I'm talking about higher tiers, seems like it's exclusive to $800. Odd

this concerns me too. i'm not too keen on missing out on the in-game items like technique scrolls, but i'll need a whole new $800 donation to get this?

(having ones name in kanji appear in the game is a great idea though)

Yeah agreed, I love that everyone gets the phone reward, and not being greedy, because we have name and face in the game at $1500 reward, but missing out on a move scroll seems a bit disheartening after pledging so much money :cry:

I've done $1500 on one account, and $80 on another. The second account started at $30 for $30 on the 3rd lol, then it went to $60 for the physical PS4...cause I want to have both physical versions (PC/PS4), then today i've decided that I need the phone card for both versions of the game, just incase I prefer playing on one platform more than the other.

As for the $800 technique scroll, they need to just give it to everyone above $800 imo, since we're all patreons at that amount of money lol, i'm not asking for the Chinese names in the temples, that is specific to that reward, but to alienate a unique technique scroll - regardless of what we currently know about technique scrolls - slightly lets people down who have pledged more.

If you make two accounts, can you use the same card? I'm not going to, but I'm just curious.

I have an it didn't give me an issue. Whether it will or not on the day the money comes out, we'll have to wait and see, but I can't see them not wanting money :D

That's what I am worried about, I don't want on the final day to have the pledge from one account cancelled and the lesser pledge to go through.

Just sent Kickstarter a ticket to ask, will let you know the answer when they get back to me :)

Here's the reply guys.

Kickstarter Support (Kickstarter)

Jul 8, 11:51 AM

Hi James,

You should be totally fine! Let us know if you need anything else.

Best,
Alfie

skilljim

Jul 8, 9:58 AM

Hi, I am a big Shenmue fan and have backed for the $1500 tier on this account. I also wanted to get the $80 tier so I would be able to receive both rewards, and I have backed this tier on a second account. I have backed it using the same debit card as I thought this would be okay, but I wanted to just double check before the project finishes that my card will be successfully charged twice, one for each of these 2 accounts. I needed to use 2 accounts, as it's not possible to back more than one unique reward tier, that the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter project happens to have.

Thank you for your time and help :)
James.

Just noticed the $160 reward has 20 capsule toy tickets, was that always there?

Yea it must have been Amir, because they said that once someone backs a tier they can't change the description for it.

"*Changes to Reward pledge buttons are not allowed after they are pledged for, so please see the "Rewards" section below for complete reward details"

Adding $1200 to all higher tiers, which they could easily do since apart from the physical calligraphy print all this content is just digital would definately mean the rest of those $1500 tiers would be snapped up imo, and then possibly might increase the $3000, and $4000 tiers aswell if everything higher included from the $1200 tier downwards.

ElephantStone wrote: Shame the comments are already a shit show.

Tried to correct a lot of people, but it's basically falling on deaf ears with these 12 year old trolls.

RiGoRmOrTiS wrote: $1500 I AM SHENMUE.. (will choose PC Phsyical)

+ $80 for PS4 (Phsyical)

I'll never reduce my pledges for that would be disingenuous and cause too much heart ache for those like me who watch the total day in day out

Exactly the same as you dude $1500 first account, $80 second

Kobe wrote: Shenmue HD is not coming ever and I could easily bet Bill Gates salary on it.

Shit, how much did you lose on the announcement of Shenmue 3?

Surprised, I thought it looked gorgeous. Considering they've had a couple of weeks and still not received our funding.

I clicked Add Member Name, and put it there, but this is great. Genuinely hope the guy is okay though, and there's a reason for the year absense.

I messaged them and they replied saying it shouldn't be a problem.

Kickstarter Support (Kickstarter)

Jul 8, 11:51 AM

Hi James,

You should be totally fine! Let us know if you need anything else.

Best,
Alfie

skilljim

Jul 8, 9:58 AM

Hi, I am a big Shenmue fan and have backed for the $1500 tier on this account. I also wanted to get the $80 tier so I would be able to receive both rewards, and I have backed this tier on a second account. I have backed it using the same debit card as I thought this would be okay, but I wanted to just double check before the project finishes that my card will be successfully charged twice, one for each of these 2 accounts. I needed to use 2 accounts, as it's not possible to back more than one unique reward tier, that the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter project happens to have.

Thank you for your time and help :)
James.

I'm talking with my best friend, and some of the guys going to Japan and it's such a hard decision. Maybe if the Monaco tier was just a 1 person deal then maybe yes, I'd take that. But those scripts of Shenmue.... you all know I am a die hard Shenmue collector.....

