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Anonymous No.718007268 >>718008016 >>718008912 >>718009883 >>718010131 >>718011553 >>718011932 >>718013057 >>718013107 >>718013905 >>718016783 >>718016924 >>718017027 >>718017103 >>718017107 >>718017239 >>718017401 >>718017485 >>718018516 >>718022604 >>718025727 >>718026068 >>718029874 >>718033362 >>718038420 >>718038835 >>718040672 >>718040965 >>718042549 >>718043021 >>718044926 >>718046114 >>718047276 >>718048397 >>718052190 >>718053028 >>718055704 >>718055964 >>718056076
>Sega is not doing well
Can't imagine why. They're making stuff people totally want
Anonymous No.718007769 >>718010395 >>718015580
I mean I haven't played any Yakuza but I do like pirates and this looked fun with nice combat.
Anonymous No.718008016
>>718007268 (OP)
pic unrelated
Anonymous No.718008912
>>718007268 (OP)
I don't know if you're being ironic, but IIRC the game in your pic did better than they expected it to and they attributed it to the sailing shit because of no one else doing it currently
Anonymous No.718009883 >>718010094
>>718007268 (OP)
Anything after y5 is slop
Anonymous No.718010094 >>718018070
>>718009883
>I never played 0 or Pirate Yakuza
Anonymous No.718010131
>>718007268 (OP)
>yakuza but pirate. Get it? Because le epic majimer has eyepatch
Anonymous No.718010219
I thought this game was ok. It wasn't as reddit as I expected.
Anonymous No.718010391 >>718011005 >>718011039 >>718011849 >>718013391 >>718013609 >>718014246 >>718020470 >>718026068 >>718045959
majima xisters....
Anonymous No.718010395
>>718007769
i like yakuza
the pirate part is minimal
the boat combat is boring
the combat isn't that good compared to the previous brawler spinoff imo
i have not finished the game because i simply lost interest in it for being too boring
Anonymous No.718010943 >>718011495
Infinite Wealth's awful story killed my interest in the series
Anonymous No.718011005 >>718011668 >>718015650 >>718029504
>>718010391
After Yakuza 0 it has become debatable whether Yakuza is still a niche series or not popularity-wise, however, production-wise the games are still produced with a niche audience in mind with small budgets. 22k peak is literally half of Infinite Wealth's peak and Yokoyama called Infinite Wealth a runaway success.
Anonymous No.718011039
>>718010391
KWAB
Anonymous No.718011128
this wasn't even a bad game, but it's my least favorite game in the series that i've touched, I don't want more of this direction.
Anonymous No.718011154 >>718011324
I hate Majima so much. The ultimate Reddit chatacter.
Anonymous No.718011324 >>718011409 >>718011442
>>718011154
>t. Kiryu
Anonymous No.718011409 >>718011751
>>718011324
Kyriu is just a boring faggot. Majima is actively cringe.
Anonymous No.718011442
>>718011324
Kiryu would never say that. Majima once kidnapped Haruka and he still harbors no hate towards him.
Anonymous No.718011495 >>718011671
>>718010943
for me it was the fact that it was set in hawaii
i've said this in a couple threads but Y8 really drove home the fact that for me the appeal was mostly "Soap Opera, Japan :OO"
i was able to tolerate dogshit stories (e.g. lost judgment) because it was fun to run around in japan and basically play a form of cultural tourism
being set in hawaii sort of killed my desire to keep playing the game
i'll get back to it eventually but right now i just have no desire to play it because the story isn't doing it for me and the setting isn't doing it for me
Anonymous No.718011523 >>718011693 >>718011739
>here's the audience they decided to cater towards now
Anonymous No.718011553
>>718007268 (OP)
somehow, even for yakuza, there is just too much dialogue which slows down the flow of the game significantly. I just get so bored of reading filler dialogue.
Anonymous No.718011668 >>718011921 >>718030026
>>718011005
>still produced with a niche audience in mind
Absolutely not. It's produced with a faggot progressive foreigner audience in mind. The current director even said so. They literally hire Americans to change literal core aspects of the JP story in itself to make sure there's nothing that could be deemed "offensive" in it to them.
Anonymous No.718011671 >>718011960
>>718011495
Lost Judgment has a good story by RGG standards
Anonymous No.718011693 >>718012326 >>718012897
>>718011523
>now
always anon. but it is funny to see how people are doing the
>older games can't be woke because I wasn't a mindbroken 4channeler when they released
bit on here, so keep it up
Anonymous No.718011739 >>718011820
>>718011523
Anonymous No.718011751 >>718012010
>>718011409
Kiryu is a good character
Anonymous No.718011820 >>718012021
>>718011739
Anonymous No.718011849
>>718010391
I played it once, finished it, and enjoyed it. But I won't replay it ever. Pretty long but I never played other Yakuza games.
Anonymous No.718011884 >>718012006
Anonymous No.718011921 >>718012441 >>718030026
>>718011668
American localizers being retards and changing scripts not only has nothing to do with series still being made for a niche audience in mind, but it actually re-affirms my point that JP script has to be fucking changed (according to retarded localizers). Yokoyama doesn't speak English, it's just Japanese corpo etiquette to stand up for employees of your corpo overlord, he quite literally doesn't know what he's talking about.
Anonymous No.718011932 >>718012042
>>718007268 (OP)
The redditization of the franchise killed it for me. played up until lad7 and haven't ever felt the need to go back.
Anonymous No.718011960 >>718012109
>>718011671
Nice post, one small issue, Sawa-sensei
Anonymous No.718012006 >>718012227 >>718038249
>>718011884
if anyone asks "who this?" or "why does it matter?"
she's pic related. they hired a retarded american cunt who can't keep her mouth shut about politics and troony ideology and uses the characters you give her a role for as mouthpiece for her retarded beliefs.
Anonymous No.718012010 >>718012178 >>718012385
>>718011751
Lol, he's awful. Especially from Yakuza 5 onwards where he acts like whiny castrated cuck all the time and keeps walloving in self-inflicted suffering. For no good reason besides Yokoyama being a retarded hack.
Anonymous No.718012021 >>718012110
>>718011820
The first post is a trvke though
Anonymous No.718012042 >>718012123
>>718011932
yeah I'm not a huge fan of gradual side story tone bleeding into the main plots, I think they work best when juxtaposed.
Anonymous No.718012109
>>718011960
He was right thoughever. I'd also act like an obsessed autist if somone killed my waifu.
Anonymous No.718012110 >>718012252 >>718012335
>>718012021
Learn English grammar on how to properly use pronouns.
Anonymous No.718012123
>>718012042
The death of bathos needs to be studied
Anonymous No.718012178 >>718012282
>>718012010
>How dare a man who has had everything taken from him and has only caused pain to everyone around him for decades because whiny
Anonymous No.718012227 >>718029793
>>718012006
it's so funny that nobody cared about your first post so you had to elaborate further to get other to seethe over your newest fixation and still managed to get nobody else to care
Anonymous No.718012252
>>718012110
I already know how to use pronouns thougheverbeit
Anonymous No.718012282 >>718012343 >>718012548
>>718012178
Ho took everything from himself, lol. By being a self-righteous retarded faggot.
Anonymous No.718012326 >>718012885
>>718011693
>older games can't be woke
They're calling people trannies in older yakuzas the fook are you on about
Anonymous No.718012335
>>718012110
Literally just the truth, bro. There's no perfect translation. If you don't understand the language, you will never get the full original experience. This is a FACT.
Anonymous No.718012343 >>718012714
>>718012282
Yeah bro, he definitely made Nishiki kill himself, Rikiya sacrifice himself etc
Anonymous No.718012385 >>718012502
>>718012010
>Especially from Yakuza 5 onwards
y5 is the best part of his characterization. Thou art brown
Anonymous No.718012437
Judgment is better than Yakuza
Anonymous No.718012441
>>718011921
Anonymous No.718012502
>>718012385
>y5 is the best part of his characterization
*and yakuza 3 as well
Anonymous No.718012548
>>718012282
eh the only case where I can say it really is Kiryu's fault is 6 with his insistence on going to prison. it's so forced but also basically wholly necessary for the plot to function
Anonymous No.718012603 >>718013725 >>718015346
>what does our new game "STRANGER THAN HEAVEN" need?
>oh, i know. a black american rapper in our 20th century Japan setting!!!
>that will surely make it sell tons to foreigner devils! xD
Anonymous No.718012714
>>718012343
>Nishki and Rikiya (a guy I knew for 3 days) died so I need to fake my death and abandon everyone I care about so I can become a glowie and cry about being lonely in some temple. Completely ignore the fact that everything wrong in my life happened because I constantly ran away from my responsibilities.
Anonymous No.718012727
i hope rgg's redditization doesn't bleed into vf6
Anonymous No.718012815 >>718012858 >>718012913 >>718013041
>hey bro here's your super intimidating tattoo
Anonymous No.718012858
>>718012815
>t. has an ugly ass skull tat
Anonymous No.718012885
>>718012326
the most famous substory of the entire franchise's punchline is "not everyone has the same sexual inclinations and you should respect that" with the Gondawara gang, and as early as Yakuza 3 has a substory where Kiryu encourages a transgender woman. In Yakuza 2 earth angel and the mama there are a minor character Kiryu also helps out
Anonymous No.718012897
>>718011693
lol they're straight up xenophobic in the older games. Remember that sidequest in Y1 with the 2 black dudes?
Anonymous No.718012913 >>718013041
>>718012815
It really bothers me that Majima is the only one with accurate tatoos
Anonymous No.718013041 >>718013115
>>718012815
>>718012913
What's the chance they just don't want to get shitcanned by their corporate Yakuza overlords?
Anonymous No.718013057 >>718013314 >>718017919
>>718007268 (OP)
I'm going through it right now and it's fine, but clearly a rush job.

Also not a fan of SO WACKY XD Majima when they could've done a more serious story for him, especially after 0 and the events of 7-8.

That said, Majima Gaiden isn't the problem.

>$70 day one with a season pass attached games from them
Is. I'm not spending $100 on complete Persona 3 when FES was $60 in 2007. Fuck off, Sega.
Anonymous No.718013107 >>718052072
>>718007268 (OP)
>LE QUIRKYCHUNGUS TRANNY-ADJACENT FRANCHISE!!
Anonymous No.718013115 >>718013395
>>718013041
Then why give Majima authentic ink?
Anonymous No.718013141 >>718013204 >>718013213 >>718013314 >>718013856 >>718058321 >>718069180
what did her addition to series bring to the overall arching story?
Anonymous No.718013204
>>718013141
literally nothing. just nepo'd in for the sake of trying to further reach foreigners as an audience.
Anonymous No.718013213
>>718013141
breasts + mediocre rest of body and face
like a butter face but everything except her tits
Anonymous No.718013314 >>718013856
>>718013057
the fact that people bought the answer as DLC is so funny to me. buying FES made sense because it came with a more fleshed out The Journey, but paying extra for JUST the answer is insane work.

>>718013141
the same thing every other real person being put into the game added, nothing but fanservice for fans of that particular celebrity
Anonymous No.718013391 >>718013609 >>718014209
>>718010391
what the fuck? didn't this game come out this fucking year?
Anonymous No.718013395
>>718013115
Because he's a cartoon character.
Anonymous No.718013609 >>718013887 >>718014154 >>718014246
>>718010391
>>718013391
what? are you expecting a single player game you can finish in like 8~12 hours to somehow still have thousands of players playing it months after release? people played it, finished it then moved on.
Anonymous No.718013725 >>718013883
>>718012603
so that's it now? Everything is reduced to memes?
Anonymous No.718013856 >>718014132
>>718013314
I finally bought P3R during the Winter sale for like $50. But it's insane how Sega has gone full Jew on their shit. Atlus is asking for $70 day-one on Raidou 1, and it's a 20-30 year old title at this point. The only thing they've done was tweak gameplay up a little and update graphics. The fucking day-one edition is like SMT3 and 5's day-one where you get EXP booster monster/demon battles and that's it. There is no art book, there is no "collection" there is no "this nukes the game, but thank you for supporting us!" Demons-day-one. It's just $70 and the exp booster DLC is sold like six months later for $2.

There is literally no point to spending $70 day-one on Sega's stuff.

Don't even get me started on Dx2 and P5X, which are alright mobile games but get Jewed hard on monitization because of their 10 different economy systems because of mobile. Sega could have an alright gacha hit on their hands, but they strangle it to death in the cradle and wonder why people get pissed.

>>718013141
>Kei
>Ugly
You haven't seen truly ugly Nips, LMAO.

