Ok, I'm making somewhat bold claims here because I just finished Ryu Ga Gotoku and I'm caught up in the heat of the excitement and overwhelmed by what has been quite possibly the most amazing video game experience I've ever played through. But having just finished the game I really have to shout out and say, GAME OF THE FREAKING YEAR. I was hesitant to say this as I was playing because I'd be like "sure this is the ultimate awesome, awesome thing of greatness ever...but RE4 was near-perfect and SoC was a beautiful compelling experience". But now that I've sat tear-dropped through the endning, not because it was sad really, but because I was sad it was over. I'm gonna go ahead and say it.
Better than MGS3...maybe, better than RE4....maybe, better than SoC...yes, better than ANYTHING SEGA HAS MADE SINCE NIGHTS...YES.
While Shenmue has a split between 50/50 love/hate, I don't think anyone can hate Ryu Ga Gotoku. It's just so amazing in everything from the story to the fighting, to the side-stuff. This is what they wanted Shenmue to be, this fixes anything and everything wrong with Shenmue to combine the greatest interactive movie + greatest battle system ever and get the ultimate immersive movie-like experience.
The amount of times I yelled, "HOLY SHIT!" and msged friends on AIM/ICQ saying "LISTEN TO WHAT I JUST DID!!!!!!!" is higher than you can count on your fingers and from start to finished I kept jumping out of my seat going "O_O".
Anyhow so yeah. This has to come to the US and has to be subtitled or else the world is a sad sad place. I can't recall any time in the history of gaming that a huge budget project that was AAAAAA quality ended up stuck in one territory, so I have faith the game will make its way to the US.
I'll have a a super duper long in-depth review of the game up tomorrow or the next day at gamebrink.com, but the short version of that is just "holy hell, Sega has just released the greatest 3d brawler to date and told one of the greatest game stories in existence. This is the game you show to Roger Ebert to let him know games are as important as films. This is the real deal".
Ok, I'm out for the night.
Better than MGS3...maybe, better than RE4....maybe, better than SoC...yes, better than ANYTHING SEGA HAS MADE SINCE NIGHTS...YES.
While Shenmue has a split between 50/50 love/hate, I don't think anyone can hate Ryu Ga Gotoku. It's just so amazing in everything from the story to the fighting, to the side-stuff. This is what they wanted Shenmue to be, this fixes anything and everything wrong with Shenmue to combine the greatest interactive movie + greatest battle system ever and get the ultimate immersive movie-like experience.
The amount of times I yelled, "HOLY SHIT!" and msged friends on AIM/ICQ saying "LISTEN TO WHAT I JUST DID!!!!!!!" is higher than you can count on your fingers and from start to finished I kept jumping out of my seat going "O_O".
Anyhow so yeah. This has to come to the US and has to be subtitled or else the world is a sad sad place. I can't recall any time in the history of gaming that a huge budget project that was AAAAAA quality ended up stuck in one territory, so I have faith the game will make its way to the US.
I'll have a a super duper long in-depth review of the game up tomorrow or the next day at gamebrink.com, but the short version of that is just "holy hell, Sega has just released the greatest 3d brawler to date and told one of the greatest game stories in existence. This is the game you show to Roger Ebert to let him know games are as important as films. This is the real deal".
Ok, I'm out for the night.