'Shenmue's combat is boring'

Wacky combat and infinite combos, best game ever :)

[danmann]

It's the Virtua Fighter engine simplified....so anyone who says that is basically saying VF is garbage. To which I can only laugh in their face.

[artimuos]

1 minute of fighting and 1 hour of asking people about sailors.

[mikekazz]

"Now then have you seen any sailors?"

[TheHirohikoAraki]

As a Yakuza fan, Shenmue deserves a happy ending where Ryo finally defeats Lan Di once and for all. Also he’s forklift certified, so that’s a plus.

[dragonandavatarfan]

I wouldn't say it was "boring" but it was definitely so goddamm rare that when it was actually time in the story for combat you would panic and button mash because you had no practice 😅 (that was the case with me at least).

[ShittyGamePrototypes]

I just wish it had more combat parts. It feels like the combat only comes up once every 8 hours.

[melayubenar]

The battle theme really shows his martial arts. Calm focused and accurate.

[KenMasters.]

Fun Fact:

The original protagonist was going to be Akira Yuki.

[Worzel]

for the era this was in, I like how smoothly animated the moves are.

[HARBRINGERZERO]

The worst part of Shenmue was getting to the fight. Asking questions around town and raising a large sum of money to buy some random thing to give to an old Master to teach you his move and then use it one time in that specific fight. Then you have to do it again for a new move.

[KleWdSide]

Anyone who said the fighting was boring clearly wasn't alive back in 2000.

The fights were very fun & well-animated.

[KyokujiFGC]

Shenmue's combat isn't garbage. It's just way too rare.

[TehReasoning]

Shenmue combat was excellent you could feel the blows and impact of attacks and throws. You was rewarded by skill of player and there was add on button combination on skills that could furthered extend certain attacks or throws

Shenmue 3 I'm guessing they couldn't use old combat because of Sega or money because it was just 10 steps back.

[Bebop_Elysium]

So much atmosphere. For its time it was a ground breaking piece of software. Playing games within a game blew my mind in 1999. What a Dreamcast essential.

[jpremier]

I remember when I had the game on Dreamcast and was surprised the combat was like this also as I thought the whole game was going to be QTE. This shit was awesome!

[jellyotter]

Nobody plays this game for the combat, they play it for that juicy voice acting and awkward story line that never ends.

[Buzani]

Can't wait to play this, it looks really good for its time

[rimjobledouche]

Shenmue's combat was one of three things about the game that wasn't total dogshit, the others being the graphics and the soundtrack.

[g-ed]

For a 1999 interactive open world 3D game it was excellent,
It was graphically impressive too on CRTs, also has great story line, , ,

[cindy]

Came here on memory lane after finding out they animated it! Thought it would be too niche to be considered in todays time. Solid 😎