Riku Rose wrote: Because I want the game and series to be a success so we can get Shenmue IV. The argument is that it's not a good trailer that sells the game to the masses who they need to sell it to for this game to be a success story. Sure the 70k hardcore who contributed to Kickstarter understand it's in development and a work in progress but most people don't look into this stuff or care. But so far the game has sold only 70k copies but they still need to make back Sega, Sony, Shibuya and Deep Silvers investments to be a success. People think the game is already a success story because of Kickstarter but 70k copies sold would make it one of the biggest flops ever so you can't stop there, that's why you need to focus on non Shenmue fans.
Henry Spencer wrote: Guys, guys...You know what I think would be the best promotion for Shenmue 3?
Sappharad wrote:Henry Spencer wrote: Guys, guys...You know what I think would be the best promotion for Shenmue 3?
A lot of people won't like this, but I recently came to the conclusion that I don't really think Shenmue 3 will be hurt if Sega doesn't re-release the first two before 3 comes out.
To that point, I started playing the Yakuza series at Yakuza 4 having never played any of the previous titles. The positive reaction to the series and the announcement that 5 was coming to the US after over 3 years of fans asking was what finally got me to buy 4 and try it. I've bought each game in the series since then, but never went back to the ones I missed. (Well, I bought the remake of the first one, and I'm just going to wait for the remake of 2 to play that) The series recap movies in 4 were all I had to go on, and those were kind of confusing and I didn't follow them fully, but the 4th game was good enough that none of that really mattered. I think a lot of people are in the same situation I was in. Sales of the series likely increased with each subsequent title, and now it's finally doing well in the west.
If they re-release Shenmue 1 and 2 as-is without fixing some of the things that people complain about nowadays, it might do more harm than good and people might not be willing to pick up 3 even if it will better accommodate more modern gamers simply because they didn't like the originals.
I personally would like re-releases of 1 & 2 so I can play everything on the same system, but I don't think anymore that it's really essential for the success of the franchise. As long as people can get into it starting with 3, it still has a chance to do better than the first two games did.
Sappharad wrote:Henry Spencer wrote: Guys, guys...You know what I think would be the best promotion for Shenmue 3?
A lot of people won't like this, but I recently came to the conclusion that I don't really think Shenmue 3 will be hurt if Sega doesn't re-release the first two before 3 comes out.
To that point, I started playing the Yakuza series at Yakuza 4 having never played any of the previous titles. The positive reaction to the series and the announcement that 5 was coming to the US after over 3 years of fans asking was what finally got me to buy 4 and try it. I've bought each game in the series since then, but never went back to the ones I missed. (Well, I bought the remake of the first one, and I'm just going to wait for the remake of 2 to play that) The series recap movies in 4 were all I had to go on, and those were kind of confusing and I didn't follow them fully, but the 4th game was good enough that none of that really mattered. I think a lot of people are in the same situation I was in. Sales of the series likely increased with each subsequent title, and now it's finally doing well in the west.
If they re-release Shenmue 1 and 2 as-is without fixing some of the things that people complain about nowadays, it might do more harm than good and people might not be willing to pick up 3 even if it will better accommodate more modern gamers simply because they didn't like the originals.
I personally would like re-releases of 1 & 2 so I can play everything on the same system, but I don't think anymore that it's really essential for the success of the franchise. As long as people can get into it starting with 3, it still has a chance to do better than the first two games did.
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