by O Rei do Frango Assado » Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:07 pm
So, today, while walking back home, I checked my email on my phone and saw a KS update for Shenmue 3. It was quite unexpected and that made me realize that I really haven't been thinking much about Shenmue 3 lately.
Then I asked myself: Am I still excited for Shenmue 3?
Well, of course I am! The thing is, when I think about why I am excited, the only reason I can come up with is simply "Because it's fucking Shenmue 3!". Because, to be honest, we have seen so little of this game, that it might as well be a yet-to-be-unveiled game. Not only that, the little that we have seen has yet to impress me and get me hyped (pretty much all I can really say so far is that the environments are looking pretty).
So, I'm excited (how could I not be? It's Shenmue fucking 3!), but not feeling hyped, at the moment.
Anyway, I still have faith that, in the end, we'll get a great game (though I'm certainly not expecting anything as ground-breaking as the first two games were) and that, before that, we'll finally get to see some proper footage of the game and hype will come back. And we need it to look good enough to get non-fans hyped too, not just fans like me, who, as I just said, are only excited about it simply "because it's Shenmue 3".
Also, the fact that we still haven't seen almost anything of Shenmue 3 makes me think that they're either playing their cards very close to their chest, or that a 2018 release probably won't happen. My gut feeling tells me that it's the latter. Fine by me, really. I've been waiting for more than 15 years and, just over a couple of years ago, I considered Shenmue dead and buried and my hope was zero, so... I just want a great game.