Vel, jeg ønsker bare en normal oppfølger i samme ånd som de originale spillene. En av hovedgrunnene til at jeg likte Shenmue så godt var dets fokus på realisme og et meget originalt gameplay. Jovisst, Shenmue har alltid hatt en viss mystikk rundt seg, spesielt så vi det i slutten på 2'ern, men å gå fra mystikk til at characters har magic powers er et ganske radikalt steg. Er redd serien går fra noe originalt og unikt til nok et middelmådig spill i den allerede overfylte fantasy MMORPG-sjangeren...
Litt mer info (Yu Suzuki press conf):
We’ll import about 150 events from the original games to cover the whole story and we’ll add 100 - 150 new events. We’re also planning to include our “mini-games” as we did in the past. People tend to think Hong Kong is the main stage of Shenmue, but originally, the story should be unfolded mostly in the main land China. It begins in Hong Kong and expands into the other areas, such as Guilin, Suzhou, Xian and so on, both in the minor version-ups, or the major version-ups.
This game will contain all the general MMO components, such as communities, level-ups, items, etc, but the most distinctive feature would be “the battles.” It’s the battle-centered game featuring the Chinese martial arts, for I’ve been craving to introduce the martial arts into MMO properly. But, we won’t make it as maniac as Virtua Fighter, but would like it more suitable for MMO that can be played by anyone.
The characters that were already employed in the original games would appear as “the Game Masters,” and we’ll make new playable characters as “the player characters.” Players will pick out one character from the three groups of militants and customize it. The first group includes fighters that use traditional martial arts. Some of them use weapons that we’ve never allowed in the past. The second group includes people who use mysterious powers, such as qigong, magic, etc. The third group includes strange characters for Shenmue, kind of ghostly “enemies” as variations.
