At least the minigame itself is appropriately bonkers for a RPS battler.
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Kiwami doesnât have anything as good as Yakuza 0âs Mr. Libido, the whitey-tighty-clad card collector who rhythmically dances as he encourages you to bring him girly cards and ask which are your favorites.
Heâs repulsive and it quickly becomes clear itâs the gameâs way of making fun of a player who thinks collecting these cards is a good idea, especially as the larger your collection grows the more insistently he friend-confides, âYouâre just like me, eh? You get itâ
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Kiryu seemed extremely confused by Mr. Libidoâs level of horny.
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love that i can hear this image
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my other complaint is that itâs very quickly apparent that the arc rifle that you get from the tutorial boss is the best weapon in the game by a long shot and my other slots were just sidearms I had in case I got caught in reloads (not that the game was very good at responding to me mashing keys to switch weapons, but)
speaking of, I played on PC and I hear the Xbone version suffered from not running particularly well?
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runs fine on my xbone x so idk about that, probably has the same problem a lot of ps4/pro games have. but yeah the arc rifle is the most useful weapon by far
deep fear.
that moment when re1 has better voice actingâŚ
i think about commander clancyâs dark secret from deep fear all the time
looking forward to finding that out in-game, i guess.
i havent played it in years but i remember it being a mostly unremarkable game besides the incredibly bad voice acting and AIR GRENADES
tbh the more you play the fixed angle horror games from this era, the more you realize how well polished the resident evil games really were.
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what the hell kiwami 2 looks incredible
it also runs a lot rougher, when are those 7nm nvidia cards coming
and thereâs no loading screens for the stores, you just walk in!?
you canât read the magazines anymore though. win some, lose some.
you can just go in doors that look like theyâre part of the scenery
you canât go in here but you can look in at least
amazing
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If a Yakuza game ever just gives me a tourist mode like some of the recent Assassinâs Creed entries have that would definitely get me to pick another one up. I just canât be assed with a lot of what the games want me to do.
see if you can find someones 100 percent completion save then do a new game plus and equip the item that turns off random battles. thatâs what I was thinking I might do when I get around to the ps3 ones. I had to go for that item as soon as possible in kiwami 1 anyway cause the encounter rate was insane
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did you miss yakuza 6 that all these things come as a surprise?
but yeah, they have a way to go to optimize that engine. kiw2 is a marked improvement over yak6, but jeez, it still needs a pretty beefy video card to run anywhere smooth. still has that massive framerate drop whenever it has glass reflections??? (try leaving a store with glass doors/walls and see how it tanks when most of the screen is taken up by it).
Mikey: you just need to equip the Charismatic Autobiography item in these games for that.
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I wasnât paying attention to the 6th entry in a series that wasnât even on pc at the time
itâs the beads of good fortune. the charismatic autobiography makes enemies more aggressive.
Yeah, the Yak6 engine runs decently enough on the PS4, but I could easily see the PC prot having issues, and even the PS4 one has the occasional framereate chugs as I recall.
I still gladly take it just for the thrill of throwing a dude through the glass on the front of a shop and having him justâŚfall into the shop. That there is a trophy for this was actually kinda great because it was the RgG team being like âyeah this rulesâ.
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New watch_dogs looked interesting from Hockingâs presentation and Austin Walker mentioned that 2 has an autistic character done right so I got it for $5 from Epic. Itâs really depressing to think about it as a Fall 2016 game with Big Ideas w/r/t Society because its speculative fiction warnings and gags have nearly all come to pass, but itâs also got a delightfully left-anarchist mad cap tone. I realized I havenât played an open world game since Saints Row IV after trying GTA V and being extremely turned off by its tone and outlook. Right off the bat thereâs:
- a gag about the player character searching for âAnime Hardcore Purple Hair Elfâ in his dragnet surveillance file
- a fucken Namaste-ass man bun who I am certain will be revealed as an antagonist like SA-X
- a Martin Shkreli Wu-Tang record mission
- a Nightrider car heist mission
The ripped-from-the-headlines stuff is aimed at sensible chuckles more than âoh shitâ so far, and itâs more comfortable there. Thereâs something sinister about overtly fascist Tom Clancy Ubisoft and left-libertarian Assassinâs Creed/Watch Dogs Ubisoft coexisting like a badge-engineered car brand but Iâll take it given
Josh, the spectrum character, is so heartening to see in a Big Game. All of the core crew are âin the lifeâ because they have to be on some level, and Josh is so because of ableist employment discrimination (!). All of the main cast are fundamentally kind to him and appreciate him.
I also have a soft spot for Wrench, the âmakerâ character who wears a mask of LEDs that change into emoticons. I gotta get my brother away from his 3D printer long enough to check this out with me.
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This is what excites me about what theyâve shown of Watch Dogs 3: they had a bunch of pieces lying around in Watch Dogs 1 and 2 but never the direction to glue it into something sharp (fundamentally, I found them tragic half-birthed things like almost all Ubisoft games (up to and including: worse game-feel than Bethesda proper)).
But if those production resources could be roped together, if they could be polished (my god, Ubisoft just does everything at a mediocre level but so much of it but theyâre so close), combined with Ubisoftâs willingness to just go for thingsâŚ
there may be hope
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