Lan Di-sama wrote:On a side note, I had a weird dream the other night that Shenmue 3, due to development woes, ended up being a stripped-down, first person point-and-click adventure game released just to tell the story. Eek
I had a dream this past week that I was being chased through a parking lot by a small octopus.
Anyway, if their plan is to
ship in December, (Kickstarter estimates are for delivery) then they have less than 4 months to finish if they want to deliver on time since major titles typically get released to manufacturing 2 months in advance. Unless they've already scheduled time for the voice actors to come in and do the dub, it's not making 2017. They can't just bring in voice actors that don't live locally with 1 week notice, they'd schedule it in advance and spread it over multiple sessions potentially lasting weeks depending on how much VO there's going to be this time around.
It could be that they plan to finish in December and not ship until early 2018, and I guess that would somewhat equate to no delay if the backer trial that they promised was delivered in December.
We get this month's update next week, and Sony's E3 presentation is in just over 2 weeks. If it's not clear what's going on after that, well, that will be disappointing.