"We are middle-aged guys ourselves… so I guess that's the kind of target audience we're going for, probably."
"I think that this is precisely one of Like a Dragon's selling points. In Yakuza: Like a Dragon, everything starts with three unemployed middle-aged guys being like "Let's go to Hello Work." They have a different air about them than a group of young heroes would, complaining about back pain and the like. But this "humanity" you feel from their age is what gives the game originality."
The two creators compare the feeling of playing Yakuza games to "chilling out with older guys in a bar," as opposed to "going on an exhausting drinking party with young people."
heck yeah boomers making boomer games
they should add a grilling mini game to the next one
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What they have been doing is working? That just doesn't sound right. These women just plain don't know what they want!
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There's karaoke too
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I still have like 8 of these to play (I bought them all and work through them in cold months) and I would be surprised if there isn't a ridiculously involved side-game where Kiryu operates a food truck empire already
Anyway Yakuza is hands down the best IP out there and I have nothing but good things to say about it
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no food truck, but in Like a Dragon's longass management activity is a gigacorp that starts as a sweets store, and in 5 & ishin there are restaurant minigames.
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I refuse to believe such a thing exists where you live.
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They need a fishing minigame if they don't already have one (and if they do, make it better)
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They actually do lol
I'm pretty sure they even have some Sega arcade machines in some of them where you can play old fishing arcade games too
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massive yakuza nerd here, i promise you that it's mostly just trains checking that survey box
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My younger sister plays Yakuza games so you're wrong.
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is she hot
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She's 21 you sick frick
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Kiryu is the most popular video game himbo in japan
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There is grilling in Ishin my negro
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A mini game in which you perform a colonoscopy on majima
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Maybe Zoomers and Millennials can have a fricking young guy Yakuza game if they join the fricking Yakuza and other gangs instead
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Clickbait title aside it's a decent article where the author seems to understand that the series has gotten popular because of what it is and changing that would likely alienate these new fans just like the old ones.
Not used to a games journ*list being able to draw such an obvious conclusion these days.
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Budget Simulator 2025! LFG
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Snapshots:
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/despite-the-influx-of-young-and-female-fans-the-like-a-dragon-series-will-keep-being-about-middle-aged-guys-doing-middle-aged-guy-things-according-to-devs/:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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