For anyone who slightly cares, Twitch Prime (now Amazon Luna (still Prime)) is giving out codes for NEW Tales from the Borderlands for Epic Games Store.
So... yeah.
I still own a PS4 copy when it went on sale randomly for like 13$ on amazon once. Still haven't played it. Saving it for a really dark and rainy day. Maybe.
They spent around two years working on that project — a live-action version of what would become Dispatch — and were about to start production in March 2020. Then a pandemic came along and shut it all down.
Fortunately they had a fallback option — a gig with their old company, Telltale Games, to make a title called The Wolf Among Us 2. (Technically, Telltale had shut down in 2018, but the brand was later purchased and revived by a different company.) They spent months writing an 800-page script, building prototypes and shooting cut-scenes. But they ran into some disagreements with Telltale and found themselves frustrated as work-for-hire staff, where they would never get the final say. “We saw a future where we were gonna be there for a long time if we try to stick it out, and we didn’t want to do that,” Herman said. “So we had to make a tough decision.”
Well, we got an interview with Adhoc on Dispatch and some details on their breakup with Telltale.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletter… mores/2025-11-14/the-turbulent-seven-year-saga-behind-hit-game-dispatch?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzE0MzM2NiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNzQ4MTY2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNVFBMDdHUEZIUlYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.fNOncm0D1BfbWI9RAgwCB6j8SI8mW9RhRD76EEz1TYo
They spent around two years working on that project — a live-action version of what would become Dispatch — and were about to start production in March 2020. Then a pandemic came along and shut it all down.
Fortunately they had a fallback option — a gig with their old company, Telltale Games, to make a title called The Wolf Among Us 2. (Technically, Telltale had shut down in 2018, but the brand was later purchased and revived by a different … [view original content]
For anyone who slightly cares, Twitch Prime (now Amazon Luna (still Prime)) is giving out codes for NEW Tales from the Borderlands for Epic … moreGames Store.
So... yeah.
I still own a PS4 copy when it went on sale randomly for like 13$ on amazon once. Still haven't played it. Saving it for a really dark and rainy day. Maybe.
For anyone who slightly cares, Twitch Prime (now Amazon Luna (still Prime)) is giving out codes for NEW Tales from the Borderlands for Epic … moreGames Store.
So... yeah.
I still own a PS4 copy when it went on sale randomly for like 13$ on amazon once. Still haven't played it. Saving it for a really dark and rainy day. Maybe.
There was another interview they did recently on youtube where they say pretty much the same thing, but they also mentioned that it seems like a really big issue was Telltale was way too slow and they even mentioned Telltale was also disappointed how slow they were going. Basically they were always ready to work but Telltale just never was and they didn't really like how they were acting like contractors and ultimately didn't have complete control of the project and their company by just working on someone else's stuff.
Well, we got an interview with Adhoc on Dispatch and some details on their breakup with Telltale.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletter… mores/2025-11-14/the-turbulent-seven-year-saga-behind-hit-game-dispatch?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzE0MzM2NiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNzQ4MTY2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNVFBMDdHUEZIUlYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.fNOncm0D1BfbWI9RAgwCB6j8SI8mW9RhRD76EEz1TYo
They spent around two years working on that project — a live-action version of what would become Dispatch — and were about to start production in March 2020. Then a pandemic came along and shut it all down.
Fortunately they had a fallback option — a gig with their old company, Telltale Games, to make a title called The Wolf Among Us 2. (Technically, Telltale had shut down in 2018, but the brand was later purchased and revived by a different … [view original content]
I'm a big fan of the Like a Dragon series, which I'm sure is not a surprise to a lot of people on this forum.
I just found out about the Yakuza Restored and Yakuza 2 Restored patches which bring the English PlayStation 2 versions in line with the original Japanese versions.
I'm playing through Yakuza Restored now, and holy carp is it incredibly well done. The English voice acting was terrible, so I never finished the PS2 version. With the Japanese voice acting and correct names of the characters it's like playing a whole new game. It is done so well I immediately became as immersed in it as I was in Yakuza Kiwami.
