If you are interested in this title I will buy it for you. I will hold a contest.
Please buy Shenmue for me
Chai isn’t in II. Chai sucks and I hate him.
Picking it up later down the line. I feel like I should be excited as I used to love the shit out of these games but those feelings dissipated a long time ago and there's probably a reason for that.
Picking it up later down the line. I feel like I should be excited as I used to love the shit out of these games but those feelings dissipated a long time ago and there's probably a reason for that.
I know it's going to be hard to go back to playing the series (when 3 comes out) because I'm not at a place in my life where I can just chill and let the gameplay come to me.
Switch when
Probs never.
Shenmue is very gameplay oriented. Think of it as animal crossing with martial artists crossed with an adventure game. It’s a game series you relax to. It’s not something you force. Definitely not for everyone but the games are pretty gameplay focused and barely have cutscene. What you see is what you get.
I loved the original but never had a system to play the sequelPlease buy Shenmue for me
Are you a fan
Ive gotten really into yakuza, so I want to try out the competition.
i haven't found any decent presale discountsNo idea if you consider this decent, but also for anyone else, it's $24 to preorder at:
Like, look dude, if I'm going to spend an hour looking for sailors, I'd rather it be actual sailors at this point.
Like, look dude, if I'm going to spend an hour looking for sailors, I'd rather it be actual sailors at this point.
RIP Silent Hunter
It costs 30 dollars.
Just got my dispatch notice. It arrives tomorrow!
I thought this wasn't out for another week?
From who? Amazon?
I’m not big on the new QTE icons and the new menu looks a bit wanting but those are nitpicks.
I see they haven’t fixed slowdown during 70 man battle?
Mind recording 10 minutes of gameplay in 1 with Japanese voices on?
A couple of tips to get you or anyone new to Shenmue started:
- Shenmue 1 is an old game. It will not hold your hand. You must find information using your own common sense. The game at its heart is an adventure game. You investigate you, you puzzle solve. In this game the “puzzles” are mostly related to information on people and places. Consider talking to people your “show this item to an npc and see what they say” button like in a point and click adventure game. You don’t need to show every npc the item to solve the puzzle. The game wants you to use your mind to solve it. The npcs might offer hints but that’s it. Shenmue works this way. Npcs can point you to the right direction, but often after that it’s best to just use your head. Otherwise you’ll often get a lot of repeating information. I noticed a lot from new players like giant bomb that they ask every npc where to go rather than using their own sense after one or two leads. They want the game to hold their hand and they enjoy it less because of it. So you’re looking for sailors right? Where do sailors like to hang out at night? They generally go to bars at night, right? So you need to find a bar at night. But where are bars? That’s the puzzle. This is why comparing Shenmue to Yakuza is dumb. They are literally two different genres.
- memorize the map as soon as possible for this reason.
- turn on location skip in the menu. This allows you to skip to any location in the general local area that isn’t the Yokohama harbor when Ryo steps outside his front door. If you want to go to the front yard just press down. Great time saver.
- I suggest memorize the phone numbers. So when you want to call you don’t have to open your journal. The area code is 0468 and you don’t have to dial it in. So Nozomi’s number is 0468-22-5508. You only need to dial in the 22-5508. But if you do need to use the journal you can pick up the phone and simply hit the journal button while using it for a quick glance making it easier. You don’t have to do them in two separate actions. Remember to call your friends!
- have patience with the game up until Charlie. The pacing is very slow up until that point but picks up once you’re involved with Charlie.
- have patience in general tbh. It’s an old game where things are meant to be explored and savored. Explore the world and do mini games when you’re waiting. Make it fun. Try to collect every damn capsule toy or play darts. Btw you can transfer toys to II. So it becomes some massive collection hunt and it’s really, really fun. Think of it as a gacha. There are some toys that are much easier to get in I than II. Like Kids silver Dural which might only be in I.
- follow the games detaisl. Try following an npc their entire day and see how complicated their routine is. Start with Ine. She cooks, cleans, all sorts of stuff.
- if you get stuck go to Lapis fortune telling.
