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SHENMUE 3 kickstarter (PC/PS4) - FINAL DAY - NEW KS RECORD GO GO GO!

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shinobi602 said:
A big reason why I haven't participated in this thread that much. The constant "Only 239 backers in the last 24 hours!" or "Did someone just withdraw $3,000!!?" is a real drag on my mood for it. I'll just wait until the KS is over to talk about the future of the game I guess.
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It's just that this is the highest profile gaming kickstarter with the most visibility, so you have a lot of people watching this who previously haven't used kickstarter or don't know how it works. So everyone is sweating every day and some crazy people are trying to get awesome Japan fired.
 
I do not know how it works in other countries but here in Brazil today is the worst day of the month because the day of payment usually on the first working day.
 
Daily updates, no matter how small are important, I hope they keep adding something new everyday. And if you are a fan of Shenmue these interviews are especially interesting. They are like blu-ray bonus features but free.

One of my hopes for the game itself, is that the graphics are kept relatively simple. I don't think this game needs to look any better than an early 7th Gen console title. I really wish Sega would just give YS and the team access to all the assets of the previous games. The character models hold up well, and especially those Passport heads. Let them work of what they previously had, that would be far easier than whatever they are doing now to get Ryo looking like himself.

I hope they keep everyone very much in the know during development. I mean imagine how much we are well going to lose it when, 6 months to a year from now, we are watching actual gameplay footage? I can't even. A new Shenmue game is a reality.
 
mabec said:
I dont understand how they could come so unprepared to Kickstarting a game like Shenmue 3.
Everything we seen so far is just a vision, an idea about how they wish the next game to be. Iam dissapointed, upset and quite frankly sad for how this is treated, mainly by "Awesome Japan" i guess.

Still reconsidering withdrawing my pledge. If so thats my first time in 42 different Kickstarters.
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I don't think you should withdraw, especially when you consider Yu Suzuki's credibility, one of the Gods of Gaming (the other God is Shigeru Miyamoto, there are no other Gods beside those two). Beside, you need to consider the following:

1) They had a MASSIVE WAKE UP CALL! They needed this, Awesome Japan really needed this. They finally know how poor they have been because everyone around the world have told them and now they are kicking into higher gear.

2) This is games development so you should always expect everything to be towards a "vision", hence pre-production. However, you have forgotten something essential, Yu Suzuki already has access to a lot of the core assets thanks to SEGA. Now it's all about putting everything together, re-mastering them, changing assets here and there, putting together new ideas to really make the game bigger and better than before. Again, have faith, this IS Yu Suzuki.

3) Really bear in mind that the reason why many of us screaming and want Awesome Japan to do more is because we want Shenmue 3 to be beyond successful than what is already defined and benchmark as "success" which is KS like Bloodstained. So far, Shenmue is matching that but we don't Shenmue to match it, we want it to go BEYOND it. This is why we are making noise because we do not want any time to be wasted.

4) Shenmue III always need as much support as it can get and it need people like us (especially you) to make it happen. Bailing out because of Awesome Japan isn't going to help, it will just make matters worse. Because you are here in this thread it means that you know what Shenmue is, you know who is the mastermind behind the game, and, to a stronger degree than others, you know what will be applied to Shenmue III to make it an awesome game.


So, all you have to do now is, if you are willing, just join us in spreading the word about the game in order to help increase funding, and join us in opportunities to improve the KS when those opportunities arise. If you can't do that - and no one will
hold it against you as you have already shown support with your pledge - then no worries, just keep watching the side-lines as the powerful Shenmue fans will spare no prisoners in respect to getting their voices heard in order to see stronger response. After all, it has been 14yrs we have been waiting for this so we will NOT back down to any crying shame for... again... THIS is Shenmue III.
 
Backflip said:
We'd love to put the videos on Gameblog (we did put up some of them) but they're not subtitled in French. A lot of our readers don't understand English.
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Can you translate it? I think it will be worth translating it especially if no one else have done that yet. It should bring more readers to the articles as you will be the only site with a french version of the video/s.
 
VistraNorrez said:
I really wish Sega would just give YS and the team access to all the assets of the previous games. The character models hold up well, and especially those Passport heads. Let them work of what they previously had, that would be far easier than whatever they are doing now to get Ryo looking like himself.
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Apparently Sega have given Yu assets from the previous games. Maybe they just haven't got around to working with them yet.
 
This Kickstarter front page needs a better video in the worst way and add soon as possible. It only speaks to old fans and offers nothing for new ones.
 
I almost wish they were able to make this game on the original engine. Unreal 4 is great and all, but my dream Shenmue III looks exactly like the old ones but without the blurry textures and better controls.
 
Trojan X said:
Can you translate it? I think it will be worth translating it especially if no one else have done that yet. It should bring more readers to the articles as you will be the only site with a french version of the video/s.
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Translating takes a lot of time. And I can't write about Shenmue III only. But I try to write something about the game every day.
 
I haven't been paying attention to this thread since the announcement. But, who in the hell poisoned the well for this game? it had enormous momentum and seems to have come to a grinding halt.
 
Ryo Hazuki said:


Let's just keep the hype going for this!
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Shall we jump on-board?

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Maligna said:
I almost wish they were able to make this game on the original engine. Unreal 4 is great and all, but my dream Shenmue III looks exactly like the old ones but without the blurry textures and better controls.
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as cool as that'd be, a lot of those old tools are just to archaic for modern development.

i think they've done the right thing going for UE4 though. it's definitely a very user friendly tool and it produces pretty good results.
 
backbreaker65 said:
I haven't been paying attention to this thread since the announcement. But, who in the hell poisoned the well for this game? it had enormous momentum and seems to have come to a grinding halt.
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Poor planning poisoned it. It's been an awful Kickstarter so far and it wasn't clear what Sony's role was in the beginning. Initial goal was too low and stretch goals were weak as well.
 
