Is Yakuza Doomed?

Yakuza 0 is coming out in less than 2 weeks and despite it allegedly being the best one since 2, there seems to be very little hype over it. When I went to pre-order from Gamestop a couple weeks ago, the counter staff said he was the only other person who had preordered and this time last year there were daily Yakuza 5 threads but now the archive shows few threads with few replies about the series as of late. Could Yakuza 0 and the upcoming Yakuza Kiwami localization bomb so hard as to finally kill off the series in the west?

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>people arnet shilling it! its going to fail!

>implying Yakuza fans preorder at Gamestop

Actually noone with half a brain buys anything at Gamestop.

>Yakuza 0

I've never played a Yakuza game, is this a good starting point since it's a prequel?

The west never cared about Yakuza. The only change Sega had was Ishin at the launch of the PS4 when the console literally had no games. Ishin would've been a bug success. Even shit like Knack sold well, because there was nothing to play. But they didn't localize it and thus killed the series for good.

You don't want the bonus card holder & poster?

I'd say so. It takes place in the 80s but nothing happens in between because the main character is in jail until 2006 when Yakuza 1 takes place

>there seems to be very little hype over it

Are you new to Sega or something?

I wouldn't mind if Yakuza took a break for a few years.

Zero was the last good entry.

Kiwami and 6 were honestly bad, in my opinion.

Also I think the lack of hype is due to it being PS4 only. There's been a lot of disappointment over the PS3 version not being localized.

oh no. I own every Sega console except for the Pico and was a fan before that because I spent a lot of time when I was young playing their games at my local beach arcade.

I've heard the map is small in 6 for some reason and that's people's biggest complaint but what was wrong with Kiwami?

There were regular threads last year mainly because of the uncertainty of the series's future outside Asia and of course since we could pre-order it without knowing when it would drop. Now the future is secured for now, but Y6 has left a bad taste in people's mouths too, which lead to less activity.

Honestly I'm expecting bump limit threads for the first 2 weeks after it comes out.

It's one of those games like MGS3 where you can play it fine but you'll miss out on a billion references

>a game that came out months ago in Japan with a niche series in the west has very little hype
who could've guessed

There's more wring with 6 than that.

Kiwami is basically a shittier Zero. More framedrops, terrible music, terrible boss fights, terrible Majima Everywhere system, stupid pointless shit like getting Yumi's ring early in the game. The boss fights have to be the worst part.

6 is clunky, the story and characters suck, the music is forgettable, and it's not boring.

did you read the OP? By comparison, it has little hype by comparison to 5 which had threads here constantly at the end of 2015 when it was coming out.

They changed the music in Kiwami from the original music in Yakuza 1? Why? And what is it now?

Kiwami's main problems are having to fight Majima a million times to upgrade the Dojima style, everything knocking Kiryu around like a ragdoll, the new boss heat actions being annoying, and many of the things that made some bosses awful in 1 are still there. Jingu's fight is still awful.

There is also the fact that it is the game that came after 0, and it being a clone of 0 with brand new textures

>And what is it now?


youtube.com/watch?v=6CIboBRoQb4&list=PLjg6J0JZzTSEl5fq5Cou-BHuX3bIrgJ5K&index=8

5 was disappointing for a lot of people.

isn't the game being clone with new slightly new textures a criticism that could be levied against any of the games in the Yakuza series?

>everything knocking Kiryu around like a ragdoll

that really pissed me off
I can understand it in Zero because he's still a chump, but not in the remake for the first game. Every fucking mook can tap you and knock you over. They even do the face stomp heat move on the fucking dragon of dojima.

Kiwami is fucking garbage.

lol it would be better suited for a Sonic the Hedgehog game but the jazzy saxophone is a lot more palatable to me than the nu-metal and jungle in Yakuza 0

Isn't Yakuza 0 arguably the best in the series?

i preordered Yakuza 0
game looks good.

>jazzy saxophone

it sounds goofy as fuck

youtube.com/watch?v=r7FLlQGXErY&index=4&list=PLjg6J0JZzTSEl5fq5Cou-BHuX3bIrgJ5K

all the music has lost any impact it had in the original

they even made for who's sake dull as fuck

If it makes you feel better, John Hardin said that Yakuza 0 is the top requested game for review since he's been at Atlus.

I feel like 0 will sell decently, but not enough for SEGA to speed up the localization process.

Every game in the series improves on the gameplay in a noticeable way. 4 had 3 brand new characters. 5 had the red heat moves and a brand new character. Ishin had 4 unique fighting styles, even the hand to hand stuff isn't copypasted Kiryu brawling. 0 has EIGHT fighting styles and 7 are unique, the last one being Kiryu's old style from the previous games.

Kiwami not only doesn't have a noticeable improvement, being a 0 clone, it actually removed some improvements by virtue of Majima not being playable anymore and taking 4 of the styles with him.

I still think 2 is better.

I honestly don't feel that 5 improved on 4 at all. That read heat shit was unnecessary and honestly got in the way.

I played through the first 3 games last year along with 5 and just got tired of them. Theyre mini game simulators essentially and the writing and story in anything that wasnt on the PS2 was garbage. Its just an overrated series by weeaboos. I think many played 5 for the first entry in the series and got tired of it quickly

Yakuza 2 was the best one what i played

>Pre-order from Amazon
>The card holder is indented into the game case
No thanks.

