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If I were in charge, the next Yakuza game you'd play the whole time as one of the people who hand out pocket tissues and that's all you'd do for combat segments. All sorts of move styles and heat moves to handover a thing of tissue. constantly encountering thugs and situations where a little tissue is the answer.
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ZiegeDame posted:This is Rikiya erasure and I will not stand for it Especially when it comes to 3, where the whole plot is focused on the bonds between men, oaths of brotherhood, and forbidden, unrequited love! No, wait, there's Dragon Day Care, and the delightful juxtaposition between the world's best dad resolving found-family peacefully and a grown man who throws temper tantrums when his yakuza-mom chews him out. That's the other part of Y3 that matters.
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May 28, 2022 17:27
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Khanstant posted:If I were in charge, the next Yakuza game you'd play the whole time as one of the people who hand out pocket tissues and that's all you'd do for combat segments. All sorts of move styles and heat moves to handover a thing of tissue. constantly encountering thugs and situations where a little tissue is the answer. Barker job for Ichi and crew. In addition to being non-lethal like all Yakuza combat, it's super-extra-non-lethal like Snake style. Debuffs like Name Drop (We've got girls! Yes, even her!) and instant KOs like Magic Tissue ('Scuse me! Does this smell like choloroform to you?)
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May 28, 2022 17:36
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I'm 2 drink links in Joon Gi-Han is my husbando Edit: Namba omg I'm hype for this surprise birthday party 
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May 28, 2022 17:53
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PSA: do not get clever and try to run Lost Judgement in "performance mode" on a Series S, because the RGG studio apparently are very bad at xbonx the option is off by default. i'm just saying don't get all smug and be like "gimme all the rez". it doesn't actually even make the game look better either lmao
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May 28, 2022 18:57
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ZiegeDame posted:This is Rikiya erasure and I will not stand for it Rikiya hive, engage!
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May 28, 2022 20:30
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May 28, 2022 21:32
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Joon GiHan going first and his ability to just shoot guns makes out leveled substories so funny. Persimmon sniper, hothead reporters, a dude pissing in the river. The smaller the stakes the more it makes me chuckle. Edit: I am dreading the surprise party. Like I know that Futaba-san and Mizue-chan can't be the same person. Just can't be. Edit edit: oh noooooooooooooooo Edit edit edit: Best surprise birthday party ever This game has like 3 friggin tricks it pulls over and over through 8 games and I keep falling for it on different ways. KirbyKhan fucked around with this message at 03:26 on May 29, 2022 |
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May 29, 2022 03:10
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ZiegeDame posted:This is Rikiya erasure and I will not stand for it Kiryu trying to get rid of Rikiya throughout all of Yakuza 3 made me feel bad for Rikiya. Then our boy goes gets kidnapped by Lau Ka Long and I felt even worse for him. He was just trying to be a bro but ended up being a pain.
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May 29, 2022 18:28
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RareAcumen posted:What the gently caress?! The faces are the original operator's faces, so you are seeing Hibana and Echo with Yakuza costumes. When Majima comes out, it will be a full character override for... Echo again. There's a skin for Leon from Resident Evil 4, it uses Lion's face and the Leon stuff is just a costume.
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May 30, 2022 01:33
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Kimchi is the answer to anything I know nothing about.
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May 30, 2022 03:10
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I just started Yakuza 5, and jesus loving christ... I've seen and laughed at some outrageously violent and hilariously mean-spirited heat moves before, but Essence of Face Dragging might legitimately be the single most brutal thing I've ever seen in a game. It's not even that graphic, but the animation makes me wince every single time.
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May 30, 2022 16:21
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Omi no Kami posted:I just started Yakuza 5, and jesus loving christ... I've seen and laughed at some outrageously violent and hilariously mean-spirited heat moves before, but Essence of Face Dragging might legitimately be the single most brutal thing I've ever seen in a game. It's not even that graphic, but the animation makes me wince every single time. yea, it owns. There's also this one red finisher where Kiryu piledrives a dude head-first into the pavement, a stream of blood shoots out of his mouth and he goes limp. Kiryu has never killed anyone
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May 30, 2022 16:38
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grate deceiver posted:yea, it owns. There's also this one red finisher where Kiryu piledrives a dude head-first into the pavement, a stream of blood shoots out of his mouth and he goes limp. Kiryu has never killed anyone Weirdly enough the Kiryu one didn't bug me, but Saejima's Essence of Bell Ringing in 4 freaked me out, as did Majima's thing in 0 (which may've been in the other games?), where he leans over a downed enemy and empties an entire teapot full of boiling water on the poor guy's face. It's really weird how some of them screw with me, and some of them don't- on paper the pliers and box of nails are way worse, but they don't bother me nearly as much.
