/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8641830]

it's fucking boring and cheesy

[Anonymous No.8641841]

yea but your mom sure aint

[Anonymous No.8641842]

k. so why dont you go back to playing call of duty instead of making shit threads?

[Anonymous No.8641845]

>>8641842
I don't play Call of Duty

[Anonymous No.8641864]

>>8641830
Ps2 was unable to run Shenmue 2.

[Anonymous No.8641916]

>>8641864
yeah ps2 can only run exciting games

[Anonymous No.8642063]

it's kino and comfy. I like to wake up, call the weather office to see what kind of day it's going to be, have a morning spar with fuku-san, feed the cat some dried milk, make sure I say hello to all of my friends in town, play some darts, have a cola from the machine, play some space harrier then maybe if I feel like it I'll do a little plot advancement. Or maybe I'll just get a capsule toy instead, there's no big rush. No other game has pulled this off as well, not even Shenmue 2.

[Anonymous No.8642173]

>>8641830
Shenmue's a masterpiece. One of the last great games before modern design approaches sucked the soul out of the medium

[Anonymous No.8642175]

SOUL.... yet.

[Anonymous No.8642198]

its soulful and comfy.

[Anonymous No.8642216]

>>8641830
i love that game so much it's unreal

[Anonymous No.8642240]

I've never played Shenmue. Had a Dreamcast back in the day, but a game was on fucking 3 disc set and costed a lot so I bought Samba de Amigo instead. I literally held the game in my hands and put it back on a store shelf.

Today, I can download original ISO or HD edition for PC but I know it just won't be the same. After so many years, after so many games I won't be able to get the same experience as I could get as a teen.
I missed my chance.

I wish I could turn back time. Not for Shenmue but for myself being able to feel alive, see and enjoy things as I used to do.

[Anonymous No.8642241]

>>8641830
that's not doom

[Anonymous No.8642296]

[Anonymous No.8642309]

everyone knows that
Shenmue is the first popular movie game

[Anonymous No.8642354]

>>8641830
Shenmue was a profound experience for me and helped me improve my life, and I only played it in 2018.

[Anonymous No.8642369]

>>8642063
animal crossing is the only one i can think of, I wish there was more like it

[Anonymous No.8642371]

>>8642354
Look, I feel bad for you that your life sucks but you shouldn't be posting here unless you played these games around the time of their launch.

[Anonymous No.8642374]

>>8642240
who cares man its a video game, sure it would have been cool to play when it was new but thats the way life is
there are way bigger things you're missing out on by playing video games in the first place

[Anonymous No.8642431]

Have you called your Nozomi today?

[Anonymous No.8642447]

>>8641830
nothing wrong with cheesy, it is boring though

[Anonymous No.8642457]

>>8641864
Oh please. A texture snip here and some architecture optimization there and it would have worked fine.

[Anonymous No.8642463]

>>8641830
You will never be a forklift driver

[Anonymous No.8642474]

Should I play this on PC or on my dreamcast?
I remember the PC version is weird in some places.

[Anonymous No.8642520]

>>8642371
My life is actually pretty great right now. I'm more active, confident, creative, healthy, and stress-free than I ever have been (although spending time on 4chan certainly doesn't help). I'm not saying that Shenmue was entirely responsible for that, but I found Ryo to be relatable as a 20 something year old myself, and his unwavering determination to find his father's murderer to be very inspiring. I'm also trying to save enough money to leave the United States and move to a country with a more affordable cost of living, so watching Ryo find his way and make friends in China makes the prospect seem less intimidating.

[Anonymous No.8642530]

>>8642371
My life is actually pretty great right now. I'm more active, confident, creative, healthy, and stress-free than I ever have been (although spending time on 4chan certainly doesn't help). I'm not saying that Shenmue was entirely responsible for that, but I found Ryo to be relatable as a young person myself (in my twenties), and his unwavering determination to find his father's murderer to be very inspiring. I'm also trying to save enough money to leave the United States and move to a country with a more affordable cost of living, so watching Ryo find his way and make friends in China makes the prospect seem less intimidating.

