Extra Punctuation: How Yakuza 4 Grabs You
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It reminds me of something wild arms 1 did(you can tell they were trying their hardest with that game).
there's a town where they have a monster detector(no other town has it, and they had no monsters), and one of your characters is a smart talking rat that gets shocked when he tries to go through. After clearing it with the town they tell you that if you keep him really close to someone's body he'd probably go undetected.
Cut to after a mission is done and you see the town has gone to hell because the monsters used the same trick you did to get through. They like infested the people who had gone out and those people mutated.
An earlier town was also attacked in the middle of a festival(reminiscent of Chrono Trigger) with the sky falling apart. Both times were pretty out of nowhere and unexpected.
there's a town where they have a monster detector(no other town has it, and they had no monsters), and one of your characters is a smart talking rat that gets shocked when he tries to go through. After clearing it with the town they tell you that if you keep him really close to someone's body he'd probably go undetected.
Cut to after a mission is done and you see the town has gone to hell because the monsters used the same trick you did to get through. They like infested the people who had gone out and those people mutated.
An earlier town was also attacked in the middle of a festival(reminiscent of Chrono Trigger) with the sky falling apart. Both times were pretty out of nowhere and unexpected.
It's almost nothing like GTA, nore is the game trying to be GTA.Sabinfrost said:
Gow has given players the excact same gameplay in all of them, yet each one sells like hotcakes in the US, Yakuza is sorta like that (with the exception that the Yakuza series has actuality evolved over it's life) in Japan, The last two sold over 300,000 copies on the first day in Japan.
I was quite disappointed in DMC3 for all the backtracking that you had to make to continue the story. I'm fine with backtracking, the problem is that it was all fucking same, no difference at from what you had already passed. That was quite disappointing for me. But oh well...
I get the same feeling of recognition from Portal 2, which has you backtrack through some of the later test chambers in the beginning, now overrun with plant life and decay.
If it's for reals NYC instead of "Liberty City" it can still be fun. I found where my brother's apartment building would be in Prototype and threw a zombie at it!Alakaizer said:
The most profound example of this I can think of was MGS4, when you return to area MGS1 took place in.
Not only did I love all the metal gear solids, but metal gear solid was one of the games that got me into gaming, and to walk around the setting of the first one was an excellent design decision.
Not only did I love all the metal gear solids, but metal gear solid was one of the games that got me into gaming, and to walk around the setting of the first one was an excellent design decision.
icewind dale does that early on, after a quest, the main town is getting attacked and you have to rush and save everyone
I remember the first time a location of a game felt like 'home'. It was Midgar from FF7. When Cloud and gang left the city if felt like I got kicked out of my home. And later when I came back to the city it felt like coming home but it didn't feel the same anymore. It felt like when you leave for college and you come back and your mom has already redecorated your room. It's the same room but its no longer "your" room.
I think that yahtzee found the appeal of Japanese anime and Japanese games storyline,the problem with them is the usage of teenagers characters with their stupid personalities,the thing about stand or manage to resist this aspect and try to follow their storyline,Japanese narrative is very good at this because it builds up story momentum after 15 of 20 percent of the game,that is why they became so popular, different games uses different paces,and the most popular are the ones who manage to get the momentum right,something that is missing from western but exploited by some of them,games like Halo reach and Brother in Arms road to hill 30 build up momentum to have a great or memorable conclusions,the same can be said about popular games like half life and more recently portal.
So,yeh I guess that you right in that one,places like some locations in GTA San Andreas and the Getaway are a great example of this,I say that Driv3r can be included as well,but that was a dreadful game with gorgeous environments like Turkey.
So,yeh I guess that you right in that one,places like some locations in GTA San Andreas and the Getaway are a great example of this,I say that Driv3r can be included as well,but that was a dreadful game with gorgeous environments like Turkey.
Yahtzee, I'm a huge fan. But can you please stop the autistic jokes? Not every autistic is like the stereotypical autistic. It's getting really old.