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Only acceptable order to play is 3>0>5>kiwami 2>2>kiwami>4>6>1

>>15363419

The only acceptable order is not to play, and not fall for meme games

Kiwami 1 PC port when? Give me a release date if you put the fucking thing on Steam

>>15363459

>meme games

It's not a sandbox survival or battle royale game though

>>15363546

Yeah, the way the Dragon engine works doesn't really lend itself to a lot of the fights in 2. In particular it transforms the Ryuji fight. While he still has those counter moves he'd do after getting hit, it doesn't force you to fight carefully because he can't just no-sell your follow up attacks like he could in the original, you can just keep stunlocking him. Additionally, MILF hunter only has the high stance in Kiwami 2, in the original he had 3 stances, each of them having a unique moveset. When it comes to the musical changes, the biggest problem is that there were about 5 different tracks which played in substory fights. Problem is, none of them were composed by Shoji, so instead almost every substory fight just plays the 2 random goon tracks.

Gameplay-wise, I've also either discovered or seen combat "tricks" which are busted as all hell. The attack out of the forward evade can still be chained into itself to an absurd degree, but more importantly, if you do the standard light heavy attack gut punch and don't finish it with the superpunch, 9/10 the enemy is stunned for long enough for you to charge and execute a charged running attack. Why is that important? The mawashi kaiten geri heat move that you can do in autistic dragon rage mode after doing the charged running attack is damage-wise the strongest in the game. Additionally, this works on almost every bad guy in the game, including all the Amon bros before they pop their superarmor.

>>15363689

Luckily no one is forcing you to use the busted moves, I find it more fun to knock guys down and target the next guy. My biggest issue with combat in 6 was how often you'd have to spam the grab spin throw to crowd control and there wasn't anything like essence of fear to break up the ranks better

>>15363750

The busted techniques are pretty useful for very tough fights, such as some of the high-level coliseum fighters, gook knifeboots man or the Amon bros. I think it's a good idea to list them still, maybe someone who'll have difficulties with the really tough fights will find them useful. And yeah, 6's combat felt really unfinished. No weapons, slow as molasses even with all the upgrades, a lack of heat moves (most of which being locked behind autistic dragon rage) and just a lack of certain options. Although when it came to crowd control which was more of a pain to deal with than actual bosses in 6, I just kept doing the running dropkick, that thing is stupid good and it even benefits a lot from the increased collateral damage skill since you'll be aiming to line up as many goons as possible. I only used the spin grab when there was no space for the dropkick.

So how do you like Ichiban's tattoo? Yakuza Online might be coming soon since Sega released this teaser

>>15363546

I think I'll either wait for a price drop for Kiwami 2 or not get it at all. I liked Yakuza 6 more than most seemed to because it was fresh and there was a lot of stuff that wasn't possible in previous entries to experiment with, like being able to throw enemies off ledges without spending heat, the unique moves you can do while on stairs/slopes and seamlessly going in & out of buildings while in combat.

Having just played Kiwami 2's demo though it just feels quite been there, done that and the new stuff they've added doesn't feel worthwhile. Being able to charge square attacks is nice, but I find the new charged triangle moves more annoying than useful, especially because of the slowmo you get every single time you use them. You can't charge up finishing blows or the turnaround axe kick anymore because of them either. Some of the new heat actions don't feel good to use because of the massive amount of motion blur (e.g. the one with the Double Fire sticks) and others it reintroduces are redundant because the ragdoll physics coupled with Kiryu's Dragon Engine moveset let you do the same things organically. Some of them just plain don't feel suited to the engine either, it's crazy how much better the triple sword slash heat action looks in Ishin than in Kiwami 2.

Apart from all that, the PS2 animations in cutscenes look even more wonky than in the first Kiwami since the disparity between the animation quality and that of the character models is even bigger now. And it doesn't feel anywhere near as fast as I expected considering how much quicker than 6 everyone was saying it was either, with that expectation in my head it ended up feeling really sluggish. I also keep having this issue where Kiryu will randomly stop moving when sprinting, I don't know what that's about.

To me it just feels like another 0 vs Kiwami situation where the latter isn't bad, but I can't find much justification to play it when I could instead just play a game with similar movement/combat/etc whose battles are also actually designed with those things in mind.

The Dragon Engine has a lot of potential, fights feel more kinetic than ever, the physics, and the indoor-outdoor seamless transitions and objects flying around.

The combat in general being paired back seems like it's part of the growing pains though, I'd like to see them implement styles while maintaining the current weighty-ness the combat has, but I'm not sure how they'd do that. Looking forward to what they do with it, and Kiwami 2 is certainly on my buy list

>>15367269

>So how do you like Ichiban's tattoo?

That's the weirdest looking menorah I've ever seen.

>>15363459

>meme game

Every time someone uses this term they end up making a completely garbage post, it just really makes you think.

Playing through Kiwami as I post this, enjoying the additions so far. I never played the original games and started with 0.What I'm most looking forward to about Kiwami 2 is the return of the host club management minigame.

>>15370389

Dunno about the golf one, but at the batting center every time you play you get points and you can exchange those points for two of the skill books for bat heat actions.

>>15370413

I like that solution, beating the hardest challenge probably speeds up the process. I could never fucking beat the final driving range challenge that was absolute horseshit

>>15370420

Yeah, the easy homerun and challenge courses give you less points, but in exchange they're well… easier. Though it's not hard to begin with, I think all the courses have a predetermined pitch pattern.

>>15370425

If you wanna learn games that require some skill to beat like Mahjong, Shogi and Koi-Koi, along with sitting on your ass like a retard hoping you'll win enough money in those luck-based minigames, go on right ahead.

>>15370425

100% subquests maybe but 100% in collectibles and minigames is up to you and how fun you find diversions from the story. I never bothered with things like upgrading weapons that much when they introduced that mechanics because I didn't find it as fun as grab-and-go weapons

Since both are from Sega and both have similar gameplay, I thought why not.

So I just finished Shenmue and the weird thing is that the town and the buildings all have a distinct feel and going around the corner you know where stuff is. So for me the weird thing is obviously waiting for a shop to open before stuff can happen in the story, also no map outside of the places that have a map that says where you are.

For some reason these where fresh mechanics to play with, and I wonder why there are no games that mimics this feel.

And the game does not look to bad for being almost 20 years old.

But I still don't get why there is this huge autism when it comes to Shenmue, maybe I should finish 2 before I comment on the autism thing, overall I'm more confused then hyped with starting nr 2.

Is this normal?

>>15370536

The shock you're experiencing is the realization that you're playing a meme game

>>15370588

So I just spent all this time on a meme game and all the things good people where saying and where is 3, was nothing but a dumb meme that I would not figure out before they are making 3 and released the 2 games on steam,xbone and ps4.

Now I feel really stupid but now I'm in awe about why people wanted a 3 to begin with, since now I'm digging up information about shenmue, and Yu Suzuki said he wanted to make 17 games or that shenmuw was chapter 1 of 17 chapters, whatever the fuck that means.

>>15370588

seems like my earlier post still applies

>>15368120

>>15370420

Just did the driving range shit. There's again 2 skill books, the easier one you just have to play the closest-to-par easy challenge and score some points, it's not too hard, I got 500 points and I got the book. The second book is a bit tougher, you get it by hitting all squares in the bingo challenge, which means that you only have one fuckup available. It's not as hard as it sounds though, there's no moving target bullshit like in the original game.

With the recent translations, how optimistic am I being by expecting a Kenzan and Ishin release?

>there will never ever be a Yakuza, Sleeping Dogs, and Shenmue crossover

Death is all i can hope for.

>>15373192

The first one has loli prostitue haruka, so literally never.

Looks like they're working on something new. Copy-paste from Gematsu:

Sega’s Toshihiro Nagoshi teased the announcement of a new title within the next month on the latest Sega-Nama broadcast.