Also Kiryu smiling at the end of pirate battles in Majima Gaiden's DLC with him in it is funny because he's doing the -_- face Yaranaika style.
Anonymous No.718013883 >>718013950
>>718013725
yes
Anonymous No.718013887 >>718014049 >>718019687 >>718029234
>>718013609
People don't just move on from good games
Anonymous No.718013905 >>718014021 >>718014397
>>718007268 (OP)
>Kiryu's Gaiden
>felt like a proper send off, great story

>Majima's Gaiden
>a filler episode masqueraded as a yakuza game
Why can't Majima get a good game besides 0?
Anonymous No.718013950
>>718013883
who is justin
Anonymous No.718014021 >>718014397 >>718014709 >>718038382
>>718013905
they don't know what to do with Majima anymore same way they don't know what to do with Saejima either. so they'll likely just end up using them as slaves to further Kiryu's plot. both will have a hand to play in Kiryu magically recovering from his cancer after he ingests whale waste or whatever the fuck Majima was looking after in the Pirate game.
Anonymous No.718014049 >>718014223
>>718013887
People move on from games all the time. Donkey Kong Bonanza is supposed to be a 9/10 masterpiece GOTY candidate but nobody cares about it and only came out 2 days ago.

Happens all the time.
Anonymous No.718014132 >>718014709
>>718013856
>But it's insane how Sega has gone full Jew on their shit
naw atlus has been up to this shit since before they got acquired by sega. before the advent of DLC they'd rerelease shit constantly, Nocturne for example had 3 different PS2 versions, vanilla, maniax, maniax chronicles. And the literal first megaten game they could do DLC for, they added the XP/Macca/App Point shit for SMT4.
Anonymous No.718014154 >>718014218
>>718013609
200 players on a 2025 AAA game is pretty dire.
Anonymous No.718014209 >>718014550 >>718016128
>>718013391
Yes, but unlike Kiryu Gaiden with it's 13 chapters (standard in the series), Majima's is like 4 chapters, 30 substories (5 mandatory, the others introducing mini-games and/or recruiting pirates) and that's about it.

Once you've finished the story once, there is L I T T L E reason to go back unless you want to play the mini-games or don't mine the .... 5-6(?) ocean maps.

People hyped it as AssCreed 4: Black Flag for RGG, but it's not that. It's a mini-game/DLC expansion for 8 that was rushed even further.

They could've done a more serious crime story, especially with Majima managing the Nele Island fallout after 8, but WHOOPS AMNEISA FROM A SEA MONSTER XD! TIME TO PROTECT A KID LIKE MY BOYFRIEND (who is canon Asexual, BTW) KIRYU-CHAN!

Would've been nice to have seen the girl he protected in 0 show up in a cameo/substory but nope. Gotta help Jeff's Taco truck, bruddah!
Anonymous No.718014218
>>718014154
>AAA
Yakuza games are AA not AAA.
Anonymous No.718014223 >>718015647
>>718014049
That's proof Bananza is not a good game. Stuff like xenoblade chronicles 2 and 3 houses still get discussion today, years after releases and way more than the subsequent installment in each their respective series.
Anonymous No.718014246 >>718014340 >>718014449 >>718015262
>>718013609
>>718010391
Anonymous No.718014340 >>718014465 >>718014663 >>718014973 >>718040697
>>718014246
>8k all-time peak
>literally less than the pirate dogshit flop
?????? I thought this was supposed to be the game that brought in all the retards to the series, yet is one of the least played.
Anonymous No.718014397 >>718014548
>>718013905
>>718014021
Majima isn't even the main character in the game, nobody cares about these american fucks
With that said you aren't wrong that they have no idea what the fuck to do with him but they don't want to retire him just yet for whatever reason.
Anonymous No.718014449
>>718014246
to be fair yakuza 0 is literally the only game in the franchise you should bother playing.
Anonymous No.718014465 >>718015170
>>718014340
All the nu-fans only watched streamers, let's plays and out of context videos on twitter.
Anonymous No.718014517 >>718029652
Anonymous No.718014548 >>718014618
>>718014397
yakuza has become a parody of itsself.

i will genuinely not be surprised if we get fornite beavis and butthead skins in yakuza 10
Anonymous No.718014550 >>718014673 >>718015713
>>718014209
>Would've been nice to have seen the girl he protected in 0 show up in a cameo/substory but nope
man fuck off with this, Makoto appearing in K2's Majima story was bad enough, we don't need to milk that plot-line any further.
Anonymous No.718014618 >>718014705 >>718015713
>>718014548
they already had crossovers with other games
Anonymous No.718014663
>>718014340
>Steamcharts retard when confronted with the reality that steamcharts is not a sales or popularity metric for a fucking multiplat
Anonymous No.718014673
>>718014550
Park bowing to Majima in Ishin was 100x better than the Kiwami bullshit.
Anonymous No.718014701 >>718015016 >>718015713 >>718055928
I wish Moana was your companion instead of her brother.
Anonymous No.718014705 >>718014793
>>718014618
Anonymous No.718014709 >>718014870 >>718015142 >>718038735
>>718014132
Being fair: Nocturne: Maniax was Nocturne in the US. Manaiax Chronicles was Atlus re-releasing when the Capcom license for Dante expired and that was IIRC only in the East/Japan.

They generally re-release their stuff after a year and it's a "bonus QoL update" system. FES? Episode: Aigis and some changes to gameplay balance but you don't need those if you don't care.

I'm expecting Metaphor to re-release in February (IIRC it came out around Majima?) 2026.

>SMT4 DLC
Forgot about that. But the point is: Their day-one bonuses aren't really the best. There is no reason to support them day-one. I even stated it in the Atlus survey: "I love your stuff, but spending $70 for 20-30 year old titles that get some updates? Tell your Sega masters I said 'Nah' to that, son."

They should give a Jack Frost, Mara, Lucifer that knows Megidolaon or whatever the highest level Nuke spell that game is in addition the XP booster DLC, an art-book worth a damn (P3R's digital artbook is 30 GODDAMN PAGES. MAXIMUM, DOUBLE-PAGED), and a script book like the MGS1-3 collection does. It's shameful Konami of all people flank you on a re-release.

>>718014021
Which is funny, because Majima is the breakout character for them that isn't Kiryu. People are luke-warm to Ichiban (don't mind him, don't necessarily hate him) but Majima since 0 was their "holy shit, I love this character" character. But they went and did his Majima Everywhere shit instead of the "Lord of the Night"/serious persona.

Pirates in Hawaii could've been better if they mixed the two better than they did.
Anonymous No.718014793
>>718014705
Anonymous No.718014808 >>718014932 >>718015053 >>718015115
is this franchise salvageable?
seems like its just been reduced to dame da ne twitter memes and 10 years in the joint shit posting
Anonymous No.718014870 >>718015232
>>718014709
>but they went and did his Majima Everywhere shit instead of the "Lord of the Night"/serious persona.
You know I never realized this. The popular breakout version of him was 0, but you’re right the version they push is the meme one
Anonymous No.718014932 >>718015053
>>718014808
reboot everything from ground up and just create and alternate universe story instead where Kiryu actually stayed in the Yakuza as their Chairman and then we can talk. otherwise, no. it's heading straight into the grave.
Anonymous No.718014973
>>718014340
>but le all time peak of the 7 year old port!
steamchart fags are lobotomized
Anonymous No.718015016 >>718015126 >>718015217 >>718015369 >>718029938
>>718014701
>Keith brings his son onboard because pirates might kidnap him
>Not her daughter tho, she can handle herself
>Gets kidnapped?!?! OH NO!!
Is the Yakuza series allergic to having female characters who actually do shit? Kaoru comes to mind but she was in 2
Anonymous No.718015053 >>718015464
>>718014808
>>718014932
Kasuga is a bad long term protagonist and the move to turn based was bad too
Anonymous No.718015063 >>718015369 >>718015847
>i got a new haircut so then that's what led me to decide to give the main character my own hair and make him look more like me, lol :)
fire this fucking cretin from the position of director for these series
Anonymous No.718015115 >>718015390 >>718015645
>>718014808
there's no way they're gonna de-escalate the meme factor because they're gonna lose the retarded fans they got. I was saying that back when Ichiban was introduced and the cope here was
>lol you're just mad because turn based
Anonymous No.718015126 >>718030549 >>718030631
>>718015016
I just want a ''serious'' GTA like game in Japan, with the Yakuza. A female MC could be cool too. I don't know why it hasn't happened yet.
Anonymous No.718015134
Anonymous No.718015142
>>718014709
Majima was popular with japs long before 0. The only cast members to appear in Kenzan were Haruka, Date and Majima. 3 had two fights against him + additional VR fight that unlocked a heat action inspired by his moves. Dead Souls made him playable and he was more popular than Ryuji at that point, though that was largely down to Ryuji's arm gun burning through ammo too fast for the damage done.
Anonymous No.718015170 >>718015390
>>718014465
to be fair yakuza 0 is basically a movie game. you are basically watching cutscenes for the first hour or two of the game.
Anonymous No.718015217
>>718015016
Naomi was active in her role in the plot.
Saeko, Eri, Chitose, and Seonhee in 7&8.
Anonymous No.718015224 >>718015631 >>718016792
why did they do this?
Anonymous No.718015232 >>718015713
>>718014870
it's because that's who he is at this point in the franchise anyway. they push it a bit far but Majima doesn't develop his more serious backstory and character traits until Yakuza 4 with the introduction of the RUBBER BULLETS shootout and Saejima as Majima's sworn brother. His side of Yakuza 0 is supposed to be the story of Majima developing his Mad Dog persona, so naturally we get to see more of the actual person because the mask doesn't quite exist yet
Anonymous No.718015262 >>718020547 >>718023491
>>718014246
Be fair: 0 is an EXTREMELY late port. 3 years after PS3 (Japan only) a year after PS4. Anyone that wanted to play 0 probably already played it before 0 Steam released.

I think 7 was the first time the series was day-one-simultaneous on all platforms?
Anonymous No.718015346
>>718012603
based
Anonymous No.718015369 >>718029770
>>718015016
The Rich family in general is god awful and the series needs to shit or get off the pot with its female characters, either relegate them to eye candy background chumps or make them actually do shit.

>>718015063
This by far is worse than any of the tranny seething, infact I'd declare this to be the biggest sign that something is wrong in the studio.
Anonymous No.718015390
>>718015115
Japs say that Sega's strategy for RGG shifted from game sales to merch sales. All the Majima funko pops and shit like that.
>>718015170
People who only watch pre-rendered cutscenes miss half of the story in all pre-dragon engine games. Most of the story was told in regular dialogue boxes. That's why reddit is always flooded with retards who claim that the stories are full of holes, nothing makes sense, nobody told them this and that.
Anonymous No.718015464 >>718015575
>>718015053
I think the move to turn based is fine, IW is a big step up in gameplay from 7 so if they just continue to develop the systems it'll probably be one of the better job based JRPGs around. and it's not like we're NOT getting new beat em up titles either. problem is that IW's main story just wasn't very good, where 7 at least had fun twists of JRPG tropes like Ichiban's return to Kamurocho mirroring the destroyed home town trope
Anonymous No.718015575 >>718015913
>>718015464
IW in general suffered from what happened in Y4 and 5 where there's too many main characters and story beats going on and they all feel alien from eachother.
The series works better when your just following one point of view because the writers can't juggle more than one guy as has been proven time and time again.
Anonymous No.718015580
>>718007769
>>I mean I haven't played any Yakuza
you don't contribute to anything regarding the state of these games outside of being the new general audience that wows at le quriky side-quests and the watered down flanderized combat
Anonymous No.718015631
>>718015224
I kind of like the idea that these period piece spinoffs have casts played by franchise characters, and the idea that the remake is a new "show" with a different cast playing the same roles.
Anonymous No.718015645 >>718016267
>>718015115
Ichiban is great though. It's everything surrounding him that's terminally latched onto Kiryu's old baggage.
Anonymous No.718015647
>>718014223
>Stuff like xenoblade chronicles 2 and 3 houses still get discussion
Lets be real, reposting the same pictures of sub-par anime girls exclaiming they're you're wife isn't "discussion."
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718015650
>>718011005
>however, production-wise the games are still produced with a niche audience in mind with small budgets
You can literally see the budget jump up in real time with 7 onward. Outside of 7G and 8G which are specifically stated to be smaller games every game after it has had way more effort put into them in minigames, map design, the sheer amount of brand new attack animations that don't even reuse anything from previous games, enemies, special attacks, etc. Ijincho and Hawaii wouldn't exist if the budget was as budget as it used to be. They also got pissed when they were denied the PC sales on JE and LJ so that also goes to show you their budgets are likely higher and they need those new sales to offset some of it.
Anonymous No.718015713 >>718016121 >>718016128
>>718014618
>Time limited DLC
What did Sega and the Indie mean by this?

