by AnimeGamer183 » Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:49 am
A couple months back we had a pretty in depth discussion about Kick starter here. I stated my dislike for this option of game development and even though we are getting shenmue 3, I still dont like kick starter, BUT we are getting fucking shenmue 3. Obviously this is a special game I would throw some money towards to help support, so its a bit of unique situation and I think this is going to be one of the best and most well deserved kick starters of all time. A game and series like this is what you give a kick starter, this one actually deserves to be fan funded/backed if thats what it takes.
We could moan and bitch about sony or who ever not just picking up the tab for development but for the past 10+ years no dev or publisher has wanted to even discuss shenmue because of its crazy high development costs and questions on whether you can actually turn a profit with it etc, at least that was the initial reaction for the first few years of silence surrounding the series, and I think shenmue kinda got swept under the rug and cast off in a category of untouchable games in the collective game industry mind set and forgotten about for many years.
So taking all this into consideration, I dont think we have much room to complain. Take this series and looks at its history, and take all the information we know about it up to this point, and you can understand why giving this game the green light could be a huge risk for a potential dev or publisher. The last game came out 14 years ago for christ sake, there is some major dusting off and market gathering information they would need to truly gauge the demand for Shenmue 3. At the same time though, IF the demand is as vast as it potentialy could be, there is an opportunity for the game to be very profitable, it was the most requested game to sony, and it has a huge cult following, it was a big 50/50 for anyone.
But the right people still stepped up to make it happen, and I think as fans who played the games when they first came out, and have been waiting this entire time wondering and hoping if the game would ever see the light of day, that we really cant be too upset about the fact that we have to kick starter the game into existence. I think we should be more appreciative that someone is even giving it a chance, we could have easily continued to have had nothing and it would have been same old same old. But the catalyst has been put in motion, and for the fans its like why not help achieve what we have been waiting so long for?