Asked by co-host Ayana Tsubaki if there will be a pause in news after the recent Yakuza Online announcement, Nagoshi said, “The [next Sega-Nama] broadcast after Tokyo Game Show will be a big one… We’ll discuss topics no one is going to expect.”

Tsubaki noted that Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio is generally either at the pre-Tokyo Game Show PlayStation press conference or has its own presentation each year, and that she expects something will be announced in the next month, to which Nagoshi said, “I understand that. The only hint I can say is that it is something truly different.”

Tsubaki asked if everyone will know about it within the next month, and Nagoshi responded, “That’s right. It’s a new title announcement that will turn things upside down.”

Nagoshi also mentioned that it has been about three years since the planning phase of this project, and re-confirmed that we will learn about it between now and the next Sega-Nama broadcast at the end of September.

Tokyo Game Show 2018 runs from September 20 to 23, so whatever Nagoshi is teasing might debut there, but it might also debut even earlier at Sony’s pre-Tokyo Game Show 2018 video live show on September 10.

I prefer the heat move requirements for baseball in the original rather than in this one, they really cranked that diarrhea dial, the 3k points you have to grind to get both the skill books is such a chore. In the end it's gonna be at least 3200 points if you want the expert's bat which increases your point multiplier. I keep doing the Expert 1 challenge course because it's the easiest way to get 150 points with the expert bat and you get a free AppStim RX for those stat grinding sessions, though I kinda doubt it'll be needed in this game, I'm just in chapter 6 and while I did spend a lot of time doing a lot of side content, I still feel overleveled as fuck. The problem with 6 is that there was a dearth of getting green and purple XP, but in Kiwami 2 it feels much more even as to which stat you'll get (though I still think I get way too much red XP).

So yeah, fuck baseball.

Here's the survey for Kiwami 2, make sure you say you want Western releases of Kenzan and Ishin you fucking cunts.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-D0ogM3HT_jBDiMJaMNwyV4183888BXJ4GTjuK_5CgU/viewform?edit_requested=true

>>15373231

>intimately acquainted with the Bakumatsu period

This is fucking stupid. I mean seriously people who play it without any knowledge might actually end up doing some research on the period. Also "intimately acquainted"? Then why even fucking sell it retail to begin with? Make it accessible to only those who have a post-grad level of knowledge then.

>>15381124

I think it's just a bullshit non-answer, when the real truth is that they thought it wouldn't sell because Dead Souls didn't sell, that's Sega's retardation for ya.

Anyway, make sure to fill out the survey in the post above yours and tell Sega that you want those samurai spin-off games.

>>15381124

I can read moon runes, I have played the game, and I can tell you for a fact that's a flat out lie. It has a simple story. Kiryu is trying to find the dirty rat that kill his father judging only by his kungfu so infiltrates the shinsengumi because some of them use the same style only to fight out that it was his bro that did it to bring down the shogunate sell out the Japan to the British Empire. Nothing requires you to have a master's degree in Japanese history.

>>15382836

Kiryu has a serious case of notto disu shitto agen.

>>15379355

THIS IS DRUMPF'S KAMUROCHO

>>15382836

It's not much of a surprise if you followed the updates when the game was announced. It was brought up a lot when the regulars were more frequent.

Couple of questions:

1 - how does the Toylet minigame work? I don't get what I'm supposed to do.

2 - any tips for Virtual On? I feel like I'm missing some vital piece of the puzzle because the mech handles like a tank, especially when turning, and I see that text in the screen listing weapons but I don't know if I can swap them or something; just use L2 and R2 to attack.

>>15383175

The Toylet's a bunch of shit. You're supposed to "match" the stream of your opponent. You know you're on the right track the harder your controller rumbles. When it's rumbling hard you have to keep it at that intensity.

Can anyone suggest a way to quickly finish the Club Management mini-game in 0? Kiryu's was long and boring but this is just grindy as fuck. Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to lock Legendary/Mad dog styles and limit breaks behind these long-ass mini-games?

>>15383193

Guess I'm gonna fiddle with it until I understand what the hell they want me to do. Thanks for the tip on the rumbling, at least that should clue me in.

>>15383268

Yakuza 0? I don't think there's a quick way around it, if you rush into the rival club fight or whatever it's called you'll get creamed. Normally I complete a platinum hostess training between rival fights, it's not quick but seemed like the best way to manage time since I finish the hostess' sub story and beat the rival, it's about 5-6 sessions which will leave your crew properly leveled.

>>15383284

I guess that's the best option I have. Should I go looking for other girls or the ones you get from the shrine are good enough? I got all of them already.

>>15384218

There's some you can hire by finding them around the city and you usually have to offer them something (no biggie, you're filthy rich in this game), the shrine ones you get from trading CP and the ones you get from clearing substories and those are the best ones outside the platinum rank.

Some bronze hostesses are good too, there's one with a very high Party stat who, if properly leveled, can milk a lot of shekels out of mega-rich costumers. Unsolicited advice but remember that stats are better than attributes, ideally you'll pair a girl that matches both of a costumer's preference but if you can't, Party/Talk/Love/etc is much more important than Cute/Sexy/Beautiful/etc.

>>15384218

Most of the really good hostesses you can only get from substories. I remember the Obatarian having the highest talk and Unknown having the highest love stat outside of platinum hostesses, but Unknown is very annoying to get because of the very luck-based nature of the substory.

>got kiwami 2 Tuesday

>currently handling the first part of the hostess club

>it has an in-game gacha mechanic which you either get a hostess that’s below or way better than the platinum hosts or nothing at all

That’s such a huge step back from the Yakuza 0. Other than that the game so far is pretty decent.

I feel very autistic for this, but I noticed a major inconsistency in Kiwami 2 and it's bugging the shit out of me. Kamurocho Hills is very far into construction in the game, when it's meant to barely be started. Only the foundation was done in Yakuza 3. It was still West Park in Kiwami 1, there's no way a construction project that large could be that far along in only a years time. Maybe I'm just thinking about it too hard, but it bugs the hell out of me.

>>15372911

I beat the bingo challenge and the albatross challenge the other night, took a few tries but wasn't a fucking nightmare like the original albatross challenge

>>15384946

You got a source on that crop, my search has come up inconclusive.

>>15385435

Thanks, friend

I passed over that one in the search, need to check the compilations more

>>15384346

At least the gachashit mechanic is tied to in-game currency only so be glad. The Clan Creator also has the same gachashit tied to it, but unlike the hostess minigame in K2, all the best fighters you'll get through substories, fighting street bosses or the arena. The best guys you can get from the arena imo are Akira Yamaoka and Komaki. Komaki needs no introduction, but Akira is a classic arena combatant who probably was in every game, he fights by aping Kiryu's style in every game he appears in and is a very tough customer. Since you can now see the style of every combatant before you enter the arena, you are able to see if you'll get Akira if you have "Self-taught Kenpo" as one of the fighting styles you'll face. The Amon bros are also very tough I imagine, but you only get them after beating them (shocker, I know), I didn't get that far to see just how tough they are for the Clan Creator. When it comes to street bosses, the SR you get from Kamurocho is a good fighter, while the SR you get from Sotenbori is absolutely essential as he is the only one with the True Essence of Repair skill for who you don't have to pay scummy DLC for.

>>15385435

Unless I'm retarded and I'm also really bad at identifying/remembering artists' names finding the source of that oppai loli was a lot more round about than usual crops. I might as well post it here too.

https://exhentai.org/g/306991/fa2dfaaaff/

>>15384259

Your advice is very welcome. I was actually doing the opposite, paying attention to whether the girl was sexy/cute/etc, rather than their other stats.

>>15388069

Reminder that she's a year older than Kiryu.

