm not sure how far its come along.

>>715153504
>>715190727
>Girls bar
>Have to full seduce 3 different girls before getting to Emily
>Have to pay 2000 yen every time to get in
>Have to seduce Emily
Fuck that stupid mini game and the Photography and robot clubs

>>715191369
B-but you get cute outfits for your girlfriends and can have Saori tag along with you! Surely that's worth £8?

>>715191936
Saori goes with you on dates?

>>715163293
There's a slight chance they'll drop it on GOG like they did with Y0-7
They did it 3 years after Y7 LAD so maybe next year

>>715190727
Yes because it's half the game but no because it's all shit and the twist is heavily telegraphed.

>>715190727
Boxing was the best club

>>715163293
>>715192216
They STILL haven't removed Denuvo from Y7 despite it being on GOG. Pisses me off so much. This is the third game I've had this happen with.
Why do these companies leave Denuvo (which costs $20k per month per game + a fee for every activation) on games that they're selling DRM free on another store?

>>715191840
Eh...I liked the otaku girl a lot. Wish I could have dated her instead of Emiry
>>715191936
Saori is the best girl in judgment, but god amane is fucking hot. probably the hottest rgg girl...is her face, and more importantly her proportions, based a real girl's?

>>715192536
Because they know if you really care about it being DRM free, you'll double dip.

>>715192536
Denuvo used to sell lifetime licenses so it may not cost them anything.

>>715192801
Still costs them like $0.50 per activation, and that's every week, not just per purchase. They're just blowing money, no matter how small when they've basically given the game away for free.

>>715192794
>buying gog games
ISHYGDDT

>>715193897
>being a faggot
ISHYGDDT

>>715193897
You're the reason the rest of the series isn't on GOG.

>>715153504
The best girl in that entire shitty side content isn't even dateable. Emily is actually the worst one.

>>715153709
3 is good, 4 is the actual skippable game since it's basically not even about Kiryu but Saejima and Tanimura (the latter of whom is one and done). 4 is garbage in general and I really don't understand why it's rated so highly.

>>715154245
>Nah main story was great except for the sawawank.
The entire main ideological thrust of the game breaks down because Kuwana literally did nothing to make anything better and actively made things worse or a great many number of other people. He's a pathetic psycho.

>>715158550
Judgment/LJ does that because it's styled basically as a TV drama, like each chapter is an episode so they have to recap the stuff you might have missed. It's less annoying than the constant recapping of shit in something like Persona 5.

>>715195158
Ironically Saejima is the character that's not needed at all. His only real contribution to advancing the story is helping Hamazaki get out of prison with the secret ledger. He could fail the prison escape, and as long as someone got out with the ledger, everything else would play out exactly the same, minus Kido becoming one of the forced fights at the end.

>>715144245
That was such a fucking weird choice. It's like they were trying to give the worst first impression possible.

>>715153504
She is

>>715195932
I think Like a Dragon has does the same thing with a chase scene that's never used again

>>715169615
J1 Saori, yes. LJ Saori was made into a bitch so Amasawa replaced her as the best girl.

>>715178792
>some girl with glasses and pigtails runs up to you waving a picture in your face and screaming at you to look at it, reflect and repent
Mei was one dangerously based retard.

Judgement main story was kino.
Lost Judgement main story is shit but their side story is Kino.

That said, beating the shit out of high school kids will always be kino.

>>715141893
She's the "will they; won't they" for Yagami. Sadly, Nagaoshi lost his Nagoshi-ation to where he's no longer at the studio to set up the romance on series end.

>>715189997
>Harry Potter and the Gym of Secrets
What did Nagoshi mean by this?

>>715190727
You missed out on Dance Dance Beating High School Punks.

>>715190727
>did I miss out?
school stuff is kino. Better than the main story.

>>715195158
4 came out right time right place and people memed its nonsensical schizophrenia into an intrinsic part of Yakuza. 5 is about as dumb but is sneakier about it since it somewhat keeps its shit together until it has to provide answers

>>715146030
Remind me again how that shit was Kuwanas fault and not Soma (and by extension Public Security)
Its been a year since i played it

>>715202439
4 and 5 loaded everything good about them into the opening chapters.
Y4 opened with a good idea of introducing someone in a sketchy line of work adjacent to yakuza interests. The environment carried it hard, rainy Kamurocho is still beautiful and the eerie jazzy replacement for Unrest struck gold. Coincidentally Y4 and Deadly Premonition came out in the same month, with similar rainy theme and jazzy soundtracks.
Y5 was interesting and amusing in that it finally showed the reality of boring, civilian wagie life that Kiryu thought he wanted since the ending of Y1. After he killed the funding for orphanage in Y3 and prevented Daigo from securing funds in Y4 again, he had to work for the first time in his life, at 44 years of age.

how does yagami maintain his athleticism and martial art skills despite being a chain smoker?

>>715128837 (OP)
Game is literally this:
Interactive tv show :|
Interactive dorama :O

>>715140921
Were those students grown ass adult with an obligation to protect their students?

>>715141893
>>715199386
Meanwhile Kaito locked his pussy down in the span of a DLC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqT06G7cICM