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  • Best game ever.

  • MLK had a dreamcast...

  • your a little bit better of a gaming historian than the gaming historian is XD

  • Did the real gaming historian just want a day off or something? Or is this a batman situation and he is out on an adventure and you are using his title?

  • @HUDZHERRELL

    IF I remember correctly(and Derek could correct me otherwise) this was for an "April Fool's" deal where the Gaming Historian and HVGN switched places for a day so Derek did this show and the Gaming Historian did his. It was still a fun thing to see and one I thoroughly enjoyed the first time I saw it

  • you call yourself the gaming historian but have so many things wrong. shenmue saving a failing system?? do you even realize how succesful dreamcasts run was until shenmue was released?? sega was on a run until ps2 was released and dreamcast was foudn out toplay cr games all in late 2000

  • @drunkensailor112 just cuz people touched it doesnt mean it wasnt on a downswing. you touch your penis. it's clearly on a downswing

  • @SycoMantis91 wow thanks for those fantastic arguments. I will revision my point now

  • @drunkensailor112 revision your english first please. also, i didn't intend to make an argument. simply stating that at least from my perspective, ti was on a big downswing. just because people still played it, doesn't mean with the ps2/GC/xbox looming and an already slim number of games to make the system viable over those, doesn't mean it wasn't losing ground rapidly.

  • @SycoMantis91 facts say you are wrong. dreamcast had the most succesful launch of any game console up to that point and more succesful than ps2 a year later, which launch wa shorrible for many reasons, mostly sony's own mistakes. and I would like to know how many languages you speak.

  • @drunkensailor112 153.19 million to 10.6 million. I'm done here. Also, I speak English and Spanish rather fluently. Admittedly, most other languages, I'm more or less clueless on.

  • @SycoMantis91 I'm talking about LAUNCH, must succesful launch of a system ever up to that point. I speak fluent dutch, german and english and know my way pretty well in spanish

  • great game the first next gen game I played.

  • I have to disagree, the game has its place in gaming history, but the was gameplay tedious, the quick time events a horrible stand in for real gameplay, and actual fight scenes clunky. While every character could be interacted with, there was very little reward for it, and the plot was very light and univolving.

  • lol 3rd Strike for the Dreamcast was bad because of numerous gameplay problems, i.e. timing for parrying was shit, some combos couldn't have been performed, new unblockables, etc.

    for the most part, everything else was faithful to the arcade version. graphics were on par, music was identical and even offered remixed bgm. it's just the massive gameplay differences made it unplayable in general.

    it was still a good port though, one of my first dreamcast games

  • Whats the name of the song during the middle of the review??

  • You should totally play the yakuza series it actually feels like a spritual sequel to the shenmue but is pretty awesome.

  • But what about the other great Dreamcast games such asJet Grind Radio, Virtua Tenis,dead or alive 2 and resident evil code veronica X Poor Resident Evil! :C

  • holy shit i thought this game was made for the ps2 because of the graphics and the way the game went.................... remake for modern consoles please?

  • Never be another game like it..

  • @blattdanielmain I hope your wrong.

  • @blattdanielmain *cough*Yakuza*cough*

  • @spiersaz  Yakuza is crap compared to Shenmue

  • Is it just me, or does the main character of this game look kinda like Ryan Higa?

    :/

  • This and avgn are my 2 favorite YouTube video game channels

  • Just put F's and circle them all. Problem solved :)

  • WHY AREN'T YOU PRONOUNCING THE "E"?

  • @qwertyMrJINX i am and i'm not; this game is not pronounced "Shen-mu-eh". In japanese the "e" in "Shenmue" is represented with a nobasu line, which isn't spoken. Instead it dictates that the previous vowel sound be spoken longer, in this case the "u" in the syllable "mu". However when written in romanized form, it's written "Shenmue" instead "Shenmuu". Shenmuu would be more correct phonetically but not grammatically.

  • @lophatjello

    I did not know that, thank you.

  • @lophatjello Do you speak japanese? If so, +1 internets for you.

  • booooooo your not the gaming historian you wannabe

  • @ivertualgamer what are you, a fucking idiot? This is their April fool's special, in where they switch places.

