I think SD has become an old and decrepped and pissed off old man, and we still have yet to see S3 and thats one of the basis of everyones animosity and grudges. I personally feel alright, im not mad at anyone in particular, but I really find it disappointing and lame when I constantly see my friends here at each others throats. Sure its just the internet and I have only spent the last 10 years of my life on these forums and it could all ultimatley be brushed off or lol'd off to the side, and truth be told maybe SD has just gotten stagnant, but guys, and I may or may not be the right person to be saying this, but grow up alot of the negative shit I see around here is petty, stupid, and avoidable. I swear if I was any of you guys involved here, I would be handling things alot different, yall need to learn to let the dumb shit go. When you let your first knee jerk reaction take control of your emotions, you always end up sounding like a dumb ass dont matter who it is, just sayin. Its like everyone wants something else out of this place and there just is no agreeing, and again its a ever more dying shenmue franchise that is the basis of it all, I have no doubt about that. I dont wanna see anyone leave, I dont wanna see my friends at each others throats either, but I think we are letting the fact that this is the internet and we can more or less post whatever shit we feel like, get to our heads. Step it up a couple notches guys for real.

I'm shocked. I was just reading about him last week, wondering how much longer he'd be around. Now this was a true hero for all mankind. The first man to step foot on another world. What extraordinary courage. All the space explorers. There should be an international event to honor his life and grand achievement. :usa

But the best way to honor him is to not give up space exploration just because a bunch of stupid plutocrats and cynical lazy young people want to hold humanity back (so one will notice how rotten they are). Armstrong, Aldrin, et al said time after time in interviews how deeply ashamed they are of the younger generations, and how they all fully expected at the time that there would be colonies on Mars by now, and how leaders after them let humanity down. They were right, as evidenced by the incredibly cool-headedness of people back then versus the ridiculous behavior of people today whenever the slightest victory is achieved.

I can't believe nobody posted the great moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7c-PbfnQuw

Great scene here from the movie documentary "In the Shadow of the Moon". Proof this guy had balls of steel.
I recommend everyone see this whole doc sometime. Its one of my favorites.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPT5gBqmYbY[/youtube]

Heat Actions

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Heat Actions, which have made battles more exciting throughout the series, have undergone a major evolution in this game. The force of these overwhelming techniques are still here, but the way they are handled is different; they no longer affect the flow of battle. There has been a drastic increase in variety of techniques - ranging from powerful attacks to comical attacks. Each character starts with techniques typifying their own battle styles, as well as gaining new heat actions from their local area.

Climax Heat
Bring out the big guns with an attack that turns the tables!

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Climax Heat is a newly added aspect of battle. It is an attack which boasts a huge amount of power and can pave the way to victory in a fight. Unlike regular heat actions, this is a technique which can completely turn the tide of a battle and is used when special conditions are met. The attack is extremely flashy and the power varies with button input.

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Revelations
Drastic power-up and with its own storyline!

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Revelations, a popular feature of the series, are back in this game. All the protagonists, including Haruka, can learn a new technique by witnessing events around the city. Acquiring revelations has been dramatically improved with the inclusion of its own story, which one can enjoy in the same way that one would enjoy any other substory. In addition to this, the characters are now able to suddenly have revelations in battle to gain new techniques.

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Battle Staging

Seemless Battle

All battles, from fights with random guys on the street to boss fights, now utilise a seemless system. The game now goes straight into battle directly, with no break in the flow at all, from an event leading to battle or an incident on the streets. Even storyline boss battles flow directly from story to battle and you can enjoy the greatest abundance of scenarios ever seen in the series.

The fundamentals have been upgraded

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The reaction towards an enemy's or protagonist's actions have evolved; there will be enemies who run away in reaction to one of your powerful techniques, and there will be enemies who rouse themselves. Also, enemies will do things like team up on you, or call for more companions. The variety in battle has been dramatically improved. There are enemies beyond imagination and a battle scale never before seen in the series

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Dance Battle

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Haruka competes in dance battles as part of her training for Princess League. There are dancers waiting for an opponent to compete with in various places around Soutenbori, to whom you can issue a dance battle challenge by talking to them. Each dancer has their own genre speciality. The genres of music are hip-Hop, house, idol, jazz and rock.

"Dance Battle" System

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This is a rhythm game in which you are required to time button presses with the corresponding buttons that stream along the four frames arranged on the screen (Above, Below, Left, Right). The frames can be moved freely by the player and you get a successful input when the selected frame and button timing match up, which directly brings out a flashy action from the character. There is a "Judging" component which reflects the audience appraisal of the dancer. Judging is determined by the content of the dance and a dancer who receives negative appraisal will feel great pressure and lose health. When all health is lost, you cannot continue the dance battle and are defeated.

