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Yeah, I wouldn't read anything into it other than Shenmue 3 is one of their products and they just want a few late sales.

Yeah, my wife tells me mine came today. Looking forward to reading it when I get home from work.

Has this not been announced yet? My first kid hadn't even been born when Shenmue 3 was announced. I now have two kids and at this rate they will have gone to college and moved out of home by the time Shenmue 4 is announced.

Have they started shipping? No worries if not, it's just I had an email from Royal Mail today saying they have my package and will deliver it tomorrow and I'm confused, because I haven't ordered anything, so I am trying to work out what it is :unsure:

It's cabin fever, man. We've all been stuck in this thread for months, with no official word, we're all going stir crazy. Someone just announce Shenmue IV already before we all tear eachother apart! 🤣

Even Sonic Mania? And SoR4?

Yeah, but didn't they actually promote those games as if they were Sega products? I swear they were the publiser for most of them? With Shenmue 3 they basically acted like it didn't even exist.

How come they will palm off various franchises like House of the Dead, Panzer Dragoon, Streets of Rage, Sonic the Hedgehog etc on other developers, but they can't do the same with Ys Net with Shenmue and put their weight behind it? It can't be *that* much of a fincancial risk, especially...

Or is the team the exact same size, but they just expanded in terms of physical space to comply with ventilation and social distancing measures? lol

Speaking of side quests, why did no one in Shenmue 3 teach Ryo optional new moves like in the first two games? (Other than Delin's brother) It would be cool if in Shenmue 4 the rewards for completing some side quests is a character teaching you a new move like in the first two games.

I don't think branching paths have to be too complicated though or particularly time consuming/budget intensive for the team. I don't think they even have to have that many. They toned down on it a lot in the second game, if I remember correctly, but they still made it work. Edit: Also, for me...

Also, little touches like having more branching paths (multiple paths to progress the story) and having missable extra scenes and events like the first two games would also help make the game and characters feel more alive and interesting. When the first game came out and I had a few friends...

I always think it's a bit of a sweeping generalisation and a bit simplistic, kneejerk reaction to jump to the conclusion that new players want quest markers and the like, and that that is the only issue they had with the Shenmue games. There's almost a kind of patronising tone to it... "Oh it's...

Personally that reads a hell of a lot like he genuinely is saying nothing is going on with 110 Industries and he doesn't understand why the rumours exist.

It looks like Spidersaurs was released in 2019, so perhaps a 3 year wait? Hopefully if we do get a PC and console release we don't have to wait that long.