So I've seen some gameplay recently of yakuza 0 and it looks really good. Is it okay to start with 0? I only have a ps4 btw.
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Jose Brown
I bought it completely blind. No videos of gameplay or anything.
It is currently my favorite game of 2017. I fucking love 0 and I'm hyped for Kiwami.
Xavier Richardson
Kiwami?
Michael Stewart
Remake of Yakuza 1 coming out in august for $35 on PS4.
Mason Diaz
Remake of the first Yakuza in 0's engine. Coming August. To answer your question, Yakuza 0 is a prequel so you can jump in. SEGA is planning on making a Ryu ga Gotoku (Yakuza) collection remaster with Yakuza 3, 4 and 5 in the future so might aswell jump in now.
Henry Richardson
0 is a good starting point since it's the first in the timeline and there's no references to other games (except a few characters who are in 0 substories and show up in the later games but its not that important)
Asher Rogers
actually, the price is $30
Joshua King
Don't worry, it's shit.
>Exact same combat from Zero with no improvements except for instant style switching
>Kiryu goes down even easier than in Zero, eventhough he's supposed to be the Dragon of Dojima
>They don't fix the bosses from 1, they made it a literal reskin
>Game looks worse due to it's reskin
>Shitty music
>You have to grind a shit ton to upgrade your main fighting style, you have to fight majima for hours and hours.
Caleb Rivera
Holy shit that sounds amazing. Thanks for the answer btw.
Daniel Evans
>more majima
i dont see how this is a problem
Oliver Brown
Yeah but not everyone is going to go out of their way to emulate the first one, Kiwami is convenient as fuck. Only the most die-hard fans will have problems with Kiwami but if it's your first time then it's arguably a better experience.
Nolan Smith
>$30
>WOWOWOOWOWOWOWOW IT HAS *******DUBSTEP******* I LITERALLY CANNOT EVEN RIGHT NOW
kys, I can't wait for Kiwami and 6 to sell the best in the west
Benjamin Richardson
Don't get me wrong, I love me some Majima eventhough Zero ruined his character but the fact that you have to fight him so much is really fucking annoying.
That is true, just making sure that people don't get hyped for it, they'll be disappointed.
Jaxson Garcia
>backstory
>ruined character
Zachary Wood
>eventhough Zero ruined his character
genuine kek
Liam Reyes
I've yet to play P5 and NieR: Automate, but the chance of those games trumping Y0 is surprisingly small. Fucking great videogame. Love it to death. Can't wait for Kiwami.
Wow awesome.
Wyatt Parker
Just wait for the PC version. Sega already confirmed it's coming.
Nolan James
>SEGA is planning on making a Ryu ga Gotoku (Yakuza) collection remaster with Yakuza 3, 4 and 5 in the future
We don't even know if Kiwami 2 is on the tables yet and Nagoshi has only just stated he'd like for the collection to happen on his blog. Don't hype these people up when either of them haven't even been confirmed.
Ryan Hill
Omg this thread every fucking week. It's a prequel! Of course you can
Jack Moore
Did you just not read what OP read or something?
Angel Martin
>I'm not really an absolute madman, I'M JUST PRETENDING TO BE!! EPIC AND TRAGIC!!
Cameron Wright
did you not play the game or did you just not pay any attention to his story
Christian Fisher
Saying Majima is doing his best to pretend not to be a madman in Zero is closer to the truth than what you say.
Jayden Harris
>pretending
He IS crazy, but also sad. Didn't you understand the game or what?
James Lewis
Any advice for a Yakuza 3,4 5 player who is thinking of starter his copy of 0 This weekend?
The new leveling system and combat styles are upsetting my autism.
I also hear that sidestories no loner show up as ? on map and that the substory for realestate is hard.
Are these lies?
Cooper Gray
>I also hear that sidestories no loner show up as ? on map
They do show up though, as an !
Sebastian Moore
How hard is it to complete realestate shit?
Can I knock it all out in one shot like the Hunting, taxi idolshit and Baseball in Yakuza 5?
None of the guides ive seen really explain how it works other than "beat this guy by throwing money at him and having the right employees"
Jackson Martin
Only Yakuza game I haven't at least played and the only mainline I haven't beaten.
What is so special about this one that it brings in so many casuals/first timers?
Yakuza went from niche underrated gems to being mentioned on the same level as Nier and Persona
Joshua Barnes
the substories dont show up, but when you've started them they show up as !
Ethan Morgan
He is not crazy. He is just living life "to it's fullest"and not giving a shit after meeting the people from Yakuza 0.
That's about it.
Crazy people are more interesting, not some faggot YOLO bullshit.
Benjamin Clark
real estate is not like the 5 shit, you actually have to spend lots of time on them and most of the time goes to collecting money.
Aaron Williams
>being mentioned on the same level as Nier and Persona
those used to be niche and underrated too, at least Nier.
Matthew Clark
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Zachary Long
Only here. The game sold like total shit in the West - 100k copies. These are Yakuza 3 numbers.
