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[KyoZz]

Hello Everyone,

Yes, it is official, Shenmue III will be released on Steam this November 19th.

Game and in-game rewards codes will be available for PC version backers who manually selected the Steam opt-in through the survey during the September/October 2019 survey resend period. Applicable backers will be able to claim their codes through the "Downloads and Download Codes" section of your survey. Fangamer will send out email notices when the codes are ready a few days prior to release.

 

[GoldenEye Samurai]

I need to get another copy of it on PS4 and finish it. I backed it on Kickstarter. I actually just got my "We Saved Shenmue" t-shirt in the mail last week along with a capsule toy of Ryo on a forklift. Pretty neat.

 

[Barakov]

Probably a good time to play that Shenmue collection before this hits.

 

[ReBurn]

I wonder if it will stay console exclusive on PS4?

 

[rubhen925]

wasted 25 hours on ps4. not gonna do it again. But people who wanted to play it i guess have fun with it

 

[LordCBH]

I refunded after they pulled the bait and switch during the development period with regards to steam. Sounds like I didn't miss much.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Sounds like it was a turd, so I'll pass for now.

 

[drotahorror]

Fuck EGS

 

[Gamezone]

I'm a big Shenmue fan, but this game was terrible.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Probably a good time to play that Shenmue collection before this hits.

These games are special.

As in they're kind of retarded. But the good kind of retarded, we don't get shit like this for probably good reason and yet it's refreshing to see it in action. The first one is HIGHLY atmospheric.

 

[SEGA_2012]

GOTY 2019.

 

[EverythingsOverrated]

It's about time, god damn.

Looking forward to finally playing this. Probably going to play through Shenmue2 now

 

[Mhmmm 2077]

Fangamer sent out e-mails with Steam codes for Kickstarter backers.

 

[DGrayson]

I dont want to be "that" guy but the momentum was killed for me after it got pulled from steam the first time.

 

[sainraja]

The game is not worth it, unfortunately. I liked the previous two but the third one is hard to get through. I wish I didn't go digital with it so I could re-sell it. =/

 

[TheDreadLord]

I hope they have plans to release this on the Xbox.

 

[YCoCg]

Yeah the game wasn't good, after waiting so long for a sequel it's crazy that this game doesn't advance the plot at all in a meaningful way, it feels like a side quest game. Yeah the first two games had a lot of side quests but they also had a main plot too.

 

[lock2k]

I don't know why, I thought it was out on Steam already, maybe I saw Shenmue 1 and 2 on a thumbnail and thought 3 was also there. Cool stuff anyway, might try it sometime.

 

[Shrap]

November 19:

 

[RAIDEN1]

The game is a flop....20 years in the making and this is all they could muster.....they need to look at Streets of Rage 4, that'll teach 'em..

 

[Alexios]

I knew I probably won't like it based on all I've seen but I checked it out finally. Despite a lot of amateur hour presentation (loading screens, texts, Ryo's basic walk and run cycle, stuff like that) once you're in-game it seems to get the Shenmue feel down pretty well as far as Ryo's actions go. It's a tad too guided early on (if you stall Ryo runs to catch up) but it makes sense I guess with every day having the time limit and that particular story beat having to play out.

It does seem like much of it is just to stall you and pad out the days though (ie how slow you open all the drawers and cupboards, yeah that's nice and just like Shenmue but come on, make it faster and more organic like modern games with that time limit, Ryo's so slow he can't even check all the cupboards in the house before having to go to bed, lol, there are way too many for a two people household as well, they just put empty cupboards everywhere). I'm glad you can no longer pick up and examine every object because it'd take me a week to get out of the house.

Other than that basic gameplay feel, I don't really like the design of the first area. It's a remote village that gets few visitors but apparently everybody runs some kind of game attraction to play just to show you it has stuff like Lucky Hit to remind you of the old games? What?

I'll probably just hate this more the more it shows its bad design and the more it stalls the story (I mean, don't you expect the end of Shenmue 2 to lead to some crazy revelation, well, it doesn't, lol, at least not right now, they just basically check the place out and go "cool, I bet this took a lot of effort to make" and then off to find the guy they're looking for). I'll probably play more but right now Yakuza 7 is an actually good game occupying my time. And I'm no stranger to indie games and jank, love em actually, but they have to be actually good underneath all that stuff.

The game is a flop....20 years in the making

It's not 20 but ~4 years in the making, don't be a super idiot. Being a "flop" has nothing to do with quality, the first games were too and they were great. You can't even run in SOR4. it's a passable beat em up with weird graphics at best, there have been way better indies since SOR3. Come on.

 

[SkylineRKR]

Woeful game. Get the remasters instead and forget about 3. It didn't happen.