phantom_leo said:

Ummm. Privates? Ew!

...but, then again, this game is the only way a vast majority of 360 owners will ever see anything that resembles a vagina!

andriasang

Project K Named and Dated Sega's new Yakuza game to feature over 300 minutes of fully voiced movie scenes.

Sega's new Ryu ga Gotoku game has a final name, and yes, it's Ryu ga Gotoku.

Although series overseer Toshihiro Nagoshi said in past interviews that, owing to differences from other entries in the series, Project K might ditch the Ryu ga Gotoku name, this week's Famitsu reveals the name to be Kurohyou Ryu ga Gotoku Shinshou, or Black Leopard: Ryu ga Gotoku New Chapter.

In the west, the Ryu ga Gotoku series is known by the name Yakuza. But Project K has yet to see final announcement in international markets, so we'll have to wait to see if Sega will call it Black Leopard: Yakuza New Chapter.

Famitsu's coverage of Black Leopard this week is in the form of a half-page news update rather than a full preview, but the magazine did manage to get in a few notable details.

First up is some solid release information. Black Leopard hits PSP on September 22. It will be priced ¥6,279 for its retail UMD release and ¥5,600 in download form (PSP go users can cheer).

The game promises a full scale drama with over 300 minutes of fully voiced event movie scenes. Voice actors include Kengo Kouchi as Tatsuya Ukyou, Toshio Kurosawa as Ryutaro Kuki, Haru as Saki Kudou and Koichi Iwaki as Taizan Amemiya.

Of these characters, only main character Ukyou has been given a full introduction. The magazine lists Saki Kudou as having a heroine-like presence in the game. Ryutaro Kuki is head of the Kuki Family in the Tojo Clan yakuza organization. Taizan Amemiya is a trainer at an underground fighting dojo called Dragon Heat. This dojo is run by the Kuki Family.

There are no new gameplay details in the magazine, although with regards to the battle system the magazine says the game will attempt to recreate the harshness and realism of fighting. Using simple controls, you'll be able to perform some flashy actions.

Famitsu also reveals that Black Leopard will continue a Ryu ga Gotoku series tradition. Past games in the series have bundled in a fictional Kamurocho city guide called Kamutai Magazine as a pre-order bonus. Fitting for its younger theme, Black Leopard will include a guide called "Young Kamutai Magazine." This includes details on popular spots around Kamurocho, maps for the city, and a feature on Dragon Heat.

As all this appears in the form of a news story, we can probably expect Sega to make formal announcement on Thursday.

edgecrusher said:

gamingeek said:

Well Star Fox Adventures was held back for the Gaemcube instead. As was Eternal Darkness.

I kind of agree with the guy....Nintndo needed an adult launch game to go up against the biggest adult launch game ever in Halo, and an onslaught on incredible PS2 games at the same time. They didn't have one. PD was an incredible game but obviously it could have been better on the Cube...Halo-level graphics, controls, sound....etc. A solid frame rate. And if they wanted they could have also pushed it as an online FPS before Halo.

Perfect Dark was kind of lost at the end of the N64's lifespan.

My stance is that you can't rewrite history. It's easy for that guy to say IF this happened and all that in hindsight. But the problem is that we will never know the true impact of a rewritten history.

I guess that even with Perfect Dark at launch the GC yellow stick isn't suited for shooters and that the console would still be pigeonholed as kiddy because it was purple. Jesus, looking back to 2001 it's pretty amazing how much hate it got for being a purple box. Especially when black was availible as a secondary colour anyway.

EDIT: Also online emerged as a requirement for FPS so the genre would have stuck to Xbox anyway.

Seems I'm all alone again. 

Time to walk naked around the VG Press!

Dvader said:

Ahhh, put some clothes on!

 No. My boys like the breeze. 

Seriously, people should be allowed to walk around nude whenever they wanted. I've always wanted to go to a nude beach. 

SteelAttack said:

No. My boys like the breeze.

Seriously, people should be allowed to walk around nude whenever they wanted. I've always wanted to go to a nude beach.

Meh. Been there, done that.

Ravenprose said:

Three New Bonus Surveys on NA Club Nintendo

I just did the three new surveys, and received a total of 50 coins.

I just cashed in some of my Club Nintendo points today, and let me tell you it was a bad bad mistake. I went ahead and got their new free game for the Wii that they're offering. . . Grill-Off With Ultra Hand.

This is easily the worst game I have ever played on the Wii.  Even being free it still feels like I was ripped off since it took about 4 minutes to download and that's 4 minutes I could have used to masturbate.  Let me tell you about this piece of crap.

You use the Wiimote and nunchuck together to extend this hand/claw to take pieces of meat off of several different grills.  That's it.  You move from grill to grill taking meat off before it burns. But here's the kicker: if you take meat off before its ready or after it's burned the game immediately ends and you only have a window of about a second to get the meat.  So far my record was 2 pieces. That's it.  It's actually one of the hardest games I've ever played. There is no ramp up in difficulty. It starts out extremely hard and completely unforgiving.

Even at just 80 Club NIntendo points, this is a complete rip-off and waste of time. Stay the fuck away from it.