Zero Punctuation: Yakuza 4
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great review as always but i still think he is a closet anime fan. also desu, degeso, hanuu, uuuggguu.
Because other eastern countries don't have as many cultural imports as Japan.brazuca said:
Know how not all Politicians are corrupt... in fact most of them aren't? And yet they have that reputation, why? Because the ones you DO hear about make the most noise.
I've always found the best way to enjoy the plot of a Yakuza game is to have a friend with you and laugh together through all the cutscenes. It's absolutely mind-boggling how insane the stories can get without the writers ever seeming to notice.
Oh, and the whole "visual novel" thing makes much much more sense when you realize that they're supposed to be digital choose-your-own-adventure books rather than games. People who play them always insist to me that some of them have really good stories, but I remain skeptical.
Oh, and the whole "visual novel" thing makes much much more sense when you realize that they're supposed to be digital choose-your-own-adventure books rather than games. People who play them always insist to me that some of them have really good stories, but I remain skeptical.
Actually, you don't have to pick up the previous games to get caught up. All of the games in this series aside from the first one have a special "reminisce" option that shows you special movie sequences that summarize the events of previous games if you wish it. And besides, three out of the four playable characters in this game are new characters that don't appear in any of the previous games.Misho- said:
It does seem that Japan is a very distinctive nation in more ways than one doesn't it? And I certainly don't mean that in a bad way. But as for why this is, I can't say that I know. I'm not even sure if many people living in Japan know. Does anyone really know why you are the way you are? That does seem to be a very good question and it's unlikely to have an easy and/or simple answer.brazuca said:
Wow thanks for that. So a game that's not realistic (as few games are) needs to be authentic? Well that makes sense, when it's actually a game and I am waggling thumb sticks. Surely the game would have been ruined to have the English option. Don't mistake authenticity for cheaping out on additional voice acting... Technically, if you want the experience to be authentic there shouldn't be subtitles... I don't believe subtitles pop under folks in Tokyo while they are talking. I guess you are taking exception to the my use of the word "realism" and instead prefer authenticity -- for me and for the purpose of what I was saying the two could be interchangeable.A1 said:
An on the Kung Fu thing being Chinese. You best get on Yahtzee for that -- check out 01:22 of the video. That's what he called it.
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Main Entry: realism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: authenticity
Synonyms: naturalness, reality, truth, verisimilitude, verism, verity
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Needed more imps but other than that it was a great review. I see why he did the statement in the beginning. It probably saved him a lot of trouble from having to respond to whatever "politically correct" wingbat pops out from under the nearest rock and proceeds to defecate on his jokes. Basically a CMA. It sucks that you had to do it Yahtzee.... You were probably forced to or something.
I was just going to ask if I was the only one who thought that sounded like an awesome game... Something along the lines of an open world game of the Rivers of London books maybe.jack583 said:
I think it's both a question of culture and language. In Japanese, you often leave out the subject of a sentence, in particular if you are the subject yourself. Japanese people are encouraged (or stimulated if you prefer a more technical term) to be reserved in public-- in Finland, really in all of northern Scandinavia, they have a very similar cultural stimuli. Northern dialects of Swedish and Finnish, and to some extent Norweigan, also have many empty interjections-- but together with subject omission it actually says alot more than you might think. Japanese is spoken in a very context-sensitive way, as are many dialects in northern Scandinavia. They have in common that they sometimes omit entire sentence structures for a few words, often ended by a single morpheme (a "noise").redbeta22 said:
However, many of the weird reaction noises are also a matter of style. The style in Japanese games, comics and the weird "live action anime" film genre have some pretty strong stereotypes-- all the empty interjections and incessant "boku wa~~" aren't how most adult Japanese people speak....
But, hey, do YOU speak like a video-game character?
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