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.

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

"Now then have you seen any sailors?"

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).

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.

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

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

Fun Fact: The original protagonist was going to be Akira Yuki.

Anyone who said the fighting was boring clearly wasn't alive back in 2000. The fights were very fun & well-animated.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

I still can't believe it was 1999 when this game dropped...

Yeah, now you only have to wait 8 real hours playing the game for the next encounter

This is such a time capsule of a game. It was the peak of technical limitations in 2000, and portrayed 1980s japan in such a believable way.

Damn Ryo with the EWHF at 0:17 Nice combo vid my man!

During 1999, it was pretty neat for a 3D fight.

Stumbling on this video randomly is how I found out that shenmue has combat

It’s not a fighting game so that’s perfectly fine. It’s a work of art, an interactive movie.

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

Good enough for an adventure game.

Man, it is so easy to miss this fight.....

Shenmue fighting system in 1 /2 is brilliant in my opinion

That lil cawing sound in the background takes me back to my childhood. Was a kid driving virtual forklifts for hours lol

Huh, that throw animation at 0:04, with the hand lock. Soo good!

Let me tell you as a single digit year old kid playing Shenmue for the first time the year it came, it blew my mind when you get into your first fight after spending hours wandering/ messing around with money and all the little things. Up to that point i was unsure about all the game mechanics. This game is definitely a product of it's time, and sadly this along with the Dreamcast in general just had such a small window of time where it was in the spotlight and the "new best thing". Within a couple years or so the GameCube and PS2 blew up and nobody knew or cared what a Dreamcast was. I wouldn't change my childhood though, this game was the most impactful game on there and it led to so many good memories and inside jokes/references between my siblings to this day. I remember how horrified i was when i learned the sequel wouldn't be released on the Dreamcast in the US 😂.

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

I only learned recently that this game had actual combat segments and not just QTEs.

Played this game as a kid Revisiting it today was the time of my life

Yo, the combat is actually this good?! I had no idea. Looks like I’m buying this on Steam.

its basically virtua fighter 2 meets yakuza 1

For it’s time, Shenmue was pioneering and groundbreaking, and not only that, criminally under appreciated. The QTE system was immense, and the combat system was (as has been alluded to) a more rudimentary VF system. Shenmue II’s system obviously evolved greatly, but I was surprised by how engaging the combat was on 1. Every blow was felt. lol

No, not boring at all. This game was an amazing game back when it was made years ago. Compared to games made years later I can see how it can be labeled as boring now. I know I had a lot of fun playing it when it first came out years ago.

I would rather have this combat system than Shenmue 3 any day.

Now I understand why people say Yakuza is a spiritual successor to Shenmue

0:17 bro did a Wind God Fist on this dude lmao

I remember playing this for 13hrs a day for three days straight during summer vacation when it came out. I was absolutely hooked as a kid.

I love hearing a title of a probably made up complaint that no one has ever said ever about a game I've never seen in my life before I even see the game

people who said that are just lucky that the combat is just forgiving. if the devs didn’t modified the engine’s combat, it’ll be dark souls in 2000.

Better than all android game

“Bro did you get Street Fighter 6 or Tekken 8?” “Nah man, I’m busy labbing shenmue” (I play with a fight stick and it works surprisingly well) Also I spent HOURS trying to do the arm lock thing and the 100 man battle is still fun

Holy shit, also the soundtrack is degutting, never played it but always admired the screenshot and the cat.

I like the part where he punches the guy who is face down on the ground *into the air*

Doing a little spring cleaning, I found this game in my linen closet. Now I know my phone is definitely listening to me

This game is still ahead of its time

That only side quest involed fighting

The 100 fighters battle in the harbour is still a classic video game highlight to me

Enoki took that like a champ

Pretty 🔥 for its time. Still wanna get into the games. Have yet to play them

Credit to the first guy who got flipped over and just stayed down. He knew what was up

holy cow that was smooth!

A mechanic where you hurt certain enemies too much would be cool. It plays into the restraint trained fighters must have.

