Yeah, but it's not even $=€, that's what I meant. I could get it for 23€ on Voidu, but that's still too much for what it is.
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Shenmue I & II Releases on the 20th August. $29.99 PC/PS4/XBO
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Never played the originals, but will definitely be buying this to learn about the franchise a bit more than just watching people stream it.
I see saving has been added anywhere in the game. How did saving work before?
I see saving has been added anywhere in the game. How did saving work before?
Shenmue II had saving anywhere, but in the original you could save either in your bedroom, or anywhere with a resume function that wouldn't act as your hard save.
Locked to 30fps because "Throughout the engine, game code and scripts there are hard coded assumptions about a fixed 30Hz frame update rate, so the game needs to run at 30Hz", which is understandable all things considered.
"Fully scalable screen resolutions" is listed on the Steam page, so assuming yes to 4K.
Have PS4 and Xbox versions preordered. May triple dip and buy digitally to keep the sealed games for the collection.
August 20th? Hm, that's not a good time for me since I might be going through a new Yakuza 0 run on the PC by then, but more importantly, that's only a 1 week window before the gauntlet of Yakuza Kiwami 2, Spider-Man, Valkyria Chronicles 4, Fist of the North Star, and Mega Man 11 begins starting on the 28th. At least they're short games, but I wish this collection was coming out earlier.
Oh good! I hate those retro game collections where they put zany borders on the side you can't turn off. Hopefully it's the black borders.
I ordered it ages ago for £28 physical but I see it's £22.50 (10% Plus discount) on SEN. I'll be buying this digitally and loaning my physical disc to a friend. Good times!
My God, I love that...Felt the exact same, really.already pre ordered, did this for Michael Huber!!
Preordered on PC, gonna get both PS4 and XB1! FOR HUBER!already pre ordered, did this for Michael Huber!!
£22.50 with Plus discount... Kind of insane price to be honest. Go on... take a dip!
I've heard nothing but good things about these games. Maybe I should jump in with these.
And what do you know, finally something major comes out directly on my birthday. This should make a nice gift.
And what do you know, finally something major comes out directly on my birthday. This should make a nice gift.
Looks like August is the month of SEGA! Kiwami 2 and Shenmue 1 and 2 HD so close. Hope they both sell really well (and Yakuza on PC does too, of course)
I will probably take a pass if this can't do 60FPS. I'm confused though -- isn't it possible to emulate the game at high framerates?
No. Anything you see online claiming to be Shenmue @ 60FPS either isn't, or is some interpolated weirdness.
It's still worth a punt to play it, IMO. There's nothing really about either of these games where 30FPS feels like a barrier.
Over time, I've gotten frustrated with how commonly people believe you can just "turn on" 60 fps via emulation without full testing/adjustment. More than five times, I've seen a declaration that specific games run "perfectly" at arbitrary framerates, only to have it turn out that there are multiple failure points in the game where you simply can't play past at higher FPS. Meaning enough people didn't think to actually play the game through, once, to test it before proselytizing. And that shoddy work is what informs this idea of how "easy" it is.
Mm. Okami HD is a good example of this. When the 30FPS cap was confirmed plenty of people came out the woodwork with the 60FPS emulated footage, but failing to mention the ways it basically broke the game.
Pretty much everything about Shenmue would break at 60 if it really is hard-coded into the engine, code, and scripts like the FAQ says.
I pre-ordered it from Steam but this conversion needs to stop, it's simply bullshit. I think there's a reason games are priced the way they are for each country, but in Europe they are priced just too much compared to United States.
In US a new AAA release is usually 60$ while in europe it's 70€ if we are lucky or 75€. Man, Amazon just put all the new pre-orders for Anthem etc for 80€, it's insane compared to how much a common person gain each month.
Now even Sega, game priced 30$ becomes 35€ for...what reason?
In US a new AAA release is usually 60$ while in europe it's 70€ if we are lucky or 75€. Man, Amazon just put all the new pre-orders for Anthem etc for 80€, it's insane compared to how much a common person gain each month.
Now even Sega, game priced 30$ becomes 35€ for...what reason?
They are closer than some hardcore shenmue/yakuza fans want to admit, the yakuza series would not exist in a world where shenmue was never released.
Shenmue has some slice of life sim elements but so does yakuza to a lesser extent, imo the yakuza games have FAR better writing, i love the shenmue games but ryo is an autistic robot and most of the dialogue is pretty bad.
I am really looking forward to playing the remaster, it's been 10 years since i last replayed it and i am super exited to finally get the chance to play shenmue 3.
I hope you're not confusing writing for localisation here.
I'm probably biased, but Shenmue II's story and characterisation stands very solidly even today IMO.
If I've never played the Shenmue games before, should I get this? Have they aged well? I've backed Shenmue 3....
Some people say yes, some people say no, but the real answer is probably somewhere in the middle. Most of the complaints are things that were brought up on release, and most of the things new players like about these games even now are the things people liked in 1999/2000/2001. It is almost timeless in its divisiveness in that regard, but this remaster addresses two of the three common complaints.
You've got dual language options if you can't handle the English dub, a modern control scheme if the traditional controls aren't your thing, but the only persistent complaint not addressed in this remaster are the pacing issues in the original Shenmue, but frankly there's enough stuff to explore, check out, and kill time with on your first play-through that it shouldn't be a huge issue unless you're particularly impatient.
I think a loooot of yakuza fans are going to find out how dissimilar they are with this release. It's always been a very superficial comparison - the core gameplay of Shenmue is exploration and conversation and daily life, and the core gameplay in Yakuza is fighting. Yakuza obviously leaned heavily on Shenmue for it's inception and initial development, but the anybody going into Shenmue expecting a yakuza experience is going to come away very disappointed.
I think we're going to see a lot of surly LTTP threads for these two games actually. Should be entertaining lol
I hope this game gives us all kinds of configuration options. But 4:3 for the entire game including cutscenes is ok too.
Also I wonder if all the real world products made it in at the end or were cut due to licensing. They've always lent a sense of authenticity to the world so it'd be a shame if they replace the real stuff with fake made up names.
I love the sound of everything I have ever heard about Shenmue. Taking the dense intimate worlds of Yakuza, dialing down the combat, and dialing up the social interactions and slice-of-life aspects sounds amazing
I just hope it's okay control-wise. That's usually where old games and me tend to butt heads, especially with PS1-era games.