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May 30, 2022 16:42
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i have rammed so many magazines up dudes bums
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May 30, 2022 17:01
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precision posted:i have rammed so many magazines up dudes bums better than a fluted pole i guess
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grate deceiver posted:yea, it owns. There's also this one red finisher where Kiryu piledrives a dude head-first into the pavement, a stream of blood shoots out of his mouth and he goes limp. Kiryu has never killed anyone this one is saejima but yes it's very ott
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May 30, 2022 17:22
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precision posted:i have rammed so many magazines up dudes bums Man, you are really going to enjoy the yakuza games when you finally get round to them.
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speaking of saejima, the one where he rips an electrical unit out the ground is funny because of the enemy waving their hands and shaking their heads like "jesus christ please don't throw that at me"
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Sudden Javelin posted:speaking of saejima, the one where he rips an electrical unit out the ground is funny because of the enemy waving their hands and shaking their heads like "jesus christ please don't throw that at me" this one always owns when you're doing it to one of those "cool guy who you need to beat up and acts friendly afterwards" side missions
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Sudden Javelin posted:speaking of saejima, the one where he rips an electrical unit out the ground is funny because of the enemy waving their hands and shaking their heads like "jesus christ please don't throw that at me" What he didn't realize is, (4 spoilers) TEPCO secretly gave him rubber electrical units and rubber pavement. Honestly my biggest laugh-out-loud feel the heat moment in the entire game is probably Saejima's first sequence in 5, where after a whole build up about wanting to avoid violence and be a better person, he dramatically tells a prison yard full of scumbags that he's going to kick their rear end but take care not to kill anyone... and then 5 seconds later this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr5V2lCDF_E&t=230s Saejima is like a reverse One Piece character who ate a Gum Fruit that turned everything else into rubber instead of him.
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Sudden Javelin posted:speaking of saejima, the one where he rips an electrical unit out the ground is funny because of the enemy waving their hands and shaking their heads like "jesus christ please don't throw that at me" I loved using that against Majima in Kiwami because his expression when you do so is just excellent.
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I feel like there's one where you jam some sort of stick up someone's nose. Forget which game.
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Ytlaya posted:I feel like there's one where you jam some sort of stick up someone's nose. Forget which game. Essence of covid testing
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Finally finished Lost Judgment and much like the first game I just couldn't stop taking selfies for some reason! Here's a few of them: ** minor LJ spoilers **  Literally blinked in the very first one     The main plot is pretty mixed, but I do like all the little hangout moments in the beginning. Even the bumbling principal is a pretty likable guy.   The real problems start when the entire plot starts to focus on these two. You loving suck, Kuwana!  I probably spent an hour on this train platform looking for the last camera. God, I hated this part.  I did like that kidnapping people and dragging them to an old arcade has become a running theme of the series.  We all took a break from getting beat to poo poo to go play the VR game, right? They should have had the random customer service people act unnerved when you approach them covered in blood like this.     Overall I thought the pretty low stakes MRC substories were much better than everything going on in the main plot, even if some of them dragged it out a bit too long.   I did most of the school stories at night though, which makes Yagami come across as a real creep!  This is the worst room in the game.      Kamurocho is pretty sparse in this one, but the DLC adds some pretty good substories. The derelict hotel filled making a return and being filled with perverts was a definite highlight. Also featuring a surprise cameo from 'Voluptuous Woman', the nameless lady from the secret casino who Yagami befriended in the last game.  They created this entire gym to use it twice for two brief cutscenes. It was really begging for a minigame where you challenge students to a game of HORSE or something.    They really overdid it with two Saori dressup sequences, but they let her take selfies this time at least.  Sometimes the random passerbys will pose for selfies too, only this one got stuck doing it backwards so it just makes it look like she was making fun of us?  I like the hermit's whole vibe, but does anyone actually use extracts? I used the ridiculous laser one during the ending for kicks and the beatdown one to clown Amon but that was about it.  My pet theory is that Kashiwagi got the funds for this place by just embezzling everything from the Honest Living Association from Y3. There's a reason that big dumb castle never comes up again    I took selfies in these two nondescript rooms because these are the only two times in the game where you're in a building fighting guys and it gives you a save point. It's so weird and out of place and I wonder if it was a holdover from YLAD that they just used for the hell of it.  I also snapped this one just because it's another oddity. They sealed off Little Asia in LJ but left it on the map, all so they could use it for an extremely lackluster parkour sequence.    Yagami cheating on multiple women again! I didn't bother with the nurse.   There's a real dearth of disguise opportunities in LJ, so I used the ninja school alley to snap a quick photo of Bramsylvania Yagami. Not sure why the red warning signs appear in selfies though?    You do get the chance to wear a disguise around town late in the game, so I took the opportunity to throw it back to homeless Yagami from the very beginning of the first game. Still has a better fit than regular Yagami imho  Group photo!  The endgame is such a mess I have no idea why Yagami was even wearing a suit when I took this. Was there a courtroom scene I completely glossed over mentally?   Instead of vanishing from the gameworld entirely in the post-game, Kaito and Higashi are just perpetually nodding off at their places of business, which is a nice touch.  And as always, it ends with this guy. Or his brother, or something? I can't keep them straight. Wolfsheim fucked around with this message at 01:18 on May 31, 2022 |
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Somehow I never connected yakuza Kashiwagi from the early games to bartender Kashiwagi until I read that post.
