Surprising literally nobody, new Yakuza with Ichiban is Yakuza 7: "Whereabouts of Light and Darkness"

Fuck you, PS2 Kiryu was handsome as fuck.

Japanese Asscreed was no joke

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Y7 takes place in Yokohama and Ichiban loves Dragon Quest as in the actual Dragon Quest game

>delet this

He got rid of the nappy hair, good.

Where can I see the footage?

He still has it, that scene is probably a flashback or something.

This is clearly him earlier in the story, before he grows it out

New city then? Thank god, they've done Kabukicho too many times.

This is from a press event happening right now in Japan, they'll probably drop a trailer very soon

twitter.com/famitsu/status/1166931655786807296
>the minigame they used in the April Fools video is in the game
YES!

Maybe he grows the afro back after getting out of jail.

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Its a mini game or actually the main combat system?

Strange, 2 weeks before tgs?

>Ichiban is the Dragon of the Depths, aka DARKNESS.
>They bring back Kiryu again and make him the Dragon of the Light or some bullshit

That's certainly interesting.

I just wonder if they'll have a localized trailer around the same time, like they did with Judgment.

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Good, am tired but f the same old shit

I'm not, yet
Take a break though, you sound like you need one

It's fucking turn based now.

Turn based combat will add new flavor to the series am definitely buying this one and i didnt even play Y6

Is this a fucking joke? They'd just change everything to be turn based now? What the fuck is Sega thinking?

Well good thing this is a turn-based RPG now.

tfw the april fool joke became real youtube.com/watch?v=lXJw1p6oyy4

Turn based and leveling system works really well with the all the items, side quests and exploring and shit, this is going to be fun.

what
i really hate turn based games
i hate them bros, wtf am i gonna do

Wait what's fucking happening, people keep saying it's turn based now, theyre just talking about that April fool's game right

>Perfect modern beat em up with the Dragon engine
>Switch series to a turn based RPG
WHY

I hope you haven't played 6/K2/Judgment or the Yakuza HD collection yet.

Ohononono STEAMBROS...

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Wasnt the phone game tirn based too? Maybe its part of the character personality and theme since he likes DQ games too

>new guy likes DQ
>new Yakuza combat plays like a turn-based RPG
Can we except some Shining Force references or characters though?

It's real

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That's the most likely thing.

>future yakuza games are now Turn-based
this is Fallout all over again

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Nope. They are saying it will be a watershed moment. Remember it wasn't a numbered Yakuza before, instead being New Yakuza or whatever it is in Japanese

It's turn based 100%

>its a jrpg
What the fuck is this garbage?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA NEW CITY
YOKOHAMA

AAAAAAAAAA I MISS YOU

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It’s officially the gameplay of Yakuza 7 now

>throw a solid combat system on the trash to take a chance with something completely different
based but unironically

>rubber this

>japanese Adam Driver but old

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I rike it

>turn a niche series into a major IP because its one of the best beat em up games
>"hey lets throw literally everything into trash and go for a generic JRPG direction"

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Was it not always a JRPG?

I think the Japanese will eat it up, but I truly think without Kiryu and the new gameplay this shit may bomb in the West.

No, if you look at the official screenshots the entire game is turn based at least the base gameplay. Very odd since they just got the Dragon Engine right especially with Judgment, but maybe they felt experiencing Kamurocho wouldn't be as exciting the same way.

it's still a japanese role playing game user

Its fucking turn based battle now you stupid morons.

I'm going to be honest with you user, Yakuza series is kind of boring with being a beatemup now. Judgement pushed it to the absolute limit, i'm excited to play this now

did people really thought they were gonna port the rest of yakuza games for PC? LMAO

Look at this way.
This is RGG Studio's chance to totally dab on Atlus and the Persona Team by making something better than recent Persona games.

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Man he looks like one of the thugs on the street that Kiryu beats up

Being a turn based rpg and an action rpg are different still rpg

judgment's a success so now that can be the beat em up.

>make a spinoff with the exact combat system as the main series
>then completely change the gameplay of the next entry in the main series
I'm not pessimistic about it but why?

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I hope the final fights are still good. Turn-based combat seems a little slow for those kinds of moments.

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I like that they are trying new things with Judgment and this, it will expand the fanbase

So this is the end

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>run into goons
>this starts playing
youtube.com/watch?v=eFVj0Z6ahcI

>Turn based
Guess Judgment will continue to be the Yakuza kino, at least until Judgment 2.

Yakuza is, well was, a beat em up though.

>Atlus is part of Sega
>yfw Demifiend secret boss encounter

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Because the new protagonist loves Dragon Quest

Nice of them to confirm it's coming to the West so early, very nice

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What are you talking about? It doesn't get ported to PC until after the English release. They are slowly closing the gap on WW releases and the Japs don't care about PC though that is slowly changing.
>Beat em up and action players love the series
>Try to cater to turn based rpg fans to get them into it
>Next game goes back to beat em up losing the turn based crowd or vice versa

Yeah great idea

>SMTV protag encounter

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Here's your SMT V bros.

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>fanbase is already divided three times because of Y0, PC release, and purists
>now its gonna be even more divided because of Yakuza 7 being turn-based
>this is before fucking SMT V

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It's a minigame you morons. Like the catfights, or the pocket circuit, or clan creator.

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Judgment is the new Beat em up

No this is the adult Persona game people have been asking for.

kek

They weren't even planning on making more until it blew up, I seriously doubt it will be the beat em up series forever

I am cautiously optimistic, but also very confused.

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We know for a fact that these retards can't balance any games in this series for shit (way too easy) so this turn base battle is gonna be garbage and boring slow trash.

Dropped im done with yakuza.

Resident Evil is like that too

I look forward to when a proper trailer comes out and you're all blown the fuck out for swarming around a fucking APRIL FOOL'S JOKE.

Retards.

youtube.com/watch?v=M9_L2TA0IEY

"Whereabouts of Light and Darkness" is totally a fucking Dragon Quest style subtitle.

If you read any article or listened in, it is the MAIN FUCKING GAMEPLAY LOOP

youtube.com/watch?v=P3VZBlmVWFM

No its not

Fake fan.

This UI looks too similar to Persona 5 to be the main combat system and not a parody

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I think there was an article that said that Judgment exceeded sales expectations in the West. Kiryu won't be the deciding factor anymore so much as it is genre now.

Supposedly the protagonist even full on name dropped it.

It's real idiot.
gamespot.com/articles/yakuza-7-is-the-game-we-all-thought-was-an-april-f/1100-6469466/

>you're all blown the fuck out for swarming around a fucking APRIL FOOL'S JOKE.
>August 29th
user...

JRPG is a garbage genre for incels losers autists.

twitter.com/gematsucom/status/1166935348238307328
It's not a minigame.

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>6, K1/2
the minigame? I skipped it
>judgement
played the first hour then stopped for no reason, does it have the same minigame?

>I think there was an article that said that Judgment exceeded sales expectations in the West. Kiryu won't be the deciding factor anymore so much as it is genre now.

Even so Judgment was the first real title away from him and people were able to accept it since it was a spin off moreso. I seriously believe many of the Western fans will just tune out of the series in general because turn based.

Back to Resetera.