I doubt that there's anybody here that's as big of a fan of the series as me, but if you ever were interested to see how Yakuza and Yakuza 2 differed from the Kiwami remakes, I highly recommend the Restored versions.
how's it goin gang? i haven't popped in for a while, but i thought about wolf season 2 the other day and went "i bet those good ol telltale forums folks are still sinking into insanity waiting" lmao
I liked Kiryu's original English VA Darryl Kurylo then his current English VA YongYea. I like YongYea but I'll be honest his voice doesn't fit well with Kiryu, and that's me being nice about it. I think the only English VAs that were good in the PS2 version were for Kiryu and Majima, though it was funny hearing Micheal Madson as Shimano lol.
I'm a big fan of the Like a Dragon series, which I'm sure is not a surprise to a lot of people on this forum.
I just found out about th… moree Yakuza Restored and Yakuza 2 Restored patches which bring the English PlayStation 2 versions in line with the original Japanese versions.
I'm playing through Yakuza Restored now, and holy carp is it incredibly well done. The English voice acting was terrible, so I never finished the PS2 version. With the Japanese voice acting and correct names of the characters it's like playing a whole new game. It is done so well I immediately became as immersed in it as I was in Yakuza Kiwami.
I doubt that there's anybody here that's as big of a fan of the series as me, but if you ever were interested to see how Yakuza and Yakuza 2 differed from the Kiwami remakes, I highly recommend the Restored versions.
how's it goin gang? i haven't popped in for a while, but i thought about wolf season 2 the other day and went "i bet those good ol telltale forums folks are still sinking into insanity waiting" lmao
Wassup, my fellow squad.
It has been a long hiatus and there are a lot of things I wanna discuss here. But for now, I'm glad to see you all happy with Telltale again. Just not in the sense that we expected.
nice to see you too! dispatch looks pretty good, definitely wanna check it out at some point. I'm replaying LiS and Minecraft Story Mode with a close friend rn because those are the only Telltale style games she has any interest in 😭 going well so far! she's having fun so i am too. (we saved kate btw i made her take notes so she didn't goof it up)
Takaya Kuroda gives Kiryu a fitting complicated, and emotional voice. You're right though that Kiryu had a fitting voice actor with Darryl Kurylo in the English dub. You're also right that it's better than Yong Yea.
Majima is a tough one for me. Mark Hamill brought all of the Joker energy to the role, but I'm so used to Hidenari Ugaki's Kansai-tinged insanity.
The one I really enjoyed the most was Bill Farmer as Makoto Date. It was pretty much the voice he used for Sam the detective dog half of Sam & Max, but it gave the character a film-noir feel. This worked well for an international version of the old fashioned Japanese detective archetype that Date embodied.
Those three definitely brought their A game, so I think it's just preference for them as opposed to being outright awful. The excessive swearing was so out of place though, it pulled me right out of the experience.
I just bought $10 Hello Kitty earbuds at Five Below to replace my JVC earbuds. The JVC ones were great but they didn't fit. I have to get child-sized earbuds because my ear canal is tiny.
Everything on me from my teeth to my internal organs are smaller than average. Though, I guess it's not too weird because I had two 2 millimeter cysts on my pituitary gland when I was a teenager. The doctors caught it early and it, thankfully, was treatable with octreotide.
I'm glad that it was caught early enough that I'm only 183 cm, or 6 feet, tall. I wish I wasn't that tall though. I can't help but wonder how small I would be if it weren't for my gigantism.
I liked Kiryu's original English VA Darryl Kurylo then his current English VA YongYea. I like YongYea but I'll be honest his voice doesn't f… moreit well with Kiryu, and that's me being nice about it. I think the only English VAs that were good in the PS2 version were for Kiryu and Majima, though it was funny hearing Micheal Madson as Shimano lol.
i've always felt that kurylo isn't a fitting voice for kiryu at all. kiryu is stern and gruff but he's not full action hero, which is what kurylo's performance feels like. i just never got the sense that he has the range to portray kiryu in the way kuroda can. i'm definitely not a huge fan of yong yea's performance but i think he gets closer to capturing the pain behind kiryu's voice as well as his softer and kinder tone when he's speaking to someone in a more casual situation.
i can't hear kurylo giving mitsuo (bad) advice on how to attract girls or worrying over taichi's asthma affecting his future or warmly conversing with nagumo and the gang after a long day. it's a very important part of kiryu's character to have that softness and weakness, arguably moreso than him just sounding cool #imo
Takaya Kuroda gives Kiryu a fitting complicated, and emotional voice. You're right though that Kiryu had a fitting voice actor with Darryl K… moreurylo in the English dub. You're also right that it's better than Yong Yea.
