GREATMADMAN wrote:Personal preference is dreamcast, its the first one i played and i think it flows better with the Japanese voices. I do like the snapshot feature and the extra stability/polish the Xbox version has though.
There is no question about that imo!
I definately prefer the dreamcast version. not just because I played it way before the xbox port, but also because i prefer the japanese voicing (been a bit confusing that some voices from Shenmue I were in Shenmue II either for entirely other people)
I dont see how the xbox versioon was polished. It looked the same exycept for having more people on the streets and running smoother, while the dreamcast sometimes slowed down when you ran into lots of people like in White Dynasty Qr. for example
The screenshot feature was somehwat col but still kind of useless and it sucked the number of screenshots was limited. I mean did anyone ever manage to jam his xbox hdd? I think not, so they could have set ther limit way higher.
Last but not least, and most importantly no less:
I loved that shenmue II could use the shenbmue I cleared file..so you had all the items you collected by yourself in japan and the date was different from just starting a new game, actually I did a quick run once and was able to arrive in Honkong on my birthday (jan 15)
Subtitles never been an issue for me, I watch anime in japanese only so im used to read subs, and to be honest they never bothered me, as a gamer and someone who is used to read subs I can see the whole screen without focusing on readin subs.they just flow by
And having played the game so many times i know what they are saying anyway (Shenmue I: 15 times, Shenmue II: 13 times)
I actually even despise the xbox port. I still have it and I wont sell it, because its still Shenmue which is like a religion to me.
I lost my dc and the entire collection due to some asshole, so I needed the xbox port tpo have at laeast some shenmue, but the 1st thing I took care of when getting another one was buying a new Shenmue I and II (since shenmue II is hard to get I somehow ended up with 2 copies of Shenmue I and one copy of Shenmue II, so I got the whole game twice
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oh yeah I also preferred the dc controller over the xbox controller, the xbox controller is only good for racing games but sucks for most other games, then again the dc controller took a while to get used to but remains my favorite controller over the years
Yeah sorry, I think psx/ps2 controllers suck, they just look cool, but the d-pad is almost as bad as the xbox pan, and digital triggers are horrible, and of course the button quality of dc controller was just amazing, my very own controller (the player 1 controller..i had 4 of course lol) of my old dc survived way about 9k hours of gaming whereas 2k go to Shenmue, 2k to SoulCalibur and at least as much to other fighting games. (about 2k for pso but that game wasnt very abusive with the buttons and the d-pad but wioth the triggers and the analog stick..and everything was operating perfectly until the very end..just that it went supersmooth from playing that much (yeah i literally polished it while playing, like the ridge between the buttons disappeared etc)