They just confirmed it on twitter. It's turn-based now

>Yakuza is now a turn based RPG
>FF7 Remake is an ARPG

What's the world coming to?

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>we want the persona audience.

>turn base
Can't wait for this shit to flop hard.

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>Gets out, expects the Tojo clan to be there to take him back in
>There is no more Tojo clan
WE REBUILDING THE WHOLE DAMN THING FROM THE GROUND UP.

I don't like this.
I don't like it one bit.
Turn based combat feels way out of place for RGG.

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Combat better be as fast paced as turnbased can possibly get or this shit is going to flop in the west.

They tested water with april fools and everyone liked it

i kinda dig this honestly

Okay I love turn based

BUT.....
REAL LIFE TURN BASED MUST BE BORING AS SHIT

I WANT TO SHOOT FIREBALLS AND DUAL WIELD TWO TON SWORDS AND KILL DRAGONS

Ichiban seems like a goofball, I like it!

This is gonna be another Dead Souls situation. It'll flop and there won't be any more addition for years

Worst part is, I want it to flop. This is a huge mistake

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the dragon engine is so fucking bad and janky its embarrassing

Joke is a key word there.

This looks too slow and clunky to be fun even as a turn based fan

>numbered game is a different genre

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Oh good, because I hated switching styles and having to block and parry and feel like the king of Japan.

Let's hope Judgment/JUDGE EYES gets a sequel and also lets you do karaoke, so it can be perfect.

The series has had 7 numbered installments and a bunch of spinoffs with the same or very similar gameplay. Would it really kill you that much if this one tries something different for once? If it sucks they can just easily go back to beat em up in Kamurocho for the 10 millionth time.

Well you have 7 yakuza games + Judgement to fall back to until you die :)

Oh yeah im sure the shitty new battle system they are going for will give you the same badass and hype feeling that older yakuza gave you when you fought against cool bosses like Aizawa or Kuze

youtube.com/watch?v=4FViwDuuFmE

Turn base will literally kill the soul of these battle

Is this an April Fools joke?

>"it's the same shit every time"fags btfo

I always wanted more urban JRPGs but NOT LIKE THIS

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I thought it was his family who died out not the entire Tojo clan?

You have to admit having a main series game with a completely different gameplay genre is going to be jarring. Especially when spinoffs keep the series' core gameplay.

Do you even play yakuza? These devs have no idea how to balance a game and you think they can make turn base battle work? lmao

>Would it really kill you that much if this one tries something different for once?
THEY DID THAT ONCE AND IT ALMOST KILLED THE SERIES YOU NIGGER. DON'T FIX WHAT'S NOT BROKEN

HOLY FUCK WHY

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I dont think they ever mentioned Judgment having that as a minigame. I guess what I meant to say originally though is I hope you're okay with the HD remasters and the other PS4 games holding you over if you don't like the new direction. I honestly wonder if this is a one off deal or the series' future.

It looks fine

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>turn-based combat can't be cinematic

are you retarded?

>some faggots already insta-dropping the game
>even worse faggots on twitter saying yakuza combat was never good anyway
this is gonna be hairy, guys

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Yeah, how will they do the cool ass QTEs? The Aizawa fight in 5 was so fucking epic with them and the ones in 0. They can still do dynamic intros but the QTEs are probably gone unless they just do scripted cutscenes without QTEs.

If you look at this
You can expect side quest goofiness and insanity for the attacks

I got the best urban JRPG for you, bro

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Friendship with Yakuza is now over.

Judgment is now my new best friend.

Its a thing for the new character idiots, he love RPG games and his phone game was RPG. If they bring back kiryu for 8 it will probably go back to the old style

>Chan 4: "Whereabouts of user"

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Judgement was deemed a huge success and they want to make more, so that can be the beat em up fix you guys need. I think its fine for Yakuza to try and reinvent itself after seven goddamn games

Looks cool to me

>in another timelime judgment is the new mainline game and yakuza 7 is the spinoff

>people complain it's the same shit over and over again
>try different things to spice things up
>NONONO GIMME BACK THE OLD STUFF

persona 6 bros

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This is quite possibly the worst shift in gameplay I've ever seen a series take. Who the actual FUCK thought that a 3D beat em up series should shift to be a turn based RPG with the main gimmick being spacing?

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Haha that's our rean!

this game is fucking horrid
fuck off, get this garbage out of my face

Like I said, maybe the Japs will like it, but that shit won't fly so easily in Europe and NA. The only good this game does is to fuck over the fags who come into Yakuza threads and complain that every game is the same. Here is a mainline game not the same.

Not good. He looks like a basic ass thug with that look.

looks kinda slow and clunky

does the Yakuza series ever take you outside of Japan like how you go to Hawaii briefly in Persona 5?

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This is fucking wack, man

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I don’t like the new hair. Hopefully it’s customizable

Based if you ask me

If there was a way to switch between the 2 modes I think would be the best outcome.

I'm pretty interested to be honest. It will probably end up having the most fleshed out main cast if they have a group constantly with Ichiban. I can already see some of the bigger substories giving you new party members.

Never.

It has the most based protag.

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That's an insult to Kou.

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Looks great. Finally they manage to do something new with the mainline games.

>balance 2 different games in one
delusional

Even if you're not a Yakuza fan, this is just boring. It's a JRPG without any of the fantasy or style. What the fuck were they thinking?

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>live command RPG Battle
>aka
>ATB

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There is no other mode, here's your game user!
That isn't new hair just hair before he grows it out

Please tell me the JRPG shit is just a mini game.

Normally when people want a change to a long running series battle system, it’s incremental. Final fantasy becoming an action rpg was a long gradual process going back like 10 numbered games switching from turn based to atb and further moving the bar

This is just valkryia chronicles revolution levels of dumb

> video comes out april 1st that shows the new Yakuza game being a turnbased RPG
> everyone laughs it off thinking it was a joke
> they show a release trailer at a promotional event and confirm this will be the main form of gameplay
After the huge success of Zero and how well Judgement and the Kiwami games were received, they sure seem ready to just throw it all down the toilet, don't they?

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Ichiban seems like a giant goof.

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>be at your peak
>then suddenly change the direction of the series
>almost bankrupt your entire series
Boy am I having a deja-vu right now

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Not the weirdest choice ever. Like turning Fallout into loot shooter or Halo as an RTS

I'm gonna need to experience it first before I can pass any judgment

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read the thread, retard

>its a jrpg now
Well, guess that's what happens when you let the engine you've only used for 2 games make you its bitch.

>or style

But Yakuza is all style. The game is pure soul

I think some audiences will dig it but for those who like it for beat em up gameplay they will be pissed and this does kinda limit many aspects of the gameplay previously refined.

>Yakuza
>no style

are you okay user?

Man what the fuck where they thinking?

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>sakura taisen has become an arpg because "people are no more interested in traditional (s)rpgs"
>yakuza 7 is an rpg
ffs Sega, what are you doing

Oh boy Yakuza thread are not going to be fun anymore

>After the huge success of Zero and how well Judgement and the Kiwami games were received, they sure seem ready to just throw it all down the toilet, don't they?

