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May 30th, 2008 @ 11:35
Jesus. There’s no need for this. Spanish site Meristation’s rumouring that the game Sega recently signed an Unreal Engine license extension for is Shenmue III, and that the game will be on show in some form at E3.
We’ve left Sega a voicemail. We expect to get laughed at later on today.
Thanks, Manuel!
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May 30th, 2008 at 11:40 am
No need for what?
May 30th, 2008 at 11:41 am
No need for Shenmue 3.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Kill yourself.
Edit: Sorry, that was harsh.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:43 am
/hears the faint hiss of a 1000 fanboys weeing themselves in anticipation
May 30th, 2008 at 11:44 am
No need for a rumour that’s about as true as something that’s so not true it’s untrue.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Phew Pat. Thought you were saying something terrible there. There’s always time for Shenmue.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Shenmue, mart, was *fucking* shit. The most ridiculous experiment in games.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:46 am
LOL
I love it.
I don’t think you and I are ever going to be able to align on taste are we?
May 30th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Shenmue was great, chances of this happening are zero though and using UE for it seems even more unlikely.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:49 am
mart: I’m sure there are some things we both like. We just haven’t found them yet
Shenmue was amazing but so incredibly dull. I remember waiting for a bus, and Paul Davies telling me about the forklift truck race thing. So boring.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I’m in the “Shenmue was shit” camp… but I’m not against the fans getting another game. =)
May 30th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I’ve never played Shenmue, but its fanboys never fail to be entertaining.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:52 am
It was dull, you’re right, but it drew me in anyway in a sleepy kind of “oh this nice la la la” sort of way. And I thought the fighting sections were fun. Still, this was ages ago, I might hate it if I played it now.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Shenmue IS shit, but I still love it. Just because it’s rubbish, doesn’t mean I have to dislike it. It’s a game that has almost no gameplay of any kind, it’s really slow paced and it has terrible voice acting. A bit like Resident Evil, no? A game which is one of my very very favourite series, yet I’d still say they are (4 aside) not very good games. Shenmue just has something about it.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I reckon if you played it now you wouldn’t get past the first 10 minutes.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Same could be said of some of the greatest games ever, tbh.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Such as?
May 30th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I dunno, lots
I just find going back to any really old game I love, it’s fun to reminisce for a bit, but it never really grabs me again and keeps me coming back. I tried to play the old GTAs recently for example, and find it extremely hard to go back to them.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I tried to play the PC version of the first GTA just the other day and it’s complete dog shit.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
haha
The only old games that really hold up for me are the Mario titles. I love them so much. They’re perfect. I could play Super Mario World, Super Mario III, etc, all day.
Zelda, on the other hand: dogshit.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I wouldn’t say dogshit. Some absolutely horrible design decisions in them though. God damn flippers.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
There are bits in them that require ludicrous leaps of logic coupled with no hints as to what to do. They drive me mad. Every single time, I find myself just standing othere completely clueless about what to do. This normally coincides with me switching off the console.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Yup. Frankly if I hadn’t played the newer ones I doubt I could have completed LttP. I was playing it alongside someone who rates it as one of the best games ever and there were times even he couldn’t tell me what to do.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Didn’t even touch Twilight Princess. There aren’t enough hours in a life.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
TP’s not that long. I cleared it in about 30 hours or so, I think. It only takes a gazillion years if you’re stupidly anal about collecting/seeing every single tiny little thing in the entire world.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Wow, I thought it was much longer. I’m sure a few people said to me it took them 70 hours.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Yeah, well they’re fucking nutters.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I bought Beyond Good and Evil on the PS2 today for a tenner. What do I win?
May 30th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I cleared the first one with a friend in a day-night-day session. About 30 hours or so.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Shenmue was more of an experience than a game, but a very good experience at that. In a way Shenue was a precursor to games like GTA IV, with it’s AI driven populous and night day cycle amongst other features. I really hope Sega closes the series with a final game, or heck how aout a CGI production, darn it just give us closure.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I don’t care what any of you say. Shenmue was a great game and an incredible experience.
Patlike, your credibility went to shit as soon as you called Zelda “dogshit.”
May 31st, 2008 at 9:52 pm
May 31st, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Azuma:
*actually laughing*
June 1st, 2008 at 10:12 pm
This article reminded me of the day I walked into that games shop and how grateful i am that just by chance picked this game up off the shelf and bought it. There’s absolutely no deying the game’s beauty and cinematic quality, even if some of you out there found Shenmue to be boring. It has this immersive feel to it, beautiful and interactive envirnoments and it was far ahead of its time. It’s by no means crap! I’m all for a Shenmue 3 release.