i have just been re-impressed by this. I love light coming through the dojo and the added grunginess of the graphics really adds to the sense of poverty in Kowloon..

"he doesn't ROW? " "no, he DOESN'T row" i didnt get that part. whats it mean? Indirect spoilers abound It is rather ambiguous but for me it is just a wry hint towards the multiverse shenanigans early on. to analyse it more deeply I surmise that as the player we are the 'crit...

I'm happy you enjoyed it so much. Battleship Bay was an ultimate highlight, when Elizabeth began skipping stones i actually got a real life deja vu which i found to be incredibly strange. it was an enigmatic moment. Girls just wanna have fun echoing in the background... All i can say is that despite...

Just completed Infinite myself and my overall feeling after swilling it around my head for a few nights is that it is much of a muchness. Initially I was incredibly impressed with the intricacy of the story with all the hints that it gives early on. The way you instantly revive when falling off buil...

yes i'd relay to just jump straight into Infinite. Responding to Mue 26 regarding BioShock 2's narrative: i just really like the sense behind attempting to create the "Utopian".. As Rapture had shown, it was Humanity itself which had failed and no particular individual. The rationale behin...

BioShock 2 is the better overall game. Better combat, better morality system, better choices that impact story and continually great level design and atmosphere. Also, Sofia Lamb is a really well defined 'enemy', neither black nor white to Fontaine's cackling corruption. I even found myself agreeing...

Well Dreamcast did incentivise sales of Shenmue. If it was multiplat it might not have garnered as much fervour. As for Halo, as for Uncharted et al. It is a delicate psychology at play... people are more likely to buy expensive drinks in VIP lounges!! Closing the door to others can invigorate the s...

disagree. Exclusivity can incentivise sales. HD remasters could perhaps even damage sales. Hinting that casuals must play 1 and 2 to appreciate 3 would just result in them not bothering at all. Only a few completionists (and us) would relish going through them all. Plus, if you don't call it Shenmue...

yes! YES! YYEESSSS!

Cerny Understands.

To be serious for a second, i can't help but feel it would be a good strategy for PS4. They are inherently gathering the casual market and so this would guarantee some 'hardcore' sales... being modest i would say at least 500,000 console sales right there.

my Shenmue car 'tattoo'

I would donate up to £200. Oxymoronically I would still rather not have a shenmueIII.

Conclusions are always better in the mind. Answers always deflate the original mystique. MGS4 told me this.

I agree that it is the most atmospheric and emotional music ever made for a game.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqtkgzFeoww[/youtube]

such strong recall of the time: the portable Tv, the contentment, as innocent as Ryo himself.

I kind of agree with this, even though I do enjoy it as stand alone music too. I don't think it can even really be called "bad" though, it's true it had to work within the limits that game music had back then, but some of the compositions capture that certain mystique that Shenmue had (or...

My appreciation of the soundtrack is weird. I like it because it is bad. To unpack that statement I like how it wasn't trying to be over-spectacular with the composition. Everything sounds earthy and of the 1980's. Nothing necessarily catches your ears and even taken outside of the game doesn't real...

I agree with the trepidation. I only have his word