They now have Judgement to go for the gameplay style exclusively, and can experiment with Yakuza

>Anime
Yikes

>try a new thing
aight that's cool
>mainline game
wait
>right after it took 2 titles after 6 to work out the kinks in dragon engine
what's going on

Why do people like this actually gay shit

Don't you mean 3 games? Albeit 6 was a mess, Kiwami 2 was really well refined and they went perfect with Judgment
Yeah, I don't get what they meant by that
>Experiment will the shit people care about and are attached to
Great plan

hey, dead souls is an offshoot, not mainline title
this is different

twitter.com/mochi_wsj/status/1166942120847925248

>Lets try something new and tap into the very limited urban RPG genre.
They're probably going to keep doing spin-offs like Judgement that stick with the old gameplay.

Because you are gay

I'm talking about their direction with this addition. Who the fuck plays a JPRG without anything that makes it stand out?

>Yakuza 0-6: Takes 5 minutes to walk from one end of town to the other, beating the shit out of the thugs along the way
>Yakuza 7: Takes 30 minutes to walk from one end of town to the other, mashing O to basic attack every thug along the way.

Minus the awful performance they nearly got it together with Kiwami 2 and especially Judgment. What was Nagoshi thinking?

This looks fantastic.

Those are spinoffs user

Wasnt Dead Souls just a test run for Binary Domain engine though?

Is it actually turn based, why the fuck would they do this

What made Yakuza's beat em up gameplay stand out?

Theres hope, pretty much vote with your wallet and action is back to stay

As much as I like the change, I must say that as a Final fantasy fan it must really suck to have a series you love stray to far out of tradition, even more on a numbered game. I mean gameplay is one of the main reason one comes back to a series isn't it?

>happy to change back to action game for future releases.
oh ok. that makes me less worried.

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Can we play the game before we shitpost please

I'm really interested to see where this goes, to be honest. I just hope they stick the landing with this. But yeah, Yakuza threads are going to be nigh impossible to browse through anymore

>You can recruit hobos and prostitutes to your party.
My dream JRPG has born!

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>We need a game worse than Yakuza 6
>Leave it to me famalam

>It's fine when SEGA does it

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I liked that it got super silly as the trailer progressed. I'm fucking in.

Top fucking kek, the series producer really wasn't lying when he said it'd actually be different

They have balls

>>Yakuza 7: Takes 30 minutes to walk from one end of town to the other, mashing O to basic attack every thug along the way.
this is the FIRST thing that came to my mind, I got flashbacks of yakuza 1 and 2 where you'd have to load into each fucking street fight and started avoiding combat because it could be tedious

Looks neat, let's hope it plays as good as it looks

Halo Wars is a spinoff made by a different studio and Fallout became a shitty oblivion reskin because Bethesda is a fuckawful developer that has to rely on garbage like Gamebryo. This is a numbered entry in a series nearly15 years old that has been known for being a fucking action game.

Sales may take a hit in the west, but 'm worried the nips will actually like this a lot and buy it in droves.

I dont want the series to fail or never try something new ever again but I hope they get the message already for a mainline title. I dont know why they didnt just make it Shin Yakuza since it seems more of a spinoff or departure than Judgment.

I mean, if its good then I'll gladly accept the change and for people who liked the old gameplay better can just go over to the Judgement series

The expansive gameplay, the unique heat moves especially super situational ones, style switching added tons of combos to the mix. Weapon modded and customization was great especially when you understood how invincibility frames and timing down.

twitter.com/Wario64/status/1166942572779986944
>If not successful, Yakuza will return to action game for future titles

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was this a massive marketing ploy to kill yakuza and hype up judgement's success?

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I won't give a fuck about Yakuza/RGG until they fix the fucking combat system and balance enemy encounters so that it's a good action game.

Why are player still allowed to chug a million drinks in the menu to keep their HP up? Why are Heat Actions allowed to take an entire color off the enemy's lifebar? Why is there still no proper lock-on system? Why are enemy waves so fucking unbalanced at times, like that shitty final boss (or was it a penultimate final boss, I forgot) for Yakuza Kiwami 1?

Less Action RPG, more Action.

How the fuck is Korean Virgil back since he ate it in Yakuza 6

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Yeah thats what I think, with a push towards fans in the West, maybe they will take that as a sign, also maybe the other Asian countries will also be mixed on the change.

Oh yeah im so hype for 10 minutes long battle against random thugs so hype!

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>attempting to change the genre on the fucking mainline instead of a spin-off
Retards

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All those problems can be fixed if you pace the fights out turn by turn :)

I'm feeling more about not being Kamurocho anymore than the gameplay change

PLEASE DON'T EVEN HAVE KAMUROCHO. GO BALLS DEEP WITH A NEW CITY

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well at least Nagoshi is a good sport about it and is willing to change to the basic formula instead of keep trying until people have no other choice but to like it

rubber bullets :)

Except they didn't? Unless you mean fucking Dead Souls, a spinoff title that was clearly a spinoff title and had nothing to do with killing the series.

lookalike? wannabe? poser?

I did and I haven't found anything concrete one way or the other.

Thats not same dude

I'm going to give this game all my money then. stay salty shit taste turn-based hater

jej

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that's literally ass backwards holy shit

imagine if Judgement was the JRPG

oh hell yeah, this is fucking hype

Good to see they went with turn based battle system. However it is poison to normies so most secondaries that got into the series with zero will probably hate it.

Secret CIA twin brother

This, I think the massive gameplay shift is retarded but it might be bearable if it weren't for this fact. The random street encounters were already tedious in previous games

Wait, so they have a new city......but the one time they decide to expand this much we get a turn based affair and not an action experience?

Yeah, that never works.

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>Dragon Quest Yakuza

Fucking Based. I was actually getting sick of the old formula, I dropped Judgement half way in after burning out on side stories.

So how hard would Amon fight even be with this?

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20 minutes long battle is cool?

I'm actually excited. It's nice to see that they have the balls to try and completely shake up the franchise and Ichiban seems like he'll be a fun dude.

Why... like, why, didnt they made a spin-off like the Samurai or the zombie game with a couple of main characters and characters from every game and try the rpg genre first there to see if people liked that or not?

Jumping the gun with a new protag, with a new mc is stupid and way risky

I like his personality and fighting style, but I hate his default look. He looks like a 1970s greaser with that black leather jacket and plain white shirt. His design is so dated.

yo, I wanna ride that Ferris wheel
please let me do it RGG

that introduced a new genre, not use a stale one

>based Nagoshi outright saying "yeah we wanted variety but if it sucks we'll go back"
I like this guy. Hope he fixes up Monkey Ball back to its former glory after Banana Blitz

>Shooting game becomes shooting game with better controls
Wow what a change

You ever tried to beat Demifiend in Digital devil saga?

When Sega's Team Andromeda made Panzer Dragoon they one upped Nintendo's Star Fox. When they made the sequel, Panzer Dragoon Zwei they literally made the best game in the genre and one of the best games of all time. They then followed it up with a full RPG that reinterpreted the game play concepts of Panzer Dragoon's camera rotation into a battle system and made one of the best RPGs of all time.

RGG7 can be fantastic. I'm more worried about newcomers who started the games on PC and have only played Kiwami 1, 2, Zero and think the games should always be like that.

>Don't you mean 3 games?
my bad, I knew I was forgetting something while typing that. I like everything else 7 seems to be offering but holy shit is that battle system jarring.

