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Dominic White posted:Yakuza 4 (I'd say skip 3 - 4 comes with an extensive backstory summary anyway, if you're up for a couple of hours of video) is like if River City Ransom and Shenmue had the manliest baby ever, and that baby went around beating people until their faces imploded all day long. The counterpoint is that playing 3 [which I found to be quite good] makes 4 that much better, in that you can really appreciate the improvements. But I do understand that some people are put off by / bored by the orphanage bits. Still a good game though, drat it.  Also, Nier has been sitting on my shelf for ages collecting dust, never opened. Meanwhile, I am donning a rabbit head and sport coat and beating people with a dildo bat.
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Code Jockey posted:But I do understand that some people are put off by / bored by the orphanage bits. Still a good game though, drat it. 3 is a decent game, but 4 is huge and by the time you're completely done with it, you'll probably be just about set as far as the series goes until 5 finally comes stateside.
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Harlock posted:Personally, I liked the art style of FFO over the PSP remakes. FFO doesn't have all the extra side-quests and boss fights and still uses the spell charges the original NES version had rather than MP added in the PSP and GBA versions. It also plays slower. It's even inferior to the GBA remakes in this regard. Don't bother with FFO.
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Jan 11, 2012 20:10
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Code Jockey posted:The counterpoint is that playing 3 [which I found to be quite good] makes 4 that much better, in that you can really appreciate the improvements. I'll never fault 3 for not being fun, but the beginning is very slow, especially if you ahve no investment in the characters.
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Jan 11, 2012 20:14
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MrMidnight posted:God drat dude. I don't feel so bad now. I have some that have been on there for a very long time, like FF9, which I started when it was new, then we lost the discs, got it off PSN (still had the saves), but forgot wtf was going on. But yeah, almost half of the list is from Steam Sales and Humble Bundles. Although the PS3/PSN portion is just as large, and I don't really have a good excuse for that.
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SpacePig posted:I'll never fault 3 for not being fun, but the beginning is very slow, especially if you ahve no investment in the characters. The recaps of Yakuza 1 and 2, which are included with the third game, got me sucked in before I even played a second of the game. It's all good, and anyone who wouldn't enjoy spending a day getting drunk, fighting and gambling before heading back to look after orphans doesn't deserve a game as good as this anyway. I never quite get this attitude about skipping games. If it is something like a fighting game, a driving game, or the latest annual sports franchise game then sure, those are basically just iterations and you go straight to the latest which, for the most part, will always be the best. But anything with even a semblance of story, especially one that continues in later games ... well you always go to the earliest one that you can get your hands on right? drat it people, stop skipping good games.
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Jan 11, 2012 21:09
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Parkingtigers posted:drat it people, stop skipping good games. ... but then I watch that one video where the crazy dude jumps to his death for a pair of panties, and begin to wonder if they got way better. Normally I'm with you on the sentiment, but if the mechanics got way better, at least I would happily skip story and just watch a recap.
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Jan 11, 2012 22:08
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Shalinor posted:... but then I watch that one video where the crazy dude jumps to his death for a pair of panties, and begin to wonder if they got way better. They still have more in common with Shenmue than Saints Row, so if you're just after comedy and random acts of violence, then you're looking at the wrong series.
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Shalinor posted:Yakuza 1 was a flawed but super fun brawler stuck somewhere inside a very, very dull Shibuya simulator. It pretty much turned me off onto the entire series, and any time people suggest Yakuza, my mind goes back to how ridiculously bland Yakuza 1 got once they dumped you in the opened-up city and expected you to go play pachinko or dress up hookers or whatever the hell. Or you could just not do those boring optional parts and continue straight through the cool story parts. You aren't actually obligated to play the parts that you don't enjoy.
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Shalinor posted:Yakuza 1 was a flawed but super fun brawler stuck somewhere inside a very, very dull Shibuya simulator. It pretty much turned me off onto the entire series, and any time people suggest Yakuza, my mind goes back to how ridiculously bland Yakuza 1 got once they dumped you in the opened-up city and expected you to go play pachinko or dress up hookers or whatever the hell. As a big fan of the series, I actually agree with you; Yakuza 1 was pretty lukewarm. Yakuza 2 came out and blew me away, though. I dare say that personally 2 is my favorite in the series, way more than 4. I did feel like 1 was a bit of a slog, though.
