Shenmue 3 is a Terrible Game and I’ve Wasted My Life

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   Super Eyepatch Wolf 6年 ago

   Apologies, song list was a little late on this one:

   https://twitter.com/EyePatchWolf/status/1287069811714019328?s=20

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   samghost13 3年 ago

   Shenmue 1-2-3 is a love Story and i like them all. As a Indie Dev. i often see gamers not understand how much work goes in to those "Games". I see

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   VultureLivesAgain 3年 ago

   I don't think the combat in Shenmue 1 & 2 is complicated or requires much skill, so it's curious that Suzuki felt the need to dumb it down for mass appeal in Shenmue 3. Especially when the entire rest of the game makes no attempt at mass appeal.

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   RealMusicLives33 3年 ago

   Real fans know how disappointing and terrible this game was.. yu should just release the story outline so fans can find out how it ends

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   A Real Name 3年 ago

   Looks like Ryo's journey is over…them feels tho after so many years.

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   WakkaWakkaGaming 3年 ago

   There's literally only three things a final boss fight needs to be at least competent:
   1. Reincorporate learned abilities
   2. Represents/resolves plot culmination
   3. Introduces difficulty beyond previous threshold

   I mean for gods sake Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage even got this shit right

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   fluffyfeet 3年 ago

   This game is awful, and maybe I should have played the others first, but after this game that’s going to be a solid no.

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   kemix1006 3年 ago

   The last 5% feels like a fucking slap in the face. You don't even get a single hit on the main antagonist, the ending you made would have been leagues better, a single blow would have been better than getting screwed over like this. But I say this as someone who never touched a shenmue game. And unfortunately, I doubt we may never see a proper conclusion to the series with how hard the game bombed after it came out.

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   Sideways 3年 ago

   You’re telling me they took a rhythm-centric translation of the skull and practice it takes to utilize martial arts and replaced it with Kingdom Hearts button-mashing combat?

   They did this in the grounded, verisimilitudinous game about being a real-world teenager and trying to fight an anime villain martial arts master by learning martial arts through practice?

   Why would you do that

10. 

    Shareluck 3年 ago

    OK. I will still play it and have fun though.

11. 

    Fizzy Frenzy 3年 ago

    2:51 YOO IS THAT FUNK FICTION IN THE BACK?! My man.

12. 

    South Sider 3年 ago

    “So all this means is you inevitably come across a high level enemy. God help you if it’s eneMIES” 😂 😂😂other parts of this video are class but this comment was the highlight for me.

    I myself backed the kickstarter about £300 and have been waiting just like most others, and after playing it I came to the conclusion that the game was shit before even leaving Bailu village.

    Done myself a favour by the looks of it.

    Awesome video mate very entertaining. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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    Keni Rainseeker 3年 ago

    heavy rain is actually shit though. and everything else made by david cage. and david cage.

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    Pin Clock 3年 ago

    Fun fact, in Yokai Watch, a 3DS game 7 or so years before this, when you enter your house your shoes are automatically taken off and put on right by the front door. No time wasting while still keeping the nice touch.

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    fgdj2000 3年 ago

    Such a beautiful conclusion to the video, even if you’re criticizing the game a lot. Personally, I‘m at that point in my life where I prefer weird personal rough around the edges experiences over super-polished games that don’t have quite as much heart and soul. It wasn’t always like this. As such I only recently discovered Shenmue and it really sucked me in deep. I don’t know what it was. My wife was kinda looking at me with questionmarks as most of the time you’re just running around, asking people random stuff and waiting for something to happen. But still, whether it was the retro-graphics, my affinity for Japan or the intricate detail with which everything was realized. Finishing Shenmue II and then jumping into Shenmue IiI it felt as if almost no time had passed between the development of these games. It felt more like a remaster of a 2003 game than a 2019 game. But that was the charm for me and it worked. Despite its tedium. Maybe it was also all the messages by players who loved the series for decades. If this is it I‘m happy that we got one more time to spend in this world. And also I am thankful for this game because without it we might never have gotten the Rematers of Shenmue I & II and I might not ever have had the chance to play them.

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    Στέλιος Αλεβίζος 3年 ago

    anybody, game at 14:26?

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    Cuiasodo 3年 ago

    I am baffled at how any of those design decisions add anything to the game. I can understand wanting to engineer a very deliberate, slow gameplay loop, a kind of ritualistic day-to-day for the main character and player. I can even understand wanting to put the player in a series of frustrating, mundane tasks, but it has to serve some sort of arc.

    Best example of this I can think of is Death Stranding. A lot of the gameplay is very chore-like – you're delivering packages on foot, more packages means you have to move more deliberately and it takes a long time to get to where you need to go…at the start of the game. See, as you progress, you start getting access to more and more equipment that makes you faster, helps you carry more things, makes enemies you had to sneak around easy to just barrel through. There's a clear difference between the start and end of your journey, even if it was frustrating to get there.

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    John Marston 3年 ago

    I liked the environment, and chopping wood.

    I’ve played 1 and 2, but more recently than most on a Dreamcast emulator, later buying the collections of the first two games for a planned replay of both.

    I was awaiting shenmue 3 for a much shorter time than most shenmue fans, but still saw the teasers and followed it somewhat. I think for this reason I was just excited to see that it was happening and my expectations were more in check since I didn’t have time to begin to expect more and more.

    I actually think back fondly to playing the third game but remember the combat being super frustrating and strange, easily my least favourite part. With characters having robotic reactions to taking damage and it just being more difficult and less intricate than the first two games which doesn’t even really make sense. Favourite part was exploring the world they’ve made here, I really liked the look and it brought me that shenmue experience of feeling like you’re on holiday.

    That being said I have to come clean and say that I haven’t finished 3 yet. Ryo is currently suspended in the hotel looking for club members (can’t remember exact specifics) with the warehouse and the forklift outside and a phone in reception to call characters from previous games.

    So maybe me not getting through the game can be looked at as a testament to how bad it is, but honestly I was enjoying it, then lost momentum and that spiralled into becoming uninvested.

    Now I have some time on my hands. Like previously mentioned I look to tackle the first game again, and the second potentially, and then we’ll see, maybe I’ll even restart the third to get back into where I am etc.
    Otherwise I won’t get to see what happens with Lan Di, but from what I’ve heard even you guys who finished the game didn’t get to see that.

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    John David Tibbetts 3年 ago

    27:25 I cannot precisely explain why, but this is one of the horniest ways I have ever heard someone say "big strong man".

    You wanna smooch the big strong man, Wolf? Do ya? Do ya wanna smooch him on his big strong lips :3?

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    Chris Bardolph 3年 ago

    My new catchphrase shall be “ah ah ahh… wine and buns!”