We know the model is horrible, they know the model is horrible, and even those who have never seen Shenmue before know that the model is horrible, so why in the unholy name of *#¬<@~"!! did they include a close up zoom shot on it in the first video get our eyes on in 14 bloody years ???? WHY WHY ????

and how the hell is this new one supposed to be improved while the original on Dreamcast is still a billion times better ???.

Since Shenmue 3 is a direct continuation to Shenmue 2 I still can't understand why are they even improvising with the character design? Why don't they simply upgrade reference Shenmue 2 models without making any unnecessary changes ??

I don't think the face is a true improvement, it's more of a sidegrade. It still doesn't look all that much like Shenhua.
The hair is definately better though and so are the clothes. I haven't really noticed until now that her sleeves were the wrong color. Can't believe I missed that all the time.
I think the reason you missed the sleeves is because there were much more worse incorrect details in that model that took all the attention ...

Hello Everyone!

The power of Shenmue’s music was undoubtedly one of the big reasons that made the Shenmue series such a memorable experience. One of men responsible for this great achievement, is Ryuji Iuchi.

The composer of "Shenhua's Theme," Iuchi-san's songs have pulled at our heart strings and actually put us there, in the world of Shenmue. And now he is back for Shenmue 3 to help take us into that world once again.

Let’s give a big standing ovation for Ryuji Iuchi:

https://youtu.be/GK2UtawnJnM
English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDWWD7FGO7M
Japanese with French and English subtitles

Thank you for all of the memories, Iuchi-san! We look forward to all of the new songs, and the memories we will make with them in Shenmue 3.

To get a further listen of Ryuji Iuchi’s body of work, please visit his website at http://www.ryujiiuchi.com While most of the site is in Japanese, samples of his music are here at this link , so please have a listen!

#SaveShenmue Tweetathon on Twitter

Don’t forget that the 3rd of the month is the #SaveShenmue Tweetathon, so please send a Tweet with the hashtag #SaveShenmue to show your support for Shenmue 3.

You can still get your questions to Yu Suzuki by Tweeting to him using the hashtag #YouaskYu

Magic Weather Warning: There will be a storm of updates on the way, so bring your umbrella with you tomorrow!

We need a good texture/shading artist on board, that plastic skin look is way outdated today...
Take a look at this video if you have time and see where the industry is today ...

$4.2M reached ...

I'll upload Yu-san's part to my YouTube as soon as it's finished, maybe Ziming or Switch can work on subtitles ?

Watch the interview live on my twitch : http://www.twitch.tv/technophilz/

I'll rebroadcast the interview on my twitch : http://www.twitch.tv/technophilz

English subtitles by Switch.
Warning : This interview contains spoilers

Update: The video now has full English subtitles, thanks again Switch

You can also download the complete English transcript in PDF format form here

Ziming wrote:

Technophilz wrote: I'll rebroadcast the interview on my twitch : http://www.twitch.tv/technophilz

Do you have a link to download this video, or watch it on Youtube?

I've uploaded the video for you, please check your inbox ..

After watching the very short (39 seconds) 720/30p trailer, I had this question in mind : is this even close to Shenmue standards?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY6GzhjPXaE


and I think the answer to that questions is: NO, not even close.

Yes, I know it's a very early build of Shenmue 3, everything is still in pre-alpha stage and in-development, but even at this very very ... very early stage, this trailer is unacceptable.

Where do I begin? This demo is obviously done in Unreal Engine 4, and there are many examples to demonstrate what this very powerful engine can do in terms of graphics and animations. I've seen some amazing UE4 demos done by amateurs that look way more impressive than this demo. Watching the trailer made me feel really disappointed, because those who worked on it are supposed to be professionals, right?

Why did they use the old characters models instead of the newer (improved but still bad) ones?

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Why did they use such awkward camera angles ?

http://images.eurogamer.net/2013/articles/1/7/6/8/1/6/9/143695265716.gif


Why are the lighting,reflections and shadows totally wrong?

http://i.imgur.com/6qR814p.png


There's no 1080/60p version of the trailer, and I don't think they even bothered to render one at that resolution/frame rate, or even proof-read the one line they had in English "All game scenes under development" , maybe they meant to say :"All game scenes are underdeveloped"!!, and btw why are they keep using stock music? Couldn't they create some short original tunes for a 39-seconds clip ????

