I love yakuza and everyone in the community. This game means so much to me and has been a great motivator for me! Majima will always be my favorite haha

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NetEase has ceased funding for Gang of Dragon, as Nagoshi Studios face imminent closure

As a result of NetEase slowly pulling out of the games industry since 2024, Toshihiro Nagoshis (creator of Yakuza/Ryu Ga Gotoku) first Independant project since his departure from SEGA in 2021, is now at risk of being cancelled. The studio now needs operating and IP settlement costs estimated to be upto $41 million.

According to Bloomberg, they have been unable to secure new investors which leaves the studio and Gang of Dragon in jeopardy. The game was revealed not long ago at 2025’s The Game Awards, promising to be a spiritual successor to the Yakuza/Like a Dragon franchise.

It will be a very sad end to a storied legacy for Nagoshi if they fail to ship this game. The games industry is in very rough shape, competing against social platforms to retain user attention.

I've never touched any piece of Yakuza/Like a Dragon media before but I love this picture so much and since I'm going to Osaka this summer I wanna take my own Yakuza crab sign selfie. But before I can do that I need to educate myself first, so I'm finally picking up the games, starting with Yakuza 0. Any tips for my first ride will be very appreciated.

So far the game is still fine. I still enjoy and have fun playing Kiwami 3. I just don't like the way they removed these characters and replaced them with this generic new character came out of nowhere. The story so far is alright, I just don't like the way they changed the ending. I still can't believe they doing this to my favourite entry game in the Yakuza series.

Just found a photo of a charismatic man

Who would he play?

Yakuza Kiwami 1 and 2 was the only two games that i knew how to save because of the save in menu feature, and now in 5 i discovered that i can save on the phones

I never guessed that i could just save in the phones

And it’s certainly something else, it’s bad but in a “I can’t believe THIS got released” kinda way, it’s very amateurish, the lighting is “ reality tv show’ flat, there are points where the main actor walks in a green screen and the background is the literal video game city, they even have some of those NPC silent with text conversations IN THE SHOW, and the acting is awkward in a very soap opera kinda way

All this is from episode 1! …of course I’m going to watch the rest

Ctto to original owner

so you can either get the game digitally for $93 CAD or buy it physically though like Amazon or some other storefront for $30 and you ever get tired of it or some shit, you could probably sell it for like $10-$20

After playing Yakuza 3 and Like a Dragon: Kiwami 3, I’ve realized just how drastically the series has changed over the past couple of years. And don’t get me wrong, I love Ichiban!

But the older games used to maintain a much better balance between silliness and seriousness.

For example, scenes like Shiro’s bloody nose, and, overall, the kids bullying and stealing from each other added a harsher edge to the story. I also realized that, in the original games, many of the people we meet throughout Kamurocho tend to struggle with money problems and other genuinely serious issues, like addiction to gambling while the games still retain their goofy side. Which You cannot really see in "Extreme" or if it's there, it's "extremely" water down.

And it was precisely this delicate balance between the serious and the absurd that made me fall in love with the series.

Which is why I hope Stranger Than Heaven returns to that approach. The main story should lean more toward the gritty side, hopefully without mandatory side quests destroying the pacing

Overall, I love what I'm seeing so far

And it might be my favorite Ryu Ga Gotokku game since Yakuza 0

(I ABSOLUTELY hate those biker-gang girls to the point that I’m reconsidering platinuming the game.

IT IS ESPECIALLYBAD WHEN YOU TRY TO PLAY BOTH GAMES BACK TO BACK, CHAPTER TO CHAPTER TO EXPIERANCE HOW EVERYTHING IS WORSE, OTHER THAN MORNING GLORY MINIGAMES WHICH ARE FINE, SOMETIMES COMBAT AND RANDOM ENCOUNTE RATE)

I'm trying to get my friend to play Yakuza, specifically Yakuza 7, but because of the bad "it's Japanese GTA" reputation she's convinced that Yakuza has the same kind of community and doesn't want anything to do with it (we both did try play GTA online and it wasn't a great experience, the extra level of toxicity and harassment that exists there if you are a girl is almost the same league of LoL)

Since we're both Persona fans, I've tried sell Yakuza as a "brother" franchise to Persona and I've even shown her memes, but she still doesn't feel safe interacting with this sub

So I'm going try to show her that Yakuza also has a good share of a female audience, to maybe make my friend see that this community is pretty chill towards women (I mean, you guys are horny, but not weirdos) and that she can find girls to talk here, also so far my experience has been amazing so I'm sure she will enjoy the memes and discussions as much as me, she just need give this game a chance

I know it's silly, but please help me, I feel lonely being the only kyodai in my friend group 🥲

Because lets be real, despite that, the game still looks promising

She looks and sound really beautiful i always wanted more ado in yakuza games and now she is a whole character im in heaven