Shenmue III (PS4, PC)

**Diff-chan** · 09 Jun 2017, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by Josh

Shenmue was garbage. We can all admit that at this point, right?

It is garbage, but the good kind of garbage.

I think Shenmue 2 is legitimately good though.

**Frogacuda** · 09 Jun 2017, 02:41 PM

I don't know or want to know if the Shenmue games hold up. But they were so far ahead of anything else at the time in terms of world-building. Even now, games like Yakuza and Persona 5 don't have nearly the level of detail and interactivity, even if they might have "bigger" worlds.

I'm sure the mechanics are garbage by any standard other than that era, and the bad voice acting and writing are probably pretty cringey. But no game before then made me feel like I was living in a world that way. Maybe none since, either.

**GohanX** · 09 Jun 2017, 02:49 PM

I played through Shenmue 1 a year or so ago. I actually liked it more the second time around, but I remembered enough of the game that I wasn't blindly running around looking for sailors. The whole end sequence is still badass.