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>Zero doesn't have Denuvo

SEGA is learning. Now if only Capcom would follow suit.

>>16236754

>Also Majima is such a sweat heart.

Indeed. Seeing his origin story was really cool. Also the way he handled his club was fucking baller.

>>16236790

Pretty good ports, decent translation, some post launch support for bugs. They really are.

>>16236828

And people didn’t believe me when I said companies were realizing Denuvo sucks

>>16236860

We need to show approval for this as consumers.

Cook up and spread some article about how good it is that companies are getting rid of Denuscam, to counteract the zillions of (((journalist)))) articles about how gamers are entitled and companies should abuse them.

>>16236859

>decent translation

no no no.

>>16236790

>>16236859

they should add those licensed songs because the replacements suck ass. also dont forget to get mods that add licensed music and classic ps2 music for Kiwami

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

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1461732841

>>16236790

Now if only Capcom would follow suit.

I just checked and apparently Mega Man 11 no longer has Denuvo either.

And that game is only 5 months old.

>>16237233

I wanna Monster hunter to take denuvo out, I bet the game runs worse because of it

>>16237233

>>16237256

Yeah looking into things Mega Man 11 came out in October and they actually got rid of Denvuo in November, but Monster Hunter came out in August, and it still has Denvuo, and finally Resident Evil 7 is 2 years old and no longer has Denuvo

Maybe once they stop updating the game, then after a time passes they remove Denuvo

>>16236828

>Sonic Mania also no longer has Denuvo

only in the beta build and obviously pirated versions

>>16236754

>LGBT colors in background

Jesus Christ, not even Japanese games about Japanese culture set in Japan are free from globo-homo.

Guess I won't be buying Zero or supporting Sega from now on.

>>16236754

>Majima is such a sweetheart

I take it you didn't play Cabaret Club Czar much.

nice

>>16238050

It doesn't even have red though so it isn't the fag flag

>>16238172

Yuki doesn't count.

>>16238205

Why doesn't she count?

>>16236828

Yet VC4 still has it.

>>16238437

>What's wrong with the Yakuza translations?

If it was translated literally, half of Kiryu's answers to anything would be "Is that so…" and the translators varied it and many other baseline colloquialisms up. The guy you're responding to just took issue with Majima saying shitlord once though.

>>16237259

The company (denuvo) itself said that its purpose is not to prevent cracks, but to guarantee initial sales. So it would make sense for a company to remove that parasite of a DRM once a few months passed.

>>16238027

Either they'll wait this out or they'll turn chicken shit and just redo the game and replace him.

>>16238610

>1st pic

>tell her that I don't care

>get negative points because I'm not progressive enough

I'd rather only have one hostess instead of two with one of them being a dyke. Do 6 and Kiwami have fags too?

>>16238637

Shit, I meant Kiwami 2.

So, I bougth it on Steam but never downloaded/installed it because i didn't wanted denuvo's malware on my PC. Am I safe now?

>>16238610

Probably definitely SJW pozzed, when the original was about her realizing being a dyke was folly and rejecting it.

Nice.

any1 got a magnet? Need it for wine gaymin.

>>16238649

Yes, Kiwami as well as 0 are now completely free of Denuvo. Catherine Classic also released without Denuvo, if you were ever interested in that game by any chance.

>>16238662

Should have added I already read this >>16238643. Though someone will have to give me the Japanese text to can either confirm or deny.

>>16238662

So it's basically the same?

>>16238660

Not really, already finished it time ago on PStriple, but tonight I'm finally playing Y0, the only non-remake Yakuza that I haven't beaten.

It's a strange day when this board brings such good news.

>>16238677

Actually saying that Kiwami is free of Denuvo now is wrong as it never actually had Denuvo in the first place.

>>16238027

I read he had CP.

>>16238692

Cocaine

Packets

>>16238692

Completion Points, yes

>>16238672

>It is what is really written in Japanese

Yes. As I said the only argument would be if it should be translated as "advanced" or "progressive", but either should be acceptable, though maybe advanced would be a bit more correct, but then again it is just everyday talk, not people that would know more complex gaijin words.

You can find a lot of ways to say "progressive", also depending on the meaning. A simple way would be just saying it in English with プログレッシブ. 進歩 means "progress" in general. So "進歩的(な)" seems maybe like the most correct way to say "progressive" as an adjective. 進歩主義 would mean "progressivism" as a noun in political sense. 進歩党 means "progressive party". And then you have something like 進歩的労働党 which is how the Japanese translated the American "Progressive Labor Party".

So as you can see 進 is the root of all of them. The thing is if they had written it in the official way nips might not have understood it or really the writers themselves might not even not even be that knowledgeable. So instead they say a simple "they are advanced overseas" (compared to us in Japan). Though with the post here >>16238610 how much influence the dirty gaijin had, no one can say.

>>16238645

That's very typical for Japan. You are publicly a dead person if caught doing drugs there. It is an Asian culture thing as a whole and you can sort of blame the Opium Wars for that, because you are degenerate traitor. But really, you are a degenerate if you are doing drugs, so good on them.

>>16238734

>"Screw the rules, I have money!"

Is that a reference to something? I'm sorry if this is a super obvious one but I'm pretty bad at references.

>>16238695

Maybe that's the part they changed. Given that interview, you know they had to change something.

>>16238699

>>16238693

hory sheet japan calm with flashes.

>>16238734

>>16238738

>>16238746

The head of the localization team for the Yakuza games has acknowledged its existence and provided an explanation for how it ended up in the final product.

https://archive.fo/mcHf8

>>16238882

Nvm it's because I had my fightstick plugged in.

>>16238882

>Sega adds the dumb memes themselves

Can you really call the Western subsidiaries of Sega "Sega themsleves"?

Also why are you not using DS4Windows anyway? Works better with anything as a whole.

I feel like 360 controller is really bad for qte minigames compared to ps3/4 one.

>>16238882

>Sega adds the dumb memes themselves

Not exactly - in fact, the head of the department literally said that part of his job was making sure that memes DIDN'T get into the script.

(He also said, rightly, that the Yugioh reference slipped past because it fit the scene so perfectly he didn't even notice it. "Screw the rules, I have money!" was very close to what he was actually saying, and not at all out of place.)

In the same vein, I'm still not sure what the supposed Oblivion reference is. Unlike "screw the rules", "Stop right there, criminal scum" is a very generic kind of line that has been used over and over again in countless games, movies and TV show.

By the way, something people that don't know Japanese miss - the street thugs line after you beat them. These don't get translated. Though they are usually nothing special there are some like "I am a pig" and making Japanese pig sounds.

>>16238810

>>16238882

They sure like using dank memes. In the video chat videogame some chatter said MY BODY IS READY.

While still on the topic, I thought of something else. Maybe some people have noticed the subs often say "yakuza", but the characters don't say it, but say "gokudo:" 極道 instead. 道 (do) is the word for "way/road", it is used a lot in Japanese for teachings or martial-arts that are considered Japanese. "The way of the…". 極 (goku) also has the reading of "kiwami", and as you know kiwami means extreme. So from here gokudo can mean "the way of the extreme", what westerns seems to often translate it as. But other than extreme it can also mean wicked, evil or immoral. Gokudo is a word the yakuza often use instead of yakuza as it is a descriptive of their way of life, as is yakuza itself too really.

Fun fact: 極右 (kyo:kuu) means far right.