I just remembered the thing that helped yakuza take off in the west was nugget.

Based turkey.

By the way, the friend actually IS Cane Man, right? When you first meet him at the bar it's weird that he knows exactly where you met his "twin."

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You're fucking retarded if you dont see the difference between real time and turn based garbage.

They need to change the health bars for enemies. They are absolutely terrible for level 40. Also Level 11 mooks with the level 30+ guys is fucking dumb, have the devs never played an RPG?

I mean its not like it hasnt been technically been done to some extent. Yakuza 4 was a notable jump especially since it didnt quite involve Kiryu until the end IIRC.

I got in with the first one and the absolute satisfaction of heat actions is what drove me to keep playing despite enemies being everywhere and taking a minute to load in each. There's no point in dealing with that bullshit if there's no payoff and all the moves are automated.

>based
>not baste
gutterball

You still get people screeching about muh fixed camera and tank controls.

>this fight but in yakuza 7
could be kino

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You can probably blame Kimutaku for that since he's the one who okayed the final outfit design.

>tiger drop counters won't feel fun anymore.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=M9_L2TA0IEY

Trailer

Arr rook the same

The original Yakuza formula still has plenty of room for evolution, why the fuck are they doing this

Probably a flash-back to before Kiryu and Yakuza 6, really not that far-fetched.

translation

I agree, the tight jeans, the chain and the leather jacket look out of place in every setting and pisses me off I couldn't customize his outfit even in premium adventure to wear one of his disguises like a regular suit. It looks fucking retarded I can't believe it stuck.

The only thing I can think of is that they thought if they did something like that, not enough people would try the spinoff since it was too different. By keeping it as a mainline game, a lot of people will buy it anyway even if it alienates them afterwards. That kind of happened with the Final Fantasy series.

I appreciate them for going out of their way to do something different
I just hope the end result is good

>why the fuck are they doing this

The devs themselves probably wanted to stretch their creative muscles

The only thing I dont like about this is that if we do get it to be action games again, we're gonna have to wait until a remake of this game is announced to get it to be the format that some of us want NOW.

>50 life bars
>regen his hp
>unlimited sp
>immune to status changes
>can use items
>can call his family
>can call choppers with rocket launchers
>can call Amon Godzilla shooting laser beams
>can revive himself
>can only hit him after using some weapon to remove his shield for a set amount of turns
>have some limit amount of turns or a timer to defeat him or he will 1 shot Ichiban

The april fool's video they did that was turn-based actually looked really fucking cool. I'm interested in seeing how this turns out.

youtube.com/watch?v=noioqCv92hM

Because why not? They tried something different with the PSP entries and they were great, they tried something different with Dead Souls and it was still a lot of fun.

>the same people that bashed XV for being a arpg is defending this change

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you're the retard if you don't think turn-based game doesn't have constant transition between cutscenes and gameplay in a single battle.

Supposed to be 3 times larger than Kamurocho

Does SEGA have some sort of affinity for Playstaiton or something? Because I swear half of the games they release are Playstation only and it makes no fucking sense for a third party publisher when there are at least 2 other platforms they could also be putting their games on. And people wonder why SEGA is hemorrhaging so much money when they release their games on a only one platform for an audience that doesn't care about them.

honestly this looks really shitty for turn based. way too slow.

Watch the final boss break away from the turn-based combat and return to the original combat so him and Ichiban can have a true man to man showdown.

delete

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Imagine running around the city trying to avoid thugs

because XV is a shitty boring arpg, being worse than Kingdom Hearts is quite an achievement.

>Is this an April Fools joke?

youtube.com/watch?v=2_w-3dyaU1k&feature=youtu.be

it literally was their april fools video. they revealed the gameplay months ago and we just thought it was a joke

They could've just not did that in mainline game. Just like how they shouldn't have introduced Dragon Engine with mainline game.

>PSP entries and they were great, they tried something different with Dead Souls and it was still a lot of fun
Lol imagine being delusional. The only decent spin offs were Ishin and Judgement

Wrong quote

nah, I'm sure they were just testing the waters and when they see people say "this actually looks cool and have potential" they went for it

I wonder if they will force certain bosses to be one on one turn base with Ichiban, probably wouldn't make it fun or interesting but loses the impact one on one fights in Yakuza games usually have. Kinda sucks.

You didn't even played Ishin, EOP. I'll buy two copies of 7 just to spite you though.

This shit is gonna be like Haruka dancing in Y5 but instead of it being a single part its gonna be the whole fucking game.

Nobody liked Haruka annoying fucking dance gameplay and everyone agree that its boring and slow this shit is gonna be the same.

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Yakuza during the first games launch targeted the PS2 because it would have been the only platform that would ensure that it would have succeeded. I'm guessing they stuck around due to loyalty, funding, or overall success.

TRIED TO RUN ME THROUGH, HOLD ON

You have to do the sidequest to summon Kiryuu.

No one in Japan owns an Xbox, and the Dragon Engine wouldn't run on Switch. This will be on PC in the west anyway.

>turn based
god fucking damnit i was looking forward to seeing kasuga's cool fighting style and its fucking nothing

>forced random encounters in a turnbased game in 2020
Yeah i might be forced to drop

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>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YAKUZA IS BORING, SAME SHIT EVERY GAME!!
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THEY CHANGED YAKUZA, FUCK THIS SHIT!!

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I'll wait for the pc port, thanks for beta testing

No Kiryu no buy

If Rean-wankery ever infests Ys, I'm gonna flip the fuck out and slap the shit out of Falcom's president. I don't care about Trails or Legend of Heroes or Xanadu or Brandish, but Ys is one of my favourite series ever and if Falcom fucks it up I'm gonna be so mad.

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This looks fun, I can see why nips liked it

Its fucking turn based you braindead moron. You just choose an attack and thats it like every fucking turn based battle out there.

Wait so the game IS actually turn based?
Thats actually really interesting, the April 1st video looked genuinely neat even as a joke

This. I'll just wait for CPY. Not even going to buy it for PS4 like rest of series.

Finally.
The Yakuza combat system got stale after 2 so this change is welcome.

I didn't mind Haruka shit because you chose who to dance off with and wasn't random encounters and since it was a small part of the game wasnt annoying. This idea sounds annoying and gameplay seems too slow and the gameplay loop of Yakuza wont compliment it

Every Yakuza game has had random encounters. This is going to be the same shit. You'll be running away from random thugs just like every entry since Yakuza 1.

It's amusing seeing people who've never even played a Yakuza game lose their shit about this.

>Dragon Engine wouldn't run on Switch
Witcher 3 laughs in Polish

Shut up slut, go suck some demon dick

>Like a Dragon Quest

Risky move
Can't see long fans accepting it easily

Yes. The April Fool's stuff was really well done so general conclusion was that it was going to be a mini-game, but turns out it's the new combat system

Mainline or not, Kiryu is officially gone. It's a change, it's a chance to try something new.

Based

>haha everyone laugh at our april joke that mean they want it for real looolllz
Yup japanese brainlets devs at work.

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>Ode to Joy in the trailer
What the fuck is this game

The good direction you can do with Yakuza is keeping the gameplay but mask it in a different formula like they did with Kenzan and Ishin by turning it into hack n slash

Turning a beat em up into a turn-based game is a good way to alienate your entire fanbase just like Dead Souls. On top of all that, THEY HAVEN'T FUCKING LOCALIZED THEM YET.

