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Yakuza 3 Kiwami Leaked (update: confirmed not to be planned, a typo)
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Thankfully already confirmed to be a typo.
Kurohyou 1&2 I'd rather remasters... the games mainly thrived because of the technical limitations of the PSP. For example - the cutscenes are animated comic book style scenes instead of in engine/FMV scenes. It gives the games their own awesome sense of style that I fear would be stripped away if the games were remade with new cutscenes. Likewise the combat should absolutely not be touched at all, again its a nice change to the formula as it uses a Def Jam style combat (due to the same devs doing both games), I don't want that changed to Dragon Engine combat personally.
As for Kazama... they could in theory recast - wouldn't be the first time a character in the series got a new VA, but the difference being that the people at RGGS definitely have this huge respect for Watari (their twitter tributes to him definitely gave me that vibe) so they might retire him completely out of respect.
Skipping the games are a no no. Never understood the idea that its hard to go back to earlier games, they all basically play as less refined versions of 0...if you loved 0, you'll have no issues with 4 and especially 5. Who knows about 3, I think it plays great, other people can't stand it. Who knows.
Considering Yakuza 3 is IMO the worst entry in the series I'd welcome a Kiwami version. It has not aged as well as people claim. It's a PS2 game with a PS3 veneer.
I doubt we'll see any more Kiwami remakes anytime soon, the ones that we got were made by reusing a ton of systems from the more recent entry in order to reduce costs. If a Kiwami were made now it would have to reuse 7's combat which would feel weird for a Kiryu game.
I would say 3 is the roughest one coming from Kiwami 2 as it has the most limited combat overall but it's also not as long as the others. I am current getting close to the end of 4 and liked it a lot more than 3. Going back to the older engine is not quite as bad and you do get used to it.
I am hoping that by the time I am done with 5 they have announced Yakuza 6 for PC because I don't want to play it at 30 fps.
No it wouldn't, curious why you'd think that regarding combat. Fist of the North Star came out between 6 and Kiwami 2, but it used the old game engine (which 5, Ishin etc. used) and its combat also more closely resembles the older games.
If a remake of 3 happened (which it isn't), it'd take Kiwami 2's combat and build off of that.
I can't say for sure, but I think this is a typo.
The September schedule has a Yakuza: Kiwami 2 memorial event:
The Yakuza: Kiwami 3 memorial event appears in the October schedule:
ryu.sega-online.jp
My guess is that whoever put these schedules together copy-pasted the Yakuza: Kiwami 2 event, replaced the numbers, and forgot to remove the 極.
But who knows? Tokyo Game Show is right around the corner and we tend to see something new from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio around this time. Yakuza: Kiwami 3 just doesn't make sense to me though since it has already been remastered.
Edit: Didn't see this. Just disregard my entire post lol.
The September schedule has a Yakuza: Kiwami 2 memorial event:
The Yakuza: Kiwami 3 memorial event appears in the October schedule:
KI-ZU-NA通信 Vol.6（9月14日 10:30更新）｜『龍が如く ONLINE』プレイヤーズサイト｜SEGA
『龍が如く』史上最強の宿敵の一人「郷田龍司」の“ZERO”を描く完全新作ストーリー配信中！『龍が如く ONLINE』
My guess is that whoever put these schedules together copy-pasted the Yakuza: Kiwami 2 event, replaced the numbers, and forgot to remove the 極.
But who knows? Tokyo Game Show is right around the corner and we tend to see something new from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio around this time. Yakuza: Kiwami 3 just doesn't make sense to me though since it has already been remastered.
Edit: Didn't see this. Just disregard my entire post lol.
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Yakuza 3, for me, felt the best out of the non-PS4 ones so I don't think it really needs a Kiwami.
I'd love if they worked on Yakuza 5 in order to trim off the fat or make it more easy to follow, as that game really is a clusterfuck of plot lines that go nowhere or serve no purpose whatsoever. And I loved the gameplay, but still.
I'd love if they worked on Yakuza 5 in order to trim off the fat or make it more easy to follow, as that game really is a clusterfuck of plot lines that go nowhere or serve no purpose whatsoever. And I loved the gameplay, but still.
It'll never happen with the budgets remakes get, or the sub 1 year dev times the remakes get. Picture this - Yakuza Kiwami 2 had to have a small area cut for time/budget. Now imagine a Kiwami 5 which in addition to Kamurocho, has an expanded Sotenbori compared to 2/Kiwamii 2), Sapporo, Fukuoka and Nagoya, not to mention the small town Saejima finds himself in before reaching Sapporo. That's not taking into account the fact that 4 character styles need to be added to the current engine, all the unique activities etc.
I'm against big cuts in remakes (a big reason I have issues with RE3 REmake, it cut like... 1/3 of the game out, if not more) and 5 would be butchered. They could sure rewrite the story to make it flow better, not against that but I don't want to see stuff like hunting, taxi driving etc. cut from the game. Plus 5 just got a great remaster, so I really don't see what the point in an inferior remake would be anyway after that release.
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