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SpacePig: Apr 4, 2007; I'M FEELING JIMMY

I wouldn't be surprised to see Haruka's part be some sort of magical girl thing.

# ? May 23, 2012 14:07

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QQmore: Jan 10, 2010

I can only dream that she'll somehow use Masoyoshi's fighting style in some form :allears:

# ? May 23, 2012 14:20

Tupperwarez: Apr 4, 2004; "phphphphphphpht"? this is what you're going with?

you sure?

SpacePig posted:

I wouldn't be surprised to see Haruka's part be some sort of magical girl thing.

Only if that magical girl is Beat-to-Death Angel Dokuro-chan.

# ? May 23, 2012 16:36

Bocc Kob: Oct 26, 2010

Even if it's just a cutscene, I fully expect Haruka to cave at least one person's skull in. :black101:

# ? May 23, 2012 16:38

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Yeah, lots of people are thinking this. Her part will be Idolmaster: Haruka Edition.

edit: which would mean that in a practical sense, she wouldn't be any more your player character than the girls in Idolmaster are.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 18:31 on May 23, 2012

# ? May 23, 2012 18:14

Policenaut: Jul 11, 2008; On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

Yeah uh I've played Idolmaster 2 (more than I'd like to admit) and please don't put that kind of gameplay in Yakuza. I'm not memorizing any more Japanese prefectures or playing that drat training rhythm game.

# ? May 23, 2012 18:29

Fuzz: Jun 2, 2003; Avatar brought to you by the TG Sanity fund

The only way this could get crazier is if Majima comes back with 2 eyepatches... but can still see.

Either that or a robotic eye that shoots boxing gloves at his henchmen.

# ? May 24, 2012 00:23

Bocc Kob: Oct 26, 2010

Majima will be head instructor of the Osaka music and dance school.

# ? May 24, 2012 00:56

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Bocc Kob posted:

Majima will be head instructor of the Osaka music and dance school.

Don't you toy with my heart like this...

# ? May 24, 2012 00:58

Yechezkel: Oct 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

It's already May 24 in Japan. When exactly is the Yakuza 5 update going to go up on the official site?

# ? May 24, 2012 01:09

Kuno: Nov 4, 2008

It is gonna really loving suck when Haruka's gameplay is all stealth sections. That is what is going to happen. Don't even bother kidding yourselves.

# ? May 24, 2012 01:10

Yechezkel: Oct 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

Official site still hasn't updated yet.

Someone on Sega's forums translated the Famitsu article:

quote:

Summary

- Set for release in December
- Sale price not yet decided

- Executive Producer : Nagoshi Toshihiro
- Chief Producer : Kikuchi Masayoshi
- Producer / Script Direction : Yokoyama Masayoshi

After the unexpected events of 2010 came to an end, the Tojo clan had a reform. They are working towards regaining a strong organisation by making a deal with the biggest clan in Kansai, the Omi Alliance... But in December 2012, the seventh chairman of the Omi Alliance falls critically ill. His death ended a brief time of peace and a war between East and West broke out. Pressing for strength in the clan, Tojo attempts to form alliances with groups from all across the country to fight against the Omi Alliance. Daigo throws the Tojo clan's pride to the wind and heads for Fu-kuoka. But...

- Fu-kuoka - Nagasu District
- Hokkaido - Tsukimi Field
- Osaka - Soutenbori
- Nagoya - Wataeichou

These are the starting locations for all the characters.

Characters

Protagonist 1 - Kiryu Kazuma

Kiryu lived a peaceful life with Haruka at "Asagao" in Okinawa, but... A woman pays Kiryu a visit, which ends up with him leaving the orphanage.

It is now December 2012 and Kiryu is working as a taxi driver in Fu-kuoka under a false name and whilst concealing his past. But when the sixth chairman of the Tojo clan suddenly disappears in the area, he rises to become the legendary dragon once again.

Protagonist 2 - Saejima Taiga

He once served 25 years for the murder of 18 yakuza and now he has now returned to the Tojo clan as the leader of the Saejima family. But he now serves a 3 year sentence for the crime of inflicting bodily harm. It's been two years since he arrived at Abashiri prison and endured prison life, but in order to hunt down the man who destroyed his family, friends and dreams, he breaks out and heads to Hokkaido's downtown, Tsukimi Field.

Protagonist 3 - Akiyama Shun
Protagonist 4 - Sawamura Haruka

Now residing in Soutenbori at a talent agency called "Dainachea", Haruka, who attracted the attention of the competent female president of the agency, Paku Mirei, left Okinawa one year ago and has spent all her time training intensely for her singing and dancing every day. But trouble descends upon the agency and in order to take up the dreams of the agency, she challenges the darkness of the entertainment industry.

