The camera/frame rate is bothering me.
Shenmue 1 & 2 HD (PS4/XB1/PC) (2018)
soundtrack of this game
Killah Ray
Carolina hail to thee....
Just bought an Xbox One and need something other than Madden on it...probably gonna pick it up when I get out this hospital...
Confirmed this game has absolutely aged like milk. Controls are atrocious, the voice acting is terrible, (the audio quality of the voice is terrible as well), the camera is piss poor, movement is stiff 
and checking every single drawer gets tedious incredibly fast especially since most of them are pointless and the camera makes it chore to get them all quickly.
and checking every single drawer gets tedious incredibly fast especially since most of them are pointless and the camera makes it chore to get them all quickly.
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
Wtf am i supposed to do for 3 to 4 hours waiting on this bytch to give me a boat ticket, i already spent time at the arcade and it wont let me train
Roll a blunt
The waiting in this game is annoying
:DAIGOYANKEE:Fixed for accuracy.
This is one of those games that I remember it being much better than it actually is....hence my complaints/worry before having played the remaster that it would feel dated.
After having played the remaster a bit, I see that my worry was warranted.
None of this is to say I won't finish both games...but for me, it's definitely going to feel like a chore to do.
Hopefully as the story picks up nostalgia can push me through it.
Biggest things that are making this game cringe worthy for me right now are:
"tank style" controls (which becomes incredibly frustrating in tight spaces)
The way you explore cabinets/closets/etc is terrible. It feels sloppy as hell.
The voice acting bugs the living hell out of me. Not only is the actual acting piss poor, the audio quality of the voices sounds like something that was recorded over the phone.
The camera angles are horrible and the way you control the actual camera is sloppy.
The controls and the camera are issues that could have been "updated/fixed" for this release.
I understand the audio pretty much is what it is.
A few people disagree with me comparing this game to Yakuza. To be specific, I completely understand how different the 2 games are, but my comparison comes from the idea that if Shenmue hadn't been in limbo for the last 15 years, I believe it would have eventually became what Yakuza is today, which is essentially a much more streamlined and polished version of what Shenmue accomplished when it first released.
In 2018, being able to check every single drawer, and check behind every single painting hanging on every wall to find absolutely nothing 90% of the time isn't as impressive as it was to me when I was a teenager. Neither is the mandatory "real time" waiting for necessary events in the game.
The PC version was updated yesterday with slightly better audio. Also, the Japanese audio file on the PC version seems to be of higher quality(going by the file size differences.) and this was picked up by Digital Foundry.
Other than that the controls and the way the camera moves in some spaces irritate me.
The voice acting is comedy and gives pure nostalgia.
Lot of the complaints are fine(ie controls on the world map) but for a lot of them I dont agree with and they are features that make Shenmue the game that it is. Stuff like Bethesda games where you just press A and pick up 700 items from a desk instantly takes away from the immersion. This game is extreme immersion. Ordering a drink from a vending machine in this game >>>> ordering a drink from a vending machine in any other game. Its all the little things like that that make Shenmue what it is.
Thing is you just gotta take your time. If you are finding something taking too long or feeling tedious, just save the game and quit breh. Now that were old we dont have to play like we did when we were kids and sit there for hours. This game is long as hell, and takes long as hell to complete. Pace yourself. My first day playing I only got to asking about Chinese people which is practically the first thing you do once you hit Dobuita.
Obviously the
is gone since were replaying it but Im thinking peeps are being a bit too harsh. The game innovated like crazy. Look at the other releases in 2000 and nothing is remotely close to Shenmue. In 2018 we have 10 million sand box games to compare it to. The game was ahead of its time by MAD years.
Lot of the complaints are fine(ie controls on the world map) but for a lot of them I dont agree with and they are features that make Shenmue the game that it is. Stuff like Bethesda games where you just press A and pick up 700 items from a desk instantly takes away from the immersion. This game is extreme immersion. Ordering a drink from a vending machine in this game >>>> ordering a drink from a vending machine in any other game. Its all the little things like that that make Shenmue what it is.
Thing is you just gotta take your time. If you are finding something taking too long or feeling tedious, just save the game and quit breh. Now that were old we dont have to play like we did when we were kids and sit there for hours. This game is long as hell, and takes long as hell to complete. Pace yourself. My first day playing I only got to asking about Chinese people which is practically the first thing you do once you hit Dobuita.
Obviously the
is gone since were replaying it but Im thinking peeps are being a bit too harsh. The game innovated like crazy. Look at the other releases in 2000 and nothing is remotely close to Shenmue. In 2018 we have 10 million sand box games to compare it to. The game was ahead of its time by MAD years.
For what it's worth, 2 rectifies this by letting you "fast forward"
Between this and Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, I can finally give my DC a rest until I get one of those SD card disc drive replacements
I thought the same thing about the waiting since I started this a few nights ago, I don’t remember time being such a factor, although I was only like 9-10 when I was playing it, 2 is a lot better for this tho.
firemanBk
The Manslayer
Agree 100%
Was very disappointed to see this was basically just upscaling the originals rather than a true remake like Yakuza Kiwami 1 & 2, which is what these games needed. Especially Shenmue 1. 192kb (maybe lower?) voice samples
