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Should I do all these Jobs and grind out Dance Battles before even doing the first plot thing (the first Princess League thing) with Haruka? I get the feeling I shouldn't bother yet based on the fact that I don't even see any sub-story icons on the map.
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Crappy Jack posted:You have to train with Komaki in Kamurocho. Eventually you'll unlock a shockingly difficult fight for all the characters, winning the fight increases the level cap to 25 for that character. But also fully upgrading the IF-8 game allows you to earn a soul point for every time you complete it, but that can get a little expensive at 10,000 yen per run. The dudes share cash, right? because IF-8 at 10k per run isn't too bad when saejima has 3 million to blow
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Dec 29, 2015 23:22
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precision posted:Should I do all these Jobs and grind out Dance Battles before even doing the first plot thing (the first Princess League thing) with Haruka? I get the feeling I shouldn't bother yet based on the fact that I don't even see any sub-story icons on the map.
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Dec 30, 2015 00:35
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Is it weird that Akiyama is always dead broke, while all the other characters are swimming in cash?
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Dec 30, 2015 04:16
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Lord_Pigeonbane posted:Is it weird that Akiyama is always dead broke, while all the other characters are swimming in cash? He's not broke, he has (well, had, at least) literally billions of yen in a back closet. He just has a very lax standard of living.
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Dec 30, 2015 04:46
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I'm so happy Shinada arc didn't revolve around that horrible massage minigame I could never win. Baseball is awesome
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Dec 30, 2015 04:54
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Lord_Pigeonbane posted:Is it weird that Akiyama is always dead broke, while all the other characters are swimming in cash? Akiyama has transcended the need for material wealth. He's just that cool.
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Dec 30, 2015 05:18
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Akiyama may be very rich, but that doesn't change the fact that he can't afford to eat. The characters that have plenty of money include: - a taxi driver - an escaped convict - a teenager that is struggling to start a career - a down-on-his-luck failed athlete that is being followed around town by a loan shark
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Dec 30, 2015 14:54
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Am I missing something? Why can't Akiyama afford to eat? He might not be as insanely rich as he was in 4 but the dude still hands out huge loans and doesn't really care about getting any of it back.
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Dec 30, 2015 16:23
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He tries to live with a modest lifestyle, which means he's poor as poo poo despite being the richest man in Japan.
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Dec 30, 2015 16:31
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He was homeless for years and has a certain fondness for the lifestyle and the people. Also he's just kind of inherently lazy, which is why he's always eating takeout and microwave poo poo while napping on the couch. It's not that he can't afford it, it's just that would mean going outside and doing something.
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Dec 30, 2015 16:45
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I had trouble with money as Akiyama too, I think it's largely because he doesn't have Another Drama missions to make tons of cash with. Sane Taxi and Pretty Princess Idol Sim are steady work, and doing Saejima's hunting missions nets him an utterly unfair amount of starting cash. Even broke-rear end Shinada gets plenty of cash from his batting cage shenanigans. Akiyama just has what he can scrounge from substories and random encounters. Unrelated: can you believe we got a game in 2015 that's at least 20% Pretty Princess Idol Sim? I wonder what people thought who weren't expecting it.
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Captain Novolin posted:The dudes share cash, right? because IF-8 at 10k per run isn't too bad when saejima has 3 million to blow Playing Baccarat in Purgatory gives you way more cash than you will ever need if you exploit the save point nearby. I'd suggest waiting to do the hostess club stuff until you can get to the casino because they are a huge money sink. (Except for Saejima and Kiryuu because their job missions give them a shitload of cash) IShallRiseAgain fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Dec 30, 2015 18:08
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croutonZA posted:Am I missing something? Why can't Akiyama afford to eat? He might not be as insanely rich as he was in 4 but the dude still hands out huge loans and doesn't really care about getting any of it back. My Akiyama simply doesn't have enough money in his pockets to cover his everyday expenses. It's strange that he'll be offering someone a loan one moment, and not having enough money for ramen the next. Akiyama doesn't have the side activities that give the other characters a nice little nest egg to work with. Saejima can go visit a mountain, and pick up a substantial amount of money in short order. Taxi missions earn Kiryu a lot more money than you might expect, considering how cheap taxi rides are. These two guys raised the weapon shop to max level, dated hostesses to S rank, and ate all the most expensive foods in town. With Akiyama, I did all of his side missions, and still wound up well short for the drinking and dating that I wanted to accomplish. I wound up wandering around looking for random battles. My luck wasn't so good, so they just didn't pay off very well. I eventually got the accessory that gives your opponents better drops, which was a big help to my sanity. I finished the Haruka / Akiyama chapters with only a few hundred yen in his pockets. Everyone else has at least a million. I haven't finished baseball-san's part yet, so he doesn't count. He's doing well, though. That's why I call my Akiyama poor. I guess that money lenders just don't make much money when they don't charge interest.
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croutonZA posted:Am I missing something? Why can't Akiyama afford to eat? He might not be as insanely rich as he was in 4 but the dude still hands out huge loans and doesn't really care about getting any of it back. Akiyama, the NPC, is filthy rich. Akiyama, the PC, doesn't have access to any of that money, and has to perform in-game chores to make money to buy food to recharge health, say. Gameplay and story segregation is not the TV Tropes entry you're looking for. Not linked because I love you guys too much.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:38
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You need to update your avatar.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:39
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Akiyama doesn't really have access to good ways to make money in his chapter, but if you can find the locker keys with the mahjong cheat items, you can get some platinum plates out of that which is more than enough to carry you through the restaurants/hostess club/whatever else you need to spend money on. It's either that or fishing.
