Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio (Yakuza, Judgment, Binary Domain + more!) Discussion Thread

[Rean]

you go plow the field boy

I have. But you're getting no plowing.

 

[Deflowerer]

Real Kamurocho is even more beautiful.

Until you are hounded by bunch of black people on Pink Street as a foreigner.

What's there to see besides prostitution?

Nightlife there isn't just about prostitution, there's plenty of great bars. Obviously if you are looking for some run-of-a-mill touristy stuff, you won't find it there.

 

[normie]

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Are these guys ever gonna do something else than Like a Dragon again? Binary Domain needs a sequel.

 

[Dreed]

Are these guys ever gonna do something else than Like a Dragon again? Binary Domain needs a sequel.

They are currently developing a new Super Monkey Ball

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Monkey_Ball_Banana_Rumble

 

[Optimist]

I finished Like a Dragon this week - the game was cool, I had fun and liked some ideas (especially characters moving around and interacting with environment during battles), but ultimately felt like the jRPG structure wasn't as fun to play as the beat em ups. I'm a relatively new joiner, popped my cherry with Zero, followed up with Ishin! (which, I think, I liked the most across these three games) and am wondering what to pick up next. Since there's quite a backlog, and I don't have as much time as I'd like, playing remakes according to release order might be difficult for me. What is the KKK on the best installments?

 

[Grampy_Bone]

best installments?

Kiwami 1 is still my favorite (remake of the original). It has a more refined version of the style switching from Zero, still the best single story in the series, and pleasantly challenging. Kiwami 2 was too easy, and Y5 was too slow paced (but it has 5 playable characters), and the original ps2 games are really clunky. Y6 I enjoyed purely for the 'Dad' aspects but it's also way too easy.

 

[Nortar]

I finished Like a Dragon this week - the game was cool, I had fun and liked some ideas (especially characters moving around and interacting with environment during battles), but ultimately felt like the jRPG structure wasn't as fun to play as the beat em ups. I'm a relatively new joiner, popped my cherry with Zero, followed up with Ishin! (which, I think, I liked the most across these three games) and am wondering what to pick up next. Since there's quite a backlog, and I don't have as much time as I'd like, playing remakes according to release order might be difficult for me. What is the KKK on the best installments?

If it's all the same to you, try Judgment.
There's a new protagonist, but the gameplay loop is pretty much the same and it takes place in Kamurocho.
What makes it stand apart is a decent plot. One of the best in all Yakuzas in my opinion.

 

[Abu Antar]

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/05/like-a-dragon-new-title-minato-girls-audition-applications-opened

I wonder if they'll go major game or minor game.

 

[taxalot]

We're probably in for a couple of minor games before the next major one.
Kiwami 3 is being rumoured.

 

[Caim]

We're probably in for a couple of minor games before the next major one.
Kiwami 3 is being rumoured.

How far will they take the Kiwami games? 5? 6? 0? Kiwami 7 except it plays like the previous games? Or will we finally get Kiwami Kiwami 1?

 

[Modron]

How far will they take the Kiwami games? 5? 6? 0? Kiwami 7 except it plays like the previous games? Or will we finally get Kiwami Kiwami 1?

4-5 are sufficiently graphically advanced enough. 3 would probably be the limit (not counting off mainline stuff ripe for a numake like Kenzan).

 

[Abu Antar]

I'm thinking more Gaiden style games.

With that said, I booted it up, and have four hours clocked. It's paced like the PS2 games.

The agent fighting style is okay, but I haven't unlocket enough.

There have been a couple of fun fights early on, but I'd rather have real exp. than using money to buy skill manuals.

I'd buy more games from the series in this style, if they sell them for $30-$40.

With rumors swirling that this is one of the IPs they want to release games for annually, it would make the most sense that we get a mix of small/large games.

I'm a sucker, and would immediately buy an Akiyama game.

 

[Modron]

I wouldn't object to them giving the psp ones a kiwami version.

 

[taxalot]

Jugement 3 would be nice too.

 

[n0wh3r3]

best installments?

Kiwami 1 is still my favorite (remake of the original). It has a more refined version of the style switching from Zero, still the best single story in the series, and pleasantly challenging. Kiwami 2 was too easy, and Y5 was too slow paced (but it has 5 playable characters), and the original ps2 games are really clunky. Y6 I enjoyed purely for the 'Dad' aspects but it's also way too easy.

Is there any Yakuza game that isn't easy? Most entries are mindless button smashing. Until 0. Combat is the least fun part in Yakuza games.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Most entries are mindless button smashing.

3 isn't. Crom on his mountain it absolutely isn't.

 

[Cologno]

best installments?

