Is this an out of season April Fools Joke?

what is Edgeworth going to do with that bat?

>actually liking square square triangle: the game

He decided to try out Fran's way of getting physical with the criminals

Damn square really wants DQ11 to sell in the west

Is this going to be a "from the bottom to the top" storyline where Ichiban and his party members will create their own yakuza faction in Yokohama?

mafia city looking swell

Considering Ichiban's only part of the yakuza because the boss of that one family saved his ass and he wanted to repay a debt I doubt he'll be too eager to rejoin it.

Oh nooo, how awful, a company does something DIFFERENT, we can't have that, gamers unite!

Japan absolutely hates it

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retard

No, it was an in season one actually.
It just turned out it was more than a joke.

No its a case of retarded ideas man thinking the series needs a reboot.

>series finally picks up some steam in the west
>this hsppens
kak

I only played them because of the action though, this is slow bullshit and Yakuza ain't worth playing without action
I love JRPGs turn based or not, but I'll just play the ones with cute anime girls instead of this. There isn't a lot of good brawler and melee action games out there, but there's a lot of great JRPGs with a style that appeal more to me

It's like they don't want to be a success, you finally get popular everywhere, able to release your games confident they will sell over here, then you pull this.

Fair play though I respect the guts, although the detective stuff in Judgement was all very basic, and the lack of minigames in that game was a worry.

So he's Kiryu 2.0? Would've been nice to actually do some gokudo-ing.

>If you have time to do this, do Black Panther 3 instead.

???

Would be fine if it was a spin off
Making it THE Yakuza SEVEN was a big mistake.

dumb secondary

PSP spinoff series, they never made a 3rd

Kind of? He's only in the Yakuza because he lied about being part of the Tojo and when actual Tojo caught him the boss (Arakawa I think his name is?) came up and cut his finger off as an apology for Ichiban. Ichiban then asks why, guy said he has to keep up appearances so that his family doesn't look weak, and then Ichiban starts working for him despite the boss basically going "Kid, don't be an idiot, do you know what this life entails?". Ichiban going to prison as a fall guy is basically his way of paying the boss back.

It's the PSP spinoff games. At the end of BP2 Tatsuya basically goes back to fighting while I think Ryusho was still keeping the Dragon Heat alive with the friends Tatsuya made in 2. There's places they can go with it easily, Tatsuya's VA expressed wanting to be in another game, and both games were liked by the Japanese as far as I understand. Even got a TV drama based around the two games (They don't follow the story of the games at all though).

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>love turn based FF games
>watch as it turns into garbage action rpg with timers and other cancer
>couldn't finish any FF made after FFX because gameplay
>few years later fall in love with Yakuza games
>now Yakuza 7 is turn based
Is Sega personally trying to suck me off?

This actually looks better to me, they’ve recaptured my interest. Yakuza games had pretty shit combat before.

Hope you get mauled by hungry pitbulls

>another company is the new konami
why are the japs made at konami?

>love turn based FF games
>watch as the series turns into garbage action rpg with timers and other cancer
>couldn't finish any FF made after FFX
>few years later fall in love with Yakuza games
>now Yakuza 7 is turn based
Is Sega personally trying to suck me off?

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>Stopped investing in games that weren't sports games with very few exceptions recently.
>Hoards their IPs.
>Metal Gear Survive.
>MGS3's gorgeous HD cutscenes were for a pachinko table.
>Pachinko in general are most of their special reveals for things like Metal Gear, Castlevania, etc.
>Still has the stigma from the whole Kojima debacle.
Those are the reasons I can think of. The MGS3 pachinko thing in particular is pretty evil, not to mention Iga had massive problems with making Castlevania and his budget kept decreasing yet they were expected to still release games on the quality of something like CotM or DoS with lower budgets.

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No one ever said they liked Yakuza's combat until this was announced, it was always literally everything else around the shitty fights people praised. Fighting trash mobs gets old an hour into the games with whatever character you're playing, and most boss fights are underwhelming due to how shit the enemy AI is. Plus across all fights on all difficulties the player character is so much faster and stronger than all enemies that you constantly have to old back to even let bosses do their coolest shit, the only time these games ever are arguably hard is at the very beginning of the character where 3/4ths of your character's moveset and abilities are locked (they're not actually fun to play at this point either though)

It's more of like

>everyone hates it
>Yea Forums loves it
>user starts hating it just to piss Yea Forums off
>other posters who've never played video game loves it just to piss that one user off

...

