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Welp you guys I finally did it, after two days of near maniacal levels of drive, I have successfully turned what was once a biscuit shop to the #1 company in all of Yokohama that rakes in hundreds of millions of yen regularly. I also went from scraping yens under vending machines to having loving 17 million yen on me. Welp, guess it's time to go back to being an Unemployed bum and finish chapter 5! lol. that entire corporate mini game is like a fever dream that never happened except now I'll be able to buy whatever the gently caress I want and go to as many hostess clubs with the fellas as I want.
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IF-7 in yakuza 4 finally lets me find out who's stronger - kiryu or kiryu kiryu won repeatedly at first but kiryu managed to beat him in the end. picture a tiger drop stamping on a yakuza's stomach - forever
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Dec 18, 2020 11:40
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The OG bum is Shinada, where for a big part of his story I was too broke to even go do karaoke. Kojiro posted:Massive y7 spoilers: hey remind me which Tojo chairman entirely disbanded the Omi Alliance? Ah yes its my depressed gay son Daigo who I will defend to the death, that's who But at what price 
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Dec 18, 2020 11:48
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Admiral Goodenough posted:The OG bum is Shinada, where for a big part of his story I was too broke to even go do karaoke. Admiral Goodenough posted:But at what price Still massive y7 spoilers: Worth it, imo. Tojo has been a limping mess since kiwami 1, it makes sense to Old Yeller it. I'm actually really glad they kept it all disbanded by the end cus it opens so many future plot doors that aren't "everything is imploding and the chairman is dead/shot/in a coma/whatever the gently caress happened in 4, let's call in [main character] to save the clan again". Hoping that unlike the end of y6, they actually let this descision stick
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Dec 18, 2020 12:00
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I do like at certain points in the game characters are like "can you even afford that" and Ichiban acts broke, while I completed the management minigame and am absolutely flush with cash
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Dec 18, 2020 12:27
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Kojiro posted:Good ol' 17 yen Shinada. In a lot of ways he feels like a first run at Ichiban, except for their very different policy on baseball bats as weapons. Besides, they're basically just merging it and the Omi Alliance into a legit security company. The fundamental organisational structure is still there, it's just that everything's a bit more above-board now. That said, Masato let a particularly dangerous genie out of the bottle, and it remains to be seen how long a really obvious ex-yakuza company will be allowed to stay legit in a country radicalised by Bleach Japan.
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Dec 18, 2020 12:29
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eonwe posted:I do like at certain points in the game characters are like "can you even afford that" and Ichiban acts broke, while I completed the management minigame and am absolutely flush with cash Yeah lol it’s gonna be a little bit of a mindfuck when I go back to the normal game and have to reconcile that I’m broke despite being the greatest businessman in all of Yokohama
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Dec 18, 2020 12:32
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You both make good points and I apologize for doubting Daigo's leadership Cut off any finger you want, emo man MIDWIFE CRISIS fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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Dec 18, 2020 12:35
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Al-Saqr posted:Yeah lol it’s gonna be a little bit of a mindfuck when I go back to the normal game and have to reconcile that I’m broke despite being the greatest businessman in all of Yokohama There are a few places where it comes up that he owns he company though, so it’s not completely ignored
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Dec 18, 2020 12:37
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Al-Saqr posted:Welp, guess it's time to go back to being an Unemployed bum and finish chapter 5! lol. that entire corporate mini game is like a fever dream that never happened except now I'll be able to buy whatever the gently caress I want and go to as many hostess clubs with the fellas as I want. Ahahahaha... let me talk to you about weapon upgrading...
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Dec 18, 2020 12:38
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History Comes Inside! posted:There are a few places where it comes up that he owns he company though, so it’s not completely ignored Yeah, I appreciate when it comes up because a) previously that never happened and b) its hilarious every time because its like Ichiban just literally remembered oh yeah, I am president of an extremely successful business like you or I might remember we have another clean shirt in our closet
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Dec 18, 2020 12:40
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let's be fair, Ichiban doesn't have another clean shirt in his closet
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Dec 18, 2020 12:47
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would he even care, if he did (e) On the basis of the thread title and this game being Japanese As Hell, I switched straight from dub to sub before I even started LAD, was that an error
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Dec 18, 2020 14:02
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Ciaphas posted:would he even care, if he did Nah, the dub’s real good but I’m sure the sub is fantastic too. Plus you’re gonna be waiting at least three years for the sequel if you like it so just turn on English for the replay. Also if you’re curious you can just use the cutscene viewer to see the first few scenes in English.