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Shalinor posted:Yakuza 1 was a flawed but super fun brawler stuck somewhere inside a very, very dull Shibuya simulator. It pretty much turned me off onto the entire series, and any time people suggest Yakuza, my mind goes back to how ridiculously bland Yakuza 1 got once they dumped you in the opened-up city and expected you to go play pachinko or dress up hookers or whatever the hell. This might just be my own opinion but I've found the Yakuza games to be fairly schizo. You have some fun, goofy, badass, over the top action but then you'll have characters sit down in an office somewhere and spend 10-20 minutes on a pace killing plot dump. Then there's the skeevy stuff like the hostess clubs. I was really creeped out in 4 by the part where the current character, who owns a hostess club, takes one of his underperforming girls out to coach her on how to better string along and get the most cash out of the losers who come to the club.
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muscles like this? posted:This might just be my own opinion but I've found the Yakuza games to be fairly schizo. You have some fun, goofy, badass, over the top action but then you'll have characters sit down in an office somewhere and spend 10-20 minutes on a pace killing plot dump. Then there's the skeevy stuff like the hostess clubs. I was really creeped out in 4 by the part where the current character, who owns a hostess club, takes one of his underperforming girls out to coach her on how to better string along and get the most cash out of the losers who come to the club.
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muscles like this? posted:This might just be my own opinion but I've found the Yakuza games to be fairly schizo. You have some fun, goofy, badass, over the top action but then you'll have characters sit down in an office somewhere and spend 10-20 minutes on a pace killing plot dump. Then there's the skeevy stuff like the hostess clubs. I was really creeped out in 4 by the part where the current character, who owns a hostess club, takes one of his underperforming girls out to coach her on how to better string along and get the most cash out of the losers who come to the club. Yakuza 4: Ho Pimping Simulator. I just wish they let me wear a pimpin hat.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Resonance of Fate is definitely one of the most unique JRPGs I have ever played, but in the end the bizarreness of the gameplay turned me off. Especially in terms of controls, I think it needed another look. Hahahahahaha. Resonance of Fate is a great game but your brain must be blocking out the many awful, awful cutscenes.
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...! posted:Hahahahahaha. Resonance of Fate is a great game but your brain must be blocking out the many awful, awful cutscenes. I only went about halfway through the game though so maybe they get longer after that, I dunno.
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Parkingtigers posted:The recaps of Yakuza 1 and 2, which are included with the third game, got me sucked in before I even played a second of the game. It's all good, and anyone who wouldn't enjoy spending a day getting drunk, fighting and gambling before heading back to look after orphans doesn't deserve a game as good as this anyway. I would imagine that most people skipped Saints Row 1. I actually jumped into Yakuza 2 and bought 3 a while after. Not sure if that was to its benefit or detriment. I was disappointed with 3, but I am not sure because I thought it was a dull game or if I was just comparing it to how awesome Yakuza 2 was and was let down.
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blackguy32 posted:I would imagine that most people skipped Saints Row 1. I actually jumped into Yakuza 2 and bought 3 a while after. Not sure if that was to its benefit or detriment. I was disappointed with 3, but I am not sure because I thought it was a dull game or if I was just comparing it to how awesome Yakuza 2 was and was let down. It's hard to top rescuing Haruka from the inside of a giant Japanese castle that splits open to reveal an identical Japanese castle made out of gold filled with samurai warriors whom you gun down with a mounted MG42, and then punch two tigers to death with your bare hands.
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Crappy Jack posted:It's hard to top rescuing Haruka from the inside of a giant Japanese castle that splits open to reveal an identical Japanese castle made out of gold filled with samurai warriors whom you gun down with a mounted MG42, and then punch two tigers to death with your bare hands. Also in the same game is a sidequest where a Yakuza leader invites you into a host club, then it turns out he has a baby fetish and his associates attack you while they're wearing diapers because your main character doesn't like this baby fetish.
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Crappy Jack posted:It's hard to top rescuing Haruka from the inside of a giant Japanese castle that splits open to reveal an identical Japanese castle made out of gold filled with samurai warriors whom you gun down with a mounted MG42, and then punch two tigers to death with your bare hands. Ineffiable posted:Also in the same game is a sidequest where a Yakuza leader invites you into a host club, then it turns out he has a baby fetish and his associates attack you while they're wearing diapers because your main character doesn't like this baby fetish. If these two posts don't get people to play at least one Yakuza game, then nothing will.
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Ineffiable posted:Also in the same game is a sidequest where a Yakuza leader invites you into a host club, then it turns out he has a baby fetish and his associates attack you while they're wearing diapers because your main character doesn't like this baby fetish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgi96wUrkJw&t=116s He should go for it
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whip posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgi96wUrkJw&t=116s I'm convinced. I'm playing the Yakuza series this weekend now. Thanks a lot, you jerks.