Because they killed their games

Are you me?

I guess that's the end of the god tier combat, then. 7 might be the first Yakuza game I don't buy. Everyone post examples of the god tier Yakuza combat that the idiots at sega have dropped to make way for Personashit.

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Why are all the characters so fucking stupid looking now? What happened to based Kiryu and Majima? I only played yakuza0 btw.

i'll try to be open minded, i HOPE i can enjoy it.

The sperg lord has been summoned.

Im only concerned because it seems like from the people fighting alongside the main character you can recruit different people from around the city

that sounds great on the surface, but when its completely random seeming characters like a literal builder instead of characters invested in the story it could subtract from the experience

also if there's a bunch of clone characters using the same moves it could get old

No kidding; the Nip twitter has been a shrieking ball of rage since yesterday. If you search Ryu Ga Gotoku in Japanese, the top suggestions are now "RGG menus", "RGG 7", "RGG7 menus", and "RGG Persona".

kill yourself you retarded tripfag. do you think anyone cares about you? is this literally the only place you can have any sense of identity? get filtered faggot.

I've seen so many people going REEEEE PERSONA when the devs were actually given permission to use a dragon quest style system from the creator because they love it so much
they even had that whole quest in 0 that was a homage to it

Honestly, I still have 0, 6, both Kiwamis, FotNS and Judgement to play through. At the rate I play these games at, I have years of classic Yakuza gameplay in my backlog, so I don't really care about the change.

I’m a suck for turn base and this looks like it has some depth to it and I like that

>presses one button over and over
damn amazing combat 10/10

based
cringe

Long time fan here, buying Y games since Y1 on PS2. I have Kenzan and Ishin too, even that turd Dead Souls.
Nagoshi was high on drugs when he made Shin Yakuza.

fuck off I love 5's combat

this is so silly

>even that turd Dead Souls
Are you nuts? That was a lot of fun.

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>dude

>press one button

>its so based

This
Plus you can already see Chrono Trigger tech attacks like the kick the baseball bat to your friend super attack

Feel free to post "better" combat from your zoomer games, fuckface

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oh look this webm again

Contrarianism. Most real fans that started on the PS2 are fuming about this. This is a zoomer board though, so I doubt there's many here.

OH LOOK THIS WEBM AGAIN

DmC had better combat than any of these games. Hell, even Senran Kagura is more rewarding.

Yakuza has presentation down, but the actual gameplay is so stupidly unpolished that it's embarrassing.

>enemies wait their turn to attack you

I get that this is a love letter to old martial arts movies, but it's inexcusable in a video game.

>no argument
tell me why pressing 2 buttons on repeat is good and ill show you my webms

>making it RPG is better

That's probably why most fucking RPGs went the Action RPG route now... cause old RPGs combat is better eh?

Good point, in a sense the series has always been turn-based then.

>Making it rpg is better

The fuck? Are you stupid? Even Final Fantasy went away from the stupid "Press X to win" old ass RPG combat system to action RPG. This is like toning it down to the old days nobody gives a flying shit about anymore. Yakuza had one type of gameplay. Making it RPG now is like making a racing game into a puzzle game. It makes no fucking sense and who ever argues otherwise... will probably welcome GTA or Ass Creed becoming a fucking RPG.

>never even said anything about RPG combat
holy fuck youre obsessed hahaha

Ok but are heat actions still in?

This. Real fans are furious. Yakuza had some of, if not THE best combat in videogames and now all the zoom zooms are going to fuck it up. Zoomers love turn based combat. Older thinking men like god tier brawlers.

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There's literally ZERO good or at least passable turn based games made in Japan. Only western developers could pull this off.

>Make a brand new engine for your studio
>Drop it for a straight-up ripoff of P5
Y7 is the MGSV of the series
We had a good run, Kyodai

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>thinking men
>pressing two buttons requires thought

s o y b o y

>thinking men
>pressing two buttons requires thought
>they dont fight back

s o y b o y

>Dragon Quest
>Persona
>fucking POKEMON

All are successful and infinitely more relevant than any Yakuza game in history

>Zoomers love turn based combat. Older thinking men like god tier brawlers.
Because we all know zoomers want to wait their turn and now just buttonmash their way to victory

>all braindead garbage for literal toddlers
Thanks for proving my point.

