Is this game 75% cutscenes all the way through?

[/^^\461|[ 834||]

I am enjoying this game but after 20 hours I'm starting to get a bit tired of sifting through text upon text with long cutscenes filled with so much bloat thats just not needed. My favourite parts of the game are when you are in the "dungeon" areas and have to work your way up to a boss. I like JRPG style gameplay, but so far it's been incredibly easy. My party basically one shots every encounter without the enemy getting a turn.

I'm starting to get tired of it and want to be challenged or have some real gameplay to get stuck into without the fluff. I was wondering if the game ever picks up or takes a change of pace to be more difficult or just more actually "playing" rather than sitting for hours reading conversations.

[Lar Dass]

you get the challenge in chapter 12, they deliberately made it easy for new players to this combat being turn based, after chap 12 it spikes
Yakuza is a jrpg so a ton of contextual cutscenes are just a norm for this genre

[/^^\461|[ 834||]

So I have to play for like another 30 hours to get a challenge? I dunno if I want to do that lol even by JRPG standards that is pretty ridiculous.

And cutscenes like this length are generally not the norm. I recently played Dragon Quest 8, must have gotten about 130 hours out of it and the vaaaaaaast majority was combat and dungeon crawling. This is nearly as bad as Persona 5, I quit that game because I want to play a game and not watch some crappy kids show. At least this game has a good tone and better writing but yeah, I'm honestly just skipping everything now thats not the main story, because it's a pain in the ass and meaningless.

[Bankai9212]

They aren’t, some side stuff is fun, not sure where you claim it’s not the norm. Dragon quest has a ton of scenes, dialogue etc.

[/^^\461|[ 834||]

Your english skills are very poor and I don't think you are able to either read what I am saying or to be able to properly communicate back.

This game is way too easy and filled with endless amounts of padding. I played for 24 hours now and you could beat this game so far just mashing A. I have started skipping most of the cutscenes because they are meaningless

[Red Hermit]

You might want to look at mods to increase the difficulty. I've been having a lot more fun with the combat that way.

[/^^\461|[ 834||]

Originally posted by Red Hermit:

You might want to look at mods to increase the difficulty. I've been having a lot more fun with the combat that way.

What mods are you using?

Honestly for me the game has just become a joke. Got to the next dungeon and walked through 5 floors of enemies hardly taking a hit. Get to the boss and smash him in 2 turns, like what? It's not like I went out of my way to grind or anything I'm just going through where I'm guided. Now I've started avoiding upgrading gear and stuff just to stop me from completely bodying the entire game.

All the mini-games are easy as well. I haven't been remotely challenged my entire game.

[Red Hermit]

There is a mod on Nexus mods called Premium New Adventure. It has a bunch of different difficulty settings you can try out. I would start with the setting called 6X scaled from 1.8 up, then adjust as you see fit.

The mod has a bunch of other stuff in it including a huge rebalance of abilities, but you don't have to enable any of that if you just want a tougher vanilla experience.

[The Ultimate Despair]

Originally posted by /^^\461| 834|_|_:

Your english skills are very poor and I don't think you are able to either read what I am saying or to be able to properly communicate back.

This game is way too easy and filled with endless amounts of padding. I played for 24 hours now and you could beat this game so far just mashing A. I have started skipping most of the cutscenes because they are meaningless

First of all, you are factually wrong.
The cutscenes are not meaningless. Every single main cutscene of the game adds to the story. Just because YOU, as an individual, isn't interested in the story, does not mean that they are meaningless.

The game is fairly easy, yes. Indeed. But your entire 'press A to win' argument is complete absurdity. You say you put 130 hours in Dragon Quest 8, what else than press A to win did you do?
In fact, in Yakuza 7 you have contextual actions to enhance the strenght of your actions. You have to press a specific button to block. You don't just 'press A to win' factually.

About the endless padding... We usually call this side content, it is absolutely optiional and you cannot complain about optional content being 'padding' as it is, as stated, optional.

You can dislike the game, for whatever reason you please. You can even be flat out wrong about your reasons, like you are now, that is up to you. Nobody but you can decide for yourself what you enjoy.
But when you come onto a game's board and spout erroneous ♥♥♥♥, expect to be told off.

[EGGZxOVERxExZ]

Originally posted by /^^\461| 834|_|_:

So I have to play for like another 30 hours to get a challenge? I dunno if I want to do that lol even by JRPG standards that is pretty ridiculous.

And cutscenes like this length are generally not the norm. I recently played Dragon Quest 8, must have gotten about 130 hours out of it and the vaaaaaaast majority was combat and dungeon crawling. This is nearly as bad as Persona 5, I quit that game because I want to play a game and not watch some crappy kids show. At least this game has a good tone and better writing but yeah, I'm honestly just skipping everything now thats not the main story, because it's a pain in the ass and meaningless.

You ever play Metal Gear?

