Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?
Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?
Feel free to let everyone know what you're currently playing, recommend some great titles from yesteryear (especially on sale).
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I've been playing Yakuza 5 and, as always, I cannot recommend this series enough. There's a pretty large quality drop-off going from Kiwami 2 to Yakuza 3 Remastered, but at minimum Yakuza 0, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2 are all worth playing 100% and after the hurdle of 3 it gets great again.
The stories are well-paced crime thrillers, the characters are interesting, the combat manages to feel good without just being another Arkham clone, and the games being set in Japan makes it a fun experience to walk through as someone who doesn't live there. They're a blast. Not on sale at the moment, but the Steam Summer Sale starts tomorrow.
They're actually still on sale right now, on GOG, I believe. The entire series is something like 80% off.
I hadn't even known they were on GOG.
I wouldn't exactly call it a quality drop off since Kiwami 1 and 2 are basically full remakes of the original first 2 games using the newer engines. The story is still really strong going forward. But I do agree that I got whiplash going from Kiwami 2 to 3, 4, and 5.
As of the other day the series was on sale at GOG. ~$30 for 0 though 6.
New to the series and started with 0 and been enjoying it.
Wasn't expecting someone to mention Yakuza when I opened this thread! I'm in the middle of playing Kiwami 2 right now after having played 0 and Kiwami 1 like 2 years ago. I'm super glad it had a massive recap of the previous game at the beginning because as much as like the series, there's so much shit that goes on and I didn't remember half of it. I think 0 is the standout in the series so far and I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to get into the games.