A philosophy well practised by Shenmue fans throughout the world over the last 10 hours.

Actually, when assessed for what it is and not what people want it to be, this is a very good team FPS game. The powers are fun, the character design is fun and the levels were pretty well-balanced. The issue was that it just wasn’t Shadowrun, so everyone who wanted it to really be a Shadowrun game hated it.

I have a weird history with this game, having played it before ever experiencing the actual Shadowrun setting. This was an amazing team shooter, even if the lack of a single-player campaign did significantly hamper my enjoyment of it, but damn, summoning a demon to run after someone while you took rifle potshots at…

I remember how cool the quick time events and Virtua Fighter-ish combat in Shenmue were. My brother and I loved them...but the monotony you had to slog through between those moments was unbearable.

Plus the fact that it was copied, or at least certain aspects of the game were copied by future games and that helped pave the road for some of the greatest RPG’s ever released in the past 10 years so, all in all, not exactly a terrible game.

Thank you for this article. With Shenmue fresh in my mind, I am going to now scour the internet for any updates about Shenmue III. It’s been a while since I’ve done that, but I’ve got the Spirit again, hallelujah. Do you know where sailor’s hang out?

Shenmue is my favourite game of all time and I still play it through about once a year. Still holds up remarkably well.

Shenmue did have terrible acting, but it was fine for a Japanese game at that time. We’ve come to expect much better acting now, but that was when having fully voiced characters was still pretty new, and localization of Japanese games was often pretty bad.

Oh man, everyone in my house still picks on Shenmue to this day! We had fun with it, for sure. It was a grand adventure, but man some of the acting was so bad! And there were a million different doors to open, so out of the way, and with no reward whatsoever for your curiosity!

I am not a creationist, I believe firmly in evolution and think that believing the earth is only 6000 years old is retarded. That being said, it’s equally retarded to believe that composite rocks (or radiation dating for that matter) somehow refute or disprove creationism. A Deity that created the universe could have…

Swear the guys at Rockstar are just magnificent sons of bitches

Thank god someone finally mentioned the dead daughter. You can't even begin to talk about Rust and he's miraculous conversion if you don't understand the dead daughter! It's all about the dead daughter. People with kids who've pondered even the briefest moment on the horror of their children's mortality will get that.…

I agree 100%. Rust became a nihilist because he lost the little he loved in this world: His dad, his wife, his daughter. The cynicism was a protective shield for him. Once he felt that her love was still "around" him, it changed him utterly. Call that supernatural if you will, but it had nothing to do with a dark…

So, here's my dilemma about Season Two of True Detective.

I know how jarring it was for a lot of people to see Rust come out at the end with such a positive outlook, and the explanation here is valid (and probably accurate), but it also seems to be reaching a bit to align the overarching plot with fan expectations. I got the impression that Rust's "awakening" had more to do…

No, as I said in another post, the ending was refreshing in that another "dark" entertainment ended with some hope, rather than despair.

I took the ending as a final blow to a man who could find little to love in life. A nihilist that has some weird sort of spiritual experience and can sense a deep love, finally - happily and willingly - giving in to the release of death… only to be ripped back into the world that he cannot stand.

I have no doubt that Rust's "vision" at the end was entirely real. He said during the show that he KNOWS when he is hallucinating. Given his transformation into a believer in the final moments, I have to assume that Rust felt this vision was real, and not merely a hallucination.

*Cough* the 70's would like to have a word with you, as well as Dragon's Lair.

I just think that the guy kinda has a point. Pokemon and death note are much more well known than shenmue. I wish shenmue was that well known and popular, because then I would get that third game :)