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spleendonkey 18 Mar 2017 23:11:17 269 posts
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This game has left me seriously deflated playing anything else. I really think it'll be game of the year.

Mola_Ram 18 Mar 2017 23:36:01 17,586 posts
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Help me, I'm obsessed with the cabaret minigame.

Baddamobs 19 Mar 2017 15:54:50 136 posts
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@Mola_Ram There's no help for you, friend. Now your stuck in Sunshine with the rest of us.

FuzzyDucky 19 Mar 2017 17:00:25 3,132 posts
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I'm guessing the start of this is slow? I'm about an hour in, had two fights and about to do some karaoke, but nothing else.

Frogofdoom 19 Mar 2017 17:26:01 7,602 posts
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A bit underwhelmed with the side activities in this. The combat is ok but really dated in execution. Hoping the story is good enough to carry the fairly poor gameplay through as i have enjoyed that side of it, Im not that far into chapter 2 yet. I do like the craziness of it all though.

FuzzyDucky 19 Mar 2017 20:50:06 3,132 posts
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Hmm, really not feeling this. Reeks of a budget title. Looks like a PS2 game in places. Game world is awful. Combat is slow and clunky. Looks like a mini game compilation.

Edited by FuzzyDucky at 20:51:21 19-03-2017

Syrette 19 Mar 2017 23:15:58 49,801 posts
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What games do you like?

FuzzyDucky 20 Mar 2017 00:18:02 3,132 posts
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Syrette wrote:
What games do you like?

Well you obviously haven't seen my posts in the Horizon thread

Syrette 20 Mar 2017 09:11:17 49,801 posts
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@FuzzyDucky

Been avoiding that thread in case of any spoilers.

Big-Swiss 20 Mar 2017 09:35:15 9,181 posts
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I'm loving this game!

there feels something very unique about it. You buy a fighting game, and after a few hours you are doing everything else but fighting. And the fact you are hooked on the other stuff really Shows the greatness of yakuza games.

I prefer the main fighting style of the first character, but I love the additional fighting styles of Majima Goro. But like I said, at the Moment running the Club feels more important than fighting.

Rivuzu 20 Mar 2017 10:43:45 17,216 posts
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I enjoyed the combat. It's third person streets of rage. Unlocking different upgrades does help, but yeah, don't expect too much depth. Besides they last 30 seconds or so tops so long as you're not a window licker with the controller.

Plot, characters and setting make the game though. It's fantastic. If you don't like that, you have no soul, your bloodline is weak, and your ancestry may contain horse.

Garfy 20 Mar 2017 10:56:53 1,319 posts
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My bowling game may be weak but my Yakuza game is strong!

The brutally satisfying combat was a big draw to me for the series, the Japanese melodrama and tourism simulator make it a wholly unique experience.
Yes it can be shonky but it's got a lot of heart.

Psiloc 20 Mar 2017 11:25:13 4,460 posts
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I loved the side quests, most of them were very original. Though I may just have that impression because it was my first Yakuza game.

FuzzyDucky wrote:
Looks like a PS2 game in places.

Somebody doesn't remember what PS2 games looked like! You might find the comparisons here illuminating:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-hands-on-with-yakuza-kiwami

FuzzyDucky 20 Mar 2017 15:29:27 3,132 posts
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I'm far enough in now that the appeal is starting to shine through.

Still can't work out is it utter poop or the best game ever, mind.

elstoof 20 Mar 2017 15:45:07 19,822 posts
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Bit of both really, like the most amazing soap opera

Big-Swiss 20 Mar 2017 16:04:18 9,181 posts
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the only Thing that is too much for my taste is the overlong just text, no Animation conversation. Now they really overpushed that aspect for my taste.

but it still doesen't Change my mind of this being one of my favorite games ever!

hypoBla5t 20 Mar 2017 16:32:47 2,252 posts
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The only two things this game has too much of are hilarity and awesomeness.

Rivuzu 20 Mar 2017 16:34:45 17,216 posts
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Big-Swiss wrote:
the only Thing that is too much for my taste is the overlong just text, no Animation conversation.

Voice Actors are expensive yo. They picked the lines to be spoken with more drama I guess.

FuzzyDucky 20 Mar 2017 17:26:49 3,132 posts
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The high drama of pocket car racing, fuck everything else.

One_Vurfed_Gwrx 20 Mar 2017 17:43:40 2,991 posts
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I haven't done much pocket racing yet. Ignored the Shogi guy as I don't know how to play it

As for the sidequests I have gone through Yakuza 1-4 and half of 5 in the last 3-4 years and still enjoy the sidequests

From 3 onwards I tried to complete all of them bar Amon ones too.

FuzzyDucky 20 Mar 2017 23:54:38 3,132 posts
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Mechanically it's not the best game ever, but I need to see how the love triangle with the pocket race drivers pans out and can't stop wondering if the the not very dominating dominatrix is being mindful of the lessons shown to her to succeed in her chosen profession.

o_O

Mola_Ram 21 Mar 2017 00:00:07 17,586 posts
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Some of those pocket racer quests had me in stitches. I haven't played a game this funny in a long time.

FuzzyDucky 21 Mar 2017 00:07:14 3,132 posts
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I loved the dramatic, slow-mo shot of Kiyru when his pocket car goes off track.

Mola_Ram 21 Mar 2017 00:12:23 17,586 posts
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He's such a serious character, it just makes it even funnier when stupid shit happens to him.

FuzzyDucky 23 Mar 2017 01:49:58 3,132 posts
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Finally hit chapter three and got using Majima - immediately prefer his first fighting style.

Was half thinking of binning it but his absolutely ridiculous intro reminded me why I play games in the first place.

Syrette 27 Mar 2017 15:10:23 49,801 posts
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Starting to get annoyed by this - far too many cut-scenes for my liking (4 different types of cut-scenes no less!). The enjoyable combat feels like a rare treat after yet another cut-scene.

I appreciate that Japanese games often feature more non-interactive sequences than their Western counterparts (something really noticeable to me after completing Horizon: Zero Dawn). It's just frustrating for me, seeing as the cut-scenes are mostly conversation-based I find myself reading the subtitles and skipping the dialogue when I can more often that I'd like.

Bombonera 19 Apr 2017 17:54:19 411 posts
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Can anyone offer their opinion regarding the difficulty of Yakuza 0? I've heard murmurings that on Normal, it's a profoundly challenging game. Is that correct and is there no easy mode?

elstoof 19 Apr 2017 17:56:52 19,822 posts
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Never found any yakuza game to be difficult, you can button mash your way through most of it

Fourfoldroot 19 Apr 2017 18:36:00 2,409 posts
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Bombonera wrote:
Can anyone offer their opinion regarding the difficulty of Yakuza 0? I've heard murmurings that on Normal, it's a profoundly challenging game. Is that correct and is there no easy mode?

Very very easy even on normal. If you do the property management or (brilliant) cabaret club when first available you can make it even easier by massively overlevelling your character. It's a real shame we couldn't start on Legrndary difficulty so we could get the plat without the need to play through again - not because it isn't great, just really long.

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