"The existence of Shenmue III (via Kickstarter) was revealed to unanimous applause at SONY‘s E3 2015 press conference last month, but while many have gotten caught up in the hype, they have failed to realize the negative implications that this move has."
Gamespresso's Steve argues that promoting a Kickstarter on a big stage will deal more damage to the industry than meets the eye.
"The Seville-based (Spain) indie games developer QUICKFIRE GAMES are today very proud and happy to announce that their the tactical rpg “Prelude Dark Pain“, is now fully funded via Kickstarter." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"Keep an eye out for upcoming announcements"
I think that’s the problem. Just give us a conclusion like we were hoping for with 3 instead of basically pulling a Shenmue 2 on us and leaving it all in limbo again,
No trilogy collection? All the years Sega knocked out Shenmue clone Yakuza, yet took years to release Shenmue 3 on PS4 only. Was made waiting all those years after Shenmue 2 on Dreamcast.
And they think it's a positive thing?
Potential new fans won't be interested in future sequels because they would need to know the story of all the previous games.
Old fans who were burnt by 3 (like me) won't be interested in the next ones. Especially if they are fillers like 3 is.
The truth is, Yu Suzuki threw away his golden oportunity of finishing the saga in a dignified way. Old fans were thirsty for its conclusion and they got good money on Kickstarter.
Now that they made 3 with some of the worst game design decisions in any modern game, and made the plot be a useless filler, a Kickstarter for 4 would probably fail badly, and the shameful sales of 3 won't convince any publisher to put good money on a sequel.
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"hat’s not to mention how unfair this whole activity is on other development studios. Isn’t the point of a Kickstarter that anyone can have their project funded? But when the big studios start to exploit this, won’t the small ones peter out? " - When did Ys.net become a big studio? And there is no pre-defined requires for Sony size in order to be funded by Kickstarter.
"What chance does a small Kickstarter have if all the money is being invested into a project which will end up being published by a huge name like SONY? Could SONY not have funded the project itself as opposed to having the arrogance to promote the money-grabbing scheme in its own briefing?" - As much as your arrogance and complete lack of professionalism in your trade of being a games "Journalism" to know Sony is not publishing the game none do they receive any money from kick starter or are the sole investor in the project.
Your opinion is flawed and based on so many wrong assumptions and lack of research. This is not the first time a publisher or external party has helped a project none would it be the last or would this affect the future of other projects.
I seriously don't see what's so special about Shenmue 3 that everybody would rather find it over other Kickstarter projects. I'd rather fund Yooka-Laylee since I'm more familiar with the source material as are a lot of other gamers.
See for me I feel that a kickstarter for games that are classics are more meaningful to gamers because we KNOW what to EXPECT from the game & what were GETTING compared to a small team just tryin to fund a NEW PROJECT that we dont know what to EXPECT out of it. I would rather spend money on a game I wanted a sequel to then wste it on an average or new game were not even SURE will be ANYGOOD.
I don't think it will.
Don't even remember the story of the game, I just remember jumping and dodging a lot