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They removed Denuvo you fucking retard

One day left for Kiwami PC

pretty sure it has no denuvo

Where's that guy who always crawls out of the woodwork to say "well ackchuyally I would buy it if it had no denuvo!" I wanna see if he means it

it's already cracked

>>16142076

Go home Kaldaien, no one likes you.

I've seen reports of problems on the steam discussions but it works like a charm. No freezes like zero, perfect framerate, and almost inexistent loading times. Doesn't seem like it has denuvo either, which might explain it.

>no denvuo

Can they remove it from 0 now?

>>16142092

Doesn't matter

>>16142097

seems like they already did on the beta patch, the .exe lost 200mb and the performance of the shot up considerably.

still better be cautious until they actually remove it on the main branch.

>>16142109

Either way this is good news. I'll try to get it after work.

>>16142109

Yeah the store page still lists it as having denuvo. I was hoping to pick up Zero on Kiwamis release day but that's not happening. Even if it's removed later I don't want any form of denuvo poz touching my PC for any amount of time.

>>16142145

Also should I play Kiwami or Zero first?

>>16142146

Kiwami may be a 1 remake, but literally all of its new content is a sequel to zero.

the cop lady in kiwami 2 is a qt.

>>16142146

play 0. then kiwami. then kiwami 2

>>16142146

1 on the PS2.

>>16142159

She was the perfect waifu to Kiryu. I will never not be mad they cucked her out of the plot with 3 and never brought her back. I can't even come up with a sensible reason why they did it.

Where's 3, 4 and 5 SEGA?

>>16142170

in time friend.

>there are people actually installing literal bitcoin miners WILLINGLY

A few hours in…this isn't going to be as good as Yakuza 0, is it? I'm not upset, I'd be shocked if it was.

>>16142474

Yakuza 0 was a magnum opus imagined as the culmination of the series from scratch. Kiwami is updating the very first game and doing one's best to make it up to par to 0 yet respecting its original content. You do the math.

>>16142076

I did rent it on steam now that it has no Denuvo. Waiting for the no-Denuvo beta to become the official version and will do the same.

>>16142474

Yeah, it's not.

It's still very good, mind you, but Zero was just so good that the original feels like a pale shadow. Despite actually being based on the original game, Kiwami really feels like an expansion pack/sequel DLC for Zero. Especially since they threw in those extra little story bits/sidequests that tie into characters from Zero (and reused a lot of assets).

Still a great game though.

I wonder if Kaldaien threw a hissy fit on the forums because they removed Denuvo

That fucking faggot fuck just can't fucking stay away from Denuvo discussion on the forums. He probably has some browser scripts to continually scan for the keyword "Denuvo" on the forums.

>>16142805

My intel CPU is 7 years old and my AMD GPU is 2 years old.

I can run most games on high at 1920x1080 60FPS and half of those at 1440 FPS.

Getting a modern console is being a cuckold.

Here's your (You).

Poor Nishiki had a hard life. Is Kiwami 2 coming to PC?

>>16143176

The intro wouldn't play anything when I first opened the game. Restarting fixed though.

>>16143255

Had the same bug, supposedly it was a preload issue.

>>16126714

Based SEGA I can buy their shit again.

>>16143255

>>16143176

>>16143335

Restarting fixed mine, but in audio options change downmix "diasbled" to "stereo"

>>16142802

The entire reason they fell in love during 2 was because of them deciding their careers didn't have to get in the way, that they just had too much in common despite that. Her just fucking off to America, promising to return, and then never doing so just shits all over that.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1661055181

This is a link to a mod for the game that replaces all the music in Kiwami with the PS2 music. Also an option that just adds the Kiwami songs they didn't license for the West.

>>16152862

Well wait for the no Denuvo release. Should be soonish (tm). In case you cucked and bought the game on steam just go to the beta version of the game.

Sounds a bit weird of a problem. Don't think others have such a problem with the game, but maybe I don't remember the problems at release. Perhaps try making your windows power plan at high performance.

>>16152915

Gotta love Denuvo

>>16152947

Who came up with this Denuvo shit? Actively fucking over paying customers, just to spite pirates, even though Denuvo gets cracked within the first few months of a games' release anyway. What a world we live in.

I know this may sound stupid, but it's basically "game control", like gun control, expect the only people getting fucked are the people who adhered to the rules in the first place. Makes you wonder why we even bother with following the rules tbh.

>>16152885

Thanks for the info.

>>16152915

I did that, didn't work. I'll have to try the opt-in beta method next. Got to wait till I can get to a save point now.

>>16143740

She was put on a bus because they were planning on 2 being the last game and they needed to keep the hostess mini game when it was decided that 3 was going to get made.

Can't have Kiryu be in a committed relationship with Kaoru and still go to clubs to flirt with whores.

>>16153076

>I did that, didn't work.

Try the CPU limiter method.

>>16153142

>>16153081

>PC Yakuza is pretty much uncucked as of now.

>bought a Denuvo game

You both are cucked and stupid, though.

>>16158316

Don't lewd Chink used goods.

Japanese rooftop korean can go suck a dick. Shit was tedious.

>>16153076

>I did that, didn't work.

See >>16153223. I used Battle Encoder Shirasé and it worked like a charm.

>>16147437

>0 and Kiwami just might be the best Yakuza games.

I think you could make the case for Kiwami 1 having the best combat (although I personally think that goes to Ishin), but for me it didn't come anywhere close to the best in any other regard apart from maybe story, which I wouldn't say is that high a bar for this series. Of all the things Kiwami changed about the original the new Nishiki cutscenes were probably the only thing I had the least issues with.

I've never played Yakuza before 0 because that was the first PC port. I'm kinda disappointed by how similar the plot impetus is between 0 and Kiwami. [Thing] needs to be found, Kiryu ends up taking the blame for killing people and he needs to find [Thing]. Are all the Yakuza games like this or is it just these two?

anyone knows what song plays when unlocking Dragon of Dojima style in 0?

