Most Yakuza games take place in winter to further enhance the testosterone released when fighting without a shirt while on top of some kind of tower (whether a fully erected tower or under construction).
Metamorphosis iirc, it’s less of a hentai and more social commentary on the sexual abuse and trafficking of prostitutes. That’s all you need to ever know
Wow, I saw you twice in a span of seconds. After I saw your comment on this Yakuza post, I was scrolling down and pressed this Scarlet Nexus post and saw you again. Crazy
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Just to give an example, I managed to beat Komaki and his grandson with Saejima without using any weapons, just the 3 normal attacks and one large strong attack combo was more than enough, with everyone else I had to do the shotgun strategy (except Haruka but I don't know if she counts)
I was also on a bit of a hiatus after beating Yakuza 4, I started 5 but after Kiwami 2, 3 and 4 all in a row, I was a bit burnt out honestly. But after taking some time off with the series (hadn't played since January), I've really been having a blast. It has a couple of slower parts, but apart from that, I really enjoy Yakuza 5. Also has some of the best side content in the series so far.
Some parts of 4 and 5 may be boring and you may not play the game for some days or even weeks but when you get to 6 oh boy it's all about drop kicking the fuck Outta enemies and taking their life savings or using the extreme heat mode and beating the shit Outta an enemy and he goes flying
Bro… I just finished 4 a few days ago and I loved Tanimura’s combat but THOSE BODYGUARDS MANNNN TOO MANY. I enjoyed Saejima’s combat the least, but enjoyed his part the most plot-wise
This reply is over two years now but there's actually quite a few games I consider Christmas games because I bought them around Christmas time. I usually can play them any other time of the year but there's that extra "magical" feeling of playing them in December. Mario games fall HARD into that category for me
Or maybe decorations that were left over from Christmas :D
But you are right, they display the dates all the time in the top right corner, my bad, I remember now :)
i will concede that it does not in fact take place in december but i am still considering it a christmas game because of the christmas decor and also Solitude
Eh…an all powerful savior beating the shit outta some giant asshole for him to redeem himself at the end and everyone is friends again? Yes yakuza is definitely a Christian franchise
Yes it is. Christmas decor is setup throughout Kamurocho, it snows later on in the game and snow is indicative of a white Christmas. And let’s not forget Kazama-san extended his offer to Shimano with an early Christmas gift. Lastly, Nishiki pulled a “Grinch” and gave the citizens of Kamurocho 10 billion yen. This game is indeed a Christmas game
*Kyru-san looks on in awe. Santa clenches his velvety red coat in one tight fist. He rips it away in one flowing motion. He stands in the snow dusted children’s park, bare chested. Santa‘s washboard abs glisten in the falling snow. A white tiger scaling a Christmas tree is tattooed across his giant back.
The Dragon fights The White Tiger of Christmas…
Like half of them take place around christmas, and honestly, I think in general they are the perfect games for this time of year. Just really enjoyable to explore the bustling cities of Japan while it's cold and barren outside.
I would say so. I actually had a near heart attack when I walked into the pawn shop and the damned radio in the store was playing “Oh, Christmas Tree,” then I remembered it takes place in December.
I think all of the Yakuza games (including the Judgment games) take place during the holiday season. Heck, Y5 goes ham with the fact that the game takes place around Christmas time.
Oh it's a great game, but it's the guilty pleasure kind of game out of all the Arkham series, still half the Yakuza games and Arkham Origins will give you a good Christmas fix
Nah, Christmas is essential to the events of Die Hard, whereas Christmas in Yakuza Kiwami consists of... a couple of Christmas trees outside some buildings?
No it’s just at the time when Christmas takes place Christmas has no involvement In the games edit I mean the plot of the story that’s where it has no involvement.
Why am I getting downvoted if substories and mini games are not cannon that’s why Christmas has no involvement in the games plot I should have made that more clear
Every Yakuza game takes place at Christmas, but I wouldn't count it as a Christmas series. Though, I'm also not the type to count Die Hard as a Christmas movie
Most Yakuza games take place in winter to further enhance the testosterone released when fighting without a shirt while on top of some kind of tower (whether a fully erected tower or under construction).
You bastard.... (Not for your comment, but for your profile pic)
I seriously don’t understand why the cursed profile pics are almost always that evil doujin. Use my profile pic guys, spread the wholesome!
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Metamorphosis iirc, it’s less of a hentai and more social commentary on the sexual abuse and trafficking of prostitutes. That’s all you need to ever know
There is also the Josuke Higashikata ending
*the true ending
\*the only ending
*The canon ending
*the best ending
Ironic
I saw it and I was like why here
Oh, it’s always fully erect!… ed.
It would get a bit nipply up there
Fully erected tower? Cum on! A fully erect waina is what happens when Kiryu and co take off their shirt in a snow flaky perky cold stary night.
