Shenmue 3!

[sj33]

We all know that at the end of Shenmue 3, Ryo will just wake up in his bed and it will be all a dream. Including the bit where he was stuck in a cave in China for 12 years.

[Guts]

SPOILERS!!!

[wakka]

Imagine the reward tiers.

$500 - personalised eCard from Yu once a year during Golden Week until the game is released (so for most of your natural life)

$1000 - fake online relationship with Nozomi - she leaves saucy pics on your Facebook wall and tweets indecipherable engrish at you for six months

$5000 - get to arm wrestle with Yu Suzuki and gamble on it

$10,000 - Yu Suzuki will tell you what finally happens at the end of Shenmue. He has never told anyone this and will only whisper it into your ear once in Japanese, so listen closely.

$100,000 - Yu Suzuki will personally deliver 500 copies of the game to your house via forklift

[Guts]

$1,000,000 - Yu Suzuki goes to the docks of your choice to look for sailors with you.

[fishbowlhead]

$1,000,000 - Yu Suzuki goes to the docks of your choice to look for sailors with you.

You can do this for free on your own though? oh errr i mean if you wanted to, which of course you wouldn't

[CMcK]

SPOILERS!!!

Is that Cliffy B in that video?

[Guts]

It is. I didn't notice at first.

[nakamura]

I would give money to a Shenmue 3 Kickstarter so folk would stop going on about it.
It's the Episode 1 of gaming that will never live up to expectations anyway. And IMHO the Shenmue series is one of the most boring things I have ever played.

Hear hear!

[wakka]

I'm consistently amazed that Shenmue is still talked about so much. It's probably my favourite game ever (I consider Shenmue I and II to essentially be one long game), but I do get why people dislike it - I kind of figure most people would hate it, to be honest.

HD versions of the first two games would sell gangbusters on PSN/XBLA I'm sure, purely on hype. There must be tons of people who always read about these games being referenced on Joystiq, Polygon etc, but have never played them.

[CMcK]

HD versions of the first two games would sell gangbusters on PSN/XBLA I'm sure, purely on hype. There must be tons of people who always read about these games being referenced on Joystiq, Polygon etc, but have never played them.

After the poor sales of the Xbox version I wouldn't think that is likely.

[wakka]

That was a long time ago now - over 10 years, which is about three centuries in videogame years - and Shenmue was still being released as a contemporary game back then.

As a retro release now I think it would sell well based on curiosity. It's oft referenced, and Shenmue 3 is always jokingly mentioned as a 'what if'. But an awful lot of people have never played it, and now have no way of easily doing so.

[nakamura]

I think it would bomb. It didn't even sell millions back in the day. If there was that much interest in it, people would have bought Dreamcasts to play it. Only the hardcore would lap it up.

[cutmymilk]

Thing is, the formula has been bettered. Best we could hope for from Shenmue 3 is a Sleeping Dogs knock off. Maybe with countryside bits.

[wakka]

...no. Just no.

[EvilBoris]

I'd love to see this kickstarted with a real number for the dev costs, only to see everyone change their tune and not support it.