Endurance RUN YES. Ryan you gotta do it, YOU know how good this game is.

Watch a guy drink a can of soda! the definition of exciting gameplay.

All I really remember about this game is getting hit in the head by a soccer ball. 
 
And playing space harrier.

Oh please do an Endurance Run of this game! PLEEEESE! I <3 this game

so basically it is the lion king? also, why is the mom's face made of scrotum?

Ryan and Brad should do this as an Endurance Run.

My god, that was awful and pathetic. I could barely watch to the end.

Couldn't get better on 09.09.09!  Best Dreamcast game hands down.

BASEBALL MOTHERFUCKER, DO, YOU, PLAY IT?!?!

My face will melt (in a good way) if this is a new endurance run. I would love to relive this game again. It would also be awesome to hear feedback from Brad as he sees it for the first time. (Brad would need to be the player) +1 vote for Shenmue 1 and 2 endurance runs!

Greatest ending to a quick look ever.

Greatest game ever!
 
But damn it's really painful watching them try to play. They missed so much stuff. XD I think I know every nook and cranny of Ryu's house and the city. 
 
Oh and you can ride the motorcycle.

I love adventure games.  Classic Lucas and Sierra mostly.
 
I love RPGs.  Japanese, Western, and any SRPG.
 
I love my Dreamcast.  Still play it with friends every day after buying it on launch day 10 years ago.
 
I fucking hate Shenmue.
 
There is no way to explain my hatred to the people who love it, and I dont' hate them or anything, but that game just didn't grab me.

It still looks awesome..

" I'll laugh if this is the next ER. "

Im going with the crowd, endurance run all the way :)

" @Cleric said: 

So stating the truth is now viewed as fanboyism. Lovely.

For its time, Shenmue really was revolutionary. And yes, it is still regarded as a masterpiece by pretty much everyone who played it. You obviously didn't, hence the ignorant comment.

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So smug, I hope your joking.  "

" @JJOR64 said:

" I'll laugh if this is the next ER. "

Dude, no. I am totally with Brad on this one. Judging from this QL, an Endurance Run would be incredibly boring, unless you constantly mock the game - which in turn would anger the fans of it (all three of them). "

"I wish drinking a soda would have meant something. "

Never played Shenmue (never saw a Dreamcast in real life, either), but there's something oddly compelling about it. I'm slightly worried by Brad's lack of attention span, though; the rate at which he gets extremly bored by even a 30 seconds long (admittedly awkwardly written/translated and performed) dialogue scene is so fast that one wonders how mr Shoemaker gets by at all in real life. Also, there's nothing specifically archaic about having characters talk to each other about plot-related and/or more mundane things, and story-oriented adventure games haven't exactly gone away since Shenmue was released...

This has to be the next Endurance Run, Shenmue was the best DC game ever

"If not for Shunmue GTA would not be what it is today. "

Shemnue Endurance Run?!
 
Brad = Man of many idea's!!

You can't judge a game like Shenmue on a 20 minute quicklook, there is soooo much more to it than that. D:

shenmue was and still is awesome

This game would bore me to tears.

" I love adventure games.  Classic Lucas and Sierra mostly. I love RPGs.  Japanese, Western, and any SRPG.  I love my Dreamcast.  Still play it with friends every day after buying it on launch day 10 years ago.  I fucking hate Shenmue.  There is no way to explain my hatred to the people who love it, and I dont' hate them or anything, but that game just didn't grab me. "

There's a reason why they call it "ambitious and divisive." It truly is a highly ambitious, love-it-or-hate-it type of game with immense attention to detail and deliberate pacing. 
 
I'm among the people who loved this game to death back then and shares great memories with it. But I can understand why some people won't feel the same.

3 GD-ROMS! The game comes with 5 *sometimes 6* cds, that has the soundtrack, passport, and the 3 disc game. The 2nd game was simply 4 gd-roms. 1 dvd on xbox though.

Probably not the best 20 minutes to show of Shenmue as it takes a while for the game to get going. 
 
I remember trying to show this game to my friend and playing through the start it's hard to understand the appeal but trust me it's better later on in the game.

Just... oh man. Favourite game ever, when people ask me.

There will never be another game as ambitious as Shenmue was. You just won't see it.

The game rocks. I cried when I finished 2.. I knew I'd never get my hands on the Lan-Di bastard! RIP Dreamcast. Never forgotten.

I don't think an ER is possible with Shenmue unless it continued into Shenmue 2 because of how the game works. If you haven't played the game before you essentially play an entire day out either training, following the story, arcade or whatever but you also had a limited time to complete the game because the main villian escapes if you don't catch him in time so the ER can only run for a period of time before the game ends for you. Also I think a ER wouldn't be the most exciting as there are some gameplay elements that don't really lend themselves to great viewing (fork lift driving for example).

Hell of a game in its day.  Shenmue 2 was even better, but I don't think that ever came out on Dreamcast in the US.  
 
I don't think either of them sold particularly badly, they just cost an insane amount of money to produce.  Shenmue apparently cost $70m to make.
 
If you haven't played them, I wouldn't assume this quick look to be representative of the whole game/s.

Its sad how this QL does not represent this game correctly at all. It is a great game and if you really want to do a QL that gives it justice it should be about an hour long. I guess that wouldn't make it a QL though. lol

Wow, I guess this can have the dubious title of "impenetrable art film of video-games". Don't think I'll ever go back and play this now.

endurance run!

God-fucking-awful game. Are you kidding me? An ER of Shenmue? Awesome. I'd be fucking stoked to watch them move crates from one place to another or spend fifteen minutes waiting for in-game time to pass so that the next event will become available. God damn.

" Brad, trust me on this one, you'll love playing Shenmue...you can't die! "

oh i have a copy but no working dreamcast =( i love this game so much, thanks GB now i have this insane need to play through this game again! Talk about a game that broke down the 4th wall almost instantly for me, and stays demolished until the vary end. Like many here have said however the game is not for every one. Shenmue is the definition of a cult classic!

Voice acting....

I cast my vote for this game as the next Endurance Run, played by Drew and Dave (or D&D as they're known on the streets).