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I've played since y1 on PS2 and I think this looks fucking great so far.

>The face of a man who will never get his own full game

Difference is the turn based combat will make battles longer as evident by the gameplay videos
Dragon Engine is literally spaghetti code shit
I think hardcore fans and Western fans are going to throw a fit

I am so confused right now. The story trailer looked genuinely neat though.

KimuTaku has come to save you from turn based cancer

To be fair Dead Souls tanked because the gunplay was hot trash. If they remastered it on the Binary Domain engine it would fare much better

More like reverse Fallout.

This is like if Halo 3 was a real time strategy game instead of making Halo Wars as a spinoff.

>every retarded on Yea Forums bitches about the combat for every game since 0
>suddenly they want it back
You fags make me laugh.

>The face of a man who will never get his own full game

It's called Yakuza: Dead Souls.

>The game will take place in Yokohama which is apparently over three times the size of Kamurocho
So is the turn based combat a compromise for the new area?
>had nothing to do with killing the series.
It sold like shit in the West which made Sega thought there wasn't any interest for Yakuza in the west anymore so they put future localisations on hold until Sony basically paid for them to translate Y5.

>shit senpaitachi Y6 didn't kill our series wat do?
>heh leave it to me I will make sure sega never force us to make another game

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Here are the facts
>Kiryu is retired, don't bug him anymore, he's suffered enough
>Turnbased random encounters is pokemon is final fantasy is whatever, but needs to be improved upon
>Ichiban looks and sounds fine
>This shouldn't have been a mainline game, but too late I guess. now the series has forked to judgement/nukuza
>I'm going to buy this game anyways and probably still like it for the characters, story, and shenanigans

>Put Joker in Smash
>All Switch gets is Musou
>Constant calls to release more of their games on PC
>Only on Playstation
>Holy shit a SEGA game on something other than JUST Playstation!
>The game is a bag of turds
>Can't get Sonic right 13 years after 06
>Has to get fans to save their sorry asses
What the fuck when wrong with SEGA?

>And people wonder why SEGA is hemorrhaging so much money when they release their games on a only one platform for an audience that doesn't care about them.
Are we still pushing this narrative of PS4 owners not buying anything that isnt sports games?

Nagoshi seems legitimately fine with that. The team wanted to shake it up and if it doesn't work out then they'll go back to the old style.

Then make something new. Not Yakuza 7.

See

>shitflinging will be even worse with a bigger schism between Yakuza beat em up and Yakuza turn-based
>real-time turn-based on a realistic setting
Can't really catch a break huh?

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im getting it. reminds me of dragon quest.

>Every Yakuza game has had random encounter
I know fucktard but its much quicker to deal with in arpg than a turnbased game

Punished Apricot

The trailer is amazing. It starts off seeming super serious and is full blown goofy by the end.

I am convinced if they do go back to beat em up or even hack n slash, they will drop Ichiban as a protag and make a new one

He needs a break and pick one of his old ips for a change.

>they wont port the games I want on my system, SEGA IS STUPID
this is how you sound

Why the fuck didn't they just make a spin off for this?

Almost killing localization in the west isn't killing the series. Yakuza 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 ALL sold like shit in the west too.

If they go back it means the RPG idea was a failure, so duh they would drop the face of it.

Yes because for the most part it's true. The only reason they noticed Persona is because it got nominated for game of the year.

Itchy Bum is great. The issue is their gameplay direction

I'm 100% sure the story will be one of the best. That's no question. The fucking problem is it being turn-based

I'm pre-order 3 copies in Japanese and 5 in English just to piss you cunts off. This looks fun

I am okay with this

Is Nagoshi like 0% body fat?

i feel genuinely conflicted because i'm not that big into turn based rpgs and this is not a direction i wanted the series to take but at the same time i don't think it will be a bad rpg at all because this studio is quality

It looks good but naming it Yakuza 7 is a huge fucking mistake, should have just stuck with Shin Yakuza.

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Let's also add to the fact that Ichiban party member friends all look fucking boring. The women literally look like a generic normal boring npc with absolutely nothing special about her.

I hope they don't drop Ichiban, he and his supporting cast seem great from what little we've seen.

>Yakuza 7 is a jrpg
>SMT V becomes a beat em up

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Seething

>Yes because for the most part it's true.
You realize the only reason why they gave Yakuza another chance in the west is because 0 sold so well here right?
>The only reason they noticed Persona is because it got nominated for game of the year.
Are you still upset over P5 not being on the Switch?

See everyone? I don't understand the sudden outrage over this, when the April Fools thing dropped everyone was like "HOLY SHIT BEST THING EVER!" and now they're suddenly angry? The gameplay needed a change, even if for one game lets just go with it, there's gonna be like 10 more Yakuza games, probably with Ichiban, stop sperging out over a completely different game-play format in an otherwise stale franchise

(we're also likely getting Judgment 2 with the action combat, just RELAX user)

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That's probably the point. I bet he recruits a fuckton of generic party members via substories.

Because it's not a spinoff. The director guy basically said they'd reached the end point of the old style of gameplay so they wanted to try something completely new instead of doing more of the same.

If it craters they'll go back to the old style.

>flop total
>series die
BRILLIANT IDEA!

Is the woman the one who won the competition the one in the video or some rando? Besides you probably will get a ton of randoms in the game

So we name our character Jotaro and fight mostly autonomous stands?

Well, new Protagonist, new town, new gameplay.
I can deal with that.

I'm a long time fan and accepting it very easily. The series was full of RPG mechanics and conventions from the start.

Not like they need "longtime" fans when it comes to things anyway, most of their western fans came in from 0. If they can gather a fanbase that late, they can gather another.

I'm really digging the idea of Ichiban having a group of buddies with him at all time. Maybe Ichiban's current party will play into sub-events and stuff too.

>finally went past the PC autism after the ports
>now turn-based retards are flooding the threads

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No one was saying it was the best ever. Everyone said it would be neat as a side activity or mini game or even a spin off, not mainline title

>Yea Forums cries endlessly about devs giving into whiners about changing their game and not sticking to their vision
>RGG devs want to try something new and Yea Forums cries that RGG isn't catering to their exact demands

I love the shitstorm such a vocal minority here can make for a game they'll pre-order anyway.

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Someone saved this lol? Feels like yesterday I made it.

People liked the April fools joke because they thought it was a joke

youtube.com/watch?v=WZBxkzxvVlo

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It looks like the turn based is either gonna be amusingly good or just horrid bad.

Well.. Okinawa is technically still japan

Japs are pissed as fuck

IF YOU'RE GONNA CHANGE IT, DO IT LIKE ISHIN. WHY TURN-BASED? WHY COMPLETELY CHANGE HOW THESE GAMES PLAY?
>vocal minority
EVERYONE'S FUCKING PISSED. THEY HAD TO ADDRESS THIS IMMEDIATELY

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To the lower part somewhat, yes. I refuse to believe that Nintendo chose Joker for Smash to advertise a fucking musou spin off and an exclusive on a now dead console or even worse their competition's exclusives. It's not even Sony I'm mad at it's honestly Nintendo for not making any god damn sense.

