Yakuza 0, kiwami, kiwami 2, Yakuza 3, 4, 5, 6, then 7, then Gaiden, then 8.

Then play Judgement and Lost Judgement. Not part of Yakuza’s core canon. But adjacent.

I’m not a huge fan of Borderlands. I like the stories. But I don’t like the loot goblining. Constant hunt for ever higher damage numbers.

There’s only 1 company I’ll pay $80 for a new game. And that is Ryu Ga Gotoku. Cuz they don’t miss. No bad half finished launches. No bad games. Every game is a masterclass in Peak.

Real Spiderman points at Spiderman moment here.

Live service garbage has costed the industry billions in losses and costed tens of thousands of devs their jobs. Fad chasing in general.

Everyone wants to make the fortnite killer or overwatch killer. They set billions of dollars on fire and get nothing for it. And it’s the devs who pay the price. Not the c-suite dipshits who threw all that money in the fire pit.

Normal Store Citizen behavior.

Increased price should mean increased size and scope of the games in question.

No online game with microtransactions should cost more than $20 at launch.

You want a fan fucking tastic game that you can put 250 hours in and never regret a minute of it?

The Yakuza franchise. Start wirh Yakuza 0. Play them all. You will laugh. You will cry. You will get so irrationally angry at pixels you’ll want to actually murder them. You’ll fall in love. And cry some more. Your heart will break many times. And nothing will ever be the same.

Ever had a game or movie or book leave you in stunned silence? You spend the next week thinking about it? That’s the Yakuza franchise. It’s silly and stupid and hilarious and it’ll tear your damn heart out when you least expect it.

The base game is fine. Once. Its just fine. Once.

When you beat the game and go thru The Unity to a whole ass different dimension and not one single detail is different in any way. That’s what kills the drive to go onward. Because the game was fine. Once.

The whole story is predicated on a multiverse that effectively doesn’t exist. Except on 1 sidequest for Barrett.

I’m gonna emulate even harder now.

69 billion

Nice.

Aguilar is a world renowned hitter. They’ll probably show up in Orion.

You think so huh? ~pulls on frock coat~

Is that right? ~puts on tricorn hat~

I don’t think Ralph agrees. ~“You’re goddamn right I don’t! - Ralph the Parrot”~

Looks great.

Boo.

I want an N64 controller for my PS5.

Shit man. Play in open just for the engagement. Random interdictions and negotiating with pirates is annoying when you’re new and broke. But it’s just part of doing business when you get a few ships and some coin under you. Breaks up the monotony of the trips. Most pirates are RPers. You give them like 10 units of beer or something and they’ll let you go.

But then there’s the straight up gankers. They just suck. Losing 2 hours of work because some scrub who can’t pvp can feel better about himself never gets easier. At least it didn’t for me. They did inspire me to build a revenge FDL and learn to use it tho.

Edit - One time I talked a couple RPers into flying block for me on a run into Jamison. They interdicted me and asked for x tons of something. I offered them 3x that to escort me to port and protect me from gankers. I got interdicted twice more on the way. They killed 4 otjer pilots protecting me. Was a good time.

Back when Painite was king that was my zen place.

Get my Minerconda. Turn on a podcast or something and turn my brain off for a couple hours. I loved it.

But then they had to go changing shit.

Pump and dump.

Just plug my old ass into the matrix. If I live to see 80 we’ll probably have some kind of full dive VR by that point. Or at least something approaching it.

I always wanted to get into MH. But I can’t commit to an online game. Online game means online snail pace progression. And I just don’t have the patience for that anymore.

Cheat Engine on PC.

On console you pray that the devs added some accessibility options.

They can keep it.

Hell yeah.

Ok.

She’s just the worst. I spent the whole game waiting for her to steal my materia and disappear.

That would have been preferable to her being there for 40 hours being a dumbass. Imo.

If they were easily bullied they’d have finished Xenosaga by now.

It’ll be dead on arrival if it is.

They know better. But this is the bullshit they spin to try and convince everyone else. It doesn’t work.

They’ll bring it back.