Piston Hyundai
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This Endurance Run is going to end up being the best way to consume Shenmue and its sequel, isn't it.
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Incandenza
Banned
Shenmue is basically that part in Persona 4 where you had to run around town "investigating" before it let you into the next dungeon.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
So the actual good parts.
Gozer the Gozerian
Member
That's kinda how the Deadly Premonition ER was for me. I bought a copy of the game and I do think there are aspects of it that are legitimately cool and special, but ultimately it was too much of a chore to actually play for me. It's especially a shame when you hear that Swery didn't even want those combat sections in the game, iirc.
Master_Funk
Member
I like how there is a sort of connection persona 4, deadly premonition and shenmue. All have elements of mundane living and quirkiness with the NPCs . I can definitely see the ways that shenmue probably influenced SWERY when making deadly premonition.
Yo I think he has a complex!
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Oh god my sides.
This ER is in contention in being GOAT.
This ER is in contention in being GOAT.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Giantbomb |OT| about Chinese People...
Since I only ever spent about two hours with the first one when I owned it, I'm going to guess yes. But that's fine, I enjoy a good endurance run.
Vic_Viper
Member
Is there a way to watch the PAX rumble yet?
Also do we know yet which game Jeff was talking about at the beginning of the their Giant Bomb panel talk?
ThreePiMatt
Member
I think they would really have to. Shenmue is hardly long enough to qualify for the moniker "Endurance."
With how they're playing, it could be
The irony is, there are weapons in the game that both ERs missed that make combat trivial. You can one- or two-shot wall ladies.
Also, one of the ERs (I forget which one) had completed the mission to get that weapon, but just never bothered to turn it in.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I mean, Jeff more or less said that, right?
That's mostly it. You also get the most infamous part time job in video game history and play brief moments of one of the better 3D beat em ups, but it's mostly running around talking to people and doing random things around town.
I think when you beat the game you could unlock a survival fighting mode that I probably played more than anybody should be recommended to do. There was no voice acting in that part though so it was kind of great.
Brad really needs to get his mastery levels up in Hitman, if for nothing else than the cool toys you get for doing so.
-remote explosive rubber ducky
-breach charge
-explosive cell phone
-remote audio distraction
-sleep, emetic, and lethal poison vials
There are so many toys to play with that they could do such dumb things with.
-remote explosive rubber ducky
-breach charge
-explosive cell phone
-remote audio distraction
-sleep, emetic, and lethal poison vials
There are so many toys to play with that they could do such dumb things with.
There's more and more fights the later you get, as well as lots of QTEs.
The later fights might be a problem if they avoid training at all.
It's an adventure game first and foremost, though. You talk to people, get items or information, and use those items or information in the right places in order to progress.
The later fights might be a problem if they avoid training at all.
It's an adventure game first and foremost, though. You talk to people, get items or information, and use those items or information in the right places in order to progress.
Yeah, Shenmue is kind of weird in that regard. You're meant to do a lot of training, but aside from the few big fights at the end you don't actually do that much fighting until the second game, and if you play the Xbox version of 2 (the only one that came out in the US), none of that hard work carries over anyway.
NeroAngelo
Banned
Don't play with my heart.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
He would never use them anyway though.
Also sleep poison is really the most useless thing in the entire game. If the target is surrounded by people they'll just wake it up. If it's alone you don't need sleep poison anyway.
You're not wrong on the sleep poison. But I think they'd get a big kick out of the explosive duckies or the cell phone bomb. There's some fun to be had with those. I love how the proximity duck quacks faster and faster as it's about to explode. When I first heard that I lost my shit laughing.
I think this is a safe assumption. So happy they are doing this.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I have the remote explosive duck and throwing it into a crowd and then slowly walking away, looking for a cool camera angle and exploding the thing will never get old. I don't care how cliched it is, walking away from an explosion just looks cool.
Yep, the remote one is kind of the best weapon in the game, especially if you run out of clever ideas for an elusive target. It's a good safe bet that doesn't put you at a whole lot of risk.
Except without Chie.
And nothing of value was lost. #TeamYukiko
Games like Ark are the video game equivalent of "pump and dump" stock market scams.
The publisher pays streamers to play the game and to get their audiences to go all in, then they start with the DLC and let the core game development die on the vine. And then it's on to the next game.
The publisher pays streamers to play the game and to get their audiences to go all in, then they start with the DLC and let the core game development die on the vine. And then it's on to the next game.
Glitchesarecool
Member
Nah, pump and dumps would be more like unity asset flip/five nights youtube scream bait Steam Greenlight games.
Zero-Crescent
Member
> You had a dream that you and Fuku-san were wearing luchador masks and wrestling...
> Your relationship with Fuku-san has intensified...
Mister Negative
Member
can't believe nobody called out this historic moment in the shenmue ER
Glitchesarecool
Member
I really should turn off comments on YT.
I'm assuming that's highlighted because it mentions your name?
I always laugh because they're obviously banned but still readingI really should turn off comments on YT.
It`s because it`s a comment under one of my videos on YT, heh.