First of all: Barry, I believe you need to double my Kudos after our wager.
No one thinks its Shenmue 3, we think its a Shenmue type announcement. Most likely a HD port, I very highly doubt its III
I honestly thought HD 1&2 was the best we'd be able to get. This is just... above and beyond.
A few things that worry me. Yu NET is very small studio and hasn't really done anything. AM2 at the time of making Shenmue had decades of experience. 2 Million is a low budget and so far the assets release are troublesome.
I know people here will get mad for even saying something like that, but lets be honest...
I wasn't joking when I posted the pic of old man Stallone earlier in the thread.
It's accurate.
"It's the best we got"
I don't see why SEGA have to be such cunts about it and I seriously hope this gets funded out of its ass and when SEGA see the money their missing out on they feel like complete and utter chumps.
I've been saying this for the last few years. Don't hold out expecting big things from Sega, they are rolling in FREEMIUM APP money now.
The fact that they are giving YSNet the rights to use the IP is almost a small miracle. Again, 'It's the best we got'.
This is Sega 2015, not Sega 1999.
If that's the case, then 2 Mill for Shenmue 3? Looks like we will be getting the turn-based jrpg visual novel version of Shenmue 3.
You might be right though as the stretch goals seem to indicate fixed funding requirements. Guess we'll see how this goes.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sony is funding this further in the background, like Igavania. Already has potential corporate investors, but they want the Kickstarter to market and gauge interest. Why else would it be at their E3 conference and console-exclusive to them?
SEGA isn't being bad for not funding the game, infact, SEGA are being pretty dandy in allowing Yu Suzuki to do whatever he wants with his own game.
Fact is the first two lost SEGA money so they weren't going to fund it in any shape or form, however I don't see them not promoting it or helping Yu Suzuki out like they do with all their friendly developers like FromSoftware, Index etc in some form or shape.
Lost opportunity? Maybe, but outside of the Yakuza team all their console teams capable of making Shenmue III are working on bigger franchises than Shenmue, just plain fact.
Pretty much, Sega can make more money for less risk with all their other avenues of business.
Besides being excited for this, I'm also just really happy for Yu Suzuki. He really deserves this.
Me too, he must be so stoked to be able to finally work on this again.
I was talking to a friend about this last night, and he kept asking 'Is Yu Suzuki directing? I don't care unless he's involved'. At this point I didn't have all the details but I couldn't imagine him not being involved. This is his baby.
I don't think AM2 is working on Sonic the Hedgehog.
They are making Virtua Fighter 6.
I hope this game gets way past any imaginable stretch goal because money is all SEGA gives a shit about anymore
Have you not been following Sega for the last few years?
Bayonetta 2? Nah, palm that off to Nintendo, we need to make Total War Battles: Kingdom.
You and I brother. We believed before no one else, and we were right. And yet we walk the path of the righteous, towards the shining future, with our beating hearts singing the grace of Suzuki!
We were talking about this before, we both secretly expected it to be HD 1&2. But I think we both had that little spark, deep down inside somewhere thinking, maybe, just maybe it's part 3.
Everyone's (appropriate) reaction:
(Turn your volume down when you reach 20 seconds)
I LOVE that video.
Are we gonna talk about the fact that Ryo sounds like the Postal Dude in the Kickstarter video? No?
It was the worst voice acting since... well Shenmue 1. That HAD to be on purpose.
No we haven't and all what was showing off was no more than when the DC game took us and Then game looks a joke the art on characters is just terrible and all we get is an small promise that we 'might' see the game in 2017. It's a joke on SONY part to have it on their main E3 stage and yet not have the commitment or backing to fund the project I mean 2 million to corps like SEGA or SONY is nothing for starters
Joke imo .
Confirmed, TA wants to kill Mademan.
fite me irl
No I want Shenmue to finished the way it should be. Not a piss poor kickstarted funded project but Shenmue III and IV (because III will never finish the story imo ) to be made by a 100 plus staff and with a nice big budget, not done on the cheap and at the mercy of kickstart goals .
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find....
YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED.
This is the best we could hope for in this day and age. Let's be real here, the fact that we've gotten this is a fucking miracle.
The game was funded in about 9 hours, that's phenomenal.
I'm in for $500.
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