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Claimed, but gonna stick with Grimoire Weiss for now.

@GuttyYZ Europe, Middle East, Africa I believe.

@johncalmc They do on Steam; I have the plats for I-III & V (those for IV & VI have some heavily RNG-dependent trophies based on getting crazy-rare drops & the like).

@GorosBat The PC ports of XIII & XIII-2 have . . . issues, certainly . . . but are entirely playable even on my somewhat antiquated rig.

@Snake_V5 ESRB only lists Switch, PS4 & Windows PC.

@Constable_What Partially disagree on the deus ex machina comment. Yeah, Cid's "What does this lever do?" moments with the airship count, but what happens in the main ending and prevents Meteor destroying everything was set up on Disc 1.

Seriously, is there a "spoiler text" tag on this site? I know this is a 25 year old game we're talking about but there are still people here who haven't played it.

@Areus Okay, fair enough. That was the end of Disc 1.

@Areus Temple of the Ancients wasn't even the end of Disc 1: Unless Remake project is going to massively compress the rest of the story, that's way too early. (I typed most of what follows before reading your post)

EDIT: the comment I was replying to got edited after I posted this.

In terms of where Rebirth is going to cut off — well since we don't know how wildly the rest of the remake project is going to deviate from the story beats of the original, hard to say.

I was somewhat expecting / fearing 3 more parts of the remake project roughly following a 3-act structure for the post-Midgard story, i.e. Relived ending at Temple of the Ancients, Remember ending with Cloud's return (which would break up the Huge Materia quest chain, granted, but that wasn't all that well structured to begin with) and Reunion (like many other folk I legit thought this a likely candidate for subtitle of the last part until the Crisis Core remaster was announced) going underwater, into space, back to Midgar and to the centre of the Planet. Oh, and with a contrived Sephiroth boss fight at the end of the second and third as well.

But for a suitable dramatic breakpoint roughly midway through the post-Midgar story, Whirlwind Maze, with Revengeance or w/e beginning with the escape from Junon: and possibly Cid and Vincent's joining, or at least becoming playable, held over to then.

Tough choice. Still haven't gotten myself a PS5 & my PC is below the rec spec for Intergrade. Looking forward to all of them, even playing to check out Ever Crisis in the hope that the level of gacha & grind isn't too ghastly.

Of the three listed, probably XVI by a small margin, even though I'm not that good at spectacle fighters.

@GamingFan4Lyf Far as I can tell this is remaster not remake so will be retaining the original storyline, i.e. it will be in one of the alternate timelines that Remake acknowledges.

Probably going with the FF VII stream, though mainly hoping for news on Ever Crisis (that isn't delay / cancellation), Crisis Core would be a bonus; I played DDDA on PC but didn't get heavily into it: I have vague memories of watching the recent Dragon's Dogma animation but if I did then it wasn't very, well, memorable.

@Theaussiegamer92 haha okay the question I answered definitely wasn't what you meant then. Does this site have a spoiler-text tag for comments? If you've played OG VII you'll probably know there are a whole load of dialogue & other choices over the first disc relating to Tifa, Aerith, & some other characters, the cumulative effect of which determines which of 4 scenes plays out at a certain point towards the end of Disc 1. That was the kind of thing I meant, and it is specifically a (player) choice between Tifa & Aerith.

@Theaussiegamer92 At the start of chapter 10 (immediately after leaving Wall Market). The choice (which IIRC could be made in the original) helps determine one subsequent scene a few chapters later. Being deliberately vague here. [Also, while an answer to a literal reading of your question, that's possibly not what you meant ]

@Colour The end of FF7R explicity indicates the existence of multiple timelines, and strongly implies that some characters at least are aware of them.

@JJtheTexan AFAIK the official "Compilation" titles are the original game, Advent Children (sequel CG movie), Before Crisis (prequel phone game, never released outside Japan), Crisis Core (prequel PSP game) & Dirge of Cerberus (sequel third-person shooter for PS2). Ever Crisis (currently only advertised for mobile) is supposed to encompass all these. There have been other spin-off media including an animation called Last Order (not counted as canon to Compilation as it contradicts Crisis Core), the G-Bike game for phones, a collection of short stories, the recent First Soldier battle-royale phone game & prolly others I've forgotten or never heard of.

