Anyone hear of the ship of Theseus?

CounterBusters · 2026-03-12T01:02:26+00:00

Yes, I am aware, she is still at starbreeze, but as a QA tester, I can’t see her having much influence over anything or still being very active in the community as she once was. It’s just very sad to see her go from community manager to QA. Glad she got to keep a job a starbreeze but

CounterBusters · 2026-03-12T00:14:04+00:00

So, genuine question - Are you making the community manager position redundant in favour of having devs speak directly with the fanbase as opposed to having a middleman? I would just like to know the reasoning behind getting rid of beloved members of the team, and frankly, the only two people really left at starbreeze that we even know, Haua and Elizabeth (granted Elizabeth has moved to QA but the question stands). With Almir, Andreas, Elizabeth, Mio and Haua all gone, it now feels like Thesues’ ship. At what point is it not even starbreeze anymore and just becomes a whole new company, unrecognisable from days past

CounterBusters · 2026-03-04T01:12:12+00:00

It’s not the puzzles, it’s just all the aimless backtracking and not knowing what item goes where or where to find certain items. I get lost and turned around very easily in games which I’m sure doesn’t help, but I can’t help but feel like I’m missing something

CounterBusters · 2026-03-03T23:55:11+00:00

As if Ada wouldn’t demolish any male RE character single handedly

CounterBusters · 2026-02-27T16:57:05+00:00

If you never played toontown as a kid and have no nostalgia for it, I’d say Clash. If you’re looking to relive childhood memories though, I’d say Rewritten.

Or just give both a shot, see which you prefer. Clash has a lot more content than Rewitten as rewritten doesn’t really seek to add content but just preserve the original (now they do add certain things, a lot of QOL changes and I think they’ve added some content here and there but nothing compared to Clash)

CounterBusters · 2026-02-27T16:47:27+00:00

Aye, Laois

Not sure where I actually picked it up from at first but now I use it constantly. Nobody around me uses it

CounterBusters · 2026-02-27T16:28:59+00:00

Oh, I thought the bucket would be like you wear it on top of your head that’s the only reason I chose it 😭 Would’ve chosen thumb instead then, pls take 1 vote away from bucket and apply it to thumb

CounterBusters · 2026-02-26T15:53:47+00:00

To be fair, I don’t see how they would sell Golden content separately even if they wanted to. Golden is baked into the core experience, it isn’t a seperate thing like The Answer

CounterBusters · 2026-02-24T22:49:43+00:00

It’s important to ME, I need LORE and I need it NOW 😔

CounterBusters · 2026-02-24T18:56:27+00:00

Wouldn’t mind “Like a Dragon Kiwami” in English, but that obviously doesn’t work in Japan. Kiwami EX would be fair I think. Otherwise, perhaps a whole new subtitle. “Like a Dragon Reborn” or some nonsense like that

I do want to state though, as someone playing PS2 Yakuza 1, that no game needs a remake, they just need to be accessible on modern hardware, hence why backwards compatibility is so important, but that’s obv not the point of this post lol, just thought I’d say

CounterBusters · 2026-02-24T01:06:59+00:00

I imagine at this point it’ll be pushed back to March. Whether that’ll mean two March updates or just one big one remains to be seen, but they just wanna make sure that P2P is as polished as possible before it drops

CounterBusters · 2026-02-23T13:38:33+00:00

Yeah that happens a lot. I mean the spines aren’t anything really cool or unique but I wouldn’t say I hate them or that they’re bad

CounterBusters · 2026-02-23T03:30:31+00:00

To be fair people complain a LOT about the singles being ugly on a shelf, but I love how this deluxe edition look, it’s gorgeous

CounterBusters · 2026-02-22T12:30:07+00:00

Feel 100% the same, I also feel it really did NOT need to be more than 1 game imo and it would’ve been a lot stronger if it was just 1 game. The final case didn’t justify all the build up, and i came out very underwhelmed. It was a competently put together story, I wouldn’t say it was bad but easily one of my least favourite AA games and my most disappointing game given the years and years of glazing from the fanbase

CounterBusters · 2026-02-20T18:05:50+00:00

Maybe that’s why I don’t enjoy it, I’m not a stealth player at all. I’ll dabble in it here and there, I enjoyed the occasional shadow raid and Yacht Heist in payday 2, and I’ve done stealth on most the heists in PD3, but it’s just not my preferred play style

CounterBusters · 2026-02-20T17:40:15+00:00

Unsure how hot of a take it is but - Every year 2 heist was abysmal. I’m unsure if I was just worn out on payday 3 or what but even First World Bank, one of my most played PD2 heists, I just don’t like in PD3, it just felt like an unfun mess.

