Shenmue Series

Shenmue will be a megaton that's isnt. It will be like real life sighting and confirmation of Big Foot in the wild. The fact if it exists will likely be more interesting than what it is.
 
Shenmue will be a megaton that's isnt. It will be like real life sighting and confirmation of Big Foot in the wild. The fact if it exists will likely be more interesting than what it is.

Yeah i can see where you are coming from. At the time on DC it was amazing, but it really isn't all that anymore now. For the real hardcore fans out there it will be a megaton, but that's about it. Some people seem to think this will be like SFV. Sony paying for Shenmue 3 development. I highly doubt that though...Shenmue 3 is not guaranteed profit, SFV is. Is Sony in the position to make such risky decisions? Paying for development for a game that really might not sell all that well?
 
Yeah i can see where you are coming from. At the time on DC it was amazing, but it really isn't all that anymore now. For the real hardcore fans out there it will be a megaton, but that's about it. Some people seem to think this will be like SFV. Sony paying for Shenmue 3 development. I highly doubt that though...Shenmue 3 is not guaranteed profit, SFV is. Is Sony in the position to make such risky decisions? Paying for development for a game that really might not sell all that well?


I don't doubt that Sony funded development, if it's even true. I know that both Sony and Microsoft had discussion about reviving the series.

I think it could be amazing depending on the direction. If its similar in style to the first two or Yakuza, forget it. If it's a more realistic vision , I will be all over it.
 
I would be very perplexed and unhappy if Shen Mue 3 ended up a Playstation exclusive. Perplexed because the series was never on Sony Platforms (the opposite, in fact), and MS even had it on the OG xbox. That better be for Yakuza or something. :(
Yes and no. I feel like Microsoft left Sega fans out to dry for too long. I know there was a deal that fell through but I thought Shenmue 2 deserved a little more advertising and ESPECIALLY dual analog support/conversion. I honestly think last gen controls really hurt that game in sales. Maybe that was more Suzuki-san, but MS should have known how to handle that better.

They had many more chances to pick up or co-publish awesome titles like Ecco the Dolphin, but where has MS been all this time? If Sony is actually willing to fund Shenmue (doubt it, actually) that's finally a great reason for me to pick up a PS4.
 
Id be fine if they remake a hd version of Shenmue 1 and 2.
I honestly think that this many years later, it is a must to reboot the game with 1&2 before part 3. They can lay down a more modern control scheme while they are at it. It also needs to be beautiful to look at by today's standards (just like it was back then). Keep the rest and I'm all in.
 
On NeoGAF i read that Quantic Dream apparently has been developing it together with Yu Suzuki. If it's indeed a Sony exclusive, i hope that's true, cause i can actually see QD make such a game. At the end of the day it's a great...how should i say...injustice iguess, that we never got to find out about the ending to Shenmue. So this would be great. But it seems pretty sure things are happening...cause the Sony guy has started following Yu Suzuki, but Geoff Keighley now too.
 
Yeah i can see where you are coming from. At the time on DC it was amazing, but it really isn't all that anymore now. For the real hardcore fans out there it will be a megaton, but that's about it. Some people seem to think this will be like SFV. Sony paying for Shenmue 3 development. I highly doubt that though...Shenmue 3 is not guaranteed profit, SFV is. Is Sony in the position to make such risky decisions? Paying for development for a game that really might not sell all that well?

I think the point of SFV for Sony was the fact the PS4 was going to be used on the tournament circle and get all that advertising but course we all know how that worked out. I'd love for them to make shenmue 3 happen but I don't see the point of it for them.
 
Does Shenmue even have a chance in today's market? I feel like it'd need a huge rehaul in it's approach as a game.

No only hardcore gamers will care and Sony seems to have them already this gen. Fact is other then older gamers nobody will even know wtf shun use even is it may as well be a new series to most gamers now. They'd have to push it as something new to get good sales.

It breaks my heart to say but shun mue is just not a money maker or console seller even if I myself want it so bad.
 
Game was funded on kickstarter in less than 9 hours. I've been waiting for this fir a long time. Cant wait to see how the story ends.
 
Shenmue 3 deserves more than kickstarter. $2 million is not going to take it far, given the budget for the original was around $47 million and by todays standards that's $67 million.
 
They completely shattered their 2 million dollar goal in a mere few hours. I knew that was going to happen.
 
I still haven't beaten the first shenmue and I never played Shenmue 2....Ahhhh I gotta get a dreamcast and the game to finish it and also get shenmue 2 for xbox.
 
Shenmue 3 deserves more than kickstarter. $2 million is not going to take it far, given the budget for the original was around $47 million and by todays standards that's $67 million.


yeah but if you look at the history shunmue it was in development hell for years and even remade it was a sega saturn game at one time and near done. If they've already got all the art and everything done a lot of work is done and you can outsource work now where back in the day that was much much harder.

So textures art and all that can just be outscored to cheap labor.

Part 2 never even came out in the US but years later on the first Xbox that did not have a huge user base at the time. Shunmue just had a s***ty history from the ground up and no way it was going to be this monster success.

The issue I got is Yu himself I don't have much faith he can get it done. He has been out of mean stream gaming for a long ass time and hell Shunmue online never even made it out. can the guy do a game this size anymore who knows.

I almost want to say just never make Shunmue 3 and just give One and 2 an HD treatment and update the controls.
 
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I still haven't beaten the first shenmue and I never played Shenmue 2....Ahhhh I gotta get a dreamcast and the game to finish it and also get shenmue 2 for xbox.

Shenmue 2 is great it really fixed all the issues the first one had. the games were really ahead of their time. its really something what they did for the time.
 
Shenmue 3 deserves more than kickstarter. $2 million is not going to take it far, given the budget for the original was around $47 million and by todays standards that's $67 million.

Sony is funding the game. The Kickstarter was/is a ploy to gauge interest. There is no way they could make the game with $4 million, let alone $2 million.
 
Sony is funding the game. The Kickstarter was/is a ploy to gauge interest. There is no way they could make the game with $4 million, let alone $2 million.
I'd bet they have backing from a few outside investors beyond Sony. Sega has their hand in the pot as well,so they might be contributing something as well based on the success of the KS.
 
I've waited 14yrs for this. Awesome news, going to back $100.

Bit s***ty on Sony not coming out saying we part part funding as I would like x1 version.