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 What is Yakuza? Yakuza is Sega's running series of open world 3rd person action-adventure beat-em-ups. A fusion of Shenmue's open world FREE concept with the pseudo-JRPG elements of River City Ransom and the high-speed beat-em-up action of Streets of Rage. Fight with your fists and feet! Pick up a bike or a beer bottle and smash them over someone's head! Throw people into walls or do super powerful HEAT moves to dispatch them with ease! Hit the town and fight thugs or check out the arcade and bars at your leisure. Go hard into the story, or get lost in the dozens of silly side quests! What once was considered to be Shenmue's spiritual successor, Yakuza has evolved into its own strange beast that, as a whole, can't be compared to any other game on the market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1OppE7c_Vk The series' main protagonist is a a man by name of Kazuma Kiryu, also known as "The Dragon of Dojima." He's a very serious, stern, and loyal man who fights to protect his friends, family, and those he trusts in his former Yakuza family: the Tojo Clan. Many of the games in this series occur in the fictional "Kamuro-cho" red light district in Tokyo, but over time the series has sprawled from Okinawa to Hokkaido! Many of his adventures are super-serious crime dramas surrounding the Tojo Clan dealing with struggles from both within and from other clans. Over the course of the series, new playable characters with their own unique storylines have been added to spice things up and they all have their own special fighting style to make them distinct from Kiryu, so you're sure to find at least someone you really like! Whether it's super fast flippy kicks, brutish bulldozer tackles, pro wrestling moves, knife play, CQC, you've got it all! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSlQitUUWNc But for all the serious crime stories and melodrama, Yakuza is mostly well known for its bizarre, off-the-wall sense of humor and side content! Go at your own pace and see the sights, because usually the games'll just wait for when you're ready! Don't wanna go save the day right now? Go hang out at a Pachinko parlor! Not feeling up to that boss fight? Go help Michael Jackson shoot a music video! Zombie apocalypse seem a little too humdrum? Go sing at karaoke! Manage a baseball team! Play slot cars! Go have phone sex! Recruit a chicken to help you with your real estate business! Take care of a baby! Go beat up a bunch of fat dudes DRESSED as babies! Go fishing! Create your own Clan! Come for the gripping Japanese criminal drama with real world Japanese actors scanned into the games, stay for the trading card games and pro wrestlers! What games are in the series? Boy, am I glad you asked! Yakuza has a truckload of games just waiting for you to play and enjoy so here they all are! Most of these trailers do the heavy lifting in explaining what they're about and the gameplay, so there's minimal text underneath each one to give you a little additional information.
That's all the major, notable games in the Yakuza franchise and beyond! As mentioned before, if you're new start with Yakuza Zero! Other than that, welcome and please talk about Yakuza. Policenaut fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Jul 26, 2018 |
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If you're new to Yakuza, play this first! 
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Chexoid posted:How, after 7 yakuza games, there's still a street thug in Japan who will just pick a fight with Kiryu for no reason is beyond me. My personal theory is that challenging Kiryu is like some kind of practical joke for the thugs, Yakuza, and other denizens of Kamurocho. Like everyone got beat up by Kiryu when they were younger and when they get new recruits they're like "hey if you see this dude you should go shake him down it'll be easy!' and they just sit back and laugh.
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Jan 23, 2017 15:08
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Unlucky7 posted:Just got to Majima's starting chapter (Thank you, street date breaking store!), and as far as I can tell starting sub stories are not marked. They do have markings once you started it, though. uuughhh noooooo
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Jan 23, 2017 19:58
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PlayStation Trophies.org has a good trophy guide for Yakuza Zero that details all the missable trophies (there's 8 in all) for those of you who are completionists. LEGEND difficulty not having access to the Golden Gun and not having Cheat items to skip Completion tasks on certain gambling games makes me weep.
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Jan 25, 2017 22:53
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fadam posted:What are they? There's 8 of them.
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Jan 27, 2017 03:44
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Night Blade posted:FFFFFFFffffffuck Look on the bright side: Yakuza 6 has Virtua Fighter 5!
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Jan 27, 2017 07:28
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You should also be excited for Yakuza Kiwami this Summer, as they added Majima all over that remake.
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Jan 28, 2017 02:06
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:the best part of dead souls was majima Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFoNwoMxjY
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Jan 28, 2017 02:22
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Sony America's effectively turned Yakuza into their little pet project thanks to Gio Corsi and Sony Third Party Production, so we'll probably get all the main games for the foreseeable future. I mean, if the same system exists to give David Cage work then goddamnit it can do some good by giving us Yakuza games. The only major ones we've missed now aren't even main games, they're all spin-offs like KENZAN!, ISHIN!, and the PSP games no one wants to play.
