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There's a bunch of yakuza games free on game pass. They all look a bit too jrpg for my tastes, but y'all do y'all.
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Biplane posted:There's a bunch of yakuza games free on game pass. They all look a bit too jrpg for my tastes, but y'all do y'all. It's a jrpg where the random battles are 3d brawlers instead of turn based (except the newest one)
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Feb 14, 2021 12:47
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Biplane posted:There's a bunch of yakuza games free on game pass. They all look a bit too jrpg for my tastes, but y'all do y'all. k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z29qvp5QHy4
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Feb 14, 2021 12:59
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Yakuza 0 is often cheap and the best place to start. It's just a plain great game. The only problem with Yakuza 0 is that it's almost too good an entry point, it's the best in the series at most of the stuff it does, so chances are wherever you go next in the series will be a step down in some degree.
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Feb 14, 2021 13:00
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Exactly.
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Feb 14, 2021 13:31
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDDUqSqED4 To be fair, when it comes to ridiculousness mentioning the latest Yakuza game is kind of cheating.
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Feb 14, 2021 13:59
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Like A Dragon is one of the best and most loving parodies of JRPGs I've ever seen. The in-game explanation for why combat us turn based is because the protagonist is a nerd and contextualizes everything through the lens of being a Dragon Quest game. Even though, instead of the party being comprised of scrappy kids, the first three are a 42 year old ex con, a 41 year old homeless guy, and a 59 year old former DMV agent.
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Feb 14, 2021 19:24
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packetmantis posted:Every new thing I hear about Yakuza makes it sound stupider and stupider. Oh absolutely. But in a good way.
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Feb 14, 2021 19:35
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Yakuza is a very good series about singing karaoke and beating up some people between songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRV3mL-QR-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhe7rcDUTeI
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Feb 14, 2021 20:31
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Started playing Valheim and it is kind of fun how if you cut down a tree that's close to another you can end up knocking it over too when the first tree comes down.
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Feb 14, 2021 21:30
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Also fun is getting trolls (big aggressive dudes) to destroy trees and ore deposits by smashing everything. They just go hog wild while you're playing a dangerous game of chicken, and when you finally kill him you've got cart loads of resources as well. The game is weirdly addictive, there's only a basic system of crafting and resources compared to mine craft or the like, but they keep you continuously entertained enough to keep going. After 20 hours a friend and I finally built our own Viking boat, a step up from our tiny raft, and we had a blast until there as well as it feeling like a huge accomplishment. The game is a good mix of minecraft and dark souls, as I like it for it.
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Feb 14, 2021 22:54
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I'm a little late to the party on Breath of the Wild, but goddamn, it actually lives up to the hype and hooks me when I'm not usually into Zelda games nor open-world combat-oriented Ubisoft type stuff, though it feels like each balances out the worst excesses of the other. Plus a big world that's actually quite well designed, and you're gonna run into something interesting no matter where you go for the most part. Got an almost Subnautica esque sense of sheer awe encountering both the whale skeletons and the live dragons, and was pretty amazing to see where you can see one of each in the same place. And you can see the dragons having left physical marks on the terrain at times- the massive trench on top of the Gerudo Highlands made me think 'yep, a dragon did this' and lo and behold not long after I saw the dragon flying through it, and it looks like all the windmills in the northwestern canyon were probably but there to take advantage of the high winds the other dragon kicks up as it flies through. Akkala is also interesting because it's not often you have a region where people in it admit that it's basically the boonies where not a lot happens. (though they're not necessarily right, especially since that's where the town-building sidequest takes place)
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Feb 15, 2021 09:52
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Akkala is also interesting because it's not often you have a region where people in it admit that it's basically the boonies where not a lot happens. (though they're not necessarily right, especially since that's where the town-building sidequest takes place) They do something fun with this in Age of Calamity, to make use of the fact it's set a hundred years in the past. Specifically, they flip Akkala and Hateno's significance; Akkala Citadel is the Hyrule military's secondary stronghold after the Castle, so there's a good few missions set in and around it, because it hasn't fallen yet. Meanwhile, you participate in the defense of Fort Hateno that let Hateno Village stand and develop as one of the few intact settlements in BotW--but because that hasn't happened yet, the Village itself is barely actually mentioned because nothing's going on there. Cleretic has a new favorite as of 10:57 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 10:53
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Yakuza 0 is often cheap and the best place to start. It's just a plain great game. "This game sounds really dumb" is a strange thing to read as a request for somewhere to start.
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Feb 15, 2021 18:25
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packetmantis posted:"This game sounds really dumb" is a strange thing to read as a request for somewhere to start. Disagree, some of the best games ever are extraordinarily dumb.
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Feb 15, 2021 18:33
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:Disagree, some of the best games ever are extraordinarily dumb. Sleeping Dogs (even the title doesn't make any sense) is one of the dumbest games I've ever played and I really enjoyed it.
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Feb 15, 2021 18:36
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Sorry, I only play smart games, like Braid 
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Feb 15, 2021 18:37
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:Disagree, some of the best games ever are extraordinarily dumb. so get this you are a chubby plumber who jumps on turtles and mushrooms
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Feb 15, 2021 19:04
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packetmantis posted:"This game sounds really dumb" is a strange thing to read as a request for somewhere to start. What games do you enjoy that don't sound dumb as he'll?
