During a recent Reddit AMA, Yu Suzuki, revealed some new information about the third part in the Shenmue series. As Yu Suzuki said, the game will be a truly open-world if its Kickstarter manages to raise 10$ million. And from the looks of it, this may be achieved as the game has already raised $3.4 million.
As Yu Suzuki said when a fan asked him about the features of Shenmue 3:
“I will say this: if we reach the $5 mil mark, one of the things I really want to do with Shenmue 3 will become a reality.
At $10 million, it will truly have the features of an open world.”
Shenmue 3 will be powered by Unreal Engine 4 and as Yu Suzuki admitted, it will reuse some of the assets from both Shenmue 1 and 2.
“The assets from 1 & 2 will get a lot of use.”
Yu Suzuki then said that if the game does not live up to the expectations of its fans, there won’t be a Shenmue 4.
“If the fans are not happy with 3 there will not be a 4. So I please hope we can together make this game the best it can be.”
Shenmue 3 will be coming to PC and PS4!
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10M? Good luck. They must be thinking this is Star Citizen.
they hit 3.4M in less that 24 hours.
what, they are still at 3.4 M? lol.
It took Star Citizen 1 month to get 2 million.
It took Shenmue 1 day to get 2 million.
Never played any of old games but for some reason I want it to happen. good luck and hope to see a great game for pc to play
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It’s obvious Sony has already put a shitload of money into it, otherwise it wouldn’t have been in their E3 presentation. Holding the open-world aspect as “ransom” is just stupid.
Sony admitted they are funding the development.
Sega, not Sony…
actually it seems SEGA want nothing to do with this game so it is between YU and SONY, which makes sense since it was a gigantic loss of money to them and greatly help pushing them out of the console market.
Sega has no part in this other than leasing out the rights to Suzuki. This is a full on indie game as far as Sony and Sega are concerned.
He wants to have full creative artistic control over it and he will get it this way. Sega let Yu-San use the rights to the game since it is his baby and he created it.
Sony might not even be matching 25% of the kickstarter funds for this game.
And maybe sega can recoup some of that bad investment by re-releasing shenmue 1-2.. nearly 15 yrs later
Things do not work like that. The more money the kickstarter gets The better the game will be. Kickstarter gets 5 million sony invest 5 milliion and other sources 5 million.
Kickstarter gets 10 million = Shenmue 3 Budget 30 million.
Just like castlevania succesor the agreement was that the more the kickstarter would get the more % the publishers would invest.
“Sony funding Depends on how much the kickstarter can get”
More kickstarter invested the more Sony and others will invest.
Uh no.
Its different Things do not work like that. The more money the kickstarter gets The
better the game will be. Kickstarter gets 5 million sony invest 5
milliion and other sources 5 million.
Kickstarter gets 10 million = Shenmue 3 Budget 30 million.
Just like castlevania succesor the agreement was that the more the
kickstarter would get the more % the publishers would invest.
“Sony funding Depends on how much the kickstarter can get”
More kickstarter invested the more Sony and others will invest.
So if you want a real sequel we need to show them the Actual Demand.
Sony admitted nothing. There are no details on how exactly sony plans to help the game get made. They could have nothing to do with the funding at all.
I’ve seen no confirmation that Sony is funding the game. Only comments that have been misconstrued to mean that. Meanwhile those involved with the game have directly refuted those claims.
Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/CedricBiscay/status/612352032851259392
For reference: If I understand this correctly that’s the Twitter account of someone who works for Shibuya Productions, the outfit tasked with handling the PC version of Shenmue III.
Why the hell would they reuse Dreamcast assets in a modern game? Especially when Sony is helping with the funding.
I don’t think that he meant it like that. It was probably a false interpretation from his translator. It’s probably more like old setpieces, like we will visit the city from Shenmue 1 and 2 again and see the same houses, just in UE4.
this
Because the stupid nostalgia is making them make a low budget shemue 3 so people can finally stfu.
Hl3 will be good though.
do you know, in shenmue every npc have a name, schedule, and purpose ? every time you talk to them they will know you. i think they will use that asset
No, what he means is he already has a story written for Shenmue 3. He has stacks of scripts for the game. He would use the assets from the first 2 games as a referance to be able to make this new one look as authentic as possible.
