Sonikku wrote:
The visuals, while perhaps not quite cutting edge, were impressive for 1999. Yes, it’s full of graceless facial animations, despite benefitting from some primitive motion-capture work, and the overall aesthetic quality is nowhere close to the standard that the market-exploding PlayStation 2 would begin to introduce, just months after Shenmue’s arrival.
What the fuck? The PS2's graphics were AWFUL at launch. They didn't have anything that could possibly compare to the likes of Shenmue or Soul Calibur for at least two years in. Their launch titles looked far worse than Dreamcasts launch titles had that were a full year older. Some people just got drunk on the Sony koolaid those days.
Oh my... hahaha That koolaid sentence killed me.
That is the problem nowadays. My friends wont play Shenmue because they dislike the graphics. They do not understand the fact that Shenmue is a rather old piece of art which gets more precious as it gets older.