You’ve seen the YouTube reaction videos, the outpouring of emotion regarding it’s reveal and even watched the Kickstarter video. But if you’re old enough to have a full time job you still might not quite know what all the fuss is about.
It's been 14 years since Shenmue II originally released for the Dreamcast and it's time to get you up to speed.
"Keep an eye out for upcoming announcements"
I think that’s the problem. Just give us a conclusion like we were hoping for with 3 instead of basically pulling a Shenmue 2 on us and leaving it all in limbo again,
No trilogy collection? All the years Sega knocked out Shenmue clone Yakuza, yet took years to release Shenmue 3 on PS4 only. Was made waiting all those years after Shenmue 2 on Dreamcast.
And they think it's a positive thing?
Potential new fans won't be interested in future sequels because they would need to know the story of all the previous games.
Old fans who were burnt by 3 (like me) won't be interested in the next ones. Especially if they are fillers like 3 is.
The truth is, Yu Suzuki threw away his golden oportunity of finishing the saga in a dignified way. Old fans were thirsty for its conclusion and they got good money on Kickstarter.
Now that they made 3 with some of the worst game design decisions in any modern game, and made the plot be a useless filler, a Kickstarter for 4 would probably fail badly, and the shameful sales of 3 won't convince any publisher to put good money on a sequel.
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Never say never, I really didn't expect to ever see Space Marine 2 and 12 years later its almost here.
So there is still hope for all these games.
I've completed 5 of the games on the list, but the author forgot to include Advent Rising. It was supposed to be a trilogy, but it bombed hard, and the two sequels never got made. It was Mass Effect, a console generation before Mass Effect.
The game is buggy and unpolished, it needed a few more months of development, but the potential was there. At the end of the game, you have all these super abilities, I remember the stomp attack that created a shockwave being especially powerful.
I personally think days gone will recieve some sort of sequel at some point. I'm personally also hoping it's not the rumored multiplayer online stuff. I'd think most that enjoyed it would rather thisnto.
Sony needs to dust off Sly Cooper and Days Gone so needs a sequel two of my favorite Sony titles. Bulletstorm I love great game wish it also got a sequel. And I wish Namco would finally give Enslaved a sequel another great game.
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Shenmue II actually released for Xbox.
The first Shenmue was on Dreamcast. I just hope this will be as good as the first one (never played II on xbox). May be a tall order since times have changed.
It's hard to explain to a modern mind that hasn't experienced Shenmue back in 1999, what was so special about it, and have them feel the same way. It's almost impossible.
Back when I first played Shenmue on the Dreamcast, I considered it a masterpiece 10/10 experience because it was incredibly ambitious, was innovating and doing things differently to what I had seen before, and it changed my perception of what video games could be as storytelling devices and gameplay sandboxes. It also introduced me to Japanese culture in a way I'd never quite experienced from other mediums. Where a lots of Japanese games I had played in the past were more fantastical and stylised, Shenmue was more realistic and grounded in the past (it is set in 1986).
Re-playing the game nowadays, it's still a classic, but more of a 8-9 out of 10 kind of experience for a variety of reasons. One of the main reasons, being that Shenmue II exists.
If Shenmue was an 8/10, then Shenmue II would be a 10/10 ultra masterpiece, and looking back on that sequel after all these years, its qualities are not brought down in the same way as the first game. Shenmue II is such a huge step up from its predecessor, that it's almost not quite believable that it existed in 2001. And the ending chapters of the game have forged within, some of my strongest gaming memories.
Thank f--- for Sony for being a patron, for the indescribably passionate fanbase for driving onwards for so many years, and for Yu Suzuki for giving us such memorable artistic output all those years ago that has brought us to this moment.
Collectively, we did it - Shenmue III - 2017!
Played the original on Dream cast 2nd on Xbox will get the new for PC should be nice.
Oooo! Maybe this will be the catalyst for other devs (AHEM! Valve!!!) to announce that they are also working on their much desired 3rd installments.