To be honest, at least to some extent, I can kind of understand the antsiness around Star Citizen considering it's been in development for over 8 years now. Its original release date, which retrospectively was insane to suggest, was slated for 2014, and now S42 doesn't have a full beta slated until Q2 2020. With how long it's been developed and how much money it has gotten, I think some critiques/fears, like those regarding potential feature creep, are probably pretty fair.First half of the trailer is like, what if they had UE4 in the Dreamcast days. So faithful to 1 & 2 and so distinct and unlike contemporary stuff
Game's gonna have a unique identity for sure. Can't wait. Later scenes look a little rougher but hopefully they haven't been through the final polish pass.
Suck it haters, it's almost here. I always wtfed at the hate campaign for this game, calling it a scam and shit, same for Star Citizen, they both show clear steady progress even if they missed dates and people are clearly working their asses off on them. Then again haters will bash it no matter what on release as it's not going to be a Grand Theft Auto 6 caliber massive AAA game of multi-million sales, as if anyone expected that out of a small scale crowd fund for a niche series.
I'm just hoping for an adventure on par with Shenmue 1 & 2. Not on par with the revolution they were for their time, just what they were as games in the end. A comparatively to modern open stuff small scale, not quite sandbox but mostly linear yet at your own pace with a lot of details in each of the small areas, a lot of character interactions, some puzzles, side activities, and of course a decent combat system and a nice plot development out of it all.
My only real worry at the moment is the new combat system. I loved that 1 & 2's was like Virtua Fighter and at the time hoped the eventual 3 would take that further and clone it outright, at least for the 1 on 1 fights, as I felt the new elements didn't quite work out, it was a bit messy. Now they're doing something new and unproven as they can't copy SEGA's Virtua Fighter again so, we'll see. But even if it's not the greatest I'm getting it for the whole, not just the combat.
With Shenmue 3 though, I don't understand any of the consternation around it. By the time the game is released, it will have been in development for just barely four years, which is pretty amazing speed for any game. It's working on a small budget, so anyone expecting some AAA-level game is clearly out of their mind. And almost every time they've shown the game, there has been meaningful, verifiable progress. All the reaction to the progress shows us is why "normal" non-crowdfunded games try to not show gamers behind the curtain during development, since people are clearly too stupid and immature to follow games-in-progress.
The only thing left at this point that I think looks a little off is the faces in motion. Stand-still, they look fine, but some of the interactions look weird, particularly around the eyes. Hopefully they can touch that up, but if not, whatever, I'll live.
