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SHENMUE 3 kickstarter (PC/PS4) - FINAL DAY - NEW KS RECORD GO GO GO!
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shinobi602
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Definitely a huge improvement.Shenhua's updated face is a paint-over but notice the changes to costume - sleeves, scarf and chest.
https://twitter.com/yu_suzuki_jp/status/616396498394181632
I'm not worried about the character models from the initial reveal to be honest. Game's still over 2 years out, they'll fix them in good time.
I'm surprised there are people who actually like the left version. It looks really strange to me, almost like a dead creepy puppet and nothing like the original Shenhua. The right is a big improvement, but since it's just a paint over it seems to have gone more anime instead of the nice blend between realism and anime like the original CG model had.
Gotta love that 90s AM2 CGI. Good times.
Seriously. Just give us THIS in CG form. It's gorgeous. Nothing else matters. Don't understand why they are putting so much effort to changing the models when their portrait version serves an incredible blue-print to what they really should be providing.
the second image needs to be the look they aim for.I'm surprised there are people who actually like the left version. It looks really strange to me, almost like a dead creepy puppet and nothing like the original Shenhua. The right is a big improvement, but since it's just a paint over it seems to have gone more anime instead of the nice blend between realism and anime like the original CG model had.
BoxManLocke
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I liked Shenhua's first version actually, but the revision is so much better. I'm surprised they improved it so early actually.
i can't wait to see how the art develops over the next two years. should be a really fun ride seeing the updates as the game gets made.
actually here's something, who will be avoiding the updates through development? i'm considering it... but i want to see more teases about the game.
actually here's something, who will be avoiding the updates through development? i'm considering it... but i want to see more teases about the game.
That's a great question. It's going to be hard but I would like to try and stay as much in the dark as possible but after all these year's it's going to be very difficult to resist.
I mean after years of speculating, digging into lots of different fan theories, the art-work shown in the post-modern video, maps and shenmue online trailer there's some clues on where the story may go thus I would like to remain as spoiler-free as possible.
I went into playing both original games largely in the dark and frankly the experience was probably better for it.
Like I said it's going to be hard especially as I have a vested interest after backing the project.
Edit: Shenmuedojo stream is on right now. Every night at 10pm EST http://www.twitch.tv/shenmuedojo
i agree with this. it's going to be tough, but after the KS is over i'll forget about shenmue 3 the best i can until a release date is announced.
then again, i'm expecting to see more at e3 2016 and 2017. i'll see what that's about.
by the way, we had the best day for backers this week. hopefully the trend continues as we head towards friday.
Laevateinn
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I've avoided updates for Mighty Number 9 because I want to go into the gameplay pretty fresh but I don't think I can resist with Shenmue. Yu's generally pretty secretive so I think I'll be okay not getting anything spoiled.
sixteen-bit
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GDC Shenmue post-mortem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2l2qKH85Xk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2l2qKH85Xk
IronicSonic
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I really like the new shenhua design.
Any chance to see xiuying in shenmue 3? I'd really like to see a new high poly model of her
Any chance to see xiuying in shenmue 3? I'd really like to see a new high poly model of her
ArisenDragon
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Nice improvements already on Shenhua's model.
Haunted
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While talking about it idly on Twitter instead of directly contacting his manager and making it happen (contact information and fees for Pewdiepie covering a game are readily available) is - again - pretty unprofessional, at least it's smarter than the Clueless Gamer idea. More eyeballs in the intended demographical range for a similar amount of money (medium 5 figures).
Good morning!
Stats updated (along with other things on the site):
http://shenmuetalk.wordpress.com/stats/
Just a hair from taking down Mighty No. 9.
Stats updated (along with other things on the site):
http://shenmuetalk.wordpress.com/stats/
Just a hair from taking down Mighty No. 9.
So, for the last few days I have eased off on obsessively following the Kickstarter, and have just been really enjoying playing Shenmue I again.
Today was the first really snowy day in Dobuita. I asked a lot of people if they knew where to find tattoo parlors. Most of them were horrified, one old guy said I'd bring shame on my family, and the lady in the Tomato Mart got really excited and kept asking me what tattoo I was planning to get. She wants to get one too.
