Since Yakuza 5 is 75% off on PSN in Europe I was thinking I might get into this series

Since Yakuza 5 is 75% off on PSN in Europe I was thinking I might get into this series.

Can you start with Yakuza 5, or is that fucked?

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Is that the only one on sale? If you're going to start with a PS3 game it might as well be 3, but I guess 5 isn't that much worse of a starting point. It's got videos you can watch which sum up the previous games.

No, Yakuza 4 is also on sale. 3 is disc only.

Yakuza 5 is pretty bad place to start. Two of the five characters you play as were introduced in previous entry in the series, major plot-points require you to have attachment to series' big cast of characters, and there's lots of callbacks.
...But it really is a good deal for the game. I suggest buying it.

>3 is disc only.
Shit, I forgot.

The same thing applies with 4 though.

I started with 4. Worked well for me.
Whatever you do, don't try to platinum it, it will burn you out

Yes, start with 5 in a story-driven series.

Alright, fuck it.

Buy it, and leave it, for now.
Buy Zero or Kiwami first.

>tfw want to buy the game because I gave up on piracy but have a hacked PS3 and don't want to revert to OFW because hacked PS3s are rare here
I'll probably just pay for it on PSN and then download it from elsewhere

>OP asks if he should buy a PS3 game
>recommend a PS4 game
If you're going to recommend someone start with a game for a system other than the one which they're inquiring about, why the fuck would you not just recommend starting with 1 on PS2?

Zero and Kiwame are olso on PS3
Oh wait, they are in japanese
>2018
>don't know japanese
Sorry, my fault.

>Zero and Kiwame are olso on PS3
So are 1 and 2, smartass.

...

Use PSN patch to disable all the cfw features when you connect to psn.

5 is extremely awful entry point since not only it doesn't have recaps of previous games, it also expects you to know all these characters and stories.
4 had a new cast of characters and was a semi-soft-reboot of the series where the main protagonist of the previous 3 games takes a more backseat role (he's still playable as one of the 4 main characters, but he's sort of the least important in it and just serves as guide for the other 3 main chars), it also includes recaps of the previous games to get you up to speed.
As such, 4 is a much better entry point than 5, especially if you can't be arsed to play the games from the beginning.

What makes 4's platinum anymore difficult to the other ones? I've only platinumed Kiwami and Zero but they're both typical bullshit you'd expect for a platinum.

When PS4 game decrypting becomes possible, people will just backport the translation from PS4 versions to PS3. At least the guy doing Kenzan translation said he'd be interested in doing that. Less to make it available to PS3 users, but more about making it available on PC through PS3 emulator so that all games except for 6 and Kiwami 2 would be technically available on PC through emulation.

>At least the guy doing Kenzan translation said he'd be interested in doing that
Where does this dude post? Tell him to update his fucking tumblr.

No platinum trophy is worse to get than Zero since all other games allow you to carry over progress to Ex-hard mode.

He popped up on RPCS3 discord some time ago

The difference is, that I haven't played the other ones...
I just wanted to give xim a heads-up so xe doesn't burn out when starting the series with 4.

Did he say anything about progress on the translation patch?

All Yakuza platinums will burn you out for a bit, it's just the nature of the beast.

He's still working on it, he even rewrote some literal puzzle translations made by egomaniac's translated playthrough that made absolutely no sense in English and context, to actually make sense both in context and to an English speaker.

Someone have a copy that actual works on a hacked PS3? Tired of this trophy error.

4's platinum is not difficult. Minigames from 3 are now heavily nerfed and the only difficulty you should have is Seven Pairs in Mahjong. The rest is just normal gameplay and grinding (Star of the Coliseum, Fighter Maker x5, Hostess Club x4 or 5, and then all the hostesses).

Everything I've seen of 0's Completion List requirements points to that one being either the hardest or right below 3. 3 for me so far is by far the worst thanks to pool, darts, golf, and baseball which have requirements and enemy AI that are unrelenting. I've heard 0's pool brings the Expert pool friend from 3 back but I'm praying that's not the case. If Kenzan had a trophy list it would definitely be right near the top with them.

>in europe
Its not fair!!

If you Google it, There are easy and short manuals on how to create a foreign psn account and where to buy psn cards (mostly Chinese online shops, that you pay via PayPal, and get your code 3 minutes later) or via ebay

O right, that's possible!
Thanks for reminding me user!
Now i feel silly

Start with 4, get 5 too.

