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Mitsuzuki wrote: I think they should have set expectations about Shenmue 3 right off the top to kill the elephant in the room. That would have put down the distraction and let people enjoy the postmortem as it was meant to. There's so much to talk about in the development of the series that an hour is not nearly enough to do it. How many people while watching had the distraction of a potential future Shenmue release in mind while trying to digest the conference? Probably most.
If there's a conference where Yu Suzuki will just talk shop about Shenmue as we know it without the lingering question if he'll pull a Steve Jobs with a "one more thing" moment, I could sit there for hours and let it all soak in. I'd love it.
Regarding the Q&A, there should have been a question about the here and now of Shenmue. Is Suzuki pleased there is enough support for licensed merchandise such as the Ryo figures, shirt from Hardcore Chocolate, and the hoodie and shirt from Insert Coin? Does this not show recent momentum for the brand and that fans are still interested?
How questions such as this that didn't get asked are really quite baffling. If Yu Suzuki really is prevented from saying much about how he'd like to be involved about a future game, it would be interesting to see what kind of legal precedent SEGA or whoever has on him. It seems hard to fathom why he can't or won't say ANYTHING about the potential of a future release. Does he really have that short of a leash, or is he just not interested? I'd like to think it's not the latter otherwise, why bother doing a postmortem anyway.
*Kenshin Himura* wrote: Also, I definitely believe that the Q&A was staged. Probably before it went live, Mark Cenry or whoever said "Look when the Q&A starts, only one question about Shenmue III is allowed. More than one will result in Yu-San walking off the stage. As well, that was the first and only question on Shenmue III.. They just got it out the way, so they couldn't look back to it. Yu seems a bit stressed by it to me, he seemed a little tense during the presentation. Then again the language barrier is a challenge but not impossible.
The Q&A had no effort from the audience, definitely seemed lifeless about the series. I believe that Yu-San his masterpiece Shenmue is just too complex for the modern day minds of gaming.
*Kenshin Himura* wrote: ^ Its all speculation, if you read how I typed my post for the first part.
The Postmortem was insightful and I was upset yesterday, but I truly understand its not Yu-San trolling.
I talked to Mark about Shenmue....(He's such an awesome person)
"It's not easy these days to find publishers who want to afford those much...", That's what Mark told me.
He said Yu is trying hard to find publishers these days (that's why he's here...)
I personally catched the fact that remaining chapters of Shenmue is much bigger than Shenmue 1 & 2 so for that Suzuki needs lots of money & a strong publisher.
Something that grantees that saga comes to a conclusion not that we end up waitting 15 more years for Shenmue 4.
PS note: GDC isn't over yet & we have E3 ahead...GDC is usually where devs gather to prepare while E3s, TGSs & ... are the real show downs.
I may edit this & add more of what Mark & others told me, but basically that's all we must know as of now. #SaveShenmue #GDC2014
Yokosuka Martian wrote: So, two things for the Dojoers that are not on the Facebook Shenmue 500k site:
Alimn was able to chat up Mark Cerny for a bit as well:
I talked to Mark about Shenmue....(He's such an awesome person)
"It's not easy these days to find publishers who want to afford those much...", That's what Mark told me.
He said Yu is trying hard to find publishers these days (that's why he's here...)
I personally catched the fact that remaining chapters of Shenmue is much bigger than Shenmue 1 & 2 so for that Suzuki needs lots of money & a strong publisher.
Something that grantees that saga comes to a conclusion not that we end up waitting 15 more years for Shenmue 4.
PS note: GDC isn't over yet & we have E3 ahead...GDC is usually where devs gather to prepare while E3s, TGSs & ... are the real show downs.
I may edit this & add more of what Mark & others told me, but basically that's all we must know as of now. #SaveShenmue #GDC2014
Just keepin' the spirit alive
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