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History Comes Inside! posted:Yeah you have to have SSS rank Majima Everywhere and be like 2-3 encounters from finishing it up, it's one of the last skills you get. I got real spicy and assaulted the tower with like two Staminan Royales and nothing else, so I'm running off the poo poo I scavenged during the Jingu fight  I have him down to his last health bar using nothing but Rush style, but god drat he can heal more than a full health bar if he feels like it Honestly it's kinda making this fight WAY MORE FUN THAN I REMEMBER
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Yeah Kiwami was my first Yakuza game and I did that exact thing, only scrounging the admittedly forgiving amount of loving 24 Hour Energy bottles off the ground It did make the fight however way more interesting, having to hit him with everything in the suite to keep him down, than watching my housemate at full Dragon land like two of the slap heat moves in a row before Kiwami finishing it under twenty seconds. Felt right to me at least.
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julian assflange posted:Only another month until I get my hands on six Have you had PS+ for a while? Yakuza 4 and 5 were both free games a long while ago so you might already have them.
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HebrewMagic posted:Yeah Kiwami was my first Yakuza game and I did that exact thing, only scrounging the admittedly forgiving amount of loving 24 Hour Energy bottles off the ground That sounds way more cooler than the tried and true method of beating anybody in Yakuza: TIGER DROPPU with Calming Towel or whatever the gently caress keeps heat down.
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Mar 12, 2018 23:48
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widespread posted:keeps heat down. I don't understand what these words mean in this order, why would you ever do that? Also I beat Nishiki with Rush!  
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Danaru posted:I don't understand what these words mean in this order, why would you ever do that? Tiger Drop has more power the LESS Heat you have. Enough to straight remove a bar of health. Many people have prob made videos on it. Also remember when I said Komaki was the secret boss in Hokuto Ga Gotoku? I unknowingly lied! It's Amon again. And his fight in this game... hoofa. It's more ridiculous than So's fight in 0. Edit: Kinda bummed there's no original music for him. Just his theme from 6, then his theme from Kiwami, then his theme from Kiwami 2.
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Mar 13, 2018 00:36
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So I just finished my first Yakuza Game (Yakuza 0). drat what a ride. I laughed. I cried. I crushed people's faces with Majima's fancy boots. I am now super pumped to jump into Kiwami. I just hope I get to see some more of Majima. He won my heart 
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twistedbutterfly posted:So I just finished my first Yakuza Game (Yakuza 0). drat what a ride. I laughed. I cried. I crushed people's faces with Majima's fancy boots. I am now super pumped to jump into Kiwami. He'll be everywhere.
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Neo Rasa posted:Have you had PS+ for a while? Yakuza 4 and 5 were both free games a long while ago so you might already have them. That sounds familiar. Must renew my sub and then check. Still need the drat console 
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julian assflange posted:That sounds familiar. Must renew my sub and then check. Still need the drat console If you keep emails you could search for the receipt from PSN, too.
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Mar 13, 2018 09:52
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Playing through the sidestories of Yakuza 5, it seems like Kiryu's taxi story and Haruka's idol jobs received the most attention. Shinada's was hilariously short.
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kirbysuperstar posted:If you keep emails you could search for the receipt from PSN, too. Can you recall how long ago that was? Even to the year will help. I’m afraid that it was on the list of games for the US but Europe or something like that
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julian assflange posted:Can you recall how long ago that was? Even to the year will help. I’m afraid that it was on the list of games for the US but Europe or something like that July 2016, along with Furi, Gat Out of Hell, Oreshika and Prince of Persia Revelations, if that helps at all. e: Actually July was when they bugged out and put it up for free accidentally. I think it was August it was actually a Plus title.
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kirbysuperstar posted:July 2016, along with Furi, Gat Out of Hell, Oreshika and Prince of Persia Revelations, if that helps at all. FFS I never got it. Will keep an eye out for an eventual discount. Thanks for the info all the same
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Mar 13, 2018 23:10
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Both 4 and 5 are on PS Now, which you can get a 7-day free trial of. I finished 5 within a month, so you're looking at, like, $9.99 to play it.
