Tuscany... I love this region!
Been twice in the Mugello area and once in Florence. Hope to go back there soon.
As for the original thread subject, I was on vacation in Florida at the time of the annoucement with poor internet connexion and most of my time spent at the beach.
I heard about the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter the day after and at first I thought it was a bad joke so I checked Shenmuedojo and it was all true! I couldn't believe it. If I didn't completely give up on the sequel of my all-time favourite games, my hopes were burried pretty deep in my mind. Couldn't say anything for several minutes but after the first shock, I told my wife about it and probably bored her to death for next few days!
When we camed back home, I backed the project and convinced my wife to do so too (I made her Watch "Shenmue The Movie" a few years before, so she was aware of the game Greatness
) and started to Watch all the Live reactions I could just to keep me in this great place I was since the annoucement. We have a little boy, 17 month old now and we try to make him listen to music as much as we can. Long story short, our family is listening to Shenmue OST since end of June and the little boy... well, he likes it
As many of you, Shenmue impacted me as a gamer but also as a human being. Always loved martial arts, always loved japanese culture and philosophy. One day my kid will be interested in gaming (probably sooner than I expect) and Shenmue will definitely be the game I'm going to play with him, beside him.
If not Shenmue, what else?