Just remember that since it's from another region you may or may not get bonus items for having save data from 3 if you buy EU 4, Dead Souls, or 5. It's not a big deal or anything, just something to mention since they're just unique items. Kenzan and 1&2 HD unlock stuff just fine for US save files but I'm not sure if it works with US save files unlocking items as well (I.E. US 3 save --> EU 4, Dead Souls, 5 bonus items)

>HD edition
Those are pure shit compared to the 2 Kiwami.
Waste of money

I have an us account (had to find a working USA adress, lol) because the ps3 and vita used to have more obscurish games in the US of A. But most of them got released um Europe by now. And the sales in the US aren't cheaper anymore either

>HD 1+2 being shit compared to Kiwami 2
>a game which everyone says is the worst in the series

Kiwami and Kiwami 2 are trash.

kys your neck

too risky

kiwami 2 is garbage. same as 6. thanks alot dragon Engine.

>thanks alot dragon Engine.
b-b-but they're just getting used to the engine, the next game will be better

can i skip three? rather not hun for a physical disc.

What a bait.

>in europé

im in luck. will buy both of them when i get home.

Just put CFW on your PS3 and play it.

>PSN
Ew. Casual.

>Dragon engine is so bad that they aren't even using it on the Fist of the North Star game

got a sealed copy from amazon
get good m8

>mfw yakuza 5 is not available in asia region psn

I got pretty much everything besides 2, 5 and 6 I really hope kiwami 2 is getting that localization...

The engine is fine, it's the fact they're really rushing games now that is the problem.

I know I'm responding to bait, but 5 is ONLY available on PSN. It didn't get a physical release in the West.

PSN isn't region locked you retard, just make a new account for a different region and buy from that.
I have 3 PSN accounts, US, EU and Hong Kong.

Does Ishin unlock anything in 0 and Kiwami?

>sale
>europe only
Fucking why. Ive been waiting on a yakuza 5 sale forever.

Why isn't Zero or Kiwami on sale?

see

Just pirate it.

How hard is it to play Ishin with the translation guide?

Kiwami’s Steelbook edition was only £25.99 when it first was released or something like that. Y0 is probably cheap if you get it physically.

Main story and gameplay is doable, sidequests not at all.

What? I don't speak or read a lick of Japanese and I managed to 100% with khhsubs and saltyyen

But muh trophies

>Europe gets Yakuza 5 on sale
>Never ever in NA
I know some chucklefuck is going to say that it has been on sale twice in NA. I'm not going to fucking lurk every goddamn sale during off-sale season! FUCKING NIPS AVOID SELLING THIS DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH DURING SALE SEASON REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

New sales go up once a week dude, it's not a lot of work

>NA gets Odin's Sphere on sale all the time

Can I use my us paypal and debit card if I have a UK account?

I want 4 and 5 since 5 won't go on sale here really

Duh

you can install cfw over regular fw now... also why would u buy a game if you have hacked ps3? i played it for free llol

start with 3

Not only is Y5 one of the worst games in the series, it's essentially Y4 part 2 as it shoehorns all the characters from 4 into the story.

Anyone here play Ishin? I imported a copy that's arriving this week and am going to try and play it with a fan translation online, only previous Yakuza games I played are 0 and Kiwami but this one looks awesome and unfortunately will never be localized.

It's the best game in the series though.

good game... story is shit but gameplay is 10/10
fan translation is how i played... side stories and mini games are good... main story is bad and full on nonsensical fanservice...similar to y5

Watch 3 story summary in 4, play 4 and 5.
Both of them are in sale. Keep in mind 4 looks aged.

Put some more ellipses in your post next time, not sure you got your point across.

>good game... story is shit but gameplay is 10/10
Why is the story shit? I've heard it has a lot to do with Japanese history that most westerners wouldn't know or appreciate.

Not sure what you mean about fan service yet but I find the use of all the characters in a different setting funny

It's bad. The story is uninteresting, the returning characters don't need to be there, it's more repetitive than ever and the 5 or so cities they added are more empty and boring than 1 good one.

Nah. 3 is the worst one because of those mini games.

>full price on ps3
I'm not buying another fucking console

This one is also full price why don't I see any sales?