This game is just amazing, even all these years later. There is too much in it to possibly remember everything, or even most of it.
It is wonderful to play it and know that the story really isn't over...
Today was the first really snowy day in Dobuita. I asked a lot of people if they knew where to find tattoo parlors. Most of them were horrified, one old guy said I'd bring shame on my family, and the lady in the Tomato Mart got really excited and kept asking me what tattoo I was planning to get. She wants to get one too.
This game is just amazing, even all these years later. There is too much in it to possibly remember everything, or even most of it.
It is wonderful to play it and know that the story really isn't over...
Ryo Hazuki
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I like it when you beat Chai and you ask people in Dobuita if they saw anyone suspicious go through and one dude says something like "are they shooting a horror movie around here?".
Love the way Shenmue has the feel of a real coastal town. Most people are extremely nice, but there is a definite "bad element" that no one really wants to talk about, or even admit exists.
Ryo Hazuki
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I don't know if I've changed a setting or not, but is the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter video auto-playing for anyone else when they go to the page now? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/description
It's not you. Kickstarter changed that across their site sometime in the last couple days.
Bit annoying if you ask me.
JohnSpartanLee
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I think if they'd used a good voice actor for Shenhua the kickstarter would be at 5 millions now. 
Theonik
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They did it weeks ago. It's fucking annoying.
Ryo Hazuki
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Yeah, definitely.
Only just started happening here so it must be rolling out at different times or something. Pretty weird to implement that. Who the fuck likes auto-play videos?
Theonik
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With sound no less.
You can set it to mute by default.
Ryo Hazuki
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Yeah, mine plays muted as default. I have to click it for sound.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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Luckily it seem they finally removed it (at least for me) after 2-3 weeks.
well we already know ren shows up, so i'm looking forward to hearing him in both english and japanese
I dream of running into original Nozomi again.
I have nightmares of running into original Fuku-San.
either way we're getting eric kelso at some point- hopefully.
Acquiescence
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Nozomi fucked off to Canada, I'd be amazed if we ever saw her again outside of a flashback scene. It would be really cool though if, hypothetically, Ryo returns to Japan in Shenmue 5 and Nozomi just happens to be back in Dobuita to meet him. What a heart-tugging reunion that would be.
until she finds out about all the Chinese birds he made it with
Kelso as Ren, I'm all good with that. Kelso as Fuku-San is some of the worst voice acting in human history. The performance is so strange it borders on "so bad it's good."
Don't shatter my dreams! Ryozomi forever...
pffff
ryo is oblivious to any kind of romantic interaction
of course i am actually looking forward to seeing ryo return to japan in a later game. i wonder if it'll actually be a playable sequence? i assume the climax of the series takes place in tibet/mongolia, going from old theories.
I've always felt like Ryo's obliviousness has been an attempt to avoid letting anyone else get too close with him because he knows he's probably on a suicide mission. Even when he doesn't show any affection for anyone, he still constantly has people telling him they are worried about him. He's so focused on his own loss and grief and anger that he doesn't want to feel anything else that might distract him from that.
His father tells him to "keep friends... those you love... close to you" but he definitely does the opposite. He pushes everyone away to try and minimize the collateral damage of his actions.
that's probably going to be a big theme of the rest of the series. there's meant to be a redemption at some point, but as of yet ryo hasn't done anything obviously worth taking a redemptive path for.
Tricky I Shadow
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Xiuying and Lan-Di would be cool, but apart from Corey Marshall I'm not sure if I even care if anyone else returns so long as they get new actors that sound similar. In fact I kinda hope they replace Shenhua. Her voice in Shenmue II sounded like a 16 year old kid that had his balls constantly squeezed. It was....unnatural.
yeah, some of that stuff really needed shuffling around, but whatever. too late for that.
it would have been nice if the subtitle ones were spaced out so we could have hit a few of the cooler gameplay goals by now, but i guess the focus was to bring the story to as many people as possible.
I can't understand why more stretch goals were added, and nothing was put in there to bridge that gap. Even something cute and cosmetic would help people feel some sense of progress without adding anything much to development costs.
Definitely a missed opportunity.
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