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[Fire Queen]

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is platted! honestly kind of a bit underwhelming of a plat, i don't want to say disappointingly easy because that makes me sound insane but it took just over a week. no 100%ing the completion list, no post-game things, no replaying it on a harder difficulty. i did manage to get it to kick the plat upon finishing the game cuz i'd already done everything else. time to wait for the next rgg game!

 

[Spiner202]

Updated to here. @Smacktard I found a couple of games that were missing from your total, so I added those too.

 

[Spiner202]

One of the posts that got lost in the purge a couple of days ago was me getting Platinum #83: Dead Island 2. At that time, I hadn't completed the DLC, but now I have, so it's another 100% as well!

 

[Smacktard]

Plat + 100% Fashion Police Squad and Mass Effect 1

 

[Spiner202]

Congrats! Updated to here!

 

[Smacktard]

So, how are these lists updated? Are they updated manually every now and then? Should I post here whenever I've plat'd a game?

I just platinumed Batman: Arkham Asylum on the remastered PS4 collection. Good game, big fun. I think I actually liked Origins better though, for the setting and the more refined combat.

 

[Fire Queen]

i have never heard anyone say that about origins. from what i understood the general consensus was city > asylum > origins, which is an assessment i agree with for the most part. (i haven't touched knight and don't plan to.) did you play city? the feeling was that origins was a rehash of city that didn't offer a lot of new stuff, which is why people were sour on it, but if you haven't touched city you didn't have that experience

 

[Smacktard]

i have never heard anyone say that about origins. from what i understood the general consensus was city > asylum > origins, which is an assessment i agree with for the most part. (i haven't touched knight and don't plan to.) did you play city? the feeling was that origins was a rehash of city that didn't offer a lot of new stuff, which is why people were sour on it, but if you haven't touched city you didn't have that experience

Yeah, Origins was my first. I still haven't played City. I knew Origins got a lot of flak, but didn't know why. I'm playing Yakuza 0 next, so it'll be probably be a while before I ever make it to City.

 

[Fire Queen]

Yeah, Origins was my first. I still haven't played City. I knew Origins got a lot of flak, but didn't know why. I'm playing Yakuza 0 next, so it'll be probably be a while before I ever make it to City.

they're so cookie cutter you're probably fine playing one but not the other. absolutely no rush to get to it especially if you have yakuza 0 right in front of you

 

[Smacktard]

they're so cookie cutter you're probably fine playing one but not the other. absolutely no rush to get to it especially if you have yakuza 0 right in front of you

Are the Yakuza games not all quite similar to each other?

 

[Fire Queen]

Are the Yakuza games not all quite similar to each other?

you'd be surprised how different they feel game to game. trust me if they had been as similar as arkham city/origins i would have gone insane by yakuza 3 lol. each game is unique and has its own identity even if the beat-em-up mechanics don't change until they replace them with the rpg mechanics in y7. and yeah, a lot of assets and areas get reused but...idk it feels different since they're all so closely based on actual real-life area.

as an example, maybe some of the old PIMItes remember my japan trip in 2008 (at one point during my homestay with a japanese family i accessed #pimi through a web client someone made and for some reason pretended to be a japanese person who had just stumbled upon it. no one should ever be sixteen years old.) here's a pic i snapped, at the time because i saw sega and monkey brain like video game



i know exactly where this is in kabuki-cho, the real-life equivalent of yakuza's kamurocho setting. if you keep walking to the left of club sega, down that street, you'll eventually run into millennium tower. if you hang a right and walk down that street in front of the club sega, you'll make it to pink street, which is the area where all the cabarets are. the intersection before this one takes you to the mahjong parlor, although im certain theres way more than just one mahjong parlor in japan.

there's also new areas and minigames in each single game. yakuza 0 has two major areas to explore: kiryu has kamurocho in tokyo and majima has sotenbori in osaka. yakuza kiwami 1 and 2 are kind of unique since they're full remasters--have fun with the pissing minigames in yk1 i think. maybe they're in yk2, i can't remember. yakuza 3 adds okinawa, yakuza 4 adds three new playable characters, 5 has FIVE unique areas to explore, and 6 is primarily focused on an area that's not in any other yakuza game.

in short, if those two arkham games were cookie cutter out of laziness than the yakuza series is cookie cutter with a purpose. even kamurocho changes and evolves over time. and so many of the places you can visit and stores you can frequent are actual, real places. you can buy a Mountain Dew from Don Quijote in real life, and you can buy a Mountain Dew from Don Quijote (Donki for short, enjoy the jingle that will get stuck in your head) in yakuza 0.

 

[Smacktard]

I forgot that you did a homestay in Japan. And in 2008 too -- that must've been awesome. That MGS4 billboard made me lol. 80's and 90's Japan probably couldn't be beat, but your pic just makes me want to be there, at that time period. I've traveled to Tokyo three times and Osaka twice, so I'm sure I'll recognize some places in Yakuza. And I finally visited Don Quijote on my last trip. Like you said, the jingle was incredibly catchy. My wife and I would just start singing it sometimes.

You have me hyped up to finally try Yakuza, but I'm traveling for a couple of weeks, so it'll have to wait until I come back.

 

[Spiner202]

So, how are these lists updated? Are they updated manually every now and then? Should I post here whenever I've plat'd a game?

I just platinumed Batman: Arkham Asylum on the remastered PS4 collection. Good game, big fun. I think I actually liked Origins better though, for the setting and the more refined combat.

Yup I update them manually. I try to synchronize them to people's public profiles, but if they aren't public, I'll just add whatever they tell me.

You can post every time. I'll make a post once I've updated the OP.

 

[Spiner202]

Updated to here, including #84 Resogun for myself. According to PSN Profiles, it took me 11 years and 1 month to get the platinum

 

[Smacktard]

Platinumed Stray. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The beginning section is the most boring part. After that, there's some exploration, action, and stealth sequences that are nice

 

[Spiner202]

Got the 100% back for Astro Bot

Platinumed Stray. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The beginning section is the most boring part. After that, there's some exploration, action, and stealth sequences that are nice

It's such a fun, unique game!

I've updated to here. @Smacktard you're gaining on me!

 

[Spiner202]

Updated to here, including #84 Resogun for myself. According to PSN Profiles, it took me 11 years and 1 month to get the platinum

I'm not at 100% in this game yet, but I just need to pop in and say that the DLC for this game is some of the hardest gaming content I've ever played. Several trophies can only be achieved via co-op (unless you're the best Resogun player in the world), and even those ones are crazy hard.

I got what is probably the hardest trophy today with some guy - we've been working on a 20-minute game mode for probably close to 10 hours together. I still have a bunch of trophies left, but wow is this game frustrating.

The only thing I've played that is comparable so far is the Mega Man Legacy Collection challenges, although I also have not beaten that yet.

 

[Spiner202]

Some new (free) DLC trophies just came out for The Last of Us Part II Remastered. They were fairly easy, so I'm back at 100% after it knocking me off of 100%.

 

[Spiner202]

Upgraded Resogun to 100%! The last trophy I needed was to beat the game in local co-op without dying (though there's a slight exploit you can use). It took me awhile to arrange a time when I could have a friend help, but we did it tonight without much trouble.