Yakuza vs Sleeping Dogs

[Favret]

I loved Sleeping Dogs (remastered), amazing game, so is this Yakuza game better than Sleeping Dogs? since it is from 2018, should it be better? should I buy it?

[Flobba Job]

Well, it's from 2016, not 2018, but apart from the asian culture, there isn't really much similarities. Set in different countries, the scales are vastly different, etc.

Depends what you liked about Sleeping Dogs. There aren't vehicles in this one, but the combat and detail is better in this.

[-Шasтe|Мanageмenт-]

It's very different actually ..
I can't explain it well lol, but just watch this AngryJoe Review of Yakuza 0 really on point .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1cFBtr-ryU

[Detonation]

I absolutely loved Sleeping Dogs but I like Yakuza more. Might be because I've been playing them since the PS2 days. You might like Yakuza if you enjoyed Sleeping Dogs, hard to tell. Some people love Yakuza and some people don't. It's got a lot of... sillyness (mostly in substories/sidequests, not the main story) compared to Sleeping Dogs. I need to revisit Sleeping Dogs some time... great game.

[Favret]

Thank you everyone for your comments, think Im gonna try it!

[LostSoul15]

Yakuza Games are on the Story-heavy side, just right now i had a guessed 20-30 Minutes Sequence of cutscenes only so the story can advance. If that doesnt bother you i´d say give it a go.

[BayouVisionary]

^^^
Correct on being story heavy. If reading isnt your thing, then this wont be the game for you. There is fun combat and LOTS of things to do. Im 16hrs in and have barely made a dent in the game, so you definitely get your money's worth

[Corinarh]

Yakuza has better combat and story, city is alive in yakuza while in sleeping dogs city felt almost like lifeless prop. I like both tho, but the more i play yakuza the more i see how lacking Sleeping dogs was, even tho it's still a good game on it's own and wish they would make sequel (but improved and added more interaction with the city/npcs)

[Laivasse]

It's a red herring to compare Yakuza to open world GTA style crime games like Sleeping Dogs. It's not the same style of game. The world is much smaller, there's no driving and not really any true shooting either. The gameplay alternates between combat and text-driven, humourous sidequests, with a lot of bunch of gambling and rhythm based minigames on the side. Yakuza's more comparable to something like Way of the Samurai or Shenmue.

However, the main story involves a lot of organised crime and gang intrigue, which is similar to Sleeping Dogs. If you played SD for that, you'll get a lot of the same thing out of Yakuza.

[joxertm22]

Story, minigames and sidequests - Yakuza pwns.
PC port (read: K+M controls) - Sleeping Dogs pwns.

[Bleibeidl]

Originally posted by Flobba Job:

Well, it's from 2016, not 2018, but apart from the asian culture, there isn't really much similarities. Set in different countries, the scales are vastly different, etc.

Depends what you liked about Sleeping Dogs. There aren't vehicles in this one, but the combat and detail is better in this.

There are vehicles, but you only use them to bash your enemies faces in :D
Love the Beast style.

[Rtj007]

I like both games, if you liked sleeping dogs you will also enjoy yakuza.

[Flobba Job]

Originally posted by Bleibeidl:

Originally posted by Flobba Job:

Well, it's from 2016, not 2018, but apart from the asian culture, there isn't really much similarities. Set in different countries, the scales are vastly different, etc.

Depends what you liked about Sleeping Dogs. There aren't vehicles in this one, but the combat and detail is better in this.

There are vehicles, but you only use them to bash your enemies faces in :D
Love the Beast style.

Yea, Beast style is great, but also confirmed my point. The closest you get to using a vehicle is the pocket racers =)

[Nachtmahr]

I prefer sleeping dogs. Yakuza feels clunky and low budget and it is more like an anime in terms of over the top side quests and humour. The controls feel wonky and you get stuck in buildings since you can't push people aside, only outside of buildings. The mini games also weren't fun for me. They even messed up the pool controls and baseball is just tedious and dancing is the worst rhythm game I know.

[Ǵ̶͓̂͑lí̴̤̀̄́tcĥ̸]

Yakuza is more akin to games like Shenmue and a touch of Way of the Samurai. The sandbox world is pretty small but filled with little time killers (arcades, karaoke, bowling, pocket car races, food/drink, etc. and eventually even job-related economic stuff) that make it a bit more of a life-sim rather than a typical open world GTA style game like Sleeping Dogs is.

It has some cutscene and combat QTEs (not bad ones, not really fatal either, but punishing and they add flavor to the sections with great animations) and the rest of it plays like a minor investigative game littered with combat segments using light fighting game mechanics in a third person brawler setup.

The story is on par with Sleeding Dogs imo, full of badass characters and moments (final part of chapter 1 is excellent and it doesn't stop there) as well as a lot of random things to do, good humor (most of it on the side of a pretty serious story), lots of cutscenes and dialogue, and so on. Initially it'll feel pretty limited but it opens up quite a bit by Chapter 2 (Chapter 1 is like a really long intro).

[gusgreco7]

After completing the 1st chapter of yakuza, i can say that sleeping dogs was a much better and modern game for me, i think they can be compared and sleeping dogs wins in almost every department.