Shenmue 3?

monkeyfudge · 25-08-2005 8:09pm #1

Anyone know how reliable kikizo are for news?

http://games.kikizo.com/news/200508/141_p1.asp

grimloch · 25-08-2005 8:13pm

I hope they're reliable, the first one I think, might have been on the dreamcast was deadly. I'd love to see a new one.

Rhyme · 25-08-2005 8:13pm

Never trusted them before...

Wasnt Shenmue going to be a game about 2 years ago, then a movie, then a book and then... nothing?

monkeyfudge · 25-08-2005 8:18pm

There was an MMORPG planned for asia... but it was cancelled recently.

They're a strangely compelling bunch of games though. I'm currently playing through Shenmue 2 again, but this time on the xBox.

But it first game has some of the greatest ingame dialogue of any game ever..!

When you spend large section of the game going around asking people:

"Do you know where sailors hang out?"

Classic stuff...

Ciaran500 · 25-08-2005 8:28pm

IIRC kikizo are pretty reliable for inside scoops from Sega.

monkeyfudge · 25-08-2005 8:29pm

Ciaran500 wrote:

IIRC kikizo are pretty reliable for inside scoops from Sega.

Cause for celebration then...

Lord Oz · 25-08-2005 8:47pm

It's about damn time.

Retr0gamer · 25-08-2005 9:11pm

I heard somewhere today that Shenmue 3 will be multiplatform and will be on the next generation of consoles. It will also finish the shenmue saga. Just rumours but they seem pretty reliable.

monkeyfudge · 25-08-2005 9:32pm

Chapter 2 of Shenmue was supposed to be based on the boat trip over to Hong Kong... ha.. they were really planning on stretching the storyline out weren't they?

Retr0gamer · 25-08-2005 9:53pm

There was supposed to be 5 games in the series.

Gileadi · 25-08-2005 10:30pm

im sure originally there was meant to be 8/9 in the original series but as sega got into more financial problems it was clear it was never going to happen so they kept cutting it down

original was a great game though,minigames were brilliant

BlitzKrieg · 25-08-2005 10:33pm

there were meant to be 7...but 2 squeezed 3 of them into one (hence the really dull jungle level).

Laguna · 26-08-2005 3:27am

Yeah there was s'posed to be 7 games in total. The original Shenmue on the DC was a classic and criminally underappreciated by the masses. I'm pretty sure I read in GamesTM that Yu Suzuki mumbled something about Xbox 360 and Shenmue 3...

Deadwing · 26-08-2005 8:17am

They havent exactly won me over with that lousy photoshopped sword in ryu's hand tho. FFS its the same model from shenmue1, they just plastered a sword in his hand to make it look 'next gen' :rolleyes:

monkeyfudge · 26-08-2005 9:15am

He's still got that cut on his cheek too I see...

Kintarō Hattori · 27-08-2005 4:16pm

Ahh Shenmue,

I rarely pay full price for a game, I just think they're too expensive, but I couldn't hand over my money fast enough for those two. Still have them and the DC, I must go back and play them again some time.

I hope to god there is a new version. I hadn't committed myself to a next gen machine, but if Shenmue 3 pops up on one, that's it, I have to have one.

BlitzKrieg · 28-08-2005 1:36am

i wont buy a next gen machine until i see the next shenmue, Nights, panzer dragoon and shining force appearing on them (or even re-releases of shining force 3 and panzer dragoon saga) Whichever of the next gens get the most of the above titles i will throw money at them.

Rhyme · 03-09-2005 11:25am

BUMPITY BUMP

Ran across this by complete accident, new perhaps?

http://gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=1175

monkeyfudge · 03-09-2005 11:53am

Rhyme wrote:

BUMPITY BUMP

Ran across this by complete accident, new perhaps?

http://gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=1175

That's Shenmue Online. It's been cancelled.

It was going to be a MMORPG that was only going to be released in Asia. It wasn't actually going to be part of the Shenmue Saga, it was just going to be set in the Shenmue universe. I'm not too sure how it would work... would come home from a hard day shifting crates around in work to log into the MMORPG and help other players to shift virtual crates?

Rhyme · 03-09-2005 6:18pm

Ah... i could never picture a game such as that making a big splash in th MMORPG stakes anyway, magical in a different way.

The Truth! · 04-09-2005 8:42pm

Oh class, i heard a few months ago that it had been canned, then it was back on track, then canned again. And the guy who came up with the idea for Shenmue, Yu Suzuki, left Sega's development studio AM2 and they brought out Shenmue.

Either way if it's true, then that is good news!

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