>>15388078

C H R I S T M A S

C A K E

>>15388069

>Majima could have tapped this but was too busy hazing her and jerking off while crying to Makoto

What a dumbass.

the final part of the Man-in-Black boss fight in the amano building didn't translate super well into the new engine, sadly. I just cheesed him with charged light attacks because he'd just kick me out of any strings i'd try to start for a quarter of my health bar (granted that's the stat i've pumped the least into). Seeing all the wrestlers come back in the coliseum is fun though, best use of recycled assets i've seen in awhile

>>15391890

the ps4 is cracked

>>15392322

I see a lot of people saying to do the homerun challenge course Yoshida gives you with the serene bat, but that shit takes too long, not that my method lessens the slog too much either. I did the expert 1 challenge course with the expert bat over and over again, so much so that I could probably do it with my eyes closed by now because the pattern is always the same.

>>15392447

> do it with my eyes closed by now because the pattern is always the same.

yeah I was writing down the patterns as I went through the challenge courses, still have the randomized one left but I put it off.

>>15392557

The randomized one also has the same pattern every time, but only with pitch types, so the only difference is that you can't do them with your eyes closed.

I'm getting so sick of the stupid fucking heat action involving random girls walking by. I keep trying to do the unique ally ones to see them in action, but 80% of the time a random girl is walking by and it triggers that one.

FUCK OFF

>>15392598

somehow I went through all of yakuza 6 and was never able to activate the lady passing by one but now it shows up almost exclusively when I'm with date or kaoru

>>15392602

It was in 6? I thought it was a new one for Kiwami 2, never came across it in 6

>>15392598

I kept having that problem when I tried doing the Komian chef heat action. When I finally got it I was so pissed off that it's just a recycled Kali stick heat action.

>>15392614

I reckon he thinks you meant ally heat actions as companion heat actions.

>>15392614

I recall seeing it on the action list in 6 and trying to activate it with no avail, same for trying to find chopsticks to do that action with

>>15392619

You can find chopsticks in some restaurants. I remember finding some in the clam restaurant in Onomichi and the one that's just north of it.

>>15392619

Yeah, the chopsticks were pretty rare to find. The only time I got it was in one of the fights inside Moreno, there are chopsticks on the counter

kiwami 2 feels cheap compared to kiwami 1. i'm pretty disappointed so far.

i think that detective bitch is modeled after and voiced by the actress from the live action adaptation of Gokusen? which i'm a fanboy of so that's cool to see.

i don't know. kiwami was magic. kiwami 2 feels like its retarded brother trying to copy its brother's success and just being embarrassing and contrived. i think it'd be better priced at $25. piece of shit.

the ragdoll effects were cool for 30 seconds and now the combat feels shittier too.

the animations are PS2 tier sometimes and it's jarring.

>>15392843

also all the mini games suck ass. golf is slow and fucking hideous and uninteresting compared to the hype as fuck batting cages. if they wanted to do something this slow then they should have just done an actual full golf course with the depth of a tiger woods game.

they could have made it hype. there's crazy digital golf games with VR and shit. it's not like golf has to be slow and boring.

the cool games like the arcade games and karaoke give you no incentive to play. karaoke doesnt even have a trophy.

i wish i hadn't bought this dude

>>15392869

>the cool games like the arcade games and karaoke give you no incentive to play

completion points, but the songs in 6 and kiwami were better

>>15392876

everything about kiwami 1 is better. it's like night and day. i can't believe that they went from having a cool as fuck skills menu that's a very well thought out and mathematical connect the dots game over pieces of art to just a plain menu. a lot of the game reminds me of a phone game.

>>15391963

>paying for a shitty console

lmao the heat action for the mini barbecue stove is the same one as the traffic cone. you can't cook guy's faces anymore. kiwami 2 sucks, bravo sega

>>15392843

I don't feel that its terrible but I won't call it a replacement for yakuza 2, I'd still say one should play the original first for sure

>>15396165

it's gonna be fun harvesting all the screenshots I've taken in this one, ps4s good for something

>executive league

MY GIRLS ARE GETTING KILLED OUT HERE, FUCK THESE GUYS

>>15397536

I just did the first championship battle. Lost by a 20K margin, literal chump change. As always, the AI cheats like a seasoned poker player, you haven't even seat the first customer and they're already 30K ahead or something. Also didn't help that the one rich guy that came in was >:( the whole time and tried to grope the girl on top of that.

>>15397907

best bet is to grind a bit, the AI reaches a cap-out too so they can't indefinitely cheat. On the battle against shoko I accidentally only brought 5 girls instead of 6 and still managed to win, and her fever attack steals all your clientele

>>15397943

I did a run with new hires while the line-up rested then went for a rematch. Ended 2,100,000 nihon shekels ahead. Talk about overkill. The game changer was a passive skill Koyuki gets where she starts seated and accompanied, basically that thing I was complaining about the AI doing, it did the same in Zero but now it looks like the player can do it too. Incidentally, because of her substory events, I got Koyuki over Lv30, making her +20 levels ahead of almost everyone else.

I forgot to ask - about the hired hostesses, I take it they're all the same but the element of randomness is the order by which we can get them, right? I got a bronze one called Marilyn II who was ahead of Koyuki for a while, good stats and attributes. The bronze hostesses here seem much better than in Zero.

And got a bit of slowpoke epiphany: Koyuki = Little Yuki

She pads her bra.

>>15398092

>out the hired hostesses, I take it they're all the same but the element of randomness is the order by which we can get them, right

i'm pretty sure it's literally gacha

>tfw beat my meat savagely to AIKA videos already

>her character in this game is fun and charming

>beat my meat even harder

>>15397943

In K2 the opposing clubs always have a set maximum of cash they can rake in during the championship battle. I've read that in a jap guide and from my experience it's correct, as the rival club always got around the same amount of cash as the guide said they'd have with a deviation of around 300k.

>>15398092

Yes, Koyuki is really good because she has the accompanied skill. Other hostesses that can get it or have it from the start are Marilyn II, the Headmistress, Yua, Kirara and Yuki.

>>15400484

oh yeah and i forgot to mention just use the "pen trick" on the Oil Baron and save yourself the aneurysm if your nights set up doesn't match the trait he wants

>>15396165

I never played the original Yakuza 2 so I don't know if this was also there, but when Kiryu immediately turned to walk out when he saw Poison Mitsuo cracked me up. This series' substories never fail to entertain me.

>Just heard Bakamitai as a song in one of the shops in Kiwami 2

>It's in the game but not available at karaoke

Fuck them for not having best song

please say one of you got a recording of kiryu shrinking behind the counter during the repeat of yuki meeting her dad event, I honestly laughed too hard to hit the record button

I want to enjoy Yakuza 0, but I don't want to support Denuvo. Damn you, Sega.

Don't forget cunts, Fist of the North Star Lost Paradise demo is

OUT TODAY

Try it out and share your thoughts

>>15404443

tbh it felt exactly like 0 but with even more extensive combat. I liked it. I'l skip kiwami 2 and wait for it.

>>15404591

>>15404596

I actually just completed both the adventure and the battle demo myself. The adventure one powers you up a tad, which I like because it already gives you launchers. Juggling bitches seems like a lot of fun already and proper timing is rewarded, not only for the finishing moves, but for the pressure point attack as well, though from what I've seen if you get the timing for the pressure point attack correctly you just kill the bad guy outright, even if they're a big guy for you I imagine it's different when fighting bosses. I can't wait to see what kind of shit I'll be able to do once the full game comes out.

>dik status: primed and ready to MUH

Sorry to burst your bubble, but unless you're into boring grannies you're gonna be disappointed at the end product, since she's just the headmistress of the Sunflower orphanage.

I always want to 100% these games, but the gambling shit usually burns me out on it pretty fast, especially in 0 when they didn't give you any cheating tools. Hell I'm still stuck on that fucking catfight one, that whore Jenny always lets me down.

