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Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
Maybe it’ll be the announcement of sending me my drat capsule toy!

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eleven extra elephants
Feb 16, 2007

Menschliches! Allzumenschliches!!

Gutcruncher posted:

Hot garbage is harsh but it certainly falls on its face at the end.

It was seeing the chicken collection part in a review that basically turned me off instantly

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Please play 3 if you liked 1 and 2. It’s those games, but a third one. The chicken collection is pretty brief and no more monotonous than say, forklifting or carrying books. It’s Shenmue.

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Like full disclosure the plot barely advances at all, but if you like the vibe and moment to moment gameplay of Shenmue, it’s the real deal.

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


I’ll forklift and air out books all day, but catching some chickens? That’s where I draw the line

Weasling Weasel
Oct 20, 2010
I don't think 'Shenmue 4' would qualify as just as 'fun, unexpected surprise', unfortunately. Shenmue 3 is a great Shenmue game as long as you go in with reasonable expectations about the story, and I guess if you dub Lan Di's voice in your own head or something.

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
Chicken collection good and Very Shenmue. So much of the game was ridiculously Shenmue, and even with dumb poo poo like the combat downgrade and the whole last quarter or so, it’s absolutely worth playing as a Shenmue fan.

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



man nurse posted:

Please play 3 if you liked 1 and 2. It’s those games, but a third one. The chicken collection is pretty brief and no more monotonous than say, forklifting or carrying books. It’s Shenmue.

Yeah, I really don’t see how you wouldn’t like 3 if you liked the first 2. It feels so much like them that the only meaningful differences are Yu Suzuki couldn’t get his arcade games back from Sega to put in again, no Sega capsule toys, not quite as good fighting system and it’s in the Unreal 4 engine. Everything else feels the exact same, down to cadence of the English dub.

The Shame Boy
Jan 27, 2014

Dead weight, just like this post.



Gutcruncher posted:

Chicken collection good and Very Shenmue. So much of the game was ridiculously Shenmue, and even with dumb poo poo like the combat downgrade and the whole last quarter or so, it’s absolutely worth playing as a Shenmue fan.

The chicken chasing is very Shenmue, but so is the 3 or 4 times you had to run back and forth to get the buns and wine to GET to the chicken chasing..

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

The way I would put it is that Shenmue 3 is very Shenmue and the closest you'll get any time soon to having more Shenmue in your life, its just also the worst Shenmue.

Like the thing about buying buns and wine reminds me that the economy in general in 3 was just a huge pain in the rear end for me. Even when you can eventually use Ryo's ability to bend time and space to specifically cheat at gambling so you can bring in some big bucks that way (I.e. save and reload method like in Shenmue 2), it still takes like two too many steps to be more of a tedious grind than it needs to be.

Raxivace fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Aug 27, 2020

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


If you just pick all the herbs you see, you should never have money problems in Shenmue 3. They made it pretty easy to breeze past the money requirements of the story unless you’re like wasting it all.

Vikar Jerome
Nov 26, 2013

I believe Emmanuelle is shit, though Emmanuelle 2, Emmanuelle '77 and Goodbye, Emmanuelle may be very good movies.
https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1298870879061909505

smaller than shenmue 4, but bigger than a novel series...

dlc continuation then i guess? or is shenmue online coming back...

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Deep Silver is presenting at that Gamescom thing tomorrow, so if they still have any hand in Shenmue I suppose that’s when we’ll hear about it.

eleven extra elephants
Feb 16, 2007

Menschliches! Allzumenschliches!!

man nurse posted:

I’ll forklift and air out books all day, but catching some chickens? That’s where I draw the line

Fwiw these are still the weakest parts of any replay (along with the plank section in 2). I fail the book airing on purpose to get it out the way as fast as possible usually. My favourite parts of Shenmue are the setting and atmosphere, not the busy work. I'll probably get 3 on Steam when it releases though, I'll take your words for it

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


eleven extra elephants posted:

Fwiw these are still the weakest parts of any replay (along with the plank section in 2). I fail the book airing on purpose to get it out the way as fast as possible usually. My favourite parts of Shenmue are the setting and atmosphere, not the busy work. I'll probably get 3 on Steam when it releases though, I'll take your words for it

I agree, and thankfully 3 has the least amount of mandatory busywork in the series. You can certainly still play mini games and take on jobs, but you’ll rarely ever need to.

The Shame Boy
Jan 27, 2014

Dead weight, just like this post.



man nurse posted:

I agree, and thankfully 3 has the least amount of mandatory busywork in the series. You can certainly still play mini games and take on jobs, but you’ll rarely ever need to.


