Yakuza thread

Same OP from last thread, you guys know what to do,if you dont, post all your stuff on yakuza. BTW other thread reached bump limit so yeah

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>Never finish yakuza 1 back in the ps2 age.
>Never touch the series ever again

Just downloaded ps2 emulator and playing the 1st game.
>Save the doge!

Ishin was shit, a literal prototype for Zero

the mahjong instructing user from the last thread should post to the yakuza series pastebin

Best EDITION coming through.

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Well user, save the dog!

I'm actually surprised you people liked Yakuza 2 considering there was a woman beside Kiryu there.

I liked Kaoru so I'm biased for 2. Also considered Yakuza 2's final battle theme the best, 0 is close second.

please elucidate

I really enjoyed the last thread, but sadly I have to go. Hopefully you guys have another good one and I can just read through it once it hits the archive.

Have fun kyodai

>IIIIIIIII RECIEEEVE YOUUUUUUU
what did he mean by this?

Kaoru was well-written. Doesn't hurt that she was pretty qt too. They wasted a render of her in 3 for some godforsaken reason. She was in there for 5 minutes and then fucked off to America.

>They wasted a render of her in 3 for some godforsaken reason.
Fucking this. She was around mid 20s in Yakuza 2 right?

Then her render made her look like 35+ or something. The fuck. I was actually looking forward to her in Yakuza 3. Then the fucking writer made her fuck off for some reason I still don't understand what.

no love just punching

Ishin Haruka best Haruka!

youtube.com/watch?v=RaHpspRzbS0

>Daigo missing, AGAIN.
>Chinese Mafia back
>Haruka preggers "allegedly"
>Akiyama best boi

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nah

those of you that played kiwami, 0, ishin, or kenzan, how do you guys understand how to play the game if all the menu options and overall game is just in japanese

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Why isn't Yakuza on PC?

>the face of Kiryu when he has to come back to Kamurocho
>AGAIN

Kiryu is so tired man.
Just let him stay in the orphanage for fucks sake

Because PC gamers are arrogant and always shit up threads with their "HURR DURR YOU MAD CONSOLE PLEB? U MAD? U PLAYIN THE INFERIOR VERSION. PC WILL ALWAYS BE SUPERIOR LMAOOOO IS THERE EVEN A REASON TO BUY A PS4 ANYMORE?"

Looks kinda of a clusterfuck

You have the Chinese & the Korean mafia back. You have ONCE again the Tojo clan being a bunch of fuck ups.
Then you have all the shit going down in Hiroshima.
And a baby

cause the series is not well known in the west, where PC single player gaming is most dominant (you dont even have to research to know that this is the case, literally PC gaming in Asia is about MP), so single player RPG games have always been monopolized by Sony's platform, plus, the series was born in the sony platform so why bother with unknown hardware when you can make another game. Idk just a theory of why, but we can always hope cause we managed to get 5 over here after 3 years

Sega. Although they've said they wanna slowly start releasing games on PC. We'll have to see.

>Literally tells the guy to shut up and fight him already because he's sick and tired of this shit

So based.

I stopped playing 5 near the end of Kiryu's chapter because I got burned out. At the time I couldn't get a clear answer on this but maybe now I can: Does the game "open up" near the end and let you freely switch between characters or do I have to wait for a NG+ cycle to do any quests I missed? I hated being torn between progressing in the story and finishing up side activities.

Last chapter is where all the MCs come back and you can switch them.

Sadly it looks like the party's over, great threads, probably the next great thread will be at an info dump or when 6 does get released.

There's not real point making threads after big ones 404, just let them die down, and make another a few days later.

I just want PC yakuza so I don't have to get a PS3 to play 3-5

what was the point of bringing the triad boss from yakuza 1 back in 3

all he did in the story was get shot and killed by
the secret cia twin brother

Have a boss fight;

To finally kill him off I guess..

i heard it was because the new write staff wanted to distance themselves from the old writer
same why they killed kashiwagi
also stupid in that kiryu cried and shit when rikiya died but hardly responded when kashiwagi died

haruka probably found the kid and wants to raise him to find meaning in her life like how kiryu raised her instead of just staying in jail after 1

>then fucked off to America
more like got fucked in america amirite?

BLACKED

who is the father?

>kiryu gets a cd in the mail from kaoru

I wish these games had more "unique" takedowns in fights. Don't get me wrong, they have some amazing ones, but for every cool takedown there's been 3-4 times I tried to do a heat move near an object thinking something cool would happen just to do one of the generic ones. Thankfully from what I've seen 6 is really ratcheting that stuff up.