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Seems like the embargo on 6 was lifted early. Getting quite a good buzz.
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I finished Yakuza 6 last night and I have OPINIONS! I feel like they cut a lot of side content down to focus more on the story, which is good for wrapping up the main plot but really feels like a major letdown after Yakuza 0 so amazingly over-delivered. A lot of side missions are boring or chores - hell, one side story actually got me to give up on doing it (loving fire extinguishers) for the time being because it was so un-fun and a chore. Hell, there was nowhere for me to play hanafuda or koi-koi and that is upsetting because those are my favorite minigames please stop trying to make me play mahjong. Was there even a casino!? I didn't find it yet if so. I want to talk about story stuff too (and will spoiler tag things because I'm not THAT big of an rear end in a top hat) but I don't know who else here can discuss it with me, heh. Spoiler free hot take - you can safely hover over without actually ruining anything, but if you prefer to be COMPLETELY blind that's for you : The Secret of Onomichi will largely go over the head of a lot of younger Americans who don't understand the full historical significance and implications of it existing. It is explained in the game of course, but American culture is so hilariously different I imagine a lot of people will go "that's it?" after all of that buildup. That doesn't make it NOT significant, because it is, but I think that's how it'll play out to a lot of people. The ending temporarily destroyed me.
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Caitlin posted:I finished Yakuza 6 last night and I have OPINIONS! I think myself as a fairly sizable weeb, and all I could muster for The Yamato Mark II was an appreciation of half-understanding. You are right, the story does a pretty good job explaining how huge and messed up it is for it to exist, but since all I knew was that the Yamato was the biggest sea war vessel i had half-heard about before, it didn't hit me hard at the moment of hte reveal. I'm super down to talk more about the story. I really liked it, but this is also my first time playing a Yakuza. Previously, I had seen LPs for 4 and 0, and even those I didn't go fully. In retrospect, the world did feel a bit empty, a lot of the minigames and sidestuff didn't hook me, but what did got me really well. As a first experience, it felt tame enough to not overwhelm, but I can see how as a longtime fan, it'd be too little. I was destroyed for about a minute or three, too.
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Yakuza 6 is on an entirely new engine compared to Zero and Kiwami, which all inherited content from the previous titles, so 6 had to start from scratch.
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As a person who saw the ending and some other story stuff, I feel i want to talk story too. For some reason Hirose’s arc interested me. From the start, you just see this old dude just do cool poo poo at times. And then as you’re going to find out the Secret of Onomichi, here he comes with bog standard kitchen knives ready to kill. Helps that from what I know, his fight is more a bait-out fight with a bit of pragmatism in play. As far as why he was gonna kill his crew, it kinda made me feel a bit said. Fuckin’, he just wanted approval from his father-like boss who wanted nothing more than an assassin to cover up the Yamato Mk2. And then when he comes out with it and tries to avoid killing Nagumo, oof. Just gets shot right there. I feel it’s made worse because he was hoping Nagumo and his friends would kill him in revenge for him killing their dads. No sadness or panic from him, just quietly accepts his death. ... now that I think about it, there’s a LOT of daddy issues in 6, huh.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:I think myself as a fairly sizable weeb, and all I could muster for The Yamato Mark II was an appreciation of half-understanding. You are right, the story does a pretty good job explaining how huge and messed up it is for it to exist, but since all I knew was that the Yamato was the biggest sea war vessel i had half-heard about before, it didn't hit me hard at the moment of hte reveal. Thanks for validating my hot take - I definitely had an appreciation of what it meant but I also knew I was gonna be waaaay outside of the cultural "average" on that and I, too, owe it to weebiness in the first place. And I feel that'll be at least a chunk of the core audience that's returning here, but I also feel like there will be a LOT of people who just don't get it that it's going to fall completely flat for. Luckily, I feel everything else makes up for it. DO NOT HOVER OVER THIS IF YOU DIDN'T BEAT THE GAME Reading off the letter to Daigo while he's writing in the room with Haruka, Yuta and Haruto while they're still letting you believe he's dead had me sobbing. I'm too attached to Kiryu - that was absolutely the hardest a game has ever hit me.