[Anonymous No.8642638]

>>8642374
>there are way bigger things you're missing out on by playing video games in the first place
people can do more than one thing, believe it or not

[Anonymous No.8642643]

>>8642530
cool blog, how do I unsubscribe?

[Anonymous No.8642671]

>>8642530
USA is where I was right now. Hell any country with affordable housing. I wish I was there making big bucks and buying some house in one of your more affordable states.

[Anonymous No.8642710]

>>8642671
Housing isn't affordable in the US. The smart move is to work hard and save money for 15-20 years, and then retire in a developing country where you will live like a king. I don't want to live in the US for that long though, so I am only saving enough money to purchase a business and be self-sufficient.

[Anonymous No.8642720]

>>8642710
I'm looking at a two bedroom house in Alaska for $55,000. That's fuck all. I could buy that and another house right now. In Australia you're looking at $500,000- a million in most places that aren't in the middle of the no where.

[Anonymous No.8642743]

>>8642720
Yeah, but it's fucking Alaska. There's a reason Alaska has the highest suicide rate in the country.

[Anonymous No.8642765]

>>8642530
>>8642671
>>8642710
>>8642720
>>8642743
Get get a room already, ladies.

[Anonymous No.8643023]

>>8642638
what? you took your dreamcast and tv everywhere you went as a kid?

[Anonymous No.8643024]

>>8641830
its only cheezy if you play the shitty ameridub

[Anonymous No.8643025]

>>8642431
no because I am doing my lovely Honk Kong flower Joy

[Anonymous No.8643028]

Shenmue walked so Yakuza could run

[Anonymous No.8643234]

>>8641830
what did you expect? did you really believe those contrarian redditors when they told you Shitmue is a masterpiece?
Shitmue fucking sucks it's a boring walking simulator, just go and play Yakuza instead

[Anonymous No.8643238]

>>8641830
>Shitmue is so fucking bad a thread about it turned into a conversation about housing prices in the US
lol not even Shitmue fags wants to talk about this garbage of a game

[Anonymous No.8643737]

it was something to enjoy when it came out. My cousin and I rented a dreamcast from our local video store and played this. I was completely blown away by the level of detail, graphics and freedom of exploration. Nothing like it and the fighting was really cool. My cousin just stopped playing it and never let me complete the game but it was a really cool experience while it lasted back in 1999/2000. Gaming will never been that cool again.

[Anonymous No.8643750]

>>8641830
I'd rather have that than cringey unfunny weebshit ""'humor"" for retards that watch shonen anime like in Yakuza

[Anonymous No.8643806]

>>8641830
Looking back on it, probably is. Back when I first played it though I was a huge weeb and I wanted to move to Japan (kek) when I grow up, so I can't even begin explaining how magical this fucking game was. Literally a Japanese autist simulator.

[Anonymous No.8643813]

Rivalry between Shenmue and Yakuza is one of the dumbest things ever. I was into Shenmue when Yakuza came out and bought it expecting some Shenmue vibes. It turned out something completely different but really cool in it's own way. Never felt disappointed because it wasn't Shenmue or felt like Yakuza made Shenmue obsolete. I think Deadly Premonition was the closest to a Shenmue spiritual succesor, Yakuza was good at doing it's own thing, though I'm burned out as fuck after playing most of the main series since 2005, I'm glad it has become so succesful even in the west, it's nice to have been into it since the first game.

[Anonymous No.8643835]

>>8643813
The Yakuza series is awfully repetitive too. Most people in the west were introduced with 0, so they don't realize how rehashy the games are up until 7. Shenmue 2 on the other hand took huge risks.

[Anonymous No.8643850]

>>8643835
Not really, only the Kiwami games reuse a ton of stuff. All the others either have a unique city besides Kamurocho (or open up different parts of the city in the case of Yakuza 4)

[Anonymous No.8643852]

>>8643835
Sure they are, there's like 20 games in the franchise already. Also impressive in their own way, I'm still amazed at how Yakuza 5 was such a massive game, like the "San Andreas" of the saga, all that considering they are a relativelly modest studio.
But Shenmue was state of the art, both technically and in game design, there's still not too many things that can be compared to it.

