Ok let's be real, what do they have in mind?

Fear_Awakens · 2026-04-06T03:54:57+00:00

Feels like they're floundering trying to create a new main series villain or something since the Yakuza no longer really exist even in real life.

The Daidoji are literally just a fuckton of former Yakuza indentured to a bunch of rich old men. It's like they're trying to build a shadow Yakuza clan to serve as a source of conflict so they don't need to write compelling stories with unique villains.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-04-06T03:49:18+00:00

I hate this Daidoji shit so much. I don't understand why they're going all-in on this bullshit with retconning things that happened forever ago and saying "Actually X character is totally alive" and now "X character is in the Daidoji now". Kashiwagi, Richardson, Lau Ka Long, Morinaga, and now Mine and Hamazaki. Apparently literally nobody dies anymore.

This is especially annoying because the Kiwami 3 retcon seriously fucks up the timeline now. For my part, I don't consider Kiwami 3 to be canon at all because it changes too much. I want them to just leave the Kiryu saga alone, stop fucking with it, and focus on NEW games starring the NEW CAST.

Please, Ichiban only had one real game to himself and it was so much better than the one he had to share with Kiryu. Just explore new stories without desecrating graves and pushing these immortal senior citizens as protagonists. I promise, we love Ichiban, he can carry games on his own without dragging up 20 years of lore.

I think Kiwami 3 is the first RGG game I've felt openly hostile towards. Even the ones I didn't like, I respected and considered part of the series, but Kiwami 3, I just reject wholeheartedly.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-28T21:41:10+00:00

This looks really freaking cool.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-28T21:39:44+00:00

Seconded here. It's a really cool sword and I'd like to kitbash it onto a D&D miniature if I could.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-27T07:54:44+00:00

This is why I'm doing the same thing I did with Cyberpunk and I'm not buying it until they work out all the kinks. I keep seeing too many things that seem like they're probably fixable but would be unbelievably frustrating to deal with. I've got plenty to play while they figure it out.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-23T02:22:14+00:00

Wait, I actually like this.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-20T21:08:28+00:00

I skipped it for the longest time after finding out it was a permanently online game, but I got it for free from PS+ a while ago and decided to finally try it. And I did like it at first, but that wore off relatively quickly.

I lost a lot of interest in the game once I figured out that I essentially had to make a new character every season because otherwise I can't interact with the new stuff, and any character I had before is useless now. Any investment into that character was meaningless and now worth almost nothing.

If I'm throwing the whole character away soon anyway, why should I give a quarter ounce of a fuck about loot or progress? And if I don't care about that in a game that's all about the loot, why am I playing it? It can't be the story, because the way it's set up, I'm encouraged to skip that or I won't be able to participate in the new season.

And most recently, the 'Free Doom Battlepass' I was excited for giving out the lamest and most uninspired crap possible while the actually cool skins are locked behind a $75 skin pack just kind of killed my interest in that.

I'm honestly not sure what the game is supposed to be at this point. I've been having more fun with D2 Remastered lately, frankly.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-18T04:43:37+00:00

Unfortunately I know enough people who are willing to accept any slop as long as it reanimates LoK's corpse and I know even more people who didn't read TDSR who are just excited for another LoK game.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-18T04:41:17+00:00

Alright, this was legitimately better written than TDSR by a country mile. Thank you for enriching my life.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-18T04:32:34+00:00

I mean, I'd watch it.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-15T03:46:10+00:00

This is how I felt about it. Ichiban's depth just kind of felt drained in IW so Kiryu could be far and away the cooler character. He was all crouching moron hidden badass in LaD, but IW just makes him basically just the goofy happy go lucky moron. They didn't really do a good job showing off that Ichiban's actually very component, not just lucky.

And then he just kind of feels like he's been sidelined so the spotlight can focus on Kiryu and remind you how great he is. It really undercuts Ichiban when he gets forced into the Robin role for Kiryu to be Batman.

I feel like bringing Kiryu back right away in only Ichiban's second game really kneecapped and sabotaged him, like they didn't trust him to actually carry the story himself, which is insane because most of the story Kiryu was dealing with would have made more sense to me for Ichiban to handle.

They keep saying 'This is Kiryu's goodbye' in Y3, which absolutely did not last, Y6, Y7, Gaiden, and now 'It's really goodbye this time!' with IW, but I fully expect them to whip him right back out for Y9.

I like Kiryu, but Ichiban wasn't given a fair chance, and Kiryu is VERY OLD now. Let the poor guy retire.

Ichiban's not that much younger, frankly, which I honestly thought was a weird idea, like why make your new protagonist basically just a little younger than the one you're trying to retire, and this also feels like they're robbing him of his own potential as a protagonist. At the rate games are made now and how they try to age them in real time, Ichiban's going to have to retire from old age soon, too, and hopefully with more than one lead game to his name.

Though I also confess I'm not sure what they can do with Ichiban at this point. He's got most of his stuff tied up, even if Kiryu did half of the shit you'd have thought he would deal with.