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Jan 28, 2017 19:33
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Sakurazuka posted:Speaking of is there a decent guide anywhere for Kenzan aimed at people who know no Japanese? I bought it on a trip there ages ago, but my attempts to play it never met with any great success. Here's what I have.
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Jan 28, 2017 19:57
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Like every Yakuza game, once you give me unbridled freedom I will proceed to clear as much of the Completion List as possible. I should be going to find this Real Estate office, but right now I'm loading up on AppStim then binge and purging at every restaurant in Kamurocho.
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Jan 29, 2017 00:51
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Ceramics posted:There's no reason to use appstims in this one really. There's a CP upgrade called bottomless stomach that lets you keep eating even if you're full. Much quicker then eating a couple things, leaving, popping a stim, and going back. Oh dang, I haven't even seen that CP upgrade yet. I did manage to clear out a majority of the bars in Kamurocho though, and I'm currently grinding my face on Combination/Carom shots so I'll go check that out afterwards. Thanks!
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Jan 29, 2017 03:26
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I really like the Completion List this time around, what with it being less exhaustive about what it wants from you, being linked to Completion Points that you cash in for unique bonuses, and the game actually telling you if you've completed one, but I hate that there seem to be a bunch of "gotcha" ones. One in particular that bugs me is the one for the UFO Catcher, where it asks for 5 unique items and when you complete it they bump it up to 10 but there's no in-game listing as far as I can tell that says which UFO Catcher items you've already collected. I do like that the List itself seems to be geared towards getting you to see the newest mini-game content rather than bashing your face into the entire plethora of it. The Coliseum getting drummed out to general completions and simple Yen Earned objectives on perennial rear end in a top hat games like Baseball while new games like Disco Dancing and Slot Car Racing get full treatment for CP is a great idea, mainly because gently caress the batting cages.
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Jan 29, 2017 08:07
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History Comes Inside! posted:Is there an easier way to find and buy new property than stopping every couple of feet to mash my guy into the nearest doorway and hammer x just in case that doorway is the magic doorway to a building I can buy? Yeah here you go.
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Jan 29, 2017 19:35
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I'm still on Chapter 2 slumming around for Completion (just finished Super Hang-On!) and I've found Mr. Shakedown so far to be okay if a bit unforgiving for your screw ups. Getting some good defensive gear like at the clown at the CP shrine helps. If I don't have the HEAT I just stuck it out on Rush mode, quickstep aside from his dash, get a few swings in, bait out his punches and if he's doing the one punch I can get a full combo and if not I just hang back. Takes a couple minutes. Just got a 150 million payout on one.
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Jan 29, 2017 21:53
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I really enjoy Yakuza 0's take on prequel callbacks in some of these substories. I just finished the Disco Dancing substories and it only just dawned on me that the same "brother" of disco you meet turns out to be Haruka's dance instructor about 20 years later in Yakuza 5. Nice stuff Sega.
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Jan 29, 2017 22:22
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I missed that post but I just went to the base Completion List page, not delving into any of the submenus, and there's an option to hit Triangle for Completed Items. Very useful, thanks exploded mummy!
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Jan 29, 2017 22:57
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Yakuza 5's crowd density is so terrible. I get that they wanted to flaunt these huge populations but they're so terrible in practice. There have been times where I run into a mob and they end up surrounding me and I spend a good 15-20 seconds trying to fight my way out of them. This game does such a much better job with getting that crowd density right, there's a ton of people but they're not as packed together and you bowl them over like nothing even if they get in your way.
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Feb 1, 2017 01:41
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I think Yakuza 2 is kind of put over more than most for the ridiculous ending sequence, but that entire game is effectively non-canon at this point with how hard they try to ignore it ever happened. You'd think someone in Osaka might bring up the time a golden castle rose out of the ground but no, it's just business as usual for Sotenbori. It did have a story written by an actual crime author which made it a lot more interesting, in my opinion, but the classic PS2 games are just too archaic these days. I can't imagine going back to the original 2, especially with Kiwami coming this Summer and Sega of Japan saying last year that they wanted to give 2 the Kiwami treatment as well. Yakuza Kiwami 2 could probably turn out to be one of the series best.
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Feb 1, 2017 06:43
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I don't think they ever explain that feature, I just stumbled upon it by complete accident.
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Feb 1, 2017 07:02
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StarkRavingMad posted:Oh yeah, if you're a trophy completionist it's probably a real bad time. I've long given up on trying to platinum a Yakuza game, there's always poo poo I'm just never going to bother to get any good at (looking at you, Shoji). Believe in yourself. I have them all except for Zero and 5 (which I will go back to at some point after Zero) and I feel like a better person for it.
