Open world action adventure title with simulator elements.

First and only game to have a open world environment where the world actually felt alive and it had realistic day and night and weather cycles. Fully voiced non-player characters with their own daily schedules, quick time events, and various other interactive elements such as vending machines, arcades, and convenience stores.

Businesses were open depending on the time of day it had a battle system like Fighting Force but deeper and you learned new moves.

The story itself is about Ryo finding his fathers killer and he meets friends along the way and learns of something deeper than just finding revenge.

Lan Di was in search of a mysterious stone mirror known as the Dragon Mirror. His search led him to the home of Iwao Hazuki, whom he had some connection with in the past.

Iwao's son, Ryo, had just returned home, and arrived at the dojo in time to see the two older men arguing. Iwao refused to divulge the information of the mirror's whereabouts, and the two martial artists engaged in a short fight. Lan Di won that fight.

Sounds super awesome, just the kind of games I love, thanks I am Music hopefully I can play the originals before this.

michael huber's reaction was so adorable he cried for so long omg i just wanted to hug him omg
and i remember the happy console gamer talked about shenmue a while ago omg i can't imagine how shocked we has when they announced it

SHENMUE 1 is my favorite game of all time! SLAY im officially a gamer now and im getting a ps4. Ever since the dreamcast died, I really havent been much of a gamer, XBOX was the last console i cared for and i bought an xbox because of Shenmue 2 exclusive on XBOX orignal. Im so happy Sony will financially back this.. hell at this point sony should buy SEGA!

Imma buy a ps4, i cant believe im saying this! They did so right and im TEAMSONY now.

@ 1:40 they're going to go all out

Omfg! Is this for real?? Am I dreaming? I am literally hyperventilating here.woo lawd, the feels. And on ps4 exclusive?! There's this dream cast fan boy on youtube named Adam that I watch and he literally predicted the only way shenmue 3 would ever happen is if it were a ps4 exclusive, with remastered first 2 packaged in.. his foresight>>>

i have shenmue 1 for dreamcast and 2 for xbox, the first one is sooo good I took ages to finish the game cuz I wanted to see all the nooks and crannies and talk to everybody in town. This literally has me questioning whether I should get the Xbox one at all cuz chhh shenmue >>halo. Yass Sony making me stan like it's 1999 Xbox whew?!

And the funny thing is they had an exclusive deal for Shenmue 2 on xbox for the west.
They could have stepped in years ago for this. What kind of flop team?

In all fairness the Xbox port flopped so they probably didn't see much sense in pursuing shenmue 3 but that had more to do with its user base than anything. Anyways maybe xbox can learn from this and we get a third jet set radio. Sony paving the way for true innovative games, there comeback

That's true. Sony and MS both need to buy Sega games off of them.

Fastest videogame kickstarter in recent memory.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...-record-385887

reached 3 million

Sega would be IDIOTS to not release the remasters at this point. It only took over a decade for the franchise to finally become profitable.

We need to start a campaign.
Start a movement on Twitter to get the fans to email and tweet Sega we want Shenmue 1+2 Remaster and give them the receipts and explain why this would be a good idea.

I would die if we get a remastered shenmue1&2 with ps4 graphics, the wait though this probably isn't coming out till 2018 with how ambitious these types of games are.

And where is everybody! Flop ass people were fronting how this is one of the best games ever in that one thread about video games but now that we get the news of our lives no one is anywhere to be found. I hate you guys

Shenmue 3 or die.

i wasn't expecting it to come out this soon omgg

I really want to play the older games. How well do they run? Would I be better off watching a walkthrough or playing it through different means?

New news: Sony's backing is very minimal. The kickstarter needs to make ten million for it to get anywhere the creator wants the game to be at as per his recent AMA.

Do you have a dreamcast? if so there are ways you can play both the movement is kind of stiff when turning around but overall it's very much playable and it holds up pretty well. If you have a good computer you can emulate them.