Jibby wrote: Have you guys been reading too much IGN or something? Why is there such a trend of hating Yu Suzuki and Shenmue III on here lately? So what if they're not as far into development as planned. It just means the game gets delayed (which a lot of people want anyway).
If what Rikitatsu says is to be believed, it's no wonder that we're not seeing super impressive material yet. However so many people pressure the studio to show us new material, they buckle to the pressure and release disappointing screenshots (with photoshoped elements), people see them and become even further disappointed and the cycle of hate continues.
Guys, Yu Suzuki literally said in this update that he's staying in his office overnight because he cares so much about Shenmue III. It's shameful to call Shenmue III 'humiliating' after seeing screenshots that we probably pressured the team to release with our constant messages after PSX. If the team are behind, we need to be understanding and supportive instead of going 'Games Media' mode. Shenmue III will be a great game, even if we have to wait a while longer for the good stuff to come to light.
Remember guys:
That's a romantic statement here but unlike a lot of fans here, I'm not waiting Shenmue III to know how the story ends only. Shenmue means much more for me. It's an experience to breath, where the meticulous sum of its specific elements constitute the heart and the uniqueness of the game.
By looking at these screenshots, I have no other choice to point out what is wrong, especially for a WIP born after one year of pre-production. And I think you shouldn't talk about "hate" each time someone dare to throw some critics. An overwhelming majority of fans are happy here, so what's the problem?
The delay is not the unique option. Yu can also decide to decrease the overall ambition of his game and here is the real problem. I did not wait 15 years for a Duke Nukem Forever, and that's why I was against Shenmue 3 for a long time as Sega had lost their faculty to make plenty of high-quality games.
If Yu Suzuki knew he can't manage to make a Shenmue up to the Dreamcast ones, he had only to refuse the project. I don't get the point of playing an average Shenmue game or reading the remaining story in a comic.
I have to specify I'm not waiting the most beautiful and deepest open world of the world, I just want something Shenmuish and I saw nothing of this so far, except maybe the Shenhua inside house in February.
Explaining me what is to be "supportive". Everyone here has given tons of money to YSnet. I personally had to broke an alternative bank account to feed the campaign and I still try to defend the project on social medias as much as I can, although YSnet currently don't facilitate the task by persisting with the ridiculous communication they're intending since the beginning of the campaign. I don't know what i could do more beside lying to myself and I don't think one YSnet employee has ever read Shenmue Dojo since the start of the development.