Oh, I don't know. In all honesty I kind of like those karaoke songs. Although I'm not exactly sure why.KingofallCosmos said:Everyone wanting to try Yakuza can just start with 3, as it's a lot smoother than the first two. The story there is awesome, but not necessary to follow the events. Hell, part of the fun is half the time you don't know what's going on just look at those cute yakuza's acting all tough.. Ow and there's something immensely hysterical about clapping and yelling to bad kareoke songs.
This is just for the sake of being thorough.raankh 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:Why are Japanese games full of weird reaction noises? Wah? Huh? I've always thought they were there because of the translation from Japanese to English, but if they're in the Japanese VO as well? Could somebody explain?
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?
That's alright. I guess I wasn't clear anyway. I meant to say it's very addicting and I'm not sure why. Just the combination of wierd jpop and tough guy kazuma clapping and shouting enthusiasticly.A1 said:Oh, I don't know. In all honesty I kind of like those karaoke songs. Although I'm not exactly sure why.KingofallCosmos said:Everyone wanting to try Yakuza can just start with 3, as it's a lot smoother than the first two. The story there is awesome, but not necessary to follow the events. Hell, part of the fun is half the time you don't know what's going on just look at those cute yakuza's acting all tough.. Ow and there's something immensely hysterical about clapping and yelling to bad kareoke songs.
EDIT: Oops. Sorry, I forgot that I already responded to that post of yours. How silly of me.
I actually like jpop quite a bit myself. But I'm not sure if that explains why I find the karaoke mini game in the Yakuza games so appealing. I remember really getting into the music rhythm games "Bust a Groove" and "Bust a Groove 2" for the original Playstation. Perhaps there's also the monstrous (if somewhat fleeting) popularity of Guitar Hero and Rock Band to consider (although I didn't really get into either one of those myself). Perhaps it's just something about music rhythm interactivity in general that strikes a chord (no pun intended) with me and others.KingofallCosmos said:That's alright. I guess I wasn't clear anyway. I meant to say it's very addicting and I'm not sure why. Just the combination of wierd jpop and tough guy kazuma clapping and shouting enthusiasticly.A1 said:Oh, I don't know. In all honesty I kind of like those karaoke songs. Although I'm not exactly sure why.KingofallCosmos said:Everyone wanting to try Yakuza can just start with 3, as it's a lot smoother than the first two. The story there is awesome, but not necessary to follow the events. Hell, part of the fun is half the time you don't know what's going on just look at those cute yakuza's acting all tough.. Ow and there's something immensely hysterical about clapping and yelling to bad kareoke songs.
EDIT: Oops. Sorry, I forgot that I already responded to that post of yours. How silly of me.
BTW I bumped into a big guy in New York one time; it broke his reading glasses, which he (stupidly) held in his hand. Getting ready for some yakuza style asskicking, imagine my surprise when the guy gets all emotional cause he was studying and couldn't afford new ones. We agreed on each paying half (of fifteen bucks).
http://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.htmlA Gray Phantom said:Interesting. Could you site your sourc?xscoot said:Actual Yakuza members have played Yakuza games. They say the gameplay is fun and makes sense (the commented on how different real world drinks in the game give effects that they would expect and the like), but say that no Yakuza would actually act like that before getting killed by his own group within a day for being so stupid and causing so much trouble.
Thanks a lot! This looks like an interesting read .xscoot said:http://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.htmlA Gray Phantom said:Interesting. Could you site your sourc?xscoot said:Actual Yakuza members have played Yakuza games. They say the gameplay is fun and makes sense (the commented on how different real world drinks in the game give effects that they would expect and the like), but say that no Yakuza would actually act like that before getting killed by his own group within a day for being so stupid and causing so much trouble.
Here it is. Only the names have been changed.
Welcome to "politically correct" where saying you don't see the point in ten year olds getting raped by a bored Cthulhu means you want them to have an earthquake and turn into irradiated fish food.Nurb said:I don't see why you had to have a disclaimer when commenting on a culture's seemingly odd interests doesn't imply you want horrible things to happen to them.