88$ on JP PSN. I'm gonna buy it day one bitches

All the seething from the Japanese side is pretty amazing, actually. I don't think I've ever seen them this mad.
>twitter.com/Jansson636/status/1166973267363557376
>Now that Like a Dragon 7 is a turn-based RPG, they could call it "Like a Persona", or "Dirty Persona". Not that it'd help.
Replies:
>Yakuza of Hearts
>More like "Dirty Mario RPG".
>To show really strong attacks, they could make your controller vibrate. Peak immersion.

twitter.com/arito_arayuru/status/1166945991259377664
>The new RGG is apparently Persona.... The Persona of Yakuza...
Replies:
>Yakuza of Hearts
>Persona! (shoots self with a real gun)
>Persona! (shows off the tatoo)
>SEGA are truly a cutting edge company. Pioneers so bold that even common sense can't catch up to them.
>Hell, go all out. Time to befriend enemy thugs and fuse them in a blue room.
>Didn't know gangsters were so good at waiting for their turn...

Yakuza isn't that good action-wise. Everytime someone says "X is too hard" the usual reply is "just level up".

So it's gonna be one of the best games in the series? Cool.

How is this not braindead?

>zero engagement from enemies
>zero move variety

It's fucking pathetic.

Even if you ignore everything and focus only on the gameplay, it's still shit
They should've stuck to GZ instead of going the PP route

Besides the Persona stuff, is there another reason for them to change the genre?

>zoomer japs seething over something lighthearted and fun
dumb nips

>zero engagement from enemies
Considering they've all been stunned by various attacks, yeah, that's kind of how it works.
>zero move variety
You mean besides the four separate combos, kicking enemies on the ground, and the grab attacks?

Yakuza is dumb but at least it's dumb in a fun way. Also, that webm is pure cherrypicking.

Kek the combat is dumb fun at best. Adding turn BASED mechanics will actually add some thought in to what you and your enemy will be doing.

Thank you guys.

>garbage for literal toddlers

Yeah, since Yakuza is for distinguished men

>make fun of Persona for waifus
>put literal porn stars in your game
>make fun of Pokemon for kiddie themes
>put Scooby Doo-tier bad guys as antagonists in your games
>make fun of turn-based combat when this is the BEST the series has to offer after 40 game releases

Fucking YIKES

Zoomers are the only ones sort of okay with it. Keep in mind that most Nip fans jumped into the series with RGG1 and 2, which came out 14 years ago.

>Adding turn BASED mechanics will actually add some dumb gimmick in to what you and your enemy will be doing.
Fixed. Nips can't into turn based combat.

I've seen so many people going REEEEE PERSONA when the devs were actually given permission to use a dragon quest style system from the creator because they love it so much
they even had that whole quest in 0 that was a homage to it

this actually looks dope yall yakuza fans are just autistic

>Considering they've all been stunned by various attacks, yeah, that's kind of how it works.

There's enemies with weapons on their shoulders just staring at the guy mash square. They don't look stunned.

Because the family that runs it are retards who don't even consume their own products
They just sit in boardrooms and make decisions based on perceived market shifts
Like faggots

>Pioneers so bold that even common sense can't catch up to them.
toppest bants

>I don't think I've ever seen them this mad.
Depends on anime seasons or the seething rage of tales, but it is fun to watch this

>Yakuzaniggers worse than Musoufags at their shitty gameplay getting changed in any way
What a fucking riot

>Be in an organised crime gang
>It's okay but nothing special, just do criminal shit, threaten people for protection money, illegal gambling outfits, purse snatchings, shit like that, drugs
>One day receive news from boss that we are being absorbed into the Yakuza's organisation
>Suddenly, I receive special superhero powers and can fight like a Marvel character, even being able to stab people with a wakizashi using only my foot while doing a spinning jumping sort of kick thing, and then charging up my wakizashi with some kind of electrical force / energy
Thanks Yakuza.

