Corporate business models these days revolve around shareholders, not consumers. That they’re consumer-facing is only an ancillary concern, as long their shareholders benefit. It’s a shit system on more levels than I care to dive into in this brief comment.

I’d watch this if it had the same quality dubbing as the first game.

Yeah, I knew that 20 years ago, hon. Also, 3 pretty much was his shot, and considering how ludicrously dated the gameplay was, the visuals were and just the massively unsatisfying “and Lan Di got away again” ending, I really hope backers of 3 don’t back him again.

The Shenmue games really should’ve taken a Yakuza approach and gone for streamlining the story and gameplay. I understand Yu Suzuki has a vision but I wanna see Virtua Fighter make a comeback damnit!!! Or at least make them crossover with TEKKEN 7!

On one hand I believe going into Shenmue 3 Suzuki was completely open about the fact it wouldn’t finish the story. On the other hand that fact still amazes me.

Yakuza probably wouldn’t exist without Shenmue, and I think that’s the series’ true enduring legacy.

I’ll be honest, I find it incredibly hard to believe that anyone would have thrown their support behind the game — the third in the series — with the expectation that what may well be the most notorious cliffhanger in gaming would go without resolution.

How long would that take? 3 episodes?

13 episodes of Ryo wandering around asking about Chinese people and saying “I see”.

When I talk to people about Shenmue they reminisce in a way that makes the game sound like it’s Yakuza but then you play Shenmue and it’s just pure garbage. Yakuza is what Shenmue should have been.

Episode 1: “Do you know anything about that day?”

This is what it should’ve been from the beginning. Maybe this franchise can finally produce something good. I get why people like Shenmue, at least theoretically. Gameplay is choppy to me, but I can see some appeal there, but the story and characters are arguably the centerpiece, and they’re terrible. Hopefully this…

I see.

It’s 1600 episodes long and takes place at real-time pace...

I hope it does lol. At the rate they’re going, we’re nowhere close to the ending. Additionally, 3 was unfortunately not as good as people had hoped, which makes the likelihood of a sequel less likely :(

More like the boss is punishing them for trying to stop his assholery. This guy been skating for years as a kind of dick and this is just too much now.

Welcome to capitalism.

It’s not entirely unbelievable that an indie studio with only two significant titles would be in considerable debt. Game development of any cut beyond “retro” titles is not cheap, even before you put in the bloat of marketing and publishing.

Welcome to America.