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Dec 18, 2020 14:14
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Dub is real good and features asian american voice actors getting good work. It also, personally, doesn't remind me of some dopes I work with who try to sound tough in business meetings.
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Dec 18, 2020 14:16
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Probably the weirdest part of the cracker shop/hobo life disconnect for me was (mid game plot spoilers) when the homeless yakuza, homeless cop, homeless hostess, and homeless hobo got captured, tied up, and Ichiban was getting tortured. I think I'd already finished the business stuff at that point, so the whole time they were going "Oh no, there's nobody to save us," I was picturing Eri standing just off-camera.
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Dec 18, 2020 15:21
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Ciaphas posted:would he even care, if he did No
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Dec 18, 2020 15:27
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I liked that the end of the side story with the vocational school guy who can't land a job ends with Ichiban all like oh yeah, I'm the president of that company. Forgot to mention that.
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Dec 18, 2020 15:29
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Ciaphas posted:(e) On the basis of the thread title and this game being Japanese As Hell, I switched straight from dub to sub before I even started LAD, was that an error あんまり
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Dec 18, 2020 15:31
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Got to the Majima fight last night and ended up having to leave, was a little underleveled. But MAN the music in this game whips so loving hardddddddddd
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Dec 18, 2020 15:38
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PantsBandit posted:Got to the Majima fight last night and ended up having to leave, was a little underleveled. Be sure to poison him.
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Dec 18, 2020 15:43
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Detective No. 27 posted:Be sure to poison him. Good to know, tbh even being underleveled victory didn't feel that far outside my grasp so I'm sure when I come back I'll be fine. I got ko'ed by their loving amazing tag-team move so I ain't even mad.
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Dec 18, 2020 15:46
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cheers friends just started chapter 5 and got aforementioned homeless barkeep in my party, so I expect the game will open up soon wonder when I get to craft or customize gear or whatever Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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Dec 18, 2020 15:50
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You're real close to unlocking it.
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Dec 18, 2020 15:51
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Saeko isn't homeless, she just hangs out in your shack because she likes having friends and you buy her beer
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Dec 18, 2020 16:21
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Kojiro posted:Saeko isn't homeless, she just hangs out in your shack because she likes having friends and you buy her beer Also, because you don't often meet a forty-two-year-old guy who's legitimately impressive when he takes off his shirt.
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Dec 18, 2020 16:38
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Saeko is the writers being like, “What if kept Kaoru in Kiryu’s story?” It would have kicked untold amounts of rear end if you could play as her
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Dec 18, 2020 16:38
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Played and beat 4 HD the other day. Felt like they changed the last battle because it felt like I didn't need the Sacred Tree set at all. The enemies were just more annoying by dodging constantly.
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Dec 18, 2020 17:11
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Darth Walrus posted:Besides, they're basically just merging it and the Omi Alliance into a legit security company. The fundamental organisational structure is still there, it's just that everything's a bit more above-board now. That said, Masato let a particularly dangerous genie out of the bottle, and it remains to be seen how long a really obvious ex-yakuza company will be allowed to stay legit in a country radicalised by Bleach Japan. I mean it's also obvious that a whoooole bunch of mooks aren't going to want to become goody two shoe security contractors since the whole point of yakuzas being a thing in the first place is that they don't fit in normal society for one reason or another ; so there's likely going to be a New And Improved Omi/Tojo Loyalist Rebirth down the line - Tendo isn't dead and probably wants revenge on just about everybody ; Ishioda may or may not have blown up but no corpse means he wasn't ; Lao Ma just doesn't know when to stop ; and of course there's the darkest, most savage oyabun of them all : Ono Michio.
