Augemitbutter
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2x in Y4 on normal. i don't remember how much in Y3, have to check.
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2x in Y4 on normal. i don't remember how much in Y3, have to check.
Look to the right of that stand. There's a stack of books next to the ATM. You can read manga there.
Ah, that makes sense. I also guess I should go pick up money out of the ATM sometime too since I remember the game telling me about that.
Honestly in the beginning I was kind of sideswiped with the "How much money to send to the Sunshine Oprhanage?" decision. I didn't expect to make a hard moral decision in a Yakuza game!
There's one in the room!
I was wondering that too. The HEAT attacks seem less brutal. Like they cut a few frames from and toned down the bone crunching sound effects a bit. Maybe I'm just mis-remembering..
Chance Hale
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I was just playing Yakuza 4 so it's definitely been toned down. No bruising on enemies and at least so far no blood staining. Takes a lot of the punch of the combat away but oh well. Think this game is on a new engine so that might be why.
Combat feels so great though, heat attacks can hit multiple people in a way that feels more natural and most of your attacks will hit enemies on the ground which was finicky in previous games.
Ah. Well, they're still hilarious to behold, but I do miss the slightly over the top brutality.
Agreed the combat does feel better. HEAT attacks are a lot less finicky this time. Much easier to pull off the contextual attacks.
Some of them might have been toned down, like the foot stomp, but then there's the one where you break a guy's pelvis by slamming his butt down on one of the poles that keep cars from going onto the sidewalk. That sound is gross.
Also the Heat attack where you're grinding dude's faces on pavement. That's some good sound design.
poppos2097
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Ishin and what I've played of Zero seem to be a nice and bloody return to form despite the new engine.
Hoping that Splash Wave and Passing Breeze are playable in the taxi, was never fond of Magical Sound Shower.
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Downloaded the game this morning (UK based) but sadly at work atm, only got past the intro but excited for further beatdowns in the PS3 swan song. I've got platinum trophies for 3 (The Minigame Master trophy was utterly painful, damn Batting Cages), 4 and Dead Souls. Hopefully I don't have to mentally destroy myself on Pachinko.
One of my friends tried to download this to his PS3, and had 26 gigs free but for some reason it wouldn't let him even start the download, so he's getting a 500 gig drive just so he can play this. Hopefully the dedication works out.
Downloaded the game this morning (UK based) but sadly at work atm, only got past the intro but excited for further beatdowns in the PS3 swan song. I've got platinum trophies for 3 (The Minigame Master trophy was utterly painful, damn Batting Cages), 4 and Dead Souls. Hopefully I don't have to mentally destroy myself on Pachinko.
One of my friends tried to download this to his PS3, and had 26 gigs free but for some reason it wouldn't let him even start the download, so he's getting a 500 gig drive just so he can play this. Hopefully the dedication works out.
First post on GAF
Downloaded the game this morning (UK based) but sadly at work atm, only got past the intro but excited for further beatdowns in the PS3 swan song. I've got platinum trophies for 3 (The Minigame Master trophy was utterly painful, damn Batting Cages), 4 and Dead Souls. Hopefully I don't have to mentally destroy myself on Pachinko.
One of my friends tried to download this to his PS3, and had 26 gigs free but for some reason it wouldn't let him even start the download, so he's getting a 500 gig drive just so he can play this. Hopefully the dedication works out.
You need 44 gigs free, even though it needs 22 gigs or so.
Saejima's are more brutal looking, especially one of his Climax Heat moves. Kazuma does have a suplex/powerbomb move that's awesome.
UnluckyKate
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2 hours in, just messing around, doing sub stories, man, I'm playing Yakuza 5 holy shit TT
Kwansu Dudes
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I forgot it took years to delete games from your HDD. Yakuza will have to wait.
I spent over an hour in Club Sega as soon as I could go in. My UFO Catcher game was on point.
Chance Hale
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Sidequests and their objective markers show up on the map as question marks now, so wonderful ;-;
Boy do I feel silly ; w;
Wooooo this is now sitting on my PS3 all downloaded and installed ready to rock, going to get dinner and then it's Yakuza time baby!
Nah I've been with the series since the first game released on PS2 and I prefer Yakuza 3 over 4 for some particular reasons.
1. After the events of 1 and 2 I loved seeing the caring side of Kazuma helping the kids with the orphanage. It's my favourite part of the whole series.
2. I prefer playing a Yakuza game just with Kazuma. He's my bro/man crush and he's fucking awesome. This doesn't mean I dislike Akiyama/Saejima etc. I just like Kazuma more and I still wasn't bored playing a full game as him during 3. However I realise this is probably a minority opinion amongst Yakuza fans.
3. I love his bro-ship with Rikiya who's a great character in the series.
But then I honestly think all the games are fantastic and people prefer whatever entry over the others for various reasons. The only one of negligible quality is Dead Souls and I loved the shit out of that too! Pure fan service. It's all good!
