Luna
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Post by Luna on Sept 9, 2019 5:45:51 GMT 1
All right, I have to throw this out there.
The Yakuza games on Playstation are amazing!
You like RPGs? Get ready to encounter a lot of random street battles and grind your character. Fighting games? Yeah, those battles require inputting combos, they're not turn-based at all. Open world sandbox games? It's like walking through a Japanese city, and there are various side missions and minigames to play (including some of Sega's retro video games). Tower defense-style games? Yakuza 6 has the clan creator mode, which has a similar feel.
One of the issues you might have would be reading subtitles. The audio is in Japanese, and while the original Yakuza game was dubbed in English with well-known talent (Mark Hamill, for example), it was not well received and so the later games and even the Kiwami versions (which are essentially high def remasters) are solely in Japanese. The other issue that someone might have is if the crime syndicate politics get to be too much, like you can't really follow who is part of what family. Obviously if they're not too warm and welcoming to your character, they're the opposition that might eventually try to take you out. If that much still isn't your thing, just follow the more meaningful part of the story and ignore the yakuza families altogether. They're really just in the way to stop you from achieving your goal.
Other than that, the stories are heartwarming, and the side missions have a lot of comedic situations. I personally recommend the PS4 titles, which are Yakuza Kiwami 1 and 2, Yakuza 0 (they made a prologue, and it's great), and Yakuza 6. If you're fluent in Japanese and have access to a Japanese Playstation, the series is known as Ryu Ga Gotoku, and there are even more games in the series that haven't been released outside of Japan.
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Post by Plum on Sept 10, 2019 11:05:32 GMT 1
Probably the biggest and most well beloved series that I've never played a single game of Actually, that honour might go to Persona but it's a close call. Unfortunately I just can't justify those hundred hour games any more (I daren't get the new Fire Emblem for the same reason). If you had told my younger self that I would appreciate sub-ten-hour games more than epic RPGs I would have been horrified. I still remember the derision I gave the original Max Payne when it came out - a triple A title with less than ten hours of storyline? Not worth my time! Now I'd look at that and think, oh neat, maybe I could get half way through before having to move on.
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Post by Luna on Sept 11, 2019 16:05:25 GMT 1
Hey, I play games like Threes! on my phone, or do a variety of Picross-style games, among others. No plot, just a few minutes of your time. As for longer games, some I do end up putting aside for later, either because I got stuck in the game or I got busy in real life. So I get it if you don't have the time for a lengthy epic game. It's a lot to commit to, and if something gets in the way, you lose track of where you were and what you were doing.
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Post by Southpaw Hare on Sept 11, 2019 19:09:10 GMT 1
Probably the biggest and most well beloved series that I've never played a single game of Actually, that honour might go to Persona but it's a close call. Unfortunately I just can't justify those hundred hour games any more (I daren't get the new Fire Emblem for the same reason). If you had told my younger self that I would appreciate sub-ten-hour games more than epic RPGs I would have been horrified. I still remember the derision I gave the original Max Payne when it came out - a triple A title with less than ten hours of storyline? Not worth my time! Now I'd look at that and think, oh neat, maybe I could get half way through before having to move on. When Joker came out in Smash, I ended up watching a bunch of Persona 5 gameplay on YouTube. I then watched the Anime, and it was so good, I ended up watching the anime again with all my anime-watching friends. My opinion after experiencing all this is that Persona 5 as a whole is amazing and well worth your time, but I agree, you do not have time for the game. Most mortal people don't. The pacing of the game is unbelievably slow. You have to live through literally every single day of your highschooler life one by one, and by 10 hours in, you're probably not even out of the Tutorial Dungeon yet. The Anime, by comparison, may be a little bit too fast, but only a little bit; it's a far better choice in terms of pacing. It is very faithful to the game and contains a lot of the great stuff found in the game, with the exception of any of the coolness from the fight scenes - The video game has very stylish combat, while the anime has infamously low-budget battles that amount to still-frames of characters standing there shooting and being hit by particle effects and screaming. I recommend watching a few good boss battles from the game (before or after the anime, depending on how you feel about spoilers) as a supplement to watching the entire anime, in order to see how awesome they look and feel. Note that the anime includes some OVAs at the end that are not optional movies - they are just straight-up more episodes attached to the end for whatever reason, and are required to complete the story.
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Post by scymrian on Sept 26, 2019 19:40:11 GMT 1
I played Y0 when it came out on Steam, then Kiwami 1. I think I'm most of the way through Kiwami 2 but my PC is on mothballs right now because I recently moved and haven't had the opportunity to set it back up again. I immediately became a fan though! I love most of what the games do.
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