>>16158733

receive you trance

>get a very weird, unique and convoluted bug in Yakuza 0 PC that permanently triggered after I've already been playing for hours

>find literally nothing about it online

>nobody knows what to do

>no patch or even word of a patch

>restaring the game, deleting the saves with cloud sync, etc. doesn't help

>not even sure that getting a pirated version would help as it seems to be some weird save/registry issue to me

It doesn't technically stop me from beating the game, but it hinders my playing in the arcades, which sucks, as I don't wanna keep playing the game knowing I won't be able to beat all its sidequests and content.

>>16158717

It's just these two, but all games from 2 to 5 are

>Oh no, the tojo clan is in trouble ! Save us, Kiryu!

>I don't care, I'm not yak…

>PWEAAAASE

>Okay, FINE.

Yakuza plots have pretty formulaic premises, but that doesn't make them uninteresting. They do go progressively more bonkers after 1 though.

>>16159313

Well to be fair 3 was less Tojo is in trouble and more "Holy fuck Kiryu your dead dad just shot Daigo!"

>>16159205

Reinstall video drivers, run CCleaner, try different resolutions.

>>16158717

If you've aready played 0, you've seen the best the series had to offer. Kiryu is a boring and overplayed character, at most you will find some fun in Yakuza 4 and 5 with the new dudes like Akiyama.

>>16158717

The plot for the Yakuza games were generally pretty convoluted and bordering on nonsensical, but what makes it great are all the characters.

>>16159313

3

>Your dead father just shot the chairman, but it turns out it was all a dastardly land development scheme by CIA Niggers

4

>Every plot point created in this game is explained/resolved by rubber bullets

5

Haven't finished it yet.

Fuck guys what do I play first?

Kiwami 1?

Zero?

1 PS2?

And in what order should i play the other games? Remakes really fuck with my autism.

>>16159745

The first one I played was 0 but I didn't understand references to characters that showed up in the later games.

>>16159745

Never, under any circumstances, consider Kiwami to be the one to play first.

IT'S A SEQUEL TO ZERO

Seriously, 100% of its content over the original is references to 0.

Either emulate Yaluza 1 PS2, or play zero first. But never, fucking never, play kiwami fist.

I finished Yakuza 1 and 2 on PCSX2 last year. I was planning to play through the series in release order but wanted to wait for the remasters of 3,4, and 5 once they were announced since I heard that 3 had a lot of cut content and they all have some pretty bad technical issues on PS3. Who the fuck knows when those are coming to the west though, is there anything wrong with playing 0 before them, or will I be missing references in 0 or ruining the experience I'd have with those 3 by doing that?

>>16159745

Kiwami 1 has everything from the 2006 game, right down to the fucking dialogues sans the hostess club (kiwami has two new hostesses whereas the original had six) and a shitty qte massage minigame

Kiwami 2 is inferior compared to the PS2 game it's the remake of

Play Yakuza 0 and then Kiwami 1 and if you're hella autistic emulate the original in PCSX2 with a completed save file for the hostess club side mission

Here's the order

Zero>Kiwami>2>Kiwami 2>3>>4>5>6

Reminder that you should play Kiwami with Classic Music Mod installed

The new remixed tracks are fucking horrendous as compared to the original ones

>>16160515

yeah that's cause Beast style has been nerfed in Kiwami

Piratefag here; how do I get Patch 3 for my copy of Yakuza 0?

shame localization fuckers got claws deep in development now. as seen in 3 and text changes in 0.

How is Kawami in that regard?

>>16160639

Localization fuckers always had their claws in the series. Kiryu has only has two answers to things.-えー and そうか, yet localizers translated that into a variety of responses actually befitting the context. This series is too cucked for you, man, so get the fuck out and never come back.

>>16160758

I feel like it ramped up to eleven in recent year or two

Andrew Davis: But often development can be a global collaborative process, like developers in Japan will listen to our feedback and sometimes they will say "We're in the middle of design for this, do you think this will be something that could be appropriate globally?" And sometimes we'll come back with our comments and say "Well, this is how this will be seen in this culture," whether it's American culture or whatever. Like I've had to say, "In Germany, you have to understand this would be very sensitive." So we can go back to the dev teams and sometimes we do have the opportunity to have a dialogue and it's always interesting.

Mullen: I remember recently with [Yakuza] Kiwami this time last year, there's a character, one of the two hostesses you can find of have a relationship with. One of them identifies as a lesbian. I remember having a lot of discussion with Scott [Strichart, Yakuza localization producer] about how to approach that storyline. The way her story results in Japanese, if translated straight, comes off as that like "Well you just never met a real man" kind of feel to it. But I don't think that's the intention they were going for, that's just the way it comes across in English. So I do remember there being this light feeling of needing to change the language, because that's not the point here.

>>16160758

>This series is too cucked for you, man,

You make it sound as if you're being sarcastic here.

Just got to the point where Kazuki gets shot and you bring him to the clinic, do Kiryu and Date ever stop giving Kawara shit? Guy did nothing wrong and in fact the only reason the Amano building thing went bad is because Date pulled a gun on his partner instead of helping him deal with an obvious trap

>>16160884

You must be a fucking genius.

>>16159857

>IT'S A SEQUEL TO ZERO

It feels so short and limited in comparison, you would be excused for mistaking it for standalone DLC to 0.

Finished 6 and 0 and starting Kiwami.

Nishiki had a hard life. It almost excuses him turning into such shitstain.

>>16158717

emulators exist, retard

The majima everywhere shit is fun and interesting in the beginning, but by the mid to late game it gets very tedious and repetitive.

whats with everyone surviving lethal gun shot wounds???

>>16158316

I've only seen the one. You know the one I mean.

I'm really liking kiwami but truly 0>>>>>>>>>>>>>kiwami. Kiwami is good but it truly isn't as much of a god tier game as 0 was. Kuze was such a great and enjoyable character. I also think the arcades suck in Kiwami. The substories feel not as good as in 0. I overall feel that 0 was a completely superior title in almost every way.

>>16161844

cause if you haven't noticed you're basically playing an anime/soap opera.

>>16160515

Rush was my go to style as well. Don't forget to stock up on health potions (Toughness Z, etc) from stores too.

>>16163249

>you're basically playing an anime

There's more manly men in a minute Yakuza, than the last decade of anime. This series is inspired to Sonny Chiba mafia movies.

