Shenmue City/Ys Net Topic!

[crackdude]

The slow pacing would be considered shit and such.

Considering how boring and "cinematic" games have become? I highly doubt that.

It's not slow gameplay pacing. Actually slow paced story and actions as well. You have to explore a lot and such. I know that it's weird to think this way, but most people would instantly compare it to GTA.

I think games like Halo have a little more action lol

I prefer the flow of Shenmue though.

[Nathan]

And yes, most of the people involved on the Shenmue development (at least a lot) or not hates or hated Shenmue.

 Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Sega's singer is one of them. Well, I think hate is not the best word here, jealousy fits better. Mizuguchi Tetsuya was one of the people who got jealousy about Shenmue.

Source? Don't see why Mitsuyoshi would hate or be jealous of it, he doesn't make games, he makes the music, and he contributed music to Shenmue. And Mizuguchi worked on it, but he also might have been a little jeaous because of how much attention inside SEGA and the industry that Shenmue got over games of his.

[Orta]

I think Mizuguchi is credited on Shenmue, as is Nagoshi. I don't get your point. "Sega" was making this game, not "AM2".

[Sega Uranus]

Mitsuyoshi loves Shenmue, I have actually talked to him online about this, so unless he was lying to me for some random reason, he likes it!

SEGA has all the right in the world to hate the series, it was a big reason for them almost dying years back. The fact they are doing anything at ALL with the IP makes me happy. As long as I can play it and eventually find out what happens at the end of the story, I do not care what it is. I would even take like a series of books or even a crumpled up sheet of paper that sums up what happens in the rest of the story. Seriously.

[fluffymoochicken]

Who wrote the overall story of the Shenmue games, anyway? Was it one person or like a whole staff of people?

[Sega Uranus]

Who wrote the overall story of the Shenmue games, anyway? Was it one person or like a whole staff of people?

Almost every little detail of the story, characters and general gameplay were all done by Yu Suzuki. Some other people helped with some of those most likely, but he had the original concept and final say in everything.

[fluffymoochicken]

In that case, yeah... He's definitely too busy of a man to be bothered with sitting down and writing a novel to complete the story. Shucks.

At least there will be fan fiction! =D

[Mengels7]

i think i love fluffy

[Alex Supersonic]

So Kikizo was right  :mrgreen:

[MadeManG74]

I hate to be a downer, but this will most likely be some horribly shitty casual online garbage monster game, and doesn't mean much for a real Shenmue Sequel.
Don't forget Burning Rangers came out on Mobile phone in Japan like, 2 years ago. We haven't seen anything good come from that.

[Mengels7]

So Kikizo was right  :mrgreen:

I've never really voiced my opinion, but I've always felt kikizo was "right."  Shenmue 3 is probably basically done.  The story is likely complete, some sort of models for all the characters likely exist, but they just haven't gotten around to porting it to a console.  Now that so much time has passed, what they could have easily done would have to be drastically changed and it just hasn't been feasible to release Shenmue 3 in the state it was in.  Just because we've heard and seen nothing about Shenmue 3 ever meant that Kikizo was lying.  It just never happened, and poor Adam Doree took the fall for it.  If you had a flakey scoop like that that may or may not ever have happened, wouldn't you report it?  Obviously something's done, it has just been money and politics keeping it from reaching us.

[Sharky]

I have a feeling that this game will be some kind of hub for shenmue inspired mini games like gambleing, darts and so on... maybe even playable Sega games like After Burner... And not much more than that. Which would be fine with me honestly.

In fact i think it would be a good idea to raise the popularity of the Shenmue series.

[fluffymoochicken]

i think i love fluffy

Awww! ^___^ How very sweet of you to say...

Who else can feel the love tonight? <3

I have a feeling that this game will be some kind of hub for shenmue inspired mini games like gambleing, darts and so on... maybe even playable Sega games like After Burner... And not much more than that. Which would be fine with me honestly.

Maybe the game will be about a caricature of Yu Suzuki continually shoveling a large pile of Japanese currency into an open furnace, and you play as a SEGA executive who tries to stop the cash from going in for as long as possible. When the total money burnt reaches the equivalent of 70 billion US dollars, the game is over.

[spoiler:jjlf0kue]Sorry; I know that this joke is rather cruel. ^^;;; It's so hard to resist telling, though... don't hate me![/spoiler:jjlf0kue]

[ROJM]

So Kikizo was right  :mrgreen:

I've never really voiced my opinion, but I've always felt kikizo was "right."  Shenmue 3 is probably basically done.  The story is likely complete, some sort of models for all the characters likely exist, but they just haven't gotten around to porting it to a console.  Now that so much time has passed, what they could have easily done would have to be drastically changed and it just hasn't been feasible to release Shenmue 3 in the state it was in.  Just because we've heard and seen nothing about Shenmue 3 ever meant that Kikizo was lying.  It just never happened, and poor Adam Doree took the fall for it.  If you had a flakey scoop like that that may or may not ever have happened, wouldn't you report it?  Obviously something's done, it has just been money and politics keeping it from reaching us.

I was saying that years ago at the sega forums. You don't spend 70 million on a four game disc. What people need to realise is SHENMUE is a game divided into 16 chapters. So the actual dev code/engine is finished, all they need to do as they do with any future release is refine the graphics/character models and commands
voice recording, etc and release the title like they do with the YAKUZA game. Like i said Sega want an exclusivitiy deal for this title because it deals with the extra costs like marketing among other things. But because of the debacle with SHENMUE ONLINE which looked like it was coming out at one point and another 25-30 million wasted, investment in this title as far as consoles go are quite weary. Despite anybody's criticisms of Sammy at least they did support it at one point.

[Team Andromeda]

I was saying that years ago at the sega forums. You don't spend 70 million on a four game disc. What people need to realise is SHENMUE is a game divided into 16 chapters. So the actual dev code/engine is finished, all they need to do as they do with any future release is refine the graphics/character models and commands
voice recording, etc and release the title like they do with the YAKUZA game.

You spend 70 million on 7 discs worth of game play and the millions required to develop them from 1994 to 2001. Nothing of Shenmue III was finished at all, bar the basic script.
Modelling the new Characters the New World just haven't been finished and what little was done is years out of date of an old Dreamcast engine that was out of date on the X-Box, never mind now.