>>718014550
Being fair: Makoto in 2 Kiwami wasn't really "canon" IIRC?

Her being shown in Pirates wouldn't have been that egregious. Especially if they're keeping Majima amnesia bullshit for the story. Could've either had her:

-Walk past in a substory
-Be a substory where Majima doesn't remember her and given it's been 30-40 years since they last saw each other, she probably doesn't recognize him off the bat either
There's many ways they could've shoehorned her in without being offensive.

>>718014701
Noah is mostly fine, but he doesn't really do shit gameplay wise. I doubt having Moana on-board would've changed much either. They could've closed the bar or given the bar to the inhabitants given how small the island was.

>>718015232
Then 7-8 happens. They could've explored the fallout of the Dissolution (with him going to Nele island this would've been the angle I would've gone with, personally), especially after Saejima, Daigo, and him shack up to fuck each other in the great North of Nippon for like 4-6 years after TGD event.

Majima is an old man hermit in 8, and suddenly he goes back to being the Mad Dog in pirates, really?
Anonymous No.718015847
>>718015063
I came around on the hair eventually, but it's not Kiryu's signature look so it's really weird you spend 60-hours or more with that look only for Kiryu to get back his signature slick hair for like 10-20 at the end.

Should've done what they did with Majima Gaiden and let you customize him.
Anonymous No.718015913 >>718016335
>>718015575
I think the main plot would've worked better if the party split was more clean between Kiryu/Ichiban. The fact that Kiryu's gang is just Ichiban's gang from 7 kind of blows ass, he should've worked with Date and Tojo boys. Kiryu's side of the plot was fine, just needs some minor alterations like Ichi's half brother being a son of someone in the clan Kiryu took out, so it's more in line with Kiryu accepting the consequences of his actions that may not have been apparent at the time. but Ichi's plot needs a whole ass rewrite
Anonymous No.718016121 >>718016279
>>718015713
Majima and crew ending up as weird bums never made sense anyway considering Majima was an accomplished construction company owner, man built kamurocho hills for fucks sake. Majima had the scratch to retire him and Saejima, and Dojima should've had the cash to retire himself as he was the patriarch of the biggest crime family Tokyo.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718016128
>>718014209
>Kiryu Gaiden with it's 13 chapters (standard in the series)
7G was five chapters, what are you talking about?
Gaidens are intentionally made to be small side games but still considered mainline.

>>718015713
>Being fair: Makoto in 2 Kiwami wasn't really "canon" IIRC?
Yes it was. The entire story exists to explain how Majima gained legal rights to Majima Construction and Kamuro Hills' plot of land. The issue here is that if she appeared in 8G it should just make him depressed about Park, not Makoto, because Park was the love of his life and he spent 20 years obsessed about her. If he had a moment where he spoke to her about Park or something it would have worked, but him fawning about her yet again when 5's events have already happened would have been even stupider.
Anonymous No.718016267
>>718015645
Ichiban is exactly the problem. There's no contrast between him and the world around him, because the world is full of awkward situations that are clearly made to fit his tone. And then it's hard to take the main plot seriously because he's too much of a meme characater. With Kiryu, the point was that he was a serious character inserted into awkward situations
Anonymous No.718016279 >>718016531 >>718016967
>>718016121
I'd think part of the dissolution meant also giving up their assets. It would probably be a big political scandal or have disgruntled ex-members gunning for them if they took a bunch of Tojo money and ran.
Anonymous No.718016335 >>718016468 >>718016965
>>718015913
>he should've worked with Date and Tojo boys.
Hell, given Date is the only one that knew he was alive (in universe) besides Ichiban, it's insane they didn't try to turn-base Date into a party member.

Daigo and the boys only show up for a cameo after that battle and it's "oh we'll deal with the helicopter with rubber RPG's, go on ahead Kiryu-chan!" and that's it.
Anonymous No.718016468 >>718016647 >>718016965
>>718016335
It wouldn't really be possible because Kiryu's supposed to be dead and having all his old buddies crowding around would rouse the Daidoji/public's suspicion.
And yeah I know the game is already flimsy about the Daidoji shit to begin with but I just have to assume that's the explanation.
Anonymous No.718016531
>>718016279
But see, we aren't told that. We're just told the Tojo/Omi are breaking up and we haven't fully explored the fallout past 8 having a minor mention with Daigo/crew.

I think only Kiryu Gaiden is the one that tries to explore it and even THAT is "circle this back to 7's event because we can't really do too much outside of this minor loop."
Anonymous No.718016646 >>718016746 >>718036746
0fags killed the series.
Anonymous No.718016647 >>718017076
>>718016468
>and having all his old buddies crowding around would rouse the Daidoji/public's suspicion.
Date already violated that with the substories. At that point Date could've been a party member of Kiryu's. Having Akiyama and the rest as party members for Kiryu? Yeah, not happening. But Date? Could've happened given the substory where they break the rules and the Daidoji doesn't even bother to crack down until the end one.
Anonymous No.718016710
0chads saved the series.
Anonymous No.718016746 >>718017062 >>718017314
>>718016646
but 0 isn't very memey, it's probably the least retarded story in the franchise
Anonymous No.718016783
>>718007268 (OP)
Sega still exists? I thought they died with the Dreamcast.
Anonymous No.718016792 >>718017032
>>718015224
Trying to reel in the US yakuza 0 fanatics but just ended up ruining the combat and adding unnecessary bloat to the game that already had issues with money grinding.
>Removes this part of the epilogue for no fucking reason
Anonymous No.718016924
>>718007268 (OP)
Played this, wasn't a bad game, but it's totally targeting the younger parts of the public, not what someone would expect from a "yakuza" game.
Anonymous No.718016965
>>718016335
the tojo boys staying behind for ichi's friends to follow kiryu to the hospital pissed me off so much. I got to the fight where Kiryu teamed up with them and my first and only reaction to it was
>why wasn't this the entire kiryu half of the game
this on top of Kiryu's """""finale"""" game being almost entirely devoid of basically everyone important to Kiryu so they can rehash the manipulative crime dad story beat from 1 but with an older more wisened Kiryu viewing it from a more outside perspective is such a massive middle finger.

>>718016468
All they really would have to do is shift the "Kiryu is still alive and revealed to the public" bit of the story forward. have the first thing that happens after Kiryu goes back to Japan is the old tojo HQ getting blowed up, then Date and Kiryu realizing that with their cover blown, they can operate more openly, so they go to recruit the tojo boys
Anonymous No.718016967
>>718016279
Majima's tattoo represents one of the seven gods of fortune. Specifically Benzaiten, whose domain is not material wealth but the ability to always come across money or other resources when in need. And that's how he was portrayed in all games. Koreans destroy Kamuro Hills? He finds a way to start over. Zombies trash both his office in Millennium Tower and Kamuro Hills on the grand opening day? He cleans up and rebuilds. He even told the hostess that when he makes some money, he spends it right away because he hates rich assholes and doesn't want to be like them.
Even the Majima saga in Kiwami 2, which I refuse to recognize as canon due to garbage retcons, shows him bouncing from the bottom Tojo earners to the top.
Anonymous No.718017027 >>718017903
>>718007268 (OP)
Joryu's game was one of the best in a good while
Anonymous No.718017032 >>718017121 >>718017197 >>718017259 >>718017441
>>718016792
they removed it cause japanese nationalism is bad or something like that. they've been clear about being progressive cucks since y7 with how they depict the guy who wants to stop immigration as some kind of retarded ugly villain and the schizophrenic guy who was raised by literal prostitutes in a whorehouse the good guy.
Anonymous No.718017062
>>718016746
0 is the best yakuza game, the problem is the fans that it attracted
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718017076 >>718017427
>>718016647
The problem is the Life Links are completely optional. You can leave them until after Kiryu grabs his suit (Meaning in-story he's already been revealed days prior) and still have every single person thinking he's dead including Haruka despite him being on live TV attacking Seiryo HQ and the national news speaking about him still being alive. So when you get to the final Life Link them threatening Date for revealing Kiryu or Haruka still thinking Kiryu is dead makes no sense.

None of the Memoirs take into account the reveal happening either so you can do stupid stuff like this.
Anonymous No.718017103
>>718007268 (OP)
Stranger than Heaven will be a hit.
Anonymous No.718017107
>>718007268 (OP)
That game was fun fuck you faggot
Anonymous No.718017121
>>718017032
This is because Sega is owned by Yakuza, who are responsible for bringing rapefugees in Japan.
Anonymous No.718017168 >>718017220 >>718017323 >>718017383 >>718017427
Give me one (1) reason to finish Y8.
Anonymous No.718017197 >>718017372
>>718017032
Kume was a retard
Anonymous No.718017220
>>718017168
The ending song.
Anonymous No.718017239
>>718007268 (OP)
This sounds like a kino idea though
Anonymous No.718017259
>>718017032
>they removed it cause japanese nationalism is bad or something like that.
I doubt it's that, since it's only mentioning the main dude being the one that saved Japan from the Civil Warring that was happening in Fuedal period, IIRC. It's been a few years since I saw the translated ending. It's literally only a minute or two and it's not like it's an obvious "HOLY SHIT IMPERIAL JAPAN" like the Omi (?) clan badge was.
Anonymous No.718017293
Glad I don't listen to anything /v/ says I liked this game
Anonymous No.718017314
>>718016746
>Shimano orders Majima to kill Makoto, and was hoping he didn't actually kill her, as opposed to just asking him to capture her/gain her trust/guard her from other factions, for the Shimano families benefit.

Even 0 is questionable with its plot.
Anonymous No.718017323
>>718017168
theres really none
Anonymous No.718017372
>>718017197
i know he was but the general idea for it still stands. they're just making parody of things they clearly don't agree with and having them look stupid while the things they do agree with they try and make look like something good and noble that people should aspire towards.
Anonymous No.718017383
>>718017168
it's a baby proof rpg more-so then p5r. it's easy game trophy points if that matters to you
Anonymous No.718017401
>>718007268 (OP)
The company is a money laundering scheme
Anonymous No.718017427
>>718017076
>So when you get to the final Life Link
Yeah, 8's story is written badly. It's already known. But like I said: If they're going to break the rules the way they did, there is little reason Date couldn't have been a member.

>>718017168
You get the full party in Premium Adventure and if you own the Big Swell it's worth the Kiryu Karaoke throw-away line just for a quick chuckle.
Anonymous No.718017441 >>718017664
>>718017032
Did you miss 4 and the whole part about Tanimura? His very intro sequence has him extorting money from jap businesses and using it to fund the brown immigrant ghetto. Little Asia is the one place that dindu nuffin wrong, wasn't mixed up in corruption scandals, it was just a perpetual victim of the police violence, deportations, yakuza sex trafficking and so on.
Anonymous No.718017485
>>718007268 (OP)
Sega of Japan should shoah their entire american localization department.
Anonymous No.718017652
I'm neet and I have no idea how they expect people would find the time to play all these yakuza games. Every one I've played has been alright but they're so heckin' long that I certainly don't need a new one every 6 months.
Anonymous No.718017664
>>718017441
i don't remember anything about tanimura's parts in 4 aside from the final boss being a piece of fucking shit to deal with given the fact you don't have proper crowd control moves with him
Anonymous No.718017750 >>718017959
I've dropped the series until Judgment 3 comes out. Old cast should stay retired and I don't give a fuck about Ichiban
Anonymous No.718017903 >>718018783
>>718017027
I want to see what they do with him if they actually bring him back in the future.
Anonymous No.718017919 >>718018179
>>718013057
FES was ackshually discounted at launch wasn't it?
Anonymous No.718017959 >>718018592
>>718017750
>Old cast should stay retired
I'm waiting for the asspull they do in the next entry for Kiryu because they can't rip the band-aid off and tell fans to deal with it after the off-ramps they've given him.

At this point they need to go all-in on Ichiban and tell beat-'em-up'ers "deal with it, you're Gaidens only."

Like Majima is pushing 60 in Pirates and somehow still beating the shit out of 20 dudes solo. Time to get a new Kiryu beat-em-up'er for the old fans while Ichiban's RPG job system gets more refined and deeper than the baby-surface-level job system it's been for the past two games.
Anonymous No.718018067 >>718018171
What excuses will they make once the characters enter their 70s already and STILL look as young as they do now while doing all manners of backflips and literal back / hip breaking moves for a man that age?
Anonymous No.718018070 >>718018403
>>718010094
>redditfrog
stop avatarfagging sperg
Anonymous No.718018083 >>718018151 >>718018418
>1,000,000,000,000.00 yen? Sure, i'll give it to you
>thougheverbeit
Anonymous No.718018151 >>718018264
>>718018083
>thougheverbeit
it's ' thoughbeit '
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718018171
>>718018067
Komaki has been perpetually like 80 for most of the series. Alternatively: Ancient Chinese Secretβ„’.
Anonymous No.718018179
>>718017919
It's been a while, but I think FES was maximum $50 in 2007. $10 less than the "like new" price at the time.