>>16239144

That's pretty similar to the Sicilian Mafia and how they refer to themself not as the Mafia, but instead as "cossa nostra" or "our thing"

>>16239144

Seems no one calls them yakuza in japan too? media/politicians have own term too.

>>16239337

>>16239166

They do call themselves yakuza among each other, but in front of the public they present themselves are businesses. The general public will also call them yakuza too when talking among each other. I think it is uncommon for a civilian to call them gokudo. But yeah, the government calls them our equivalent of "organized criminals" / "violent groups".

The meaning of yakuza is more commonly know, but let me add about it too. It basically is a slang for "loser", "the lowest of the lowest". It comes from a certain traditional Japanese card game. It is the name of the worst hand you can get ya(8)-ku(9)-sa(3).

So either names imply you are a trash on the outskirts of civilized society.

>>16239337

I believe they are also called 任侠団体 (ninkyoudantai) meaning "Chivalrous Organisation". I think it is used as polite form when referring to them as a whole.

>>16239791

That's more like what they would call themselves in public. The government and the press would call them 暴力団 (bōryokudan), the thing I mentioned earlier, but just not in Japanese.

So, how good is Kiwami 2? I just finished Kiwami 1 and I feel somewhat lazy to complete all the trophies and stuff after I got the golden pistol and have all the moves unlocked.

>>16240344

I enjoyed the comedy but I was starting to be upset of the injustice of what Aniki and his buddies had to suffer.

>>16238050

You're trying way too hard there, buddy.

>>16240252

you have to be incredibly pedant to do all the casinos and minigames. one of the most tedious platinum out there

>>16240525

WEll, I completed everything in Zero except for the fucking 5 million points in Outrun. I just can't do it.

>>16240525

Yakoozer games are one of the series where I don't bother even getting the ultimate dopamine hit of getting a platinum trophy. If it has a 100% completion one I'm done, and I'm saying this as an unapologetic completionist. My 2 milestones for what I consider "beating" Yakuza games are beat Amon and beat the game on the hardest difficulty. Fuck having to learn Mahjong and Shogi.

>>16240639

Hey man, it’s good cardio beating up guys.

>>16240619

Shogi actually looks like a really fun game but after already knowing Chess there is such an overlap that it actually makes it seem like it would be harder to learn instead of easier if that makes any sense. Mahjong on the other hand seems like it just requires an ungodly amount of memorization compared to like learning card suits/poker hands. Seems like there are way more combinations.

>>16239144

極右 is kyoku:u not Kyo:kuu

How autistic do you have to be to actually 100% a Yakuza game?

>>16238862

「私の稼いだ金は。。。私の物だ

This is one sentence. Why would add "they" into it. That's worse than google translate.

"The money I made… is mine!" is how I would translate it.

>>16240704

>Shogi actually looks like a really fun game but after already knowing Chess there is such an overlap that it actually makes it seem like it would be harder to learn instead of easier if that makes any sense

It makes perfect sense. I've played chess ever since I was 5 when I played with my grandfather that getting used to Shogi seems like an impossible task to me considering the baggage I bring from playing chess for more than 2 decades now. It's like driving school, it's better to learn from scratch than learning from when you already have had experience before driving school. You risk learning habits which will be hard to get out of when learning "textbook" driving.

That being said, I did bother to learn Koi-Koi, but it ended up being piss easy due to how bad the computer is, so much so that a complete beginner could kick its ass even if playing at the hardest level. Some moons ago an anon posted a beginner's guide to the card game (or more precisely a "good enough to get Haruka's request done" guide). Him posting about just focusing on ribbons and sake cup hands made it much easier to know how to beat the computer at it.

ISHIN ON PC FUCKING WHEN?

>>16241338

The PS3 emulator is slowly, but surely, getting better.

>>16241503

>>16241503

with fan translation?

Top Tier:

Yuki

Ai

Chika

Mid Tier:

Mana

Hibiki

Low Tier:

Saki

Yui

Shit Tier:

Rina

Obviously, I've only played 0 and Kiwami. Disappointed with how much worse Kiwami's girls are, but I guess it is a remake. Do things improve as the series progresses?

>>16242449

The original had many more hostess girls to choose from. I think 9, 3 from each hostess club, but the minigame itself was more primitive, though that still doesn't really make much of a difference. 6 is the only one that changes up the formula and it does so big time. I embedded an example of what the minigame was like in the original.

Can someone tell me if the PS3 games run at 60fps in the menu or not? There is a bug with the emulator that causes the menu to run at hundreds of fps. Have to limit the fps, but not sure if to choose 30 or 60fps. 30 is by default the limit during gameplay.

Because of this post here >>16241338 I decided to download some of the PS3 games and test them on the emulator. Have only tried Kazen so far. Mind you I am running on a Ryzen 1600.

On the main stream of the city I can get down to 15-18fps, even on some places there I can get it up to 30fps. On other streets it can get 30fps a lot more, though with some often drops, depending.

Did the first fight many times. Pretty much 30fps, though with the occasional high-up or not.

Though I am sure how many characters on screen matters to some extend, a lot more seems to matter how far into the distance you can see, even if they are is nothing, but buildings there i can cause the fps to drop to 15-17-18.

In buildings seems to be pretty much 30fps, but it has its downs, maybe the most when it is moving the from one set camera angle to another.

>>16242903

>6 is the only one that changes up the formula and it does so big time.

What exactly changes?

>>16243235

>Sega is really doing well on this one.

Oh, they are? I thought it was Steam only.

So I used obs to record some gameplay from Yakuza Kenzan on the PS3 emulator. Running at 1440p, double the default resolution. That said the only way to record the game was to record my display, which is prone to problems. Disabling aero I think makes them go away, but it still might cause some very slight slowdown.

Waling through the main street and cheating with the framerate - https://my.mixtape.moe/cmhpfx.mp4

Walking through the main street normally - https://my.mixtape.moe/kkhnvi.mp4

Take in mind the main street of the city seems to be heaviest part of the game I have encountered so far. Walking through other streets is a lot smoother.

Tutorial fight (forgot to show some dodging and jumping around) - https://my.mixtape.moe/hlorae.mp4

>>16243255

This looks pretty good but I still want a port of the PS4 version on PC. I don't even care about a translation, I just want to play the game, even if it's in moonroons.

>>16243184

It's no longer a multiple-choice puzzle with a few twists here and there. You get a bunch of random topics of conversation from what is effectively a "topic deck" which draws 6 "cards" with topics and questions to talk to them about. After you pick a topic, you see the result and "draw" another one. You can also discard topics you don't want iirc. The topics are also arranged into types, some are good for conversation, some are sexy, some are gentlemanly etc. Most topics belong to more than one type. The reason why there's types is that you want to create chains, or continuously pick the same type(s) of topics so that you get a combo chain going which makes the hostess' heart gauge rise faster. Most topics which are a question prompt a counterquestion from the hostess, Kiryu then gets 3 choices for answers, similar to how the hostess minigame used to be. Also, some of the topics have unique answers from a certain hostess which lets you find out more about them, those also usually have a multiple choice question associated with it, again like in the old hostess minigame. Speaking of finding out more about hostesses, each one of them has a character sheet, which you have to fill out by asking questions. All of them have the basic shit, for example hobbies, favorite music, favorite food, the type of men they like etc. but there's also one entry that is unique to that one hostess. There's also an upgrade to get more topics but they're so dirt cheap that I maxed them out before even going to the host club once.

