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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS
Dec 21, 2010

SpacePig posted:

If we somehow get Kiwami in the west and I can play a game where Majima can spring up any time to fight me, there's a good chance I'll die.

Honestly Majima is kind of annoying. But you can date Hatano Yui!

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Crappy Jack
Nov 21, 2005

We got some serious shit to discuss.

Yechezkel posted:

Holy poo poo. BOSS costume right here:



Good lord. Is this from 0? Kiwami?

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.

RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:

Honestly Majima is kind of annoying.

I refuse to believe this.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


KingShiro posted:

Majima cloning facility. They put on some good karaoke shows.

sometimes when i'm sad i remember Majima karaoke and everything is fine.

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:

But you can date Hatano Yui!

*googles*



*nods sagely* Tell me more.

Crappy Jack posted:

Good lord. Is this from 0? Kiwami?

Seems like Kiwami.

Jamesman
Nov 19, 2004

"First off, let me start by saying curly light blond hair does not suit Hyomin at all. Furthermore,"
Fun Shoe
Yakuza 5 is on sale for $30 this week. I think I'll finally buy it even though I still don't have the hard drive space for it.

Sinners Sandwich
Jan 4, 2012

Give me your friend's BURGERS and SANDWICHES, I'll put out the fire.

My Kiriyu is chaste and doesn't have time to deal with hostess when Haruka has drama.

How do you leave a 8 year old girl out in the cold when you're visiting Starlight

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


Let go of the hold hands button.

RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS
Dec 21, 2010

SpacePig posted:

I refuse to believe this.

Usually by the time I'm on chapter 5 in these games I'm just annoyed at any random encounter. Go away.

Saoshyant posted:

*googles*



*nods sagely* Tell me more.

The cabaret club girls have been IRL porn stars for a while now. Uehara Ai was in Yakuza 0. The other hostess girl in YK is "Rina" but I don't know who she's supposed to be.

If you successfully complete their quests you get to watch a softcore video of them posing and smiling (while Kiryu is having sex with them in the story) and then a screen comes up that says "Don't think you're done just because you've slept with her! If you beat her at all the games in the after selection, you'll get an even sexier video!" although I didn't bother with that.

RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Mar 24, 2016

Sinners Sandwich
Jan 4, 2012

Give me your friend's BURGERS and SANDWICHES, I'll put out the fire.

RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:

Usually by the time I'm on chapter 5 in these games I'm just annoyed at any random encounter. Go away.


The cabaret club girls have been IRL porn stars for a while now. Uehara Ai was in Yakuza 0. The other hostess girl in YK is "Rina" but I don't know who she's supposed to be.

If you successfully complete their quests you get to watch a softcore video of them posing and smiling (while Kiryu is having sex with them in the story) and then a screen comes up that says "Don't think you're done just because you've slept with her! If you beat her at all the games in the after selection, you'll get an even sexier video!" although I didn't bother with that.

WTF

Also do you think the videos would make it over for localization? I doubt it's a content advisory but I maybe there's some kind of licensing problem?

Also do Adult film stars in Japan have problems with voice work? I remember Saints Row 2 brought in someone and it was awful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXO98v9GfQ

Explosive Tampons
Jul 9, 2014

Your days are gone!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA
please sega please physical release

e:Dan Sheridan 22 March, 2016 @ 2:38 pm 1.1
Yakuza 0 will be available as a physical & digital release.

I hope they keep their promise
e2: might be euro only but I do not care.

Explosive Tampons fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Mar 24, 2016

pick-e
Aug 10, 2014

kirbysuperstar posted:

7 hours in and it doesn't even have half as many enemies per turn, so it's a vast improvement IMHO. You are chiefly playing it for fanservice, though.
This is all very true. Pacing is faster, story more focused, dialogue through the roof, and enemies no longer damage sponges.

Japanese Phone Box posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA
please sega please physical release

e:Dan Sheridan 22 March, 2016 @ 2:38 pm 1.1
Yakuza 0 will be available as a physical & digital release.

I hope they keep their promise
e2: might be euro only but I do not care.
I believe it was confirmed for physical relases in north america as well.

RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS
Dec 21, 2010

Sinners Sandwich posted:

WTF

Also do you think the videos would make it over for localization? I doubt it's a content advisory but I maybe there's some kind of licensing problem?

Also do Adult film stars in Japan have problems with voice work? I remember Saints Row 2 brought in someone and it was awful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXO98v9GfQ

I don't think a girl smiling and posing in a teddy is too much for US release, no. It's the same kind of stuff as the "image video" play spot in Yakuza 0.

Foam Monkey
Jun 4, 2007
Lurkzilla
Grimey Drawer
I heard about a new Majima figma being released by Max Factory, but besides a few sites talking about it I haven't found anything concrete about ordering it or anything. Anybody else hear about it or have any idea what's going on with it?

Caitlin
Aug 18, 2006

When I die, if there is a heaven, I will spend eternity rolling around with a pile of kittens.
No date, not up for preorder yet, only Kiryu is. Sometime this year. I already have Kiryu preordered personally... whenever it goes up I'm sure someone will post, but as for now, 2016.

Luminaflare
Sep 23, 2010

No one man
should have all that
POWER BEYOND MEASURE


So which is the best game in the series if I'm not too bothered about the story, just want to wander around the city, play arcade games, go gambling and punch dudes?

Crappy Jack
Nov 21, 2005

We got some serious shit to discuss.

Luminaflare posted:

So which is the best game in the series if I'm not too bothered about the story, just want to wander around the city, play arcade games, go gambling and punch dudes?

5 has the most cities and games and stuff, so from a pure numbers standpoint, it seems like that's the one to get.

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Luminaflare posted:

So which is the best game in the series if I'm not too bothered about the story, just want to wander around the city, play arcade games, go gambling and punch dudes?

