SEGA made a huge mistake not releasing Shenmue for the PlayStation 2.
>>12139159Would have been nice for the game to find an audience.
Shenmue looked a million years old by the time Grand Theft Auto III dropped.
>>12139173This except the other way around. Comparing the character models in GTA III to Shenmue's is really embarrassing (for the former). As is comparing the level of detail in their environments.>muh open worldAKA the cancer that killed video games. What a legacy.
>>12139159ps2 already has better beat em ups and virtua fighter and life sims though
>>12139159Isn't Yakuza just Shenmue 3?
shitmue?
>>12139346No, I'm pretty sure Shenmue 3 is Shenmue 3, based retard.
>>12139347yeeeah it's a shitmue
>>12139173You're kidding me, right? GTA3 lets you do more but in no way did GTA3's graphical abilities make Shenmue look bad.
>>12139346No, yakuza is a gta clone
>>12139173That's a fucking lie.>>12139207>AKA the cancer that killed video games. What a legacy.No what killed videogames is that devs stopped taking risks and retarded normalfags became their main source of income.
>>12139427but you can't shoot things or fuck prostitutes in Yakuza
>>12139173Gta3 looks like dog shit
>>12139159The PS2 wouldn't be able to run it.
>>12140421>The PS2 wouldn't be able to run it.If PS2 can run Gran Turismo 4 and God of War, it can run Shenmue II with ease.
>>12140425Definitely. They’d need to make major concessions in graphical quality, but it could run the Shenmue games just fine.
>>12139404>GTA3 lets you do moreno?
>>12139159>>12140421They actually had a port near ready for PS2 and had to cancel it due to licensing, this was confirmed in an interview with the devs. https://www.famitsu.com/article/202412/29221They said they kept the discs spinning to fasten loading, which Sega forbid others to do since it could damage the hardware. Shenmue the Dreamcast killer...
>>12140421The fuck?
>>12140689Them fast 48 speed blue Sony CDs huh
>>12140425God of War was like 2005. Have you seen what early PS2 games looked like? Maybe if they severely reduced the model quality and framerate they could get a port running.
>>12139346>>12139353>>12139427yakuza is shenmue without the bloat/fat.
>>12139159Didn't Microsoft pay Sega for some sort of exclusivity deal for a few of their games?
>>12139159PS2 wasn’t powerful enough for Shenmue.It would’ve been a similar case to Sonic Adventure 1/2 on the GameCube: enormous graphical downgrade to allow for even a semblance of the performance possible on original Dreamcast hardware.With SA1/2, Sega didn’t care about graphical fidelity as much, but Shenmue’s identity was rooted in its presentation, so they refused to downgrade the game to PS2 standards just for extra sales.It’s an honorable approach, albeit one that likely harmed them financially.
