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drat i can’t believe i just found this thread anyway, here’s my yakuza series ranking hot take: they’re all fantastic, eat me also dead souls is canon, prove me wrong
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In Training posted:Yakuza 3 time. 
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May 13, 2021 02:40
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Y3 is extremely jank because it was the first mainline game in the series on PS3 (i think kenzan was a launch title in japan) but omg it’s so loving good
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May 13, 2021 04:19
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k2 also has the heat move where you slam someone nuts first into a telephone pole
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May 13, 2021 18:07
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Nothing in any Yakuza game is permanently missable y0 has a few trophies you can miss during the story, but they don’t count towards the completion rate
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May 13, 2021 22:10
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:Katsuragi in Yakuza 4. 
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May 19, 2021 12:32
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Neurotic Roleplay posted:ya going to 5 after 3&4 felt incredible dead souls is clunky as all get out but extremely charming, and as far as i can tell it's entirely canon by way of none of the games after it contradicting its plot points it's just that nobody ever talks about the kamurocho zombie outbreak or that ryuji goda is still alive and has a barrett from ff7 style gun for an arm
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May 21, 2021 16:34
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In Training posted:idk what it is about the setting but up to chapter 4 and this is my fave yakuza story since 0. K1 and K2 have awesome dramatic moments and fun crime story melodrama but the low-key nature of Kiryu just trying to put his life back together and make a safe space for the orphan kids is rly cool, and I like the ryudo goons, the sunny beach, the new city, and the simmering land grab conspiracy stuff. Good poo poo  y3 owns
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May 21, 2021 19:24
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In Training posted:some excellent substories in 3. favorite so far is the epic tourist dad carrying around a mountain of wobbling ice cream towers like a mario party minigame intro i love the poo poo out of y3 but i gotta admit the start of chapter 5 on legend is really bustin my balls the first chase scene is a potential game over and there’s only one out of the way save point right before it and a mini boss fight those chase scene lifebars are a real kick in the dick, lemme tell u
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May 24, 2021 00:22
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In Training posted:but apparently that will all change soon, so I'm curious where the story goes from here! it definitely shifts a bit, though the part i mentioned is nowhere near as punishing on difficulties where you can actually continue after a game over
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May 24, 2021 01:24
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which boss? y3’s bosses can kind of suck but they usually have some way to cheese them
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May 26, 2021 16:54
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man nurse posted:I like whenever you knock him down and he’s like “ahhh poo poo” as he gets back up best pain noise in the whole drat series  also chapter 5 in y3 is where you can get the tiger drop and komaki parry, so the difficulty curve can potentially go way the hell down as long as you don’t miss it i think i know the boss fight you were stuck on, Brasseye, and tbh after a few goes at it i had no trouble with it, but i can see being totally underleveled with not enough skills unlocked making it real tough that chase sequence after it gave me like 10 game overs on Legend difficulty tho… 
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May 27, 2021 04:15
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Bicyclops posted:kuze owns but he's not the endboss yeah that’s clearly so amon also i just realized that he uses the boxcelios laser against you during the fight lol
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May 27, 2021 23:04
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so it turns out for Legend in Yakuza 3 chapter 8, you have to do the whole thing in one shot, no save points during the chapter except right at the start before the poo poo hits the fan enemy gauntlet, boss, enemy gauntlet again, zero margin of error chase sequence, more enemy gauntlet, another boss, and then another boss it’s hard to describe how glad i am that i got that over with 
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May 29, 2021 04:33
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the last three if7 fights in y3 are all that stands between me and Amon, and uhhhh yeah i’m just gonna move on to y4 for a while now because jesus wtf being able to tiger drop as a non-counter is just friggin cheating, virtua-kiryu 
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May 31, 2021 19:00
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BBJoey posted:the hostess maker minigame in 3 and 4 is easily the worst minigame in the series. then the cabaret club management in 0 and k2 is one of the best. rgg wins again  shout out to the hostess minigame in fist of the north star too, which is a fun variation on the idea where you have to slam enjoyment into the customer’s face so hard and fast that they leave ASAP, which is both thematically appropriate and very satisfying once you get the hang of it
