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[Shadowman16]

I also think a Yakuza Side Story bundle of Dead Souls, Ishin and Kenzan would be great.

Dead Souls would really benefit from the PS4 hardware. It had frame rate issues on the PS3 so a smoother port would be wonderful. A better control scheme would be great as well, not sure if they could implement one closer to Binary Domain without breaking the game though.

And I'm all for a Kenzan PS4 release. I still rank it as one of the absolute best in the series, it totally deserves to reach even more people.

 

[The Pet of the Month]

I haven't quite played 0 or even started Kiwami yet, but I did pick up a copy yesterday, so I'll leave some feedback here.

I'll buy all the mainline Yakuza titles so long as they arrive in a timely fashion and provided that they lead up to the latest entry.

I don't want to go from Kiwami to 5 and 6, and that's one of the reasons why I never tried the series initially.

Also try and make every release a steel book!

 

[BloodOmenPT]

Well, did my part.

Localize Kiwami 2, Fist of the North Star, Ishin and maybe a Kenzan Kiwami.
Also want 3, 4 and 5, lightly upgraded but would settle for PS4 compatible.

 

[Shifty]

Majima! He's everywhere!

Extreme data skew incoming

 

[B00TE]

Done! That last page, lmao.

 

[FallenGrace]

I have yet to play it though I bought it so won't do the survey but I hope the sales have been good. Looking forward to playing it after I wrap up FFXII and Lost Legacy.

 

[kadab]

Done. hope they listen

 

[Karl_Dilkington7]

Completed. I mentioned that an English port of Ishin and Fist of the North Star would be lovely.

 

[Linkura]

I have yet to play it though I bought it so won't do the survey but I hope the sales have been good. Looking forward to playing it after I wrap up Mario+Rabbids.

Fixed for me. How long will the survey be open? Would love to do it in a week or so when I've played the game.

 

[ASaiyan]

Make sure you ask them to localize Ishin!

I wrote that about five times, lol. Here's hoping the Western sales of 0 and Kiwami make them reconsider...

 

[Null Pointer]

I'm going to say this again here just so we have a mutual understanding.

This survey is not for making a statement about future localizations. It is a survey for feedback about your experience with Yakuza Kiwami. It's a product survey. It's not a "Yakuza Fan Survey". Incidentally, we had more or less exact same survey for Y0 too. We actually do this for most, if not all, SEGA titles these days.

If you are filling it out with the purpose of making some kind of statement for future localizations, rather than feedback about your experience specificaly with Yakuza Kiwami, you are not helping. If you are one of these such misguided individuals, you are literally making our job harder.

However, if you own Kiwami, have played or are playing it, please do fill it out honestly. In my experience, everyone generally plays nice and it hasn't been an issue to date, but I'm very wary of it being posted outside the normal ecosystem. You're supposed to access it from your PS4 on the drop down dash icon, not post it all around the web.

And thanks for all the feedback. Keep rockin' Yakuza-GAF.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

I'll Yakuza all day, every day, and not even care. Amen

also made a plead to localize Ishin and Kenzan

 

[Null Pointer]

Fixed for me. How long will the survey be open? Would love to do it in a week or so when I've played the game.

We typically run them for 3 months from game launch.

 

[leburn98]

I did my part and tried to be as truthful as possible.

 

[Peroroncino]

I'm going to say this again here just so we have a mutual understanding.

This survey is not for making a statement about future localizations. It is a survey for feedback about your experience with Yakuza Kiwami. It's a product survey. It's not a "Yakuza Fan Survey". Incidentally, we had more or less exact same survey for Y0 too. We actually do this for most, if not all, SEGA titles these days.

If you are filling it out with the purpose of making some kind of statement for future localizations, rather than feedback about your experience specificaly with Yakuza Kiwami, you are not helping. If you are one of these such misguided individuals, you are literally making our job harder.

However, if you own Kiwami, have played or are playing it, please do fill it out honestly. In my experience, everyone generally plays nice and it hasn't been an issue to date, but I'm very wary of it being posted outside the normal ecosystem. You're supposed to access it from your PS4 on the drop down dash icon, not post it all around the web.

And thanks for all the feedback. Keep rockin' Yakuza-GAF.

Added it to the OP so everybody can see it.

 

[Karu]

Filled it out. Playing Kiwami right now and it blew my fear I might burn out after Zero up like it was nothing. I want more now and in the future. Still 3-5 in the pipeline, woo.

 

[Peroroncino]

Filled it out. Playing Kiwami right now and it blew my fear I might burn out after Zero up like it was nothing. I want more now and in the future. Still 3-5 in the pipeline, woo.

