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SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
if I can do the tiger fight on hard mode in kiwami 2 I have truly bested the series

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Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

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SmokaDustbowl posted:

if I can do the tiger fight on hard mode in kiwami 2 I have truly bested the series

do it on a fresh Legend save and get back to me :getin:

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Dewgy posted:

do it on a fresh Legend save and get back to me :getin:

gotta beat the tigers in HD first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQOeOfL49V4

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

lmao the Komaki dance battle.

e: and Haruka has her own Amon clan battle :stare:

Bicyclops fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Jan 22, 2022

Brass Hand
Feb 27, 2020
Lost Judgment was pretty good. I’d rate it a bit higher than the first one due to the fairly rare gimmick missions (tailing, stealth etc). Story is pretty good too.

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

Brass Hand posted:

Lost Judgment was pretty good. I’d rate it a bit higher than the first one due to the fairly rare gimmick missions (tailing, stealth etc). Story is pretty good too.

how would people place judgement and lost judgement compared to all the yakuza games? my plan was to go yakuza 6, judgement, like a dragon and then lost judgement.

Brass Hand
Feb 27, 2020

Bicyclops posted:

how would people place judgement and lost judgement compared to all the yakuza games? my plan was to go yakuza 6, judgement, like a dragon and then lost judgement.

Even though the spoilers are limited to nods and winks to the past via the game world it is best to follow that sequence. There is no crossover from a character or plot perspective so it’s fairly safe either way.

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

periodically I debate skipping judgement but I know I'm just going to end up coming back to it, and I think I'll enjoy it more in sequence

Scythe
Jan 26, 2004
I would say do it based on if you feel like doing more beatemup or if you’re ready for a JRPG break

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Oct 11, 2012

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Bicyclops posted:

periodically I debate skipping judgement but I know I'm just going to end up coming back to it, and I think I'll enjoy it more in sequence

Lost Judgment is so much better than Judgment. You don't need to have played the first one to get into the second one either. In fact I'm pretty sure it does a cinematic retelling of the events in judgment (which aren't tied to LJ)

Neurotic Roleplay
May 20, 2005

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

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Seltzer posted:

Lost Judgment is so much better than Judgment. You don't need to have played the first one to get into the second one either. In fact I'm pretty sure it does a cinematic retelling of the events in judgment (which aren't tied to LJ)

this is extremely bad advice btw do not skip judgment what the gently caress

absolutely anything
Dec 28, 2006

~As for dreams, she has enough and more to spare~
i like judgment's story and characters but kinda hated everything about playing it, and lost judgment is the best playing yakuza since 0 but the story is just kinda ok. use this information to slot them into your personal ranking as you see fit

Fumaofthelake
Dec 30, 2004

Is it handsome in here, or is it just me?


Judgement is hard to go back to after Lost Judgement so definitely play it first if you have any interest.

Brass Hand
Feb 27, 2020

Dewgy posted:

this is extremely bad advice btw do not skip judgment what the gently caress

Brass Hand
Feb 27, 2020
Also for Lost Judgment it is defo worth paying a few bob more for the deluxe edition with the additional school stories as they are mostly a lot of fun.

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

the game gave me "lucky day" so i'm currently watching it play pachislot by itself.

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

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Brass Hand posted:

Also for Lost Judgment it is defo worth paying a few bob more for the deluxe edition with the additional school stories as they are mostly a lot of fun.

there's no additional missions in that dlc, it's basically cosmetics and items, all of the actual school stories are in the base game

but it does include a fourth fighting style and extra boxing opponents which is pretty fun

e: oh yeah the super deluxe will get the kaito dlc when it comes out too, and that actually is more story fwiw

Dewgy fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Jan 23, 2022

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

that was the most horrifying experience of my entire life. i'm not 100 percenting this game.

Seltzer
Oct 11, 2012

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Dewgy posted:

this is extremely bad advice btw do not skip judgment what the gently caress

Judgment is a lot worse than LJ. It's my least favorite in all of the series after 4. Back to just kamurocho, barely any activities, rear end combat, blue tint filter on everything, and tacked on detective poo poo that was just frustrating. Meanwhile I'm whipping rear end with snake style and I've just joined the boxing club in LJ. It's a much much better game. Imo you should play every yakuzaverse game but LJ is much much much better than Judgment.