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at some point there will be full-blown fatality heat-moves where you rip someone's skull and spine out of their body and in the cutscene after you're the one hunched over looking like you barely made it out alive.
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** BONUS KAITO SELFIE ROUNDUP **   I only took a few selfies because frankly, the Kaito Files is extremely short. Had to stop by the three best Yakuza haunts, though.    There is this sequence I enjoyed where you're supposed to be urgently rushing up the stairs to rescue someone from a raging building fire. Not so urgent I couldn't snap some sweet pics first!  You never get the chance to use the camera at this guy's baller countryside home, which is a shame. I took this awkward selfie as a consolation prize after a group of thugs chased me in here and knocked over his table.  Not as much Higashi as I would have liked either tbh!!!   ~it's like poetry, it rhymes~  One obligatory superboss fight and that's a wrap on Kaito as well! Overall I really came around on LJ by the end, but the Kaito Files is a much better, much more distilled experience overall. Here's hoping they go full Y0 dual protagonist for the next one, Even Harder to Find Judgment.
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You could even have different gameplay segments for a Judgement game, with more court stuff the lawyer group. Instead of caberet club you get arcade management sim.
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precision posted:PSA: do not get clever and try to run Lost Judgement in "performance mode" on a Series S, because the RGG studio apparently are very bad at xbonx
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Yeah performance mode across every single console and game is the “I don’t care how lovely it looks just give me all the frames you can” option. Because more frames is what is generally considered to be better performance.
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...so I don't know why I find this so funny, maybe it's because I haven't played a Yakuza game in a while, but the photobook minigame in 5 is the funniest loving thing I've see in weeks. It makes poor Kiryu look like a goddamn serial killer:
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Kiryu is the boomer blueprint
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selfies in yakuza 6 are so particularly good. all of kiryu's expressions for them boil down to variants of the kind of horrible selfies you'd expect from elderly people on facebook staring directly into the camera
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i've started playing 6, and it's really surprising me. my impression of the game from far away was that it suffered from being the first dragon engine game (and i mean it does, in that it clearly lacks content compared to the monster that is 5) but it actually feels way more polished than what i've seen of kiwami 2 and even 7 does. 7 is janky as gently caress and can look pretty weird in a lot of the cheaper made side activities and i took that as just a fact of the dragon engine but i guess it really isn't when they completely nailed their first attempt. also helping of course is how the game is actually fully voiced instead of only halfway there and completely lacks the classic text box conversations. i'm impressed! i don't even mind the smaller variety of heat actions because i never managed to use most of them in actual combat anyway lol
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Tbh the main thing that sticks out for 6 is that Kiryu just kinda felt impotent in his combos, combined with the EXP system feeling badly implemented compared to K2. And probably the worst substory implementation in a post-remaster Yakuza world. It’s a game I largely was not feeling but I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
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fyi, as soon as you get free roam access in onomichi during the day, clear out the substories. like a third of the substories and minigames are locked behind doing baseball the first time, and that's only available during fairly brief windows.
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Of course i was doing that anyway but good to know Although I've been all over town several times and i haven't seen anything about baseball. Where is that?
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I think the baseball bit is gated behind some story stuff at first?
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Oh, i found baseball. In true yakuza fashion it was just invisibly on a nondescript stretch of sidewalk i hadn't quite walked down.
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