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I'm in the camp that would actually prefer if Shenmue 4 served as the final instalment.
There was a comment Yu Suzuki made in an interview on the previous Dojo in 2014 where he said that while Shenmue spans 4-5 games and he would ideally like a fifth to include the entirety of his vision, he felt that it "might be a bit much" and so he would try to wrap things up in 3 & 4 instead. It was only during the Kickstarter when fans showed their support and the Kickstarter smashed records that Yu has started talking more about Shenmue 5 and has even stumbled into Shenmue 6 talk if a comment by Corey Marshall is to be believed.
Given how gruelling it has been to get Shenmue 3 made to the point its only hope was a crowdfunding initiative now coupled with the mixed responses it has received from critics and sales which presumably have not exactly set the world on fire, I feel that there's got to be some sort of compromise made here if we want to witness the end of this story. If this is the reaction Shenmue 3 is getting, its only going to get worse come Shenmue 4 as that game will not have all the "20-years in the making!" hype behind it like Shenmue 3 had which would have helped drive some extra sales.
Using the profit earned from Shenmue 3 to make a large-scale, 30 or even 60-hour long Shenmue 4 that adapts the cream of the remaining story to ensure the story is safely concluded for the fans who waited 20-years for a resolution is the most sensible thing YS Net and Shibuya can do in my opinion. To play with fire and risk another potential shelving by setting up more sequels ala Assassin's Creed in a franchise that continues to be underappreciated just sounds incredibly risky to me. We captured lightning in a bottle with the Kickstarter revival, and it's either now or never that Yu gets to finish his story and I think he should end it as soon as he can rather than delaying things for the sake of having more sequels.
What do you all think?
There was a comment Yu Suzuki made in an interview on the previous Dojo in 2014 where he said that while Shenmue spans 4-5 games and he would ideally like a fifth to include the entirety of his vision, he felt that it "might be a bit much" and so he would try to wrap things up in 3 & 4 instead. It was only during the Kickstarter when fans showed their support and the Kickstarter smashed records that Yu has started talking more about Shenmue 5 and has even stumbled into Shenmue 6 talk if a comment by Corey Marshall is to be believed.
Given how gruelling it has been to get Shenmue 3 made to the point its only hope was a crowdfunding initiative now coupled with the mixed responses it has received from critics and sales which presumably have not exactly set the world on fire, I feel that there's got to be some sort of compromise made here if we want to witness the end of this story. If this is the reaction Shenmue 3 is getting, its only going to get worse come Shenmue 4 as that game will not have all the "20-years in the making!" hype behind it like Shenmue 3 had which would have helped drive some extra sales.
Using the profit earned from Shenmue 3 to make a large-scale, 30 or even 60-hour long Shenmue 4 that adapts the cream of the remaining story to ensure the story is safely concluded for the fans who waited 20-years for a resolution is the most sensible thing YS Net and Shibuya can do in my opinion. To play with fire and risk another potential shelving by setting up more sequels ala Assassin's Creed in a franchise that continues to be underappreciated just sounds incredibly risky to me. We captured lightning in a bottle with the Kickstarter revival, and it's either now or never that Yu gets to finish his story and I think he should end it as soon as he can rather than delaying things for the sake of having more sequels.
What do you all think?