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Big Scary Owl
Oct 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy
What are your thoughts on this classic? Did you ever play it? How was it like for you? I tried making my friend play it recently and it only cemented the idea that the first game is almost unplayable.

Don't get me wrong, I deeply respect the series for what it did. It has some great ideas and it's true that the game was far ahead of its time, but I have no idea what they were thinking with when they decided that going around asking people things and waiting is fun.

The second Shenmue is the best, imo. At least they added a Wait function. It has more stuff to do too.

There will never be a third one

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net cafe scandal
Mar 18, 2011

We could start off by describing Shenmue. What is Shenmue? What can you do in the world of Shenmue?

Big Scary Owl
Oct 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy

net cafe scandal posted:

We could start off by describing Shenmue. What is Shenmue? What can you do in the world of Shenmue?

I guess that the most accurate description for Shenmue would be an action-adventure game. Things you can do in Shenmue include: talking to people, walking around, opening your notebook, buying toy capsules, fighting people (rarely), sleeping and... that's mostly it I guess.

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

net cafe scandal posted:

We could start off by describing Shenmue. What is Shenmue? What can you do in the world of Shenmue?

Zeuhl
Dec 15, 2009

hand is free
Does the OP know where one can find chinese sailors?

Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

Let's not.

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Big Scary Owl
Oct 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoaPHNmYZxQ

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

When I played Shenmue as a kid i had to turn it off after 30 minutes because of the awful english voice acting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1kFi0CtaKg

But now that I'm older and wiser I realise that SEGA actually had the best voice actors working for them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftc_Pbhb3IE&t=55s

grate deceiver
Jul 10, 2009

Just a funny av. Not a redtext or an own ok.
I never figured out how to progress past getting the forklift job, and I drove that motherfucker like a hundred times waiting for something to happen.

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Shenmue actually has the best voice acting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AXuqkL7WQ

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

I never played it but I got curious and wanted to get a dream cast and a bunch of Capcom fighters and Shenmue and random Japanese bullet hells but it was all way expensive than I anticipated so I didn't bother.

StoryTime
Feb 26, 2010

Now listen to me children and I'll tell you of the legend of the Ninja

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Heran Bago
Aug 18, 2006



I like Shenmue. I made that big pic in the Roman Lottery games thread. Shenmue always wears a bandaid and a leather Jacket.
https://www.insertcoinclothing.com/jackets/hazuki.html $112

The three blades? Hmm. They're the knife, the scissors, and... what was it?
Maybe you should talk to a barber.

Bolverkur
Aug 9, 2012

i like buying gachapon over and over and over and over again

Kazvall
Mar 20, 2009

I too enjoy soda and forklifts.

DICKHEAD
Jul 29, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETcJeJIqca4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKm90g61xbc

SunAndSpring
Dec 4, 2013

I love this guy.

Axel Serenity
Sep 27, 2002
This game owned and I would keep playing it if I still had my DC. I never did bs around long enough to see the cherry blossoms tho :(

Big Scary Owl
Oct 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy
I found out yesterday that there is a VLP of the second game going on: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3711131

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Big Scary Owl posted:

I found out yesterday that there is a VLP of the second game going on: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3711131

It's really fucken good, because it's the guys from Tipping40s, who also did the first game and every LP they do is legit funny.

Butt Ghost
Nov 23, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckZlj2p8W9M

Big Scary Owl
Oct 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy

man nurse posted:

It's really fucken good, because it's the guys from Tipping40s, who also did the first game and every LP they do is legit funny.

I miss bandunk :smith:



That's loving amazing.

metricchip
Jul 16, 2014

man nurse posted:

Shenmue actually has the best voice acting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AXuqkL7WQ

Everyone sounds like they're too close to the microphone.

Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
Fallen Rib

Big Scary Owl posted:

I found out yesterday that there is a VLP of the second game going on: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3711131

this makes me happy. Lps deservedly get a lot of poo poo for being created by socially retarded nerds but the t40 guys are actually funny people who are interesting to listen to.

mysterious loyall X
Jul 8, 2003


let me touch your milky silky arms boy

net cafe scandal
Mar 18, 2011

We could start off by describing Shenmue. What is Shenmue? What can you do in the world of Shenmue?

Light Gun Man
Oct 17, 2009

toEjaM iS oN
vaCatioN




Lipstick Apathy

net cafe scandal posted:

We could start off by describing Shenmue. What is Shenmue? What can you do in the world of Shenmue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEmi2PaLaO0

see also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rccW9Tig6_Y

Grim
Sep 11, 2003

Grimey Drawer
i never played it was it good?

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Real talk for a second you guys, Shenmue blew my loving mind when it came out, and to this day I have yet to see a game that emulates the level of detail and immersion that it achieved.

I love this game, and its sequel.

O__O
Jan 26, 2011

by Cowcaster
I liked this game and I was hoping there would be a sequel where you fly to Vancouver and have sex with Nozomi in her dorm at The University of British Columbia but I'm over it now.

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

would you like to play Lucky Hit

Axel Serenity
Sep 27, 2002

man nurse posted:

Real talk for a second you guys, Shenmue blew my loving mind when it came out, and to this day I have yet to see a game that emulates the level of detail and immersion that it achieved.

I love this game, and its sequel.

:agreed:

shame it basically killed Sega's consoles for good tho

Ralp
Aug 19, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
of the many reasons I got a dreamcast I was probably most excited about Shenmue, and I hated it. chuchu rocket somehow turned out to be the game I liked most. I laugh now though every time I see the guy who says "tane lmfao" and has AIDS in Duncan's shemue fanfic.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
I played shenmue in payday 2 recently and it kinda owned

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


I can't believe Shenmue 1 & 2 were originally one big rear end Saturn game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foZUcPQAMvg

Big Scary Owl
Oct 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy

man nurse posted:

I can't believe Shenmue 1 & 2 were originally one big rear end Saturn game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foZUcPQAMvg

They must have spent WAY more than what they had originally planned.

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man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECjb_LbiXiQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZNmGdGgpHU



"Also, do try to make more of an effort to return home as early as possible"

:inesay:

man nurse fucked around with this message at 20:27 on May 12, 2015

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