Thanks. I will confer with the other council members. You will be summoned at an unannounced time.
edit: I added you on PSN. We will likely be online in some hours.
Harsh but I completely agree. Shenmue 3 is the biggest disappointment of this generation.
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I wonder how many games are amazing at part 3 vs how many are bad. Some companies are afraid to even get to the number 3.
So it just continued the Shenmue tradition.
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Shenmue 3 was pretty much exactly what I wanted. I was happy with it.
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Shenmue 3 would have been a banger if it were released in 99 where it belonged.
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SMB3 is GOAT
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100%
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I was always a SMW kinda guy. I still think that is pure Kino.
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Iād would say if Shen Mue had a decent story all of its games would have been classics. We have seen this style done especially with Segaās Yakuza games, so all the pieces were there but unfortunately the creative team decided to play on nostalgia and into the flaws of pacing that were part of the first games when a lot of people just wanted an ending or at least a decent jumping off point. Shen Mue 3 was not that.
I mean planning martial arts mystery that takes several games isnāt ambitious it is indulgence.
I have nothing to say about Shenmue 3 as a game really, I have yet to play it, but goddamn did that ending crack me up.
Hell yeah, dude. Love me some SMW. Itās also the base for most of the Kaizo ROM hacks. Legendary game.
I still like all Merio platformers but SMW is magic. THE perfect blend of skill, fun, music, atmosphere, and the physics (which are somewhat stretched in Merio maker) are allā¦well again perfect. Itās a game that I can still play anytime.
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Iirc, it was pretty much known from the start that Shenmue 3 would be basically like its predecessor.
Anyone expecting more modern design philosophies only have themselves to blame for expecting something the game made very clear it wouldnt deliver.
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The issue is that even in relation to the original two Shenmue titles it falls short. If it just stayed par with what Shenmue was, while outsiders may have been disappointed I think itād still be exactly what fans of the series wanted and would allow the series to continue since it basically exists as a stopgap āproof of conceptā. Yu Suzuki has his own vision and doesnāt want it tainted by anything else thatās happened in the last two decades, fine. He has earned the right to take that path.
But you canāt take what you did two decades ago and end up doing it worse than before. That just wonāt fly and shouldnāt fly. You canāt blame lack of funds for a lot of the decisions made in the game. It was just poor decision making.
I didnāt follow the gameās development. If I did knowing Yu Suzuki ignoring progress of the last 20 years would have been a massive red flag for me. That alone would have gotten me to opt out. I donāt want my 2019 game to play and sound straight out of 99.
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Just on impulse (and a shit ton of good reviews), I decided to buy Ghost of Tsushima. But it was sold out EVERYWHERE I could think of looking. Is it that good? Iāve never had to deal with a sold out anything for games Iām interested in.
Itās the first brand new IP from Sucker Punch in like 12 years, and itās a major shift in terms of gameplay, tone and scale from their previous biggest franchise - inFamous. Combine that with Assassinās Creed kinda separating people into āclassicā vs āmodernā groups, the fact that itās the final major PS4 exclusive, as well as the game essentially being a big love letter to Akira Kurosawaās film craft - you get a one of a kind experience that naturally many people would be excited for. Iām not surprised itās sold so well so far, and Sucker Punch absolutely deserve that kind of a success. I feel like theyāve been among the most underrated Sony first party studios
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I always lose interest in a game series after the playing 2 in the series. I was thinking about this the other night while playing Max Payne 3. ā¦but Iām playing MP3 and loving it. Yeah, I never played 1 or 2. Probably why I like 3. Im playing BF5 and liking it. I only played one other BF game. Iām really enjoying Far Cry 5. But I only ever played FC3.
I only seen one person talkinā about ghost of sushi and that mofo said it was real cool but pretty easy. Itāll be some years before I get around to trying it so I dun cur really.
