I think people are in for a surprise when the format basically doesn't change at all other than the combat to turn based, and people realize that Yakuza was just a JRPG with a beat em up battle system all along.
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Yakuza 7 Announced. Stars Ichiban Kasuga, Set in Yokohama, Turn Based Combat.
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Judgment will probably get sequels, so it's not the death of the brawler genre.
Also iirc the April Fools trailer showed the woman as mostly a support character, so she probably won't be doing a whole lot of fighting. Do you think enemies will be able to even target her with anything besides a basic attack or group attack?
Yeah but it's too early to cast Judgement (ha) on the execution of the shift. I'm not 100% sold either. But not giving them a chance and waiting until real gameplay and reviews and immediately saying "fuck this shit I'm out" doesn't seem fair to a franchise that presumably these posters have loved for years.
When we get a confirmation of Judgment 2 that might make me feel differently. Until then it's all just speculation.
As a huge fan of Sakura Taisen and Yakuza this year has been... very confusing for me. I am honestly impressed with how crazy SEGA is with changing up these franchises so much, but I am pretty open minded all the same.
That said! Judgment was THE game to be experimental with, especially as it was meant to be a new IP. I am sure I will enjoy this game but a sudden unexpected change in genre and especially calling it Yakuza 7 instead of Shin Yakuza is just insulting to fans really.
That said! Judgment was THE game to be experimental with, especially as it was meant to be a new IP. I am sure I will enjoy this game but a sudden unexpected change in genre and especially calling it Yakuza 7 instead of Shin Yakuza is just insulting to fans really.
I am SO out...
I would have never thought they could make me lose interest in a main Yakuza game before release.
Jesus Christ what a disappointment and this is mere days after me saying that Nagoshi never failed me.
I would have never thought they could make me lose interest in a main Yakuza game before release.
Jesus Christ what a disappointment and this is mere days after me saying that Nagoshi never failed me.
On the one hand, the change feels instinctively odd and I worry it'll make the game feel like a slog.
On the ooooother hand, it's not like the best em up elements were particularly smooth, polished, and didn't feel like a grind.
If the animations are still badass then that's half the battle for me. Having party members will be a cool new dynamic as well.
On the ooooother hand, it's not like the best em up elements were particularly smooth, polished, and didn't feel like a grind.
If the animations are still badass then that's half the battle for me. Having party members will be a cool new dynamic as well.
Yeah I'm probably done with Yakuza for now. No Kiryu, this new guy and now turn based combat are all huge turn offs for me. I'll just stick with 0-6.
I mean, I'm still in on this game, but what else are the people who already know they don't like turn-based JRPGs supposed to do? It's not like it's a ground-breaking new genre or something like that. If it suddenly turned into a tower defense game that'd be all it took to make me respond the same way -- because I hate tower defense games. You can't just throw money after things you know you don't like.
And honestly, the fact that they didn't show more than a tiny excerpt of gameplay is a wee bit worrisome purely on its own.
It's always been a single party member JRPG, so I get it. I can see how it came to this after a gazillion games of mostly the same thing.
Oh well, maybe more people will give Shenmue III a chance now lmao
Oh well, maybe more people will give Shenmue III a chance now lmao
They'll show gameplay at TGS. They usually don't show gameplay at their reveal events.
They had to have known this would be highly contentious though. And they did show some gameplay -- really janky looking gameplay, at that.
We'll see.
I can certainly say it's at least interesting to see action gameplay fans having to deal with this for once
Turn based RPG fans are too used to this. lol
Turn based RPG fans are too used to this. lol
Going by Twitter, bad. I think they have a bigger set of expectations of what Yakuza "should" be, but maybe they warm up with time.
That's rad!
I loved Kiryu, and his 7 mainline games, as well as Judgement. But yeah, this formula needs a break.
JRPG Yakuza, sign me the f up.
Already love Ichiban.
I loved Kiryu, and his 7 mainline games, as well as Judgement. But yeah, this formula needs a break.
JRPG Yakuza, sign me the f up.
Already love Ichiban.
fucking turn based, yay! About time, the series needed a change gameplay wise, I am very happy with that announcement!
This is such an eyeroll worthy attitude. I love turn-based RPGs, hate that they're turning Final Fantasy into a purely action series. But the brawler genre is WAY closer to dead than the turn-based RPG genre. And now it basically is dead, unless they release future Judgment games.
Nah, they'll prolly go back eventually prolly right after. Or if they make another collab game like Fist of the North Star was.
Kinda like the massive genre changes for the spin off games, they mostly seem to have been received kind of well.
Dead Souls played really well, or rather I liked it.
Yeah, that sucks for brawlers. It's just that the situation is very unique and turn based is the type of game that gets called "archaic" all the time and asked to change, so this is weird.
This took a while so I'd greatly appreciate all you guys make use of it =)
If the turn-based doesn't work out, or it sells poorly, they will just make a more standard one as they said. If it does well, Judgment or similar spin-offs can keep the style alive. If neither of those, still lot of old games for a franchise many of us never imagined would make it past 2.
Only options left without that would be Dragon Quest Swords or they make a new "classic" Dragon Quest just for a mini-game. Either of which would be amazing in their own way.
Only options left without that would be Dragon Quest Swords or they make a new "classic" Dragon Quest just for a mini-game. Either of which would be amazing in their own way.
They've been pretty negative so far from the tweets I have seen.
Dead Souls was a great game hiding under relatively poor controls and really poor framerate.
I will say though, if it's just that the devs were sick of making non-stop action games with virtually identical controls, I completely understand that. No one should be forced to make the same exact type of game forever. If it's just to try to get a new audience, or because people complained about "Yakuza fatigue" or whatever, then I'm really disappointed :/
This is kind of interesting. It was after that, with 0's western release in 2017, that sales in western countries started going up.
I'm not an expert in this but I can imagine turn-based giving the game a broader appeal in Japan. Conversely though, being turn-based on a console could also limit the game's appeal in western countries. In multiple interviews they've said they're still making Japanese sales and appeal the priority, even though they are taking advantage of the western sales boost.