When it comes to selection, I like Hikaru the most, but all of the hostesses are god-tier imo except for Riona. She was given the perfect shitstorm of giving her a boring as fuck personality together with a really unflattering 3D model of her which made her look like a melting wax figure.

>>16243289

They are definitely nor releasing a Japanese only version for PC. In fact I doubt the side games will get any ports. We have yet to see we are going to get the rest of the main series.

>>16243339

>Cue him being beaten to death by a trashbin

>>16243339

which game is this a quote from? i want to bash that queer's face into kiyru's steel knees

>>16243365

Honestly even if they release it subtitles in just normal English, it wouldn't matter. People don't care much. Mind you what you are going to hear in Japanese period dramas is not specifically old Japanese anyway. Just a small part of it that sounds more like a dialect than anything else, because otherwise Japense people won't understand it either. Now literature is a different matter. It is the same in the West with period dramas too really, even less modified modern English perhaps.

>>16243255

what are your specs?

>>16243426

Nigger, in 2 posts I said I am using Ryzen 1600, which is the most important part. Also a gtx 1070ti, but that is not playing as much of a role.

>>16238901

>Not using scpservice

>>16243458

I've used all input wrappers scpservice, DS4 and (((Steam))) and (((Steam))) is by far the best. There's literally no point in using anything else.

>>16240925

u is the reading of 右.

I thought you intended ':' as the break between the two kanji is why I wrote it that way to show you where you went wrong.

>>16243484

That reading was clear. It is not what I meant, but whatever.

In my language and in English transcription : is used to represent a longer sound, we used when writing Japanese words with native letters too. I know in English I often see it represented as a vowel with a line above it, but I don't know how to write that with the keybaord.

>>16243497

The fuck are you smoking? At we talking about the same game? Yakuza is a 30fps title. Or at least Kenzan is.

By the way Ishin is not playable at all. Not surprised, considering the new engine.

Should try some of the other main line games that use the old engine.

>>16243512

No seriously the supersampling on PC at max has some weird issues but turning it down by one for me gave me about 25-35 frames

>>16243512

>>16243518

ah shit im retarded I thought you were still talking bout 0

>I know in English I often see it represented as a vowel with a line above it, but I don't know how to write that with the keybaord.

Depends on your KB layout.

>>16243422

I've played Kenzan. It's almost all in the Kyoto dialect, which is considerably different from standard Japanese. Japanese still undestand because it is one of the kansai dialects, and those people always speak their dialect instead of standard Japanese.

>>16243547

is it impossible to mod in english text for emulators?

>>16243547

What's so different about Kyoto dialect?

>>16243557

Don't know if it's possible on PS3 but it was possible in PPSSPP and Dolphin.

>>16243505

>>16243531

For better and for worse, English amateur/casual romanization uses Hepburn, which doesn't require any special characters.

https://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/hepburn.html

>>16243718

and the fucking page I link to mentions lines over vowels, but honestly speaking everyone just writes "Tokyo" and "Osaka" without the lines anyway.

>>16243418

He's from Yakuza 5, he is Kiryu's trainer. He's an extremely cocky martial artist trained in the Komaki martial arts and is also Komaki's grandson. Afterwards you learn that it's just a facade, he is actually extremely insecure and an extremely bitter person because his parents were fucked over by a loanshark iirc and at the time his grandfather wasn't there to help them, he never finished high school because him and his parents lived in abject poverty.

>>16243726

Tokyo and Osaka (or names in general) are exceptions, because they are well known words among the general public and the way they write it is accepted as the official one. In cyrillicing (?) Tokyo, you would write it as Токьо (or to be more exact То:кьо: of course). But because everyone that didn't know shit about Japanese just wrote it as Токио, that became the official way to write it.That said we don't need to be exact when talking casually with people online.

>>16244122

Except for Nishiki.

>>16244135

Yeah, I remember when I first played the original I was always intrigued as to why Nishiki completely turned. I would've been content if it was "I TASTED TRUE POWER KIRYU, NOTHING ELSE IS IMPORTANT BUT POWER! POWER IS EVERYTHING!" which was what I actually expected would happen. But no, he started bitching about WAAAAH YUMI NEVER LOVED ME SHE ONLY LOVED YOU like a massive beta, which is even worse considering that Reina wanted Nishiki's cock so bad and she's much better looking than Yumi.

>>16244184

0 didn't help either, it just showed that he always was a pathetic beta bitchboy, even with Kiryu at his side.

>>16244122

I thought he came back in 6. but thats just someone completely different.

>>16244732

Yikes! An axe is a tool, it's not a weapon, sweetie.

>>16244823

They should, maybe retcon the most retarded bits of the story.

>>16244823

Given the fact that Yakuza 3's remaster just happened, as well as 4 and 5's coming down the line, I think their done with the Remakes for now.

>>16245086

>Haruka's first action after learning that her mother was dead was to comfort Kiryu

That shit was so incredibly retarded, it made me angry.

>>16245320

Tiger Drop completely trivialises every fight in the game, you can kill Majima in <20 seconds if you're good enough.

>>16245415

>save 0

True, 0 has the other parry that's even more broken since it has absolutely zero risk of getting hit by a follow up attack. You can defeat Mr. Shekeldown so easily it's not even funny (except it is). I wish Majima had a counter that powerful.

>>16245429

What parry?

>>16245443

I don't know what it's called since Legend doesn't have an actual move list in the game but you get it by pressing R1+ Circle (B on Xbone). I don't know what it's on keyboard but it's the key that you press to grab.

>>16245429

The end of Majima's combo in the mad dog style has him rush an enemy, do a knife attack but doesn't end there. You can move around and do another attack like that, completely unblockable and it's like he's rushing. If you time it right, you can shred Mr Shakedown with it as long as you don't get hit.

Loved using that attack.

>>16245429

Or you could just use a couple Slime Guns and take down his final forms in literally 30 seconds.

>>16245454

That attack is insanely useful but it needs meter while Kiryu's parry doesn't. Honestly Dragon style would be pretty shit if not for the parry, everything else about is much worse than in Kiwami, notably the attack speed.

>>16245462

Sure but parrying him to death is just more fun.

>>16245429

>0 has the other parry that's even more broken since it has absolutely zero risk of getting hit by a follow up attack

It's not even the main reason why it's so good. The parry window is by far the widest parry window out of any counter move in the series, you could have a shit-tier sense of timing and still get it off all the goddamn time.

>>16245525

Why do the parries have different timings anyway, that makes no sense.

>>16245615

My guess is balancing. Only difference is that the parry was shit in every other Yakuza game BUT 0 since it did shit for damage and served only as a gateway to a heat action, the stun you got out of it was nothing special either, the tiger drop on the other hand did way more damage and was much more useful, so its timing is of course tighter. In 0 the parry does decent damage, knocks down and its timing window is stupid wide. It's even more overpowered than the tiger drop and that's really saying something.

>>16246839

That one animation is the only reason I don't completely despise the Kiwami system.

>>16247512

I got 90% of 0. Couldn't be arsed with the coliseum or the mini-games like Mahjong or Shogi.

>>16247512

I'm slowly getting to 100% on 0.

Outrun and the Disco will be the death of me.

