Shenmue (Zero Punctuation)
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Honestly, when I first played Shemue it took me a while to realise the Locals weren't all supposed to be creepily hiding something from you and were actually just really weirdly voice acted rather than talking in comically suspicious, hesitant voices.
"Oh, hi mark. D'you know where I can find some sailors?"
I did not sink the ship. I did naaaat. Oh hi ryu
ahahah great story mark.
I got the result of the test back. I definetely got Shenmue...
Did you try the docks?
Ryu at the arcades, young boy leans over:
Ryu: "Do you have something else to do?"
Boy: ""I just like to watch you, guys. How you handle the joystick."
Ryu: "Two is great, but three is a crowd. Also, if that was a innuendo and you're hustling for gay sex I'm not your guy".
I saw the title and audibly said "Oh no".
To quote Joseph: "OH NOOOOOOO!"
To quote Knuckles: "Oh no."
@@BuriedFlame yep, same here.
Mr. Cheesedoodles oh no! Oh no! OH NO!! OH YEAAAH!!!
I said "Oh YES."
"That's like having two perfectly good eyeballs, and wasting them watching Destructoid videos."
Good God, Yahtzee's tossing fire at other channels alongside games.
Starman Gaming didn't he used to work there? Or was that just Jim Sterling?
@@Never_heart I think that was Sterling
Find it pretty hypocritical that he throws shade at other people, since he contradicts himself constantly throughout his video history, complaining about things in one game that he praises another game for doing the exact same way.
Oh, he's also the guy who wrote three fairly entertaining adventure games, the X Days a X series...then ruined one with the most horribly written, terrible, unnecessary sex scene that even Ride to hell would have been ashamed to do...all to spit in the face of the fans of his games who genuinely wanted a new entry in the series.
He's an entitled, totally socially unaware horse's ass with the talent of a dead zebra rotting in the sun.
And by the by, in case anyone tries to call me a Shenmue or Sega fanboy...I don't like Shenmue and only tolerate Sega because of Atlus and NiGHTS.
The balls on this soft-skulled dumbass should be documented by science. His stupidity creates a black hole that destroys any talent or creativity it encounters.
I'd call him a cunt, but that's an insult to cunts all over the world.
oof salt
@@TimedRevolver 😶 Jesus, are you ok? I'll admit the dude can be a bit of an ass, but that rant was something else.
If you listen carefully, you can hear Destructoid cooling themselves with cold water after that burn.
Daddy Lyle from Pre-game Discharge already responded and he is not impressed
@@yourethatmantis5178 Hah, someone's insecure.
Destructoid?
@@Survivor-od1xy Fixed it, thanks for correcting me.
@@theatomiclemon1 I was asking actually.
To be fair to Ryo, those guys didn't so much lure him into traps, so much as Ryo lured those guys into volunteering to be his training dummies in his quest to punch his way to a head of the Chinese Triads.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing (along with context). I replayed it again recently and shattered all my bleary eyed delusions. The issue is expectation. It wasn't the fact open worlds didn't have anything to do in it, it was the fact you actually COULD explore a 3D open world. It wasn't the fact you had to wait hours for things to happen, it was the fact you COULD actually wait around for X hour for things to happen. Also the graphics were a huge thing. Nowadays we know the paltry offerings Shenmue offers is pretty shit, but back then comparisons didn't exist as it was the only kid on the block, so the thrill came from exploring all the craziness, wondering what will happen round the next corner at certain times, since we didn't have any online walkthroughs. Nowadays we walk round the corner and there better damn well be something to see, or we've wasted our time!
It's kinda like that dinosaur tech demo on the PS1; when you saw it, you were amazed by the polygons and raved about it to others. Now looking back, it was just a walking dionsaur and did buggerall. The tech did however then spark new ideas and gaming. It's still a bit shit though.
imo Shenmue still looks great, especially the new port. Yeah it's not a modern AAA title but it doesn't need to be to look good. It has just enough polygons to not look archaic.
I"t wasn't the fact you had to wait hours for things to happen, it was the fact you COULD actually wait around for X hour for things to happen. "
More like you're FORCED to wait for hours for things to happen. As in, you don't have a choice.
Daggerfall came out in 1996, and it too was open world. Difference there is if you had to wait for hours, you could actually skip those hours if you wanted to get on with things. That's 3 years before Shenpooey Poo, so the devs had no excuse. Especially now, almost 2 decades after the fact where they could've easily did a proper remake.