Atlus' notorious re-releases are annoying, but they go by the Square "we put a new dungeon" re-release model. You don't HAVE to re-buy the game if you don't want the new stuff/enjoy the title.

But Sega's day-one content for launch is just plain bad in comparison. Episode: Aigis was like a 20-60 expansion if you enjoyed P3/The Journey's RPG systems. P3R's is just ripping that out, charging $30 and giving you a page per-dollar art-book if you bought the digital collector's edition. Not even a comparison between the old/new sprite styles for characters, just a lot of promo art that you probably already saw.
Anonymous No.718018264
>>718018151
it's albeit
Anonymous No.718018403
>>718018070
Having a melty?
Anonymous No.718018418
>>718018083
>you want money from me?
>okay, but you must first bend yourself backwards so much you suck your own cock through your arse
>no, you can't suck my cock for the money
>you have to do these arbitrary things i ask of you that i have determined you should do to become a 'better personβ„’' after i have pychoanalyzed you in the span of a second
Anonymous No.718018516 >>718018573
>>718007268 (OP)
Apparently Sega upped their investment into rgg. Doubt that's a good thing. Have little hopes for stranger than heaven. Yakuza is basically dead after iw, pirates is a dead cat bounce. Needs a hard reset. I'd like kuze, kazama and the others having fun in the 1960s.
Anonymous No.718018573 >>718018661 >>718018736 >>718018842
>>718018516
>Needs a hard reset
isn't that Stranger than Heaven?
Anonymous No.718018592 >>718019093 >>718040190
>>718017959
Kiryu will definetly get another game. According to leaks, ichiban is done as protag, too.
Anonymous No.718018661
>>718018573
I doubt it
Anonymous No.718018736 >>718018884
>>718018573
what? no. that game's protagonist is literally just the first chairman of the tojo clan in the yakuza universe.
Anonymous No.718018783
>>718017903
make a prequel of him in the underground surviving as a fighter and member
Anonymous No.718018842 >>718018978 >>718025406
>>718018573
No. That's their Judge Eyes: Entirely new I.P., just unlike Judge Eyes, not related to RGG/Yakuza/Kamurocho (at least so far from reveal).

I'm more concerned about how VF6 is going to be, given RGG's VF5 re-release on Steam has been pretty much abandoned (the spectator mode is kind of cool, but there is no customization or singleplayer content for it).
Anonymous No.718018884 >>718019204
>>718018736
The more people assume that he is the founding chairman and post it everywhere, the more you can be sure that Yokoyama will do the exact opposite. He said many times that he always needs to avoid writing something similar to fan theories at all cost, even if all that's left is complete asspulls that don't fit the story in any way.
Anonymous No.718018978
>>718018842
vf5 is 20 years old and ugly to look at. Give it time
Anonymous No.718019093 >>718020706 >>718025215 >>718025215
>>718018592
>According to leaks, ichiban is done as protag, too.
I doubt that. Unless they get some new person that takes over his RPG systems, folks are alright with the RPG systems.

Honestly, and personally, I think the RPG systems are better than the beta-em-up/Gaidens systems. It's just they're very baby's-first-JRPG to where once you get the best AoE effects, there is VERY LITTLE REASON to use the jobs beyond the default jobs for characters.

I do think the new movement system they added to 8 was better than the auto-move system of 7, so if they kept tweaking it and thought hard about how they wanted the series to go turn-based, I feel they could nail it.

Problem is, RGG is Sega's Core Design, to where they're a sweat shop that is doing like 5 different titles with a year turnaround/release schedule between each.

RGG has/had Pirates, Stranger than, and VF6 (and 5:eSport edition), currently in their development pipeline. Now that Pirates is out, the RGG series team that isn't on StH/Century is probably working on 9 or a new Gaiden that hasn't been announced yet.
Anonymous No.718019204 >>718019497
>>718018884
how is the going to just change that big of a part in the story when the game is nearly complete or whatever? seems to me like changing something that important would require way more than just a slight alteration, like, i'm talking literally redoing entire cutscenes and gameplay segments in some cases. or is he just going to leave in things that might point you towards him being Tojo but then asspull something at the end so it gives the impression that everything was a "red herring" when in fact it was just a shitty done re-write?
Anonymous No.718019497 >>718019962
>>718019204
It's the same guy who had all of Yakuza 5 up to the finale already produced when he realized that they don't have Kiryu's final boss yet. He has the code monkeys build and polish parts of the game in chapter order.
Anonymous No.718019687
>>718013887
there's like 14 games in the series you fucking retard. of course people move on when they're done with one
Anonymous No.718019789
Pirate Yakuza was a fun game and I'll happily take fun spinoff slop over not getting a game at all. I need my yearly rgg and falcom kino or I'll go insane
Anonymous No.718019962 >>718020047 >>718020231 >>718025291
>>718019497
Yakuza 4 was even more egregious about it. The version given to early playtesters didn't have playable Kiryu. Playtesters had a meltdown over Kiryu and he was hastily added to the game, already after Tanimura had all the info vital to solving the plot. That's why Kiryu's part feels like needless padding, where all he does is get in Akiyama's and Tanimura's way.
Anonymous No.718020047 >>718020489 >>718020680 >>718024114
>>718019962
>Playtesters had a meltdown over Kiryu and he was hastily added to the game,
Reminds me of the Resident Evil fanbase, constantly asking for Chris, Leon, Jill, etc.
Anonymous No.718020192 >>718020415 >>718020831 >>718021762 >>718023316 >>718025212 >>718034605
The truth is, you either stop playing yakuza games on time or you grow to hate all of them
Anonymous No.718020231 >>718020394 >>718021401
>>718019962
>That's why Kiryu's part feels like needless padding
Akiyama's part is also pretty much pointless, just an intro that sets the tone. And most of Saejima's part is pointless prison nonsense that never ends up being relevant. God what a mess
Anonymous No.718020394
>>718020231
>the best part of the game is also pretty much pointless
https://youtu.be/vuvrLTgWWPE
Anonymous No.718020415
>>718020192
I considered Kiwami to be the point of final decline, but playing it only made me appreciate the original more. I didn't go on to play the reboot, already got a taste of where it was going wrong with K1 and K2.
Anonymous No.718020470
>>718010391
it had a 22k peak? Pretty nice, desu
Anonymous No.718020489 >>718020672
>>718020047
>you want Chris? Here's your Chris Redfield
Anonymous No.718020547
>>718015262
Yeah it's this. It's like claiming all the Asscreed games were flops before Shadows because they weren't on steam until far later and thus had no players.
Anonymous No.718020672 >>718021370 >>718026069 >>718026374
>>718020489
At least Capcom didn't let Chris steal the entire show in RE7 & RE8 from Ethan, like Kiryu did from Ichiban in Yakuza 8. A lot of the RE fanbase already dislike Grace possibly for RE9 and want Leon to be playable for most of it, if he is in it.
Anonymous No.718020680 >>718020943
>>718020047
what is this "fanbase" that asks for stuff? people doing surveys? vocal minority online? 90% of the people who actually play these games would buy anything that they are offered.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718020706 >>718025968
>>718019093
>It's just they're very baby's-first-JRPG to where once you get the best AoE effects, there is VERY LITTLE REASON to use the jobs beyond the default jobs for characters.
The default jobs in 8 are mostly bad and 8 heavily pushes you to playing other jobs because many of the good skills are in the other ones. Even on Normal there's no reason to stick with anything other than Barmaid or Heiress. You're thinking of 7, 8 rebalanced a lot of the game and there's not that many good AoE attacks outside of Bubble Bale and Burning Arrow. Kiryu and Ichiban are also the only ones who get an Essence that can hit more than one enemy which does trivialize the game, but the MP cost of spamming skills was also addressed and requires you to farm Wizard's Hats for everyone on top of two War God Talismans if you want to be spamming stuff like that.
Anonymous No.718020831 >>718021490
>>718020192
Yakuza will last you 6 or 7 games before you develop resentment over it's patterns. So if you started with Yakuza 1 on ps2, and skipped spin-offs, do the math.
Anonymous No.718020913 >>718021063 >>718021242 >>718021382
I have never played any Yakuza game, where should I start?
I speak Japanese, so translation or lack thereof is not a problem.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718020943 >>718021159
>>718020680
>what is this "fanbase" that asks for stuff?
They do surveys in Japan about stuff like this every once in a while.
https://ryu-ga-gotoku.com/cp_vote/
This was after 5 came out but before Ishin.
https://ryu-ga-gotoku.com/cp_vote2018/
This was when RGGO was looking for new cards a year after release which is somewhere before 7 if I remember right.

They also look at the general discourse online about characters in places tons of people talk about them like Twitter, Reddit, 2ch, etc. which also influences the direction things go.
Anonymous No.718021063 >>718021242 >>718021382
>>718020913
Just like with any series you start at the beginning. Emulating the original 1 and 2 on ps2. Then following the release order. It's the only way to actually appreciate the franchise growing and understand what made it good and why it declined. If you give up midway, its on the series, not you .
Anonymous No.718021159
>>718020943
apperently more people voted than bought the game lol
Anonymous No.718021210 >>718021343 >>718021372 >>718021584 >>718050683
just finished 100%ing yakuza 4 and this series sucks, i mostly played out of nostalgia because i had the ps3 games back then but i'm starting to see why these games suck fucking ASS. i dont think i'll be playing y5
Anonymous No.718021242
>>718020913
this >>718021063, don't listen to people telling you to start from 0
Anonymous No.718021343
>>718021210
Most of them a legitemately bad. Judgment games are kino though.
Anonymous No.718021370 >>718021643 >>718022242
>>718020672
Problem with Grace is she could've been easily replaced with one of the established characters who would fill the same role. Like Sherry, where the fuck is Sherry? Where's Natalia? Where's Moira? Why can't they be protagonists in 9, why do we need a new hoe when the old hoes are abandoned
Anonymous No.718021372 >>718021536 >>718026150
>>718021210
>i've put 500 hours into doing the same meaningless stuff that's just there for the flavour
>now I hate these games how could this happen to me
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718021382 >>718022129
>>718020913
>I speak Japanese, so translation or lack thereof is not a problem.
Then 1&2 HD on the PS3 and go in release order after that. The PS3/Wii U rereleases are the superior version of 1 and 2 with the PS3 being better than the Wii U version because the save data gives you free stuff in 5 and it has trophies.

Kenzan is a guide game regardless if you speak Japanese or not so unless you want to deal with that just do the story and bounce.
JP PS3 3 is the best version of 3 as it has all the content.
PS3 4 is better than the Remaster as it has the original Tanimura and has no framerate-induced bugs.
Dead Souls is only if you want more Yakuza games.
PS3 5 is again better than the remaster because it doesn't have bugs introduced by the framerate.
Black Panthers 1 and 2 (Kurohyou games) are fun side games on the PSP but aren't relevant to the main games so if you want to play them feel free but they're not necessary.
Ishin is better than Ishin Kiwami in a bunch of ways so it's better to play this, especially since you understand Japanese.
After that the only Japanese version that's better than any localized version is Judge Eyes but you need to get the launch version on PS4, not the New Price version as that contains the original Hamura. You can mod him in with a hacked PS4 or on PC though.

>>718021063
>Emulating the original 1 and 2 on ps2.
There is zero reason to do this if he speaks Japanese. The PS2 versions are worse. Emulating 1&2 HD on RPCS3 would be better as it doesn't have the lighting issues and has quality of life changes like item boxes at phone booths instead of just hideouts.
Anonymous No.718021401 >>718021651
>>718020231
They picked the guy who was the least involved with the criminal underworld to play out early story hooks. He gets dragged deeper into this shit as a result of simping and being a poor judge of character. At least that much made sense. It gets worse when you realize that Yokoyama was obsessed with entry level anime and just wanted to make his own Spike Spiegel, even got his voice actor for the job and poached a jazz composer from AM3 division.

