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Picked up the collectors edition of this today,

I really enjoyed Y3, and this one it looks like i'll be enjoying as well, as it's the closest thing to Shenmue 3 as we'll ever see.

The graphics alot of people criticise but i think they're good, the city is very bussling and realistic, and the npcs aren't often repeated.

Also as some of you may know alot was cut from the western release of Y3, but this one is uncut, apart from the japanese history quiz, and the opening song, which isn't important to me anyway.

The fighting seems to be more brutal than Y3, with the models exhibiting damage and blood as the fight progresses..

If you enjoyed Y3, you'll love Y4, and if you havent played any of them i really suggest to give it a EB 7 day rental, as you might be surprised, there's alot more to do than fighting in it as well, with a huge assortment of mini games and side quests.
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About 30 hours into the game, up to the final chapter. Just doing the side missions with the various characters, some of the side missions are so good I'm not in a rush to finish the game. Not that the story isn't good, it's sensational. It is a bit slow to start with but the more you play the game with the different characters, the more the jigsaw starts to fill up. It's a bit like Pulp Fiction I guess, seeing the story through different characters happening in the same time throughout the story.

My favourite character is the dodgy cop, Tanimuara. He can parry enemies and has heaps of awesome throws. Instead of just random fights, you can choose your fights by seeing incidents occuring on the police scanner.

Kiryu is an awesome character, but I've been brawling my way through wholeYyakuza series and his fighting moves are pretty much the same. Akiyama, the Loan Shark is a pretty chilled, smooth character. His kicks are awesome, frantically fast, but I find him not quite powerful enough. One the other hand the escaped prisoner Seijama is just a brute and he gets a bit dull fight wise.

The hostess bars are pretty good actually, I'm glad they left them in this realese. It's not too hard to get the hostesses to like you and its a better side mission/task than I thought.

One of the other good parts of Yakuza 4 is that there are some rooftops and underground levels to explore. It's not quite like GTA but there is more exploring to do. Random fights are great, they don't get too old for me because which each different weapon there are different Heat moves. Plus you can be Macgyver like and collect different resources from fights and lockers (from which you've opened by finding the key lockers throughout the Kamoroucho) and then combine them with the Weapons Dealer to make different weapons.

I'm really enjoying this game, the first few hours I was slightly underwhelmed but when you see the characters you use bumping into each other through out the story more and more, it makes the story that much more engaging.

Like DJ said it's definitely worth an EB Rental.
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Discovered today why there are no steel book editions in NZ, they are exclusive to GAME only so ended up paying full price of $110 for the white book edition (there is a black edition available as well). Looks nice though and will look nice on my shelf of ps3 exclusives. First retail game I've bought since pre Xmas.
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I grabbed the White one today and I got a free copy of Yakuza 3. Not bad for a bonus. :up:
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Ehhhh, you get it from Game too? Wonder why I never got a free Y3.
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jb hifi.
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Fuck I might go pick this up, get a free copy of Yakuza 3 and offload my current copy of Yakuza 3.
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No I won't be doing that. $54 from Play-Asia and I keep my copy of Yakuza 3. JB won't be getting $110 from me.
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Weird, the JB Hifi's I went into didn't have the tin edition and on collectorsedition.com they claim it's exclusive to GAME anyway. liars!
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from what Ive seen, jb hifi have the white edn, and yak3 is their bonus but maybe its clearing out old stock for the publisher. EB have the kuro (black) edition steelbook which seems to have the same content but no y3 to my knowledge.

If you really want a white one and its not too late, maybe we can do a deal for mk9? :)

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They only had the white at GAME which is what I got, but my Y3 was a promo copy in one of those shitty single cd cases that I got last year for review.
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Pat wrote:from what Ive seen, jb hifi have the white edn, and yak3 is their bonus but maybe its clearing out old stock for the publisher. EB have the kuro (black) edition steelbook which seems to have the same content but no y3 to my knowledge.

If you really want a white one and its not too late, maybe we can do a deal for mk9? :)

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Yeah i saw white steelbooks at my local jb too, and with each purchase you'd get yakuza 3, but i got my white steelbook from GAME and did it on the 28 buck when you trade a game in deal, so traded home front back in, and added 28 and got it.. happy with that cos homefront couldnt be 7 dayd cos of the online codes..

The Virtua Fighter and Aladdin Pachinko machines are the most insane things ive ever seen, i tried to play it without reading the instructions and i was like wtf is going on? this is crazy!! and even with the instructions it was still a little confusing also.. i want to try learn that wierd chess game and majong lol.. there's supposedly a casino but i havent found that yet, i'm still on my first character as i want to finish up DA2 before i continue on with yakuza..
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Upto the second character now and this game continues to impress me, people knock the graphics but i think they're great, you can just sit and watch people walk by in fp mode.. and its interesting..

does anyone know where the casino is? do you need to do a specific mission to go there, cos as yet i cant find it..