@Voltan For the Japanese releases, yes. The definite articles were dropped for the English-localised releases because it sounds weird if English is your first language.

@ThomasHL Have you played VII-R?

@GorosBat Haha yeah I started a series replay in number order (omitting the MMOs, I never got into 11 and quit 14 during Heavensward) when the first pixel remasters released on Steam, but kept getting sidetracked & currently a little way into 12 (just past Tomb of Raithwall).

@MisterXpoSay The story elements of Before Crisis / Crisis Core / Dirge of Cerberus are being worked into Ever Crisis which is currently only advertised for mobile. Per other comments, Ever Crisis news (or possibly a delay announcement) is one of the more likely things to come out of this coming event.

The last thing IX needs is something in the style of VII-R, even without the extended Development Hell part.

The kind of remake I'd like to see is something that keeps the general aesthetic & puts the whole game in the style & detail level of the original's pre-rendered cutscenes.

@shonenjump86 Definitely worth it. 5 runs like crap on PS3 IMO, and Yakuza 3 PS3 had a rushed and woefully incomplete localisation job.

Also, out of curiosity, why does the header image show the Chinese cover art for Zero?

@Shinnok789 "One pill . . . makes you larger
And one pill . . . makes you small
And the ones your mother gives you
Don't do anything at all."

@JustPlainLoco Per the SEGA_Europe twitter feed, yeah, this evening's livestream is going to be gameplay of the new PPT content.

@CupidStunt Remember this franchise has previously had main / major characters called Tina Branford and Cecil Harvey.
@jmac1686 We got Bartz because a more accurate romanisation of バッツ would have been the well, butt, of jokes.

Gods, whichever bored /v/ troll came up with this nonsense is laughing their arse off now it's actually getting some traction.

@Jester1701one Given the game has reportedly sold over 4 million, not all that high.
@thefirst haha yeah, had that once.

@Makina We don't know, but there's nothing in the descriptions of the announced DLC packs (6 of which are included in the most expensive digital edition) to indicate they are.

The first game's dub was a complete abomination, but that was IMO down to (a) script style being set by committee, going all out with US street slang / profanity to appeal to GTA fans while keeping Japanese honorifics and terms like "aniki" and "oyabun" and (b) poor or non-existent voice direction.

Hamill and a few others did the best they could under those conditions.

It is currently unconfirmed (read: the localisation team leader was asked point-blank about it on Twitter & basically replied that he was NDA'd on that point) whether any of the cast from the PS2 Yakuza dub will reprise their roles.

@Rash tbh that would have been one for the "Remasters and Retro" deals (wasn't in there either tho' a couple of the individual games were).

@topic, hmm, Shin Sakura Taisen deluxe edition slightly discounted (i.e. 50p less than the regular edition), that's a possible. Also tempted by the DMC bundle in the "retro" sale (don't think the Steam version ever goes on sale).

Dammit was hoping for the Kunio-kun bundle to be in that sale (a couple of the games in it are, in the Arcade Archives series) — £30 is a bit more than I'm inclined to spend on a bunch of emulated Famicom games.

idk if the entire translation was re-done from scratch; certain side content that was left out of the Western PS3 release obviously had to be done from scratch, and the entire script has at the very least had a major edit pass. Some of the localisation team have discussed this on Twitter recently.

All the name changes (some originating in the dub of the first game, some introduced in 3 like rendering あさがお, "morning glory" as "Sunshine"), plus everyone calling Kiryu by his given name have been reverted.

@shonenjump86 Not quite, Sôten no Ken.

Nitpick / observation: the article thumbnail is from a trailer for the PS3 version. One of the protagonists, rather notoriously, had his character model and voicework replaced for the PS4 version after the original actor (whose face was used for the character model) got hounded out of the industry over false & probably malicious allegations of illegal drug use.

