Chapter Thirty-Eight: It's Cold

Since the phenomenon of recharge is becoming more and more common in the game media.

In order to be fair and fair, the rating of the game is released within a few days after the game is released.

However, in order to let players know what the game will look like, articles such as the game's trial and experience will still be released in advance.

For Shenmue, the game's score is nine.

The reason for the high score of nine is that Shenmue is a groundbreaking game with many elements that have never been seen before in a game.

However, the reason why it is not a perfect score is because Shenmue is a game with a lot of gameplay issues and design details.

For example, there are many aspects of the game that are not very polished.

I can't touch the computer character at night, and after taking tasks during the day, many tasks have to be done at night.

And,This kind of game mode based on small games,Although it's okay to go at night,But it's still worrying about the game.。

I'm worried about whether such a game is an open and free game.

Is it against the core concept of the creation of the game "Shenmue"?

However, the producer is Yudai Suzuki, which represents the quality of "Shenmue", at least it is still playable, not completely unacceptable.

The review of "Gamer's Heart" is very subtle, but when translated into the vernacular, it basically means "nothing but groundbreaking." ”

Shenmue is a game that is slow-paced, unacceptably slow.

However, there are still advantages to this game, at least in terms of game realism and other aspects, a lot of attempts have been made.

However, this pursuit of realism is itself still the pursuit of more virtuality.

The nature of video games, as well as the limitations of the hardware, make it impossible for today's games to be realistic.

If you want to express more reality, what you can do is to pick out the distinctive characteristics of reality, and then emphasize and strengthen.

Because that's what human cognition looks like.

People don't know the world as it really is, just as remembering what a person looks like, remembering only the most characteristic parts of a person, and the same is true for remembering reality.

Shenmue is a game that does a great job of this.

After all, Yu Suzuki is good at racing games, and realistic racing is to take those characteristics to the extreme.

Even, the so-called real racing games are really super compared to real motorsports.

Wan Hu is in the intelligence department of Yuben, collecting all the information about "Shenmue".

This is not only the case for thousands of households, but also for other game companies.

Sega is, after all, a very important company in the video game industry, and Sega has gone all out to make games, siphoning off almost all of Sega's cash flow.

Such an almost all-or-nothing game for Sega naturally attracted the attention of all companies in the gaming circle.

You know, these big game companies rarely make such a move now.

Basically, the eggs are not put in one basket, and the resources are sprinkled on different games like pepper noodles.

The east is not bright, and the west is bright.

The game may have failed, but that one might have succeeded.

Although the probability of success may still be open.

However, if you make only one game in an all-or-nothing scenario, the game will fail, and there will be nothing left.

However, some industry insiders pointed out that the reason why Sega would make such a seemingly desperate game as "Shenmue" was because Sony entered the market.

The Sega Saturn did not meet Sega's sales target.

And Sega is very profitable because of its own arcade business, and they have the money and ability to play a big game.

If this game really made the Sega Saturn rise, then relying only on arcades such a dangerous thing would be completely solved.

Even if it fails, it's a big deal to continue to make money from arcade games.

There are also people in the industry who support Sega, and there are also those who do not.

Those who support it believe that Sega can make a good game, and Yu Suzuki is very strong.

Those who don't support it believe that although Yu Suzuki is a well-known game producer, not only did he run away to make the game Servant Street, but also the music game that competed with Takahashi of Manto did not win, which has proved that he has exhausted his talents.

Not only that, but he is a game producer who makes arcade games, why should he cross over to make home console games.

You must know that although home console games were also born out of arcade games, a large number of arcade games were transplanted to home consoles in the early days of red and white machines, and they also achieved good results.

But now, more than a decade later, console games have become a whole new genre.

Arcade games are still as intense as they were in the beginning, while home games have become the appearance of providing players with a long-term gaming experience.

Even, those who are worried are afraid that although the game designed by Yu Suzuki, "Shenmue" is very intense, but the game duration is very short.

But after the game was actually launched, it was a big surprise, on the contrary, this game is not intense at all, and the game duration is not short at all.

The game is so slow-paced that it's almost on par with Dragon Quest.

However, the main target audience of the game is housewives, and housewives have not yet accepted three-dimensional games, so the new work in the Dragon Quest series is still two-dimensional.

And "Shenmue", a three-dimensional game, is still on a console like Sega Saturn, which has neither "Dragon Quest" nor movie discs, and there is no reason for housewives to buy this machine and play this game!

And those young players, in this era of more and more entertainment methods and gradually faster game rhythms, can settle down to accept such a game, which is also a big question.

At least, judging from the survey of Wanhu, there are not many players who like Shenmue, and it can even be said that there are very few.

To some extent, the emergence of Shenmue can even make the new game mode of Free World disappear from the Japanese game.

770,000 units were sold in the first week, and if it were any other game, it could be said that the sales were already very good. It's not even the first week of sales, it's all sales.

But for "Shenmue", now even the development costs have not been recovered, let alone the publicity costs.

In the week of the launch of "Shenmue", the newly sold Sega Saturn console was only about 30,000 sets, which was much smaller than expected.

You know, "Shenmue" itself can not make money, but it has to promote Saturn's sales!

It's cold!

"Shenmue" is cold!

Yuya Suzuki is cold!