The Yakuza games ftw megathread

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Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

tao of lmao posted:

Kiwami 2 on the new engine is truly mind blowing the first time you fire it up.

I really enjoyed the overhaul of combat, busting into restaurants and smashing people up with chairs only to get yelled at by the owner ftw. I like the Y7 combat so far but I hope they expand and refine on the K2 combat in other spinoffs, adding back the styles and stuff.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2021 17:19

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 04:07

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

I just want Judgement to come out on PC at some point, weird that it's not even been mentioned

# ¿ Jan 5, 2021 17:28

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Professor of Cats posted:

Yeah and it sucks. "Uncle kaz, beat the first 3 bosses on v-on!!"
(3 hours later)

Yeah I'll be honest I'd never played virtual on before and it was a viscerally unpleasant experience

# ¿ Jan 10, 2021 23:32

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

I went into the underground at level 22 and came out half an hour later level 29 lmao, have I made things too easy now

# ¿ Jan 15, 2021 11:05

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Brass Hand posted:

What was the end boss?

A roomba that didn't do much damage but took like 10 minutes of slowly beating up. Not the highlight of the game so far tbh but the occasional boring HP sack boss is a Yakuza tradition and at least this time I was probably underequipped

# ¿ Jan 15, 2021 13:19

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

The quests to find and fight like 10 specific Sujimon suck a dog's rear end. I spent 20 minutes running around Koreatown and found one gambler. Do they unlock anything cool or can I ignore them safely

# ¿ Jan 18, 2021 13:20

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

I dunno how to approach 3-5, I want to play them all but don't want to get burned out and I get the impression 3 and 4 are the weakest and 5 is good but insanely long... it would feel wrong to just power through the main quests for 3 or 4 though

# ¿ Jan 23, 2021 15:05

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

I just got to that fight and beat it after a couple of tries but Jesus that was a difficulty spike... I'd beaten up to floor 20 on the battle arena so I figured I'd be fine

# ¿ Jan 25, 2021 20:51

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Seltzer posted:

Yea lol if you have her and Eri he'll only attack the two dudes. I actually used that for a bit by having Adachi and Ichiban tank damage during rotations. I thought something was glitched at first until I put 2 and 2 together. I was just bummed that the Majima poundmate call doesn't do extra damage to kiryu

as soon as I realised that obviously Kiryu doesn't hit women other than small children, I put them both in my party and thought I was a genius. I immediately realised the flaw in this plan when, having only two targets, he immediately killed Ichiban in a couple of moves

# ¿ Jan 28, 2021 15:25

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Man the other cities are depressingly empty in 7... I was excited to get back to Kamurucho but there's nothing to do.

I don't like Ijincho as much at the moment, it feels kind of bland and doesn't have the same visual charm or style, but it's new and we've watched Kamurucho develop over like 7 games at this point

# ¿ Jan 29, 2021 10:18

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Brass Hand posted:

Same there are too many spaces with nothing to see. Similarly there are shops you use once before being too high level to bother with their wares and that’s kind of boring too.

Chinatown having like four functionally identical shops that sell redundant inventory cluttering food healing items ftw

# ¿ Jan 29, 2021 16:22

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

nosering posted:

has anyone successfully done the true final millenium tower in y7? been working on this for like a week and I keep getting owned significantly even with one job maxed and 4 others at 30. if i have to max every single job i think i wont make it out alive

final millenium tower or true final millenium tower

# ¿ Jan 29, 2021 21:59

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

nosering posted:

True final. The first one was a breeze, even at level 75-80, but this one is truly destroying me. I do appreciate them overhauling the trophies to make the plat a bit more realistic compared to the rest of them (y0 was intensely brutal, judgement was also pretty hard), but this seems like a bit much.

Yeah it seems a bit silly. I'll prkbably do it but it seems like just the normal final tower with all the stats cranked up 10x, the combat doesn't really have the depth to make it interesting at that point lol

# ¿ Jan 30, 2021 02:14

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Bicyclops posted:

might download 0 tonight, I've just seen so many people love this series.