Akiyama has travelled to Osaka to start-up a new business. There, he gets the feeling there's a large power behind all the incidents that have been occuring, so he investigates the mystery, and in doing so he bumps into Haruka.

Protagonist 5 - Shinada Tatsuo

Dirty, nonchalant, indifferent and careless with money, he is a broke magazine writer who leads a life of destitution at a multi-tenant building in Nagoya's downtown, Wataeichou. 15 years ago, he was a pro baseball player who, in the 9th inning of a game, came on as a pinch-hitter to hit a game winning home-run. But shortly after that, he was said to have participated in baseball gambling, thus he was banned for life from the world of baseball. 15 years have passed since then and he now works for minimum pay and is threatened by the debt collectors. But when he returned home one day, a man wearing a mask and hiding his face with his cap was waiting. Shinada tried to leave, but was stopped when the man said "I want you to find out the truth about the home run from 15 years ago". A man who was once regarded as a genius of the sport once again takes hold of a bat in order to uncover the truth.

Interview with Nagoshi and Yokoyama

Nagoshi: The game's subtitle is the main theme of the game. "Dream" is an important keyword.

Yokoyama: Dreams aren't necessarily always positive; there are various ways of perceiving them. I'd like you to pay close attention to the relation between that keyword and the protagonists.

Nagoshi: Usually the games in the series are released early in the year, but when finding the time to be able to release it as soon as possible, while working on it until we are satisfied, it ended up having to be a december release.

Yokoyama: The lives of the characters in the five cities are carefully depicted.

Nagoshi: The top two requests we got were a stronger message and a larger scale. We have ended up with a dynamic script for the game

Yokoyama: All the cities that appear in the game have high level of details, much like Kamurocho does.
We are aiming to improve Kamurocho from the previous games. It is difficult, but we are on track.

Nagoshi: We are improving all aspects of the game. We now have seamless transitions in and out of battle.
The tempo of the game is dramatically improved since the previous games.

Yokoyama: We had no hesitation including Haruka as a playable character, but there were many things to think about regarding using her in the game.

The battle system will be revealed to the pubic in the days to come. We have incorporated a mechanism to be able to play in the same way as other protagonists on the street.

The new character, Shinada, is a lot different to the protagonists of the series thus far; he's a complainer and he runs away if things get dangerous. He is a neglegent and unreliable guy. He may appear to be completely unlike a protagonist, but he has his convictions. It will be easy for players to empathise with him, especially male players.

Nagoshi: OF THE END is a spin-off; think of it like Kenzan. The title "OF THE END" simply meant the end of that game engine. Ryu ga Gotoku 5 is a completely new Ryu Ga Gotoku game with a new engine.

Yokoyama: We had told the staff we will be making a brand new Ryu ga Gotoku.

This isn't a mere sequel to Ryu ga Gotoku 4; we want to exceed all expectations the fans may have.

Nagoshi: Development taken twice as long as previous entries in the series, but challenging ourselves to make #5 has been far from twice as hard. The team have been highly motivated and have a lot of faith in the game. We are finishing up a game that contains intense human drama with plenty of surprises to offer, so please look forward to it.

# ? May 24, 2012 05:22

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Wow, Haruka's boss in the entertainment biz is Korean? That's a bold move in the current (internet anyway) political climate towards Korean entertainment over there.

# ? May 24, 2012 05:27

Crappy Jack: Nov 21, 2005; We got some serious shit to discuss.

Samurai Sanders posted:

Wow, Haruka's boss in the entertainment biz is Korean? That's a bold move in the current (internet anyway) political climate towards Korean entertainment over there.

Oh, I'm sure it'll turn out she's evil and doing some shady underhanded business and Haruka will have to put a stop to it. Remember their fair and even-handed treatment of Koreans in Yakuza 2.

# ? May 24, 2012 05:29

Ryuga Death: May 14, 2008; There's gotta be one more bell to crack; Fun Shoe

Considering how close Kazuma and Haruka were, I wonder how Kazuma feels just leaving her. Also, those kids at the orphanage. :smith:

# ? May 24, 2012 05:31

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Crappy Jack posted:

Oh, I'm sure it'll turn out she's evil and doing some shady underhanded business and Haruka will have to put a stop to it. Remember their fair and even-handed treatment of Koreans in Yakuza 2.

She could be "one of the good ones" like Yuuya in 2...or was it Kazuki who was the secret Korean? I forget.

Anyway I wonder if they will be incorporating the current Korean entertainment backlash into the game somehow.