More Yokoyama lore. Mine's voice actor was cast solely because he voiced Ryuuk in Death Note. Same with Rikiya's actor - Yagami Light.
Anonymous No.718021490
>>718020831
I played all of them and loved them all, I'll replay them too (already replayed 1-2 if Kiwamis count as replays, also replayed 3). You don't need to play them all the same month though. I've been following the series for a long time
Anonymous No.718021536
>>718021372
you'll never know if you hate something unless you try it.
Anonymous No.718021584
>>718021210
That's why you play the best one (0) and leave it at that
But why play a series you don't like anyway? I always got burnt out near the end of them desu
Anonymous No.718021643 >>718021772
>>718021370
god forbid the series expanded the cast and added some new personality to it. It's better to play with those non characters for the 100th time.
Anonymous No.718021651
>>718021401
Spike clones are great though. The "lazy dude who does nothing but is somehow a genius" trope is kino, that's Akiyama is so popular. He does nothing and then just sort of wins
Anonymous No.718021762 >>718022009 >>718022362
>>718020192
>tiger in yakuza2 is ok
>dodging missiles in yakuza 5 bad
fuck off
Anonymous No.718021772 >>718022023 >>718022242
>>718021643
>expanded the cast
What is the point of expanding the cast if you never use those characters again? Natalia is literally set up for her own story and she never appears again. What the fuck was the point? What's the point of Moira if you introduce her and then just forget about her forever?
Anonymous No.718022009 >>718022142 >>718022289
>>718021762
This retard also considered 3 to be the point at which everything got flanderized, even though it's one of the saddest stories.
Anonymous No.718022023 >>718022350
>>718021772
why do you need the same characters to be brought back? are you retarded? You can only do so much with one character and you are in the thread with the series that has shit the bed by brining back the protagonist who's story ended after 2 games, to star in the next 20
Anonymous No.718022129 >>718022982
>>718021382
Thank you anon. My old PS3 is probably stashed somewhere in my parents' garage, next time I visit then I will make sure to dig it up.
Anonymous No.718022142 >>718022965
>>718022009
3 unironically has one of the better stories in the series and is the most relevant for future entries in the series, people just seeth and mald over the woman cop being written out.
Anonymous No.718022242
>>718021370
>>718021772
The characters that have barely showed up, are fair game to show up again, I agree. But usually people just default to the same and main protagonists.
Anonymous No.718022289 >>718022965
>>718022009
he said the tone started to shift but was tolerable with y3 and 4 while it went to shit with yakuza 5
>it's one of the saddest stories.
What's sad about it? Rikiya dying? Orphanage being destroyed?
Anonymous No.718022350 >>718022653
>>718022023
>why do you need the same characters to be brought back
Because their arcs aren't over, RETARD. Natalia's story ends with her being foreshadowed as a future villain or some kind of a dark antihero and then she never fucking appears again. Natalia was introduced and then disappeared forever. Much like Rose, she'll never appear again. Did Rose have a satisfying character arc in your opinion? I don't think so but that's it for her.
Why bother building lasting characters, let's spam random hoes to make sure newfags aren't lost, and the newfags will defend us
Anonymous No.718022362
>>718021762
>kino ok
>retarded bad
Makes sense to me desu
Anonymous No.718022604
>>718007268 (OP)
This is a joke, right?
Anonymous No.718022653
>>718022350
>Did Rose have a satisfying character arc in your opinion?
No and she should've been the new protagonist, but the story IS finished, even if retared. Pushed under the rug sure but finished.
>Because their arcs aren't over, RETARD.
none of them have arcs lol. You keep bringing up the character from a shitty spin off game, moving the goal post. Initialy you wanted Sherry
Anonymous No.718022965 >>718023649 >>718023735
>>718022142
3 is pearls before swine. Horitomo's best ink designs, Nagoshi shoving Yokoyama aside and personally writing most of the story, glowniggers being an existential threat.
>>718022289
>What's sad about it? Rikiya dying? Orphanage being destroyed?
Kiryu's parenting skills and the kids being exactly as shit as their parents, you know it's fucked when the nigger kid is the most level headed of the bunch. Daigo being one foot in the grave part because of because of Kiryu's retardation and part because what's left of Tojo went behind his back. The last competent man in Tojo getting pushed over the edge. Ryudo family getting fucked over just because Kiryu happened to be there.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718022982 >>718023485
>>718022129
Keep in mind that unless your PS3 is hacked the JP versions of 4, Of the End (Dead Souls), and 5 have licensed music in them that is used throughout the game and was replaced in the western versions so if you're comfortable with the JP versions it's better to opt for the JP versions in those cases. 0 and 6 also do this but after 6 they started licensing the music in the west again.
Anonymous No.718023316
>>718020192
I like how he said he is gonna drop the series and then never made another Yakuza video even though it's easily the most popular vid on his channel.

The whole problem is that the series started as a crime drama, then turned into a shonen anime. But if you played only shonen anime ones, obviously, you have no point of reference and for you Yakuza was always shitty and you just play to bash heads with le funny moves
Anonymous No.718023347
can't wait for Kiryu to beat cancer offscreen and be playable again in Y9 haha
Anonymous No.718023485 >>718024945 >>718025910
>>718022982
>unless your PS3 is hacked
Yeah, it's a hacked slim with cfw. I'd just grab the JP ISOs anyway, but good to know they are the better versions.
Anonymous No.718023491
>>718015262
Only in the West. 7 came out in Japan on PS4 only nearly a year before the Western launch.
Lost Judgment was the first multiplat, worldwide simultaneous launch for the series. Actually, even that's not 100%, since the PC version was around a year later. I guess Ishin Kiwami gets that as its one honor.
Anonymous No.718023649 >>718024051
>>718022965
>Kiryu's parenting skills and the kids being exactly as shit as their parents, you know it's fucked when the nigger kid is the most level headed of the bunch. Daigo being one foot in the grave part because of because of Kiryu's retardation and part because what's left of Tojo went behind his back. The last competent man in Tojo getting pushed over the edge. Ryudo family getting fucked over just because Kiryu happened to be there.
I don't dislike the game but none of that is SAD you retard. It's fine at best. Certainly better than everything past it.
Anonymous No.718023735 >>718025379
>>718022965
The best part is, Mine was right, how the series and the tojo went downhill is overall due to how Kiryu is afraid of responsibility and runs away from it at every chance given, this isn't even my take on it, it's the take the series itself gave during the last minutes of Yakuza 6.
The best way to ensure the rest of the series never happens is for Kiryu to just accept that he's the new chairman at the end of 1, but that didn't happen and here's where we are now, it all loops back to Y1 and when people are finally brave enough to admit it is when we can talk about how Kiryu's character has always been mishandled from the moment the writing team decided "let's make a sequel"
Anonymous No.718024051 >>718024221
>>718023649
You might be the retard here. I'm white trash, coming from the underclass and having the whole childhood ruined by garbage kids of subhumans makes the orphanage part very relatable. It's the same reason why Dickensian stories about the underclass are depressing.
Anonymous No.718024114
>>718020047
And why Biohazard is in the same problem areas that RGG is, unironically.
Anonymous No.718024221
>>718024051
lmao
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718024945
>>718023485
Nowadays it doesn't matter as much since you have access to restoration patches, just thought I'd mention it. I can't remember if the JP versions had DLC packs or not outside of Ishin and 0 but if they do make sure to grab those too as they were free items handed out weekly in the early games for players to make use of. This should be for 3, 4, OTE, and 5. Ishin had a paid DLC voice pack for the narrator at the start of each chapter and 0 had the Walkman DLC, but 0's better off played on anything but the PS3 as is K1. Even Ishin on the PS3 is generally a bad choice over the PS4 version.
Anonymous No.718025180 >>718026687
Yakuza has fallen
Anonymous No.718025212 >>718026698
>>718020192
>If my main character can dodge missiles during combat or cutscenes, then there’s no real grit to it. Regardless of how violent the combat is. The gameplay/combat itself becomes a joke. Something to laugh at. Because it’s inconsequential. If you stab someone in the stomach during the fight, you at least want to imagine that he is being seriously hurt and in need of medical assistance. The bottom line: the thicker the wall between gameplay and story grew, the harder it became for me to engage with this world and its characters, which was the main reason I got invested in the first place.

It's hard to disagree but the story was unremarkable in the first place. It's also really funny because the entire series got popular precisely because of this dissonance and this guy is bitching about it
Anonymous No.718025215
>>718019093
Urban fantasy + job system was a major hit, I like it, too. Dislike the pachinko level of iw, where you are flooded with items and binging wahoo everywhere.
>rpg system bad
It's their second game and they did improve in iw over lad. I think they will improve further. Lad was really basic, iw just gives you some options in fighting. Problem is, iw is easy af.
>>718019093
>Problem is,...
Exactly, Sega upped their investment. Iw already had a much worse overall quality than lad, despite the posh polish. I kinda expect k3, might be the only one, idk. K2 is awesome, even if much worse than y2.
Anonymous No.718025291 >>718025479
>>718019962
Kek, didn't know. He does feel out of place. Was the cop a last minute addition, too?
Anonymous No.718025379 >>718025441
>>718023735
Kiryu would've been an awful chairman, he should just given leadership to someone competent instead of Kazama's friend that he knew for like 5 minutes
Anonymous No.718025406 >>718026930
>>718018842
They just announced singleplayer content as a free update for the Steam version at EVO.
https://youtu.be/4PFKk_gmeAo?si=Sf2nzMpjq-I_KJz7
Anonymous No.718025441
>>718025379
someone competent like who?
main issue is that person just doesn't exist in the context of yakuza 1, maybe Kashiwagi?
Anonymous No.718025479
>>718025291
The cop and Akiyama were the main pillars of the story, he was there from the start. Saejima has more problems than those two because he was originally set up to be the new Kiryu, fresh out of prison, dumb and strong moralfag.
Anonymous No.718025727 >>718053515
>>718007268 (OP)
This is way better than the turn based shit they’ve been shitting out
Anonymous No.718025910
>>718023485
Good call, JP ISOs + CFW is absolutely the way to go for the classic PS3 titles. The restored music makes a massive difference in atmosphere, especially in Yakuza 5 where stuff like β€œReceive and Slash You” hit way harder. If you've got webMAN or Multiman set up, also consider grabbing the pre-patched versions floating around - some even come with English patches for titles like Ishin PS3 if you don’t want to wait around. Just triple-check your file structure and you're golden. Welcome to the based timeline.
Anonymous No.718025968 >>718026697
>>718020706
Anon, I completed 8 without changing jobs beyond the fire dancer (Fire Bow skill was AoE and OP as fuck because of it) and others to get skills for the default jobs.

Just like 7 you have NO REASON to switch jobs from the defaults beyond skill inherentence/learning.

They have to tweak the job system up massively to make it matter more.
Anonymous No.718026068
>>718007268 (OP)
>>718010391
Yakuza games have always been cheaply thrown together with a lot of asset reuse. They're not huge hits but they have enough of a niche to have near annual releases.
The series blew up slightly when Zero/Kiwami came out but it died again when the gimmick wore out as most people aren't that interested in playing the same game over and over again.
Anonymous No.718026069
>>718020672
There hasn't been an actual NEW game with Leon since 2012.
Anonymous No.718026150 >>718027550 >>718031341
>>718021372
This, 100% these games is a fools errand. Stop doing all the collectathon shit and do whatever you think is fun.
Anonymous No.718026374 >>718026576
>>718020672
Frankly I don't believe Grace is the actual protagonist.
It makes 0 sense to have a game that's a nostalgia wank (i.e. zombies, takes place in the RPD, apocalypse Racoon City, hints of Wesker and Spencer) only to have none of the main characters be involved.
I think Grace is the protagonist for the first ~1/3 of the game which will be very horror focused and then it'll switch to Leon.
Anonymous No.718026576
>>718026374
Counterpoint: If Leon is going to be the real protagonist then why not advertise it? He's by far the most popular character in the franchise and would generate way more sales.
Anonymous No.718026687
>>718025180
Millions must buy?
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718026697
>>718025968
Did you only do the main story or something? Side content all requires you to change it up because the defaults are just bad and take an eternity to deal with even basic dungeon mobs for example. You're also thinking of Samurai with Burning Arrow, Pyrodancer is a mediocre job at best.

If you stick with Hero you have absolutely nothing worth using in 8 specifically because it's so weak and only really works in early game even with the poop bat.
If you stick with DoD you deal significantly less damage than any other job simply because you have no access to weapons, the style changes immediately fall off as soon as you step into chapter 4 when it comes to damage, and until you get Essence of the Dragon God none of your skills are even good.
If you just stick with Homeless you've got an awful selection of moves and low damage along with the worst 7* armor in the game.
If you stick with Detective you've basically got a gimped Linebacker that has no good moves.
Heiress is good thanks to Violino Adagissimo and Aperitifs but you can give any other job Violino Adagissimo making the entire job moot.
If you stick with Hitman 90% of what you have is resisted and Head Trauma was addressed so everything is has deals low damage.
If you stick with Gangster you have to wait until you get its best sword to actually be a good job, otherwise everything resists most of what it has.
If you stick with Assassin you deal piss poor damage all game long and swapping to literally any other female job would be an upgrade.
Cabbie's alright but Host is just monumentally better than it.
Barmaid is actually Saeko's best job simply due to her weapon + Jewel Breaker but until you get her weapon it's worse than the other female jobs.

