Sad to hear NPC scripting will be very simple. My favourite thing about Shenmue was the feeling of a living, breathing community. Recently Kingdom Come gave their NPC's lives and realistic routines, but it uses a different engine, so I doubt they could share that tech with Ysnet, dispite having the ...

I do not see any reasons for worry - as far as I know, the game has been in development for 2 years (Yu said he only managed to gather a team by the end of 2015). Shenmue is an indie project in budget, but not in scale, and it should take this long at least. Additionally, a careful and experienced ...

After today I feel like there are some serious development issues that they're not telling us. Maybe they're waiting on character models from Lakshya Digital, or maybe they outsourced the environment modeling to India as well, and it's taking longer than expected? I know Yu Suzuki had issues working...

The top right corner of the port is interesting.

^ Well ideally the routines factor into the gameplay, like when you're searching for a particular person. Even if it doesn't affect the gameplay, routines help to build atmosphere. Seeing the same NPC on the same street corner day after day breaks the illusion of a living breathing community (for me...

The story is still intact but i had to adjust some of the extra elements and details. We talked about the 200 people in that village - maybe we will even have 400 in the end, i didn't decide yet. You have to remember that all the city / village residents in 1 & 2 had a "real" simulate...

Also I thought the dobuita flash-back could be a couple of fights. Something like this:
https://media.giphy.com/media/10nU4LNTK0xmlq/giphy.gif
And a sparring session with Fuku-san. Although for these they'd need to re-create the characters.

We know that Kid Nocon is currently working on Shenmue III, most likely modelling new environments like Bailu Village and Choubu. He has already modelled a large section of Dobuita and the Hazuki residence (at least the outside) using the Unreal engine just for fun, so wouldn't it make sense to inco...

I've mentioned this game in a different thread, but I just stumbled across a more in-depth video that showcases the incredible NPC's of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The characters have work and rest cycles much like shenmue, but even more advanced. Is there a way to send this video to the Shenmue 3 de...

We actually do know because they've already revealed details. Pretty clear from the concept that Bailu and Baisha are smaller than Choubu and that Dobuita is the scale he has in mind, which obviously doesn't mean the entire game is set in an area less than the third of the size of Shenmue I. Choubu...

I think there's way too much speculation about these villages, "Choubu shouldn't have an arcade, smaller villages won't have shops, each village will/won't be the size of Dobuita", but we just don't know. I'm guessing Yu Suzuki is designing the villages right now in order to match the fina...

Cangyanshan looks amazing.

Here's a post I made on the villages in Shenmue 3. It has some real-life photos:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=48086&p=1097268#p1097268

I was doing some research into NPC community simulators and apparently there's an upcoming game called 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance' that is attempting to do some incredible things. Here's a very interesting video about the game (I've jumped to the relevant section): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feat...

Since the arcade games were only related to previous works from Yu Suzuki until now, it seems that Virtua Fighter is the next step, besides the games already included in s1 and s2, and its sequels (after burner 2, outrun 2). I would REALLY like to see both VF3 and VF4 (I will let sega launch VF5 as...

Sometimes in modern sandbox games, there's almost TOO much freedom to really stop and appreciate the more subtle stuff that's going on. But with Shenmue, everything from the camera's closeness to Ryo, to the methodical pace, to the smaller scale of the world all forces those things into the player'...