Nah I've been with the series since the first game released on PS2 and I prefer Yakuza 3 over 4 for some particular reasons.
1. After the events of 1 and 2 I loved seeing the caring side of Kazuma helping the kids with the orphanage. It's my favourite part of the whole series.
2. I prefer playing a Yakuza game just with Kazuma. He's my bro/man crush and he's fucking awesome. This doesn't mean I dislike Akiyama/Saejima etc. I just like Kazuma more and I still wasn't bored playing a full game as him during 3. However I realise this is probably a minority opinion amongst Yakuza fans.
3. I love his bro-ship with Rikiya who's a great character in the series.
But then I honestly think all the games are fantastic and people prefer whatever entry over the others for various reasons. The only one of negligible quality is Dead Souls and I loved the shit out of that too! Pure fan service. It's all good!
I will never get tired of playing as Kazuma. He's one of my favorite video game characters of all time.
Red Blaster
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kaz is such a bleeding heart that its annoying
IrishNinja
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yeah, i love kazzy-chan but playing as others makes him even larger/more mythic
hating everyone who's playing this game while im at work, especially that fiendish bishopcruz
also! Y5 JP is like $20 from amazon & some places, might finally grab it just to round off the shelf, shame Isshin's not that cheap
aw goddammit, meant to install that one on this system but totally forgot, wonder what i missed
hating everyone who's playing this game while im at work, especially that fiendish bishopcruz
also! Y5 JP is like $20 from amazon & some places, might finally grab it just to round off the shelf, shame Isshin's not that cheap
aw goddammit, meant to install that one on this system but totally forgot, wonder what i missed
Shadowman16
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This was one of the first things I checked. I thought for sure these would have been cut, as they wouldn't translate them for English and there must be some licensing required for including them in the game. Very pleased to see that these were included as well as its a really nice little detail to the in game world.
I've played most of the first part/chapter this evening. Just as great as I remember, if a little dark? Might need to tweak the brightness options a tad...
The only complaint (and its not really a complaint to this game) is that I've gotten so used to 0 and Ishin on the PS4 with their silky smooth 60FPS fights that going back to 30 ish in 5 feels like a rude awakening. Its still an amazing game, but I really do hope that Sega decide to release (at least in Japan) a PS4 remastered collection of 3-5 for the PS4, or just release the whole series on Steam.
Oh, and this was interesting - when starting the game I had the usual item rewards for having save files of past Yakuza games on my HDD. 3, 4 and Dead Souls were expected, but I also got items for having Yakuza 1 HD and Yakuza 2 HD saves on my HDD. Odd that they make mention to these games, and ignore Kenzan! Did the Japanese release ignore Kenzan! as well? Doubt it means anything, just an odd inclusion is all.
The game is stellar and I'm already losing myself looking for stores and minigames but...
...could someone tell me if the italian restaurant near Kiryu's home looks like a UE3 game that failed to properly load textures?
I haven't played a PS3 game in a while, but I don't remember Yakuza 4 looking this bad and it's weirding me out. I want to know if I just need to get used to it again or if there's some issues with my game, because it really looks blurry as hell...
...could someone tell me if the italian restaurant near Kiryu's home looks like a UE3 game that failed to properly load textures?
I haven't played a PS3 game in a while, but I don't remember Yakuza 4 looking this bad and it's weirding me out. I want to know if I just need to get used to it again or if there's some issues with my game, because it really looks blurry as hell...
hermitpurple
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Ah Yeah. Got all the answers correct on that trial test for that kid.
MiniBossBattle
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Burgess_101
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The racing music is amazing. Shame about the DS4 not working to well with the driving, I think I can just switch back and forth between the DS4 and 3 for now at least.
Think I'm almost done the races
IrishNinja
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would play/plat
33-Hit-Combo
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Ridiculously slow download time! Less than 5% an hour, might have to leave the console on all night!
IrishNinja
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...goddammit
i wanna say kenzan! got a belly warmer from some other game at the time too? haha it's been a bit
disastermouse
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I'm really tempted to pick this up...I've never played a Yakuza game before. Is it similar to Sleeping Dogs?
I recall Yakuza 5 having some incredibly garbage textures in places in the Japanese demo, and I thought I read the full game had the same problems. And yes, those textures were bad compared to Yakuza 4. Actually, if it's kind of a brown texture that could've been a wood texture then it's the one I'm remembering from the Japanese demo. I remember it being in a restaurant.
Not really similar at all. Yakuza is a combo-based brawler with a JRPG wrapper
Well normally for the JP version, if you had a Kenzan save, you'll get the gion bell but not for localized version which is the only bonus you don't get, interestingly in Y3 and Y4, they gave you the bell normally.