SMDzero wrote: It would be a shame if YsNet wasted development resources making the Shenmue 1 and 2 cinema shorts if the games were going have HD remasters anyway.
I believe the allocated budget to produce them was $500,000, right?
In that case, I would personally agree with you. I mean, it would be cool to see all the key shenmue 1/2 scenes recreated in a beautiful cgi cutscenes but if they had permission to use footage from the original games or the rumoured upcoming remasters I definitely wouldn't think that to be a bad thing. The yakuza games have done this quite often with the ingame cutscenes sometimes showing footage from one and 2. Sure it lacks a little consistency but if those resources were suddenly shifted to 500k's worth of the stretch goals after the ones we've accomplished that may do a lot to further improve the game.
(I wouldn't want to speak for everyone on this though, if I were them, I'd go the voting route, but considering how the kickstarter rewards went maaaaaybe it's better they just made a cold, hard decision)
Alsp on the note of the remasters, I do hope sega goes all out to make a great product and produce a whole load of marketing material too like new art, cgi trailers, devs documentary etc leading up to release.