Kiwami and Y6 will sell even less, get ready for Dead Souls numbers and another stop.
Aaron Mitchell
Why not both?
Kevin Howard
What advice do you have for someone who is interested in Yakuza series, but has never played the games before. Is it a standard beat em up with a GTA story?
Chase Perez
Bloodborne and Metal Gear are the only good game on the left.
The rest is weebshit.
Samuel Nelson
Time to invest in a real platform with games
Matthew Martin
It's an action/adventure beat 'em up game with stories that are dramatic, character driven, and have more twists in the story the further into the games you go. It also has many many minigames and substories to play with characters that get referenced in later games as well. There are contextual environmental attacks and contextual weapon attacks that you can perform to help you in battle as well.
Emulate the first game, even though the gameplay is still basic at that point you'll understand what kind of a game it is and toasters can do it, and as you go on they only get better in terms of gameplay.
Andrew Ward
Just got it a few days ago and the only thing I hate is that there are a lot of loading screens when you enter buildings which can get annoying.
David Jackson
>GTA story?
get this idea out of your head, Yakuza is nothing like GTA. Blame Sega for advertising the first game as such.
Thomas Cook
Yakuza is a Japan simulator. It's story-driven but the side content can easily consume 100 hours of your time. It's that extensive and it's the reason why you'll always get your money back when you buy these games.
Easton Robinson
Except for it being open in when you tackle missions, it's nowhere near being like GTA.
The combat mechanics are easy to get in to, but harder to master completely. All the heat actions are fucking hilarious and make it stand out compared to your typical beat em up. What makes or breaks the game is whether you're fine just faffing about doing ridiculous side quests and playing mini games which is honestly the real meat of the content. The main story itself (in 0 at least) was decent enough to keep my interest but is padded out somewhat and feels hilariously serious juxtaposed to all the crazy shit going on in the side content.
So unless you mind it at times being a bit slow or being quirky, then most definitely give it a spin. Not like anything I've played before, that's for sure.
Isaac Davis
Emulate 1 and 2 if you can. Work your way up with 3-5 if you have a PS3. If you only have a PS4 then just go with 0.
Story is pretty much a soap opera with a lot of stupid plot twists, but it's pretty enjoyable.
Landon Peterson
This was my first Yakuza game as well and I knew very little outside of what the combat was like from a Japanese demo of a previous Yakuza title on PS3.
I also loved it and have pre-ordered Kiwami as well. Might not quite be my favorite game of 2017 but it's pretty fucking close.
Jordan Davis
Only played 0, but I'm very curious about the rest of the series.
I hear a very mixed opinions about basically all the games, but the general consensus seems to be that 0 is the best. I'm not really too fond about most of the games reusing the map, the assets and animations etc. and I hear that Kiwami is basically just a worse version of 0. So where to go from here.
Nathaniel Jackson
0 is a fine starting point and one of the best games in the series.
John Ward
damn Kuze and Awano look exactly like their characters
Jaxon Evans
Stay away from our kino westernshit fag
Logan Parker
Thank you to all the user's that shed some light on the game. Going to emulate 1-2
I have a PS3 so I shouldn't have a problem getting 3-5
Adrian Scott
any tips for leveling/ using cp points guys?
Nathaniel Reyes
It's rare that a game has actually makes me laugh out loud more than once or twice.
I had a good chuckle the first time Kiryu did the move where he slams some poor fuck to the ground and then jumps with all his force on top of it. Same for the super jumping piledriver and many others.
Christian King
They've been modeling characters off of their voice actors since 4. It's pretty well done.
Jackson Wood
>i only have a PS4
You don't have a fucking choice then. The answer is yes OP, and what you will miss in refrences from older games, you will GAIN in Yakuza Kiwami because you will have stonger ties to Nishkiyama for it.
Jack Reyes
Prioritize putting your cp points into business. It's a lot better than the very minor upgrades in the other trees.
Jeremiah Morris
>I'm not really too fond about most of the games reusing the map
That's by far one of the best parts of the games, it's fantastic to go into a new game and see all new shops, areas completely changed, new areas you can enter, and old faces. One of my favorite parts of the start of every new game when you visit Kamurocho as Kiryu is to get to meet Yuya and Kazuki again, go talk to the Master at Bantam and have him know who you are, maybe get a substory to see Doc Emoto, and see what wacky hijinks Date has gotten up to before seeing what new things they added, it's fantastic. It's something you really have to deal with or you're not going to like the series because that's a big draw of it, touring Kamurocho and seeing what changes is one major part of the experience.
0 is considered the best because it's the culmination of years of development. You have all the minigames, a bunch of substories, a bunch of references, an entirely new battle system (Though they did kind of prototype it in both Kenzan and Ishin with different weapon styles you could change to on the fly), both cities, and the refined targeting and slapping backwards (When you press square and back and you hit behind you) attacks mid-combo which didn't even get fluid until like 3. Going to the older games you will have to deal with the fact that they're not as developed because that's how it all started, but you get fun stories and storylines to go with it.
