The Point - How Did Shenmue 3 Raise $6.3 Million?

[Sonoshee]

Gamespot's Danny O'Dwyer talks to PlayStation's Gio Corsi about how they helped bring Shenmue 3 to E3.

The video can be viewed here.

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[Hyo Razuki]

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What a great documentary on Shenmue 3's Kickstarter by Gamespot. I just realized once again, how blessed and fortunate I feel about Shenmue 3. This is not how life usually works. You don't make dreams happen like that in life. If you have been trying to get something going for a decade and a half without success, the dream is dead, usually. It doesn't come back to life. Life doesn't work that way. Well, usually that is. But Shenmue is something special, it seems. It shows that sometimes, just sometimes, there are things which can defy even the most basic rules of life and our wildest dreams can still come true.

So looking forward to S3...

[Sonoshee]

Life doesn't work that way because people don't work that way. Something can seem like a great idea worth pursuing, but sooner or later they'll listen to the voices in their ear - both real and imagined - telling them it'll never happen, they're wasting their time, they don't have what it takes, it's too late, give up, move on.

What set Shenmue apart was the palpable sense of injustice outweighing those doubts. The feeling that it almost didn't matter if it worked or not - we would simply never let it be said that we stopped trying, stopped caring. We felt we owed that much to the spirit of something we all believed in. To let our passion fade with the memory of an unfinished classic would have been to condone its consignment to history, and that, at the very least, was something over which every one of us still had control.

If more people felt as strongly, as absolutely and unreservedly about things as these gamers did about Shenmue III, then maybe life would work that way more often.