Ryo Hazuki said:
Apparently Sega have given Yu assets from the previous games. Maybe they just haven't got around to working with them yet.
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Well that's fantastic. That will help a hell of a lot. We know they produced game material past the end of Shenmue 3, so they have something of a head start.

I imagine during development they will shop the game around for more funding. Once they have some actual gameplay footage hopefully they can get more big time investors.
 
VistraNorrez said:
Well that's fantastic. That will help a hell of a lot. We know they produced game material past the end of Shenmue 3, so they have something of a head start.

I imagine during development they will shop the game around for more funding. Once they have some actual gameplay footage hopefully they can get more big time investors.
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well, assets can mean a lot of things. don't necessarily take it to mean models. quite a bit of that might need to be remade, too. it definitely refers to production materials like concept art, research footage and the like.
 
Spaghetti said:
well, assets can mean a lot of things. don't necessarily take it to mean models. quite a bit of that might need to be remade, too. it definitely refers to production materials like concept art, research footage and the like.
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I know, that's a big deal to have, in many ways more important than in-game models. The budget of this KS makes a bit more sense to me now. They don't need to sink as much funds into pre-production.
 
Assets is probably more to do with documentation, research work and design information. Probably not much to assist the actual game development as everything is 14+ years old which would be useless these days! Super handy for reference for design and universe building stuff :D
 
This is the 1st time I've really taken notice of a Kickstarter (and backed one) Do they normally get a last minute boost ? Because that 11 Million stretch goal is not looking likely, it's still not even made it passed 4 Million yet, with only 17 days left, it slowed right down now.

I'm just glad it's finally being made though, even if it doesn't hit all the stretch goals.
 
VistraNorrez said:
I know, that's a big deal to have, in many ways more important than in-game models. The budget of this KS makes a bit more sense to me now. They don't need to sink as much funds into pre-production.
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yeah. a lot of shenmue's groundwork was set out from the start. part of the reason the vastly improved shenmue II came out only a year after the original was because of lot of that work was already done when both games were meant to be a single one.

this thread has been a bit dark for a few days, i finally think we're starting to turn the corner. if the big exciting update is what we think it is (new rewards, ps4 physical, drm free pc version - et al), i think we can finally make the last two weeks of this campaign really matter and make it really positive.

i've decided i'm going to really go for a shenmue newcomers guide and post it on here by friday hopefully, just as soon as i've put together the videos. there are so many people who come to gaf daily that we can make a real great outreach effort to new players on this forum alone.
 
Yautja_Warrior said:
This is the 1st time I've really taken notice of a Kickstarter (and backed one) Do they normally get a last minute boost ? Because that 11 Million stretch goal is not looking likely, it's still not even made it passed 4 Million yet, with only 17 days left, it slowed right down now.

I'm just glad it's finally being made though, even if it doesn't hit all the stretch goals.
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Yep, they usually get a little bump in the last 7 days even more so in the last 3 days when news sites start posting stories about the Kickstarter again as well as everyone putting in their final pledges. So expect about a 1 million boost around then depending on how deep people dig.

But as ever no need to threat as the game has hit its goal ^.^ Everything else is just icing on the cake.
 
Yautja_Warrior said:
This is the 1st time I've really taken notice of a Kickstarter (and backed one) Do they normally get a last minute boost ? Because that 11 Million stretch goal is not looking likely, it's still not even made it passed 4 Million yet, with only 17 days left, it slowed right down now.
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They do usually get a decent size boost over the last few days but the size of it varies. In best case scenarios you end up with something like Bloodstained, where the boost over the last two days is pretty much equal to the pledges on the first two. In worst case scenarios, you end up with a Yooka-Laylee type situation where the fanbase is exhausted and there's only a small boost at the end.
 
As long as they finish the story and it's well told with some solid gameplay then I will be happy. All the extra's and bonus games are nice but not the reason for me wanting Shenmue 3.
 
s_mirage said:
They do usually get a decent size boost over the last few days but the size of it varies. In best case scenarios you end up with something like Bloodstained, where the boost over the last two days is pretty much equal to the pledges on the first two. In worst case scenarios, you end up with a Yooka-Laylee type situation where the fanbase is exhausted and there's only a small boost at the end.
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For Yooka-Laylee, while the longer campaign finishing at the start of E3 might have sounded like a good idea at the start, I think the reality is that they probably undercut themselves significantly.
 
In the beginning people complained about not being able to see the later stretch goals and now they complain that $11M is unobtainable. Have any of you people thought about the possibility of those $11M goals sticking around for follow up funding after that the Kickstarter has ended? Complain complain complain.
 
ZhugeEX said:
Oh wow, this kickstarter has dropped off a cliff since the initial 2 days.
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Pretty normal all things considered but poor campaign management hasn't helped. People usually don't pledge in the middle if they are on the edge and wait until the campaign is about to run so the last couple of days mirror the first few.
 
Die Squirrel Die said:
For Yooka-Laylee, while the longer campaign finishing at the start of E3 might have sounded like a good idea at the start, I think the reality is that they probably undercut themselves significantly.
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Perhaps, but there have been longer campaigns that had much better late campaign boosts that Yooka-Laylee's. I'd blame it more on a none too rabid fanbase, and its very low initial goal. In terms of percentages, Shenmue 3 would need to pull in ~23 Million to exceed its goal by a similar amount.

Shenmue should easily do better than Yooka over the last few days though.
 
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