SickOctopus wrote: Please excuse my ignorance, but has something happened or been said to cause this recent loss of confidence in the remasters being announced at E3?
I may have fallen behind in any Shenmue-related news, but I was under the (cautious) impression that the signs had been pointing towards the news we're all hoping for, or at the very least, a decent outside chance of it happening. Although by no means confirmation of an E3 reveal, I would have thought all these cryptic tweets by people within the industry, the Rice Digital (seemingly respectable source) rumour and the recent picture of Yu Suzuki and Gio Corsi posing with a copy of the original Shenmue would all have been cause for at least a fair amount of optimism. Then there's also SEGA's own (albeit, unconvincing) statements of intent to make it. Even after the confirmation of Shenmue III's delay, I read a fair few people stating that the timing and circumstances could actually set the stage for the announcement of the remasters.
Obviously I understand it's best that we curb our expectations and prepare ourselves for the possibility of a no-show, but that's not to say it's necessarily unrealistic. I'm just a bit puzzled as to this recent shift of opinion.
Personally, I think we have a good 50/50 shot, though perhaps that's just me.
From what I've seen over the years in these threads, it all comes down to emotion. Whatever their head might be telling them, people seem to ultimately base their expectations on whether they "feel it" or they don't. And like all emotions, it can randomly fluctuate from one week/day/hour to the next, with those fluctuations intensifying the closer we get to the show in question.
And at its core, there's nothing wrong with that. None of us knows one way or the other, so as long as we don't lose sight of that fact and behave as if we do know, then licking one's finger and holding it to the wind is as good a method as any.