  • @gigawarman12 fuck you dick head it doesnt say april fools you bitch you cant just be a wannabe making vids the real gaming historian is better this guy is a fake like you asshole go and suck dick you douche

  • @ivertualgamer then click on the video response called "HVGN: Ristar." If you really do watch the Gaming Historian, then surely you would have come across this one. So, whatever.

  • your not the gaming historian

  • copyright

  • Skies of Arcadia.

  • nice one sega u released your sega saturn in 1980 no wonder it sucks since its old

  • @jeffpolol wow sir, you win the trollernet

  • @the8888 ==

  • @jeffpolol exactly (:

  • I wonder if they make an HD remake for Shemue 1 and 2 for the Xbox360 and PS3....

  • Another great title that I'll likely never get to play.

  • 9 people didn't know that blackmail is way uncool.

  • I refuse to believe anyone played and liked any version of Street Fighter 3.

  • He means the two best Sonic games surely? Not three.

  • @jamesaellis sounded like he said 3, but he said 3D

  • Heavy Rain before Heavy Rain?

  • i loved the dreamcast. i think its biggest downfalls was the ability to play burned games on it. i still have copies of marvel vs. capcom 2 and street fighter alpha 3 for it.

  • Wow, never knew about this game. I wish dev.s took this much care nowadays

  • What was the episode where Norm parodied you?

  • great retrospective. Also, that shirt is hilarious.

  • I had this back on my dreamcast, but I was a very impatient child so I never gave it a chance sadly.

  • I was one of the first people to buy the Dreamcast in Ireland and sadly one of the few. I bought shenmue straight away, not because of the console it was sold on but because i knew it was genius. The game even to this day is one of the best games i have ever played because it was far ahead of its time. I have beaten both shenmue games and if they bring out the 3rd chapter on whatever console, i will immediately buy it because its a legend of a game, now and into the future.

  • @theshak06

    You sir have made tears flow from my eyes.

  • Gaming Historian just posted his video.

    When I had watched this way back when it had thrown me for a loop. Now it makes so much more sense.

  • @strivinglife Yeah, can't post the YouTube link for whatever reason ...

    User: mcfrosticles

    Title: HVGN: Ristar

  • SKYDECK A GO GO

  • Are a Shenmue fan and are you wanting for Shenmue 3]

  • Are a Shenmue fan and are you wanting for Shenmue 3

  • i wish i can play this again

  • best game ever...I love revisiting the adventure once every year...I must've beaten it like 5 times now

  • "Sonic Adventures 1 and 2 are often considered the only good 3D Sonic games."

    Often? They ARE the only good 3D Sonic games!

  • @MegamegamikeG1 you're right there

    except for Sonic Adventure 1

    on it's own, it's awesome, but it isnt as good as 2 (sounds stupid, I know)

    mostly because it had an incredibly annoying camera and character gameplay shifts

    but the overkill was the fatass cat, I mean

    fishing? with a cat? IN A SONIC GAME?

    but I can't disagree with you, as stupid as it was, fishing with a cat in a sonic game is much better than a rubber hedgehog werewolf

  • @MegamegamikeG1 I have to dissagree with you on that one. Unleashed and colors are great 3d sonics

  • SONIC THE Hedgehog deserve a Sequel( or a Prequel) as much as Shenmue 3.(with the help of Kojima Production)

  • Shenmue is like a Prototype GTA.

  • @conradojavier First: it came after the GTA serie. Second: Shenmue is more of a life simulator than a GTA, you can't even drive cars. Third: Shenmue is alot more deeper in gameplay and possibilities than all the GTA's combined.

  • @poliv67 GTA 1 Came First, & Shenmue is Basically A Yu Suzuki Game trying to Immitate Hideo Kojima.

  • @conradojavier By doing something totally different..?

  • SA and SA2 were the last games to deliver good story and voice work but there were a few good sonic games that came after them. (Sonic Heroes and ShadowTH)

  • @BRoboto1 What about Alan Wake, SH: Shattered Memories or GTA 4. Those games have a really good story line and fantastic voice-acting.

  • @poliv67 I meant sonic games.

  • @BRoboto1 I'm sorry, but you totaly lost me just now...

    ???

  • @poliv67 I'm saying that while Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 were not the last great 3D sonic games, they were the last "sonic" games to give great story and voice work.