>>16163593

I find Rush to be way too week most of time. Works properly only with some bosses or mini-bosses, and again, only some and even then I use other styles to finish off the opponents, except if I don't get a Kiwami finisher for Rush. Beast is even more useless to me. So it is just Brawler 95% of the time. But then again, I am might be just retarded. I get really frustrated against opponents with sharp weapons. Heard Tiger Drop for Dragon makes it very overpowered, but I haven't reached that point.

>>16163245

>>16163567

Well, at least Kiwami doesn't have fucking Outrun.

Fucking bullshit arcade game.

So… would it be possible for Nishiki to redeem himself in the end?He didn't really do anything wrong before stealing the billion except being naive. The asshole deserved to be stabbed.

>>16163567

Yeah I know, but for someone who only briefly played the originals years ago, and playing 0 first has over all lowered my enjoyment of kiwami. Though it is still pretty good.

>>16163872

git gud

>>16164210

I quited after reaching 4,940,000 something points.

I just wanted to complete the list.

So is it all hopeless? Is there no point in playing these games?

>>16161147

What's the strategy around this?

>>16164866

Damn, you learn something every day.

>>16164866

I come from a country were dubs are considered ultra haram however I think that a good English dub could increase sales elsewhere.

Maybe Sega could try again some day.

>>16165541

The newest game in the series Judgement/Judge eyes actually is going to have an English dub, but if you prefer subs you can choose which one you like.

We will have to see if 14 years of hindsight can improve the quality this time around.

>>16164200

Yes, he has a face turn right at the end

On an unrelated not, the name of the cabaret club in Kiwami 2 has pissed me off ever since I realised it was a stupid pun.

You know, something I noticed from the Yakuza games is that, except for two or three, all the trannies are pretty attractive.

>>16168422

famous japan tranny does the live show for Sega, maybe that has to do something with it?

>>16168904

The fighting game trannie?

S/He's pretty cute.

>Memejima everywhere reaches rank C, chapter 7

>Fucker hits like a truck and has a ton of HP but nothing I can't deal with even at a moment's notice

>50 fucking levels per fight

He's really not so hard as to warrant this much xp.

>>16185409

>10k in one go

>37 crowd pleasers

Holy shit, I need to try this.

>>16185438

Mind you if you look at the time it is around 10 minutes in total every time, because I fuck around to wait for more crowd pleasures. But from what I have searched online, I didn't see a method that seems faster, nor did I see this method at all. I started doing this as I unlocked Weapon Master so I didn't have the other tournaments yet. I would they give you more per round winning, but also the opponents become hit sponges, haven't actually tried them, but seems as the logical progression.

An extra advice would be not doing heat moves, except maybe if you just finished a crowd pleasure like 5 seconds ago. You are risking of a crowd pleasure showing up just while you are doing the move or for a heat move crowd pleasure to show up and you have just exhausted your heat.

Oh and and by the way, (fighting spoiler of a sort) the first time, I saw the the special heat move for brass knuckles when fighting against someone with a sword, was hype as fuck.

>>16185475

Well I only need 20k more points until I've got all the paintings so 20 minutes wouldn't be too bad.

>>16142076

I did, thanks for asking. It seems like a pretty decent jumping on point for the series and I've been interested in Yakuza for some time now.

When I think about it Yakuza games are nothing special but for some reason its entertaining.

>>16187448

Kiwami is still good, but it's literally just more of the same content that Zero had. it mixes up a few things but save for the main story it's pretty much the same game.

>>16187489

If you only going to pick either 0 or Kiwami then play 0 first since Kiwami references the events of 0 a bunch

>>16187505

thats fine then, thats all I really wanted

Please post the WebM from the movie. Y'know the one. Majima peeking around the corner with his baseball bat.

>>16188268

Majima's eyepatch is on the wrong eye.

>>16188358

The solution to this problem would be to simply mirror the entire move.

>>16188370

>!nahc-uyriK

>>16187448

You're listening to faggots if they say 0 and kiwami are anything other than amazing games.

That said after just finishing kiwami i think i like 0 a lot more. Namely because kiwami coming off 0 made majima's motivations and actions seem unrealistic compared to the majima they want you to know from 0.

>>16191487

If you know an inkling of Japanese, then you know this entire series is wildly embellished in the translation. It's just how it is. If you want to turn Yakuza threads into the shitshow that Fire Emblem and Xenoblade threads became, it's your call, but do be aware you'll make /v/ that much worse.

>>16191487

>did they used this specific term in jp original

No

Just listen to the dialogue

>>16193024

>When I saw people talk about Yakuza 0 I knew I had to skip it

You sure your disease isn't actually shit taste?

>>16193957

It is a video of the woman that voices the hostess. In Yakuza 6 they have you chatting in Anri Okita (a big porn star) with a sex cam.

>>16192492

I just want to play vidya without this bullshit.

>>16193986

Holy shit, Anri Okita is in 6? I didn't know that, based Sega spending the cash where it counts.

>>16195489

arent czar hostesses in 0 pornstars too? I know AI Uehara is one.

those hot cat fights/bug fights models and no one does any r34 with them

>>16199104

Yes. The Kiryu-Chan! just indicates that you're close to a Memejima encounter of any kind, he could be underground, in a car, behind a corner, anywhere. Have fun fighting him when you've already exhausted all the unique fights and he has 7 HP bars.

>>16199402

You don't have to have Tiger Drop for Majima to be easy. Even if you don't try to go dodge to his side/back and beat the shit out of him at the proper moment, you can always just wait for him to finish his huge combos, which he does in the air, and then beat him up when he is done.

>>16126459

What happened with this bitch after 3?

Why didn't she marry Kiryu?

>>16191487

They sure use many dank memes in their translations.

>>16199312

>memejima

i like that

>>16199423

Yes, but that takes longer, with a counter move you can interrupt him in the 2nd or 3rd hit of the combo and deal decent damage at the same time. Good damage if you counter him with the Tiger Drop.

>>16199451

My argument wasn't about the fastest way based on skill. You said he becomes easy after acquiring Tiger Drop. My argument was that he was easy to begin with, even if you are scrub that can only wait for him to finish and then beat him up.