# ? May 24, 2012 05:33

Egomaniac: Mar 23, 2006

Samurai Sanders posted:

She could be "one of the good ones" like Yuuya in 2...or was it Kazuki who was the secret Korean? I forget.

Ultimately, neither.

# ? May 24, 2012 05:34

Crowbear: Jun 17, 2009; You freak me out, man!

Saejima got thrown in prison again? And is breaking out again? What a badass :allears:

Crowbear fucked around with this message at 05:38 on May 24, 2012

# ? May 24, 2012 05:36

Policenaut: Jul 11, 2008; On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

Samurai Sanders posted:

She could be "one of the good ones" like Yuuya in 2...or was it Kazuki who was the secret Korean? I forget.

Anyway I wonder if they will be incorporating the current Korean entertainment backlash into the game somehow.

Wasn't Goda Ryuji half-Korean?

# ? May 24, 2012 05:36

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Policenaut posted:

Wasn't Goda Ryuji half-Korean?

I don't remember, at some point in 2 it felt like every single character in the game had some connection to the Korean mafia, either by blood or something else.

Maybe I should play 2 again someday.

# ? May 24, 2012 05:39

Egomaniac: Mar 23, 2006

Policenaut posted:

Wasn't Goda Ryuji half-Korean?

Actually, 100%. Sayama was half.

# ? May 24, 2012 05:40

Sindai: Jan 24, 2007; i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Yechezkel posted:

Yokoyama: We had no hesitation including Haruka as a playable character, but there were many things to think about regarding using her in the game.

The battle system will be revealed to the pubic in the days to come. We have incorporated a mechanism to be able to play in the same way as other protagonists on the street.

I'm going to assume this means dance battles until proven otherwise. :colbert:

EDIT: I am now picturing other idols just randomly hanging out on the streets, and when they see Haruka walk by they run over and insult her choreography before the dance-off starts.

quote:

The new character, Shinada, is a lot different to the protagonists of the series thus far; he's a complainer and he runs away if things get dangerous. He is a neglegent and unreliable guy. He may appear to be completely unlike a protagonist, but he has his convictions. It will be easy for players to empathise with him, especially male players.

Haha "the new character is a whiny weakling...just like you gamers!" :haw:

Sindai fucked around with this message at 05:51 on May 24, 2012

# ? May 24, 2012 05:45

Housh: Jul 9, 2001

If the game is slated to come out in Japan in December, how long do you think it will take until we see it in North America? Like how long was the wait for Yakuza 4 in the US after the Japanese release?

# ? May 24, 2012 05:46

Sindai: Jan 24, 2007; i want to achieve immortality through not dying

According to wikipedia it was March 2010 for Japan and March 2011 for the US. Ouch. I had no idea it took that long.

# ? May 24, 2012 05:52

Egomaniac: Mar 23, 2006

Housh posted:

If the game is slated to come out in Japan in December, how long do you think it will take until we see it in North America? Like how long was the wait for Yakuza 4 in the US after the Japanese release?

A year almost to the day.

EDIT: This game series isn't nearly popular enough outside Japan to warrant the developers working in concert with localization teams to get near-simultaneous release. Localization is more or less an afterthought, and that's what's kept it cost-effective for them to even bother to this point.

There's a lot of stuff that doesn't even get subs, like battle taunts and minigame exclamations, and they don't do any more graphical alteration than they have to. For instance, 3 and I think 4 left the kanji up for enemy names when a battle starts and just put an English subtitle under it. This is clearly done way after the fact.

Egomaniac fucked around with this message at 05:57 on May 24, 2012

# ? May 24, 2012 05:53

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Sindai posted:

According to wikipedia it was March 2010 for Japan and March 2011 for the US. Ouch. I had no idea it took that long.

Don't think of it as taking a long time, rather them just doing it whenever they get around to it. You knowing what the Japanese release date is doesn't really figure into their plans.

# ? May 24, 2012 05:55

Bocc Kob: Oct 26, 2010

I can learn Japanese by December. :colbert:

Yechezkel posted:

But trouble descends upon the agency and in order to take up the dreams of the agency, she challenges the darkness of the entertainment industry.

I guess Haruka is going to beat down some sleazy pornographers?

Yokoyama posted:

We had no hesitation including Haruka as a playable character

Edit: http://ryu-ga-gotoku.com/five/ There is STUFF!

Bocc Kob fucked around with this message at 07:03 on May 24, 2012

# ? May 24, 2012 06:27

Yechezkel: Oct 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

Shinada's former team was the Wyverns. Technically, that makes him the dragon of baseball. :rimshot:

drat, Kiryu looks haggard in those screenshots.

