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[Antiwhippy]

Just watched a 20min E3 demo of Yakuza 6 and it's looking great...

Pretty sure I'll be skipping Kiwami tho... I mean, it's not like I'm planning on playing 2 to 5 anyway and at this point I'm all in for a more modern game with cell phones and stuff like that.

6 is like the culmination of 1-5 though.

 

[Blitzrules240]

Alex has all the Yakyuza's

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ALL THE CONTENT

 

[AuthenticM]

Alex has all the Yakyuza's

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ALL THE CONTENT

yup

They're playing all of it.

 

[daveo42]

Love avocados, hate having a house

Ben is the best.

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I own that BenPack BackPack.

 

[formated4tv]

yup

They're playing all of it.

I know that's always the end game, but in theory, they just booked themselves out to like 2025 at the pace they go through the games.

 

[petethepanda]

Oh my god, Dan's dab had a "Barkley golf swing" pause, this is everything I have ever wanted

 

[BlackLagoon]

I suppose we'll be seeing Alex or Vinny driving when they get to Kiwami, poor Dan.

Or change how they record the series. Because it's not that Dan is incapable of becoming better at the combat (seems like he got the basics right when fighting Nishitani in jail for example), it's just that he forgets everything he's learnt by the next episode.

 

[Blitzrules240]

Or change how they record the series. Because it's not that Dan is incapable of becoming better at the combat (seems like he got the basics right when fighting Nishitani in jail for example), it's just that he forgets everything he's learnt by the next episode.

Yakuza Kiwami endurance run? Yes please!

 

[Hindl]

Yeah that's still a bit to go.

I dunno, I'll just say that A wasn't really impressive to me. Combat can be fun but as I've lined out you kind of have to explore the system more than the combat scenarios actually requires you to. Kinda like BotW in a way. Playing around with the different weapon combos and chip layout adds more variety, as well as the jump+heavy launcher and shoot+attack throw attack that you can do.

I do love the world though. It just fits the tone so well.

I'll just say get to B and see how you think. Personally I was rushing through A too because I wasn't super impressed by it too at the time.

Yeah I'll keep going through it because the world is interesting enough. How long is Route A roughly? I just

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fought A2 for the first time and asked Pascal about her

. And how important are sidequests?

 

[hamchan]

If they really do all the Yakuza games then that's like 3-4 years worth of content right there. Metal Gear Scanlon was 2 and a bit years of content and some of those games are short.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Yeah I'll keep going through it because the world is interesting enough. How long is Route A roughly? I just

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fought A2 for the first time and asked Pascal about her

. And how important are sidequests?

You're pretty much 2/3 through it. Maybe 3/4?

Also sidequests add a lot of flavour to the world, it's just that some are a real slog. General rule of thumb is if the story intrigues you, go through with it, if it doesn't, drop it.

I pretty much ignored sidequests during A, but decided to slow my roll for B and am glad that I did. There are some B exclusive sidequests that are... intriguing to say the least.

 

[Tagyhag]

Send Ben to East
Bring Vinny to West

That'd be great.

But East would end up becoming something out of Mad Max lol.

 

[Red UFO]

Abby was such a perfect hire for Giant Bomb. Amazing choice from Vinny and all involved.

 

[Joeku]

Okay, I'm usually one to defend the boys when they don't speak up to correct each other, but yeah, woof, those early parts of the bombcast are rough. The Xbone and PS4 are totally not the same thing. First-party on both may be slower, but there are a ton of de facto exclusives flyin' around. Non-Nintendo Japan really only puts its best foot forward in one place.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Abby was such a perfect hire for Giant Bomb. Amazing choice from Vinny and all involved.

I'm pretty sure Jeff was heading the hires.

 

[Red UFO]

Amazing choice from Vinny and all involved.

 

[J.W. Stillwater]

I really hope they reconsider playing all of the Yakuza games. Even people who like this series... you gotta admit that is just way too much. I hope they take a long break after the current one and do another feature for a while.

 

[ThreePiMatt]

I've rewatched the part of the E3 show where Johnny V was playing Adam Boyes talking about ruining his Jeep Grand Cherokee three times now and I keep laughing at it.

 

[DanLongman]

I'm pretty sure Jeff was heading the hires.

Jeff was about ben

But Abby was all Vinny. Her position is technically a production role. Vinny head of production Jeff head of editorial staff

 

[Incandenza]

They could do Shenmue 2 and then by the end of that I'm sure Dan will be BEGGING to go back to Yakuza

 

[Twin Tails]

they should take a break and bring back shenmue
#saveshenmue2er

 

[daveo42]

they should take a break and bring back shenmue
#saveshenmue2er

I don't think I could handle any more forklift racing. The second game does have forklift racing right? That's the main storyline of the Shenmue series. A man making his way to the top of the Forklift Racing Circuit.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Jeff was about ben

But Abby was all Vinny. Her position is technically a production role. Vinny head of production Jeff head of editorial staff

I mean I'm sure he had input but wasn't jeff in charge of the whole hiring process? Or at least I thought he was when it was all going down.

I could be wrong. I dunno.

 

[funkystudent]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxvUcQ0tlGQ

 

[DanLongman]

I'm sure they talked about it but I thought it was Vinny's call on production roles but I can't be sure where I heard that so I could be talking out my ass (does that make me a real GAFfer?)

 

[Antiwhippy]

I'm sure they talked about it but I thought it was Vinny's call on production roles but I can't be sure agree I heard that so I could be talking out my ass (does that make me a real GAFfer?)

