by Silas » Mon May 12, 2003 5:43 am
What do you mean by "the same thing"? I'm happy that as a European I got the benefit of both Japanese and English in Shenmue II and all without modding my DC! But I don't expect to play Shenmue III in Japanese.
LanDC, Shenmue II was cancelled in the USA because they hadn't done the English dubbing, and by the time it was the DC would be completely dead. That isn't going to happen with Shenmue III because the X-Box isn't going to get cancelled. (Like it or not, it was obviously felt by SEGA that the European market would tolerate a Japanese language version and the American market wouldn't. I think the consensus here is that they were wrong, but you've got to get the casual players as well as us fanatics if you're going to make any money.
One thing that the Japanese Ren does far better than the English Ren - it's that long yawn near the end of the Kowloon sequence! "Yeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawoooooooooghghghghgh!"