>0 has EIGHT fighting styles and 7 are unique
Not eight, just 2 characters with 4, and the last one of them is old-style, for Kiryu and Majima

>overrated

You're an idiot.

It improved as fuck, man. Battles with more character than 4 or 5 people, grabs right after attacks and shit

also the whole "throw guy to the wall" move is retarded

I liked doing air combos with Akiyama, but the bosses always flipped out of them.

Also another often overlooked improvement, You can press block after grabbing someone to automatically grab them by the back of their head.

Yeah I probably used bad wording for that. Majima's old style is unique too though, since we never got to use him until 0 anyway.

Can't really tell anything from that in comparison to the interest for the previous games since it's the first one fatlus have been involved with.

thank you for the selections but I think goofy might still be better than generic which most of the series music has been

i would be worried but after Kiwami and 6 getting localized, i don't really care anymore, I'm glad we're getting them all now.

Yo, Best Buy. Where's my $10 preorder bonus, niggers

If there's enough interest then maybe they'll localize Ishin.

It's a snowballs chance in hell, but I still cling to the hope of it happening.

Wouldn't hold my breath if i were you, i'm surprised we even got Kiwami and 6.

Yakuza was already doomed in the west.

Sony are literally propping it up themselves to basically "buy" good will from fans.

Which is why all that talk of it going to another platform is utterly retarded.

>I think goofy might still be better than generic which most of the series music has been

this is generic as well only now it's dull - it just has less impact than all the other music in the series - it's just weak

fucking even this has more life to it

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damn, I am dying for a good samurai style game and those Way of the Samurai games look so budget and I haven't enjoyed any of them since the first.

youtube.com/watch?v=0JmjAlQ8S9s

Does anyone know what engine 0 and uses?

I think 0 uses its own engine because it doesn't even look as good graphically as Yakuza 5 did on PS3

Because playing a HD ps2 game would be a step down from Yakuza 5, when waiting a little longer will get us 6.

in what bizarro world are you living?
Zero is the good one.
6 is the meh one.

nah, l pre order mine weeks ago, not gamestop.

the no hype its because is a ps4 exclusive and you know, hating the ps4 es the most beloved meme of Sup Forums

I pre ordered on psn[/spoiler=]

Yakuza 0 already got more review codes requests than any Atlus game in the west.

The closer to release, the more pessimistic you fucks are. Every single time. Fuck you.

It if is just better graphics then I doubt it. Nostalgic fags can't be trusted. From my experience every ps2 remaster has been frustrating, clunky, aged trash compared to the newer games in the series.
Uncharted, shadow of coll, infamous, ff10. Iv been burned 1 too many times... except KH 2.

They had the chance to localize it when the PS4 was just new and barely had any games, now that people are aware of games like Nioh, Ishin would without a doubt me a massive flop.

No u

>series that never really care about western market until last year will doom because there's a little hype

i'm playing it right now if you have any questions

No, you are. Less than a month before Y5 release you people also cried that it'll last Yakuza released in the west ever, there's no marketing and fuck Sega for killing the series once again. Yet they announced Y0 localization week or two later.
Now it's the same, even better when they already announced Kiwami and Y6 for the west.

Are sidequests marked?

btw, mahjong tiles are now translated.

not initially. after you encounter a side story-related person, an exclamation mark will appear on the map though.

please no spoilerino without spoilertags

>Pressure people who never player Yakuza games before to buy Yakuza 5 because "oh god oh god if it doesn't sell Sega will never localize again oh god!"
>Everyone bought it, was a financial success
>Not everyone that bought it liked it, most likely ignoring Yakuza 0 & 6

Yakuza just went back to it's niche audience, so yes it's doomed if you're a westerner.

Ok

Sorry but not sorry. Too many other games I'm actually hyped about coming out.

It's not my fault that the series went mostly ignored in the west and now anyone expects it do to well all of a sudden. Perhaps if we got the others in order in a timely manner the franchise would be stronger and more people such as myself would care.

All of that being said I'm not into brawlers or GTA-like games (I get that Yakuza isn't an open world game per se, but it's still not appealing) so I'm not the target audience in the first place

I hope it does well enough, I guess. Have fun.

>We're getting this, Kiwami, and 6
>HURRRRR THIS IS THE END OF YAKUZA IN THE WEST

Fucking retard.

fuck that

PC when

>doomed

Not really, Yakuza always leaned on the niche side.

Who is that semen demon?

>Too many other games

Yeah like what? Everything besides Y0 thid month is trash

>not buying Gravity rush 2 and Digimon and Yakuza 0
you filthy Gaijin

This month is pic related, but I was refering to all games coming out up until April.

>coming out on PS4 only
There's your problem.

How long is it?

Just have Conan play this for 5 minutes and this shit would sell like hotcakes

>japanese game with japanese audio set in japan
>only comes out on japanese console
i don't see a problem.

>watched engrish intro
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GR2 is the same mediocre shit as 1. New Digimon is literally shit.

Is Yakuza 0 going to have a low print run for physical copies? am i going to have to preorder to guarantee a disc version?