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[Spaghetti]

I have always wanted Ryo's leather jacket

It was a backer reward on the Shenmue 3 kickstarter. Not sure if you can slack back the jacket though.

You can Slacker Back both for a replica of the jacket by Fangamer, and the original jacket worn by Ryo's Japanese voice actor/motion capture actor Masaya Matsukaze. They're both pretty pricey though.

Please tell me the voice acting is just as amazing in Shenmue II

Yes- although personally I don't think it has the endearingly terrible qualities of the original's English VO. I played Shenmue II in Japanese through the EU Dreamcast version though, so maybe that's colouring my opinion more.

 

[stump sock]

Pat Baer knows Jean Ralphio!?!?

why wouldn't he, they're both UCB people

 

[Toparaman]

Is episode 3 of Shenmue just more asking around town, or does something major happen?

 

[hamchan]

Is episode 3 of Shenmue just more asking around town, or does something major happen?

That's the whole game.

 

[Spaghetti]

Is episode 3 of Shenmue just more asking around town, or does something major happen?

They approach getting to one of the first action sequences, but the Dreamcast locks up.

Episode 4 should reach like the mid-point of Disk 1, I hope.

That's the whole game.

C'mon son you know it's not.

 

[hamchan]

Ok it's like 70% of the game, 10% action, and the last 20% forklifts.

 

[Toparaman]

Cool thanks.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Reminder that Shenmue's overarching story is supposed to be like a dozen "chapters" in which Shenmue 1 is Chapter 1, and Shenmue 2 is the next three or four chapters or something.

 

[Tagyhag]

Finally finished last week's Beastcast. Don't know why people thought it was lame. Pat Baer is the same as he was during Fiasco.

I was expecting something really cringey.

 

[robotrock]

Reminder that Shenmue's overarching story is supposed to be like a dozen "chapters" in which Shenmue 1 is Chapter 1, and Shenmue 2 is the next three or four chapters or something.

Any word on how many chapters Shenmue 3 will cover?

 

[broncobuster]

Any word on how many chapters Shenmue 3 will cover?

Seven to somewhere before the 16th. Shenmue 3 isn't wrapping up the story. Greatest part of being a Shenmue fan is the madness never ends.

Reminder that Shenmue's overarching story is supposed to be like a dozen "chapters" in which Shenmue 1 is Chapter 1, and Shenmue 2 is the next three or four chapters or something.

Chapter 2 is a comic taking places between 1 and 2. It's seemingly throwaway because jumping to Shenmue 2's Chapter 3 doesn't miss out on much.

 

[Toparaman]

Reminder that Shenmue's overarching story is supposed to be like a dozen "chapters" in which Shenmue 1 is Chapter 1, and Shenmue 2 is the next three or four chapters or something.

Which is fucking lunacy by the way. Shenmue 1 was an extremely expensive game for its time.

Any word on how many chapters Shenmue 3 will cover?

Dunno, but I seem to recall Suzuki saying it's not even the conclusion of the series. Which, again, is fucking lunacy.

 

[Lunar FC]

Anybody watching Atlanta?

 

[Spaghetti]

Ok it's like 70% of the game, 10% action, and the last 20% forklifts.

10%? Nah, that's disingenuous. Action starts ramping up from Disk 2 onwards, and the peak of it comes during the forklifting where you're getting into fights and action sequences literally every day the story progresses; sometimes multiple ones per night.

Reminder that Shenmue's overarching story is supposed to be like a dozen "chapters" in which Shenmue 1 is Chapter 1, and Shenmue 2 is the next three or four chapters or something.

This. Dan & co are going to be pretty surprised in the change of pace if they do Shenmue II. The first "quest" is fairly action packed to hammer home that Hong Kong is absolutely not small town Japan, and Ryo is a total fish out of water. It still has the down-time investigative sequences but they're punctuated a lot better with action to help string them along.

Shenmue II's Kowloon segment is pretty relentless in action, the final set piece is basically

Spoiler

The Raid

.

Any word on how many chapters Shenmue 3 will cover?

