Shenmue 3 Kickstarter

[Forlorn Drifter]

Miracles CAN happen. If only someone could make THIS happen:

Supposedly, Sony has a list of games such as this that people want to see. They keep track of how much these games are asked for, and consider if the cost vs the payoff is worth it.

It might not be as crazy as some people think.

[BogusMeatFactory]

My real baby.

[pierrot]

The first game is a trend setter; it's the zen of open-world experiences.

I am quite familiar with the first Shenmue. I played it when it was first released on a friend's Dreamcast.

Wasn't attempting to demean your experience with the game, or knowledge of its history. I was mostly musing openly. What I was trying to get at is, I feel Shenmue requires a certain level of appreciation for things like Zen Buddhism/Taoism/Confucianism, interactive movie arcade games, life simulation games, tactical 3D fighting games, etc in order to be truly enjoyed. I think there's a certain amount of understanding and appreciation of Suzuki's vision of gaming that's necessary, as well.

[BoringSupreez]

Oh man Shenmue is skyrocketing in price on ebay thanks to this announcement like $60+

Yeah, I knew this would happen. I held off buying it at around $20 for a while, and now it's ridiculously priced. Ugh.

Shenmue 2 on oXbox is fetching like $35-$40 now too. It was $15 before E3. I went and snagged a copy of 2 right after the announcement for $20 shipped so I could replay, glad I made an accurate prediction of what would happen to prices if I waited.

If anyone's got extra copies of either now's the time to unload them.

[ExedExes]

Oh man Shenmue is skyrocketing in price on ebay thanks to this announcement like $60+

As I expected. As I said in another thread, I'm gonna look at the PAL DC Shenmue II I have and say "$50 was a good deal for it" (in 2011)

Nobody is playing the DC Shenmue II?

I did. I honestly think it might have killed my DC about a week or two after I completed it But to be fair I had that DC for 10 years and was already heavily invested in using the DC-X disc as well as the Dream Explorer ISO. But man that sound it made for Shenmue II.

In a few words?

WORTH IT.

DCs die, experiences and memories don't.

[Betagam7]

I wouldn't even bother replaying the first one. Just watch the recap video.

I would very much disagree with this. A lot of the things Suzuki was aiming for in the Shenmue experience were stripped from the sequel due to people just not getting it.

Some people couldn't appreciate the simulated beauty of standing in the rain, listening to a cassette tape you bought at the Tomato convenience store, waiting for your bus to turn up and take you to work. the ability to open any cupboard, take out a packet of noodles and stare at it. The small lives going on all around you in Yokosuka that could lead to new discoveries everytime. The crows calling at dusk on your way home. Calling Nozomi just to chat before you slept.
Yes, the sequel ramped up the size and scale of everything but it also sacrificed the realism that, for some of us, made Shenmue an absorbing window into what was then a far more mysterious and alien culture.

I can remember the first time I learned online that Yokosuka and Dobuita street were real existing places, not just RYO's fictional realm. I set my heart on visiting it and have since done so twice.

The first Shenmue game is the reason I now live in Asia. There aren't many games I can think of as having such a profound effect on someone's life.

[ninjainspandex]

Seems like Shenmue was the GTA V of it's day, so much attention to detail. Hard to believe I was still playing my N64 when this game came out, and I was in 8th grade.

[Pulsar_t]

Let's not forget it was originally a Saturn game.. If it'd come out on that platform, it really would have destroyed everything the PS1/N64 had to offer. Too late to save Sega's system, but one for the history books.

But even on the Dreamcast it was something of a fresh experience, especially if you were enamoured with Japan as many of us were at the time. Many enjoyed it, but some didn't, and that's understandable.

[jay_red]

Shenmue was one of the games I got with my Dreamcast that fateful x-mas morning. I had read the Game Pro article countless times, and put it on my x-mas list, hoping my parents would not be weirded out by "Shenmue" I remember playing it for a couple hours, then realizing I needed a memory card to save (I was coming off the N64, and memory cards were not a common thing to me) so i ended up playing the opening part a few times before I got a VMU. The game hit the right chords with me, and I was able to be very much taken in by its world.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

The worst part about not liking Shenmue is hearing people who like Shenmue talk about Shenmue.

It makes me want to go and try to replay it. I know how it turns out though.

I get to the cat, what, 15 minutes in? Shake my head. Turn it off.