Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby sand4fish » Thu Nov 03, 2016 4:03 am

Episode 5

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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby Serenade » Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:33 pm

They should have played the Dreamcast version!
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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby Gavan » Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:58 am

Episode 6

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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby ys » Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:53 pm

Rikitatsu wrote: That was pretty boring... Short attention span, just mindlessly following NPCs at a snail's pace, instead of learning their way around.
Following NPCs should be the last resort if you get stuck, it's so slow...


Himuro wrote: That was fucking awful and it may have put me off of the rest of the series. They play it once per week so there's no chance they'll learn the layouts of the game because they'll have spent too much time away from the game. Abort, abort, abort.

Unfortunately, I have to agree that something feels off. I liked the calm playthrough of the first game but I suspect that it helped that I started watching after they completed the game. That way I could watch a few episodes closer to each other. The fact that they play about once per week makes them forget a lot too. They also seem quite disengaged letting people walk them to their destination all the time. So there's no interaction with store owners, no exploration of shops out of curiosity, ... It takes you out of the game world instead which defeats the purpose a bit. Especially with games like Shenmue.
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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby Martin » Thu Nov 17, 2016 9:04 am

I think it's an OK play through. Everybody plays it differently. They seem to enjoy it, that's the main thing.
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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby Yokosuka » Thu Nov 17, 2016 3:15 pm

That bug. :shock:
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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby ys » Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:33 pm

I just watched episode 5 and 6. I knew about emulation related audio issues but didn't know that they got that obvious at times.

Related to my earlier remarks :
They said now that they should explore more since part of the games is to "exist" within the world. So they do get the series 8) It just felt earlier that they maybe weren't very interested which would suck for them. But a bit later they mention enjoying the game. Just struggling a bit due to its age. I guess gameplay mechanics?
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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby Gavan » Sat Nov 19, 2016 1:44 pm

Episode 7

They read my comment in this episode \:D/ :lol:

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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby DoubleO_Ren » Mon Nov 21, 2016 11:41 am

Martin wrote: I think it's an OK play through. Everybody plays it differently. They seem to enjoy it, that's the main thing.

Do they? They say they do but they don't seem to act like it, to be fair though if you watch their other Super Replays they seem to rip into all games.

Be very interesting to see how they find the adventures with Ren in Kowloon. the game gets more mainstream action and fun and less philosophical.
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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby sand4fish » Thu Dec 01, 2016 6:37 pm

Episode 8 for those who are still following the Super Replay:

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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby Sappharad » Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:55 pm

sand4fish wrote: [color=#FFFFFF]Episode 8 for those who are still following the Super Replay:

Thank you for posting these.
I have been watching it, but don't bother following on YouTube to see when they make new episodes.
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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby DoubleO_Ren » Sat Dec 03, 2016 4:57 pm

They read my comment again and made the same joke about my youtube name sounding like the MI6 agent who makes everyone coffee lol (DoubleO88). I said to them that they shouldn't diss the leafs catching and book carrying because it's supposed to teach the player and Ryo patience and that it's fun in the context of the story and Kyle was like "oh must be fun because you say it is" lmao feisty Kyle, ima call him feisty Kyle from now on.
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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby Yokosuka » Sat Dec 03, 2016 5:04 pm

Someone should tell them that it's actually easier to move the books by running than walking.
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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby Yokosuka » Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:24 am

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Re: Shenmue 2 - Game Informer Super Replay

Postby Sappharad » Tue Dec 13, 2016 10:10 pm

Wow.
In my 10+ times playing through the game I've never seen the conversation between Ryo and Joy in the arcade about Master Chen. I thought the only reference she made to "Uncle Chen" was during her call with Guizhang on the disc 3 tape.

Glad I watched this.

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