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You definitely do feel the "cut" content, especially with how much construction work is going on in Kamurocho. There aren't many good side quests, but the good ones can be incredibly charming. Still, lovely game. It hit me pretty hard a few times. The late-game Secret of Onomichi reveal was also very cool. Some of the implications were clear, but it took until the game really explained it for me to grasp the extent of that. Also, I really liked Kitano as Hirose a lot. e: Caitlin posted:DO NOT HOVER OVER THIS IF YOU DIDN'T BEAT THE GAME I'm not ashamed to admit I teared up a little. It was the same when Haruka finally woke up and Kiryu visited her for the first time. CrashScreen fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Mar 15, 2018 |
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Kitano was loving brilliant, as usual. I wish he had been around a bit more earlier in the game to help give the later part of the game a little more emotional weight in regards to Hirose in particular, though.Policenaut posted:Yakuza 6 is on an entirely new engine compared to Zero and Kiwami, which all inherited content from the previous titles, so 6 had to start from scratch. It really wouldn't have killed them to keep a bunch of gambling minigames around. Instead, we get Pro Dart Man  Also the chat is amusing but somehow even less fun than the old gravure videos. CrashScreen posted:You definitely do feel the "cut" content, especially with how much construction work is going on in Kamurocho. There aren't many good side quests, but the good ones can be incredibly charming. The good ones are indeed very good, but a lot of them just dragged which was a super big bummer after Y0. Caitlin fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Mar 15, 2018 |
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Caitlin posted:It really wouldn't have killed them to keep a bunch of gambling minigames around. Instead, we get Pro Dart Man As long as there is karaoke, I am a happy man. The gambling stuff was okay, but I'm just not a general fan of gambling so it's not for me. Now if they would put in another host/hostess minigame, that I would be into.
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King of the Cosmos posted:As long as there is karaoke, I am a happy man. The gambling stuff was okay, but I'm just not a general fan of gambling so it's not for me. Now if they would put in another host/hostess minigame, that I would be into. There was not ENOUGH karaoke, honestly. I wanted to Bakamitai or JUDGEMENT really badly and that made me sad I loaned out Y0.
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Caitlin posted:There was not ENOUGH karaoke, honestly. I wanted to Bakamitai or JUDGEMENT really badly and that made me sad I loaned out Y0. Speaking of, hey did you know you can do Like A Butterfly without a hostess? I have a vid of it somewhere but the gist is its just Kiryu clapping like a buffoon to an empty singing area. I sucked at it but I imagine the actual music video portion would be just as hosed without a hostess. Also, they changed the batting cage minigame. I feel it kinda is harder than before.
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widespread posted:Speaking of, hey did you know you can do Like A Butterfly without a hostess? I did this once with one of Haruka's songs in... I forget which game... But it was just Kiryu yelling L-O-V-E Lovely Haruka! by himself in an empty room while the music played. It was probably the saddest thing I've ever seen in a video game.
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I always saw it as Kamurocho's best father practicing so he'd always be at his peak for the real deal with his adopted daughter.
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Been reading a lot of this thread from where I left off (currently on page 71), good stuff! Yakuza rocks by the way, got into it with 0 and am over 100 hours in! Finally beat Zelda Breath of the Wild a couple weeks ago, now finishing Yakuza 0 is my mission. Plus got Kiwami ready to go and 6 pre-ordered. Awesome stuff! So many life lessons.
