after finishing riddick, hell, as soon as i started playing riddick i though "this is just like shenmue!" the pace and feel of the running around, the NPCs and the dialogue, the side quests, the fighting, even the mini games. the major differences were the language and the weapons. Riddick may as well be a part of the F.R.E.E. genre. After finishing riddick, i want another game like it and the only other place to get it is shenmue and 3 needs to be officially announced. I dont care if its a launch/holiday title for next gen. Anyway, why is it that so many people were so willing to give riddick a chance and fall in love with it yet wont even give shenmue a chance even though it feels the same?
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riddick vs shenmue. WTF?
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geez i'd hate to go on a road trip with you in real life.Kabuki Waq
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I loved Shenmue 1 and 2 but reallty Riddick has much better pacing and action. LOTS MORE ACTION!
Shenmue felt like one fetch quest after another.
I still prefer Shenmue tho for some odd reason.
Shenmue felt like one fetch quest after another.
I still prefer Shenmue tho for some odd reason.
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I liked Riddick more because it was fun. I wish Shenmue was the same length as Riddick, though.
BoE while I do think you found yourself a good comparison, I dunno if they can really be compared.
I really enjoyed Riddick, but I'll be honest. It's a great game of the month that no one will remember or talk about by the end of the year let alone in 2 years. Whereas people still bring up both Shenmue games on a regular basis over 2+ years later.
Shenmue was/is monumental
Riddick was/is a great 2 night game.
I really enjoyed Riddick, but I'll be honest. It's a great game of the month that no one will remember or talk about by the end of the year let alone in 2 years. Whereas people still bring up both Shenmue games on a regular basis over 2+ years later.
Shenmue was/is monumental
Riddick was/is a great 2 night game.
disabledHeliocentric
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I've avoided CoR on the grounds that:
A. Deep down I don't want movie liscenced games to succeed.
B. The movie it's connected with sucks.
c. Vin Diesel is a good actor like Sylvester Stallone was a good actor in Rambo 3.
I dug Shenmue. The second was too much. The first had a lot of characters who Ryu had known all of his life, the village where he grew up, a secret sort of conspiracy underlying his fathers death. It had empathy, intrigue.
In the second Ryu lacked such a bond and the NPCs seemed to buzz in and be off.
The architecture is what most impressed me. They really decked out the inside and outside of those buildings in a way I have yet to see duplicated. When the game turns a bit, after Ryu goes to 'Beverly Hills' it gets really cool.
I sort of wish you could jump around and climb over stuff in the game.
If Sega does another adventure with such art finesse they should give the character some basic sort of 'Sam Fisher' type controls so you can grab stuff and sneak around, basic jumping etc.
Anyways. I'll be getting CoR when it's $20.
A. Deep down I don't want movie liscenced games to succeed.
B. The movie it's connected with sucks.
c. Vin Diesel is a good actor like Sylvester Stallone was a good actor in Rambo 3.
I dug Shenmue. The second was too much. The first had a lot of characters who Ryu had known all of his life, the village where he grew up, a secret sort of conspiracy underlying his fathers death. It had empathy, intrigue.
In the second Ryu lacked such a bond and the NPCs seemed to buzz in and be off.
The architecture is what most impressed me. They really decked out the inside and outside of those buildings in a way I have yet to see duplicated. When the game turns a bit, after Ryu goes to 'Beverly Hills' it gets really cool.
I sort of wish you could jump around and climb over stuff in the game.
If Sega does another adventure with such art finesse they should give the character some basic sort of 'Sam Fisher' type controls so you can grab stuff and sneak around, basic jumping etc.
Anyways. I'll be getting CoR when it's $20.
Die Squirrel Die
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BeOnEdge said:
Funny thing is I felt the same way about Shenmue and KOTOR. Are they really that different. The vast majority of each game is running around talking to people, with the occassional fight thrown in.
heh..not quite, Bel, this honestly has NOTHING to do with Shenmue being a SEGA game
Riddick vs. Shenmue really is a comparison that doesn't make much sense
*They both have melee combat, both involve ... ... RUNNING, ... ... ... ... DIALOG!!!, SIDE QUESTS AND MINI GAMES!! the last 4 have NEVER been done in an EXTREMELY similar fashion in older First Person games for the PC...honestly =\
hell, there are a LOT of games I feel Riddick borrows heavily from but Shnmue is the absolute last on my list
If you're a shut in gamer who's never played a single PC first person game that's main focus wasn't it's combat AND where drunk/high...then maybe
*edit: just in case my point was missed, Riddick is VERY similar to FPS games in the past and shares almost no similarity to Shenmue when compared to those
Riddick vs. Shenmue really is a comparison that doesn't make much sense
*They both have melee combat, both involve ... ... RUNNING, ... ... ... ... DIALOG!!!, SIDE QUESTS AND MINI GAMES!! the last 4 have NEVER been done in an EXTREMELY similar fashion in older First Person games for the PC...honestly =\
hell, there are a LOT of games I feel Riddick borrows heavily from but Shnmue is the absolute last on my list
If you're a shut in gamer who's never played a single PC first person game that's main focus wasn't it's combat AND where drunk/high...then maybe
*edit: just in case my point was missed, Riddick is VERY similar to FPS games in the past and shares almost no similarity to Shenmue when compared to those
StrikerObi
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I think people like Riddick because it's good, and Shenmue was like a nice warm plate of hot steaming ASS.
ZombieSupaStar
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Heliocentric said:
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PanopticBlue
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So then if a game has dialogue bits in which maybe 10% of those you're presented with 2 choices to respond with, it's suddenly comparable to Shenmue?
This thread is just plain wtf.
This thread is just plain wtf.
Wario64 said:Well that's what the casual gamer probably thinks. Not my actual views
After all, the question posed in the first post is why most gamers don't play Shenmue yet people eat up Riddick
1) shenmue sucks
2) the shenmue movie wich is only an hour or 1.5hrs long feels incredibly drawn out and that's fucking 1/20th the length of the full game!
3) Shenmue and CoR AREN'T SIMILAR...if you want similarity to shenmue lookup --wait...no games decided to copy shenmue. If you want similarity to Riddick, lookup past PC FPS games...(protip: start with Ion Storm/Looking Glass' games)
Gattsu25 said:
Uncle Dukey
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Everyone is looking forward to SH3NMUE.