After going through Yakuza 3, I started on Yakuza 4. Now I'm on chapter 2 and damn, do they keep upping the badass level of the characters all throughout the end?
I didn't think anyone could compete with Kiryu, but here comes Saejima to fuck shit up.
>>323774554
He is pretty cool, yeah.
>literally who
>was in jail for 25 years
>ONE OF TWO PILLARS OF TOJO CLAN
Currently playing yakuza 1 and the game crashed after I had defeated all the goons at the funeral :(
fucken emulation
>play almost any other open world game
>get lost in the world for about ten hours and then stop playing since I feel burnt out
>play a yakuza game
>get almost 100 hours if not more and don't regret a second
why are these games so special
>>323777397
because theyre fun
>>323777397
Also I'm playing 5 and any time this comes up it just hits me hard for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67DrOmEp4s0
>>323775490
>Muh Kyodai
>>323777397
Pic related
>>323777397
Because they have a soul and history you get to experience.
That and how far the combat has come is ridiculous. I replayed 1 and its insane how far 0 is from it
>>323777397
Personally speaking Yakuza (and Shenmue) are the only games like this where I feel less like I'm playing in a sandbox and more like I'm in a world.
>>323775490
>decide to take a fall and be the biggest badass on the planet
>wear like 8 guns
>supposedlyshoot a fuckton of yakuza for the sake of the clan
>get put away
>not being worshipped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxo7ZHuooFk&index=1&list=PL3FD42D8487E07DBD
>Kazuma and Kaoru
>very good friends
GOOD FRIENDS?
>Kaoru leaves for the US
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW what the fuck were they thinking
>>323774554
>tfw got burnt out on yakuza after forcing myself through the slog that was 1
help me
>>323778001
thats life brah
>>323778065
Oh sure but after the ending in 2 and starting 3 straight after that I expected something hell of a lot more
>>323778001
why didnt kiryu just pack up his shit and go with her
he could have taken haruka and resettled and became a famiry
>>323778137
I feel like they forgot about her until the last minute and had to make something up for the people that did remember her.
>>323778189
At this point Kiryu could literally travel to the moon and set up a little moon colony with Haruka and the sunshine kids and he'd still be dragged back into the Yakuza world somehow.
>>323778214
awesome writer changed for shitty writer
game needed an excuse to have kazuma visiting hostess bars without him being cheating bastard
>>323778238
maybe that'll be the plot for yakuza 6
>shinji revealed to have survived his gunshot wound, has his face altered to look like kiryu, commissions the tattooist to give him the same tattoo
>final boss is an unwinnable fight against kiryu who was called in by daigo because you've gone too far
I played dead souls and got to kiryu's part.
The game was shitty enough with the framerate and odd controls but since I love Yakuza I tried to play through. Then I get to the flying fuckasaurous zombie and my QT army lady says "Use a sniper rifle" when i was never given one at the game.
That point pissed me off to quit, I know I could have bought one but still.
>>323777558
God Kiryu really despressed me in 5. Fuck Mrs Park for guilt tripping Kiryu to leave the orphanage just for her YUME bullshit.
Also Kiryu's boss mentions Kiryu got beaten up by thugs when he tried to help his boss when he arrived in fuckuda 6 months befor the game. Kiryu getting beat up? WTF
>>323774554
Rubberbullets
Y3 and 4 were retarded in story department
>partway through akiyama's chapter
>see kamiyama works, decide to dump some money into it just because and invest whatever it's asking for item-wise
>shinada's chapter
>same thing only I'm using them religiously now because he's a weapons guy
>some items say "you need to invest [thing you got in kiryu's chapter and sold off because you didn't think you'd have any use for them] to see this"
well I fucked up
>>323779212
Maybe it's just a thing like with Saejima at prison where he didn't want to start shit
>>323778065
>>323778001
Their big star writer left after Yakuza 2. New guy didn't know what to do.
IMO Y3 and 4 show how important Hase Seishū was
>Ishin has the best fucking combat in the series with the gun/sword form and is easily one of the best fucking games on the PS4
>Sega decided to be complete fucking retards about localization and wasted a perfect opportunity to get some attention towards the series with the PS4's library being fucking empty for over a year since launch
>Instead they shit out Sonic fucking Boom
>>323779449
Anon part of being a segafag is just accepting that they're incompetent and hoping for the best.
>>323779364
I guess, Kiryu was just real depressing in 5.
Untill I got my moves back from Sosuke Komaki.
>>323779449
Yakuza Ishin is never getting localized. Just play the Japanese version, there's a complete English guide anyway that explains every single cutscene.
>>323776316
retry it ! it crashed on the PS3 emulating PS2 and a friend had it crashing on his ps2. After a few tries it works. Dont know why, it's game related.
