All things Yakuza/Like a Dragon! - new games announced

[Blue Screen Error]

Nagoshi said on his blog that the game had sold 300,000 units by Saturday night. The estimate is that it maybe did 340,000 for the week.

372,000 it seems

http://kotaku.com/5164606/ryu-ga-gotoku-3-...s-372000-copies

[Rudderless]

Where did everyone import from, out of interest? I'm sorely tempted, but I've been stung so often with import charges recently, and Play-Asia won't send PS3 games to the UK.

[mushashi]

Where did everyone import from, out of interest? I'm sorely tempted, but I've been stung so often with import charges recently, and Play-Asia won't send PS3 games to the UK.

Hasn't the threshold been raised to £105 now? all games should be import-duty free as a result. I shall wait to see the situation on localisation before having to resort to importing, without the story, it is a lesser game. Memories of trying to play my JPN Shenmue (despite having already completed it in English) still gives me nightmares

[Uzi]

Hasn't the threshold been raised to £105 now?

Nope- well at least there was a catch somewhere which meant it doesn't really work. I forgot what it was.

[Kevvy Metal]

This is THE reason to own a PS3 for me at the mo. I LOVE the first two and... IF the Jap version had english subs I would pay through the nose to get this game.

But...I just don't want to play it in Japanese.

Jap audio track FTW..but english subs are a necessity for me.

Damn fucking shame.

[mushashi]

Puppetmaster on NeoGAF posted a picture of the LE Nobori Ryu PS3, looks decent in a real photo for a LE console for once

[Uzi]

Looks lovely.

Btw, I looked on the first page of this thread. All the pics are from a 16th century setting. The demo was obviously modern times. Does the game contain more than one era?

Also I bought Yakuza 1 for 4 pounds delivered and looking forward to it, where is the cheapest place to buy the second if anyone knows?

[hanzo]

Looks lovely.

Btw, I looked on the first page of this thread. All the pics are from a 16th century setting. The demo was obviously modern times. Does the game contain more than one era?

Same series, different game - Kenzan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%AB_ga_Gotoku_Kenzan!

[mushashi]

Play have it in stock for £13, which is pretty much the going rate online (but all the other sites list it as a special order only).

RE: customs, crafty bast*rds, import duty limit is raised but Import VAT and Excise duties still remain at £18

[Taurus]

Where did everyone import from, out of interest? I'm sorely tempted, but I've been stung so often with import charges recently, and Play-Asia won't send PS3 games to the UK.

I bought it off amazon.co.jp and got my mother-in-law to send it over. Oh, and I think it needs a fair understanding of Japanese - there's quite a lot of dialogue and text and so on. It's not very import friendly in terms of English-language menus etc.

[Uzi]

Play have it in stock for £13, which is pretty much the going rate online (but all the other sites list it as a special order only).

RE: customs, crafty bast*rds, import duty limit is raised but Import VAT and Excise duties still remain at £18

Thanks, it's out of stock there but lets you order so hopefully it'll come back in soon.

[Rudderless]

I bought it off amazon.co.jp and got my mother-in-law to send it over. Oh, and I think it needs a fair understanding of Japanese - there's quite a lot of dialogue and text and so on. It's not very import friendly in terms of English-language menus etc.

So it's not one you can really muddle through at all? Bugger.

[Taurus]

Not really, I would say. I mean, you can get the gist of the story but you won't really know what's going on. And as in a lot of RPGs a lot of the dialogue can safely be skipped through but sometimes you'll need a bit to work out what to do next. I'm sure there'll be some sort of translation guide soon if there isn't already, but it would be fairly hard work, I'd say.

[Rudderless]

Not really, I would say. I mean, you can get the gist of the story but you won't really know what's going on. And as in a lot of RPGs a lot of the dialogue can safely be skipped through but sometimes you'll need a bit to work out what to do next. I'm sure there'll be some sort of translation guide soon if there isn't already, but it would be fairly hard work, I'd say.

Well, I love the series so much that I think I might just go through it with a translation guide, as I really don't think we've got a cat in hell's chance of getting a localisation. I'll hold off for now, anyway - got too much other stuff to play at the moment.

[Sketch]

Kenzan (the 16th Century Yakuza on PS3) seemed designed almost with the importer in mind (or people new to games). Every battle technique has a tutorial with pictorial instructions for the buttons, and every task to complete the main quest has icons shown on your map - so if all else fails you can run from point to point, grind a little bit to build up your stats, and buy any weapons/armour that increase stats (blue for an increase).

The GFAQs guide for it is amazing (the guy includes a lot of actual Japanese history and trivia, which is a joy to read), but even without it, this is probably the most import friendly non-action game I've played.

It's also been released as a "The Best" version, so it's super cheap online.

I say everyone who hasn't, should get it to tide themselves over until Yakuza 3 comes out in English.

[Kinketsu]

The first extra content pack was released earlier. The game should dl it automatically. Welcome to the Yakuza cult Uzi, by the way!

[Sketch]

Online petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/Rggk2009/petition.html

These things seldom work, but what does it hurt?

