2008-01-07 12:17:42 Rya Go Gotoku Kenzan demo up! (Yakuza 3)

On the Japanese PS Store, there're two demos, I played the second one so far, and I really like the combat, animation, and graphics. It still reminds me of Samurai champloo, though there's no hip-hop in here. ;)

I really hope this comes to Europe or the US.

Go get it!

2008-01-07 12:24:13

What game is this ? translation please ?

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Bring on Lost Odyssey!

2008-01-07 12:25:53

Yakuza 3!

2008-01-07 12:34:47

Ryu Gotta Go to Bathroom

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2008-01-07 12:45:12

I have seen screenshots of it, not my type of game, but I will try it for fun.

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*A New Form of Change*

2008-01-07 13:10:15

Must... not... get... excited.. about... this... yet....
Still so.......far away...


But really, one of my favourite franchises now, Kazama Kiryu is the biggest new badass to come along in like a bizillion years, regardless which time period he's in. Yakuza 2 is one of the big ones of 2008 for me.

2008-01-07 13:16:27

The game is boring :S

I kept running to the places where it is highlighted and talked to whoever had the arrow above his head.

No voice, no music...nothing...I got bored and deleted it.

Instead of putting up this game, give us DMC4 demo :(

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*A New Form of Change*

2008-01-07 13:44:59

After Yakuza 2, I kinda lost faith in the series.

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If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.

2008-01-07 13:50:07

feel my hate! :/

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2008-01-07 15:22:20 In reply to Sath (2008-01-07 13:16:27)

2008-01-07 16:28:11

this thread fails without impressions. Way to drop the ball, Jedi!

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2008-01-07 17:35:45

I didn't even know there was two demos :S

I did watch the combat video here on the site, repetive.

I did fight some bullies though on the other demo.

I did one of those grab moves and then dragged them to a lamp of some sort and the pressed a button and interact with it.

He basically slammed his face into the lamp two time, that as cool.

The fact that there is no voice or music in the background while just running around and such is boring.

That is one of the things that made Folklore boring, to keep reading and pressing to skip all the long ass dialogue.

Like I said, not my type of game.

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*A New Form of Change*

2008-01-07 17:39:02 In reply to Sath (2008-01-07 17:35:45)

2008-01-07 18:04:22

Sath the fact that it has no voice work or music is probably because its a demo and one it may not have been done yet or two they took it out to reduce the size of the demo.

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Marumaro for the WIN !!

2008-01-07 18:26:28

Jollipop...highly doubtful buddy.

Although I am not gonna buy this game at all as I mentioned, I do wish you are right for those who are gonna buy it.

No dialogue with text only and keep pressing the button to skip the mini-wallof text is just ignoring.

KORNDog

I know what you mean, in the CG they had voices. But you gotta remember that they wanted Folklore to have that novel type of thing were you gotta read and just watch with some music to go with it.

It was a bit stupid not to include SFX or dialogue to spice up those things.

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*A New Form of Change*

2008-01-07 19:17:24

There will be loads of voice acted stuff in this game sath, it will only be in major cutscenes though, talking to ever NPC with voice acting would be an incredible amount of work.

One thing I found is that this demo is pretty unplayable if you don't speak Japanese.

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Marumaro for the WIN !!

2008-01-07 19:24:59 In reply to Jollipop (2008-01-07 19:17:24)

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If you're not down with Disturbed, then FU! Thanks.

2008-01-08 10:27:22

It's a fancied up brawler though, so it's not like it NEEDS voice acting around every corner. The important part is that the combat is as deep, tough and rewarding as before. Oh and that Kazuma Kiryu is as deep, tough and rewarding as before. :P

2008-01-08 14:37:50 In reply to kenshin2418 (2008-01-07 19:24:59)

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Street Fighter 4... Believe.

2008-01-08 14:49:45 In reply to Jin187 (2008-01-08 14:37:50)

But it's stopped [insert random jRPG] and that's essentially what this is. With realtime brawler based combat in place of strategic menu orgy.

2008-01-08 15:28:58

Exactly both BD and LO didn't have full voice work even though they came of 3 and 4 discs.

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Marumaro for the WIN !!

2008-01-08 15:52:02 In reply to Jollipop (2008-01-08 15:28:58)

2008-01-08 17:41:09 In reply to KORNdog (2008-01-08 15:52:02)

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Marumaro for the WIN !!

2008-01-08 20:09:59 In reply to SimonM7 (2008-01-08 14:49:45)

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Street Fighter 4... Believe.

2008-01-08 20:33:16 In reply to Jin187 (2008-01-08 20:09:59)

No it's not. Jesus! :)

It's made by Spikeout people and it's Spikeout woven into a hub world ala Final Fantasy 7 or whatever. You get random encounters but instead of the normal turn based/realtime RPG fare you get thrown into Spikeout, with an experience system and gaining new special moves just like a normal jRPG.

Instead of racing Chocobos or play floaty.. er.. water.. something.. you visit "hostesses" and play other mini games. There is absolutely no connection to Shenmue, and no people who ever worked on Shenmue has gone anywhere near this game.

Shenmue was an adventure game attempting *all genres* hence its "F.R.E.E." moniker (full reactive eyes entertainment, I can't believe I even memorised that :P) and none of its separate components were anywhere near as sharp as the fighting in Yakuza. That is because Yakuza IS a fighting game with RPG elements and very little else.