Jesus. First world problems eh? :lol:

Either way, I hope all the tiers get filled. This is about Shenmue.

Yeah, forgot about the script aswell, that is some super cool merch right there!

Tough decision tho Peter...maybe I could help in suggesting...second account, back both :P?

Here's the bit with his reaction if anyone was interested.

I think someone said the max you can pledge is $10k anyways, so if Sony wanted to drop 40 mil into Kickstarter, they'd need to start making new accounts now

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Thanks for posting this John, my posts about this have gotten lost in the midst of the middle of about 2-3 topics, so this makes more sense

Done aswell cool

Great news, if it's a Patron style sort of thing i'll deffo put up like reocurring $30 payments for the next 2 and a half years or something!

When I woke up today reading that interview, I too had concerns like shenmue852 said up above. I hope again it has been poorly translated as to me the answer to that question does sound as though Yu is trying to squeeze the rest of the story into Shenmue 3. This would be a huge mistake in my eyes, as not only would the story feel rushed, but his original vision of the series would be completely crushed when say 3 or 4 more games were originally planned and all that content is completely cut just to tie the knot in the third game. I know nothing up until this one question has sounded at all like he's planning to crush the story into 1 more game, but it has been over a month since the last update and alot can change. My other concern with this, is that finally we have the media coverage, we can self market this game through loads more mediums that we previously could when the Dreamcast was around, we have youtube, twitter, facebook, all these highly sharable and self marketable avenues to spread the word about Shenmue...which is one of the reasons Shenmue 3 is actually happening. The hype around the series right now and especially when the third game is close to being released, I think Shenmue this time around could be a success, and I would hate that Yu and his team realise the potential was there in this era to return to his original plan and have a Shenmue 4, and maybe even a Shenmue 5, but everything was cut to compensate for wrapping the series up in Shenmue 3. I can understand the other side of the argument that is saying that it would be another risk not finishing the story and people don't want to have to wait another 15 years for another game that this time likely won't be returning...but I don't think it will be as hard this time around for the series to bomb when we already have the attention of millions of people from the E3 conference, we hold a couple of world records on Kickstarter now, and the game is being released on the best selling console compared to the Dreamcast which was potentially the worst selling console at the time. Things are different this time around that mean that Shenmue can live on successfully through a game or 2 more.

Again, it's just one question and one weirdly worded answer, I hope that it was just slightly mistranslated :)

Hey guys, I watch a dude on Twitch called TheMediumStream, and he recently just cleared Shenmue 2 for the first time. He spoke to this particular NPC in Guilin, who says something at the time rather innocent, but since we now know differently, it comes across really funny and as though Yu Suzuki trolled us all those years ago :D

Here is a link to the part - https://youtu.be/XoaBPJGzV7Q

"How long does it take to get to Bailu Village?"

"I wouldn't know...If you can keep from getting lost, it'll take two days..."

"Two days..."

"But it could take...your entire life."

"My entire life?!"

"Just kidding. But do watch for wolves."

Haha, I thought it was pretty sickening :rotflmao:

Dude don't worry about second account and same card, they told me it should be fine.

Kickstarter Support (Kickstarter)

Jul 8, 11:51 AM

Hi James,

You should be totally fine! Let us know if you need anything else.

Best,
Alfie

skilljim

Jul 8, 9:58 AM

Hi, I am a big Shenmue fan and have backed for the $1500 tier on this account. I also wanted to get the $80 tier so I would be able to receive both rewards, and I have backed this tier on a second account. I have backed it using the same debit card as I thought this would be okay, but I wanted to just double check before the project finishes that my card will be successfully charged twice, one for each of these 2 accounts. I needed to use 2 accounts, as it's not possible to back more than one unique reward tier, that the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter project happens to have.

Thank you for your time and help :)
James.

Great vid! Shows off some of the best gameplay i've seen, nice use of moves :D...it's videos like this where it's outstanding how much there is to do in these open worlds, even more so than most open world games these days - and actually have somewhat of a point to the open world, because of the incredible story. When I play games like GTA5, i'm just not really entertained, not because there isn't loads of shit to do, but because it doesn't feel like there's any real purpose to it, it's just loads and loads of filler content so they can boast double to triple hours of gameplay, it just gets very old and repetitive fast, especially when more than half the missions have no plot line.