3 was good
4 was better
5 is awesome
Serious,y, all the stuff in 5 like the different cities, side-missions (in addition to the sub-missions), Haruka's part, etc. So much variety and fun.
Also most of the characters are really likeable.
Can't wait for 0 and 6
>>323776316
I think the game crashed for me too at that point. I think I just gave up and bought the actual game.
>>323780196
0 isn't as good as 5 though imo. It does run really good on PS4. I just don't like the different fighting styles that much. Ishin did it good because it had different weapons but in the regular Yakuza games I wouldn't miss it at all.
>>323776316
>>323780436
I've only had it crash when you've got to save Haruka from the Triad. Better to just save with the emulator around the parts you are crashing.
Albeit, you might not have the right specs for running the game or a bad version of the game.
>>323775490
He's confirmed strongest guy in the series.
He's stronger than Kiryu, probably stronger than Ryuji.
Kiryu however is the best well-rounded fighter overall, but Saejima can still fight him to a draw.
>>323780487
Rush style is the best. However Majima's street fighting style and his Mad Dog style are shit.
>>323778001
>implying japs would want their nippon banzai action hero to settle down with some korean bitch cop instead of continue to bang hostesses and be a dad to Haruka and the orphans
>>323780583
the guys who had it crashing on ps2 had to rewatch the funeral video each time he tried but it finally worked :/
>>323780650
Nope you are wrong.
I fought Kiryu as sajima in 4. Of course I won but with little health.
Then I kicked sajimas ass in 5 with most of my health.
KIRYU IS BEST!
Also why does Ryuji look 60 in Dead Souls? He cant be older than Kiryu.
>>323778063
You take a healthy break, brah.
You play some shit games, make yourself starve for some primo vidya.
Then you cut into Yakuza2.
That's some good shit right there, man.
>>323779219
All Yakuzas are retarded in terms of story.
The point is being the man amongst manliest of men. Not telling a sensible, coherent story.
>>323780807
Saejima has 5/5 strength.
Kiryu only has 4/5.
They are still equally matched with all of Kiryu's Komaki-style h4x.
Also,
>4
>Saejima all fucked up from escape, no decent healing items
>Kiryu constantly going heat and red heat
>Saejima still manages to fight evenly
>>323780807
well, he's back from the dead you know.
>>323781125
In all honesty Sajima my second favorite fighter only because of his gorilla like punches.
I do prefer him looking like pic related however.
Why is 5 not in the HK store
Why is there no physical version
Why does Kiryu look a lot younger in Yakuza 6?
>>323781717
It's his son.
>Post YFW you finish theunderground deathmatch in 4
>>323782968
4 was easy as fuck
>>323782721
that would be dumb
>>323783480
Yeah. Just like Yakuza 3-4-5 were.
>that con girl who tricked you into drinking in the bar
ITS NOT FAIR WHY DID I TAKE THE DRINK WHY AM I SO NAIVE?
>>323783697
Oh you poor little boy.
>>323781717
Nope, they won't jump into the future. The game will take place in 2016 again.
Is 3 the definitive starting point?
>>323774554
Man,rubber bulletswas such fucking bullshit, it takes saejima's entire story, the guilt and respect for life aspect, and just shits all over it.
It legitimately makes me angry
>>323785318
More like 4, if you don't want to start with 1.
HOLY SHIT KIRYU BEAT MY ASS IN 4 NIGGA DOESNT PLAY AROUND
>>323781125
Kiryu was also in Hawaiian shirt mode though, Which is when he's at his most held back.
I'm pretty sure they're both roughly equal levels of monster strength. Consider how physically handicapped Kiryu was during the entirety of 5's finale, that shit was bleeding almost non-stop
>>323787201
Kiryu can't pick up motorcycles though.
>>323785451
this
>>323787293
He could but he forgot, evidently
Zero's styles carry some weird Implications
>>323787483
Yakuza 6 starring Punished Dragon.
>>323785451
>>323787362
Well he still meant to kill those guys, and he still spent 25 years punishing himself for it. Whether he killed those guys or not is immaterial, he still intended to, and his time in prison still instilled him with that basic respect for life and maturity he was lacking in before. It just highlights how much of a soulless cunt Katsuragi is.
>>323787579
pls no
I wont survive a second time
>>323787682
>Y5
>Kiryu looks old and tired as fuck
>working as taxi driver
>wearing old man's clothes
>Y6
>Venom Kiryu
>looks young
>wearing sport clothes
>jumping on roofs
I'm inspired!
>>323787874
I really hope not
>>323787906
>>323787874
Please no
>>323788062
Some say she's still floating there to this day.
>>323787874
Haruka's butt confirmed for fountain of youth
Saejima loses his badassness when it's revealed thathe didn't actually killed those people, and did not realize those were rubber bullets, seriously what the fuck game writers.