>>16247818

Dancing is actually really fun. You just gotta feel the beat. Same with karaoke.

>>16247818

You'll give up Outrun when you reach 4.9 millions and you grash or run out of time.

>>16247826

Is the one where you play Luka easier? I got to 4.8mil and nearly lost my shit. I know it doesn't count but that just made it worse.

I'm almost at the end of Kiwami, but I'm burning myself out trying to get all the extra stuff. Is 0 gonna be like this, too?

>>16248350

0 is more fun to be honest, the proerity and caberet side stuff might seem tiring at first but honestly they're pretty fun.

>>16248366

I liked the MushiKing stuff a bit, though. Doubt there's another card game-like minigame in 0.

>>16247827

Luke only asks for 2 millions though. It's the electronics king one that requires five.

>>16245462

That Dragon of Dojima parry is absurdly powerful. Takes away entire sections of his health in one go, no need to bother with maintaining guns or other items.

>>16236754

Majima was always the main protagonist

>>16247536

Yeah, and the gambling mini-games, too. Unless someone finds a way to cheese them, like with Dragon Quest VIII's casino games, then it's all random variables. I'm too afraid to test the luck items for each game, either.

>>16248623

Anita Sarkeesian?

>>16245429

>I wish Majima had a counter that powerful

He does look up how to do his knife parry I think it does even more damage than Kiryu's but it has a smaller window.

>>16236754

>>16236828

>tfw broke as fuck now

>tfw getting a couple thousand back in tax returns

>tfw should use it to pay off student loans

>tfw just going to blow it on ram and video games again

>>16250091

Double F

>>16248838

Are those cheat items in Kiwami one use only? I did not bother with gambling in that game

Is Kiwami supposed to be this unfairly hard? Fucking rotation pool and god damn it Haruka, ask for easier things.

>>16249771

Yeah, I swear Amon in Kiwami 2 is frankly impossible if you don't cheese him with weapon heat moves in his last phase. At that point literally no other move flinches him and the damage of everything you do turns into complete shit, even if you're a master of tiger drops like Yours Truly, you can't do shit, suddenly your tiger drop is weak as fuck and it can't flinch Amon to interrupt his string either. Fuck Kiwami 2 Amon's last phase, fuck it to hell.

>>16250374

Derete disu!

>>16250247

Yes. I had a lucky Koi-Koi card and you can only use it for one game. The min set game is 3 games before payout.

I just finished Yakuza 2 and what the everloving fuck was up with that ending? The second half of the main story was pretty bad but that was singlehandedly the worst ending to anything I've ever seen. Also why the fuck did Ryuji have to croak?

>>16250693

I don't know, the ending salvaged the second half of Yakuza 2 for me. What's got you up in arms about it?

>>16250705

Ryuji was fucking amazing and his death could've easily been avoided in so many fucking ways. I will never not be upset that he got gunned down by some fucking old man that was in two cutscenes in the entire game. There is no reason he had to fight Kiryu right then and there and he could've easily lived.

>>16250795

Jesus, don't you know spoiler only works without line breaks ?

Exactly, it combines three elements

>Muh Jingweon reaches fever pitch and finally becomes stupid enough to be funny instead of annoying

>Kiryu finally finds love

>Ryuji reaches the logical end of his character, being a suicidally violent fucker, yet finally shows love because he discovered he really did have a genuine blood relative

I can see why you wouldn't like that ending, but I do.

>>16250864

I'd hardly say that's the logical end of Ryuji's character since he was constantly delaying the fight whenever it looked like they both couldn't fight in peak condition. It would've made a lot more sense for Ryuji to put off the fight again and end up being a recurring character that constantly wants to beat Kiryu up just like Majima in Yakuza 1.

>>16250705

*monkey paw*

https://gamerant.com/sega-new-console-google-2019/

god lord what will that be.

>>16250882

Yakuza games after 2 refused to capitalize on Kaoru, so even if Ryuji survived, they likely would have jettisoned him as well. I'd rather see him die in a blaze of glory than suffer that fate. Besides, there can be only one dragon. The day he got inked was the day he sealed his fate.

>>16251197

It only works with full heat on PC as far as I know. Now that I think about it, that counter is fucking useless. It requires full meter, it doesn't do that much damage and the time window you have to execute it is fucking tiny.

>>16251184

>it's far less tedious than 0

Bullshit.

>All the bosses regain up to three health bars unless you're using a single specific style while also having a fuckload of heat while also standing directly in front of them while also doing literally nothing for the first half second they start regening or else you're fucked

>First boss is just a weak Mr. Shakedown that soaks up damage for 10 minutes and constantly shits out hp bars

>Final boss is just three asshats with guns that constantly knock you down

>"Difficulty" is synonymous with "stunlocking" and how challenging a fight is depends on how hard the boss stunlocks you and how bullshit their dodging is (where some of the "hardest" bosses do nothing but stand in place and flip in place which makes them take no damage whatsoever even if you're currently slamming a motorcycle through them)

>>16251213

>filename

Is that Finnish?

>Goddamn, good luck on Memejima's Amon fight then,

Thanks, I'll need it. I imagine Kiryu's fight being an absolute cakewalk considering the insane amount of damage his counter deals.

You know, I think I'm gonna put on infinite heat as a cheat from now on during boss fights, the way they knock you to the ground when you have little to none and then when you finally build it up you need to use a heat move to do damange. It's too much.

>>16251275

C'mon Anon, don't be such a pleb. If I can beat it you can too.

>>16251243

Gunfaggot was such a fucking tumor. No idea why the devs thought letting enemies become invulnerable while dodging was a good idea.

>>16251435

>why the devs thought

That applies to a lot of things in Kiwami.

>>16251275

just buy drinks instead.

>>16250725

Nishiki could be also saved if, first, Kazama didn't gave him shitty people that doesn't respect him, and second, would talk with Kiryu about how much shit he took.They could have be brothers once again if Nishiki would allo to open himself to his budy and Kiryu was willing to hear him out.

>>16253072

Kiwami's story was fucking ass, holy shit. Why was 0's so good? Did the Yakuza stories improve that much over time or did Sega simply hire a more competent writer?

>>16253089

It has its ups and downs. I loved 6 expect when Haruto's father was a half breed chink who didn't event ake responsability andpretended to be dead to save his family.

I just wanted a good ending.

>>16253089

>Did the Yakuza stories improve that much over time

No, they got progressively worse after 2, 0 is a trend breaker in that regard.

>>16253100

Don't read the spoilers.

I mean Kiryu pretended to be dead to save his family.I guess you can't retcon things with the Kiwami games?

>>16253109

3 had potential but was bad, but 4 was pretty good.

>>16253130

I also believe that.Only because of that he deserved to be shot.

>>16253130

If they really wanted to include western influence in Yakuza 3, they could have done like in Black Lagoon and introduce the Russian Mafia which is fucking ruthless.

>>16253121

>much more contrived double crossing than any other game and MUH RUBBER BULLETS is good

Admit it, anon. You're just saying that because you like Akiyama and/or Saejima. And I get it, don't get me wrong, I love Akiyama and Saejima too, they're great characters.