You think that's bad..... Wait til the nostalgia wears off for the Kingdom heart fan base and they realize that story was always nonsense that no one cared or really focused on.
I replayed it again recently as well and actually disagree. I think the level design is still fantastic, an actual architect designed the buildings based on a real area so it really feels like you're walking through an Asian street in the 1980's, I think it's awesome. Also, when it becomes nighttime and the bars open and neon lights come on, just great.
"Let's compare a game from '99 to current hardware and wonder why it's underwhelming" - GryphonICD
For real though, there's such a thing as historical context. Respect the specs for what they are
Yahtzee says Shemune wasn’t that good in hindsight and nobody bats an eye.
Jim Sterling says Shemune wasn’t that good in hindsight and *EVERYONE LOSES THEIR MIND!*
late to comment, yahtzee got to that point and finished making it within 5 minutes
sterling takes kinda too long to get to that point
@@prcervi and he’s not interesting or funny and tries too hard and has awful opinions and shits on a game if they decided not to use him as a voice actor.
@@aelechko wait sterling is rambling on about what now? i haven't looked at the dude's youtube in about 2 years, last i saw was a very rambling man who i just did not jive with his way of videos
@@prcervi In Jim Sterling's defense he's always been a staunch advocate for consumers against all the greed and money grubbing in the industry. And he can honestly be pretty funny when he really gets going about the latest round of bullshit some corporation has forced into an otherwise decent game in an attempt to squeeze more money out of people while often making a franchise worse in the process. He's got a strong set of convictions and beliefs that he won't compromise on which is admirable.
Also I think he might have transitioned into being a chick these days but I'm not certain.
I like the light jabs Yahtzee and Lyle take at each other because they both have interesting views on games. I think its all in good fun. (In reference ro the destructoid joke at the end)
There's something to do in the open world, sit at the gachapon machines for hours mashing the insert coin button. Just like playing an EA game.
And today's gold star goes to you good sir, you've won the comment section.
3:19 it's ridiculous how I knew his arms were folded and that that was how they were intended to be perceived, once again yahtz, fucking fine work!!
"Hey, Mister! You wanna wrestle?"
So basically Shemune was developed by the Japanese equivalent of David Cage.
EMOSHUNS
You give David cage too much credit. He's much worse.
Tabido Keichu.
Yeah, but does the Japanese equivalent of David Cage know Ellen Page?
They're not even remotably comparable
I agree with everything he said. I also still love Shenmue.
saigancat this...
Shenmue is my favorite series of all time
We still find it beautiful, warts and all.
That's called denial mate
@@Atypical-Abbie Blisfull, wilful and self absorbed denial it is too. I love it. The crappier it is now, the more significant I remember it affecting me for life it seems.
I generally don't consider youtubers that exclusively post the same format of videos on a strict schedule as my favorites but, Yahtzee genuinely manages to pull off some precedingly fresh videos that clearly evolve on previous experience.
good channel 👌
He's not a TH-camr. He's paid by The Escapist who uploads the videos to their website, a week before they then go up on their TH-cam channel.
+SicParvisMagna123 people know him from youtube so we call him a youtuber, its not a problem
Looking for sailors.
Here is a tip for the fans. Play yakuza. It's the evolved Shenmue.
Or persona. Both Yakuza and Persona have more activity, fun side missions, and the main story actually means something
Eh, it's actually a verly different experience. It's like saying that Deadpool is an evolved Logan.
@@lnsflare1 How so? And Deadpool wouldnt be the evolved version of Wolverine, but a more evolved version of Deathstroke
well dreamcast is kinda like sega's PS2 so it's a valid argument there
@@jbardouc808
I meant the movies, in that Logan and Shenmue are slow building, serious tales evoking an old film genre (Westerns for Logan and Samurai dramas for Shenmue), while Deadpool and Yakuza deal with equally serious matters, but are delivered more light-hearted due to the fact that they are starring crazy people and pop culture references.
Does this review of my game have the sailors I’m looking for?
I'm too busy to reply to you
I think there are some sailors at the HeartBeatz bar
Nope. Best you can hope for is that Yahtzee will review Project X Zone 2 that also has you as a character.
Hey, I know you like being a jerk and all but how about you just, like,
don't
No, but believe it or not, they DO have the droids . . . .