  • best dc game

  • i miss this game :(

  • I acutally loved the dream cast..and shenmue was a great game and the only game I've ever beaten to the end...I loved it!

  • There are only two guys I can tolerate when it comes to reviewing games, Derek Alexander (HVGN) and Chris Bores (Irate Gamer). HVGN can review a game I now nothing about and turn it into a classic. Irate Gamer's dry sense of humor makes want to see more of videos. With Derek playing the role of Gaming Historian, it gives him much more credibility than my defunct character, Calm Video Game Nerd.

  • @Bladedwind it's best to read the info before you comment. this was part of our april fool's day joke. norm and i traded shows for a day, he did an episode of the hvgn too, but he still hasn't posted it on youtube yet. i'm not sure what he's up to.

  • @lophatjello you dont have to blame the users who are commenting that youre not the gaming historian because do they really want to waste time at Retroware because of the annoying ads on the blip screen

  • @Bladedwind you do realize that Caruso also did a review on "the happy video game nerd" right?

  • @Bladedwind Good job sir, you have failed on the internetz. Please walk forward and receive your free punch in the face.

  • @Bladedwind you blind bitch that sucks cock

  • @Bladedwind lol dude...wtf?

  • Man. I don't know what the fuss was about with the PS2 graphics back in these times. I know that 10 years ago, we could tell the difference between Dreamcast and PS2 graphics but...they both look equally bad by today's standards.

  • Sweet!

  • I always point this out but the Sega Saturn had modem, which still works today for free. You can still play Daytona USA online, for free, on the Sega Saturn. As long as you have an analog phone line.

  • Damn this game must have taken effort Is there going to be a squeal

  • @ArmageddonAxel

    There already is.

  • @MrUberDeDuber Oh no sorry I meant a third one

  • Who are the Idiots that disliked this?

  • The system was well ahead of it's time.

    The Dreamcast didn't fail. We failed the Dreamcast.

  • @RenoTC11 wow that comment brings tears to my eyes, there's no better way of saying this.

  • @RenoTC11 The Montreal Screwjob of the Gaming Industry, if the Dreamcast would have stay longer, Nintendo would have been Dead by now.

  • @RenoTC11 more like sega failed the dreamcast

  • Thanks a lot for the upload. A friend of mine swears by this game and I've never gotten the chance to see why. Was running very choppy on RetrowareTV :(

  • i have shenmue 2 on xbox with the movie!!! its awesome i want shenmue 3

  • Did you atop making videos??

  • Woo Death Proof! :D

  • Really awesome video! Keep them coming.

  • OMFG! I have shenmue the movie...

  • This was an AMAZING review you rock

  • SEGA said that they gonna release Shenmue 3, if Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo gonna help to finance it. It would be so cool if Sony would help them finance it and so there would be Shenmue 1 to 3 on PS3.

  • yo have a poster of death proof in your wall?? that movie sucks balls

  • Marvel versus Capcom 2 is very very win!

  • Great review honest and objective like always! Thanks to reviewers like you i think we got a new rocket knight adventures. Maybe someday we will see a Shenmue III.

    Thanks and Keep it UP?

  • My initial reaction was to post hate as I'm a fan of Norman's show (mcfrosticles). How is it that your show is also called: The Gaming Historian?

  • what happened to the other gaming historian

  • You know, it's been a while, so correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the weather based on weather reports from the area, rather than randomly generated?

  • Great great vid. I wish I could get to play the first Shenmue game without the pain of getting a Dreamcast somewhere. They are seriously quite rare in Finland, in fact I don't know ANYONE who had a Dreamcast. Everyone over here had PS1 or 2 or Nintendo 64 or whatever... I think the marketing of DC was close to nonexistant over here (as Sega wasn't particularly interested in Northern Europe, but rather tried to boost sales in America, Japan etc.) so yeah... Too bad.

  • I like Derek Alexander xD

    I just wish he'd make more of those AVGN parodies of his XD

  • lol I got a dreamcast

  • i think this is the most realistic game ever and yes i have played it through

  • i loved this game, only problem was i only had disc 1 :( . DAMN YOU TAXI CUTSCENE AT THE END!!

  • So Retroware has TGH with other people now? >.>?

  • :) might try to finish the sequel some day. bought it for the xbox.

  • nice poster for death proof!!!!!

