I wonder why people are preordering III through Amazon; doesn't it cost more than on the Slacker Backer? Maybe they don't know about shenmue.link/order.
11 chapters was the original "novel" timeline with the images for each chapter that we saw at GDC 2014. That doesn't include things like the boat chapter; the boat chapter is only a "thing" in the 16 chapter framework. These days Suzuki seems to stick to the 11 chapter timeline, ...
Hi there, you don't need a Kickstarter account for the Slacker Backer; this was mainly for people who didn't have a chance to back the Kickstarter campaign
Curious, what company ported the Xbox version originally? I've heard Yu was not involve at all Yu was indeed not involved, but it was still made by AM2 and led by Shin Ishikawa (https://segaretro.org/Shin_Ishikawa) who had also worked on the Dreamcast games: http://www.the-nextlevel.com/features/in...
Stranger things have happened; namely the original Shenmue getting its Japanese release delayed into Spring 2000, but then managing to pull off a 1999 release by a matter of days. TIL. Is it known if the original Japanese version of Shenmue has more bugs than the US or EU versions? I remember the i...
Xbox One sinking like a stone. Now somewhere in the 80s. Pity I don't own an Xbox One, otherwise I'd grab a copy. Can't bring myself to drop money on it. I'm surprised it's even coming out for that platform. I guess as the architecture of both consoles is similar it won't be as hard to port to both...
As for why the project took so long to come together, Clark said that solving contractual issues was a major factor. “Some of it does come down to the availability of licences and voice actors and things like that, which does sound a little bit corporate, but you do have to go through that. It’s a ...