OH
LOOK
THIS
WEBM
AGAIN

WOW

>Didn't know gangsters were so good at waiting for their turn...
ded

At 0:07 are they supposed to attack their own guys?
At 0:10 he immediately gets hit so why would he try swinging? The guy with the bat also is getting hit.
At 0:13 the guy clearly just got up and then golf club guy immediately goes for a swing.
At 0:19 that guy was about to attack before immediately getting stopped because the taunting guy was about to end his taunt animation which would have triggered the other guy's attack cycle.
At 0:22 the guy just stood up and got in range of Kiryu before getting hit.

So tell me, when would they have attacked? He was also not mashing square during any portion of that webm.
0:11 is square and then triangle.
0:13 is square three times, square behind him, then triangle.
0:14 is square then triangle.
0:16 is square, square behind him, then triangle which gets blocked.
0:18 is triangle behind him.
0:19 is square then triangle.
0:21 is circle, then square trice which he delayed for some ridiculous reason.
0:23 is him countering with a heat action.

Tell me, do you even play this game?

Are they literally just copying Persona 5?

Imagine not thinking this looks awesome.

I have always enjoyed the combat and always talked about it, just because you niggers prefer talking about what JAV star is the best doesn't mean that people don't enjoy the actual game.

Gameplay is the best part LMAO

>Yea Forums pretends it looks good
Well considering Yea Forums is always wrong about everything that confirms this to be shit.

>Ichiban Kusoge

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>tears up
>stands up and applauds

YAAAAS FUCKING DRAG HIM!!!

Yea Forums also loves the action gameplay of the previous games. Guess they suck now as well.

>I like the combat so any changes are bad, no matter how many other people don't care for it
You're a fucking retard.
Literally NO ONE BESIDES YOU actually liked the combat in Yakuza, it has always been merely tolerated because everything else is pretty good.

>Tell me, do you even play this game?

I've tried to give it a chance on multiple occasions. There is zero depth to the game. It's like playing those shitty rocksteady batman games, except these take themselves too seriously for me to give a shit about.

The fighting is clunky, and feels like something you'd find from a PSP game. You can dissect it second by second, but it doesn't feel fun to play since there's no real skill involved. It's just mob clears and boss battles that amount to the same shit except one on one and in a bigger area for that (((epic))) feel.

>7 games in
>justifiably, have gotten complaints over how simplistic the action combat has grown after 7 entries
>make it turn based instead of improve on the action gameplay
>and do it on the mainline game instead of experimenting with the change in Judgement, the game which dared to take Yakuza out of the title so you could approach it with a fresh mindset

They've always been saying that they want to considerably change Yakuza in some way, so there's that

FUCK i love chrono trigger so much. If this game has that kind of tech system, for all the characters, sign me the fuck up.

Yakuza was always known for literally everything BUT the combat, the combat has always been shit. It's been all the fun side stuff that makes the series unique.

>except these take themselves too seriously for me to give a shit about.
So they're not for you, what's the problem? Why act completely disingenuous about things just to bitch about a game?
>The fighting is clunky, and feels like something you'd find from a PSP game.
They're low budget Japanese games and even if they weren't they handle fine. They could use some tuning up in the turning department but I've never had a problem with it.
>but it doesn't feel fun to play since there's no real skill involved
So you've really never played the games. Mash square, see how far it gets you without needing to chug a metric ton of health items. Even more so on the bosses. Try grabbing enemies more than once after they've been grabbed and watch them knock you off. Try not using the dodge function. It's not a fighting game, it's not asking you to memorize lengthy strings and launchers. It's not an action game like DMC or Bayonetta, it's more along the lines of Final Fight, Double Dragon, or Battletoads in a 3D landscape.

I agree that it does have balance problems, that's for certain, but you're clearly looking for something in these games that it was never meant to do.

>At 0:07 are they supposed to attack their own guys?
Enemies can't hurt each other, you're a fucking liar.

Devilleon made 2 fucking guides on the damn combat, and how is watering it down to a bunch of menus supposed to be better even if you don't like the beat-em-up style?