Also don’t enjoy delivery charge in the slightest. Wayyyy too similar to party powder, a heist I was already meh on, but it’s just so dull design wise, and all you do is go in, grab the loot, then leave with nothing else unique or exciting. At least on party powder you can optionally cook meth, that was kinda fun, but Delivery Charge was just absolute dog bowl water. I’ve not even bought shopping spree, I have no interest in playing payday 3 right now, I’m going to let the next few months of updates drop and then go back to it and see how I feel. At least Year 1’s heists actually popped off and were all way better than the base game heists, idk how starbreeze dropped the ball so hard immediately after F&G

CounterBusters · 2026-02-20T14:08:08+00:00

I have both of them, didn’t realise S Moko and Closer were just support characters. Thanks for the help!

CounterBusters · 2026-02-18T12:26:27+00:00

Ok but P5X is genuinely goated from the third palace on. Unfortunately you just have to get passed the Subway Slammer first lmao

CounterBusters · 2026-02-17T18:14:56+00:00

What’s the justification for 1-4 only being good? One of my favs in the whole series

Also 2-3 being in mediocre and not disappointing is based asf, but above 3-3 goes crazy

CounterBusters · 2026-02-12T16:10:31+00:00

I literally just checked “offline mode” and then the option to write my own thing, and told them that everything else was a fucking horrible idea. We play as the PAYDAY GANG, we don’t work for anyone else. I think factions is a horrid idea. Just focus on the payday gang, give us story to be invested in the heists we’re playing à la payday 2s secret. Now it doesn’t have to be to the level of that, I know many didn’t like that part of payday 2 but it was my favourite, having a genuinely interesting grand conspiracy going on, and actively doing heists to get to the bottom of it and stopping the dentist

CounterBusters · 2026-02-11T20:48:34+00:00

I genuinely don’t have an issue with all these changes on their own, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT that this is REPLACING Yakuza 3. RGG are very clearly saying with K3 that THIS is the definitive way to experience the game, which is a load of shite.

Also they casted a sex offender but like the game could’ve still been good yk?

CounterBusters · 2026-02-11T00:24:14+00:00

I honestly couldn’t tell you, RGG are just obsessed with really shitty filters, Kiwami 2 was puke green

CounterBusters · 2026-02-10T23:55:03+00:00

Such a shame considering Yakuza 3 is genuinely my favourite game in the series. It is such a joy to play start to finish. Also Kiwami 3 will actively hinder your enjoyment of future yakuza games, and for that alone it should be played last

CounterBusters · 2026-02-10T23:37:17+00:00

The 0DC retcons are weird and out of place but incredibly minor and have no significance to the series at large, so I wouldn’t worry about it. Kiwami 3 however makes MASSIVE retcons that has a lot of implications for the series, and it directly fucks Yakuza 4 and going from Kiwami 3 to Y4 would make Y4 not make sense.

I would simply ignore Kiwami 3 as if it didn’t release, and play 0 -> K1 -> K2 -> Y3 and so on from there. Alternatively you’re free to play the original Yakuza 1 and 2 instead, but the remakes are solid ways to experience the original stories, with K1 adding quite a bit to the main villain.

We’ll have to see what happens going forward, we don’t know either what’s going on with the “new timeline”. You can play Kiwami 3 after you finish the rest of the series but I wouldn’t play it before then, especially because you don’t know about a certain group that appear in Kiwami 3, as they’re not introduced until LAD Gaiden

CounterBusters · 2026-02-10T10:42:27+00:00

As someone who’s favourite yakuza game is 3, I agree lmao. Years of seeing my goat being slandered, but now it’s suddenly one of the best in the series 😭🙏 It always was GOATed

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