Well other than the fact that you took that quote out of context i still think that thats true. Yu Suzuki is well aware of things like the shenmue petition and this website. Its not fair to him to say that hes forgotten about his fans. Shenmue was his vision and no developer would want to leave thei...

Obviously i agree but i still think its ridiclious to package such a large amount of gameplay into one box, there is no reason for them to shove the entire series down peoples throats when they could profit so much more from selling them individually, as fully updated next gen titles. These arent ex...

But that would be sooooo long. At first i thought about the whole idea of one big game or packaging the first 2 with the third but if people dont have the patience to find megume in the first game they certainly dont have the will to finish the entire trilogy at once (assuming that shenmue 3 is the ...

I really think that Sega realizes what a risk it is for them to invest in shenmue further at this point. While there were a myraid of factors which led to its failure (while like you said it didnt sell terribly all things considered but it wasnt nearly enough to compinsate for development costs), th...

The thing that would really suck is if all the people whove been waiting for shenmues return all these years end up as the disgruntled purists who long for the original games. I wouldnt be surprised if they made it easier to find out things in the new games. Possibly make it so that more of the rand...

Shenmue has always been about building up to something bigger than what happens at first, more so than most games. While i understand the point that the beginning is a huge reason impatient gamers lose interest im also frightened at the possibility of shenmue losing its dectective aspect because of ...

There has been a lot of discussion of the shenmue saga coming to the next generation of video game systems. This all got me thinking about what any next gen shenmue is going would actually be. Im sure this forum has its purists who would be happy with little more than updated visuals but realistical...

I dont think any sega official is ever going to go up and say Shenmue 3 isnt coming out simply because even if it isnt currently being worked on(which hopefully isnt the case) there is always potential for it to be reevaluated for a future release. As for the May 2007 rumor i refuse to go through an...

Dragnoix im sorry but youre just wrong on this one. I mean yea i agree with maybe one thing you said, mainly about when you joined not having anything to do with whether youre a shenmue fan or not, ive been checking this site for many years though im not much for posting but i cant help a good onlin...

I agree that Yu Suzuki has obviously been the driving factor behind the shenmue series and when the kikizo article said his involvement would be limited on shenmue 3 i thought about the implications of that statement. My conclusion is that as long as the bulk of the work is done and the game really ...

How on earth is xbox a copy of dreamcast? There is no part of that statement that sounds like any thought was actually put into it before typing it. Microsoft came into this game as a new console nearly 5 years back and they now enjoy a comfortable second behind ps2, beating gamecube with nearly zer...

You make some good points mike. ps3 clearly has superior hardware to xbox 360, the price it pays to beat it in the launch window area, but in several ways that could also come as an advantage. Im sure youre no stranger to the talks of trouble seeral developers have reported using next gen archetectu...

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hmmmmmmmm, to sell the rights for shenmue, my money would be on, well any company as long as they have the capital and are fairly marketing savy. For shenmue Yu Suzuki would still be the head honcho when it comes to story, gameplay, etc, so to look at a companies past titles and judge them by that w...

Im totally with Mike on this one, i too have been skimming several resident evil reviews after actually gotten a chance to play it and was shocked to find things that shenmue introduced into the gaming industry being called revolutionary. I say we tell Yu Suzuki too throw a few zombies into shenmue ...