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- Jul 27, 2018
I think you're both being quite harsh.
Shenmue 3 didn't have the luxury of a AAA budget like the ones it is being compared to (GTA, for instants).
I found Niaowu a lot of fun with its mini-games, side quests, training areas and overall atmosphere.
I get that it wasn't perfect, but again, Yu didn't have the courtesy of a AAA budget anymore.
That wasn't really my point though. It felt like Niaowu was much larger than it really had any need to be and it was just large for the sake of being large. It didn't really serve any kind of purpose and if budget was an issue, they could have condensed the area quite easily without losing much of value in my opinion.
At this point it feels like people are hating just for the sake of it. Shenmue 3's faults have been discussed to death. If you didn't like it, move on. Find something that does make you happy instead. Just a thought.
Name something Shenmue related that hasn't been discussed to death. Maybe we should just close off any kind of discussion that relates to the first three games, because it has been done to death? It's a franchise that spans more than two decades and consists of only three games and an anime, what else are we going to discuss? It feels like people here are sometimes incredibly defensive and touchy about Shenmue 3 being discussed. I don't hate or even dislike Shenmue 3, but I do find the Niaowu area to be overly large when compared to what there actually is to see and do there and how much story happens within that portion of the game.
These kind of criticisms really shouldn't be considered controversial.