Games

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:25 pm

dng wrote: Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:23 am i only got past it when it turns out that if you leave the game playing for twenty minutes without pressing any buttons while you look on the internet to see how you do it it finally relents and lets you skip it and then just says "MOVE LEARNED" anyway

(i have no recollection of this specific annoyance origannly so maybe its a special ps4 inclusion who knows)

All life should be like that...

Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:03 am

Shenmue II is basically the last third of Shenmue I, but for twenty hours

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:27 am

Yes. I'd never got anywhere with this before. All i remembered of it really was getting trapped playing pachinko for seventy hours in hong kong, but this time i got past that by selling off all my virtua fighter figurines from the first game and then trying to never ever spend any money whatsoever

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:27 am

now i am out of hong kong and off to kowloon walled city

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:29 am

technically shenmue 2 is probably a better game than shenmue 1 (it's bigger, more varied, there's more to do, etc) but it's loads less actually good in every way that matters (charm, atmosphere, the feeling of being in an actual place rather than a videogame place)

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:43 am

you also can't pet a kitten

Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:52 am

I'm only playing it so I can play III

I suspect I'll regret playing III

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:58 am

hooray. that's also my thought process

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:13 pm

I loved shenmue 2. I felt like I was lost in a huge foreign city and it was very exciting.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:14 pm

One day I hope to play a video game again.

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:29 pm

I don't know if it's because I'm old or because of modern tv lag, but the quick time events in shenmue 2 are bloody impossible

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:30 pm

Also I've got to a bit now where you have to do about a hundred street fights in a row against people called things like Rod Stunt and I keep losing those too, over and over again, while sighing, occasionally swearing

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:34 pm

I could do the fights In the first one for some reason. Possibly because you never seemed to need the dodge button

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:37 pm

Oh I just beat the one I was really stuck on because twice he just fell out of the ring on his own.

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:38 pm

I am the best at martial arts

Post by **endar** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:04 pm

I played my mega drive today. Was many funs. I use an HDMI converter, and it seemed like there a bit of lag on one game, but not others. Also it depends what picture mode i had the tv on i think

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:13 pm

Excellent. Do any of the old saves work still (I assume not but you never know)

Post by **endar** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:41 pm

they were all passworded games

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:43 am

The best kind of saves

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:01 pm

dng wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:30 pm Also I've got to a bit now where you have to do about a hundred street fights in a row against people called things like Rod Stunt and I keep losing those too, over and over again, while sighing, occasionally swearing

after this the rest of the game was absolutely amazing all the way to the end. which was nice

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:05 pm

the very final section is utterly beautiful and nearly perfect

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 2:32 pm

Some little shit has leaked absolutely all of the passwords on Twitch. I have changed mine and if you use the site too, you need to do the same.

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 2:57 pm

Not just passwords but everything, seemingly. Hopefully you've not had all your bank/credit card info stolen also

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 3:17 pm

Bloody hell!

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 3:18 pm

Password changed, and Papal password changed too for good measure in case the Pope tries to rob me again

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 3:19 pm

I mean, you can take all the online security precautions in the world, but if that happens...

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:35 pm

Shenmue 3 has added a mechanic whereby your health is constantly depleting and you have to buy/eat food constantly and it's fucking terrible

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:38 pm

It's realistic! says the internet, even though I'm pretty sure eating nothing but cloves of garlic constantly would actually help prevent starvation let alone helping me recover after getting beaten up by various martial artists , but then again I'm not a medical professional so what do I know

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 3:43 am

I've got like three bulbs of garlic in the pantry and wish to punch every man I see, so this is welcome news.

Thu Oct 07, 2021 12:13 pm

Oh no now I'm looking forward to it even less.

I seem to remember hating the end of Shenmue II, because you have to walk behind someone for what seems like hours. This may have seemed worse because I was playing it at 2am though.

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:38 pm

That was my favourite bit

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:38 pm

Just two hours of walking up a mountain having a nice little chat

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:40 pm

Yu Suzuki casually inventing the walking simulator genre in 2001 with no one noticing

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:48 pm

Also yeah I'm not really particularly convinced by shenmue 3 yet.

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 3:10 pm

All I know is that Rab Florence's name is in a hotel guestbook somewhere in it

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:21 pm

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 8:06 pm

Hooray. I had that

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 8:06 pm

Ii also once won a £5 book token for getting the high score on it at a school fete or something

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 8:07 pm

i was 5. it was 1983.

Post by **The Robotic Anomaly** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:09 pm

I think the only highscore I've ever had was at the 1976 Atari game Sprint 2, in 2016

Post by **dng** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:08 pm

did you win a £5 book voucher?

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:46 pm

That's not a frog it's a jug-ra

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:49 pm

The Dragon 32 versh of Frogger is rather nice, and less green than I expected!

Decent jingles, an all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zja_FiGX5HU

Post by **richschnauzer** » Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:36 pm

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Oct 09, 2021 12:11 am

Only serial killers would buy such a thing. :p We bunged our 8 bits et al into sports bags.

Post by **dng** » Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:37 pm

I finished shenmue 3. It wasn't very good unfortunately, although there's some nice bits in there too. But they're slightly smothered by the rubbish bits.

Post by **dng** » Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:37 pm

I could probably write a big long essay now on what's wrong with it but I cannot be bothered at all

Post by **dng** » Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:39 pm

Anyway there's some lovely looking fields of flowers in a few places. I like flowers

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:29 am

Can you eat the flowers

Tue Oct 12, 2021 11:34 am

Even though I knew that would be the case, and you've now confirmed it, I will still continue my long trudge towards playing and completing Shenmue III.

I think this would be a good case to study if you wanted to examine the particular mental illness of people that have spent their lives playing games.