Yu Suzuki and Mark Cerny talk Shenmue III strategy?!

i-Lo said:
Why is Shenmue such a revered game (besides being one of the best looking games for its time on Deadcast)?
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For me it's how real it all felt because of the way you could explore this world with so much detail in it. Plus stuff like having in-game passage of time where NPCs had their own schedules they followed, being able to talk to them. Kinda like Animal Crossing but with more gamey stuff like mysteries/puzzles to solve, action elements, and an over-arching narrative.
 
sykoex said:
For me it's how real it all felt because of the way you could explore this world with so much detail in it. Plus stuff like having in-game passage of time where NPCs had their own schedules they followed, being able to talk to them. Kinda like Animal Crossing but with more gamey stuff like mysteries/puzzles to solve, action elements, and an over-arching narrative.
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Ah, thanks.
 
sykoex said:
Plus stuff like having in-game passage of time where NPCs had their own schedules they followed, being able to talk to them.
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Exactly. People forget how static npc's used to be. In a lot of games they'd just stand in one place and that was that. Shenmue took npc's and the interaction with said characters to a whole new level. At least, that was my experience.
 
i-Lo said:
Why is Shenmue such a revered game (besides being one of the best looking games for its time on Deadcast)?
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It was one of those experiences that you didn't have anywhere else. You were living this guy's life, it was amazing back in 1999. No game had ever pulled anything similar off. You wanted to find Lan Di.
Not to mention living through Christmas in Yokosuka while Christmas was going on at the same time in real life just made everything even better.

The amount of polish, attention to detail and the giant tech leap for console games blew everything else away.

If I have to be stranded in a island for the rest of my life and get to choose two games, give me both Shenmues.
 
DidntKnowJack said:
I can only speak for myself, but at the time it was released, it was easily the most interactive game I had ever played. Every drawer in Ryu's bedroom could be opened, you could knock on doors, you could go into an arcade and play actual arcade games. Things that are taken for granted these days, but back in the day it was effing amazing. And the atmosphere was amazing too. I remember experiencing Christmas in that game and it just swept me in. I was transported to that town and that shipyard.
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Oh sorry I missed this reply. Thanks for explaining this.

rvy said:
It was one of those experiences that you didn't have anywhere else. You were living this guy's life, it was amazing back in 1999. No game hade ever pulled anything similar off. You wanted to find Lan Di.
Not to mention living through Christmas in Yokosuka while Christmas was going on at the same time in real life just made everything even better.

The amount of polish, attention to detail and the giant tech leap for console games blew everything else away.

If I have to be stranded in a island for the rest of my life and get to choose two games, give me both Shenmues.
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Thanks to you as well, good sir.

I doubt with budget rising, that type of granularity will be possible next gen.
 
Shenmue is probably my favourite game ever period.
Warehouse n°8... *hangs up the phone

T_T this game is so unique, it's a system seller for me.
 
Angelus Errare said:
Yet it hasn't happened despite Sega sitting on the IP since forever. There have been what? 4 Yakuza games on PS3 and not a thing about Shenmue, and now people suddenly think Sega is making Shenmue 3 because Suzuki and Cerny are seen together despite the fact Suzuki has left Sega to start his own development company YS NET and is only with Sega in a limited advisory capacity, but yea Shenmue 3 is tooootally coming!

Just sayin'
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Dark Souls betrayalton reversed, Sony circumvents Sega and does Shenmoe with the OG crew.
 
skipping the last 2 pages because ive hit my limit on weak potshots

Technosteve said:
sleepy dawgs is the true shenmue II none of that play a game of lucky hit for 10 hours before the story moves along
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ive never seen you before here but i like to think this was your last post, and you met your end like your avatar for these

Tricky I Shadow said:
Oh God, all the feels are coming back to me!
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what i love about the quality of the OST is that i wasnt totally sure which track this was till i clicked

Derrick01 said:
I'm all for niche titles as important exclusives. Not for 70, 80, 90+ million dollars though. It would have to be 20 million or less to make sense for Sony to fund something that has extremely little chance of selling enough to justify it.
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likewise, i shall pretend you lost the mr accurate tag for this trifling
 
I was planning on going Xbox next gen after not really digging the PS3 outside of a few exclusives. Shenmue III would reverse that decision single handed.
 
Fighting system ripped from Batman/Sleeping Dogs.

No driving cars, just highly condensed urban areas in China and Japan.

Final battle is at Ryu's father's dojo.

Shenmue 1 and 2 offered as a download or their movies offered for free.

Quick 2 minute recap at the start of the game.
 
Dark Octave said:
Fighting system ripped from Batman/Sleeping Dogs.

No driving cars, just highly condensed urban areas in China and Japan.

Final battle is at Ryu's father's dojo.

Shenmue 1 and 2 offered as a download or their movies offered for free.