I wish you could do more of that in the game

Without this there will be no Ryu Ga Gotoku / Yakuza

Nothing beats those early 90s-20s videogame Ost

Ryo Playground Wombo Combo'd so that Kiryu could Tiger Drop.

I don't think anyone disliked the fighting in these games. It was pretty solid. The problem was the 2 hours of watching paint dry between the fights

this was one of my all time favorite games. i miss my dream cast

馬鹿にされがちなゲームだけど、あの時代にここまで作り込めたのはすごい。

I loved the combat sequences, much better than the reaction command ones.

The combat is very nuanced, you rarely can just spam one button and get away with it

For the time it came out it was ahead of it's time. Was literally my first open world game I played before open world games were a thing. Was realistic with the job on the game you had to go to every day as a forklift operator

I like the echoes that come outta nowhere tho😂

I like it coz there's no too flashy effects like in yakuza. it makes more realistic for me]

Shenmue is such an amazing game the only thing I don't like about 1 and 2 combat which I wish it had is a lock on target 3 has it but 1 and 2 don't you need it for 1 because you can't see the enemy's health bar or ring

Clunky nature aside, I do wish Yakuza's combat had the freedom of Shenmue's in terms of move learning/development. I wouldn't be averse to seeing a Ryo Hazuki goes down the dark path aspect to one of the Yakuza games. Imagine, a jaded older Ryo, consumed by hatred who just batters everyone lmao.

Anyone who mastered the move set will tell you that there is so much choice in how you customise the main characters strengths, I wasn't able to really get there as the only 10 year old I knew who had a dc. I played it again recently and despite the jankiness in the beginning once you get a hold of it it is actually amazing.

10 frame grab into death combo goes hard

Well I actually don't like fighting in this game, I play it for the investigation.

but that jacket is everything

Wow, that looks so fun

The loud echo hit sound effect tho...friendly reminder,This came out in 1999

I wish we could have did more of this in the actual game

I like the dynamic camera angle. Yakuza will definitely look good with that style.

Shenmue 1 and 2 were divine. 3 I had a hard time enjoying.

As much as i wanted akira from virtua fighter in Tekken 8 as guest character I'd rather see shenmue instead alongside kazuma and baki

The problem, to me at least, isn't that it's "boring" it's that you spend more time doing investigative work rather than fighting, so it's difficult to come to grips with the controls and the flow of fights since there's hardly any chances to practice. So even though I am almost 6 hours in, I hardly have enough material to attest whether or not it's boring.

Dam i miss this game.. way ahead of its time

I've never played this game, been thinking about trying it.

Its funny how much you can see what they did with Yakuza's combat here. The foundation is there, Shenmue was ahead of its time.

bro really pulled a tekken combo on his ass

Fudging loved OG Shenmue during the Dreamcast’s peak days!

That looks pretty boring to me, as a fighting game fan

The only time Shenmue combat wasn’t hype was 3. 1&2’s it was always a highlight getting into a fight.

The sound effects are the same like in Thrill Kill when the guy was hitting the ground near the end of the video.

People forget this came out so long ago. It was absolutely amazing when it released.

i feel like the combat is where they dropped the ball the most.. i LOVED this game as a kid and when i replayed it for shenmue 3 i got to see that the combat is pretty deep but there is really no need to bother.. if there was a yakuza-like arena area where you could fight progressively harder fights for prizes and those enemies had specific weaknesses that certain moves could take advantage of more than others it would of been much more worthwhile to learn the system. and outside of sightseeing and random chats this is really the only way to make any kind of character progression besides the main story so it's strange there wasn't some kind of arena.. but whatever nothing can diminish my experience playing this in 1999

I miss this game

Shenmue 3 wishes it could be have gameplay like this

I see this game follows the Star Wars combat school of "If you fall to the ground, you're dead"

keep laying the smackdown 👍🏾

shenmue did walk so Like a dragon can fly

Wtf, there’s is combat in shenmue? I realy had no ideia. Obviously, i’d never played, but i listen people talk about this game for like 10 years and no one talked about this. Looks good, though.

The combat isnt boring its just surrounded by boring things.