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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    I've only messed around with the UFO catcher a couple of times, but it seems a fair bit easier than in previous games.

  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
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    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I'm trying to use items in the environment but almost always you have to turn away from a dude to pick them up and the auto-attack thus swings that bike at just the closest wall

    In beast mode you don't have to face items. Just being near something and hitting square will pick it up and swing it in the direction you're facing


    Otherwise, you can't really fuck around when there's 3 guys on you. Use triangle enders to knock fools down, then you have an opportunity to grab a dude, or walk over and grab a garbage can, or take out your nunchuks, or switch styles, w/e.

  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    Fucking old man let me win one game of shogi you dick

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    my favorite Heat so far, save for the box o' nails, has been the bar stool.

    you don't even use the bar stool, you just chuck it straight up in the air and punch the guy

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    It's a little hard to beat me shakedown on hard

    He obliterated you in two hits

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    I've lost to shakedown three times so far which has been about 25% of the time. Most of the times I was careless and once I got hit by his yellow heat move near to killing him. That hurts.

    He's getting lots of HP now. :(

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Oh wow the weapon crafting just opened up
    This is a lot
    Does Kiryu get an equivalent place?

  • CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    edited January 2017
    He gets slot car racing instead, but you can buy the weapons you unlock in crafting

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    Do not have a cow, mortal.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited January 2017
    Okay, I've gotten to like, chapter four or five or so

    And Majima's story is way more compelling than Kiryu's so far

    Not to say I don't care about Kiryu, because he rules, but like... everything going on in Majima's head is just more interesting from a character perspective

    I am so glad they made him playable in this

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    Yeah, It's nice seeing Majima's inner thoughts and how he's manipulating people.

    Guy could have been a professional actor.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Kiryu doesn't seem to really...have much going on in his head

    He just kinda seems like Standard Stoic Badass Game Protagonist

    He only gets a personality in the sidequests, and it seems to vanish for the main story

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Kiryu doesn't seem to really...have much going on in his head

    He just kinda seems like Standard Stoic Badass Game Protagonist

    He only gets a personality in the sidequests, and it seems to vanish for the main story

    I kinda LOVE that Kiryu barely has personality

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    I'm really liking how goddamned gross they make wealth feel

    Every open display of greed or excess is just so off-putting

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    100% of Kiryu's personality is Do Right By Kazama.

    Even in the other games, almost every last thing he does comes down to that. Even when it seems like he's Doing Right By Sunshine Orphanage, or Doing Right By Haruka, both of those come down to Kazama.


    Majima on the other hand is all over the damn place. Depending on the game he's comic relief, a psychotic liability, a master strategist, a whiny weasel, or some combination of the above. Majima in 0 is a fantastic character, but I'm having a really hard time believing it's the same cat from the rest of the series.

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Are any of the other games period pieces like this one is?

    I was under the impression that they were all pretty much set in the year they came out, in which case, it'd be like 20 years later even by the first game, plenty of time for someone to kinda shift how they act

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  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Are any of the other games period pieces like this one is?

    I was under the impression that they were all pretty much set in the year they came out, in which case, it'd be like 20 years later even by the first game, plenty of time for someone to kinda shift how they act

    Yea the other games were all modern for when they were released.

    Kiryu is 48 by the time Yakuza 6 rolls around.

  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Are any of the other games period pieces like this one is?

    I was under the impression that they were all pretty much set in the year they came out, in which case, it'd be like 20 years later even by the first game, plenty of time for someone to kinda shift how they act

    Yea the other games were all modern for when they were released.

    Kiryu is 48 by the time Yakuza 6 rolls around.

    And it's nice having a badass older protagonist with history.

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2017
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Are any of the other games period pieces like this one is?

    I was under the impression that they were all pretty much set in the year they came out, in which case, it'd be like 20 years later even by the first game, plenty of time for someone to kinda shift how they act

    We'd seen pre-0 Majima in 5, and he was more in line with 'modern' Majima.

    Don't get me wrong, so far I think the 0 incarnation is by far the most interesting and nuanced iteration of the character.

    I don't think I would have enjoyed 40 hours of psycho in a bowl cut and snakeskin jacket.

