killaroo wrote:Ahh Chu Chu Rocket, that game was epic, but so damn frustrating when the cats ate all my mice
Shenmue ftw
Chu Chu was one of my first online experiences, it was so odd having to connect the line all of the time to the modem!
Shenmue is indeed awesome, I dug the dreamcast out over a year ago and completed that again and recently did quite a bit on Shenmue 2 again until I got to the bit where Ryo needed loads of money and the Dreamcast has been packed away since!
The Shenmue 2 love continues through the Xbox 360 though, I watched a little of the DVD movie of the first game and it was so awesome. It is the perfect Christmas game. I was in gaming heaven for 2 winters, I will never forget that special feeling when playing through the first game, it really felt as if you were in this small world, doing the jobs, getting the toy capsules, it felt so realistic. So many great moments, but also so many moments where you just felt so into the experience.
How about searching Yokosuka, asking questions at night and that eerily silent music and feeling of real isolation as you travel back to your home?
Because Shenmue 1 felt so homely the sequel really did feel as though Ryo was in a foreign land. I am appreciative of the fact that Sega got Shenmue 2 out, we may never get the sequel, I guess we must now see that defining moment at the end of Shenmue 2 as the end of the story. In a way it adds to the mystery and love for the game, its just a shame people did not support the dreamcast and shenmue enough!