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oblomov posted:Yeah, Dead or Alive ending was something else... Good tip on Branded to Kill. Will see if I can find it. Suzuki actually directed a bunch of yakuza films that follow the subject matter more or less closely---he worked for Nikkatsu, one of the grand old film production houses of Japan that had, by the '60s, been reduced to cranking out low budget exploitation fare. They really just wanted run-of-the-mill noir and yak films, but Suzuki keep giving them these psychedelic arthouse things. Finally they just fired his rear end (after Branded to Kill) and locked away his films, until there were lawsuits, public demonstrations, student activism, and a whole media circus leading to the films finally being made available again in 1971.
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SubG posted:The Battles Without Honor and Humanity films are awesome, but they don't have a lot in common, in terms of their approach to yakuza culture, with the Yakuza games. The games, and particularly guys like Kiryu and the `period' games, are lifted straight out of the mainstream genre of Japanese yakuza films (called ninkyo eiga or chivalry films). The Fukasaku yakuza films (the Battles Without Honor and Humanity films he cranked out between 1973 and 1975, as well as films like Graveyard of Honor (1975), Yakuza Graveyard (1976)) defined a new, revisionist take on these films. Instead of the stern, serene, honour-above-all yakuza that characterised ninkyo eiga and Yakuza games, Fukasaku's yakuza were calculating, self-serving, greedy, and so on, and no effort made to sugar-coat their problems. This is why I said that, while I love the games, I would also love to see one done that is more like said movies.  I wasn't trying to say they're similar because they're not, at all beyond the most basic things that are in every crime flick out there. There is a lot of base presentation things in 2 and 3 that I feel was inspired by the series in particular though. I do wish the films were more available, it sucks that the first one is so expensive on DVD here by itself while Japan has had a blu-ray box set pretty much forever. I'm never getting rid of my Yakuza Papers DVD set.
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Dec 25, 2014 05:48
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There's a loving phone sex minigame in Yakuza 0. I'm guessing "terakura" is like Japanese shorthand for tele-conference or something. 80s Kiryu answers the gently caress out of that phone.
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Dec 25, 2014 05:55
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Yakuza 5 GOTY 2015 and Yakuza 0 GOTY 2018.
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Static Rook posted:There's a loving phone sex minigame in Yakuza 0.
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Static Rook posted:There's a loving phone sex minigame in Yakuza 0. Housh posted:Yakuza 5 GOTY 2015 and Yakuza 0 GOTY 2018. Samurai Sanders posted:"telephone club", I suspect. 
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Dec 25, 2014 07:12
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This thread cursed me!  Alright, no it didn't, but it felt like it.All that talk about broken PS2s a few pages made me double-check my PS2 and continue Yakuza 2. Well, this happened:  Okay, maybe it was just the game..  That was suppose to be the system menu.  
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You guys are probably too young to remember, but phone sex lines like that existed in the US in the 80s, too. They were called Party Lines and we're literally the equivalent of wandering into an IRC chat room and asking "a/s/l?"
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Fuzz posted:You guys are probably too young to remember, but phone sex lines like that existed in the US in the 80s, too. They were called Party Lines and we're literally the equivalent of wandering into an IRC chat room and asking "a/s/l?" We know. That's why it's awesome.
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I don't want to peer to hard into this thread because of spoilers but I just finished up Yakuza 4 and it was just incredible. I loved all the characters almost equally (Tanimura was pretty terrible at first). But man the plot description for 5 sounds incredible. Heart skipped when I saw Haruka becoming a pop idol, is this atleast fun to play or done cool? I googled image search some pictures and it makes it out like a very detailed simulator like talk shows and hand shaking. Also having problems ranking the games from best. Feel like I enjoyed all of them equally, maybe 2 more equally. Sorry if this post is terrible I'm very new years partied out.
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The stage gameplay looks pretty much like a Miku game so Im pretty drat psyched
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Sinners Sandwich posted:I don't want to peer to hard into this thread because of spoilers but I just finished up Yakuza 4 and it was just incredible. I loved all the characters almost equally (Tanimura was pretty terrible at first). The Haruka game is kind weird because you have the fan minigames and you have rhythm games, but you only really have two songs
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:The Haruka game is kind weird because you have the fan minigames and you have rhythm games, but you only really have two songs
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precision posted:Outrage, Beyond Outrage (both on Netflix) and Sonatine (unfortunately not on Netflix anymore) are great. I didn't care for Sonatine much, but maybe I wasn't paying attention. I'll give it another look I guess. I have to use this $5 off Play-Asia coupon. Wondering if I should just preorder 0. Other option is waiting for someone to beat it then sell it to Book-Off.
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Funkysauce posted:I didn't care for Sonatine much, but maybe I wasn't paying attention. I'll give it another look I guess. Takeshi Kitano movies aren't for everyone, they're slow and deliberate and the narrative is often much less important than the imagery. Plus they all end with him shooting himself in the head.
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Funkysauce posted:I didn't care for Sonatine much, but maybe I wasn't paying attention. I'll give it another look I guess. You know you want to preorder!
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Sakurazuka posted:Takeshi Kitano movies aren't for everyone, they're slow and deliberate and the narrative is often much less important than the imagery. Plus they all end with him shooting himself in the head. He honestly should trademark that. I agree with your take on the movies, like I said it just may have been that I was not fully invested in it. oblomov posted:You know you want to preorder! Funkysauce fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Gutcruncher posted:Also even with that big twist, logically it shouldnt actually change how Saejima feels. He did after all walk into the joint with guns and, in his mind, shoots them all to death. Just because the nuke I set to blow up New York had a faulty detonator doesnt suddenly put my conscience in the clear. Its a problem with the RGG series. They always do a half hearted felony and having to pay it in full. Kurohyou's plot involving Tatsuya's being responsible for putting someone in a coma and his two year stint in Juvie was because his schoolmate wants the smug satisfaction of crippling the son of the dojo owner who had him thrown out.
