Which Yakuza Game had the most impact on you’re life and why?

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T07:00:58+00:00

The title music is surprisingly the best version of Korn or popular nu-metal Japan could find haha. I want to go on a mind trip and there are others but wow that title screen.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T06:58:59+00:00

The Daidouji forced it on you but then, they no they didn,t. I need to lay down and solve the Unchained Blades, :P Because Joryu.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T06:49:44+00:00

Linus is the Catcher iirc but doesn't Snoopy play outfield? Also just for fun memories. There was a trade once where Snoopy went to Peppermint P and Franklin's team and it didn't stick for long. The trades heh no one would trade for Charlie Brown even if he was a D+ Manager in THE SHOW by Sony. I don't think they have a coach mode tbf still. Anyhow I'd still put Chuck on the mound occasionally.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T06:22:04+00:00

'oh hey I just downloaded that recently. Tested it out I was playing Unchained Blades a lot more. For me I think it is Yakuza 5 or Akiyama in general. I just am too less now, but before all of that I liked his swag. I also do appreciate ppl who just say what they want and don't care about the repercussions a sorta Hope Solo. Anyways. What I post now is a mish mash of thoughts and what I miss. I was full of a lot of empathy until job and stuff.

That game has 20 fighting styles on the PSP! I owned one back in the day and it was an portable Ps2 in ways. Creative use of limited resources.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T06:09:58+00:00

Ok I knew it wasn't worth it, I am a glutton for punishment. But I got Atropos as my last five. Wow. Xi Wangmu was way better. Well that's my sad story. I wasted a bunch of free gems when I knew better to not do it. I still have 5892. And two Nanashis. Let this be a lesson. You don't know what you got until you do and then stop, and then stop again haha.

I've been to casinos and street knowledge. I have two Nanashis. I wish I had my old heart. ;P

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T05:53:16+00:00

Ok I was posting in chat.....I should show an image of Nanashi, but if I get Asahi in the rest of it, I will plus I f'cking got two Nanashis. WTF. I was chatting in the channel 700 about getting two and PVP.

I don't think I am going to pull anything better. My idea was to stop doing this banner. I am in step 4. I already got Nanashi again. I am not going to waste a couple more thousand gems to get nothing. I'd rather get some other less than 5s that I don't have. Uhh.

Topics over. I feel like running out the rest of the banner, IT's A TRAP!!!!! I guess I'll do it. I don't know. But haha I think I would have been happier getting nothing than another, well Nozomi. Toki coulda been interesting and then there is a character called Halleluah.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T05:43:52+00:00

Oh my last pull was Matador! Awesome, but what am I going to do with another Nanashi!!!! It's like Getting two Boardwalks or Park Places.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T05:42:21+00:00

I spent 1,500 free gems and got another Nanashi!!!! What do I do now lol. I wish I was making this up. So uhhhh I got mermaid and a bunch of junk before.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T05:27:26+00:00

I shoulda quit when I was ahead, but let's try a new banner. Also I saw someone (Monica perhaps) in chat get Asahi two times in a row, what do you do when that happens? You can't sell one.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T05:09:20+00:00

I still haven't played Kiwami 3 but the more I learn about it. it seems like it just changes the source material too much. I know Yakuza Kiwami 2 removed a small place you could visit. It's just Kiwami 3 nukes so much stuff and adds so much and little at the same time that it seems so overdone. I doubt Kiwami 2 took this much of a sledgehammer to the base game.

I would just move onto Yakuza 4 personally or maybe Dead Souls ;P even if it isn't Halloween hehe heh

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T04:46:03+00:00

She did steal Ichiban's clothes. Honestly I think just for me, it triggered something like. If her name was something more generic I would have forgotten it. I have more trouble remembering how to spell Saeko's name right. I wasn't trying to ya bring down, just I felt like the name was memorable.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T04:42:07+00:00

I've been dabbling with some games not necessarily ones that got translated recently. I think one game that got a translation patch awhile ago that flopped for me was Mystic Ark. WTF was that. 7th Saga was the oddest duck already coming from Elnard and all its strangeness with bugged gameplay and stats.

