10 Hyped 2017 Video Games That Will Definitely Disappoint You
8. Shenmue III
The main reason this will disappoint comes down to an inevitable delay, as there's no way in hell YS Net could develop a full Shenmue game in just over two years.
The project first got off the ground following the announcement of a Kickstarter at E3 2015, yet since then we've had a handful of screenshots and nothing else. Thing is, it's been 15/17 years since the last two Shenmue games - titles whose appeal was largely routed in making gigantic overly-interactive sandbox worlds, replete with contextual actions for everything from feeding cats to picking up pamphlets.
Many of these things have been refined or ditched over time as the open-world formula was slowly perfected, meaning that the very idea of what Shenmue 'is' will have to change - or be stuck in its old ways, alienating all but the most hardcore fans in the process.
It's damned if it does, damned if it doesn't.