shenmue, the original yakuza

who played this lol, i remember getting mine for $7 such a good game.. too bad it'll never be completed

i always wanted this cause everyone kept mentioning

i'm kinda gutted i never got to play it

but on the plus side at least we're getting a yakuza 3 and hopefully it will have the magic this series was supposed to have

wedll going by the amount of stuff you'll probably be able to do when yakuza 3 finally comes out

hopefully it should be like that

but i do like rpgs where the world your in seems to be alive and to an extent yakuza does that

have you played it?

na i would of gone on about it loads otherwise

considering i know only 1 person who actually played the game

check out the threads in the yakuza section its literally me and one other guy, being fanboys over kazuma kiryu we even changed our names to yakuza names at the time

Nevver played it.

Kain wrote:

lol wow xD .. srsly though you don't know anyone else that plays it? come to think of it i guess that's true on my part too, i just know a few others

games like this aren't big in my area and would probably end up in the bargain bin real quick

ppl cry cause you can't steal cars

actually never managed to get hold of that

seemed to not even be popular enough to have many copies available

the main reason i didn't get it was cause it was a rail shooter

currently i got loads of rpgs i didn't even touch like persona

mind persona 3 doesn't seem to be that great, but maybe i'm not far enough in

Shenmue was a very marmite game, you either loved it or hated it. I found it a unique and rather refreshing change of pace, even if they never finished the story.

I dug it out within the last six months to have a quick play, and while the combat is very nicely handled, it's not really a game you can dip into for a few moments, and the controls felt very odd, because you use the d-pad to move and the analogue stick moves the camera.

Shenmue was very special at the time, because it was so epic and different. I enjoyed it. The game didn't age terribly well though, and when I went back to play the second one on Xbox a while back, I really didn't find it fun anymore. It just felt like a Yakuza beta. It's got the same basic groundwork, but everything feels worse.

well people always describe shenmue as yakuza but more story driven

honestly if i had to deal with more dialogue in yakuza i'd get frustrated at the gaps between fights
I like how its currently paced

Well this might be making an appearance on PS3. What is everyone's thoughts?

Skies of arcadia is a possibility to.

Superbuu3 wrote:

Well this might be making an appearance on PS3. What is everyone's thoughts?

Skies of arcadia is a possibility to.

Shenume was one of my favourite games of all time i played both 1 and 2 and got 2 on the xbox as well
im sure lan di (the main villan of shenmue) must be happy getting away with murder for what, 10 years now roughly or in this case for ever, but ryo is too busy to be in shenmue hes currently still in sega all stars racing lol.

but that aside i also wouldnt mind seeing skies on ps3 still have to finish the dreamcast and cube versions.