congrats to shenmue

Now holding the world record for highest funded game on Kickstarter.

I put in 5 bucks nothing too fancy but wow, never thought it'd be the highest funded game, holy shit. This is why I wish X-play was still around. I mean, yeah tv is obsolete, but to see Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb talk about it would be the shit to me. Probably bring a tear, I watched them for years. I'm fucking 29 now, God Knows how old they are... I'm getting old and they're yunno, whatever. Too bad life has to change and shit. I want to be back in my teen years watching xplay and playing GTA all day, fuck this aging bullshit...

Well anyway, it's just something worth noting to someone like me, a person who played Shenmue on dreamcast when it first came out. I'm the perfect person to talk about what Shenmue means.

You know you're getting old when you go online and you see kids saying what's this shenmue thing and what's so great about it?

Well, it's a pioneer first of all. This was the first open world game ever made. Before GTA, before any of these GTA clones we got now, this was the first one where you could either play the game or do NOTHING.

I remember how fun that was to play shenmue and just hang out in the arcade or whatever I wanted to do. That's the joy of the game, to just become emmersed in the world. On top of that is the story which is one of the best videogame stories I've ever seen.

Having been divorced from the world of shenmue for so long now, I honestly can't remember the story at all, but I do recall it totally captivated me when I first played it and I desperately wanted to know the conclusion and so do many others.

This is all about seeing how shenmue ends more than anything else. We all want to know the final chapters of the story prettymuch. And it is exciting to finally see what shenmue will play like on modern systems. And the game is so detailed and fun and full of insane amounts of little tiny fun things that make it more interesting than GTA. I mean the fighting system was always cool. GTA's fighting always sucked, but in SHenmue, you really had to learn to fight and train yourself to be able to win the fights. And shit, justs so much cool stuff, so yeah this should definitely put GTA to shame when it comes out and kicks its ass...