Last time I was this early yahtzee had a monopoly on this channel
Not bad
I do
You mean the "Now I"m not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying the Marvel cinematic universe is slightly inconsistent, I'm just saying that I'm just saying that I'm just saying that I'm just saying that they're going to take it in some direction or other" guy? I give that guy a waffle out of ten.
It's still a monopoly even if his 100% of the market share falls to 99%.
@@thegardenofeatin5965 Don't forget the series of thirty minute videos that can be summed as "Batman v Superman didn't live up to the hype and I didn't like it'
that is pretty emotional Yahtzee, that is a lot of anger to have when the machine doesn't give you the snacks you paid for.
I agree with everything in this review... Shenmue 2 is the reason I'm excited for Shemue 3. It took all of the poorer elements from Shenmue 1 and changed them, while expanding upon the open world aspect by giving you actual things to do.
so how's that going for you
You poor poor soul.
After a day with a cold, zp always helps with being hilarious. Never change Yahtzee.
"See, i'm not going to rag on the game for not being full-on martial arts action all the way through... and not just because the combat calls for precisely the same button input that's made by an impatient person trying to skip a cutscene."
Observational humour at its finest.
Not really true, of course, but I'm sure Yahtzee sucked at Virtua Fighter, so the full moveset and parry mechanics would be lost on him.
@@BillkwandoOr maybe Shenmue is just shit.
That bit with Yahtzee smashing his head repeatedly on the controller made me giggle
The secret to enjoying Shenmue unironically:
Step 1: Turn the voices to Japanese so that you can hear everyone emote properly and Ryo emote at all. The sound quality is still a bit off, but I think that was a stylistic choice to make it sound like an 80's television drama.
Step 2: Treat it as an Open World Point And Click Adventure with Beat 'Em Up elements, more akin to something like Gabriel Knight or Laura Bow than Yakuza, only designed by a relatively sane person so the puzzle solutions don't require brain damage to solve.
Step 3: Explore. In addition to finding the odd music track or martial arts move lying around or for sale, you can also occasionally find alternate, rational, solutions to puzzles or skip steps during the investigation.
Step 4: Turn brightness all the way up for the Stealth sections. Because, seriously, fuck the flashlight's cone of vision.
Ryo is just as emotionless in Japanese as in English.
@@fearedjames
I disagree. While he was still stoic, he had a lot more nuance when expressing anger, grief, embarrassment, friendliness, etc...
Yes, Shenmue is basically an adventure game but with more exploration and fewer puzzles.
@@ZombiAstral
Dinosaurs are cool.
The best way to enjoy Shenmue is to play it when it was brand new, when individual fingers being animated was a marvel, and also as a kid with plenty of free time who's just happy to see a depiction of Japan on a street level.
The problem with Shenmue now is that other games took inspiration from it and did it better. It'd be next to impossible for a Yakuza series fan to try and play Shenmue for the first time now. That being said I still have a huge nostalgia boner for it and I get all misty-eyed whenever I hear the Bob's Pizza theme. Or the Tomato Convenience Store theme. Or literally any song from it.
....Bobusu Pizza!
Yeah, it would be like saying Jimi Hendrix sucks compared to Joe Satriani, when the only reason we have Joe Satriani is because he quit the football team the moment he heard Hendrix died, and dedicated himself to guitar.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything said but adore Shenmue and the sequel. It's a "you had to be there" classic for it to make sense to anyone not "there" and my love for it transcends the game now to how it affected me then, um, now.
"I'm thinking the plot is the plucky hero that got beaten up by the sneering villain who killed his dad probably beats up the sneering villain in the end!"
That assumption aged badly, we were all expecting it too..... but not even!
I bought the game put it in my PS4 and was immediately transported to a time I had forgotten about. Shenmue 3 cannot come fast enough.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had to have the voices for characters filmed on separate days, even down to minute roles like people you pass on the street.
There's so much dialogue where people respond or react to whatever part of the story you're at that I'm surprised they managed to fit a game alongside all the talking.
Like, you could go around and talk to everyone about one topic, make literally one step of progress on the storyline and suddenly the entire town has something to say about it.
I can recognize Shenmue's flaws, and how it's not a very good game from multiple standpoints, but I still find it charming and like it regardless.
Whether that makes it a guilty pleasure or I'm just selectively accepting of it, but it doesn't stop me from loving it. I'm really looking forward to the continuation of the series.
