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Crappy Jack posted:Good to see that I'm not the only one getting crazy D2 vibes off of that. Saejima, do you know anything about a man named Daisuki? Daisuki, do you know him Saejima? Daisuki, you must know him. Who's Daisuki? You were calling him in your sleep. Daisuki... Saejima, you have to think hard do you know a man named Daisuki.
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PunkBoy posted:I hope Saejima's section brings the return of beating up deadly animals with your bare hands.
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I like how they tend to actually develop the game before spouting about it. I mean sure it won't be until the end of 2013 until we get it officially in not-Japan, but it's a nice change from a whole year and a half+ of LOOK OUT OUR GAME! WE'RE GOING TO MAKE A NEW GAME! HEAR THAT NEW GAME WE'RE GOING TO MAKE? I'm going to assume the driving mini-game might be something like this
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DOOOOOOOORIFTOOOOOOOOO![]() Andriasang posted:We have an even larger batch of screens from Yakuza 5's "Another Drama" component thanks to an update at the game's official site. God drat, Nagoshi is going all out for this. If Kiryu's driving section doesn't have this song then it will have failed. Nagoshi, you worked on that game, DO IT. Check our Taxi Drifting, Deer Murder, and Harukam@ster 2 at the links.
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If Saejima's hunting segments do not culminate in some Rambo: First Blood scenario where he hunts some yakuza assassins in the woods, well, I don't know why they bothered. ![]() Jesus, five city areas, illegal street racing, hunting and eating animals, and teeny-bopper idol management. I love this goddamn series.
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I'm actually looking forward to Haruka's side thing the most because it seems so varied. You get to meet fans and take quizzes and go on TV to da-![]() Aah. ![]()
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Bocc Kob posted:I'm actually looking forward to Haruka's side thing the most because it seems so varied. You get to meet fans and take quizzes and go on TV to da- Is this not an accurate depiction of J-pop idols?
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She looks incredibly similar to another fictional Japanese pop star: Amami Haruka from The Idolm@ster.![]() ![]()
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Just remember that if we support this game, then Yakuza 6 will undeniably feature a plot where Haruka is kidnapped and Majima has to go undercover as a teen pop idol in order to rescue her at Kiryu's request.
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I'm still holding out hope that Majima runs a competing idol company and eventually challenges Haruka to a dance-off.
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I hope Majima dresses like an Idolm@ster in that dance battle.
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Crappy Jack posted:Just remember that if we support this game, then Yakuza 6 will undeniably feature a plot where Haruka is kidnapped and Majima has to go undercover as a teen pop idol in order to rescue her at Kiryu's request. Then the Yakuza team will finally get the idea that we all love Majima and they'll make a spin off series featuring Majima with his own full adventures, right? ![]()
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Ryuga Death posted:Then the Yakuza team will finally get the idea that we all love Majima and they'll make a spin off series featuring Majima with his own full adventures, right? Only if they make the Tanimura/Date/Sayama buddy cop game first.
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Bocc Kob posted:I'm actually looking forward to Haruka's side thing the most because it seems so varied. You get to meet fans and take quizzes and go on TV to da- Really, is it all that different than when she goes to karaoke? All that will be missing is Kiryu in the background going "L-O-V-E LOVE-LY HA-RU-KA!"
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Bocc Kob posted:I'm still holding out hope that Majima runs a competing idol company and eventually challenges Haruka to a dance-off. You participate in a training routine at Majima's alternative dance school, in which he uses a baseball launcher to punish you if you mess up once. God help you if you screw up again.
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SpazmasterX posted:Really, is it all that different than when she goes to karaoke? All that will be missing is Kiryu in the background going "L-O-V-E LOVE-LY HA-RU-KA!" I think the shock was less the outfit and more the intimidating interface that thing is rocking, there is what 20 buttons on screen there?
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A Sometimes Food posted:I think the shock was less the outfit and more the intimidating interface that thing is rocking, there is what 20 buttons on screen there? Welp, guess what's going to cause my controller being snapped in half? Tupperwarez fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Jun 22, 2012 |
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SpazmasterX posted:Really, is it all that different than when she goes to karaoke? All that will be missing is Kiryu in the background going "L-O-V-E LOVE-LY HA-RU-KA!" But that's the best part...
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A Sometimes Food posted:I think the shock was less the outfit and more the intimidating interface that thing is rocking, there is what 20 buttons on screen there? I think it depends on how fast they're going and the leniency of the scoring system. Then again, we're talking about Sega and Sega has done some... questionable things with regards to rhythm game difficulty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2A1op8QUA&t=101s But uh since Haruka's rhythm game looks like a re-purposed Idolmaster meets Yakuza Karaoke thing, I don't expect this to happen.
