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Yechezkel posted:Someone hacked Yakuza 5 and made Haruka and one of the hostesses as fighting characters. Good god, how do you even do that and how do I get it here?  The only thing missing was giving her Kiryu's perpetually furrowed brow.
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That is exactly what I wanted to see in Yakuza 5, and instead we got the idol crap. Such a drat waste.
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Mar 22, 2013 08:13
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Renoistic posted:That is exactly what I wanted to see in Yakuza 5, and instead we got the idol crap. Such a drat waste.
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Mar 22, 2013 08:30
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Samurai Sanders posted:Well, Yakuza has always been about making a giant smorgasbord of a game that will have at least something for everyone. They figured fighting was fairly well covered but there wasn't enough dancing yet. OK, for the next Yakuza they should let her sing and dance AND beat the crap out of people. I'm sure they could find a way to make it fit the story somehow. She could have her own style but still copy some of Kazuma's moves.
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Mar 22, 2013 08:42
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Renoistic posted:OK, for the next Yakuza they should let her sing and dance AND beat the crap out of people. I'm sure they could find a way to make it fit the story somehow. She could have her own style but still copy some of Kazuma's moves.
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Mar 22, 2013 08:45
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Samurai Sanders posted:I think one of the issues is not what happens when you win, but what happens if you lose. I'd imagine the idea of a little girl getting beat down by a bunch of yakuza is pretty distasteful, especially in Japan. Hm, I didn't really think about that. I guess I've been playing too much fighting games. To me Yakuza is about as "realistic" as Tekken so the violence doesn't really bother me. The thought of Haruka loosing a fight didn't really occur to me either. You've definitely got a point, though. Renoistic fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Mar 22, 2013 |
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Mar 22, 2013 09:34
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Samurai Sanders posted:I think one of the issues is not what happens when you win, but what happens if you lose. I'd imagine the idea of a little girl getting beat down by a bunch of yakuza is pretty distasteful, especially in Japan. Well, Haruka isn't a little girl any more. She's a teenager and will eventually become an adult. Once she grows up, perhaps Kiryu will teach her a few of the myriad ways of destroying a man so that she can safely walk the streets of Kamurocho. "If a man gets fresh with you, Haruka, you twist his wrist like this and then throw him to the ground. Be sure to continue kicking him while he's down, since that's why you knocked him down in the first place. Use your own discretion to determine when he's had enough." Another option could be to have a side plot where Haruka is starring in an action movie and all of her "fights" are with stuntmen. That way if she loses a fight, it's a "re-shoot" and not a "game over".
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Mar 25, 2013 22:06
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Quiet Python posted:Well, Haruka isn't a little girl any more. She's a teenager and will eventually become an adult. Once she grows up, perhaps Kiryu will teach her a few of the myriad ways of destroying a man so that she can safely walk the streets of Kamurocho. They may have painted themselves into a corner by portraying her as growing up physically at all. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Mar 25, 2013 |
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Mar 25, 2013 22:09
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Quiet Python posted:Well, Haruka isn't a little girl any more. She's a teenager and will eventually become an adult. Once she grows up, perhaps Kiryu will teach her a few of the myriad ways of destroying a man so that she can safely walk the streets of Kamurocho. That reminds me of Saki, Tatsuya's personal coach. She is one hell of an Akido fighter. Snapping wrists and legs of guys trying to hit on her.
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Mar 26, 2013 01:42
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Samurai Sanders posted:I think one of the issues is not what happens when you win, but what happens if you lose. I'd imagine the idea of a little girl getting beat down by a bunch of yakuza is pretty distasteful, especially in Japan. Is it any more distasteful than her being kidnapped every other day of the week?
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Mar 26, 2013 07:37
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Jamesman posted:Is it any more distasteful than her being kidnapped every other day of the week? Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Mar 26, 2013 |
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Mar 26, 2013 08:31
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Also theres no reason to believe that kidnappers wouldnt act like perfect gentlemen!
