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Samurai Sanders posted:They really didn't though. They could have tied it into the existing games in so many other ways, but it's like they made a clear decision not to and instead went off on weird tangents. I appreciate this series not having cheesy sequel bait hooks tacked onto each games ending, but having them tie into one another somewhat wouldn't be a bad thing. It maybe helps 6 in that virtually nobody in 5 got killed off so just maybe some of the new people can show up as a recurring character and actually be involved in the plot?
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SubG posted:I don't know about all of the machines, but in the Aladdin ones you have to adjust the speed between normal play and when you're in a jackpot. The game actually points out where you should be trying to get the balls to land, but the only instructions it gives you are in Japanese. I'm pretty sure if you drop to help there's a mostly translated guide to the game and where to aim.
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I thought I was prepared for anything. But nothing could prepare me for Saejima singing backup on ROUGE OF LOVE.
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best Yakuza song is still Pure Love in Karumocho
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Stelas posted:I'm pretty sure if you drop to help there's a mostly translated guide to the game and where to aim.
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I was playing on a virtua fighter machine since apparently with those you can just leave and let it run until you win or run out of balls. i never had more than ~280 balls, though, so i'm pretty sure the jackpot I got by using the guaranteed jackpot item was worth maybe 20 tops.
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pick-e posted:So what you're saying is we won't see or hear about Park / Katsuya in 0 and that all of this buildup of Majima's past was for nothing? Zero is a fine Yakuza game I guess, but it is not a good prequel. Edit: forgot to spoiler since this game has a western release date and everything Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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How many fistfights with bears are there in this game? I'm up to 3 now.
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El Hefe posted:best Yakuza song is still Pure Love in Karumocho I don't know, Rouge of Roooooove is pretty strong.
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Captain Novolin posted:I was playing on a virtua fighter machine since apparently with those you can just leave and let it run until you win or run out of balls. i never had more than ~280 balls, though, so i'm pretty sure the jackpot I got by using the guaranteed jackpot item was worth maybe 20 tops. You should be getting well over 1000 balls from one of those jackpot items on a Virtua Fighter machine. You aren't doing something dumb like overshooting or not shooting balls while the jackpot is active? You want as many balls as possible landing in that little tray near the bottom that opens and closes.
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Rouge of Love is the best karaoke song. You do it as Saejima and he surprises you by killing it. If you didn't go do karaoke during the dream sequence, you're bad at this game. Eventually you end up trying it as Shinada and, well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGKuyFfTzOI I spent a week or so with Pure Love in Kamurocho exclusively stuck in my head and that was real painful but it's great, Akiyama and Hana is the best version. Honourable mention has to go to Get To The Top, but only because of Majima's... attempt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFoNwoMxjY
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Yechezkel posted:How many fistfights with bears are there in this game? I'm up to 3 now. Have they all been with Saejima?
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So is the pachinko completion cumulative? I can't tell, because I have literally never won a single ball in pachinko.
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Serious Frolicking posted:So is the pachinko completion cumulative? I can't tell, because I have literally never won a single ball in pachinko. Nope, gotta earn the required amount in a single session.
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evilalien posted:Nope, gotta earn the required amount in a single session. Well, that obviously ain't happening! I don't even see how it is possible, since from everything I've read about that dumb minigame there is no simple trick. For the coliseum weapon match, what weapon skill should I grind up? That dude with a pistol just fucks me up every time.
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The way to win pachinko is to save, go to the parlour, leave it running for a while, then check to see if you're out of balls or not E: then give up because it's dumb and going for 100% in these games is what you do if you're a hardcore masochist
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Frabba posted:Have they all been with Saejima? Yes. The funniest bear battle was at the end of the hunting substory. Saejima finally has his chance to take out the big bear terrorizing the village, but the bear wouldn't go down from the rifle shots. After the bear knocked the rifle out of Saejima's hands, he just decides to have a fistfight with the bear again. That was up there with the tiger fights from Yakuza 2.
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Yechezkel posted:Yes. The funniest bear battle was at the end of the hunting substory. Saejima finally has his chance to take out the big bear terrorizing the village, but the bear wouldn't go down from the rifle shots. After the bear knocked the rifle out of Saejima's hands, he just decides to have a fistfight with the bear again. I wonder if they're doing a callback to Hajime no Ippo, one of the major characters in it also fights a bear, and is voiced by the same VA as Saejima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJQLQK7tsUc
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Jan 10, 2016 07:51
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Bear fighting is a standard for excessively manly characters in japanese fiction.
