by Three Blades » Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:48 am
Holy crap, what a week!!!
Like many of you, I used to be a member here, but I lost interest when it became clear that Shenmue 3 wasn't going to come out. For me, this really came out of the blue: I mostly buy older games nowadays, so I don't even follow E3 very closely anymore.
So when I saw the Shenmue 3 kickstarter news on IGN, I literally felt my heart stop for a second. My first reaction was to ask myself whether I was dreaming... Then I started reading and literally had to start fighting back the tears of joys... They came out anyway when I started watching the video. lol!
My wife is really excited, too: even though she doesn't play games, she watched me play Shenmue many times over the years, and knows the story as well as any Shenmue fan. I'll be honest, in the last couple of years, whenever I played until the end of Shenmue 2, I felt depressed, like it was giving me a small taste of Shenmue 3, something I KNEW I would never have. I had accepted that as fact, and moved on. As a result, I haven't played it in a while.
But then this week happened. For me, it was like finding out my best friend was alive after years of thinking he was dead. Shenmue is the original reason why I moved to japan after college, and still live there now. It's not an exaggeration to say that my life would have been completely different without it.
As for the KS, don't give up hope! I'm planning on making my donation over the week end, and I'm sure there are many fans who are just taking their time (we still have 1 month, after all). There are probably some who haven't even heard the news yet! Let's all make sure we do our best to spread the word and make this the best game it can possibly be!