Yeah, you could maybe rush through the main story like this but the side content calls for swapping jobs all the time.
Anonymous No.718026698 >>718027810
>>718025212
Imagine hating one of Kiryu's finest moments.
Anonymous No.718026820 >>718027524
Yakuza really should have split into separate franchises a long time ago. You have one fanbase that really likes the silly shit and another that hates it and the games keep flip flopping between the two. Like A Dragon can be the goofy shit and Yakuza can be the serious games.
Anonymous No.718026930
>>718025406
>World Stage
Took them like 6 months to get to something that should've been there at launch (base VF5 had it, FFS: Quest mode!) but good that it's happening.

Still concerning given how bare-bones VF5: REVO/eSports was for base 6.
Anonymous No.718027524
>>718026820
I like both, I don't care that substory Kiryu feels like a different character than main story Kiryu.
Even if it gets stupid I do enjoy the main stories for the most part.
Anonymous No.718027550 >>718028000 >>718028207
>>718026150
no fuck you I need to grind out mahjong and poker in every game
Anonymous No.718027810
>>718026698
How do you take anything that happens in these games seriously? Yet it has 40 hours of cutscenes and constant text dialogs.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718028000 >>718028094 >>718028826
>>718027550
Anonymous No.718028094 >>718028218 >>718028276
>>718028000
I've heard IRL mahjong players/people that play other mahjong games say RGG rigs the games
Anonymous No.718028207
>>718027550
>mahjong
................................
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718028218 >>718028498 >>718029104
>>718028094
It does if you play the lower difficulties. The higher up in the difficulties you go the easier it gets until around 7 or LJ at which point the difficulties align with what they're supposed to be.

They double riichi constantly, they pull ippatsus out of their ass, half their hands are baimans, they constantly ron you specifically instead of anyone else, they seem to know how to read your hand specifically leading to more rons than seems reasonable, and even with a fully closed hand they sometimes refuse to discard tiles even if it serves them no purpose.
Anonymous No.718028276 >>718028352 >>718028498
>>718028094
Yeah. In some games they make it too obvious. Can't remember which one it was, but I saw intermediate table always having at least one player declare riichi after 2-3 tiles dealt, meaning they started the round with nearly complete hands.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718028352 >>718029494 >>718029704
>>718028276
They do. You'll constantly see AI have a riichi within like four tiles. Funnily enough BP2 is probably the most balanced mahjong has ever felt in terms of difficulty.
Anonymous No.718028498
>>718028276
>>718028218
Of course it cheats until it decides to let you win. CPU always knows which tiles you need. It's not random. It's acts like a slot machine. You don't win because enemy stumbles, you win because you draw winning tiles
Anonymous No.718028826
>>718028000
I just gib myself cheat item ezpz
Anonymous No.718029104 >>718029650 >>718031191
>>718028218
anything similar to akagi that is a must watch?
Anonymous No.718029234
>>718013887
>Buy on launch
>Play until I get every achievement
>Uninstall.
I did Amon before the final boss.
Anonymous No.718029494
>>718028352
It's funny because the game tells you that not only it expects you to cheat via special items, but also that you're playing against other cheats. Their nicknames give it away. Then you have stuff like taking Haruka to a gambling hall in Y1 and accidentally exposing that the house rigged the game in its favor. I'm pretty sure those gambling minigames existed because Nagoshi wanted to condemn gambling. His father was a deadbeat gambling addict buried in debts.
Anonymous No.718029504 >>718029741
>>718011005
>Infinite Wealth a runaway success
Y7 was better than infinite wealth tho
IW has the worst plot in the series
Anonymous No.718029650
>>718029104
>2 years since the last issue of Kaiji
I hate these fucking scam artists so fucking much. I hope he dies like Miura. You really shouldn't take 20 fucking years to finish your story nigger
Anonymous No.718029652
>>718014517
>Don't use my face to push your transphobia

Didn't you physically beat Majima to a quivering pulp while he was drag queening as Goromi, Kazuma?
Anonymous No.718029704 >>718031191
>>718028352
>You'll constantly see AI have a riichi within like four tiles.
that happens with real people in mahjong soul. Sometimes you are just supposed to weather the storm
Anonymous No.718029739
pandering to the loud newfag reddit twitter crowd for a long tenured series didnt work and blew up in their face? who would have known.
Anonymous No.718029741 >>718029869
>>718029504
People didn't know the plot of the game when they bought it.
Anonymous No.718029770 >>718029851
>>718015369
>The Rich family in general is god awful and the series needs to shit or get off the pot with its female characters, either relegate them to eye candy background chumps or make them actually do shit.
Seonhee and Chitose were both hot and useful to the plot.
Anonymous No.718029793 >>718052476
>>718012227
I'm genuinely a little bit surprised you didn't get hit with the
>c-cared enough to r-reply
by now
Anonymous No.718029851 >>718031450
>>718029770
your not wrong, they just seem to be the exception rather than the norm, which is why pirates going backwards in this regard is so strange to me.
Anonymous No.718029869
>>718029741
It's very apparent in the leaked presentation from a couple months back. 7 had initially low sales but kept selling hundreds of thousands units every year since its release. 8 had massive initial sales and then almost nothing in following years.
Anonymous No.718029874 >>718030008
>>718007268 (OP)
Sega is doing okay, the industry is doing shit.
Anonymous No.718029938 >>718030107
>>718015016
>Is the Yakuza series allergic to having female characters who actually do shit

Eri is literally the grim reaper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceGreormvn0
Anonymous No.718030008
>>718029874
>Sega is doing okay
Not unless chinese smartphone whales are all Sega needs to keep the money coming in to Atlus P Studio they're not.
Anonymous No.718030026
>>718011668
>>718011921
Localizers always did this shit and it makes games better because Japanese directly translated sounds retarded because it kind of is.
Anonymous No.718030107
>>718029938
In 4 it's Saejima's sister who kills Katsuragi because Kiryu and Saejima refuse to finish the job. Also Haruka killed all those people in Bacchus.
Anonymous No.718030549
>>718015126
>A female MC could be cool too. I don't know why it hasn't happened yet.
But anon have you forgotten? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGSN-BghhNk
Anonymous No.718030631
>>718015126
>A female MC could be cool too
Females have brittle bones, anon. She wouldn't survive her first punchout.
Anonymous No.718030734 >>718031042
i hope they continue to bleed money so they dont have enough to new the denuvo licences and i can enjoy the newer yakuza games for free as im not doing well financially either
Anonymous No.718031042
>>718030734
I'd like to play Lost Judgment but shadPS4 will probably support it sooner than Sega removes denuvo from the PC version.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718031191 >>718031403 >>718037202
>>718029704
Of course it's a normal thing but it happens an unreasonable amount of times when it comes to hands dealt. I once had an entire game where one of the other three players either had a double riichi or a riichi within three to four tiles while I had to fill out the entire hand every time.

Oicho-kabu also actively cheats as does blackjack more than is reasonable in real life. Koi-koi you can fool though, it has certain quirks with the AI you can exploit like with the moon card.

>>718029104
You can watch the OVA of The Legend of Koizumi and read the manga up until Koizumi isn't focused on anymore. I thought it got unbelievably boring once the new guy became the MC.
Anonymous No.718031341
>>718026150
There's a reason achievements started being maybe 20% of the completion list in the newer games.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718031403
>>718031191
Oh, and in Kenzan iroha karuta has the AI know where the exact card is even if it has never seen it in its vision rectangle and you can constantly see the cursor beeline towards a card. I took this webm of a random video I found of the minigame since I was lazy and even that guy had the AI cheating against him regularly. Just look at how before the first kana is even stated it sometimes just bolts to the kana card.
Anonymous No.718031450 >>718031780
>>718029851
Pirates is also a silly barely canon spin-off so probably less drafts then usual. TMWEHN was supposed to be important yet wasn't remotely considered in IW.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718031780 >>718046982
>>718031450
>barely canon
7G and 8G are canon according to Yokoyama when asked about Gaiden games in a summit for 8G specifically. They're mainline canon games.
>>>/wsg/5947430
Anonymous No.718033362
>>718007268 (OP)
This game was good though, majima should be protag in a full game instead of ichiban
Anonymous No.718034605 >>718057997
>>718020192
desu judgment and the sequel was better than most of the other games in the series released in the last decade
Anonymous No.718036746 >>718036873
>>718016646
Nugget killed the series
Anonymous No.718036873 >>718037190
>>718036746
He's dead.
Anonymous No.718036939 >>718037214 >>718037292 >>718038634
How is the combat in like a pirate? Is it at least better than Judgement? I dont expect it to be level of LJ tho
Anonymous No.718037190
>>718036873
Took it to the grave with him.
Anonymous No.718037202
>>718031191
Yeah, Mahjong AI in these games is permanently on psychic difficulty. You can legit tell when it's lining you up to be the dealer yakuman bait-it’ll feed you just enough tiles to feel like you have hope then someone slaps down a tsumo like it's scripted. Also fully agree on Koi-Koi being exploitable. Once you learn the AI prioritizes moon/boar/deer/blindly, you can trap it just by baiting with junk cards and snatching the good ones, it's comical.

And yeah, The Legend of Koizumi hits peak insanity with the Pope mahjong arc then just kinda fizzles into nonsense once the new protagonist steps in. It's hard to top political figures screaming reachi at each other on the moon.
Anonymous No.718037214
>>718036939
The melee is fun even though it's super easy. The ship combat gets old fast.
Anonymous No.718037292
>>718036939
It's fine. Main upgrade is the group combat, mostly from Kriyu's gaiden to be fair but it's a bigger focus in Pirates.
Anonymous No.718038089 >>718038831
How is 0 switch 2?
Anonymous No.718038249
>>718012006
>autistic to the point he can't separate art from the artist
poor anon
Anonymous No.718038382
>>718014021
>magically recovering from his cancer
>doesn't actually play the games
Anonymous No.718038420
>>718007268 (OP)
And yet it's still the best game released this year.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718038634
>>718036939
Easiest game in the series even on Professional. If you thought LJ made you kill stuff too quickly on Legend 8G has you killing stuff in a single punch sometimes. You have to actively not put any points into the attack buffs and refuse to use Shark Rings to have any chance of basic combat having any difficulty. I only had one section of attack upgrades (There's either two or three) and only one Shark Ring with the rest being other rings and I completely slaughtered Amon with no remorse.

Mad Dog is just as awful as it is in 0 and K2 with barely anything to work with and its only claim to fame is the Tiger Drop, being able to grab enemies or items, and the summons on R2.
Sea Dog is so monumentally overpowered there is never a reason to swap to Mad Dog.
>You have Kenzan's 2kat round block so no matter where you're attacked from you can block.
>You have like triple the amount of Heat Actions including one on the ship that instantly kills like 8 people.
>You can hold triangle or O which throws your hook at an enemy, pulls you towards them, stuns them, and allows you to do a slash that does close to Tiger Drop damage.
>You have twice the attack speed as Mad Dog.
>The rings you get exclusive for it make it even more broken with War God Talisman-levels of Heat gain and Ultimate Heat gain.

Ship battles are whatever. Early on you feel like it's fairly balanced but soon figure out that only one type of cannon really works well at all, it mostly relies on stunlocking boss ships and ignoring other ships shooting at you, and primarily revolves around boosting and drifting to avoid stuff when you're not perpetually stunlocking the ship.
Anonymous No.718038735 >>718039304
>>718014709
>But they went and did his Majima Everywhere shit instead of the "Lord of the Night"/serious persona.
Majima everywhere was great and im not going to pretend otherwise
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718038831
>>718038089
As far as I've seen after the updates it's been fine and K1 is getting or has gotten a Switch 2 update to fix the constant crashing and frame drops.
If you're asking about it as a game they made many of the transitional scenes worse (The ones where you see a screenshot and talking over it) by making the font way too big, the new font is worse, and from what I saw discussed here the translation is arguably worse than what we had with 0's original release since they gave it a once-over like with 5R despite having no reason to.
The new cutscenes completely ruin the game and do nothing but ruin certain characters and explain or expand on stuff that didn't need explaining or expanding upon.
They didn't bring back the Walkman but they did license Bubble.
The Red Light District minigame is apparently just a bunch of gauntlets akin to something like K2's bounties? I didn't hear anything good about this minigame and it wasn't worth the wait.
It's also a Game Key Card so might as well buy it digitally.