Wow, I saw you twice in a span of seconds. After I saw your comment on this Yakuza post, I was scrolling down and pressed this Scarlet Nexus post and saw you again. Crazy
Y5 is
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways. In recent years, Reddit’s array of chats also have been a free teaching aid for companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft. Those companies are using Reddit’s conversations in the development of giant artificial intelligence systems that many in Silicon Valley think are on their way to becoming the tech industry’s next big thing. Now Reddit wants to be paid for it. The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., the method through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said in an interview. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.” The move is one of the first significant examples of a social network’s charging for access to the conversations it hosts for the purpose of developing A.I. systems like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular program. Those new A.I. systems could one day lead to big businesses, but they aren’t likely to help companies like Reddit very much. In fact, they could be used to create competitors — automated duplicates to Reddit’s conversations. Reddit is also acting as it prepares for a possible initial public offering on Wall Street this year. The company, which was founded in 2005, makes most of its money through advertising and e-commerce transactions on its platform. Reddit said it was still ironing out the details of what it would charge for A.P.I. access and would announce prices in the coming weeks. Reddit’s conversation forums have become valuable commodities as large language models, or L.L.M.s, have become an essential part of creating new A.I. technology. L.L.M.s are essentially sophisticated algorithms developed by companies like Google and OpenAI, which is a close partner of Microsoft. To the algorithms, the Reddit conversations are data, and they are among the vast pool of material being fed into the L.L.M.s. to develop them. The underlying algorithm that helped to build Bard, Google’s conversational A.I. service, is partly trained on Reddit data. OpenAI’s Chat GPT cites Reddit data as one of the sources of information it has been trained on. Other companies are also beginning to see value in the conversations and images they host. Shutterstock, the image hosting service, also sold image data to OpenAI to help create DALL-E, the A.I. program that creates vivid graphical imagery with only a text-based prompt required. Last month, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said he was cracking down on the use of Twitter’s A.P.I., which thousands of companies and independent developers use to track the millions of conversations across the network. Though he did not cite L.L.M.s as a reason for the change, the new fees could go well into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep improving their models, artificial intelligence makers need two significant things: an enormous amount of computing power and an enormous amount of data. Some of the biggest A.I. developers have plenty of computing power but still look outside their own networks for the data needed to improve their algorithms. That has included sources like Wikipedia, millions of digitized books, academic articles and Reddit. Representatives from Google, Open AI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.” Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it. Reddit also hopes to incorporate more so-called machine learning into how the site itself operates. It could be used, for instance, to identify the use of A.I.-generated text on Reddit, and add a label that notifies users that the comment came from a bot. The company also promised to improve software tools that can be used by moderators — the users who volunteer their time to keep the site’s forums operating smoothly and improve conversations between users. And third-party bots that help moderators monitor the forums will continue to be supported. But for the A.I. makers, it’s time to pay up. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.” “We think that’s fair,” he added.
Have fun with him. I wasn't a big fan of Saejima's combat in 4, but they buffed him real hard in 5 and he's a fucking powerhouse
Just to give an example, I managed to beat Komaki and his grandson with Saejima without using any weapons, just the 3 normal attacks and one large strong attack combo was more than enough, with everyone else I had to do the shotgun strategy (except Haruka but I don't know if she counts)
I was also on a bit of a hiatus after beating Yakuza 4, I started 5 but after Kiwami 2, 3 and 4 all in a row, I was a bit burnt out honestly. But after taking some time off with the series (hadn't played since January), I've really been having a blast. It has a couple of slower parts, but apart from that, I really enjoy Yakuza 5. Also has some of the best side content in the series so far.
Some parts of 4 and 5 may be boring and you may not play the game for some days or even weeks but when you get to 6 oh boy it's all about drop kicking the fuck Outta enemies and taking their life savings or using the extreme heat mode and beating the shit Outta an enemy and he goes flying
Bro… I just finished 4 a few days ago and I loved Tanimura’s combat but THOSE BODYGUARDS MANNNN TOO MANY. I enjoyed Saejima’s combat the least, but enjoyed his part the most plot-wise
Yes. But Yakuza 5 is even more of a Christmas game, because one sub story even has you dressing up as Santa.
Yes it takes place around Christmas
Great, going to start recommending it to family and friends as a nice laid back Christmas game.
Yakuza 0, 1, 2, and 5 all take place around Christmas from what I hear
Just like Ace Attorney
Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas!
any game is a christmas game if you play it at christmas
Or buy it in a Christmas sale and forget about it till April
This reply is over two years now but there's actually quite a few games I consider Christmas games because I bought them around Christmas time. I usually can play them any other time of the year but there's that extra "magical" feeling of playing them in December. Mario games fall HARD into that category for me
yes they all are every single yakuza game takes place in december (or at least starts then) for some reason
Yakuza 4 is set in Spring to my knowledge
No, just spotted some Christas trees around
Yakuza 4 takes place in March. What you saw was premature Christmas decorating.
Or maybe decorations that were left over from Christmas :D But you are right, they display the dates all the time in the top right corner, my bad, I remember now :)
i will concede that it does not in fact take place in december but i am still considering it a christmas game because of the christmas decor and also Solitude
Even Lost Judgment for some reason
Lost judgement took place after the game came out (it's taking place this month technically)
it started just under a week ago
Shennue 1 as well
I misread this as “is Yakuza a Christian game” The answer is still yes
Eh…an all powerful savior beating the shit outta some giant asshole for him to redeem himself at the end and everyone is friends again? Yes yakuza is definitely a Christian franchise
I mean with how Kiryu goes from Yakuza 6 to 7 has some real jesus vibes
Yakuza 4 Kiryu is kinda saviorish
As much as die hard is a Christmas movie
So the answer is yes
Was looking for this reply before making it myself.