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Policenaut posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2A1op8QUA&t=101s Why yes, I do hate my fingers, thank you Sega! MGS torture sequences seem less straining than that.
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Level Slide posted:I hope Majima dresses like an Idolm@ster in that dance battle. Majima already dresses like an Idolmaster. ![]()
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Policenaut posted:(video tag) What do you mean, that isn't so OHGOD WHAT THE gently caress!? I doubt they'll have Haruka's minigame THAT hard.
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Well at least the poor sap only had to mash one button for a given line of notes.
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Policenaut posted:But uh since Haruka's rhythm game looks like a re-purposed Idolmaster meets Yakuza Karaoke thing, I don't expect this to happen. I can't believe this actually happened. This is what Haruka's gameplay should be like after her stage performances and hand shake meetings.
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Words simply fail me in trying to describe how awesome this is shaping up to be. Is there any particular reason they seem to have decided to create more new and varied content than the entire series so far as seen, two times over? Drift racing, hunting, idol sim, five cities? Are they trying to outdo GTA5?
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There is still no gameplay video out. ![]() The official site updated with events spread all over Japan: August 26 at Tokyo September 1 at Osaka September 2 at Nagoya September 8 at Sapporo September 15 at Fukuoka I have no clue what this is all about. All of the text are in images, so no online translator help there.
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While Haruka's busy becoming an Idol superstar, Kazuma's been... Giving pep talks to salarymen! ![]() Participating in rival taxi battles! ![]() Performing taxi heat actions! ![]() Making the manliest taxi in the world! ![]() More screenshots here I wonder if each character is going to get their own special "battle" mode?
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Hexempaler posted:taxi heat actions! As if I wasn't already sold on it already.
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Yechezkel posted:There is still no gameplay video out. I need to know more about this, as I can potentially go to the one in Tokyo.
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Kazuma Kiryu: Taxi Driver. The Yakuza series continues to make up for the combined failures of every other Sega franchise combined.
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I demand The Offspring play while you race.
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So what do people think the chances are that Yakuza 5 actually makes it outside of Japan? When Sega announced Dead Souls for an American release I figured the franchise's future was safe, but now all this financial trouble stuff came up and now I'm worried they won't localize this one.
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TechnoSyndrome posted:So what do people think the chances are that Yakuza 5 actually makes it outside of Japan? When Sega announced Dead Souls for an American release I figured the franchise's future was safe, but now all this financial trouble stuff came up and now I'm worried they won't localize this one. If they don't localize it, after going through all the trouble to promote 3 and 4 (to mixed results, admittedly), I will go on a goddamn rampage.
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Thankfully, localization for Yakuza is probably much cheaper than other games simply because no English dubbing is added.
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From what I understand, localizing Yakuza games are relatively cheap due to it not having a dub. Since the last few games sold decently enough to recoup the low localization cost, Yakuza 5 will most likely be released in English.
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Yakuza 5 will probably take longer and cost more money to localize due to the virtue of it actually being a new game with a lot of new content, rather than the previous game with updates.
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Zettace posted:From what I understand, localizing Yakuza games are relatively cheap due to it not having a dub. Since the last few games sold decently enough to recoup the low localization cost, Yakuza 5 will most likely be released in English. You say this, but they actually cut out a decent chunk of content from Yakuza 3 just to save costs on not translating the text. I think just translating these games costs more than most people assume.
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TechnoSyndrome posted:You say this, but they actually cut out a decent chunk of content from Yakuza 3 just to save costs on not translating the text. I think just translating these games costs more than most people assume. That was part cost cutting and part "Americans are really stupid sooooo" assumption on Sega of America's part. At the time, they genuinely believed an American audience wouldn't understand or care about the removal of mahjong, shogi, or hostess clubs. When everyone threw a fit about it, it was too late to put it back so when it came time to localize Yakuza 4 they kept them due to fan demand. Answer x Answer is cut from every localized version of Yakuza, but that's something Sega is very upfront about. It's an insanely detailed Japanese cultural trivia game with a ridiculous amount of unique assets that, according to SoA, would take months to localize. On top of that, it's not a very popular mini-game, like even the Japanese don't seem to like it very much.
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If it would get Yakuza 5 here I would go to Sega and translate the drat thing myself for literal peanuts...or maybe a couple sandwiches. This is how much I need this game.
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I'm not really worried about Yakuza 5 not being localized. I'm sure it will be, I mean we got Yakuza 3 (I know it had a ton of cut content, but we at least still got it), Yakuza 4, and Dead Souls so I'm expecting 5 to come out just fine.
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