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Samurai Sanders posted:Just so everyone's clear, that game is by all accounts an awful game, by awful people, for awful people. This game seems pretty much like hate mail for Kotaku, or anyone with a sense of decency.
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I'm nearing the end of Ishin and I gotta say, they could hardly have made the gun mechanics worse. I definitely prefer Dead Souls' gun mechanics to this. Hell, I prefer normal Yakuza games' gun mechanics to this. It unbalances almost every fight in one direction or another, either your gun is completely useless, or you can win the fight without being hit by staying away while mashing the fire button and over again. The guys who made Binary Domain clearly understood what people want from guns in video games, what happened to them? Were they all let go as soon as the game was completed? Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Mar 23, 2014 01:29
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Samurai Sanders posted:I'm nearing the end of Ishin and I gotta say, they could hardly have made the gun mechanics worse. I definitely prefer Dead Souls' gun mechanics to this. Hell, I prefer normal Yakuza games' gun mechanics to this. It unbalances almost every fight in one direction or another, either your gun is completely useless, or you can win the fight without being hit by staying away while mashing the fire button and over again. It's worse then Dead Souls? Yikes.  Speaking of Binary Domain, how does it hold up? I saw at the store today for around ten dollars, but decided to wait on it. It doesn't really grab me aside from the tenuous link to Dead Souls, but it kind of reminds me of Vanquish, and from the little I've heard about it, none of it has been real negative.
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Max Wilco posted:Speaking of Binary Domain, how does it hold up? I saw at the store today for around ten dollars, but decided to wait on it. It doesn't really grab me aside from the tenuous link to Dead Souls, but it kind of reminds me of Vanquish, and from the little I've heard about it, none of it has been real negative. It's easily my favorite Gears of War type game, moreso than Gears of War. The guns feel awesome, great sound design and soundtrack. VERY good voice acting too which is fortunate since the script itself is pretty stilted. The coolest thing though is how all your enemies are robots, but they really take this to heart and every enemy has tons of bits of armor that get shredded off of them as you fight them. There's almost two model's worth of stuff on every enemy it's real fun to blow them to pieces. It's still a Gears clone and has some of the lame things of that franchise but I feel like it does them better than any other 360/PS3 game. I wish they made like an RPG or some other spinoff in the same setting, or even just a sequel with more team mates and more coop modes.
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Samurai Sanders posted:I'm nearing the end of Ishin and I gotta say, they could hardly have made the gun mechanics worse. I definitely prefer Dead Souls' gun mechanics to this. Hell, I prefer normal Yakuza games' gun mechanics to this. It unbalances almost every fight in one direction or another, either your gun is completely useless, or you can win the fight without being hit by staying away while mashing the fire button and over again. I thought the gun was useless but once you level it up it's pretty reasonable to use.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:I thought the gun was useless but once you level it up it's pretty reasonable to use. edit: in one fight I did yesterday, the enemy had a gun too and I found out that if we moved a certain distance apart, he would switch to firing his gun, so I started firing back and it turned into us standing still firing the gun at each other as fast as we could to see whose life bar would empty first. I won, but it doesn't mean it wasn't idiotic as hell. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Mar 23, 2014 04:35
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Reminds me of the Julia Kusugi boss fight in Killer 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je_OIOWuf7Q
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Samurai Sanders posted:Right, like I said, it makes many fights trivial because you can stunlock the enemy into oblivion. That doesn't make it a good implementation of guns in a sword game. You can run up and grab people or do the spin shot that knocks people down.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:You can run up and grab people or do the spin shot that knocks people down. If only they just made it an extension of normal Yakuza gun combat, with high power but limited ammo (or at least limited before reloading), it would have been fine. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Mar 23, 2014 04:52
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Max Wilco posted:It's worse then Dead Souls? Yikes.