To be clear, with the exception of licensed music tracks, any content cuts / changes in Yakuza 3 PS4 compared to the Japanese PS3 original (& there are a few) originate with Ryū ga Gotoku 3 PS4 & were driven by local market or legal / licensing / contract considerations.

For a bit more context, direct link to the IGN stream cited by that twitter post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ4mJRsfBCs
Yakuza section starts a little before the 3 hour mark, specific question (re possible remaster / western release of Kenzan, Ishin & Dead Souls) at about 3:03:30.

EDIT: oops, looks like a longer version of the archive got uploaded & the timestamp I gave is now wrong.

@Stocksy 3 & 4 have 2 different versions of a fictional shooter called Boxcelios (the Japanese PS3 originals also had a trivia game called Answer x Answer which was never localised and left out of the PS4 ports). 5 has a rhythm game called Taiko no Tatsujin and Virtua Fighter 2 iirc.

@ellsworth004 The original Yakuza on PS2 does. It's . . . not great. Some of the voice cast (e.g. Mark Hamill as Majima) did the best they could with the script they were given and the voice direction (or lack thereof) they got.

FWIW the entry for Yakuza 3 on the Rocket Beans schedule has been changed to an unnamed "Atlus-Spiel"; while the localisation team who worked on the PS4 Yakuza games are formally part of Atlus USA (Atlus being a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sega in any case), the games so far have been published without the Atlus brand.

@AdamNovice . . . 15 years after its original release. I could cite a few cases of "Only on PlayStation" being true for about a tenth of that time.

Picked up Symphony of the Night for my PS3 (after playing through most of the CV anniversary collection). Judgment is still sitting in my backlog pile.

@Areus Case shot at 2:17 shows an ESRB rating logo not a CERO one, so not JP version but possibly a mock-up.

@Flurpsel haha not quite . . . RGG Studio have released these games on average about 1 a year since 2005 (including spin-offs like Kenzan!, Of The End / Dead Souls and Judge Eyes / Judgment and full remakes), English-speaking markets have been playing catch-up since Yakuza 5 took 3 years to get a localised release, so we did get 3 of them in 2018 (Yakuza 6, Yakuza Kiwami 2 & Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise).

@Gremio108 This studio's games are roughly half the reason I still own a PS3 (the other half being Metal Gear).

@tameshiyaku Yakuza 3's English-language PS3 release was notoriously incomplete and the parts that were translated need at minimum a once-over to revert name changes originating in the dub of the first game. Agree with you re: marketing concentrating on Judgment right now tho'.

Uh FF8 PC is in no way, shape or form "enhanced," it's a pretty bad port from around the time of the original PS release & did not even get the kind of minor fixes that the VII port did.

sigh Judgment & Sinking City within a few days of each other. Cold Steel I can wait on, still only a short way into Sky Second Chapter.

@Custom1991 if we want to get pedantic, Ryū ga Gotoku 5: Yume Kaneshi mono is releasing on PS4 this month in Japan, alongside Korean & Chinese translated versions. Yakuza 5 (i.e. an English translation of said game) hasn't even been confirmed to be happening and is . . . unlikely . . . to release this month even if they have been working on it, largely because much of the target audience are going to be buying Judgment.

@shonenjump86 The next Ryū ga Gotoku game has been confirmed since ages (initial teaser trailer was in 2017) & in the recent stream cited by the article Nagoshi stated all the writing & most of the voice recording for it is done. A localised version which may or may not be called Yakuza 7 is pretty much guaranteed given the success of the series this gen.

Sigh . . . and I bought the Nioh DLC full price a coupla weeks ago after finally getting the plat on the base game.

@Discipledoctor well, no actual / purported gameplay footage (leaving aside the online game which has a different art style), Ichiban's character model appeared in a 2017 teaser cinematic for Yakuza: Next! (or whatever this game ends up being called) and the Fist of the North Star game (Hokuto ga Gotoku / Lost Paradise).