I think that's just being human.

 

[J_Viper]

I'm pretty sure Jeff was heading the hires.

No, because Burnout Paradise would've been hired for both positions instead

 

[Blitzrules240]

I've rewatched the part of the E3 show where Johnny V was playing Adam Boyes talking about ruining his Jeep Grand Cherokee three times now and I keep laughing at it.

A STATIONARY OBJECT.

 

[OdysseusVA]

Dan had a hand in the hiring as well. They needed someone who could connect to millennials

 

[Antiwhippy]

Dave Lang was a part of it to see who can pass the dab test.

 

[Zornack]

Abby likes to fuck?

Poached by waypoint in three, two, one...

 

[BlackGhost]

Finally caught up with all the e3 night shows.

Xavier and his stories killed me.

Boyes, Lang, Jc combo is amazing. Great way to end every e3!

 

[BreezyLimbo]

oy vey

what happened?

 

[Twin Tails]

Poached by waypoint in three, two, one...

you mean gamesare.art

 

[nckillthegrimace]

oy vey

what happened?

Infinite looks like a phone game.

 

[Megasoum]

I've decided that I should probably finally give a real chance to an "infinity engine" style game. I've always wanted to play one of those but have always been kind of intimidated...

Where do you guys suggest I should start?

I know the BG games are super well regarded by fans but for a newcomers have they aged well enough?

 

[Antiwhippy]

I've decided that I should probably finally give a real chance to an "infinity engine" style game. I've always wanted to play one of those but have always been kind of intimidated...

Where do you guys suggest I should start?

I know the BG games are super well regarded by fans but for a newcomers have they aged well enough?

Madden 13.

 

[Joeku]

I've decided that I should probably finally give a real chance to an "infinity engine" style game. I've always wanted to play one of those but have always been kind of intimidated...

Where do you guys suggest I should start?

I know the BG games are super well regarded by fans but for a newcomers have they aged well enough?

Why not do a modern version to see if it's for you before you go back into the ones that are going to be tougher to get into?

Tyranny, Pillars of Eternity, Torment: Tides of Numa Numa, etc.?

 

[Megasoum]

Madden 13.

I was waiting for that one haha

Why not do a modern version to see if it's for you before you go back into the ones that are going to be tougher to get into?

Tyranny, Pillars of Eternity, Torment: Tides of Numa Numa, etc.?

Yeah... Pillars is probably the most likely candidate at this point. Sucks that it's still 60$ over 2 years post release.... I guess it's the Paradox effect

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Infinite looks like a phone game.

Yeah...

 

[Antiwhippy]

I was waiting for that one haha

I like to hit the easy ones.

 

[Joeku]

I was waiting for that one haha



Yeah... Pillars is probably the most likely candidate at this point. Sucks that it's still 60$ over 2 years post release.... I guess it's the Paradox effect

I believe Tyranny just had a big QoL update that came with the expansion and the game was shorter as a whole; like, 30 hours instead of 100.

 

[hamchan]

they should take a break and bring back shenmue
#saveshenmue2er

I'm for this.

Shenmue 2 -> Kiwami -> Shenmue 3 (lol it won't be out) -> Kiwami 2

So we can all constantly be reminded how good Yakuza is compared to Shenmue.

 

[Hindl]

You're pretty much 2/3 through it. Maybe 3/4?

Also sidequests add a lot of flavour to the world, it's just that some are a real slog. General rule of thumb is if the story intrigues you, go through with it, if it doesn't, drop it.

I pretty much ignored sidequests during A, but decided to slow my roll for B and am glad that I did. There are some B exclusive sidequests that are... intriguing to say the least.

Oh shit I didn't realize it was that short. I played a little more tonight

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I killed the giant fishbot and now have to find 9S and other units

. If it's that short I'll probably at least finish Route A

 

[Antiwhippy]

Oh shit I didn't realize it was that short. I played a little more tonight

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I killed the giant fishbot and now have to find 9S and other units

. If it's that short I'll probably at least finish Route A

I meant 2/3 through A but yeah, took me 33 hours to get through ABCDE.

 

[def sim]

oy vey

what happened?

The left pic is clearly lower quality, likely off a youtube video.

 

[Hindl]

I meant 2/3 through A but yeah, took me 33 hours to get through ABCDE.

Yeah I heard A was around 18 hours, but I'm at that point at 5 hours in so A is much shorter than I thought

 

[faridmon]

Okay, I'm usually one to defend the boys when they don't speak up to correct each other, but yeah, woof, those early parts of the bombcast are rough. The Xbone and PS4 are totally not the same thing. First-party on both may be slower, but there are a ton of de facto exclusives flyin' around. Non-Nintendo Japan really only puts its best foot forward in one place.

As much as I was happy to see Nintendo being given the credit for being good again, I was tired of Gary Whitta's constant fawining of Nintendo for 2 hours.

Gaming industry right now is in a healthy place. No need to demean 2 companies just to prove a point.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

The left pic is clearly lower quality, likely off a youtube video.

Even a 480p tekken 7 youtube video would look better than whatever that monstrosity on the ledt is

 

[Antiwhippy]

Yeah I heard A was around 18 hours, but I'm at that point at 5 hours in so A is much shorter than I thought

Eh I might be misremembering the length of the latter sections, but if you don't do sidequests it can be very short. I only did a little bit at A and finished it in 10. Try stopping to smell the roses at B though. I'm doing my "all sidequests" playthrough right now because I missed a few of them.