>>16199512

Is there a specific way you fight using dragon style? every time i tried it (should note i finished kiwami with rank A for memejima) i got my shit kicked in because i couldn't use any moves that would retaliate like any of my other forms. Even just using basic attacks and biding your time properly, you can breeze through both 0 and kiwami but i know for a fact my scrub-ness made me miss out on a lot of possible intricacies of the mechanics,especially with dragon.

>>16199531

I used Dragon for 2 things only: Tiger Drops and fights where there's faggots with guns, which also overlapped mostly. The reason why I used Dragon against guys with guns is the skill you get where if you're out of heat while in Dragon Kiryu doesn't get into that state where you have to mash after he gets shot. That shit's a fucking nightmare on the Jingu fight and the long fight right before it. At that point if you do get into heat mode you can just quickly do that heat move out of Dragon where Kiryu slaps the shit out of somebody.

Otherwise, Dragon is much worse than what it was in 0, you have to be in heat mode for the moves to not be slow as molasses and to be able to do double finishing moves, for any straight up fight where you don't abuse Tiger Drops and/or have to deal with dudes with guns literally any other style will do the job better.

>>16199613

Okay, glad to know i'm not just retarded then. That jingu fight nearly singlehandedly ruined the whole kiwami experience for me. The final boss is two enemies that can stop you and force you to button mash every time they hit you, and they get up after you kill them the first time. What fucking mongoloid thought this was a good idea?

>>16199622

The fight itself is piss-easy in the original, the state where you have to mash when you get shot in the engine they used for Yakuza 0 turned facing guys with guns into a fucking nightmare in Kiwami, which is why Jingu turned from a joke into one of the legit hardest boss fights in the whole damn series. That's why I fought them in Dragon after I saw that you get that skill where you just take the damage after getting shot when not in heat mode and don't have to get carpal tunnel syndrome due to the endless loop of getting stunlocked. It's also possible to Tiger Drop guys with guns but it's kind of hard to explain how to do it in words, you basically have to run up to them and time the button press just after they're finished raising their pistol. I only managed to master it on my Legend difficulty run.

>>16199622

It's one case where they could have changed a fight to be better than the original yakuza, but went for fidelity.

>>16199622

You can easily learn when they shoot and just dodge it.

>>16199652

I definitely shouldve paid closer attention to the skill perks when i did my run. Grinding majima to level dragon was fun but the story's weird turns they did with majima's character compared to 0 was strange for me being a newcomer. Knowing him from 0 first, then seeing the retard shit he pulled in kiwami being a detriment to kiryu made no sense. Though thats probably just thanks to the original being that way.

>>16199653

I guess? I can't agree nor disagree since i don't know what they were going for exactly with kiwami. Starting with 0 first and diving into kiwami made it feel like a direct sequel they copy-pasted a lot of assets and even code for. Which doesn't sound bad on paper, but this is sega we're talking about.

>>16199657

Learned that almost immediately, they have a tell but it's difficult when beast mode is what it is. I used beast for a majority of my run because upgrading stats early on made it literally a beast against every enemy.

>>16199763

The Memejima Everywhere does change a lot in terms of story, namely it fucks up the pacing of the story. Remember the boss fight in the baseball center where Memejima pretends that he saw Kiryu for the first time in a decade and you think to yourself "Memejima, I just beat your ass like a dozen times before this"? That's because it makes sense in the original, there is no Memejima Everywhere system so the baseball center is legit the first time Kiryu meets Majima when he gets out of prison. But yeah, the vision of who and what Majima is is completely different depending on which game introduced you to the series. He goes from being a complete madman who is somehow one of the few guys who keep the Tojo clan from crumbling down on itself to a calm and collected guy who ends up merely pretending to be retarded.

>>16199806

Precisely what i was thinking. I've been avoiding spoilers like the plague since the moment i played/hyped to play 0 and im glad i did. Hearing the game already peaks at kiwami is a huge relief but i'd still like to be invested in the story even if they sorta fucked up majima's character in both good and bad ways.

>>16199364

>I normally just run up to him anyway because I want to fight.

I did the same thing until my XP were at 9999 and there was literally no purpose in fighting him anymore. Now I avoid him at all costs.

I just finished kiwami 2.

I'd rank them like zero > kiwami > 6 > kiwami 2

But theyre all great and its really splitting hairs and petty reasons. I liked zero the best but i actually prefer the fighting in k2 and 6 because of the physics.

A friend of mine gave me a code for 0 and I haven't played it yet, nor have I ever played and games ever.

>>16201277

While Ideally, you would want to play them in Release order, that is a bit unreasonable considering having to get some of them on PS 2, 3, 4, and or having to get an emulator to work. I just said play them in release order but even I haven't been able to do so yet, only having played the original 1 and 2 off of emulation, then 0 and Kiwami.

because of that, I'd say Yakuza 0's stats as a prequel, it's a perfectly fine jumping in point for the series, and since you already have it I recommend giving it a go.

>>16201312

nigger an emulator isn't hard to set up unless the game specifically doesn't work inside of one it doesn't bother me. Besides I don't even know the release order.

>>16201267

>I had a stupid grin on my face the entire time

yeah that was like 80% of the game for me

Kiwami is so shitty it only lasted 20 minutes on my PC.

There's also no support for PC controllers and and ofc it works mouse like shit all jap gaymes. Good thing I got quick refund from CODEX shop.

Well unlike that abomination of zero it has proper save/load system. So I guess those radioactive ricegobblers will catch up with our tech in like 20-30 years. Hope they not gonna port any "games" to PC until then.

>>16201488

>torpedo is retarded

thanks for stopping by

>>16201497

>torpedo

well memed, assblasted reddit cuck

too bad you cant understand you are the one who's retarded here

>>16201620

>still butthurt reddit cuck with no arguments and childish namecalling

>>r/safe_place

damn, we had one job to completely nuke those cancerous weebs in 45…

>>16201676

>Don't reply to him!

>well yeah I do, but my shitpost is not shitpost because it's ME! mom tell him!

Imagine being as retarded as this weeb animal.

I always said real patriots dont play this weeb shit that jews feeding you. It looks like GTA4-wannabe only made by some unity asset flipper who didn't get concept of cars. And with 1000% more Roman minigames.