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Feb 3, 2017 21:21
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History Comes Inside! posted:Is there a compelling real estate reason to leave chapter 5 or can I just grind out all the billionaires in a row like a madman before I move on Go for it, but there's also 
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Feb 3, 2017 22:29
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Yeah, Zap Guns kind of make Mr. Shakedown irrelevant. I bought about 10 and just cycle through em, haven't finished Chapter 5 yet but Kiryu's just about maxed out on everything.
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Feb 5, 2017 22:46
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The balls thrown for the money ball game are static. You can go online to like the Japanese Yakuza 0 strategy wikis and see that they figured it all out.
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Feb 6, 2017 23:13
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Man, this telephone game is a real pain in the rear end. I hate trying to figure out the voices of which girls I've already spoken to. I know about the bikini colors but it's a pain to kill five minutes on this thing and find out you got the wrong girl and stick through a few more minutes of dialogue before you can try again. Yet somehow this takes less time and effort than Hostess Clubs so thumbs up.
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Feb 7, 2017 04:56
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Adaptabullshit posted:The input prompt speed is a dead giveaway. Eventually I figured that out, but thank you. I managed to get all 4 substories done and now I'm just wrapping up Beast mode training before boot up Nioh.
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Feb 7, 2017 06:05
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Well, I had to fight them for the Completion Points!
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Feb 8, 2017 01:37
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Wow, this Catfight mini-game sure is trash.
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Feb 8, 2017 03:14
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Finally got a Catfight win after trying for an hour and a half. Pretty sure this is the worst thing Team Yakuza has done since Dead Souls.
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Zaggitz posted:It's me, I'm the guy who's still in chapter 7 at 60 hours in because I have to get both legendary styles as soon as possible. Yeah, I'm approaching 90 hours in Chapter 7 because whenever I get a new mini-game I'm like "Yep gotta get completion on it" so here I am finishing Cabaret Club and I'm like ya know I gotta get 15 fresh water fish too...
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Feb 10, 2017 02:43
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Oxxidation posted:The Cabaret Club feels like the sort of thing I'm going to have to space out, it's decent but gets mind-numbing quickly. Just finished it, unlocked the Mad Dog style, don't know where I'm going to find that last gold hostess...
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Feb 10, 2017 03:43
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Man, these Cabaret Club substories are a pain in the rear end. I've already finished the entire questline but two girls haven't finished their Special Training so I have to complete a training session then blow some time doing the cabaret club mini-game again before I can train again. The training isn't even helpful because the two remaining girls are like Lv. 20+ at this point so a perfect lesson doesn't even come close to leveling them up. Is there really no way to speed this up? Because I have to play this minigame at least 11 more times to finish these two girls.
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Feb 10, 2017 06:50
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man nurse posted:So where do you play fantasy zone? I can only find space harrier and outrun. It's in Sotenbori iirc
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Feb 11, 2017 18:36
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God drat, getting Completion in Mahjong looks like it's going to be terrible.
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Feb 13, 2017 00:10
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mikeycp posted:It's not that bad! 1 good hand knocks out all the hard ones in one shot. Wait all I need is 7 pairs? Like in Yakuza 3? Okay I'm down with that.
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Feb 13, 2017 03:05
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Stelas posted:You need a few baiman too, I think, but they'll come over time. Ughhhh I really hate goals going for specific hands.
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Feb 13, 2017 03:10
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precision posted:Ugh, I got the first one but somehow didn't get the second one. So the only way I could Platinum this game is to start a new game? Welp, maybe I'll Plat Kiwami. You have to beat the game twice to get Platinum in Zero anyway, because you have to beat the game on Legend difficulty (which doesn't allow NG+ item carryovers)
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Feb 14, 2017 20:44
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DrNutt posted:Is the real estate stuff time gated or something? I unlocked the real estate mini game and I'm in chapter 6 but I've run out of purchasable properties and I only own like 46 % of the Leisure King district. You have to advance the story more.
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Feb 16, 2017 22:37
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Samurai Sanders posted:My memory of 2 is that no one thought Daigo would be a good chairman (including himself), just that he was the only one left alive with a clear claim to it that wouldn't immediately lead to infighting. Basically the same problem as trying to find a new king of a country when the current king when a whole bunch of their family was suddenly killed or whatever. It's been awhile since I played it, but wasn't Dead Souls the only Yakuza game where the villain outright says that Kiryu always coming back just screws everything up, leaves things in a greater mess than when he started, and if he actually cared about the Tojo Clan then he'd actually step up as Chairman? Kind of weird that the non-canon spinoff would be the only one to outright say it.
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Gaz-L posted:Awww 
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Feb 19, 2017 02:56
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The NJPW tie-in seemed like the obvious way to get new moves by Kiryu defeating each guy and learning one of his big moves in return.