It's just another version of 0 and not one I'd call "Definitive". It's more like 0's version of the Star Wars OT Lucas CGI cuts.
Anonymous No.718038835
>>718007268 (OP)
Well /v/ always uses steam stats as a measure of game so this seems to have done much better than 0, all the kiwami games and 7.
Anonymous No.718038973 >>718052528
>He doesn't like Nu-Yakuza
Turn around now...
Anonymous No.718039304
>>718038735
It didn't belong in this specific game. I could see it happen in a spinoff game or later, after Majima was no longer obsessed with murdering Kiryu. The only encounter that would sort of fit into the story was the strip club one, and only because Kiryu was fresh out of the slammer.
Anonymous No.718039435
I would have bought this if it didn't have denuvo, but alas.
Anonymous No.718040058 >>718040374
I'm currently playing the original Ishin on Hard and jesus christ the battle dungeon is such unfair bullshit.

You get placed into so many small rooms with a shitton of enemies that just fuck your shit up instantly
Anonymous No.718040190 >>718040531
>>718018592
what leaks?
i don't even like ichiban but there's no way they're dropping him this quick, he'll get at least another 2 games
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718040374 >>718040789
>>718040058
You're supposed to use Pistol exclusively with Two on it. The Battle Dungeon is not meant to be done with any style other than Pistol and spamming square while moving around to increase the fire rate. If you are meleeing anything you are doing the Battle Dungeon wrong and that includes in Ishin Kiwami. Once you reach the boss room you pop your cards which should just be damage buff cards like Lao or Rikiya because buffs stack, stop time with Shinada, and you win.
Anonymous No.718040531 >>718057905
>>718040190
They sidelined him in his own second game, I don't know.
Anonymous No.718040672
>>718007268 (OP)
>Pirate Yakuza, Skull and bones, Risen 2
WHY are all pirate medias so SHIT. Why do ugly cowboys get literally all the good stuff? Red dead redemption? Masterpiece. Weird west? Masterpiece. The dozens of actual kino spaghetti westerns? Im SICK of Cowboy wankery. Give pirates a win for once
Anonymous No.718040697 >>718043180
>>718014340
PC is a very small audience in the grand scheme of things.
Anonymous No.718040789 >>718041639
>>718040374
Damn.. I didn't know the damage buffs stacked like that, I've been using Shinada as my commander, Kanda for healing and one damage guy as backup that I keep spamming for the damage buff

I fucking hate spamming gun because it feels like I'm just cheesing the whole thing but it is what it is.
You got any tips for the Arena battles? Having a single healthbar for 5 bullshit fights also leads me to believe that they just expect me to cheese it as well
Anonymous No.718040965
>>718007268 (OP)
I eventually bought it. But it took me a while to do so and at the point of where i was buying at a discount so they lost money i suppose. But video games are too expensive nowadays so i don't care what is considered a profitable margin for SEGA anymore. When you increase the prices then expect for my support to be delayed. I will however probably buy Project Century on release.

I still love Yakuza and am a loyal fan, but some people have a valid point of when you go too much in the whole whacky direction that it starts to lose it's identity a little. I mean it's always been a balancing act with this series, but serious crime drama is what it's meant to be.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718041639
>>718040789
>leads me to believe that they just expect me to cheese it as well
Yep, welcome to the arena. In Ishin Kiwami you can cheese it to hell with Wild Dancer + elemental sword and then just switch to Gunman, makes it a boatload easier and made getting the Golden Sword a joke that took like an hour.
In Ishin you Pistol them and learn to dodge Ginryu's one-shot slash. Elemental swords don't proc remotely as much in Ishin and the effect isn't really the same so they're just not as good. You could try crafting an Okanehira but it likely won't work out like the perma stunlock you can do in Ishin Kiwami.

If you are going to use Pistol then do Chicken Racing until you can afford to just buy the Golden Gun from the gambling hall. In Ishin it's the second best gun in the game and you can get it almost immediately. Get a Tsujikaze and break it down for Blink and slap that on your Golden Gun, then get whatever makes Two and slap that on it as well. You now have a rapid firing gun that shoots two shots every shot.
Anonymous No.718042164 >>718042340
This is a series I keep coming back to in the hopes it'll be good again but it just never is. Post 6, everything is so frail. You can't have any fun with the combat at all. People hype up 0 because they have shit taste but that's a game where
- All but 1 enemy dies in a couple of basic hits, with NO attack upgrades, unarmed
- Said enemy is just a money fountain you repeatedly hit with a bike or whatever to pay for skills
- Skills you need to buy with cash for some stupid, grindy-ass reason, which is super low outside of this and some tedious minigames
- Minigames 1/4 of your styles on both characters are locked behind
Just showed me fans of this series don't actually have standards
Anonymous No.718042340 >>718042415
>>718042164
>cash is low in 0
So you sped through it on normal?
Anonymous No.718042381
Maybe BASEDga deserves to go down...
Anonymous No.718042415
>>718042340
I always play these games on the hardest difficulty, brainlet.
Compared to your skill costs, its low regardless.
0 on the hardest difficulty still rarely has a single regular enemy survive even a single basic combo from the weakest styles with no upgrades
They're that weak
Anonymous No.718042527 >>718042743
>kill off everything but Sonic and Yakuza, and I guess Fatlus shit
>zero new franchises
Everything is shit now.
Anonymous No.718042549
>>718007268 (OP)
Doesn't help that they've become incredibly jewish with the series too. Y0-6 rarely go on sale anymore and when they do it's something ridiculous like 20% off. It used to be 80% off.
Anonymous No.718042580
Guess I wasn't alone in not even touching Yakuza 8 and everything after it.
Anonymous No.718042689
>boot up yakuza 0 for first time
>1-2 hours of nonstop cutscenes
>dropped because i just cba and if i wanted a movie i would go watch a movie
AITA /v/eddit?
Anonymous No.718042743 >>718042939 >>718042982 >>718043474
>>718042527
Its your fault for not buying valkyria chronicles 4
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718042939
>>718042743
Take it back.
Anonymous No.718042982
>>718042743
I did though, it's everyone else who's the problem. Also, whoever was in charge of Shin Sakura Wars needs to get raped to death. Shining was shit for a long time, so I guess good riddance.
Anonymous No.718043021 >>718043391
>>718007268 (OP)
Yakuza 0 was ok
Yakuza kiwami was ok
Yakuza kiwami 2 was ok
Yakuza 3 is dogshit
Yakuza 4 is dogshit
Yakuza 5....it drags on....and on. Then you stop playing the MC and start doing this odd Prison story that then turns into broke back mountain. That stops and you then play a pop idol

I'm at the part were the idol woman kills herself.
When does this shit story end?

Does anything pick up at all in yakuza 6
Anonymous No.718043180 >>718043282 >>718043872
>>718040697
>PC is a very small audience in the grand scheme of things.
Yakuza used to be a niche series until it came to PC. Something about the zero port exploded it's popularity.

Also speaking of Zero, can anyone tell me what's the difference between the current versions and the one on Switch 2? directors cut that is. If there's some story content that is locked behind a console I'm gonna be pissed.
Anonymous No.718043282
>>718043180
It's a shitass soap opera anyway.
Anonymous No.718043391 >>718043606 >>718044359
>>718043021
>Does anything pick up at all in yakuza 6
Lol no

only yakuza 0, 1, judgment and maaaaaaybe lost judgment have good stories
Anonymous No.718043474
>>718042743
Go play 3, it's the best one. Far as the script size goes, at least.
Anonymous No.718043606 >>718043882
>>718043391
I just feel like quitting. The story just turned to shit after kiryu's part ends
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718043872 >>718044106
>>718043180
>Yakuza used to be a niche series until it came to PC. Something about the zero port exploded it's popularity.
That's Yokoyama straight up not remembering the series of events that unfolded that he himself was present for. 3R-5R only happened because of the immense explosion in popularity after 0 on PS4 came out and 6 did well. They did interviews outright stating this. 0 PC was just icing on the cake, the series exploded because of PS4 0 but he just blanked on that for some reason.

>>can anyone tell me what's the difference between the current versions and the one on Switch 2?
>JP PS3 and PS4
Access to licensed music, the Walkman, and the Vita companion app. The Walkman nowadays requires a hacked system to use because it was exclusive DLC. PS3 runs at 30 FPS with major drops, PS4 runs at 60 FPS with some drops on base PS4s, no drops on Pros with Boost Mode.
>Western PS4
No licensed music, Walkman, or Vita companion app, same everything else. Hacked PS4s can restore the music but not the Walkman.
>PC
Can go above 60 FPS, have better textures, play in ultrawide, and use mods. No licensed music, Walkman, or Vita companion app but can mod back the licensed music. Walkman is not possible to mod back in as far as I understand and hasn't been yet.

Downsides are it has an inventory corrupting bug (Can be fixed by saving when it happens then reloading the save) which happens at complete random, darts is completely broken with no way to fix it, and the arcade games are the incorrect version and missing features found on consoles making them much worse.
>Switch 2
Licensed music but no Walkman. The game is retranslated (Arguably worse), did transitional scenes worse, and uses a worse font. Added in 30 minutes of needless cutscenes that ruin the story or add nothing to it. Only addition is the Red Light Raid multiplayer minigame where you just do a bunch of gauntlets and isn't very good as far as I've seen. Runs at 60 FPS and most technical issues are fixed now.
Anonymous No.718043882 >>718044059
>>718043606
If you haven't yet, then play judgment, that's way better than 5 or 6
Anonymous No.718044059 >>718044826
>>718043882
Is that pirated as I'm currently going through the series and isnt that one with Denuvo?

Can someone in short tell me the story of 5 after the woman kills herself and a fake suicide note is left. I dont think I can continue on with this. It's boring as hell
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718044106
>>718043872
Oh, and as far as I understand it the Xbone version is the same as the western PS4 one but you can't get any of the Ishin bonuses like even western PS4 can or PC can just cheat in. I've never seen anyone actually play it so I have no idea if it has the inventory corruption bug, broken darts, or broken arcade games like PC does. I just know it doesn't get access to the exclusive Ishin equips. Not sure if Switch 2 does either actually.
Anonymous No.718044224 >>718044336 >>718044475
No Kenzan translation yet? I don't nearly feel fluent enough to play it as is.
Anonymous No.718044336
>>718044224
If you're afraid of weird period terms, it's really just the fucking whore ranking system.
Anonymous No.718044359 >>718044748
>>718043391
Y1's story sucked thoughbeit
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718044475
>>718044224
The original team behind the translation finally got a translator that wasn't flaking on them and it's the guy who successfully finished the Ishin one so it's looking good.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/730575-ryu-ga-gotoku-ishin/80928724
https://yakuzapatch.tumblr.com/post/774493490631589888/hello-there-been-a-while-wasnt-it-new-fans

The guys haven't updated us here in like a year (Both the guys post stuff here) but they did update their tumblr so there you go. It's basically a waiting game at this point.

