Yakuza 4 Heading To America Next Year

Rented 3 over the weekend, I was really surprised at how much I like it. The pacing and random sidequests really grabbed me for some reason. I think an uncut version makes the most sense, since they're not appealing to a mass market anyway.

Yakuza 3 was my first exposure to the series and I kind of liked it so I might pick up 4.

First batch of screenshots? The game's been out for 3 months!
 
I really hope they''ve learned their lesson and are not cutting out the hostess bar stuff this time around. Well, I'm not even sure if there are hostess bars in Yakuza 4  but I can't imagine Sega leaving a fairly popular part of the game out of this one.

I just hope the new playable characters is a good thing, because it seems like a bad thing to me :(
 
Also: MOAR BLOGGING!

All i want is Rie Kugimiya's voice in a character whose body fits the voice(Haruka fitted almost as well as Rise did in p4...), oh and some Hatsune Miku would be nice aswell seeing as its Sega behind it after all and with project diva 2 coming up this summer.

Yes.

Here's hoping Sega understood that cutting content because of "the audience not understanding it" is a mistake they won't do again. 
 
That being said, wayyy excited for this. Yakuza 3 was brilliant.

If Sony didn't pull backwards compatibility I'd probably go back and play through this series including 3 and 4. I don't have a PS2. Hope you're readin this Sony. When Yakuza 4 sells one less copy remember it was all your fault

Why would I not play as Kazuma?

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Love the Yakuza series!  just don't cut shit out Sega!

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New playable characters?
fuck yes sold!!!

" I was worried it wouldn't cross to the US, but the completionist in me is sated now. If we could only get that samurai spin-off too. "

I was worried it wouldn't cross to the US, but the completionist in me is sated now. If we could only get that samurai spin-off too.

I might check out this one, I played the demo for 3 and I hated it. But who knows what other games will be available when this game actually does come out next year.

Europe? Europe? Europe!

Yes! I am so ready for this game to come out.
 
Maybe the Giantbomb crew could do an endurance run of Yakuza 3 in the mean time. :D

You probably won't need to worry about anything being cut. Bringing Yakuza 3 over here was a last minute decision and Sega of America was in a rush to release the game here before the fourth one launched in Japan, and they only barely made it. The game was no worse without the hostess clubs, personally, that's a part of Japan I could do without, but the mahjong  was sorely missed.
 
No worries.

YES! I just hope they don't cut out the hostest clubs again, the weird Japanese gameshow quiz thing was fine. But the managing the hostest club was the best mini game/side quest in Yakuza 2.

I loved Yakuza 2, but didn't buy the third one because of the nonsense cuts. I would buy Yakuza 4 if they keep the content intact, but don'I t know how much the stories are connected with Y3.

I didn't really like the demo for  Yakuza 3 so I probably won't like this much either.

will photoshop.

Hmm...I'd probably rather just wait for this instead of buying Yakuza 3, thinking about it

" Yes!  I love Yakuza games!  Now let's hope that they don't cut anything this time.  This is the land of GTA; we can handle whatever you throw at us. "

AAWSOME!!!!!

Extended demos with your purchase of a George Foreman grill.

 Please Giant Bomb members photoshop that picture of the poster!

I have enjoyed 1 2 and 3 so hopefully they can spend the translation time on 4 to not cut out content.  
 
Maybe sometime they can release Yakuza Kenzan as well.

I find my self singing at video games all the time

These games will always be over my head.

Yes!  I love Yakuza games!  Now let's hope that they don't cut anything this time.  This is the land of GTA; we can handle whatever you throw at us.