Seems like this Autumn and even into February of next year are really stacked with AAA titles. A delay was probably the right choice (though almost certainly a coincidence).
They did say at the THQ Nordic financials meeting that the delay was "for polish, and to release the game in the best possible time frame", so actually it sounds like one of the considerations made.Seems like this Autumn and even into February of next year are really stacked with AAA titles. A delay was probably the right choice (though almost certainly a coincidence).
I was actually thinking about him the other week. Poor guy. Nobody should die that young.
It was exactly 10 years ago today when the late Rodger Swan uploaded his Real Life Shenmue episode on Youtube. His video inspired many Shenmue fans to visit real locations like Yokosuka.
Rodger's video: https://youtu.be/xfmDm_MKGv0
Rodger Swan Memorial Fund for Japanese Studies: https://bit.ly/2JmknXE
Winter Sunset by Ryuichi Iuchi - Dedicate to Rodger Swan: https://youtu.be/NdrtdbvEV2A
Man Twitter is a fucking shitshow for people expecting Shenmue III.
More people must have bought that dumb fucking "leak" than I thought.
Mm. I feel a lot of the people upset were the ones who... don't really even catch up on the Kickstarter updates tbh. At least most of us could have easily seen which way the wind is blowing, given Ys Net are still quite heavily working towards getting the game presentable. I use that word very specifically and separately from playable, because we know it's been playable in some form for a while now.Yeah thinking it being there was not something to pin hopes on. I had it at a 20% chance of showing up, tops. Even then it would've probably been a quick teaser.
Seems pretty likely they plan to be at Gamescom again. Hope they pencil in PSX too for North American fans.
Financial runway ceased to be an immediate problem as soon as the Deep Silver deal was signed last year. Obviously the money tap can't stay on forever but the publisher won't cut their nose off to spite their face. If that was the case they could have insisted Ys Net ship in 2018 as originally planned.My only real concern with missing E3 is that I hope they have enough financial runway to release after (maybe right after) E3 2019. The franchise needs a PR blowout if we want 4 too, and it's hard to do that without an E3 push of any sort.
Financial runway ceased to be an immediate problem as soon as the Deep Silver deal was signed last year. Obviously the money tap can't stay on forever but the publisher won't cut their nose off to spite their face. If that was the case they could have insisted Ys Net ship in 2018 as originally planned.
I will say (again) that E3 isn't everything. We all saw Sony going a very specific way with their E3 press conference again this year, and I struggle to see how Shenmue III could fit in with that kind of show in the future. Also if every game's success, big or small, hinged on releasing after an E3 blow-out; we'd almost exclusively see releases only in June, July, and maybe August. There's more than one way to promote a game, and honestly? It feels a bit like E3's relevance is slipping.
I dunno, maybe it's just me. Even in recent years there's been an undeniable gear switch though, for Sony especially. These conferences aren't the broad view of a platform's software like they used to be.I wouldn't say E3's relevance is slipping. It's just that now there are other ways and opportunities to promote your games than before. At the end of the day E3 helped Shenmue III get funds in a big way.
Getting an E3 blowout for Shenmue III would be fantastic, but probably expensive unless PlayStation has further stakes in some way with that game. Also showing your game off at E3 doesn't mean to release your game around the same time.
Possibly. Either way, porting the game from source could throw up all kinds of weirdness like this.Perhaps the cutscene animations and character movement logic are not hard-coded together? Tons of games around 2000 would load these separately but I have no idea if Shenmue is that way.
I posted this in the 1&2 collection thread, but nobody answered me.
*Will i be able to carry my save over to 3 ?
*Sorry i this has already been addressed.
That's extremely disappointing.As of right now it's a no. It's also extremely unlikely that it'll happen.
Although unconfirmed right now, it was reasonable enough to expect the save transfer gimmick to have died with the Dreamcast.
That's a real shame. Ahh well.Although unconfirmed right now, it was reasonable enough to expect the save transfer gimmick to have died with the Dreamcast.
There might be room to hold out hope Shenmue III scans your harddrive for a I & II save to get a bonus item or move, but mechanical changes, IP licencing speed bumps, and III being developed for 2+ years as a "clean slate" for the player are going to impede anything more than that.
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