The Shenmue 3 Review Thread

jsh020 said:
I'd be overreacting if this wasnt whose doing the review, shes gonna body the game.
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Shenmue 3 Can't Help Betraying the Spirit of the Original Game

Where once the series sat at the bleeding edge of game design, Shenmue 3 is more content to look backward.
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Oh shit, it’s her? The one who called herself a fan in that article only to get called out in the comments for her inconsistency? (I should know since someone else commented with the post I wrote here about that)

Yeah, expect a low score with that one. Probably won’t end well there
 
danielmann861 said:
Oh shit, it’s her? The one who called herself a fan in that article only to get called out in the comments for her inconsistency? (I should know since someone else commented with the post I wrote here about that)

Yeah, expect a low score with that one. Probably won’t end well there
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She’s not doing the review (thank goodness). It’s Cian Maher.
 
jsh020 said:
I'd be overreacting if this wasnt whose doing the review, shes gonna body the game.
www.usgamer.net

Shenmue 3 Can't Help Betraying the Spirit of the Original Game

Where once the series sat at the bleeding edge of game design, Shenmue 3 is more content to look backward.
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I know what you mean, man. I saw that preview and it made my blood boil. I'm just thinking It'll be a 5/10, if you really want to go there. I know that was one disrepectful, lazy preview, but call me optimistic. I'd be more concerned with Giant bomb, despite their preview being not out and out bad is what I'll say. Remember DeathStranding GB gave a 4/10, while Usgamer ( she did this review as well ) gave a 7/10. So you never know what might happen.
 
Forklift No. 4 said:
She’s not doing the review (thank goodness). It’s Cian Maher.
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oh thats at least something

Kupo said:
I know what you mean, man. I saw that preview and it made my blood boil. I'm just thinking It'll be a 5/10, if you really want to go there. I know that was one disrepectful, lazy preview, but call me optimistic. I'd be more concerned with Giant bomb, despite their preview being not out and out bad is what I'll say. Remember DeathStranding GB gave a 4/10, while Usgamer ( she did this review as well ) gave a 7/10. So you never know what might happen.
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the giantbomb preview was so much on the positive end that if they are doing a review id expect it to be more like a 6.
 
I think that the more positive reviews will be the ones that didn't wrap the game in a week.

Shenmue is almost a sort of meditation and it requires time. It really is unlike any other game in that regard.

The majority of these reviewers are so used to the dopamine rushes from shooters that they don't know how to react when they are presented with a game with the pace of Shenmue.
 
9dragons said:
Well spoken. I also do not have any clue what is the context of modern gaming? And what is this modern gaming at all?

As someone that is gaming for a long time I would say modern gaming does not exist.

Almost every genre popular today was invented at the dawn of 3d gaming. 25 years ago. Gameplay wise we are stills stuck in the 32 bit era. Sure the graphics and controls have evolved but the premise and the gameplay is still the same.

I am not saying that there is anything wrong with that. Never change a running system as they say.

The term dated or the game is not modern is just a cheap excuse for mediocre gaming journalists to mask their non existing know how.

Unlike other fields off journalism gaming journalism is a mess. In general. We do have much experienced writers out there that have been gaming for long. Must of them are younger people that are not familiar with gaming history at all.

Especially at some websites this problem is way to strong. They rarely have any senior writers that know their stuff.

I still have not read a single review of Shenmue 3 and I do not regret anything. It would be a waste of time.

I can understand why people here are into the reviews and are said about the reviews but the future of Shenmue is still not set. Reviews do not mean anything. We still might get a 4.

And it was clear from the started that reviews will be very mixed.

we had two possibilities Either Yu san beytrays the old fans and makes something mass appealing that has nothing to do with Shenmue, or he listens to the fans and make a Shenmue 3. He did the write choice and made a real Shenmue.

We should play it as much as possible and do not think that much about negative stuff, like the uncertain future.
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I WILL HURT YOU.
 
I dont think just cause they are taking their time with it actually means they wil be more positive. People for some reason kept saying IGN was gonna review it well and got weirdly condescending about how its gonna score better than other games like DS, then it got the 2nd lowest review yet.
 
KidMarine said:
... even Jack?
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lol I KNEW I should've put something in there to show that I do think he isn't perfect lol.

Both of their stinkers can be counted on one, MAYBE 2 hands.