And I mean, all the other examples you said for series to hope for a continuation to are also on my list, but at least this one's been explicitly announced.
As someone who tried to play the original release in Japanese your description of the story about the stolen coaster was spot on lol
Ooh, take that Destructoid!
What's with the Destructoid hate? Pre-game discharcge is prutey gud.
Rooster Maind such low quality bait...
No, seriously, I have no idea why they would rip on each other, aside from being competing channels. But since neither of them put out that much content I just assumed there'd be room for both. I seriously have no idea if there's actually bad blood between the Escapist and Destructoid or if it was just a pun.
Could you please explain to me whether or not destructoid and the escapist had a falling out or if Yahtzee was simply making a joke at the expense of a competing channel. I really wasn't playing stupid.
Yeah honestly I have no idea either, I remember he used to work for them but no idea if this is a real beef or just some joke I missed.
And now Shenmue 3 is borderline facing Mighty No. 9 levels of backlash before even coming out
That's only because of Epic Games though. Us PS4 Bois are still good
@@JakobatHeart Being an Epic Games Exclusive on PC. Epic Games is known for giving people's information to the Chinese
@@JakobatHeart its more than that. Alot of it has to do with the tiers as well. The physical copy of the game turned out to be a digital code for Epic Store and not an actual disk. The ones who took the survey saying they wanted Steam basically being told now that they won't be getting theirs until a year has passed which was very misleading. Backers were also promised the demo before anyoneelse, but that ended up not happening
Yahtzee is just mad because this is an inferior simulator of how he spends his weekend. Doing what looks like busy work at the docks in hopes to find Sailors wanting to spend some quality time with him.
And he is right--you want to spend quality time there are better options--even if that section of Craig's List is removed for being illegal.
Am watching this on New Year’s Eve (sick) and this one’s animations are particularly hilarious. I’m gassing over here at “Impolite Girls” and “Bean me in the chops”. Just brilliant.
remember that the developers of Shenmue had planned, from the beginning, for it to be a 16 part series
I did some math and at this rate the series will be complete in just 130 years
@@Moonlit2020 Or roughly the same time FF7 Remake finishes.
@Eala Dubh
Which is three times quicker than when HL3 will be released
What the fuck, what were they planning to do for 16 parts? Just endless carnival games?
@@chrismorris6865 Shenmue 4: Super Hang On
Shenmue 5: Thunder Blade
Shenmue 6: Galaxy Force II
Shenmue 7: Power Drift
Shenmue 8: Turbo Outrun
...etc
I mean between Destroid and Movie bob, Well one I'd actually have the possibility to be entertain and it ain't Movie Bob.
Quite so.
Almost had a stroke reading this
the cat's "yeah bitch" just made me realize how much prozd has permeated the entirety of youtube
I actually really love Shenmue, but I understand the points he made.
"Tom. Stop dancing for once in your life, jesus christ. Your shitty hot dogs arent that exciting"
"AYYY RYO"
BRING BACK JUDGING BY THE COVER
Yes! That!
replace Movie Boob with it!
or just drop Movie Boob
nooooooo
God yes.
Shenmue even with the flaws. I admire the game a lot. I admit waiting in the game kill the pace. Great review
I'm a huge fan of the franchise, but I won't deny just about everything said here.
04:20 "and dont forget to feed the cat"
That's something important !
Haven't even started yet and I'm really looking forward to hearing Yahtzee pronounce it SHEN-MOO-EE
The jokes funny until you realize thst Shenmue is not romaji (Shenmuu) and was purely written that way to make english speakers pronounce it cotrectly like they virtually always do. Same situation is NiOh. (Niou)
I still think is so cool that the game doesn't revolve around Ryu. You could miss an appointment, because you lost track of time playing Hang On at the arcade, so the character waiting to ambush you would just bugger off instead of patiently waiting forever.
I still want Asura's Wrath Zero Punctuation. I know Escapist made an actual review, but I still want a Zero Punctuation video on it.
Ive been a huge fan of Yatzee appriaciate all the effort you put into your videos. Thanks for making Wednesdays the best part of the day
Would love to see Dark Cloud done up as a Retro episode. You can get it in the Play-Station store for PS4.
I also recently played through Shenmue for the first time, and I agree completely. The open world would be cool if there were actually fun activities to do, or activities that actually contributed to your success in game (besides training).