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Lord_Pigeonbane posted:I beat the game yesterday, and I was impressed by some of the symbolism in the last battle. You might not be aware of this but the whole Magikarp/Gyrados thing is based on an actual japanese myth about a Koi turning into a dragon as an award from the gods for its perseverance. I might be  though.
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Frabba posted:I wonder if they're doing a callback to Hajime no Ippo, one of the major characters in it also fights a bear, and is voiced by the same VA as Saejima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJQLQK7tsUc holy poo poo
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Frabba posted:I wonder if they're doing a callback to Hajime no Ippo, one of the major characters in it also fights a bear, and is voiced by the same VA as Saejima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJQLQK7tsUc Also Saejima voices Frank West's Japanese VA.
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Man, the Jo Amon fight is some straight up bullshit.
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Holy poo poo, Akiyama's training is loving bullshit...until I realized that doing the flip kick knocks off the trainer's wig and renders him unable to attack... Yakuza games are awesome.
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Playing Zero again, Kiryu is the same person as ever, but Majima is such a completely different person it's nuts. You are told that this isn't the real him, just a role he has to play until he fulfills his debt to the yakuza, but it's far beyond that. The game goes out of its way to demonstrate that he's an expert businessman, an expert manager, and an expert at the hostess business, and always the cool head in the room. Where did all this knowledge come from? Where did it all go later, when he became a career crazy person with no particular interest in money or power? edit: I guess come to think of it, he probably met Mirei through the entertainment biz (maybe they said explicitly in 5 but I forget), but that doesn't happen in Zero. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Jan 10, 2016 |
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Samurai Sanders posted:Playing Zero again, Kiryu is the same person as ever, but Majima is such a completely different person it's nuts. You are told that this isn't the real him, just a role he has to play until he fulfills his debt to the yakuza, but it's far beyond that. The game goes out of its way to demonstrate that he's an expert businessman, an expert manager, and an expert at the hostess business, and always the cool head in the room. Where did all this knowledge come from? Where did it all go later, when he became a career crazy person with no particular interest in money or power? He meets MIrei when Kiryu is in prison. That is why Kiryu doesn't know about that person.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Playing Zero again, Kiryu is the same person as ever, but Majima is such a completely different person it's nuts. You are told that this isn't the real him, just a role he has to play until he fulfills his debt to the yakuza, but it's far beyond that. The game goes out of its way to demonstrate that he's an expert businessman, an expert manager, and an expert at the hostess business, and always the cool head in the room. Where did all this knowledge come from? Where did it all go later, when he became a career crazy person with no particular interest in money or power? i was annoyed that they never bothered in 5 to like, expound on their marriage because it still seems super crazy. I was expecting Haruka's whole meeting with Park's ex-husband after the concert to actually happen which could have been a pretty cool moment where maybe they talked about it a bit but nope
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Nunchucks are just the absolute worst weapon. Piddly damage, no stunning, short range, and lots of useless animations which lock you in place.
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I think the best weapon for the weapon gp is the Kali sticks. The basic combo has full super armor and does a great job at stunlocking enemies. Shinada can easily clear it with his base proficiency.
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I enjoyed the hunting in Saejima's chapter. Haven't reached Haruka yet but I can tell you I dislike rhythm games so I'm not looking forward to that.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:He meets MIrei when Kiryu is in prison. That is why Kiryu doesn't know about that person.
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Anyone know how to make Raiden show up in the coliseum? I fought him as Kiryu, and now he is supposed to be in a cutscene at the coliseum front desk but it never triggers.
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Serious Frolicking posted:Anyone know how to make Raiden show up in the coliseum? I fought him as Kiryu, and now he is supposed to be in a cutscene at the coliseum front desk but it never triggers.
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Saejima is the best. Sidemission spoiler. Uh, that Tojo Clan I mentioned, it's a neighborhood baseball club. We used to be really good.
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So I finally got around to unpacking the correct boxes and tried something I've been wanting to try since the game came out: hooking up my PS2 Taiko Drum Master controller via USB adapter and seeing if it works. It ALMOST works. The center left part of the drum doesn't register at all and while the other parts do, you have to hit them extremely and unplayably hard for some reason. So close. e: It wasn't my drum loving up either, that's the first thing I checked absolutely anything fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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There's a way to trigger the "Secret of" line of upgrades that rely on timed hits without mashing the button and hoping for the best, right? Right?
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I could play an entire game devoted to Haruka and her side missions. So many people with bad opinions in this thread! So many.  vv for what it's worth I wish they had put in more songs too, but one would hope an entire game would have more of them, no? Caitlin fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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it's good i just wish it had more than three songs
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I like how karaoke is vastly more difficult than singing and dancing on stage.
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The "Running Girl" job is creepy, and I suck at the handshake events.
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