If anything, after finishing Kiwami with all substories I still want more... so I think I'm one of those "I'll Yakuza all day, every day, and not even care" guys. :]

 

[mullet2000]

I'd suggest writing about interest in an Ishin localization at the end guys. It's a pipedream but you never know.

 

[FallenGrace]

I'd suggest writing about interest in an Ishin localization at the end guys. It's a pipedream but you never know.

Look four posts up.

 

[Theonik]

Only right answer:

 

[NightShift]

I'd suggest writing about interest in an Ishin localization at the end guys. It's a pipedream but you never know.

Did the same thing. Hopefully they'll get around to it once they've caught up with Kiwami 2.

 

[Agent_ShortBus]

Also asked for Ishin. Forgot about asking for a PC port of games.

 

[Son Of Sparda]

I answered it as honestly as I could.

Also, you guys should forget about Kenzan. That game is never coming out in west and that's probably for the best.

I hope we see an Ishin localization tho (forgot to mention this).

 

[Peroroncino]

I answered it as honestly as I could.

Also, you guys should forget about Kenzan. That game is never coming out in west and that's probably for the best.

I hope we see an Ishin localization tho (forgot to mention this).

Yup. Besides, the game is really easy to play with KHH guide, he even subbed every single story cutscene and dialogue outside of cutscenes. I just switched channels on my tv whenever it was time for one of those and surprisingly had a very good time with it.

Now I'm waiting for him to finish his Ishin cutscenes subs, but it's taking way too long.

 

[jdstorm]

Answered as honestly as i could. Thinking back on it there are a few things i would like to add so i will just put them here.

1. I would love a "Kazama Kyriu" collection/boxset that included all 7 games (or Kiwami versions) on a modern platform. Its probably not feasible until after Yakuza 2 Kiwami and some HD ports of Y3-5 are done. However i think it would be a really great way to have the games and it gives players who havent played them all (like me) a way to complete the story in numerical order.

2. It would be great if you could let players with a yakuza save on their console/account go for a platinum trophy by playing the Legendary mode straight away since you want to do all of the side activities on your first playthrough but on a 2nd playthrough it gets a bit tiresome.

3. Akiyama needs more love.

 

[MarcoZombieCannon]

Answered honestly. Always gotta support anything and everything Yakuza. The end of the survey got me though, lol.

 

[thepenguin55]

We typically run them for 3 months from game launch.

Oh wow. I had no idea these ran for so long.

 

[sotojuan]

I put down that putting out 3 games in a 15 month span seems a little too much. I don't even know if Yakuza can work as an annual franchise- the games are long, and if you fall behind on one game, odds are you are just going to fall off the whole series. I really hope that Kiwami 2 ends up being a early 2019 game instead of being rushed out in August/September next year, 6 months after Yakuza 6

Really? That's 5 months per game. I know these games are not short but they're not also very long unless you have to 100% everything. Story-wise they are about average length.

 

[KyleCross]

All done. Hope I helped.

 

[RNG]

Some of these answers are pretty funny lol. Majima! He's Everywhere!

 

[TheBowen]

Loved Yakuza 0, and im like 20 hours in kiwami ( yet to finish)

Need more yakuza games in my life. so i did the survey as honest as i could.

 

[RoboPlato]

Saw the comment that there was one of these for 0. I am almost done playing that one and would like to give feedback if it's still open. Bought Kiwami but not sure when I'll get to it. I always enjoy surveys like this.

 

[LAM09]

Filled it in. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, OP.

 

[Liamc723]

I'm going to say this again here just so we have a mutual understanding.

This survey is not for making a statement about future localizations. It is a survey for feedback about your experience with Yakuza Kiwami. It's a product survey. It's not a "Yakuza Fan Survey". Incidentally, we had more or less exact same survey for Y0 too. We actually do this for most, if not all, SEGA titles these days.

If you are filling it out with the purpose of making some kind of statement for future localizations, rather than feedback about your experience specificaly with Yakuza Kiwami, you are not helping. If you are one of these such misguided individuals, you are literally making our job harder.

However, if you own Kiwami, have played or are playing it, please do fill it out honestly. In my experience, everyone generally plays nice and it hasn't been an issue to date, but I'm very wary of it being posted outside the normal ecosystem. You're supposed to access it from your PS4 on the drop down dash icon, not post it all around the web.

And thanks for all the feedback. Keep rockin' Yakuza-GAF.

Then maybe don't let people take the survey who have only played 0, or ask the question of what we want to see from the Yakuza series next.

Your tone comes across very, very poorly in your posts.

 

[lowhighkang_LHK]

I'm going to say this again here just so we have a mutual understanding.

