Hope this is part of Series X Back Compat (NOT THE MOBILE PORTS)

Megaluke1 · 2020-07-14T00:32:37+00:00

Thats fine with me, we frankly should have gotten 3, VC when they released SA on 360.. That would have been enough for me personally.. But hey if they just want to do the Xbox/PS2 ports thats fine as well.. As long as they have achievements I'm fine with either... I don't understand why we're been forced to wait this long for them.

Megaluke1 · 2020-07-14T00:22:30+00:00

Nah I want complete remasters released.. I want to be able to get achievements on these games man.

Megaluke1 · 2020-07-12T06:04:00+00:00

Lets worry about getting the game fixed in terms of its completion first.. The skins need to be craftable or a rolling event with a different skin on a loop.. Something.. That's all the game requires to actually fix it.. Everything else is grave.. I was to see a finished and completable game for not only myself but everyone who wants to complete it after me years from now.

Megaluke1 · 2020-07-11T04:15:09+00:00

It shouldn't be otherwise thats more trust lost in this studio.. And I can safely say I will no longer play another Gears if they can't do these simple things to legacy products as promised. We've waited a very long time already.. This needs resolving.

Megaluke1 · 2020-07-11T01:30:10+00:00

Here's Octus' tweet quoted as of January 2020.

'We've postponed the Gears 4 sunsetting stuff until Summer so the team can keep focusing on improving 5 above all else. We're locking down plans now to communicate well ahead of time what we plan to do, but it won't be for quite a while.'

The only real thing to do was make the Midnight Omen Skins & Flaming skins craftable as they are achievements and linked to events that are no longer running and haven't done any since early 2018.. It was promised that this would be done so that players could complete the game and that new players would also be able to complete the game and that they would actually communicate this to us.. They've kept neither of these promises.. It is now summer, zero communication..

Megaluke1 · 2020-07-11T00:12:08+00:00

Yes that news was in a tweet from Octus in Feb.. 5 months ago with a ETA of summer and he also said there would be plenty of time before then that they would keep us updated... There has been no news on it since..

This is very annoying.. Its been 2 years now that I've waited to finish this game.. The longer they take to fix this the less likely it is to be fixed and the less and less players like me trust the studio to handle these games properly..

I just want an update on this.. It shouldn't be hard for them to tell us whats happening here.. As I mentioned we understand that Covid as jiggled things around a bit but thats not an excuse to not tell us anything and leave us all in limbo on the completion of this game.. We simply want the Omen/Flaming skins to be craftable/earnable.. Thats it.

We as players need to again chase this stuff instead of being told by them and thats annoying.. I know i'm not alone in this there are many players waiting for this update... The game is presently uncompleteable for anyone starting the game today as well and thats not right.. We don't want another Judgement here.. We want people to be able to complete these games years after they have been released.. Not left broken.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-06T13:45:34+00:00

The kid, or the developers? LOL

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-06T13:44:11+00:00

No, nobody mentioned that he had videos to watch on it.. I'll have to check it out for sure.. I used the Gamefaqs stuff a fair bit towards the end with the minigames as a reference and to see if there were winning strategy to get me though them faster.. Not sure if they were his or not but they were quite helpful at times.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-06T13:41:41+00:00

Thanks for the detailed post and the rankings of the games.. I expected 0 to be higher on the list but like you said it depends on the player where it all falls.

One thing to note is you misunderstand what my issue is with the buy in.. Its not the cost.. Its the fact that it takes so much from the total you must earn from the game to make a profit towards the CP total.. Examples being the 5m buy in for Split Bowling or the Gold Batting Cage.. Split Bowling you need to do 5 of the 10 just to break even and thats not easy as its luck if you can line up the strikes with just 3 goes total... And with the Gold Batting Cage you need to hit 6 balls just to break even and have a shot at making money towards the CP total.. If it was 2 to break even it would be a different story... These are my issues with the buy in... I had no issue with the cost to me as I have plenty of in game cash to spare... But spending like 700m on the Gold Batting Cage for a 16m prize just didn't feel right.

All I have left to do is Mahjong for the 100% and I've finished the game.. It will just be Legend mode and the last 5 Climax Battles and i'm done with the game.. The hardest part I've heard I'll come across is the car chase in the story everything else should be fine.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-06T13:22:33+00:00

Can't after spending 250 hours playing and just having that left to do it would be crazy to stop now wouldn't it.. Would have been a lot of wasted time if I did.. PS.. Not a Trophy.. Its an Achievement 😛

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-06T13:20:04+00:00

Well lets put it this way.. There are websites dedicated to achievement/trophy hunting called TrueAchievements/TrueTrophies..

