VibratingDonkey
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Well, I did go for the $300 tier. But I think by the end of this it'll be closer to $400.Me said:
Currently at $333.33 and planning to make a second account to pledge to a tier including the physical PS4 copy.
SHENMUE 3 kickstarter (PC/PS4) - FINAL DAY - NEW KS RECORD GO GO GO!
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Currently at $333.33 and planning to make a second account to pledge to a tier including the physical PS4 copy.
Tricky I Shadow
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nobody has backed it, so hopefully they've got the message that it's time to stop the higher tier rewards and start working on add-ons, paypal, etc.
MrCunningham
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The oldest Shenmue video made public is the Project Berkly CGI video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ6-QRThA8A. I remember seeing screenshots for this video in magazines back in 1997 or so, when the game was rumored to be Virtua Fighter RPG.
Then there is also the Shenmue Sega Saturn beta video that was included with the Xbox version of Shenmue II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foZUcPQAMvg. This is also circa 1997, i think. Here is a nice side by side video comparing the Saturn and Dreamcast builds of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-YxOpZ7mDo. The Saturn build also has a lot of scenes from Shenmue II in it.
There is also this great postmortem that Yu Suzuki did at GDC 2014 for Shenmue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amu0_EunHmM. It is an hour long, and he covers the complete history of the game.
A yes the infamous Ryo on bicycle video.
For those that played the games I encourage you to view the video under the section "What's Shenmue" - http://shenmue.link/us-en/history.html
You can see a lot of beta content (Like Mark originally being part of the Mad Angels) and also it seems like at one point they had a lot more NPC's walking around the environment (Or it could have been a test).
Some neat stuff.
possible spoiler based on a post on shenmuedojo by someone who actually went to baisha village in china:
EDIT: nevermind. apparently the theory was actually debunked in the niconico video.
you have to take a train to get there from guilin. it could be that the train scene from the project berkley video happens in 3.
EDIT: nevermind. apparently the theory was actually debunked in the niconico video.
Did Yu outright confirm that it wasn't happening in 3?
no idea yet. going on second hand information. i don't think the full video is translated yet.
i think i get what yu means when he describes places by their smell. i get the idea of farmland, dust, and humidity smells from this picture alone.Googling images of Baisha village. It looks beautiful. Reminds me more of a feudal Japanese look than Chinese though, which I'm okay with.
Ah fair enough. After the story is complete it'll be interesting to see how much of Project Berkely made the cut to the final games.
Shadowman16
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Yeah, I agree. I'd drop more money on this in a heartbeat if they came out with some more decent "cheap" tiers. I'm at $120 at the moment and would probably jump at a decent $150 or $200 reward. These more expensive ones are just not doing it for me.
Googling images of Baisha village. It looks beautiful. Reminds me more of a feudal Japanese look than Chinese though, which I'm okay with.
I'm getting flashbacks to my playthrough on Yakuza Ishin looking at that image. Can't wait to explore a place like that in Shenmue
Yeah, and he said the current rendition in the kickstarter vid is more akin to California, so we should be getting something quite different in the final game. Throw in the weather system and time change, it's going to be awesome.
Tricky I Shadow
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Googling images of Baisha village. It looks beautiful. Reminds me more of a feudal Japanese look than Chinese though, which I'm okay with.
Gorgeous. Can't wait to explore it!
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
I wish they wouldn't send multiple updates every day. I feel like I signed up to be spammed once I backed this.
Getting flashbacks of Uncharted 2Googling images of Baisha village. It looks beautiful. Reminds me more of a feudal Japanese look than Chinese though, which I'm okay with.
Augemitbutter
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are they going to wait until the last day to add paypal?
well, it's the last week of fundraising so you probably won't have to put up with it much longer. you'll probably see a few coming through over the next few days, but after that they'll probably be a lot more irregular/monthly.
Nightengale
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I've been to China like 10 or so times now. The cities have changed a lot from my first visit till my most recent ones, but the more rural locales like Guilin, Hunan & Yunnan are still some of the most beautiful places I've ever visited.
Yu Suzuki is spot-on when he talks about how China can be described by its smell. The pollution aside, the greenness in China has a very different vibe from one region to the other, and it's reflected in the subtle hues of the colour and the smell.
Yu Suzuki is spot-on when he talks about how China can be described by its smell. The pollution aside, the greenness in China has a very different vibe from one region to the other, and it's reflected in the subtle hues of the colour and the smell.
Tricky I Shadow
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You just read my mind.
Acquiescence
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What time is your flight?
Fantastic.
Ryo Hazuki
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What a strange complaint. Today was the first update in 2 days and before that it was maybe like once a day? For an ongoing Kickstarter that's fairly typical, especially as we near the end. You can manage your notifications by going to Settings > Notifications > Uncheck the Shenmue 3 box:
Tricky I Shadow
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5:00pm tonight. I'll send a postcard. BYEEEEE~
Completely agreed. Having lived in Suzhou and Wuxi as a child, his explanation I think provides great context of why I still think many of the environments in both games hold up so well.
The updates about the architect working on the game intrigued me. Does anyone know if most open world games have an architect on staff, or do the game's artists just go on reference material?
Shenmue always felt more "real" in its world to me than other open world games, and I can't tell if it's just because they did it first or because they did it better.
Shenmue always felt more "real" in its world to me than other open world games, and I can't tell if it's just because they did it first or because they did it better.
Savantcore
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Just won £40 on Wimbledon. Looks like I'm getting me a physical PS4 copy.
i'm sure a good few modern games will pull in people from the architect profession, but i don't think it's common. real smart move from yu suzuki though, waaaaaaay ahead of the curve on that one.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
What a strange complaint. Today was the first update in 2 days and before that it was maybe like once a day? For an ongoing Kickstarter that's fairly typical, especially as we near the end. You can manage your notifications by going to Settings > Notifications > Uncheck the Shenmue 3 box:
Thanks for the tip! I didn't know I could disable specific project notifications.
Shadowman16
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I'd not even considered that. Magic weather is one of the best details in the original Shenmue for me (best representation of snow in a video game ever in my opinion) and anything similar for Shenmue 3 would be awesome.
Ryo Hazuki
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It's at $4,704,000+ now so it's still moving along at a good pace!
we probably won't see snow unless the game moves northwards, but rain and fog are certain
openrob
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Lol we all feel the same way.
I think it is at this point right here, you have to decide if you want to avoid spoilers or not.
Peter Sjöstrand
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I put together this animated short in an attempt to bring more awareness to the Kickstarter. The idea was to try and animate a Shenmue themed Mega Man stage.
If you're wondering why I decided to mix the two, it's because we're a couple of guys who have been working on a Mega Man fangame for a couple of years, so we're using our Facebook page that we set up for that game to help promote the campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KXALnWyv4
If you're wondering why I decided to mix the two, it's because we're a couple of guys who have been working on a Mega Man fangame for a couple of years, so we're using our Facebook page that we set up for that game to help promote the campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KXALnWyv4
Ryo Hazuki
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Peter Sjöstrand;171681950 said:
Hahaha, that's awesome. Nice job, dude.
lovely ladies
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This is awesome, great job man.Peter Sjöstrand;171681950 said:
DAREALGUMMY
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Peter Sjöstrand;171681950 said:
That was great!
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