Soul Reavers

[owsf2000]

Both finished, and I'm surprised how fast they went overall. Granted I kept a faq handy for when I got stuck. Normally it would be some super obvious thing I overlooked or simply assumed I couldn't do. Overall, I don't think I used them TOO much.

I can't say I ran into any of the buggy shit in my play through of Soul Reaver 2, although I kept a couple save games handy just in case. Well, there was ONE instance where I had killed a thrall that had one of those shield keys in the air forge. Problem is, I killed him against the wall and the shield wasn't dropped. Or rather, I have a sneaky feeling it did drop - inside the wall. Either way I had to reload my last save to give it another go, and from that point on I was careful to kill those critters away from the walls.

I think the faq mentions various bugs and game freezing issues as being related to using reaver codes to gain skills and stuff before the story assumes you get it - something I didn't do.

Oh well, those games are down. Before I pop in Blood Omen 2 I'll take a break and work on some other games. Next on the list, as my backloggery currently indicates, will be a run through the first .hack game series. There may be a couple other games to go before Blood Omen 2 as well, like Crystalis or another grandia game, but we'll see how things go and how long it takes me to go through .hack.

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[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Bah, that doesn't help encourage me to get back to Shenmue II you know. ^^;; I tried going through Shenmue a few times again for the game complete list a month back or so but ... I don't know if there's a problem with my disc or if it's a glitch that always existed in the game where occationally it'll fail to load a new area when you move to a new map. Gets stuck at a black screen where the date is shown and... weirdest shit is even if I reset the game, the disc just stops working until I unplug the dreamcast for a while so...

I'll probably give it another few chances later.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, Shenmue is awesome, up until the last 5 minutes or so of Shenmue II. And even those last 5 minutes would have been awesome as well if they'd only fucking made Shenmue III.

Also, I never had any problem with it not loading areas properly. Sounds like you have some weirdness going on. At least with the Dreamcast versions of Shenmue I and II (the second being the Euro import). I still haven't tried to play my Xbox version of Shenmue II yet.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Drat. Might be either something with the Dreamcast or the disc in that case, or a little of both. Haven't had problems with my xbox Shenmue II like this (That I remember) although when I think about it I -think- I had a problem with the not-loading of areas with shenmue when I first played through it. But only at the beginning... I'll give it another go after I run through the original .hack series.

Also, this is the main issue I have with multi-game series, especially when they're designed from day one to be multi-game. You never know if the series will be completed, and with some companies *coughSEGAcough* if something isn't a smash hit, it gets cancelled.