Already confirmed not to be Haruka's child, dumbo.

[citation needed]

1 had some that only happened in certain areas, like the dice game with haruka
i think kiwami had an achievement for doing all the unique heat moves that were in one in kiwami
i would like more unique moves but they need to fix combat first, its too easy
0 was on the right track but it was still far too easy, i hope 6 is more difficult

it belongs to the kissing couple

>Playing 1 for the first time
>Buy paintings from a crappy artist
>Give one to a homeless person and a store owner
>"In 5 years time they're world famous"
Well, do we ever see the artist again?

probably got killed off in 3 lol

>YFW Yakuza 6 has Takeshi's Challenge Easter Eggs

fuck yeah

there has to be a course

>have to do ridiculous stuff like in takeshis challenge to find all the locker keys
>finding them all doesnt do anything, not even an achievement

>YFW it's eventually translated 20 years from now as MXC references

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Wait, I mixed that up with Takeshi's Castle. Point still stands however.

Goro-nii wants Kazzy's dragon of dojima to daigo his Majina.

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>One of the keys is unlocked by playing on Kareoke song 3 times perfectly
>Another requires losing every ball you have at Pachinko
>The final locker is just a shitty low res pic of Kitano's face saying "congratulations"

post some songs bros
youtube.com/watch?v=IDq0s2_IZu0
cant wait to hear this again. getting the style was so worth it

I took my shit from the last thread, put the last few posts in a better order, added resources and tried to make it look decent for a guide image.

For all the anons who wanted to figure out what the fuck was going on with the Mahjong parlours in Yakuza.

Where can i find good guides for the non-localized games, specifically the hd versions of yakuza 1&2

>final key requires full game playthrough with out taking any damage on ex hard
>have to start a new game to find out, game does tell you until you only have 1 key left

God bless you!

you can use thepatricks guides of 1-2 he made for the ps2 games on gamefaqs
khhsubs did kenzan, ishin and started 0 but stopped since it was announced for localization
i think hes helping with the kurohyo english patch too

So if you guys could have any japanese celebrity have a role in a yakuza game, who would it be? For me it would be Matsumoto Hitoshi.

for me it was takeshi kitano, and then most of the guys from the dead or alive movies but they all were in the games already
probably the emperor, that would be pretty sweet

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Thank you user

Hanakana as a yakuza princess from a rival clan.
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She would be both cute and thretening

damn i gotta play kurohyo again shit was fun
also i miss the jazz theme the music had. brought such a nice vibe. the music team they had for kiwami really shit the bed with all the songs
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no prob user, its was i used for the 1-2 hd collection and the rest of the games
good enough to play without any major probs

seriously though what the fuck is wrong with daigo?
hes fucked up in every single game, even in 2 when he was in jail because he was tricked by goda

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It's so good.

based

ishin was fuckin on point with the music youtube.com/watch?v=gfU85CIy9HM&index=5&list=RDqD_KMwg--vk

Does this guide translate the cutscenes at all or just give you a general idea of what you should be doing

Yakuza 6

Receive and Mourn You

the patricks guides do translate the cutscenes if i remember right, at least for 1
khhsubs doesnt translate line for line the cutscenes in ishin but does a pretty detailed summary
i dont know how the kenzan one is i havent used it
his ishin guide is great, very indepth not only into the scenes but the sidemisisons and minigames and the like

Receive and Leave You ;_:

/Jp/ has a constant mahjong thread

The pastebin is pretty good

General information
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>It's Majima mourning Kiryu
>take control of him for the Last Chapter

>one long gauntlet before the final battle

I remember using this guide and getting to the first interaction with majima and having none of it translated but ill try and see if i missed something

>Already a decent mahjong player
>Complete the dragon cup and get the trophy fairly easily
>Walk out later, scene is triggered
>What I completed all the subquestion, what's this?
>Get invited to the ultra-high stakes table by the god of mahjong, who has his own special animation during play

I love how you just keep discovering new shit

yeah i just looked it up
doesnt really translate word for word in 1, just detailed summary, 2 he sort of does a script translation, but paragraphs it

Guys that used the translation guides for 1 and 2 HD, how do you view the cutscenes? Like do you stop it after every line to read the guide or is that dumb? I want to import them but that has been on my mind.

i played the hd games after i played the english versions so i really just used the guides to point me where to go
most guides dont do script translations, just summaries of the scenes

>VF5 Final Showdown confirmed for Y6

They're good enough to actually enjoy the games in general right?

for me definitely
everyone is different, but they tell you the story, side missions, and most everything else enough that you should understand everything well enough that you arent confused

That sounds good enough for me. Thank ya kindly.

