But its not. Its incredibly fast paced. If anything, I need stronger enemies because most fights last seconds in 7.
Nah, it's fair to always keep that in mind with import impressions, but outside of something like FF Type-0, I've usually found OTs here and in the old country to be pretty reasonable / inline with the final reception. I know that the one I participated in the most (for Valkyria Revolution) had basically all of us agreeing it was terrible.
I'm on chapter 5. Its still opening stuff up. Game is fast paced. You can hot key attacks to unleash powerful attacks without menu hopping. If the combat is taking a long time in vids your watching, its because whoever is playing it sucks I'd wager.
I played the demo for a couple of hours and to my surprise (since I had also seen how slow the combat in the videos were) it is actually really fast paced.
Get lost with this silly stuff... Why should those who bothered buying the game have their opinions discounted just because your still mad at the combat changes. There's some legit complaints in there about combat, and I still am not sure just how well boss fights work compared to the old games but to ignore positive opinions is just hilarious...
I like the silliness myself, just because of the canon reason for it (Ichiban is delusional). Thankfully that doesn't bleed into the story though, aside from him being far more light hearted than Kiryu is (but that's what Namba is for, to smack him back into reality). Plus the series really does need more enemy variety, granted maybe not silly enemies, but Yakuza does have real issues in previous releases with the lack of different enemy types. So I do quite appreciate this in 7.
I'm sure they will. They've been doing that for the past few years, so it's likely that they'll do it this time as well. Especially with this being a new combat style that people need to try for themselves.
fair point
mendrox said:
You do realize you don't need to reply to me in every thread on the topic telling me about how I'm mad at the combat changes right?Shadowman16 said:
I gotta disagree with that it doesn't bleed into the story part. Each time the game turns into a turn based combat sequence in the middle of the story I get taken out of the experience. Sure, Yakuza had the heat aura when you were playing the game during the story but it never really had stuff like calling in an airstrike or Ichiban turning into a host and things like that (aside from the secret items). Maybe it is just me who feel like this though.
But your not doing the same thing. Different enemies require different strategies to handle, different attacks/character classes to be used, prioritizing attacks on certain enemies (and that's not even taking into account where you fight enemies as the environment can either worth with or against you in terms of approach - enemies or obstacles can shield these enemies so you gotta change up plans and tackle fights in different ways). Plus there's management of your MP bar much like management of your heat bar in old games. And then there's countering enemy attacks and that opens up a whole new set of requirements as enemies have different attacks, attack speeds, countering certain attacks are way more difficult especially if they hit several times etc. Then you have enemies that deal certain status effects, have moves which can make them invincible/invisible for a time etc. Your not just hitting "X" and selecting the same move over and over to hit enemies until they fall down, like the old combat you have to use your head and adapt to the enemies that the game throws at you.
It is probably the way you say it. After all what I know is from playing the demo and watching some videos.
Yeah, but this is the same series that have you fist fight wildlife in big gold castles that appear from the ground after Osaka castle splits in two. Also several of the crazier heat moves aren't exactly the most believeable grounded stuff either. I get what you mean, but between some of the plot twists in games I can roll with the crazy very easily. Plus I feel the in game justification of job switching adequate enough, the rest is just in Ichiban's head. If Kiryu morphs into a dragon mid battle then yeah, that'd be weird.
True, the osaka castle is a very weird chapter. I guess the series is very ridicilous at its heart so I see why you it doesn't bother you. I prefer the way Yakuza 0, Yakuza 1 and 6 did things if I am honest (even though 6 had some weird stuff). I like the story to be as serious as possible but with some over the top stuff happening from time to time (the bear you fight in Yakuza 5 or Kiryu killi... ahem, knocking out a helicopter which landed safely using a rubber bullet mini gun in Yakuza 6.
If anything, I would prefer if Judgment just goes full blown Yakuza if the current Yakuza will stay turn based. I want them to bring in the guns and the brutal attacks (wouldn't fit Yagami, sure but I would prefer if they brought another character as the MC cause Yagami's story is finished).
