Yakuza Zero

This is the best game I've ever played.

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Not as good as 5 desu.

>tfw Kiwami 2 next month
Get hype importer boys

5 was trash.

I'm guessing you just beat it. Most of the game is painfully boring outside of the cinematic portions. That said, it stomps all over the actual games that were nominated for Game of the Year.

>Most of the game is painfully boring

5 is the best game in the series in every aspect other than story.

And since story is easily the worst part of the series, 5 cannot be anything other than the best entry.

I agree OP, I would rate this game on the same level of Soulsborne games, literal masterpiece.

I gotta say, as someone who recently picked this up as his first yakuza game over black Friday, I didn't expect it to be this Good. From watching videos and reading you guys talk about it, it seemed like a basic brawler full of minigames with a meh story, but it's actually Great. The story is pretty good, combat is fucking GOAT, the minigames are actually good and enjoyable to play, the characters are interesting, the sidequests are fun and quirky, overall I'm having a blast. Too bad I had the owner of the lot spoiled for me in another thread, honestly kinda making it hard to continue with the game.

>tfw almost 100% Kiwami

Just mahjong and the climax battles left, getting 100% and the climax battles are a lot easier than 0's. Still gotta 100% though.

5 is crap, and Shinada is terrible to play as.

The game is gated to all heck. It doesn't really open up until later in the story. You have to admit wallhugging the properties (no English signs) to buy them was a pain in the ass.

should i buy this or kiwami first

Get Kiwami, wait for Kiwami 2 then play the games from 3-6 and jump on 0 as the last game to get the best experience

Zero. Kiwami is crap, I'd honestly recommend emulating 1 instead.

0 is before kiwami, so 0. But I would get both from cyber Monday/black Friday

0, happens before Kiwami, longer plot due to 2 playable characters and more stuff to do.
Kiwami is still a good game and is harder than 0. Even on legend, the hardest mode, 0 is easy as hell.

not him but Will my experience be severely dampered if I play zero first? picked it up during black Friday and started it a couple days ago.

do I need to play kiwami 1 before this or can I just watch recap of it

I heard kiwami fucking sucks compared to zero and I will just be disappointed after zero. plus its only like 10 hours long

This is my first Yakuza,is it easy in general or just series veterans cause i don't want babys first bear em up

Had terrible pacing but apart from that it was great.

or you know, just open an image from google that has all of them marked on the map fucking retard

>terrible pacing

uwotm8

The homeless alcohol run and the search for a safe space isn't exactly the most fun thing ever.

Kiwami 2 is jap only right now and no western release in case you didn't know.
You can get a quick recap, only a one or two plot things from Kiwami 1 is brought over.
Kiwami is good but not as good as 0 though and I would recommend a playthrough.

In general, I'm a Zero baby and I cruised through Zero in hard and in legend.

>do I need to play kiwami 1 before this or can I just watch recap of it
Don't bother playing any of the games, fag. Just watch them all on YouTube.

user, that wasn't available on day one...when most people played it.

It's a 10/10 but not as good as Persona 5
Damn bruh you ruined the game for yourself, the ending is kino

>wasting 20 dollars on a shitty game

zero is worth tevery penny, kiwami1 is not

I was asking if kiwami2 is any better

>get to a climactic plot point with one character
>skip to the other character for 2 chapters
Hard to get excited about switching characters at times when I went to see the continuation of the other characters story.

Anybody else play Ishin? I didn't understand what was going on, but I had fun

4 and 5 definitely did the switching characters better.

Yakuza 0 is a prequel to the entire series. Even the references were just silly sidequests. While the entire series is insanely overrated, Yakuza 0 is a great game.

>Persona 5
I just bit the bullet thanks to you fuckers, this better be good or I'm coming for you all.

Wasn't my fault, was in a random thread and some faggot brought up makoto and lot and I had just stopped playing 0 where a lot is a pretty big plot point and I put the pieces together, currently trying to make myself forget but failing.

Persona 5 is the best game on PS4 in my opinion.

You don't play a lot of games, do you?

It's the best game of all time
Keep playing there are other really good twists

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The cabaret minigame was the best. Spent 30 hours in that alone.