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Nov 10, 2005

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Seltzer posted:

Judgment is a lot worse than LJ. It's my least favorite in all of the series after 4. Back to just kamurocho, barely any activities, rear end combat, blue tint filter on everything, and tacked on detective poo poo that was just frustrating. Meanwhile I'm whipping rear end with snake style and I've just joined the boxing club in LJ. It's a much much better game. Imo you should play every yakuzaverse game but LJ is much much much better than Judgment.

you’re not wrong in terms of general quality, LJ yagami basically starts the game as endgame Judgment yagami and there’s a ton of QOL changes, but the plot isn’t anywhere near skippable and the recap in LJ glosses over basically everything that makes it good

welcome
Jun 28, 2002

rail slut
5: this mountain is incredible. Also loving dying laughing at Saejima as karaoke hype man

Olive Branch
May 26, 2010

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

My roommate is currently playing Yakuza 2 and abusing the hell out of Kiryu's digestive system by downing appetite suppressants and eating entire course meals back to back.

Watching him do this and fight randos on the street is very amusing.

Scythe
Jan 26, 2004
somehow I apparently didn’t do like any minigames or other completion poo poo as I played through LAD, and so now I’m taking care of that before I do the finale. Turns out just checking off all the “order everything on the menu at X restaurant” completion items in a row by making the party go on a bar crawl owns. We’re all maximum drunk and mowing through underleveled idiots in street fights in between downing whole menus and therefore getting all the combo meal boosts and triggering all the table talk

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

Lunchmeat Larry posted:


Also the coliseum in this game sucks what the hell. Im just going to do victory road then beat the main story lol

this has been the wall i've been hitting, it loving blows and they introduce it right at the end of the game so it would be a marathon of doing just the coliseum. i think i'm going to get the last hostess since i did all the other ones, and i might try to finish some fishing, baseball and the casino games, and then i'm finally going to finish this.

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

lmao if you do all the hostesses, then for the last one in kamurocho, kiryu sees the hostess that shinada brings with him and thinks, in these words, hm, maybe that guy's not such a shmuck after all. I guess I better reconsider my opinion of him.

holefoods
Jan 10, 2022

drat, I'm surprised at the negative sentiment towards Judgment. It certainly wasn't a well polished experience but I thought it was excellent. On the other hand, I'm really struggling to get into Lost Judgment. Most Yakuza games start off slow but Lost Judgment is really taking its time getting going.

Brass Hand
Feb 27, 2020

holefoods posted:

drat, I'm surprised at the negative sentiment towards Judgment. It certainly wasn't a well polished experience but I thought it was excellent. On the other hand, I'm really struggling to get into Lost Judgment. Most Yakuza games start off slow but Lost Judgment is really taking its time getting going.

It does but it gets better

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

having a terrible day and i think the thing i just might need is to beat yakuza 5 tonight.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Bicyclops posted:

having a terrible day and i think the thing i just might need is to beat yakuza 5 tonight.

guaranteed to get the blood pumping even though I haven't seen it myself. the finales always deliver

Punished Chuck
Dec 27, 2010

The 5 finale might be the best one in the series, except for 6 but that’s the finale to Kiryu’s story as a whole so it’s not a fair comparison

Seltzer
Oct 11, 2012

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holefoods posted:

drat, I'm surprised at the negative sentiment towards Judgment. It certainly wasn't a well polished experience but I thought it was excellent. On the other hand, I'm really struggling to get into Lost Judgment. Most Yakuza games start off slow but Lost Judgment is really taking its time getting going.

Lost judgment becomes 21 jumpstreet about 1/3rd in and you're doing skateboard races, taking on sparring partners at a boxing gym, managing a high school dance team etc. and it's much much more fun than judgment

Fungah!
Apr 30, 2011

the 5 finale kicks rear end in so many ways, guaranteed to turn a day around

Lunchmeat Larry
Nov 3, 2012

I think the (K)1 and 2 finales are the best but 5 is very close and the last chapter kicks insane amounts of rear end

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

lmao for the last hostess, right after she directly says that she is inviting kiryu to go to a hotel with her to have sex, and it does the little sequence it does whenever anyone fucks a hostess, it cuts directly to her saying "so uh.... why didn't we have sex last night?" and i think the implication is that's been going on with every hostess and kiryu in every game.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

I think the (K)1 and 2 finales are the best but 5 is very close and the last chapter kicks insane amounts of rear end

the k2 ending is so goddamn epic.

RandolphCarter
Jul 30, 2005


Started playing the fist of the North Star game and god bless them for managing to put a hostess club mini game in there

Lunchmeat Larry
Nov 3, 2012

Bicyclops posted:

lmao for the last hostess, right after she directly says that she is inviting kiryu to go to a hotel with her to have sex, and it does the little sequence it does whenever anyone fucks a hostess, it cuts directly to her saying "so uh.... why didn't we have sex last night?" and i think the implication is that's been going on with every hostess and kiryu in every game.

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scary ghost dog
Aug 5, 2007

lol

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