I feel ya though. Thats why i play this in the morning for a few hours as my "relax/wake up" game and during the evening/afternoon ive been playing Borderlands 2 on vault hunter mode trying to finish the DLC's.

I understand now everyone has the luxury like me to play games as long as they want (i work from home so i can play games while i work. I work for a data collection agency) but if you have the time, maybe pick a second game to play after playing this for a few hours?

Again, i understand not everyone can do that.

[EGGZxOVERxExZ]

Originally posted by Red Hermit:

You might want to look at mods to increase the difficulty. I've been having a lot more fun with the combat that way.

I may do this as well. Pretty sure i could install some combat enhancement mods even though im only a few hours in, no?

[EGGZxOVERxExZ]

Originally posted by Red Hermit:

There is a mod on Nexus mods called Premium New Adventure. It has a bunch of different difficulty settings you can try out. I would start with the setting called 6X scaled from 1.8 up, then adjust as you see fit.

The mod has a bunch of other stuff in it including a huge rebalance of abilities, but you don't have to enable any of that if you just want a tougher vanilla experience.

Good looking out. Ima look into this :)

[EGGZxOVERxExZ]

Originally posted by /^^\461| 834|_|_:

So I have to play for like another 30 hours to get a challenge? I dunno if I want to do that lol even by JRPG standards that is pretty ridiculous.

And cutscenes like this length are generally not the norm. I recently played Dragon Quest 8, must have gotten about 130 hours out of it and the vaaaaaaast majority was combat and dungeon crawling. This is nearly as bad as Persona 5, I quit that game because I want to play a game and not watch some crappy kids show. At least this game has a good tone and better writing but yeah, I'm honestly just skipping everything now thats not the main story, because it's a pain in the ass and meaningless.

And i wouldn't skip any dialogue :/ You, as a player who's familiar with great JRPG's should know that and i think you do. If you're skipping cut scenes (side content or otherwise) probably best you check out which is completely okay.

Unless you're like me who has a weird OCD about starting something and not finishing it. Ive beaten so many games that ive HATED (Dragons Dogma 2 -______-) simply because i already wasted 10 or 15 hours of my life playing it. That or because ive spent over 20 bucks on it. I get really bothered when i waste money and i consider buying a game and not finishing it a waste of money (thats just how i feel though)

[Sasha Pines (no brain)]

Originally posted by EGGZxOVERxExZ:

Originally posted by Red Hermit:

You might want to look at mods to increase the difficulty. I've been having a lot more fun with the combat that way.

I may do this as well. Pretty sure i could install some combat enhancement mods even though im only a few hours in, no?

lol you could use mods at any time during the game so unless the mods have some big change that require you to do a full reset

[d.]

I don't know how you "mash A" to one hit everything if you didn't grind. I sometimes get mollywomped by randoms (while doing perfect parry) and I have done the management thing so I basically have infinite money. Yeah, most crowds are easy, but some of those bosses are just sponges and if you don't heal up you get rekt.

[/^^\461|[ 834||]

Originally posted by EGGZxOVERxExZ:

Originally posted by /^^\461| 834|_|_:

So I have to play for like another 30 hours to get a challenge? I dunno if I want to do that lol even by JRPG standards that is pretty ridiculous.

And cutscenes like this length are generally not the norm. I recently played Dragon Quest 8, must have gotten about 130 hours out of it and the vaaaaaaast majority was combat and dungeon crawling. This is nearly as bad as Persona 5, I quit that game because I want to play a game and not watch some crappy kids show. At least this game has a good tone and better writing but yeah, I'm honestly just skipping everything now thats not the main story, because it's a pain in the ass and meaningless.

You ever play Metal Gear?

I feel ya though. Thats why i play this in the morning for a few hours as my "relax/wake up" game and during the evening/afternoon ive been playing Borderlands 2 on vault hunter mode trying to finish the DLC's.

I understand now everyone has the luxury like me to play games as long as they want (i work from home so i can play games while i work. I work for a data collection agency) but if you have the time, maybe pick a second game to play after playing this for a few hours?

Again, i understand not everyone can do that.

Yeah, I love metal gear, and the cutscenes are long, like a lot of other games that I do enjoy. But on Yakuza it's like they don't add anything to the story, and even the cutscenes which do, they are padded up with so much fluff that just makes them drag on and on. You don't really role play at all but occassionally you get a choice what stat you want to upgrade. It should be like you have to use your choices related to your skills in dialogue to get certain results. But you end up sifting through endless waffling.

Every sub story feels like a waste of time, I just skip all that, get the reward and continue. I like the party characters but then going to the bar and listening to them for 15 minutes each to get their bond up is paced very badly because the game streamlines it up so easily just from doing basic stuff like eating. Compound that with how easy everything is and it turns into 75% just watching not being engaged at all.

Mini games are mid, so easy as well, and just some variation of a QTE. Dragon Kart is like... cool... a bad clone of Mario Kart when I could just play Mario Kart which is amazing.