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Sega insider leaks info on Shenmue HD
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Yeah I know, it was a pretty dumb question
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Heh, I'm looking forward to those busses and docks.
Seemed so real and valid, at the time.
Wow it seemed way older than 2000. I guess that says something about how it has aged.
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But Yakuza isn't fun at all
Now I don't know what to think!
I always wanted to try Shenmue though.
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What was nice about the arcade is that time still passed while you were playing in there. So, like in real life, you would go to the arcade and dick around whenever you needed to wait for something to happen.
I think the wait function in Shenmue II hurt the game as much as it helped, because you were never given a good reason to find things to do.
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Also, now I remember where I got that info on Megumi (the cat) from. It was a supplemental disc that came with the first game. If you loaded it up, it would give you background info on characters you've met as well as give you a forecast (and contained the online leaderboards for the arcade games). Basically it would read your vmu data and unlock new things for you. Like how Nozomi was going to live with her relatives in Canada after school. And her.... relationship with Ryo.
Speaking of, apparently that teenage girl in Shenmue 2 (the one that has an obvious crush on Ryo) has a birthday during that game's time period. And you can hang out with her during it.
These games were pretty damn deep at times. (Still amazed at the fighting system. Practice a move enough and you actually improve upon it!)
Anyway, I played the original before I had to pack what I could. It was still fun in spite of being so old. Definitely curious to see how this turns out. Cautious, but not optimistic.
Anyway, a Shenmue comic. (Beware, the archives are sometimes NSFW. This one's...fine.)
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I will pay any amount of money to have those two games at 16:9 with a fixed framerate.
But what it did at the time was something no other video game had even attempted, and most still don't - creating an incredibly strong sense of place using interactivity within the world, and attempting to tell a low key, down to earth story. Comparisons with the Yakuza games are inevitable, considering it attempts much the same thing through different methods
Also you can go into an arcade and goof off in both games, but in Shenmue you get to play Hang-On and Space Harrier, and in Yakuza all you get is Boxcelios
I never played Shenmue II, but unless it's exactly the same as the previous game, I'm guessing it's a bit more playable
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I... didn't like 1 all that much?
Also I don't have an Xbox of any sort
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Care to try a round of Lucky Hit?
I certainly hope there's some truth to these rumors. Even if III isn't anywhere on the horizon, the rich settings and activities of the Shenmue world are still great fun. Shenmue had this way of seizing me with its storytelling, even though the narrative unfolded very slowly and the voice acting left a lot to be desired. There was something thoughtful about living each day out with Ryo that made even his most minor discoveries compelling. I always wanted to keep playing.
"It would be a mess if I fell from there."
The implosion of the internets would immediately follow if game devs suddenly cut out 70% of all their RPGs. Just sayin'.
QTEs have gotten a negative reputation, but I thought Shenmue did it pretty well.
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Yakuza does rake in the $$$, though. Enough that I'd like to think Nagoshi could easily fund Shenmue 3 if he wanted to.
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Or was that in 2?
Sounds like 2. Unless you meant 'tattoo'. I don't remember any QTEs related to barbers in the first one.
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Shenmue II without a doubt, since that's when the four Wudu come into play. I also remember failing that QTE the first time and being presented with a 'wait' option immediately afterward to kill a while day, which I believe was only an option in Shenmue II.
I never did like the wait option. It felt like cheating, somehow, or at least it felt like sacrificing a lot of the game. That's valuable Lucky Hit time, damnit!
You can play Yakuza 4 and have a ton of fun. If you care, there's even an option in the menu to tell you what the fuck happened in the past three games, but it's not necessary except for context, since it focuses mostly on new characters
But if you can, I'd play Yakuza 3 first. It's a hell of a game, and it will let you get to know the old, awesome characters better
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For some reason I thought each game had a different cast or something. Shows how much I know about the series.
Also, Y3 removed content like the hostess clubs. Y4 has everything.
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Haha. I want to play both of those games now.
Shemue is one of those games that I've always been told I need to play. I'm looking at copies on amazon right now. I should probably wait though.
Yeah. It happens on the first day you can leave the house. But it only happens if you get there early enough. Generally, there isn't really anything to do, other than the cat, at that point in the game. The only way you'd probably miss it would be if you investigated every door in the apartments before the shrine.
Only obsessive 'gotta see everything' types would do that on their first day in the game.
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But really.
If they developed it now, it'd be just as expensive as many of the current crop of mega-million budget games.
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On the other hand, it's equally likely that, in keeping with the spirit of the originals, Yu Suzuki (or whoever else if not him) would decide to be so ambitious as to make all the tech developments of the last twelve years irrelevant, making the production just as hard as before.