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Dec 18, 2020 17:27
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Ghostlight posted:sometimes bullets just send you to ijincho like a zelda ocarina. It shares that characteristic with phenazepam
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Dec 18, 2020 18:47
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The ridiculous way the plot in Yakuza 4 has to contort itself to make Saejima retroactively not actually a murderer is absolutely hilarious.
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Dec 18, 2020 18:58
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Cactrot posted:The ridiculous way the plot in Yakuza 4 has to contort itself to make Saejima retroactively not actually a murderer is absolutely hilarious. Yeah, it still doesn't really redeem him that much because he thought he was killing people and basically put them in the situation that caused them to be killed. Also, if you do buy that it redeems him, it basically defangs a lot of the stuff Saejima said earlier in the game.
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Dec 18, 2020 19:14
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Also only mildly related, "Saejima doesn't kill people" is an even harder pill to swallow than Kiryu. Pretty much every single one of his heat actions would be instant death on a person, brains would be splattered all over the pavement.
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Cactrot posted:The ridiculous way the plot in Yakuza 4 has to contort itself to make Saejima retroactively not actually a murderer is absolutely hilarious. there's the cutscene in the ramen place where this is revealed when Katsuragi shoots everyone in the head, and then there's a bit later where Munakata the Chief Bad Policeman is like "uhhh the coroner found rubber bullet bruises on the bodies that were also all shot in the loving head, how are you this stupid" to Sugiuchi the Bad Yakuza Plant Policeman which i could simply not stop laughing at
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It's strange that RGG went to such lengths to establish that he didn't kill anyone. I don't get the sense that the average Yakuza player would have been outraged to see a playable character who is a real criminal. He's referred to by others as 18-count Saejima even after Y4 so it's not like he's very publicly declared innocent either. It's also weird that Yakuza 0 shows Majima being conflicted about killing Makoto (when he still thought Makoto was an abusive dude) when he was completely down to kill 10+ people just some years earlier. For a franchise that's all about organized crime (and karaoke), RGG are so reluctant to show the protagonists doing anything too illegal and for what? MIDWIFE CRISIS fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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Dec 18, 2020 19:45
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Arzaac posted:Also only mildly related, "Saejima doesn't kill people" is an even harder pill to swallow than Kiryu. Pretty much every single one of his heat actions would be instant death on a person, brains would be splattered all over the pavement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFqZfwrC0BQ&t=140s
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Dec 18, 2020 20:38
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Admiral Goodenough posted:It's strange that RGG went to such lengths to establish that he didn't kill anyone. I don't get the sense that the average Yakuza player would have been outraged to see a playable character who is a real criminal. He's referred to by others as 18-count Saejima even after Y4 so it's not like he's very publicly declared innocent either. To not get a CERO Z rating in Japan
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Dec 18, 2020 20:48
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Every time anyone (whether it was a storyline character or a random punk in the street) picked a fight with Saejima all I could think is "Really? REALLY? Of everyone here you're going to pick on the guy who looks like the love child of a grizzly bear and an Abrahms tank?"
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Dec 18, 2020 21:10
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Kobal2 posted:I mean it's also obvious that a whoooole bunch of mooks aren't going to want to become goody two shoe security contractors since the whole point of yakuzas being a thing in the first place is that they don't fit in normal society for one reason or another ; so there's likely going to be a New And Improved Omi/Tojo Loyalist Rebirth down the line - Tendo isn't dead and probably wants revenge on just about everybody ; Ishioda may or may not have blown up but no corpse means he wasn't ; Lao Ma just doesn't know when to stop ; and of course there's the darkest, most savage oyabun of them all : Ono Michio. That said, I can see some small form of redemption for Mabuchi at some point, simply so that Zhao's efforts for him eventually get rewarded. He'll always be ambitious, but he might not always be a monster.
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Grinding business to get enough money to upgrade the workshop and hey y'know what Why can't Ichiban Holdings just BUY romance workshop Dump some chump change into it so it can build all the good weapons, then sell it to get a higher earner Save me a lot of time 
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