Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 7:28 pm
by Axm
Damn.
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 7:34 pm
by shredingskin
To be honest, I think that Coca Cola is doing ingame ads.
Sony will put some money. Some YsNet, hopefully Shibuya Prod. ?
We will have an awesome game, if they can get with UE4 easily, i'll be pretty damn good.
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 7:37 pm
by Thief
We need to stop worrying about what could have been. Fact of the matter is that we've got Awesome Japan and we've got to deal with it. We've got $30 on the 3rd coming up and the final push of the kickstarter as well. I know it's slowed down to about 10k a day, which is really disheartening, but we still have 18 days to go and a potential for paypal support post-campaign. Even if it doesn't make that much more, we've raised almost double of the kickstarter's asking price. Have hope -- Suzuki won't be satisfied with a poor version of Shenmue III, he'll make it the best it can be.
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
I recall a photo of Yu Suzuki with Ryan Payton and the co-founder of 8-4. Ryan Payton (as he has said on video and on Twitter) was the one who introduced the Kickstarter to Yu-san. Probably they were trying to negotiate about it, but 8-4 refused and just wished "good luck" (as they said in their podcast).
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 7:59 pm
by Doom_Infinite
Maybe Yu Suzuki canned the deal and them being too busy is the way they want to look at it. Certainly would explain the resentment one feels reading those Tweets. It's hard to imagine they didn't have time for the nearly guaranteed biggest video game KS to date.
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:07 pm
by shredingskin
For some reason a lot of sega fanboys think Shenmue killed sega...
I'm not mad, this is a love or hate game.
But yeah, kinda mad.
One of the most revolutionary games EVER. WTF they really don't give a shit about gaming history ???
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:11 pm
by Mystere
Doom_Infinite wrote: Maybe Yu Suzuki canned the deal and them being too busy is the way they want to look at it. Certainly would explain the resentment one feels reading those Tweets. It's hard to imagine they didn't have time for the nearly guaranteed biggest video game KS to date.
Some of those Tweets are from 2010. Even if 8-4 negotiated with Suzuki over a couple of years, it looks like Mr Ricciardi disliked Shenmue before.
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:18 pm
by mjq jazz bar
Some of the guys in the podcast like it. Who cares? They do good marketing work. Anyway, just thought it was an interesting tidbit. I too am sick of the Awesome Japan bashing.
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:38 pm
by Three Blades
Hah, what a cunt. And Skyward Sword was shit.
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:41 pm
by mrandyk
shredingskin wrote: For some reason a lot of sega fanboys think Shenmue killed sega...
I'm not mad, this is a love or hate game.
But yeah, kinda mad.
One of the most revolutionary games EVER. WTF they really don't give a shit about gaming history ???
To blame Shenmue for Sega's demise is like blaming the child instead of the parent (plus ignoring close to a decade's worth of horrible business moves).
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:37 pm
by Yama
Why in the hell would anyone want that? I've been a Gaffer for a very long time and JohnTV has never had anything nice to say about the series.
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:41 pm
by mrandyk
I would not say that we missed out on much, if anything, here.
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:20 am
by Hyo Razuki
Could someone please write where they talk about Shenmue in the podcast. I don't wanna listen to the whole thing.
Re: 8-4 was going to work on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:24 am
by mjq jazz bar
It says it in the first post, but I'll post it again so I don't sound like a jerk: 1:22:00.
The people on the podcast speak positively of Shenmue. I guess John Ricciardi is the minority voice in the group because I heard nothing negative.
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 6:26 pm