Why the hell would anyone want to play the game with the japanese audio and not the superior english one.
https://twitter.com/RPGSite/status/1031391295732768768?s=19Holy shit
99% of the reason I'm hyped for this rerelease is so i never have to hear this shit again
This just arrived. Wondering if I should return it- checked out footage of the port and it just looks so dated and boring. I want it for my collection and $29 is cheap though...although I was would probably rather have this on PC to try as a portable game. Decisions. :thinking:ufup Just keep it and don't open it. If you sell it now, you'll only end up buying it again down the road... you know you will... especially when S3 hype stirs up again.
This just arrived. Wondering if I should return it- checked out footage of the port and it just looks so dated and boring. I want it for my collection and $29 is cheap though...although I was would probably rather have this on PC to try as a portable game. Decisions. :thinking:ufup Just keep it and don't open it. If you sell it now, you'll only end up buying it again down the road... you know you will... especially when S3 hype stirs up again.
> he buys games and doesnt play them
:girlaff
I know I am. :hehThis just arrived. Wondering if I should return it- checked out footage of the port and it just looks so dated and boring. I want it for my collection and $29 is cheap though...although I was would probably rather have this on PC to try as a portable game. Decisions. :thinking:ufup Just keep it and don't open it. If you sell it now, you'll only end up buying it again down the road... you know you will... especially when S3 hype stirs up again.
It's just a question of keeping it or waiting for it to hit $20. :)
:heymanI know I am. :hehThis just arrived. Wondering if I should return it- checked out footage of the port and it just looks so dated and boring. I want it for my collection and $29 is cheap though...although I was would probably rather have this on PC to try as a portable game. Decisions. :thinking:ufup Just keep it and don't open it. If you sell it now, you'll only end up buying it again down the road... you know you will... especially when S3 hype stirs up again.
It's just a question of keeping it or waiting for it to hit $20. :)
picked this up, don't tell me it's shit now :lol
And over on PC...
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Can't wait until people find out that the PC version of Shenmue is running nullDC or some other old ass Dreamcast emulator code :lol
That looks like nulldc emulation which happens on nulldcThat's EXACTLY what it must be. lol Speaking of, the latest Reicast update runs this decently in widescreen now. I may just do that for the time being. :doge
1.01 isn’t the day one patch?
I've played 1 for a few hours and the only glitch I've seen is some dropped sound effects. did hear about some crashing tho.
1.01 isn’t the day one patch?
I was on version 1.01 on Saturday. I'm wondering where this new patch has gotten to. I'm sure a bunch of cut scenes that I remember are AWOL, the dark is TOO dark and it still sounds like they're talking to each other through baked bean cans and pieces of string. GRRRRRRR.
I hate being a Shenmue fan. Today was supposed to be a celebration. It’s the first Shenmue release since 2002. Instead we get a re-release with downgrades and bugs and a new trailer for III which will probably suck. The Buddha was right: life truly is suffering.
1.01 reportedly IS the day one patch.
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I hate being a Shenmue fan. Today was supposed to be a celebration. It’s the first Shenmue release since 2002. Instead we get a re-release with downgrades and bugs and a new trailer for III which will probably suck. The Buddha was right: life truly is suffering.
That sucks, Himu- Know you were hyped and it looks like the bugs/port quality here really deflated it. Dunno about III since they still haven't really shown much.1.01 reportedly IS the day one patch.
:-\
In terms of rpg structure, shenmue I is the town, shenmue 2 is a series of dungeons. Shenmue I is all about building your character, building up his inventory (yes, those small plastic toys can be important) and leveling up your moves. Train as much as possible, it pays off in shenmue 2.
If its not obvious, training levels up individual moves in shenmue, which alters them and makes them do more damage, more attacks, etc.
A big part of shenmue 2 is an underground fighting tournament that has fights you can continuously go back to, but by the time that rolls around you dont have the ability to train your moves quite the same, so put in your work in shenmue 1.
A lot of the more mundane things you can optionally do in shenmue 1, dont really pay off until shenmue 2.
I only watched 2 reviews prior and they didn't report any of this except the stamp-tier cutscenes in 2. But I think they were talking about PS4.
I only watched 2 reviews prior and they didn't report any of this except the stamp-tier cutscenes in 2. But I think they were talking about PS4.
