@zeik: @mortuss_zero:

Okay cool. I'll try playing Yakuza 4 later this week in preparation for this upcoming release. If those recap videos are enough than I should be good. It would probably be hard going back to anything before Yakuza 4 because of it might not holding up as well. Although I am playing that Vice City PS4 version right now and I'm having more fun now than I have had with a game in a while.

Yes! I just got this and wow, it's just pure joy!

Holy crap! The end of chapter 2 part 2 might be moment of the year!

A fistfight with a giant black bear in the middle of the woods.

@odinsmana: JUST got to this part myself, and I agree. Total insanity.

Man that intro was slow. It's beginning to pick up now that I'm in the open world. I'm starting to see some of that intrigue and mystery that I've always enjoyed from these games.

Oh, so you mean this a Yakuza game, lol

idk why but i thought this was a ps4 game

Really enjoying it so far. The taxi missions in particular are way more fun than I thought they would be.

Hope GB covers the game in one form or another.

I really wish I could buy this game and somehow play it on my PS4. My PS3 is super old, loud as a turbine and quite frankly I don't have room for it on my shelf anymore. I know it's a first world problem to complain about having to go through the "trouble" of connecting a second console to play a videogame but man... it's tough.

Already had a day of failures. The state of it.

Man, the hunting side missions are really fun! I didn't expect that from a Yakuza game.

I played a few hours of the first Yakuza when it came out and about 15 hours of 4. Can I just jump into 5? It looks really good but I don't want to go and play all of the other games.

@pompouspizza: Yeah, if you have a free hour or so, the games always have really good recap "movies" of the previous entries included.

I've only done the first one which was tutorialized, but I liked how relaxing it was, making chit-chat, and using my turn signals. I also liked smoking that fool on the highway with my taxi while hammering on the taunt button. Does it get much crazier later on? I'm not too optimistic about the car controls if it gets really difficult.

@teddie: but keep in mind, there is so much plot across the four yakuza games that nobody can actually remember everything that happens, even people who've played every single game like myself.

I just started Yakuza 4 a couple of days ago in preparation for this surprise drop of Yakuza 5. I had been saving 4 for a rainy day since I thought it may be the last localized title.

I just started Y3, needless to say I picked up 4 and 5. So hyped!

I am drowning in a sea of install errors.

@getz: The side story stuff has been surprisingly good so far, I`m really enjoying it.

@redyoshi: It never gets too difficult, I lost once or twice on the later ones but it wasen`t too frustrating. I think that as long as you upgrade the car between races it will be fine.

Swapped the hard drive in the hope of finally getting this going. Otherwise I'm going for a refund.

Yakuza 2 is my favourite. A dude comes back from the dead, there are flashbacks to the 80's and you fight an effing tiger! Those are some pretty high notes.

3 is kind of a low point, but 4 is great.

Question before I start this, does anyone know if there are missable side quests in this one? Tried to google it but I can only find people talking about 3 and 4.

Alright, its finally installed. 2 was fine but I never finished the final, final boss and his uzi bullshit. Was 3 the one with the recurring Benny Hill transexual? Wait, that had the orphanage, too. :D

I've done about half of them and they've all been pretty manageable. The only frustrating mission was one where you had to obey every traffic rule while following a car and not letting it get away.

@teddie: I don`t think any of the sub stories are missable (they weren`t in 4 at least). I am about halfway through the game and so far it seems like they could fit in pretty much anywhere in the story. You will probably get a chance near the end of the game to do anything you missed.

I did all of them, they're all pretty much a breeze. The race missions kinda got close, but saving the turbo for the end/having that heat action at the end makes it really easy.

This really is like settling into a comfy pair of slippers.

really loving it so far. its fun to have new minigames, because i felt like they didnt really add any great ones between 3 and 4.

I'm glad its out tho I'm still trucking thru 3 wit 4 waiting on deck. I knew 5 was gonna come out by the end of the year since when I did the pre-order it had a 12-31-15 release date.

I understand they take time getting this over as they have other projects in the works while also developing stuff for current gen so you end up getting a smaller team to work on the localization and I really don't mind. Plus I can only imagine that with the game having a lot of text its gonna take awhile to translate and also get it correct since most languages do not have an exact translation. While also making some changes for western market as they think we just wont get it otherwise. Like anything in business it comes down to money/time.

The three years wait is finally over! As i'm downloading it right now.

Thanks Sega and please don't let us wait this long for Yakuza 0.

Not just in between games but in this one the different substory mechanics for each new character is really something, different sets of minigames for each character.

And I just got to Haruka's part and it turned into a rhythm game lol

Maaan, the game really loses steam once you hit Haruka's part. Not to mention my room-mate now thinks I'm in to J-Pop.

Even for Yakuza, it's just plain WEIRD to have this shit in the game.

I was really hoping for a physical retail version since I have bought all the yakuza games released in the west that way... though I suppose we are lucky to get it in any capacity.

@hampe: can you explain this? I tried googling it but no avail.

Import from Hong Kong, I guess?

@shindig: I don't think there would be English subtitles. Sometimes Europe gets a physical edition of games like this so I'll remain hopeful.

Nah, I don't see that happening. Nobody will stock a new PS3 title and a limited run kinda defeats the purpose.