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Jun 1, 2021 08:35
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Seltzer posted:Two separate thoughts but- Jun Oda from yakuza 0 is cool I wish his story ended a different way, it was kind of stupid and he would have been a good reoccurring character. "cool" isn't really the word i'd use to describe oda tbh "gigantic piece of human trafficking poo poo who got what was coming to him" is more how i'd phrase it
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Jun 2, 2021 14:57
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Seltzer posted:I guess I meant compelling. And I just wish they took his character a different direction then all the bad stuff. I honestly forget most of how that bit of the story went because I've played y0-y7 over the past year and a half. It's all one big blur of a story to me now. i can't deny that, he was definitely a charming scumbag with a great sense of style
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Jun 2, 2021 19:06
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i just grabbed it for ps5 and it definitely does have a slower pace than most of the rest of the games still rules tho, flux fissure is hilarious also the physics seem slightly broken at 60fps, but not in a bad way, i don't remember launching dudes 15 feet straight into the air when i played it on ps4 but it's happened like six times already Dewgy fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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Jun 4, 2021 20:55
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Bicyclops posted:was really happy after getting all the blog entries that the completion reward comes from bob utsunomiya that's also how you get the completion reward for all the hostesses! and sayama's the one messaging you if you didn't notice
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Jun 7, 2021 19:58
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wrapped up Y4 legend last night, sacred tree set made the last fight comically easy which was nice, stayed up til 6 am doing taxi missions in 5 which i mostly skipped over during my first run of the game so i could beeline the story turns out the taxi missions loving rule!!!
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Jun 13, 2021 18:29
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i’m out of taxi missions and taxi accessories to buy and now i feel sad at least my anime waifu decal will keep me company in these trying times as i endlessly drive alone down the highway
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Jun 14, 2021 07:20
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Finished Saejima hunting and I love that all the rewards for these side activities are just being better at the side activity lol. At least this one gives you a steady income stream unlike Kiryu's finite missions. It's the sort of thing that usually annoys me in games but in this it's just so chill that slowly mastering the side activity is its own reward kiryu does get tons of money by the time you finish the taxi missions though you just have to remember that customers directly give you tips and you have to find an ATM to collect the rest also i completely forgot that saejima’s prison chapter in y5 has a totally different problem than the one in y4: 4’s is way too hard, where 5’s is just kind of boring real excited to get it over with and fight a god drat bear again Dewgy fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Jun 15, 2021 |
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Jun 15, 2021 15:13
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Brass Hand posted:Maybe spoiler a bit more of that chief you got it but saejima goes back to jail is barely a spoiler tbh i know that sounds glib but for real, it’s like the first thing mentioned in the first cutscene in his section and it barely makes sense anyway, just WELP I GOTTA GO BACK TO JAIL FOR REASONS NOW
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Jun 15, 2021 18:17
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tanimura’s original VA/face actor got drug charges, was acquitted, but then he quit acting altogether because nobody he worked with stood up for him during the whole thing that’s why tanimura got memory holed and is also why he has a new face and voice in Y4 remastered
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Jun 16, 2021 15:57
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Pablo Nergigante posted:That's definitely why they changed him in Y4 but the allegations didn't come out until 2016, way after Y5 came out. They must have just decided he sucked lol. oh, welp feels weird to me to think y5 is older than that, but it also feels weird to me that the ps4 is nine years old so my sense of time is a little distorted
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Jun 16, 2021 16:40
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i got addicted to cho-han all the way back in Legend of the Mystical Ninja on SNES and it was more or less exactly the same as it is in the Yakuza series, so yeeeeah betting poo poo tons of money on 50/50 odds is just peak entertainment as it turns out
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Jun 18, 2021 03:20
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Bicyclops posted:Kiryu (holding the phone too close to his ear): You sent something all the way to Serena? Oh, I think I see it now. the cake begins ringing, much to everyone’s surprise, even Majima a prepaid phone inside, a familiar voice on the line “meet me at the bullfighting arena. it’s time to settle this.” the ultimate birthday
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Jun 18, 2021 04:33
