im in colorado and i still haven't received my email tracking yet, maybe because im so close to the shipment center they will wat till friday to ship
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Shenmue III is shipping now for Kickstarter backers it seems
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Sounds like Shenmue fans are gonna lose their cool over the reviews. Hope they don't harass the critics.
I switched my physical PS4 copy to digital, but I still got an email from Fangamer saying they wanted to confirm my shipping address.
Also, my Limited Run Games Shenmue III CE shipped today!
Also, my Limited Run Games Shenmue III CE shipped today!
Did anyone tey the PS4 version? I wonder if they are supporting the DualShock 4 with all its features. It will work well with it.
I loved that part, so relaxing, Death Stranding is like 40 hours from the sound of it, whereas if I remember you do that part about 4 times until you go to look for the Heavens.
Book carrying was honestly one of the best meditative parts of Shenmue II, primarily because it provides foreshadowing and risk-free reaction time training for later stages of the game.
It's effectively a tutorial without tutorialising. Get good enough to complete the task, and you're rewarded with move scrolls. Game the system by failing enough times to end the session, and you're free to progress elsewhere. Player's choice, but they're best heeding the lessons the game tries to teach them.
Plus, it's a good example of tying the character and story to the player. Ryo is told to slow down and contemplate, so the player must do so too. One of things Shenmue II does so superbly is resisting the temptation to hold its foot to the accelerator for the duration of the game. It knows that a relentless "GO GO GO" mentality has diminishing returns, and good pacing is made of peaks and troughs.
It's effectively a tutorial without tutorialising. Get good enough to complete the task, and you're rewarded with move scrolls. Game the system by failing enough times to end the session, and you're free to progress elsewhere. Player's choice, but they're best heeding the lessons the game tries to teach them.
Plus, it's a good example of tying the character and story to the player. Ryo is told to slow down and contemplate, so the player must do so too. One of things Shenmue II does so superbly is resisting the temptation to hold its foot to the accelerator for the duration of the game. It knows that a relentless "GO GO GO" mentality has diminishing returns, and good pacing is made of peaks and troughs.
Update - just got fan gamer shipping info, so I guess they are both shipping today.
Now the decision: which do I open and play which do I keep sealed?
I think it's like in movie or series where a weird, respected master gives his student an abstract task.
Not to be a party pooper for those wanting to get revenge on Lan Di....but you guys do realize that we are most likely getting our ass kicked in this game aswell, right?
Oh definitely.
Big kung fu movie trope in menial tasks making the protagonist stronger/smarter; whether they understand the lesson until the last possible minute or not. Applies for the player too in this respect, I guess.
Oh thanks for the heads up.
So they're dividing this into two shipments ? Didn't get an email for the game itself either.
Presumably two shipments, but yet to be confirmed.
Did you confirm your address when Fangamer asked a month or so ago? Are you PS4/PC, digital/physical?
I don't even understand why people want revenge on Lan Di. What is known about his motivations for killing Iwao Hazuki isn't exactly unrelatable from the protagonist's point of view. The story is bigger than that first scene in Shenmue 1. I'm reserving judgement for what I want to happen to Lan Di until I know more.
They didn't have somebody else within their staff to assign to the game other than the person who hates the series? Geez, that bodes well!
Mine hasn't shipped yet, hope it does soon. West to east USPS is super slow. I'm playing The Outer Worlds currently, so it's no rush, but I want it, I want it!
Well, to be fair (S2 spoilers) No-one seems completely sure whether or not Iwao murdered Sunming Zhao. Yuanda Zhu had no idea if he did and Lan Di didn't exactly give him much room to deny it.
My thoughts exactly.
I don't mind criticism or bad scores but this preview is just.....off. It's just bad imo.
Here's her preview
Shenmue 3 Can't Help Betraying the Spirit of the Original Game
Definitely.
There's a lot more going on than simply "get revenge, go home". Shenmue II spends a lot of time questioning Ryo's motives and makes it painfully clear he's unprepared to fight Lan Di let alone capable of winning.
Here is a fuller list of the Shenmue 3 English VA cast. No idea where the entries are coming from, but someone said one of the people on the list is currently streaming Shenmue 2. Actually looks like a surprisingly professional cast.
It's fine that she doesn't like Shenmue, that's whatever, but the snotty tone in the article and the way she's wildly dismissive of the original games' achievements rubs me the wrong way.
I noticed she wrote this in the comments section...
Man, what a mean-spirited and cynical take towards something that so many consider a miracle to be actually happening.
I have a feeling Zhu knows way, way more than he's letting on. Replaying Shenmue 2 a few times and despite several people talking about how knowledgeable the guy is, he sure seems to keep things vague when you meet him, it contradicts certain things Chen tells you in the first game. Now, assuming its not just the writers forgetting parts of Shenmue 1 (unlikely since the story has been complete for a long time), I really wouldn't be surprised to see Zhu having more impact in the plot down the line.
I don't see why they're making a game to please people who want to play the game. Sound logic. It's interesting how the fact the game is still the most funded VG Kickstarter of all time is always ignored by these writers.
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I get that not everyone's into the original Shenmue. It has always been divisive. But, I really despise when the nostalgia card gets thrown at its fans. It's insulting.Kat Bailey said:
Your father (probably) killed his. Lan Di had the same motivations for killing your father as you have for killing him. What makes you more noble?
For me Shenmue is an adventure for answers rather than revenge and there is about a million loose plot points after Shenmue II. We'll see who deserves/deserved what as the series continues.
Yeah I confirmed when I was asked to.
I missed that I did get an email from the UK dispatcher a couple of weeks ago, since i'm in France it must mean I'm close enough for it to get shipped last minute.
I'm PS4 physical
I don't play the Shenmue games but I just wanted to tell ya that I'm really happy your wait for Shenmue 3 is over!
