While many suspected the 3rd title to be the conclusion to the series, Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki has announced that the upcoming Shenmue III will have an open ending, leaving room for a potential sequel, one which may hopefully not leave fans waiting another 20 years.
Having been in development for 20 years, diehard fans have been extremely eager to finally witness the next chapter in the legendary series – Yu Suzuki however has declared that the franchise’s gigantic story can’t come to a proper conclusion with just a 3rd title.
Not yet announcing that a new title may immediately be slated after the 3rd is finished, Suzuki stated that the ending to Shenmue III will be “left open to a 4th game”, whether or not that 4th game will become a reality will no doubt depend on Shenmue III’s sales in the second half of the year (when it launches for PC and PS4).
They better finish this one first before thinking about sequels, at this rate it’s gonna take another 10 years to finish it.
Shenmue was always planned to be like 4-6 games, ever since the Dreamcast era. Yu Suzuki has the chapters mapped out and we’re not even at the half way point. However he has said he would wrap the series up if he had too. Meaning if he barely gets what he needs for a forth game there’s a good chance that will be the last and Ryos story will end there.
He’s stuck in a cave with random bird girl in China talking about magic rocks they can only make there.
The entire second game had no fucking point, he met his man crush and walked through the woods for hours, the end.
Don’t act like they’re “incredibly planned”.
You clearly haven’t played Shenmue 2. Anyways, I suggest you watch the Shenmue Postmortem on Youtube, it’s about an hour long and is Yu Suzuki speaking at length about the series. It was back in 2014 before Shenmue 3 was even a glimmer in his eye.
Suzuki mapped out this series which he calls Chapters. I know it may be hard for you to believe but some creators really do give a s♥♥t about their work.
f♥♥k shitmue
This game hasn’t been playable since the original on dreamcast
I remember when it went to ps2 years later for part 2 and I just thought it was complete garbage, unplayable
It’s just like the final fantasy series going down the shitter
Maybe you’re remembering other s♥♥t, because shenmue’s never released on ps2
Yeah, Shitmue 2 was released on the ShitBox, not the PissShit2. Though Shitmue 3 doesn’t look all that great on the PissCrap anyway.
Shenmue will not sell for s♥♥t.
There’s enough nostalgia fans out there that will help it break even, maybe even get a part four made. Don’t underestimate the number of late 20s/30s/40s etc Dreamcast fans out there.
He’s milking that nostalgia cow for all its worth. This guy has the same problems Tabata does: lots of ideas, but no cohesive means to put them together, and a penchant for defaulting to DLC greed.
How much of that crowdfunding money went to line his own pockets?
Oh yeah, who doesn’t remember all that Shenmue 2 DLC?
You’re a fool if you think 3 won’t have DLC.
They don’t have the resources to start doing that. Remember he went from having a massive team at Sega to a small indie level team. The guy has been known to work long days on the project, even staying overnight in the office to get s♥♥t made. He deserves respect.
Not exactly Yu Suzukis fault there, blame Sega. The guy was expressed a desire to continue the series for over a decade. There are videos of him going back quite some time on Youtube where he expresses that.
-Leaving people hanging for two decades
Deserves nothing but the finger