Keep in mind Kenzan is 100% a guide game no matter what so even if you're not using an English guide to understand stuff you will still have to use a guide for substories, keys, kakemawari missions, bounties, and Heat Actions because they're all missable. Making a mistake in a substory also locks you out of the secret boss if you save with that mistake.
I also have no idea how iroha karuta is going to be tackled outside of just making the kana romaji and then the poem romaji.
Anonymous No.718044748
>>718044359
Nah, 1 was good enough for a first game in the series and then Kiwami 1 gets a boost for having 0 as a prequel to help with the characters
Anonymous No.718044826 >>718045775
>>718044059
Judgment has denuvo with Empress' crack.
>Can someone in short tell me the story of 5 after the woman kills herself and a fake suicide note is left.
Haruka wins the princess league, Akiyama raids a garbage dump for nothing. Then it switches to the baseball player in Nagoya. Daigo shows up out of nowhere and pays him to uncover why yakuza is kept out of Nagoya. The whole town tries to kill him to keep the secret, then he goes to Tokyo with Daigo. I don't even remember how it was all connected in the finale, everything converged on Haruka's big concert.
Anonymous No.718044832 >>718045158
anyone who kept playing these games after insisting on rpg and that dog shit yak7 where all you do is just spam the one strongest move you have every fight
Anonymous No.718044861 >>718045532
One positive i can see with Ryu Ga Gotoku is that they've stuck with Dragon Engine over Unreal Engine. And hopefully we'll never get a repeat of Ishin again. That being said, I'm still trying to figure out what the best game engine they used was. Because people also have preferences for certain games in the series simply because of how they felt to play, in regards to combat.
V-Engine or Dragon. V-Engine has just been the same since the original 3 and 4 games on PS3, but got overhauled numerous times for Kiwami and Zero and the collection games. The issues i see with the old is that in regards to battles it was all messed up at higher framerates. so when RGG started doing their PC ports they started screwing up at anything higher than 60 fps for combat.
Anonymous No.718044926
>>718007268 (OP)
I hope they went bankrupt. Jewish woke company deserves to fall.
Anonymous No.718045158 >>718045267
>>718044832
>where all you do is just spam the one strongest move you have every fight
Yakuza 7 didn't have tiger drop though
Anonymous No.718045267
>>718045158
At least Tiger Drop has an (easy) execution requirement. There's no reason to use like 98% of all skills in LaD7. It's an unacceptably rudimentary JRPG.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718045532
>>718044861
60 FPS and higher is still broken even on current DE.
JER and LJ have their drones break for no reason or NPCs just refuse to speak to you until you revert your save. When it comes to JER specifically these guys expanded upon their issues at 60 or above >>676852019 and >>676848451.
7G has a bunch of issues I listed >>665576624 that weren't fixed.
At 8Gs launch there was one guy who was having issues at 120 FPS (>>703738789) and crashing was a constant issue they had to address but to my understanding the crashing was fixed by this point, it's just these weird QTE timing issues now.
Anonymous No.718045775 >>718045823
>>718044826
>baseball player in Nagoya

WHO????
seriously who? I dont remember this at all. Wtf is a baseball player even doing having so much free time hes helping a yakuza boss out solve a mystery

Right that's it. Fuck it I'm dropping this.
I'm gona go play The Citadel or something else I havent played yet.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718045823 >>718045918
>>718045775
>WHO????
Second best boy.
Anonymous No.718045918 >>718046074 >>718046145 >>718048315
>>718045823
Who da fuck is this??
I dont remember this character what so ever. Was he in the previous games or has yakuza 5 bored me so much my brains turned to paste
Anonymous No.718045959
>>718010391
eh it's not a live service game
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718046074
>>718045918
It's Shinada, the fourth playable character. I think the Nagoya Wyverns are spoken of once or twice earlier on in the game but not Shinada himself.
Anonymous No.718046114 >>718046283
>>718007268 (OP)
Why is Majima making a onions face? The West has killed the Yakuza series
Anonymous No.718046145
>>718045918
You can't remember him because he's a brand new character introduced just for this one game. He appears last, not very long after the point you dropped out. He's a former player banned from playing any serious league, set up to lose by yakuza. When Yokoyama needed a reason for Daigo to personally visit him and ask for help, he made up the story about him being Daigo's classmate.
Anonymous No.718046283
>>718046114
The fact that opening your mouth causes others to lose their minds is one of the greatest absurdities of the modern age.
Anonymous No.718046982
>>718031780
Lots of stuff is "canon" but functionally irrelevant if nothing from it ever comes up down the line.
Anonymous No.718047276
>>718007268 (OP)
They made the ugliest shota companion
Anonymous No.718048315 >>718048681 >>718052998
>>718045918
5's story is so bad, its actually kind of crazy they actually managed to make a good one for 0
Anonymous No.718048397
>>718007268 (OP)
This would be cooler if it was like the Musashi/Shinsengumi games and took place during the golden age of piracy instead.
Anonymous No.718048681
>>718048315
It wasn't Yokoyama who wrote 0. Nagoshi said it was Furuta, and that's why later he teamed up with him again for Judgment games.
Anonymous No.718050683
>>718021210
all yakuza games are fine for a casual playthrough, the series only sucks if you try to do everything in each game
Anonymous No.718052072
>>718013107
Deserved, their games are expensive as fuck (Atlus being the worst offender) I bought P3 Reload Super Deluxe edition for full price and the "Expansion Pass" with episode Aigis wasn't included, no, you have to pay another 30$ to get that.
Fuck Sega and fuck Atlus.
Anonymous No.718052190
>>718007268 (OP)
I'm an old head, and I fell off around the time of the Ishin remake.
Just had my fill, I think.
Anonymous No.718052476
>>718029793
that's because no one cared about this troon's post
Anonymous No.718052528
>>718038973
>VOs must match their character's ethnicity!!!11
>hires a gook to voice a jap
Anonymous No.718052836 >>718053048
Majima's pirate game should have been set in the past like ishin
Anonymous No.718052998 >>718055204 >>718067021
>>718048315
who give a fuck about the story
Anonymous No.718053028
>>718007268 (OP)
Exploring Hawai with your lil bro and his pet cat was pure kino. Kinda wish the whole game was like that
Anonymous No.718053048 >>718055212 >>718056395
>>718052836
There's no way RGG would make a whole new map for a smaller title. Plus i like the modern day minigames, like the arcade and such.
Also the pirate stuff isn't that hard to believe when you look at it through the lens of Madlantis basically being Purgatory in international waters.
Anonymous No.718053515 >>718055212
>>718025727
For real, even Gaiden was better than Slopuza 7 and 8.
Anonymous No.718054983
dead series
Anonymous No.718055204 >>718055847
>>718052998
what was the point of that whole hunting village filler plotline?
Anonymous No.718055212 >>718055471
>>718053515
7 has a decent story and good or rather fitting emotional beats, unlike 8.
>>718053048
>Madlantis
?
Anonymous No.718055471 >>718056249
>>718055212
>Madlantis
The reason for the pirate stuff. Basically Epstein island but for gladiator ship combat and gambling instead of pedophilia.
Anonymous No.718055704
>>718007268 (OP)
Is there a reason why this slop franchise gets a pass for extreme asset reusal all the time, when others get crucified
Anonymous No.718055827
Still buying stranger than heaven day 1
Anonymous No.718055847
>>718055204
who gives a fuck
Anonymous No.718055928
>>718014701
Threesome with sexy hebe and her little shota brother
Anonymous No.718055964
>>718007268 (OP)
Because while they make some good stuff, they make a ton of bad stuff which costs millions too.
Anonymous No.718056076
>>718007268 (OP)
Every yakuza game is the same
Anonymous No.718056249 >>718068234
>>718055471
It's a island in the yakuza u inverse, thought it's a real thing. Didn't beat everything in lad and iw, yet, so no pirate fun for me, yet.
Anonymous No.718056395
>>718053048
>There's no way RGG would make a whole new map for a smaller title
But that's exactly what they did in the past with Kenzan/Ishin and even the zombie map was a hugely changed version of Kamurocho. Lazy bastards
Anonymous No.718057905
>>718040531
that's because they had to answer to the backlash from 6, next game won't sideline him as hard, though there might still be a second main character
Anonymous No.718057997
>>718034605
not really no. its still a bloated mess with hundreds of hours of dialog with worse combat than previous games. The only reason people feel like you is novelty of a new protagonist
Anonymous No.718058321 >>718058618
>>718013141
>Said that working in RGG games is her dream job
>Manipulated her simps to get herself that dream job
>Can't be arse to give it 100% for the "dream job", in her hostess video you can see her keep glancing off to the side to read the queue cards
Anonymous No.718058618
>>718058321
she's yet another fake fan pretending to care or whatever then just dropping everything once she gets the attention she wants from being noticed by the devs and voice talent
Anonymous No.718058659 >>718059008
what gooning to aika does to a nigga
Anonymous No.718058743 >>718060314
>Nagoshi left
>The series start to pander to westoids
>The series fully lean into hAHA SO RANDUMP! memes
Nagoshi-sama....
Anonymous No.718058754 >>718058962
I want to play all of the Yakuza games. Problem is they make too many of them.
I've played three, and still have most of the series to go, before I even get to this stuff.
Anonymous No.718058962 >>718067862
>>718058754
>I've played three
Play 4 and 5, emulate both Kurohyo, then you can be done with the series
Anonymous No.718059008
>>718058659
what hatred of beef bowls does to a nigga
Anonymous No.718060314 >>718060839 >>718062862
>>718058743
Then Nagoshi's new company got dropped by their Chinese publisher too
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718060839
>>718060314
To be fair it's been years now with radio silence. From what I read they're still contracted to make the game and once it releases they're closing or something like that.
Anonymous No.718062862 >>718067941
>>718060314
As someone who got into this series through Judgment first can I just say they really need to drop the main Yakuza guys. I've played all but 8 and Reddit Majima's game and they really need to make something similar but new. They made Yakuza 0, which is where the series with its characters peaked, now move onto newer things for fuck's sake. These main characters are in their 60s by now and there's nothing interesting about Ichiban. He's a more retarded and auraless Kiryu.
Anonymous No.718065001
test
Anonymous No.718067021
>>718052998
Everyone, considering it’ll be a good chunk of your runtime in a standard playthrough and most of the game boils down to β€œrun between cutscene triggers” if you aren’t here for the side content.
Anonymous No.718067862 >>718068571
>>718058962
Kurohyo is shit, both narratively and in terms of gameplay. I wish people stopped memeing it as le hidden gem just because not a lot of people played it
Repetitive combat with obnoxious mechanics like STAMINA, worst mini-games in the series by far, barebones side content, basic bitch story (especially in 2). MC is kinda cool, that's about the only thing they did well
Anonymous No.718067941
>>718062862
>main characters are in their 60s
So what, this is an ojisan franchise, you can't say old people bad. I want it to be about old people. Not a lot of games with old casts
Anonymous No.718068234 >>718069025
>>718056249
Kinda wild how they turned Dondoko Island into a full-on side game though. Feels like every new entry has to justify its existence with some wacky spin-off mode now. LAD was already bloated and then IW doubled down on that with pirate karaoke and Animal Crossing Lite. At this point I half expect the next game to include a mech building sim or some gacha idol-raising minigame.
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718068571 >>718068813
>>718067862
>Repetitive combat with obnoxious mechanics like STAMINA
The combat is the best part of it by far, what are you talking about? Stamina is a good thing as is body damage because it means you have to play differently and be more careful and deliberate, and body damage is extremely detrimental. It also made Heat something to conserve and made taunting way more worth doing since a fully executed taunt leveled you a tier. Then you have the upper, middle, and lower positions which each style has its own unique attacks of and all of the Tsukuhara Dojo special attacks to weave into it all. It's the most involved combat system in the series.
>barebones side content
What? It has a bunch of substories which all intersect like with the gangs all taking down Gaia in BP1, has an entire 1v1 ranked battle system in BP1 and BP2 each with their own unique fights and quirks like the enemy parrying or dodging more, BP2 has an entire separate multiplayer mode with AI partners that give you active buffs, you have the 30 something unique Crime Events in BP2, you have 5-7 part-time jobs, you have the postgame ranked fights in BP1 and I think BP2 had them as well, and then there's the hostesses.

You have to keep in mind this is also the PSP, not a console game. For what it was they had tons of content.
>worst mini-games in the series by far
I disagree to a degree. The part-time jobs are all perfectly fine, the issue with them is just the grind for maxing them out. The only bad ones are the Shine barker and Shine waiter since the former is just a random QTE and the latter is Simon Says.
Most of the minigames are just the exact same gambling ones from the mainlines.
Kamuro of the Dead is simple but fun for what the PSP could handle.
What sucks is baseball which is beyond terribly made and never fixed in BP2 and karaoke which is just mashing O to fill out a bar. Slots is also undeniably rigged unlikely in the main games.
Anonymous No.718068813 >>718069171
>>718068571
I don't think I can argue with a guy pretending that literal 5 second long rhythm mini-games are not the worst mini-games in the series. A bit too far gone for me
>Kamuro of the Dead is simple but fun
How braindead do you have to be to find clicking on paper cutouts fun. Picking your nose is more fun than that
Anonymous No.718069025
>>718068234
I don't mind the side game stuff, I do mind it when they're shit (dondoko)
Moose !!Tm8/4MnbTW4 No.718069171
>>718068813
>I don't think I can argue with a guy pretending that literal 5 second long rhythm mini-games are not the worst mini-games in the series
Can you even read?
>"What sucks is baseball which is beyond terribly made and never fixed in BP2 and karaoke which is just mashing O to fill out a bar."
Karaoke was garbage. This doesn't mean a majority of the part-time jobs, the non-slots gambling, or the arcade game was bad.
>How braindead do you have to be to find clicking on paper cutouts fun.
It's a rail shooter minigame made for the PSP that you will play for like maybe 10 minutes at most. It still retains the essence of what House of the Dead is while being possible on the PSP and doable in their budget and having some goofy text. What exactly where you expecting for the PSP? Because it sounds like you never played a PSP game until this one.
Anonymous No.718069180
>>718013141
They need to attract the gen z audience. So they needed a girl to help the old geezers keep track on all the social trends