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MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI6Q-GPBS-c
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Gutcruncher posted:Also even with that big twist, logically it shouldnt actually change how Saejima feels. He did after all walk into the joint with guns and, in his mind, shoots them all to death. Just because the nuke I set to blow up New York had a faulty detonator doesnt suddenly put my conscience in the clear. I don't know, I think that if you had been haunted for years by your killing a bunch of dudes that probably learning none of them actually died would probably make you feel better. I mean we see that he is presumably no longer capable of cold-blooded murder or whatever.
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So I'm playing Yakuza 2 for the first time. Then I reached the part where Sengoku kidnaps Haruka, and you go to get her, and he lives in a giant gold pagoda inside another giant pagoda (????) and you fight samurai and ninja and fire a gatling gun and avoid spear traps and then battle two giant tigers. Is that a reference to something? Not that I'm not on board, it just came entirely out of nowhere and makes no sense in contrast to the rest of the game.
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Hakkesshu posted:So I'm playing Yakuza 2 for the first time. Then I reached the part where Sengoku kidnaps Haruka, and you go to get her, and he lives in a giant gold pagoda inside another giant pagoda (????) and you fight samurai and ninja and fire a gatling gun and avoid spear traps and then battle two giant tigers. No. It's just means that Sengoku is batfuck insane. Welcome to Yakuza - I hope you enjoy your stay.
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Well I guess his name is Sengoku, so that kind of explains it... I gotta say though that pagoda configuration is architecturally shaky!
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Captain Walker posted:I remember you and Jamesman both had one, James was playing blind again and I think his PS2 bit the dust My PS2 is fine. I hit a wall with how to present all the content in the game. At the same time, my PC was starting to crap out. I bought a new PC and new recording software and hardware, with the intentions of putting some really great videos out. That was 3 years ago already, and I still haven't made anything, because I'm not confident I can make those "really great" videos I want to make. So I'm all ready to go, just as soon as I believe I have something worth doing.
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You could just pick up and play like you did with the first game, I found your baffled reactions to all the crazy poo poo that happened really funny. Or pick up a co-commentator who knows a little more about the game. I've never played 2 but I did watch the summary video in 3 so I'm a little spoiled.
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I really enjoyed your Yakuza 1 LP for what it's worth, and after doing pretty much every single quest outside of Shogi/Mahjong in 2 myself, I'd say that the vast majority of that content is preeeetty much worthless. I get the completionist mentality, believe you me, but in this case it's not worth it if it means losing out on the main story. I probably wouldn't have played it myself if you had finished your LP of 2, but it also took me literal years to force myself to just loving play it with a FAQ because it's way too loving obtuse at times.
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Customized PS4s were not enough: Special Edition Yakuza Zero Vita and PSTV will also come out.    On top of that, the "Vita version" of the game is a companion app, probably similar to the Vita app for Ishin, and it will come out February 26.
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If I were ever going to buy a custom console it would by the Ryu ga Gotoku Zero one. But I already have a PS4 and a PSV so I guess I will not.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:If I were ever going to buy a custom console it would by the Ryu ga Gotoku Zero one. But I already have a PS4 and a PSV so I guess I will not. Same. I would buy the poo poo out of a Yakuza Vita. But I already like the Vita I've got.
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Does Yakuza have Pork Buns? This is important.
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Crappy Jack posted:Same. I would buy the poo poo out of a Yakuza Vita. But I already like the Vita I've got. I bought my wife a Vita for Christmas, now there's no longer an excuse for me to not own one. Totally picking one of these up.
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That Vita looks quite awesome and I did want a 2nd Vita for Japanese PSN, that Ishin Vita app, etc... man and that new 3DS just have to be coming out now. I think Zero wins out here! Edit: Crap, Sony store only, that rules it out  .
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blackguy32 posted:Does Yakuza have Pork Buns? This is important. The thing they didn't mention in Sleeping Dogs is that taking your shirt off to reveal your giant tattoo before an epic fight to defend the honor of your family is the only other acceptable way to be a real man.
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That's because cops have no honor.
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Hakkesshu posted:Well I guess his name is Sengoku, so that kind of explains it... Yes, the archetectural building integrity is what's weird about Yakuza 2! Got to say that I started playing 5 and 2 is still my favorite game precisely because of the crazy poo poo that's going on.
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Crappy Jack posted:The thing they didn't mention in Sleeping Dogs is that taking your shirt off to reveal your giant tattoo before an epic fight to defend the honor of your family is the only other acceptable way to be a real man. I'm pretty sure Poppo has pork buns to use as healing items during said fight. Though no real man would use weapons or items in a Yakuza final boss battle (Tanimura doesn't count because his guy cheated)
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blackguy32 posted:Does Yakuza have Pork Buns? This is important. Yes. And you can take it to go.
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Yechezkel posted:Customized PS4s were not enough: How can I, a lowly gaijin, obtain these items? Edit: And where is the PS4? I see no PS4.
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Captain Walker posted:I'm pretty sure Poppo has pork buns to use as healing items during said fight. Though no real man would use weapons or items in a Yakuza final boss battle (Tanimura doesn't count because his guy cheated) I used my pile of mystic katanas and guns against Mine because he was an idiot chump I didn't care about.
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