>>16201702

>reddit cuck and his FBI boogeyman again

>>>r/faggots

>>16199437

Charon's pretty tough, but there are some ways to deal with him.

>1. Unlike most BIG LARGE enemies, you can grab and throw Charon. Get in Brawler, wait for his big telegraphed charges and go for a grab. When he pops heat he'll start breaking your throws but if he's in a defensive pose you're pretty likely to still get them off. With full Body you'll beat him in 5-6 throws total, less if you're building heat in Rush.

>2. If you're still losing, go fight Majima until you have more shit out of the Body tree, helps alleviate how hard you get punished for mistakes.

>3. Streetfight Tourney is a big meme, especially on harder difficulties. Charon's not the only lad in there that will just dodge and punish your stupid Beast shit, Drunken Master will avoid all of it, as will higher level Hannya-Mans (if he shows up, I've never seen him)

Burning Ring is easier significantly easier, since you're far more likely to get knockdowns on enemies than vice versa, and Charon doesn't show up there (just remember to never dropkick). Charon won't show up in Weapon Master tourneys either. Once you make it past the Weapon Master tiers, you'll have bigger fish to fry than Charon.

>>16199531

Other than Tiger Drops, using Dragon is:

>build heat in any other form

>spend heat in dragon

>repeat

Dragon is useless without heat, since it's heat build in calm is hot dogshit (Tiger Drop notwithstanding, of course). Since all dragon heat is Climax Heat, the Climax Heat+ damage boosts are effective from bar one. It's pretty horosho.

And you get to actually use the cool backflip/wrestling moves.

>>16201659

>TORpedo is a kike goon

Who could have predicted such a startlng turn of events.

>>16159710

>5

>>16199424

Because Kiryu has Haruka. Too bad he got cucked by a chink.

>>16202156

>Scratch that, the entire soundtrack is shit in kiwami.

Fucking this, the soundtrack is so fucking bad. You get all pumped up for some sick boss fight and then you get this generic shitty action music that sounds like every other song in the game. I don't get how Kiwami came out after 0 but everything is a downgrade. It's still a good game though and I enjoyed it thoroughly.

>>16202156

That's what happens when the soundtrack is just modernized remixes of the original tracks. There are a few exceptions, Jingu's theme is a Kiwami original, Lau Ka Long's theme is a remix of his Yakuza 3 theme because he used the generic boss theme in Yakuza 1 and for some reason they changed Id which played in most long battles with a completely different track.

is it intended that trouble finder barely works? (kiwami) because I got that thing and it doesnt show anything… even while I have still subquest to do

>>16202188

Doesn't the troublefinder only show you civilians that are in trouble?

>>16202182

>please tell me it gets better with kiwami 2

Kiwami 2 is even worse. There were a whole bunch of tracks which were used for fights that you got into while doing sidequests but they all got replaced with either a boring as fuck buttrock theme or the generic fight theme for Kamurocho or Sotenbori, depending on where the side quest happens. There are a few BITCHIN' tracks from the original 2 used for boss fights or long fights which are also missing, such as North Menace, West Insanity, Evil/Beast Itself, Grudge etc. and replaced with tracks which are much worse, the replacement tracks are, again, either boring ass buttrock or boring ass electronic music (read: computer farting noises and sounds of hard drives dying arranged in a musical manner). The reason for why there's so many tracks missing is because unlike other Yakuza games where the OST is mostly composed by Hidenori Shoji, for Yakuza 2 another guy, I believe Hideki Sakamoto, composed just as many tracks as Shoji.

Due to Sega's INFINITE WISDOM however, they couldn't get the rights to remix Sakamoto's tracks from the original, leaving Kiwami 2 with a gimped, shitty soundtrack. At least the remix for Outlaw's Lullaby is as good as the original track

>>16202182

you should cut out the mcfreaking and just have it say mclost

>>16202200 (checked)

Thankfully both 0 and Kiwami have music restoration patches, so that won't be a problem when K2 eventually comes to PC.

>>16202192

I think in 0 it showed every quest on map.

>>16202221

Yeah, I saw that Kiwami has a mod which restores all the music from the original. Problem is that for Kiwami 2 there's much more things involved, if you want to fully restore it you'll have to add more tracks and add new triggers for when those tracks should play.

It's not impossible, it just takes more work, it depends on how easy it is to mod new shit in and not just replacements.

>>16202221

>music restoration patches

what do you mean? if it means i can hear this song again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7gzFBnfRfo teach me

>>16202233

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1661055181 For Kiwami

and https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1461732841 for the licensed music that was cut in the western version for 0.

>>16202166

>I don't get how Kiwami came out after 0

Both Kiwami games are just cheap remasters, 0 was a proper entry instead.

>>16202272

But Kiwami 2 has the new engine, right? I've heard really good things about it.

>>16202275

Yeah, it's in the new engine and Kiwami 2 has made combat more enjoyable in it, it's kind of lackluster in 6. Problem is, it runs at 30FPS

>>16202188

Quest availability can depend on Day/Night as well as Haruka On/Off.

If you have quests remaining, but the trouble finder isn't showing anything, try changing one of those variables.

>>16202316

Get raped and kill yourself, you retarded fucking faggot sack of nigger shit with down syndrome.

>>16202156

>>16202166

>>16202173

If any of you are interested there is a mod that replaces Kiwami's music with the original music from the PS2's soundtrack.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1661055181

It's pretty damn easy to install, basicly you just drag and drop the files in your games folder and then replace everything it says it's going to replace.

>>16202358

I mean thinking about it when the first story fight with Majima happened and it didn't play Receive You The Prototype, That was seriously disappointing, But i'm planning to play the game once with the Kiwami soundtrack and then my legndary play though will be with the Classic Music mod.

>>16202365

It's also a shame because in my opinion Kiwami's version of Receive You was the worst in the series. The only times The Prototype version plays without mods is when you "settle the score", which is the last scripted Memejima Everywhere fight. I guess it gives it more impact or something but I'd still rather have The Prototype play in the boss fights, just like they did for Yakuza Kiwami 2.

>>16202238

>>16202358

6 gigs to have both? damn its just music though

>>16202316

>homophonic

No wonder he sounds like a fag.

