Yakuza 1

Just finished this game. It's a gem in the rough if i ever saw one.
It was a lot of fun as is, but two things constantly bothered me:
Shitty camera
Constant encounters with street thugs
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Also combat felt a little bare bones towards the end

>Shitty camera
From 3 onwards the series shifts to a behind-the-shoulder camera as opposed to the fixed angles of the first two games. Honestly I prefer the latter, but each to his own.

>Constant encounters with street thugs
You can just avoid the encounters.

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I tried hard avoiding them in the secon half of my playthrough but they are often impossible to avoid

Hey you!

I meant the camera in battles which fuced me hard in Magima fight

First one's all I played and never completed it myself (was so miffed about a disastrous save error I just couldn't continue at the time)

But for
>Does the series get better?
By most accounts yes up to 3 or 4 by taste

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2>0>ishin>kenzan>1>3>4>5>dead souls

have you played ishin and kenzan in japanese? Will i be able to without any language knowledge?

Yakuza 2 is a major improvement over the first.
And with Y3 everything except story gets improved.
The series generally gets better and better with each entry in every way other than story after Y2.
Exception is that Y4 and Y5 have better than Y3 but not by much and Y0 is on par with Y2 in story and top tier in gameplay, peak of the series.
Y6 is an abomination.

there's guides you can use to follow all the story and figure out what the text on screen says. Gameplay is a universal thing and you should play them anyway because they have great gameplay

WHTHEFCK!

Feels good nigga

You seem like a guy who knows his stuff. Is there a chance we will get a western release of ishin and kenzan?

>not getting the steelbook
what are you doing?

I don't like steelbooks in my physical collection they look shit and out of place.

it's incredibly unlikely, although SEGA's reasons for it are pretty fucking flimsy. Most recently the reason was 'baka gaijin won't understand it' and 'it's not about the yakuza' which is technically true but it's not like anyone would give a shit if they called it a spin off. Maybe if they ever do bring the whole series over to a single console like they said they wanted to, we could possibly get them then.

Reminder that if you ever reccomended someone start the series with 0 you're doing them a disservice and need to stop.
Fully agree with this.

Ok ty. When i will import them once i'm done with main games

I guess I'm a disgrace because thats where I'm currently starting.

Stop before it's too late. Play in release order.

reminder that release order is the only way to play these games. You're missing almost half the game's references in yakuza 0 if you haven't played the other games

Op here
I don't know anything about Y0 but Y1 is totaly worth playing. And it emulates pretty well. Would make sence to play it before the prequel

Kenzan has a fantranslation going on, just super saiyan.
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Fucked up last post.

Kill yourself you piece of shit. Retards like you that don't play in release order and recommend others to do the same deserve to get publicly disemboweled, dipped in tar and set on fire.

Quality post.

Better than yours you normie dipshit poser

I wasn't being sarcastic you little shit. I'm the one lambasting him for starting with 0.

>tfw most rgg fans don't even know about BP

>finished 5th first with zero knowledge of previous games, didn't get the story because I can't read the subs all the time
>currently playing the 4th
should I just stop?

Fair enough then, hard to tell.
I'm just sick and tired of people starting various games, not just Yakuza, from the "newest, shiniest" entry like little children because that's what little children do, go for the newest shiny toy even if it isn't actually better or makes sense to go for it without having the previous ones.

Retards starting MGS with MGS5, Yakuza with Y5 (back when it finally came out in the west) or Y0, Baldur's fucking Gate with the second game and so on. Shit drives me mad.

Triggered

>normie

>because I couldn't read the subs all the time
What, why?

Guess I'm scum because I started on 4 and that shit worked out great.
I didn't finish 5
I'm currently working through 0
Got kiwami pre ordered.

Peaks at 2, goes well then near-peaks again with Zero.

God damn boy lol grow up son

dyslexia

Here's a worse one
>dude, just start with MGS3 and then play peace walker, but skip the MSX games cause they're outdated XD

Your loss. Experiencing Y2 via the flashback in Y4 doesn't do it justice.

You know, I understand skipping the MSX games, I really do, there's a point where most people won't bother because the game is that old and I think the MSX games fall into that category, even I found them rather painful to play through, at least the first one. The second was more or less 2D MGS1 without map scrolling (biggest issue with MSX really, it can't do scrolling) so that was more bearable.

But yeah fuck guys like and Especially the second retard claiming "it worked out great" when he misses literally all the callbacks and has no attachment to the returning characters.

>tfw got into the series 5 years ago
>tfw started with 1 and 2 on PS3
>that fucking move into 3's world

Where did you see anywhere in my post that I recommend people to do the same, you worthless faggot

>"I suggest you listen to me."
>"I suggest you blow me."

The only thing that hurt me going from Y1/Y2 to Y3 is the resolution being shit since I emulated Y1 and Y2 in 1080p and then going into the 1024x768 anamorphic widescreen abomination that is Y3 and Y4 really hurt.

Mfw i played ZM insted of Metroid 1 and AM2R insted of Metriid 2 then Supre then Fusion

Hey calm down autismoboy

It's inevitable. Stay in these threads long enough and you'll see it happen.

Every Yakuza thread on Sup Forums has some retard telling people to start at 0 or 4.
4 is actually the less retarded option of the two due to relying less on knowledge of what happens in other games.
Half of Y0's enjoyment comes from knowing what happens to all these characters in Y1.

I playing through it atm, only at chapter 4 so far but I'm finding the combat a little clunky, mainly I use the lock on button but still find myself punching thin air in group battles.

EXCUSE YOU?