Can't go wrong with any of them. It's between 4 and 5 for the most content, though. 4 is a tighter experience in a single city, 5 is more scattershot and you'll have to drag yourself through some sequences that kind of suck in order to resume city trippin'. 5 also requires a tolerance for rhythm games.

RadicalR
Jan 20, 2008

"Businessmen are the symbol of a free society
---
the symbol of America."

man nurse posted:

5 also requires a tolerance for rhythm games.

You're saying this like it's a bad thing. Are we going to have a problem here? :colbert:

eating only apples
Dec 12, 2009

Shall we dance?
5 also has the prison break/mountain stuff which might test the patience of a newcomer who's made it through Taxi Man.

Go with 4 as your first. If you don't like it after Akiyama's quarter you won't like any of the others. And it'll at least introduce you to Daigo and company in a way that might make sense. And all the plot from the previous games is available in the reminisce section. Hey you never know, you might get into the plot.

RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS
Dec 21, 2010

eating only apples posted:

5 also has the prison break/mountain stuff which might test the patience of a newcomer who's made it through Taxi Man.

Go with 4 as your first. If you don't like it after Akiyama's quarter you won't like any of the others. And it'll at least introduce you to Daigo and company in a way that might make sense. And all the plot from the previous games is available in the reminisce section. Hey you never know, you might get into the plot.

What? The mountain hunting segments rule.

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.
Kazuma Kiryu: Responsible Taxi Driver was more fun for me than basically anything in Seajima's section. Also, Haruka's segment would be better if it were shorter or had more songs. It just started grating on me after awhile.

KingShiro
Jan 10, 2008

EH?!?!?!
Yeah I found Haruka's chapter the least fun.

croutonZA
Jan 5, 2011
The worst part of 5 is that my boy Akiyama only gets half a chapter which is disgraceful really.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

SpacePig posted:

Kazuma Kiryu: Responsible Taxi Driver was more fun for me than basically anything in Seajima's section.
I'd say it's easily the best side content in the whole series really.

A Sometimes Food
Dec 8, 2010

Sinners Sandwich posted:

WTF

Also do you think the videos would make it over for localization? I doubt it's a content advisory but I maybe there's some kind of licensing problem?

Also do Adult film stars in Japan have problems with voice work? I remember Saints Row 2 brought in someone and it was awful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXO98v9GfQ

Might be better if it doesn't. The explosion of idiot nerd rage would be better marketing than Sega is likely to do.

RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS
Dec 21, 2010
After putting it down for a while I'm playing Kiwami again and boy I'm really tired of the Majima segments. Go away.

Like I can live with the ones where there is some goofy skit but he also randomly accosts you on the street and jumps into random encounters and it's not really interesting; he's just a sponge that takes too long to kill.

Housh
Jul 9, 2001




:siren: Yakuza 5 is 30% off for Golden Week in the US Store: https://store.playstation.com/#!/en...d=so-ga-5-88746

Incase you haven't picked it up yet and stumbled in the thread.

Explosive Tampons
Jul 9, 2014

Your days are gone!!!

Housh posted:

:siren: Yakuza 5 is 30% off for Golden Week in the US Store: https://store.playstation.com/#!/en...d=so-ga-5-88746

Incase you haven't picked it up yet and stumbled in the thread.

why do I want to buy this again

SEGA what have you done with me

Skeezy
Jul 3, 2007

Question about the driving missions in Y5, if I skip them for now (I just unlocked the ability to do them) can I go back and do them later or do they disappear?

Crappy Jack
Nov 21, 2005

We got some serious shit to discuss.

Skeezy posted:

Question about the driving missions in Y5, if I skip them for now (I just unlocked the ability to do them) can I go back and do them later or do they disappear?

Eventually you'll become another character and won't be able to get back to it until later, but you will be able to go back at your leisure by the end of the game.

Skeezy
Jul 3, 2007

Crappy Jack posted:

Eventually you'll become another character and won't be able to get back to it until later, but you will be able to go back at your leisure by the end of the game.

That's what I figured, just wanted to be sure is all. Thanks :)

The Macaroni
Dec 20, 2002
...it does nothing.

KingShiro posted:

Yeah I found Haruka's chapter the least fun.
Agreed. All this development money and they couldn't make more than a couple songs? Got old reallll fast.

RandallODim
Dec 30, 2010

Another 1? Aww man...
I'm about to play Yakuza 4 for the first time, and it's basically thanks to this forum that I even have a conception of the series.

Akiyama has the best drat outfit. Kazuma's is classic, but I just can't not love purple suit jackets.

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Akiyama also has the best moveset and dialogue and is basically the true protag, much more than that lame old dude.

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.
I was partial to Tanimura's style myself. Akiyama is cool and all, and Kiryu will always feel classic and familiar, but I really like what they did with Tanimura.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k

projecthalaxy posted:

Akiyama also has the best moveset and dialogue and is basically the true protag, much more than that lame old dude.

:stare: Heretic :stare:

Crappy Jack
Nov 21, 2005

We got some serious shit to discuss.

SpacePig posted:

I was partial to Tanimura's style myself. Akiyama is cool and all, and Kiryu will always feel classic and familiar, but I really like what they did with Tanimura.

Agreed. I liked how it was different enough, and parrying moves was a blast. Shinada just didn't ever click for me in the way that Tanimura did.

Croccers
Jun 15, 2012
I like how one of Tanimura's side missions is to beat up a jumper so he can't jump off the building.
I like how with a HEAT move you can toss the guy off the building and win the fight :downs:

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projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Maybe I need to go back and play Tanimura again, but he didn't really leave much of an impression when I played through 4. Admittedly at that point I just wanted to get through it so I didn't play all his side missions and such. i liked how you could arrest people though.

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