SEGAbits Shenmue III Hype Train! Update: Funded but lets go further!

[George]

AM2 is still supporting Borderbreak, they just released an update a few days ago. The game is still being played competitively in Japan and is still pretty popular. They are also working on Miku and another anime arcade game.

So, AM2 is still kicking. Just wish they ported their stuff to consoles more. Also Virtua Fighter 6, believe, #TGS2015

[Barry the Nomad]

Believe it or not, Shenmue III is less SEGA than Bayonetta 2 was!


I don't mean that as a knock on the game, but officially, SEGA is less involved in this than Bayo 2. Though I guess one could argue Shenmue III's early life occured within SEGA, though no clue how much of it or how much of it carried over here.

[Sharky]

Corporate greed has sucked all the joy and innovation out of SEGA. Shenmue 3 on the Yakuza engine could have been incredible. Now we have Shenmue 3, and we have Yu Suzuki but at what cost to the actual game? We'll see.


I'm in a mix of emotions right now.

[crackdude]

Sega will probably publish the game, just not have any involvement in the development process

[Aki-at]

I don't think AM2 is working on Sonic the Hedgehog.

AM2 isn't a console team and haven't been for a long time.

Large scale console development has only been undertaken by three studios in recent times, Sonic Team, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and The Creative Assembly. One is working on a bigger series and the other two probably want to work on their own stuff. It is what it is, no point getting annoyed about it when Shenmue III has finally been announced.

[George]

Let's be honest, arcades aren't much different from consoles anymore. Let's not pretend Arcade, consoles and PC are differentiating that much from each other.

[JRcade19]

UE4 gives me hope that PC stands for "something other than windows in addition", but in this particular case I doubt it.

[Centrale]

Coming up on $1mil right about now...

[Moody]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gDHPIF3N0A



For everyone that didn't get to see it or hasn't seen it yet.

[Sharky]

UPDATE: The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter is 1/2 funded (1 million dollars) after about one hour of going up. It is currently rising about $1,500 every seven seconds.

[Radrappy]

is this thing going to look like a game from 2004?

[George]

I hope this is really not a disaster. I'm getting excited and sad at the same time for a few reasons (like I stated in the other thread).

(Skipping Shenmue Online project because Chinese)

A lot of people assume that Yu Suzuki was just 'booted' from SEGA AM2, when he was the one that wanted to expand to a new team. SEGA gave him a couple of teams that basically died. No idea why, one of the had a cancelled completed game and the last one, AM Plus, released a game that didn't do so well in arcades.

YS Net was funded to be independent from SEGA, but got funding and support from SEGA. The first game (and only one so far) was released in 2010, as Shenmue City, a mobile game. Which, if you have seen it, wasn't what fans wanted. Yu Suzuki said it was to fund Shenmue III, the project was not a success and shut down a year later.

Flash forward 5 years later....

Polygon had a interview with Yu Suzuki who was working out of his apartment...
http://www.polygon.com/a/life-in-japan/Yu-Suzuki-kitchen

Now a few short months later he and other key members of Shenmue are to make a new entry to the franchise for under 8 million dollars? I think a lot of people here forget how big of a project the orginal was, not just because of the technology but because of the care they put into models, weather and other things that made it stand out.

Everyone that worked at SEGA from 1995-2000 touched and worked on something in the game. Shenmue has over 800 jingles, hundreds of unique NPC models.

So, yes, I'm a bit worried that Ys NET, a developer that made one mobile game half a decade ago is the one developing the game.

But saying that, I funded it.

[Dr. SEGA Monkey]

This has to be some sort of Kickstarter record. A million dollars in a couple of hours? 

[Sharky]

As worried as I am. I am funding the shit out of this...

[George]

I just think people are so excited and are mad at SEGA,but SEGA has been working with Yu Suzuki on projects since after he left AM2. I mean, shit, how many developers get two teams to run into the ground and then go independent and still get allowed to use IPs from the company?

Sure, I wish SEGA would fund it; I hope there isn't a reason they are staying away from this...