Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy and pleased that Shenmue 3 is being made, but as equally I'm happy, I am also equally upset at how it went down and how it was revealed.
I remember maybe a few years ago, there were hints of Shenmue 3 being released and being developed, but they were all squashed when it was shown that Yu Suzuki said it himself that the game would cost too much to make, and plans for that were going to be on hold.
So then I thought to myself, why not just make an ova or manga? Mind you, I would prefer a game, but I can settle with an ova of the following chapters.
Introducing a kickstarter, and only making it ps4 exclusive was really crappy and being that I am a xbox supporter, and I was planning on buying a xbox one and not a ps4, as currently I have a 360 (which if you really want me to keep it 100% and real, they could release Shenmue 3 on that lolz) which will never ever go obsolete until maybe even another five years if that. Don't listen to these fake rumors, and I don't have any current gen consoles as for financial reasons I can't afford them.
This game is going to cost way more than 6m to make. Even though they are using a copied engine, that doesn't matter. I still haven't decided if I was going to donate. I don't even have a ps4, or a computer that can play video games. But I still think it wasn't the best option to do that.
Shenmue is a has been game. I love vintage games like the net guy, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Doom etc, but it's time to move on. There have been so many better and interesting games that have came out since Shenmue 2 in 2002, in which Shenmue 3 is going to have to work thrice as hard in order to deliever.
GTA V came and out blew the gaming industry out of the water. It was cross platform, and still has a good booming multiplater. After playing that game, I look at Shenmue like worn out tennis shoes.
So now instead of making an ova or a manga, they decided to make a third game, however rely on more than half of the games funds coming from fans, not make it available on the console it was on the first two games (the dreamcast is the xbox anybody who disagrees can eat a foot), make it only available on ps4 a system that xbox fans hate, originally saying we only needed to raise 2m, then they got greedy and now want us to give 10m+, and we get no type of updates or news, except a badly translated podcast of Yu Suzuki "thanking" us for what we did manage to raise, and the CEO of xbox basically giving us the honest to god truth that Shenmue 3 is not going to sell well, the gaming culture right now won't even know what the fuck the game is, and it's not worth the investment.
I now plan on waiting until a paypal or slacker option is announced because I wasn't able to donate during e3 season due to family emergencies. I will probably donate twenty bucks or something of that sort. I'm not that narcissistic that I need to have a capsule version of myself or my name in the credits or etc. for the more expensive contributions.
Then I guess by 2017 in the latest I would have saved up for a ps4, and I will buy Shenmue 3 from an autistic Gamestop employee. We will all play, and we shall see at that point where the chips fall.
My rant is now over with. At this point in a nutshell, I just want to know your guys opinion as if a OVA was a better choice than what actually happened.
No, I'm not a fan of MundaneMatt because I know he brought up similar points I made.
Thank you. Shenmue fans.