Yuki is best girl

what are you on about? I didnt ask about y0, I already played it

OOOOOHHHH YEAHHH~
FAKE LOVE, FAKE LOVE, FAKE LOVE

It's back in Kiwami 2, Sunshine looks massive as fuck this timearound

Play it famiglio

I went back to the original on PS2 after 0, it makes Kiryu and Nishiki's story much more impactful

Zero is probably the best experience on the ps4. Kiwami is massively disappointing after experiencing 0

Kiwami has references out the ass to 0 actually. Go for it.

Better parts to the story honestly. I saw it coming a mile away cause I wondered how it could tie to Kiryu. The actual antagonists are awesome, just go play the game cause the end is my favorite. I actually pushed back an outing with friends two hours because I needed to see the end.

Kiryu talking to Nishiki about how much he owes him at the end of Zero and them going out for steak really hurts now.
They doomed the moment Nishiki did the murder, even if Nishiki did go to jail, I reckon he would come out just as bad.

It doesn't help that in Kiwami, most people would probably want to commit suicide after losing everything.
Zero had a much better, hopeful end.

I can't believe Kiryu is fucking dead

cool, really enjoying it. Was going to grab kiwami too but my gamestop didn't have any copies. will definitely be grabbing that when in done with zero as well as kiwami 2 when it releases, can't believe I never played this series.

5 isn't good. It's the epitome of quantity over quality
>new cities are empty
>the worst performance issues in the series after Dead Souls
>story goes to absolute shit after first part, Shinada's part as a separate story was interesting though
>rehashed bosses
>stupid battle gimmicks, such as Akiyama's aerial combat basically ruining his battle style
>20 seconds Heat actions further ruining Akiyama
>bad pacing, being forced to be treated like an idiot 4 times when switching to new characters (not counting Haruka since she actually plays differently)
>lack of challenge due to the way the game progresses
>random encounters literally everywhere
>Shinada is not fun to play
>upgrading abilities is closer to Y1-3 than Y4
The one good thing about it was amount of side content. And characters.

Imagine how cool it would be to be a yakuza member in the 80s during Japan's bubble

I wish one day Sega would make a bosozoku game

Leave this thread my man you might get spoiled like below in my post with ACTUAL SPOILERS.

Speaking of endings. In 0, WHY did Majima just let blindy go? He was fine with her seeing his face early on but then he just lets her be? I get that Yakuza life is more important but it gets to me that he took such a backseat approach to her afterwards. It makes complete sense but he was at several points willing to sacrifice it all for her and then just didn't?

thanks guys, Glad to know there's more to it. I'm pretty early into the game, just started playing as majima and am on my way to the Odyssey nightclub to steal their best girl, and was so happy to have avoided most spoilers beforehand because the story was actually pretty fucking good, only to have that faggot ruin that part. Gonna play some more now.

In the Yakuza life, your loved ones can be used against you. It was the best option to keep her safe.
Also with her hanging around, Majima probably wouldn't act like a crazy person and would be constricted from breaking free as a person.

Have fun, dude. Remember that your controller should be glowing purple when playing Majima. Holy fuck did I like Majima way better as a gameplay element.

And then they added the much added Nishiki scenes in Kiwami, making it hurts even more considering all that they went through in Zero. What a dilemma

I'd say play Kiwami because none of the Yakuza 1 versions of the game are really good.

She's had enough shit for one life. If he gets involved with her, she'll eventually get caught up in the Yakuza life somehow, she deserves some peace.

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100% agreed, best story mode I played this year, I decided to boot it up for an hour and got addicted, spent the next week completing it because I couldnt put it down

>stupid battle gimmicks, such as Akiyama's aerial combat basically ruining his battle style
You get used to it after a while, and the one where he kicks the guy into the air and then kicks him into another guy is pretty handy. It's the fact that they made pretty much every little thing count for the "Let's kick a guy for 20 seconds" Heat action that ruined it.

ACTUAL SPOILERS
I mostly get it but I mean he was willing to die for her. I felt like at that point he should have given it up. But a huge part of his character IS that he won't live if he's not living like a yakuza. Reminded me of that substory in I think Kiwami with the face change. When did Majima just snap and not care about killing? 1 made it clear that he was going to kill but 0's ending was so against it.

