Those damned puritan bastards :**(

Nope, and I want more shenmue! I wnat the other 11 parts! (2 was parts 2-5, ne?)

How many parts are there in Japan now?

[img]confused.gif[/img] still, gameplay hopefully wont suffer..

It's true that chapter 3 was in development for Dreamcast and they already had beta images, but I don't know if the news about a PS2 version will be true. First, I didn't find the news in sonyspot or other websites. Second, the "best" (it's a piece of shit but it's the least disgusting one) multiformat Spanish console magazine, Hobby Consolas (a bunch of sony asslickers) said in the past that Shenmue II was going to be released for Dreamcast and PS2, the PS2 version having slightly better graphics (yeah, right! LOL), and that Yu Suzuki himself told them so in an interview, which was absolutely fake. $ony had paid them to lie blatantly like that, so people would get PS2s instead of DCs. $ony might have done the same with that magazine, after all, they control the media and they pay for it to lie. For example, countless times reviewers say that PS2 ports of DC games look better, which is absolutely false, not to mention they always say the PS2 is better or much better than the DC like it was as true as 2+2=4 (serious gamers that have experienced games on both machines have noticed the clear effective superiority of the Dreamcast over the PS2).

ok wait... as in chapters u mean seperate games? ... u said 11!? O__O

2,s ame as everywhere else

I think only chapter 1 to 3 have been completed, and we've started chapter 4. Anyway, my source is Gamesmaster, the best multi format magazine for Britain.

Shenmue Chapter 1: Yokosuka, the first Shenmue game, spans over 3 discs.

Shenmue 2: Mainland China is chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5, one per disc. (IMO episodes 2 & 3 should have been one.)

Shenmue was about to be 11 or 15 episodes, and span over 5 games, but the game reaches a reasonably calm end at Shenmue 3, and they might end it there if sales don't go as they planned.

And that ^ is something I don't understand. One of the best games ever, with the best and most amazing graphics ever and the best and richest gameplay ever, and original as hell, is not selling half any big mainstream hit sells. People must be stupid not to buy that game, especially in Japan, because Shenmue is about Japan, China, martial arts, etc. The problem is that sega never properly promoted it (maybe they did so in Japan, but in Europe, only TV news showed how amazing Shenmue is, they didn't make one fucking TV ad, like the game didn't exist, and if they had showed Shenmue to the people and said the right words, everybody would now be saying the Dreamcast mops the floor with the PS2). The media too systematically understimates Shenmue, as with any Dreamcast thing.

Damm stupid people... (irt first post of the thread...) When is going to be accepted that videogames are a nice way to tell a story such as books or as films?

That censorship action is only a step back in the evolution of the gaming.

And i agree with Wiseman, censoring that scene will remove a vital point in the plot of Xenosaga, it is not a "free sex scene" like in BMX XXX, but a vital point to understand completely the plot.

The worst thing is that probably the version that will be released in Europe (if it is ever released here...) would be the north american.

I'd rather a complete game with the NC-17 mark than a censored version with a PG-13 sign...

When is people going to see that "VIOLENCE" and "SEX" are not the only "ADULT CONTENT" game may have?.

Complex plots, deep plots and philosophical content are also "Adult things" Not in the meaning of "disturbing" such as gore and sex may be. But in "Maturity" wise. Would be useful a new rating which said "Warning, this game contains Mature, philosophical and deep contents?

Yea Mel, I agree. I mean some people are just plain out stupid. Those are the kind of people that drag the smarter ones down, no not you Cav, you are a special case. But some people don't understand that... sorta like the Explict Lyrics sticker on cds.