[Rudderless]

Kenzan (the 16th Century Yakuza on PS3) seemed designed almost with the importer in mind (or people new to games). Every battle technique has a tutorial with pictorial instructions for the buttons, and every task to complete the main quest has icons shown on your map - so if all else fails you can run from point to point, grind a little bit to build up your stats, and buy any weapons/armour that increase stats (blue for an increase).

The GFAQs guide for it is amazing (the guy includes a lot of actual Japanese history and trivia, which is a joy to read), but even without it, this is probably the most import friendly non-action game I've played.

It's also been released as a "The Best" version, so it's super cheap online.

I say everyone who hasn't, should get it to tide themselves over until Yakuza 3 comes out in English.

Thanks, fella. Might just do that.

[BacklashCop]

Kenzan (the 16th Century Yakuza on PS3) seemed designed almost with the importer in mind (or people new to games). Every battle technique has a tutorial with pictorial instructions for the buttons, and every task to complete the main quest has icons shown on your map - so if all else fails you can run from point to point, grind a little bit to build up your stats, and buy any weapons/armour that increase stats (blue for an increase).

The GFAQs guide for it is amazing (the guy includes a lot of actual Japanese history and trivia, which is a joy to read), but even without it, this is probably the most import friendly non-action game I've played.

It's also been released as a "The Best" version, so it's super cheap online.

I say everyone who hasn't, should get it to tide themselves over until Yakuza 3 comes out in English.

Anyone know where I can order an asian or japanese version that's not "The Best"?

Obviously, Play-Asia don't ship to the UK..

[mushashi]

Anyone know where I can order an asian or japanese version that's not "The Best"?

Obviously, Play-Asia don't ship to the UK..

It's going to cost full wack, but this place stocks the Asian release of it and ships worldwide:

http://www.renchi.com/renchi/PS3_Games_Asi...u_Kenzan_AS.htm

or Yesasia have the JPN release:

http://www.yesasia.com/global/ryu-ga-gotok...-0-en/info.html

[Kinketsu]

Came back from Japan with it yesteday and have been very pleased with it so far. I prefer the established brawling combat over that in Kenzan, never really liked it in that one and it is one of the main draws for me in these games. However, this one must have the slowest start of any of the titles so far, being 4 chapters in and still basically doing things for the kids at the orphanage and so on. Kenzan also had a few slow early chapters that were mostly just cutscene watching, this is a bit more interactive but also feels like its more pointless. However things seem to be heating up again now. Generally gameplay, heat animations etc are as good as ever. As you could tell from the demo, it probably wont change any minds for those who don't like the series, but those of us who do will love it.

[Sketch]

I'm assuming you've all been signing the petition?

[Kinketsu]

Nah

[Mr. Gerbik]

Generally gameplay, heat animations etc are as good as ever. As you could tell from the demo, it probably wont change any minds for those who don't like the series, but those of us who do will love it.

Good enough for me. Damn you Sega, I NEED an English version NOW.

[mushashi]

I'm assuming you've all been signing the petition?

Unfortunately I think the amount of Americans buying the previous entries might have more weight than that in terms of deciding whether they decide to waste money localising it, especially if SCEA have their stupid 'must have Dub' rule in place for current PS3 releases. Looks like importing it is going to be the only realistic way to experience this game ever, even if it means missing out on most of the story element.

[Sketch]

Don't most people hate dubs though?

That really pisses me off, especially since it's set in Japan - Japanese voices are natural. Christ, what a bunch of dumb fucks the American divisions can be sometimes. It's like when they didn't want to release SOTN because it was in 2D.

Seriously, who hires the gormless idiots who make these decisions. Who?!

[Meh]

They want money. More people will buy a product if it's dubbed. People are idiots and don't like to read subtitles.

[Kinketsu]

Dubbed or subbed, I think Sega would be more worried about the fact that nobody in the West buys these games like Musashi said. And as Meh said, most people don't hate dubs, general audience people who buy lots of games I mean, and even though the first game was dubbed, they still didn't buy it. The second was subbed and they didn't buy that either. And realistically, if RGG3 game out in the West, dubbed, subbed or with sign language it would still probably sell around the same.

Which is a shame, because it's great fun!

EDIT : Remember to save properly though, I just lost about three hours progress through being a daft melon. And it was three particularly dull hours of finding a ball for a dog, etc. (Yeah plenty of flashbacks to the first game in this..)

[womblingfree]

realistically, if RGG3 game out in the West, dubbed, subbed or with sign language it would still probably sell around the same.

Not if they marketed it properly. There are enough blokes that love samurai swords, gangsters and yakuza stuff enough to sell a shit-load. Trouble is they have no idea this game series exists. Market it like Kill Bill meets GTA and it'll sell a million easy.

[Uzi]

Not if they marketed it properly. There are enough blokes that love samurai swords, gangsters and yakuza stuff enough to sell a shit-load. Trouble is they have no idea this game series exists. Market it like Kill Bill meets GTA and it'll sell a million easy.

Potential won't help, it's business. They'll just look at the western sales of the last two and say "fuck that"- Y2 having 30k or so LTD sales in the US- too bad a number too ignore

I fucking hope they do it anyway