In today's standards, this UE4 trailer is unimpressive in every way, I don't understand why do they keep showing such things ... they're not doing the Kickstarter and Shenmue 3 any good.
As fans, we have been doing our best to #SaveShenmue, and those who are making such immature work need to do theirs well ... I am really sad because the Kickstarter could've been way way better than it is now.

Shenmue has had a great legacy, please stop damaging it any further ...

johnvivant wrote: why doesn't someone create an edited spoiler free version. the spoilers probably only amount to about 2-3 minutes of footage at 2 particular points.

Added an annotation note to the video to skip the spoilers

Part 1


Part 2






#ThankYu - Thank You - Shenmue 3 development has officially started !!

Games TM
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Official PlayStation Magazine UK
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Play Magazine UK
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Retro Gamer Magazine
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Devil's Third - Niconico Broadcast with Tomonobu Itagaki & Yu Suzuki
Broadcast date : 04/08/2015

Maybe Switch can take a look at it and translate any Shenmue-related info, if there's any..

Here's your 4-page interview .. enjoy.

Here's another Shenmue 3 feature from Play UK .. enjoy

A 2 page article published in the latest issue of Game Informer

http://imgur.com/sBtWLk1,cICdUWi

Shenmue 3 can't promise 60fps but can promise 'cute' and 'sexy' girls

Series creator Yu Suzuki has said that he can’t promise 60fps performance in Shenmue 3, although he seems he can guarantee that its female characters will be sexually attractive.

“For the moment, I’m thinking about 30 frames per second,” he told DualShockers when asked about the game’s PS4 framerate. “60 might be too difficult, but I’m not sure yet.”

However, while Suzuki cannot confirm how the game will appear technically, he is ensuring that visually it will tick certain boxes.

“They are being improved,” he replied when asking about changes to early character model prototypes. “The person who originally created Shenhua, is collaborating with us on her character. Thanks to him, Shenhua is looking a lot cuter.

“There will be many new characters. There are the four main bosses. There will be Lan Di from the previous games, and two more fighters. The fourth, on the other hand is a strategist, and she will using more cunning than head on fighting. She is an extremely beautiful and sexy, but cruel woman.”

And then when asked about romance in the game, the developer added: “Yes, it will be an important topic in Shenmue III, and I will try to portray the differences in how men and women think in the game.”

Suzuki then went on to admit that he himself isn’t really a gamer.

“I don’t really play other games, because if you play games it’s too easy to be influenced by them, and even if it is unintentional, one ends up losing their originality. On the other hand, I’m watching movies,” he admitted.

The difference in approach to both female representation and wider equality issues between Eastern and Western game developers is not only widening but increasingly being brought into focus.

While games such as Metal Gear Solid, Tekken, Tomodachi Life and Dead or Alive find themselves clashing with modern Western values, American and European developers such as Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft and NetherRealm have openly adopted a more balanced approach to gender representation and sexual orientation, no doubt spurred by the efforts of vocal critics such as Anita Sarkeesian.

Last month UK industry veteran Andy Payne said that there was no longer any excuse for the sector’s inequality blind spot. And Japanese companies should not go completely without praise, with Sony and Square Enix in particular making some very positive moves in the right direction.

It was revealed yesterday that the Western release of Wii U title Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water will ditch the skimpy costumes found in the Japanese release in favour of less revealing Nintendo-themed clothing.


Source : MCVUK

An article about the making of Shenmue is published in the new book : Sega Dreamcast The Complete Manual 1st Edition.
You can read the scanned article on this link.

Update: this article was originally featured in Retro Gamer Magazine.

Enjoy.

Here's a close-up look of Lara Croft from her latest game Rise of the Tomb Raider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAvHX6GUzhY


I don't know why I don't expect to see a similar level of characters detail and animation in Shenmue 3, even though the game will be released two years later (at the earliest). Maybe that's because Shenmue 3 is considered as an indie title, making it below the high-standards of its two prequels ...

shredingskin wrote: Once a month doesn't mean every first day of the month.

Right, we're still early in November aren't we ?

Sonoshee wrote:

PS: Still can't get over how beautiful Guilin looks so early in to development...

Here's something that may help you in getting over that image ...



PS: in case you didn't notice, the image is badly mirrored beyond the red line to the right...

