I was a huge DC fan back in the day.  Shenmue was always awful.  Such a boring slugfest.  Once of the most overhyped games of all time.  I remember having to work as a forklift driver on the game.  Battles were boring quick time events.  Voice acting terrible.  It was awful.

I played Yakuza games before Shenmue and always heard people call it a spiritual successor to Shenmue, but after experiencing the Shenmue games myself I honestly have no idea why. There are some surface level similarities, but it's like saying Zelda makes Mario obsolete, to me. It makes no sense.

I love both series, btw.

Have to give credit to where its due. Shenmue was one of the first open-world action-adventure games with sandbox elements. And a life sim of sorts in a fully realised 3D enviroments and maps. It was a groundbreaking game at the time and has inspired a lot a game developers.

Shenmue is bad in an awesome way. I love the gentle feel of a normal person experiencing extraordinary events. Yakuza is too aggressive for me.

I know that Shenmue 3 is outdated and I bought it with eagerness. But I love it with our playing it. Yes that’s nostalgia. I love it all the same.

No doubt about it that Shenmue 4 would need a higher budget. But who is really going to finance it so? 3 didn't do nearly well enough to justify it for anyone.

That said, it would be great if SEGA/ Sony helped finance it together to lower costs on each of their own ends.

Shenmue has been obsolete from way before Yakuza released. It's the equivalent of Goldeneye in terms of open world JRPGs.

Shenmue made Shenmue obsolete. Even as a die hard Sega and Dreamcast fanboy back in the day, the franchise has always been a dud and massively overrated imho.

No it hasn't . I played the shemue series after I had played up to yakuza6 and absolutely love the shemue remasters. There was a level of immersion that the yakuza games just doesn't have. I've played all the yakuza games now and currently playing lost judgement.

I remember my brother getting the first game for Christmas. I'd never heard of it, but I was absolutely blown away when I saw him playing it. It feels very archaic and clunky these days, but back then, I thought it was pretty damn special.

Aye all for credit, but wouldn't we all want Shem to be ground-breaking today and be the leader in it's own market and not completely surpassed by who was inspired from them?.

Like imagine C&C paving the way and then say, 8-bit armies taking over and becoming the popular kid on the block, it wouldn't look good for C&C and make them a distant memory, because that's what Shem feels like atm, a janky faded memory, where they did something good once. 

They had their chance to do something special with 3, but they completely screwed that up, while yakuza is still shining and even has it's own spinoff series, whereas Shem just tried to make one sequel after yrs and it just fizzled. 

Again, I'm all for credit where it is due, but I'm also a man who values what is on the market today, and shem def isn't that value, it's yakuza.