Yu Suzuki has said something about this, but I'm failing to draw a source quote. From memory, it continues chapter 5 where Shenmue II left off, and moves onto 6 and 7, I believe.

 

[wenis]

Reminder that Shenmue's overarching story is supposed to be like a dozen "chapters" in which Shenmue 1 is Chapter 1, and Shenmue 2 is the next three or four chapters or something.

god this game is so fucking stupid.

 

[Antiwhippy]

You can Slacker Back both for a replica of the jacket by Fangamer, and the original jacket worn by Ryo's Japanese voice actor/motion capture actor Masaya Matsukaze. They're both pretty pricey though.

Eh, depending on the quality, but that the average price I'll pay for a good leather jacket, even more sometimes.

A good one from yves saint laurent run for about 7k.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Say what you will about Shenmue, but That Music Though.

 

[Spaghetti]

Which is fucking lunacy by the way. Shenmue 1 was an extremely expensive game for its time.

They never really intended to make one chapter per game. Shenmue, before it was split into what became Shenmue and Shenmue II, was meant to be the first volume of a two-part story (kind of like how some mangas release).

Dunno, but I seem to recall Suzuki saying it's not even the conclusion of the series. Which, again, is fucking lunacy.

The reason given is that the series would not reach a satisfactory conclusion if the remaining story was crammed into one Kickstarter-funded game, which is respectable and fairly logical. I'd rather see Shenmue III play out at an appropriate pace and leave the story to be continued than for a rushed, truncated end.

Might be delving into spoiler territory here (gleaned from Yu Suzuki's comments, and information on Shenmue/III's plan) for III, so I'll mark it so nobody gets spoiled in passing:

Spoiler

Shenmue III is meant to close the main revenge story arc started in the first game and will feature the confrontation with Lan Di, but Shenmue has always meant to have a secondary arc that picks up after that. So there will be an 'ending' to the series of sorts in III for some degree of closure if IV can't happen.

 

[FStop7]

Yu Suzuki has said something about this, but I'm failing to draw a source quote. From memory, it continues chapter 5 where Shenmue II left off, and moves onto 6 and 7, I believe.

I cringed pretty hard when I heard that because I was hoping for the story to reach a conclusion. I get the feeling that Yu Suzuki is still overly ambitious.

 

[Spaghetti]

Eh, depending on the quality, but that the average price I'll pay for a good leather jacket, even more sometimes.

A good one from yves saint laurent run for about 7k.

Ultimately you're paying a huge mark up because of it being a premium collector's item (in the case of the original jacket, the only one ever made) and a pledge that they need to use towards game development.

Still, the prototype images they showed of the jacket look a lot more accurate and better quality than the one Insert Coin shoved out.

 

[Incandenza]

Say what you will about Shenmue, but That Music Though.

Indeed

 

[Spaghetti]

I cringed pretty hard when I heard that because I was hoping for the story to reach a conclusion. I get the feeling that Yu Suzuki is still overly ambitious.

It does reach a conclusion of sorts... My spoiler above your post goes into it, but I wouldn't read it if you want to go into Shenmue III fresh and unspoiled. I only know this stuff because I pour over information about the series pretty frequently.

I don't think it's over-ambition, I think it's a case of "if you're not going to do it properly, don't do it at all". I don't think Yu or the fans will be satisfied if they cut the remaining story to ribbons and stitched it together just to reach an accelerated ending; I know I certainly wouldn't.

 

[LegoArmo]

Imagine leaving Link's Awakening off a Zelda Top 10 list when it's the best one! Omg Dan.

 

[Spaghetti]

And while we're talking about Shenmue music...

I cannot wait for them to meet Guizhang.

Let alone meet Xiuying in II.

EDIT: Oh god, I wonder what the fuck they'll make of Cool Z in II. Alex will be getting his "Final Fight lookin' mother fucker" fix for sure, all of Ren's core gang look like they belong in that game.

 

[Mr. F]

Link's Awakening is one of my glaring gaps in Zelda experience - never had a gameboy at the time and didn't go back due to being afraid it wouldn't hold up. Worth a look?