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Feb 15, 2021 19:24
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ImpAtom posted:What games do you enjoy that don't sound dumb as he'll? Baba Is You is a game about pushing word blocks around to change the nature of reality
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Feb 15, 2021 20:40
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Or hey, breath of the wild is about picking up the peices and resuming a quest to slay a great evil 100 years after the first attempt failed. Its also a game where you surf on shields, fight a very angry rock, and help build a village entirely filled with people whos name ends in son.
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Feb 15, 2021 20:45
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Zoig posted:Or hey, breath of the wild is about picking up the peices and resuming a quest to slay a great evil 100 years after the first attempt failed. You can go to Iceland?
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Feb 15, 2021 20:56
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every time somebody posts about stuff that happens in Yakuza it reads like someone in an office describing a dream they had
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Feb 15, 2021 20:58
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Alhazred posted:Sleeping Dogs (even the title doesn't make any sense) is one of the dumbest games I've ever played and I really enjoyed it. The title doesn't make sense until very nearly the last line of the game lol Sleeping dogs is so over the top it owns
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Feb 15, 2021 21:14
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packetmantis posted:"This game sounds really dumb" is a strange thing to read as a request for somewhere to start. you seem to be in the wrong thread
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Feb 15, 2021 21:36
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ilmucche posted:The title doesn't make sense until very nearly the last line of the game lol
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Feb 15, 2021 21:38
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When I first heard about yakuza many year ago I thought it was some serious, mafia type crime brawler, but not very polished. Then years later I learned that it was extraordinarily silly game and decided that I really don't need any more Japanese weirdness in my life. Only after a friend had been mainlining 0 and kiwami did I decide to give it a chance, and man am I glad I did. Whoever said it plays the main story straight and just goes off the rails with anything else was completely right. Honestly everyone should give 0 a chance, though I have problems staying interests with the other parts.
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Feb 15, 2021 22:05
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I'm most of the way through the room 4 and something I've come to appreciate about this series is how much work the devs put into the sound. in a game about looking for hidden buttons and sliding panels and secret hinges, it turns out it adds a lot for everything to have really satisfying foley sounds as things slide into place or snap open, as well as good surreal ambient sounds during scene transitions
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Feb 15, 2021 22:07
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OutOfPrint posted:Like A Dragon is one of the best and most loving parodies of JRPGs I've ever seen. The in-game explanation for why combat us turn based is because the protagonist is a nerd and contextualizes everything through the lens of being a Dragon Quest game. I thought that in jRPGs people retired at 30 and died at 35?!?
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Feb 15, 2021 22:20
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Yakuza 0 is basically Japanese Mafia movie main story and soap opera / variety show on the side quests. It feels a lot like being more in on the joke with it being interactive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJbE3uWN9vE And it's full of charming and completely skippable moments like your karaoke being so good you begin to become part of the music video. A game where I built a multimillion dollar property empire to beat a child at loving cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQS4RMDbHvo Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 22:32 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 22:29
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Kiryu's victory pose and music after winning a slot car race is perfection
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Feb 15, 2021 22:57
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That's missing the second part of the quest, where Kiryu returns to the kid with the info only to find him crying because his dad was kidnapped by ocean-hating Yakuza while he was out researching his report. Kiryu decapitates them both with a bicycle and then they apologize and promise to from this day forward to love and take care of the ocean. The kid and his dad are fine and give Kiryu a piece of tempered glass for his trouble. Kiryu closes his eyes and chides himself for forgetting to ask what the benthic zone actually is.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:19
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SkeletonHero posted:That's missing the second part of the quest, where Kiryu returns to the kid with the info only to find him crying because his dad was kidnapped by ocean-hating Yakuza while he was out researching his report. Kiryu decapitates them both with a bicycle and then they apologize and promise to from this day forward to love and take care of the ocean. The kid and his dad are fine and give Kiryu a piece of tempered glass for his trouble. Kiryu closes his eyes and chides himself for forgetting to ask what the benthic zone actually is. 1) That's called Fistplomacy 2) Kiryu has never killed anyone
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Feb 15, 2021 23:29
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No one said it was a lethal decapitation.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:31
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he kills them, but they live
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Feb 15, 2021 23:35
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It got memed to hell, but I still love the part of Yakuza 0 where you hire Nugget as a property manager.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:36
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Towards the end of Yakuza 2 a character says "A real man oughta be a little stupid" and drat if that doesn't sum up the entire franchise.
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Yeah I've heard of Yakuza but never played any of them until Like A Dragon. I have heard about the goofiness of the games but it was a series I never really paid attention to for whatever even. Ichiban's goofy rear end haircut and changing the gameplay to a turn-based RPG won me over though. I'm not sure what's funnier about LAD, making all the dudes Breakers and watching them shuffle around the battlefield and then flex on fools with their dance moves or the fact that some of my attacks consist of things such as throwing ashtrays, smushing a birthday cake in their face, or smacking them with a giant pepper mill and then covering them with pepper as my guys scream about their enemy being the secret ingredient. Definitely trying the other games starting with Yakuza 0 if they are just as goofy as LAD.
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