Majima is a tough one for me. Mark Hamill brought all of the Joker energy to the role, but I'm so used to Hidenari Ugaki's Kansai-tinged insanity.
The one I really enjoyed the most was Bill Farmer as Makoto Date. It was pretty much the voice he used for Sam the detective dog half of Sam & Max, but it gave the character a film-noir feel. This worked well for an international version of the old fashioned Japanese detective archetype that Date embodied.
Those three definitely brought their A game, so I think it's just preference for them as opposed to being outright awful. The excessive swearing was so out of place though, it pulled me right out of the experience.
I just bought $10 Hello Kitty earbuds at Five Below … [view original content]
Been meaning to post a full Dispatch review in the other thread, and my phone started having issues today. But I'm alive and healthy, so life is good, and hope even those under a lot of problems can at least enjoy the day a bit .
After one year of struggle, I finally managed to get my very first job. I started this position on (I'm not making this up) September 11th and I worked as a Logistic DB donor, for Google. I spent almost the entire season working there and it just wasn't for me, despite the good salary.
I had great colleagues but the tasks seemed inconsistent at times and the physical work caused me a lot of exhaustion. I thought I was gonna spend at least one year there.
Until I managed to find a different position that suits me more, just now. This week, I began working as a Photo Editor for a different Logistic company. My major goal there is to photoshop product pictures and crop them clean. It's very simple and I no longer have to do physical work.
After one year of struggle, I finally managed to get my very first job. I started this position on (I'm not making this up) September 11th a… morend I worked as a Logistic DB donor, for Google. I spent almost the entire season working there and it just wasn't for me, despite the good salary.
I had great colleagues but the tasks seemed inconsistent at times and the physical work caused me a lot of exhaustion. I thought I was gonna spend at least one year there.
Until I managed to find a different position that suits me more, just now. This week, I began working as a Photo Editor for a different Logistic company. My major goal there is to photoshop product pictures and crop them clean. It's very simple and I no longer have to do physical work.
I do think Darryl Kurylo only works as Kiryu in the early PS2 era of Yakuza. The two PS2 games are 100% products of their time, and different than what the series would become tonally from Yakuza 3 onward.
Toshihiro Nagoshi wanted to make an open world game using all the lessons that he learned from being brought in to course-correct the troubled, messy, and expensive development of Shenmue. He wanted to make something that would appeal to Japanese audiences specifically to give the game a chance of success in its homeland.
The original Ryu Ga Gotoku is a blend of the gokudō genre of fiction which portrays the yakuza as honorable, chivalrous, and bound to the strict ninkyō code of conduct with the jitsuroku genre which portrays the yakuza as thugs who only care about their own desires.
He brought in Hase Seishū, a popular writer of Yakuza fiction, to co-create the character of Kiryu and supervise the story of Ryu Ga Gotoku. He also supervised the story of Ryu Ga Gotoku 2, but notably did not return for Ryu Ga Gotoku 3.
The first two games are much more embedded into the Tojo Clan than the later games. Kiryu is the embodiment of the hero who comes from the gokudō era and has ethics that are called into question when he is transplanted into the jitsuroku era of greed and violence.
Even leaving aside the terrible idea of localizing Yakuza as a Grand Theft Auto III competitor, Darryl Kurylo's tough guy portrayal works in the original context of the series.
From Yakuza 3 onward, the series shifted to a more relatable Kiryu who becomes a willing surrogate father to Haruka and the Okinawa orphans at Morning Glory Orphanage. He also gained a lot more compassion, and as the series went on he also became more and more emotionally vulnerable until he breaks down crying at his many losses by the end of his story.
