I am betting it will have a recap movie available in the full version (like all the others) so people can just do that.
Like shit, I barely remember 3 except the CIA showing up, so eh.
i mean, by that reasoning any game series out there can be played out of order, which is fine if you believe that. iām just saying that story-wise 3 and 5 are pretty important since they focus on the relationship between kiryu and haruka the most, and in 3 you have the whole orphanage thingie that y6 returns to in its prologue.
I have gone back to do post game stuff in yakuza 5 and it is hard to go back. All the side stuff is not good. The different fighting styles in Zero/K are way more tactically interesting than the different characters moves. The random battles are too frequent and too much of a slog.
Despite that I still havenāt fought 100 of them for the trophy so hmm.
I am debating if I am going to bother trying to beat 4 and 5 before picking up 6, and knowing that I will not.
5 nope 4 maybeeee
I couldnāt tell you the stories of either outside of they both end with them killing Kiryu then pulling back from that MGS4 style.
The only egrerious instance of it was in 3, in 5 I donāt think itās even about dying. Itās just to dramatise Harukaās decision in the end.
4 is pretty inconsequential to continuity, since itās not really Kiryuās story.
5 has some really good moments, itās just so poorly paced.
i have kiwami on the shelf but figure iāll probably get burned out if i play that immediately before 6 comes out
not a problem i ever thought iād have, three yakuza games getting a localised release in a year would have been high fantasy not so long ago
yeah, kiwami is skippable if you plan to pick up 6 on its release.
yeah, itās fucking great that we are getting all of them localized now. too bad about kenzan and ishin, although once i manage to level up my japanese from intermediate level to advanced, i can enjoy them in nippon speak.
also after a long spell, i finally managed to progress in bloodborne again. jumping down the lake in byrgenwerth was amazing. love those instances where you can take a leap into the unknown in games.
I liked Kiwami 1 and it is still probably a better idea to play it than the PS2 version but it really feels like a Yakuza 1-themed expansion pack to 0.
Y6 starts right after Y5ās ending but I think enough gets conveyed to you (it even replays a good chunk of the ending) that you donāt really need to go back and play 5. Echoing everyone else in saying 5 was drawn out way too much. There are recaps of 1-5 but they are text-only.
I mean it has him bleeding out in the snow and fade to black on his motionless body.
Yeah, it still kinda bums me out taht they made Majima so much more friendly in Kiwami than he was in the original version. Itās not bad, but it was much more interesting when he was a completely unpredictable force.
I beat Life is Strange just now; at a period in my life where there is an impending storm of personal strife, so I figured a peaceful game dealing with that same inevitability might do me some good. The best parts were the ones where you go through everyoneās drawers and examine every spare inch of their dorm room. I miss doing that, i used to always do that. The older you get, the less opportunities you have to rummage through peopleās things and smell the weird smells of the places where they sleep.
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wait what
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I missed out on playing Life is Strange in smell-o-vision, damn
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playing like thirty hours of siege in three weeks has obviously put me in a mood because tonight I started a new game in both qud and morrowind
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Claire and I played a game called Tricky Towers, which is a physics-based puzzle game in which you stack tetrominoes to make a big, stupid tower for idiots
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Kiryu dies in, like, every game. Itād be weird if he didnāt, tbqh.
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Sea of Theives, weirdly enough, has absolutely zero content. They made a really good base engine with good boat mechanics, good water and weather effects, and lots of flavor, then released it immediately. So like, thereās no story or progression of any kind, or mission variety, you just sail to an island, kill a dozen skeltons, dig up a chest, and move on to sell it at port. Thatās as far as the game goes. You essentially have done everything you can do, and fought everything you can fight, within the first hour.
Itās just wild. Thereās even weird clipping bugs you get the sense they intended to fix at some point, but never did.
You can play it for free using a free trial of that XBox app thing thatās built into your Win 10, so Iād say itās worth a night of play with friends, then an uninstall. God, Rare sucks now.
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Wait, this came out? I thought it wasnāt due for several more months, not that I was paying close attention.