Shenmue Series

Top 5 greatest story telling games ever made imo. If haven't played the first I would assume 2 would be hard to love at first glance.

I do love a good story. I enjoyed the revival of Yakuza, and people sometimes draw comparisons to that game. Who knows, maybe I'll give it a second chance.

You probably have to start with the first one to get the connection to the characters.

I'll keep that in mind, thanks.
 
Bring back Shenmue passport and add online forklift racing.

But you should be able to skip the race after the first one in the story.
 
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I don't understand the appeal of this series. I tried it once on the Xbox -- was it Shenmue 2? I hauled boxes around and played checkers or something. I thought, "This is boring" and stopped. Based on how much people seem to adore these games, I must have missed something. I did stop playing pretty fast. Or maybe it's just not my type of game. I dunno. The screens/vids seem to be trading on nostalgia among the players who really enjoyed the game, way back when.

Pretty much the precursor to the Yakuza series you love. But yeah, performing work duties in a game didn't really float my boat either. Lol
 
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Saw this


SEGA also emphasized that the releases are not full-fledged remasters.
 
I don't understand the appeal of this series. I tried it once on the Xbox -- was it Shenmue 2? I hauled boxes around and played checkers or something. I thought, "This is boring" and stopped. Based on how much people seem to adore these games, I must have missed something. I did stop playing pretty fast. Or maybe it's just not my type of game. I dunno. The screens/vids seem to be trading on nostalgia among the players who really enjoyed the game, way back when.
I got bored by it as well.
 
Going over to my friends house in 2000 and watching him play this was absurd. As a reference, GTAIII released a full year later on PS2.

The Dreamcast was too good for us all.
 
Ahead of its time when it released with some things getting incredible amounts of attention games now days still don't come close to matching.


And that music :bang:
 
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Devs are porting the Xbox version of II and the save feature won't carry over to III
 
Really, so they confirmed three for Xbox or stated that hose saves on PS4 will transfer over? Is that even possible with three being built in unreal?

Xbox version of 3 not confirmed yet. Saves won't carry over to 3 because different team and publisher
 
Xbox version of 3 not confirmed yet. Saves won't carry over to 3 because different team and publisher


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Being worked on before III was announced but that showed Sega it had demand
 
That's a big improvement. I'm always surprised at how bland and blurry the old versions of these games look.
 
Look on the bright side. Once Shenmue 3 does eventually come out, it'll likely come out without game breaking bugs and other nonsense that games launch with today. No rush.

Time is on my side, yes it is
 
I hope they take all the time they need, I don't want a buggy rushed game released when so many of us have been waiting for so long to see what happens next. I want to be able to enjoy the experience from start to finish, now if only Sega would work on the visuals a bit more in the remastered original games they are putting out :)
 
ill be getting ps4 ver from kick starter but hope they announce it for xbox so i can double dip with X version.