It's one of those posts about something cool that's popped up on eBay! Huzzah! This is quite cool though: a prototype copy of Shenmue, complete with a smorgasbord of hastily labelled VMUs that were apparently used for demoing sections of the game to the press back in those halcyon days of the late 1990s. Indeed, the seller goes on to detail the exact circumstances in which these labelled VMUs would be used:

This is the exact bundle my husband used when he demoed to the press, including save files from multiple points in the game so that he could easily show the various scenes. This was given to him as a gift upon completion of the Shenmue project.

This has been confirmed as belonging to Mike Rhinehart, the lead tester of the NTSC-U version of Shenmue. I know for a fact that I can't afford this bundle (which also includes a System Disc), but it'll be interesting to see what the lot eventually goes for. Here's the link to the auction. Oh, and the gallery is below...

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Source Link
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The latest interview with the legendary Yu Suzuki published in the latest issue of Retro Gamer Magazine.

There aren’t many designers that could claim to have done it all, but Yu
Suzuki just might be able to. We caught up with him to look back
over his career and find out what's on the horizon…

Bonus : Q&A: with Dojo’s George Melita and Anatomy of Ryo Hazuki from the latest issue of Play Magazine.

Read all about it here

Enjoy ...

Amir wrote: I'm curious about the LA dinner. Will it be in the December update?

It will be THE December update, obviously they have nothing else to show ...

a 58 seconds video, no E3 ,no 2017 release, and that bad logo being used again and again... and you call that an update?!!
With Mighty No.9, Armikrog, Yooka-Laylee, .. and now Shenmue 3, It looks like Kickstarter might end up being the graveyard of some of the greatest games series ever ...

Right.

I am a huge avocate of communication so I am gonna try here and not get pissed off at what I am sure you would agree, is your repetitive posting on a semi regular basis where you give your opinion, which is mostly negative.

Instead of me waffling on myself, which I would be the frist to admit I am completely guilty of, I will start small. Can I ask you if there is anything positive you have an opinion of, regarding the past 2 years?

I have responses to your post, but that can come later. For now, I just want to see some positivity here from yourself, based on the assumption that the reason you are here, like the rest of us, is because at the end of it all, we have a love and a respect for this series and it's creator.

You're totally right Peter, my opinion was (and still is) mostly negative, and that makes me feel really sad and frustrated ...
Shenmue I & II not only changed me as a gamer, but also changed my entire life and my carrier as well, those two games taught me how to be as close to perfection as possible in every aspect, I appreciated how Suzuki-san back then went way beyond everyone else in terms of realism, audio/visual design, software engineering, code optimisation, etc ...
That seemed to have raised my expectations so high for Shenmue 3, that I won't feel satisfied with anything less that perfect, and I sincerely hope this is still achievable with the resources available for Shenmue 3 right now...

When the Shenmue 3 project was announced, I jumped off my couch with excitement and almost broke my leg, I backed up the project seconds after the Kickstarter page went live, and I never regretted it ...

I want Shenmue 3 to be the best game ever made, not only because it's my most anticipated game of all time, but also Shenmue 3 will most certainly determine the fate of this fantastic series, I could never forget how the commercial outcome of Shenmue I & II had affected the future of Shenmue and I don't want to ever relive that nightmare again...

I'm here simply because this Dojo is THE place to be for us diehard Shenmue fans from all around the globe, not only because I personally have a love and respect to the series and to its creator, but also because Shenmue to me is much more than the best gaming experience I have ever had, and guess what? We're finally getting a third one sometime in the future and maybe HD remastered versions of the previous ones too, which I sincerely hope it'll end up making all my negativity sound like total nonsense, and that will make me feel so happy that I was wrong all along ...

Digital Foundry discussed original Xbox titles backward compatibility on Xbox One family. Shenmue IIx and Shenmue HD are specifically mentioned ...

Phil Spencer also wants to bring OG Xbox emulation and Xbox Game Pass to PC .

All opinions are welcome, but keep insulting the development team of Shenmue when they are not here to defend themselves and you won't be around here for much longer, on top of spreading information that I can tell you right now is either very sorely mistaken on your part, or just fathomly made up by yourself in the name of trying poorly to troll.

You show up once a month and spew your negative bile all over the place which does nothing for me but make me feel sorry for you. No one agrees with you, or cares quite frankly.

