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The idea that Yakuza 4 would even have player characters other than Kiryu seemed insane at the time.
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I guess that is good cause I haven't spoiled too much for myself. Yakuza 3 and 4 share the exact same engine, right? I'm really excited to get to 3 and see how it compares to 4 since I assume it is more like the first two and sticks to Kiryu's story.
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Jul 18, 2013 18:23
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Housh posted:I guess that is good cause I haven't spoiled too much for myself. Yakuza 3 and 4 share the exact same engine, right? I'm really excited to get to 3 and see how it compares to 4 since I assume it is more like the first two and sticks to Kiryu's story.
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Jul 18, 2013 18:26
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Really? I thought Binary Domain was using their new engine that they also used in Y5. I thought the demo for 5 felt less clunky than 4 but maybe that was the pretty graphics playing tricks on me.
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Jul 18, 2013 18:47
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Sega spoke a bunch about how they were making a new engine for Yakuza 5, although I don't know if that was legit or if that was just them cribbing from the Call of Duty marketing.
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Jul 18, 2013 18:49
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Honestly the only thing that ever bothered me was the loading time between fights and roaming. I guess if you played a lot of JRPGs with random battles you would be more used to that and it wouldn't cause a disconnect.
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Jul 18, 2013 18:54
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Policenaut posted:Sega spoke a bunch about how they were making a new engine for Yakuza 5, although I don't know if that was legit or if that was just them cribbing from the Call of Duty marketing.
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Jul 19, 2013 01:55
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Yakuza 5 fixes the loading for fights and I think that's it.
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Jul 19, 2013 02:00
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I'm nearing the end of Yakuza 2 and I'm getting scared that I'll be out of Yakuza soon. I just have Y3 left...how bad was Dead Souls? I think I might as well pick it up since I'm in this deep already. $20 new sound right? Kenzan! looks amazing specially after learning about the Tojo past in Y2. The PSP brawler Shinshō looks really cool too which I never heard of until recently. Has anyone played it?
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Jul 19, 2013 16:50
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Dead Souls was amusing, 20 dollars is certainly a good price. Just keep in mind that it isnt so much a shooter as it is a beat-em-up with guns.
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Jul 19, 2013 17:38
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It's worth the price of entry just for being able to play as Majima. Not to mention that you can go do some karaoke as him which is amazing.
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Jul 20, 2013 05:08
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Do you really miss out on anything if you play the games out of order? I ask because I was planning to pick up Yakuza 4, as the consensus seems to be that it's the best jumping-on point. However, is there any determent with going back to the older games in terms of gameplay, or concerning spoilers with the digests in Y4?
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Jul 20, 2013 08:23
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Max Wilco posted:Do you really miss out on anything if you play the games out of order? I ask because I was planning to pick up Yakuza 4, as the consensus seems to be that it's the best jumping-on point. However, is there any determent with going back to the older games in terms of gameplay, or concerning spoilers with the digests in Y4?
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Jul 20, 2013 08:55
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The games come with recaps of the past games so jumping into a later game isn't a problem story wise. However like most games, jumping to an older game will make you miss the gameplay improvements the newer versions have. So it depends on how much you care about such a thing. Yakuza 2's fighting system and moving around the city feels different enough from Yakuza 3 and 4s that I think it's not that big of a problem to go back to and it won't feel as such a downgrade. Yakuza 1 is really clunky though.
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Jul 20, 2013 10:02
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I played Yakuza 4 first and now am going through all the old ones. I'm having a great time and I'm glad I played Yakuza 4 first to ease me into the series. Pretty much the same sequence of events happen in every game. The only thing they did different with the formula in 4 was have new characters that did the sequences instead of just Kiryu. Going back I didn't find Yakuza 1 to play that clunky. It wasn't like playing Assassin's Creed 1 after playing through 2. Also the first two games seem very short compared to 4 so you can fly through them if you were to revisit.
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Jul 20, 2013 17:17
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One nice thing about playing them in order is getting to see the city increase in fidelity with each successive iteration while still remaining familiar and instantly recognizable as "the same place". Can't think of any other games that try anything similar. It's really neat.
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Jul 20, 2013 17:33
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Yeah I agree. I had trouble navigating Kamurocho when I started Yakuza 4 and was super frustrated by the map but now playing 1 & 2 I just know all the streets and where everything is. It's a really awesome series.
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Jul 20, 2013 17:39
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tooooooo bad posted:One nice thing about playing them in order is getting to see the city increase in fidelity with each successive iteration while still remaining familiar and instantly recognizable as "the same place". Can't think of any other games that try anything similar. It's really neat. I just wish they would add more places than they do. I mean it is cool and all that I can go into the same store for like 4 straight games, but at this point half the buildings on the map should be enterable.
