Kotaku Kowloon article...Shenmue? WTF is dat nah COD FOOL!

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Kotaku Kowloon article...Shenmue? WTF is dat nah COD FOOL!

Postby Bluecast » Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:08 am

http://kotaku.com/the-last-days-of-chin ... 1380581093

Shemue shows Kowloon as a bustling slum but people goig about their lives and some enjoyed it despite what many would call not ideal. It showed a more real side to the city.

Cod...grrr look how slumy it is and everyone here is white but must feel sorry for them not having the freedom of USA.


For those who have not played CoD here is the level

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Re: Kotaku Kowloon article...Shenmue? WTF is dat nah COD FOO

Postby Segata Sanshiro Jr. » Wed Sep 25, 2013 12:13 am

Theres a lot they could have said, its been in so many things, why show one scene from COD instead of a shot from that great scene in Shenmue 2 when it establishes the city? Theres just more personality in so many other books, movies and games, the cod level never really shows you what things were like. I mean Deus Ex gives a better example and its not even there. Grrr there just so much to be said on the subject, its nice there was something said at all, but nowhere near enough.
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Re: Kotaku Kowloon article...Shenmue? WTF is dat nah COD FOO

Postby MiTT3NZ » Wed Sep 25, 2013 1:47 am

What? This is because CoD got a screenshot? Okay... Anyway, even though it wasn't Kowloon, I always felt that the Narrows in Batman Begins was the best adaptation of the walled city, as the poor go about their daily lives, shuffling through a claustrophobic nightmare while crime runs rampant both behind the scenes and in plain sight.

I agree about Deus Ex though. You're talking about Hengsha, right?
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Re: Kotaku Kowloon article...Shenmue? WTF is dat nah COD FOO

Postby Yama » Sat Sep 28, 2013 12:08 am

Garbage article on Kotaku? What else is new.

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Re: Kotaku Kowloon article...Shenmue? WTF is dat nah COD FOO

Postby south carmain » Wed Oct 02, 2013 9:02 pm

The thing with shenmue 2 though is that it looked nothing like the actual kowloon walled city and was just loosely based on it, I don't really blame them for not using it as an example.
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