holy shit
http://i.imgur.com/P1RXS7g.jpg
announced at MAGS. this gels with segas comments about how they'd be open to letting someone else fund the game from last year.
holy shit make it happen
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holy shit
http://i.imgur.com/P1RXS7g.jpg
announced at MAGS. this gels with segas comments about how they'd be open to letting someone else fund the game from last year.
holy shit make it happen
.. I would do this ONLY if they were going to make it one hell of an e pic game and finish it all up.. or commit to finishing it up as intended (with multiple parts).
*edit*
but if they did this and didn't meet the goal and it failed to go forward, man that would be soul crushing.
Still haven't even gotten around to buying/playing the first and second games, but I'd definitely chip in to make this a reality.
NEVER HAPPEN.
Shenmue on DC had a budget of $60 million & its sequel was also pretty damn expensive.
Wake me when you can get 20 million people who can raise $80 million.
Face it people. Shenmue 3 on non SEGA hardware is just NOT going to happen. EVER. Unless its mobile or something.
Yet you believe in Orbi......Quote:
Originally Posted by MrSega
Because its a REAL thing. It currently exists on paper.Quote:
Originally Posted by old man
A $80-100 million kickstarter is just not rooted in any reality.
If they make Shenmue III I hope they release it for PC. I always thought Shenmue would make a great PC game. It would control much better with a mouse and keyboard.
(unrelated, but I also really want a PC version of burning rangers with mouse and keyboard controls, maybe even an option for first person view... That would be neat)
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Originally Posted by MrSega
http://trademarks.justia.com/855/17/orbi-85517210.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Melf
http://www.trademarkia.com/orbi-85517210.html
On January 16,2012, Kabushiki Kaisha Sega filed a multi brand trademark using the name "ORBI". 500 listed services,14 ICs and 5 pages worth of descriptions. At $5,000 is the longest most expensive trademark in SEGA's company history.
So technically whatever it may be, it does exist on paper. Which is why I use it for my sig.
Shenmue 3 PC wouldn't be too shabby budgetwise. I agree. Shenmue is an RTS right?Quote:
Originally Posted by AlecRob
You don't know what Shenmue is, yet you claim it will never happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrSega
Now you think the budget issues won't be an issue if it's for PC. :?
http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/51005-1/moron.jpg
it had a budget of 60 million because they built radical new technology for the Saturn, then scrapped it all and rebuilt our for the dreamcast. the Saturn version wad even more complete than the dreamcast versions. claiming that what we got cost 60 million is disingenuous, itd be like including all the dreamcast r&d budget into sonic adventure's budget because the tools they made to make sonic adventure became the dreamcast sdk.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrSega
Shenmue 3's not gonna happen, end of story. The Ryu Ga Gotoku/Yakuza series has long usurped Shenmue within Sega's stable of software. Not to mention Sega's been playing it super safe with the kind of the games they invest in and develop (the recent Aliens game they spent a ton on is a critical and financial failure). After being burned with Shenmue 1 & 2's sales vs. the development costs, I seriously doubt this would come to pass.
Existing on paper makes it vaporware. Until it's in production, it does not exist. There are literally TONS of concepts on paper that never see the light of day.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrSega
Nice. You automatically made a basically baseless & obtuse assumptionQuote:
Originally Posted by Knuckle Duster
about me a self professed long dedicated SEGA fan not knowing what "Shenmue" is.
I've followed SEGA for 20 years. How the hell would I not know? I remember everything about Shenmue. Buddy.
SEGA did pay $5,000 for its registration, has been given 6 months to fill out its forgien registration, no SEGA mark has ever been this long,expensive & discrete, plus its description consists of mostly non gaming businesses which is on par with Isao Okawa's dying wish & SEGA's recent shareholder statements.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
If anything, it points to the strong likelyhood of SEGASammy planning an unprecedened & through company re-organization and change in business structure which is probably why they filed it in the first place.
But I digress. And speculate based what it says that it is.
Umm...Quote:
Originally Posted by MrSega
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Originally Posted by MrSega
so do you not know what kickstarter is or...?Quote:
Originally Posted by Aarzak
(Appuads.) Thank you very much for the reality check.:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Aarzak
what does anything he wrote have to do with kickstarting a game? why does sega being unwilling to fund shenmue 3 have to do with this news?Quote:
Originally Posted by MrSega
I think the issue is not that MrSega doesn't know what Shenmue is. Shenmue is a FREE (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment), not a RTS (Real Time Strategy). I think MrSega just didn't know what an RTS is...
pff not again.. poor shenmue u.u
This is certainly positive news. I would easily drop some serious funds into a Shenmue kickstarter. I'm sure SEGA is rethinking its investments as far as console releases are concerned, especially with the recent epic failure of ACM
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Originally Posted by MrSega
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Originally Posted by MrSega
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I hope Sega backs a Shenmue 3, I just want the fanboys to shut up about it on every official press release they make.
