Yakuza 3's "possibility for localizing does, in fact, still exist."

remanutd55 - 66 days 18 hours ago

me too

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FlatulentGhost - 66 days 18 hours ago

"i really want to play this."

Me too. Just bought Yakuza 2 for 20 bucks a few weeks ago and love it. I would love to see 3 & 4 come here. I can certainly see Sega's hesitation with the previous sales of the games in the US.

Forget about English voice actors. Just subtitles and translate the menus and any bugfixes. Add in some extra content and ship it.

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 66 days 18 hours ago

Exactly!

All they really need is english subtitles.I would actually rather it have JUST the subtitles and keep the original voice acting.It would help keep the feel and authenticity of the game.

I played the demo from the Jap PSN store & i loved it.
Please, SEGA Please make it happen !

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kapedkrusader - 66 days 18 hours ago

...I just signed up to a Japanese PSN account using an article I just read in N4G and downloaded as many free demos as I could including Yakuza 3. In all honesty, after the graphical improvement we're used to seeing in PS3 games, Yakuza looks pretty bad. Damn Sega has taken so long to import this game that if it does arrive, it will look extremely dated. My guess is that they know this and that's why they are hesitant. I'm being completely honest here, Uncharted 2, Killzone 2 and God of War 3 are making Yakuza 3 look like a Dreamcast game. Please, if you haven't seeing the game for yourself don't blindly disagree. See for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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George Sears - 66 days 18 hours ago

What happened to people this gen? Since when does great graphics = greatness?

Sure the games you listed kapedkrusader are/seem to might be great games but just because Yakuza 3 doesn't have awe inspiring graphics doesn't mean that it isn't a great game.

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Nitrowolf2 - 66 days 17 hours ago

@Kaped
Its not that bad and persoanlly i dn't think sega cares about if it doesn't look like Uncharted 2, Kilzone 2, and GOW3 (notice all are made by a Sony team). If they could bring this and 4 to state side i will be happy enough. Loves the other ones, the graphics are good there are games with allot worse.

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ThanatosDMC - 66 days 15 hours ago

Yep, they should just keep it subbed since the voice acting is perfect and extremely funny comical moments and how honorifics were used.

Ummm... this is the one in which i can be a pimp and make my hoes, right?

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soljah - 66 days 14 hours ago

well guys

should we be saying thank you ps3 slim

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SaiyanFury - 66 days 13 hours ago

You know, there really is no justification for keeping this in Japan. People have spoken; leave the Japanese voice track alone and translate the subtitles. I think the majority of fans of Japanese games much prefer the audio be left alone, unless it's making the audio DTS 5.1 instead of Dolby Digital. Sheesh, keep the game in Japan and make a subtitles patch available to North Americans who want to import the game. Either way, people WANT this game, despite what SEGA may be hearing and it WOULD sell. Maybe not 3 million in the first week, but it's easy sales. Games these days are region free so they wouldn't even need to change that. Just bring it over SEGA! Do something! You brought us the awesomeness that was Valkyria Chronicles. Now bring this!

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mastiffchild - 66 days 11 hours ago

This, and Fatal Frame 4(and Nintendo themselves denying that for western gamers by refusing to publish themselves)are my pey moabs this year!

We'd all be happy with subtitles and menus in a patch wouldn't we? How much would that cost? They could take advantage of the region free and just do another small trial production yun for us fans in the west. I'd happily pay for the patch as well after all the effort it took me to find the first Yakuza the other year! What annoys me is Sega are happy to keep promoting Wii games that don't sell but moved VC to PSP and won't bring T3 over because of weak sales in the past when they NEVER pushed any of these games or even stocked them properly!

Given a decent push with a few ads I feel both series could be a western hit for Sega but, for osome reason they just aren't prepared to push their PS3 games out here. Are they saying that they don't feel Yakuza3 would sell as well as Madworld did with the same promoyion as they seem happy with that not selling much?

