Phantasy star as a franchise predated that and Online started on the Dreamcast.
Which is?
We all said something about Sega owning Atlus within seconds of each other.
Yes.
I'll bite, what's the first?
Crash Bandicoot the best. Love those games.
Easily Valkyria Chronicles and Shining.
My biggest fear is that they are completely oversaturating their own market with Yakuza's rapid fire releases. Everytime a series does this people inevitably get bored. I think Sega knows this and maybe that is why they are trying their whole 'lets reboot a bunch of old franchises!' idea, but we will see if that pans out.
That’s very true. I hope Yakuza doesn’t go the way of Sonic in the 2000’s, where “this is the only thing that makes money, pump out multiple games a year to keep the company afloat”.
At least with RGG they know that they can't keep doing the same exact thing every time. Think about the past few Yakuza titles. 7 and Lost Judgment primarily feature Ijincho as their locale, and did new things with the combat. 8 and Pirate Yakuza have been set in Honolulu primarily with even more additions to the new combat style. Project Century also looks as if it will bring even more change to the formula. I've been really into Yakuza/Like a Dragon since I played 0 in 2022. It's become my second favorite series and I always feel like RGG has something new and exciting to bring to the table. I do hope that the new reboots of all of these older franchises pan out, I'm really excited for Jet Set Radio and Golden Axe especially. It'd honestly be the higher ups at SEGA that could potentially ruin things, they seem to push the worst ideas and let the devs take the fall for it, like how Infinite Wealth had NG+ locked behind DLC from the Ultimate Edition. We shall see. But I'm definitely one of the suckers right now and I love it.
