

#Shenmue 3 animal style upgrade#
Many simply keep their PlayStation 3 and play the original instead of buying a slight upgrade for the PS4 due to a lack of backward compatibility. If a remaster isn't perfect and noticeably superior to the original, most gamers won't bother buying the same game twice. They had stayed silent as they worked on what we had expected.Īs Ubisoft has no doubt learned from last year's collection release, gamers can be picky. Ubisoft had purchased the domain "AssassinsCreedCollection," which turned out to be just a collection of figures based on characters from the games. Of course, Sega of Europe's acquisition of the Shenmue domains also slightly mirrors what Ubisoft did prior to the announcement of the Ezio Collection. The Ezio Collection basically turned up the detail on the original games without changing much of anything else, and it wasn't well received. After all, when Ubisoft finally gave in and re-released Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations with a graphical upgrade, people who had been previously excited about it turned up their proverbial noses and called it a cash grab.
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We haven't given it a green light, but it has our full attention."Ī remaster could easily be a costly project, and there isn't much guarantee that the public is going to buy enough copies to justify it. If we are to do it, we'd want to do a fantastic conversion to the current platforms, and there are a lot of in the game, which were cleared many years ago, so we will need to renegotiate those contracts. They have been asked about the possibility of a Shenmue HD remaster release, and Sega boss Jurgen Post said it was entirely workable, even if there are hurdles, according to Kotaku. The PS4 outsold Microsoft's console nearly every month since the two released, and it could be prime real estate for the most anticipated remasters since Batman: Return to Arkham.Īnother possibility is that Sega of Europe is simply keeping anyone else from taking the domains mentioned above, as Games Radar reports. The PlayStation 4 has no such worries as it has become a serious competitor with the Xbox One for bestselling consoles. It was a Sega video game collector's dream come true, even if the console itself was the victim of financial problems. You could even win various merchandise based on Sega's other games by spending your forklift-operation earnings on Japanese vending machines.


Of course, there were also the combat scenarios because what's an open world video game without a fight or two? By today's standards, it was a bit clunky, but the immersion was incredible back then. It was the first "meta" game which ever gained commercial success, possibly due to playing the role of a video gamer who has to work for the things he wants. Shenmue was a Dreamcast title with an original premise at the time. It's possible but unknown as Sega of Europe recently bought domains for "ShenmueHD" and "ShenmueRemastered." The Shenmue 3 release date is set for later this year, but we might also end up with remasters of the first two games in the process.