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Mar 26, 2013 08:46
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this came up in the PS3 Games Discussion thread with regards to the (seemingly grim) future of the Yakuza series in the West:quote:"SEGA haven’t made any of their plans for a western release known yet. We did get word from them a few days ago that they have not announced anything either way. With Yas Noguchi leaving Sega and community managers stating that Yakuza games are Japan-only, I'm guessing this means it'll be a good long while before we see another translated Yakuza game. 
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Mar 26, 2013 16:02
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As a fan, I want them to keep trying so I can keep getting my games, and Yakuza can keep having a chance at succeeding. As a realistic person, if SoA hasn't gotten it right after 5 games, they will probably never get it right, so yeah, stop trying and stop embarrassing yourselves you awful people.
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Mar 26, 2013 18:00
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Well, I guess I need to get my Japanese more up to snuff than it has ever been so I can play this game.
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Mar 26, 2013 20:33
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You're better off waiting for fan translation patches that work in conjunction with PS3 emulators, since that would take less time.
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Mar 26, 2013 20:42
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Nah. I've taken like 4 years of Japanese, and majored in it in college. I just haven't used it in quite a while. Back when I played Kenzan I was able to understand like 75% of the spoken dialogue. It's mainly the written stuff that was giving me trouble.
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Mar 26, 2013 21:16
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As someone who only got into the Yakuza games a year ago it's sad to see the franchise unavailable in the West Yakuza 5 looked so good too and Egomaniac's LP of Kenzan was amazing i hope SoA gets the right to Yakuza 5 at some point.
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Mar 26, 2013 21:21
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mikeycp posted:Nah. I've taken like 4 years of Japanese, and majored in it in college. I just haven't used it in quite a while.
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Mar 26, 2013 21:25
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Samurai Sanders posted:Well, that's a problem since so much of the dialog is only written, not spoken. Time to get out those kanji books again I guess. Yeah. Pretty much. With Kenzan it was a choice between just getting the key words to figure out where to go, or to take time to understand all of what was being said. 
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Mar 26, 2013 21:28
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God dammit, I'm never gonna be able to finish Yakuza 4. I had some cutscenes earlier in the game freeze on me, but that wasn't a big deal, the second time around I knew it was coming and would just skip it. But now I'm just about to finish the chapter as the detective, and as it leaves that cutscene where you find out who the mole is, I just get a black screen. Skipping doesn't work, I uninstalled and reinstalled the game, nothin'. Is there a way to download a savegame or something so I can skip to Kiryu's chapter?
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Mar 27, 2013 22:22
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Ugly In The Morning posted:God dammit, I'm never gonna be able to finish Yakuza 4. I had some cutscenes earlier in the game freeze on me, but that wasn't a big deal, the second time around I knew it was coming and would just skip it. But now I'm just about to finish the chapter as the detective, and as it leaves that cutscene where you find out who the mole is, I just get a black screen. Skipping doesn't work, I uninstalled and reinstalled the game, nothin'. Is there a way to download a savegame or something so I can skip to Kiryu's chapter? Not really-the saved games are tied to your account. I think there is a work around, but it will disable trophies and (more importantly) saves. I had my first PS3 die on me as I was trying to finish up some minigames, etc. on Yakuza 3, and eventually gave up on the idea of trying to finish that stuff up. There are saved games available on Gamefaqs if you want to try yourself, though. If you haven't already, try cleaning the disk-I've had games freeze just like you describe before, and it turned out to just be smudges on the disk.
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unl33t posted:Not really-the saved games are tied to your account. I think there is a work around, but it will disable trophies and (more importantly) saves. I had my first PS3 die on me as I was trying to finish up some minigames, etc. on Yakuza 3, and eventually gave up on the idea of trying to finish that stuff up. There are saved games available on Gamefaqs if you want to try yourself, though. Didn't think about cleaning the disc. That could be it, actually, when I was dicking around last night for some reason the baseball game loaded with no textures once. EDIT: Holy poo poo them smudges.  . I have no idea how the disc got that filthy. I bought it new, it's never even been out of my PS3 since I bought it since most of my PS3 stuff is online, but it looks like one of those fingerprint cards the police use.Cleaning it worked! Sweet! Soon I can play as Kiryu at last! Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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Mar 28, 2013 15:59
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After finally getting back into the series, I'm a decent ways into 3 at the moment and have 4 to get on right after that. I was wondering about Dead Souls though. A lot of the game looks like a good time, all the side-content (Majima karaoke  ) and the overall weirdness/goofiness of the setting is great, though I've heard the actual gunplay segments are iffy. Was it just bad to handle or what?
