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El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
repost:

Giving Yakuza 4 as a ps+ game was an excellent decision by Sega because I've never bought a Yakuza game and never knew what kind of game they were but now that I've played 4 I'm definitely going to buy 5.

Now I really want Yakuza 0 for ps4 if it ever gets released in the US

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El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I'm also in chapter 4 but my question is can I ever play as Akiyama again? is there at least a post game where I can switch characters at will?

There are a bunch of things I didn't get to do with Akiyama...

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

Crappy Jack posted:

Also in Yakuza 4, once you beat the game, you unlock Adventure Mode, which lets you run around in basically a sandbox version of Kamurocho, with no missions to complete, just the ability to run around completing sidequests and playing minigames, but this time in goofy costumes. You can switch between characters at will and do everything then.

Cool

The coliseum is lots of fun

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
Pachinko is the weirdest game ever

I have no idea what's going on at all

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
Just loving around I walked into an massage parlor called love in heart

this loving game :stare:

I only managed to score 12000 points and the massage girl gave me the "don't worry it happens" speech while Akiyama looked embarrassed as hell

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
Yakuza 0 on ps4 looks good and it has a film noir sense to it but it's still obviously a ps3 game.

It's hard going from Yakuza 4 where Kiryu hits so hard and fast to this game where he starts out so slow

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
Just finished story mode in Yakuza 4, my question is: why is Kiryu such an rear end in a top hat to Haruka? I take her out to eat ice cream and Kiryu only buys ice cream for himself while Haruka watches, I go to Sega Club and Kiryu plays games all by himself while Haruka watches silently...

What a lovely uncle

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

MrLonghair posted:

The final set of battles of Kiryu's chapter in Yak4 can eat so much dick. Not hard, just an unfunny chain of stunlocking rear end in a top hat encounters where the dickhead with a one-handed melee weapon is more lethal than a guy with a shotgun and also harder to grapple with than anybody else. They improved so much in encounter design between Yak4 and Ishin.

Kiryu is a goddamn murder machine I don't know why you had trouble with any of his fights unless you were underleveled.

The Essence of Terror move I think it's the one that allows you to wipe about 5 full health enemies in a single heat move.

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

Terminally Bored posted:

Ha ha ha, is he singing about that dojo guy?

Kiryu sings the same song in the Yakuza 0 demo, no weird picture of Saejima with dojo guy though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybJ675TQKEY

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I liked the presentation tbh, only some cutscenes were that way anyway, there were plenty regular cutscenes.

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

cat doter posted:

How hard is the demo to navigate if you have an extremely thin grasp of Japanese (I know a few phrases and can't read it at all)? For real I've seriously considered learning Japanese just to play Yakuza games. I'm a little nuts.

As long as you've played other yakuza games you should be fine, I know zero japanese and beat the demo easily.

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
Do they really have giant traffic cones just lying around Tokyo?

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
This video has everything that's in Yakuza 4, hobos, drunkards, salesmen, even an ambulance taking one of Kiryu's victims to the hospital.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufnZKlAD8gU

but no giant traffic cones

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
Zero's upgrade system reminded me of like Final Fantasy X's sphere grid.

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
The best song in 4 is that Kamurocho love story song or whatever is called with Akiyama and Hana imo

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

abagofcheetos posted:

After watching a few Zero streams today, it NEEDS to get released in america... holy poo poo there is so much hilarious stuff. The music for the hostess club mini game owns.

I just watched a stream and I was like "drat this is a long rear end cutscene" turns out it was the ending of the game, not like I understood anything they were saying but still.

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

Salsa McManus posted:

Welp, seems like we might get some 90s Yakuza then. Hopefully. Were the 90s wonderfully tacky in Japan as well? I'd love to see Kazuma and Majima in windbreakers.

Kiryu and Akijama dress like Miami Vice characters in Yakuza 4 and 5

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

mikeycp posted:

My only guess would be something like that. They don't want people misrepresenting the game by not knowing what to do or wandering aimlessly at any given point.

I watched a stream and the guy kept ramming into every door on the streets to see if he could go in...

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I just found one of Yakuza 6's new mini games

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

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
Yakuza 5 is on the "coming soon" section of the ps store and has been there for a while and that's where Sony puts their most highly anticipated games, I really doubt they're gonna make it a day one ps+ game.

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I wonder what's going to be the price, Metal Gear 5 is launching at $50 and that's a brand new game, if they want people to buy Yakuza 5 they should price it at $40 imo considering this is a 3 year old game launching in a last gen system.

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

can't wait to play it in 2022 when they finally bring it to america

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
The thing is they don't know how to market this game at all, there's so much fun wacky stuff in Yakuza games but then to promote the thing they make a bunch of boring videos with Gio "UltraGoon" Corsi asking two Japanese guys a bunch of boring questions...

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
Real life Shun Akiyama

http://www.bnn.ca/News/2015/8/28/While-many-panicked-on-Monday-one-Japanese-day-trader-made-34M.aspx

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
it was kinda funny how the PR guy in that twitch video didn't remember the name of some characters like "and his right here is... uhh... uhhh... ah yeah Akiyama"

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I really want to play Y5 but I really don't want to use my PS3 anymore

decisions

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
lol at Kiryu still having a flip phone

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
best Yakuza song is still Pure Love in Karumocho

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I've been watching some jvlogs on youtube but none of those idiots ever go to Kabukicho :mad:

guess they don't want to get kicked on the chest by an impossibly tall yakuza

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
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I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

Samurai Sanders posted:

Once my parents were in Shinjuku alone on their way back from visiting me and I from their description, I think they wandered into there at night by accident. A gangstery looking guy deliberately ran into my dad's shoulder and looked at him meaningfully. He took the message that they didn't belong there.

lol I love that those random encounters also happen irl

but why don't they want foreigners there? wouldn't it be good for business if they go to the hostess clubs and stuff?

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

Samurai Sanders posted:

I think it's more that a middle aged married couple who don't know Japanese are probably not going to be putting any money into the hostess club business there.

they don't know that maybe your parents are really kinky ;)

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

Samurai Sanders posted:

Huh, one of the hostesses in Kiwami is lesbian...though I am 95% sure that's just the intro to a plotline to straighten her out. poo poo.

lol today I saw the bit about the Fire Emblem game where you drug a lesbian to make her straight and fall in love with the MC but that plotline was deemed too problematic for the west :kingsley:

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/21/nintendo-alters-controversial-fire-emblem-fates-scene

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I've never played a fire emblem game in my life just going by what the article says

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
combat in 6 looks brutal but the camera is really bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA0TSi_lbaI

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I imagine real life yakuza at least like the idea of having a game made about them because it validates them on a certain level.

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
it does seems weird that Kiryu only has a back tattoo now that I think about it

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I think we've been deceived, the real yakuza look nothing like Kiryu or Saejima :mad:

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
Been watching that Kenzan LP by Egomaniac and it's so good, Kiryu is kinda like an Edo period Geralt of Rivia.

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El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I can't believe some people complain about Saejima's chapters, it's so good with so many ridiculously awesome poo poo lol.

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