Turn the tables with "Dance Heat"

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Heat actions can be used in Haruka's dance battles, featuring both showy and cute techniques. Like with the other characters, when the heat gauge reaches a certain amount, you can use a heat technique at any time you like. You can select which dance heat actions Haruka can use before a battle. They exhibit great effectiveness that can completely turn things around for you when in an unfavourable situation.

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Improving "Power of Expression"

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When she wins a dance battle, one of Haruka's "Power of Expression" idol abilities can be improved. "Power of Expression" is essential for victory in the Princess League.

Well... we are a lot like Russia. First, we lived under an empire years ago, then a very unstable republic emerged, then a socialist dictatorship saved the Dojo from financial ruin (but caused a civil war), and now we have a federation, if you will, that is still a dictatorship, but pretends to be a little more democratic than the last. And we love to ban (exile) rebels to Siberia or wherever. It's creepy weirdskie.

What, no "thank you," Martin ? I started the FREE MARTIN campaign that ultimately led to the revolution that set you free. You should be falling all over yourself making love with the concept of KiBa.

You didn't start it though, did you?

If I didn't, it's like Newton and Leibniz independently inventing Calculus.

KiBa created the campaign. KiBa also made sure it took off with the sig slogan.

Whatever you say, pal!

this topic is like people from post soviet states discussing the communist era :lol:

That's exactly what it is. :lol:

Strange memories on this nervous night at the Dojo. Ten years later? Eleven? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. The dojo in the early 2000s was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.…

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the dojo half-crazy and, instead of going home, surfing at Ryos place or some random shenmue websites, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the admins, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for some reasonable post)... but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that…

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Shenmue 3 forum, then up the SEGA forum or down General.… You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.…

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.…

So now, less than ten years later, you can go up on a steep hill in the dojo and look back, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

I get treated like I'm new. Even though I've been here since 2002.

Well he signed onto PSN just now and I messaged him. His exact words "I'm not coming back sorry".

I guess that means someone else will have to take his mod place or we have enough already. (And no I don't want to be one)

But I guess he is done for good.

Sad to see him go though, although I told him it's no biggy to me, it's his decision.

Well, he's got a lot going on in his life right now, what with the nude photo scandal and so forth, so I'm not really surprised. The Dojo is probably near the bottom of his list of concerns, right above England.

with a lack of Shenmue news and various personalities that linger around here that i just cant stand anymore, i fear posts will become less and less.

Message received. I'll quit for a while.

LanDC was my fuck buddy back in the day.

If I knew how to use them I would just build a full Yokosuka to run around in and explore. My fave video Lan DC ever did was the one where he ran down the streets of Yokosuka.
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When Shenmue 2 came out I thought - "wow, this world is so awesome. How amazing are games going to be like in 10 years?!".
Obviously everything went wrong from what I had imagined and games aren't more complex. Only graphics and sometimes mechanics are, but not the worlds and experiences/vibes.

I only wish they made the game similar to Shenmue 1 & 2 (to me they weren't that different in the way they played), perhaps an "alive city" like in S1 but with S2-style action and events. However I wish they made everything more "usable". Which means, the great part of Shenmue was how you could interact with everyone, everywhere in the "city". I wish it would go further and into more detail. So you could actually interact with different people in different ways, chat about more/different things with different kinds of people and most of all focus on the experience itself and not some virtual outcome.
I wish you could enter and explore more unique buildings, perhaps visit random people just for a chat and some little unique experiences (like, entering a Chinese village hut and having a chat with a Chinese Civil War veteran and getting a scroll from him or whatever) etc. Basically Shenmue was the most life-like game ever made. You could totally feel that you're in the 80s, knocking on random peoples' door and expect them to react life-like, and to some extent the game totally delieved that at least better than anything else. I expected more from the "future games", not only Shenmue and certainly I'm left with disappointment and perfect games remain only in my imagination.

It felt like Shenmue was kind of an entry gate to the awesomeness of life-like experiences in video games. You didn't get the experience you already know, what you're familiar with - in that sense it was more like holidays in a foreign world mixed with time travel to the 80s, filled with things you would actually do there and they were presented just like they could really happen - in detail and slow paced, so you felt like you were actually living through that day.
I wish Shenmue 3 would take that concept further. That's all I'm wishing for actually.

Sounds like a pretty unenthralling launch, both hardware and game wise.

Bring me back to 9/9/99.

