quinntendopower
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absolutely! that is seriously true.
it's mostly, if not all small menu/gameplay improvements, but most of them are like "hey, NICE!", or "cool, THAT guy!"
if you didn't expect this to be what it is by now...
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absolutely! that is seriously true.
it's mostly, if not all small menu/gameplay improvements, but most of them are like "hey, NICE!", or "cool, THAT guy!"
if you didn't expect this to be what it is by now...
Vicetrailia
Member
And I thought that Uncharted and Mass Effect had good stories until I played this game.
If Yakuza had that La Noire facial technology...wow, just wow even though there is no chance that La Noire will have as good as a story as this game though.
If Yakuza had that La Noire facial technology...wow, just wow even though there is no chance that La Noire will have as good as a story as this game though.
narwhalSTAB
Member
Finally got some quality time with this game, and so far so good. I'm loving Akiyama and chubby little Hana.
I would give anything to get a PSN avatar of
SEGA, Sony, make it happen.
I would give anything to get a PSN avatar of
the fat acrobatic underwear bandit seen in the first "Revelation".
SEGA, Sony, make it happen.
Windom Earle
Member
PepsimanVsJoe said:
Nah. The "new" rooftops + underground locations are a joke. And so far the side missions are not on par with the usual quality. No tech improvements, no loading improvements, everything is exactly the same. Hana-chan rocks though.
Part 2 is off to a promising start and I hope the game picks up now.
schennmu said:So far I'm not a fan of this game. There are no improvements over Y3 and the story has been very boring so far (Almost done with Akijama missions). I just want Kazuma and not some crappy replacements. I don't even feel like playing anymore. I love this franchise, but this iteration feels like a quick cash in.
I don't know if you're serious or what. If you're serious stop playing the game and forget about the series.
quinntendopower
Banned
Red Blaster
Member
schennmu said:
And? It's not like Y3 had debilitating technical flaws like Y1 did. The game loads battles in like 3-5 seconds as is. And try playing the rest of the game, the sidequests are some of the best in the series.
Splash Wave
Member
Does this game look as horrible as the demo? I noticed this with the demo for Trash Panic as well--the quality of the image just looks like shit. I can't describe how, but the image isn't even remotely crisp. I'm a fairly new PS3 owner, and everything has looked great except for these two demos.
Splash Wave
Member
Riposte said:
I'm purely talking about image quality, not the models/environments themselves. It looks fuzzy.
foomfoom415
Member
Jimmy Stav said:
The PS3 Yakuza games run at an inexplicably low sub-HD resolution. They are jaggy and have pretty awful textures. It's not a great engine but the strong point has never been the graphics or even the gameplay, but the stories and minigames.
The graphics in the full game aren't any better than the demo. And if the demo is the same as the Japanese demo, it shows off probably the best looking part of the game, the rain.
Splash Wave
Member
foomfoom415 said:
That's extremely disappointing. It looks really bad and I'm not even a stickler for visuals. I was under the impression that the game looked fairly nice from the screenshots.
foomfoom415 said:
The U.S. demo is just a few fights in underground areas, they all look pretty bad compared to the rest of the game. Bland textures, boring environments, dull colors, the whole nine yards.
Granted, the rest of the game is still rendered in the same funky 1024x768 resolution, but at least the rest of the game is in more interesting areas.
edit: if you found screenshots from a cutscene, yeah, those are flaming spectacular. Actual gameplay, not so much. Oh, and I will go out on a limb and say the gameplay is part of the charm too. Graphics come last, but being an incredibly stable 30 fps open-world game from a Japanese developer, they're really not too bad, especially if you factor in the crowds.
Interstellar
Neo Member
The US/EU demo isn't the same as the Japanese demo, it's just limited to a combat tutorial on a rooftop. Yes the game is sub-hd (1024x768 - same resolution as MGS4) but you've got to consider how much detail and unique atmosphere is crammed into the full game. Plus the cutscenes are higher quality, amongst the best this gen.foomfoom415 said:
Splash Wave
Member
That's strange. I didn't notice any drop in image quality with MGS4, but it has been awhile since I've played it.
Interstellar said:
I never did figure out if the cutscenes are real-time or not. I've watched the hard drive light on the Yakuza 3 demo during a cutscene, and it wasn't blinking at all for decent stretches. And the Yakuza 4 demo has a good half hour of cutscenes, in addition to a large chunk of the city and it's still under 2 GB iirc. On the other hand, they obviously look too good to be real-time.
12 hours in and currently in Part 2. MY GOD. I LOVE THIS GAME. Best game in the series by far and I'm not even halfway through it. So much fun and I actually liked the Hostess Maker minigame!
The cutscenes blow away all the previous game cutscenes. Very well directed and the dialogue is pretty damn good. Subs weren't too accurate. I may not know 100% Japanese, but I know what some words were and the subs don't match up exactly with the actual words they used. Understandable to make it work with an English script. The story is soooo good.