Quick 2 minute recap at the start of the game.
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Hell No.
 
^fighting in the VF series evolved..it'd need to to likewise, not turn into string X pushes to hit endless glowy guys forever

bon said:
I will buy a PS4 if it gets Shenmue 3.
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i would shut my goddamn mouth about my disdain for them dropping BC, i think
 
If anything this news makes me want an HD remake built from the ground up of I and II...

Seeing how I lost any hope of there being a Shenmue III.

Sad that I bought Yakuza 4 and Sleeping Dogs subconsciously expecting spiritual successors of that classic. Oh well. I'll believe it when I see the box art.
 
Broach said:
Virtua Fighter of course. It was what it was based on back then.
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Not very well though.. if they could make it actually like Virtua Fighter, that's cool.

Would not mind a Sleeping Dogs/Batman style combat system as alternative. Not like the fighting was ever a huge part of it though, outside the 70 person battle.
 
i-Lo said:
Why is Shenmue such a revered game (besides being one of the best looking games for its time on Deadcast)?
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PC style adventure game, that was also non-linear open world with Virtua Fighter fighting game mechanics & ultra attention to detail that no adventure or open world game has ever come close to!

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example
Every door can be knocked on & gotten a response from.
You can call from dozens of phone numbers to people completely unrelated to the main story or characters.
Every NPC on the street had a name, story & purpose.
Full time of day operations, seasonal changes, NPC pattern changes based on their lives etc...
The amount of detail & interaction with the environment.
 
I don't want to let my hopes get dashed again. Shenmue still remains a magical experience for me and although I would love to see it continued, I know what the odds of that happening are...

Would definitely help to sell me on a PS4...
 
HolyBaikal said:
I don't want Shenmue III to be a PlayStation 4 exclusive.

I want it to come to Steam.
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i would take it anyway we could get it at this point, and so will you

cj_iwakura said:
Uh, who is Mark Cerny and why should I be excited?
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i was gonna say im surprised you're not familiar with him, but honestly i didn't connect the man & his works until after the PS4 unveil, sadly

Yes Boss! said:
Yeah,

Because he has such an awesome game resume (groan):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cerny
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i fear im missing the sarcasm here
 
Man, it is NOT hard to play Shenmue fans like a fiddle, is it?

We haven't had a game in that series in what, twelve years?

How can fans continue to hold out hope? It's pathetic.
 
kenjisalk said:
Man, it is NOT hard to play Shenmue fans like a fiddle, is it?

We haven't had a game in that series in what, twelve years?

How can fans continue to hold out hope? It's pathetic.
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Well we finally got our new Kid Icarus game after 21 years, so there is always a chance. :)
I strongly doubt this will be it though...
 
i-Lo said:
Ah, thanks.
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Also the combat system man. The way your save moved from Shenmue 1 to Shenmue 2 was awesome. It made it feel like you really became this martial artist, instead of just a character you pulled some generic combos. Starting shenmue 2 and being able to build this choreography in the middle of the fight was very rewarding.
 
Anyway I saw these pictures in another thread, just imagine if they made Shenmue 3 look this good........
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Does anyone know where these pictures came from?
 
meppi said:
Ouch.... At least he was a producer on Sonic 2....That must mean something I guess...
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did april fools arrive early? how are two of you looking at that resume and batting an eye? he worked on a swath of great & varied titles across far more gens than many we talk about on here, no idea where this attitude is coming from, much less the blockbuster that was Sonic 2 (pushing sega's marketshare to nearly half against nintendo) being "something i guess"...
 
Mifune said:
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And Cliffy responds:

Cliff Bleszinski ‏@therealcliffyb 2h
MEGATON ALERT TEH GAF "@megganpez: Mark Cerny & Yu Suzuki talking strategy for Shenmue III. For reals you guys.

Combine with this tidbit from January of last year:
Yu Suzuki: "We can obtain Shenmue license from Sega."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ense-from-sega

He definitely still wants to make the game and has the means to get the rights. So...believe?
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Can you imagine Shamu 3 on 8GB of GDDR5?

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IrishNinja said:
did april fools arrive early? how are two of you looking at that resume and batting an eye? he worked on a swath of great & varied titles across far more gens than many we talk about on here, no idea where this attitude is coming from, much less the blockbuster that was Sonic 2 (pushing sega's marketshare to nearly half against nintendo) being "something i guess"...
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http://www.1up.com/features/mark-cerny-game-changer
 
Gaf, its time to let go...

You know that guy/girl that is fixated on a previous lover and deep down expects him/her to return and be together again?

That is Shenmue 3, the two games are a great memory to have but you need to move on, it is just not going to happpen.

The old Sega is pretty much gone and Yu Suzuki makes mobile games, Lan Di won Gaf.
 
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