[Anonymous No.8643864]

>>8642474
Just play the hd release on pc. The shortened loading times and hd output make up for the cutscene issues in two.

[Anonymous No.8643940]

I see

[Anonymous No.8644123]

>>8642457
Cope. Plenty of Naomi board ports also run worse on the other non dreamcast consoles. Quake 3 even runs better than what ps2 put out there and was released much earlier on the old dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.8644179]

>>8644123
That's probably because the dreamcast hardware was easier to develop for. The ps2 was notoriously complicated but if you knew how to exploit its potential you could pull off games much more technically advanced than on dc. Mgs3 and gt4 are games that would be impossible to pull of on the dc

[Anonymous No.8644223]

>>8644179
MGS 3 probably, I don't see how Dreamcast wouldn't run something like GT4 though

[Anonymous No.8644592]

>>8642198
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IOiyNYWqis

[Anonymous No.8644601]

>>8644179
>much more technically advanced
Well as Yu Suzuki stated PS2 was incapable of running Shenmue 2. Unless you have more knowledge than this man I suggest you give it up.

[Anonymous No.8644690]

>>8644601
Oh yeah, show me where he stated that?

[Anonymous No.8644874]

>>8644592

isn't there like 130+ days in Shenmue? Like, once you make it to the last day, there is a definitive bad ending that is unavoidable?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1eh38qplUA

[Anonymous No.8644879]

>>8641830

[Anonymous No.8644912]

>>8642063
Shenmue is so good at giving you the Japanese life sim part. Shenmue 2 really gets you ready for the Kung Fu revenge story that is about to go down. Sadly 3 ruined all the momentum by trying to let people that never played it before play catch up and use an easy fighting system.

[Anonymous No.8644920]

>>8644912
Shenmue is so good at the life sim part you basically don't even have to give a shit about the fighting part to have fun. I used to dislike it as a kid but doing the fights as an adult with more understanding of fighting games made me realize its a robust system (especially because its fairly close to Tekken).
Either way I just want to drive my forklift, get a drink, then play arcade games and darts until I have to go home. Comfy doesn't even begin to describe it.

[Anonymous No.8644928]

>>8643813
I kind of wish the Yakuza team would have taken over Shenmue when they weren't busy with a new Yakuza game.

>>8644920
My second play through was all about being the best forklift driver I could be. Loved every second of it.

[Anonymous No.8644937]

>>8644874
Yes but it's impossible to get if you just play normally. But both games have bad endings if you take too much time

[Anonymous No.8645076]

>>8642240
It's true. I'm sorry anon but there is zero chance playing Shenmue in current year will ever compare to playing it back in the day.

[Anonymous No.8645083]

>>8642431
I haven't found my Nozomi yet :(

[Anonymous No.8645140]

>>8642710
>he doesn't know

[Anonymous No.8645749]

>>8645140
Tell me, please.

[Anonymous No.8645759]

>>8644179
Who cares the difference in image quality between those two consoles is night and day. PS2 has the worst image quality of any console of all time.

[Anonymous No.8647351]

>>8641830
Yes. Its popular because of its autistic levels of attention to detail, and the fact that it came out first.

[Anonymous No.8648642]

>>8642530
Based

[Anonymous No.8648980]

>>8642063
>there's no big rush
You can get a game over

[Anonymous No.8648983]

>>8642240
It's not because you're depressed, it's because your standards are higher.

[Anonymous No.8650836]

>>8642198
>you will never live in a Japanese village in the 90s
Bros...

[Anonymous No.8650852]

>>8650836
Game takes place in the 80's though

[Anonymous No.8650867]

>>8642296
Modern graphics put me to sleep, there's no quicker way for me to lose interest in a game, but these shitty low res stretched out and barely legible textures immediately evoke something and make me want to play. What the fuck is wrong with me...

