I'm not playing semantics with you.$1 is more than $0
I'm not playing semantics with you.$1 is more than $0
Because they came in with a $2mil goal, but then said "Well, we have some nebulous 3rd party backing, oh and also need $10mil on the Kickstarter to do it right."
Frankly I think the Kuchera's piece nails it, albeit somewhat snarkily.
I'm not playing semantics with you.
Since when is "not providing unabashed positivity for a Kickstarter project" shameful? If anything, not accepting anything but media fellation for Your Favorite Game TM is pretty shameful.
I want Shenmue 3 to be great, but it could very well not be good.
Because Suzuki said "well, yeah we have 2 million to make the game but in reality I need 10M to get the TRUE vision out to my fans"This is what I expected would happen media-wise from that Harmonix title based on Sonys Amplitude license.
Somehow that development funding avoided most of the cross-hairs while this one didn't.
Since that grand reveal, Suzuki's life has changed. Now he gets into his office for 6.30am, leaving at 10pm for the hour and a half journey back home. And now he's working through weekends, too. He doesn't have time to indulge in his hobbies, like billiards, but he seems happier, more animated than when I last met him.
Since when is "not providing unabashed positivity for a Kickstarter project" shameful?
That's just one example though. The thing with S3 fans is that it was fun to mock us over the years. Internet d-bags loved to wave their fingers in our faces and dismiss the idea that a third game could ever be possible. I dont know why this was so much fun, but assholes are entertained by strange things. So when the announcement came that the new game was coming, suddenly the crow was too much for them to swallow and they did the first thing that came to mind: look for reasons as to why it'll suck so bad that we'll wish the dream never came true.
Are you hurt because no one is universally praising your beloved franchise's latest chapterYou dont find running stories claiming sony is funding the game when it wasnt true to be shameful reporting? Arent journalists supposed to vet an article before running it? Dont you usually interview people you hurl accusations at before running an article proclaiming their actions to be a "problem"?
because Nintendo and Microsoft aren't Kickstarting games for a reason.
Since when is "not providing unabashed positivity for a Kickstarter project" shameful? If anything, not accepting anything but media fellation for Your Favorite Game TM is pretty shameful.
I want Shenmue 3 to be great, but it could very well not be good.
Kickstarter has burned backers in the past + Shenmue's notoriously inflated production budget = people being skeptical.
Are you hurt because no one is universally praising your beloved franchise?
If any of their negative nanciness had any basis in reality, sure, but most of it is just exaggerated beyond reason & logic and they can't even get their facts right.I threw down 120 bucks on this potential disaster
I want my games media to be negative nancies for once. Too much positive coverage out there for shit that will be shit when it releases. Mostly though, if the game is good when it comes out, who gives a shit if some journalists were skeptical a year+ out?
I just don't see that this game will ever be what we want. I say that as a huge Shrnmue fan too.
Since when is "not providing unabashed positivity for a Kickstarter project" shameful? If anything, not accepting anything but media fellation for Your Favorite Game TM is pretty shameful.
I want Shenmue 3 to be great, but it could very well not be good.
Sony *is* investing on the game, just not fully funding it. As for the $10 million, Yu Suzuki basically said that's amount needed to let him make the game he's always dreamed it could be (and no, it wasn't the maximum amount, he had stretch goals beyond that).But they don't have third party backing. Sony was promoting the campaign but they're not funding the game. And he doesn't need $10 mil that was just the maximum amount of money the game was going towards. It was a pretty straightforward campaign all things considered with my biggest concern being no physical PS4 copy (which was fixed) it's just this FUD the gaming press spread for clicks. Let's face it, positive coverage only goes so far and Shenmue got so much of that that it crashed Kickstarter. People love to feed onto negativity and Kickstarter is the best place to spread negative coverage.
I don't know, most people just seem to want a conclusion to the story.
That's standard games journalism for you. Why research an article when you could just creatively fill in the blanks of a story with something that will generate far more clicks?
That's standard games journalism for you. Why research an article when you could just creatively fill in the blanks of a story with something that will generate far more clicks?
You should see the media coverage of my favorite* modern franchise, Farming Simulator.
It's pretty abysmal.
* I'm not even joking.
"Please don't badmouth Shenmue III" is what I'm hearing from the OP.
The links linked are all pretty much legitimate concerns/points IMO
Read a reply I posted above, I have never played a Shenmue game nor have I backed Shenmue 3.
Are you hurt because no one is universally praising your beloved franchise's latest chapter
Don't blame the media for a poorly thought-out Kickstarter campaign. Especially at the beginning it was a mess.
The articles that aren't just straight up opinion articles are all well researched.
Because Suzuki said "well, yeah we have 2 million to make the game but in reality I need 10M to get the TRUE vision out to my fans"
What does that mean? A gimped version? Half assed? Not complete? We don't know and it seems like we aren't getting a straight answer.