Current Events > besides the mini games, what is the main game mechanics of Yakuza?

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is it a beat em up? turn based? action rpg?

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Beat em up. It's pretty simple but you also constantly get new moves.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Beat em up.

oh. is it hard?

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MixedRaceBaby posted...

oh. is it hard?

Not if you don't put it on Hard :3.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Not if you don't put it on Hard :3.

well. its on xbox game pass for PC. 5 bucks. lets do this

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MixedRaceBaby posted...

is it a beat em up? turn based? action rpg?

While it traditionally is a beat 'em up, the newest game is a turn based RPG.

It's mostly listening to (reading) a bunch of yapping and sometimes you hit stuff

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Smackems posted...

It's mostly listening to (reading) a bunch of yapping and sometimes you hit stuff

Shit. I probably should of warned him about the dialogue/gameplay ratio.

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Even on hard yakuza 0 was pretty easy. Its a narrative focused beat em up. If you arent into story based games you probably wont like it

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MixedRaceBaby posted...

well. its on xbox game pass for PC. 5 bucks. lets do this

which one are you getting

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ModLogic posted...

which one are you getting

all of them

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are all of them on pc? i thought pc missing a few entries.

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Most of the time its a beatemup/brawler
But the boss fights are generally 1 on 1

Its a plot heavy series, in a good way because the plot is good.

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btw if you're considering yakuza 7. that has turn based combat lol.

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Rika_Furude posted...

Most of the time its a beatemup/brawler
But the boss fights are generally 1 on 1

Its a plot heavy series, in a good way because the plot is good.

Only played Yakuza 0 but its one of the few games as of late where I was legitimately engrossed in the story. The gameplay was great as well. Great gameplay and great story is such a rarity it feels like.

ModLogic posted...

btw if you're considering yakuza 7. that has turn based combat lol.

....why would they go that route?

It varies a lot in the subseries too. Like the two samurai ones Kenzan and in Ishin have hand to hand combat, but the emphasis is on sword play, or Ishin sword and gunplay. Kenzan and Ishin also play quite a bit differently. The PSP games were made by some company that did wrestling games (I haven't played the wrestling games though) and features a fighting game like system, but honestly I really disliked the first PSP game, and the system falls apart quickly. The Fist of the North Star one has a lot of moves from the manga/anime and is a lot of fun in my opinion.

Now the newest one is a full on RPG that is turn based and has a job system but with situational actions based on the environment. The difficulty is kind of hard to say. If you pick the hardest difficulty you can get a bit of a challenge on most of them, but it seems almost always terribly balanced. And by that I mean when you are first learning the game it's very hard, so you really get destroyed a lot early on. Then once you learn the game you also start getting overpowered and so by the end it doesn't matter because your skills are meaningless when you're destroying everything with your OP stats and abilities. This is almost universally true for the difficulty. Also you often end up abusing the bad AI in boss fights for some of the earlier titles because it's hard not to.

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