Shenmue III - Coming 2019

[Havok83]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

Makes sense to buy them up whether remastered or not to stop domain squatters.

they've been talking about potentially doing this as recently as September

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/09/02/s...enmue-remaster

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by Havok83

they've been talking about potentially doing this as recently as September

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/09/02/s...enmue-remaster

I remember seeing an article on CVG (website is now gone from the internet so can't find the link) that it was rated by one of the rating boards. Even though nothing has ever turned up.

From memory it said that Shenmue HD had already been completed for almost a year (this was circa 2012) but SEGA were weighing up their options for a release.

That might have something to do with the licensing rights holding them back from a release that they mentioned last year.

I saw this from 2012 too, that Sega said they were working on Shenmue and Skies of Arcadia HD

In an interview with Game Reactor, Sega brand manager Ben Harborne said the two titles are the most requested by fans.

"I can tell you what it's going to be: Shenmue," Harborne said. "And Skies of Arcadia as well.

"So those are a couple of our most requested games. I can't say yes or no, but we may be working on them."

Sega has been dipping into its Dreamcast library to produce HD ports for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, previously releasing Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, Space Channel 5: Part 2 and Sega Bass Fishing.

[dyne]

SoA is a goddamned gem of a game.

[Mavrick]

Looks like the also registered shenmueremastered.com

[ussrelativity]

Things could be getting more interesting. I wonder if it does come to fruition, that the games could have some interconnect-ability like with the Mass Effect series, i.e. keeping save data between games.

[Verisimilitude1984]

Like all of you, I'm really looking forward to this game and the possibility of Shenmue I and II in HD.

Shenmue I was a magical experience at the time and unlike anything I'd played. Although I got to later play both the Dreamcast PAL and Xbox Shenmue II versions, it's the original that remains dear to me. The HD remaster should have been released years ago and I do wonder whether it will all hold up still, but as long as we have at least HD visuals, analogue controls and the possibility of carrying on save data from I to II and maybe III (though not being made by SEGA) would be brilliant.

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by Verisimilitude1984

Like all of you, I'm really looking forward to this game and the possibility of Shenmue I and II in HD.

Shenmue I was a magical experience at the time and unlike anything I'd played. Although I got to later play both the Dreamcast PAL and Xbox Shenmue II versions, it's the original that remains dear to me. The HD remaster should have been released years ago and I do wonder whether it will all hold up still, but as long as we have at least HD visuals, analogue controls and the possibility of carrying on save data from I to II and maybe III (though not being made by SEGA) would be brilliant.

I replayed I last year on the Dreamcast, and I think todays open world games have spoiled us.

I remembered I as this huge open world where we could do anything and interact with the world in almost any way.

Going back to it I realised just how "small" the world actually was. In terms of locations there are only really 4 areas in the game, but it's the density of the game that really made it stand out. Being able to go inside buildings and use telephones and talk to strangers in the street. As well as being able to pick up items in shops and play actual games in the Arcade etc.

The size of the game in contrast to other sandbox games like GTA is actually quite limited, but the depth to the world is almost unsurpassed.