I remember those 2015 Y5 threads when you could pre order the game for 33 dollars instead of the original 40. Europe got fucked over for that though

Nvm, had to go to my countr's store

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PAL Only

gotta get a PSN card from online thats GBP then purchase it on that acc

same goes with PSN JP and US

different acc but you can purchase any region

Probably EU PSN only

How's the fps on the PS3? I've never played a Yakuza game

> I've heard it has a lot to do with Japanese history that most westerners wouldn't know or appreciate.
This is such a bullshit. Well if you are history buff, the story its bad. Basically main events in Japanese history happened cause ryouma just beats all of them with his sword. You cant take it serious when you cut and take down an entire castle with 100 soldiers and not a single one is dead. Now same happens in Kenzan but Ryouma is not a fucking Miyamoto Musashi. I mean Ryouma was badass but not kill-everyone type of badass. Maybe you would like it. I didnt.

3 was alright from what I could remember. 4 had a few drops in some areas, but it wasn't too bad. 5 has a god awful frame rate in one of the cities, but aside from that one, it ran well enough.

>The story is uninteresting
Who plays these games for the story? The story is bad and uninteresting in all of them.

>the returning characters don't need to be there
What the fuck does this even mean? They need to be there because the story was built around them being there. This is like saying "Kiryu didn't need to be in any of the games after 1." They wanted him to be in the game so they put him into it. It's also asinine to claim "the returning characters don't need to be there" when the only new playable character is the one least relevant to the plot.

>it's more repetitive than ever
It's factually got the biggest variety of content in the series.

>the 5 or so cities they added are more empty and boring than 1 good one
Essentially what you're saying is that they're worse than Kamurocho. No shit, the devs had 4 games to flesh out Kamurocho, of course the new ones are going to seem lesser in comparison. And besides, the new cities aren't meant to high-octane red light disctricts. They go for completely different atmospheres.

The story is basically historical fanfiction. I haven't played it yet so I can't judge, but it might be more interesting if you were into 19th century Japan.

>Who plays these games for the story? The story is bad and uninteresting in all of them.
like everyone? Story is literally the only reason all these years fans stuck with the game you retarded dipshit.
>What the fuck does this even mean? They need to be there because the story was built around them being there.

except it isnt. 2 characters are propelling story somewhere others are fillers

>It's factually got the biggest variety of content in the series.
excepts most of them are just plain boring and time filler. Hunting? Snowballing? Dancing? This was good to you? jesus

5 cities are ok

Is Yakuza: Dead Souls any good?

>Story is literally the only reason all these years fans stuck with the game you retarded dipshit.
This is the stupidest shit I've ever heard. Let's fucking picture the mind of someone who plays these games for the story. For the sake of argument, I will entertain what seems to be the common opinions regarding the stories of the games (rather than the truth, that they're all bad).

user plays Yakuza 1, and after finishing it thinks "hmm this story was alright, maybe I'll play the next one." Then plays Yakuza 2, and thinks "wow, the story was really good, let's continue." Then plays Yakuza 3 and thinks, "wow, this story was really bad, but this was surely just a fluke." Then plays Yakuza 4 and thinks "this story was arguably worse, but maybe they'll learn with the next game." Then plays Yakuza 5, and thinks "this story was not only bad, but also boring and badly paced."

This fictional person for whom "story is the only reason for whom they stuck with the game all these years" bought THREE games with shitty stories in a row, and then also didn't feel so burned as to prevent them from buying 0.

>Story is literally the only reason all these years fans stuck with the game
People stuck with the series for the gameplay, setting, and mini-games. You could also toss characters in as a reason, but story? Fuck no, the stories are complete garbage in these games.

The premise is really really silly though. Sakamoto Ryoma killed Saito Hajime and disguised himself as his victim to infiltrate the Shinsengumi.

This is basically like if George Washington killed Benedict Arnold so Washington could infiltrate the British army

the fuck? im EU but i can olny buy 5. why dose sega do this?

preasu respondu

The framerate is pretty garbage, the gameplay is boring a lot of the time, and music is dull. I can only recommend it if you become a fanboy of the series, since the fanservice is pretty nice.

I have platinums in 3,4 and 5.

So I beat Yakuza Kiwami a couple months ago and enjoyed it. I recently bought Yakuza 0 but haven't gotten around to starting it just yet.
I also have 4 and 5 from when they were "free" with PS+ at some point,but haven't played them
Should I hop into 0 first since it's a prequel? Or should I got back and play 4,then 5?

>have yakuza 4 and 5 because ps plus
>never even downloaded them

Should I?

Should I buy Yakuza 4? I have never played it and will probably never get a sony console ever