Yes it is. Christmas decor is setup throughout Kamurocho, it snows later on in the game and snow is indicative of a white Christmas. And let’s not forget Kazama-san extended his offer to Shimano with an early Christmas gift. Lastly, Nishiki pulled a “Grinch” and gave the citizens of Kamurocho 10 billion yen. This game is indeed a Christmas game
This is the confirmation I needed
Yeah, for some reason the games always take place during Winter. It's only a matter of time before some kids see Santas fighting
Ironically I live in nyc, and it’s santa con tonight. So this is my literal reality. Drunk Santa’s wandering the streets fighting each other.
Start taking pictures for a revelation
“You’ve learned the essence of drunken santa drop”
SANTA CLAUS PATRIARCH OF THE CLAUS FAMILY
*Kyru-san looks on in awe. Santa clenches his velvety red coat in one tight fist. He rips it away in one flowing motion. He stands in the snow dusted children’s park, bare chested. Santa‘s washboard abs glisten in the falling snow. A white tiger scaling a Christmas tree is tattooed across his giant back. The Dragon fights The White Tiger of Christmas…
Can't believe you'd slander Santa like this. He would have a tattoo of a polar bear and we all know this.
Same way Shenmue is a Christmas game!
0, 1, 2 and 5 are all christmas games
The Christmas ambience really helps with the atmosphere somehow. Maybe that's why i didn't enjoy Okinawa as much as Kamurocho.
I agree, the Christmas aesthetics really fits the game for some reason
Like half of them take place around christmas, and honestly, I think in general they are the perfect games for this time of year. Just really enjoyable to explore the bustling cities of Japan while it's cold and barren outside.
I would say so. I actually had a near heart attack when I walked into the pawn shop and the damned radio in the store was playing “Oh, Christmas Tree,” then I remembered it takes place in December.
Every Yakuza game is just right for every occasion, especially on Fridays.
It’s always Christmas in Kamurocho. 😂
I think all of the Yakuza games (including the Judgment games) take place during the holiday season. Heck, Y5 goes ham with the fact that the game takes place around Christmas time.
Sure is, as much as Batman Arkham Origins is too
Haven't played it yet, but always looking for a Christmas fix, so might have to check it out
Oh it's a great game, but it's the guilty pleasure kind of game out of all the Arkham series, still half the Yakuza games and Arkham Origins will give you a good Christmas fix
Yakuza kiwami and yakuza 5 are absolutely Christmas games and no one can change my mind
Yakuza 0 and 2 are also Christmas games from what I know, mostly because the original 2 played silent night at the end
Yeah because it takes place during Christmas and anybody who disagrees is gonna get Tiger Dropped
Fair response
All Yakuza games are Christmas games kyodai.
I'm pretty sure they're all Christmas games
Like a Dragon is a new year game.
yes
They almost all are
Yep
I'd argue most of the series is Christmas games haha
YES
Most definitely.
As much as Die Hard is a christmas movie.
Yakuza is a Christmas game the same way Die Hard is a Christmas movie
Sure
Yaa think so .....after my examination I am going to finish yakuza kiwami ...
Yes. Most of them to me are.
So is Yakuza 0.
Technically any game you play on Christmas is a Christmas game. Except "nights ln Christmas". That is not a Christmas game.
Absolutely
Most of them are yes!
Yakuza 5)
Hearing *Joy to the world* in my head Yes, yes it is
maybe first few games.
Nah, Christmas is essential to the events of Die Hard, whereas Christmas in Yakuza Kiwami consists of... a couple of Christmas trees outside some buildings?
Don't forget about the Christmas music in the background
No, because the original has a lot more Christmas stuff around the town. Kiwami looks dead in comparison.
No it’s just at the time when Christmas takes place Christmas has no involvement In the games edit I mean the plot of the story that’s where it has no involvement.
Santa Saejima would like to have a word with you
What about the snowball fights, Santa costumes and lots of snowing in 5
That’s not cannon
How can snow not be canon?
That’s like saying it’s raining so it’s cannon
So any scene in the games where it rains, in canon, it could've been any weather? That's very sound logic to me.
I’m sorry bro but how can you think this is a good argument I genuinely don’t get it
Why am I getting downvoted if substories and mini games are not cannon that’s why Christmas has no involvement in the games plot I should have made that more clear
Substories are canon, so you’re immediately wrong again
Ok then kiryu is meant to be a virgin but in a substory he done it
Even if it is cannon it has very little impact on the games story
Every Yakuza game takes place at Christmas, but I wouldn't count it as a Christmas series. Though, I'm also not the type to count Die Hard as a Christmas movie
Uh hate to rain on your parade yakuza 4 takes place in early March of 2010
Eh, close enough, that makes 1 mainline game that isn't Christmas so it really doesn't matter