Pat Baer knows Jean Ralphio!?!?

I think I gathered as much from his 15 minute tangent

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Wand of Scanolon

Oh my god they need to do that

 

[Lijik]

Man Jeff's Majora's Mask opinion continues to baffle me. Like, I get not caring about it much, but jesus

Maybe im just used to Jeff and Majoras Mask at this point but that wasnt even the most baffling opinion in that entire segment

 

[LiK]

Dan reiterated that he won't have kids. looking forward to the tweet when he announces Bianca is pregnant.

 

[Death Metalist]

Man, was not ready for The Lobby. There's only very few people that I care about on Gamespot now(Mary Kish, Peter Brown & very recently Alexa), which is kind of sad since I've been following that site since around 2004. Getting around to the Bombcast now since I missed it.

Seeing as how this is the month of announcements, I have a very major one that will change my life in a very big way however, that is if everything lined up this week and if it did i'll talk about it here to ask advice from you dudes. Which is also why I've been very busy this past week or so.

Dan isn't right about everything.

Current locks for the list:

Overwatch/Doom/Hitman/Stardew Valley/The Witness/Inside

Will be in the 9-12 range: Overcooked, Deus X

The other released games with a chance need to catch a break:

The if Brad fights for them division: Abzu/Obduction/Deus Ex Go/(Maybe) Grow Up
The if Jeff is randomly passionate about them division: The Division/SFV/Video Ball
The if anyone remembers them division: Bound/Salt and Sanctuary/Job Simulator
The if anyone decides to fight for them division: Dark Souls III/Furi
The if Alex gets to talk division: Quadrilateral Cowboy/Headlander

We still got these games coming out though...

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
Forza Horizon 3
Final Fantasy XV
Mafia III
Gears of War 4
Rez Infinite
Dragon Quest Builders
Battlefield 1
Civilization VI
The Last Guardian
Titanfall 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remaster
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Dishonored 2
Dead Rising 4
South Park: The Fractured But Whole

Recently, Owlboy was announced to be released on November 1. It's a damn good year.

 

[Lijik]

I love it a lot but Grow Up is going to get runners up for best looking at best, I dont see Brad fighting for a game he gave 3 stars on the top ten list

 

[Mr. F]

I love it a lot but Grow Up is going to get runners up for best looking at best, I dont see Brad fighting for a game he gave 3 stars on the top ten list

I was kind of surprised he reviewed it at all - he didn't sound all that excited for it during the QL or bombcast discussions.

 

[LiK]

Grow Up disappeared. No one was interested in it. Gonna be cut.

 

[demidar]

We all know King of Fighters XIV will win Best Looking.

 

[Toparaman]

The reason given is that the series would not reach a satisfactory conclusion if the remaining story was crammed into one Kickstarter-funded game, which is respectable and fairly logical. I'd rather see Shenmue III play out at an appropriate pace and leave the story to be continued than for a rushed, truncated end.

Might be delving into spoiler territory here (gleaned from Yu Suzuki's comments, and information on Shenmue/III's plan) for III, so I'll mark it so nobody gets spoiled in passing:

Spoiler

Shenmue III is meant to close the main revenge story arc started in the first game and will feature the confrontation with Lan Di, but Shenmue has always meant to have a secondary arc that picks up after that. So there will be an 'ending' to the series of sorts in III for some degree of closure if IV can't happen.

That's fair, and it's good that the

Spoiler

Lan Di arc will conclude.

I was under the impression that it would still be unresolved at the end of 3.

 

[Mr. F]

Grow Up disappeared. No one was interested in it. Gonna be cut.

In the same vein I'll be shocked if anyone mentions Mirror's Edge

 

[LiK]

In the same vein I'll be shocked if anyone mentions Mirror's Edge

they'll mention it and then it'll be quickly cut.

 

[broncobuster]

We still got these games coming out though...

