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Why do I have a feeling that Kiryu was framed for killing Majima and that's why he went to Fukuoka? Maybe Saejima too, but he actually got caught/convicted/whatever. And then at some point we find out from Hanaya or someone that it was all a conspiracy started by Haruka's producer to blow up Millenium Tower for some reason, and actually Majima faked his death because Majima, and while he was playing Tom Sawyer he decided to stop the conspiracy somehow. There we go. Add in some fights on tall buildings/with bears/in taxis, subtract some shirts, and there you have the plot of Yakuza 5.
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No one dies in Yakuza unless they go against the serie's weird morale system, so unless Goro killed someone cold blooded it's probably another too elaborate and complext plot.
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Sep 21, 2012 16:30
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In Yakuza 3 that junior Yakuza buddy of yours from Okinawa is killed, and there wasn't anything immoral, right? His death also sucks because it results in a couple of missable events.
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Sep 21, 2012 16:33
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Here's the trailers they were showing if you missed the streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWs2hhb3x20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he75_ROoy9o I'm very excited by the prospect of racing chickens in little chutes.
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Sep 21, 2012 17:15
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Segment #3 is going to start in a few minutes. It'll have the voice actresses that did the dialog of the rivals of Haruka. Maybe they'll show more of the dance battle system. Streaming links: ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/segatgs2012 http://tgs.sega.jp/2012/sega-studio/ust.html nico stream, no need to log in: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv106469801 10 minutes in, just the director and other guy talking about the voice actors.  Those bitches tripped Haruka into the lap of a guy, spilling his coffee everywhere.35 minutes later: other than the small video with Haruka, nothing new was shown.  Last segment is tomorrow at around 9:45pm Pacific with one of the hostess actresses. Yechezkel fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Sep 22, 2012 |
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Sep 22, 2012 04:56
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Video of someone playing Yakuza 5 horribly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEi-74y2xQM
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Sep 22, 2012 05:25
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The guy didn't know if Yakuza 4 had been released in America yet.  I guess that goes to show just how little attention the Yakuza series gets in the West.
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Honest Thief posted:No one dies in Yakuza unless they go against the serie's weird morale system, so unless Goro killed someone cold blooded it's probably another too elaborate and complext plot. Even if they are shot with guns? Why is Yakuza so much less lethal than most Crime Sandboxes where optimistically you only have 100 deaths minimum and can go up to a small town's worth of bodies in games like GTA and Saints Row. Also Kiryu is small time, Tatsuya can serve a mad helping of Gelato, act as a Ramen Chef, cook street food and be paid by the platter, greet and serve hostess club members or shove down overenthusiastic patrons at the tantra strip club. And grab burgers down a conveyor belt. I wish GTA was more like that, do average day jobs for huge amounts of cash. gyrobot fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Sep 22, 2012 |
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Sep 22, 2012 06:22
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gyrobot posted:Why is Yakuza so much less lethal than most Crime Sandboxes where optimistically you only have 100 deaths minimum and can go up to a small town's worth of bodies in games like GTA and Saints Row.
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Sep 22, 2012 06:24
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Other crime sandbox games are for adolescents. Yakuza is for men. Manly men. The manliest of men. 
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Bocc Kob posted:Other crime sandbox games are for adolescents. Yakuza is for men. Manly men. The manliest of men. I guess, I mean in Grand Theft Auto, people die all the time from your average joe to the big name gang members. Yet in Yakuza, the deathcount is extremely low by crime drama standards. But then again, Japanese Version of Sleeping Dogs frowns upon the idea of committing a rampage.
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The last Yakuza 5 segment at TGS is going to be on in a few minutes. It will probably mostly be about hostess stuff. Oh, the director won some sort of award. I wonder what it's for. Surprise! 15 minutes passed and nothing new so far. The ladies that played hostesses in the game came out to say hello, and that was it. Yechezkel fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Sep 23, 2012 |
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Sep 23, 2012 05:43
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Yechezkel posted:The last Yakuza 5 segment at TGS is going to be on in a few minutes. It will probably mostly be about hostess stuff.
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So, just like the E3 awards that publishers splash all over the cover art like they mean something.Housh posted:What's in the swag box?? I still got my Yakuza 1 fan from TGS 2006. Looks like they stepped up their game. It looks like it's just a paper fan and a newspaper. That's what the hosts kept showing from the box.
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I feel incredibly dirty for doing this, but I've gone to some random eBay member to pre-purchase Yakuza 5. The storyline implications with Majima... I need my hands on this hot, hot videogame as soon as possible.
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The Macaroni posted:* Hilariously, a lot of the hostess dating content is still in Yakuza 3, it just gets rammed in the weirdest places. Like you'll go to grab a burger at a fast food joint, and a weirdly overdressed girl will hit on you and ask you out. Then you fight goons and go to a love hotel with her. No, really. The first time I played Yakuza 3, I didn't realize that was what had happened, so I kept on going into Smile Burger (or the S-Burg, as I eventually started calling it) and marveling at how fly this guy was that he kept on picking up totally hot chicks when he's just trying to ram down a burger before he goes out and busts some punks. I remember being super disappointed the first time I went to the S-Burg (where all the ladies love you!) in Yakuza 4 and there wasn't a single hot chick there. Once I found them in the hostess clubs I realized what had happened, but for a while Yakuza 3 was even more magical to me.
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NEW YAKUZA PS3 http://www.siliconera.com/2012/10/01/yakuza-5-playstation-3-bundle-goes-for-the-gold/ http://ryu-ga-gotoku.com/news/detail/590.html http://www.jp.playstation.com/ps3/hardware/hsn0023.html http://www.gamer.ne.jp/news/201210020008/    It has all of the emblems from the clans in gold. Anyone here know them all? It also comes with a gold/black Dualshock 3, a copy of Yakuza 5, a special 8 GB flash drive with some sort of digital content loaded into it, a Yakuza 5 beach towel, and I think an emblem seal to put on the Dualshock 3. It costs ¥37800, which is around $485.  And this is the 250GB version of the PS3, not the 500GB version.It's not as good looking as the white Yakuza 3 PS3, that's for sure. 
