Geki-D
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I'd assume there was about 3 hours of takes for one line whilst the director tried to get him to actually not suck, then after that the director just gave up and wanted it done as fast as possible.
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Shenmue 3 delayed to 2019
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MiyazakiHatesKojima
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Shammue 3/Scammue 3
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Still looking good.
gamerforever
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I just hope there aren’t anymore delays, but a summer 2019 release seems odd. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was pushed back until autumn 2019.
I must admit my excitement has waned after waiting so many years for it! Perhaps a replay of shenmue 2 will be just the tonic!
I must admit my excitement has waned after waiting so many years for it! Perhaps a replay of shenmue 2 will be just the tonic!
Boaty McBoatface
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Boxart:
Not seeing the SEGA logo is weirdly sad
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Noboru Wataya
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Shenmue is one of my fav games of all time, I play it every Christmas since it was released. I blew a load when they finally announced 3. I backed the project with hundreds and even kickstarted the making of dvd.
Gut feeling. I don’t think this game is going to be very good, I hope I’m wrong.
Gut feeling. I don’t think this game is going to be very good, I hope I’m wrong.
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Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
What in the ungodly fuck is your avatar?
The Snake
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I think it will be:
- Great for fans
- Decent for people who started with the HD Collection
- Boring/forgettable for everyone else.
The people on Shenmue Dojo saying this is going to change the world and "rock the foundation of the gaming industry" crack me up, though.
ROMhack
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I'm with you on that. Shenmue 1 and 2 weren't the best designed games but they were really ambitious and it sort of worked.
I don't really know what Shenmue 3 can do to approach that same level of ambition. I'm certainly interested to find out though.
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The Snake
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I don't think it will. Suzuki himself had said that the next step is VR with mind control, and this ain't that. In a rare occurence due to circumstances, Yu Suzuki has to develop a game out of love and closure rather than love and trying to advance the industry with crazy ideas and technology.
Kazza
Member
I'm a relative newcomer to the franchise (first playthrough was Shenmue 2 on the Xbox around 2016 or 2017), but I'm pretty excited for it. I like the design of the old games. I had a routine of playing one "Shenmue day" every real life day, i.e. saving and turning it off each time Ryo went to bed in the game. I think you get into a real nice rhythm that way. There's really no other game quite like it, so I'll be interested to see where Yu takes it.
I've been happy with all the new info given in the recent edition of Edge. We will all know a lot more once the Magic Monaco conference gets underway this weekend (iirc, we have been promised a gameplay trailer).
I've been happy with all the new info given in the recent edition of Edge. We will all know a lot more once the Magic Monaco conference gets underway this weekend (iirc, we have been promised a gameplay trailer).
The Snake
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I always wondered what it was like to play these games in a modern age. I played the first one right after it released and it was like my Dreamcast became a portal to another dimension. Not unlike exploring the internet in the early days.
I wonder how people will feel about Shenmue 3 after we've had so many open world and realistic games. None of them have had the attention to detail that Shenmue does, so I wonder if it's still just as effective.
Glad I'm not the only one thinking so. I consider Shenmue to be one of the best games of all time that had a very worthy successor but I have zero interest in Shenmue III and think it will be a disappointment. If they had released all the chapters back then on the Dreamcast with the same team etc, the series would have been an absolute monolith of gaming.
Kazza
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It must have been an amazing experience to play it back when it was released! Unfortunately, I kind of lost interest in gaming around the time of the Dreamcast (for reasons I can't recall), so didn't have the pleasure.
For me, the slow pace of the game reminds me a lot of the point and click adventure games I loved as a kid (minus the tricky puzzles, and with some fighting action thrown in). I remember around the time Yakuza 0 was released there was a lot of confusion about what kind of game it was (was it a Japanese GTA, Sleeping Dogs clone? etc). Now people just accept Yakuza as its own unique kind of game. I think it'll be the same for Shenmue 3 when it comes out too (although I don't expect it to be as successful as Yakuza 0). As an aside, I actually played my first ever Yakuza game immediately after Shenmue 2 (the original PS Yakuza), so it was interesting to be able to compare them like that.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
The Snake
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It was really an interesting time. It was a time when something as benign as having the ability to buy a drink from a vending machine was novel as hell. I try to remind people: the year prior to Shenmue's initial release (1998) was the year of Resident Evil 2, Metal Gear Solid, Ocarina of Time. All very impressive games, but nowhere near the level of realism and detail of Shenmue, only a year later. The fact that you could rotate/move the camera was an impressive concept in 1998, much less interact with and inspect the environment. I mean hell, you can pick an orange out of the fruit bowl and twirl it around in your hands. Why? Why not.