[Anonymous No.8650953]

>>8650867
It means you can recognize soul

[Anonymous No.8650978]

>>8644928
Yakuza only manages so many frequent and high-quality releases because they can reuse a shitload of assets. It wouldn't really work for Shenmue since Ryo has to keep moving chasing after Lan Di.

[Anonymous No.8652501]

I really want to like yakuza, just can't get past how repetitive it feels

[Anonymous No.8652516]

>Hey, I got a once in a lifetime chance to continue the saga
>Better not giving it an ending :)

[Anonymous No.8652886]

so, japan?

[Anonymous No.8652904]

>>8643028
They're nothing alike. The only people who compare the two never played either and just think they're the same because
>japan
>sega arcade games
They're almost complete fucking opposites for fuck sake.

[Anonymous No.8652905]

>>8643234
This is for you too
>>8652904
Fucking youngsters breaking into threads talking about shit they've not even tried. We need to bring back hanging.

[Anonymous No.8652950]

>>8652904
nothing alike? completely disingenious. The only reason why the current entries are so different is that Yakuza did not refuse to evolve with the times.

[Anonymous No.8653054]

>>8652950
Not at all. Shenmue is a slow detective game. It's all about the small details and general slowness of day to day life. The in-game clock is integral to how it works, every single NPC is named with a written backstory and their own behaviour, again integral to the game as a whole.
Yakuza is closer to Streets of Rage with random battles, focus on minute attention to detail is not a factor, the crowds around you might as well be faceless automatons, time in the game is static. They're so completely fucking different that I can't help but feel people who view Yakuza as some evolution of Shenmue to be mentally challenged if they have indeed played both.

[Anonymous No.8654361]

>>8653054
Ridiculous take. Shenmue two is not slow, you also uncover a mystery in yakuza. The difference being that in Yakuza they didn't give a few lines for 99% of NPCs to repeat. Also lol at comparing yakuza to streets of rage, you either haven't played streets of rage, or yakuza, or either. Just because games have different pacing doesn't mean they're nothing alike, it's clear that the structure yakuza was built on is a modification of the one created with shenmue.

[Anonymous No.8654374]

>>8654361
Not him, but Shenmue 2's pacing bounces around a lot. It's very slow at times and fast at others, but for the most part it's slower than Yakuza.

[Anonymous No.8655024]

>>8641830

I have never played Shenmue, but I feel pretty confident in saying that judged as a sequel to Plok, it's a pretty terrible game. It doesn't even have Plok in it!

[Anonymous No.8655105]

I'm crazy or I sought this thead, replay after replay. Including crazy Plock replay. Yakuza posts too. Only 'your Nozomi' replays are new, I'm sure. Did Hiroshima Nagasaki fall this low or this is simply some crazy Shenmue fan/sega marketer who want to remind about Anime?

What the fuck. Or this is deja vu of the clinical level.

[Anonymous No.8655110]

>>8641830
Nope

[Anonymous No.8655142]

>>8654374
>Bounces around a lot
If by "bouncing around a lot" you mean it slowing down at the end when you traverse the forest and it having you investigate rooms by looking through drawers from time to time. Also I didn't claim it had the same pacing I Yakuza, I claimed it doesn't fit his definition of what the shenmue series is.

[Anonymous No.8655143]

>>8655105
Are you using google translate?

[Anonymous No.8655427]

[Anonymous No.8655479]

>>8642063
>>8644920
Agreed. People who bitch about Shenmue being boring are missing the point. Hell, your dying dad in the game tells you the most important thing is your friends and the ones you love. Old people in the game will tell you to slow down and enjoy life. Your friends are all worried about you.
The plot is that you're out for revenge, but the message is to take it easy. Don't let your goals interfere with enjoying the day to day. To learn patience.
No other game is quite like it, or has the same message.

[Anonymous No.8655518]

>>8648980
only if you literally put in like 130+ hours

[Anonymous No.8655983]

>>8654361
Did you play the oriignal Yakuza games on the PS2 or are you one of these people that started with Zero? The original games were all about getting into fights on the streets. It's pretty much just a roaming beat em up only the battles are randomised rather than sequential.

