I don’t know if it was just the fact that the creator of Shenmue, Yu Suzuki, tweeted a picture of a forklift with “E3” (reference to the first game) or me just having some weird feeling, but I decided to watch an E3 presentation live for the first time alongside Clark DeVitis. Shenmue III was unbelievably announced on Sony’s E3 conference for release on PS4 and PC. On June 15th, 2015, I felt that spark that had been missing. However, I’m still missing that excitement for new, interesting releases I once had when I was younger. I guess that’s why most of my gaming still continues to be on 6th generation consoles (DC, GC, XBOX, PS2). I want the AA games of the 6th generation back. There just aren’t as many focused, unique, non-AAA games made anymore. Games nowadays are made by massive teams, spreading the artistry of game-making thin. Now with the 8th generation, I haven’t really been excited or completely enthralled in any game the way I used to (Bloodborne being the rare exception). Creative, unique games weren’t being made anymore (at least to my tastes). The PS3/360 era was trailing off to blandness towards it’s end. I have grown uninterested in current generation video games. You and I can now save Shenmue through crowdfunding. Thankfully, Kickstarter is changing the business of video games. No matter how good, how creative Dreamcast and Shenmue are, the video game business just doesn’t allow for this kind of thing to exist. Like the Dreamcast, Shenmue was destined to an early death. I had convinced myself completely that Shenmue III was never going to happen. Words can’t describe how I feel, but somehow I’m in a world where Shenmue III is going to exist. But you know you can’t continue you know you won’t see what happens to Ryo… Until now. It feels like the start of an epic adventure. Every time you play Shenmue II, the end of disc 4 is so hard to swallow. Unthinkably, I am now existing in this in this alternate reality! Subsequent play-throughs of the Shenmue series has always been bittersweet. I used to imagine there was an alternate timeline in video game history where Shenmue III was released.
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