Oh yea, all the new Heat moves are so BRUTAL. SOGOOD.gif
The cutscenes blow away all the previous game cutscenes. Very well directed and the dialogue is pretty damn good. Subs weren't too accurate. I may not know 100% Japanese, but I know what some words were and the subs don't match up exactly with the actual words they used. Understandable to make it work with an English script. The story is soooo good.
Oh yea, all the new Heat moves are so BRUTAL. SOGOOD.gif
I'm still only on the beginning of chapter 3, but I've been playing this shit for hours already. I just can't stop not doing the side stuff, and I know I probably shouldnt find all the locker keys with Akiyama, but dammit he's so cool and his moveset is my kind of style.
But I'm already lvl 15 and got two hostess in the sack already. That 10k xp is so nice. =D
But I'm already lvl 15 and got two hostess in the sack already. That 10k xp is so nice. =D
IrishNinja
Member
just finished part 3 tonight, part 4 is installing as we speak, and telling me of all the new characters. SO HYPE I COULD SHIT.
still wondering @:
still wondering @:
IrishNinja said:
firehawk12
Subete no aware
The only missable trophy is Fashionista, AFAIK.
Saejima related question, for people past chapter 4 :
next story objective is to get some sleep before kicking Majima's butt at the top of Milennium Tower. Right the city is a mess to walk through due to the police. Does it get any better towards the end of his part or do I just have to deal with it?
slaughterking
Member
I really regret I didn't start the game on a higher difficulty. It was the same with Yak3, so I should have known better, but there really is no challenge whatsoever on normal difficulty and it makes the leveling and the additional weapons/gear rather pointless. :I
Just reached part 4 now. The game has been lots of fun so far, and the story is nice to follow, especially in how it connects back to previous entries. Though I have to say, all the plot twists after another are getting rather silly and unrealistic. Still, tons of fun to follow this story. Game's so much better than Y3, even if it's ridiculously "samey".
Red Blaster
Member
Riposte said:
You can make a new clear save by talking to Date at Serena.
xXBetter Off DadXx
Member
Got into a fight in front of the MEB(I think that's what it's called, the place where the guy tells you about what the different girls are into) and the QTE had me tossing the dude through the window! Ha, never had that happen before.
William Percy Nightstick said:
yea, they had that in Yakuza 3 too. it was a store in Okinawa instead. that QTE never gets old.
btw, i love that if you talk to the guy who works at MEB after smashing the windows,he'll say "sorry for the mess but we're still in business" or something like that, lol. love the details.
warpaint said:
the fights are easily avoidable, imo. you can usually just stick with the sidewalks and they'll never see you or even if they see you, they might not be able to catch up with you if you keep running. or you can just use the rooftops if it really bugs you.
i'm currently playing on Normal and the fights seem much easier than the previous games on Normal. they really refined the engine quite a bit. i don't see myself skipping the fights as much as the previous games cuz i really like all the new moves i can try out and upgrading the HEAT moves is a must. you can only do that by using them in fights a lot.
Noisepurge
Member
LiK said:
Holding L1 to walk slowly past the thugs can get you by unnoticed. There is also an item available, can't remember the name but if you equip it you wont have any random fights.
There is also the opposite item, Champ's Ring that increases the fights if you need to grind.
And yeah, you can also just run past most of them once you learn to recongnize the thugs by looks
xXBetter Off DadXx
Member
LiK said:
Didn't know about talking to the guy who works there, cool. Goes to show how much this game has to offer in terms of variety when I played over 30 hours of Yakuza 3 and am at over 30 in Yakuza 4 already, and that's the first time I've run into that QTE.
I don't know why people are complaining about Saejima, but I'm finding him a blast to play as. The charge moves so damaging and the heat moves are very useful since some of them can be used during combos.
Character wise, I find him just as interesting as Akiyama so far. Saejima's chapter 1 was amazing.
Character wise, I find him just as interesting as Akiyama so far. Saejima's chapter 1 was amazing.
IrishNinja
Member
chapter 3 with smooth-pimpin' Akiyama. i just tied up a hostess scouting miniquest...this guy is awesome.
canadian crowe
Member
Akiyama is a moron. End game spoilers:
who keeps a vault of 100 billion yen hidden Behind a bookcase, and a door without a lock?
canadian crowe
Member
The final boss is the shittiest thing I've played in a long time.
Terrible.
Multiple enemies, guns, and grabbing.
IrishNinja
Member
^man, ya'll should really watch it with the spoilers being untagged.
canadian crowe
Member
Fixed that. I'm usually pretty cautious when it comes to spoilers, but I figured it would be vague enough not to be spoilers. In retrospect, I should have tagged it. Sorry if I spoiled anything for anybody!IrishNinja said:
all 8 of us who bought the game