I agree with you completely that Kurylo would not work in those games. But, in my opinion, Yong Yea doesn't either. I'm not if there is a time where he would have worked as the Kiryu character to me. I could see him working as Ukyō Tatsuya, though, if Sega ever decides to do Kiwami versions of the PSP games.
i've always felt that kurylo isn't a fitting voice for kiryu at all. kiryu is stern and gruff but he's not full action hero, which is what k… moreurylo's performance feels like. i just never got the sense that he has the range to portray kiryu in the way kuroda can. i'm definitely not a huge fan of yong yea's performance but i think he gets closer to capturing the pain behind kiryu's voice as well as his softer and kinder tone when he's speaking to someone in a more casual situation.
i can't hear kurylo giving mitsuo (bad) advice on how to attract girls or worrying over taichi's asthma affecting his future or warmly conversing with nagumo and the gang after a long day. it's a very important part of kiryu's character to have that softness and weakness, arguably moreso than him just sounding cool #imo
that's fair! i started with zero and went directly into kiwami 1+2 and then 3-7, so for me, the complexity of kiryu's character was there from day one and i only went back to the PS2 version after finishing 6. so i can see the different perspective on kurylo's performance. i do think that even what i played of PS2 yakuza has moments of kiryu's emotional depth that i still dont feel like the tough guy think works quite well to sell, but i do agree he is much more in line with that era of kiryu's journey than 0 or 3-7. still though you're right, there's a completely different cultural and historical context to the original two games than there are everything after, so i can see kurylo working a lot better if you started there and went onwards.
I do think Darryl Kurylo only works as Kiryu in the early PS2 era of Yakuza. The two PS2 games are 100% products of their time, and differen… moret than what the series would become tonally from Yakuza 3 onward.
Toshihiro Nagoshi wanted to make an open world game using all the lessons that he learned from being brought in to course-correct the troubled, messy, and expensive development of Shenmue. He wanted to make something that would appeal to Japanese audiences specifically to give the game a chance of success in its homeland.
The original Ryu Ga Gotoku is a blend of the gokudō genre of fiction which portrays the yakuza as honorable, chivalrous, and bound to the strict ninkyō code of conduct with the jitsuroku genre which portrays the yakuza as thugs who only care about their own desires.
He brought in Hase Seishū, a popular writer of Yakuza fiction, to co-create the character of Kiryu and supervise the story of Ryu Ga Gotoku. He also s… [view original content]
That's very true. I first found about Yakuza when it came out because a friend told me about it since he knew I was a fan of Shenmue I and II and said it was the spiritual successor to Shenmue. It... kind of... is, but it obviously has a much more mature tone. It also helped that in 2005, English speaking gamers would not have heard Takaya Kuroda's performance, so the bar was set really low.
Looking back on it now, with 20 years of hearing the original Japanese performances, I do think the English voice acting was terrible. Well, that's kind of harsh. The translation and voice direction was terrible, the actors were decent.
that's fair! i started with zero and went directly into kiwami 1+2 and then 3-7, so for me, the complexity of kiryu's character was there fr… moreom day one and i only went back to the PS2 version after finishing 6. so i can see the different perspective on kurylo's performance. i do think that even what i played of PS2 yakuza has moments of kiryu's emotional depth that i still dont feel like the tough guy think works quite well to sell, but i do agree he is much more in line with that era of kiryu's journey than 0 or 3-7. still though you're right, there's a completely different cultural and historical context to the original two games than there are everything after, so i can see kurylo working a lot better if you started there and went onwards.
been thinkin about how when wolf 2 was originally renounced at the game awards it was 6 year since the game released and now the reannouncement was 6 years ago
So for the Game Awards, I am super hyped about the new Star Wars: Old Republic game. Brillant stuff, and I loved how I alternated between thinking it was a Star Wars game and Mass Effect game watching it---only for it to be the former directed by the director of the latter (and those older Old Republic games too).
Interesting show. Clair Obscur really said "no sharing" lol.
I thought it was Entergalactic at first, then a new IP when they showed the cockpit, but as soon as I saw the thrusters on the ship I knew it was Star Wars. No one else does ship thrusters like them.
So for the Game Awards, I am super hyped about the new Star Wars: Old Republic game. Brillant stuff, and I loved how I alternated between th… moreinking it was a Star Wars game and Mass Effect game watching it---only for it to be the former directed by the director of the latter (and those older Old Republic games too).
Interesting show. Clair Obscur really said "no sharing" lol.
