Laevateinn
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So, UE4 supports Mac and Linux right? I'm really hoping the PC version gets announced as working on something other than Windows by the end of the month.
If you have the xbox version, just watch the included movie that covers the events of S1. Then enjoy and remember that the game came out 14 years ago so not all of it has aged that well, but if you stick with it you will start to really appreciate it once you get settled in.
So, UE4 supports Mac and Linux right? I'm really hoping the PC version gets announced as working on something other than Windows by the end of the month.
Guys I missed the originals can someone tell me what kind of game it is? What it's about?
The next few years should pretty incredible in terms of thing we never thought we'd get. Twin Peaks and X-files coming back, Star Wars, and above all Shenmue.I just can't grasp that we got the confirmations for Shenmue 3 and a new season of Twin Peaks within a short amount of time. Who would have thought?
Sometimes the unthinkable can still happen. So cool.
Never played Shenmue before is 2 a good place to start? I just bought it from my local store because I've seen the price go crazy on ebay so I thought i'd be smart and buy it now.
Shenmue is a classic kung fu movie perfectly adapted into an open world adventure game. It is about the futility of revenge and Buddhist redemption as well as hanging out at the arcade and getting into martial arts battles.
Speaking of combat, of all the game I've ever played, Shenmue is the only one to really capture the core of what eastern martial arts are actually about.
I love how the game emphasizes control, training, and philosophically centered discipline.
Shenmue has a kind of zen approach to combat. It's amazing.
Suggestion for combat. Get raw like The Raid.
Christ he was annoying. I used to love beating the shit out of him.
Shenmue is a classic kung fu movie perfectly adapted into an open world adventure game. It is about the futility of revenge and Buddhist redemption as well as hanging out at the arcade and getting into martial arts battles.
Guys I missed the originals can someone tell me what kind of game it is? What it's about?
Real Shenmue > Fake CastlevaniaThis could beat Bloodstained's record within the span of a few days.
WOW
"The future of Shenmue is in your hands now"This won't be state of the art game like Shenmue was.
Speaking of combat, of all the games I've ever played, Shenmue is the only one to really capture the core of what eastern martial arts are actually about.
I love how the game emphasizes control, training, and philosophically centered discipline.
Shenmue has a kind of zen approach to combat. It's amazing.
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If the Shenmue 3 team can even capture half of the palpable ambiance that place generated when it comes to constructing locations for the new game, then consider it a victory. Dobuita man, I love that place.
It's a chinese kung fu epic. It begins very grounded in real life, and slowly introduces fantastical and mystical elements, with ancient techniques. Ryo will learn to walk on water in Shenmue III, as an example.
It begins with your father, a martial arts master, being murdered in front of you by a man named Lan Di, and you begin a global quest to find and kill him. As you progress, a global conspiracy unfolds that appears to be a plot to resurrect an ancient evil.
Shenmue is the father of modern gaming. It is an open world game, with a virtua fighter combat system. It was extremely big budget at the time. What makes shenmue I so cool is that, unlike games like GTA where all the NPCs are randomly generated, every person and event in Shenmue I is hand crafted. They gave these people identities and routines and dialog for months of in-game time. It reminds me a lot of Majora's Mask in how absolutely everything is very meticulously crafted, but taken to the Nth degree. They recreated an entire town in Japan this way. You can chose to ignore the mainstory of the game and basically take up living in this small town in japan, working, forming relationships, playing video games, eating, sleeping, etc. You can play the game like a life simulator if you want.
Shenmue II is a bit more streamlined. It's much more action packed, and takes place in Hong Kong. Half of the game takes place in an extremely meticulously recreated version of China's infamous Kowloon Walled City. Shenmue II is more like a Jackie Chan movie than anything else. While you can still play it like a life simulator, this time living in Hong Kong, it's crafted much more for a focus on the kung fu plot.
The games are very old by now. They originated numerous mechanics that have become common place in games like The Witcher 3 and GTA. Nearly every mechanic done in Shenmue has since been refined, making Shenmue itself very hard to play. Even back when it released, it felt a bit antiquated because it really began it's life as a Sega Saturn game. Shenmue was amazingly, incredibly forward thinking. A revolutionary game that really had a big influence on gaming today. There's a big reason why people are losing their shit.
From all the work AM2 was doing at the end of Shenmue 2, working on generating enormous, organic forests, and what they said in the livestream about taking place in smaller villages, I think it's pretty obvious this one takes place in rural, wooded china.
I am curious to see what Yu Suzuki's forest simulation algorithms look like. Shenmue I and II were awesome because they did 2 very different things - Shenmue I was an insanely intricately detailed tiny city, where everything was scripted for months upon months down to the smallest detail. Shenmue II was, of course, a full simulation of one of the largest cities on the planet. It's neat that they're doing something different yet equally ambitious with Shenmue III. There are videos recently of Yu Suzuki talking about how they generated forests at the end of shenmue II and where the tech would have eventually gone, and how he had created this system to store ridiculously huge, detailed forests into tiny pieces of code that resided a very little space in memory. Crazy stuff, especially for 2000.
I have no idea what type of odd jobs they'll have this time. But man I can't wait. This is going to be so freaking cool.
This is the most mindblowing thing in the entire series IMO:
$2.8 million in 23 hours. Wow.
This is the most mindblowing thing in the entire series IMO:
$2.8 million in 23 hours. Wow.
Planning to go to Dobuita next month. It is only 1hr 40mins drive away from me.
I played this bit tonight. It was as good as the first time.
It reminds me of Kojima moments.
I was thinking of throwing some of my Dreamcast games, including shenmue, up on eBay last week. I'm glad I waited.
Just pledged $185, this is my first Kickstarter. I watched my brother play and beat Shenmue 1 and remember him telling me a friend of his bought the European version of Shenmue 2 for the Dreamcast. I played a bit of 1 myself but never got really far, I remember really loving the combat though.
BUT I PRESSED A!!!!!This is the most mindblowing thing in the entire series IMO:
$2.8 million in 23 hours. Wow.
Remember Dobuita...
Adam Boyes talks about backing Shenmue 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRGlVDi3FHQ&feature=youtu.be&t=1m40s
"Providing some funding... ...from a marketing perspective we're going to get behind it in a big way"
"We're going to put our horsepower behind it as well to make sure that it's a fantastic experience and a great game"
"Obviously we're providing some funding as well, but we never disclose...". I think you missed the context of that quote. So there you go, there's almost no chance of seeing it on One.
Just as I suspected, this is very similar (though larger in scope) to the Grim Fandango Remastered release. Sony backs it, gets released on every platform bar their competing ones.
What was the ambient music track that played while wandering around these areas? I got a hold of the original soundtrack (2cd) and it didnt have it on there.
It will be one of the ones on this playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84jVIRENnVA&list=PLCB745D6F41FE45ED
In the lead up to Sony's conference yesterday, I decided to put on the OST for the first game and listened to the whole thing, pretty much because all the rumours circulating inspired me to do so. AND THEN IT FREAKIN' HAPPENED! True story.
Depends on the wording of the contract, and how much Sony is really forking over. Apparently it's not enough to ensure a physical PS4 release.
This is the most mindblowing thing in the entire series IMO:
$2.8 million in 23 hours. Wow.
only just 24 hours into a 31 day funding campaign and we're almost at 3 million.
this is beautiful.
Do we think it's going to taper off real quick now? Have all the hardcore fans already contributed?