But:

- Godfather
- Godfather 2
- Godfather 3 (feel to this day that it is better than 2; 2 is just much more iconic and has bigger star power)
- The Conversation
- Apocalypse Now (after Godfather, I feel this is his best film, an absolute masterpiece)
- Rumble Fish
- Dracula

I feel as a package, are better, more varied and more well-made, than:

- Mean Streets
- Taxi Driver
- Raging Bull
- Goodfellas
- Casino
- Departed
- Wolf of Wall Street

One thing I'm also not a fan of, is that FFC acknowledges and celebrates (loosely used term here) his Italian heritage, but Scorsese shoves the, "Italian-American," down our throats. I totally get that the stereotypical Italian in the world (outside of Europe) is based on Italian-Americans, but they are NOT who we are as a culture, history or background; they are just 1 part of an incessantly-long lineage and diversity (not sure if I'm using the word correctly in this context), of Italians as they are today.

It's sadly, a misrepresentation of the culture and it will never sit well with me, while the Godfather trilogy, accurately (for a Hollywood film) depicts Italians and Italian culture, significantly more than any of Scorsese's films (doesn't help that significant portions of these 3 films were filmed in Italy).

Someone who makes his bones directing the same characters and backgrounds for 30 years, is not as proficient as his job, than someone who diversifies and knocks it out of the park.

Anyways, I'm going super off-topic, my apologies.
 
Truck_1_0_1_ said:
Also have something to add on that front.

I'm not a Scorsese fan at ALL (he's great at telling stories and cinematography, but I find him highly overrated; Coppola, for example, will always be head and shoulders above him in my eyes {as he does almost EVERYTHING brilliantly}, but they are considered neck and neck, most of the time), but I went to watch Silence in early 2017, as I am quite the devout Catholic and adored the book (read it on the way back from Japan on the flight, too).

That film is a cinematic masterpiece from top to bottom, with little to no flaws; any hype was killed immediately because it was a film full of, "religious imagery," (which is guaranteed) and, "religious, political undertones." (which it absolutely does NOT).

It still maintains a solid rating on imdb, but what should've been nominated for:

- Best Actor (wouldn't have won)
- Best Supporting Actor (wouldn't have won)
- Best Adapted Screenplay (possible winner)
- Best Cinematography (DEFINITELY should've won)
- Best Costumes (debatable, but they did feudal Japan PERFECTLY)
- Best editing (debatable as well)

Instead, it only got nominated for Cinematography, which it lost to that POS La La Land.

The big Hollywood Blockbuster with big names and a lot of fanservice, will always do better and reviewed better than the actual pieces of art, because money talks... and it pisses me off.



I'm sure you remember Yakuza 1's substories, which were literally that as well (when I played 3 {and 2, but 3 is where it REALLY began}, I was floored when the substories actually had branching paths and sometimes spanned over 10 chapters!). There's an evolution to gaming, for sure.
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For what it's worth, I quite liked Silence, Coppola is a genius and La La Land is one of my favourite films this decade ;)
 
I said for years that I was looking forward to the review thread as I knew people would get pissy and upset that everyone on this planet doesn't agree that Shenmue is the best thing on this planet.

I have to say this thread has not been a dissapointment.
 
Riku Rose said:
I said for years that I was looking forward to the review thread as I knew people would get pissy and upset that everyone on this planet doesn't agree that Shenmue is the best thing on this planet.

I have to say this thread has not been a dissapointment.
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I mean, I'm ultimately cool with the scores. Everyone won't and doesn't like Shenmue, doesn't hurt my stance on it at all.

Nothing wrong with a fan base who wants the game to have relatively decent press to help it out though.
 
mjqjazzbar said:
People are worried because they want the game to sell so they can get another Shenmue. Bad reviews hurt those chances.
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This game is not going to sell bad because of the scores, the thing that hurt this game most was the first teaser/trailer with the weird faces.

People said this back then and were called negative because people can't tell the difference between negative and realistic.
 
Riku Rose said:
This game is not going to sell bad because of the scores, the thing that hurt this game most was the first teaser/trailer with the weird faces.

People said this back then and were called negative because people can't tell the difference between negative and realistic.
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The impact of that trailer didnt help but, that said, people saying this was the finished product and it wouldn't improve and press running with that lie didnt help.
 
It's obvious to me that people want to boycott a stellar game for their evil intentions.But some people aren't stupid they know a great game when they see one.
Similar thing happened with days gone on ps4. Guy at ign should be sacked.
 
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