>>15405151

I've been playing these games religiously since I got my hands on 1 and 2 in a bargain bin years ago and I never got for true 100% because sure it's nice to include mahjong and shogi, but I aint playing that shit. I'll get all the sub stories done and fight amon usually but pass on going full gambling or 4d chinaman chess

>>15404443

Glad it has a demo. I was never that into FOTNS but since this game is made by the Yakuza team and in a very similar style, it got me interested. I won't pay full price for it though, I'll wait and get it at a discount later.

I've heard that the Clan Creator is supposedly better in K2, but honestly it's just the same boring shit as 6, only reversed. By that I mean that you're just defending instead of just attacking. Also, I was able to beat all missions first try without doing any real micromanagement, just putting all guys in a formation and using one guy as a "striker" who I'd move around the area where there's trouble, and even then I barely had to do even that. Now it is true that I admittedly started playing the Clan Creator storyline really late on when I got a bunch of strong guys from substories and street bosses, but still.

>>15415204

>Probably get it on a discount.

Same.

>We're getting into burnout territory here.

If they are continuing with remastering the rest of the Yakuza series, I'm going to stop at Kiwami 3 since I have 4 and 5 on the PS3. Makes me almost wish they redid Y6 since the game while was decent, it needs retooling.

>>15415240

There will be no Kiwami 3, at least not yet. The remasters of 3, 4 and 5 are just HD rereleases.

>jiro amon in K2

yeah fuck that nigger, I cheese him with weapons and autismo rage attacks

>>15415204

>Why would I buy a game that's not Yakuza just so I can play Yakuza, when I can already play Yakuza?

people who played it already say it changes up the combat a bit to make it feel like it's own thing, especially since it seems all specials are instant kills so you use your 'heat' with a different attitude now

>>15415255

>The remasters for 3, 4, and 5 are just HD releases.

Good to know. Thanks anon.

>>15415255

Kiwami 3 might come around for PS5. I assume all dev effort right now is going towards the mobile game and Shin Ryu Ga Gotoku.

The loss of the crazy ken band songs really hurts some scenes, also in the last scene of 2 you can see how Kiryu almost got to live a happy life from there on but the games were successful so he had to keep fighting niggas

>>15415255

There's already a Kiwami 3. It's Yakuza 6. :^)

How the fuck do I find the last street boss? I'm at 17/18 street bosses defeated, and have spent almost an hour in both Sotenbori and Kamurocho fighting random thugs, and he still hasn't shown up.

The Majima missions are a bit of a let down, can't even see his move list and his style isn't as good as his legend style in 0. I didn't really expect much out of it, just a little side-thing obviously but this sorta feels like more of a touring test for majima on the engine than anything else

just remember though, in other games this section would have been a pre order bonus

>>15420924

Because that’s the life, you live a Yakuza and you die alone.

Or Sega doesn’t want their boy scout mobsters to have gf’s for some reason, even though Kiryu bangs most of the hostesses and even had what looked like a stable relationship at the end of Yakuza 2, which went nowhere

>>15421435

It's gonna be fun once the Yakuza 3 remaster gets released in the West, and new fans see Kaoru just fuck off at the start never to be seen or mentioned again.

>>15421445

Sad thing is she was probably written out from either having to retain dating hostesses, or because they didn't expect yakuza to succeed the way they did

>>15421449

I'm betting the Yakuza team were really wishing they'd killed her off at the end of 2 when they started working on 3.

Just finished 0 as my first Yakuza game and playing through Kiwami 1 now. It's been ages since I've had so much fun with a videogame. Kiwami feels a lot different from 0. In 0 I could cheese a lot of the bosses and just stunlock half the game with Majima's nunchuck bat swing but this feels a lot harder and I had to learn how to use rush mode and quickstep instead of ignoring them and tanking hits.

Should I skip 6 and go to Kiwami 2 next? Seeing mixed opinions about both of them.

>>15421520

I would say don't skip any, but since you started at 0 maybe aim for storyline order if you have a ps3 lying around to play 3-5 on. 6 isn't terrible but like 3 it's a bit on the weak and rough-around-the-edges side because of going into the new engine. Kiwami 2 makes advancements on the new engine from 6 but at the same time I would recommend playing original yakuza 2 first, aside from a bit of PS2 era jank it aged pretty well and some of the boss fights in kiwami 2 don't translate super well into the new engine. Certain story elements don't come out quite as well due to some changes in cutscenes and music changes

>>15421531

another thing to mention about 6 is that its story relies especially heavy on the player having played yakuza 5, 3/4 you can go into with less knowledge but there's a large angle of the response they expect from the player in 6 that you'd probably only get from playing 5, or maybe even more accurately being invested in the entire series

>>15421449

>>15421480

Just finished the second game, and to be honest, I didn’t really care much about her nor Yumi from the first game. None of those girls didn’t leave that much impact on me like makoto did in 0.

>>15421651

yumi was underwritten, it just came with the territory of yakuza 1 trying to give multiple characters a relation while being the first in the series. Kaoru I liked a lot because you get scenes of kiryu getting to be happy for one last time before he suffers for 4 games straight afterwards and she actually fights along side you. I like Makoto a lot too but she has the advantage of the series being 6 games deep at that time and they figured out ways to make the player interact with her more naturally and grow more attached

>>15421782

>kiryu suffers for four games straight

6 was extreme bullshit for kiryu. Almost everything in that installment was against him, and what a shitty way to end his saga.

>>15421849

I'm still not sure how I feel about it, it was definitely a ballsier move than just killing him off though. he'll probably become the new secret boss in shin yakuza games

>>15420823

You unlock a street boss each time you fight a type of street battle (delinquent, thug, yakuza) 5 times and there's 3 tiers for each type for each city. You can find out which street boss you are missing by looking at all the emails you got from Komaki's student. Look at which email you're missing from the ones I'm gonna list here and then go beat on that type of street battle.

Kamurocho:

Ambush Specialist - Thugs

I seriously doubt you're missing this one because thugs spawn everywhere in Kamurocho

The Lone Henchman - Delinquents

Best way to find delinquents is inside and just around Theater Square

To the Dragon of Dojima - Yakuza

Yakuza spawn on the east side of Millenium Tower and along Tenkaichi St.

Sotenbori:

Rumble at the Bridge - Thugs

A Formidable Foe - Delinquents

Thugs and delinquents spawn all around Sotenbori

All that Glitters - Yakuza

Yakuza spawn on the far western side of town, near the Grand, along the Bishamon bridge and on the street that's just south out if.

I've been waiting for Kiwami 2 to come in the mail so I've not finished Shenmue 2 as of yet, mainly because the first game kinda confused me.

And I did not feel like playing Shenmue 2.

But I can't wait for TGS the Yakuza team is working on a new game that is not Yakuza, so that is going to be interesting.

Mainly because it's probably going to have the gameplay as a Yakuza game but set in another fictional world or it's going to be a spin offs like Kenzan, Ishin or Hokuto ga gotoku.

Here is the article:

http://www.please use archive.is/2018/08/29/yakuza-creator-teases-a-new-and-completely-different-game-to-be-revealed-next-month/

>>15422111

http://archive.is/yqkGB

>>15421952

Thanks, that actually helped me find him. To the Dragon of Dojima was the last one I was missing, and I just got it.

>>15423519

To summarize:

- the cigarette in the cover

- 'Answer x Answer' mini-game removed

- some hostesses from 3 replaced with hostesses from Kiwami aka the worst fuckin' hostesses ever, I can't even jerk off to Yui Hatano because of how bad that experience was seemingly due to expired contracts

- a family crest very similar in design to the Imperial flag was changed likely to not trigger mainlanders

- the missions where Kiryu has to outrun a horny tranny got removed because in [CURRENT YEAR] Nippon, the correct attitude is letting yourself get trannyhandled :^)

Does this mean when Yakuza Kiwami Kiwami comes out, they'll remove the mission where Kiryu beats the shit out of those cross dressers?