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What is the best heat move and why is it Saejimas downed face punch from 4?

I always thought these games were shittier GTAs, is that the wrong way to go into the game?

Yes.
It isn't even really comparable to GTA apart from both having cites to fuck around in.
Yakuza is a brawler/rpg/jrpg hybrid, with the jrpg being there thanks to random encounters and THE FUCKING GRIND JESUS CHRIST

>implying is not saejimas ground bouncing clothesline move

That one NPC in Yakuza 2 always reminded me of him.

>imploding it's not the wall bounce battering ram

i will say the worst move is akiyamas heat move where he spends 5 fuckin minutes kickin some guy against a rail for weak af damage

>love Tanimuras fighting style
>he's the worst looking and worst acting protag in the series.

fucking rip

>Watch HyperBit's recommendation of the series
>Can't get Yakuza 1 & 2 HD since it's Japan only
God damn it Sega.

tanimura was cool, but they play him up as the corrupt seedy cop which was cool, but then he only takes one bribe the entire game and is actually a 'good cop taking bribe money for orphans' and doesnt do any seedy shit at all
his side story was so much better than his chapter in the game

buy it and use guides, shits easy as fuck to play with guides and its so much better than og 1-2.
fighting has almost no load times and city transitions are almost nonexistant
plus the frames are 60fps and aa and shit is up

Ishin was great though. You're thinking of Kenzan being a prototype for 3

5 was prototype for Ishin.
4 was prototype for 5.
3 was protoype for 4.
Kenzan was prototype for 3.
1 was prototype for 2.
Dead Souls was prototype for Binary Domain
Zero was prototype for Kiwami.

Its not 60fps on ps3 nor Wii U.

Why did you think that?

Yakuza 3 is bought and on it's way, boys.
Too bad I won't get the cool box art.

Akiyamas red heat moves in 5.

It's been years and I'll still never understand why they did this. Who the fuck thought that looked good

They must have looked at the current trends in the western market, and at the time it was
>MC front and centre
>Some "cool shit" in the background

I can't see past 30 fps anyway lol

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These 2 have become favorites of mine.

What kind of M A S C U L I N E situations will Kiryu get up to in Yakuza 6?

I just bought a ps4, can I play Yakuza on it in any shape or do I need to wait?

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>"I'm hot n on fire ", making history, setting watches like Tits McGee."

You need to wait for 0.
Emulate 1 and 2 in the meantime, there the perfect to play leading up to 0 since they happen right after 0.

My money is on pummeling more exotic wild life.
Maybe a rhino this time.

Which yakuza game was the best and why was it 2?

So far:

>Japanese only
>Kiwami, Ishin and 6 (6 comes out in December)
>English version
>Zero (January release)

You can emulate 1 and 2 via PC, you can also import Ishin, 0 and Kiwami if you are fine using a translation guide

>MC front and centre
>Some "cool shit" in the background

That's literally the JP box art though.

I mean look at the US box art. Kiryu looks like he's looking something far away and thinking what the hell is he looking at.

Well shark fights are confirmed, that's pretty M A S C U L I N E.

I agree.
2 has the best antagonist in the series, the best story in the series, the best final battle in the series and haruka was staunchly against any idol bullshit, to boot.

They just needed some better lighting on Kiryu, it looks like he's sitting in front of a green screen with a table lamp pointed at his face.

In 6, is there any other playable characters confirmed besides kiryu? What are the chances it's just him vs. ensemble

It's been confirmed it's just him

6 is kiryu only, we know some characters are returning but not as playable characters. So far we've seen Akiyama and Saejima, and I think I saw Tanimura in the 10 minute TGS trailer.

If you like Japanese wrestling, some famous group are characters in the game.

Only (from left) 2+6 and 3+5 are actually aligned with each other in wrestling itself, "JUSTIS" is the name they have as a group in-game

Is Ishin enjoyable if I have to read the translation site constantly?

I enjoyed it, yeah. The setting is really interesting and the combat system is a step up from 5

Holy crap, is that Hiroshi Tanahashi?
First he's in a Kamen Rider mv, then a Garo special, and now he's in Yakuza. Dude gets around.

Gonna be in the new Tiger Mask anime too (likeness), he's the ace of the universe m8

>ps3 had ylod
>literally get it fixed so i could play yakuza 5 when it came up on ps+
>play until last part of last chapter
>start grinding away at the minigames and extra shit
>spend about 5 hours last weekend finishing all the kamurocho batting challenges, win a shitload of money at the casino, catch some fish, grind away at the weapon mastery
>ps3 shuts down when i'm about to save and turn it off
>mfw

>Not saving whenever possible/every 30 minutes
user, have you never played a square enix game?

