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elfshadowreaper wrote: So much hinges on HD remakes/straight rereleases.
Spaghetti wrote:Himuro wrote: Not all good games make money or are critically well received but Shenmue III is also a record breaking Kickstarter fundraiser and has over 15 years of hype.
I'm not so sure that'll work in its benefit, but then again; that length of hype is only really contained to fans and I'm almost completely certain at this point that the game will satisfy the majority of us.
The Kickstarter stuff is really only a stick to beat the game with if imperfections are picked upon. Look forward to position switching from a lot of people in the future when they change from "Is $6 million enough to make Shenmue III?" to "OMG SCAMMING YU SUZUKI DOES NOTHING WITH HUGE $6 MILLION FROM FANS".
I think it'll surprise a lot of people in terms of scope and depth for a KS game, though, but YSnet and Shibuya Productions probably won't get the appropriate credit for the hard work and some ignorant people will chalk it up to Sony.
Himuro wrote: Dark Souls, Life Is Strange, and more niche are as well. Still have their audiences.
But it has a lot going for it that many of you aren't considering.
imo you're a fool if you think this game is doomed.
coming to the conclusion that there's no space for Shenmue in gaming
There are more than a few obstacles for the series
I think a lot of the dialogue on this forum is very unrealistically negative.
Yokosuka wrote: You have the perfect example in the last hours of how a "niche" game can be a success if you put its strengths forward. Read Dead Redemption is as boring as Shenmue if you play it wrongly but the first game sold 14 million copies...
Hyo Razuki wrote: I hope for S 1 & 2 Remasters as well, but I think even without that we can still get our sales numbers. Since E3 of 2015, Shenmue has been getting massive exposure in all major gaming media, worldwide. Now be that positive or negative coverage, the name is still getting out there and a lot of people are gonna want to try S3 out.
With Yakuza for instance, number 3 has been the most successful entry so far. And that was a PS3 game, which had a much smaller user base at the time of Yakuza 3's release than the PS2 had at Yakuza 1 and 2's release. That's also kind of mid-story. If you haven't played 1 and 2, you won't be able to understand Yakuza 3's story to the fullest but you can still follow it and have fun with the game.
It's basically the same with S3. You'll never understand the full depth of the story and all its characters but you'll still be perfectly able to follow the main story line. You can easily sum up S1 and S2's story to make it accessible to newcomers with the cinema shorts YS Net have planned.
Hazuki00 wrote: Some friends told me that they would like to play Shenmue 1 and 2 before founding Shenmue 3 because they want to know the story of the saga so that they can play Shenmue 3 knowing all the detayls of the story. That could be some of the reason the kickstarter doesn't have much more success.
About Shenmue 1 and 2, I'm not so sure the people would welcome them with open arms because we all know how slowly the story develops, Shenmue 1 mainly. For this reason, people who try Shenmue 1 and 2 could not buy Shenmue 3, they could think Shenmue 3 is as slow pace as the previous and don't like it.
punkmanced wrote:At the very least, let’s hope YS Net has the decency to include a comprehensive Shenmue: The Movie type recap, should these ports not see the light of day before S3’s release date. The objective here is, ideally, to sell 1M+ copies, which would be mechanically impossible to achieve by sorely relying on the existing fanbase.
punkmanced wrote: HD re-releases are of the utmost importance in Shenmue's case. The story is way too personal and linear for unacquainted gamers to just randomly jump in. This isn’t Final Fantasy/ Elder Scrolls/ etc.
Plus, we’re talking about games that have been MIA for the past 15 or so years. At this point, they’re a necessity one way or another. This should be common sense.
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