>>16202358

I know, I've already posted it >>16202238

>>16202401

It's either a lot of music or the mod author doesn't know how to compress

>>16202409

well I just missed that classic mod has licensed already in it

>>16202280

even then it doesnt show a thing.

>>16202935

oh it shows, but the area is like few meters not whole map

>>16202953

i was wrong again, one quest was "blocking" it and after completing it, now map lit up with quests.

I decided to hook up my Dualshock 4 to play the disco in 0, since the X360's d-pad is infamously shitty, but the game interprets the DS4's inputs all wrong. It doesn't even recognize the D-pad. What the fuck?

>>16208911

Judge Eyes was such a better name. Why.

>>16208911

I destroyed my PS4 for being a defective piece of shit, so I won't care until they port it to PC.

>>16209741

I'm not a collector, I just want to play the PS3 Yakuza games, now rather then waiting for the 3, 4, and 5 remasters to come to PC, which could take far longer then them coming to the west for PS4.

>>16209803

>I'm not a collector

Well in that case it's really pricey. How come you haven't hacked your PS3 yet?

>>16209817

Well I don't really play it that offten, and haven't really tried to, is it that easy?

>>16209560

>I'v heard Yakuza 3 is still kind of expensive to get your hands on, while the other PS3 ones you can get cheaper since they can be bought digitally.

It's not hard to get your hands on since some Canadian online store paid Sega to do a bunch of reprints of various games. God bless them for getting sega to actually reprint infinite space, that pissed so many scalpers off it was beautiful

>>16209829

I'm actually in Canada, but I don't know where to look for a cheaper copy if there is one.

>>16209827

Pretty simple

https://www.reddit .com/r/ps3homebrew/wiki/index

>>16209848

Well maybe I'll try doing that, hopefully i'm not too retarded for it.

>>16209741

Steam version. So what's the fix?

>>16210112

Sounds like your controller isn't working properly with Steam. Do you have any other input wrappers installed?

>>16210121

None than I know of, I don't have any controller emulator or the like. My X360 controller is constantly connected, so maybe it's fucking with the DS4? I'll try rebooting without the 360 connected.

>>16210136

Did you ever have any input wrappers installed?

>do heat action move

>get cool cinematic camera

>camera goes back to normal

>suddenly i'm standing in a completely different spot

Please tell me that the later Dragon Engine games fix this.

>>16211145

It wasnt that bad in 0 as it was in kiwami.

>>16209560

I paid 20+expenses. And it wasn't worth it, dunno what to tell you. Honestly: watch it on Youtube and play one of the good ones.

>>16210142

Again, none than I know of.

>>16211277

New game + and premium adventure has always been in the PS4 version.

>>16211659

>all I found was people complaining about how there isn't any

It's probably because you can't transfer your NG+ save to Legend difficulty like you could in previous and subsequent games.

>>16211727

They're identical to Kiwami and Kiwami 2's but I think they only have English voice action.

>>16211727

PS2's localization of Yakuza 1 is a fucking mess to make it more "American". They also blew the budget on hiring shitty (((Hollywood))) actors to do the voices. 2 massively improved on the translation and didn't hire faggot actors from (((Hollywood)))

I'm considering Kiwami 2 since I can't bring myself to play the ancient originals on the emulated versions. I don't suppose the later games are getting rereleased to burgerland in a timely fashion?

>>16211727

The translation is shit, but at the same time, you're a faggot and a nigger if you don't want to experience the dub.

BRING THAT SHIT, KAZUMA

>>16211935

>I can't bring myself to play the ancient originals on the emulated versions

You should, they are still fun, and if you're the type to enjoy Yakuza, you will still enjoy it in its most primitive state.

>>16211947

I enjoyed playing kiwami 1, but when I played 2 on the emulator, my dumbass realized i was too spoiled by kiwami's changes.

>>16211986

Was the Third Town that bad or why'd they cut it?

>>16212017

They probably cut it because it was a really small area and they were probably too lazy to remake it.

>>16212017

It was basically just two streets, but a whole chapter took place in it. I don't even know what became of that chapter in Kiwami 2 because I trashed my defective bloodborne machine before I could reach it.

>>16212033

>I don't even know what became of that chapter in Kiwami 2 because I trashed my defective bloodborne machine before I could reach it.

All story-related things that happened in it happen in Sotenbori instead.

>>16209829

>>16209848

While I don't have the confidence to not fuck up my PS3 by trying to mod it. but thanks you telling me there was a place in Canada I was actually able to find a location with a brand new copy of Yakuza 3 and it was only 30 mins away, so that was better then waiting for it to come in the mail.

>>16212310

I'm a ware of the missing content, but i plan on waiting to see if those remasters come to PC eventually. and if they do I have every intention of buying 3 4 and 5 again for now, I'll be playing the PS3 versions.

>>16212310

is the tranny mission even worth it?

I'd like to think a game with less trannies is immediately better

>>16212386

maybe even the japs are sick of the trannies. So far yakuza has been very anti PC culture so i doubt this was a politically charged decision.

>>16212397

Kiryu is a lovegod. First time i walked with haruka post game he was giving her love advice about focusing on personality rather than looks. Just his personality to recommend a gaygirl to keep chasing other girls.

>>16212413

At least he rejected her proposal to become gay too and he made her interested in men, he's just a nice guy overall. If they ever make the inevitable "character is actually gay" retcon that every modern franchise needs to have, then I hope that he ends up with Memejima.

>>16212386

>Considering the massive success that 0 and Kiwami on PC were (and Yakuza 6 in the west on PS4), I'm very sure that we'll get them right after Kiwami 2.

I'm thinking the same thing, but the remasters for 4 and 5 are still being worked on so for PC that's still a fairly long way off.

And I really want to play Dead Souls anyway, and that one is the least likely to come to PC before all the others.

>>16212451

>is 5 even getting a remaster?

Unless it already has a PS4 port, which I don't think it does, then yes it is.

I'm sure Sega's plan is to have every single one of the main Yakuza stories all on PS4, to benifit from the current popularity the series has received thanks to Yakuza 0 bringing in tons of new fans.