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RadicalR posted:I'm convinced. I'm playing the Yakuza series this weekend now. Yes. Yes! One of us! One of us! One of us! I feel like the credit for most of the people palying Yakuza in this thread should go to Policenaut. I think he was the one that started most of us down this path.
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SpacePig posted:I feel like the credit for most of the people palying Yakuza in this thread should go to Policenaut. I think he was the one that started most of us down this path. That or Jamesman; his LP of the first was my starting point.
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I wonder if there's any chance of the first two Yakuza games coming out as PS2 Classics. I never played any of the series. Hell, when are we going to get some more PS2 Classics anyway? We've gotten a handful so far in a couple of weekly updates and then nothing. I seem to remember SamBishop hinting that there were some amazing games in the pipeline.
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I can hardly say that Killzone is a "great" game. Decent, but certainly not great. Interesting. Apparently, I already have Yakuza 1,3,4. Just missing 2. Lovely.
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Killzone wasn't that good. Killzone 2 was the best in the series, which is kinda disappointing, because I really wanted an exclusive FPS series on the PS3 that could compete with Halo. Resistance is crap, and Killzone 3 was mostly disappointing.
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Killzone 1 sucks. Ill come out and say it. Its a buggy mess of a game and it always seems so empty. I actually tried to go back and beat it after I played Killzone 2 and I just couldn't.
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blackguy32 posted:Killzone 1 sucks. Ill come out and say it. Its a buggy mess of a game and it always seems so empty. I actually tried to go back and beat it after I played Killzone 2 and I just couldn't. My thoughts exactly. It was an interesting idea, but was to ahead of its time. The game was severely limited by the PS2 hardware.
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I just played through the Asura's Wrath demo and frankly I'm a bit surprised at all the praise it's been getting in here. Yes, the stuff you do in it was ridiculous but the actual gameplay was dull as hell. It basically felt like a dumbed down version of the Naruto games, which weren't exactly amazing to begin with. It's a game that seems like it would be way more fun to watch than play. It doesn't help that the plot also seems to be straight out of generic Anime town and the game was kind of ugly (not helped by the fact that the PS3 version probably looks worse than it should thanks to the fact that it's using the Unreal Engine).
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SpacePig posted:Yes. Yes! Hee hee enjoy your 20 hours of UFO catcher gameplay RadicalR God I cannot wait until Dead Souls. I just want to beat the gently caress out of zombies with Kiryu and the gang!
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Pablo Gigante posted:I wonder if there's any chance of the first two Yakuza games coming out as PS2 Classics. I never played any of the series. Yakuza could use it. The first two games can be hard to track down for a good price. I'm really curious about Square's FFX HD rerelease. Could we finally get the international edition?
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Ineffiable posted:I'm really curious about Square's FFX HD rerelease. Could we finally get the international edition? I hope it's the international edition, but I haven't heard anything one way or the other.
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Asura's Wrath demo is like watching a lovely DragonBall Z-type anime, and occasionally brushing up against your controller with a finger or maybe your elbow. Anyone looking for a good game (or maybe a game at all?) need not apply. Some cool artwork, but kinda retarded overall.
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I can't speak to the whole game, but if a Demo truly is a "best foot forward to encourage sales" I would steer clear. It feels like you go minutes without having to touch your controller, and even if that is an exaggeration, you'll touch your controller once, then wait however long again. There's a couple of REALLY lovely sections where you can fire and run around, and do really one-note shithouse combat. Mostly, it's just you watching 2 people do impossible things. And not impossible in a cool way, but impossible like, speaking to eachother in averagely loud voices, hundreds of miles apart from each other in space. or stabbing you with a ginormous sword that literally pins you to the ground and comes out the other side of the world. The ridiculousness and garbage-dump Anime stupidity MIGHT be tolerable if there was an actual game there. There isn't.
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SpacePig posted:Well, now I've got to try out that demo since I've heard opinions ranging from really fun and convinced me to buy the game to a big retarded anime. It will probably be $15 a month after release either way.
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I said come in! posted:Killzone wasn't that good. Killzone 2 was the best in the series, which is kinda disappointing, because I really wanted an exclusive FPS series on the PS3 that could compete with Halo. Resistance is crap, and Killzone 3 was mostly disappointing. I always considered Warhawk to be the PS3 equivilent of Halo to be honest, despite the third/first person differences, it certainly filled the same slot on the PS3 that Halo does on the 360. I think the same will go for Starhawk also, but even moreso. Regarding Killzone, I've always viewed that as competing with Gears of War rather than Halo but again, that's just me v  v
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