STUPID

Lock on is broken in Y1 and that's a fact.
It gets better in Y2 but doesn't ever truly become decent until Y3.
Y6 Lock on is just as bad as Y1, one of many issues with Y6 and why it's shit.

So I'm playing the Yakuza spin off on PPSSPP and for some reason it crashes on cutscenes saying "display driver has stopped". specifically where the old man wants to show tatsuya he killed someone and the moment someone turns on the tv, it crashes

Anyone know any solutions or why does that happen?

OLD

STUPID OLD FUCK

Nah, you are safe to start with 0 since it's a prequel. Go for it, bro.

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listen up autismo

1) Gameplay>>>>story. Yakuza is a really poor, dated brawler/walking simulator with open-world elements. Its story is extremely thinned out, cliched, and over the top in bad taste. So, Yakuza fails in both aspects anyways
2) Every game should be accessible no matter what because it's a product. Accessibility requires no sacrifice and is easy to achieve, but, apparently, the devs were too lazy to do that. The same goes for story because relying on previous installments for too much is a bad thing in itself. "Newest, shiniest entry" by definition should bring new people into the franchise and accustom them, which Yakuza fails to do, again
3) If you think that 'character attachment' is a thing, you should just acknowledge the fact that you're a retarded fanboy.

TL;DR: Everything you like is shit

You are everything that's work with modern movies and games and I hope you get raped by niggers with aids.

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>>>gameplay>story
I agree, which is why you should play in release order to experience the evolution of gameplay mechanics you twat.

Well said, friend.

>relying too much on previous installments is bad

Sorry pal, not by my choice. Someone got it for me and I'm too poor to buy the other ones, so fuck off.

thanks for this webm, this moment is one of the dankest there is in DS

>not my choice
No one forced you to do anything.

>gameplay>>>>>story

>play yakuza 0
>best controls and gameplay
>play yakuza kiwami
>more of the same
>play yakuza 2
>REEEEE WHAT'S THIS FIXED CAMERA AND SLOW COMBAT WHERE ARE MY STYYYYLLLEEEEEES
watch the bitching when 6 comes out too

You're like a nightmare version of ACfag that will only play new games.

So what will you have me do with a $60 digital copy of a game, then? Not play it just because I'll not have the "pure" experience of the series? Its a prequel. Its not like I'm starting with 4 or 5.

Ok sped, it doesn't change the fact that it got me into the series. Doesn't remove the fun I had. It also gave me a different perspective on the story.

Caught most of the call backs too since I watched the recap that's in the game for that purpose.

>reeeee normie didn't play the game series I like they way I wanted him too
Stay mad fag.

Tell whomever gifted you the game thank you but tell them you're gonna play it after catching up with the series. If they're a fan they should understand. If they don't, they're probably the exact type of person we've been bitching about ITT.
>I'm poor
1 and 2 emulate and the rest can be had for under 20 bucks a pop, stop.

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>An older game isn't as mechanically refined

STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES

>You are everything that's work with modern movies and games

i agree, it's such basic common knowledge, and you can't use the b-b-b-b-but timeline wise it makes sense! excuse, because latter entries will have vastly different or at least improved gameplay, which might make the old entries unplayable

Yakuza Kiwami isn't out here yet but why the fuck is Majima batting grenades into aliens? I know a lot of side missions get whacky as shit but this is really out there.

it's from dead souls, the zombie spinoff. It's kinda like a B.O.W from resident evil

Pretty sure that's Dead Souls.

that...doesn't look too good...

I miss good Yakuza threads..

I wish I could find a copy of 2, it's like they've never been printed where I live

Yeah 6 is the worst entry yet in my opinion. Even worse than the first by a long shot.

>tfw if the series gets popular the threads will only get worse
it's suffering when you want the series to do well but also don't want the fanbase to go to shit

Yakuza 6 combat looks like vomit.
Why would they do that?
What were they trying to do?

Yeah, fuck me for wanting newcomers to play a series I love in the most logical way possible.

Just started Yakuza 0, sadly as my first yakuza game.
Enjoying it more than any other game this year. Too bad there isnt a game solely about Memejima Goro

apparently trying to make it more physics based and interactive. The webm's I've posted were from the demo, where you can't get any moves but honestly it just feels pretty bad to play. The moves seem almost random unlike how you'd know exactly what move you'd do with certain combos in the older games.

this webm is from someone who actually bought the game and therefore can imporve

FUCK YOU *curbstomp*

Excuse you?
No.
FUCK you.

Get ready for everyone to attack you for not playing in release order.

You could always play Dead Souls if you want more playable Majima, but that would involve playing Dead Souls.

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Damn is Yakuza 6 that bad? Like it looks really different from all the other games but the gameplay I've seen so far still looks cool.

it looks so floaty... where's that visceral crunch you'd get from using moves like that haymaker that made the enemies bounce off the floor?

the story is pants on head retarded and a bunch of kamurocho is blocked off for no good reason. There's no arena, the framerate/resolution are dropped and it runs like shit on the base ps4. The clan battles are kinda boring because you don't actually fight in them.
soundtrack is fucking great though
youtube.com/watch?v=7Xb9RPQqLOY&index=4&list=PLtLZWaxt-g_wcqZtA6cUvje_mlCoPBuSg

it had constant encounters cause it's basically a rpg

the new engine makes things feel floaty for some reason. The dragon engine doesn't seem necessary at all, and I feel like this game would have been vastly improved if they'd done it on the 5/ishin/0/kiwami engine, which still looked just fine and dropping ps3 support would have meant they could up the textures from the shitty ones we got.