I wanted to leave a funny comment about how Wolf 2 was obviously not going to be the game awards but this site just wouldn't load and then the second its over it loads lmfao
Hi everyone! As Christmas is ten days away, I would like to share the Gospel with you all.
John 3:16 from the Bible says, ‘ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’
Ever since the first two humans disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, sin entered into the world, and death with it. Sin includes things like stealing, murder, even hating someone in your heart. The Bible says in Romans 3:23, ‘For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God’. Because God is just, He must punish sin, which would mean we would all burn up in Hell without a Savior. Romans 6:23 from the Bible says ‘ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’
The good news of the Gospel is that God in His mercy sent His Son Jesus Christ into the world, born through the virgin Mary, to live a sinless life so that He could pay the penalty of sin through His death on the cross for everyone who believes in Him, and He rose back to life three days later. It’s through His sacrifice and blood shed on the cross that we can receive forgiveness from God and the gift of eternal life in Heaven. Romans 5:8 from the Bible says, ‘But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.’
To receive this gift, all you have to do is believe that Jesus died and rose again for you, and confess Him as Lord. Romans 10:9 says ‘ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.’
Jesus will return to earth to bring those who believe in Him to Heaven one day. John 3:36 says ‘He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.’ I hope you’ll believe that Jesus is the Son of God and repent today.
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Speaking of... Stranger Things animated series.
And it looks kind of like the designs were ripped right from Telltale's original concept designs.
Alright so it's not just me that thought that lmao
For anyone who slightly cares, Twitch Prime (now Amazon Luna (still Prime)) is giving out codes for NEW Tales from the Borderlands for Epic Games Store.
So... yeah.
I still own a PS4 copy when it went on sale randomly for like 13$ on amazon once. Still haven't played it. Saving it for a really dark and rainy day. Maybe.
Well, we got an interview with Adhoc on Dispatch and some details on their breakup with Telltale.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-14/the-turbulent-seven-year-saga-behind-hit-game-dispatch?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzE0MzM2NiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNzQ4MTY2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNVFBMDdHUEZIUlYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.fNOncm0D1BfbWI9RAgwCB6j8SI8mW9RhRD76EEz1TYo
Straight up found a way to fix Crowd Play lmfao.
I really hope that 800 page script gets released if Wolf 2 never comes out. What a shame.
Damned by faint...phrase?
Imagine being the guy who just finished Dispatch and then plays New Tales to follow up lmao
There was another interview they did recently on youtube where they say pretty much the same thing, but they also mentioned that it seems like a really big issue was Telltale was way too slow and they even mentioned Telltale was also disappointed how slow they were going. Basically they were always ready to work but Telltale just never was and they didn't really like how they were acting like contractors and ultimately didn't have complete control of the project and their company by just working on someone else's stuff.
I'm a big fan of the Like a Dragon series, which I'm sure is not a surprise to a lot of people on this forum.
I just found out about the Yakuza Restored and Yakuza 2 Restored patches which bring the English PlayStation 2 versions in line with the original Japanese versions.
I'm playing through Yakuza Restored now, and holy carp is it incredibly well done. The English voice acting was terrible, so I never finished the PS2 version. With the Japanese voice acting and correct names of the characters it's like playing a whole new game. It is done so well I immediately became as immersed in it as I was in Yakuza Kiwami.
I doubt that there's anybody here that's as big of a fan of the series as me, but if you ever were interested to see how Yakuza and Yakuza 2 differed from the Kiwami remakes, I highly recommend the Restored versions.
how's it goin gang? i haven't popped in for a while, but i thought about wolf season 2 the other day and went "i bet those good ol telltale forums folks are still sinking into insanity waiting" lmao
I liked Kiryu's original English VA Darryl Kurylo then his current English VA YongYea. I like YongYea but I'll be honest his voice doesn't fit well with Kiryu, and that's me being nice about it. I think the only English VAs that were good in the PS2 version were for Kiryu and Majima, though it was funny hearing Micheal Madson as Shimano lol.
Nice to see you on here again!
It's fine, Dispatch has helped hold off the demons for now
Wassup, my fellow squad.