For instance, the kickstarter Ryu looks nothing like the high quality characters face from Shenmue Passport disc. They could use the model from that as a base to beef it up for modern systems.
http://hg101.kontek.net/shenmue/shenmue-28.jpg
This picture looks nothing like him and Yu said he is not happy with the kickstarter promo face model.
http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/shenmue3_02.jpg
They didn’t say which assets mind you. Could be music tracks, the animation libraries/skeletons for the fighting animations, emulation code for arcade games, locations/cutscenes for the Shenmue I/II recaps etc;
they might have done the art in higher resolutions and can use the original files for the new game? I hope..
I remember hearing back in the dreamcast days that the high budget for shenmue included a bunch of art for the whole series.. I just thought theyd use the art before I turned 30..
I can’t stand when a game makes a generational leap but they decide to reuse assets. Don’t be like Nintendo and CoD with their games. Use the money and make a new engine, 60 fps, 1080p, seamless world, the works. I hope they don’t blow most of the money on marketing, publishers/devs tend to spend too much on advertising. Doing some is all right but up to the point where you spend half the budget.
A good game sells itself…Metro series, Shadow of Mordor and etc are perfect examples.
If you manage to make a “seamless” open world game on a new 60fps 1080p engine with 3 millions… Send Yu Suzuki an email because I assume you have magic game development powers.
Witcher 3 did it with around 30 millions and you can consider it an achievement.
So why did Sony give Shenmue 3 E3 time?
Well, they have no games coming out this season so why not use S3 as a boost in their presentation. Does this mean Sony will drop $30M on Shenmue? LOLNO.
They basically sold their marketing power in exchange for console exclusivity, its still up to the fans to actually get the budget.
60fps? Lol
could they mod sleeping dogs? 😀 That’d be close enough for me..
i hate how being Open World is automatically a plus these days…because while it has it’s advantages, it clearly has it’s own disadvantages as well.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by this. I like both Skyrim and Portal* (*NOT an open-world game), I don’t see either one as having ‘disadvantages’ – they’re different kinds of games with different goals and mechanics.
Unless you mean that marketers will tout Open World but really just make a corridor game with large arena spaces. I wouldn’t put it past marketers to misuse this word since gamers really, REALLY like open world games.
I think he means more like how many open-world games feel contrived, with a small amount of content simply repeated ad naeseum (think Ubisoft: The Game).
The older Shenmue’s weren’t open-worlds in that sense, nor were they sandboxes. Heck they had loads of loading times (especially II)! Now I think about it, Shenmue doesn’t really fit the definition of an open-world game by modern standards at all.
I think what made Shenmue work was it was a giant closed-world game. It had that attention to detail of a linear, tightly scripted game, but extrapolated out to an entire town.
That’s what makes the scope of the game feel so ambitious despite the fact that the entirety of Shenmue I would fit into one tiny corner of most modern open-worlds.
So yeah… I guess Shenmue isn’t an “open-world” game at all in the modern sense. It was the kind of world people got excited about because it actually pulled through on the promise of giving us a game we liked, but on a giant scale, as opposed to the Ubisoft method of having a diluted experience spread over a massive map.
Well said!
i think of it as one of the first open worlds.. just not so big that it felt empty.. but I can see how in the modern sense it wouldn’t feel so much like one.
I’d still define shenmue 1-2 as open world games though but now it’s making me realize that many old 2d RPGs were open world as well. 😀
Why can’t he just use the money he got from Sony for that?
Because Sony funding depends on how much demand the game actually has.The more money Kickstarter gets the bigger the demand and the more Sony will invest. If you truly want a Real sequel and not a crappy Indy game we need to get 10 million.
Wow… :S.
I don’t get this. Shenmue 1 + 2 where open world. You were free to roam the area, and explore, talk to any NPC, pick and do quests out of order, do sandbox activities… And now they say open world is a stretch goal for the Kickstarter ? So what kind of game will Shenmue 3 be if it doesn’t hit 10M on the Kickstarter ?
I think there’s a language gap. If you were to try asking that question it would need to be translated into Japanese, which will turn the question into something like “How many donkey shame equals boxed sand quests with a $10m Kickstarter?” To which he would reply, “Yes.”
Japan is like a different planet.
Hahaha.
Hilariously dumb prediction.
As long as they come to pc i dont mind, let sony fund them MUAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
People should havd let this game live on as a cool back in the day experience.
Shenmue 3 & last guardian will be underwhelming lol
Shame you guys stupid nostalgia ruined shenmue.
Resusing assesys? Smh.
Hoping for $10M? That’s nothing.
What? Ain’t it supposed to be hit target and create all new assets? WTF they smoking?