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Samurai Sanders posted:It has its moments, yes, but in the end I much prefer the short sword and two swords modes from Kenzan to gun and gun/sword. Maybe, but I think making it more powerful would have ended up with it just totally overpowering everything else. Although to be fair plain sword is way better than any other style in this game.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:Maybe, but I think making it more powerful would have ended up with it just totally overpowering everything else. Although to be fair plain sword is way better than any other style in this game.
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Going back to Yakuza 1 after playing 3 and 4 is really weird. Not only is the gameplay different but even hearing english dialog is throwing me a bit. Who are you people? Why can I understand everything you're saying? Why do I keep missing the people I want to punch?
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Also all those gosh darned F-bombs. A great many years ago I made a thread entitled "Yakuza 2: gently caress"
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I finally caved and imported Kenzan. I cant wait to fumble my way through this!
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I bought Ishin for the ps4 while holidaying in Japan since I figured I'd import it eventually anyways. Now it just sits on my desk alongside Yakuza 5 serving as a monument to my disappointment in Sega.
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Gutcruncher posted:I finally caved and imported Kenzan. I cant wait to fumble my way through this!
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MY PS3 died a horrible, horrible death the moment I placed Dark SOuls 2 in it. I'm absolutely gutted. THis means I cannot finish Ishin, which upsets me greatly. I was wandering around like a bad rear end unarmed Samurai. Screw your swords and guns. I got fists of fury. Y'all need to import Kenzan and Ishin. Boss games. Just don't waste your time and import Sanshou, terrible.
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Zaii posted:MY PS3 died a horrible, horrible death the moment I placed Dark SOuls 2 in it. I'm absolutely gutted.    I'm having my dead one repaired just so I can pull some old stuff off of the HD, but given the (nonexistent) state of PS3 compatibility on PS4, I think I'm going to have to shell out and buy a new PS3.
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After seeing the kind of clumsy romance stuff in Isin I think I understand why they don't usually have romances in these games.
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Zaii posted:Y'all need to import Kenzan and Ishin. Boss games. Just don't waste your time and import Sanshou, terrible. I have given serious thought to importing Yakuza 5, because it seems like the chances of the game getting a localization are dwindling. The only thing that stops me from importing Y5, Kenzan, or Ishin is the language barrier. I don't know any Japanese, and my assumption is that you'd have to be very fluent in the language in order to follow the story, or pursue any of the side content.
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Zaii posted:MY PS3 died a horrible, horrible death the moment I placed Dark SOuls 2 in it. I'm absolutely gutted. What is Sansyo supposed to be? Max Wilco posted:I have given serious thought to importing Yakuza 5, because it seems like the chances of the game getting a localization are dwindling. The only thing that stops me from importing Y5, Kenzan, or Ishin is the language barrier. I don't know any Japanese, and my assumption is that you'd have to be very fluent in the language in order to follow the story, or pursue any of the side content.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:What is Sansyo supposed to be? I think he meant to type Shinsho, which means he'd be talking about Kurohyo: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho, Black Panther, which was the first PSP Spinoff. To my knowledge, nobody's really said much about the two Black Panther games aside from that fact that they exist.
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Volfogg posted:I think he meant to type Shinsho, which means he'd be talking about Kurohyo: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho, Black Panther, which was the first PSP Spinoff. To my knowledge, nobody's really said much about the two Black Panther games aside from that fact that they exist. I played them both. I liked them well enough... they had a weird toning down of stuff, like no booze and the big payoff with the club girls was getting a kiss, I guess because it's portable and the protagonist is underage. But still, fun games. Translates surprisingly well.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:I played them both. I liked them well enough... they had a weird toning down of stuff, like no booze and the big payoff with the club girls was getting a kiss, I guess because it's portable and the protagonist is underage. But still, fun games. Translates surprisingly well. I read the first one is mostly focused on just the battle arena stuff, do you get to actually explore the city at all in either of them?