It has been a long hiatus and there are a lot of things I wanna discuss here. But for now, I'm glad to see you all happy with Telltale again. Just not in the sense that we expected.
nice to see you too! dispatch looks pretty good, definitely wanna check it out at some point. I'm replaying LiS and Minecraft Story Mode with a close friend rn because those are the only Telltale style games she has any interest in 😭 going well so far! she's having fun so i am too. (we saved kate btw i made her take notes so she didn't goof it up)
Takaya Kuroda gives Kiryu a fitting complicated, and emotional voice. You're right though that Kiryu had a fitting voice actor with Darryl Kurylo in the English dub. You're also right that it's better than Yong Yea.
Majima is a tough one for me. Mark Hamill brought all of the Joker energy to the role, but I'm so used to Hidenari Ugaki's Kansai-tinged insanity.
The one I really enjoyed the most was Bill Farmer as Makoto Date. It was pretty much the voice he used for Sam the detective dog half of Sam & Max, but it gave the character a film-noir feel. This worked well for an international version of the old fashioned Japanese detective archetype that Date embodied.
Those three definitely brought their A game, so I think it's just preference for them as opposed to being outright awful. The excessive swearing was so out of place though, it pulled me right out of the experience.
I just bought $10 Hello Kitty earbuds at Five Below to replace my JVC earbuds. The JVC ones were great but they didn't fit. I have to get child-sized earbuds because my ear canal is tiny.
Everything on me from my teeth to my internal organs are smaller than average. Though, I guess it's not too weird because I had two 2 millimeter cysts on my pituitary gland when I was a teenager. The doctors caught it early and it, thankfully, was treatable with octreotide.
I'm glad that it was caught early enough that I'm only 183 cm, or 6 feet, tall. I wish I wasn't that tall though. I can't help but wonder how small I would be if it weren't for my gigantism.
i've always felt that kurylo isn't a fitting voice for kiryu at all. kiryu is stern and gruff but he's not full action hero, which is what kurylo's performance feels like. i just never got the sense that he has the range to portray kiryu in the way kuroda can. i'm definitely not a huge fan of yong yea's performance but i think he gets closer to capturing the pain behind kiryu's voice as well as his softer and kinder tone when he's speaking to someone in a more casual situation.
i can't hear kurylo giving mitsuo (bad) advice on how to attract girls or worrying over taichi's asthma affecting his future or warmly conversing with nagumo and the gang after a long day. it's a very important part of kiryu's character to have that softness and weakness, arguably moreso than him just sounding cool #imo
Ema just told me the very recent status of Wolf 2
Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!
Been meaning to post a full Dispatch review in the other thread, and my phone started having issues today. But I'm alive and healthy, so life is good, and hope even those under a lot of problems can at least enjoy the day a bit
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After one year of struggle, I finally managed to get my very first job. I started this position on (I'm not making this up) September 11th and I worked as a Logistic DB donor, for Google. I spent almost the entire season working there and it just wasn't for me, despite the good salary.
I had great colleagues but the tasks seemed inconsistent at times and the physical work caused me a lot of exhaustion. I thought I was gonna spend at least one year there.
Until I managed to find a different position that suits me more, just now. This week, I began working as a Photo Editor for a different Logistic company. My major goal there is to photoshop product pictures and crop them clean. It's very simple and I no longer have to do physical work.
that's good to hear! i'm happy you found something that suits ya better buddy!
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I do think Darryl Kurylo only works as Kiryu in the early PS2 era of Yakuza. The two PS2 games are 100% products of their time, and different than what the series would become tonally from Yakuza 3 onward.
Toshihiro Nagoshi wanted to make an open world game using all the lessons that he learned from being brought in to course-correct the troubled, messy, and expensive development of Shenmue. He wanted to make something that would appeal to Japanese audiences specifically to give the game a chance of success in its homeland.
The original Ryu Ga Gotoku is a blend of the gokudō genre of fiction which portrays the yakuza as honorable, chivalrous, and bound to the strict ninkyō code of conduct with the jitsuroku genre which portrays the yakuza as thugs who only care about their own desires.
He brought in Hase Seishū, a popular writer of Yakuza fiction, to co-create the character of Kiryu and supervise the story of Ryu Ga Gotoku. He also supervised the story of Ryu Ga Gotoku 2, but notably did not return for Ryu Ga Gotoku 3.