There are 2 mandatory money grinds and that doesn't count as busywork? It's even to learn the same move forwards and reverse!

man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


The Shame Boy posted:

There are 2 mandatory money grinds and that doesn't count as busywork? It's even to learn the same move forwards and reverse!

I don’t count it because like I said earlier if you just pick all the herbs you see laying around and sell the sets you got tons of money, more than enough to not have to worry about the money gating. Maybe that counts as busywork, but it’s much faster and easier than chopping wood for a week or fishing or forklifting or trying to game the gambling system.

Vikar Jerome
Nov 26, 2013

I believe Emmanuelle is shit, though Emmanuelle 2, Emmanuelle '77 and Goodbye, Emmanuelle may be very good movies.
https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1301183681592135680

and then

https://twitter.com/CedricBiscay/status/1301207674655248384

lol.


on resetera, dusk says

"It's more interesting than a documentary and it's nothing being kickstarted, it's already funded by a pretty notable company (with a decent budget I hear) and decently far in production. There will be a bit of sweet and sour with the announcement, but it's interesting.

Sorry to sorta' hop around it, I have more on it I could share but most of it would spoil exactly what I'm teasing, which I promised not to do, just hint at it."


what the gently caress is it. its either the remaining chapters released as DLC or netflix anime?

edit:

https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1301194535167426561

even more confused now.

Vikar Jerome fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Sep 2, 2020

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



Sounds like maybe more of a making of documentary?

Vikar Jerome
Nov 26, 2013

I believe Emmanuelle is shit, though Emmanuelle 2, Emmanuelle '77 and Goodbye, Emmanuelle may be very good movies.

SeANMcBAY posted:

Sounds like maybe more of a making of documentary?

"It's more interesting than a documentary"

PunkBoy
Aug 22, 2008

You wanna get through this?
I'm gonna guess gacha game. I may be only half-joking.

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
It's obviously a commemorative mahjong set

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



I’d buy a full size lucky hit board.

Aye Doc
Jul 19, 2007



we're getting a 7 hour long Shenmue film

Big Scary Owl
Oct 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy
Virtua Fighter 6

Vikar Jerome
Nov 26, 2013

I believe Emmanuelle is shit, though Emmanuelle 2, Emmanuelle '77 and Goodbye, Emmanuelle may be very good movies.
Crunchyroll has events on saturday...

Big Scary Owl
Oct 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy

Vikar Jerome posted:

Crunchyroll has events on saturday...

An anime would be nice, unless it's 3D or something

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
I would love an anime of a young Japanese man buying capsule toys and drinking sodas. Just that. It would be like those animes that are “look at wet stockings” and “watch girl sleep” but even more pornographic

Big Scary Owl
Oct 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy

Gutcruncher posted:

I would love an anime of a young Japanese man buying capsule toys and drinking sodas. Just that. It would be like those animes that are “look at wet stockings” and “watch girl sleep” but even more pornographic

There will be an episode entirely dedicated to Lucky Hit

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Finally Shenmue Kart is real

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
We are proud to announce Fuku-San Gaiden, a visual novel side story staring Ryo's idiot live-in karate friend Masayuki Fukuhara.

WarpDogs
May 1, 2009

I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.
"More interesting than a documentary" is a hell of a measuring stick

Something about his odd way of phrasing things makes me think it's a hybrid project of sorts, like a playable 'history of Shenmue' or something. Or maybe it's a collection of side stories in an unusual (but cheaper) genre, like a visual novel

turnip kid
May 24, 2010
It's probably going to be something really lovely and forgettable.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

We already had Shenmue 3

turnip kid
May 24, 2010

Sakurazuka posted:

We already had Shenmue 3

Exactly.

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
PS4 port of What’s Shenmue

turnip kid
May 24, 2010
Prob. gonna be some low budget 25-minute anime to get you to the next chapter.

The Shame Boy
Jan 27, 2014

Dead weight, just like this post.



Shenmue:Ground Zeros


Shenmue 4 is so huge Sega is like "please release SOMETHING so we can get some money!" and then when you play the game it's obvoius where they took it out at.

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
A game where you play as Guizang who arrives in Hong Kong one week after Ryo and just keeps following in Ryos footsteps but after everything has already happened so nothing interesting happens at all.



What I’m saying is the best Shenmue game ever made

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The Shame Boy
Jan 27, 2014

Dead weight, just like this post.



"excuse me, i'm looking for someone named Hazuki"


DIDN"T ASK

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