After Sega fell out of the console race, Microsoft used and abused them, Nintendo provided awful hardware to support them with, Sony went above and beyond to cushion their blow and provide them a good development environment. Sony basically saved Sega.

The series needed this change. Can't wait.

Who here cautiously optimistic?
All this new shit seems cool, I just hope it's executed well.
Also they might change the way random encounters work since it's turn based.

I was saying it was amazing and I wish they made a full game out of it, and was mildly upset such a cool concept was wasted on an April Fools joke and at best might end up like the shitty Clan Creator minigames.

So yeah, eat shit, I'm pleasantly surprised.

Because it's Nagoshi's game and he can do whatever the fuck he wants.

I've been playing since the PS2 games and I'm not pissed at all.

Haven't play Judgement yet but please tell me the game end in a way that sequel is possible for the future.

Turn-based jrpg are shit and will always be boring trash for women and low IQ people.

using shitty translators, the japs at twitter are full-blown angry. This ain't good

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WTF IS GOING WTF IS THIS WTF WERE THEY THINKING

Dead Souls has 4 playable characters user. BUT Majima was 50% of Yakuza Zero and there's been talk of a Yakuza Zero 2.

Yeah. I'll be giving it a whirl in January. If it's bad, it's bad and I'll just sell it back.

I don't mind the idea (even though it seems really weird to drop your real time action with ragdolls and physics in favor of turn based, but whatever), but the gameplay shown looks really slow and boring. Oh wow, I used my move of punching a guy and have to sit through a 10 second animation, riveting gameplay. Now add random encounters on top of this and you get a certified slog.

Don't you remember it was Sony that killed them in the first place?

Sure worked well with 5 and 6 huh?

>I refuse to believe that Nintendo chose Joker for Smash to advertise a fucking musou spin off
Good thing it wasnt Nintendo but Sakurai who loved P5 enough to add him to the game, If you want to get mad at Sakurai's decisions then make a Smash thread to complain about that

There's tons of room for another standalone mystery in Judgment

This change should have come 3 games ago.

I literally lost all hype as soon as they announced it was turn based. What the actual fuck are they thinking?

>people are now able to relive the old series on ps4 and maybe steam easily with all the main games
>RGG Team being so based, that they figured a new gameplay system for the new protagonist would be way more interesting

No, it was Sega's mismanagement for an entire decade. No one can survive that along with having all your money making methods dry up.

Where would it even take place, a 0-2? I've never even heard of such talk.

>even japs hate it
this is definitely gonna flop

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...Yes? Dude 5 is one of the best selling capcom games of all time.

I got into Yakuza in the PS2 era because it had beat'em'up elements and was one of the few that had them which reminded shit like SoR. Without that I dont care.
I dont have the patience for rpgs anymore either

What the fuck is Joon gi han doing here? Didn't he get fucking shot in the head in the last game?

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>be yakuza devs
>have 30+ minigames across several different genres to choose from and turn into fully fledged games in their own right
>choose the genre that only people with crippling trophy autism bothered playing in their older games
at least all 5 people that enjoyed playing the majima construction minigame will get a kick out of this one

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No? even during the PS2 era they made games for it, if anyone killed Sega was Sega themselves

Nintendo literally stated they THEY were the ones choosing the DLC, not Sakurai. THAT WAS ALL NINTENDO! People even joked and said the fighters pass would be nothing but fire emblem characters upon that revelation.

Sega killed themselves.

>New character
>New gameplay
Actually kinda makes sense.

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The Final Fantasy 7 of Yakuza

Twin brother, possibly in the CIA. You know the drill.

Secret CIA brother.

More like FF15

0-2 talk happened after 0 and Kiwami where people wanted either more Majima and Taiga or even Kazama and Shimano

I can't wait for pre-orders to go live. Looks fun as hell.

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Rubber bullets

its an RPG game bro, people get shot everyday

The animations are too long they fucked the pooch it's gonna be a slog. I mean SMT team is like down the hall right? How do they not know speed can make or break turn based RPGs?

5 is a top tier game nigger, not my fault you have no friends to play with

Where you get his info?

I honestly was getting burned out going from Kiwami 2 on PC to Judgment since they came out so relatively close.

This is a breath of fresh air.

> based
> just change the core mechanics of what people like about the game
> especially when last time they tried something like this it flopped and massively undersold the previous title
wtf am I reading?

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BASED

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Outside of it looking slow, I think it looks like it could be great.

Honestly, I never played these games for the combat. Its always been okay, nothing really amazing, but fun enough. The animations are the big thing that really tied it together in the regard, as did the stories and characters and humor.
All of those factors can transfer to a turn based game just fine.

But I do hope theres a setting to speed up combat or something. Either that or enemies need to die in just a couple hits, Paper Mario style.

They clearly wanted to have close to real time combat yet wanted flashy moves. Its their first time with a turn based affair so I expect a lot of clunky shit for like 2-3 games.

twitter responses, hence the "If it flops, we'll go back to normal" tweet

should have kept the Shin RGG name desu

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I want to get into the series but 7 games of running around is too much desu, i will probably grab this one when it comes out

majima construction wasn't turn based, moron

I remember them loving it and thought it looked cool. Nobody cared if this was just a mini-game at the time either and I'm pretty optimistic about it so far

All the good mini games were the active ones. I'd honestly be happier with a business management game in the vein of Cabaret Clubs and the firm from a gameplay stand point.

Post some screencaps

Holy fuck Japs are pissed

Even japs know this smells awful. Only western retards enjoy budget turn-based games

>Joon gi han
Aka Korean Virgil

Yakuza suffered badly from being the same shit every game, why is this a bad thing?

If you want brawler there's obviously going to be more Judgement.

>Judge Eyes sequel
I mean they are probably working on it given it was a success both in Japan and overseas, I could see why they are making Y7 different and having Judgement 2 as something to fall back on in case this doesnt sell

dragon engine so bad that even sega gave up and making 7 turn-based

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It's going to look really slow because they're dicking around on stage and showing it off, just like every other stage demo of a JRPG. When you're actually playing it you're not slowly scrolling through menus to show off every little thing. 90% of JRPGs have combat speed settings anyway.

Yea Forums loves to cry doom and gloom.

They wont, ps4 games dont sell that well there unless your dragon quest.

That is far from the truth, turn based shit always is shit in the west unless it is a huge franchise

You people blindly eating this shit up aren't thinking with logic here. I know and you know that Yakuza is not a very well balanced series gameplay wise. How the fuck do you think they can do turn based battle well? Money is never a problem in Yakuza so lets just buy a bunch of healing and mana items and just spam our strongest attack every fucking time we encounter a thug yeah thats going to be fun right? Oh how about the epic cool final boss? Just do the same, spam your strongest move and then use one of 99 elixir that you bought when needed so you can spam your strongest attack again.

This is not gonna be DQ fun style turn based this is gonna be shit style turn based.

inb4 7 yakuza games/spin offs with turn based combat

>0 fags thinking Yakuza is about beating up dudes and angry Japanese men screaming at each other half-naked

>Everyone said it would be neat as a side activity or mini game or even a spin off
some expected it would become a mini-game sure, but nobody spoke about this being a spin-off.

