you could not play on certain servers or in polite company because you could create and spam a more complex version of those image word bubbles you could do in pso1 and most people used that to spam hentai or 4chan memes in the lobby and that + the process to install it (let alone being able to spend money on it, which you want to if you don’t want to have only one mag and don’t want to run out of inventory space immediately) made me hesitant to recommend the game to anyone
but god, the character creation in it is so good. its got the best character creator and outfits and accessories ive ever seen in an MMO. its also mostly horny which is either a plus or a minus depending on who you are (the hornier the outfit, the more likely they’ll be super expensive on the player market, whereas more modest stuff went for pretty cheap).
also you can get a mascot rappy outfit to wear and there were different rare holiday varieties but the one i want was the one that let you use accessories with it as well and you could only get it if you grinded for forever in the mostly empty pvp mode… im so mad. you can do so much with accessories. its so unfair. lemme be a cute rappy sega
the plan is that the beta(s) and launch (supposedly spring, which could mean next month) are Xbone and Windows Store and Steam versions are coming “later”
I have a boring base Xbone and the game is like the most jagged fucking thing I’ve ever seen (which is concerning because the game is older than every system on the market) and I can’t wait for a PC client just so I can do things like see what the fuck textures should look like
I’ve also come down with build concern because I decided to main bouncer/sub techer (no Sega I’m not calling it techter get away from me) purely on the basis of “this seems like a bad idea” but then I decided to not care
honestly I cannot gauge the Xbone community because aside from people razzing on the concert, everyone was quiet because nuts to hooking up a keyboard (though the game supports kbm natively on Xbone) and lord no I’m not doing the voice chat thing
also I joked that the game was jaggier than an early PS2 game elsewhere but maybe there’s truth to that
BONUS: the jaggies actually swim and shimmer even if the camera is still, so on top of how it looks, they botched whatever they tried to make it look better
I’ve put a few in-game days into Shenmue and I feel like it is at least partly going over my head. The entirety of the game seems to be walking around asking about one thing until one person knows what/who it is, going where they say and starting the whole process over again. It all seems to be restricted to a single area of the town, although I’m not sure that I’m not missing something as the game really doesn’t explain anything. Combat appeared to be QTE-based until at some point it wasn’t and I had to fight five people at the same time while not having much of an idea what the heck I was doing, fortunately just hitting square repeatedly seemed to be enough to get by but I kinda feel like it won’t be at some point.
I feel like the biggest thing I am taking away from the experience is that this is why every game has tutorials for everything.
i tried demon souls. hopefully this satiates the dark souls respecters on the forum…anyway i dont HATE it yet. my character looks worse than an oblivion character and rolls by fucking throwing himself at the ground and eating shit which i laugh at every time i do it. im only on the first real level so im not going to say anything definitively obviously but like, im enjoying 1-1 as an Introduction To Souls Games™ so far. i unlocked the shortcut and got killed by some red eyed pikeman. guess im not going that way!!
I feel like asking “what exactly am I supposed to do?” is a question that will get me yelled at, and yet…
Okay the game has clearly stranded me in Dobuita for a while running back and forth across these two streets asking people about different things, and it seems like this is a place that should be full of stuff to do while not trying to figure out who killed your dad. The thing is that aside from the arcade and the just-had-realization that walking into a parking lot lets you play around with the combat engine (that should help a good deal but I am curious why stepping into the dojo at home did not give me that option, also feels like something that should have been pointed out at some point) it feels like every other place in the entire area can be summed up as “people make some sort of offer to do or buy stuff, Ryo turns them down”. I’ve been told for years that the game has a strong “stop and smell the roses” vibe to it but I can’t seem to find the roses.
Let me put it this way: I am told to be around the jacket shop at 7PM, it is shortly before noon so I have time to kill. If I don’t go play Hang-On for seven in game hours or go punch in a parking lot… what am I supposed to be doing? Conversations with people don’t really seem to do much beyond “have you seen any sailors/chinese/tattoo guys around”, Ryo doesn’t want any patches for his jacket or to go inside the bar/club with the lady, I’ve had a couple brief cutscene interactions randomly pop up but they have been few and far between. I’m not poo-pooing the idea of having to do “non-essential” stuff for several in-game hours, I just honestly can’t figure out what said stuff is.
As seen in my Planescape: Torment playthrough I am more than capable of overlooking rather important details and the PS4 version of this didn’t come with an instruction manual so I am willing to believe that I am honestly overlooking something important like “you fool, pressing X makes Ryo answer no to everything”.
Also I am pretty sure I found Charlie already and if it isn’t him I should have at least accused him of it. If it is in fact him… game could probably be handling this better.
if it makes you feel any better, I spent the downtime during work today building a Dolphin nightly and getting my GCN adapter set up for my laptop so I could sneak playing PSO
Seems like the world isn’t quite working for you and the veil fell off. Yeah when given down time you have arcade, training, gacha toys, walking around. One day Fuka-san will ask to train with you in the morning and that will open up Dojo for training as well.
Yeah the stop and smell the roses vibe has been misdirected for years. Because Ryo is a single minded idiot that just wants revenge for his dad and has thrown his small suburban life away. Not to say that you being bored by it is ludonarrative singularity but it kind of is.
There are usually about 4 or 5 “solutions” to every “problem”. Almost always these are related to the lives indepentent of Ryo everyone in the town keeps.
I know you can do it in 2 but if you just want to hurry up you can look at your watch in menu or drink a drink wastes a good amount of time.
The game is about this pull and push and Ryo’s frustration with it. For me that worked incredibly well and it is only in the last year that I could identify it. The game has so many layers to every interaction.
But also it is kind of a boring slow game that could just not work for you.
Here is a tip. Ryo wants to kill Lan Di. He’s gonna need training. I’d train every change you get.
