Rank all Yakuza Games you've played

[LexAnimex]

I started with 0 and this is my personal ranking after playing every game on Steam once.

2>ishin>5>6>0>1>Gaiden>3=4>7>Judgment>8>LJ

What is your ranking?

[LexAnimex]

Originally posted by Hol Horse:

Y5>LJ>Kenzan!>Y0>Y8>JE>OG2>Y7>DS>Y3>Y4>Gaiden>Ishin!>OG1>K1>K2>Y6>Rubbish>KIshin! for me, Kurohyou 1/2 are way too different so I didn't include, haven't played HGG yet.

I hope Kenzan comes to Steam. I only know the Intro and Iove it soooo much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH7R2otAMSA

[Hajber]

Originally posted by Hol Horse:

Y5>LJ>Kenzan!>Y0>Y8>JE>OG2>Y7>DS>Y3>Y4>Gaiden>Ishin!>OG1>K1>K2>Y6>Rubbish>KIshin! for me, Kurohyou 1/2 are way too different so I didn't include them, haven't played HGG yet.

Every time I replay JE, I like it less and less. At first it was one of my favs, but now the story is the only thing that I really like about it,

[Hol Horse]

Originally posted by LexAnimex:

Originally posted by Hol Horse:

Y5>LJ>Kenzan!>Y0>Y8>JE>OG2>Y7>DS>Y3>Y4>Gaiden>Ishin!>OG1>K1>K2>Y6>Rubbish>KIshin! for me, Kurohyou 1/2 are way too different so I didn't include, haven't played HGG yet.

I hope Kenzan comes to Steam. I only know the Intro and Iove it soooo much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH7R2otAMSA

I hope so too, but it's probably impossible, at this point the only way we can ever get it in the west is if RGGS decides to make a Kiwami remake, which something I absolutely don't want to happen considering how usually the Kiwami remakes end up being extremely lazily made. If anything I'm hoping that the team in charge of Kurohyou english patches(Team K4L) would end up releasing the english patch for the PS3 version, I think thats the ideal way to play this wonderful game that was ahead of its time.

[Hol Horse]

Originally posted by Hajber:

Originally posted by Hol Horse:

Y5>LJ>Kenzan!>Y0>Y8>JE>OG2>Y7>DS>Y3>Y4>Gaiden>Ishin!>OG1>K1>K2>Y6>Rubbish>KIshin! for me, Kurohyou 1/2 are way too different so I didn't include them, haven't played HGG yet.

Every time I replay JE, I like it less and less. At first it was one of my favs, but now the story is the only thing that I really like about it,

My first experience with it was on Stadia before it was released on PC, and when I replayed it on Steam it felt way worse to me too considering I've played LJ before, I'm usually not the kind of guy to treat the Yakuza story as anything special or treat it like the most important thing in these games (look at where Yakuza 5 is in my ranking!), but Judgment story and its new cast of characters were fantastic and the combat/side content being decent was enough to make me put it this high up my list.

[Oni-Lyrics]

Ooh hard call.

I'd have to from best to worst;

5 > LJ > Gaiden > IW > 4 > J > KF > 7 >K1 > 0 > K2 > Ishin > 3 > 6

Heck I'd even skip 6.

[At@At]

Originally posted by Hol Horse:

Originally posted by Hajber:

Every time I replay JE, I like it less and less. At first it was one of my favs, but now the story is the only thing that I really like about it,

My first experience with it was on Stadia before it was released on PC, and when I replayed it on Steam it felt way worse to me too considering I've played LJ before, I'm usually not the kind of guy to treat the Yakuza story as anything special or treat it like the most important thing in these games (look at where Yakuza 5 is in my ranking!), but Judgment story and its new cast of characters were fantastic and the combat/side content being decent was enough to make me put it this high up my list.

I've only played JE (That's Judge Eyes, A.K.A Judgement right?) on Steam and was pretty disappointed in it. The story starts off very strong. Loved the graphics and fight intros. I loved the characters and premise but falls off a bit after the mid point and the court case was just awful to me. That would be fine if the combat and progression system was better. The issue with the combat is that it felt plain awful without upgrades to speed, damage and more moves for your move-set but the game also drip fed you upgrade points to unlock things. After the upgrades, the combat felt decent but doesn't quite wow you either. It felt like you went from feeling awful to getting to the base level of where it should've been. The lack of heat generation outside of smoking, drinking and that one attack doesn't help either.

