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Joystiq: Yakuza 4 Review

What a game. I passed a few dozen hours leading a contingent of scumbags-with-hearts-of-gold through a convoluted gangster soap opera full of betrayals, redemptions, posturing, overdramatic gestures, and profoundly awkward dates, and played Boxcelios 2 in the Club Sega arcade on Theater Square when I didn't feel like doing any of that stuff. Even if you never think of Kamurocho as a real place, it's a great place to hang out.

Spitfire_Riggz5408d ago

Nice, what would you classify this game as? A fighting/action adventure RPG/JRPG or somesing?

Cloudberry5407d ago (Edited 5407d ago )

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Or more / less, Action RPG for short.

Spitfire_Riggz5405d ago

Thanks. Action RPG like Mass Effect? Or less

Cloudberry5405d ago

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Well...

I could roughly describe this series like Grand Theft Auto world with RPG elements.

However this series is not fully open world like GTA, so you couldn't kill / steal anyone / anything.

It is much an RPG than "open world" / "sandbox" game...

Added with it's beat-em-up battle system:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

And it's contents = Yakuza game.

ThanatosDMC5407d ago

Kiryu Kazuma ass cant be kicked. He even kicked the other three main character's asses. Trying to learn some of the games to get the trophy but damn time consuming. I need more of the cheat items for easy wins.

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How the Sega Dreamcast Innovated More Than You Might Realize

Sega's hardware went further leaps and bounds than most people would have expected. Even in today's market.

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SimpleSlave41d ago

"In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if SegaNet inspired Microsoft to do something with its Xbox Live network, which has easily grown into something on its own over the years."

It did—down to having to pay for a subscription and... Horse Armor DLC!!! 😱🤯💀. In fact, people that worked on SegaNet went on to work on Live before it was released.

SegaNet was the Demon's Souls to Live's Dark Souls—while the Sega Channel was King's Field.

Agent7541d ago

SEGA paid Microsoft to supply Windows for the Dreamcast, at the time, Microsoft was developing the Xbox, unknown to SEGA.

ocelot0739d ago

Then bought out Halo that was going to be a Dreamcast game.

jznrpg41d ago

I liked the Dreamcast but hated the big ass controllers

RaiderNation41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

Same. Plus the fact that Sega designed them with only a left analog stick baffles me, considering that dual analog design was already standardized by Sony on the PS1. There were certain games literally unplayable because of this design choice (Virtual On). I really liked the Dreamcast as a console, but that controller was bad.

jznrpg41d ago

I loved the guns and everything else but the controller was poorly designed.

Agent7541d ago

Yeah, it was basically an updated Saturn 3D controller. Madly, that controller was better than the Dreamcast controller. I never liked the shoulder buttons on the Dreamcast controller, but did the job.

Cacabunga41d ago

It was an amazing piece of tech.. the vast majority of the games were arcade and it’s what hurt it.
I loved those games but the PS2 was just on another level, especially with Square, Rockstar and Konami exclusives and obviously GT3.

Kurt Russell41d ago

It is criminal there hasn't been a new Power Stone :(

DazaMc41d ago

Power Stone 1 is one of my favs, I hated the second one for some reason.

Agent7541d ago

By the time the Dreamcast was canned in Japan in 2001, it'd only been out less than 2 years in Europe and the US. Turning back the clock, it should've been packaged without the dial up modem to keep the cost down, I don't think the broadband modem was released in Europe. At the last minute, SEGA canned the DVD format, although that might've bumped up the price.. With this, sticking to black casing as with previous consoles and lastly, a better controller would've bagged more sales. Dreamcast probably wouldn't have hit PS2 numbers, but when it died, it was the biggest shock in gaming history. SEGA have never really recovered.

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Sega Financial Results Decline as Full Game Sales and Rovio Underperform

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Gamersunite88070d ago

I hope Shinobi did well. That would be a shame if it didn't.

MetroidFREAK2169d ago

What happens when you release games via Limited Run and as Game Key Cards on Switch 2

TheColbertinator69d ago

People don't buy them. I would have double dipped on P3 Reload if they had proper cartridges but they can all shove it.

MetroidFREAK2169d ago

I admit I bought several of them... but I always will choose proper carts GKC releases if given the choice

Agent7569d ago

SEGA should stop faffing on with those boring Mega Drive and Master System collections that've been out there for years. Saturn and Dreamcast collections are overdue, but more some arcade collections. Put games on all formats and let gamers choose disc, card or download. The latest Shinobi was a Limited Run game on card, it doesn't exactly sell the game to the masses. SEGA showed off a number of new games not so long ago, they've all gone missing. SEGA has a rich history of making mistakes, it needs to have a serious look at itself, more so in the US and Europe.

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Sega Will Announce a New Project to Celebrate Yakuza / Like a Dragon Anniversary Next Week

Looks like Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have something in the oven to celebrate the anniversary of the Like a Dragon / Yakuza franchise.

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andy8581d ago

Love a Judgment 3. Unlikely though

FinalFantasyFanatic80d ago

Geez, don't we already have two or three games coming out soon? Anyway, more Yakuza games are always good.