>>15423566

It sounds like yakuza 3 will be perpetually cursed

>>15423566

I guarantee they'll also remove the word "Tranny" from Yakuza 4 and 5's remasters, I remember it being used a handful of times.

>>15423566

>seemingly due to expired contracts

What the fuck is with japs and their perpetual ineptitude at negotiating reasonable contracts. Its like all those debt plots where a character is about to get fucked for not paying their ridiculously stupid interest rates is completely unable to get a reasonable legal settlement, fucking samurais can't into law.

>>15423646

I'm sure some factor is the contract not predicting the series to go on to make 5 more games, or have remasters. Probably thought "yeah 2 year contract is enough to get the development and shit done we don't need it to be longer" then suddenly the market starts demanding more remasters and similar work

>>15423566

>some hostesses from 3 replaced with hostesses from Kiwami

Oh fuck off. Out of all the games they could've pulled them to do double duty and it's fucking Kiwami, Jesus Christ.

>>15423566

Of all things only trannyshit is concerning. And yet at the same time i don't actually want to be chased by homos in video games.

>>15424362

Cue the Polytaku articles: "By removing the elements where the player character is chased and dry humped in broad daylight by a a transsexual person, Yakuza 3 remaster reinforces the oppressive standards of the white cis hetero-patriarchy"

>>15423519

>>15423566

>>15424580

normalfags will defend this and it's going to be infuriating reading those takes.

>>15424682

There are a couple of fags already defending it in the youtube comments.

Now I see why that anon was complaining about 'Essence of Unlucky Man' overlapping so much; BIG change to the trigger - the girl now literally walks back and forth through the combat area while in 6, she gets spooked off for good at a certain distance.

Spent this evening just walking around Kamurocho, doing substories and seeing what's different from 6 besides the re-addition of the missing areas, already did the classics and was very surprised with fake Kiryu who damn near killed me, thought he'd be a doormat but no, hits hard and his dodge game is on point.

The mock interview one was interesting, I played it straight but definitely got the itch to do everything wrong next time.

I was extremely reluctant to do the mahjong one, I think it was the first time I walked out of a substory instead of diving in head first; after a lot of wandering and a save just before, I decided to do it and the game asks if I want to use a "Peerless Tile" and I said yes because fuck it, might as well, the game starts and I automatically win the match. OK.

How do you befriend the Kamurocho Poppo clerk? Already went there several times and bought one of everything.

>>15425822

For the Poppo clerk, I think you have to spend at least 10,000 yen and buy stuff on 3 different visits.

So, got around to trying the Majima saga after beating Kiwami 2. Majima feels pretty fun to play as, this definitely feels like a little testing phase for that 100% Majima game the Yakuza team was considering. Majima doesn't have that big of a role in 3-6, so a completely new Mad Dog Majima central game exploring what he's up to during those games would be interesting for sure.

Their new project, getting some Heavy Rain/Japanese Mystery Murder shit from this.

>>15431351

Is this set in Kamurocho? I could swear that's the karaoke place in the street between Tenkaichi and Pink whose name eludes me atm in the 2:54 mark.

According to Gematsu, a demo should be out today so we get an idea of what this game is about soon.

>>15431431

>>15431447

Here's what I can help you with.

The nigger was also in the original, same substory. If you're having trouble with his pitches, do some rounds of the batting cages until you can get the blue bat from Yoshida (I think it costs 200 points), that one has a larger sweet spot which makes homeruns easier to do. The substory was even harder in the original by the way. Also, he has an identical pitching pattern each time, only difference is that the locations are random. I don't think you'll have problems with the standard pitches, but his fucked up ones are the Freedom Fastball, which is his 3rd pitch, you basically have to hit it almost as soon as he throws it, then there's the American Dream, which is the anime spinning one, it lands in the same spot, but is kinda slow at 120km/h, that'll be his 5th and his last pitch and then there's the Soaring Eagle, which is fast as fuck and goes one space above, that one should be his 8th pitch.

When it comes to Toylets, I did manage to win the easy and normal ones by following an anon's advice above by feeling the rumble. The more your controller rumbles, the closer you are to the intensity you're supposed to keep the pissing at.

The Di Scuiva thing is a big fuckup, yes.

As far as I'm aware, the scorpion kick heat action shows up as sort of a "counter" heat action when Kaoru's near you, similar to the Komaki counter heat actions.

The hostesses were removed because of the cabaret management shit, same as it was with 0, which is quite disappointing because the hostesses from 6 were really good, I liked all of them except the boring one who looked like her face would melt off any second.

I'm going to post the short clan creator guide in another post.

Judge Eyes is the new game from the Yakuza team.

It looks interesting to say the least.

>>15431555

I wanna see some gameplay before I make a Judgement.

>>15431572

that is the gameplay trailer, the ps line up conference just had the story trailer.

>>15431555

I'm sceptical of the tailing stuff at the start of the trailer but everything else looks good. The combat especially looks like a big step up.

>>15367269

>IO/Android/PC

Is going to be cellphone shit, right? not a full Yakuza experience but online.

Okay, about the clan creator. There's no codes anymore, but you can now recruit people from some substories, after beating some street bosses or after beating some arena opponents and some of them are really good, with at least one of them being absolutely essential. I have to add that I started doing clan creator pretty late, in chapter 14 after I've beaten and recruited Amon, so experiences may vary. I basically used the same team throughout the whole ordeal, now someone may know of a better team or whatever (I know about one weak link on my team, I'll explain later), but even then I completely breezed through the whole storyline and it required little input from my part after I lined everyone up in the beginning. The only things I did were ordering everyone to gang up on bosses when they showed up, leveled up people's spirits when they were low on health, used special powers and I had one guy to fix a problematic area in a particular wave that had no boss. Did this shit in the last mission too, I saw people have trouble with it even with paid DLC cards where they had to micromanage constantly, while I just lined everyone up and put the 2 defense guys I had in front of the container and the dozer respectively.

Here's the team I used for almost all of the storyline, I'll put the levels they had when I did the last mission and some comments, such as where to get them. Also, the order they're in is the same order I had them in the clan creator, from left to right:

Genso the God Lv. 6

He's the last yakuza street boss you fight in Kamurocho. After you beat him, you'll find him in Suppon St.

Jo Amon Lv. 6

After you beat all the substories and beat all the Amon brothers, including him, he'll hang out at the rooftop of Serena.

Riki Choshu Lv. 7

You get him through the storyline, before him I used Okada who you can get through recruitment.

Ukyo the Bridge Guard Lv. 7

This guy is absolutely essential because he's the only non-DLC character with the True Repair skill. He's the last thug street boss in Sotenbori. After you beat him, you'll find him at Iwao bridge.

Yuya Lv. 7

After you beat his substory, he'll be waiting for you at West Park near the entrance to purgatory.

Akira Yamaoka Lv. 6

High-level arena opponent, you'll know it's him if one of the opponents has "Self-Taught Kenpo" as their style. After you beat him he'll be in the arena waiting room like all of the others.

Masao Yanagi Lv. 7

Mid-to-high level arena opponent, his style is Karate. However, his style that he uses in clan creator battles isn't since there he uses Kuze's style, which is shit for an attacker. I'd swap him out for Masahiro Chono for the last battle and then put Chono in the left most position instead of Genso the God, as Chono's skill is much more useful.

Tatsumi Fujinami Lv. 7

Same as Choshu, before him I used Tenzan who can be acquired the same way as Okada.

Majima Lv. 7

He's here from the start.

>>15431555

It does look pretty interesting, looks like this time you'll be some special agent or whatever, or at least it looks that way judging by the ear piece and all the sneaky shit you do. The combat looks pretty cool, it's quick and snappy.

>>15431586

The whole thing was that this is a detective game and you are solving stuff in the game.