I'm excited for you and also for whatever incredibly insane Majima dreams it's going to give you

# ¿ Jan 30, 2021 18:46

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Chuck Buried Treasure posted:

Is there a better way to make money towards the end of the game than the business mini game? It seems kind of obvious that the business is the best but the amount of time you have to put into it to get the $3m bonus after a shareholder meeting is crazy inconvenient once you get to the highest level of the workshop and every single upgrade costs between 1 and 4 million

do the first few floors of the battle arena a few times for golden bugs, then use them as crafting materials to make 7 Nouveau Riche Crowns and equip them on everyone, means you get double the money from battles - then just do the last 5-10 floors over a few times. You'll earn millions and also get loads of guaranteed drops of the weapons that sell for a million each. Also if you use the Megumi summon on the final fight that one gives you like 4 million by itself. I did it for like half an hour while pretending to be on work calls and earned 30 million

Lunchmeat Larry fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jan 30, 2021

# ¿ Jan 30, 2021 22:03

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Bicyclops posted:

any advice for total Yakuza noobs or is the game pretty self explanatory?

the early game is rough so buy loads of healing items and please use them, they seem expensive but once you're past the early game the cost is negligible and they're basically instant full heals

# ¿ Jan 30, 2021 22:07

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

ho fan posted:

is the side stuff in Kiwami 1 worth doing?

It's worth doing in all the games but Kiwami 1 isn't great so if you're not feeling it just power through, the main story stuff is really good

# ¿ Jan 31, 2021 22:55

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

man nurse posted:

Judgment getting the next gen treatment in April. I don�t care that I have to buy it again.

Thank You Sega

I got excited hoping for a PC release and I audibly heard the monkey's paw curl just out of sight as I read that it's Stadia exclusive

# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 13:02

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

so like what do you spend your money on in kiwami? i'm a few hours in & already have 500k+. i think i was halfway thru 0 before ever seeing that much money

there are loads of expensive weapons and you're going to want them for some of the absurd HP Majima fights etc. I think I always had a full stock of... some magic knife thing? so I could just pull it out and OHKO random battles

# ¿ Feb 3, 2021 11:00

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

This is why you stock up on expensive weapons and just kill him immediately on sight

# ¿ Feb 4, 2021 14:22

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Yeah I had no trouble with koi somehow, I think I just got really lucky. I tried playing it again later in Yakuza 7 and had no loving idea what was going on

# ¿ Feb 4, 2021 16:51

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Brasseye posted:

It is so so good. Finished the cabaret stuff last night - it was a really cool surprise to get Mad Dog of Shimano but its kind of like when you do a post game dungeon in a rpg and get the ultimate summon and theres nothing left to really use it on

Yakuza games tend to have superbosses though

# ¿ Feb 19, 2021 21:38

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Fortaleza posted:

huh, apparently a bunch of the female characters are modeled after IRL pornstars.

This has to be the horniest game I’ve ever seen

You can unlock videos of them writhing weirdly at you lmao

# ¿ Feb 22, 2021 21:33

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Seriously looking at Stadia since Judgment will be Stadia exclusive and I literally don't understand what it is. I can't tell if I can just sign up for free and buy the game or if I have to buy a special controller to run it in a Chrome tab or something wtf. Please just put the game on Steam

# ¿ Feb 24, 2021 13:36

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Coin Locker Baby is cool but don't watch it before playing 7 because it's the same plot lol

# ¿ Feb 24, 2021 16:52

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Fungah! posted:

wellcume 2 imp zone

# ¿ Feb 26, 2021 16:31

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Bicyclops posted:

i'm on ps4 unfortunately. i don't have trouble lining up the shot at all, i just suck at the timing. i know you can look at kiryu for help but for some reason that throws me off more.

lol, i only played until i was 12. i was very bad at everything because i am stereoblind, but one game, the pitcher hit me with the ball three times in a row and the coach made a thinking-real-hard face and then hunkered down and really seriously said to me "okay. i'm gonna level with you here. you're a terrible batter. here's what you're going to do from now on. just stand there and get hit by the ball. you're like a ball magnet, it heads right for your face, it's amazing. so just stand there. don't swing at all." and that's what i did. suddenly, i was great at getting on base, and i was actually pretty good at running for my age, so i could steal bases a lot of the time.

the kids on the team nicknamed me Statue, and that made me even better, because i'd get up to the plate and they'd all yell "Sta-TUE! Sta-TUE! sta-TUE!!" and i'd glare at the pitcher intimidatingly. at 12, all the pitchers were like "drat, this dude has a nickname and everything! look at the icy glare!!" and it would gently caress them up, so i'd basically always walk, usually from getting beaned. eventually my team wasn't allowed to cheer anymore (we had a gustavo on our team, and every time he got up to bat we'd yell "Goose!!" and make loud honking noises until the other parents complained), and suddenly i was just a bad player, so i quit.