>>16212822

That's because until late game all of your weapons are trash, weapons are more of a back up/cheese mechanic than the core of the combat.

>>16212849

No, I mean they literally turn into sushi. I check my inventory and suddenly all my weapons got replaced with sushi, with the same sushi icons and sushi descriptions you get in restaurants.

>>16212902

Nigga what? Are you high?

>>16212902

Your item inventory and equipment inventory are separate, are you looking in the wrong place?

>>16212386

>>16212391

you fools. they directly said it was cut due to society changes and from interview localization team is in direct contact with devs telling them whats appropriate.

>>16212902

>>16212910

>>16212917

that happened to me when inventory turned into all kinds of alcohol. invetory corruption is known bug, reload your save and it should fix some items, some will just get stuck as food/drink.

>>16212902

Ha. That happened to me too, but my stuff turned into a bar menu. Alcohol and green beans and such. I think you can replicate the issue by selecting an item, using the shoulder buttons to cycle to a different inventory menu, then unpausing. I'm pretty sure I fixed it in the same way: selecting a random item from my menu, using shoulder buttons to scroll back over to the right menu, then unpausing again. Or just reload from an earlier save before that happened. You do keep multiple saves in case of something like this, don't you anon?

Playing Yakzua 3 for the first time, I'v noticed the mechanic from the Original 1 and 2 is still here. When you preform a heat action you get EXP form it. and depending on the enemy that decides how much, in 1 if you did it against a boss you got tons of EXP, so if you were able to do multiple heat attacks against a boss that was a great way of doing some fast grinding.

I think it's a really cool mechanic, but from what what I could tell it isn't in Yakuza 0 or Kiwami, at least if it is the game doesn't really let you know about it.

>>16212931

>>16212934

Fug, I hope it's just a visual glitch.

Gonna start rotating my saves just in case.

>>16212953

I wouldn't know about it, I got all my XP from farming Memejima/Mr. Shekeldown.

>>16212996

Yeah your not really hurting for XP at all in those games, but I just liked that the way it used to work made being aware of it really rewarding since you can form a strategy around using as many heat moves as you can against a boss.

>playing 2

>when new enemies appear on screen you no longer magically lose whatever weapon you were holding

i'm glad they fixed that minor but still annoying thing

>>16212996

>mr shekeldown

best

>>16213314

Indeed, you even have a wife's black son!

>>16213332

They're orphans anon if one of them wasn't a nigger that would be surprising.

>>16213445

I wouldn't get too attached to Rikiya if I were you.

>>16213658

Well you didn't need to spoil it like that, but at the same time yeah I can kind of tell that he has a big sign above his head saying.

Going to die!

Fuck this fight with Shimano in chapter 3. I barely do any damage AND he has two health bars. I feel like Kiwami will be like this with it's enemies, too much health and too little damage for me. 0 had that perfect balance, how do you fuck that up?

>>16214327

Okay, basic thing I have to ask again as the tutorial skipped over it. The red bar bit at the end of the heat gauge, what does that do again? I don't think it's mentioned in the notebook. I think it's a heat rush or some shit and I can trigger it in a boss fight but I don't know what it does.

>>16214336

Climax heat actions but are useless in the fight with Shimano. Figures.

>>16214336

It's a mode called Climax Heat, as you progress through the skill tree you'll unlock specific buffs regarding that state. The thing you trigger during boss fights are Kiwami actions which are locked inside the skill tree (separate skill for each style). These require the enemy to be in his recovery state (panting) and you to be in heat mode.

>>16214327

Did you select hard mode? I really wouldn't recommend it for Kiwami due to the, well, Kiwami mechanic that turn every major enemy into a wall of HP. Also, get the extreme heat actions unlocked as soon as humanly possible.

>>16213445

>Rikiya

F

>>16214396

am i doing it wrong or there is just one animation attack per style for Kiwami action?

>>16214562

Yeah there's only one Kiwami heat action per style. As the anon above said, unlock them as soon as possible.

>>16214633

The Kiwami system would be fine if either the damage was better, or enemies didn't regenerate health while in the vulnerable pose. As it stands, even on normal you have to actually be prepared to unleash heat the second the enemy starts regenerating to actually come on top of the affair. It doesn't help that chugging a staminan leaves a precious few seconds for the boss to heal before you're given back control. Hard mode is just made a goddamn slog because of this, I can't imagine Legend.

>>16215320

Can you post the complete context? I think they indicate standard Heat and Climax Heat states.

>>16215320

The blue one indicates actions that can only be done in heat mode, and the red one in climax heat mode (the bars that flash red instead of blue).

Haru: Im so good at this game mr.!

>misses like 90% of stuff

that slap must have been harder than it looked.

>>16216322

Kiryu's got a strong backhand.

>>16216566

It's just like being a dad irl

>>16216570

Yeah I get that the point is to show that being a parent is stressful and that kids are annoying but where's my reward, where's my joy of parenthood? I don't get to see Haruka grow up or anything, I'm just getting quest cucked.

>>16216582

>ye spend hours an hours playen vidya with yer digital daughteru an awl ye've got ta sho fer it at the end is a bloody scarf

>'tis the ultimate cuck, anon

>>16216582

You're going to fucking love Yakuza 6.

>>16213314

Where's Kaoru during all this?

>>16218159

She went to america and fell into a black hole because Kiryu apparently doesn't deserve love and happiness. All he deserves is babysitting the tojo clan and seeing his daughter get chinked.

>>16218659

it was there,as well. Yakuza is mostly re-used assets…this is why there is more than one game in the series.

>>16218659

There are a few streets in Kamurocho which have had giant traffic cone on the same fucking spot ever since the original on the PS2. Don't think too much about it.

When you get the Komaki Parry in Kiwami he says that, like in Y0, I should make my own last technique from that. Is it just a reference to the next Yakuza games or is it a "secret" skill that I've yet to discover ? I've tried doing a heat action after the parry but nothing happens.

>>16223288 (heil'd)

Reference to other games, namely 3.

>>16223748

Give her a zany clothes and an eyepatch and I'd be inclined to agree.

>>16223748

Haruka was the only good part of Kiwami's story.

Am I missing something here or what?