>I don't think I've ever seen them this mad
Then you either don't pay much attention to them or are very new to these things. Them getting mad at shit is par for the course and they've been much more mad at other stuff than Yakuza. Just to name a couple.
>That VN company that advertised their VN as a pure love story but it actually turned out to be NTR
>Japs went absolutely nuclear and the company actually went bankrupt because they boycotted their games from then on
>Tales of Zestiria and the Alisha/Rose shitshow
>Games was being sold for 100 yen at some stores not even 1 month after release since Japs were returning their copies en masse
>Several bomb threats at the Tales festival and death threats to Baba which ultimately led to him leaving the company

They can in the new engine. Weapons like bikes hit their friends as do the other weapons. Pistols even hurt other enemies if someone fires one while an enemy is in between you and the enemy.

This is an improvement until they figure out how to make the brawling combat not janky garbage. Take notes from Platinum or something.

>RGG goes out of their way to be able to literally have their main character in-canon love the Dragon Quest series
>"Haha, Persona!"

How is it that these games have worse enemy AI and smaller moveset variety (outside of the shitty cutscene QTE attacks that make up 2/3rds of every character's movelist) than musoushit, where even the musoushit devs admit that they have to keep it simple due to the massive enemy numbers and all the different playable characters? Pretty sure Yakuza is a higher budget series than those games too

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Yea Forums says this "PRESS ONE BUTTON TO WIN!" shit all the time for numerous games and when it''s proven you can't actually win by doing that they all ignore it because most of them haven't actually played the game they're shitting on.
Yea Forums is filled to the brim the drooling fucking retards who can't make an argument other than parroting the same tired shit over and over again.

It's not just vidya as well. Japs are beyond autistic and get mad at everything. Anime, idolshit, manga, actors/tv stuff. If something triggers them and they go nuclear on social media and real life. Some people complain over here how gamers are entitled and shit, I'd like to see their reaction to Japanese people and how they behave when they don't get what they want or find out about something that triggers them.

>Pretty sure Yakuza is a higher budget series than those games too
They don't even need 100,000 sales to break even. DW sells way more than that.

only 2 squares to stun

Imagine thinking this is bad, Yacucks on suicide watch

I should've said "I've never seen normalfags being this mad". The waifufags and 2ch otaku are constantly seething over one thing or another and actively trying something to be mad about, but with Yakuza it's the normalfags. The official tweets have hundreds of negative comments, the third-party news tweets, and even the standard keyword suggestions are now all about it.

Isn't that first one false advertisement?

How mad will people in the west be about this line?

>not ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻△△△

Yup, it was bait and switch. And the company paid for it by going bankrupt. I dunno what they were thinking desu. Madoka was advertised as a mahou shoujo show but it was also bait and switch and turned out to be a dark anime. I know it's not the same but maybe they were trying to shock the player by having some kind of twist, in this case being the ntr stuff.

I know. I like the combat in the games, and this looks stupid as shit

I know. I like the combat in the games, and this looks stupid as shit

First rule is don't fuck with the otaku. They love self-insert shit and think every girl belongs to them, they also detest non-virgins hence why most girls in VNs are virgins. Even succubi are virgins in a lot of VNs, the girls who are supposed to drain men of their semen, which to me seems just plain stupid, but it is what it is.

are you olay

I don't like it. Turn based JRPGs are always padded out and it already takes me an eternity to beat Yakuza games because I get distracted with side shit.

No I'm ogay, haha

End this fucking meme, Yakuza never had good combat. If anything it got worse over the years because of the Dragon Engine and its dogshit ragdolling and physics.

I'm glad it's not because it looks fantastic. The series needed this change.

I like Yakuza combat, but there’s been 7+ games with that exact system already. Its repetitive just like AssCreed got repetitive.

I’m excited for them to try something new with the series.

I like Yakuza combat, but there’s been 7+ games with that exact system already. Its repetitive just like AssCreed got repetitive.

I’m excited for them to try something new with the series.

>played all yakuza on or near US release
>thought it was a great April fools joke
>thought it was a neat idea even as a joke
>think it's cool now that they're doing it
>"true fans" acting like it's akin to sacrificing a baby to baphomet
Fucking faggots. I'm almost always interested in seeing the same IP in a different genre. I've always wanted Project Aces to outsource an RTS or 4X game in strangereal.

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Why would they not make it a spin-off though?

But most are saying they would have been fine with it if it was a spin=off not a mainline game. Even the Japanese seem to be saying the same fucking thing.

you'd think the detective game would be the turn-based one with him needing help from others

retarded decision

I don’t really care as long as Judgment keeps the action. I’ve been craving a JRPG with a modern setting. I’m hype.