Yu Suzuki should kickstart it, walk into Sega HQ, throw the money on the table, whip out his dick and slap everybody in the board room with it, ninja vanish, and let the Yakuza team make it.
I can sort of agree with you there. I loved the first one on the Dreamcast, got pretty far in the second and even though I enjoyed them quite a bit, the fans can kind of get a little irritating after a while. With that being said, I would love to see Shenmue 3 being made via a kickstarter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Knuckle Duster
And to Mr. Sega, the game industry is a lot different now than it was back when the original Shenmue was made, there are more tools and resources for game developers to make fairly realistic graphics than there were ever before. Pre-made game engines, motion capture etc. Plus it's not like the kickstarter has to provide all the funding for the game, if enough people are interested maybe Sega will pitch in money. Certainly a possibility.
http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploa...-no-god-no.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by MrSega
The cost of a Shenmue 3 is WAY too much for a Kickstarter. S1 & 2 cost approx. $100 million to make in total, S3 would cost at least that much, if not more. Raise THAT kind of money through Kickstarter? LA-MOW!Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
The problem is you're assuming that Sega would build the game from scratch and make it as detailed as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aarzak
The reality is you have absolutely no idea what development of Shenmue 3 would cost, because they could easily license a game engine, use assets from the old games, throw a few code monkeys in a room to create a 2D point and click adventure game, make Shenmue 3 a text based Zork clone, etc.
A successful high dollar Kickstarter would be easy publicity & proof there's demand for it. Suzuki could then more easily sell the idea to Sega.
This is the man who talked about Shenmue Online, though. I expect nothing but big ideas with nothing to show for it.
They just need to use the Yakuza engine with some changes. The rest would be achieved by the sale of physical discs for the systems. It would still be expensive but much cheaper than making the game from scratch and only for digital distribution as the normal kickstarter games.
Maybe they can start to fetch some cash by re-releasing the first two titles, on current generation systems.
They'd have to add tutorials every three steps and more quicktimer events with tentacle monsters to get modern gamers interested. Oh yeah, and Ryo would have to become a potty mouth.
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Originally Posted by Aarzak
literally the post right above yours:
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Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
2 point and clicks and a space sim, genres virtually non existent on the PC for the longest of time, make 3,3 and 2(+4 in private funding) million dollars off kickstarter in funding with boxed, digital, and for the former 2 multi OS support tiers, and a highly anticipated sequel to a game wouldn't be able to receive a good amount of funding?
Yea...let me stop you right there.
While I agree, the 4x space sim genre really never died on the PC. I mean, sins of a solar empire was released in 2008 to monster sales and has been getting updates steadily ever since.Quote:
Originally Posted by Occutell
I swear, everytime I just try to read a vaguely Sega related thread that MrSega has been posted in my hairline gets thinner.
ANYWAY, $100 million for S3? Nah. I don't care much for Shenmue, but i'd probably buy it anyway so if they launch a crowd-surfing campaign I might chuck £10 there way.
Why are people assuming it's gonna cost alot of dosh to make? I don't see why.
I agree here. By today's standards, I'm not sure how Shenmue 3 would cost as much to make as it would a new GTA. I mean, why would it? The previous games were commerical flops, and I'm certain that Yu is perfectly aware of this. It's a niche series that he appears to be passionate about, so I doubt a new Shenmue game would be reaching for the stars (as far as current high-end gaming tech is concerned). He just wants to continue the story for himself and the small (but vocal) amount of fans that still care. With digital only/indie games on the rise, it seems like the perfect time to attempt such an endeavor. It wouldn't surprise me if he made the game to look like the previous games, as that is all the tech he might need to continue the story (which is much cheaper to do now than it was 14 years ago).Quote:
Originally Posted by The Jackal
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Yeah, it shouldn't. All it needs is essentially to take whatever the current Yakuza game is and build off it. Sure there's new textures and models to work on, and other assets/VA work to deal with. But most of the heavy lifting is ready made.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Jackal
So long as Sega is willing to devote some assets to it, a kickstarter has a good chance of raising enough for this game to get made... assuming they ever go forward with it.
I lol'd there. I don't think I've seen a bigger contradiction in one line.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrSega
mother of god no. shenmue would be the worst for pc. it's a fighting game as well. and the gameplay would suck.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlecRob