Oh I see. Well I already have them then. Good to know they can still work if something were to ever happen to Steam.

Or if you just want to move them around without needing it. You may need to add a text file to make some work though, you can consult the Steam DRM-free thread here or message me if you have confusion as to how it works.

It just confuses me why Sega won't just advertise them here as well if they're not going to lock them down but I'm not going to complain. Any place that can add to the cause (when GOG can't be given the proper chance to) helps.

They have made that kind of false labelling for years.

I really hope GOG gets the first two games too.

Be cool, SEGA.

That doesn't make it any better, though.

With lots of goodwill, one could think "Well, maybe the 'Release Date' on the game card is supposed to be the date when GOG released the game, and not when the game was released for the first time". But one can easily dismiss this by looking at some old games' game cards.

It is misleading, and it is intentional

I would like it if GOG managed to get SEGA aboard, such as the Valkyria Chronicles series. Even better if they could commission Atlus to port Persona 5 Royale as an GOG exclusive.

Now that's some wishful thinking. I would likely have a heart attack while trying to click the purchase button if there was a port of ANY Persona game available here.

I wish GOG would have announced this a little earlier, I broke down and bought Shenmue III on EGS just over two weeks ago and can no longer return it. :( My fault being a little too impatient I guess.

Had a former friend that hated the idea that I wanted to play Witcher 1 and 2 before Witcher 3 as I wanted to get the most out of the story as I did with Mass Effect (though I knew the ending to the Witcher series would be far more satisfying lol)
so I can completely understand your feelings on it. To me a story may not be the most important thing when it comes to gaming but I sure as Hell want to have my time made meaningful when playing.

Will the content from the day one edition also be part of the package? (snake power, tokens, costumes, moves, available from the start of the game)

What about the download content Battle Rally, Big Merry Cruise, Story Quest Pack?

It's very much a game that doesn't respect the player's time, for starts. I can summarize the story of the 3 games to date like this:

Ryu is on a quest to avenge his father. This has lead him to leave the seedy backstreets of Japan and travel to China. There he...


And that's about it.

Everything between is chaff. Filler. Fluff. Bulking Agents. Corn Syrup. If Shenmue were a movie, this would be something that occurs within the first 30 minutes or first act, rather than getting painfully stretched over 72± hours, due to the games forcing you to wait, grind, or do mundane activities.

What Shemue has managed to stretch into three games is what most games would have done as their prelude or prologue.

You are not wrong, but somehow this is part of its charm for me. Especially the first area of the game was very Shenmue and therefore perfect for me.

After several months of not knowing what to do in the second area I started a new try today on PS4. So I don't know yet how I will feel about the rest of the game.

Although the stamina system in part 3 is a pain in the...
When running, it uses up the energy very fast, which means you have to eat again, and to eat again you have to earn money in order to be able to properly explore at all...
Will for sure use the mod to turn that off once I get the chance to play it on a PC and also the one to increase the draw distance.

Too bad Baisha got cut from the game and the second area expanded in the game instead. That said, I think they got a solid base now from which they can work on and improve for an eventual part 4.

I never said it did and just pointed out they have done that practice for years by now. It's just straight up scummy behavior, as it makes people think some games are newer than they actually are. After all, people tend to not pay as much for older games. So if you label a game from 2003 as being from 2015, well...

I finished it today. Trust me, this game is worth your time, despite some technical flaws for the 2020.
Its still beyond epic, magical and charming.

I hungry for more and hope Shenmue 4 gets made

https://howlongtobeat.com/game?id=26766

~18-20-ish hours seems to come up frequently if just going through the story.