Angel Hall
>i only have a PS4 so sho-
>JUST GET IT ON PC!
Do you guys even read threads vefore you type? Are mustards the fucking vegans of the vidya world?
Ayden Hughes
Do the real estate side quests until you have the DOD style-
Once you've done that, get the combat finder and fight mr shakedown, alternate between winning and losing, you'll quickly make trillions.
pro tip: R1+O.
Easton Moore
>The MGSV ocelot of the Yakuza series.
They didn't have to spell it our so hard for us. Yakuza 1's scene where he takes the knife for Kiryu and later lets that girl go were aybtle enough.
Michael Moore
How long with the realestate shit take me? I really wanna get DOD style asap as I have been playing this goddamn series too long to fuck around with new shit.
Henry Moore
Karaoke, dancing, and shogi are all easy CP.
Get the Deep Pockets Mr.Shakedown for Kiryu so you can grind mad money in minutes.
Here's a shogi guide.
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Christopher Nguyen
>"i'll be your clown"
g-godammit Majima-kun...
Daniel Young
It takes maybe a couple of days if you do it casually, it's unfortunate that it's so boring, especially since Majimas cabaret minigame is pretty fun and quick in comparison.
Michael Brooks
Like if you had to guess a total hour investement if I just went full autist and tried to blast through it asap?
Or is that not possible in this game without advancing story?
Wyatt Clark
That's a brutal one
Joseph Price
Post favorite tracks. Hard mode: No Kuze battle theme.
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The whole timed section where this plays with Kiryu escaping the Dojima family was hype as fuck.
Christian Morales
I think it could be done in one LONG session, two decent ones if you do only the real estate quests.
You have to meet mr moneybags kammorucho, whom I think you meet in chapter 5. So play normally until chapter five then hunker down and do it.
Kevin Cooper
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A shame that it was cut from the western release
Benjamin Morales
They're all pretty fucked up.
Justin Cruz
Landon Gutierrez
>6 to sell the best
It bombed in Japan, I expect nothing here
Mason Thomas
Owen Roberts
You need to wait for the money to be collected, so the more CP you invest in quicker money collection the quicker it'll go
Cooper Jones
Grind for CP and get "Deep Pockets Mr.Shakedown" as Kiryu. Let Mr.Shakedown take your money, beat him up, and get a good chunk of change from him.
With a shitload of money you can just buy all of the property in the game, and real estate will be done before you know it.
Camden Anderson
If I want to fuck Awano and Kuze does that mean I want to fuck their actors?
Leo Thompson
>I won't kill people
>does that
Matthew Perez
Cooper Williams
That's actually pretty tame. Most of the knife stabs are usually worse since he goes straight for the gut or the sword slashes which he cuts straight across the chest and stomach. Then there's 6's which definitely kill people.
Eli Bailey
Landon Russell
I sure was thankful I don't live at home any longer and didn't have to worry about my parents walking in on me during that mini-game.
Nathaniel Nelson
Remember when everyone thought this was going to kill Kiryu?
I'm sure this hooligan can walk it off.
Connor Sullivan
>It bombed in Japan
>Sold the best out of any mainline game
really makes you think huh?
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Robert Russell
>barely used throughout the game
It's so good too
James Price
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I will never forget the fight with it, it was the best thing ever since it was the first time in the series where it went from cutscene to gameplay and it started playing the song as soon as the chat started. 4's final fights using the theme song were nowhere near as powerful by comparison.
Julian Brooks
3 gets a bad rep but Mine is the best final fight t b h
Thomas Gutierrez
>which definitely kill people.
Majima fucking snaps people's necks in this game and they're fine.
Ethan Baker
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G E T F U N K Y
Jayden Anderson
Yes, start with 0. I actually recommend playing it first because the series unfortunately progressively gets worse from 1~5. I would suggest playing 1+2 and just dropping from there.
Luke Hall
mine was the best antagonist because he was gay
Kayden Cook
proof?
Gavin Gonzalez
He's really fun that's for sure, and he makes for a great addition to the Ultimate Skill battles since you're already massively worn don and you have to fight this guy with like four different styles. He was a far better fight than 3's Amon that's for damn sure.
James Gonzalez
Why Awano? He was the most likeable out of the three lieutenants.
Why did he have to be the one to die instead of Kuze
Tyler Martin
That claim is unsubstantiated.
Ian Reed
John Cooper
I don't know sales but the game's user reviews has the worst score of all games in the franchise in several sites. People were calling out sega saying that they only wanted to make a game with celebrities on it and not a Yakuza game. The combat and the story were harshly criticized (the combat is broken and feels horrible and the story it's just a bunch of drama, characters that serve no purpose and all the actual Yakuza characters except Akiyama and Haruka do not appear in the game).
Owen Davis
Why is Majima so sexy?
Cameron Diaz
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Jose Murphy
It's the haircut, he was ahead of his time with that.
Jayden Collins
are you guys new?
Cooper Sanders
Best track coming through
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