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Okay I'm glad I didn't put too much effort into figuring that one out
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# ? Nov 19, 2022 19:36 |
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# ? Jun 9, 2024 01:05 |
Whenever I play Cee-Lo I like to pretend I'm Kaiji
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# ? Nov 19, 2022 20:51 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 41 - Hey Bob Bob's the only person in town who won't judge me
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# ? Nov 20, 2022 17:41 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 42 - The Jonkler, Baby Things really aren't going great for Majima
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# ? Nov 21, 2022 20:09 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 43 - The Tenth Of Every Month Is Taofa Day Look, sometimes we make jokes just for us
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# ? Nov 22, 2022 18:48 |
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"Sometimes"?
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# ? Nov 22, 2022 22:14 |
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Allow me to repeat myself:disposablewords posted:Yakuza is so weirdly in love with these giant underground illegal operations that draw in so many people there's no way they're still a secret. This is definitely one of the more absurd ones, though. When I said "underground" I meant that literally.
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# ? Nov 23, 2022 02:35 |
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Underground death match black site for the worst of the worst criminals that no court will convict, accessed by the most Metal Gear contraption outside of Metal Gear, in the middle of a bustling metropolis, with many, many people spectators, what do you mean, it strains believability that it's a secret?
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# ? Nov 23, 2022 02:44 |
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Kinda weird that nobody noticed the giant glass tube in the middle of the river, but hey, people are distracted I guess
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# ? Nov 23, 2022 02:52 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 44 - Guess Who Just hosed Up I don't want to tell the guy how to run his show, but if you have a cannibal clown, save him for a better reveal don't just send him in first
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# ? Nov 23, 2022 23:15 |
Danaru posted:Kinda weird that nobody noticed the giant glass tube in the middle of the river, but hey, people are distracted I guess the statue actor is in league with the underground fighting ring
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 00:25 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 45 - Tusk Is Playing The running battle levels are my favourites and Tusk is such a good theme
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# ? Nov 24, 2022 22:40 |
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Flaccid J. Pnurtis got fired because of the Let's Play format I was doing. Which is why I'm changing it up for his return!
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 05:06 |
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A stupid joke an episode a late but. Haven't you ever heard of Doctor CLAW!?
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# ? Nov 25, 2022 14:56 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 46 - Are We Cool?! I feel like we might not be cool
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# ? Nov 26, 2022 20:42 |
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So... Cyclist Wajima is Majima's Wario, right?
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 20:08 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 47 - Now YOU Get To Answer Some Questions You know this isn't even the last time Kiryu has to shoot down a helicopter with a handgun?
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 22:25 |
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He can Oda deez nuts.
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 22:58 |
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Re: is it usual to kill a lot of major characters in a Yakuza game: Well, it's a crime drama, so some people are gonna have to die. Yakuza 0 has the added bonus of being a prequel, so any totally new character is completely fair game. It still does an okay job of creating dramatic tension for the characters you know will survive, because it still puts them through some real poo poo. Some of the stuff, though, like the chase and the helicopter? This has got to be Kiryu and Majima at a bar like 40 years down the line, with Kiryu telling the story relatively seriously while Majima is constantly jumping in to just add some big bullshit. "This car was coming up after us, with a couple guys with guns, so I took Oda's pistol and managed to shoot out a tire, sending them into a wall--" "AND THEN THIRTY MORE CARS AND A HELICOPTER CAME AFTER HIM!"
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# ? Nov 28, 2022 01:47 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 48 - Til Death Do Us Part Every Yakuza game has a point where you can still do side quest, but you can't bring yourself to because holy poo poo the story is so loving good, and it's safe to say we've crossed that point
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# ? Nov 29, 2022 22:14 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 49 - Wanna See A Fun Prank? This is, in fact, the same game where we had to help a statue man not piss himself
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# ? Nov 30, 2022 23:10 |
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It wouldn't be a Yakuza game if you couldn't do wacky hijinks before and after heavy story events.
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# ? Dec 1, 2022 05:48 |
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You need levity to balance the heavy poo poo. If it was just a meat-grinder of non-stop sympathetic characters getting killed off it would numb you quickly, and when there's a story beat like in the last video, it wouldn't have as much of an impact. That said, I do hope we get to turn some assholes into bloody smears because we're running out of likeable guys quick.
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# ? Dec 1, 2022 18:41 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 50 - That's A Shimano Thing Meanwhile things are going great for Majima!