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Bumping the old thread since I've been playing this hard out over the last couple of weeks. My ocd still takes over and I'm currently right at the end with all four characters so trying to do all their sub missions while trying to level them each up to 20. When I need health I'm trying to buy all the food at all the restaurants. Sometimes I wish my ocd wasn't in control so I could just finish it and move onto #5.

Oh, and reading these old posts reminds me of the days when we had more active users. I blame GH & Jasper. :(
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I loved Y4, it kinda got melodramatic at times, but I still had a damn good time overall.

Fav character still remain to be Saejima, the guy is brutal as heck.
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t0mby wrote:Bumping the old thread since I've been playing this hard out over the last couple of weeks. My ocd still takes over and I'm currently right at the end with all four characters so trying to do all their sub missions while trying to level them each up to 20. When I need health I'm trying to buy all the food at all the restaurants. Sometimes I wish my ocd wasn't in control so I could just finish it and move onto #5.

Oh, and reading these old posts reminds me of the days when we had more active users. I blame GH & Jasper. :(
I think if you are rushing through a game just to get to the end you have missed out on the point of playing something imo.
To me when you play a game and play it because it is fun you should be allowed to take as long as needed. This whole culture of having to get to the end quickly just so you can say " I completed it " is slowly going away and people are regressing back to the 80s when you didn't know how long a game was until you yourself actually beat it and you had enough fun playing it that every thing you did was a fresh experience. When guidebooks started coming out and previews blowing apart all the details of what is inside a game was when they got less mysterious and people felt a need to rush through them before others would spoil the game for them by talking too much about what was in it.

This is true for me with games like Breath of the Wild where I enjoy the simple things like just seeing what happens when I do different things to different enemies and at different times under different states.

Notice how there is a healthy thirst for indie games that use procedural generation a lot now?
That is an indication that people like the gameplay of the game, but do not want to be spoiled by being told where everything is, how tough an enemy is before they get to fight it, and can not rely on rote memorisation of paterns (ie the sim aspect of games is getting more attention again) so they can cheat against the computer by exploiting the limits of the AI too much.

The lack of active posters could be interpreted as a good thing because it means more people are playing games as solo activity not as a social activity. (like in the old days when you didn't have GameFAQs and it was just you alone at midnight trying to solve a puzzle and use your own skill and brains to beat things without achievmeents or other stuff to brag to others about but just because you felt a need to prove you could do it. We have gotten weak and entitled these days. And people just buy games for the multiplayer and just to show off to others and this has made them too narcisstic. They can't for example play a game and just have fun playing it. They have to make it an ESports thing. Boring. Nobody plays for the ESports thing. That is just for the insecure guy who wants attention. The games have to be fun for me to want to buy it, not because I want to get achievement points. But in no way am I against the achievement point thing, I fully support this but if a game is just fun and isn't about that, then it's a sign of a great game. It's good that less people come here because they are weak. When yo uare weak you seek validation from other weak people rather than truth.

Why do we have to hype the shit out of everything? Can't poeple just play it in silence? You can talk about it in a stream while you are playing now. And make money on youtube just having fun. Why come to a forum to type text onto the screen when you could have spectators watching you? We have to get used to the changing times and the attitudes of people today.

If you want this place to not die you need to adapt to changes in the way people consume entertainment. (eg why haven't you guys put up a playnow//official dreamcast website forums/games-ranch youtube account to advertise online games you play to invite new people into the community? Because you are old fashioned and think it is the mid-90s still. If you want to earn money, you need to do the work of attracting people to form a community, then you sell them the GamesRanch t-shirt and then lestat can pay for the server cost instead of hiring illegal indian guys and muslims to slave away in sweat shop condition to generate his income. I was thinking of starting a He-men thread to get fans of old cartoons to come here but nobody remembers him anymore. I will have to put up ads on community bulletin boards to get people to come here but the chances of them posting is hard because people will think its a PC gamers forum due to how many PC gamers have infested the place. This is not a forum about PC. It's console games forum and we won't be censored by the mods who are jealous of the number of great console titles people are playing that they don't have time to even post about them due to being too busy playing them. (sharing too much info is also dangerous as we live in the age of doxxing people where they will find out who you are based on what games you hate)
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I did take my time, 6 years in fact. :lol:

In all seriousness I think my finish game save was about 70-80hrs and I did some of the Premium Free Roam to do more side quests and things.

Even Yakuza 5 I've only just reached Saejimas escape and wild bear fight and I've clocked up about 35hrs. Isn't there 5 characters this time? If so it'll probably take about 90hrs at this rate so I'm not exactly rushing through it either.
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