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callahan09 - 66 days 10 hours ago

Don't know what you're talking about, kapedkrusader. I own Yakuza 3, and the graphics are great, but more importantly, the story and gameplay are amazing. It's a game that should definitely be available to westerners. It's a classic of this generation, and one of the best games of this year, easily.

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Redempteur - 66 days 10 hours ago

There are games where graphics might not be perfect but the gameplay makes up for it ..

Yakuza3 is one of these games ..The game heavily plays on the settings and feelings . I Do think that the game is a masterpiece .

Sega did a lot of things right in this game ( from the street fights to the numerous references .. ) And everyone who have played this say that the story is damn great ...

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Any way , sega it' easy to localise yakuza 3 ..just make it so it isn't released at the same time as another big title in 2010 (not in march because of god of war, NOt during the same month as the heavy rain release , ect ect ). that's all i ask

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UNCyrus - 66 days 10 hours ago

That was Aaron's response to my question on the blog! First good thing I've done for the gaming community in a while! woooo!

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ABizzel1 - 66 days 7 hours ago

I hope they do, but it's highly unlikely. They could at least add English subs, and if they have English subs already then I'm importing it.

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iceman06 - 66 days 4 hours ago

They are basing it on their previous history with bringing the franchise over to the US. However, they are forgetting that they did so when the PS3 was launching and there were way too many PS3 owners that didn't have the funds or just wanted those couple of launch games instead of a PS2 game. Now...it all makes sense.***fingers crossed***

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Obama - 66 days 15 hours ago

Never say never, esp it's Sega we are talking about here.

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tigersnake86 - 66 days 11 hours ago

Actually, all of the Yakuza games are popular in Japan.

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mastiffchild - 66 days 11 hours ago

Why ever not? They didn't push Yakuza1 OR 2 out in the west. No ads and I couldn't find either in any local stores so ordered Yakuza2 and had to travel to buy the first game after searching for a month!

Fact is SEga shouldn't say they know how this would sell(I'd LOVE to have a pop at Kenzan! as well)as they never ONCE gave a Yakuza game any chance ion either the US and definitely the UK/EU-f'rinstanmce just hopw long after Japanese release did those games sneak into our countries? 18 months and 2 years IIRC-hardly conducive to big sales in itself and wen they fail to promote or stock the games what did they expect?

What we're left with is a core of around 40,000 western fans who liked the first and found thesecond as well after a long wait who'd be happy to just have the Japanese game with some subs(which, as I said, they could even patch in to save costs)-lord knows how well Yakuza games could sell given a chance and some marketing and IF they arrived before the games were practically outdated. It's jus a massive missed opportunity and when they say they're happy to repeat the mess they had pushing mature Wii games it just annoys us.

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ultimolu - 66 days 10 hours ago

Yes, focus on sales Snuka. It's never about the gameplay. Let's focus on how it didn't *sell* so well outside of Japan.

Whatever okay?

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lh_swe - 66 days 11 hours ago

I have been hoping that this is going to happen for soo long now

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deadlybrand - 66 days 12 hours ago

Are you on crack or something,from the looks it seems so lol.!?

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flaming_xbot - 66 days 11 hours ago

when patches come thru....one after one after one after one....that's what i hate with ps3 every game is a patch and so on... maybe sony will release a game that doesn't need 4 patches socom cough socom oops i forgot bioshock, ghostbusters and many many others

sony= hardware

microsoft= software

ps3 is inefficient its a pain

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N4G king - 66 days 9 hours ago

microsoft patches it hardware like every year
and still gets RROD more than 50%
xbox360 is inefficient its a pain

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TheEqualizer - 66 days 9 hours ago

unless your a dev i dont think it really matters about updates, not only that though but every game ive ever put in my 360 ive had to do an update but then again according to your name your xbox went up in flames so yea...

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Narutone66 - 66 days 8 hours ago

patch a software than a hardware. Maybe MS was thinking that they could easily patch their defective hardware when they release the 360. Stupid logic.

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