We were also impressed by the amount of buildings you could go into. Playing stuff like RE2, we would imagine what various shops and buildings might look like inside. In Shenmue, you could simply walk in, even if there was no contextual reason for doing so--you can complete the game without even entering most places (even more so in Shenmue 2). And each one was populated with NPCs bearing unique, voiced dialogue for any point you're at in the story.
So any time someone says something about it being slow or lacking in action--a fair assessment, honestly-- I think it's important to remind them that what they're looking at with Shenmue is three things: A technical achievement, a completely self-contained bio-dome of virtual life accessible to anyone with a Dreamcast (all six of us), and a movement of art from one of the biggest visionaries in the industry.
Kazza
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Agreed. In fact, I thought the Magic Monaco conference was worth a new thread entirely. Just a couple of hours to go now.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Kazza
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The below quotes are from the vg247 article linked by IbizaPcholo above. It's worth reading the full article for more details, but this is what I found interesting:
The beauty of the environments were already clear from all the screenshots, but it's nice to hear about the way the weather can affect it. With the based on real life weather system in place in the first game, this sounds something that Yu would have loved to put in at the time, but was held back by the tech. I wonder if this will be based on real life weather records too.
Apparently, you can't interact with every single NPC, as in the previous games. That's a bit of a shame, as although largely useless (90% of NPCs had nothing interesting to say), it did add to the realism. There is also reportedly more dialogue in Shenmue 3 than the previous two, so we are probably looking at more depth per talkable character.
"a clear iteration and continuation of what came before in the series" sounds exactly what most Shenmue fans want. Hopefully it will appeal to newcomers looking for a unique martial arts adventure/RPG as well.
The beauty of the environments were already clear from all the screenshots, but it's nice to hear about the way the weather can affect it. With the based on real life weather system in place in the first game, this sounds something that Yu would have loved to put in at the time, but was held back by the tech. I wonder if this will be based on real life weather records too.
Apparently, you can't interact with every single NPC, as in the previous games. That's a bit of a shame, as although largely useless (90% of NPCs had nothing interesting to say), it did add to the realism. There is also reportedly more dialogue in Shenmue 3 than the previous two, so we are probably looking at more depth per talkable character.
"a clear iteration and continuation of what came before in the series" sounds exactly what most Shenmue fans want. Hopefully it will appeal to newcomers looking for a unique martial arts adventure/RPG as well.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Chozofication_
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Due respect to this franchise but this third one looks pretty janky...
Kazza
Member
It's a 3D open world game being developed on a kickstarter budget. It's not gonna look like God of War or RDR2. Suzuki has had to make sacrifices because of the limited budget, and it sounds from the IGN interview that he has made them in the right places, while keeping the essence of the game intact,
Shin
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You can now pre-order it from Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PRN8W7L/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Could be that some of those screenshots are new, I can't tell which are though.
Could be that some of those screenshots are new, I can't tell which are though.
zeorhymer
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Are there going to be 2 hour long walks up the mountain to reach the next village?
Kazza
Member
I certainly hope so!
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
The Snake
Member
I might sound crazy here but I sort of feel like I'd be disappointed if the dub wasn't a little weird.
Kazza
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Me too! (so long as most of the dub is good)
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Geki-D
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Guessing this is why I can't see that video.
If all we have to do is ask, we should ask her to do a AMA in this thread.
ajim
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Oh wow thats a bit sucky.
Palabragrís
Member
Well, that's a 10/10 for me.
I suppose it's confirmation that there will be industrial locations in Shenmue III. Up until now, I thought the game would just focus on rural village type locations.
The Snake
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IIRC there are two main towns confirmed; one is more modern with arcade machines and whatnot, while the other is more traditional.