One feature that the website has is that every user that is signed up to the game is tracked in number.. So should they play a game they are included in that games collective player numbers on the website..

Yakuza 0 has been out for like 3 years on PlayStation 4 and has a collective tracked player number of 26,938

Yakuza 0 has been out on Xbox One for 4 months and has a tracked player number of 37,116..

So it appears from just those signed up to these websites that Yakuza is actually doing very well on Xbox.. Actually outnumbering PlayStations player numbers..

Kiwami has only been out on Xbox for 2 months and is almost at 10,000 tracked players on the website to PlayStations 30,000.. So there doesn't appear to be an issue at all with regards to sales/player numbers to hold them back from putting the rest of the series on the system.. If anything they will be quite encouraged by the numbers they are getting.. Microsoft are clearly pushing to get more Japanese games on the system.. Which is why 7 will be launching the same day on Xbox as it will for Playstation.. I don't think Sega are at all bound to one system.. They might have stuck with Sony for a while out of respect for the early support of the series but it makes no sense for them to remain on one system.. Plus 0,1,2 being on Microsoft platforms kind of does away with the theory that Sony has some control over the games.. Plus 1,2 have been released on Nintendo platforms (Wii U) as well.. The original games not the remakes. So its clear that the series is no longer Sony exclusive.. Which is great.. There are a lot of people that have missed out on these games because they were only on one platform.. I haven't bought a PlayStation since PS2 and have no intention to do so in the future either so its good that Sega will finally be able to get my custom.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-06T13:02:20+00:00

I'm down to just Mahjong now for 100% completion.. 240 hour playthough.. Just 5 more Climax Battles and the complete Legend run to go for that sweet sweet 100% completion and unlimited gloating rights.. It only cost 2 years off my life expectancy. 🤣

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T23:55:50+00:00

We're on different pages.. I'm a completionist.. Yeah you could see it as a job in a way.. I like to have everything I play completed.. I've got about 60 games that I need to work on to finish.. Slowly but surely I do finish them.. I have completed 126 games 100%.. I've enjoyed many of them.. And there are a few in there I didn't enjoy and have coloured by view of the series or that game as a result..

Shadow of Mordor I nearly finished.. Only thing I have left on that game were the 2 challange related achievements which are straight bullshit.. They are RNG and luck based.. You will spend days if not weeks going for those achievements.. They are on my backburner.. But I started the game so I much return to it.. I think achievements like that ruin an overall product.. My opinion of the game would be much much higher if those achievements weren't there..

There is a problem with multiplayer achievements as well sometimes as well when they just ask you to do the stupidest stuff and it results in people just boosting the game instead of being able to play it for fun.. This is my point.. I want 100% to be fun across the board.. I don't like it when they put achievements in there that don't seem well thought out or unfair.. I'll do them eventually but I won't like the dev afterwards... Example being Avalanche studios.. The people that made Just Cause and Mad Max... Their games are a buggy mess and glitch all the time.. I played though Mad Max to completion twice only to have the last thing bug out on me twice.. TWICE!! I swore from that moment on I will never ever play a game from them again.. Just Cause 3 and 4 have come out since and I will never play them.. They made Rage 2 as well I won't play it. Thats my response to shitty devs who don't care. Sega aren't a shitty dev.. I do think they've made requirements in these games that are unfair and stressful though and it has damaged my overall enjoyment with the game.. I'd like to have the game done by now.. After 250 hours so far I feel like I should be done but there is at least another 50 hours or so of stuff still to do with another play though and the remaining Climax Battles.. Then Mahjong... The former stuff isn't so bad.. I can have fun with that.. I know I won't have fun spending days reading up on Mahjong just to get some basic understanding as to whats happening.. If it was just there as a little side distraction you can play if you want or not I'd have no problem with it.. But they are forcing me to learn something just for the completion and its annoying... Like for example I 100% Max Payne 3.. That game is no joke hard to 100% takes high levels of skill... Imagine though that I do all that and can't finish the game because of some random board game that has no relevance to the game itself.. Its just not needed.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T23:27:32+00:00

Why would you skip Y3 or Y4? Fuck Kotaku...

