Shenmue 1 or Shenmue 2, which was best?

I' m a little curious about which of the two you think was best.
I actually liked the first game more than the second.
Not only because it delivered quite a shock but the overall feeling in the game was better. Shenmue 2 had a more stressed pace and it wasn' t as mysterious as the first game. Also, most of the NPC' s in Shenmue 2 didn' t feel as alive as the ones in Shenmue 1. The story also felt kind of stressed in Shenmue 2.
Of course Shenmue 2 is still the second best gamer ever made.
Maybe I just didn' t like the chinese setting. I don' t know.
Anyway, does anyone agree with me that Shenmue 1 was better than the sequel?

As a side-note, WTF is up with the forum today?!?!?!
I' m gone a couple of hours and suddenly all the hottest topics are moved three pages down, we get new post count names and the weird wish I made in another thread to have someone called Good Man with a Neo avatar suddenly becomes fulfilled (although I suspect Good Man is one of the other members ).

One big town,then another big town,then a small town and then run in the chinese countryside and meet that shenmue tree and that girl.

Shenmue2 kicked ass

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Thats rather interesting considering I was talking about that with someone.

Say shenmue2 or die fool

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

ORIGINAL: QuezcatoL

Say shenmue2 or die fool

Shenmue2......was very much the best of the 2...there.

I have only been able to play Shenmue 1 so my opinion is quite moot here. I did enjoy it immensly tho. Especially collecting the little items.

I' m trying to convince Good Woman to get Shenmue 2 as I no longer have my Xbox. Does it work with 360 yet?

I was sooooooooo disappointed when I realised you couldn' t work as a truck driver in Shenmue 2. Did anyone find it fun to carry those crates with Duilin or Kongo?

I liked the crate carrying but the truck would have been better. However I still think 2 was better......I loved how you had to fight your way up the league book to get attention.

I never knew i could make 50-60 USD per day carrying 5-6 boxes.
nice pay :)

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

ORIGINAL: QuezcatoL

I never knew i could make 50-60 USD per day carrying 5-6 boxes.
nice pay :)

You thought that was good you know how I built up my money.....gambling at the stalls with those wooden stuff with animals on them ....that was fun I won a lot.

Omg,i beated that jungle guy and got a lot of money.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Yea he pays good but I liked fighting the old blind guy....he was good and the girl even though she was high up she went down easily I thought.....you should have had a choice like in condemned to throw her off or not to throw.

That' s HK$
Not US$.
With the exchange rates from 1986...

ORIGINAL: ginjirou

That' s HK$
Not US$.
With the exchange rates from 1986...

Yea....but they make you think it' s dollars I swear even on shenmue one it said dollars. There' s the green currency on the screen, and the dollar sign.

I' m pretty sure it was Yen.

I liked that Shenmue 1 felt more personal.

It was as though you were in your home town and you seemed to know everyone, so yeah the npc' s were more ' alive' i suppose. and the snowy weather, loved it. I prefer the setting of the original, the second is so big that it' s not as personal, and to me not as good - I didn' t like the inclusion of the wait (like for shops to open) though, I know it was optional but still disliked it.

The end of shenmue 2 though going through the forrest/jungle/green area was fantastic... Shenmue 1/2 was one of the few games that i spend most time walking through even when you can run. When I first got Shenmue I loved walking and being able to look around too... great stuff.

NiGHTS into Dreamcast

Oh yea it was but for some reason I thought dollars.....maybe cos it was green.

Definitely LOVED Shenmue 2 wayyyy more!
The original Shenmue didn' t leave a great first impression with me. It took playing through the game and experiencing various things before I completely embraced the magic that was Shenmue. The game was really good BUT flawed.

Now Shenmue 2 on the other hand, that game was friggin AWESOME and the climax of Disc 3 gave me goosebumps!!!


I liked WORKING in the original Shenmue cause I could slack off and still get paid.. Shenmue 2 made it so you actually had to work!

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

How could Shenmue not leave a great first impression?
You disappoint me.
You no longer have any chance of becoming a member of " The Council" .