Kiwami 1 is still my favorite (remake of the original). It has a more refined version of the style switching from Zero, still the best single story in the series, and pleasantly challenging. Kiwami 2 was too easy, and Y5 was too slow paced (but it has 5 playable characters), and the original ps2 games are really clunky. Y6 I enjoyed purely for the 'Dad' aspects but it's also way too easy.

Is there any Yakuza game that isn't easy? Most entries are mindless button smashing. Until 0. Combat is the least fun part in Yakuza games.

Yeah, no, because...you know what? It's not even that you're wrong, it's like when one of my kids say "ice cream is like the stars!" Nonsensicle like. Quit talking out your butt, kid.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Combat is the least fun part in Yakuza games.

Storyfag, BEGONE

 

[n0wh3r3]

best installments?

Kiwami 1 is still my favorite (remake of the original). It has a more refined version of the style switching from Zero, still the best single story in the series, and pleasantly challenging. Kiwami 2 was too easy, and Y5 was too slow paced (but it has 5 playable characters), and the original ps2 games are really clunky. Y6 I enjoyed purely for the 'Dad' aspects but it's also way too easy.

Is there any Yakuza game that isn't easy? Most entries are mindless button smashing. Until 0. Combat is the least fun part in Yakuza games.

Yeah, no, because...you know what? It's not even that you're wrong, it's like when one of my kids say "ice cream is like the stars!" Nonsensicle like. Quit talking out your butt, kid.

You are wrong.

 

[Maxie]

best installments?

Kiwami 1 is still my favorite (remake of the original). It has a more refined version of the style switching from Zero, still the best single story in the series, and pleasantly challenging. Kiwami 2 was too easy, and Y5 was too slow paced (but it has 5 playable characters), and the original ps2 games are really clunky. Y6 I enjoyed purely for the 'Dad' aspects but it's also way too easy.

Is there any Yakuza game that isn't easy? Most entries are mindless button smashing. Until 0. Combat is the least fun part in Yakuza games.

Yeah, no, because...you know what? It's not even that you're wrong, it's like when one of my kids say "ice cream is like the stars!" Nonsensicle like. Quit talking out your butt, kid.

You are wrong.

Wrong how

 

[Abu Antar]

13 hours in Gaiden. Still chapter 2, and I have done everything available to me at this point. Only Coliseum fights that I doubt I can currently win are left.

Some decent new characters, but the main story itself is whatever, so far. Still, Kiryu is still best main protag in the series, stupidity, and all.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

I gave a try to Yakuza 7/like a dragon... the one that introduced the turn-based combat, to be clear.

Few points:
- I liked the story and the characters... Sort of.
- I GENUINELY didn't like the gameplay and pacing. In the first few hours I stuck with it, the game has been an uninterrupted sequence of incredibly boring random combats repeated over and over, alternated with fucking interminable cutscenes going on for minutes and minutes each.
- I was basically forcing myself to play it and not drop it because "at some point maybe it will click for me" and then I got in chapter 4 where the game keeps crashing over and over during the "Meet the Seiryu Chairman" ambush sequence-pseudo-dungeon.
After the first couple of crashes I said "Well, I'll have just to abuse the save and bruteforce my way through it" but what do I know? Someone who designed this part thought it would be really, really hardcore if the player was forced to get through its entirety in one go. Too bad they didn't take software stability into account so after seven or eight attempts all ended with crash to desktop I think I'm figuratively throwing this into the trash bin and forgetting about it.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I gave a try to Yakuza 7/like a dragon... the one that introduced the turn-based combat, to be clear.

Few points:
- I liked the story and the characters... Sort of.
- I GENUINELY didn't like the gameplay and pacing. In the first few hours I stuck with it, the game has been an uninterrupted sequence of incredibly boring random combats repeated over and over, alternated with fucking interminable cutscenes going on for minutes and minutes each.
- I was basically forcing myself to play it and not drop it because "at some point maybe it will click for me" and then I got in chapter 4 where the game keeps crashing over and over during the "Meet the Seiryu Chairman" ambush sequence-pseudo-dungeon.
After the first couple of crashes I said "Well, I'll have just to abuse the save and bruteforce my way through it" but what do I know? Someone who designed this part thought it would be really, really hardcore if the player was forced to get through its entirety in one go. Too bad they didn't take software stability into account so after seven or eight attempts all ended with crash to desktop I think I'm figuratively throwing this into the trash bin and forgetting about it.

What are you running it on? You're probably the first dude I hear talking of crashes.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

What are you running it on? You're probably the first dude I hear talking of crashes.

RYZEN 5800x, RTX 3080Ti, 32 GB of RAM and a NVMe.
I'd say I'm abundantly above minimum requirements and with nothing particularly exotic or unusual.

Also, I've spotted other people on Steam complaining about how this game crashes a lot. Everyone of them get told they are an isolated case, incidentally.