>>1174489 Yes. I'd rather choose to eat for 5 days than waste money on games.

>>1170185 Shinada fighting Baba for practically no reason is kino though. His pals at home calling him after is great too.

>>1170185 The most I'll say is Haruka being retarded is a part of the point and Kiryu tanking as much as he did without dropping until the credits was insanely cool.

Happy Ueno Seiwa Day.

>>1171127 And Dante

am curious how many people unironically believe Kuwana was in the right: the dude was a rabbid dog who got offended when he discovered his students didn't really respect him. Yagami did more by pretending to be a teacher than him his entire career, and while "muh sawa-sensei" is memed it's a valid point because sooner or later he'll have to dispose of people refusing to let his methods slide. What's your opinion on him?

>>1206271 Yagami was completely right. I guess it's the execution that's to blame. It would have been better if he didn't use that rationale as a crutch for half the game and had a better written villain to play off of.

>>1206271 I'd back Kuwana if he was a pure solo act. His blackmailing people into being accomplises and getting grieving parents in vulnerable emotional states involved in his work is where I'd draw the line. Yagami's central argument when confronting Kuwana is that he's indirectly responsible for Sawa's death. If Kuwana was just a ghost of a man and didn't leave so many loose ends by bringing other people into it, she probably would've been fine.

I originally skipped the first two games and now I'm thinking about going back to them. Does anyone have experience with the undub patch? Is it worth using?

>>1217285 I'd call the patch essential unless you REALLY think listening to a silly 00s dub with gratuitous swearing won't get old by the end of it. It also touches up the script and restores the proper names of characters and locations that they didn't use until Yakuza 4, so definitely go for it.

>>1220703 rare instance that only watching is a good recommendation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH4EJPIwwT8

>>1221261 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHW3Im9_c1k

>>1170185 I want a Shinada only game focused on the seedier side of baseball and gambling. Obviously will never happen now that they’ve dropped the gritty neo noir elements and are now just pandering to Redditors with their lol japan so wacky games.

>>1221328 I thought Gaiden had a very tasteful balance of the gritty elements and the silly stuff. I'd definitely play a Shinada game, especially if they flesh out his fighting style so it's more smooth to use.

>>1206271 Most of his defenders just pivot to the “muh sawa-sensei” meme (not a meme, Yagami was right to bring it up.) None of them are actually interested in having an honest discussion.

>>1221348 Yeah, Gaiden is probably my favorite game they’ve released recently. I still think they’re moving away from alt of the elements that got me into this series with the Ichiban games. Maybe they’d have to put Shinada in a Judgment game to continue his story, as another anon said. But would the reddit secondaries even bother with a game like that? It seems like they have very different expectations from what a Yakuza game should be. Its popularity has been both a blessing and a curse.

>>1140971 I want to try again. I remember playing Yakuza on the PS2 and it was a lot of "japanese humor". Years later I tried 0 and got 30 hours in before I got tired of the "japanese humor". This series just might not be for me.

>>1252209 >Japanese humor As opposed to what? Can you give me some examples of your idea of oh-so-superior Western humor?

>>1252813 Plenty of anime and Japanese media is funny. Yakuza's humor seems so out of left field and just straight up unfunny and misplaced

>>1252209 They're completely different beasts. Yakuza 1 humor is <The cabaret floozy I fell for left me, time to kms! <OH GOD I'M GETTING SHIT EVERYWHERE YOU GOTTA GET ME THOSE POCKET TISSUES THAT KEEP FILLING UP YOUR INVENTORY AND ANNOY THE FUCK OUT OF YOU Yakuza 0 humor is >lol here's a chicken for bowling a turkey >ha ha eyepatch guy sings a girly song

>>1253285 Absurdism isn't something exclusive to Japan you know.

>yfw a good game becomes a fucking fantastic game due to one mod https://www.nexusmods.com/likeadragoninfinitewealth/mods/336 I hated when they started the turn-based yakuza shit with 7 but this mod genuinely makes 8 more fun to play because brings back regular yakuza gameplay. No more turn based crap, everything is in realtime, and if you combine it with this mod... https://www.nexusmods.com/likeadragoninfinitewealth/mods/327 You can customize who is in your party and who the leader is. What rgg games are you lads into?

>>1267685 Been working my way through the games. Started with 0 awhile back, and finished Yakuza Kiwami 2 the other day. It's been real fun. I'm on 3 now, and I missed the 'classic' combat. The dragon engine combat in Kiwami 2 felt pretty rough, in that my options felt really limited. Back to the engine before that and Kiryu feels like a well oiled machine again. I installed a couple of mods because apparently the PC port has fps issues, in that the FPS controls game logic (very common it seems) and they didn't adjust game logic for 60 FPS. Quickstep still feels like shit regardless of mods, though that might be because I haven't leveled Kiryu that much.

>>1267685 >>1138644

>>1267685 Really cool mod, gotta try it

>>1275247 soon you gonna play 4's kino. I think the dragon engine only started to be bearable with Judgment, too bad they doubled down on juggling with LJ and Gaiden

>>1261894 Whatever the fuck label you want to put on it, the humor in Yakuza is unfunny

>>1278897 give us an exemple of funny skits elsewhere

>>1267685 Been playing through Yakuza 7 recently. I played through the Kiryu saga a few years back and stopped after 6, partially because of burnout and partially because I wasn't sure how good RGG would handle the switch to turn based combat. I've been liking it more than I thought I would and the story is really solid (on chapter 11 so far). Combat feels a little barebones but given that it's inspired by Dragon Quest, I guess that's part of the appeal. I just wish there was a little more depth in the battles like being able to move for positioning moves. I've been spoiled by Kiseki combat which is the gold standard for turn-based JRPGs imo.

>>1138644 Test

>>1316500 Please use the >>>/test/ board.

>>1138644 3 was nice but I liked 4 more