Like A Dragon Gaiden and Yakuza 8 (Like A Dragon 8) announced

[DonFerrari]

Hiku said:

SegaHeart said:

Kiryu own team is team legacy I think?

Like Majima, Daigo, Taiga, Akiyama, etc? Would seem a bit OP compared to Ichiban's team, but I'd like to see Kaoru Sayama in Kiryu's team at least.

Ka-pi96 said:

I wonder if they'll be turn based again. I haven't actually gotten round to the new turn based one yet, but it definitely appeals to me a lot more following that shift!

They did say Like A Dragon 8 will have an RPG system again.
But they also said they'll use the system that suits each title, even if they have to make it a party game.

Yakuza Will Use Whatever System Serves Its Story Even if It Means 'Making a Party Game' (ign.com)

KLXVER said:

Really? So the games have never had the word Yakuza in its title in Japan? Interesting.

They've always been called Ryu Ga Gotoku in Japan which translates to Like A Dragon.

But for the 7th game in Japan I saw them call it Ryu Ga Gotoku 7: Yakuza in promotional footage. But that seems to have changed for the release of the game, and the word Yakuza is no longer seen.
While for the western version they named it Yakuza: Like A Dragon.

It seems the next title will be named Like A Dragon 8 in the west.

So it won't become a FF situation where FF3 in the west was FF6 in Japan. The ppl who were newcomers to Like A Dragon are probably mostly aware by now that there were several previous Yakuza games, so the 8 shouldn't be too confusing.

And in FF case it should have been even less confusing since well there is no tie between the games, but they just wanted to avoid people thinking they would be entering to late on the franchise and wouldn't understand it, etc. But it was a different time and harder to get more info.