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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #120 on: September 01, 2017, 06:09:16 PM »


comparison between the original and remake starts at about 2:30
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #121 on: September 01, 2017, 07:52:36 PM »
Collectors are the morons who buy and keep games they don't like just to have it right?

Aren't you the dude who keeps buying Sonic games and posting diatribes on video game forums on how they're awful?

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Yakuza 0/Kiwami are cool; I want to give the old games another shot. Didn't know people would be so bothered by it, lol.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #122 on: September 01, 2017, 08:29:27 PM »
play yakuza 2

also how the FUCK do i do kiwami moves on bosses? i unlocked them for each of the styles, i change to whatever style corresponds with the steam the boss is letting out, and... nothing. no prompt, no move. really starting to piss me off bc some of the bosses are not easy.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #123 on: September 01, 2017, 09:14:15 PM »
The best ones are 2 and if you're willing to import, Kenzan.

I have no problem with collectors. Just found it odd going from "I've never liked a yakuza game before" to "I want to collect them" is all.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #124 on: September 02, 2017, 12:22:19 AM »
Majima Everywhere is getting old at Rank C. The fights just take too long at this point. He has too many hit point.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #125 on: September 02, 2017, 01:35:48 AM »
yeah i figured that out eventually. dunno why i was overlooking something so obvious. and for Goro just blast him with heat moves and he goes down in seconds. I'm not up to c level yet but as of now he barely counter attacks so I just wail on him to get it over with
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #126 on: September 02, 2017, 01:36:07 AM »
p. s. this game is fucking awesome
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #127 on: September 02, 2017, 02:07:45 AM »
TVC, have you figured out to use the corresponding style for a heat move when he starts heating up? Boss fights were a lot easier once I figured that out.

I did notice that, but it still seems to take forever, especially in rush style. Depending on how the next boss fight is, I may drop difficulty to combat the sponginess.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #128 on: September 02, 2017, 08:13:57 AM »
The best ones are 2 and if you're willing to import, Kenzan.

I have no problem with collectors. Just found it odd going from "I've never liked a yakuza game before" to "I want to collect them" is all.

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Yeah, except I never said that, lol. I didn't really like them until 0, which is fucking awesome. Plus I never played Yakuza 2 so that's a good place to start for me after Kiwami.

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #129 on: September 02, 2017, 05:31:34 PM »
welp good to see the batting cage fight is still a Legendary Shit Battle. trying not to snap my controller
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #130 on: September 02, 2017, 11:44:54 PM »
Was the final fight with
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? That was the most hype fight in the game.

Also tell me about the Yuya girlfriend mission in the strip club :lol
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #131 on: September 03, 2017, 01:32:37 AM »
yo spoilers for the newbies
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« Reply #132 on: September 03, 2017, 02:58:06 AM »
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my nicca shinji RIP :tocry
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #133 on: September 03, 2017, 03:25:56 AM »
finally beat the stupid batting cages FUCK THAT FIGHT JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. spammed healing potions and a three bit combo to win. super trash. also fuck the batting minigame too while we're at it bc it looks like it'll still be impossible in this version.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #134 on: September 03, 2017, 03:32:20 AM »
Uhhh...that fight owns. If it sucks in the remake then they fucked it up. Better than the bathhouse fight.

Never had a problem with batting cages in yakuza games.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #135 on: September 03, 2017, 03:44:08 AM »
i remember it being really hard in 1; i no the machines were turned on and the balls would knock you down? here it just sucks bc it's really hard to stun Goro and he starts busting out these combos that can do like 80% even when you're fucking blocking. plus he can dodge any of your openers so you can a. dosage while picking at his health for an hour or b. find one combo that works and cheese it while hoping for the best. trash fight thru and thru.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #136 on: September 03, 2017, 03:46:23 AM »
also wut @ the batting cages minigame. that part was legendary for fucking people over who wanted a perfect save. to get Haruka 's affinity to sss you had to do everything, including getting a perfect score in the cages. shit was maddening bc you needed like pixel perfect timing.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #137 on: September 03, 2017, 09:06:30 AM »
:maf :maf :maf
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #138 on: September 05, 2017, 12:00:54 PM »
I also didn't have any problems with the batting cage fight. Get gud.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #139 on: September 05, 2017, 12:02:08 PM »
Maybe the Yakuza series is too hardcore for you, have you tried Shenmue?
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #140 on: September 05, 2017, 02:16:13 PM »
i hate all of you
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #141 on: September 05, 2017, 09:02:16 PM »
i hate all of you

C'mon, PT! I quit the game, too. Let's start our own Yakuza… with blackjack and hookers!