Still you should play Shenmue II. That game is absolutely amazing and deserves all the praise it gets. Honestly I would tell anyone to ship the first game, as Shenmue II will blow you away. Like, it's so impressive.
I think people should still try Shenmue 1 first, but if they don't like it they should just skip it and play part 2. It is a very different game with more action, a bigger world, more things to do and a more interesting story. If they want to know what happened in Shenmue 1's story they can just watch Shenmue the Movie on TH-cam th-cam.com/video/de3UTAfKGfQ/w-d-xo.html
I liked the first one better. The 2nd one had too many moments when it felt like it was forcing you forward, too many chases, and the fact that they shoehorned QTEs into the middle of actual fistfights, ostensibly for people who suck at the fighting, always sent me into a red rage. That game ruined boss fights, and Shenmue 3 ruined the fighting altogether.
@@BillkwandoCitation needed on the QTE part.
@@ChristophBrinkmann LOL fighting the bird man underground in Kowloon
@@ChristophBrinkmann The upstairs arcade fight against the girl too, IIRC, to get to unlock the duck racing
Yahtzee - if you havent already I think you would enjoy playing The Messenger ;)
“Not enough forklifts 0/10”
You dishonor Shenmue.
I will have my revenge!
G0d F15t I loved power stone
Today in zero punctuation: Yahtzee says button mashing in different ways for 5 minutes
Wow Escapist is still around, that's awesome.
oh that burn at the end
Shenmue II manages to realize a great deal of the promise that the original left on the cutting room floor, and is the bigger reason people are excited for a third. Doesn't fix the controls or anything, but there's much more of a story, a much bigger, more interesting world, and some emotional range.
2:44 considering how many times auto correct has done that to me I’m not entire sure that’s a joke
People need to remember that Shemue came out in 1999...
Back when the PS1 & N64 were still relevant. Were the latest consoles.
But the ps2 was arriving real fast, and it far surpassed anything shenmue offered in terms of graphics
>Yahtzee in new Pregame Discharge
>Pregame Discharge in Zero Punctuation
>Lyle and Yahtzee doing a stream together earlier in the day
:thinking:
I love the shade Lyle and Yahtzee are throwing at each other
That bit at the end.
Shade thrown. The gauntlet is off.
Oh, the rival E-Mag dirt throwing. I'm all in for this.
Shots fired at destructoid.
I didn't know Destructoid was still around.
Never played the original, but Shenmue 2 on Xbox was one of the most memorable and engaging experiences I ever had with a game. Top-notch and right along there with KOTOR.
That Destructoid jab was really out of nowhere...
Its why I keep my nostalgia levels balanced otherwise I would think every game I played was flawless
Shenmue release: 1999
Dragons Lair release: 1983
Simon release: 1978
The savagery of that closing line...
Wow, I actually agree with Yahtzee for once.
The beef between Lyle Rath and Yahtzee Croshaw just became a thing, and I myself am loving it. I've got my popcorn ready and my heart set on collecting the teeth that either or both will leave on the floor of the arena for a souvenir
Please explain to
the uninformed masses!
Lyle Rath, a guy person on the internet, insulted Yatzee on his video game news show on destructiod, Yatzee shoots back in this one, I'm going to have a very dentally pleasing necklace when this is done.
Oh, do tell, what did this Lyle Rath fool say about Yahtzee that prompted a response? Yahtzee normally doesn't give a shit.
@@rougheredge6705 Lyle was responding to Yhatzee, dude. Seriously do people not know that these episodes air a week early on their website or something? Btw the beef is completely non serious seeing as how they literally just streamed together.
All fair points, Yahtzee. In fact, _Shenmue_ was originally going to be a spinoff of _Virtua Fighter_ , which is why Ryo looks like that game's Akira. Thus, instead of a spotty open-world RPG with a decent combat engine, what you have is a decent fighting game with a spotty open-world RPG attached to it.
Bluntly, for its day, _Shenmue_ was groundbreaking. 3D models that could actually move their fingers instead of having paralyzed hands! A day/night cycle with weather! NPCs that don't just stand in one place handing out quests, but actually have a daily routine! Weather that follows the seasons! Pulling off complicated, cinematic moves by following button prompts! A village with a day/night cycle! (Which, admittedly, just means that stores are open during the day while bars are open at night.)
