Will there ever be a Yakuza game where we play as Nishiki?

[dynastystar]

I like him as a character, do we ever get to play as him or is it just Kiryu and majima

[kirokito]

A new Yakuza game has been announced where you play the character from the mobile game. So as of now goes, no.

[Redblaze27]

Yakuza 4 has 4 playable characters, and Majima is not among those four.

Originally posted by kirokito:

A new Yakuza game has been announced where you play the character from the mobile game. So as of now goes, no.

I think you got that the other way around.
The mobile game was promoting the new series protagonist.

[kirokito]

Originally posted by Redblaze27:

Yakuza 4 has 4 playable characters, and Majima is not among those four.

Originally posted by kirokito:

A new Yakuza game has been announced where you play the character from the mobile game. So as of now goes, no.

I think you got that the other way around.
The mobile game was promoting the new series protagonist.

statement still stands, you play as him

[dancingstar93]

Originally posted by kirokito:

A new Yakuza game has been announced where you play the character from the mobile game. So as of now goes, no.

FWIW Ichiban (the protagonist from the mobile game & Yakuza: Next* or whatever the next PS4 game actually ends up being called in English-language markets) has the same VA as Nishikiyama.

(*Game is currently referred to on the RGG Studio site as 『龍が如く最新作』 which means something like "Like a Dragon latest work")

[Farsight]

no, you wont ever play as nishiki

[[PuRinZ]]

If RGG = Yakuza

Shin RGG = umm.... New Yakuza !!

[dancingstar93]

The actual answer to the OP question is no, and no: there are playable characters in some Yakuza games besides Kiryū (and Kiryū cosplaying as various figures from Japanese history) and Majima, but Nishikiyama is not among them and given his established character arc in Zero and 1 / Kiwami, is unlikely to join them even if 0.5 or 0-2 does ever happen.

Yakuza 4 has 4 playable characters: Kiryû, Akiyama (a moneylender whose connections to the yakuza differ from the usual "paying protection money to work in their territory" deal), Saejima Taiga (seen in Majima's flashbacks in Zero -- in fact, Zero somewhat spoilers his arc in 4) and Tanimura, a corrupt cop.

The non-canon zombie shooter Yakuza Dead Souls (Ryū ga Gotoku OF THE END) also has 4 playable characters: Kiryū, Majima, Akiyama and Goda Ryūji (who we meet as a younger version in Zero).

Yakuza 5 (aka Ryū ga Gotoku 5: Yume, Kanaeshi mono) has 5 playable characters: besides Kiryû, Akiyama and Saejima return & are joined by Shinada, a baseball player forced out of the major leagues after being implicated in a match-fixing / betting scandal, and Kiryū's adopted daughter Haruka.

There were also a couple of spin-offs on PSP (Kurohyō: Ryū ga Gotoku Shinshō and its sequel) with an independent cast, but these never released outside Japan & are mostly ignored even by those western series fans who keep pestering Sega about Ishin! and Kenzan!

EDIT: clarity and macrons

[dancingstar93]

Originally posted by The Proud Prince of Saiyans:

If RGG = Yakuza

Shin RGG = umm.... New Yakuza !!

Even though the original announce did specifically write 新 (new) rather than -- as with Shin Godzilla -- leaving it ambiguous which of 50+ kanji with that reading was meant, for whatever reason "Shin Yakuza" for the in-production PS4 game stuck among English-speaking fans & will probably stay stuck until the game gets an actual release title. Technically Shin (new) Ryū ga Gotoku project includes the mobile game as well but I suppose most of the core Yakuza fanbase aren't all that interested in mobage.

[kirokito]

Originally posted by dancingstar93:

Originally posted by kirokito:

A new Yakuza game has been announced where you play the character from the mobile game. So as of now goes, no.

FWIW Ichiban (the protagonist from the mobile game & Yakuza: Next* or whatever the next PS4 game actually ends up being called in English-language markets) has the same VA as Nishikiyama.

(*Game is currently referred to on the RGG Studio site as 『龍が如く最新作』 which means something like "Like a Dragon latest work")

oh wow thats actually really interesting and weird at the same time hahaha