>>16253130

>feels like a better use of 3's setting with none of its bullshit

Yeah, MUH UNDERWATER BATTLESHIP ended up being less stupid because it was just one thing, whereas in 3 you had MUH BLACK OPS CIANIGGER TERRORISTS WHO WANT TO START WARS IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA SO THEY CAN GET MONEY FROM ARMS DEALS. ALSO KAZAMA'S BROTHER IS A GLOWNIGGER. ALSO, GLOWNIGGERS HATE ORPHANS AND BURN THEIR HOUSES DOWN

Only thing I ended up really disliking about 6 storywise is that the last boss looks like he works at Nintendo. Couldn't they get some guy whose facial features imply they've got testosterone?

>>16253149

Ok, I admit it. I love Saejima. I don't undestand sometimes the obsession with the japanese to prevent their heroes kill others. Besides, the guilt was a nice touch for Saejima.If they wanted the double crossing they could have made the guys on the ground pretend they were shot just to shit on the Tojo clan and then the guy orchestrating everything kill them for real.

>>16253193

You're completely right now that you mention it. Having it be a false flag where he was just given blanks would be much better than MUH EXPERIMENTAL RUBBER BULLETS BELIEVE ME GAIJIN THIS IS BELIEVABLE

Also, when it comes to the playable characters never killing anyone, I don't know what the fuck that's all about. Majima was always seen as a loose cannon who most likely killed in the past until 0 changed his character completely and made him a confirmed murder virgin just cause he's playable.

>>16253214

To be fair they are not too realistic and they use too many japanese tropes. The blood spray for example, and Nishiki stabbing the guy and the guy dying instantly instead of falling and sobbing to dead while he bleeds to dead or his blood is poisoned with his own fecal matter, both being slow painful deaths.

Besides, the shooting sections of the game must be obvious killings or that would be crazy.

>>16253269

Non-realism isn't a good excuse for shitty writing, anon.

And no, you're supposed to believe that Kiryu never killed anyone, the RGG team and Nagoshi keep underlining this, at this point I don't know if they're trolling or not. Remember when Kiryu blew up that fucking helicopter in 6? I bet it was just a rubber explosion on a rubber helicopter filled by rubber people shooting a rubber minigun

>>16253290

He blew up at least 3 or 4 helicopters. And it's not shitty writting, is japanese writting.

Maybe what they mean is that he didn't kill anyone except for self defense? probably not, but I love these games so much I want to give them excuses.

Silly question, but what happened with Kiryu's police bitch?

>>16253298

No idea, it's all getting stupider and stupider. It has to be trolling at this point. You've got carchase sequences in 0 and in the original/Kiwami where he shoots people and even if you say that they're all muh rubber bullets, when the driver gets shot the vehicle burns out and crashes. Hell, didn't he take down another helicopter in 0 with a pistol alone or am I misremembering?

>>16253335

I mean after he went to the US. It was just three or four lines on three and then she disappeared like Poochy going to his planet.

>>16253335

Someya was great RIP, my favorite character from 6.

>>16253714

You should try the mod that replaces the video clips with the actual movies these actresses star in.

>>16253827

Why bother when I can just watch them outside the game?

>>16253890

Immersion

>>16253894

Kiryu and Majima don't kill people and only watch no-nudity image videos.

>>16254084

Kiryu wouldn't. Majima would because its the kind of thing Nishitani does.

>>16254084

They're both virgins too.

>>16254084

And then use hand lotion because their hands get dry after having fun watching no-nudity image videos, and that fills them with satisfaction.

>>16253714

I have sinned, I saw her stuff, a lot of it.

>>16254340

And, did it give you that authentic Yakuza feeling you hoped for?

>>16256136

that iconic crack sound every time that move is done is still stuck in my head

makes me cringe every time

>>16257533

Because it's enough to placate the newniggers who came here from 0 who only care about Memejima and MUH DEEP RELATIONSHIPS he had from 0

>>16257631

The fuck. I was wondering why was Majima allowing himself to be bullied by an old man, but fuck, I have my answer.

>>16257631

I totally forgot all those guys are RL actors.

>>16257631

Gotta have an incentive for you to buy Kiwami 3 :^)

>>16257720

seem Japan loves those cameos too, they got tons of them in Kiwami2 and such

>>16257723

>implying there will be one one

>>16257723

3 to 5 will probably stay as HD rereleases then they'll move on to that slimy kike looking asshole.

>>16257789

Jokes aside, there really is a lot of them. 5 had that celebrity chef, Kiwami had the judo champion, 6 and Kiwami 2 the 'rasslers, pornstars everywhere, I think the Libidos and Shakedowns are also celebrity/actor cameos etc and all this without getting to the main cast.

I once happened upon a video that a side by side of everyone throughout the series but no luck finding it again. IIRC it was in moonrunes. Well, have Saejima brutalizing everyone for 9m instead.

>>16257829

>all those money for faces but not for music licenses to west.

>>16257873

I was wondering why wasnt I hearing that song in Kiwami.

>>16257886

they replaced even better one for west. get the restoration patch for next play through. from now I sure wont play any future yakuza without one but it seems whole Bz is ass about removing anything from yt so those costs could have been astronomical

>>16238050

learn to enjoy life again, shit like that will give you cancer

>>16259001

You can't miss a single shot. I did once once I sank 3 balls, in 9-ball, Haruka got the other 6.

>>16259001

I gave up in the karaoke.

>>16259001

>The only hard thing that's left now is learning how to play Mah-jong

It's just poker with a bit of extra difficulty piled on top, the basic rules are still not that difficult. Here's a rundown:

You get 4 sets of 3 the same or 3 in a row of the same type of tiles, plus one pair, and you get scored on specific combinations of sets. There's some exceptions, such as only making pairs or when you get 4 of the same tile, but you generally just will have those normal hands. Your hand does need to have a minimum score to be a winning hand, though.

Each turn you pick up a tile and discard one, and when you have 2 the same or in a row and some nigger discards a tile you can use to make a set of 3 you can claim it. If that is your winning tile said nigger pays more than when you pick your own winning tile.

If you don't call other people's discard and are one away from a hand, you can bet some extra cash (riichi) at the expense of people knowing you nearly won.

If you don't know anything about mahjong I should probably also add that there's 3 big sets (red and black chinksquigglies, dots, and bamboo+that bird), plus 4 blue chinksquigglies for each direction and three "dragon" tiles that don't look like fucking dragons but are red green and blank. There's 4 of every single tile.

What's actually hard is learning to read into what your opponents discard to figure out what hand they're building and what you can safely discard, and the one gorillion different hands and their scores. But the basics can be summarized in two paragraphs by a sleep deprived weeb.

>>16259456

Sounds complicated but thanks for the tutorial. I remember being terrible at Ma jong in 0 but maybe I've improved since then.

>>16257897

Why kind of licensing prevent them to use music created for that games series?

>>16259625

cheaper contract, music only for JP market? additional fees?

also Y6 has 5 songs removed from international.

>It became a tradition that SEGA removed the licensed songs in Yakuza. But this never was a big deal since it only affected the opening and in some cases the credits. The problem with the removal of the songs in Yakuza 6 is the importance. The songs are beautiful in it's own way and they really fit the "Song of Life" theme in the game. It was actually a huge shock for me the moment I figured out. Right at the beginning of the game I knew something was fishy because the melody at Harukas farewell from Okinawa don't fit the mood in the western version of the game. It's a melancholic melody, it's Ok it's absolutely solid, but cutting Sobo, the song that actually plays in that moment, is a huge bummer. Sobo is the title song and you actually hear it in the western debut trailer for Yakuza 6 which makes it even more sad that they removed it due to licencing issues.

