Jibby wrote: Reprise wrote:It seems like we as fans have built up our expectations, when Sega have never hyped these up as being amazing, 'definitive HD remasters'.
To me it feels like quite the opposite. A lot of 'fans' here have done nothing but downplay and criticise these remasters despite SEGA pushing them massively and running and running fantastic and interactive campaigns on social media such as #ShenmueSaved and #MyShenmue. Heck, they even flew Adam Koralik all the way over to Tokyo just so we could have a familiar face to represent SEGA. To say they aren't hyping this up simply isn't true.
I'm talking about specifically the marketing and the branding here. I'm not denying that Sega is hyping up the collection. I mean they want strong sales, of course they're going to market it and hype it up. But they haven't once referred to it as either remastered or any of the usual slogans that get thrown around with HD remasters. It's not called 'Shenmue 1 & 2 HD', it's not called Shenmue 1 & 2 Definitive Collection, it's not called Shenmue 1 & 2 Remastered'. It's just called Shenmue 1 & 2. Whenever they refer to the collection, I don't see them making effort to state that it's a remaster. Even the community manager at Sega who posted at Shenmue 500k today referred to them as a 're-release', not a remaster or whatever.
Maybe I'm being nitpicky and pedantic here, I don't know? But it's pretty standard these days if you are releasing a HD remaster that you call it something like HD Remastered Definitive Collection and emphasise those kinds of words in the branding.
Even Gamespot picked up on it:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/shenm ... 0-6458239/