The fact that the nips are also pissed means this is definitely gonna flop harder than dead souls

We're not getting that kenzan/ishin localization any time soon

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>japs hate it
i wonder if yakuza 8 will have a different protagonist

There's 7 years of development between 0 and 1. Obviously some shit went down at some point for kiryu to be captured, tortured, and nearly killed only for kazama to blow out a knee saving him. Beyond that you have majima being set up as a patriarch, sera running the show as the chairman(who knows and trusts both majim and kiryu). You could even do a curveball and have the protagonist be Ryuji rising in the Omi.

Money is never a problem in any Jrpg i've ever played tbqh

Improve the combat, DON'T FUCKING THROW IT OUT.

If your soup lacks heat, do you throw out the soup and make a cake or do you add some fucking pepper? If you have a hole in your wall, do you demolish the house or fill the fucking hole?

>Where did all the fans go?

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Just play 0, take a break, play Kiwami, take a break, play Kiwami 2 take a break and so on. Yakuza is a Japanese gangsta adventure vacation simulator. No need to rush.

Okay now take a deep breath

I saw several people make threads saying they rather see that as a mobile game or possibly a VR minigame in Shin Yakuza

nice projecting

Why wasn't Judgment the turn-based game?
>detective who would be more mental-based than pure violence
>have fights that involve thinking outside the box or strategizing unlike the "bull in a china shop" Kiryu
>constantly hanging out with his teammates
>all his substories are about acquiring clients and building relationships
>frequents so many joints in kamuro that he could be a tour guide where he builds even more relationship
>storyline mostly only has yakuza-tier fights for the sake of keeping the game formula intact

Judgment is such a step up gameplay-wise for the Dragon Engine and a fresh breath of air for the beat-em up. It felt like they made a character that could take advantage of the new engine in a way Kiryu never could. Even if Judgment gets a sequel, I would still think it'd be the more fitting RPG.

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But why did you spend the entire first paragraph describing yakuza 1-6?

This looks cool, but noticeably way better than what weve seen today, very likley bullshot stuff made for the trailer while the main game is way less stylish.

>Action can come back just vote with your wallet
>implying we will ever see another Yakuza game in the west again if theres a single flop

We're fucked dude.

kek

Majima Construction was somehow worse than Clan Creator in 6

>They gave him a ponytail
i'm not sure if that's better or worse than the perm

>doing substories
>walking around
>wanting to mini games
>story
>being stop a lot of times because "OSAN!oiiii" into ATB mode

Sure will be fun

> play 6 mainline titles and 2 spinoffs
> this has always been the case
> it's actually better now that it's going to be persona-light with a yakuza skin on it
fuck off

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I'm really excited for the inevitable fantasy RPG spin-off with Kiryu and gang as knights and wizards and shit.

>implying they won't now do one year judgment, the other ichiban-quest forever now

I really dont think theres gonna be many defending this one. I legit think they arent gonna have an audience here.

I wish it was that

>make the entire game turn based
>secret fight against kiryu is classic action mode

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People liked playing the "same game" every time, that's the whole point.

>several people
user please, several people also want a dead souls Kiwami remake so lets not get too retarded with what "several people" say

>Yakuza 7
>tfw still haven't gotten around to 5,0,6 and Judgement yet
Fuck. I don't think I'll ever catch up.

How is that different from every game in the series where you're walking around and someone starts running at you? You'll still be able to run away, just like Yakuza 1-6. You'd know this if you ever played a Yakuza game.

It'll be like how Kenzan and Ishin was the Yakuza cast in the roles of historical Japanese figures, except with Kiryu as Sir Arthur and Majima as Lancelot and things like that.

As someone who fell in love with the combat, this is a complete turn off. The adrenaline rush that's come with these games can't be automated without losing the best part about them in the first place.

JRPG are my favorite genre and I think this is dumb and stupid. If I want to play SMT I will play SMT not fucking Yakuza.

Test

Running away in turn based is way different than running away in real time

>Yakuza got a turn-based game before SMT V even materializes

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Why is it so slow. I’d prefer to something akin to a grid based system. Always thought that the weakness of turn based JRPGs is the lack of positional strategy. But this just look so damn slow.

>I love the shitstorm such a vocal minority
This is not a vocal minority, the reaction is mostly angry confusions or dissapointment witha few scattered posititve sentiments.

The game could be great, this was a retarded move all around to present it, they should of made this a spin off and been open about it being a departure. This is only going to alienate and it is.

He means before a battle starts. Like how it works in 1-6 and almost assuredly would be the same here. Your character is not "turn based" outside of battle.

Ichiban is the series new protagonist going forward, right? If so this is quite an introduction, making him as goofy as Shinada. I wonder if they're going to do some deconstruction stuff or something.

This. They've literally done character action games for over a decade and a half, its not like its going away either since you've got Judgment, which sold very well in the west too lol

Man as someone that likes turn based and Yakuza being a beat me up, I just want to see more of the actual gameplay before crying a river. The change still feels weird though and could have been a spin off to ease fans into the idea though.

>see enemy running towards you to trigger the fight
>run in a different direction until out of range

Yea Forums is very much a minority. Half the fags in this thread are going to buy it anyway like always.

then you are blind

STANDO POWAH

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At least it had animation. Unlike pershitna.

>hate this direction
>but dont want it to flop because it'll not only delay all yakuza games, but it'll erase Ichiban

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Is it weird that I want this to be Persona but actually a good game?

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Guess what, if you get caught in other Yakuza, you get a fun fight. If you get random encounter'd in this though, be ready for a slog of a fight because turn-based combat is s l o w as shit in this.

look at that absolute unit on the left

I know, I can't wait. I love turn-based combat.

>Judgement 2 is now a point and click.

If you read the articles you are automatically put into battle when an enemy is within a certain range of you, I doubt running away will be that easy especially in a city this big and without the need of the enemy actually catching up.

>Yea Forums is very much a minority
Good thing the Japs are pissed too. Or are they a minority too?

i like the lady about to beat the shit out of the punk with her bag

>its another devs telling their old fans to go fuck themselves
Why is this so popular lately?

I really hope I can summon the ghost of Rikiya to do some dope ass summon attacks.

How? It is faster to avoid battles, to escape from battles, to defeat mooks without going into silly animations
Getting into turn base is always slower, more annoying and sometimes they will force into battle like it or not. This will get annoying and tiresome mid-point for sure
This doesnt fit a Yakuza world when your point is to go around the towns doing side-stuff which is the best thing of Yakuza

>you will have Ichiban and his friends
>big dick tag team attacks
>everyone cried when heatmoves got removed
>now combat is basically all heatmoves and weapons actually seem to be useful now

Will this be the first ever turn based jrpg to star an adult man as the protagonist?

Fucking based japs have better taste than the moronic retards here praising this shit.

I'm immensely disappointed but im still giving it a chance,I wanted an turn based game in this style for a long time, the problem here is im only seeing bad things about how this can work out, like random encounters and substories i feel are gonna suck hard and I dont know how i feel about having random npc party members that have no relation to the plot being in my part during climactic story moments.

This is probably gonna be that weird departure game in a series that causes people to not bring it up much going foreword.

The ones crying on twitter? Yeah of course. Every time some game does something they all shitpost on twitter with angry emoticons and shit. The games always sell well anyway because most people aren't terrified of trying something new.

