Tag: Shenmue 3

‘Shenmue 3’ Closes Out As The Highest Grossing Game In Kickstarter History

by Josh Jackson

Shenmue 3 wrapped up its Kickstarter in spectacular fashion, closing out at $6.33 million. This total makes the continuation of Yu Suzuki’s Dreamcast epic the highest funded game in the crowdfunding website’s history. Not bad for a game many in the industry thought didn’t have a big enough audience!

Following its announcement at Sony’s E3 2015 press conference, Shenmue 3 adds this latest accolade to its growing list of accomplishments, including becoming the fastest game to reach $1 million and the second fastest project amongst all categories to do so after a mere two hours of its launch. In addition to Sony already commiting to helping fund development for the PS4 version, it seems like what seemed like nothing more than a pipe dream might hit our consoles and PC as early as December 2017.

Still, producing Shenmue might still be an uphill battle, considering that the first game was infamously in the $70 million range to develop in 1999.  Considering developing a game of this nature now should be cheaper, it remains to be seen if Suzuki and his team are going to give it all the modern bells and whistles that could skyrocket the final cost.

Either way, we’re just excited that the game is finally coming. Will Ryo avenge his father and defeat Lan Di? What role will the mysterious Ling Shenhua play? Will we find any more sailors? And what’s up with that tree!? Here’s to hoping we’ll find out when the game is finally released!

Geekscape Games Podcast: Level 35 – ‘We Are Suspending Production Of Geekscape Games To Address Technical Issues And To Satisfy Our Quality Standards… JUST KIDDING’

by Shane O'Hare

Join Josh, Derek and Juan as they discuss the last week in video games!

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This Week

Batman: Arkham Knight PC issues and halt of sales.

Halo 5 Preorder DLC can be earned in game.

Destiny: The Taken King $80 DLC bundle debacle.

Dying Light gives DLC for drinking water.

Humble Bundle Borderlands Edition.

Same Sex marriage coming to Fire Emblem

Sony comes out and admits to funding the majority of Shenmue 3.

Fallout Shelter.

Her Story.

Kirby’s Canvas Curse

Batman Arkham Knight

Federation Force

Earth Defense Force

Corpse Party

Lost Dimensions

Danganronpa Another Episode

Amnesia

HDN Rebirth 3

This Week’s Listener Mission Objective

With 2015 over halfway through, what has been your favourite game so far this year?

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Geekscape 371: Flipping Inside Out With Adam Murray!

by Jonathan

E3 is behind us… and Kenny’s here to help us sift through the aftermath! What won the show and what wasn’t so great? Before we get into all that though, Adam Murray is here to let us know that ‘Inside Out’ is one of the best post-Wall-E Pixar films but his experience of going to see it was pretty traumatizing. We give our last words on the box office onslaught that is ‘Jurassic World’ and we talk about the Will Ferrell Lifetime Original curiosity ‘A Deadly Adoption’! Enjoyables!

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E3 2015: ‘Shenmue 3’ Reaches $2 Million Goal In Less Than 9 Hours; Adds New Stretch Goals!

by Josh Jackson

During a night of shocking announcements, arguably the most surprising one of all was the sudden reveal of the long lost Shenmue 3 during Sony’s E3 press conference. Disappointingly attached to the condition that it be funded through Kickstarter, fans answered the call, leading the crowdfunding campaign to break through its $2 million goal in about nine hours, becoming the fastest video game to reach $1 million, clocking in at 1 hour and 42 minutes according to Guinness World Records. From this goal being met in record time, to someone ALREADY claiming the Ryo replica jacket and all three slots for dinner with Yu Suzuki for contributing $10,000 proves how passionate the fanbase is for this game. Or am I thinking crazy?

Either way, now that the initial goal has been met, the game has the potential to be expanded through a new set of stretch goals. Serving as what many consider the first true 3D open world title, Shenmue 3 is hoping to add three full cities to explore, a rapport system to help Ryo build relationships with the characters he meets, (sailors or otherwise,) and subtitles in multiple languages. The full list of goals is as follows, including the ones that have already been met:

Shenmue 3 Stretch Goals

Are you planning on backing this project? Is Shenmue 3 a dream come true for you, or is it too little too late? Let us know what you thought of the reveal below, and keep checking back for more E3 news, previews, and the fallout of the show in the coming days!

E3 2015: ‘Shenmue III’ Kickstarter is Already Halfway Funded

by Eric Francisco

Shenmue lives. I cried in front of my computer screen.

In one of the most stunning announcements at Sony’s E3 — an E3 that includes The Last Guardian and a remake of Final Fantasy VII — Yu Suzuki took to the stage of Sony’s conference to announce Shenmue III is in development!

With a Kickstarter.

The shock of legitimate evidence of Shenmue III presenting itself to my eyeballs is still clouding me, but there are some muddy ownership stuff going on here. Shenmue was originally released for the Sega Dreamcast and Shenmue II was released for the original Xbox (North America).

And here I thought Suzuki’s tweet from a few days ago was just a cruel tease.

I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, Shenmue III is fucking happening and the Kickstarter, live for maybe less than the runtime of all three Hobbit movies by now, is already more than halfway to its $2 million goal (there are 31 days total for the Kickstarter to run).

But Sony’s involvement confuses me. Did Sony buy the IP? Why let them announce a hotly-anticipated title has entered development with a Kickstarter, a plea to give us goddamn money, on an E3 stage if they didn’t have such exclusivity? Even if Shenmue III is funded with enough money to end poverty in a third-world nation, the game is still set to launch on the PlayStation 4 and the PC with zero mention of any other console, Xbox or otherwise, anywhere.

At this point I’ll take Shenmue III on a LeapFrog, but I would like to know exactly what happened between creator Yu Suzuki and any relationship he had, if at all, with the folks at Microsoft.