Suzuki: 'Sega will probably let me make Shenmue 3'

[Kit]

I second this.

Ryo?s stage: the dojo and the arcade.

Maybe make Lan Di the new end boss.

[Shoju]

Bear in mind I'm tired - but I would quite like to see a VF game with Ryo in it

Close as you can get for now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7H9clDAbI#t=2m36s

Maybe he can get the Ryo hairstyle and white vest too.

[Team Andromeda]

Noooooooooooooooooooo. By all means Sega should make a Fighters Megamix 2 but VF6 should remain true to the series and not become some dumbed down unbalanced mess just so that it can have a massive roster of characters like Tekken 6.

I mean give Virtual Fighter a break, Its been milked too much (kind of like SF II) and that in the hurt the series. The long wait for a SF IV imo sorted of helped with sales.

[Alex_976]

The Dreamcast nearly got brought back downstairs last night. If it wasn't for the woman insisting we go out i'd be up to my eyes in capsule toys.

[Sketcz]

Let him make it so we can all stop talking about this mundane game.

I agree. When last did any of you play Shenmue? I went back to both of them on DC and they were nearly unplayable. Also, the majority of things in the game are utterly pointless.

Sega's Yakuza series is infinitely better - and the important thing is, everything in it is conducive to it being a game. While you can waste time on things like shopping and restaurants, most of it serves a purpose to make more money or give EXP or build yourself up in an RPG fashion.

Shenmue is a big world full of things to do but no reason to do any of them.

[nakamura]

Sketcz, you are my hero!

[sj33]

Well, all I can say is I replayed it last year and came away loving it more than ever.

But I do think that the game would be completely lost on anyone who played it today, taking it out of the context of when it was released and how groundbreaking it was at the time. I never thought I'd say this, but I'm not sure a re-release would be the best idea.

[nakamura]

Yet Super Mario All stars is ok, despite Mario being over 25 years old?

[sj33]

I don't think I doubted that it hadn't aged well. In fact, that was almost my point - it's a game of it's time and the context it was released in, which would be lost on someone who didn't really experience that.

Just to emphasise, I love Shenmue to bits and still do today. I just agree with others in saying that people playing it fresh today would probably not 'get it' because it hasn't really aged as well as a pure 'game' as well as, to use the example, Mario All-Stars. Shenmue focused more on presenting the player with a world and experience rather than a game in the typical sense, and this perhaps is the problem here.

[nakamura]

Yeah you do have a fair point there. Shenmue is not a game in the pure sense, it is more about the world Sega created.

[Team Andromeda]

I agree. When last did any of you play Shenmue?

Not for ages, that doesn't stop me wanting and hoping for a sequel ( That is looking over how the story is yet to be finished ) . Same goes for possible sequels to Lunar, Kung Fu Chaos, Grandia, O.TO.GI, Panzer Dragoon Saga F355, SOA and dare I say it Star Flight (and that's just a short list) . Games I might not have played it ages, but hope for sequels and as a rule, after I finished a RPG I very rarely play through it again.

Sega's Yakuza series is infinitely better - and the important thing is, everything in it is conducive to it being a game. While you can waste time on things like shopping and restaurants, most of it serves a purpose to make more money or give EXP or build yourself up in an RPG fashion.

I would agree with Shenmue , but not Shenmue II. I find Shenmue II way better than any of the Yakuza games (well maybe not Yakuza II) and it's funny to see Yakuza IV looking to Shenmue for inspiration, be it a weather system or fighting on the roof tops; SEGA is simply milking Yakuza far too much now, and the series is suffering as a result (Old tech and animation) and the same same gameplay with little new

Still that's what happens with yearly development slots

[Neon Ignition]

I don't mind saying I still think Shenmue is superior to Shenmue II. The banality of being able to rummage through sock drawers and the such made the experience and the little touches added to the uniqueness and sense of place. Shenmue II sacrificed interactivity for the sake of extra instances of its ropey combat and became that little bit more generic for it.

The best thing they could do is rerelease them on PSN & XBL to gauge interest and then do Shenmue III in the same engine for the reduced cost. An update or remake would end up too much like Yakuza and Shenmue > all Yakuza's. Fact

[DANGEROUS-3]

Shenmue owns all the Yakuza's.

I agree with Jake that a gamer of today picking up Shenmue for the first time, might wonder what the fuss is about because interactive towns have been done since, that and because the plot is slow building.

For me the that's what makes Shenmue great- the wonderment of just being able to explore the towns and progress at your own pace. Practically everything is interactive like a real world come to life, much more convincing than GTA, and you the way you can just play in the arcades all day or go on a capsule toy hunt and get jobs to fund this was genius.

[Sketcz]

Sketcz, you are my hero!

o/\o

I'd like to add I was a huge Shenmue fan back in the day, importing the US version as soon as it was out, and then getting the PAL version of Shen II and mucking about trying to convert my save from NTSC to PAL. I still have the mint boxes somewhere. My memories are of loving the games, and spending time at school with friends who were completing it alongside me. I spent ages trying to do everything, even won both Saturn games at the little store raffle so I could play them at "home".

But today that awe of a fully realised world has been deadened considerably, and I found myself questioning the need to do the superfluous stuff like capsule toys. In a way it's sad, because I'm that much harder to impress today.

For me these are best left in the past as happy memories.

[Flabio]

Lets be honest here, most people want a new Shenmue simply because they want to know how the story ends.