>modern JRPG without a billion religious themes about killing god
I'm in

>I've always wanted Project Aces to outsource an RTS or 4X game in strangereal.
How would you react is Ace Combat 7 was an RTS and future Ace Combat titles were announced to be RTS as well? Because this is the situation we're in.

cool idea
but it shouldn't have been a mainline change
this is like them saying dead souls was Yakuza 5

the yakuza series was always shit, going turn based was the right decision
and is ironically going to be a better JRPG than that shitty FFVII remake

baiting too hard
settle down kiddo

No we aren't. They already said future titles will go back to the old gameplay if people dislike turn based shit (and a shitlosd of people already hate it so it's basically confirmed at this point). Should've said Ace Combat 7 would be RTS but future Ace Combat titles would go bo back to the old gameplay style instead.

>Everyone loves it
Please point me to these "everyone", even majority of Japs shit on it as evident from twitter and chans

nice reading comprehension

This is a really risky move. Like if someone made a racing game and put Mario in it. A complete change of genre doesn't always work.

No u, people here obviously hate on new Yakuza combat system and this post implies that most people outside of Yea Forums love it, unless it's just a random thought with no correlation to the thread whatsoever. Then why the fuck even post it here.

Never have I heard people saying they were into Yakuza for the combat, this is a first. All I always hear is them saying how much they love the story, characters, crazy sidequests and minigames, and how overly Japanese the games are, never the combat.

nice reading comprehension

Eat shit semenhead

you mean like mario kart? you mouthbreather

this is how you make a good Yakuza rpg
skip to 0.50
youtu.be/ASlxMEvcbCQ

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japanese just copying americans as usual, the real outrage is from you niggers in the west, japan loves dragon quest with a passion and yakuza is paying homage to it here, keep crying you stupid faggot man child

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If the things you can do in the battles are as dynamic, flashy, and out of control as that April Fools video, then I'm all for it.

At least they wouldn't be recycling the same Heat animations for the 5th time and I think this opens it up for more area-specific actions.

Yakuza was never good. The humor was unfunny, even below the likes of No More Heroes. The combat was trash, no depth or skill required. Also it was always a quantity over quality series. The little minigames that you can do are all shit, they give you the illusion that you can explore this place and there's a lot to do. But all the things you can do are so simple and boring. Kiryu is the typical beta cuckold Japanese protagonist who never gets laid or does anything truly bad. All the subplots are japanese tv show quality (which is to say really fucking bad and cliche). The karaoke was funny and heat moves are cool, but gameplay-wise Yakuza has always been GARBAGE. Don't @ me, not gonna read it.

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weebs overrate everything from japan

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DONT WANNA LEAVE MY FUCKING COMFORT ZONE I MUST PLAY THE SAME GAME EVERY YEAR WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT HAVING WELL ROUNDED TASTE IS FOR FAGGOTS I EXCLUSIVELY WANT TO PLAY ACTION ADVENTURE FUCK OFFF FUCK OFFFFFF

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Majima was the only good part of Yakuza

I know you're just baiting, but ironically, I've seen Nips accusing SEGA of trying to pander to Westerners with this change. Their logic is that since P5 sold more than Y6 in the West, SEGA is trying to change Yakuza into Persona to get those Western sales.

They've always been saying that they want to considerably change Yakuza in some way, so there's that

Here's your (you)

Yakuza is a visual novel, everyone who didn't realize that already is a fucking idiot

If Final Fantasy VII came out today Yea Forumsermin zoomers would call it a non-game with no gameplay and WORDSWORDSWORDS

Agreed. It was an ebin reddit meme game but nothing about is above mediocrity.

I'll remember you posted this when your 1000 hour j-rpg becomes a generic third person shooter

All the past Yakuza games have just looked exactly the same generic third person combat that people only put up with for the story and things you can do in the game. This seems like a welcome change

That's literally what it is. t. 30 year old boomer

This is a question to the actual Yakuza fags in this thread. As someone who’s never played Yakuza which game should I start with? I have Yakuza 0 on PS4 sinc eit was free on ps plus that one time

Play 0, then you're done with the series

t. Sega

The only people who like this are OG FFVII fags that hang out on the FFVIIR board on GameFAQS saying they are going to buy this game to spite Square-Enix even though they will forget about the whole series a week from now.