The combat looks solid but it's the Yakuza team so they can make combat in a game.

>>15431618

you where a lawyer or a judge and you are now a private detective because something happened that got him disgraced.

>>15431628

Him being a PI sounds pretty cool, allows him to do loose cannon shit.

>>15431633

Yup, it does sound pretty cool also they did say that the demo comes today but so far there has not been anything on the store front.

I wonder how many silly mini games there are going to be.

Also this is a confirmed coming to the west in 2019 and this December in Japan, so it was quite quick they got this one out.

Official press release copy-paste:

■ About

Sega is proud to announce that the new courtroom thriller from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios, Project Judge (working title), will release in 2019 on the PlayStation 4. Project Judge will feature the voice acting talents of Japanese actor / artist Takuya Kimura as the game’s main protagonist, Takayuki Yagami.

Project Judge takes place in modern day Tokyo, following a serial murder case. The main protagonist, private detective Takayuki Yagami (played by Takuya Kimura), is a man of conviction who fights for his beliefs, despite the overwhelming despair surrounding him. Kimura has met extensively with the game’s development team to craft this protagonist, dedicating more than 1,000 minutes of voice recording time for his lines. By putting forth so much effort in developing this role, Project Judge aims to redefine what it means to truly bring a character to life.

Other talented actors, including Akira Nakao, Kenichi Takito, Shosuke Tanihara, and Pierre Taki were brought in to play the game’s supporting roles. Additionally, the rock band Alexandros enhances the drama to its peak with the original theme song Arpeggio and feature song, Your Song. This game is developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios headed by Sega Chief Product Officer Toshihiro Nagoshi. The studio is known primarily for their work on the Yakuza series, which has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. To create an experience in line with the studio’s core belief to “Create enjoyable games that address mature themes” the team spent more than 3 years developing Project Judge‘s story and characters.

Enhancing the game’s position as a courtroom thriller and embodying the feeling of playing a detective, players will need to utilize key investigative skills in conjunction with unique gameplay features to unveil the truths hidden at the core of Project Judge‘s plot.

What lies beyond the suffering and failures of the man trapped within his past; is it a divine revelation, or something more sinister? Stay tuned for more information on Project Judge, the courtroom thriller action game brought to you by the prolific tag team of Takuya Kimura and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios.

■ Characters

Takayuki Yagami (cast: Takuya Kimura)

The main protagonist of Project Judge. A fiercely idealistic ex-defense lawyer turned private detective. After facing a devastating betrayal by one of his former clients, he became known as a fraud who lets murderers run free, effectively destroying his reputation. Now he’s caught up in an enigmatic serial murder case and will need to push his investigative skills to their limit to solve it.

Takashi Genda (cast: Akira Nakao)

A gritty lawyer who has taken on the role of overseeing Yagami’s growth since the start of his career as a lawyer. Even after Yagami’s incident that forced him out of the legal world, Genda still looks after him and helps him find work from time to time.

Kazuya Ayabe (cast: Kenichi Takito)

A detective with Tokyo PD’s Organized Crime Division. Ayabe is a crooked cop who withholds information on investigations for his own benefit, but often helps Yagami with his cases – for a price.

Mitsuru Kuroiwa(cast: Shosuke Tanihara)

A detective with the Tokyo PD’s Organized Crime Division, famous for his leadership skills and high successful arrest rate in Kamurocho. A talented officer who plays by the rules, Kuroiwa sees unknown elements like Yagami as a dangerous nuisance.

Kyohei Hamura (cast: Pierre Taki)

Captain of the Matsugane family, a subsidiary of the Tojo Clan based in Kamurocho. Hamura is self-centered, but he’s also a mastermind skilled in taking others down for his own benefit. He’s heavily involved with Yagami throughout the serial murder case.

https://gematsu.com/2018/09/yakuza-studio-announces-project-judge-for-ps4

>"something entirely different"

>Kamurocho

Quit busting my balls, Nagoshi.

It looks like they're implementing bits of Hokuto into Yakuza for the combat, namely the way the character zips around hitting everyone. Kinda odd they went for the mophead look when Ichibanowitz is on the way.

That Ono Michi though.

English story trailer.

This is called project judge over here.

english gameplay trailer

>>15431674

That's the only thing that disappoints me, I don't know why they didn't go for a change in scenery for this one, instead it's Kamurocho AGAIN

>>15431684

Probably because they did not want to waste art when they have re-created it in the new engine?

Then it's just copying and pasting and then the characters along with new gameplay is the only new thing they need to work hard on.

But that's just my silly guess anyway.

>>15431700

I'm pretty sure you're dead on, it's easier to just reuse assets.

>>15431703

was it not Kiwami and 6 that they created a new engine and then use it for this game?

That is also set in Kamurocho?

But I do remember 6 going back to Okinawa.

>>15431712

They created a new engine for 6 and yes Kamurocho's in there but there's parts of it missing in 6 because the game was obviously rushed. Also, Kiryu goes to a quiet Hiroshima town and not Okinawa, but the comfy locale is pretty similar. Hell, 6 has so many parallels with 3 in fact that you'd be forgiven for thinking that part of it was set in Okinawa.

>>15431743

I still don't fully understand Toylets either. It's a real shitshow for a minigame which seemed to be quite simple at first glance.

>Akira Yamaoka is the supreme gentleman in the white suit, right?

Yes, that's Yamaoka. He's one of the classic Yakuza arena fighters, been there since 3 I think. His gimmick was that he always used the same style as Kiryu for some reason. When it comes to the substory unlockable hostesses, there's much less of them and after you unlock them they all neatly line up next to Four Shine, so no worries about having to scour half the goddamn map to find them like you have to do with some of the clan creator cards. Ironically most of the guys who hide in fuck-off places after you unlock them end up being shitty commons, such as the baseball nigger who can be found on the rooftop of the batting center after you beat his substory. Most of the super rares end up being in either places that you'll go through a lot (Yuya) or in the places where you kick their ass (for the two SR street bosses, it's the exact spot where you beat them, for arena fighters they're always in the arena lobby). The only one who isn't in an obvious spot is Jo Amon.

>And now it's Sotenbori that's kinda half-assed.

Yup. Shinseicho got completely shitcanned too. I mean granted, that area was small as fuck, but on the other hand… that area was small as fuck, why not recreate it?

>>15431721

Oh, I thought it was Okinawa, it has been awhile since I played 6 like when it came out 2 years ago.

And I never finished the game, I kinda found the baby part of it annoying.

>>15431743

>JAVs and Suntory

And they use allot of money on real actors in this Judge Eyes game it seems like because they can use the new technology on scanning faces.

But they kinda have to make money on these games, since on my Japanese psn account I see allot of nips playing a Yakuza game every once and awhile.

Now there is a nip that is playing Yakuza 3 hd ps4 port.

But the big question I have now, is that if Judge Eyes is successful in the west if they promote it good enough, not half ass it. Will this be a big series?

Or will they just make random new games sett in Kamurocho but with different mechanics, or do an manga/anime game kinda like with Fist of the Northstar spin off?

>>15431804

>that area was small as fuck, why not recreate it?

It's sad because that area, despite being small, showed Tsuutenkaku, a key landmark of Osaka.

>>15431847

>And I never finished the game, I kinda found the baby part of it annoying.

Don't worry about the baby, just soldier that part because you'll pass him off for good afterwards. It's worth going through it, at least I really liked the story, I went in thinking it would be terrible but ended liking it a lot mostly because the new cast is really solid. I think people were just booty-bothered Memejima didn't get to shine.

>But they kinda have to make money on these games

There's a lot of asset re-using which seems to indicate they work on tight budgets. There's also a LOT of product placement but I admit my ignorance on the matter and I don't know who pays who but I'm inclined to think it's the businesses that pay for this virtual ad.

>Will this be a big series?

