- Joined
- Jul 28, 2018
- Favourite title
- Shenmue IIx
- Currently playing
- Ghost of Tsushima
- PSN
- mjqjazzbar
Expanding on a post in another thread. If you were given the following choices, which would be your preference?
1. Shenmue assets, music and gameplay from Shenmue 3 to tell the remainder of the Shenmue story. There might be a tweak here or there, but you're gonna turn it on and know you're playing not much more than an expansion of Shenmue 3
2. Telltale Shenmue. Decrease most interactivity and now Shenmue is essentially a visual novel with some light gameplay touches. Combat is a nonstarter.
3. Change the genre entirely. Hire a competent studio to make a brawler with quality cutscenes, but with gameplay that mostly focuses mostly on combat. We're four games into the series now; shouldn't action take precedent over investigation anyway? Give Shenmue the Spikeout or Streets of Rage 4 treatment and see what happens; you'll probably pick up a few casuals along the way. I'm sure these games cost way more to develop than I could ever imagine, so maybe it's a nonstarter... Maybe the Battle Rally engine could be tweaked a bit? Sega has so many talented companies to out-source their franchises to these days....
What other ideas do you have? My least favorite outcome for Shenmue is an anime, manga or novelization. I want to play Shen ue. I want to listen to Shenmue music. I want to see Shenmue ambience.
1. Shenmue assets, music and gameplay from Shenmue 3 to tell the remainder of the Shenmue story. There might be a tweak here or there, but you're gonna turn it on and know you're playing not much more than an expansion of Shenmue 3
2. Telltale Shenmue. Decrease most interactivity and now Shenmue is essentially a visual novel with some light gameplay touches. Combat is a nonstarter.
3. Change the genre entirely. Hire a competent studio to make a brawler with quality cutscenes, but with gameplay that mostly focuses mostly on combat. We're four games into the series now; shouldn't action take precedent over investigation anyway? Give Shenmue the Spikeout or Streets of Rage 4 treatment and see what happens; you'll probably pick up a few casuals along the way. I'm sure these games cost way more to develop than I could ever imagine, so maybe it's a nonstarter... Maybe the Battle Rally engine could be tweaked a bit? Sega has so many talented companies to out-source their franchises to these days....
What other ideas do you have? My least favorite outcome for Shenmue is an anime, manga or novelization. I want to play Shen ue. I want to listen to Shenmue music. I want to see Shenmue ambience.