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Neo Rasa posted:I read the first one is mostly focused on just the battle arena stuff, do you get to actually explore the city at all in either of them? Yes. I don't know who told you that, it's totally wrong (except there is an area in the north of the city where you can do a bunch of one-on-one challenges and earn money). It's just a regular Yakuza game that's slightly adapted to the PSP with a younger protagonist. edit: Well, I think I know why they told you that... the story involves Tatuya having to engage in and win 10 fights at the underground fighting arena of Sai no Hanaya and so all the boss battles are there. You still go all over Kamurotyo though. I finished Ishin. I was a little bit under 50% but I started getting to the point where doing more stuff was getting tedious because it was all like "harvest 100 cabbages! catch 100 fish! raid 40 more caves!" so I just finished the story. There's no boss in the game, by the way, who can't be beaten fairly easily with the move where you parry and slice through them (hold R1, press △ right before the attack hits you) RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Mar 30, 2014 |
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:Yeah, it's probably pretty boring unless you want a run to pink dots and fight people simulator. Manly men fighting is a universal language. For ~$30 I'd run through it. I know there was an LP of KENZAN here but I'm not sure if it was ever finished.
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Volfogg posted:I think he meant to type Shinsho, which means he'd be talking about Kurohyo: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho, Black Panther, which was the first PSP Spinoff. To my knowledge, nobody's really said much about the two Black Panther games aside from that fact that they exist. I played through it ss well. And if Tatyuya is a thug for Kuki why they dont make him do thug side jobs instead of working a legit day job?
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They also wouldn't let him drink in the game, but he can still go to hostess bars, and smokes like crazy. Japan's always weird like that.
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Im about to play through Yakuza 4 finally. Should I play it on Easy? I remember a lot of the boss fights in Yakuza 2 and 3 to be kind of slogs due to the way the AI would block and the HEAT mechanics. Anything else I should know going in?
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Yakuza 4 was my first Yakuza game and I thought it was a touch easy on easy, but I don't remember how difficult it is compared to 3. Don't bother getting all the coin locker keys off the bat, they're not shared between characters until the last couple chapters. I don't know how much is missable but that's what new game + is for. I don't think that anything on the third character's story is missable and I'd reccomend powering through the story because having to sneak around town all the time suuuucks
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Captain Novolin posted:Yakuza 4 was my first Yakuza game and I thought it was a touch easy on easy, but I don't remember how difficult it is compared to 3. I found out that apparently it is easier than Yakuza 3 was. 2 and 3 had some BS with the boss battles. The frequent blocking and the huge health bars were quite annoying. But I went with normal.
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Samurai Sanders posted:They also wouldn't let him drink in the game, but he can still go to hostess bars, and smokes like crazy. Japan's always weird like that. But like I said, instead of having sex with the girls, they just give him a smooch.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:But like I said, instead of having sex with the girls, they just give him a smooch.
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This thread it's, it's giving me a revelation! http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26867368
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Samurai Sanders posted:They also wouldn't let him drink in the game, but he can still go to hostess bars, and smokes like crazy. Japan's always weird like that. Also, there's a warning screen about smoking when you start up the game, since smoking is worse than beating the living poo poo out of people.
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Yakuza 3 was like 4.99 so I bought it and it is a wierd game. I think I stopped playing the story hours ago, and am addicted to the dice game and their version of backarat.
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thark posted:Also, there's a warning screen about smoking when you start up the game, since smoking is worse than beating the living poo poo out of people.
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Holy poo poo the back half of yakuza 1 is loving TERRIBLE. It's just every poor gameplay decision wrapped up into one. The car chase was borderline unplayable and the bossfight with Arase was the absolute worst since one mistake and you get shot 18 times, and since your combos don't actually correct towards an enemy if you miss you just keep whiffing until you get knocked down with bullets.
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It's crushing decision time. Do I import Ishin and Y5 for PS3 or PS4? I don't own a PS4 but planned on getting one but there's really no need to HAVE TO GO AND GET ONE NOOOW, there's nothing aside from Ishin and I figured the Yakuza imports aren't worth buying the console for. Goons, what do I do? 
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