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  • TravanTravan Registered User regular
    My interpretation is that the "Mad Dog of Shimano" persona is as much of an act as "Sotenbori's Lord of the Night", just easier for Majima to keep up, especially since we get his internal monologue as a protagonist.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Travan wrote: »
    My interpretation is that the "Mad Dog of Shimano" persona is as much of an act as "Sotenbori's Lord of the Night", just easier for Majima to keep up, especially since we get his internal monologue as a protagonist.

    I think the Mad Dog is less of an act and more of a "I've stopped giving a shit" sort of thing

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  • TravanTravan Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
    Same difference. Bottom line he was never really a psycho, just found it convenient for his bosses and subordinates to think he was. All the better to conceal his true motive "do right by Saejima".

    By the by anyone seen Yakuza 6? Because that is rapidly becoming my most anticipated game eclipsing Persona 5 and Zelda I mean damn.

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    I've heard Yakuza 6 is short and missing tons of series staples. Far less minigames, heat actions, combat moves, I believe it doesn't have equippable weapons.

    I'm still gonna get it day 1, but a lot of folks are saying it's very, very light.

  • -SPI--SPI- Osaka, JapanRegistered User regular
    The demo was great but it felt very different.

  • TravanTravan Registered User regular
    Makes sense everything I've seen paints it as the definitive conclusion of Kiryu's story. I can appreciate the switch to more tightly focused experience, especially after massively expanding the scope in 5 to the whole country.

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    Isn't 6 also in a brand new engine?

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    Day 3 no shogi wins

    I will not be beaten you damn computer!!

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    Can kiryu craft/repair weapons anywhere?

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    I dunno if I'm gonna finish this

    A lot of the minigames were only fun once, and I'm already getting kinda tired of the combat

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    Knob wrote: »
    Can kiryu craft/repair weapons anywhere?
    Go to the Kamuro shopping district in chapter 5, there's a Dragon & Tiger branch there.

    Doesn't seem to be any crafting there initially, but you can buy and repair weapons.

  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    I have a very important question.

    How quickly/easily do you get access to Out Run in this game?

    I know it's dumb, but finding out that game is in this one shifted me from 'I'll get it at some point' to buying it 5 minutes later.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    I think you can do it almost immediately, one of the sega hi-tech lands has out run, the other space harrier.

    Just ignore your objective and run to the arcade like a true yakuza.

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    There are also two other games but I am in chapter five and haven't found them yet!

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    There are also two other games but I am in chapter five and haven't found them yet!
    I unlocked Super Hang-On by maxing the friendship with the Outrun challenge lady in the Kamurocho arcade.

  • -SPI--SPI- Osaka, JapanRegistered User regular
    Diarmuid wrote: »
    Olivaw wrote: »
    There are also two other games but I am in chapter five and haven't found them yet!
    I unlocked Super Hang-On by maxing the friendship with the Outrun challenge lady in the Kamurocho arcade.
    You unlock fantasy zone the same way in sotenbori.

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    -SPI- wrote: »
    Diarmuid wrote: »
    Olivaw wrote: »
    There are also two other games but I am in chapter five and haven't found them yet!
    I unlocked Super Hang-On by maxing the friendship with the Outrun challenge lady in the Kamurocho arcade.
    You unlock fantasy zone the same way in sotenbori.

    Ohhhhh SHIT

    I gotta do this next chance I get

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited February 2017
    I'm in Chapter 9 and I think I need someone to explain the real estate game to me

    not the cabaret club though

    I got that shit on lock

    min-max every lady

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  • LBD_NytetraynLBD_Nytetrayn TorontoRegistered User regular
    Ashcroft wrote: »
    I have a very important question.

    How quickly/easily do you get access to Out Run in this game?

    I know it's dumb, but finding out that game is in this one shifted me from 'I'll get it at some point' to buying it 5 minutes later.

    It kind of depends on how you play, but it's a couple of chapters in.

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  • AtomicTofuAtomicTofu She's a straight-up supervillain, yo Registered User regular
    YaYa wrote: »
    I'm in Chapter 9 and I think I need someone to explain the real estate game to me

    not the cabaret club though

    I got that shit on lock

    min-max every lady

    Buy properties

    Get paid

    Punch people who get in your way of gettin' paid

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