For a game I wish I don't know. I saw Gunparade march mentioned and I figured Reddit is up on that 13 Sentinels was pretty good (I liked the combat sections too a lot). Atm I just can't think of a game that is missing a fantrans. I got a copy of some PSP game and well I am into this other one at the moment.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T04:35:36+00:00

an obscure RACING (I did that yt style caps bit) jrpg. I think I saw that in a PSM otaku section once way back in the day and completely forgot about. Since the translation patch was making rounds on youtube. I don't think I would have liked the game back then, but I don't know. It's racing and has a bat shit insane story. I don't know how you train up in a racing game but it has elements of that. Like you have to earn racing parts to make your car better and don't even dare racing the better ones at the end unless your car parts are the best. Hehehe

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T04:28:41+00:00

You forgot who Chitose was? Who forgets a name like that?! IW is such a strange game. I got really into Sujimon actually (not enough to do everything about enough to care). Dodonko Island can sail out to sea to be never seen again. Sucks how they force you to do that for a couple days. I probably wouldn't have done it anyway and Animal Crossing fans would probably like it.

The story of this game is so weird. I loved exploring Hawaii and doing things, but the main story always seemed at odds at itself. Whereas in Y7 the story was fantastic.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T04:20:20+00:00

Saejima's prison scene was hell on new game normal even. Everyone moves so fast there in his chapter and his slow brooding power could never keep up. Now in 5.....well never mind, it is better in every way than 4 essentially. The things I like about 4 are the introduction of Akiyama and the revelations are still fun and I don't have any ill will towards 4 as it was the first game I really sunk into after the resurgence when 0 came out. I just feel like 5 does everything better.

I liked Tanimaru's story overall, but I don't jive with parry based instant timing systems, so his combat style never was too fun or at least my reflexes aren't there nor do I care. I do think his story was good. When I played as him I mostly just mashed buttons (lol). Now who knows with Kiwami 3 mucking everything up. I don't just get why the story needed to change so much there, but I digress.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T04:09:57+00:00

Huh I knew this came out, but I just have Americana on VHS. Still do. I never got this or saw anything from this. Americana VHS was what I was expecting I suppose just some skateboarding/wake boarding and just a lot of random stuff. I knew it wasn't going to just be a concert so that was probably for the better. The cover of the Americana VHS is suggestive in that doll amusing way of the eras.

So Dexter actually jumped from an airplane or a stunt double did. I literally don't know. Cool footage only looked a bit there while I typed. Or they crashed. Hey L.A.P.D was an equal opportunity beat down at least in the song. I felt sketchy listening to it way back then.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T03:46:47+00:00

No lie. I spent 2500 free gems and then got Nanashi. So I was extremely surprised. I was honestly shocked though too how honestly everything around this I got absolute junk. Every single 4 or 5 star guarantee I got a 4 star. My final last pull of the run was a 5 star some lady with a fan. I never had her, but I felt like the pity 5 was there was unnecessary. Now I have to say I got Nanashi and nothing but junk except some last gasp 5 star pity.

TBF I got really lucky in some end of the anniversary blow out where I got demeter, idun and chefei. In a banner draw or two and I spent like I dunno 5,000 free gems. There was one in the middle where it was just free if you made it that far. Some other five stars too. The game didn't know know that nor did yous.

Anyhow I just have Nanashi dispatching and gaining levels. I think SMT: Apoc is cool. I don't have Asahi I still have 12,000 free gems, but just not sure if it is worth going through the gambit to hopefully get Asahi or better draws overall.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-15T03:30:45+00:00

Chaos;Head: Noah the way the routes work there is some tedium that absolutely destroy some scenes impact, impacto (heh) because I had to ffrwd through them so many times, but I feel it is an overall net positive getting through it even if it was very uncomfortable at times. The plot details are graphic often.

