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Don't Get Your Hopes Up: Shenmue 3 Exists

Posted on Wednesday, December 8 @ 22:20:33 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

The man behind the classic Dreamcast series, Yu Suzuki, recently told 1up that a concept for Shenmue 3 "already exists."

That concept has existed for like 10 years probably.... It'd have to exist for so many planned sequels in the series.

Suzuki explained the concept behind Shenmue 3:

The concept for Shenmue 3 already exists, so... The world of Shenmue 1 and 2 expanded outward. But Shenmue 3 doesn't expand outward, but inward.

A lot of the dialogue is used for the main character and especially dialogue with Shenhua. They talk about a lot of different, deeper things. For example, and I can't say too much, but here's an example.

This is not actually in the game, but as an example to give you an idea of what I mean by deeper dialogue, when Shenhua and Ryo are at home, Shehua will ask Ryo is he would like to drink tea or coffee and the player will select one or the other.

Or, Shenhua will ask Ryo a hypothetical question like: "There are four animals; a monkey, cat, dog and bird. You are crossing the river but you need to leave one behind. Which one will you leave behind?" And the player has to choose one.

Suzuki, you couldn't give us an actual example? You had to make those up?

(Pictured: Not Shenmue 3, which doesn't really exist.)

Some of those choices seem about as meaningful as deciding whether or not to endorse a store on the Citadel as Commander Shepherd. If the questions are as vanilla as "coffee or tea," what's the point? Is Shenmue 3 actually Shenmue Seaman?

I have to admit, and you'll all probably stone me to death for this, but I have never played a Shenmue game. I sure as hell am not going to start with Suzuki's upcoming Shenmue City, a mobile game spin-off slated for Japanese release.

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Related Games: Shenmue, Shenmue II

Comments

Eduardo_Reboucas
Joined: Dec 2008

Posted: Dec 9th, 2010 at 3:32 am
The ending for Shenmue 2 was so heartbreaking when I played knowing there would (probably) never be a sequel. Would be nice to get at least a script for the next game to know what happens!

And as always, I hate you Daniel for the constant teases! :D

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MrrClean
Joined: Aug 2010

Posted: Dec 9th, 2010 at 7:38 am
Wow... Tea or coffee... That's some really deep subject matter there...

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assembler_b2b
Joined: Dec 2010

Posted: Dec 9th, 2010 at 10:20 am
i don't want to be rude but, seeing that you haven't even played shenmue, i must tell you... Shenmue is for us (shenmue fans) like Maradona to Argentines, like Buddha to Buddhists, i mean we're more loyal than any other game fan, so when someone talks about shenmue without knowing about it, even if he/she is right (even if she's hot) we get kinda upset, kinda punch you in the face, becouse we've not been waiting like 10 years for someone to post "Don't Get Your Hopes Up" and start talking about something he can't comprehend. So i'll suggest shut up until you have played it and if you have played it and still want to say crap, shut up. and yes dont start with shenmue city, that's not shenmue that's just porn.

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Dec 9th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
What is Shenmue?

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