[MachineMother]

I haven't played all of them and some are unfinished because I get minigame fatigue with these games, but so far I'd rank them like this:

Y0>LAD: Gaiden>LAD:7>Kiwami 2>LAD:8>Kiwami 1>Y6>LAD:Ishin

I'm about halfway through Judgment and Y3 so I'm not ranking these yet and I played a little of 5 and loved the combat so I'll probably really enjoy that one. I ran out of money in Judgment due to the drone game and I have no more VR tickets so I gotta grind them from enemies I guess. The combat is also pretty great in that one, too, though I could do without the tailing segments. The blocking in Y3 is annoying, yes, but I like the setting and story a lot so far.

I'd rank Kiwami 1 higher for its story/characters (it was the first one I played, too) but it has that annoying boss healing mechanic that made the first boss a huge pain since I hadn't unlocked those counters yet. Also, once you get Tiger Drop the combat becomes pretty broken. Majima Everywhere wears out its welcome, too, though it can be hilarious at times.

Y6 was the first Dragon engine game, I believe, and it shows because the combat was messy and very button mashy. There also weren't that many fun side things to do and the story was kind of meh. Ishin also suffers from meh combat because you can just craft a really good sword that will carry you through everything and the gun stance is a bit simple though more fun than the brawler style that is really weak.

Still, I haven't played a Yakuza game that I didn't like so it's one of my favorite series. The series has a comfy feeling like the Phoenix Wright games because you keep seeing the same people and places and it's nice to observe how they change over the years.

[LexAnimex]

Originally posted by Oni-Lyrics:

Ooh hard call.

I'd have to from best to worst;

5 > LJ > Gaiden > IW > 4 > J > KF > 7 >K1 > 0 > K2 > Ishin > 3 > 6

Heck I'd even skip 6.

what is KF?

[Oni-Lyrics]

Originally posted by LexAnimex:

Originally posted by Oni-Lyrics:

Ooh hard call.

I'd have to from best to worst;

5 > LJ > Gaiden > IW > 4 > J > KF > 7 >K1 > 0 > K2 > Ishin > 3 > 6

Heck I'd even skip 6.

what is KF?

kaito files. its a dlc for lost judgement

[r0ttingplague]

K1, judgment , 0, 4 , 7 , Gaiden, 5, LJ, 8 , K2 , 6 , 3
( i havent played ishin but it looks promising )

[Hol Horse]

Originally posted by Oni-Lyrics:

Ooh hard call.

I'd have to from best to worst;

5 > LJ > Gaiden > IW > 4 > J > KF > 7 >K1 > 0 > K2 > Ishin > 3 > 6

Heck I'd even skip 6.

My man, good f*cking ranking with having 5 on top and 6 at the bottom, absolutely based

[Hol Horse]

Originally posted by At@At:

Originally posted by Hol Horse:

My first experience with it was on Stadia before it was released on PC, and when I replayed it on Steam it felt way worse to me too considering I've played LJ before, I'm usually not the kind of guy to treat the Yakuza story as anything special or treat it like the most important thing in these games (look at where Yakuza 5 is in my ranking!), but Judgment story and its new cast of characters were fantastic and the combat/side content being decent was enough to make me put it this high up my list.

I've only played JE (That's Judge Eyes, A.K.A Judgement right?) on Steam and was pretty disappointed in it. The story starts off very strong. Loved the graphics and fight intros. I loved the characters and premise but falls off a bit after the mid point and the court case was just awful to me. That would be fine if the combat and progression system was better. The issue with the combat is that it felt plain awful without upgrades to speed, damage and more moves for your move-set but the game also drip fed you upgrade points to unlock things. After the upgrades, the combat felt decent but doesn't quite wow you either. It felt like you went from feeling awful to getting to the base level of where it should've been. The lack of heat generation outside of smoking, drinking and that one attack doesn't help either.

JE is Judge Eyes yeah, the japanese title, figured that calling J wouldn't be right lol. Sorry you felt this way about it, I'm sure you'll enjoy Lost Judgment much more, I think it safe to say this game objectively has the best combat, not even 0 or Kiwami 1 can compete really.

[MachineMother]

Yeah I'm excited to play more of 5 though it's a huuuuge game. Kiryu's combat at the beginning was so fun.

[LexAnimex]

Originally posted by Oni-Lyrics:

Originally posted by LexAnimex:

what is KF?

kaito files. its a dlc for lost judgement

Huh I see if we separate Kaito files, my ranking would be like that:

2>ishin>5>KF>6>0>1>Gaiden>3=4>7>Judgment>8>LJ

[LexAnimex]

Originally posted by MachineMother:

Yeah I'm excited to play more of 5 though it's a huuuuge game. Kiryu's combat at the beginning was so fun.

Your order to play the series is weird but you do you