Shenmue 1 & 2 HD Collection has been updated for both the PS4 and Xbox One and one of the most notorious bugs that affected cutscenes has been patched in new update according to early reports.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Shenmue 1 & 2 and more are set to leave both Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass for PC. This gives you just a couple of weeks to grab any achievements you might need from these titles.
Amazon has discounted the physical version of Shenmue I & II to as low as $18.71 on PS4 and Xbox One.
DSOGaming writes: "Modder ‘Streamer2k’ has released a brand new texture pack for the Shenmue 1 & 2 collection. This texture pack features 2K and 4K high quality textures that overhaul the games’ nature. This basically means that you can find more detailed textures for trees, grass, bushes, plants, flowers and more."
I really wish the Shenmue remake on Xbox 360 wasn't canceled. It looked really good. This will have to do.
I think it's great people do stuff like this, but to be fair, it never fits the original art style, plus you can see some of the new textures mess up with the Japanese characters in the textures. Clearly someone western have made these without the knowledge of the language.
I'm definitely going to get this at some point.
Now if they can improve the janky movement...I'd be impressed.
What the heck, have I been sucked into a time warp or something?! From the article:
"Shenmue 1 & 2 HD launched at the end of last year however it was immediately criticized by fans due to its unforgiven nature of bugs. Despite being a port of an old game, the bugs made it a hurdle to play through it. This was finally fixed recently by Sega and while the PC port is currently one version higher than the consoles, this new patch fixes some of the more annoying issues."
Pretty sure I just picked this up around a month ago...have I been abducted by aliens and experiencing that often told "lost time?!"
I have the the Steam version and although it's good that it's been patched, don't expect massive improvements with this one or the next. Version 1.02 improved some things, but version 1.03 didn't improve much at all. I'm really hoping version 1.04 (if we actually get it) turns out to be the patch I'm looking for.
The biggest issues with these games from release were
1) Excite QTE broken on Shenmue 1 (this one has been fixed)
2) Training moves not progressing on Shenmue 1 (still not fixed)
3) Not getting the chance to save your game at the end of Shenmue 1 (still not fixed)
4) Shenmue 2's music a complete mess (still not fixed)
5) Inconsistent FPS (I don't know if it's a problem on the console version) (still not fixed)
6) The audio overall is terrible and somebody is already fixing the Shenmue 1 audio for the PC version
Like I have said from the beginning, I am happy to be getting them at all, but I didn't want a poor port. These games have been released way too early, they needed another 2 months minimum to iron out the issues.