No video trailer yet.

Yechezkel fucked around with this message at 07:28 on May 24, 2012

# ? May 24, 2012 07:20

Ryuga Death: May 14, 2008; There's gotta be one more bell to crack; Fun Shoe

Kiryu looks like he's been through hell, while Akiyama looks like he hasn't aged a day.

# ? May 24, 2012 07:26

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Yechezkel posted:

Shinada's former team was the Wyverns. Technically, that makes him the dragon of baseball.

I would assume that's the game's equivalent of the Chunichi Dragons?

e: I derped. Of course it is. His starting area is even Nagoya.

# ? May 24, 2012 07:39

SkeletonHero: Sep 7, 2010

For being a dirty coward, Shinada is ripped as hell. Look at those arms!

# ? May 24, 2012 07:45

Yeah Bro: Feb 4, 2012

Kinda disappointed that Saijima has to break out of prison again, feels like they didn't have any real idea on what he'd do for the interim so they just made him go through the motions. Aside from that and the lack of Masayoshi, the best character of Yakuza 4, I am totally pumped for this. Really anticipating the updated combat system, though it might have a few teething issues, Yakuza's gameplay did need a bit of an update.

# ? May 24, 2012 08:00

Cao Ni Ma: May 25, 2010

The "darkness" of the idol business is that its literally run by Yakuza in real life and all the shady business revolved around it. It would be pretty funny if they go with that sort of accurate depiction of it and piss off real yakuza.

# ? May 24, 2012 12:44

Coulis: Feb 22, 2009; <>

Did Kiryu steal Date's clothes ?

# ? May 24, 2012 12:56

Judge Tesla: Oct 29, 2011

The only reason I like Dead Souls is due to Majima, he's one of the only characters in any game who is having the time of their life in the middle of a zombie outbreak.
For this reason alone, I enjoy the game, shooting controls are only poo poo if you try to manual aim, I just treat it like Dead Rising and let the game's auto aim take over.

# ? May 24, 2012 13:00

Fuzz: Jun 2, 2003; Avatar brought to you by the TG Sanity fund

Samurai Sanders posted:

She could be "one of the good ones" like Yuuya in 2...or was it Kazuki who was the secret Korean? I forget.

Anyway I wonder if they will be incorporating the current Korean entertainment backlash into the game somehow.

Kazuki.

# ? May 24, 2012 14:40

Policenaut: Jul 11, 2008; On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

Screenshots without going to the official site

Kiryu looks like he's transforming into Detective Date on that third screenshot of him.

Judge Tesla posted:

The only reason I like Dead Souls is due to Majima, he's one of the only characters in any game who is having the time of their life in the middle of a zombie outbreak.
For this reason alone, I enjoy the game, shooting controls are only poo poo if you try to manual aim, I just treat it like Dead Rising and let the game's auto aim take over.

Yeah, Majima was the only thing I liked about Dead Souls. He seems to be the only character who realizes he's in a non-canon zombie based spinoff and just runs with it. Just making fun of the whole concept and everyone the whole way through, prancing around Kamurocho with shotgun in hand makin' movies and convincing the most powerful man in Tokyo's yakuza to crossdress. Plus his ending was pretty funny.

# ? May 24, 2012 18:29

PunkBoy: Aug 22, 2008; You wanna get through this?

Samurai Sanders posted:

She could be "one of the good ones" like Yuuya in 2...or was it Kazuki who was the secret Korean? I forget.

Anyway I wonder if they will be incorporating the current Korean entertainment backlash into the game somehow.

If it's not too much of a derail, what's this backlash about?

# ? May 24, 2012 18:56

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

PunkBoy posted:

If it's not too much of a derail, what's this backlash about?

Japan has a lot of nationalist assholes who hate Korea and are very very loud on the internet. Their current target of ire is the huge amount of Korean shows on Japanese TV, and Korean pop stars infiltrating the jpop market. They think that the Japanese entertainment biz is colluding with Koreans to replace Japanese culture with Korean for political conspiracy theory reasons.

edit: it all started about a year ago when the husband of some TV personality spoke out about the volume of Korean shows on TV, and his talent agency fired him...or something, I forget the details. Anyway it's a ridiculous conspiracy theory but so are the tea party and birthers and stuff in the US and they still sway national discourse.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 19:02 on May 24, 2012

# ? May 24, 2012 18:58

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 06:29

Bocc Kob: Oct 26, 2010

That seems an unlikely topic to include in a game about manly men and burning justice. :psyduck:

# ? May 24, 2012 19:13

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