Killing the Yakuza series could be the best thing for it

Play-mag: "A new advert for Yakuza sees the destruction of one of the game’s most famous areas. We think this could be the best step the series has taken in years."

[gravemaker]

i would love another 5 games in this series. They fking rocks. Yakuza 3 is almost as good as unch2

[ThanatosDMC]

I would agree... love Yakuza 3. But I want it to have a more open world feel. Yakuza will probably need to star another kick ass character But Kazuma is going to be hard to top and it'll piss off a lot of people when he's not around.

[Game-ur]

I like it like a TV series, with every season having a complete arc like 24.

And there was very different game set in feudal Japan, but it wasn’t localized, I wish we could do fan campaign to get it to NA.

[Redempteur]

there are several good candidates for kickassing ..majima being one of them

[ABizzel1]

This is an under appreciated series. These games are great, and I for one like them.

[Kain81]

O.o

[Simon_Brezhnev]

Actually Yakuza 3 is the worst in the series storywise. Yakuza 1 and 2 is way better im not sure about 4 yet.

[blind-reaper]

then I want a "collection" of yakuza 1 and 2 for PS3, Y3 was my first and I loved it!

[KiasuKiasiMan]

Honestly, I think not. The series has always been great, do we really need more from it I don't really think so. I mean Yakuza is currently one of Sega's biggest franchises, and to kill it in its prime would be stupid.

[Cloudberry]

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I hope not...

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[Akagi]

I hope so.

[Roonie]

Why? this is practically one of SEGA's great selling titles along with Valkyria 1.

VC sold 930k
Yakuza sold 820k

http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...
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[Cloudberry]

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Yakuza 3 English version sold more / less than 200.000?

Well, I think that's great, considering the awful same release date with Final Fantasy XIII & before God Of War III + the crazy contents cut...

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Valkyria Chronicles & Yakuza 3 worldwide sales are more / less than 900.000 & 800.000 respectively.

Awesome SEGA.

I just hope Yakuza 4 wont go head-to-head with Killzone 3 / Gears Of War 3 or something......... : l

[thief]

Didnt you hear, the only games worth making are generic 10-million selling shooters like Halo or CoD. Demon’s Souls, infamous, MAG, Lost Odyssey – all games that failed to hit 2 million and should have never been made.

[chidori soukou]

stupid article.. yakuza is very popular game in japan and japanese suport this game.

[AntsPai]

I think this is simply about the new installment in the franchise, they said the theme was destruction and since it looks like Kamurocho in the pic that destroyed I would assume thats all this is, an ad for the spin off title

I severly hope that Yakuza isn't being killed off :( I love that game

[showtimefolks]

but sega could try to chnage a few things more open wolrd things to do. Less small fights i mean if i am playing as kazuma who is well known by all the big shots how come these STREET THUGS keep coming upto me for no reason.

and i do understand you earn experience to level up from these fights but sometimes you fight one dude's gang and 2 seconds later here come another calling kazuma punk or grandpa lol

other than that its awsome

[Redempteur]

small fight are the equivalent of random encounters in rpgs ..they are here so you can master the fighting system and give you experience

[Redempteur]

"They’re not bad, they just never got beyond being ‘quite good’."

WHAT ? every yakuza game was excellent ..quite good ? don't make me laugh this are high budget games with famous voice actors ..

ryu ga gotoku spammed 2 movies and ( so far ) 5 games ( 2 on the making ) games "quite good" doesn't do that ...

[baker_boi]

Yeah tell that to the japanese gamers that love the shit out of this game. Everybody else need to just shut up.

If you don't like it? Don't play it.

Final Fantasy now has 14 fuckin games

Street Fighter got like a billion.

These cult games don't get old to the people who spend their money on em every time so if you think you know somethin about a game you DON'T like, please, shut up now.

Or let your bias put its foot in your mouth.

[Rybakov]

bad article i will love my yakuza games forever can't wait for us release of 4

[STGuy1040]

You and I both.

At the beginning of summer, a local movie store was closing its doors. Everything was for sale, including their video games. While browsing through their massive selection I came across a copy of Yakuza 1 for Playstation 2. It was complete, there were no scratches on the disc, and they were only asking $8.00. I was a very happy gamer that day.