It's hard to tell with some of these reviews. Like this guy just gushes about it:
But that's kind of his thing and he does that for every game. :lol
Himu, is this true?Quote from: Krejlooc, post: 11718920, member: 12790In terms of rpg structure, shenmue I is the town, shenmue 2 is a series of dungeons. Shenmue I is all about building your character, building up his inventory (yes, those small plastic toys can be important) and leveling up your moves. Train as much as possible, it pays off in shenmue 2.
If its not obvious, training levels up individual moves in shenmue, which alters them and makes them do more damage, more attacks, etc.
A big part of shenmue 2 is an underground fighting tournament that has fights you can continuously go back to, but by the time that rolls around you dont have the ability to train your moves quite the same, so put in your work in shenmue 1.
A lot of the more mundane things you can optionally do in shenmue 1, dont really pay off until shenmue 2.
Makes me want to play both games if so.
Idk if I’m being ungrateful or if I just have standards
That's what I watched and a German one :dunnoJohn probably didn't play enough to encounter any of these.
e: also didn't digital foundry give their dumb approval too? :lol
That's what I watched and a German one :dunnoJohn probably didn't play enough to encounter any of these.
e: also didn't digital foundry give their dumb approval too? :lol
that I should deal with it because all modern games use a run button right now
that I should deal with it because all modern games use a run button right now
:huh :confused
Are you posting on REEE again? :doge
Oh, GAF? What did you expect?
:neogaf
Pc version apparently less buggy
https://www.shenmuedojo.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-current-build-of-the-pc-version-is-so-much-better-than-consoles.364/
lmao these aren't overly buggy ports lol this is getting overblown
Being told by other Shenmue fans that I was the only who liked analog control in II and that I should deal with it because all modern games use a run button right now. Apparently I’ve been playing a game I regularly play for the past 12 years wrong.
Though changing it to a run button wouldn't bother me much in a walking simulator like Shenmue as much as in a 3D platformer so it's hard for me to get too worked up about it.
Silent Hill HD collection and the ZoE HD collection amount to the definition of bad remastering. Every HD remastering or collection for games past the 360/PS3 gen has a funky taste somewhere if you look hard enough.
The MGS HD collection was immaculate and bluepoint handled it. I still would get a visual glitch in MGS2 where all the water had a digital artifact rainbow rainbow pattern. The DMC HD collection on 360/PS3 had a bug where the Royal Guard style in DMC3 wouldn't work as intended, one of the abilities straight up wouldn't work.
All my rambling aside, these ports seem serviceable, and there aren't really fucked up issues yet.
I had no problems so far except it's not possible to turn the fucking bloom off. After a few seconds it will always come back. I only tried in the ingame menu though, maybe it works if I change it straight in the opening menu.
Silent Hill HD collection and the ZoE HD collection amount to the definition of bad remastering. Every HD remastering or collection for games past the 360/PS3 gen has a funky taste somewhere if you look hard enough.
The MGS HD collection was immaculate and bluepoint handled it. I still would get a visual glitch in MGS2 where all the water had a digital artifact rainbow rainbow pattern. The DMC HD collection on 360/PS3 had a bug where the Royal Guard style in DMC3 wouldn't work as intended, one of the abilities straight up wouldn't work.
All my rambling aside, these ports seem serviceable, and there aren't really fucked up issues yet.
Silent Hill HD collection and the ZoE HD collection amount to the definition of bad remastering. Every HD remastering or collection for games past the 360/PS3 gen has a funky taste somewhere if you look hard enough.
The MGS HD collection was immaculate and bluepoint handled it. I still would get a visual glitch in MGS2 where all the water had a digital artifact rainbow rainbow pattern. The DMC HD collection on 360/PS3 had a bug where the Royal Guard style in DMC3 wouldn't work as intended, one of the abilities straight up wouldn't work.
All my rambling aside, these ports seem serviceable, and there aren't really fucked up issues yet.
Kinda aside, but did they fix that DMC3 issue? Would like to replay DMC3 someday and I love the RG parties so that sounds bad.
Them people finding out you have to look at an in-game map to find out where you are.
That was one of my favourite things in the first Darkness game. To properly use the subway you gotta read the signs and there's public information displays to find your bearings. (End up watching all old cartoons on the tv in the homeless guy's shopping cart instead of going where you have to go. Think there's entire movies on it. On Jackie's birthday you can watch the entirety of To Kill a Mockingbird with his girlfriend.)