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #142 on: September 05, 2017, 09:22:21 PM »
being yakuza seems like hard work, plus i need my pinky finger so i can open bathroom doors. lets just sit around and drink yamazaki instead
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #143 on: September 05, 2017, 11:22:47 PM »
so where's Majima? i maxed out rank f and got a phone call saying he was hiding. haven't seen him for like the last 10 hours. wtf
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #144 on: September 05, 2017, 11:29:18 PM »
nevermind just checked a guide. never would have guessed bc i just assumed those giant traffic cones were some Japanese thing.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #145 on: September 06, 2017, 07:40:10 AM »
I finished up Zero. Ending was great, especially for Majima.
Passed Kiwami off to my girlfriend.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #146 on: September 08, 2017, 07:38:19 AM »
I just hit chapter 6 in Kiwami.  I'm having fun, but I don't think the game is nearly as engaging as Zero.  I might replay Zero if I get a chance in the future.

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #147 on: September 08, 2017, 04:35:40 PM »
i hate that this doesn't have an auto-save. ps4 locked up on waking up and i lost an hour of progress. japan forever refusing to add simple qol additions to series ugh
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #148 on: September 09, 2017, 07:18:45 PM »
"I'm gonna do everything! platinum here I come!"
*plays one game of mahjong *
"yeah nevermind fuck this shit"
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #149 on: September 10, 2017, 04:33:23 AM »
"I'm gonna do everything! platinum here I come!"
*plays one game of mahjong *
"yeah nevermind fuck this shit"

Yeah, I gave my copy back to the gracious loaner on Friday night, bought him burgers and beers for his kindness. I'll admit, if I see it for ¥1500 down the line, I may bite — but when I came back to the game after a 3 week vacation, I was like:


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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #150 on: September 10, 2017, 11:17:13 AM »
I beat Kiwami.  It was good, but Zero is far, far better.

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #151 on: September 10, 2017, 01:24:09 PM »
"I'm gonna do everything! platinum here I come!"
*plays one game of mahjong *
"yeah nevermind fuck this shit"

Yeah, I gave my copy back to the gracious loaner on Friday night, bought him burgers and beers for his kindness. I'll admit, if I see it for ¥1500 down the line, I may bite — but when I came back to the game after a 3 week vacation, I was like:

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oh don't get me wrong I still love the game. a good beat-em-up is as satisfying as a hot meal, and the open world stuff is prolly as close as I'll ever get to a vacation in Japan, so I'm having a ton of fun. just not enough to get good at fucking mahjong. that game has more ridiculous rules than Calvinball ffs.

I beat Kiwami.  It was good, but Zero is far, far better.

:( haven't played 0 yet but damn this game came out ten years ago so I wish ppl would go easier on it. it was flawed but still unlike anything else at the time. plus 0 apparently plays up the wacky stuff, which they deliberately tried to avoid a lot of in y1.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #152 on: September 11, 2017, 08:53:57 PM »
Girlfriend just finished the Majima Batting Cages fight and then triggered the Majima Everywhere event that I assume ties into it:
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #153 on: September 11, 2017, 09:43:53 PM »
She's quite literally playing this game for the sole reason of fighting Majima. She seeks him out at all times.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #154 on: September 11, 2017, 09:46:56 PM »
After having some trouble at first she's got super good at the combat. Way better than I ever did. She switches between styles with purpose and strategy instead of just stubbornly using one like I did in 0.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #155 on: September 12, 2017, 12:02:01 AM »
well i beat it. I wanted to finish off the Majima stuff but it got annoying when he'd pop up for a fight but I wouldn't get any new moves. like Jesus I already gotta fight him like 50 fuckin times but you wanna add more?? anyways, ending was still epic and this game is still great. gonna polish off a few remaining things in premium mode then get back to working on yakuza 2.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #157 on: October 19, 2017, 07:49:40 PM »
funny because I read an article where they got some real yakuza to play y3 and one of the things they didn't like was how Kazuya dressed like a low-grade dork lol
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #158 on: October 19, 2017, 08:09:04 PM »
Like a host club schlong, specifically.

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« Reply #159 on: October 19, 2017, 09:54:17 PM »
funny because I read an article where they got some real yakuza to play y3 and one of the things they didn't like was how Kazuya dressed like a low-grade dork lol

umm, Kiryu IS  low-grade dork.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #160 on: October 19, 2017, 10:01:01 PM »
when I played kiwami i was blown away by how many sidequests were Kiryu getting fucked over by conmen. how the fuck would someone like that ever be a yakuza lol
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #161 on: October 19, 2017, 11:20:36 PM »
nearly finished part 3 of yakuza 5 and i'd be down for a spinoff focused purely on haruka's rhythm stuff. taxi kiryu and hunting saejima also owned

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #162 on: November 02, 2017, 02:06:12 PM »
Yakuza Kiwami $25 on Amazon

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Also $25 at GameStop
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #163 on: November 02, 2017, 03:48:02 PM »
I've got the Japanese version but waiting on a price drop on Zero.
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« Reply #164 on: November 02, 2017, 08:57:33 PM »
Hey I didn't notice this thread was a thing

I put it a bit on the backburner due to irl duties/danganrinpa, but I might make a go at platinuming Kiwami. I've got most of the CP list done, just need to polish off the worst of the casino games, do all of Mahjong, Climax Battles and the Legend run.