This looks incredible, i've just added my support. I think that figure, although the clothing is extremely similar to Ryo's I think that's actually the Yu Suzuki figure

Yeah bought it aswell, good enough as anything to show a little bit of support. They definately cannot gauge demand from a single ringtone though. But can only help eh

Anyone that pledged on 2 accounts checked there bank account info to find Kickstarter took it all out as 1 payment? I was expecting a big payment, and a small payment seperately, but I just had 1 even bigger payment instead. Both of my Kickstarter accounts have confirmed that the money has been collected for both pledges, so I should be good, but just weird :P
Yup mines just showing as 1 charge for both accounts.

Now my bank is now showing the 2 seperate charges, which I good to see now, and so that first big one they took out wasn't combined in the end - but I didn't lose anymore money, so the second must have gone through but just took an extra day to show.

Was Zippo not also a branded product?

Update:
For listeners that need the center channel mono sound here we are with a new version.

https://soundcloud.com/theshenmuecast/the-shenmue-cast-2-mono

Also the iTunes Store now has The Shenmue Cast available for direct subscription.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-shenmue-cast/id1021084450?mt=2

Thanks for this Axm! I listened to the show today, and was very good! Appreciate you changing the audio for people like me :)

Adam brought up some good points about Shenmue 1 and 2 HD, there's so many trademarks and licenses in those games that they'd have to renew, i'm sure that could be quite costly and difficult, for example Timex, and that backpack company, or even Zippo - I guess they could just convert everything to that knock off lighter brand zuppo haha :D

Hey guys,

Just picked up 2 magazines from my local newsagents here in the UK, I got the Official Playstation 4 mag, and Games TM. After reading through both magazines, I would say Games TM sound more like fans, as alot of the early "hype" in the magazine bearing E3 mentions Shenmue 3 quite alot. I took shots of the main Shenmue 3 related pages though incase you were interested. Feel free to post your own shots from your own magazines you might find with Shenmue 3 tidbits in :)

Games TM:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/348/19787150568_f956ca1c9d_k.jpg
Games TM August 2015 Editor Note by James Brown , on Flickr

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/512/19354231983_0cba5cf7bd_k.jpg Games TM Shenmue 3 Article by James Brown , on Flickr


Official Playstation 4:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/408/19788502979_f2584fcf64_k.jpg Official Playstation 4 Magazine Shenmue 3 Article by James Brown , on Flickr

These Rooster Teeth people really have it out for Shenmue. Another one of their programs (Funhaus) continues to run programs/podcasts bashing the series. Did someone at that company run a failed Kickstarter? I don't understand why they're spending so much time bad mouthing Shenmue.

Yeah dunno dude, that guy on the left was on about chucking $700 at that Star Citizen game earlier, which used to be a Kickstarter I think and now takes Paypal donations - so not much different to us pledging for Shenmue...they were then making fun at him spending so much money on a game that hasn't been released yet.

Misinformed and giving shenmue bad press, I hate their previous video and they did the same for this one
HERE IS THE LINK

yeah keep giving Them web traffic and letting them make money off of advertising for their shit
Good job smart guy.

Or...you could dislike their videos, leave comments that suggest the credibility of the things they are discussing to be false, up vote these comments, put people off their videos, and potentially hurt them.

Or like you say, don't click the link and let them convince viewers that don't know any better to not support Shenmue.

Either one of the above actions might be better than taking it out on a fellow supporter.

Just wanted to thank Yokosuka for those french scans! I can't read any of it, but they seem to be proud of the fact that possibly a good chunk of the project feels french if not only for Cedric and his company being involved and the co-producer!

Awesome stuff, especially that Yu Suzuki timeline scan :) thanks!

Or it could just be that around a week ago, we all threw a combined total of 6.3 mil at them, and they are in no real hurry to get the Paypal page up because they know we're all currently broke

Love the new avatar Techno ;)

Hey guys, watched this dude play Shenmue 1 and 2 a while back, and he's playing through them again. Today he's starting Shenmue 1, and he's currently live. Really cool guy, deserves way more viewers than he gets, but he's very friendly, and communicates really well with everyone. Check him out if you see this within the next 2 hours, as he only usually streams for bursts of 2 hours between 2 and 4 pm UK time.

http://www.twitch.tv/themediumstream

:???: didn't see, or get a joke...
probably me?!
the impression i got, was a friendly warning.
could take your entire life: difficult path.
only kidding, but do watch out for wolves: bandits and hoodlums.
...
at least that's how it reads this end.
if it's a genuine joke, i missed it, still do.
thanks for sharing anyway! :mrgreen:

Haha, it just comes across as funny now we've been waiting 14 years for Shenmue 3. I was making the point that the trip to Bailu Village could take 2 days, or your entire life :D...most people never expected to ever reach there, but now we'll finally get there, but it didn't take us 2 days, or our entire life, it was 17 and a half years :D

According to Sega Nerds, Sega's line up has been announced. There are 2 rumored surprises aswell...we'll have to see what those will be. Not much from the list strikes me as Sega changing their ways and being more fan driven though, although they have announced a large amount of games, how many of these will see the light of day over here is another story though.

http://www.seganerds.com/2015/09/10/tgs-2015-segas-game-lineup-merch-booth-information/

Some of the merch looks cool though, looks like a set of badges and a Dreamcast 2016 Calender! Would love to get these as both features Shenmue. Even just the little Shenmue button, I don't know if anyone on the forum is attending, but if they happen to get a few Shenmue buttons, please send one my way :D

http://i2.wp.com/www.seganerds.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/goods_150911_08.jpg?resize=271%2C213

http://i1.wp.com/www.seganerds.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/goods_150911_09_01.gif?resize=202%2C134 http://i0.wp.com/www.seganerds.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/goods_150911_09_03.gif?resize=202%2C134

For anyone going TGS, there's meant to be a Shenmue tshirt aswell

Kaze518 wrote: My Chi You Men tattoo

Love that dude, looks perfect!

Just seen this on ebay -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SEGA-Dreamcast-Shenmue-Prototype-Early-US-version-with-full-DEBUG-menus-/262050942421?hash=item3d03740dd5

Anyone even know this existed? I really wanna try it out...hopefully if someone wins it from here, they could upload the image files for us all to try :)?

Yeah i'll be happy as long as whoever gets this epic piece will be able to share it so we can all have some fun with it before Shenmue 3 :), it'd be such a shame for it to go to someone with the intention of just having it for themselves, with people like shengoro, if there is a bicylce still in the game, could probably mod the definitive Shenmue 1, Japanese dub, english subs, with bike and coca cola machines :D

Himuro wrote: So last summer when they said they were going to reveal stuff for renewed fan trust, were they talking about the RGG 1 remake because if so...

Looking at it now, I think they were talking about Merch lol...they've gone nostalgia on the merch...not so much on the games.

I agree also, I love Shenmue 2 to bits aswell but Shenmue 1's emotion and flow is why i fell in love with the series, the story in 2 is great however, and I appreciate the game for sheer size and length of the game.

It's weird in a way that they were meant to have been worked on at the same time, as evident in the Sega Saturn footage that had Shenmue 2 gameplay shown, yet they do feel completely different in the mechanics. I wonder if at some point Shenmue 2 did have more of the style of Shenmue 1, but they waited until Shenmue 1 was released to judge the direction of Shenmue 2. They probably had feedback about saving and waiting around from people who played the first game, and then decided to add the additional features for example.

Holy fuck dude, that page is amazing, it's going to take me like a week to get through all that content haha

Great job man!

Giuseppe Nelva just tweeted his interview he did with Yu Suzuki in Tokyo. (https://twitter.com/Abriael/status/656535210645958660)

Here is the interview:
http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/10/20/shenmue-iii-interview-yu-suzuki-talks-gameplay-tech-romance-ps4-pc-frame-rate-and-much-more/

Short video explaining AI Battle System -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDwmhk7PcTA

UPDATE - MORE AVATARS ADDED - http://www.megafileupload.com/5nyd/Sega_200K_Followers_Pack.rar?pt=Ob1HoNG39FGmXBsiqGry9i46la19hTrxxmme4zysipE%3D

http://i.imgur.com/wuM3KSb.jpg

Hey guys, Sega of Japan just posted this tweet - https://twitter.com/SEGA_OFFICIAL/status/656355565526872065

Which links to a new web page they just created - http://sns.sega.jp/201510-200k/

http://sns.sega.jp/201510-200k/img/151.png

230 awesome nostalgic avatars to use, phone wallpaper for iPhone and Android devices and the best bit, amazing Paper Craft of consoles and stuff! My favourite being the Crazy Taxi cab :D!

http://sns.sega.jp/sp/dl/crazytaxi_s.jpg

Anyways, I painstakingly right clicked and save as'd every image on the site, and zipped them up in a .rar file for ease of download - http://www.megafileupload.com/5nyd/Sega_200K_Followers_Pack.rar?pt=Ob1HoNG39FGmXBsiqGry9i46la19hTrxxmme4zysipE%3D

Enjoy, just click the big "SLOW DOWNLOAD" button below :)