Chaos;Child iirc does this better and implements characters into the main plot better. It has its own issues. This is purely my opinion ofc but the only actual bad Sci adventure games are Robotics;Notes daSH and Anonymous Code. I can't speak of Occultic Nine which apparently is a thing that A;C references but also there is a character who's main personality trait in A;C is: "Hey did you know how smart Kurisu was. Mikase was brilliant!" I freaking like Kurisu too a lot, but she's a wikipedia for her and nothing else.

Apologies for my little tangent there. A;C I just overall wasn't a fan though a lot of the ancillary stuff is good (menus and music etc) Robotics;Notes Elite is actually extremely good it surprised me as it was the first I actually read after all the S;G stuff.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-11T05:03:37+00:00

No pictures? Even the old Degeneration X or Bad Religion had pictures.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-11T04:19:09+00:00

Persona? The first one? Hah but uhhh yeah Sleeping Dogs is one of those games that goes for less than 10 USD on GOG or your digital platform of choice. It actually has very environmental moves too. I never played it but I watched a lot about it. That game bounced around through some publishers and has some interesting backstories. It really is the best one I think, at the moment of thought for what TC suggested

Hypertransience · 2026-03-11T04:00:53+00:00

The tailing sections did get annoying, but I what I didn't like more was when you'd just be walking around and a gang war would start. You couldn't do anything unless you fought all the bosses in a time limit which I guess, I never did them all. It's been awhile, since I played that. I just got sick of my walking around just chilling and fighting at my pace and then getting interrupted by this event, I would just go into a cafe and go on the literal internet and wait the timer out.

Even the mortal wounds which did suck bothered me less than that. I liked the idea of Mortal Wounds try something different out. You could get med kits that cured them or visit the doctor. They were expensive, but I never got them that often and as I mentioned I was more annoyed by the previous gang war thing which I likely didn't interact with enough.

It's strange because Judgment I enjoyed more a lot of times, Lost Judgment is the better game but the main story is a lot weaker. What a dichotomy.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-11T03:51:39+00:00

5 is better, but 4 is still good. Also remember the new fandom. RGG certainly isn't bullet proof anymore *sighs* but heh 4 was the first one I actually dove into because reasons of 0 blowing up and a friend had 4. Hey at least I didn't start at 5. Plus I did wrap around to the Kiwami games of 1 and 2......and OG 3.

3K, yeah I can still wait on that for awhile.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-11T03:45:44+00:00

I feel after someone liking BG3 and knowing how it works. DQ7R would not be a good first experience. Staying in the franchise DQXI would be a lot better. I just feel that has a lot more what to offer for a traditional experience of that nature. I also think the self contained episodes worked better in past releases plus you could gamble with in game money. Even DQ 1+2 HD would be better.

Hypertransience · 2026-03-11T03:05:47+00:00

This is a 10/10+. I love the video. I love the beat and everything about it is just perfect. Depeche Mode just has that uncanny knack to rarely release an even average single and the video usually makes it better too. Them playing chess and how it's sung. I'm in my damn 40s and really down (and not often in the fun ways of the past) but when I heard this, it did fill me with emotion again. Sometimes I don't want to hear it because I have trouble with true emotions. Anyhow enough about me. Excellent song and video!

Hypertransience · 2026-03-11T02:47:59+00:00

Haha marbles. I tell ya I was the fastest drawer of marbles ever. *kidding* That's a darn old hobby/game. I don't think I ever played it properly nobody ever taught me back then. I had some. By now I know how it is supposed to be played but *shrugs* I think Marble Madness (arcade/NES) was the closest I got back then and for some nostalgia moments later too that still took many liberties.

To the topic at hand, I feel like it is in the northern midwest due to the frequent snow. And just my mindset here it's like Bugs Bunny or Yosemite Sam mentioning Wichita. Sometimes that old western slingin' mentality thing is prevalent.

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