I actually used the triple kick when running from Y4 a lot, it's basically unusable in Heat in 5.

I think the new reason he might have that rule is because Makoto wouldn't respect him if he outright murdered people, since that's what happened to her brother.

>it's basically unusable in Heat in 5.
You can kind of use it if the street is big enough, they also made it harder to trigger for some insane reason, I know I whiffed my share of them, it's the most infuriating in the underground tournament doing the 100 man match. Holy shit when you whiff one and get hit it makes you want to scream.

Sera talked him out of killing the assassin guy and Dojima, it'd only make Makoto feel worse, like how Saejima went ahead and 'killed' 18 guys. Plus 10 years in the Tojo will change a man, especially under guy like Shimano. Your wife aborting your child behind your back wouldn't help either

I don't think it was THAT bad, the only terrible things about the game were it's boss fights (regen and guns in particular). Other than that, I liked it

Did they keep the hideout and Serena themes in Kiwami?

Overrated series, mediocre brawler with fun side stuff to do.

On the verge of playing 2 on the emulator since i finish Kiwami. I want to see how the story unfold as quick as posibble, but on the other hand i want to play best possible version, meaning i should wait for Kiwami 2. Waiting for release date, if i saw something like december 2018 i may break and go for emulator.

>if i saw something like december 2018 i may break and go for emulator.
Considering 6 is only coming out in March that's probably the earliest we'll see Kiwami 2 localized.

Kiwami 2 is Jap only right now, go and emulate it.
Plus the ps2 version has some good as fuck licensed songs that Kiwami 2 won't have.
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Imo the western release of Y0 should give it a spot on the GOTY list, it blows any of the other nominated games out of the water

>Persona 5

Such good music for such a shit game.

He doesn't die in 6.

Not even as good as 4.

The overall plot of 6 is some of the worst shit out there but it had its moments.
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Why such a disslike of Kiwami? Of course is not as good as 0 and fighting Majima is domethines a chore, but overall it's still a very good game.

For the love of god, play more games.

we will never kick kuze's ass again ;_;

Haha no

I love Y0 but sorry Persona 5 is the best game ever made

>Why such a disslike of Kiwami?

>butchered the soundtrack
>500% more memejima
Aside from that it's pretty good.

>supposed to feel about a criminal because he had a kid

LMAO


Also 6 has the worst final boss in the series.

>tfw you genuinely enjoyed some of Kiwami's songs and remixes
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BLEED was fucking good, pity it never came west
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If you say so.

Yep. Kiwami's for whose sake is definitely better than the original ver. The original ost sounds too much of a pussy song and Nishiki was a pushover. In Kiwami Nishikiis much more aggresive and the music balances the atmosphere well between melancholy and a hard hitting showdown between two former kyodais.

How can one soyboy be so wrong?

>nostalgia yakuzafags being wrong
no surprise there

Why do you prefer the original over Kiwami's?

YES MAN NI

NICE

I asked for this for Christmas on a whim as I have never played a Yakuza game but have been meaning too for years

Hopefully Ill finish P5 by next month so I can dive right into 0

I liked the game and Kiwami so much I've made myself a jp account to play the Kiwami 2/6 demo
And I honestly might just buy 6 to get more Yakuza in my life.
>inb4 buy a PS3 and play the other games
They're probably porting/remaking 3—5 for PS4 anyway so what's the point?

BREAKING ZA WORLDO

never played a yakuza game before and im looking for a game right now, does it get repetitive? graphics doesnt look amazing or anything, is the plat hard? thanks

I never found it repetitive but I have a high tolerance for repetition.
The story isn't really hard to follow in any of the games, but there are some serious asspulls.
The play is really hard, you have to become really good at a lot of minigames.

As a story experience fuck no, but from a gameplay standpoint there isn't as much to do in Kiwami as there is in 0.
0 is pretty much the biggest game in the series right next to 6 and thus has more content than Kiwami. This might tamper with your experience a bit with not just Kiwami but the series in general so that's why I recommended playing 0 the last

BAKA MITAI