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After doing some thinking and toying around in premium adventure mode, I feel Yakuza 5 is a bit of a disjointed trainwreck in many ways and this is without bringing up the plot. There are four different collectibles, right? Why is it to collect Lottery Tickets you need only walk/run over them? That's great and how it should be for all of them. Instead, you have to press a button for Garbage, Map Pieces, and Locker Keys. Why? And why must we continue to sit through the archaic 'crouch down to get key then slowly rise back up' animations? Then there's getting enough exp to level up after clearing a substory. You have to sit there and wait about 10 full seconds until the X button prompt shows up in the dialogue window so you can move on. It's great that they removed material farming and weapon mods, but in its place they added weapon leveling and paying to level up the weapon shop which are whole new levels of unnecessary bloat/padding. Two of the three new cities are hampered by invisible walls, and all of them are hampered by lacking in shortcuts between blocks. Even the brawling is kind of made more annoying with the addition of Climax Heat and its easy, often unwanted activation. It's a decently fun game but boy is it far more flawed than most of the previous ones. I don't even know if I should be "hype" for Yakuza 0 after playing 5. Lord_Pigeonbane posted:I eventually got the accessory that gives your opponents better drops, which was a big help to my sanity. 
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I would hope or assume that those annoying interface issues (the quest XP one really is annoying) will be ironed out with Y0 since it's on a new console. With 4 and 5 they very obviously used all their budget making content rather than bothering to change anything about the actual engine. But yeah gently caress those invisible walls. Saejima's town is just shameful.
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precision posted:I would hope or assume that those annoying interface issues (the quest XP one really is annoying) will be ironed out with Y0 since it's on a new console. With 4 and 5 they very obviously used all their budget making content rather than bothering to change anything about the actual engine.
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Oh, for some reason I forgot there even was a PS3 version of Y0. Well, fingers crossed for the PS4 version then.
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I finally got Y5 and this taxi minigame thing is rear end. Street racing was fun tho.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I finally got Y5 and this taxi minigame thing is rear end. Street racing was fun tho. What's it like living in opposite land?
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I made that post after only doing one of each and now I see the error of my ways.
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Is there a trick to doing the hunter test?
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You mean the rifle shooting thing? Use the golden rifle and shoot the deer in the head as they spawn and slowly walk around the corner.
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So should I bother to do the comedy side quest as Haruka? I've been trying to brute force the drat thing but that hasn't helped.
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pick-e posted:After doing some thinking and toying around in premium adventure mode, I feel Yakuza 5 is a bit of a disjointed trainwreck in many ways and this is without bringing up the plot. On top of that it's annoying that you can only pay with stuff you have in your active inventory. I understand the reason for limiting e.g. the number of healing items and weapons and so on the player can cart around at once, but with stuff like things you pay the chicken trainers it's just an annoyance. Which is particularly glaring because you can sell poo poo out of the item box at the pawn shop, for example. I mean despite all of this the Yakuza series is one of the few game franchises where I actually look forward to a new game getting released. But holy poo poo guys hire a new UI designer.
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I don't see why you can't send stuff to the item box from anywhere at any time, instead of only one thing at a time and only when you are full.
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Dec 31, 2015 03:11
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the yakuza games on ps3 have all felt like weird upscaled ps2 games. The gameplay and graphics have all iterated well, especially the graphics, but a lot of the mechanics and like menu poo poo feels exactly the same as it was in yakuza 2.
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Dec 31, 2015 03:13
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Yakuza needs a real lock on system with a targeting reticule, instead of the current system of "press the button and hope you're locked onto the right guy".
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Dec 31, 2015 03:18
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Gonna be buying this tonight, FINALLY. Any advice for someone starting 5? I've played the others in the series, but I'm unfamiliar with any of this game's potential surprises.
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Dec 31, 2015 03:20
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Playing as Akiyama for the limited berserk arena event is incredibly frustrating.
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Captain Novolin posted:the yakuza games on ps3 have all felt like weird upscaled ps2 games. The gameplay and graphics have all iterated well, especially the graphics, but a lot of the mechanics and like menu poo poo feels exactly the same as it was in yakuza 2.
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Shinjobi posted:Gonna be buying this tonight, FINALLY. just dont go crazy picking up locker keys as haruka because nothing in the lockers does her any good
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Serious Frolicking posted:I don't see why you can't send stuff to the item box from anywhere at any time, instead of only one thing at a time and only when you are full. And it doesn't help that the menus and poo poo are bafflingly slow.
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Lucinice posted:Yakuza needs a real lock on system with a targeting reticule, instead of the current system of "press the button and hope you're locked onto the right guy". Oh my God this so much. I just don't even bother trying anymore. On that note, sorta, if you're playing as Saejima you can basically turn any fight into "Yakuza Musou" with a motorcycle 
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Dec 31, 2015 03:41
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The Haruka Comedy sidequest counts as completed if you pass the first stage which is probably easier to brute force as I gave up on the second one
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