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
Forza Horizon 3
Final Fantasy XV
Mafia III
Gears of War 4
Rez Infinite
Dragon Quest Builders
Battlefield 1
Civilization VI
The Last Guardian
Titanfall 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remaster
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Dishonored 2
Dead Rising 4
South Park: The Fractured But Whole

Recently, Owlboy was announced to be released on November 1. It's a damn good year.

IMG]http://www.journaldugamer.com/files/2016/08/Owlboy.gif[/IMG]

Of those, Rez Infinite, depending on the new content, and FFXV stand out as contenders. Maybe Mafia 3 is a surprise, or Dishonored clicks with them this time. Rest are iterative, not very exciting sequels, or The Last Guardian.

Was about to say no Nintendo games in the top ten, but Mario Maker 3DS is this year. #1 two years in a row.

 

[Lijik]

I feel like Dishonored II would have had the best chance if Austin was still with the site since he seemed the most interested in it

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Dishonored 2 is out this year too?

You know some may say that this is the best time to be playing video games.

 

[FStop7]

Is there a quick look of the Battlefield 1 beta? I want to hear what they have to say about the train. It's Mario Kart tier rubberbanding for the losing team except it doesn't actually work. All it does is make a big chunk of the map inaccessible for 10 to 20 minutes because it's a death zone. It completely fucks the game.

Between this and the rubberbanding in Overwatch it's kind of bleak for competitive shooters. COD has always had such aggressive aim assist on consoles but now it may be the "purest" shooter.

 

[justjim89]

I see Dishonored 2 getting severely overlooked. Dishonored 1 is the best game of the last generation and the only one that cared about it was Patrick.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Is there a quick look of the Battlefield 1 beta? I want to hear what they have to say about the train. It's Mario Kart tier rubberbanding for the losing team except it doesn't actually work. All it does is make a big chunk of the map inaccessible for 10 to 20 minutes because it's a death zone. It completely fucks the game.

Between this and the rubberbanding in Overwatch it's kind of bleak for competitive shooters. COD has always had such aggressive aim assist on consoles but now it may be the "purest" shooter.

Uh

There's no rubberbanding in Overwatch. Unless you mean the spawn points changing as a payload is moved?

 

[broncobuster]

Is there a quick look of the Battlefield 1 beta? I want to hear what they have to say about the train. It's Mario Kart tier rubberbanding for the losing team except it doesn't actually work. All it does is make a big chunk of the map inaccessible for 10 to 20 minutes because it's a death zone. It completely fucks the game.

Between this and the rubberbanding in Overwatch it's kind of bleak for competitive shooters. COD has always had such aggressive aim assist on consoles but now it may be the "purest" shooter.

I'm assuming each map has a varient of that, be it the train or zeppelin, but it sucked in the beta map, and there's a lot that sucked in the beta map. Unless you were fighting around C, it was a mess of snipers or folks in tanks controlling the game.

 

[Anjin M]

One of my favorite things in the world is when Jeff makes Brad laugh that hard.

 

[Jintor]

dishonored 1 has a real problem where playing stealthy is super boring compared to playing flashy

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

Time to choose which games I don't mind getting spoiled for me because there's no way in hell I'm getting through every 2016 release I wanted to. Used to skip some awards to avoid spoilers, but I don't want to live that paranoid-for-spoilers life this year.

 

[sammyCYBORG]

dishonored 1 has a real problem where playing stealthy is super boring compared to playing flashy

You were doing it wrong son. Dishonored is the most fun stealth game ever made.

 

[NumberThree]

You were doing it wrong son. Dishonored is the most fun stealth game ever made.

Yeah it was super fun to play.

I still need to play the DLC before the next game comes out, I heard it has some important story points.

 

[LiK]

Time to choose which games I don't mind getting spoiled for me because there's no way in hell I'm getting through every 2016 release I wanted to. Used to skip some awards to avoid spoilers, but I don't want to live that paranoid-for-spoilers life this year.

If you don't plan on playing them, watch a LP beforehand.

 

[Jintor]

You were doing it wrong son. Dishonored is the most fun stealth game ever made.

it's not assassins creed brotherhood multiplayer, team fortress 2 hide and seek mode, or hitman