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Oct 2, 2012 08:11
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Kind of an  design there. I'm more curious about the beach towel.
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More Yakuza 5 product placements: Now there is a Yakuza 5 noodle bowl.
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The Yakuza series is the king of weird product tie-ins. Well, if that's the case then I guess Final Fantasy is the queen, I still remember Final Fantasy "potion" energy drinks in Japan. The ad said they restored 100 hit points. edit: vvv oh, Saejima is back into women now? Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Oct 4, 2012 |
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Oct 4, 2012 06:50
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Hostess system is getting a revamp in Y5 too
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I would totally get that noodle bowl and be a dumb gaijin and eat spaghetti out of it.
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Want to get that noodle bowl so bad. 
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How about a Yakuza 5 box of tissues? I thought this box was the Limited Edition box they were showing off at TGS, but it wasn't. I can't find it, but the best Yakuza product tie-in was the real-life version of the hangover cure Legendary Drinker of Ryukyu from the game.
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Now I don't know how much the Yakuza fan community was asking for taxi driving, bear hunting, a dance minigame, and uh....chicken racing, but I am glad the developers realized at least one person would want it and put it in anyway.
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Useless Shotgun posted:Now I don't know how much the Yakuza fan community was asking for taxi driving, bear hunting, a dance minigame, and uh....chicken racing, but I am glad the developers realized at least one person would want it and put it in anyway. Don't forget more realistic baseball! I suck so hard at the batting minigame, I wish they went back to just buttons and timing. 
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Useless Shotgun posted:Now I don't know how much the Yakuza fan community was asking for taxi driving, bear hunting, a dance minigame, and uh....chicken racing, but I am glad the developers realized at least one person would want it and put it in anyway.
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shino posted:Don't forget more realistic baseball! Watch them just put a straight-up full baseball game as a minigame.
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For Europeans, Yakuza Dead Souls is already down to £9.99 on Amazon UK. You probably should pick it up if you haven't yet.
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Check out these screenshots of minigames. FPS snowball fights!
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Saoshyant posted:For Europeans, Yakuza Dead Souls is already down to £9.99 on Amazon UK. You probably should pick it up if you haven't yet. yeah, that's my sweet spot for that game.
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So here are a bunch of new screenshots for even MORE optional mini-games. Ping pong is back, fishing is now apparently something done in the middle of a city river, you can go to photo booths, and the Virtua Fighter 2 port is shown.
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Policenaut posted:Check out these screenshots of minigames. FPS snowball fights! The stand-up comedy bit with Haruka looks like it'll be fun. 
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gyrobot posted:Even if they are shot with guns? Why is Yakuza so much less lethal than most Crime Sandboxes where optimistically you only have 100 deaths minimum and can go up to a small town's worth of bodies in games like GTA and Saints Row. I have no problem with the lack of murders my one issue will always be the rubber bullet bullshit with Saejima. I don't know why the gently caress Team Yakuza ruined the story with a nonsensical plot twist. The only reason I can imagine is it had to do with parental ratings or something along those lines. What they pulled with the rubber bullets is something I'd expect from a Saturday morning children's cartoon. Sorry but I'm still annoyed by that one flaw in Yakuza 4, looking forward to the 5th.
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Maybe it helped because I read about it in the thread before I got to it, but the fake bullets thing didn't bother me much. I don't know anything about rubber bullets in real life, so their explanation that the pain was still enough to knock everyone out after getting shot by one was enough to keep me in. 
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DropsySufferer posted:I have no problem with the lack of murders my one issue will always be the rubber bullet bullshit with Saejima. I don't know why the gently caress Team Yakuza ruined the story with a nonsensical plot twist. The only reason I can imagine is it had to do with parental ratings or something along those lines. What they pulled with the rubber bullets is something I'd expect from a Saturday morning children's cartoon. I'm don't think it has anything to do with parental ratings considering that immediately after the rubber bullets incident, Katsuragi goes in and shoots all of them execution style while they're completely helpless, which is way more brutal.
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I personally just chalked it up as Yakuza brand craziness and moved a long. Considering the stuff that has happened in the series, that wasn't that hard to swallow.
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Zettace posted:I personally just chalked it up as Yakuza brand craziness and moved a long. Considering the stuff that has happened in the series, that wasn't that hard to swallow. Well, my bigger problem with it was that I was really digging his character arc and thought it was cool to be playing as a man who regretted taking all those lives and having to live with that, despite his loyalty to the yakuza, and then they just kinda go "Nope, never mind".
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DropsySufferer posted:I have no problem with the lack of murders my one issue will always be the rubber bullet bullshit with Saejima. I don't know why the gently caress Team Yakuza ruined the story with a nonsensical plot twist. The only reason I can imagine is it had to do with parental ratings or something along those lines. What they pulled with the rubber bullets is something I'd expect from a Saturday morning children's cartoon. It's pretty much because they wanted to give Saejima a good ending, let him be a "hero", and keep him around for future games. That's how we have him wrestling bears in Yakuza 5.
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Crappy Jack posted:Well, my bigger problem with it was that I was really digging his character arc and thought it was cool to be playing as a man who regretted taking all those lives and having to live with that, despite his loyalty to the yakuza, and then they just kinda go "Nope, never mind". They didn't do that at all. He still believed it all those years. Finding out otherwise doesn't just make you go, "oh, well okay. Not traumatized anymore! "
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