However, it's possible that they'll be able to resolve the issues with it and present the entire game in 16:9 by the time it goes gold. I'm not expecting it, though, and I don't care either way. I'm just happy to be able to play the games properly again. There's no guarantee things will change sinc...

I’ve never been sure how serious to take these things on specific store websites? Is it the item with the most preorder’s total? The last week? The last month?. Amazon ranks are updated hourly and usually based on sales (and pre orders) over the past 24 hours. I'm guessing how far it goes back depe...

I'm 17 and I know about it! And I told my friend he is 15 and is turning 16 next month he seems to like it! I'm sorry to say this but you are the exception my friend. Most 17 year old gamers are mindlessly playing things like fortnite or pubg. Shenmue is mostly a old mans game in this age. Hopefull...

For what it's worth, I'm glad someone from d3t has reached out to the community. But I hope he doesn't get in trouble for it, since that kind of thing is borderline risky from an NDA standpoint. When Christian Whitehead and co were working on Sonic Mania, Christian would occasionally confirm minor n...

I can understand and live with 4:3 for Shenmue I cutscenes, it's just the 16:9 letterboxed ones for Shenmue II with the double black bars that have me worried. If they get this and shadows sorted out for Shenmue II I'll be a happy man. The trailer didn't have double black bars for the Shenmue Tree ...

What I don't understand is, how come, if the cutscenes are really going to be in the original 4:3 ratio that this screen capture from a Shenmue 2 cutscene in the announcement trailer is in 16:9 ratio? The little box in the lower right of the first page of the article has a list of changes. The 2nd ...

I'm disappointed that this whole thread sadly turned into a shitshow since I visited yesterday. Lots of incorrect information, and unsourced 'new' information. :-( I mentioned the 4x3 versus 16x9 thing already and had to point out that the cutscenes were already that ratio but letterboxed. Refer to ...

I'm not sure if Sega would be willing to have to put up money for leaderboard servers and what not. In the case of PS4 and Xbox Live, that's not a problem. Leaderboards are hosted by Sony & Microsoft on their respective servers and are part of the console's integration with trophies/achievement...

At least at first glance that looks fine to me. What exactly is wrong with it and what would you do different? I agree, the new HUD elements look fine to me. The clock needs to be generic looking to ditch the Timex branding since they're not re-licensing that. Some of it was weird at first and almo...

Considering that Shenmue 3 voice acting starts being recorded soon, I don't agree with any of the people saying mid to late 2019 on that. If they're doing VO, most of the scenes and dialogue are already locked down and we should expect the game less than a year after they start recording. So April 2...

So if I'm reading this correctly you believe they've removed the letterboxing and just "blew up" the image remaining to fill the screen for the 16:9 shot in the trailer. Am I understanding that right? No? Your description of my statement makes it sound like you think that I think that the...

Shenmue 2 cutscenes were always in 16x9. Unless I'm seriously misremembering if the Xbox version had a widescreen option, Shenmue II's cutscenes were still 4:3, unless you're mistaking the letterboxing for 16:9. I'm not mistaking letterboxing for 16x9. I know it was letterboxed, but it was still 16...

My concern is that you see the intro to Shenmue 1 in 4:3... will the cutscenes not be in widescreen? We see a Shenmue II cutscene in 16:9, and the trailer is split between 4:3 and 16:9 likely for the purposes of "old vs new" for the video. Shenmue 2 cutscenes were always in 16x9. The fact...

1. Why are all of the Shenmue 1 screenshots in 4x3? We've already managed to patch the Dreamcast version to run in 16x9, so why can't they? I just realized this was a stupid comment after re-watching the trailer for the 5th time. They clearly show Shenmue 1 running in 16x9 during the middle of the ...

Also PS4 first here. I planned to play Shenmue 3 on PS4 first, and I feel like it makes sense to play it on a console. I will probably play it again on PC though afterward. My PS4 is a standard model and I only have a 1080p TV, but I have a 4K monitor for my desktop and it handles older games like t...