Shitpost all you want about how this will kill the franchise, but when February rolls around it's already sold like hotcakes you'll have something new to cry about anyway and won't even remember this.

I think ichiban will stay since japs really like him.
They're wrapping up his story in online and people were saying that they didn't want him to go (though it's more like they're having a temporary pause, as I think they said they'll pick his story back up at some point)

I don't know.
But Kiryu is gone and this seems like a logical way to reinvent the series. Its the same universe from a different perspective. Or is a shitty shoehorn for the mobile game but Naoki would never do this to us... r-right?

>The games always sell well anyway because most people aren't terrified of trying something new.
What is Dead Souls for 2000, alex?

Honestly, I think the big issue here is especially Western fans like the idea of being in the world as a regular person whether Kiryu, Ichiban whatever and exploring the slice of life aspects in the city. I feel the over the top and slow paced turn based battles will take away from that especially in a new setting people will want to explore.

Look at the yakuza series sales in Japan retard. It’s been going downhill for years.

>real time battle will actually just be a minigame just to spit on the fans more

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>when February rolls around it's already sold like hotcakes you'll have something new to cry about anyway and won't even remember this
I'll be sure to remember your post when Nagoshi admits turn-based was a mistake due to poor sales and comes crawling back with another real-time brawler.

>Whereabouts
That kanji isn't the word for path or way? Like the Path of Light and Darkness?

Now look at the DQ numbers and Persona numbers. This is going to bring in all sorts of new players.

>This doesn't fit a Yakuza world when your point is to go around the towns doing side-stuff which is the best thing of Yakuza

Have you ever played an rpg before, because what you described is a hallmark of them.

persona fans played this as a alternative to fucking persona, not to play another turnbased piece of shit

>15 seconds long animation everytime you choose an attack
HOLY SHIT SO HYPE BROS CERTAINLY NOT GONNA GET BORING AFTER 30 MINUTES OF GAMEPLAY!!!

>inb4 B-B-B-B-B-B-BUT ITS THE SAME WITH HEAT ATTACK DUDE!!!!!

You mean "gone". If they wanted him gone they would have killed Kiryu for good. Even so, they could always remake the stories with a younger Kiryu if fans started crying.

Dragon quest 11 sold less on two platforms than the ones before it on fucking handhelds retard
>Persona 5
Congrats a series with the same gameplay it’s had forever had better sales

Based

I would argue killing Kiryu may have been a bit more dramatic. But the way his Saga ended just fits him, he ended it on his own terms like he always did.

If this was a spin-off, it would have been fine. They killed off Kiryu for this?

Is this gonna be like Persona/SMT situation where the spin-off is much better than the mainline?

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>NOOOOOOOOO I NEED THE SAME SHITTY COMBAT FOR THE 50TH TIME
Yakuza fans are pathetic.

Nope, the japs hate it

>YEEEEEEEES I WANT THE SAME SHITTY TURN-BASED COMBAT FOR THE 700TH TIME
newfags are pathetic

Honestly, since Dead Souls the last time shit was this bad was when people were hype for 6 and it came out in Japan with tons of performance issues and Japs hated how they handled Kiryu and Haruka and review bombed the shit out of it. The fact this is so divisive long before release and will continue with new info releasing, it isn't good no matter what. Even if it is turn based I doubt that will convince all the DQ and Persona fans to try it out if it isn't their thing. And in this case people in the West and Japs both on edge.

>Ichiban love games like dragon quest
>thats why he fight in this style
Its ironic because DQ is a series that have never evolved yet still remain beloved for the japanese people but now they are changing Yakuza and the japs are pissed.

Nagoshi and sega are retards.

Nope, 行方 indicates destination, where one ends up. 行方不明, for example, means missing or "whereabouts unknown". It's a good direct translation, but they'll probably have to think of something sexier for the western release.

I'm talking about Judgement being the spin-off

I mean karaoke, clan creator, phone calls, arcade things like that. The only thing in common is fishing and casino games, which people only do in rpgs for farming shit rather than enjoyment.

>implying real life modern inspired turn based has been really done while street beat em up games have been done to death
action fags are really pathetic

Who the fuck played Yakuza for it's combat and was still a fan of it? It was serviceable usually, but never great.

I can't think of a single time I was getting into a sidequest and thought "wow I wish this silly situation and dialogue would end so I could get to a fight already".

If being turn based was enough, all turn based games would sell 3 million like DQ in Japan.

They don’t.

Yup I have a feeling this is gonna be one of those one star rated game on japan amazon.

Then yes. But unlike SMT, it’s almost on purpose

Thats my point which is why I find it ridiculous people in this thread are acting like this will suddenly make up for upset fans and new and old by gaining those turn based fanbase audiences

>fuckin turn based
its so fucking apparent the studio doesn't take the franchise seriously anymore

I'm a long fan and I like the change, it's may be too slow and boring when fighting random thugs alldaylong, I just hope they pace this out good.

>15 second battle versus 5 minutes long battle
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

You are supposed to add not replace to get a new audience. Persona added school shit and social links. Fire emblem added waifus. The main game still had the same gameplay the older audience liked.

>make franchise based on a beat-em-up style
>water it down removing fighting styles, removing part of the flare and skill in using it
>MAKE IT A FUCKING TURN-BASED RPG TO SPICE IT UP

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>now combat is basically all heatmoves and weapons actually seem to be useful now

it actually makes defensive items and other things you can buy in the stores more useful.. I literally never used that shit in the other games beyond equipping something and forgetting it

Sega confuses me

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>Yakuza is a beat-em-up

Where's Fist of the north star and dead souls?

I imagine there's a lot of ways they could potentially speed things up. Fast forward toggles, maybe Earthbound-style "if you're x amount higher level, you instant win", enemies get intimidated by you if they're too low level so they don't initiate the fight, that kind of thing.

Either way, random thugs were never the meat of the series. I want to see how bosses work with cinematic QTEs and whatnot still in, I could see it still working like the regular Yakuza games with them kicking in automatically when a boss reaches a threshold of HP. That alone in terms of sheer presentation would be a high bar for JRPGs, they really don't do that much at all.

It is

>OH GOD YES TURN BASED BATTLE IS SO UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL OH GOD YES!!!!!!!

AAAAAA NOOOO
PREAAASE, DONTU USE ACTION GAMEPLAY-DES AGAINST MEEEE
RET ME HAVE A TURNU PREEAAASSS

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Am I the only one who wants Yagami vs Ichiban?

no it's a racing game

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>RET ME HAVE A TURNU PREEAAASSS
my sides

What's your favorite Yakuza?

5

In this setting? Yeah actually.

opinion in this change black hand?

That's what I get for guessing based off just kanji used. This is 方面 all over again for me.

just give up already if you're this stupid

This is the same team that made Binary Domain as one of their first third person shooters after years of Yakuza games, hope it turns out as well.

It also reminds me of ArcSys with Hard Corps Uprising. Undeniable proof they can make a really good Contra game, but you never see them flex that because they're making multiple series of anime fighting games instead.

Dead souls was the test game for binary domain. That means 7 will be awful but if they keep the turn based combat for 8 it'll be good.

Looks like a japanese De Niro