Adam Koralik says yes, but it will depend on who you ask I'm sure. Many people didn't like Shenmue III.

>>750156768
So much filler and grinding with less charm than the other games. The new combat also sucks ass. It was the last chance to end the story in a satisfying way but instead it’s just another cliffhanger.

>>750156768
It somehow managed to combine the worst elements of classic and modern game design without the positives of either, while also not continuing the storyline in any meaningful way. It's genuinely impressive how bad they fucked it up.

The atmosphere was there but nothing happens story wise and combat is way worse

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>>750156768
Imagine if Star Wars episode 3 Revenge of the Sith came out, and it ended when Palpatine told Anakin about Darth Plagueis

>>750156768
I hate calling games dated, but this somehow felt more dated and antiquated in design than Shenmue 2 does despite being made over 20 years later
Also setting aside that it didn't conclude the story or even really get any closer to a conclusion, the story we did get was pretty uninteresting

>>750156768
For the time, the first game was fun on the Dreamcast. By the time the second one came out, all momentum and desire for the series died. And that's with me playing a bootleg copy on the Xbox.

The combat sucks but everything else was good.

>>750156768
>filler episode plot
>simplified combat system
>hunger / stamina system
It was a disaster.

>>750157918
And before that it was more dating scenes with the same robotic acting from Christensen as Attack of the Clones, and scenes of Anakin and Obi Wan training. With maybe 1 or 2 scenes of the 2 struggling to kill 4 battle droids, then back to another 50 scenes of dating and training.

>>750157169
Perhaps by the time it came out the lack of closure became part of the series' identity. Not making any value judgements, but I can see how they might land on that.

It was a miserable, watered-down experience that didn't progress the story at all.

>ends with another cliffhanger
>entire game is about chasing a sub boss guy and your arch nemesis is seen in a cutscene briefly in the end
Does the dumb ass nip in charge of this realize this series can't go for 10 entries? The plot can't be spread this thin

I don't think the game was bad, it's just that for a game that people were waiting for ten decades, it sure felt like pure padding

Pajeet here, you can UNIRONICALLY use claude to grab the shenmue 2 combat and put it in shenmue 3 but there's no point in that because the story fucking sucks.

>>750156768
No. It's amazing just how much worse it is than the first two games that came out 20+ years ago. The hunger mechanic added nothing but tedium. The combat is simplified to the point that the combat tutorial literally just tells you to button mash (keep in mind, the original games were built on fucking VIRTUA FIGHTER combat - now this). And the story did literally nothing to advance the plot after a 20 year wait. Ryo still jobs bigly to Lan Di and can't even land a hit on him. At this rate, we would need a dozen more Shenmue games before Ryo could believably match Lan Di. All horrible mistakes.

>>750156768
Shenmue is in my top 10. No, it did not. I wish it had never been made.

>>750156768
Basically it was profundly disappointing even if we knew it was going to be worse because these devs couldn't even model the main character correctly.
You can't make Shenmue without budget and mobile game noob devs. Really you can't make any good game if your devs sucks, but for some reason /v/ and normaltardfags think that a director's name can do something about it. They're nothing without competent devs with them.

>>750156768
It looked so bad i didn’t play it. They should’ve just acted like it was still the early 2000s and used the Dreamcast art style