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Looks like Yakuza 3 PS4 is making its way to the West

vestan

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So a German livestream/entertainment channel that goes by Rocket Beans TV has Yakuza 3 on their gamescom streaming schedule alongside a bunch of other games. If you click this link and CTRL+F for Yakuza 3 you can see it alongside Catherine: Full Body, another SEGA game.

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They were set to talk about Yakuza 3 specifically on the 21st at 4:30 pm CEST. No idea if this is getting revealed at Opening Night Live or if SEGA is just gonna drop the announcement on Twitter or something. 3 is pretty good but my absolute favourite Yakuza is 4 so I'm hoping they bring that over soon too.

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funky

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Giving how long its taken to bring over I wonder if they are going to do a PS4 and PC simultaneous release this time.
 
TheDarkKnight

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Good. Even though I own the ps3 us version as soon as the ps4 versions were announced I've been waiting for this release to come out. I figured they'd wait until after judgement was out.

I figure they've been trying to not flood the western market with too many Yakuza games all at once
 
shadowman16

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Fat4all said:
big shocks

dont touch my orphanage
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While they better not touch the orphanage, renaming it back to its original Japanese name would be much appreciated. 3 had some really annoying name changes for no good reason (hi Rex!)

As for pricing, if they price each at $20 I think that's more than fair. I'm 90 hours into the PS4 remaster of 5 at the moment and I'm only just starting Shinada's final chapter. I've probably got a good 5 odd hours of plot if I mainline the finale, but I totally know I'm not gonna do that! My point is, there's certainly more than enough content to charge 20 for each (well, as long as the cut stuff from 3 is put back in) - not to mention I already paid 40 for each import copy of these remasters and will totally double dip (or is it quandrupal dip at this point?) for the English releases.
 

MadeULook

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Awesome! Been on a Yakuza binge with both 0 and Kiwami 2. Judgement has given me a good fix so far but I'm more than ready for the next one in the mainline.
 
Diablos

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Excellent news.

Shelling out less than 20-30 dollars for each one isn't a bad thing.

The sooner this arrives the better.
 
Dreamboum

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I didn't like the game as much as the previous games in the series but it's still the game I cried the most. Just bawling like a baby. There's something about Yakuza's sincere melodrama that really makes me go on a breakdown, and I'd say it was great development for Kiryu Kazuma
 
Tatsu91

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vestan said:
So a German livestream/entertainment channel that goes by Rocket Beans TV has Yakuza 3 on their gamescom streaming schedule alongside a bunch of other games. If you click this link and CTRL+F for Yakuza 3 you can see it alongside Catherine: Full Body, another SEGA game.

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They were set to talk about Yakuza 3 specifically on the 21st at 4:30 pm CEST which is a bit before Opening Night Live meaning the western localization gets revealed a bit earlier in the day.

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The news i was hoping for
 
J75

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Would love if PC got this simultaneously with PS4 but i won't hold my breath for that one.
 
Fat4all

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the only thing i dont like going back to the older games is the older engine

i replayed a few Yakuzies after beating Judgment and i missed going into most buildings without having to load
 
Hailinel

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FHIZ said:
That'd be nice, wonder what took so long for these.
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Hopefully cleaning up the localization to be more consistent with the more recent releases and more accurate to the original Japanese. Yakuza 3 had some odd and unnecessary script changes, and now those are English continuity errors.
 
Diarrhea Day-Lewis

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Can't wait. I adore the Yakuza series and world. The day I catch up on all the games will be a sad day lol.

Beaten 0, 1, 2 and Judgment. Own 6 but waiting to play it after 3-4-5
 
thepenguin55

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Stygr said:
If this is 3 only, SEGA is too dumb thinking they can charge 20-40 bucks for 3 and another 20-40 bucks for 4 and 5 lol
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$60 for all 3 would be more than reasonable but $30 or more for each game would be a bit much.

So is it safe to assume that they're redoing the localization for at least Y3? I doubt Y4 & Y5 would really need it.
 
shadowman16

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Yerffej said:
Where is the new Yakuza
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Getting shown off in Japan on August 29th, almost certainly then following up at TGS a month later.

thepenguin55 said:
$60 for all 3 would be more than reasonable but $30 or more for each game would be a bit much.

So is it safe to assume that they're redoing the localization for at least Y3? I doubt Y4 & Y5 would really need it.
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The scripts in 4 and 5 could do with cleaning up here and there. There's a couple of spelling/grammar mistakes in them and a couple of times in both 4 and 5 they use the word "tranny" for describing certain characters which won't fly.
But largely, they could be kept the same. I only wonder if we'll be lucky enough this time to get the licensed music for all 3 games, as it really elevates certain cutscenes (and just sounds great in 3 and 5's intros, 4's can fuck off though and keep For Faith's song). We've gotten newer songs for Kiwami 2 and Judgment, but legacy licensing might screw them over here :(
 
KaCo

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Nice, can't wait to replay it again. Personally enjoyed the orphanage angle of 3.
 
Lant_War

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I've been holding on starting Yakuza Kiwami 2 until the whole series is on PS4 so this is great news.
 
J75

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Simultaneous release on PC might be a tad much too ask but we might see a simultaneous announcement on PC with a delayed release like they did with the new Monkey Ball remaster.
 
Kalor

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I imagine the PC release will be simultaneous this time. They released Kiwami 2 over 6 first so they must be intending to go in order.
 
shadowman16

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Astral said:
So it won't be Kiwami 3?
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Well a remaster of 3 exists in Japan and is already on the PS4 (I finished it, its amazing). A Kiwami 3 doesn't exist and Sega aren't going to spend time remaking a game they just remastered last year. So no, no Kiwami 3!

And the remasters really don't need all that much improvement. Maybe you could argue 3 could do with some improved character models and animation that it lacked at the time of the PS3 release, but 4 and especially 5 are already excellent and are only made better by the remaster work (better res and FPS). They'd be compromised if they were remade (with the amount of content in 5 - 5 cities and a shit ton of activities) they'd have to cut several things to get it done - as Sega don't give much time or budget for remakes or remasters (hence why Kiwami 2 has some changes over 2)
 
Macca

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I'm thinking they won't do simultaneous releases so they can get people to double dip. Maybe that's a cynical way to look at it.
 
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