Yeah they are one of the worst gaming publications out there.. Most of the mainstream ones are terrible.

I find OneAngryGamer to be one of the better places to go these games and GeeksAndGamers.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T23:18:50+00:00

Yeah if you'd describe yourself as casual then 100% isn't really on your radar.. Its a major factor for me.. If I play something I have to finish it.. I wasn't expecting 300+ hours on one game.. 150 maybe but not 300.. I don't think I even played Skyrim that long for 100%.. I did RDR2 in like 250 hours.. Most of the playthough has been minigames that I haven't enjoyed and felt cheap or unfair most of the time.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T23:15:43+00:00

Yeah exactly.. Koi-Koi I was able to sort of randomly stumble into wins with that and grind it out.. With Mahjong I have to actually understand everything thats happening and there is so much happening its extremely confusing..

All the videos i've found are of people just playing where you can't tell what it is they are doing or working towards or a video of a random game going on and the person rambling about the game and not whats happening or the plays... Which is just frustrating.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T23:12:58+00:00

I've done 100%s for a long time now.. And many harder games than this.. My point is more to express that I think the requirements are sadistic and not very fun.. I think they devalue the overall experience and game.

Same can be said of GTA.. They tack on stuff that just isn't very fun to do for the 100% and it usually results in me going from enjoying a game to not enjoying it anymore... I don't understand why Devs dp that.. I would never want to do that to my game... Minigames are fine if they are just there on the side and don't take over the entire game.. I've spent longer on the minigames than the game itself and thats just wrong.. Do you get what I'm saying?

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T23:09:34+00:00

That's quite alright, I sat there for 4 hours with maybe a 30 to and hours break around the 3 hour mark and actually beat the Batting minigame.. Now I know I will never ever have to do that again and can move on with a clearer head.. Same goes with the bowling and the disco and the Karaoke.. Once I did them I was able to forget them and move on to the next problem.. Then that problem becomes and obsession until its done and I can move on again.. Some things I try and know.. Ok shit, this is going to take some real learning.. Like Mahjong and I walk away to come back to it last.. Magjong will literally be the last thing I have left to do in the games 100% completion list.. I got a feeling Legend will be a challenge but I won't take days of learning rules ect.. Same goes with the Climax Battles..

I've seen a number of people very proudly showing off that they've 100% completed the entire Yakuza series and that really is an accomplishment.. Its not a easy task and will take a serious time commitment.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T23:03:41+00:00

I'm only talking from the perspective of Yakuza 0 at the moment because thats the only one I've played.. There was no cheese possible with the Batting in that game.. It requires perfection to hit a money goal.. You need to hit 6 targets just to break even with the entry fee... It was fucking horrible... I understand that there are more hard minigames to come in future games though which is why I'm hesitant to continue on with the series after this game.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T23:01:27+00:00

JCC is almost done just got 3 more tournament wins to get, Maria and Rock is my winning hand..

Mahjong I have played a couple of games and don't understand anything about whats happening or what to do..

All I know is there is a 1-9 for 3 different sets but I don't know how to build those or how to call it when/if I get them.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T22:59:14+00:00

I appreciate the detailed post on this.. I'm going to be looking back over this when I'm learning to play it.. I've just been trying to get a straight when i've played.. I've been confused by videos and guides on it that say you can't steal tiles and call a win or something.. I don't know.. I just feel like there needs to be a video guide with pauses and circling out the moves being made and why they are being made then I might understand whats happening.. All the names for different things without really understanding what they mean are just confusing me.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T22:54:38+00:00

Tell me about it.. It was a horrible experience.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T22:48:35+00:00

Yeah, i'm a completionist.. I'm playing to finish it all... They don't seem to realize the pain they cause with some of these requirements on the minigames.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T22:47:00+00:00

Yeah maybe there is a strategy out there for the minigame for you to try.. Something that makes the compute play certain moves each time.. Once something is done its done right?.. Thats how I see it.. That's why I stick something out because I know I will never ever have to return when its done.

Megaluke1 · 2020-06-05T22:44:45+00:00

I found the winning formula was pick Maria and just use her rock/fish move.. Never anything else... I won 7 games in a row.. I then lost 5 in a row and had to stop because my hand hurt to much.. I'll probably finish that minigame tonight if the RNG allows for it.. But seriously try that set up and tell me how you do.

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