ORIGINAL: ginjirou

How could Shenmue not leave a great first impression?
You disappoint me.
You no longer have any chance of becoming a member of " The Council" .

The council eh...I knew it..

ShenMoohìe?

Silence! You know nothing fool!

You can be part of the " Happiness and Goodwill" society still. All are Wuved. How much is Shenmue 2 now? For I have a strong belief in helping young Ryo on his noble quest of vengence.

Shenmue is the only game I ever played that made me depressed becuase I had to go to work again.



Still love it though!

I have played througg S1 and have S2... but no dreamcast.. anybody have a lone of one? as I have not played S2 yet!

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Good Man-

All are Wuved. How much is Shenmue 2 now? For I have a strong belief in helping young Ryo on his noble quest of vengence.

I think it' s about $10 in the US.

I never payed either, *curls up in a ball* don' t hit me...

How could Shenmue not leave a great first impression?

EASY.. The first time I played Shenmue it was the import version. I felt that Ryo' s control could use a wee bit more fine-tuning as it felt just a tad bit stiff, just a pinch, but enough to notice.

I remember having a better first impression of the import version of Resident Evil Code: Veronica for the Dreamcast. Like I said before, I warmed up to Shenmue more and more over time, but initial impressions of the game left me unimpressed..

I remember the build-up and the anticipation leading up to the game' s Japanese release. I' d watch and rewatch various Shenmue trailers and was soooo excited. When I finally got the game in my hands and played it for the first time, admittedly I was a tad bit disappointed.

But since it was the first chapter in the series OF COURSE there were going to be flaws. But at the end of the day the positives most definitely outweighed the negatives.

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

Well the game did take some time getting used to - it wasn' t very intuitive , but it was all worth it - and Shenmue 2 was awesome it was even better than Shen 1 - how often do we say this about sequels huh?

It' s funny to see this thread today dasher :)

Terry, did you actually complete both Shenmue' s or did you just get all the
arcade games and call it a day?!

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

I personally liked the first one better, their both awsome though but I liked the setting better in the first one

Terry, did you actually complete both Shenmue' s or did you just get all the
arcade games and call it a day?!

I completed both games twice.

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

Shenmue 1, I loved the controls and feel of the game. Shenmue 2 had that cutscene " BE AWARE!" system that RE4 had, though it worked in RE4 I thought it just didn' t work in the cinematic feel of Shenmue 2.

" What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."
~ Unknown ~

Hmm, so that' s Harrier and Hang-On?

What did you think of the conversions to Shenmue?

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

I think they were both great since they were different...if shenmue 2 looked too much like the first shenmue then it would be boring.

Shenmue made me believe that i was actually immersed in Ryo´s world but the second was more breath taking with Ryo´s life often being in danger.

1 or 2, they´re both Shenmue.

I loved both games. Part 1 was indeed a bit more personal, but part 2 was huge and exciting. Climbing that Yellow Head building was awesome. Love how that dilapidated bulding just happened to have a Hang-On arcade machine in one of the rooms and they let you play it without any harrassment!

The arcade games in the Shenmue series are kind of weak. The controls suck, but that could be because the Dreamcast controller is one of the worst ever created.

Joe, haven' t seen you in ages, where you been?

The controls suck, but that could be because the Dreamcast controller is one of the worst ever created.

What don' t you like about it, and how do you feel about the xbox/x360 controllers?

NiGHTS into Dreamcast

Both games are trash.

Side by side Shenmue 2 is better, but Shenmue atleast was fresh when it came out. It' s hard to choose between two pieces of garbage but I' d go with Shenmue 1.

The last chapter of Shenmue 2 was just amazingly beautiful.

Joe, haven' t seen you in ages, where you been?

I' ve been around here and there, but it is hard to read these forums nowadays since only around 6 or 7 posts per page are allowed. This makes every thread look like monstorous behemoths that I don' t want to bother reading. Each page should allow 15 posts.

Shenmue is better than Laurence Fishburne.

Ryu' s ass is tighter in part 2, so I have to say part 2 is better!

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