>>16259775

One thing that I find weird is that the licensed metalcore song that isn't even made for the game still plays in the Western version of Kiwami 2, namely in the last bouncer mission when all the Amons show up.

>>16259775

Feels good knowing that this will be a complete nonissue on PC.

>>16260045

its not only pc. they are modding ps4 too. but I think there is cfw needed.

SEGA HOSTING SURVERY FOR FUTURE OF YAKUZA, VC, SONIC AND MORE

https://games.sega.com/survey/

Request translation of this

>>16245203

>>16260995

US only? Just say you're from a state.

>>16260995

Lie through your teeth. Even if you don't own if it, if you have played it, include the game. Say you are a fan, that you want more of it and ports.

Don't tick DLC boxes or any of the "influencers" or media ticks, just online and friends.

>>16260995

>surveymonkey

I'm not sure if this is gonna be a reliable survey

>>16260995

Ishin Ishin Ishin

>>16261224

I thought the same and I can only hope they take those answers with a grain of salt.

>>16262776

Sure, you are allowed.

Well I haven't played that game, but if I presume it is indeed side content that you are talking about, yeah, you will most likely be able to do it after the game is finished.

In Yakuza too, if a certain part of the story demands it your way might be blocked by invisible walls represented with a stop sign on the map. Mind you the edges of the map are invisible walls anyway, but you can clearly see how big them map is on the map screen. But such restrictions are not the norm and during most story segments you can explore the whole map just fine. But even if Hokuto no Ken is more restrictive in that manner, I am sure the map will eventually fully open.

tl;dr You do them whenever you want and it the map will open or at least that is the Yakuza standard.

>>16238441

>took issue with Majima saying shitlord

I remember when that word could be used without being associated with fucking tumblr trannies. Never bothered me because Majima speaks with a really thick Kansai accent like a true thug when he's being casual, and the best way to translate that is by making it sound crass and crude.

>>16260995

This is the millionth time that I've filled out a Sega survey, have they ever done anything?

>>16263143

BASED Soyga gave us Yakoozer PC ports

>>16262776

Small spoiler anon - it's a short game and it keeps you on a leash for a very long time. IIRC it's only by Ch8 or 9 that you'll have free access to everything.

>>16262792

One of the issues with HGG is that the standard series mini-games that you can normally play right off the bat in Yakuza games like karaoke, batting cages and arcade are not immediately accessible in HGG.

As I said before about it - core gameplay is A+ but a series of poor game design decisions completely ruin it.

>>16263148

Did the surveys really affect Sega porting the games? I feel like they would've just done it regardless of the outcome of the survey.

>>16263153

Honestly, we'll never know.

>>16263151

>but a series of poor game design decisions completely ruin it.

Whoever fucking thought that having to raise 100000000 edenbux in a minigame that can pay out 1-2 million at most was a good idea? Thank FUCK that you can also pay her out through your personal funds as well as the hostess club minigame, otherwise I would've popped a vein a quarter through the whole ordeal. There's too fucking many instances where you're forced to do the same mind-numbing minigame over and over again. Also, the fake fighters in the coliseum are shit, if nothing else they could've made it so that you fight the actual characters whose movesets they stole from when you're playing Endless Eden. Would rather fight Raoh 20 times than some faggot in a mask with his exact physique and moveset.

End fight with Jingu, kill his 2 goons well enough.

They get back up and now are circle strafing me more than a 12 year old on cocaine while he just laughs off in a corner.

More of the tougher boss fights are like this. And it's also a reason Kiwami is less fun. If I'm not punching the damn dude, what am I doing playing this then.

>>16263196

But their knife form is way weaker than the pistol one. I really don't understand why everyone is complaining about that part of the fight specifically so much. Also don't worry, Jingu is not even the final boss.

>>16263168

The game forces you to play everything far past the point of exhaustion. I maintain the devs felt obliged to make a game where you sink three digit hour numbers but the game's too short for it; it could have been a fun, replayable get-everything-done in 30-40h game but instead it's a 100+ hour grindfest you'll never want to play again. I also think the leveling system ruins it - you get to a point regardless of difficulty level, that you'll overpower every opponent besides special high level encounters because it's not just the damage, the higher the level difference, the easier it is to put the enemy in Meridian Shock so story bosses become a joke, I was playing on Legend and I didn't even use techniques on bosses, a timed press of Circle was my big damage choice just so I could savor the damn fight.

The worst of Coliseum enemies is that they put a much harder fight then the guy they're aping. The Raoh guy, per instances, is fuckin' vicious. They should have added a reward or a little cheat where the last opponent can be swapped with the real character.

Speaking of Raoh the game needed a epilogue chapter where you fight him at Lv99 or something (the game needs tons of things but this one would be very easy to add). At first I thought the game would work like a intermission chapter between Cassandra and maybe Thouzer but major plot points are done there, namely Raoh knowing Yuria is the last Nanto master so no way in hell he'd just let Kenshiro walk away with her.

>>16263223

>It has been almost 2 months.

It has been exactly one month.

>>16263210

Got 70% this time around, can't be arsed getting the amon fight or defeating Majima again and again when he has 5+ health bars.

>>16263222

>I also think the leveling system ruins it - you get to a point regardless of difficulty level, that you'll overpower every opponent besides special high level encounters because it's not just the damage, the higher the level difference, the easier it is to put the enemy in Meridian Shock so story bosses become a joke, I was playing on Legend and I didn't even use techniques on bosses, a timed press of Circle was my big damage choice just so I could savor the damn fight.

It really does, the level system and level scaling is fucking dumb, they could've made it where damage output of both you and the enemies is only slightly affected the more you go through the game. Same with health, give all bosses except badass motherfuckers like Souther and Raoh roughly the same amount of health, the rest are supposed to be of equal strength anyway (Rei and Shin for example) or in some cases you just give them an extra health bar. I did all side content the first time around so I could just breeze through the story in the second playthrough, which meant that I wasn't even fully upgraded since I was missing those golden balls that you only get from completing chapters, so there's not enough of them for the first playthrough, and in my Legend playthrough all bossfights except for Raoh and the last two were mere formalities. I beat Shin, Rei, Toki, Uighur, pretty much everyone now that I think with it, with 2-3 punches+well-timed pressure point press and it drained their health bar instantly and took me to their end-of-fight QTEs.

>The worst of Coliseum enemies is that they put a much harder fight then the guy they're aping.

Yeah, if you play on Legend, max level Raohmask can destroy you in 2-3 hits. It's bullshit. The "Canon" difficulty is fucked too, the levels are fucked up. As I said earlier, Shin and Rei are supposed to be equals in terms of strength, however in "Canon" difficulty Shin is weaker than fucking Devil Rebirth and as strong as Uighur. Also, Souther is supposed to be a whole league above all other Nanto Rokusei Ken so much so that he's pretty much untouchable against them (remember his fight against Shu in the manga? Shu is supposed to be roughly equal to Rei and Shin in strength and he couldn't even touch Souther before getting completely wrecked). But in the game's "Canon" difficulty he's just 5 levels above Rei. BULLSHIT, COMPLETE BULLSHIT! Also, the final boss whose name escapes me because he's completely forgettable is level 99. I get that it makes sense in gameplay, but in "Canon" terms some faggot whose only powers is that he goes fast and can shoot a gun would make him a C-level fighter like Jagi, maybe B-level like the Colonel and Devil Rebirth if you're really pushing it, but then again every B-level character in HnK is a master of a bullshit-tier martial art, he isn't a master of anything.

