Agree or disagree: yakuza was the spiritual successor to shenmue

[Scustin Bieburr]

It wasn't as ambitious, but all the components are there.

Its a damn shame Sega didn't get the yakuza team together with Suzuki for shenmue 3. The game would've been better.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Yeah, which is why i didnt really understand why people were hyping up that weak looking shenmue game recently

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Yeah, which is why i didnt really understand why people were hyping up that weak looking shenmue game recently

The story. Shenmue 2 basically ended with a cliffhanger. But I think the shenmue anime should've been made loooooong ago to wrap up the story. They ain't have to make people wait nearly 20 years

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

someone at sega said "what if we did shenmue again but without all the boring bullshyt " and yakuza was born

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

I've made this exact point several times on this forum and got flamed for it.
Glad to see I'm not the only cyclops in the land of the blind.

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Is this supposed to be a controversial opinion?

 

[MeachTheMonster]

No.

The two series are very different.

It’s a very shallow comparison

 

[DaSk8D00D]

I've made this exact point several times on this forum and got flamed for it.
Glad to see I'm not the only cyclops in the land of the blind.

No.

The two series are very different.

It’s a very shallow comparison

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

No. We arent. LOL
I've argued the point with Meach before. I'm too busy at the moment to rehash it.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Is this supposed to be a controversial opinion?

In the arcadium?
Yes

 

[Zero]

No.

The two series are very different.

It’s a very shallow comparison

On point.

People think because both games have men traveling about a single area in Japan and both are made by Sega that they're the same but they're not the same. Shenmue is an adventure game with occasional fighting. Yakuza is pretty much a beat-em-up.

 

[Master Teacher]

Yakuza is nothing like shenmue

The combat in Shen Mue was copied from Virtua Fighter, Yakuza is a beat'em up,

The open world stuff is nothing like Shenmue's which is more in line with how persona 5 schedule and time works, when Yakuza has no time constraints or limits in time, you miss sub stories in Yakuza by advancing the story pass a certain point, in Shenmue you miss events after a certain date in time

in Shenmue you have to beat the game by a certain date or Lan DI comes to your house and kills you

The open world stuff is nothing like Shenmue either other than the fact you can go into an arcade and play sega games

only thing both the series have in common to be honest

I mean the job in shenmue felt like a real job, tedious and you couldn't wait until the shyt was over, in Yakuza get night club minigames and real estate simulators

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Yes this is a fact. Nagoshi worked under yu suzuki on the shenmue games

this was a more adult take on that formula. I wish Sega would patch things up with Yu Suzuki so we could get proper remakes of the Shenmue games in the Dragon Engine


It needs to happen

 

[The Mad Titan]

Yeah I agree, granted there a some big differences game play wise.

It's more like a "arcade version" or action version of shenmue.

Ask any shenmue fan and they'll go off on you.


But it definitely is a faster pace more arcadey style of shenmue

 

[Brief Keef]

Yeah, which is why i didnt really understand why people were hyping up that weak looking shenmue game recently

We need to put hands on Lan Di for his crimes ...only real nikkas understand aint nothing to hype up