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One of my favorite life lesson moments in the series is when Kiryu runs into the guy in Yakuza 3 that's contemplating jumping off a bridge because he feels worthless but his family will be able to claim a huge life insurance policy he has. The bridge like a foot above a not deep at all small canal and Kiryu gives the guy a full breakdown of insurance claim workings and how different policies work if someone commits suicide.
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Don't know if anyone here cares or even lives near the event/store, but they are apparently putting on a Yakuza 6 art exhibit at a gallery in southern California. https://twitter.com/yakuzagame/status/974397070936297473 "Daisuke Sato the General Producer of the Yakuza series and HORITOMO the renowned tattoo artist behind the series will be signing for those who pre-purchase The Premium or Launch Edition of Yakuza 6 : The Song of Life or any of the Yakuza back catalog games sold at the event."
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Ryuga Death posted:Don't know if anyone here cares or even lives near the event/store, but they are apparently putting on a Yakuza 6 art exhibit at a gallery in southern California. Back catalog games, huh. Shame that's on a work day for me, would love to
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Neo Rasa posted:One of my favorite life lesson moments in the series is when Kiryu runs into the guy in Yakuza 3 that's contemplating jumping off a bridge because he feels worthless but his family will be able to claim a huge life insurance policy he has. The bridge like a foot above a not deep at all small canal and Kiryu gives the guy a full breakdown of insurance claim workings and how different policies work if someone commits suicide. Classic Kiryu. I just did the one in Yakuza 0 where we end up with a funny inspirational thing about a kidnapper. "The kidnapper man was so nice!" says the kid. The guy who was attacking me with a knife. Did put a smile on my face, I'll give him that, anything can be turned inspirational in these games. Here's a question, tips for dealing with guns in these these games? Especially in 0, Kiwami, and 6 since I'll be playing all these. Any notable unlocks for dealing with guns, other than dodging them? I have the Beast mode thing to block them without falling down, but I wondered if there's a way to get shot and not be phazed? I saw Drunkards' Secret (Dulled Sense), says it stops paralysis and being stunned. I'm guessing this doesn't include the paralysis from being shot? Would be cool if it did though.
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Heavy Metal posted:Classic Kiryu. I just did the one in Yakuza 0 where we end up with a funny inspirational thing about a kidnapper. "The kidnapper man was so nice!" says the kid. The guy who was attacking me with a knife. Did put a smile on my face, I'll give him that, anything can be turned inspirational in these games. Some armor should have protection from bullets. I haven’t really messed with them, so idk if they can stop paralysis or if you just take less damage
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If memory serves, you can dodge bullets much more easily with the improved i-frames Rush style gives you during a quickstep or block, and Beast style eventually gets a skill (Iron Gut, maybe?) which prevents you from falling over when shot or stabbed. e: Iron Gut is a third-tier Beast skill that lets you block gunshots and knives while in the 3rd Heat bar. You still take damage but you don't fall down. The improved version, Steel Gut, reduces the Heat requirement to the 2nd Heat bar. Majima has a Brawler skill that lets him ignore being staggered by guns and knives, but sadly it's in the final tier of Brawler upgrades. Captain Walker fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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Cool cool, thanks, also noticed Majima has one that lets him hit bullets back at people with his bat if you time it right. Sounds badass.
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Was the Rush upgrade that gives you like twenty fast steps in Zero or only Kiwami? I only remember it in Kiwami, but I want to go back and platinum Zero after this and hoo man I'm going to miss zipping around like Jehuty. I also get to finally play Zero's pocket circuit, which I finished the game without ever discovering  It made the reunions in Kiwami VERY confusing
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widespread posted:Also, they changed the batting cage minigame. I feel it kinda is harder than before. It took me a while to get used to it, but I've now cleared every single challenge (substories included). You can basically ignore everything that isn't related to the box UI. The starting position is also a pretty good hint as to where it'll land, but the pattern is also fixed so you can predict it accurately with enough attempts. It's not actually that much harder once you get the swing of it.
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Yakuza Kiwami 2, August 28th.
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