From left to right:
Hiroshi Tanahashi
Kazuchika Okada (current IWGP Heavyweight Champion)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Tetsuya Naito
Satoshi Kojima
Toru Yano

>Shintaro Kazuma
>translation Shintaro FUMA
JUSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

What's your favourite Yakuza twist?

PLASTIC PROJECTILES

>Ha-rrou-ka

I am Jingewoun.
My parrents were Jingewoun.

MINDHACC

>Kazuma
Kazama. They changed it for retards like you.

Why is Dead Souls so laboriously boring? It takes fucking ages to max level and the payoff is horrible. I thought the developers would take chance to expand on the RPG elements but no, they throw in acessories that are carbon copies of each other with little or no use. Sure they spice things up with randonly generates dungeons but getting to the max level with 6 slots of accessories that does jack shit is a pain in the ass.

[Spoiler] Someone please convince me to clear the underground missions[/spoiler]

2 > 5 > 4 > 3 > 1

HEY YOU

>smooth baseline begins

>use heat move
>"FUCK YOU"
Never gets old

So I'm almost done with marathoning the series up to 5 and I feel like going back and trying to complete as much as side stuff and activities. Is it better to do it all in premium adventure mode or just simply starting NG+?

Will we ever get Kiwami? I think that's the perfect game to introduce people to the franchise.

if 0 will sell well

That's nice, thanks.

I thought 2 was a step down compared to 1. I will never understand why people hype it up so much.

>sharing the same release date as RE7
Why SEGA?
it seems like they don't want to sell yakuza in the west?

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No one cares about resident eveil anymore though.

Passing by to say that A Scattered Moment is the best song from the series.

comf

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>post all your stuff on yakuza
k

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>even Saejima can hold a hostess' hand while on a date
>in public
Too cute.

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Posting what I have.

This was the best boss theme
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These games suck and I hope they're never officially brought over

I really like this one. I wish it was used in a better fight.

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ok

Yakuza Ishin pulls off the Nishiki/Kiryu relationship pretty well.

heh

nothing personal kiddo

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why would you even fucking respond

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So he gets his (you)

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I love this one. Never gets old.

That's up there with my favourite heat actions. The unnessecary effort puts into the headbutt is hilarious.

Also this is my final Yakuza webm

I miss 'not Kenshiro' Kiryu

His face seems a lot longer in the PS2 games. Gives me a real 'japanese dragon' vibe about his look. But I think it only worked with the abstracted PS2 graphics. As soon as they added detail for the Kenzan and 3 Kiryu model he started to look weird.

That said I think he looks way better from 5 onwards. The engine change did a world of good.

0 Kiryu is perfect to me.

he looked the best in the PS2 days

Everyone looks great in 0. Majima is the king of pulling off bad hairstyles.

I WANT TO PLAY AS NAGOSHI

Is Ishin worth playing? The KHH guide looks pretty extensive and it's only about 4,000 yen on PSN.

Yes, the guide is pretty great. I was able to follow everything, do all the side shit, and the cave/card things.

Yes.

Am I a bad person for liking the story more than the gameplay? I just love how the cutscenes are directed, how the characters interact, how the tension builds before everyone finally meets up on a rooftop and tears their shirts off. Kiryu is one of the most likable protagonists ever.

anyone have that interview where a guy made actual yakuza members play yakuza and see how accurate it was?

Is there a undub the first game being done at the moment? I remember reading that some russian find a way to switch the voices but there was some issue...

Great, thanks! Downloading it now.

boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.html

This one right?

yeah that one thanks

its surprisingly funny reading their reactions and shit

Nice, I hope it's on PS4 for that sweet 60 fps.

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>Kiryu is fighting all the time. He's gotta be a fucking idiot.
>Why doesn't he just shoot them?
chuckled

>Of the three reviewers, only Kuroishi manages to play it all the way to the end. Two of the three are missing their pinkies

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I've been out of the loop lately. Is this supposed to be Jun Kunimura?

Ryusei Nakao

I see, thank you.

The demo of Yakuza 6 is the most next-gen title I've played so far. I really hope this game gets localized for the west.

fuck I kekd at that pic

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>Hang gliding lessons
>Treasure hunting, complete with guy who tries to kill you after you find it

Meme: Boss of this gym+Leatherman
Wrestler: YAMATO from Dragon Gate
Voice Actor: The guy who voices Kazuya from Tekken
JAV: Yuria Satomi