I don't think I insulted any members of the development team by saying they lack the level of experience needed for a special project like Shenmue 3, especially that any kind of insult to anyone won't be something the community (including myself) would ever appreciate.
On the other hand, Neilo, which is listed as the main developer of Shenmue 3, was founded in 2010 in Japan, and since then, they only developed/released ONE rhythm mobile japan-only game (Orgarhythm was released in 2012 for PSVita and Android) Source . And you can check the full list of the games developed by Suzuki-san to know that his last console game was released in 2003 on the original Xbox; Moreover, the horrible Twitch streams done by AJ alongside many badly-photoshopped officially released images also indicate that they're not professionally done and that's not even close to the level of quality of Shenmue I and II.

I show up once a month indeed mostly alongside the monthly updates, and I try to be realistic with my opinion based on what I see instead of what I dream of, and or course you and everyone else are entitled to totally disagree with everything I said or will ever say ...

...., as there's a much bigger problem with this Sega Forever line-up: these ports offer significantly worse performance than that of their older versions, even on more modern hardware.

Allegedly this is because these retro classics were ported over in Unity. Our Digital Foundry tech aficionado John Linneman said "Do not touch those Sega Forever games," noting that they're "lousy emulation in a Unity wrapper."

"The games are designed to run at 60 frames per second. This emulator tries to do that but drops frames resulting in something that looks more like ~45 fps or so. There are loads of dropped frames, hitches and skips," he said.

"30fps is bad, but an even, stable 30fps would have been better than this. The issue here is that it skips and stutters during gameplay. And when a notification occurs, it gets much worse. So it never plays smoothly."

Even weirder is that these low-tech titles played far better on older hardware, due to more optimised emulation. "iPhone 3GS could play those old apps at a full 60fps while iPhone 6S+ with the new apps cannot," Linneman explained.

He postulated that another emulator, RetroArch, would have been a much better fit for the project, though its developer Libretro said it couldn't reach an agreement with Sega on its terms of service.

"Sorry to all the people that are experiencing subpar performance with this Unity thing," the RetroArch devs tweeted. "They could have been using RetroArch right now if they hadn't been so stubbornly insistent on demanding we relicense our entire program to something that would strip us of all our rights, on top of some other unreasonable things like not showing any branding, etc. Hell, they could have had this running on the desktop right now on top of consoles and maybe some netplay as well. Oh well..."


Source: Eurogamer.net

Pure stupidity ... I'd prefer NOT to see Shenmue suffer in such a horrible way ...

Except there's literally a quote from Sony in the press release (and the game is still console exclusive to their platform), but I knew you wouldn't do much more in this thread other than do a driveby shitpost.
That quote from Sony means they'll do nothing more than watching what YS Net and Deep Silver will do.
Sony will be having an upcoming press conference during Paris Games Week and another one in PSX 2017, and based on the horrible progress made and the badly edited screens released so far, the quality of Shenmue 3 at this stage is far below Sony's standards, thus I don't think Mighty No. 3 will even get mentioned in either press conferences... just wait and see...

Shenmue_Legend wrote: For the people asking where Ryo is, he's under the bridge on the right. It's a tiny figure but you can't miss it!

Here he is, in all of his default T-Pose glory...

How do people know that Lakshya have worked on the AAA titles you've mentioned (like Uncharted), in the past? I can only find CS:GO, Elder Scrolls Online, DC Online and Lara Croft Guardians of the Light on their website. You'd think if they'd worked on such larger projects, they would mention or showcase them on their website or something.

Edit: Nevermind, I've found some info on their Facebook page. This is very good news, although we should bear in mind, they work on the art for the game, not the actual character models, which is what we need.

Yup, and their LinkdIn page also mentions that they has created art for over a hundred game titles:

Experience: We has created art for over a hundred game titles including hugely successful ones such as Bloodborne, Just Cause 3, WWE 2K16, Uncharted 2, Farmville and Cityville.


Dreamy people will obviously feel optimistic about this very very late decision of outsourcing the game to an outside company (which btw needs a website on par with the AAA titles they claim they helped in).But, I think you already know I am not one of those dreamy people, because:

1-Unlike Shenmue III, it makes sense to collaborate with an Indian studio to provide Indian artwork for a title like Uncharted 2, that partially took place in India.

2-The games that Lakshya Digital claim they worked on were mainly last-gen titles, and none of them was made using Unreal Engine.

