Managed the motorcycle race first time by the skin of my teeth. I'd forgotten how tough it was, especially for my younger self who didn't quite grasped that braking might be important for not ramming into the sides of the road.
Were this game's bugs ever patched on consoles? I was thinking about buying this but not if it's still a mess.
Thank you.The games did receive several patches and are in much better state than launch. You will not notice any issues if you buy the collection now.
Were this game's bugs ever patched on consoles? I was thinking about buying this but not if it's still a mess.
i'm guessing we won't get more updates to this, how's the PS4 port doing now? any settings i have to change?
I didn't even think about checking for mods before starting my playthrough, I'll have to check them out next time. Hopefully that will fix most of the issues I had.For those of you with the PC version. I've been playing Shenmue with mods from early on, including some of my own custom hi res texture experiments.
About to finally play through Shenmue 2 (live on Twitch, most likely) with even more mods, like potentially fixing all the weird audio/music stuff.
Yeah some of the BGM is available in a fixed state, as well as the English audio taken from Dreamcast without the compression introduced in the remaster (En and Jp got this treatment as well).I didn't even think about checking for mods before starting my playthrough, I'll have to check them out next time. Hopefully that will fix most of the issues I had.
Most, but not all. Currently it is significantly better than release, however.I've started playing the PS4 version of Shenmue II and would like to know - were the audio screw ups ever resolved in the end?
Most, but not all. Currently it is significantly better than release, however.
There must be just some innate difficulty/poor documentation in how the music was originally handled on Dreamcast hardware. Even AM2 had issues judging by the few tracks in Shenmue IIx that are missing instruments compared to the Dreamcast release of II.
I just started Shenmue II and the sound mix is much improved over the first game in my opinion. In Shenmue I had the voices turned down to 25%, with music and SFX set to 75%, but there was still some volume issues that were impossible to correct with the menu sliders.Thanks for the response. Shenmue 2 still to this day has one of the greatest OSTs I've ever heard in this medium, so it's a genuine shame that the soundtrack didn't make a seamless transition during the remaster process.
Also, I recall having a similar problem with Shenmue 1 HD when I played through it last year - that the music was just too damn quiet compared to the SFX and speech. It's driving me nuts lol.
Enjoy! Shenmue II is definitely one of the best games of 2001, which is saying something considering how crazily stacked that year was.Got my copy of Shenmue I & II on Xbox One and I'm finally going to play Shenmue II! :D
I'm gonna go straight to II because I already played and enjoyed I back when it first came out on Dreamcast. Always meant to play II one day, I still own it on PAL DC and the original Xbox version (would have been my preferred version as I like the dub!) but just never got round to it.
Now I shall!
For those of you with the PC version. I've been playing Shenmue with mods from early on, including some of my own custom hi res texture experiments.
About to finally play through Shenmue 2 (live on Twitch, most likely) with even more mods, like potentially fixing all the weird audio/music stuff.
I played both 20 years ago, but this is the first time I'm enjoying the first one in such a long time.
Yes that's true. The whole project sums up perfectly the theme of "Journey". Suzuki's vision is so large and with the next chapter in the saga, the story is complete just at 40%! (As he said).Atmosphere in the first game is still unmatched to me in any other game. The way its got that small town vibe, everyone knows everyone else etc. Blew me away 20 odd years ago and still I can't think of any game that does it quite like Shenmue does. Its also really cool how the sequel manages to flip that all on its head with the feeling of solidarity - no friends or family to help you here, everyone is a stranger, and no one seems particularly trustworthy. Makes me really excited to experience Shenmue 3, as after the latest trailer I'm quite confident it'll have a great atmosphere like the first two.
That's why the first one is still my favourite, and even thought it's not in Japan, I'm really looking forward to the return to a small town in Shenmue III.I played both 20 years ago, but this is the first time I'm enjoying the first one in such a long time.
Maybe is the japanese environment, but to me the first one is just magic. I love the slow pace, everything develops so well.
Great news! Thank you very much for sharing.Seems they stopped patching it quite a while ago.
Someone has been working on porting the entire Shenmue 1 Passport and is three days away from releasing it:
Such Pass is up for download now.
Their goal was to get the game out before Shenmue 3 to capitalize upon the renewed interest in the series with the third game coming out. Development started back when Shenmue 3 was still planned for release in 2018 and I & II was announced when that was still the expected release date. Sega is not directly involved with Shenmue 3 and the delay to 2019 was not announced until the day that Shenmue I & II was released.I don't know why I didn't consider this until now but Sega was incredibly stupid to not just delay this game until today, right? I mean, 9/9/2019. The 20th anniversary of the Dreamcast. That's basically built in marketing. On top of that the devs for this collection would've had more time to clean the game up so maybe it would not have been a total disaster at launch.
Such Pass is up for download now.
I was browsing through my Watched Threads list and took a quick glance at this "dead" thread before deleting it and am I glad I did. That Suka Pass is amazing. I'll be sure to browse through it for nostalgia purposes before the third game hits!
Figure I gots more than enough time ta replay these one last time before 3's out but first settings (PS4)! Gonna use 4:3 for the first game, maybe second also. Whats hi-res rendering an is it worth having on or off? Same for bloom.
Figure I gots more than enough time ta replay these one last time before 3's out but first settings (PS4)! Gonna use 4:3 for the first game, maybe second also. Whats hi-res rendering an is it worth having on or off? Same for bloom.
Hi-res enables a resolution bump, bringing the visuals to HD. Bloom I believe is the light bloom effect that was added to the OG Xbox version of Shenmue 2. I used hi-res ON and bloom OFF because I prefer a clearer (cleaner?) image quality.
Okies seems like it won't hurt ta see what its like in hi-res with bloom being a no-go for the first one. Sounds like a plan!High-resolution increases resolution to 1080p and ensures there's no shimmering as a lot of the first two games use mitmaps. I would enable this. I found the bloom effect overdone but it helped some night scenes in Shenmue 2. I personally disabled this to ensure a more authentic look.