I'm curious how they're tying this to the Yakuza canon because the Tojo clan is involved and judging by the bit we saw of the Asian district, the setting seems to be post-Yakuza 6.

Side note, after watching the subtitled trailers, I think they're bringing style switch back, you can see the guy's aura switch from red to blue and vice-versa.

>>15431901

>Side note, after watching the subtitled trailers, I think they're bringing style switch back, you can see the guy's aura switch from red to blue and vice-versa.

Not to mention that the subtitles explicitly say so in the part with the style switching as well. "Choose your battle style and go to town"

>>15431901

I just have to start yakuza 6 again from the beginning.

I have the feeling they are working on a tight budget for a triple A dev and then have product placement for the Japanese market.

While the JAV stuff and other things they pay a license for, which is why I kinda get the feeling that the Yakuza games are really never meant to come over here to the west to begin with.

The re-using of Assets is just to save money plus they are releasing a yakuza game each year, in the west we did not get kenzan and Ishin plus 2 psp games, I almost thought that the Northstar game was a no go but I was kinda wrong on that one.

I think it will probably be in the same universe so that they can get the fans in Japan to buy it but I don't think they will go further then that tbqh.

But then again they are pimping the game as a Ryu Ga Gotoku team game, so who knows?

>>15431681

It really looks like they got the kinks sorted out with the dragon engine. I'm pretty excited for this one although I would really like to see Nagoshi try something not like Yakuza again.

>>15432089

>Kiryu now lives as Ono Michio full-time after 6

>>15432317

It's finally out, downloading the demo. I hope I will be able to play it today. Dammit.

>>15432616

A better question how are they able to release 2 games a year?

Last year it was just Kiwami 2 but this year in march it was Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise and then now in December it will be Judge Eyes.

Ask yourself this, how where they able to make Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise and Yakuza Kiwami 2 last year? at the same time making Judge Eyes?

Or do they shit out a game within a year?

>>15432647

If the RGG team were making VF we'd already be at VF17 by now.

>>15432647

They've smart about things like reusing assets but there's still massive amounts of other aspects, especially voice work going into this WHILE polishing up this new engine, I don't know what the fuck they smoke but it's some good shit

>>15432673

I dunno but I'm always kinda impressed about how the Yakuza team was able to make a new game within a year.

But reusing assets is kinda like a small deal and kinda expected compared to allot of other things.

Also you have to remember that Fist of The NorthStar is one of those games that has mostly original assets, but was that not made on the Yakuza zero engine or the new yakuza 6 engine?

Either way, I'm impressed that they are able to make a game each year.

>>15432673

Dude, have you seen what Nagoshi has worked on? He made F-Zero GX. He's some sort of uber developer/director with incredible heart.

>>15432696

It doesn't make it any less impressive, on top of that he's pumping these games out with all above average quality while other legacy directors from japan are letting age get to them or floundering out while still maintaining way more public image, sadly Kojima is a prime example, he's still worshiped but his game quality peaked at MGS3

I wonder if Project Judge would have featured Tanimura again, had his voice actor not quit.

>>15432731

I wonder if any familiar faces (besides ono michio) will show up or this will be it's own separate story completely. I can see Akiyama easily fitting into this story

>>15432696

He worked at AM2 under Yu Suzuki, that's like being taught Kyokushin karate under Mas Oyama himself.

>>15432731

Tanimura would've most likely appeared in 5 as well. A lot of Shinada's story felt like the kind of story that's the end result of having to write a 20 page essay a day before the deadline. On the other hand, if it weren't for Shinada, we wouldn't have gotten the most likable asshole in the whole series Takasugi.

>>15432731

I don't think so since Hiroki Narimiya felt betrayed that there where so many allegation that he used drugs and so on, that he just quit the acting thang all together.

>>15432742

There is probably going to be a mini nudge to the bigger yakuza series overall, or I think they will.

Since there are like 5 spin off games of just Yakuza and this might as well be a spin off game.

>>15432764

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihiro_Nagoshi#Production_history

how can one man go so hard

>>15432764

I greatly enjoyed Shinadas story even if they were completely aware he didn't even fit in very well, enough so that his own character remarks on it towards the end. His last sequence on the phone with Takasugi actually made my eyes water a little

>>15432764

He's like the opposite of Yukio Futatsugi. A nobody left to find his own way working against all the odds and usurping the former stars, only to leave with a heavy burden after his mangum opus took the lives of those who worked on it and wander the industry doing bizarre things and providing commentary from an unexpected perspective. Both Sega guys, unsurprisingly.

>>15432779

Are there more Sega guys as of note? It seems kinda strange that Ykio is just wandering around and no one will know his fate except that he wants to remake that dragon game on the Saturn.

Then there is Yu Suzuki made the first meme game or a game I don't fully understand, namely Shenmue, and now he is making Shenmue 3 and that it's going to have allot of qte.

While Nagoshi is just making or working his ass off, and for some strange reason he is a producer on everything.

I kinda wonder if Nagoshi is prank calling Yu Suzuki by just saying how is shenmue 3 going along? And just saying with a smug voice, I finished Yakuza 3 9 year ago.

And then just calls back and says wonder which other game I finished recently? Yakuza 4, Then he just goes down the list until he feels as if he has made a gigantic series and gets comfy sleepy night time.

>>15432823

Yuji Naka who is such a heavyweight he can throw his name around anywhere and the room will collectively fill with goose bumps. He still makes great games and now works at Square Enix on a yet announced project. Sega churned out legends pretty much.

>>15432823

>I kinda wonder if Nagoshi is prank calling Yu Suzuki by just saying how is shenmue 3 going along? And just saying with a smug voice, I finished Yakuza 3 9 year ago.

I highly doubt it, Nagoshi respects Suzuki a whole lot, Suzuki is the guy who taught him everything. However, as much as I like Suzuki as a developer and Shenmue as a series, I gotta admit that Suzuki's washed up now and has been for more than a decade. It's the kind of thing where the student exceeds the master.

>>15432861

At worst it's an alternate dimension sort of thing, at best it's the same timeline, as it happens in Kamurocho AND one of the major character is a Tojo Clan guy.

I'm liking the feeling of this game's style and soundtrack. Pretty unique from Yakuza's usual style.

>>15433122

I hope to god we either get a simple title like 'Judge' as a nod to the western games being called 'Yakuza', or they go full cheesey and its called something like Eyes of Judgement.

>>15433122

the demo was fun. Nothing too special but I really enjoyed the presentation, combat was a little simple but different enough to feel like it's own thing from Yakuza. The pursuit sequence wasn't too great, if you're not in the guys line of sight you shouldn't need to hide, but it just depends on when he's turned around.

>>15434222

Yeah, I hope they don't feel the need to make the fact that it's a Yakuza spinoff obvious in the title. I don't want it to be called Yakuza: Judgement or something like that.

>>15432861

No it has not been confirmed but there is at-least one Yakuza clan in the game, and in the beginning of the demo you are fighting some Yakuza thugs/fellows.

The beginning of the demo is kinda stupid, he has a false beard and a shitty jacked with a caps on, while sitting in the streets then the thugs come along and he has to fight them, he takes of the false beard and the jacked in one swoop.

>>15433122

The style is pretty different but at the same time it feels like something those guys would've made, if that makes sense.

>>15434222

they are calling the game so far in the west for project judge, so expect it to just be called judge or something along those lines

>>15434527

>he takes off the false beard and the jacket in one swoop.

To be fair, whenever you are about to have a serious fight in Yakuza, Kiryu vs. whoever the big bad of the day is would always rip off their jacket, tie, and shirt all in one fell swoop. In other words, it never made any sense, but this game isn't taking itself too seriously, so it doesn't really matter all that much.

>>15434581

I think the fake beard removing looked weird because it's not like it was thick or anything, it was a scraggly patchy beard that would be realistic for a homeless guy to have. It looked like it should be completely natural.

