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Wow... I recognized this was from the Yakuza developers from that header screenshot alone. Never realized how distinct their CG is like that.
wow interesting story. Not too sure about the gameplay though, since it doesn't even sound interesting on paper. Only gameplay videos will tell though.
@wedge - Yeah, looking at the header pic I think of both Goro Majima and Gary Oldman at the same time, it's strange how distinct Yakuza Team's visuals are heh.
Also, I'm interested, if mainly because of the people behind it!
Also, I'm interested, if mainly because of the people behind it!
Sounds pretty great, I'm happy to see a guest blog like this.
I find it interesting how they use Geneva given that Geneva is also where the major bulk of international humanitarian law was formed.
"we also learned what we need in order to make a game accepted in the Western market."
I know it'll stray away from the point of these guest blogs, but I'd be interested in an elaboration of this sentence. What exactly was found that needed to be learned to sell a game in our market? We always hear here about the schism between the two regions, but we never get a concrete, concise, reason other then a bunch of "reasons" that come off more like blame and guilt trips. It'd be nice for a developer to sit with us and say "well, (insert reason, and a reason for those reasons)"
"we also wanted the Western players to know more about Japan through this game."
And for that I thank you again. It'd only lead to a greater understanding of the differences if more developers took this approach with us. Some of us genuinely want to learn more, but can't for various reasons (conflicting/confusing info, stonewalling ect.), and all it does is frustrate people into rants.
I find it interesting how they use Geneva given that Geneva is also where the major bulk of international humanitarian law was formed.
"we also learned what we need in order to make a game accepted in the Western market."
I know it'll stray away from the point of these guest blogs, but I'd be interested in an elaboration of this sentence. What exactly was found that needed to be learned to sell a game in our market? We always hear here about the schism between the two regions, but we never get a concrete, concise, reason other then a bunch of "reasons" that come off more like blame and guilt trips. It'd be nice for a developer to sit with us and say "well, (insert reason, and a reason for those reasons)"
"we also wanted the Western players to know more about Japan through this game."
And for that I thank you again. It'd only lead to a greater understanding of the differences if more developers took this approach with us. Some of us genuinely want to learn more, but can't for various reasons (conflicting/confusing info, stonewalling ect.), and all it does is frustrate people into rants.
Will Smith flies in all drunk. One of the robots winks at him and says "Hello K." Fresh Prince replies "Na na na na na na Welcome to Earth" before punching it in the face and shooting it with his little tweeter. Just then the zombies of Isaac Asimov and Philip K Dick dig themselves out of their graves having reanimated themselves by rolling faster than the speed of light thus reversing the flow of time.
or wayt is this that movie with sexay back? The timberlake?
I hope Brent Spiner and Mr "Danger Danger" LostinSpace make a guest appearance.
or wayt is this that movie with sexay back? The timberlake?
I hope Brent Spiner and Mr "Danger Danger" LostinSpace make a guest appearance.
but srsly voice commands in games this century is an interesting pursuit. Hopefully this catches on a little better than Hey You Pikachu!
This game has my interests. I hope it can deliver on it's interesting promises, but I'll likely buy it anyway. I don't know why, I usually am not interested in games like this but this one is really catching my interest for some reason.
Interested...but honestly only because it's made by the Yakuza team. Story and voice command aside, everything else sounds meh...
Yakuza never let me down so I'm looking forward to be proven wrong about this game.
Yakuza never let me down so I'm looking forward to be proven wrong about this game.
The newest trailer completely blew me away. It looks FANTASTIC. It's like we all literally have blinders on, because based on what I saw, the story looks more compelling than Mass Effect 3 easily. I went from pretty much zero interest to having to get this game.
I sat down with this for about 20 minutes or so at Eurogamer Expo in September. Didn't get to see much of the teammate interaction system, mostly just shooty explody gameplay segments. It was entertaining, but the controls felt a little bit clunky. I'm excited though, it's on my do want list!
Man, that header pic just screams Yakuza 5: Robots Are In This Game. Love the team, gonna be checking this game out anyway if only just to support 'em but I'm not entirely sold on a preorder yet.
Okay, well right off the bat they are telling a better story then SyFy's Caprica (TV series) ever envisioned let alone told in its story. Also, and call it bastphomy but I like that this has some hope and some semblance of the world not totally ruined in the future unlike Blade Runner. (Sorry, Blade Runner bing soe grim makes it nice futuristic noire, but ist is also depressing as hell.) In Binary Domain's story the sea level rose and there were problems with that; but they show that such things are not total doom & gloom.
The story will not be perfect, but it at least is interesting...horray for at least an attempt at interesting.
The story will not be perfect, but it at least is interesting...horray for at least an attempt at interesting.
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