It's one of my favourite games from the PS3/360 era. FPS game with a heavy emphasis on storytelling. Same people that made the Chronicles of Riddick game.
ngl i am sad they didn't work in the passport disc. i mean i knew they wouldn't, but still. i liked the online functions in those old dreamcast games; they had a lot of unique artwork.
i want to win the home versions of the arcade games this time. i never fucking win those.
How the fuck is there a Saturn in 1986?!
I'm a recent Yakuza convert. 0 was my first and now I love the series
Now that I'm finally playing Shenmue, the whole "Yakuza is a better/evolved Shenmue" thing is just utterly baffling. The games couldn't be more different. It's like saying Fallout 3 is a better STALKER because they're both post-apocalyptic and have guns
Yakuza is a JRPG-esque brawler with copious amounts of combat, with insane over-the-top moments that somehow work perfectly with the emotional yakuza drama. It's fast and frenetic and flashy and everything revolves around fighting.
Shenmue is slow and sedate, a 3D visual novel/adventure game that occasionally has some combat, but is more concerned about letting you meander around town and being a slice-of-life proto-immersive sim.
The only similarities that Yakuza and Shenmue share is that they're story driven and that they happen in lively atmospheric sandboxes. Beyond that, the games are nothing alike. I don't get this continued insistence that Yakuza and Shenmue are so similar because they aren't, at all. They're practically in entirely different genres, their pace and gameplay and designs are so different
I'm curiously digging the forklift quest, but this is also where the glitches got out of control. So far it was mostly sound glitches whose extent was bearable in contrast to the overall game time. But now the forklift bg song is bugged, it can't repeat more than a couple of times and any new event will add different kinds of broken noise until you restart the game from the PS menu. ::) And you can't restart during the job, because you can only save afterwards. Also I just now saw that the entire training progression might be screwed up.
Admittedly, I'm still playing unpatched, since in my setup I usually keep my PS4 offline. It's funny. This is only the second offline HD game for which ever needed the day 1 patch - and it's a Dreamcast port. Christ Sega, fuck you. :picard
my problem with all these impressions and reviews is there's nothing on the superior game: shenmue II. In today, when Shenmue Ii is bundled, no one talks about it. :tocry Because Shenmue 1 is such a massive fucking litmus test to pass to even get to it.
My opinion can be summarized as follows: judging Shenmue franchise as a whole solely via 1 makes you a dumb fuck.
https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1033016210965901312
Imported the euro version too. Played it on my Big ass monitor at the time with this thing..
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Wait, how much is this thing going for now?!?!?!!! :anhuld
so right before Ryo gets a job is when i should wrap up everything i want to do, right? iirc the game is basically a straight shot to the end after that.
yup got all three. first time seeing the one in the park. also didn't know that you can get info on the legends behind the password from some of the older Chinese townspeople. there's just so many nice little optional conversations (tho i do wish someone had compiled a guide or something so i can look over them all later).
People weren't kidding about asking random strangers on the street about "have you seen <subject>?" "No, sorry." "Oh, alright then. :fbm " pecking.
Man, this is a slow start, Himu.
People weren't kidding about asking random strangers on the street about "have you seen <subject>?" "No, sorry." "Oh, alright then. :fbm " pecking.
Well, after a bunch of hassle. I'm up to revisiting the Chinese Master. Got like 26 or 50 or so Gacha's and can't spend below 400Yen apparently. :doge
Well, after a bunch of hassle. I'm up to revisiting the Chinese Master. Got like 26 or 50 or so Gacha's and can't spend below 400Yen apparently. :doge
Can’t spend helps 400?
Damn you really spent that money. Did you buy any moves?
I liked the forklift in 1, but all activities in 2 are trash :holeup The amount would be adequate enough to heighten the immersion of city life, but actually playing arm wrestling is straight out of the worst Rareware hell, new box lifting is less exciting than even training in the first game, then there's gambling which is always shit in games.
I dunno, I had no problem with the box lifting (outside of LEFT LEFT LEFT [accidentally hit LEFT one more time]).
I feel like the last bit could've been excised and the cliff-hanger at Kowloon would've been better than the cliffhanger in the cave. :lol