But, well, time marches on. All of that stuff has been done, and done better, by the games that followed after. _Shenmue_ , in short, is influential for being _first_ and not for being _best_ .
This show is the only consistent thing in my life.
Recettear needs more love, thanks for giving it some
This is the entire reason I've always put off playing Shenmue. When someone explains it, it sounds super neat. But then you remember it came out in the days of the Dreamcast, and half the stuff people are talking about probably don't even work right by today's standards. It's one of those games that's probably tons of fun if you played it originally and have some nostalgia for it. But if you're brand new to it, it's gonna bore the fuck out of you and annoy you when the controls go wonky.
TXF I played it a year ago it was actually fun the combats cool and the story telling good thought the voice acting is garbage it’s garbage in a funny ways we’re you will be laughing at the voice acting shemu 1 was a Kickstarter I think which explains why the acting is bad
The main issue is waiting around for 7 hours in game that took fek ing ages to do and it’s like go here at 9pm you have to wait a literally hour irl as the games takes a hour to get to the next day and there was no forward time option either though it added to the immersion minus the tanky movement controls took me a 2 mins to get out of the house 😂 and in the end I really enjoyed it it was free on Xbox at the time (remaster version) so I yanked it
@@ghostlyswat12 Kickstarter didn't exist when Shenmue was made. It was developed by Sega's in-house development team and, at the time it was created, was the most expensive video game ever developed.
Damn that destructiod diss at the end
That smartphone bit was fucking hillarious. That is all.
Question: what happened to the yearly compilation of Zero Punctuation by Felman87? I'd like to be able to binge on these w/o the grating rock-riff.
I worried I was the only one
you know that people are holding out for a half life. and are much more vocal at that.
He clearly missed the point of this gambling simulator XD
Upvote for that Destructoid jab. Can't wait to see where this goes (please go somewhere with this).
5:21 SHOTS FIRED
One of his funnier reviews recently. Many times his jokes don't hit lately, but this one had me chuckling
this is why i started watching Destructoid
Next week is Spider-Man
Technically this week if you go to their website.
And it even has another diss at Destructoid in the end credits!
DAMN the destructoid diss tho.
I showed up five minutes late to the tattoo parlor ambush, and couldn't reschedule.
Thus begins the lifelong rivalry between Yahtzee Croshaw and Lyle Rath.
Shots fired! At Destructoid
Yahtzee, just because you address the fact that you're unfairly criticizing an old game by holding it up to modern standards doesn't legitimize that criticism
There is no power in your arms.
I was not expecting you to be throwing shade at ol' Lyle McDad. I expect this'll probably show up in his next drunken, nonsensical cold-open.
I don’t know if you’ve driven a forklift, but it’s shockingly easy and pretty nimble.
Even back then Shenmue split the gaming community and because of its flaws even almost 20 years ago people hated the series for the tedious waiting around and life simulation aspect. But it also had so many innovative ideas and while it is indeed pointless to pick everything up and move it around for the time it came out the sheer fact you could do it was so awesome and made you feel for the first time you were in a real open world. By todays standards it is of course laughably small and you can't do much at all but back then before all the 3D GTAs and stuff .. phew I mean Sega didn't bankrupt itself for nothing Shenmue was so huge and inventive it sucked up more money than it could every hope to bring in again.
Isn't this the game series where at one point you have to spend 2 hours walking down a mountain path with love-interest girl in real time?
Is it sad that I can't stop laughing at this review? I keep losing my shit whenever the puppet wearing the main character's face pops up.
I think the reason why people love Shenmue and wanted a sequel is probably because most of them haven't been able to play it for years. When I was a kid, we usually either wore out our older consoles or we saved up enough money that we could afford the next gen system after we sold our last one. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the Shenmue fans either ended up selling their dreamcast and PS2s as kids to afford the new hotness, or their systems just stopped working. You have these memories of the game being fun, but you haven't played it in like a decade so you want a new one so you can actually play it again. Plus, the only context you probably have is from watching people play it on TH-cam, people who kept a working system with Shenmue and probably play it every now and then cause they stayed infatuated with it.
Also, I've never played either Shenmue, but in Shenmue 2 you can race ducks against a Penguin, so Shenmue 2 is definitely a good game.
I wonder if gabe watches these and pines for his friend like a dog waiting for his owner to come home.
ShenmÜ