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bran Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 10 million dollars is going to be a tough road to hoe. the largest game ever funded was a little under 9 mil with most large funded games sitting around 3-5 mil. as it is now shenmue 3 is at 6th for the most funded game in history of kickstarter. i will donate 100 dollars this coming friday or saturday, i hope it hits close to 10 but im not sure that is likely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 10 million dollars is going to be a tough road to hoe. the largest game ever funded was a little under 9 mil with most large funded games sitting around 3-5 mil. as it is now shenmue 3 is at 6th for the most funded game in history of kickstarter. i will donate 100 dollars this coming friday or saturday, i hope it hits close to 10 but im not sure that is likely.Yeah, I'm already impressed by how successful it's been, especially considering the shoddy clickbait journalism telling people not to donate. Sigh, I really despise a lot of modern video gaming journos, just trying to get people angry to get advertising revenue.I think $5 mill is a certainty but hopefully it ends up a bit beyond that. They need a new video to emphasise why this game series is so important, as it is it's just confusing to newcomers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bran Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 donated 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted June 26, 2015 Author Share Posted June 26, 2015 Extended stretch goals: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 Yu Suzuki on Twitch in 2 hours! http://www.twitch.tv/shenmue3official Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bran Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 (edited) Yu Suzuki on Twitch in 2 hours! http://www.twitch.tv/shenmue3officialoh shit thanks for the heads up. not sure if i will be able to watch it, depends if i need to give my brother a ride home from work Edited June 27, 2015 by bran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 Yu Suzuki on Twitch in 2 hours! http://www.twitch.tv/shenmue3officialoh shit thanks for the heads up. not sure if i will be able to watch it, depends if i need to give my brother a ride home from work I'm struggling to stay awake, almost 3am here, Yu Suzuki needs to learn the concept of time zones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Aaron_H Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Amir, I think I've seen you on the dojo from time to time (I'm just a lurker there)..Shenmue is a very important series of games to me - it pretty much defined my teenage years (I met my best friend because of a mutual love for the game and as a consequence that shaped a lot of the things I ended up doing as a teenager). I couldn't believe it when I saw the kickstarter/announcement - I never thought this day would come. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 I finally joined ShenmueDojo in April, was thinking of joining last year around GDC 2014 after years of lurking since I thought Yu was gonna announce Shenmue III then, at least we've got it now!New rewards, including physical PS4 copy, and being in the game!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3Really want to be in the game but even the $1,500 is a bit beyond my means... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Forsaken Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Curious as to how many people will donate 10k for their face and name to appear in game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 Curious as to how many people will donate 10k for their face and name to appear in game. All the 10k NPC tiers have been filled! And most of the dinners are gone, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forsaken Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 Wow! They've added another 64 x $1,500 pledges to get your photo and name in a register in the game since the other ones sold out so quickly, they're going quickly now too!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Amir, being someone who has never played these games, can you please tell me, briefly, what it is about and why should I waste my time playing them? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 (edited) Amir, being someone who has never played these games, can you please tell me, briefly, what it is about and why should I waste my time playing them? Thanks.The first Shenmue was the reason I bought a Dreamcast and really got into gaming. It's set in Yokosuka, Japan in 1986 and opens with a teenager called Ryo Hazuki coming home to see his father being killed by a mysterious Chinese man named Lan Di, who accuses Ryo's father of having killed someone called Zhao Sunming in China years ago. Ryo swears vengeance and seeks to find Lan Di.To be honest, the story is mostly standard fare, but it was the open world that was mindblowing at the time. There's a lot of distractions for Ryo's quest for vengeance, including buying capsule toys, going to fortune tellers, sparring with your housemate in your dojo, practicing martial arts moves in an empty parking lot, playing Sega arcade games in an arcade such as Hang-On, Outrun, Space Harrier, getting a job as a forklift truck driver, or even just grabbing a Coke from a vending machine... No games have ever been more immersive for me than the 2 Shenmue games (I prefer the second because there's a ton of action 3/4 through the game, including a section like The Raid where you have to go up a building taking out gangsters on each floor). I also loved the real-time Virtua Fighter-style combat in the game, as I liked the idea of story-based RPGs but was turned off by the turn-based combat in all of them.Here's a teaser trailer that just came out yesterday for a fan-made documentary that will be coming out (they're delaying the release due to having to film new scenes thanks to the surprise announcement of Shenmue III): Here's a video with another dude's opinion: And here's an article:http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-05-what-makes-shenmue-2s-open-world-so-specialI've decided to go all out and go for the $1,500 pledge, to be a part of the Shenmue series in any small way means a lot to me. Edited July 6, 2015 by Amir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 One of the $10,000 be an NPC rewards is available now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Thanks, Amir. Since you're a crazy fan of the game. Can you please tell me if there's a way I can play the first two games without having to find a Dreamcast console? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 Thanks, Amir. Since you're a crazy fan of the game. Can you please tell me if there's a way I can play the first two games without having to find a Dreamcast console?You can emulate them on PC, a couple of good Dreamcast emulators for PC are DEmul and NullDC. There's also Reicast for Android though you need a pretty powerful Android device. There'll be ROMs for the games on sites like the IsoZone. I recommend downloading a PAL ROM of each game, as you can carry over the save from PAL Shenmue I to PAL Shenmue II. The official PAL release of Shenmue I was an English dub while the the official PAL release of Shenmue II was a Japanese dub with English subtitles. There's a fanmade patched version of PAL Shenmue I called Shenmue Undub which is Japanese dub with English subs, supposed to work pretty well, but I'd prob stick with the normal PAL version for first playthrough.If you can get a Dreamcast, though, go for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forsaken Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 NT, download a Dreamcast EMU(DCEmu is my preference) and play the first two. I actually play the first one from time to time still on my emulator Should have never sold my Dreamcast.Amir, i'm glad there's another Shenmue fanatic around here man! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 NT, download a Dreamcast EMU(DCEmu is my preference) and play the first two. I actually play the first one from time to time still on my emulator Should have never sold my Dreamcast.Amir, i'm glad there's another Shenmue fanatic around here man! I've still got my PAL copies of Shenmue I and II (along with the NTSC US copy of Shenmue I, first copy I ever had) along with a PAL Dreamcast and VGA box to play on an LCD monitor, game still looks beautiful. I got a spare copy of Shenmue II along with the Dreamcast and some other games last summer for like £50, sold the game on its own the other week for £85 thanks to the renewed interest in the series. If I get an Android phone in the future it's gonna blow my mind to play Shenmue on a fucking phone, didn't think that'd happen just 15 years after I played the game on the most powerful console at the time.Just 20 spots left out of 128 "I AM SHENMUE" pledges that get your photo and name in the game in an inn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bran Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Damn wish i could afford that. I think shenmue 3 will break the record for most funded video game probably by a million or a liile more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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