The first two games are much more embedded into the Tojo Clan than the later games. Kiryu is the embodiment of the hero who comes from the gokudō era and has ethics that are called into question when he is transplanted into the jitsuroku era of greed and violence.
Even leaving aside the terrible idea of localizing Yakuza as a Grand Theft Auto III competitor, Darryl Kurylo's tough guy portrayal works in the original context of the series.
From Yakuza 3 onward, the series shifted to a more relatable Kiryu who becomes a willing surrogate father to Haruka and the Okinawa orphans at Morning Glory Orphanage. He also gained a lot more compassion, and as the series went on he also became more and more emotionally vulnerable until he breaks down crying at his many losses by the end of his story.
I agree with you completely that Kurylo would not work in those games. But, in my opinion, Yong Yea doesn't either. I'm not if there is a time where he would have worked as the Kiryu character to me. I could see him working as Ukyō Tatsuya, though, if Sega ever decides to do Kiwami versions of the PSP games.
that's fair! i started with zero and went directly into kiwami 1+2 and then 3-7, so for me, the complexity of kiryu's character was there from day one and i only went back to the PS2 version after finishing 6. so i can see the different perspective on kurylo's performance. i do think that even what i played of PS2 yakuza has moments of kiryu's emotional depth that i still dont feel like the tough guy think works quite well to sell, but i do agree he is much more in line with that era of kiryu's journey than 0 or 3-7. still though you're right, there's a completely different cultural and historical context to the original two games than there are everything after, so i can see kurylo working a lot better if you started there and went onwards.
That's very true. I first found about Yakuza when it came out because a friend told me about it since he knew I was a fan of Shenmue I and II and said it was the spiritual successor to Shenmue. It... kind of... is, but it obviously has a much more mature tone. It also helped that in 2005, English speaking gamers would not have heard Takaya Kuroda's performance, so the bar was set really low.
Looking back on it now, with 20 years of hearing the original Japanese performances, I do think the English voice acting was terrible. Well, that's kind of harsh. The translation and voice direction was terrible, the actors were decent.
been thinkin about how when wolf 2 was originally renounced at the game awards it was 6 year since the game released and now the reannouncement was 6 years ago
So for the Game Awards, I am super hyped about the new Star Wars: Old Republic game. Brillant stuff, and I loved how I alternated between thinking it was a Star Wars game and Mass Effect game watching it---only for it to be the former directed by the director of the latter (and those older Old Republic games too).
Interesting show. Clair Obscur really said "no sharing" lol.
Telltale, do me a small favor.
Cancel Wolf 2 and announce the bankruptcy already. This is no longer funny.
I thought it was Entergalactic at first, then a new IP when they showed the cockpit, but as soon as I saw the thrusters on the ship I knew it was Star Wars. No one else does ship thrusters like them.
I wanted to leave a funny comment about how Wolf 2 was obviously not going to be the game awards but this site just wouldn't load and then the second its over it loads lmfao
How Telltale feeling after hitting us with literally nothing and then finishing with that "to be continued" like half a year ago
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John 3:16 from the Bible says, ‘ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’
Ever since the first two humans disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, sin entered into the world, and death with it. Sin includes things like stealing, murder, even hating someone in your heart. The Bible says in Romans 3:23, ‘For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God’. Because God is just, He must punish sin, which would mean we would all burn up in Hell without a Savior. Romans 6:23 from the Bible says ‘ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’
The good news of the Gospel is that God in His mercy sent His Son Jesus Christ into the world, born through the virgin Mary, to live a sinless life so that He could pay the penalty of sin through His death on the cross for everyone who believes in Him, and He rose back to life three days later. It’s through His sacrifice and blood shed on the cross that we can receive forgiveness from God and the gift of eternal life in Heaven. Romans 5:8 from the Bible says, ‘But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.’
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Jesus will return to earth to bring those who believe in Him to Heaven one day. John 3:36 says ‘He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.’ I hope you’ll believe that Jesus is the Son of God and repent today.
I hope you all have a great Christmas!
Omg
So I guess if you refresh this site enough, even with the 504 and 502 errors, you get through eventually! Yay, this site is definitely not dead!
Hi again people.
So I had to go into message history and click a thread to get here. What a disaster.