Shenmue 3 was never meant to be the conclusion, the series is 11 chapters (was 16 but some got cut, condensed) and shenmue 2 ended in mid of chapter 5 (says chapter 4 in the last part of the game because the boat chapter from japan to hong kong never happened in game form only in comic/manga), but yeah shenmue 3 is just a grindy, filler game with retcons, they focused too much in the side quests, mini games and environments instead of the story that barely has any. Shenmue 4 will be the real sequel to shenmue 2 if they have the proper funding.

This is why I haven't backed a Cuckstarter since 2012.

Of course they can give you one. Where there's a will, there's a way. The dev/publisher writes to gog "Gib x amount of keys", gog gibs x amount of keys, publisher/dev delivers those keys to the backers. Simple enough.

The truth is, they don't want to be inconvenienced. They already have your money, so why bother going the extra mile to make your backers happy?

This looks ok to me for a Shenmue title, even if it's on the filler side.

I wish it was the closure of the story too, but I think the creator aimed to have it as a revival of the series to kick off and probably fund a future more complete part of the story.

But yeah, mistakes were made.

Still, wish-listed. I really like the visuals, music and the improved models. Also the relaxed pacing even if it's a bit on the repetitive side.

Hoping to see the rest of the series here too.

Because very often the IP changes owner at some point, and later games are developed and published by people and companies who had nothing to do with the first ones.

That is exactly the case here too. Shenmue I & II were both developed and published by Sega, but Sega had nothing to do with the third one. That's why the third part is distributed very differently, and there most likely won't be any bundle discounts for the entire series even in stores that have all games.


I'm not a backer, and what I know is based on what I have read on the Internet (in other words, can be completely wrong), but I have seen a possible reason for that.

Apparently there is some kind of special DLC that only backers get. That's always a bad idea, but that seems to be the case. Even on Steam this has caused some confusion, as backers don't know for sure what they have activated, and those keys have caused all kinds of error messages.
Anyway, I have no idea what that backer DLC is, if it's some secret room, some visual gimmick like different clothes, or actually playable content, but I can only guess that it might be one of the reasons why backers don't get a GOG key.

Of course, I haven't always gotten a GOG key when there hasn't been any DLCs or other things with other games, so obviously there are other problems with Kickstarter and GOG combination too. I don't know if this is true or not, but I am under the impression that you can somehow automatically generate Steam keys, but you need to request keys from GOG, so if that's true, it would explain some of that.

Yes, yes. I got both games on release and still have them sitting in my basement for the Dreamcast and I know about the whole story of how it is supposed to be so and so many parts, but that was 20 years ago and at some point you just have to adapt to the reality of your situation.

If you get the chance to make a trilogy, then just make that, instead of going like: "great, I can get two more chapters in for my 11 chapter epos".

I'm thinking that they are putting it here precisely because it's not selling well so they try to squeeze the no DRM lot, hoping that fans will buy a second DRM-free copy or the like. Anyway eventually it's gonna be a cool 5 euros "open world casual game" with all the minigames and people are going to love the uncanny and awkward stuff in an ironical way, "it's so bad/awkward it's comical/good" games like Deadly Promonition, Mystery of the Druids and Arabian Nights. I can't not help to think it's 70 million dollars down in the drain.

Well I'm aware of branching of franchises in terms of IP rights.
I forgot to research this in this case. Sorry.
But that doesn't void the fact that GOG doesn't even seem to TRY to bring "others" in many cases.

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I unironically enjoyed the crap out of Deadly Premonition. I'm absolutely sure this has everything to do with me having seen Twin Peeks and seeing this as the B-movie/game version of that, but then I really got sucked into this game, despite all it's awkwardness (and avoiding sidequests out of the fear that a crash could erase any effort made anyway).

are the DLCs worthwhile? Do they add story content?

There's a story dlc but is just stalling and if you progress too much in the main game story it doesn't show up or you can't complete it, the other is just a cruise ship with gambling, arcade in it and there's a few side quests, another one is like find chobu-chan but in bailu village, other one is like a time trial thing of defeating as many opponents you can like the 70 men battle in the 1st game with a timed time.

Take a look at these:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/878670/discussions/0/2963893984913910805/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/878670/discussions/0/2963893984913598243/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/878670/discussions/0/2963893984912909637/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/878670/discussions/0/2963893984913469980/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/878670/discussions/0/2963893984914373986/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/878670/discussions/0/1630790987602166505/

And as a bonus:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/878670/discussions/0/1645418448921651280/

While I in principle agree with you entirely, in all fairness in the case of Shenmue III they had 69,320 backers, so even if 10% of those asked something special, it's a terrible workload to someone.

Which is exactly what I was referring to earlier: I may be wrong, but I have heard that there is an automated system on Steam for that, whereas with GOG somebody has to do some manual work in delivering those codes.

that's why I have only backed Android games, as I'm cool with a Google Play code. I would prefer a DRM free Humble key but I know it's unlikely to happen.

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Non of these links explains anything about the content?