Despite liking 0 more than Kiwami, I'm only really making an effort at the latter cause it asks for so much less of you to do.   :'(
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #165 on: November 02, 2017, 09:16:33 PM »
i was tempted to plat, but once I heard there's no checkpoints I said no fucking way. doing that whole fight again the Chinese mob then that car chase scene? fuck everything about all that.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #166 on: November 02, 2017, 09:31:01 PM »
That's what the Golden Gun and all the Climax Battle bonuses are for bruddah  :gun :gun :gun :gun :gun

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #167 on: November 02, 2017, 10:28:24 PM »
sheeeeiiit well guess I better finish up those battles then
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #168 on: January 23, 2018, 10:22:38 AM »
I’m finishing up Yakuza 0 and... is there a way to speed up Real Estate Royale? It’s such a slog and I don’t know the fastest way to beat it.

I can burn through one of the five stars in like an hour by playing the damn mini game, but real estate totaled shitty timer makes it pretty rough.

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #169 on: January 23, 2018, 10:42:21 AM »
I've never played a Yakuza game before. Kawami's cheap, 0 isn't. Do you think Kawami is a good entry point to the series, or should I stop being a cheap fuck and start with 0?
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #170 on: January 23, 2018, 10:52:52 AM »
Kiwami is a remake of the first game so of course it's worth starting there.

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #171 on: January 23, 2018, 10:58:34 AM »
But 0 is a prequel to it, so...

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« Reply #172 on: January 23, 2018, 11:03:54 AM »
Start with 0. They made changes to Kiwami that reference stuff that happens in 0.
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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #173 on: January 23, 2018, 11:10:01 AM »
Well most prequels are made with the idea that you've experienced the previous thing. I never recommend prequels before the original.

While it's true that it being a prequel kind of hurts the story as well as helps as you know who is going to survive. So a lot of the tension and consequences can't be taken seriously. It's also more enjoyable already knowing the characters and how these relationships formed. And relationships in Yakuza are important and I think 0 really expects you to know them already. Does Fuma even appear? Does Majima's oath brother? Things they talk about all from previous games

I think 0 does a good job easing new players in, but the question was is Kiwami a bad place to start. Of course not. It's the first game.

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #174 on: January 23, 2018, 11:26:36 AM »
Not only is Kiwami's story content altered in favor of having played 0 first, Kiwami also expects you to understand the gameplay/battle mechanics of 0 and is much harder.

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« Reply #175 on: January 23, 2018, 11:36:32 AM »
I’ve never played a Yakuza game before zero, and... it’s pretty sweet. The game does take a while to get going, and has a weird stylistic choice in the opening segment, where the first cutscene is basically a motion comic that makes you think the whole game is going to be this ultra low budget affair.

For whatever reason, only this cutscene is handled this way, and I’m not sure why. The rest of the game has more mid-tier level production values. My only recommendation is that the story takes a couple of hours to really get cooking. There’s some good plot twists and foreshadowing involved, but the beginning is relatively slow.

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #176 on: January 23, 2018, 03:25:33 PM »
I'm actually playing 0 right now, on the tail end. At first I didn't like the separation of abilities. Though I realize it's kind of a growth of the the multiple character stuff, I still somewhat perfected one character kind of being able to do everything. The balanced mode is usually ok, but I mean as I played more I somewhat grew to like the styles and kind of bloodborne attack just as being attacked mechanic.

I think it's a good game and I think the story does take a bit to get started but once it does it gets pretty good.

But honestly as someone who's played these games since the English release day on the PS2 I'm glad this isn't my first game. I think ones story is better and does more for Kiyra. My problem is I'm not to afraid of what happens to him in 0 and he doesn't seem to have a real great arch. I'm more intersted in Majima since well his character is pretty different from where he is in the other games. But I mean I'm only intersted because I played he other games.

I mean what does Kiwami change about the story? The main cutscenes are all the same. To the point of using the same rigging.  I plan to play Kiwami after 0, but I can't see either as being a bad start.

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« Reply #177 on: January 23, 2018, 03:59:36 PM »
Based on how long I take to beat games nowadays I will probably end up playing 0 then 6 then Kiwami then kiwami 2.

What I ended up liking about the series is that it’s this hard edged crime story, with side stories that are well developed but basically some sort of lifetime movie/sitcom, and then super ridiculous sub stories like metal gear solid sneaking to buy porn mags from a vending machine in a dark alley without being seen and beating off to porn movies and discussing it with some dude in a diaper.

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Re: Yakuza thread of there's a game every couple of months
« Reply #178 on: January 23, 2018, 04:42:55 PM »
I really want to finish 0 and Kiwami before 6 comes out. To which I'm sure will then also stay in my backlog for months.

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« Reply #179 on: January 23, 2018, 04:59:10 PM »
Where's the Kiwami 2 localisation announcement :shaq2 Guess they are waiting to avoid people skipping 6 for it. Which is what I planned to do :yeshrug