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Title: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Deefy on November 27, 2013, 07:34:00 am
Link to the European Trademarks Office: http://oami.europa.eu/CTMOnline/RequestManager/en_DetailCTM_NoReg (http://oami.europa.eu/CTMOnline/RequestManager/en_DetailCTM_NoReg)   .

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The Trade mark details SHENMUE III
 
   
Trade mark No:    012341509    Type of mark:    Word
Filing date:    25/11/2013    Date of registration:    
Nice Classification:    9    Status: Application under examination
Formalities examination   
Searches   
Classification examination   
Name of the owner:    Kabushiki Kaisha Sega, dba Sega Corporation
Trade mark basis:    CTM
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Happy Cat on November 27, 2013, 07:49:57 am
do you like stalk the trademark office? XD you always find these things, good find.

your link isn't working though.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Deefy on November 27, 2013, 08:00:16 am
 :-[ I'm sorry, I had to write SHENMUE III and say enter it into the space: Trade mark name... , then click on search.

Yeah Shadi I like to stalk the trademark office  ;)
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: nuckles87 on November 27, 2013, 08:09:45 am
Well, this IS interesting.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Happy Cat on November 27, 2013, 08:09:50 am
its fine, i gotta go, i dont have time to write an article. but i linked nuckles and he might be able to but if he doesnt there is always barry.

i just wanted to make sure there was a way to link to it for whoever wrote it.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Deefy on November 27, 2013, 08:19:03 am
Ok, it's a more than fair behavior, thanks  :)
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: nuckles87 on November 27, 2013, 08:34:29 am
News'd, with credit to Deefy. Thanks man XD.

Serious question: do you check the trademarks office for Shenmue III ever week or something?
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: jonboy101 on November 27, 2013, 08:42:08 am
Very interesting in conjunction with Suzuki's upcoming postmortem with Cerny, and then Sony's mention of Shenmue as a game a lot of people have been requesting from its third party thing.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Ben on November 27, 2013, 12:57:43 pm
Well, this was an interesting turn of events...
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: pirovash88 on November 27, 2013, 12:58:47 pm
No way, i wonder if it's really happening..
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: TimmiT on November 27, 2013, 01:07:46 pm
Guys, don't trust trademarks for big sequels like this. It was fake with Half-Life 3, it was fake with Fallout 4, it's fake with Shenmue 3 as well.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Randroid on November 27, 2013, 01:13:39 pm
Bad news. It appears to be a hoax.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/440463/shenmue-3-trademark-exposed-as-hoax/

Although, on reading the article, it may not be 100% conclusive as a hoax.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: TimmiT on November 27, 2013, 01:15:37 pm
Although, on reading the article, it may not be 100% conclusive as a hoax.
It's fake.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Randroid on November 27, 2013, 01:33:27 pm
It's fake.


What a shame eh?

I hope Sega is paying attention to how much buzz even a whiff of announcing shenmue 3 can produce.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Barry the Nomad on November 27, 2013, 02:05:25 pm
How did you find the copyright, deefy?
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: pirovash88 on November 27, 2013, 02:34:07 pm
How did you find the copyright, deefy?

I checked out the site as well, i found it on there, bastards had me for a moment.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: max_cady on November 27, 2013, 03:48:29 pm
After reading so much bs about these annoucements over the years, I kinda expected it to play out this way...
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Centrale on November 27, 2013, 04:38:05 pm
The thing is, it won't really be necessary for Sega to trademark Shenmue III, since Shenmue itself is an already established trademark. If you note on the fine print of Shenmue II, it just says something to the effect that Shenmue is a registered trademark. (As for the TM symbol on the logo, they can place that anywhere -- or nowhere). Similarly with other game series, for example on Halo: Reach, Halo is what bears the trademark, 'Reach' does not.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: MadeManG74 on November 27, 2013, 09:02:28 pm
It seemed likely now more than ever with Yu Suzuki talking about the game again after all the silence and Sony talking up wanting Shenners as an exclusive. Sega probably has to dedicate resources to making a Jack Lumber Freemium MOBA or something.

In all honesty though, I'm kind of expecting something about Shenmue to surface eventually, but I've been down this road before so I'm not getting too excited yet.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: TimmiT on November 28, 2013, 09:20:04 am
It seemed likely now more than ever with Yu Suzuki talking about the game again after all the silence and Sony talking up wanting Shenners as an exclusive.
Yu Suzuki talking about Shenmue at GDC never was a hint at an announcement happening. GDC isn't a place for big game announcement, as it's primarily a place for game development stuff (like the name implies :V). Also, Sony never said that they want Shenmue as an exclusive, they said that a lot of fans have requested it along with Yakuza.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: crackdude on November 28, 2013, 12:24:51 pm
Yu Suzuki talking about Shenmue at GDC never was a hint at an announcement happening. GDC isn't a place for big game announcement, as it's primarily a place for game development stuff (like the name implies :V). Also, Sony never said that they want Shenmue as an exclusive, they said that a lot of fans have requested it along with Yakuza.
Partypooper.