Sounds like a pretty unenthralling launch, both hardware and game wise.

Bring me back to 9/9/99.

Well lets be fair, on 9/9/99 we knew a stronger (questionably) console would be out a year later. nothing tops the DC in my book but to me this was another hardware launch I don't think its any worse then most of the console we got hyped about before (its better then shelling out 600 to play Crossfire and Genji like we did in 06, I seem to remember a certain someone getting a Japanese copy of a certain blue critter.)

Sounds like a pretty unenthralling launch, both hardware and game wise.

Bring me back to 9/9/99.
I been reliving the DC launch last week or so because I'm that nerdy. Reading the mags playing some Shenmue then playing the hoard of Demo discs. My fanboyism for the DC has led me to always be amazed how awesome the thing is. So fucking ahead of it's time.

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I will always remember the launch of the DC. It was magic back then.

OH FUCK ME, I keep almost turning the console off since the power button is just below the home button.

The Walking Dead = Episodic content done right.


The wait for season 2 is going to suck.

not sure if anyone posted this here or not (too lazy to check) but ign relayed the info too. http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/11/23/fans-decide-sonic-all-stars-racing-transformed-dlc
3dsIsAfalure Guest • a day ago −
this gane is stuped and poeple need to stop bying cartoony e rated games cuz there destorying the industy.we need to b pushing forwards with grafics with ganes like black op 2 and not backwerds with horrable cartoon ganes like this.i hope nitedno and sega go out of buziness soon so they can just let the big boys runs the industy


:rotflmao:

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DOWNLOAD - https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qkby011a3tkgg2/Shenmue%20II%20Character%20Database.rar

Yep. After nearly a decade, it's done, people :D

HISTORY OF THE SHENMUE II CHARACTER DATABASE PROJECT
Ever since casting my eyes upon screenshots of Shenmue published in the (now defunct) UK magazine Computer and Video Games, I have been absolutely enthralled by the series. This game was definitely something different. As the famous tagline proclaimed in the trailers before its release – RPG had changed. Sure, hailing the game as being its own exciting new “genre” with a somewhat silly acronym as its name (FREE- Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment) was being a tad overzealous perhaps, but you had to admire Yu Suzuki’s ambition for this game. When I finally got to play it on the Christmas morning of 2000, it did not disappoint. The atmosphere created was just amazing to me – a realistic, living, breathing town with over 300 individual characters – all with their own specific daily routines and, in supplementary materials, all named and given detailed biographies! Throw in the fantastic music and the engaging (if not completely original) story and you really had something special. And this was only part one of the saga...

Bundled with the game was the ‘Shenmue Passport’ disc. Through the Dreamcast’s internet connection, this enabled access to all sorts of information about the game, as well as ranking leaderboards for the various mini-games and the chance to get exclusive capsule toys. One of the best features was the character profile section however; as you met and conversed with the characters during a playthrough, their profiles would gradually be added to the Passport. Now to some, giving all 300+ characters names, stats, and biographies may seem extraneous, (especially given characters that Ryo can’t even speak to have detailed information about them!) but it really shows the love and care put into the game by the developers and the amount of depth to Shenmue that few games have matched.

PASSPORT EXPIRED
The Passport service was eventually taken offline in April 2002, but thankfully the character profiles had also been published in Prima’s strategy guide book for the game, so the information was still readily available to fans.
Which brings us to the sequel game, Shenmue II – which I got the following Christmas in 2001. This sadly could end up being the last game in the series, despite it ending on a cliffhanger and at a game-changing point in the saga’s story. Nonetheless, the sequel’s world was even bigger than the first’s– Ryo travels to Hong Kong to continue his quest, with most of its areas completely dwarfing Shenmue I’s in terms of size, as well as the amount of characters – around 700. There was also a lot more mini-games and sidequests to discover, and fans generally agree it is more action-packed and that the plot moves a lot quicker than the first game (though some will argue Shenmue I’s atmosphere has more charm) And what of these 700-odd characters? Were they all named and profiled as per the original game? As it turns out, yes – but these were not readily available to the fans outside of Japan.

Firstly, unlike the first Shenmue, there was no Passport. There was no Prima guide either, as the Dreamcast version had been cancelled in America. America eventually saw an updated version of Shenmue II on the Microsoft Xbox, and a Prima guide was finally published. However, unlike the Shenmue I book, there were only profiles on the main characters; Ryo, Shenhua, Xiuying, Fangmei, Ren, Joy, Wong, Lan Di, Dou Niu and Yuan. The Xbox version, with the new snapshot feature, did include profiles on some of the other characters; unlocked when you took pictures of them, but it didn't come close to having profiles for all the characters. Would we ever know the names and backgrounds of the reams of anonymous characters?

