A game with no budget from some nerds in Japan has better minigames than GTA

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Question, can I play Yakuza 0 if I never played the others? From what I understand this takes place in the beginning right?

It's recommended to play 0 first, however it will spoil you as far as gameplay because you will never be able to go back and enjoy the older non-remake games because they feel like shit.

jav actresses dont cost millions of dollars

The Yakuza games are getting better and better. 7 will have a great story and once we see the worldwide sales figures everyone will agree it's a huge success. It's already a huge success, but it's going to be bigger than the previous games.

the games are getting worse. 0 is the peak. the storyline is shittier the longer it goes. 6 was terrible. the sales have been lower with each new release. the franchise is dying because the games are shit now. you're delusional.

>the games are getting worse. 0 is the peak
0 came after 5 though lmao

We already know the story and combat in 7 are bad, and there are no JAV stars in it. And Yokohama is empty. We know the reception and sales have been terrible. But I'm reserving judgement until it is released in the West. The game doing badly in Japan means literally nothing and anyone who brings it up is exposing themselves as a stupid faggot. I's not even out yet.

7 is the best one made so far.

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That's because the Japanese have a far better work ethic than simple Americans.

No, japanese people are imbeciles. If they give a game a bad score you can be certain it's amazing.

Many of the minigames are just ports of super monkey ball ones, which are almost 20 years old at this point. And they reuse them in every single installment. I'd hope they have all the kinks ironed out by now.

If they're not expensive why are there none in 7?

are you one of those retards that think the yakuza games should change? I've bought the same game ten times and I want to buy the same game another ten times.

The whole game is mini games though.

>It's recommended to play 0 first
No it fucking isn't, the game is made assuming you've played the other games.
You're not gonna understand the foreshadowing of future characterization. It's like saying that you play Crisis Core before FFVII.

What was the budget for this game?

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I disagree, I started with 0 and it was perfect. Kiwami would be lame for me without it.

I had to download a Mahjong training program and set it on expert inputting all the computers moves to beat the highest level mahjong game in Y0.

It only won about half the time. Y0 is legit grandmaster level.

But the other games are shit
Who has 500 hours to waste on doing the same tedious garbage five times over just for the context of one or two scenes which are by your own admission foreshadowing?
0 was designed as an ideal entrypoint, and that's what it is. It's literally the only thing the yakuza devs ever got right. It's a miracle people get to enjoy what's good about this series with (most) of the shit taken out.

The game did poorly?
Have the devs said anything about it?

Well they copy and paste the map for every fucking game so they can dedicate all their resources to the minigames. Lazy hacks.

Start with Kiwami, which is shit. You'll probably struggle to finish it. Then play Kiwami 2, which is better, but still not great. Then play 3, which you'll probably think is really fucking bad until you play 4, which is worse. 5 has some good moments but if the series hasn't already destroyed your willingness to go on at this point, 5 will do it. It will crush you.

And THEN you can play 0.
This is the only way to do it and get Yas Forums approval.

Because GTA has an entire fucking world and not just some streets.

The franchise is over, what's there to be hyped about. There's a new JRPG franchise starting in its place but that's not out yet. Judgment is what people are hyped about for now.

They copy paste most of the minigames too

Sometimes even from steam

store.steampowered.com/app/514570/Pinball_Parlor/

thesixthaxis.com/2020/03/05/yakuza-7-sales-ps4-release-date/
It did okay, not as good as 6, but not bad either. It's just some spergs spreading their narrative on Yas Forums as always.

>The game did poorly?
No, it did amazingly well. And once it's out in the west it will do even better.

If you didn't play PS2 games on release, you won't get boomer approval anyway. No playing them now doesn't count, it's not the same.

>You're not gonna understand the foreshadowing of future characterization
Bro...
you're telling me
it'll be a surprise when they play chronological sequels and go
>OHHHH SHIT THAT'S WHAT THEY MEANT

wow
how could they do this
how could they set up characterization like this

shut the fuck up retard

Yes because they are a small studio. And yet the minigames are better than what the almighty rockstar can come up with.

There's a lot of negative misinformation about 7 going around. We should make a list of facts that set the record straight in these threads.

I played like 1/5 of the game and dropped it. I thought the city was some bland first starting area, then later heard that it's like the whole game and most of the Yakuza games are set there. What the fuck. There's no detail to it, just copy pasted sameness everywhere.

This to be honest, playing 4 after 0 actually made the Saejima story feel much more relevant and interesting.

Thank you, anons!

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It also has a better story and characters, but that's because it was written by an actual relented screenwriter while GTA and Red Dead are garbage written by Dan Houser, a hack that has his ego massaged by a legion of low IQ brainlets that never experienced actually good videogame plots and believe that his shit is "kino" when it's just terribly written derivative garbage that wouldn't be out of place on a Warner Channel series

Not at all. I play yakuza for the minigames and the story, and as long as they keep delivering on those 2 fronts I'm satisfied.

>And yet the minigames are better than what the almighty rockstar can come up with.
Yes because they copy and paste the already tiny map every time and have nothing to do aside from waste time cramming their game with mobile apps. Cringe.

>no detail to it, just copy pasted sameness
No that's just Asia. It's actually well detail and that sameness is copied carefully from real life.

Shut the fuck up you stupid retard

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Shitstar makes huge maps and can't even bother to make fun things to distract the player

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having played 0 through 5, I can easily say that it's much better to start with 0.

Dude, no there's no detail in the streets or anything. Persona 5 has more detailed streets. Look at the city you run around in for Yakuza. There's no little details that add life to the place.

Well you're in luck because the story in Yakuza is only getting better and better. 6 has the best story so far and 7 will surpass it.