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# ? Dec 2, 2022 16:45 |
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This is something I'm really not fond of in the series, as a matter of storytelling - Yakuza loves masterminds playing people like fiddles. We already got some of it with Kazama and the whole thing around Tachibana Real Estate, how he's apparently manipulating so much of the Tojo clan from prison, anticipating so well how everyone would react. And now we've got Shimano declaring he knows Majima so perfectly for his grand plan as well. Ehhh. Maybe it lets up in the games I haven't played yet, but it doesn't feel like it so far.
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# ? Dec 3, 2022 08:19 |
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disposablewords posted:Maybe it lets up in the games I haven't played yet, but it doesn't feel like it so far. Nope, its a Yakuza tradition to have multiple masterminds per game.
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# ? Dec 3, 2022 18:40 |
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Honestly I kinda like it, everyone tries to manipulate each other and wind up eating poo poo for it Even Kuze and Awano tried to play manipulator but did such a hilariously terrible job that they basically got stuck supporting Shibusawa immediately. Also Kuze lost fingat Shimano's twist is stupid though, but Shimano sucks New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 51 - Bottle For A Bottle Kashiwagi's loving PISSED.
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# ? Dec 3, 2022 21:12 |
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People trying to manipulate each other and eating poo poo when it doesn't go the way they expect is neat. That's good stuff for crime drama intrigues. It's seriously just poo poo like Shimano sitting down and saying, "Ah yes, I sent you to do a murder because I knew you so well, that you could be pushed to accept the job but not enough to go through with it, blah blah blah," that I find really overdone. They do a mastermind twist in Yakuza 2 that just made me roll my eyes and I've been kind of stalled on the series since then. Also, man, Majima is just doing everything in the most self-sabotaging possible way. It's kind of amazing how much he's just trying to hurt himself and everyone he can get his hands on, while still getting the job done.
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# ? Dec 4, 2022 00:25 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 52 - I Wanna Start poo poo! How does she keep disappearing like this god dammit
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# ? Dec 5, 2022 17:08 |
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DAMP AF
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# ? Dec 5, 2022 17:56 |
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Okay but I do unironically enjoy watching Dan just gently caress around in these games. It's the essential Yakuza series experience. I cannot begin to count the number of times I sat down intending to advance the plot and then suddenly it's two hours later and whoops all cabaret club or pocket circuit.
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# ? Dec 5, 2022 19:50 |
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disposablewords posted:They do a mastermind twist in Yakuza 2 that just made me roll my eyes and I've been kind of stalled on the series since then. I won't say incase Dan is covering more of the series but I know the one and its legendary amongst the community.
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# ? Dec 5, 2022 20:08 |
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We're definitely going to keep going It's honestly taking a ton of effort not to skip the post game entirely and move on to Kiwami just because god I love Yakuza's story
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 02:26 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 53 - You Don't Pay For Drinks Anymore Makoto can you please just let me handle this
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 19:12 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 54 - Kuze No Aniki This fight does one of my favourite leitmotif tropes it's so good aaaaaaa
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:17 |
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 0 Episode 55 - Guns Are Not Fair I want to say "Who brings a gun to a fist fight?!" but honestly considering Shibusawa invaded like it was Juno loving beach, I can see how a few guns are still kicking around. Doesn't mean I have to like it though
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# ? Dec 9, 2022 22:42 |
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I'm sorry, did Grace say you wanted one more "shot pocket"? Did you invent a way to combine liquor and hot pockets? Because
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# ? Dec 9, 2022 23:20 |
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I got real sick of the same issues with this sequence and it was around here that Kiryu and Majima suddenly decided things like shotguns were fair game, for me. It makes sense that Shibusawa would finally go weapons free with his guys - he rapidly establishes that he doesn't have the pride or self-indulgence of Kuze or Awano, he just gets the job done - but it is, yeah, deeply annoying when a punch-focused game suddenly goes, "GUNS! With instant knock-down!"
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# ? Dec 10, 2022 03:04 |
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In narrow corridors where you can't use clever movement/positioning to not get shot no less. It's just obnoxious.
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# ? Dec 10, 2022 03:08 |
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# ? Jun 9, 2024 01:05 |
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Isn't there a lot of cover along the left in those long boat-side corridors? It looked like you could hide there (one of the gunmen did, when Kiryu was insistently shooting at the wrong one).
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# ? Dec 10, 2022 03:26 |