Yu Suzuki just broke Kickstarter

[Jerome]

1st Teaser Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UweI4Ra2QbM

[Vid Gamer]

Environments look great but those player models...

YIKES

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by Vid Gamer

Environments look great but those player models...

YIKES

Haha, I was fine with how they looked, until the guy at the 37 second mark appeared. Who designed that guy? Still, a lot of the animation was very robotic, and everybody has these blank stares. Hopefully they address these issues before the game releases in 4 years.

[Jerome]

It sounds like the character models (at least the animations) will be improved:

The environments look fantastic, but there’s been a lot of chatter about the character models this week. What do you have to say to that? Are improvements coming?

You know, to be honest… the faces, they’ve not been properly deployed yet. This is a behind-the-scenes story, but up until a point 2 months ago the face motion has been removed. The developer changed some structure to the bones of the character model, and this caused a problem. Because of the problem, we decided to stop working on face animation for now.

[Suzuki opens his laptop and brings up an internal, unreleased development video showing facial animation tests for Ryo and Shenhua. The animations look fairly decent, and certainly avoid the dead-eyed stares seen in the recent Shenmue footage or Andromeda-style exaggeration.]

This is still the sample model, the older one, but… this is a test. We’re going to make this even better. We’re incorporating about 11 different types of face motion, and we’re working towards that. That will be improved a lot.

Full Article/Interview

[Jerome]

Well this shouldn't come as a shock. Personally, I'm fine with it, if it means the game will get polished further. Plus, with the first and second games getting a re-release, I can wait until 2019... or more likely, 2021

Shenmue 3 Delayed To 2019

[Vid Gamer]

I have so little faith that this will be good. lol

[CAPninja]

I was never a big fan but with all the Telltale games out right now, why would you go back to this?

[Jerome]

Got my survey a little earlier today, and filled out all my stuff. Back when the Kickstarter happened I didn't have a PS4, so I was going with the PC version. However, I have since purchased a PS4, and fortunately I was able to put that as my new choice when completing the survey. My current PC doesn't meet any of the minimum requirements, with the exception of the OS and system memory.