Yakuza 3

patsu said:
I'm already sold on this game. Just bring it here when they are ready.

[size=-2]Go Sega go ![/size]
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Well, it took a year and a half for us to get Yakuza 1 and then another year and a half for Yakuza 2. So we should be getting it late in 2010.

[size=-2]Did you remember to buy Yakuza 2?[/size]
 
That long ? I was hoping it would come in mid 2009. The trailer says Spring 2009.

No, I have not bought Yakuza 2. Is it good ?

In fact, I have not bought Mirror's Edge, Tomb Raider, and Prince of Persia yet. Have been busy with Valkyria and some LBP in-between. Still have Naruto to play. I will get to those 3 titles though, probably in December or late November.

EDIT: Gah, it's already late November. I meant late December, early Jan.
 
patsu said:
That long ? I was hoping it would come in mid 2009. The trailer says Spring 2009.
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I'm joking; I don't know anything, just that the last two games took about a year and a half from JP release to come to the US.

No, I have not bought Yakuza 2. Is it good ?
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It is, if you like Yakuza-style gameplay, which I do, so it's good.
 
3 is coming out in Japan on February 17. And the sales 2 get, the higher the probability 3 get released. 2 is a great game and playing it is the best way to know if you will like 3 as well.
 
psorcerer said:
It's not economically feasible.
It needs quite a lot of voice-over work.
And we all know that Americans just do not buy excellent Sega games.
Why bother?
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Sad but true. I'd settle for English text and subtitles. Should be a lot more economically feasible that way. Perhaps they'll release such a version for other Asian markets (maybe HK, I think I've seen other releases like that), making it import friendly.
 
patsu said:
Yup, I'm praying for a subtitled version + English menu too.
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Do online petitions for these kind of things ever actually work? id even be happy to make a small donation if i thought it would make a scrap of difference!

Im not sure why the previous games didnt sell but there seems to be quite a bit of buzz around this one. id be very suprised if it didnt do well on next gen consoles, at least enough to make a text only translation worthwhile.
 
I've clocked 1 & 2 and look foward to 3. I just wish they improve the non-combat animation. They've pretty much kept the exact loops form Yakuza 2 (which is the same as Yakuza 1).

IMO Kazuma's walk looks really stiff and the turning and "transitions" between animations are very jerky and could definately be more fluid.

That said, its probably the least of our worries as western gamers.
 
Couldnt rockstar pick this up and rename it GTA: Yakuza?
They would make this game a success worldwide just by renaming the title.
 
Antan said:
Famitsu review 38/40. Demo hits Japanese PSN tommorow.
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Oh, go ahead. Rub it in.

Let's see some targets. How many copies of Yakuza 3 does Sega need to sell to justify for translating/subtitling work for English-speaking regions ?
 
patsu said:
Oh, go ahead. Rub it in.

Let's see some targets. How many copies of Yakuza 3 does Sega need to sell to justify for translating/subtitling work for English-speaking regions ?
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Or to phrase that better, what's the cost of localizing Yakuza 3 exactly? Anyone any idea? Surely it's a fraction of developing a full game.
 
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