BruceWayne911
Arm Break Fire (➡️⬅️⬅️ 👐)
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2018
- Location
- Everywhere like bird $hit
- Favourite title
- Shenmue II
- Currently playing
- Yakuza Kiwami 2
If the controversies before release caused it to fail then so be it. Video game fans are whiny entitled children on a good day. Add further entitlement with a Kickstarter, sky-high subjective nostalgia and perhaps a bit of ignorance on the sensitiveness of the fans from Yu Suzuki and it's a recipe for disaster. Quite frankly fans don't deserve the really good game that came of it.
In regards to complaints about the story-
He had to prioritise based on the budget, but the world, activities, gameplay systems and soundtrack all come before the story and always have. Yu Suzuki has said that numerous times. The ending of Shenmue 1 was a late decision in the process as an example.
Fans wanted the 'essence' of Shenmue and he gave it to them. It simply did not have the budget to appeal to everyone else and it may not get another chance to. Like a pyramid narrowing the higher it gets, this series will continue to lose fans until it has a huge budget to appeal to other fans or transforms into something completely different i.e. 2d, anime, comics.
Wishful thinking I know, but what would be amazing though is if they were waiting for 3's steam release to pass its course before announcing Shenmue 4 in order to not prevent any lost sales. The anime acting as good advertising for steam's release perhaps.
After the Shenmue anime announcement I'd be shocked if there was no Shenmue 4. The Shenmue community is going to support this anime full force. Especially when it comes to merchandise and media sales.