>spoiler

Honestly, it would've worked out best if it was like one of those spinoffs, where it's a completely brand new adventure where only some things have a connection to the main lore, like that Kenshiro prequel where he meets Shin's former master and one of his training partners. In the game you have Nadai who is a general in Raoh's army. THAT'S IT, DONE. They don't need anything else. Them trying to shoehorn every major character into the story only cheapened the whole story and the characters themselves. They couldn't even bother to make the Shin fight canon, the blonde metrosexual didn't even chuck himself off a rooftop.

>>16263223

On the BloodborneBox only 12.4% of people completed the game, so you guys have it better. On one hand I don't really feel like pirating the game and replaying it over again on PC, but I saw so many cool mods for PC that I'm tempted to do it. Hell, modding the game itself is easy as shit, especially modding movesets.

>>16263239

>defeating Majima again and again when he has 5+ health bars.

It takes <20 seconds if you know how to use tiger drop.

>>16263254

> I did all side content the first time around so I could just breeze through the story in the second playthrough

Ditto, I tried getting as much done as possible in the first (namely Amon) as well as go into NG+ with maxed funds because of that debt shit. Deliberately avoided the +AT upgrades and even then, in NG+ I was killing early peons in two punches.

>Canon difficulty

Was going to play it, realized it wouldn't stop me from being overpowered so fuck it.

>the blonde metrosexual didn't even chuck himself off a rooftop.

I think he dies like this in the animated movie though succumbing to Raoh's technique.

Besides re-adjusting all the completion requisites and mini-game payoffs as well as remove leveling, I'd change the game like:

Prologue: make it longer, have Mr Heart as the tutorial boss and Shin a proper fight

Ch4: have Kenshiro fight Raiga and Fuga at the gates, go inside for a long battle, fight Uighur, include Jesus beam scene

Ch6: I'd swap this and the following with Jagi's

Ch–: first Jagi chapter, include a Majima Everywhere style system where you're getting constantly ambushed by Jagi, he could even try to run you over with his bike and shit. Boss would be someone working with Jagi, could be Zed with his gang or Club, Spade and Diamond

Ch8: standard Jagi chapter

Ch7: standard Thouzer chapter

Ch–: another new chapter, have this one be about Juda and Mamiya and Rei peaces out after this. There's a abandoned station near the bridge, transform that into a proper village for Mamiya and even put a couple of play spots there like fishing and throwing javelins at punks trying to jump the wall

Ch9: include a huge long battle at the gates of Eden until you know who arrives. This chapter is literally just the boss battle, for fuck's sake!

Epilogue: as already mentioned

Forgot to say. About ch9, I would change the boss fight - two phases and in the first one, Raoh will remain on Kokuoh so you'll fight both. Maybe include the technique he uses to kill Rei as a failed QTE.

>>16263335

>Was going to play it, realized it wouldn't stop me from being overpowered so fuck it.

Pretty much, yes. The only fights that end up being challenging are the ones you'd expect to be (vs Raoh, vs Toki, vs Souther), Nadai and gunfaggot

>I think he dies like this in the animated movie though succumbing to Raoh's technique.

Which is non-canon.

>story changes

Those would be better than what ended up being. Also adding in fights against Amiba and Colonel would be cool. Or at least Amiba.

>people complain about Jingu when there are shitty ass escort missions in 0

>>16263381

>Amiba

I'd replace that serial killer in the Bounty side-quests with him. It already feels like a nod to the character.

>Which is non-canon.

Yeah but you know how this series is with its re-imaginings. I'm more miffed the Yuria doll wasn't there tbh.

>>16263223

I make a habit of at least finishing the story and all side missions, if they're not too much cheese with the fighting. So the Amon fights are usually out.

>>16263989

Rule of thumb, I don't even attempt to platinum Yakuza games. The only exception is 6 because it doesn't have the fluff mini-games. The rest are around the 70-80% mark. That said, mahjong is the one thing preventing me from clearing Kiwami 2's completion list and I got Hokuto at 98% or something (I just can't beat that rhythm game, it's hard as nails).

For some actual news - Yakuza 5 remaster (PS4) will launch on June 20 in Japan for 3,990 yen.

I wager the west is getting a package with all three.

Yakuza 3 got a bunch of censorships, a mini-game removed (a quiz of Japan-centric trivia) and hostesses replaced because of contract issues; Yakuza 4 swapped the actor for Tanimura and I don't know what else changed about it ; still no word about what they might change in 5 (I'd appreciate if they removed soul orb farming).

>>16264108

>The only exception is 6 because it doesn't have the fluff mini-games.

Does that mean that 6 has 50% less content than the other games?

>>16264719

Probably 75% less content.

- all chance mini-games removed

- Kamurocho is missing both the Hotel and Champion districts

- after Zero/Kiwami, you're back to one fighting style with a good amount of abilities locked behind tard rage mode

- no weapons besides those you pick up

- less Heat actions (the tard rage extreme close-ups don't make up for it)

- encounters are all the standard walking group (special encounters like harassers are limited to the Troublr missions) but even 0/Kiwami paled compared to 5 in this regard

Onomichi is super comfy and as I already said, I love the story and the cast, the new engine allows for cool stuff like taking fights into stores and combat feels very meaty but the game is very barebones.

>>16245369

Exactly, they milk impatient retards that can't wait, then they milk the retards that will say "I will buy it because it doesn't have Denuvo anymore".

>>16264758

Well that's a shame, probably a result of them focusing on the new engine. Did they make up for that in Kiwami 2? let me guess, the answer is no

>>16264830

>Did they make up for that in Kiwami 2?

Yes and no. Chance mini-games are back (not as many as in Zero though), there's weapons, combat has more nuances to it like the charge attacks, you can now run into harassers like in Zero, Hotel and Champion Districts are back etc. But on the flip side, it's a budget title so you'll see re-used assets like boss move sets and now it's the Sotenbori map that's missing a couple of chunks and for license reasons they couldn't get most of the Yakuza 2 OST and what you get in return is godawful. And while you shouldn't look a gifted horse in the mouth, the Memejima story sucks.

Despite the improvements over 6, I'm a bit iffy on Kiwami 2. It's a alternative to 2 and not its definitive version.

>>16264830

They added all the shit that was missing from 6, updated the combat to make it more fluent, added more heat actions so you don't have to go into autistic rage mode to have access to more than 50% of your heat actions, weapons, Kamurocho is now complete, minigames added back etc.

Problem is, it's not a viable replacement for the original 2, just like 6 the game simply gets too easy too fast. Ryuji is probably the hardest end boss in any Yakuza game and in Kiwami 2 he becomes a pushover just due to how retardedly strong Kiryu gets by endgame. There's also an entire district missing, they were probably too lazy to add in one long street. The story part that happened in that small district got moved to various locations in Sotenbori. The OST is also terrible, the Outlaw's Lullaby remix is as good as the original, but there's too many tracks missing that got replaced with shitty new tracks.

>earn 50k in roulette

>max bet amount in roulette is 1k chips

Even if I bet on the thing with the highest win chance I still have to guess right 50 times. What the fuck is this.