All good things must come to an end as an adult you just prepare for disappointment sooner or later and then you just move on

Preparing for disappointment helps you cope with losses in life

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WHAT THE FUCK I WANTED TO PLAY SAME GAME AGAIN WHAT THE FUCK SEGA YOU ABLEIST FUCKS I HAVE SEVERE AUTISM I NEEDC THE SAME GAME AGAIN OR ILL BREAK MY MOMS STUFF AGAIN FUCK

>yfw Dragon Quest XII gets revealed later on and it has Yakuza combat

>go out of their way to mention DQ
>LOL PERSONA
>LOL FF
What the fuck is wrong with people

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And SE obviously won't care because even if they all went to buy Y7, Yakuza sales are a tiny fraction of SE's major franchise sales.

I can see the connection with Persona, being a JRPG set in modern-day Japan

There's probably almost no overlap between people who like DQ and people who like Yakuza.

I never played Yakuza but this makes me interested in it.

FOUR COMBOS
woah

There's far more than that in the game, and this is a brawler, this isn't DMC.

DQ x SMT never bros

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>Sega franchise LARPS as something its not to get interest and sales from people that never gave a shit about it to begin with and will still not give a shit about it afterwards rather than stick to its roots.
Hmm, sounds familiar.

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>stick to your roots for 14 years
>sales continue to decline and you just want to die with each game you put out
>finally get to make something different and pay homage to your favourite series, dragon quest
>retards who only played your games in the last two years REEEEEEEEEE
the devs are in the right

>Persona with adults
Based.

Then make a new fucking IP goddammit. If you’re a developer that’s so confident with what you can do with this alternative gameplay style then do it with a fresh IP rather than using a pre-existing one with its own identity.

Nothing is stopping them from making something different with an action combat system. Nearly every Yakuza is a rehash with mostly minor changes, additions, and removals. The main difference is usually the story, which still even recycles the same kind of cliches. You'd have to be devoid of creativity, or just lazy, to think the only way to change things up is going turn-based.

The fact this is supposed to be a mainline entry is also dumb. More people would forgive it if it was clearly a spinoff.

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They should make spin off like this but after releasing yakuza 7 to not piss OG yakuza players

This, ironically enough Dragon Quest has changed more over the years compared to Yakuza series, maybe except the music which is still SNES styled and normies hate the fuck out of it and constantly want voiced cutscenes with orchestra in it.

it's probably best not to hope for crossovers after the whole SMTxFE situation

that's why i said DQ x SMT

>don't upload any gameplay trailers alongside the story trailer
>straight up say that you'll revert back to the old style as if you have no confidence in your product
What the fuck are they playing at?

So your god tier gameplay is done better elsewhere ? Interesting.

Real talk, Japanese audiences are dumb as fuck.
"Pandering to a western audience" has a bad stigma because publishers can be really stupid and think that western = make it like Call of Duty. e.g. The justification for FFXIII being hallways was to mimic the level design of a Call of Duty campaign. When in reality the taste of westerns who like Japanese games is massively different than the taste of westerners who like the most popular western games. Weebs in most cases have much better taste than otaku, at least in terms of video games.

>mfw that yakuza god tier combat webm spamming autist probably killed himself after this revelation

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The only one to call it "God tier gameplay" is you Mr. "I'm going to repost the same five webms talking to myself in every single thread". I said nothing on its quality.

He's still here, he posted a couple of the same ones with the same filenames a couple horus ago.

this
Legend of Legaia was kino and the combat would fit perfectly on yakuza

Yakuza combat is terrible, so this might actually make me pick it up

>OMG MY COMPLEX DEEP YAKUZA FIGHTING SYSTEM

>light light light heavy
>running heavy
>lmao 6 ragdoll physics are trash

Sorry but no, only contrarians in Yea Forums pretended to hate Yakuza's combat, it's the best 3D beat'em up for a reason, even Final Fight couldn't get it right, it's about empowering the player just like DMC and it has plenty of guides on it.
youtu.be/ggB5KxoUMu4

none of this matters though since you can't do any fun shit with the combat in the dragon engine anyway
it was the best 3d beat em up before the dragon engine came along