[Anonymous No.8655985]

Do you know where I can find some sailors?

[Anonymous No.8656621]

>>8655105

I made the silly Plok joke, and I've only made it once and am not being paid by Sega, so if you're saying you think you've seen this entire thread before then yeah you might be crazy. Also if you are a native English speaker and not drunk or typing hurriedly on a half-broken phone then you may also be having a stroke or something. Maybe see a doctor?

[Anonymous No.8657342]

>>8655983
Yakuza 1 and 2 still were heavily story-based, with a lot of side-quests and minigames on the side

[Anonymous No.8657370]

>>8655427
https://youtu.be/KDEsJchoxkk

[Anonymous No.8657826]

does yakuza even have soulful interoirs?

[Anonymous No.8657835]

>>8657826
That looks like a depressing hovel of losers.

[Anonymous No.8657842]

>>8657835
if a single screenshot can make you that depressed, its got soul

[Anonymous No.8657932]

>>8657835
Yeah man, I wish bars looked like genius bars. I don't want any wood or incandescent lights around, looking like grandmas house and shit.

[Anonymous No.8657942]

>>8657932
>incandescent lights
There's barely any lights in that screenshot period.

[Anonymous No.8657948]

>>8657370
For me it's the menu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOxK_ekwfSw

[Anonymous No.8657953]

>>8657835
Just like a real bar.

[Anonymous No.8657997]

>>8657942
You don't have to type out period, we can tell it's your time of the month.

[Anonymous No.8658162]

>>8657997
The time of the month where your memegame get shat on in its own thread, yeah.

[Anonymous No.8658185]

>>8658162
You, a retard who forgot what thread he was in:
>it's own thread
OP:
>it's fucking boring and cheesy

I know it's hard to focus right now Virginia, but you have to make an effort.

[Anonymous No.8658191]

>>8658185
It's a shenmue thread specifically about how shit it is. You should've slit your neck instead of your genitals, you dumb bitch.

[Anonymous No.8658212]

>>8655479
So it's basically boomer advice in vidya form?
>Just take it easy, you have plenty of time!
Nigga, it's 2022. My rent is due in a week and I'm working three gig jobs just to make ends meet. This is the economy you left us. And then you tell us to slow down and enjoy it? The fuck is wrong with you people?

[Anonymous No.8658236]

>>8643940
this post deserves acknowledgement

[Anonymous No.8658269]

>>8655983
I started with 2 on ps2. It's not "all about getting in to fights on the streets". Just like shenmue it has a highly detailed reproduction of Japan filled with stores and mini games you are free to explore at your leisure, it doesnt have random battles, you are free to avoid them, it's what most people do. The sidequests were a bigger part of the game than the npcs that attack you.

[Anonymous No.8658390]

>>8643813
They are really two different types of games, have Yakuza fags never played river city ransom?

[Anonymous No.8658469]

>>8658390
river city ransom doesn't have the life sim/japanese tourism element of yakuza or shenmue

[Anonymous No.8658536]

>>8658212
No, you retard, it's saying don't abandon what's truly important (friends and family) for your short term goals. And to learn to do things correctly rather than blow through them.
>>8658191
You're not clever enough to talk to anymore.

[Anonymous No.8658631]

>>8655105
are you an alien

[Anonymous No.8659129]

>>8658469
Reading text boxes isn't tourism.

[Anonymous No.8659146]

>>8658390
river city ransom didn't had pointless but cool minigames

[Anonymous No.8659209]

Shenmue and Dark Souls are better than any PS2 game

[Anonymous No.8659248]

The main difference between Shenmue and Yakuza: Shenmue is one of the funniest games ever made, unintentionally. Yakuza tries so hard to be funny but is so unfunny and pure cringe.

[Anonymous No.8660781]

>>8658269
I disagree with the highly detailed part It feels like a diorama with most of the attention to detail being stuck in text based shop menus. Shenmue is full to the brim with legit detail. It's far more zoomed in and intricate.