SEGAbits Shenmue III Hype Train! Update: Funded but lets go further!

[Centrale]

I mean look at the new Character in Shenmue III, he looks like he should be in Street Fighter V and not in Shenmue.

Nah, he looks like he fits right in with the street fighters and arm wrestlers from Shenmue II, except with a contemporary polygon count.

I posted this image at Shenmue Dojo as something to consider for people who were insisting that Shenmue was all about photorealism. But speaking specifically of the newly revealed character, you can see there have obviously been crazy bodybuilder-types all along in Shenmue. Not to mention the other aesthetic cues, broad mouths, exaggerated features etc.

[Shun-Di]

Shenmue is meant to look street.      That's what makes it so relatible.

[Shun-Di]

C'Mon most games cost huge amounts of money, sure middleware takes care of the need to build an engine or sound and physics tools. But when you're making a game that meant to be real as possible and create a living and breathing world that takes an army of art and modeling staff alone. One only needs to look at Yakuza credits for that, never mind what Ubi and 2K come up with

And you're right we have moved on and Shenmue III is coming against SEGA own Yakuza, never mind Ubisoft open world games and 2k Red Dead II or GTA V . Can almost see the kicking this game will get on the likes of NeoGAF.

I don't care if it gets bad reviews, I just want to see the rest of the story in this lifetime.

[Team Andromeda]

Nah, he looks like he fits right in with the street fighters and arm wrestlers from Shenmue II, except with a contemporary polygon

He doesn't look real and the body seems totally blown up and out of proportion, it looks like a Street Fighter V model imo


Shenmue was about trying to make a real world, but one with the limits of tech of the time, I mean back them most games didn't even feature independent figure movement and modelling, the level of research  to make Shenmue real was nuts, correct weather patterns (long before one could google them) , studding fish movement and even researching how telephone corded moved and reacted  never mind the other bonkers stuff the team did to make the game as real as possible 

[Team Andromeda]

I don't care if it gets bad reviews, I just want to see the rest of the story in this lifetime.

You should care. Looking over how it would damage the IP and leave a bad tatse for people, how it would be humiliating for Yu Suzuki on a personal level (and he is a GOD to me). Shenmue III won't finish the story, only Shenmue IV (and even that might not be enough)  will do that and so we all need Shenmue III to be amazing and sell amazing to get the final end to the game

[Shun-Di]

And yet Kingdom Hearts had the same graphics until KH3.  :p  Honestly it doesn't bother me at all.  It looks nice enough.

[Team Andromeda]

And yet Kingdom Hearts had the same graphics until KH3.  :p  Honestly it doesn't bother me at all.  It looks nice enough.

But were on about Shenmue. Shenmue was an IP built and made to very highest standards of what was around at the time and what the DC was able to achieve. 


Just watch this  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbrSmqnegIk


 Yu Suzuki wasn't even happy with stuff like fires effects in the game, unless it looked real as possible

[crackdude]

Real?
Shenmue had fucking Smeagol as a character.

[Centrale]

This is just a snapshot of the divide in the Shenmue community, where you have one group of people saying "Shenmue was the most photorealistic game ever created!!! I remember how real it looked to me as a teenager!!!" and another group of people who are saying "Shenmue has always been detailed, yet very stylized."

What do you think, Cool Z?

[crackdude]

[Shun-Di]

This is just a snapshot of the divide in the Shenmue community, where you have one group of people saying "Shenmue was the most photorealistic game ever created!!! I remember how real it looked to me as a teenager!!!" and another group of people who are saying "Shenmue has always been detailed, yet very stylized."

What do you think, Cool Z?

It has style.  Every NPC is unique and outrageously designed. 

[Shun-Di]

What if the graphics were more along the line of VF5?

[Tad]

The games direction was mostly for a realistic style and it did a great job of that, but I think they did knowingly stick some characters in there with cartoon like features to make them standout from the average NPC. I mean, for all it's realism, let's not forget this game was clearly inspired by 80s films in tone and action at times.

[Team Andromeda]

. I mean, for all it's realism, let's not forget this game was clearly inspired by 80s films in tone and action at times.

Lets not forget the game took place in 1986 either

[Tad]

Shenmue III has been delayed till late 2018: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/posts/1905604

Not surprised and nor should anyone else be.