2015-06-15, 22:19 | Link #1 |
NePoi!
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Shenmue 3
As announced at this evening's E3 PlayStation event, a Kickstarter for Shenmue 3 has just gone live... and is racking up quite an impressive total already.
Here's hoping they might add a Vita version as a later stretch goal - or perhaps even Vita and PS4 ports of the first two games.
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2015-06-15, 22:29 | Link #2 |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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I played original Shenmue, wasn't a big fan.
Haven;t tried the second one, from what I heard that seems to be lot better. While, I am not too excited for this game, I am glad that it is being made cause I do feel that the game did have lot of potential.
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2015-06-16, 00:02 | Link #3 |
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beat Shenmue on the Dreamcast back in the old days. really love the game and Ryo; he's
a cool guy...drinking his soda and stuffs. played some Shenmue 2 on the xbox, but I didn't finish it for some reason...glad to see that Shenmue 3 is doing Kickstarter. guess there is still hope for this game. hope the game turns out great like always. I really like how that game makes you do part-time jobs or mini games to make money to go by and buy things. wonder if Ryo get to meet Nozomi again or something. she just disappear since Shenmue 1. -_- thinking of this game...makes me listen to this song again. good old memories. ^___^ just for the lulz. :P
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2015-06-16, 06:16 | Link #9 |
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yeah, it's probably that,
Bloodstained (Castlevania's spiritual successor) only pledged $500,000 which, I presume, is way less than the actual cost. but I can see why the developers went for crown-funding at kickstarter 1. to show the publisher (or anyone) who had kinda expressed interest in backing the game (but not quite sure) that this game WILL sell, because the public and gamers are WILLING to fund it themselves. 2. to spark media attention, Bloodstained has become the headlines on various outlets, from website news, blogs, review sites, even Youtube It is very likely that Sony has some involvement in this project, but not necessarily publish it themselves, that's why it's on PS4 and PC, but no word for Xbox yet
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2015-06-16, 07:01 | Link #12 |
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A lot of KS these days are for dev to show their respective investor/publisher public interest to prove that their project/games are commercially viable. I think the question here is who is investing in Shenmue, SEGA? or private investor?
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2015-06-16, 07:11 | Link #13 |
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Look, the fact that localisations are stretch goals would indicate no publisher involvement because normally a publisher would handle the costs of those, like as in Bloodstained or Mighty No.9, the latter of which would not even have a Japanese dub if it weren't for Deep Silver stepping in.
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2015-06-16, 09:14 | Link #16 | |
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阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv180
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These stretch goals actually incite more backers exactly because the game itself isn't exactly mainstream to begin with. If the number of backers is large enough, it would mean the game could potentially appeal a broader audience than expected. Quote:
Many games are simply translated in English without any subs for other languages. Despite France is a sizable market in Europe, there are less and less games with text translated in French. But really, it just doesn't make any sense for them to set the pledge goal at 2M. There is no way for them to make a sequel to Shenmue with so little, unless you really think they will deliver a game like that with a budget 25 times less than Shenmue 1 and 2.
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2015-06-16, 12:18 | Link #19 | |
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects.../posts/1246193 Mighty No. 9 is getting English, Japanese and French voice acting as well as English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese subtitles. http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/04/2...date-announced |
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2015-06-16, 12:30 | Link #20 |
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv180
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Stand corrected. Still, we are comparing a megaman-like and castelvania-like to a huge game like Shenmue. The amount of text is hardly comparable here, so I don't see how it is unexpected to see stretch goals for localization for French and all.
So expecting localization for other languages as a baseline feature just because other kickstarters games got that treatment is dubious at best.
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