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Yu Suzuki just broke Kickstarter
So Yu Suzuki is officially looking to fund Shenmue III, via Kickstarter, and the moment it was announced the site went down At some point it should be back up, so here's the url: Click here
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EDIT: its gone up like $100,000 since I made this post. haha.
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It's now over $1 million. If it keeps up they'll reach their goal before I go to bed.
I'm curious if Sony is funding a big chunk of this project. A) it was announced during Sony's E3 press conference. B) Although it's not a PS4 exclusive, its only coming to the Playstation and PC, so did Sony give money to ensure it's not on the Xbox One? C) They're only asking for 2 million dollars, and considering the first game had a budget of nearly 50 million, they have to be getting additional funding from somewhere else. Unless the game is significantly stripped down (compared to the first two games), 2 million just doesn't seem like much. Either way, I'm a fan of the first two, so yes, I'm excited for this!
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I think part of Shemue's original high cost was due to the creation of reusable assets to be used on the entire Shenmue franchise in order to lessen the development costs of each new release. So, the original 50 million or so dollars was an investment in the entire series/franchise and not just for the first game. At least that's how I vaguely. remember things. I imagine that the investment was made with plans to continue the series on the Dreamcast, but I have no idea what happened to that investment after the plug was pulled on the Dreamcast. Who knows, maybe they'll reuse those assets and we'll get a Dreamcast-looking PS4 game.
![]() I'm more than likely in the minority in this thinking but I always thought Yu Suzuki should've returned to the original intent of having Shenmue be an episodic series and made Shenmue 3 into an episodic release (3 or 4 parts). At least each episode would've helped fund the next one and maybe we would've gotten more Shenmue games A LOT sooner. A good starting place would've probably be in converting the cancelled Shenmue Online into an offline/single-player episode since that game was already under development at the time. Last edited by AnimeJoe : June 16th, 2015 at 06:06 AM. |
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Took less than 9 hours to reach its $2 million goal.
Side note: Sonys presentation was pretty awesome.
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I will never understand why people liked this game. Terrible story, terrible mechanics, terrible voice acting. There are literally no redeeming qualities.
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I was a little hard on the original Shenmue for being a little underwhelming. I thought the controls were kind of stiff, and the fighting engine was a little lacking. Code Veronica had been released around that time and I initially liked it better than Shenmue and that was my Resident Evil game. But I thought Shenmue 2 was pretty good.
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I owned Shenmue for several years and never even booted it.
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...I thoroughly enjoyed the first Shenmue, the story, music, and fighting engine were all a lot of fun imo. I own the second game, but like a lot of other games I own it's still shrink wrapped. A third game in the series sounds like a win to me and was very surprised when Yu Suzuki showed up during the Sony event.
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I have the first game on the Dreamcast, and bought the sequel on the Xbox. I'm not sure which one I like better, but I enjoyed both. I'll have to play through both again, before the third comes out... but I think I have at least a couple years before I have to worry about that.
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Just over 2 days to go and they have:
55,885 backers $4,977,922 pledged of $2,000,000 goal Not bad that it more than doubled it's original goal.
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Anyway, less than 4 hours to go and they're at 65,953 backers, with $5,980,534 in funding. I'm trying to decide what backer level to do.
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yeah, I know Sony is suppose to throw some money in there. But I don't think it'll be very much, and certainly not enough to make Shenmue 3 reach near the scale of 1 or 2.
And to be honest I don't really trust Yu Suzuki. He was out of game development for a while, and before that it seemed like almost everything he worked on ended up not seeing the light of day. Guy has a really bad track record this century. And this is coming from a guy who use to rank him up there with Miyamoto as one of the greatest video game creators in the industry.
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He did provide a new update to Kickstarter, back on August 30th, and said that up to that point they've completed the composition, story, planning and the game flow, which according to him means "placing various cut scenes, events, battles, and quests in order."
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I just read the latest Kickstarter update, and Yu Suzuki and company have setup a "Slacker Backer" site, where you can help support the project, via PayPal (click here). However, I'm guessing there's nobody left here, who is interested in backing the game, who hasn't already done so.
Either way, they're now $53,574 away from their next stretch goal.
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