16th June 2015, 5:13 AM
The "big three" from Sony are clearly the FF7 remake, Last Guardian actually being confirmed as something that still exists, and Shenmue 3.
As for Shenmue 3, I'd say it's a done deal at this point. Yes, it's a kickstarter, but I'm confident it'll meet it's goal. (Note: Just checked, it did. At this rate I'm confident it'll end up the most successful gaming kickstarter in the history of the site. Then "Silent Hills" will get kickstarted as "Quiet Mountain" and it'll smash through that.) By the way, the original game cost $70 MILLION, so there is NO way that a mere $2 Mil is going to fund a sequel made to the same level of detail as the originals. That's just not going to happen. However, I think there's a big reason this was a Sony announcement. I believe the reality is that Sony has agreed to fund the game so long as Sega and Yu can use Kickstarter to establish that there's still a desire for it (the same situation with Bloodstained, actually).
People have been saying "Just kickstart Shenmue" for years now, but even as successful as Kickstarter has been, I think it's a pipe dream for any of them to hope for $70 Million from donations alone. No Kickstarter has even approached numbers like that. I think the reason it's taken them so long to decide to do a kickstarter is because they've been looking for a group to help fund it, and they finally found it.
Great news at any rate, even if I feel a little less than inclined to donate money myself since they've already met their goal and I'm pretty confident the real purpose of the kickstarter was just proving interest.
The graphics are obviously getting a big jump if that trailer is any indication. I just hope they spend some of that money on better voice actors. Shenmue's voice acting is just painful now. It was somewhat excusable at the time, because most video game voice acting sucked back then, but wow is it distracting listening to Ryo saying "yeah" to those monotonous questions in that trailer. It made me think "oh.... right...".
As for Shenmue 3, I'd say it's a done deal at this point. Yes, it's a kickstarter, but I'm confident it'll meet it's goal. (Note: Just checked, it did. At this rate I'm confident it'll end up the most successful gaming kickstarter in the history of the site. Then "Silent Hills" will get kickstarted as "Quiet Mountain" and it'll smash through that.) By the way, the original game cost $70 MILLION, so there is NO way that a mere $2 Mil is going to fund a sequel made to the same level of detail as the originals. That's just not going to happen. However, I think there's a big reason this was a Sony announcement. I believe the reality is that Sony has agreed to fund the game so long as Sega and Yu can use Kickstarter to establish that there's still a desire for it (the same situation with Bloodstained, actually).
People have been saying "Just kickstart Shenmue" for years now, but even as successful as Kickstarter has been, I think it's a pipe dream for any of them to hope for $70 Million from donations alone. No Kickstarter has even approached numbers like that. I think the reason it's taken them so long to decide to do a kickstarter is because they've been looking for a group to help fund it, and they finally found it.
Great news at any rate, even if I feel a little less than inclined to donate money myself since they've already met their goal and I'm pretty confident the real purpose of the kickstarter was just proving interest.
The graphics are obviously getting a big jump if that trailer is any indication. I just hope they spend some of that money on better voice actors. Shenmue's voice acting is just painful now. It was somewhat excusable at the time, because most video game voice acting sucked back then, but wow is it distracting listening to Ryo saying "yeah" to those monotonous questions in that trailer. It made me think "oh.... right...".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)