>>16265504

I read a trick to win big for HGG but I think it applies to all the roulette games in the series. Basically:

1. max bet on red or black

2. win

3. leave and save game

4. repeat steps 1-3 until you get 4 or 5 wins

5. you'll be invited to a 1v1 that has a huge payout if your number wins (0 or 00 seem to be more common)

6. keep reloading until you win

>>16265521

Thanks, I'll try that.

Should I allow my 11 years old brother to play Yakuza 0?

I mean, I played the game, but I'm still unsure if I should let him.

>>16265941

Let him play it you fucking pussy. Its not like you can kill anyone anyway.

>>16265941

Why not?

>>16266008

Video girls and stuff like the cabaret, but then I remember when I was his age my colleagues were playing shit like GTA SA.

I guess its fine, I hope he doesn't masturbate at my computer since I'll be away.

>>16265979

If it had lots of killing it would be fine, I mean, he knows people die.

>>16266022

There's the girls selling panties, too.

>>16266022

GTA SA might be more fun for him than Yakuza 0.

I have to be honest here, I don't get the hype for Yakuza 0 so far. The story is nothing that special, though of course everything is acted very well, but the lip synch is still shite. Zero is indeed too cut-scene full. Sure I am only at episode 10 currently, but I pass the half-point. Kiwami was actually more interesting overall when it game to actual gameplay and fighting.I want to say "there are barely any different locations than the streets", but so far I am not sure there has been. Excluding something like the cabaret and Serena, which are not exactly shining examples of level design. When you compare all of this to the levels in Kiwami and the constant action in Kiwami, Zero feels lacking. The story would get so boring that instead of just walking to the next cut scene with minimal gameplay here and there I often would stop to go waste time with something else. Even so I don't feel like I have done much with the side activities. Not completely sure how I even have 28 hours.

The two big mini games are nothing special. They are so heavily overrated and overhyped by people. The real estate especially is just borefest. The cabaret club has a bit more gameplay, but it is essentially just the real estate with a timer in many ways.

Even the substories. I admit I have played a very little part of them so far, but in Kiwami they would manage to intrigue me and get me into playing them way more than Zero has done so far.

>>16266181

>Is this a Kotaku article?

Did you even read my post or are you just memeing? Or what, someone can't say they enjoyed Kiwami more than Zero?

>>16266211

It was a joke, feel free to enjoy what you want.

>>16264883

>>16264881

I think it's worth noting that Kiwami 2's combat isn't an improvement over 6's in every way. When playing the K2 demo one of the first things I noticed was that iirc you couldn't charge turnaround finishing blows anymore, which I was pretty disappointed with since the chargeable 180° axe kick was one of my most used moves in 6.

I also much preferred 6's bosses since they all had original movesets and I felt that the movesets K2's bosses reuse from the older engine didn't translate to the Dragon Engine well. I had the same issue with the first Kiwami, only it's worse in the case of K2. The combat is technically better than the game that came before it, but only in a vacuum, since the vast majority of the things you use it against are opponents you already fought in previous games which weren't designed with this combat system in mind.

I think 6's bosses were also helped by how kickass its OST was even by the series' standards. K2 is the only game in the whole series where I'd go as far as to say that I dislike the OST overall.

>>16266537

>I also much preferred 6's bosses since they all had original movesets and I felt that the movesets K2's bosses reuse from the older engine didn't translate to the Dragon Engine well.

Yes, that's a big issue. In 6 Kiryu, bosses and even thugs would suffer from flinching after having their attacks blocked, making the next attack come out significantly slower. This is because all movesets are either brand new or in the case of some thug movesets were changed to accommodate the changes to the combat. Bosses would often be unable to finish their attack combos if you blocked them at some parts of their combo. Some boss movesets from pre-Dragon engine have been changed so that parts of their attack combo get influenced by flinching after some of their attacks get blocked, most however weren't. Fighting against minibosses or bosses who use those movesets is a pain in the ass.

>>16266487

Where are these from?

>>16266626

6

>>16266750

Post more

>>16266822

How do you get these?

>>16266550

Interesting because Y6 also had lots and lots of replacements because licensing. I think the most important song Song of Life got replaced?

>>16266550

>2 is the only game in the whole series where I'd go as far as to say that I dislike the OST overall.

Likewise. Hurts even more when the original 2 had such a good OST.

Anyway, couple of news:

A trailer for Yakuza 5 remastered. Again, nip release date is June 20.

Sega confirmed that the next game in the series is for PS4 and will star Ichiban Kasuga. They're also currently casting actresses for the role of MC's partner.

>>16267824

3,4 and 5 are probably going to be released digitally only in the west arn't they

>>16267824

>Y5

they remastered all from 3-5 already? is that better textures or whole rework like kiwamis?

>The last Pocket Car Race

Sure love getting knocked around on the first set of hills 90% of the time losing a majority of my vitaility/instantly losing. After over twenty tries I got to lap three then I had no vitality left and lost instantly, I mean I'd be okay if I just loss to his car but this is on another level of bullshittery man I dunno if I'll be able to do this at all.

>>16268260

>better textures

Just that and supposedly better frame rate. Though it bears mentioning that 3 had some minor censorships and changes, 4 changed the actor for Tanimura and still no word on what change for 5.

>Zero

>a fucking car level again

Why the fucking hell when no one likes them. Even least the one in Kiwami I did from the first time.

>die to chopper pilot that was left on almost no life, surely the last guy

Well did next time with most of my life intact this time

>next

>escort mission yet fucking again

>can't use my bad strategy this time

I want to cry.

>>16269455

bat* strategy

>>16268345

I hate Pocket Car Racing so much, I don't get how anyone thought that this was fun.

>>16270536

>I know they employ Filipinos en masse in konbinis but Africans too?

Some Jew who worked for the Mossad did an interview with three real Yakuza once and asked what their opinion of Yakuza 3 (the latest in the series at that time) was. Apparently there being Africans is realistic, the interview is really interesting by the way. http://archive.is/T1tTF

>>16270646

I wasted thirty mins getting the godspeed engine mk2 and despite that I can't do anything about that fucking jumps and 90% of the time fail the race instantly

After spending twenty minutes of my life continually getting two strikes then failing everytime I'm done with Yakuza 0 for tonight thanks everyone

>>16270865

Take the second lightest ball and don't aim directly at the target, instead aim a little bit to the right or left and change the spin direction of the ball to correct it.

>>16270822

Trying to get Nugget in 0 was hell till you know the trick to it. That's what hell is for a pro-bowler, always throwing spares, never getting a strike.

>>16272228

Because I'm a masochistic autist and need the weapons for 100% completion.

anyone know name of track in this?

>>16236754

Does anyone here genially enjoy Pocket Racing? It's just a tedious 2 button mini-game with god awful rubberbanding and shitty RNG. Does it get less shit in later games?

>>16278376

Sadly not, no. But that the soundtrack of Kiwami is only 37 minutes long so you can probably find it pretty fast.

>>16282046

*genuinely

>>16282046

I did. For a whole 10 minutes before Kiryu's overdramatic expressions and the novelty wore off.

>>16282046

went throught that and complete ost, and no luck.

Pocket racing is fun for first races. it gets bit tedious later. but it wasnt that bad as some other minigames.

>>16284767

Kiryu does it in Kiwami 2 I think. Older Yuki is running it.

>>16251222

>>16251184

checked