3- This very late decision, proves a point I made way earlier here in this very forum (and got a lot of hatred because of it): they finally realised that the original team was (at least) incapable of providing the required game assets so they had (or were told to) outsource the game to yet another outside studio.

4- One last thing, in the previous "update", we were clearly told that updates will be coming up less frequently, and guess what? we ended up getting a new update two weeks later, which is yet another example of the disastrous marketing and communication strategy this project has had since its very early days.

Therefore, I have to say I am not surprised to read the angry and harsh comments on Kickstarter and other forums, and I'd expect a similar reaction from the gaming media as well, because most people make their opinions based on real facts and not wishes.

Now, in order not to guarantee myself another ban, I feel I have to end up with a positive remark: outsourcing the game is in my opinion a step in the right direction. I can't say I'm very happy with its timing nor the studio they ended up choosing, but this may hopefully bring us a better game in the end.

Although everything in this new "update" tells us backers to lower our expectation even more, the dreamy people (as usual) are excited and happy with that ....

In short, what we've just been told is : graphics won't be comparable to AAA titles, it took almost two years to make "acceptable" models of the two main characters, facial expressions and animations are not done yet, we now have fewer characters than what's been initially announced, the new fighting system will be puzzle-based and more aimed towards causal players so we can kiss anything close to the decent fighting system of Shenmue and Shenmue II goodbye, and finally another delay is highly expected.

btw, can someone remind whoever subtitled the video that we're still in 2017 ?

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it took almost two years to make "acceptable" models of the two main characters
No.
https://i.imgur.com/wA6BCYT.png
facial expressions and animations are not done yet,
No.
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we now have fewer characters than what's been initially announced
No.
https://i.imgur.com/KcaxwNI.png
the new fighting system will be puzzle-based and more aimed towards causal players so we can kiss anything close to the decent fighting system of Shenmue and Shenmue II goodbye,
No.
https://i.imgur.com/WI2SBFl.png
and finally another delay is highly expected.
No.
https://i.imgur.com/hfAKxEl.png

I'm struggling to find a statement in your post that even resembles reality. Maybe that it won't look like a AAA blockbuster? (No shit). It's beyond me how you've been unbanned. You're either a troll or nuts.

Feel free to disagree with everything I say, but this is my own opinion and everyone's entitled to have one.

Here's a video of the entire presentation, it's in French so hopefully someone will provide a complete translation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGZktkL5q-I


It's really frustrating to see how unprofessionally this was presented. Isn't it time for Yu and his team to realise that entire gaming world is watching and judging ??
I honestly want to believe that this will end up being a great game, and I keep ending up with disappointment time after time, I hope this will change with what they'll show later on ...

Everything about Shemue 3 rubs me the wrong way. Maybe if people started being vocal and stopped defending eveyr questionable action by Yu Suzuki we could see REAL progress. I have a video on the subject here:

I am well-known here for my unpopular opinions about the progress of the Shenmue III project since the end of the Kickstarter campaign, I think my opinions may also represent the extremely pessimistic end of the spectrum, and I even got banned because of them.I have been harshly critical, and sometimes over critical. However, calling Shenmue III a scam is too much even for someone like me.
I respect your opinion, but I totally disagree with it on many fronts. You have to realise there's a big history behind Yu Suzuki and some of his team members to live up to, and I don't think they'd throw that behind their backs by scamming their backers, especially with a highly anticipated title like Shenmue III. They also have Deep Silver and (in one way or another) Sony on board, so it's hard to imagine they'd be scamming people with such big companies on board.
In my opinion, being harshly critical at this stage of development is required for the development team to see the shortcomings and hopefully work on fixing them before release, and consequently having a better end product.
I think Shenmue III is legit, and I hope it'll end up being the game I've been waiting for, and it'd be worth it.
If you think the entire thing's a scam, then you can stop wasting your time on it, it's that simple.

I am glad that we'll finally get to play Shenmue I & II on modern hardware. The released teaser made me a bit concerned about the quality of those ports though.
The most outdated aspect of Shenmue & Shenmue II imho is their clunky controls, which will be improved in the new ports. I wish they could've remade the two games with more improvements instead of simply porting them with minor visual and control tweaks, but again I'll take it as it is .. at least I won't be annoyed by the very noisy Dreamcast lens while playing them anymore.