>>15434581

it's just as >>15434589 said the beard looked realistic. And it looked like something a homeless man would be having.

>>15434658

I thought it was Akiyama at first in the demo, and was wondering what he did to become homeless once again.

>>15434679

just how? They showed the main protagonist then cut with a 3 years later then showing him homeless but he was in disguise as a homeless man. Also the pants chain all of sudden showed up when he in one swoop took his homeless disguise off, so that was jacket and fake beard also I think the caps.

>>15434697

It wasn't completely obvious that the guy it was zooming in on was the player character, and his disguise was very similar to what Akiyama wears when he's homeless. Akiyama could have had a role in this game, not like I would know before the demo.

>>15434709

I dunno, I think it was kinda obvious but what got me was the beard looking so real. I kinda want the beard to look a little bit more fake then this hyper realistic homeless beard.

I all of a sudden thought that there would be a an extra cut-scene or something that would be showing him homeless then changing into this private detective with a bike jacket, fancy jeans then white shoes.

Not a fell swoop and he changing.

A little bit more story footage for Project Judge.

>>15431609

Finally spent some proper time with CC and beat the first Musketeer. Overall, I have to admit I am struggling a lot more than in Y6's CC, probably because the units have a smaller aggro range (or the area is larger) so it's not as "auto-piloty". Was also tricky to get the hang of the mechanics, I'm actually surprised at how much things changed given repeating mini-games tend to be almost a copy-paste job.

This game is also a freakin' money sink, already put in about 5 mirrion in this crap, mostly by fortifying stuff. Got lucky and got about 5 of the Y6 'rasslers by recruiting.

Won the Serene Bat and beat Dandy. Once again, thanks for the pointers on his pitches. And on a semi-related note, I think I figured what was bugging me the most about Kamurocho's more vibrant denizens - the fuckers ain't basketball-americans, they're straight from the dark continent itself.

Also on the matter of the batting cages (and some other mini-games) I wish there was a option to continue instead of the game automatically closing and then having to re-enter. That middle point gets a bit annoying especially when this will likely get grindy, I'm making 35 points per session and need about 3000 or 4000 for both primers.

>>15440813

> Even in Kiwami 2, the only times I saw BASED blacks were in the Debolah and in that cutscene where the Millennium Tower blows up.

what about GARY BUSTER HOLMES

>>15441395

To be fair, Gary was in the first game too, so he's not out of place like those niggers that suddenly appear in the cutscene where the Millennium Tower blows up.

>>15441437

I kinda assumed that was a weird reference to japs hiring guys from ethiopia for as barkers for some reason, apparently that's actually a semi common thing out there despite their powerful immigration laws

>>15441448

That's a big problem in Roppongi where yakuza get fresh of the boat jungle niggers to run bars where you get scammed harder than by a moneylending kike in any other part of the world.

>>15441466

Yeah anyone I know who's visited or spent time in Japan says to steer clear of any place with black workers, not because of a racism thing but because it's a sure sign of shady ownership

The two battle themes from Project Judge's demo have been uploaded to YT, I'll post the other one in a second.

This one reminds me quite a bit of some of the original two PS2 games' tracks.

>>15441688

> But I don't get how that works

same reason guys in the west hire amigos, significantly cheaper and they can't bitch about working conditions because they're off the books. Plus if it's like the states even if your worker gets deported you don't get penalized. That's one of the biggest issues with foreign illegal labor in the states is that they just send the workers home and the guy who hired them just goes and gets more

>>15441688 (checked)

Indeed. I don't mind dumb side characters, the clashing of the serious crime drama with absolute batshit characters in substories and serious substories which hit you in the feels is a series staple, but only if the bumbling idiot is a part of some just ONE (1) substory, otherwise they more likely than not overstay their fucking welcome by a long shot.

>>15441854

My Finnish friend told me that certain bars and nightclubs in Helsinki employ what is literally known as a "toilet nigger", they're hired by the bar/nightclub to peddle shit like cigarettes because they can't sell them in the open by law.

Now since the life and stories of an average Finn are part truth, part absurdist comedy, I don't know if he was for real or if he was just fucking with me and I got pranked.

Kenshiro skin for FotNS is going to be a free DLC between October 2 to 16. Pretty nice of them given this was a pre-order bonus in the JP version.

Speaking of free stuff, Kiwami 2 Fun Pack 2 was pretty good for CC - 300 tickets and Kawara.

Meanwhile, finally cleared Paradise League of the CCGP; I don't think AIKA was ever railed this hard. But her weird cheekbones aside, I'll admit I took a immediate liking to her but Kiryu better watch out.

Executive League kicks off with some bullshit and a interesting twist I think the biggest surprising was seeing that Youda hasn't aged a freakin' second since the 80's, heck! I could swear it's the same model from Zero.

>>15445042

>aging

>in 'koozer games

o i am laffin'

Thinking about it, the only characters who actually aged were Haruka and the orphans at Morning Glory

>>15445569

Majima complained a lot about getting old in 5, of course that was part of his 7th dimensional shogi play to get to fight his buddy on the millennium tower

>>15445597

Why not? He finally got his balls back at the end of his substory in 6.

>>15450557

I'm glad they gave him Kiryu's moveset just like in the original and didn't give him Mine's moveset for some stupid reason like in the PS3 games. Not to mention, he can now just show up in any of the harder arena tournaments and you didn't have to pull down the sun, moon and all of the stars down to the Earth just to unlock him like you had to do in the original, what's worse is that you NEEDED to unlock and then beat him in order to be able to fight the Amon brothers.

>>15450557

>and I'm sure Amon will have twice that

luckily cheesing the amons isn't too tough in this one and I'd recommend it for some of their bullshit like the one with the SMG and Jo himself. Drink the attack boost energy drink and cycle through a bunch of weapons to fuck up their health bar with one heat action from each.

>>15452250

Yeah, you can fight him and Komaki really quick now. The worst is Yakuza 0, I still haven't unlocked the last tier of tournaments there - it's basically the tournament version of the Kiwami 2 batting cages.

>>15452265

I feel this game really wants the player to use weapons and the difficulty has been raised to accommodate that.

Anywho, currently on Ch9 with about 35h clocked in and only now I felt like trying golf (which I hated in the previous games) which I ended up enjoying but holy shit! I'm terrible at it. Managed to get 400+ points in the Beginner course but I haven't scored one point in the Intermediate one; obviously we're meant to master the spin shots there. It then dawned on me I need to master this mini-game in order to unlock every skill. So, the inevitable question - any tips for golf?

And finally figured Toylets and now I feel like an idiot. The HUD makes the game very confusing, the description mentions matching the opponent's stream which I did until the end not figuring out that once the blue circle is full, you need to hold R2 to fill the bar and win. That was the missing piece of the puzzle.

>>15455194

The skillbook requirements for the golf range aren't hard in Kiwami, you need to get at least 500 points in any of the standard courses (difficulty doesn't matter) for the first one, and you need to hit all the squares in the bingo challenge for the second one. The substory on the other hand is quite difficult, but not like in the original, I did it on my 4th try, but I have to admit it's because I got extremely lucky and managed to get a hole in one. When it comes to tips - just watch the wind. Lining up the shot and giving it enough power and hitting the sweet spot isn't hard at all imo, but getting used to how the game calculates wind strength takes practice. If you do the bingo challenge over and over again (like I did when I wanted to get the second skill book) you'll get used to compensating for wind, as the more squares you hit the more difficult hitting the remaining one gets.

Then there's this guy who makes every single thing in these games look like a cakewalk. Wish he could pass me down his ancient scroll that unlocks Essence of Weaponized Autism.

did anyone find a better way to unlock the bat scrolls? because even with all the patterns written down it takes way fucking long and I finished my run of the game with all substories without bothering to get the bat heat