Re: First Stretch Goal Reached at $2.5m!
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 1:24 pmI'd rather have Shenmue I & II ports personally ;)
but i'll take it.
but i'll take it.
Shenmue Dojo
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 1:24 pmRe: First Stretch Goal Reached at $2.5m!
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 1:36 pmAh, come on - 400,000 Dollars for subtitles? Well i guess we'll have to take them,eh? I mean I'm German, so honors me that German comes first on the List, but i could have lived well without them... Give us a playable Iwao Flashback instead where you have to kill Lan Di's father after he catches you stealing his mirror... XD
Re: First Stretch Goal Reached at $2.5m!
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:32 pmMaster Kyodai wrote: Ah, come on - 400,000 Dollars for subtitles? Well i guess we'll have to take them,eh? I mean I'm German, so honors me that German comes first on the List, but i could have lived well without them... Give us a playable Iwao Flashback instead where you have to kill Lan Di's father after he catches you stealing his mirror... XD
It will take a lot of time to translate all of the dialog if they voice as many NPCs as they did in the first two games. The $400k is really $100k per language. A person skilled enough in both German/French/Spanish/Italian and Japanese to effectively translate the script would have a rare set of skills. I would think that person would be paid the equivalent of $60k - $70k+ per year. If it takes a year or more to finalize all of the translation efforts for that one language and then they also have to have programmers spend their time entering, formatting, proofreading and matching text with the proper speech, you can see how it could eat up that $100k very quickly.
Next stretch goal reached!
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:41 pmGerman subtitles for everyone! You're not German? Sucks to be you then! 98,000 Dollars more for French subtitles...
Re: Next stretch goal reached!
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:43 pmThis is what Shemue Master get for all their efforts 
Re: First Stretch Goal Reached at $2.5m!
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:56 pmalexh86 wrote:Master Kyodai wrote: Ah, come on - 400,000 Dollars for subtitles? Well i guess we'll have to take them,eh? I mean I'm German, so honors me that German comes first on the List, but i could have lived well without them... Give us a playable Iwao Flashback instead where you have to kill Lan Di's father after he catches you stealing his mirror... XD
It will take a lot of time to translate all of the dialog if they voice as many NPCs as they did in the first two games. The $400k is really $100k per language. A person skilled enough in both German/French/Spanish/Italian and Japanese to effectively translate the script would have a rare set of skills. I would think that person would be paid the equivalent of $60k - $70k+ per year. If it takes a year or more to finalize all of the translation efforts for that one language and then they also have to have programmers spend their time entering, formatting, proofreading and matching text with the proper speech, you can see how it could eat up that $100k very quickly.
Ah come on, normally you don't have a translator take 1 year to create some subtitles. I mean when the project is "done" you give it to translators and they do it in a few weeks or so. ot like ya have a subtitle translator accompany the whole development, barely makes sense. But yeah minus irony - i guess they need the money for other stuff, not like the 2 million would cover the whole game, eh?
Re: All-Encompassing Kickstarter Records and Stretch Goals t
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:00 pmIt doesn't really matter though, as we know assuredly that all those stretch goals are going to be achieved. It's probably more a way of gauging interest, even if it does sound a bit crazy.
Re: All-Encompassing Kickstarter Records and Stretch Goals t
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:01 pmI just want to see Shenmue 3 become the most successful video-game on kickstarter. If this kickstarter was a way to gauge interest, well then, can't do much better than that.
Re: All-Encompassing Kickstarter Records and Stretch Goals t
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:02 pmIt's over two and a half million already, after one night. And there's still a month to go.
I'm pretty damn sure this is going to trump Bloodstained.
I'm pretty damn sure this is going to trump Bloodstained.
Re: First Stretch Goal Reached at $2.5m!
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:11 pmMaster Kyodai wrote: Ah, come on - 400,000 Dollars for subtitles? Well i guess we'll have to take them,eh? I mean I'm German, so honors me that German comes first on the List, but i could have lived well without them... Give us a playable Iwao Flashback instead where you have to kill Lan Di's father after he catches you stealing his mirror... XD
People seem to get upset at this/make note of stuff like this a lot, but the point isn't "hey we need $400k before we can afford subtitles," it's silly, fun marketing stuff; a guarantee that at this amount, it'll get what the goal states. The game's going to make the same amount of money regardless of stretch goals. It's just there to encourage people into feeling like they're actually making a difference by clicking the pledge button rather than waiting for it to come out. Herd pride and all that.
Re: All-Encompassing Kickstarter Records and Stretch Goals t
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:19 pmIt will be a few more days before I will have the funds to back it :(
but I am super excited to see that this is breaking records on KickStarter for meeting it's goals so fast!
but I am super excited to see that this is breaking records on KickStarter for meeting it's goals so fast!
Re: All-Encompassing Kickstarter Records and Stretch Goals t
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:20 pmThief wrote: I just want to see Shenmue 3 become the most successful video-game on kickstarter. If this kickstarter was a way to gauge interest, well then, can't do much better than that.
Looks like Shenmue 3 is on track to be the most successful anything on Kickstarter.
Re: All-Encompassing Kickstarter Records and Stretch Goals t
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 5:23 pmW00t - next stretch goal archieved - now we have FRENCh subtitles. Go ninja, go ninja, go!
Re: All-Encompassing Kickstarter Records and Stretch Goals t
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 5:51 pmI always wanted to know what the characters were saying if it were in French.
Dream = attained.
Dream = attained.
Re: All-Encompassing Kickstarter Records and Stretch Goals t
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:39 pmif another dream of yours was to read Ryos line in Spanish then we are about 60 grand - roughly 90 minutes - from that....