Fairly sure I heard Yakuza sidequest music playing as I read this post

# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 19:01

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Pablo Nergigante posted:

My dad signed me up for soccer for a couple years but gave up since I would just look for bugs and flowers during games.

quote:

"When we first presented this to Mr. Miyamoto, he spent about an hour just climbing trees," Hidemaro Fujibayashi, Breath of the Wild's director, told Jason Schreier in an interview last week. "We left little treats like rupees on the trees, but we also left other things in other places we thought he might go. But he just kept climbing trees. Up and down.

"And so we got to the point where we go, 'Do you want to look at other stuff?' But he just kept on going. Once [he] got out of the Shrine of Resurrection, he spent an hour just within a 25-50 meter radius outside of that cave just climbing trees."

# ¿ Mar 2, 2021 11:44

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Chuck Buried Treasure posted:

Time is a flat circle

https://twitter.com/reggie_800/status/1305224770678448128?s=21

Perhaps it is the fate of all of us to one day be the moron who just keeps climbing trees... personally I await the return of that childlike sense of wonder

# ¿ Mar 2, 2021 15:51

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Ichi is a perfect new protagonist yeah, what makes his goofiness work is that he's completely earnest and a bit naive in the same way as Kiryu - so he's a very different character but it isn't fourth wall breaking meta poo poo, he's believable and understandable.

If there's one thing I would say is that I think he should be a bit younger, he's older than Kiryu is in Y1 but comes across really young and inexperienced. Both characters have a big in-jail timeskip so it's hard not to compare. Characters talk about him as being part of the new generation of Yakuza and a rookie who's got a bright future ahead of him and it's like no this dude's fuckin old lol

# ¿ Mar 3, 2021 17:46

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

It was kind of a bummer that by endgame the best class for everyone is basically their main class, except Enforcer for Adachi I guess. They're cool classes but it felt boring

# ¿ Mar 5, 2021 13:53

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

I feel like Y7 looks worse than Kiwami 2 on a purely technical/graphical level for some reason. It's fine I'm not playing Yakuza for the cutting edge graphics lol

# ¿ Mar 6, 2021 14:10

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Brass Hand posted:

For some reason I didn�t love Y2 but having read that I think a re run is in order.

never played the original but Kiwami 2 is amazing. That chapter is unreal, I know everyone says the Yakuza plots get more over-the-top as they go on but I'm struggling to picture anything topping that

also Kiryu has never killed a man in his life

# ¿ Mar 9, 2021 14:01

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

IGgy IGsen posted:

End of Yakuza 5
Person 1: I'm the man!
Person 2: I'm the man behind the man
Person 3: I'm the man behind the man behind the man, idiots!
Person 4: I'm some jobber from earlier in the game and I'm the final boss, also I have ten health bars

this is every other Yakuza game including 0 and 7

# ¿ Mar 12, 2021 21:06

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

I didn't really like it, felt like "fanservice" in a way that Yakuza usually either avoids or does well enough that it's fun anyway

# ¿ Mar 15, 2021 10:14

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Bicyclops posted:

kiryu is already on thin ice at fast food establishments for continuously going to a burger joint and asking them to order him a pizza.

kiryu inadvertently blowing pizzagate wide open by being too dim to understand menus

# ¿ Mar 15, 2021 19:52

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

[quietly] _koi!

# ¿ Mar 17, 2021 19:38

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

# ¿ Mar 18, 2021 12:09

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

yeah I think that's all the remaster removes, because it's a bit lovely about trans people and the director has said he removed it himself as he regrets putting it in

# ¿ Mar 19, 2021 16:18

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 04:07

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

I love the vibe of Yakuza 3 and hanging around the orphanage but man this combat feels really bad so far lol

# ¿ Mar 20, 2021 15:46

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