:c
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: max_cady on November 28, 2013, 01:37:07 pm
Yeah, it's true. While some companies do make announcements here and there... It's mostly about tech and developers talking about software engeneering/game design. It's actually much more technical than it sounds.

E3 has basically PR people talking about how great their games are, GDC is more about meetings with software devs and such.

Yu Suzuki's part in it, might be interesting... But a post-mortem is basically discussing what went wrong, how the project came to be, who worked on it, where was it going,etc,etc...

Probably very technical...
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Nameless 24 on December 02, 2013, 08:04:21 am
If anything comes from this, then Cerny should definitely give Yu some budget and efficiency advice in case he DOES want to go back to Shemnue.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Deefy on December 05, 2013, 07:51:15 pm
 :-[ I apologize to the entire SEGAbits community; I for one, couldn't believe my eyes when I found the mark while I was doing my research nearly daily about SEGA TradeMarks.
I had a certain fear of being duped from the beginning, but after a quick check, has taken over the euphoria, and so I can spread the potential fabulous news, thinking to make happy many lovers of the saga.
Instead I just fueled yet another illusion, sorry again.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Centrale on December 06, 2013, 08:40:25 am
That's okay, buddy. But to make up for it, we would like you to go move boxes with Delin at Worker's Pier for the next several days.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: MadeManG74 on December 06, 2013, 09:00:04 am
Is it true that moving boxes in Shenmue 2 made you better at arm wrestling?
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Centrale on December 06, 2013, 12:58:35 pm
I haven't heard that, but that would be so cool. Unfortunately, playing Shenmue II emulated on the Xbox 360, it's an exercise in futility to work with Delin because that damn 360 d-pad is so inaccurate. That's the only way I have to play it currently. Someone with a DC or original Xbox, try to confirm the arm wrestling theory, please!
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Ben on December 07, 2013, 12:35:08 am
Not only that, but there's a glitch where the audio cuts off when working with Delin. Sooooo lame.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: CrazyT on December 07, 2013, 01:29:22 am
^Not really sure what that has to do with what you're adding to.

The armwrestling did feel impossible sometimes. I remember giving up as it wasnt worth it, and im not even that bad of a buttonmasher lol. I've recently started another replay so i could test out doing the job often. I think most of us quit after we found out how profitable gambling was. Save>gamble>win/lose>repeat/load
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: MadeManG74 on December 07, 2013, 07:19:33 am
Agreed, but it was awesome to get Delin to teach you his 'martial arts', which was basically just a great big fuck-off punch that wrecks everyone.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Nathan on December 08, 2013, 03:45:30 pm
^Not really sure what that has to do with what you're adding to.

I think he means that if you want to play without subtitles, when the audio cuts off, there is no way to tell what direction you need to go. Because if I remember right, the buttons don't show up on screen like a QTE.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Ben on December 08, 2013, 10:07:50 pm
Well, not just that, but a sound effect triggered whenever you successfully inputted the correct D-pad press, and that was your  cue to hit the next d-pad command. Without that sound, my whole rhythm gets thrown off.

Often in the DC/Xbox versions I'd finish that mini-game without dropping the cargo once, but when playing it on the Xbox 360, I've never gotten close to that.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Centrale on December 08, 2013, 10:16:03 pm
Same here. And it's no fun disappointing Delin, man. He's so enthusiastic about being a great team together. He gets a little pissy when you let him down.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Deefy on December 08, 2013, 10:40:46 pm
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That's okay, buddy. But to make up for it, we would like you to go move boxes with Delin at Worker's Pier for the next several days.

 :)) Okay, I'll do it while I'll think of you all... ;)
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Ben on December 09, 2013, 02:54:11 am
Same here. And it's no fun disappointing Delin, man. He's so enthusiastic about being a great team together. He gets a little pissy when you let him down.


Yeah. His English voice actor realllllly tried to capture that enthusiasm too, lol.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: CrazyT on December 09, 2013, 05:51:56 am
I think he means that if you want to play without subtitles, when the audio cuts off, there is no way to tell what direction you need to go. Because if I remember right, the buttons don't show up on screen like a QTE.
Well, not just that, but a sound effect triggered whenever you successfully inputted the correct D-pad press, and that was your  cue to hit the next d-pad command. Without that sound, my whole rhythm gets thrown off.

Often in the DC/Xbox versions I'd finish that mini-game without dropping the cargo once, but when playing it on the Xbox 360, I've never gotten close to that.
Ooooh so it's a 360 thing huh. Yeah never noticed it on the dreamcast or OG xbox.

But yeah, delin's voice acting in both languages was amazing lol. We still laugh about it today
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: Ben on December 11, 2013, 02:41:41 am
Yeah when you played Shenmue II on the 360 all sorts of audio glitches took place, like the audio would cut off entirely about halfway through the Delin sections. Same with when you wandered down certain Quarters. And it froze at times too.
Title: Re: OMG!!! SHENMUE 3!!!
Post by: metateen on January 18, 2014, 07:59:45 am
Shenmue...The series people hae been asking for to continue for years~