This survey is not for making a statement about future localizations. It is a survey for feedback about your experience with Yakuza Kiwami. It's a product survey. It's not a "Yakuza Fan Survey". Incidentally, we had more or less exact same survey for Y0 too. We actually do this for most, if not all, SEGA titles these days.

If you are filling it out with the purpose of making some kind of statement for future localizations, rather than feedback about your experience specificaly with Yakuza Kiwami, you are not helping. If you are one of these such misguided individuals, you are literally making our job harder.

However, if you own Kiwami, have played or are playing it, please do fill it out honestly. In my experience, everyone generally plays nice and it hasn't been an issue to date, but I'm very wary of it being posted outside the normal ecosystem. You're supposed to access it from your PS4 on the drop down dash icon, not post it all around the web.

And thanks for all the feedback. Keep rockin' Yakuza-GAF.

If these are truly your concerns, then maybe the survey should only be accessible through the in-game's menu/options.

Maybe after a player reaches a certain point in the game (let's say 25% campaign completion) an option becomes available in the game's title menu "take survey" where players can respond to your various questions.

Doesn't sound like a difficult thing to implement and could then be a more stable way of making sure feedback is more aligned with what you're looking for.

 

[jdstorm]

Saw the comment that there was one of these for 0. I am almost done playing that one and would like to give feedback if it's still open. Bought Kiwami but not sure when I'll get to it. I always enjoy surveys like this.

There is an option in the survey to say how much of Kiwami you have played from unopened to finished. So provided you bought the game your oppinion is what they are looking for.

 

[NegativeCero]

Done. I hope they get some good data from these.

 

[AuthenticM]

Then maybe don't let people take the survey who have only played 0, or ask the question of what we want to see from the Yakuza series next.

Your tone comes across very, very poorly in your posts.

Seriously

wasn't there a section in the survey literally asking about future localizations?

 

[RiderKairuu]

A bit lengthy but I was glad to fill it out. I'll do whatever it takes to get more Yakuza!

 

[Liamc723]

Seriously

wasn't there a section in the survey literally asking about future localizations?

Yep!

It's very hypocritical of him to state it as a product survey that shouldn't be used for asking for localizations, when there's a literal question in the survey about it.

 

[Peff]

Really? That's 5 months per game. I know these games are not short but they're not also very long unless you have to 100% everything. Story-wise they are about average length.

- Of the eight localized games, only two don't prominently feature Kamurocho as the main gameplay locale with generally minor non-visual tweaks from game to game. The two that don't, 3 and 5, still have you spending some time there.
- Every game makes you go through training and a level-up system to open up Kiryu's battle skills, which can make going from game to game feel more grindy than it really is.
- Random battles are WAY better handled in the latest games, but in the first three the loading times made them almost unbearable. Even now they could still afford to start and finish a bit faster.
- Until they put more effort into making them more elaborate, substories used to be little more than some dialogue, occasionally a fetch quest and mostly a fight.
-This only affects completionists, but some of the mini-game staples like fishing or UFO Catcher are not exactly thrilling to do game after game.
- On that note, did somebody say LOCKER KEYS BABY!?
- Kiwami is effectively a low budget expansion pack for Zero, even though it still has the content density of a full game. That may not be a problem for people who are playing it as their second Yakuza game, but when Kiwami 2 comes out and it takes place in Kamurocho and Sotenbori yet again with some of the same problems of re-releasing a game that was still figuring its formula out, the enthusiasm may fade a bit.
- 5 is legitimately a long game and one that is paced fairly slowly, each part meant to be taken as its own thing and not just burnt through, which already caused some issues with series veterans at release. If the fabled collection of 3, 4 and 5 does end up happening, I'd be surprised if the percentage of buyers who finish all three games is in the double digits.

I'm sure there are people who could play the entire series back to back without feeling burnt out, but without multiplayer elements or a multi-million ad campaign to make it look like the next big thing, release timing is a concern for sure. Even for a cultural phenomenon like Lara Croft it only took five annual iterative sequels before people got tired of the games, and these are even more involved and time-consuming.

 

[ST2K]

Yep!

It's very hypocritical of him to state it as a product survey that shouldn't be used for asking for localizations, when there's a literal question in the survey about it.

It's pretty clear he just doesn't want people flooding the survey with useless info and localization begging, as it's targeted towards Kiwami players and their thoughts. If you own it, I'm sure he won't mind if you answer a survey question about localization.

 

[Liamc723]

It's pretty clear he just doesn't want people flooding the survey with useless info and localization begging, as it's targeted towards Kiwami players and their thoughts. If you own it, I'm sure he won't mind if you answer a survey question about localization.

The survey literally asks you what you want to be localised, so to discourage people from asking for what titles they want to see next goes against the entire thing he's trying to promote.

Not to mention it comes across in a very poor tone.