

There was also footage of the next Hitman, and confirmation that Sony had pinched the exclusive rights to Call of Duty: Black Ops III extras aplenty from under Microsoft's nose.

Shenmue 3 looks bad ps3#
But it also felt really old.Ĭoming to the company's PlayStation 4 in the (several) months and (next few) years ahead are the long-awaited, mostly-assumed-aborted Team Ico project The Last Guardian a genuine remake of Square (Enix)'s original-PSone-era RPG classic Final Fantasy VII the fifth installment proper in the iconic Street Fighter series and a new/current-gen Uncharted game that's shaping up to retain everything you love from its PS3 predecessors while slapping on luxurious new layers of visual sheen. Sony's E3 2015 press conference (read more about it here) was, with the blessing of hindsight and the calmness that comes with emotions having finally settled, an extraordinary exercise in heart-swelling wish-fulfillment like I can't remember in the industry event's long history. To read some of the reflections to have run in the years since its debut, you'd think it was Sega's greatest-ever achievement-but reviewers of the late 1990s weren't universally impressed, with Suzuki's creation criticized for its languorous pacing tedious legwork and menial, money-making tasks and some of the absolute worst dialogue in video gaming history.īut we're getting ahead of ourselves-or, rather, we're dawdling in the past rather than pressing towards the future, which is where most Shenmue franchise fans' attentions are right now. It's not like I wasn't born, but I didn't have a Dreamcast back then and, even if I had owned Sega's swan-song console while it remained a going concern, I had very little interest in playing what, from the outside looking in, seemed to be a stilted, self-important, and entirely indulgent spunking of a then-record budget (discounting marketing) of close to $50 million. Well, I was somewhere, most likely in the pub. I was never "there" at the time of the original Shenmue's release, in 1999.
