They kind of are.Silentpony said:I dunno. Lots of people like these games, but they seem very very tedious.
Challenge accepted.Igor-Rowan said:So basically Japanese GTA? I know that may sound apples to oranges for fans of the series, but the Yakuza games are definitely hard to market or explain what their appeal is. I actually dare someone to recommend me each one using 10 words or less.
Their cutscenes certainly are. Do you remember how the guys from Unskippable made them funnier? Or at least not boring?Silentpony said:I dunno. Lots of people like these games, but they seem very very tedious.
Japanese fight club with mini games. You'll just have to imagine the other four.Igor-Rowan said:So basically Japanese GTA? I know that may sound apples to oranges for fans of the series, but the Yakuza games are definitely hard to market or explain what their appeal is. I actually dare someone to recommend me each one using 10 words or less.
they are in a cathartic way. It's like the anti-junk food, tastes weird but leaves you satisfied.Silentpony said:I dunno. Lots of people like these games, but they seem very very tedious.
JRPG with real-time combat, set in realistic modern Tokyo.Igor-Rowan said:So basically Japanese GTA? I know that may sound apples to oranges for fans of the series, but the Yakuza games are definitely hard to market or explain what their appeal is. I actually dare someone to recommend me each one using 10 words or less.
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OK, you guys have convinced me, maybe I'll get this one since I'm a sucker for 100% completion, but I feel burned out lately, so this one will'll have to sit out.Devieus said:Snip
I have to admit that I kind of got off the Yakuza train with 4. (Technically, I got off with Dead Souls but I'm not sure that counts.) Yes, there is some tedium but, as Yahtzee points out, the game is really good. What killed it for me is that, by the end of 4, I kinda got the same feeling that you get when you watch the fourth Die Hard. You may still be having fun but the nagging feeling of how the hell Kiryu McClane keeps getting dragged back into the Yakuza life starts feeling increasingly contrived as well as the whole "haven't I done this before?" feeling. (In fairness, by the end of the PSWii60 generation, I had decided to get off the sequel train for almost all my long-running series so Yakuza isn't unique in this aspect.)Silentpony said:I dunno. Lots of people like these games, but they seem very very tedious.