soundscream
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Of course its no biggie but in most games you dont relate anything going on to your daily routine, unless your a real life Witcher.
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Giant Bomb are bringing back the Endurance Run... and it's Shenmue.
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Of course its no biggie but in most games you dont relate anything going on to your daily routine, unless your a real life Witcher.
Goro tries too hard. Squatter is the only cool dude.
Cindi Mayweather
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Isn't Goro the squatter??
Not by a longshot.
Admiral Woofington
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Aren't we all squatting?
Cindi Mayweather
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I squat. You squat. Everybody do the squat.
Admiral Woofington
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Hey
I'm squatting here!
I'm squatting here!
Dead Man Typing
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Not to spoil anything but there is a cutscene coming up soon where Ryo drives with the forks at an appropriate level while carrying a crate. It always stood out to me that it was a different height from normal gameplay. Watch out for it.
When I got a job driving a forklift it felt like years of Shenmue has trained me well.
Admiral Woofington
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Is every forklift driver who is also a gamer a shenmue fan?
LelouchViBritannia
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I wish you guys saw when ryo beats the two schoolgirls ass.... or the other way round. Too late now though, im sure that was on disk 2
Isn't that one of the events you can straight up lose a day for failing? The reaction would've been hilarious.
MassiveNights
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I get the sense Vinny is a guy who must really appreciate Google Maps.
Vampire On Titus
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Dobito
Admiral Woofington
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Vampire On Titus
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lol @ alex giving the game no credit. the fight & martial arts animations are actually really cool.
VeryGooster
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Yeah usually for most of what Alex says I laugh and move on but that was one of the times I was like "C'mon, man" especially with Vinny having a decent handle on the fighting it looked like.
Poor Mark. 
I forgot how much happens in the first 2 days of working the forklift. I wish they'd made the third day the final day of work; that would've been perfect. Instead, there's another
days, and the next one coming up is extremely uneventful until night time. Working so much kinda kills the pace that the game was doing so well to build up until this point. There are still some awesome scenes to go, though.
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Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Maybe Vinny can work his way up the ladder and get 3rd place next episode, then second the next, and finally first.
Cindi Mayweather
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Where's the guy that gave me shit for saying disc 3 is action packed and assumed I meant I was talking about the forklift. Love how the shit talk trolls have disappeared. Hope you like apples, troll.
Admiral Woofington
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It's pretty silly that the fighting was largely left for the last part though. When people say shenmue 1 was supposed to have more they weren't kidding, but that's a mechanic that for 2/3rds of the game is hardly used. And it's a fairly big mechanic.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Will Alex say anything remotely positive about the game before the end? I really don't see what is so terrible about how the fights look.
Intheflorsh
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Is there even an hour total of fighting in the whole game?
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Possibly. There's a lot of fighting from here to end, some that can last awhile. Maybe not an hour's worth though, not sure.
Cindi Mayweather
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It's not really inherently silly. A lot of fights can happen earlier but are missable events you get by exploring. Which is why people stressed exploration earlier. Also, Shenmue 1 is a slow burn. The idea is to make the first half about building Yokosuka. The second half is a Kung fu movie game. Whether or not you think it was a mistake to build up the stakes and the location, I think it succeeds. Shenmue games are all about build up. The girl Ryo dreams of? You don't meet her until the second game. In the end, it works. It's not for everyone, and the pacing can be flawed, but there's a catharsis in how the build up is played. It makes the action packed part seem that much more important. Shenmue is not other games. This is why people who compare it to Yakuza are being stupid. In Shenmue, almost every fight has plot relevance. In other games, you fight just to fight. In Shenmue it happens because it needs to happen to tell the story. Whether this works for you or not, I think that takes cojones and is refreshing compared to other games.
i think the fights look great but they look like they control like garbage
So this was the movie were Kojima got the idea for the Resident Evil 4 ending.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
They control decently. I definitely wouldn't say the controls are great, but once you get used to them, it's pretty fun.
Cindi Mayweather
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They control fine and don't play too differently from a 3D fighter.
Mikami made RE4.
deriks
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Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Well the Dreamcast controller is kind of shit, for me at least. I'm really not a fan of that controller. The VMU is kind of cool.
Cindi Mayweather
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It does suck.
I don't see that, the narrative takes Ryo from his home and local town to a corrupted / gang filled out of the way warehouse distinct. Of course the level of conflict would increase the deeper in Ryo plunged into the criminal underworld.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Deep Rising is a GREAT movie. I loved it as a kid.
infinityBCRT
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You have to remember that this was meant to be chapter 1 of 16.
The controls are actually pretty good. Sometimes Ryo might lock on weirdly to an opponent, but that's what the sweep/roundhouse moves are for, along with the counter.
But yeah, Alex was talking straight shit about the fights. Even today, Shenmue's combat still feels pretty good.
Berserking Guts
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It feels like Vinny is actually starting to enjoy the game a lot more now. He seems to have done a complete 180 on the combat after discovering the move list.
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It's no Virus.
Berserking Guts
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Deep Rising, Ghost Ship, Virus, Speed 2, Deep Blue Sea. I feel like I watched all those boat movies in the same year.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Yeah, he seems somewhat positive at this point. And if he is, then he should enjoy Shenmue 2 a lot more.
Cindi Mayweather
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God I hate Speed 2
Vampire On Titus
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Shenmue combat really does just feel like slightly tweaked VF. Still feels good today and it's actually some of my favorite combat in games.
There's more fights & events earlier on too. Its just you can miss many of them if you're not exploring. There's also the sparring and training. Which anyone would clearly want to devote some time to provided they knew about the move progression.
Yeah Shenmue is methodically paced, but it's not at all just devoid of content until Disk 3. Disk 3 is just far more directed experience.
There's more fights & events earlier on too. Its just you can miss many of them if you're not exploring. There's also the sparring and training. Which anyone would clearly want to devote some time to provided they knew about the move progression.
Yeah Shenmue is methodically paced, but it's not at all just devoid of content until Disk 3. Disk 3 is just far more directed experience.
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