Constable Blimey Chips. HMMBJC. These could all been said of Y3, and I like that game a lot. I agree with the review.
I’d just about sell myself into slavery to play Constable Blimey Chips.
razarok
4364
Well, except for the hostess clubs which were cut out of the non japanese Y 3 versions, right?
I really enjoyed this game (top 3 2011 at this point in time), but I have to agree with most of his comments. For instance missing roughyl 2/3 of the side quests. I really loved the end of his review.
True, I tend to operate as if they don’t exist regardless.
Foxstab
4366
Yes, it’s an acute reaction. But when it comes to a repetitive low key sfx it’s simply how it plays for me. I tend to go nigh-crazy from such, it’s no fun to me either rather quite the torture actually. From what I understand there are others who suffer from such a condition. It’s not something I can control, otherwise I wouldn’t give a damn like the rest of you.
Sorry for causing a disturbance in the Force. ;;^_^
Yakuza 4 is well on its way to being my Game of the Year, and for a lot of the things he doesn’t like.
Shirtless guys fighting on the tops of skyscrapers?
Quitch
4369
He’s right about Japanese reaction noises. They’re in anime too. WTF is with that?
Zylon
4370
I’ve beyond lost track of how many times I’ve heard an anime character ask “WHAT DID YOU SAY?”
Miramon
4371
Japanese conversation requires periodic noises to indicate that you’re paying attention to the speaker. It’s like “uh-huh”, “go on”, “I see”, etc. basically, but it’s rhythmic, like a metronome.
Watch an interview on Japanese TV and it’s talk-talk-talk-haaa-talk-talk-talk-haaa…
Lord yes. And the weird hidden side-quests and the hilarity of the hostess club. And the minigames and by minigames I mean mahjong.
It’s one of the few games where my reaction to a cutscene starting is “FUCK YES!” and rapt attention, because I think they are done extremely well. The animation, the slow pacing, the yakuza politics… I find it all intensely gripping. And I’ve only played as two of the guys so far, but I found both their stories really compelling.
I do agree with him that the violence you can inflict is really goddamn satisfying and brutal.
I’m kind of intrigued by Yakuza 4 based on the X-Play review I saw–it looks kind of wacky and GTA-like–the gore and violence look a bit over the top, though. Are my impressions correct?
Also, is the North American version doctored in some way, or is it the equivalent of the game available in Japan?
The side stuff and ultra-Japanese humor is pretty much the star of the series. Also there is a metric ton of content. A friend of mine completed Yakuza 4 100% and clocked in at around 170 hours of play time.
There is no “gore” in the Yakuza games, although blood does fly after big hits, and what you do to a lot of the guys in the “Heat Action” attacks is very painful-looking. Nobody gets their head ripped off or their intestines spilled, though.
The only cut to the US version of Y4 is a quest series that was a bunch of untranslatable kanji trivia or something like that. Everything else is intact. Sega learned their lesson after butchering Yakuza 3.
Quitch
4376
But you do similar things in other countries, the oddness is that they include it in shows and the like. It’d be like including “uh” every three words because people talk like that.
We don’t say “uh” intentionally as part of a cultural norm to indicate to the other party that we’re involved in the conversation. It’s more like including “thank you” and “you’re welcome” because people talk like that.
I’m playing Yakuza 3 right now and I think it’s fantastic. Personally I’d start with 3 and then go on to 4.
Quitch
4379
No, but “uh huh” is perfectly normal in conversation as a means to indicate attention.
True, but it is not really a ritual politeness. Of people of my acquaintance at least, it is used when you sense the person speaking either wonders whether you are listening or is beginning to disappear into his own thoughts and needs to be brought back to the real-world conversation.
It’s a distracting phenomenon to an English speaker even in those old monster movies where the scientist gives a press briefing. “We are sending our latest rocket (six journalists say “uh huh”) with the latest fuel (ah!) into space (I see) to confront the creature (yes, yes!).”
