Shenmue 2's Hong Kong isn't the biggest of open worlds, and unlike the Yokosuka suburb that preceded it, it can hardly claim to be the densest.

Considering these were pretty much the first open world games, that comment is a bit unfair. Of course they are no longer the biggest, but at the time they were.

The author isn't talking about Shenmue as a game from a past point of view but as a modern game, and that's why this article is way more interesting than any other articles explaining why Shenmue was so revolutionary at its time (that no one cares).

I helped clean up the OP at the NeoGAF Kickstarter topic. It's much more simple and concise now.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1063771

Thank you very much, you guys at Neogaf have been doing an amazing job since the KS launched.

i never frequent the gaf, but i hear that the shenmue community there is strong and enthusiastic. the topic page looks great zimming, well done. and thanks to all you 'Gaffers' for the shenmue support!

edit; someone on the gaf has this gif on their signature

https://d.maxfile.ro/hoagebsjfc.gif

i've never had sam and larry do that double team move on me before. (too busy beating them senseless!)

Was bored. Made a quick mockup picture of what one could look like? (Like the Yakuza example shown above)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5333907/sony_playstation_4_white_1.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5333907/sony-playstation-4-black.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5333907/sony_playstation_4_white_1.jpg

I think a plate would be a little unsubstantial as a reward though... unless they're limited to Kickstarter only and each one's signed by Yu Suzuki.

Hi guys,

First post here, but have been a fan of Shenmue since my wife introduced me to it when we first met 8 years ago.

My more geeky side involves me being a youtuber specialising in LEGO videos. A couple of years ago I created a LEGO Shenmue "Moving Crates" video as part of the tweetathon, and won a signed photo from Corey for the creativity of the tweet - the video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lopOtj5mHeY

I have now created a sequel, which is an "interview" with LEGO Ryo about Shenmue, and a thankyou from him for supporting Shenmue 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq3PPFyzwQA

Enjoy, and I hope to be an active member of the community! :D

Duck

They need to add some stretch goals between $5.1m and $6m. That's too wide of a gap to not have one.

Regardless of what we think about Kotaku I think it was a nice editorial. And any fan of Suikoden can't be bad people

-LelouchV1 ‏@LelouchV1 19m19 minutes ago
@CedricBiscay drop the bomb now. 3 days left. We need 2 days for gaming media to cover it. Last day for everyone to back the KS. Lets do dis

- Cedric Biscay ‏@CedricBiscay 4m4 minutes ago
@LelouchV1 the Japanese team is working on it

Hopefully incoming and has great impact.