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Jul 20, 2013 19:30
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Housh posted:I played Yakuza 4 first and now am going through all the old ones. I'm having a great time and I'm glad I played Yakuza 4 first to ease me into the series. Pretty much the same sequence of events happen in every game. The only thing they did different with the formula in 4 was have new characters that did the sequences instead of just Kiryu. Going back I didn't find Yakuza 1 to play that clunky. It wasn't like playing Assassin's Creed 1 after playing through 2. Also the first two games seem very short compared to 4 so you can fly through them if you were to revisit. Additionally, should I hold my breath on the Yakuza HD Collection coming to the US? I ask because copies of Y2 on Amazon are far more expensive than any of the other games.
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Jul 20, 2013 22:32
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Max Wilco posted:Thank you. That makes me a lot more motivated on picking up Y4, and the rest of the series.
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Jul 20, 2013 22:47
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See if you can hold your breath until the end of September in case they announce the HD remakes at Tokyo Game Show. A friend gave me their PS2 and I'm bored as poo poo this summer so I picked up 1&2. I got them from eBay used $30 for both shipped. I just sent a best offer to the guy who was asking $40.
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Sorry, but I have another question: When Yakuza 4 shipped in the US, it came packaged with DLC codes for bonus modes, like the Fighting Arena, and Survival Mode. Looking on the PSN store, I found a free DLC pack, but it seems to list different content. If you're buying the game used, is there no other way to get that content?
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Jul 21, 2013 04:43
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I'm pretty sure it's the same poo poo. I have the retail North American copy and the code slip says: Bonus dlc featuring unlockable costumes for the characters, new game modes "endless survival tag" "battle king" and "speed king."
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Jul 21, 2013 05:55
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Housh posted:I'm pretty sure it's the same poo poo. I have the retail North American copy and the code slip says: Bonus dlc featuring unlockable costumes for the characters, new game modes "endless survival tag" "battle king" and "speed king."
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I went and picked up Yakuza 3 & 4 yesterday to finish up all the side-quests and mini-games that I didn't play on my first run through of the game. When I installed both games and went to load my saves, my PS3 said that I didn't have any saved games, even though I looked in my save folder and cloud folder, and they were there. Is there some kind of trick to get these save files to load, or am I screwed?
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Jul 21, 2013 19:43
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Wild guess but did you use any DLC? If so then maybe you have to redownload them.
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Yeah, I did download the DLC when I played both games, I'll go see if that's the problem. Edit: Didn't work. That sucks because I beat both games on the hardest difficulty so I had two nice save files 
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Jul 21, 2013 19:46
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Did you happen to play the games on a different profile than you're using now?
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Jul 21, 2013 20:52
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Nope, using the same profile as before. I'll just have to beat both games again.
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Jul 21, 2013 22:29
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Max Wilco posted:I ask because copies of Y2 on Amazon are far more expensive than any of the other games. If you're lucky, you might find it at a local GameStop for $17. That was how I found my copy.
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Samurai Sanders posted:I guess people who are ignorant of that, ignorant of how bad VC3 is, and ignorant of how awesome Yakuza 5 is, are the people who are voting. Yakuza 5 is just such a high bar I'm dying to see how they'll improve upon it. I mean it's really head and shoulders above the other games.
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The WiiU demo of Yakuza 1 & 2 HD will be up today in the Japanese eShop.
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Does anyone remember what Tanimura's throw move is before you unlock the armbar takedown thing? Is it just a normal shoulder throw? It's been a while and the armbar takedown was one of the first moves I unlocked so I spent very little time without it so I can't remember what it was at all.
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I just finished Yakuza 2 and I think I enjoyed it more than 4. I really hope we get the HD versions cause I would love to have an excuse to play it again. I'm gonna take a short break before I start 3. I got Dead Souls in the mail and was looking at the back of the box when I noticed it actually supports 1080P. Does 5 run in full 1080 too?
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Jul 26, 2013 06:32
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Housh posted:The PSP brawler Shinshō looks really cool too which I never heard of until recently. Has anyone played it? It's worth a look if you're really into the Yakuza series. I wouldn't recommend playing it all the way through if you don't know Japanese though. I tried to without a guide and ended up lost and confused thirty minutes in and spent four hours utterly destroying street punks with MMA finishers.
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Jul 29, 2013 05:42
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Finished Y3. I think it was my least favourite of the series but I still have Dead Souls to go. I'm actually really curious to see what Dead Souls is like after marathoning the series. I hope it's all comedic relief.
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Housh posted:Finished Y3. I think it was my least favourite of the series but I still have Dead Souls to go. Definitely. There's a lot of good along the way, with one of the manliest events in the entire series, but ultimate antagonist is the least badass so far.
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Housh posted:Finished Y3. I think it was my least favourite of the series but I still have Dead Souls to go. I'm actually really curious to see what Dead Souls is like after marathoning the series. I hope it's all comedic relief. This is an unpopular opinion but it's one of my absolute favorites. Y5 is definitely the tops though.
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Ok so I finished part 1 in dead souls and goddamn is the camera and aiming a nightmare. It's pure torture as the cutscenes and story are great. Even though it's been super easy playing on normal so far I am thinking of putting down to Easy so I can fly through it. I don't get it...the shooting in Binary Domain was fine. How did they botch this?
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Well, Binary Domain was made afterwards; Dead Souls is really sort of a trial run for that game and it shows.
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