Well! It’s certainly been interesting to read all your testimonies on the subject
I was hoping for honest reactions from various fans who had both internalized the originals and seen enough of the ports to know where they honestly stood on the subject, and you guys certainly delivered.
I know a lot of you have been playing the DC originals yearly for the past 15+years (very cool), so this port collection is a particularly tricky one to honestly look at, considering the amount of hopes, not to mention actual lobbying, placed upon its release.
Then again, it’s 2018. One would think that “remaster technology” (lol) would be a non-issue at this point, and threads like this one wouldn’t even exist…yet, in true Shenmue fashion, here we are. One step forward, one step back. Nothing is ever simple with this franchise, is it?
One thing that
@DigitalDuck mentioned really surprised me:
How prevalent are the pauses in the JPN speech? Is this just occasional, or would you say the Japanese track is essentially ruined for anyone familiar with the language? (It would be interesting to see if this is even present in the Japanese release of the game, which only features JPN vocals. I assume it isn’t?)
Anyway, it seems like the modded PC version is the only real alternative to the DC originals at this stage. Fingers crossed the patched improvements keep coming, and we can revisit this thread ___months from now and definitively lock it then.