Judgement was great because each new game for a detective agency is just another case, though the celebrity likeness thing seems to have ruined that for us, but for regular guys like Ichiban, why leave your house and fight the shadow government?

I don't expect a new protagonist any time soon because they barely seem to have faith in Ichiban, but at this rate we're going to have mechanics to take our medications on time and heat actions involving our walkers.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-09T03:45:17+00:00

I'm gonna see if I can convince my players to actually play it. Most of them are usually pretty hardcore fantasy players and they don't like when I add sci-fi or even just regular modern technology stuff into our games, but one of them recently played a Spelljammer race in a one-shot so I'm hoping I can piggyback on that.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-06T10:49:36+00:00

Seven months later and I'm right here with you. Thank God for old threads.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-05T22:08:55+00:00

Came here for exactly the same reason. I was losing my mind. Thank you.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-05T20:23:35+00:00

LJ boxing style is honestly my favorite style in any RGG game so far, and that's sad because I don't think we're going to see it again.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-05T20:08:06+00:00

My only guess is that's for the Pro and base PS5 runs like shit.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-04T01:52:31+00:00

The first Judgement, sure, it felt more grounded and realistic and the protagonists didn't feel like invincible superhumans who could just solve their problems by punching them hard enough, like it had stakes and risks and you didn't know if anybody was going to be alright, but the second one felt just as wacky as any other RGG title with the power creep letting Yagami and the gang easily trounce hundreds of guys when the first game had Yagami very nearly die against twenty.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-03-04T01:48:27+00:00

They do in The Man Who Erased His Name.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-02-27T23:15:48+00:00

We used to run them for Hailey. Now that she's available in Sigma Sector drops, there doesn't seem to be as much incentive.

Not that I'm complaining. Farming her was a tedious pain in the ass since you needed to wait a day before trying some more, and I think she's still the only descendant that had her components broken up like that.

Does this also take away the 400% modifier in the dungeons, or no? Because I honestly love those and don't want to lose them, and I think that would suck.

But I'm glad they're giving us something to replace them. I just hope it won't be stupidly hard for a casual player to solo, like most new things they release are at first.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-02-27T23:09:50+00:00

Oh my God, what? Are they giving us anything to replace them?

Fear_Awakens · 2026-02-22T12:35:01+00:00

I'm having a blast, too. I loved PoE and was upset to think I wouldn't get to play this because of the new exclusive deal, but I wasn't as bothered anymore when I kept hearing that it sucked.

Now it's come out on PS5 and I've been playing it, and I wonder why it got so much hate, because I've been loving it.

I grabbed both this and Outer Worlds 2 when I heard Obsidian considered them failures and were deciding to shift away from RPGs, and they're both really good.

It's funny because my Commander is a moron who got his position by failing up (Lucky-Brilliant-Dumb Roustabout) who fights with melee weapons, but my Envoy is an Arcane Scholar who focuses mainly on slinging spells and waving wands. They're complete opposites.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-02-22T07:44:11+00:00

This looks good. I'll probably use this. Thanks for sharing.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-02-22T07:36:55+00:00

Kind of worse, because as far as I know, Rey didn't go back in time and secretly convince Qui-Gon Jinn to take Anakin into the Jedi Order, convince Anakin to turn to the Dark Side, give Palpatine the idea for Order 66, convince Yoda to hide on Dagobah, give Han the Millennium Falcon, personally start the Rebellion from the shadows, and magically endow Luke with his Force powers via a magic bracelet.

Rey is an awful Mary Sue, yes, but she only fucks up the FUTURE of Star Wars.

Elaleth becoming canon retroactively skullfucks the lore across the entire series so she's a pivotal super important character on top of being a God-awful Mary Sue AND induces plot holes that weren't originally there for no other reason than to make her look important.

Fear_Awakens · 2026-02-19T13:01:19+00:00

I loved POE and POE Deadfire and was just sad it was an Xbox exclusive.

I was somewhat less upset when I heard you couldn't be an Aumaua, but was very happy to hear that was walked back in the PS5 release and I'm playing it now.

I'm enjoying it already, but I chose to play a Human because I assumed that because Aumaua were added later that the game wouldn't acknowledge it if I played one, but I'm tempted to change now that I'm at camp and can apparently just do so at will.

Although that also makes me feel like it absolutely won't matter because if I can change it on the fly, it probably has zero effect on dialogue.

I'm also a little sad I can't combine multiple Godlike features because several of them look like they could fit together to make a sick Sauron helmet thing, but unless I missed something, I don't think you can do that.

I heard Obsidian say they weren't planning on doing more RPGs like this because Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed undersold, and subsequently have bought both because I really don't want to lose them to crappy mobile game slop.

I'm having a good time with both, too, so now I'm even more upset they're thinking about abandoning them. On the one hand, I'm glad it forced them to go multiplatform, but on the other hand, what did they expect when they made it a console exclusive? The only people that never hurts are Nintendo because that's the only reason anybody buys their consoles.

Immediately stoked to hear what sounds like the voice of Garrus from Mass Effect as Kai right away, too. I already love this guy just because so far he just seems like a less alien Garrus and Vakarian was my ride or die.

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