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Bicyclops posted:finally looked up where i get the piece of wood i need to do more of the homeless digging quest thing for saejima and, i don't really consider this a spoiler, it's a prize for the batting cages. specifically you need like a B rank on the normal course, so i figure, sure, okay, i've done harder ones. https://youtu.be/_HElT3TATug  i have played waaaaaaay too much of this baseball poo poo
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Jun 20, 2021 02:48
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Bicyclops posted:lol, yeah. i didn't record the actual squares they were in, just the direction they'd travel and if they were half steps. I had this whole system using hashes and stuff. gamer notes ftw kiwami 2, judgment, and 6 all have the “ball moves in a 3x3 grid, hit the right spot” kind of baseball, and the ball actually does have a different color glow on its way to you depending on the pitch type which helps with sightreading a course 0, k1, 3, 4, and 5 all have the “aim for a part of the scoreboard and time it right” sort (and fotns’ bikerball is a variant on that) 5 also has shinada baseball which is sort of a hybrid of the two but you can grind stats to become nigh unstoppable which is fun making a note of the pitch types is a lot more handy in the dragon engine games, because the old engine baseball is only going to curve left, curve right, or be a fastball which is easy enough to see visually, the timing you just sort of have to learn like i said, i’ve played too much drat yakuza baseball lol e: lmao
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Jun 20, 2021 06:14
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minor y5 spoilers:  haha oh wow they namedropped a real whisky that’s pretty neat let’s see what that goes fo-  
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Jun 20, 2021 10:41
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Bicyclops posted:i still love in yakuza 0 when the american trainer guy give you the tutorial on using money to buy skills and he's like "you can invest in yourself" and kiryu says "oh, you mean like pay money for good food, get a gym membership, that kind of thing?" and he just goes "no, i mean you literally invest money into your skills" and that's how much they explain it when you get to Amon in Kiwami he asks if you’ve ever met him before, then stares directly at the camera instead of Kiryu
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Jun 23, 2021 01:09
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IGgy IGsen posted:Shinada's story is where Y5 started losing me. It's fine on its own but you could just remove it from Y5 and not much would be lost. They could have still used something like that in a later or different game cause I think the story itself has its moments but in the context of Y5 it's really where I started souring on it. Shinada’s story is a really good complement to Haruka’s, i thought both of them give you some perspective into how the Tojo/Omi conflict has an impact on the lives of people who aren’t even directly involved, which is something the series really hadn’t gotten into all that much in earlier games
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Jun 26, 2021 19:17
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Fumaofthelake posted:Big time spoilers for Yakuza 6 and Yakuza 7 i didn’t even notice it when i did that fight but kiryu won’t attack the ladies in your party, and i find that hilarious
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Jul 1, 2021 03:04
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y5 has a kind of weird premium adventure mode, you can’t make a new game plus save out of it ng+ is still an option by itself, but you have to use clear data, and unlike every other game in the series you can’t make clear data during premium adventure
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Jul 8, 2021 18:03
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Bicyclops posted:i don't understand pachinko yet and i think i'll come back to virtua fighter, but when i went to kiryu's apartment finally, i got sidetracked again by the training that unlocked, so i still haven't been there. you can tell that this and 0 were made at around the same time, both have kind of the same way of introducing content. i love it. i recently realized that RGG Ishin was made between 5 and 0 and i want it even more now
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Jul 9, 2021 21:01
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Beyond Two Souls, and it was even creepier because David Cage had the devs do a full body scan of Page and implement the model in game without his consent. I’m pretty sure that’s not true? Page never got told about it but they didn’t do a random full nude scan during development, it’s his head on a body made by the art department. e: Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/ellen-page-explored-legal-action-against-sony-over-nude-video-game-images-2015-4 I mean, it’s still skeevy AF but not “let me scan you in the nude and use that without your permission” skeevy.
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Jul 12, 2021 15:13
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RandolphCarter posted:It’s mostly that Majima takes a blade to the gut for Kiryu at the batting cage. but a bit what others have said. he gets over it pretty quickly and then they realized "oh poo poo he needs a gut wound for the truck scene" and had someone shoot him lol
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Jul 13, 2021 19:24
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The Kins posted:(it was their very first ps3 game so they don't like the idea of a straight port) cowards! 
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Jul 13, 2021 20:44
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man, y6 amon is incredibly silly fuckin’ exploding drone and roomba army, what the hell man
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