  • Was that foreshadowing at 2:44? /:)

  • i need to find shemue 2

  • I miss the gaming historian :c

    Good to see you making an episode of it though! c:

  • Awesome.

  • I'm dieing to see his MM10 Video.....

    As for me, MM9 > MM10 There's no contest.

  • @Donatello97 well, then i think you're going to like my video.

  • I NEVER FINISHED THIS GAME BUT I LOVED IT! since i do martial arts.

  • @TheRogueMonk btw good to see you again!

  • this is what ff13 should have been like

  • i thot it was just a skit intro type thing but i have to ask. are u really a teacher?

  • shenmeu is one of the best games ever!!

  • I love Shenmue! Freakin love you making a movie about this epic games! I want shenmue 3 NOW!

  • you are the happiest historian i've ever heard

  • pre-yakuza?

  • love you derek :D ..also wow what a interesting game, off to part 2!

  • You sir produce THE BEST gaming related content on youtube today.

  • What do you teach?! Great video!!!!

  • Man....I freaking loved Shenmue and Shenmue 2, truely amazing games, definetely in my top 20.

  • I'm surprised that, when talking about Dreamcast games, you forgot to mention what I consider to be one of the definitive Dreamcast games: Crazy Taxi.

  • What do you "Teach" that neccecitates grading papers?

  • Could Heavy Rain be a ripoff of this?

  • @PurepOis0n123 Dont....DON'T COMPARE IT WITH THAT GAME!!!!!

  • you aint the gaming historian.....

  • really I love Shenmue :( plz sega do part 3

  • Adventure 1 and 2 are great games!

  • wait.. but what about Jet Grind Radio? wasn't that a great Dreamcast title?

  • Is that a hickie on your neck?

  • @Doom2Guy A lot of people, myself included would disagree.

  • @Siensane Well okay, I got carried away

    But still, I personally do not enjoy it

  • I liked the game but I hate how everyone seems to look past the awful-to-sub-par voice acting in the series. For example..

    I didn't asked to be photographed.

    WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!? YOUR FACE WAS ASKING, THAT'S WHY I TOOK THE PHOTO!

  • Ohhhh I love shenmue, I beat this game and I beat the sequel on the xbox

  • Are you a teacher or something?

  • Grading papers? Does that mean you are in Grad School now?

  • Dude, you know you can't read. Don't act like you're grading papers.

  • I can't stand the real gaming historian. That guy can't get his facts straight most of the time... feels like a spoken word version of a Wikipedia entry.

    Course you're better at this than he is Derek, and i dont mean to bash your new vid. I just figured now would be a good time to express how i feel about that particular retrowaretv'r. If he was left off the Retroware TV DVD, i would have bought it :P

  • @Sye909 arent you confusing gaming historian with chris bores History of Videogames series that are ripped from Gaming Historian?

  • @GatucaMan

    Bahaha, no sir.

    I refuse to give The Irate Gamer any more of my views/valuable time, i haven't seen any of his videos in years, so i have yet to see his "History of Videogames" series you speak of.

  • lol I have the same exact monitor as you lol.

  • A whole thirty seconds for a obviously cheesy "Oh, I didn't know there was a camera there." introduction? Ugh.

  • When did you become the gaming historian?

    Are you switching permanently to this title?

  • One of the greatest games ever. I <3 you

  • What is the meaning of this deception?

  • he just did review it, idiot. this was an april fools joke where he acks like gaming historian & the gaming historian acts like the HVGN, its not a hint for a HVGN episode.

  • Great acting :P

  • I thought that was this vid was the real gaming historian but oh well this will do

  • HVGN, thank you... one of my favorite games!! You rock!!

  • @JamesOhGoodie lol! just trying to be nice

  • @lophatjello the Sonic Adventure games were good! I love them! then everything else went down hill after Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) I only like that game because of the song His World by Zebrahead (aka the 2nd best music performers in the world, with Starship amazing being the 1st of course ^_^)

  • @lophatjello Well since that's your thing and all I can understand ;-)

  • @lophatjello Sonic Adventure was damn good--it just wasn't the 2D Sonic that everyone loved. If you look at it on its own, and don't compare it to its Genesis counterpart, it's easy to see the good things about it.

  • @lophatjello And truthful :P