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Mar 28, 2013 16:35
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Yardbomb posted:After finally getting back into the series, I'm a decent ways into 3 at the moment and have 4 to get on right after that. I was wondering about Dead Souls though. A lot of the game looks like a good time, all the side-content (Majima karaoke
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Mar 28, 2013 18:07
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It wasn't unbearably bad or anything but it certainly wasn't fun. I really enjoyed the goofy Halloween episode style story though.
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Mar 28, 2013 18:12
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It's not so much a shooter as it is a beat-em-up with guns for fists.
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Mar 28, 2013 19:03
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^^^ - In Ryuji's case that looks pretty literal.  Since it sounds like it wasn't really game-souring or anything I'll probably grab it then. For $20 anyway that sounds pretty fine with the amount of other good stuff in there.
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Mar 28, 2013 19:07
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It's not bad, I had a lot of fun with it after getting used to its weird controls. Just don't worry too much about the bonus side stuff like me, as it took many hours and wasted attempts. Oh god, those sewers. 
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Mar 28, 2013 19:09
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Didn't think about cleaning the disc. That could be it, actually, when I was dicking around last night for some reason the baseball game loaded with no textures once. Awesome, I'm glad I thought to mention smudges on the disk-I was just about to hit "Submit" when it occurred to me. I have also had really smudged up disks that I swore were never (or seldom) handled-I wonder if there's some how to get them from the PS3 itself?
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Yardbomb posted:Since it sounds like it wasn't really game-souring or anything I'll probably grab it then. For $20 anyway that sounds pretty fine with the amount of other good stuff in there. Yechezkel fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Mar 30, 2013 |
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Mar 28, 2013 22:16
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Tangentially Yakuza relatedGematsu posted:PlayStation 4 lead architect and Knack creator Mark Cerny and Shenmue series creator Yu Suzuki are talking strategy for Shenmue III at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. I want to believe.
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Mar 29, 2013 20:17
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unl33t posted:Awesome, I'm glad I thought to mention smudges on the disk-I was just about to hit "Submit" when it occurred to me. I have also had really smudged up disks that I swore were never (or seldom) handled-I wonder if there's some how to get them from the PS3 itself? Considering that I didn't really use my PS3 for two years before that, I have no idea what horrors were lurking in the disc drive, so that could be. And, good lord is Kiryu satisfying to use, holy poo poo. It's nice just suddenly being a one-man wrecking ball.
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Mar 29, 2013 20:26
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Policenaut posted:Tangentially Yakuza related Or maybe we will finally get Shenmue X Yakuza. Will Ryo finally be over his fear of girls with the help of hostess clubs? Will Kiryu finally be able to avoid getting into a whole mess of trouble in the quiet town of Dobuita?
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Mar 29, 2013 21:17
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Policenaut posted:Tangentially Yakuza related edit: well, except for being in a smaller town instead of a big city, but then Shenmue moved away from that as well in 2.
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Mar 29, 2013 21:18
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Thanks for the tip, got that sucker ordered up and newegg's never taken too long to get stuff out.  Edit: Huh, it's $20 today, did I grab a good deal on the last day or something?
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Mar 29, 2013 21:20
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Yardbomb posted:Thanks for the tip, got that sucker ordered up and newegg's never taken too long to get stuff out. Your purchase drove up the demand and lowered the supply!
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Mar 29, 2013 21:24
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Yeah, the sale is over.
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Mar 29, 2013 23:04
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God, why aren't these guaranteed western releases  ((Yeah, April 1st hur hur))
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God, it is way too hard to get punched in random street encounters. I'm trying to lose some health so I can keep checking off food items in the restaurants (not even a trophy whore! There are checkmarks! I must check them all!), but even if I stand still, the fuckers still don't take a swing at me half the time. Basically, what's the best way to get my rear end kicked a bit?
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