I want to protect her yume.
>>323788542
The one actual upside of rubber bullets is I watched the bit where he kills those eighteen guys and thought the way those guys reacted to getting shot was wrong, but I just put it down to Japan not knowing shit about guns. Knowing those are actually rubber bullets actually justifies that scene. It's still fucking retarded, especially when Munakata gave Arai a gun loaded with them hoping he would shoot him in the chest and not the far more obvious target of his face, but that part of it at least works.
>>323788756
Better bring a safety net then
What is the difference between the "Asia" and the "Japan" version of Ishin? Any cut content orbDLC stuff i should know about?
>>323789117
Asian version has even harder to read Chinese squiggles on the screen. That's it. I heard the Asian version of 0 actually uses a famous Hong Kong actor for the likeness of Majima's final boss whereas the regular Japanese version doesn't, but that might be wrong.
>Yakuza Zero
>Don't own a PS4 cause poor
>"The PS3 version of Zero won't be localized"
>Get to Saejima's chapter
>That long-ass slow start
Jesus fucking Christ, when can I do anything by myself
>>323789454
won't be out for at least a year, how hard is it to set money aside
>>323789454
So? Just wait untill you get PS4. Why would you want to play a game in 720p with 20fps when there's 1080p@60fps version?
>>323789454
Well the PS3 version is a terrible gimped port, so no real loss. 6 and Kiwami are coming out on the PS4 anyway, so there's at least three games you can buy to justify getting one. Four if you count Ishin.
>>323789603
>console
>60fps
Way to show your retardation, champ.
>>323789559
He has the worst chapter. Dat pace
>>323789821
yeah
>>323789821
>shitposting in yakuza thread
>>323774554rubber bullets
>>323789821
Calm down. It's true. 0 does run at 1080p/60fps.
>>323777842
And then it's revealed that he did fucking nothing.
Is there an easier way to win Shogi in 5 other than downloading a Shogi playing program and just following that, or just farming Give Up pieces from sea fishing attache cases? Do the challenge boards at Shoten count towards completion, or does it have to be an actual ranked match?
>>323789454
well there was that rumor that 0 is coming to pc
>There are people who liked Saejima's old design better
literally why
>yfw Baba is going to fuck Haruka
>>323790951
And that rumor is full of shit desu.
>All Yakuza games on PC starting from 0
>Despite no HD in west
>Despite the fact that they can't keep up with localisations at all
>Despite the fact that it's a series for Japs first and foremost
>Despite the fact that SEGA's PC releases are region locked so Japs can't buy
>>323790979
Saejima is fucking retarded in 5 with all his kyodai bullshit. Like really, he looks more dumb than Daigo which is not that easy to achieve.
>>323790979
He's dressed like Schwazenegger in the first Terminator movie.
>>323791030
He was attempting murder twice. He'll sit behind bars for long now.
>>323791137
>Yakuza 6
>HELP BABA BREAK OUT OF THE PRISON
>>323790951
I can see something like Vanquish on PC, Yakuza not so much
muh kyodai
>>323791815
>>323785451
It doesn't take anything from his character (maybe makes him kinda dumb, but can't really blame him for not wanting to look at the mess he caused).
>>323791815
>muh yume
>>323788542
Nah, I disagree.
How many times are they going to pretend to kill Kazuma? Ever since 2 they do that
>>323792079
Sega writers can't find the way to end the game without putting knife in his gut.
>>323788542
He fully intended to kill them, and thought he did. He shot all of them at point blank range. That takes a lot psychologically. I don't think he's "badass" because he did that, but I do think that there's little difference between the what he did and actually killing people. So he's still hardcore. He isn't any less of a murderer.
If someone stabbed you with a knife, fully intending to kill you, they wouldn't suddenly be a good person if it turned out to be a fake knife. They've still got the mindset of a killer.
Why Haruka is so lewd?
>>323792340
I think when he said it was fucking scary he really meant it.
I liked that scene.
>Akiyama doing karaoke for Konnan Ja Nai
JESUS CHRIST MAN CALM DOWN
>>323792390
Welcome to the Idol world. Now go run around the street for a bit while we film you.
Just want to say thank you to Yakuza /v/. You guys are awesome, help everyone and are big fans.
Thanks guys.
https://youtu.be/mi3Mr-o5ROk
>>323795747
>1080p
He hacked PS4 version, huh?
>yfw you saw Saejima with his dumb student in the karaoke song
>>323796226
That was the one moment in his life where he was truly happy
why is there some bald faggot with tattoos pixking fights with me
>>323795958
PS3 version upscaled.
>>323796419
Better question is why all the fucking hosts are picking fights
>>323789259
>inb4 jackie chan
0% chance of happening, but i'd kill for a jackie chan boss battle
