It's not a bad game. You simply didn't like it. Learn the difference. You made the declarations: "its not a great game" and "gameplay is simply bad". You state it all matter-of-fact-like. That's not an opinion.
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We keep getting so many drive-bys about how people will not like the new game, how it will be shitty, how the old ones are crap, and yet we keep #WINNING! Go shenmue fans!
Yeah I hear you there. Sega has a history of recent poor new release launches. Poor timing coupled with zero marketing. I worry about the launch of this game as well. I'm thinking about the recent piles of $15 clearance Yakuza Kiwamis at Target, as I type this.
Directors play a huge part in getting a good performance out of an actor. I wonder if Shenmue II had a different voice director or maybe a shorter recording period?
It's really weird why people feel the need to come shitpost religiously in Shenmue threads. Some of the posts in that other topic are very telling, and I feel like they could be bannable if that level of transparent trolling occurred in a thread about a first party game from the big three.
Shenmue II's script was larger, and it's likely the recording was done quickly to keep costs down, so less time to get a good take. There are a few bright spots though, Eric Kelso as Ren stole the show and was perfectly balanced with Corey Marshall's Ryo.
Except they have. Shenmue's skybox isn't a pixelated mess anymore, and Shenmue II appears to be taking the higher res textures from the Xbox version. It needs a texture filtering option but they've already exceeded the quality you'd get booting the game up on an emulator.
Corey's delivery has kind of gone down well with the streaming audiences I've seen being exposed to the game for the first time, in a post-ironic sort of way...
These games are very nearly 20 years old. I don't know what else to tell you.
Depends what you hated about the original.
Yes. But if you hated the first one I'm not sure how much more you'll enjoy Shenmue II, even if it's improved from the first game.
I mean, who knows. It's marked as "work in progress". They might make some further improvements on those textures. But yeah, it's a nearly 20 year old game.
Lol.
Short of actually redoing them, I don't know what you expected. They've already paved over the cracks on really noticeable stuff like the skybox, and are making use of higher res textures for II where available, but you're only going to get a certain level of resolution/clarity considering the age and that these games were never originally intended for these platforms.
Straight up, truth being dropped in here, speaking as a convert. I owned shenmue when it originally launched on dreamcast and couldn't FORCE myself through it (and the game isnt even that long). Over a decade later, post shenmue 3 announcement I said fuggit and decided to play through it finally. It's probably less the game and more that I as a person have changed but still, this game? Its literally the definition of a release game in the sense that it is an escape from your reality to another. Want to go to a literal other world, with shitty real life rules and people, just like in your world? Most dont but I myself, this time around, found some sort of serenity in, not playing, but LIVING shenmue. It is one of the few games to TRULY make me feel like i was living in a true living and breathing other world. I also love the 80s and Japan so it was sure to win me over at some point but still, this game...is barely a game at all. It's more of a life experience and I can't love it enough for that.
Does that even matter with a game like shenmue? The fact that it's being rereleased, specifically on pc, means people can play this anytime they want, release date be damned and the legacy of shenmue almost insures that people will buy not only on release but for years after the fact. I wouldn't worry about red dead 2 for this one, imo.