I'm an anon who got Yakuza 0 and I liked the combat at the start but now I'm getting really mad at it. Enemies are actually doing shit now compared to the start but that entails just rushing at me with knockdown moves from behind/side that I don't know if I can avoid or what but the god damn dodge is too short to even be of use at times, beast style feels fucking useless because I can still be knocked down, "guarding" has a cooldown that serves no purpose besides wasting my time I have to have third heat gauge to do any special useful moves apparently but the rushing opponents knocking me down constantly causes it to dwindle, my dodging dwindles it further as well.

While I am pretty bad at this it doesn't give me too many advantages, I can't disarm people unless you unlock this as a skill later (mainly guns and I've only seen a few) and the dodge feels really useless at times, as does guarding 'cos opponents generally just hit me from behind and I'm incapable of doing anything can I dodge out of it or what?

>>16223603

Even if you start meeting him on the streets only after the battling cages, it still fucks with the plot. It is in the batting cages that he gets injured as he is bandaged in the second original fight. But in Kiwami you get this weird fight in the docks where he falls in the sea, Majima everywhere is disabled temporarily, but literally the next thing you do is enter the building where the second fight happens and he enters in the truck bandaged.

>>16223832

Beast is useless until later in the game where it becomes absolutely broken. Guarding is not very useful 90% of the time, you should always dodge with rush (can't remember Memejima's equivalent) instead, that's also the fast way to fill up your heat meter. Weapons are annoying until you unlock the disarming skills, but once you do they become absolutely trivial especially for Memejima.

>>16223901

All right so stick with rush style then and swap to brawler for more damage/stun like I did before?

I'll go back to it once my headache clears.

>>16223938

Exactly, Rush is pretty much shit when it comes to damage in 0, in Kiwami it gets much better but in 0 it's only good because of the multiple evades. It sounds like you get blown up due to poor positioning since enemies hit you from the sides and back and Rush helps you cover a lot of ground to get to a better position.

>>16223954

Right I dunno if this headache will go away though I might lie down it's due to tooth pain sage for blogpost

>>16223938

>>16223954

>>16223832

I don't know if it is the same in 0, but in Kiwami if you in Brawler and blocking, if they are attacking you from the side, you can just move the LS to that sight, and Kiryuu actually moves and blocks it. If it is too far behind you it doesn't work.

Also at least in Kiwami Beast is very good for crowd control, just smash attack and move around.

You say you have problems with attacks from behind, maybe again while in a crowd? Just do a combo to someone and move around a bit and start doing a combo to someone else. Of course when you are staying in one place you become an easier target.

I don't understand why there is no version of Yakuza 0 online with the no-Denuvo version. Someone seriously back up their beta version in case Sega decides to no never implement the no Denuvo .exe.

>>16224851

It is a bug. It was supposedly fixed in later patches, so maybe you are playing a pirate version? By the way, there is at least one bug that I don't think has been fixed yet, but probably will eventually, that won't let you 100% the game. Has to do with the pool game and Haruna.

>>16225025

Definitely works, but it barely has an effect.

>>16223832

Are you carrying around an autograph item? Apparently you get an item pretty early on that makes enemies go nuts trying to kill you, which makes the game significantly harder.

I nearly quit the game out of frustration from getting stunlocked before I found out that item was what was causing it.

Is 4 worth the play? or should I just skip right to 5.

>>16227609

Yes, it is. 5 is worse imo

>>16227621

What's the worst Yakuza game?

>>16227629

Dead Souls. If you mean the mainline games, 3 is usually considered the worst one, mostly because of the hackjob that was the Western release.

>>16227640

> 3 is usually considered the worst one, mostly because of the hackjob that was the Western release.

Considering that the remaster fixes those things, what else is wrong with it?

>>16227621

its the pop idol segments right?

>>16227762

I honestly don't mind it as much as the story which is atrocious and the amount of pointless busywork content you get. It's also by far the easiest game in the series.

>>16227704

The story is weaker than 2 and there are some ultra crazy twists and turns people don't like. That's pretty much it. People also think that the gameplay is clunky, but that's not an issue for the vast majority of the time.

>Yakuza 4 Ships With DLC Codes For Car Racing

what car racing? I cant find anything on that.

The beta patch for Yakuza 0 on PC is live on the main branch of the game. Denuvo officially removed. It is funny how they didn't mention it themselves a single time. Not in the patch notes or any forum post.

Here are the patch notes:

• Fixed an issue related to shaders and shadow rendering affecting lighting/skin tone (most noticeable during cut scene at the end of chapter 6) 
• Fixed an issue where certain particle effects were not being displayed (most noticeable when using certain weapons like the cannon)
• Improved ultrawide display support
• Added FOV slider in advanced graphics menu
• Added border artwork displayed during areas with locked aspect ratio when played in non-16:9 display modes
• Added Background audio slider in audio menu
• Added UI toggle in settings menu
• Added target monitor output selection option for multi monitor setups in advanced graphics menu
• Added support for QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboard layouts
• Fixed an issue where disconnecting a controller during conversation could cause a soft lock
• Fixed an issue where mouse cursor would be confined within application window while in menus
• Fixed an issue which could cause a crash when playing the fishing mini game
• Fixed an issue where the game could crash if the installation folder path includes a dot
• Improved behaviour of camera control when using a mouse to use raw mouse input
• Improved mouse scroll wheel behaviour
• Improved Alt+Tab behaviour
• Fixed the issue with the FOV slider zooming in too much during combat.
• Fixed the issue where the UI toggle comes back on after pressing any button.
• Fixed the missing weapon effect issue.
• Fixed the issue in Lao Gui’s voice.
• Fixed an issue where mouse sensitivity was not applied correctly to high DPI mice.
• Fixed an issue where the game can crash when retrying fights if Windows user name contains non-ANSII characters.

Kaldaien was fast to come and tell us how it doesn't matter.

>>16230843

>Denuvo officially removed

Are Sega /ourpublishers/?

>>16227871

Pocket circuit?

>>16185409

you can shorten the time even more when you will just leave yourself get K.O, you still get crowd pleaser points.

>>16231335

>/ourpublishers/

good on them for fixing but they should release it in better state and also replace that SJWlocalization team