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Yu Suzuki retires from SEGA R&D Comments by Oli Welsh

6 April, 2009

Continues to manage one arcade division.

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Ryze
06/04/09 @ 08:12
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/bows

/applauds

Daytona USA and Afterburner Climax next on Xbox Live Arcade please.

Cheers!
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photoboy
06/04/09 @ 08:23
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I'm not sure Sega can do a re-release of Daytona without paying an extortionate amount for the Daytona license, hence why there haven't been any sequels or Sega Ages releases.

As for this news about Suzuki, it's incredibly sad that Sega's last great designer is quitting, I really badly wanted Shenmue 3. :(
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KujiGhost
06/04/09 @ 08:25
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We should buy this man a gold watch.
ZuluHero
06/04/09 @ 08:33
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/sniff

I guess that means all hopes for Shenmue to continue are being put to pasture too...

dadrester
06/04/09 @ 08:40
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:'(

/bows as low as he can
JohnnyWashnGo
06/04/09 @ 08:42
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Whenever I think of Yu Suzuki I hear that song from Shenmue and F355 on the Dreamcast - 'Take me for a riiiiiiiide'
Gaol
06/04/09 @ 08:44
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I guess this will end once and for all Shenmue III speculation.

Sad day.
dr_shambles
06/04/09 @ 09:15
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Respect to Suzuki-San, and hope he has a very happy retirement. He's created some timeless gaming memories.
peterfll
06/04/09 @ 09:49
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Why did we never get a home version of Sega Race TV?
SpaceMidget75
06/04/09 @ 10:48
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I don't give a fuck what anyone else says*, Shenmue was one of my greatest gaming experiences in 30 years of gaming.

The experience at the time of play may have had plenty of niggling faults, but as a lesson in good nostalgia, it can't be touched.

Sometimes I forget that I actually wasn't in Japan!



* Everyone's entitled to their opinion here, but there's only one right one. ;)
evild_edd
06/04/09 @ 11:05
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Another nail in the (already fairly solidly reinforced) Shenmue 3 coffin!

Young Hazuki shall never have his revenge, it would seem.... :0(

I applaude the work of Suzuki over the years, and he was one of the holy trinity back in the SEGA glory days (Suzuki, Naka, and Mizuguchi).

Edd
quantumsheep
06/04/09 @ 12:15
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/salutes

He's created some astounding games. All respect to the man.
mono_eric3
06/04/09 @ 12:38
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/cries like a big sissy girl

: D
Ryze
06/04/09 @ 13:07
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@Photoboy

They can drop the 'USA' and remove the official logos before converting both Daytona games and including CCE, 2001, Scud Race and VR tracks.

Where there's a will, there's a way.
cheekyjay
06/04/09 @ 15:01
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I gave up on Shenmue 3 a long time ago - if IP doesn't sell well, if its sequel sells even worse, then it makes business sense to shelve it (unfortunately). I wish Shenmue had reached a wider audience but alas that was not be.

What I, as a huge fan of the games, am desperate for though, is some closure on what the story was actually about. All we got was a very teasing first chunk, left with more questions at the end of the second game than answers.

Why oh why can't Sega, or Suzuki issue a press release letting the fans know how that story would have panned out. Surely now that its been decided that Shenmue is an entirely unprofitable franchise, there is little reason to continue guarding its middle chapter and conclusion in such secrecy... What is it all about? What do the mirrors do?
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mega7ech
06/04/09 @ 16:30
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Oh nooooooooooooooooo!!!! This really means no Shenmue 3 - Ever!!! I mean, whats the point in carrying on with life anymore.....
Oh well, back to Halo 3 :P
Pasco
06/04/09 @ 20:09
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"Yu Suzuki's work took on a different colour from the Dreamcast era in the late 1990s. He became preoccupied with intense realism"

The pursue of realism was the reason he never made a 2D game even in the 80s so no different colour there. The difference is not a change in his mindset but a change in what was possible and what he was allowed to do.

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