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June UltraViolent Wrasslin' |OT| This is Small Potatoes!
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Will definitely be at Threemendous IV!
dr3upmushroom
Banned
End with a kickstarter announcement or CG trailer of a remake? Come on, how is that building the brand for the future? That's some weak booking.
FallingEdge
Member
Not to mention that neither one are PS4 exclusives.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Shenmue's console exclusive and people keep mocking the PC masters
There's no confirmation that FF7 is coming to Xbox though. Literally all we know is that PS4 gets it first. It might just get a PC port later, like the original FF7 got. No version of anything FF7 related has ever touched an Xbox.
dr3upmushroom
Banned
Sheamus 3 will end up on all platforms, those were some weak looking visuals. Expect it on IOS very soon.
Isn't Sony paying for part of the budget?
No, they specifically said they were doing this just because it was coming to their system and would hype the fans.
bean breath
Member
Sephzilla, I've never seen this side of you before. Even when I rightfully disparaged your favorite wrestler Daniel Bryan and was proven right in time, you've never displayed this much passion.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I had Day 1 Shenmue on DC and it was boring as fuck then and now. It was a simulator of nonsense like forklift driving.
I've found a gimmick that's me turned up to 11
honestly though i'm just happy as fuck right now, this was an amazing night that helped mask a shitty day beforehand
blackaroni
Member
Shenmue was hyped to shit and back, and reviewers were mainly afraid to take it to task for being awful, plus it was Sega's swan song. No one had put out a game of that scope yet, remember it's still a few years until GTA III absolutely blows this sort of approach out of the water.
I remember a friend got a good deal on it at Blockbuster because he worked there, we brought it back to his place expecting to rush right through it and it was the most boring game imaginable.
I remember a friend got a good deal on it at Blockbuster because he worked there, we brought it back to his place expecting to rush right through it and it was the most boring game imaginable.
sf2fanatic
Member
Did anyone gif that fan in the background when Neville did his finisher? Dude was a payaso.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
PS4 and PC are specifically announced on the Kickstarter. It says if it gets funding (which it will) it's coming there.
3 days later and I'm still laughing at this post.
blackaroni
Member
Best I could do:
LMAO. I have no clue why I missed this the first time.
Soyongdori
Member
Well, technically they did. But it's not a bad thing, though.
bean breath
Member
That it explains it. You were of legal working age at the time. I can understand how a jaded young adult raised on pixel-based games would disregard Shenmue as boring. You were used to Japanese devs retooling their games to make them more palatable and accessible to Westerners, so when Suzuki-san refused to alter his original vision and present it as is, it was way beyond your abilities and comprehension.
Luckily, I hadn't fully developed as a gamer yet and wasn't already set in my rigid ways.
sf2fanatic
Member
Thx. Dude thought he can slip that in.Best I could do:
LMAO. I have no clue why I missed this the first time.
I love this post, every single letter of it.
He did, in fact, pick the English VA's for Shenmue 1, despite, well, not being very good at English...and it shows.
I'm something of a student of Japanese to English dub jobs and this game...wow. It's impressive, though not that unusual for the year it came out.
dr3upmushroom
Banned
No, they just wanted to give the announcement a platform. Either way, announcing a kickstarter just seems silly, especially when you're the leading console maker but it got people excited.
Oh I disagree, it was a very shrewd move. It costs you nothing, gets you nothing but goodwill and maybe a handful of extra people will buy your console just for this one game.
sf2fanatic
Member
Friend DM, Brock looks old.. 
Soyongdori
Member
Pretty sure they are backing the bulk of finance for Shenmue 3.
No, they mentioned they were not.
Soyongdori
Member
Yet Suzuki is releasing the game as console exclusive on PS4? Yeah, sure. There was a backroom deal between YS and Sony.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
As a person who owned that game day 1, that game was boring by the standards at the time and it is exceptionally boring by today's standards.
That game is probably unplayable at this point, unless you were looking for a game that really nailed the feel of being a dude with martial arts powers who never gets to use them due to the tedium of having a regular blue-collar job.
Or, you know, the simple answer that the Wii U doesn't support Unreal 4 and isn't popular and the XBONE has an awful time selling anything Japanese.
bean breath
Member
I love these guys that have never developed a video game trying to tell developers how it's done. Do you even know how to lock up?
All you Shenmue haters really just hate your own lives.
dr3upmushroom
Banned
I understand the reasoning, I get it. It's just fucking weird to me that there's this multimillion corporation getting marks excited about paying for the production of a game, that is most likely going to be picked up by another publisher. It's just fucking greasy.
How are people trying to tell the developers "how it's done"?
Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game!
Professor Beef
Banned
The Shenmue "haters" are realists: the game was never that special even when it was released, and instead of a swan song ended up being a big fat albatross that helped plunge Sega into the cemetery.
Soyongdori
Member
Doesn't matter. If he was creating a kickstarter project and wanted to maximize full potential profit, he would've made it ps4/xbone/pc. Not console exclusive.
Not saying it's a bad thing. But there was definitely a backhand deal happened between YS and Sony.
I don't care in the end. I'm just happy there is going to be Shenmue 3.
Or it could be a surprise stretch goal, this thing is getting over 5 million.
Soyongdori
Member
Or backhand deal. I choose the latter.
It was special though, it was literally the most hyped game since FF7, easily the most ambitious game of the 90's and a complete disaster as a venture.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The Kickstarter is the same thing every Kickstarter is - dudes with more money than sense just gave them free money for a product that doesn't even yet exist on the promise it won't suck.
Shenmue 3 isn't going to be either good or profitable off of $2,000,000.00, its gonna cost way more than that. They now just have $2,000,000 in advance, interest-free regardless of what they actually put out.
Shenmue 3 isn't going to be either good or profitable off of $2,000,000.00, its gonna cost way more than that. They now just have $2,000,000 in advance, interest-free regardless of what they actually put out.
this isn't true - it could easily increase development costs and if they can't project returns worth that investment they can choose not to spend time and money to develop there
edit: this community is the purge from gaming side my senses needed
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Not everybody wants to make things for Microsoft.
Soyongdori
Member
I guess it would make sense, considering Shenmue 2 bombed more on Xbox than on Dreamcast.
back on topic, did Cole really sue Brock in real life? Or is this another WWE script getting out of hand?
bean breath
Member
Never that special when it was released? Helped plunge Sega into the cemetery? Yeah, you're right, Beef. Suzuki-san shouldn't have taken so many risks pioneering gameplay elements that would later be successfully appropriated by future game devs that, unlike Suzuki-san, played it safe and banked on their games being anchored by white male protagonists.
You call yourself a Sega fan, you son of a b*tch?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
....is "backhand deal" some kind of carny talk?