Contempt and disappointment has been the response to Shenmue III‘s latest trailer, with diehard fans of the forgotten franchise decrying the game’s awful graphics and anticipating its inevitable failure (like most other crowd-funded titles before it).
The atrocious trailer which has wracked up a decent amount of dislikes:
Only a few of some of the highly negative comments:
“This Chinese PS2 game looks amazing!!”
“This looks like a PS3 tech demo.”
“the faces are worse than mass effect Andromeda”
“Y’all are a bunch of haters…”
“These graphics look terrible, particularly the faces.”
“Sure who cares for the graphics, thats fine, but the animations itself are horrible… huge letdown”
“Wow the charater models look really really rough… Can I get my money back?”
“Their faces are emotionless and the animations are just lol”
“With all the money from kickstarter, I’m hoping (for the developer’s sake) that they improve on what they’ve shown here. Hopeful!”
“If only the character models looked as good as the scenery.”
“look at this generation of gamers, what a bunch of whiny little girls some of us have been waiting a long time for this game and the last thing on my mind is how amazing the graphics are. I just want a great story and characters. So shut up and go back to playing your call of duty.”
Naturally the game is still subject to change, but those still hoping that the title will be good are feeling quite happy that its release date got pushed back to the second half of 2018.
Graphics are not the only thing that exists in a game. What’s the story? Is it fun?
Just make it available fo PC so us westerners can help out a bit
One part of me thinks “what the f♥♥k have you done, Yu-san”
and the other part “I don’t care, just give me ANY Shenmue 3 already”
Look at all the apologists insisting it’s fine because it’s still in development. I guess nobody learned from Mighty No 9. Even Mighty No 9 trailers looked better than this.
When was the last time you saw a game with a trailer that looked worse than the final product? It’s almost always the other way around. Why? Because you don’t get people interested by posting disappointing s♥♥t off the bat. That’s why we have “bullshots” and Ubisoft.
The important thing to note here is they thought this was good enough to show people. It’s not. The environments are acceptable, yes. But Shenmue revolves heavily around the characters, just like Mass Effect Andromeda. It’s not a game you want to f♥♥k up the characters, especially with all the facial closeups.
And no, I didn’t donate. Just appalled that this kind of low-quality is considered acceptable, both by the devs and by random people.
They could be stick figures and people would still say “it’s in development, I’m sure it’ll get better!”
Lets be honest
-Aside from some textures and the faces the graphics looks ok, not mindblowing but not bad like MvsC infinite or poor like KOF XIV
-The Shenmue games are hyped mostly for the nostalgia factor
-This is not a AAA game
-16 years from Shenmue II and they need to be loyal to the original
-The previous games were revolutionary back in the day but GTAV put the standards very high and that is an issue for many
-QTE sucks even in the newest games