A FAN EFFORT
Shortly after I had completed Shenmue II, I looked around on the internet for fansites/information about the series, ultimately finding the excellent Shenmue Dojo website. I joined the forums, and this was in fact one of the first message boards I signed up to on the internet. My handle on the forum was (and still is) ‘Miles Prower’, as I am also a long-time fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of games (and Sega games in general). I made a lot of good friends through the Dojo community and have many fond memories associated with the forums. I think between us we have probably discussed every single aspect of the games to death, but as many fans will attest, you find or notice something new with every playthrough of these wonderful games. Not to mention the very active hacking/modding scene that developed, mostly headed by longtime member LanDC, in which reams of unused content was discovered and many interesting and or humourous modifications made to the game. I still get a warm nostalgic feeling every time I watch LanDC’s Road to Amihama videos in particular.

And indeed, the question of whether detailed character profiles existed for Shenmue II’s cast was raised in discussion. In a thread from 2003, a member named Eek the Cat shared some scans of a guidebook he owned published in Japan called the Shenmue II Perfect Guidebook. The scans showed that there were indeed names and profiles for each and every character.
Eek was even kind enough to put all of the scans together on a CD for me and mail it to me, and even threw in a couple of audio CD’s he had compiled containing music from Shenmue II (sadly the second game never had any official soundtracks released).

The problem? Being that this book was from Japan, the character names were in Chinese and the information in Japanese. Through discussion in the topic, another forum member called khien agreed to help with translating the character names as she could read Chinese. And so began the effort to translate the many character profiles. I began by gradually posting them within the topic, and then eventually creating a website (which, thanks to Web Archive, you can still view here , albeit with most of the images missing).

Continuing into 2004 and beyond, progress was quite slow, mainly due to me starting university. Khien’s life ended up becoming quite busy as well, but thanks to the efforts of another forum member, Oda Ryo, the translation work still continued. The forum member Kiyuu (possibly Japan’s biggest Shenmue fan, and often referred to as the ‘Shenmue Queen’), also informed me that another book existed, the Shenmue II Complete Guide, which contained profiles for characters not included in the Perfect Guidebook; namely those for the many pedestrians who wander the streets of Hong Kong. I made the effort to acquire this book myself and make scans for the remaining profiles.

RESSURECTING THE PROJECT
As the years went on, however, my free time became less and less. I studied for three years at university and after graduating in 2008, I was working full time; in short I was growing up. It was also looking increasingly unlikely that a Shenmue III would ever emerge. Life went on. However, my enthusiasm to complete the project was somewhat fired up again when Peter from the forums (who most likely owns the biggest Shenmue collection in Ireland) got in touch with me on Facebook asking if I was still working on it, as the Dojo staff had managed to get an interview with one of the voice actors for the English dub of Shenmue II (a very interesting read by the way, which can be found here , and they had requested that video clips be assembled of the characters he voiced, which he supplied a list of – but only by name and brief descriptions. Using the information from my project I helped with finding some of them. I then found myself wanting to get the project finished once and for all, and got back in touch with Oda Ryo who happily assisted me with getting the remaining names translated.

I had also spoken to the member ‘thegreatchai’, who had also been attempting to catalogue the character information on her wiki site, and over time we assisted each other greatly. I began transferring the information to an Excel spreadsheet with the intention of creating a complete database of all the Shenmue II characters – which after assembling a numbered list I discovered there are exactly 700 – surely a deliberate intention of the creators? At any rate, after a few months work the project was finally finished. I am glad that this information is now easily accessible to Shenmue fans, and while some may consider me obsessive or downright insane for pursuing with the project, it was worth it for a game series that I love so much and one day hope will be continued in some form. We can but hope. The saga may still go on....

DOWNLOAD - https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qkby011a3tkgg2/Shenmue%20II%20Character%20Database.rar

Please feedback and let me know if you spot any mistakes or errors, or any factoids about the characters that I may have missed. Most of all, enjoy :D

I remember being psyched when you originally announced this project. Years later, I remember wondering and worrying about what might have happened to this project. I eventually dismissed it as never being completed and with Passport gone, that part of Shenmue (the detailed NPCs) was beginning to be a memory of the past. You have put closure on the security behind retaining all of that information and for that, I thank you. This milestone shows how serious the Shenmue community can get when it comes to the storyline and detailed information. You deserve a lot of credit and a front page news bulletin on every existing Shenmue fan site.

Yu Suzuki would be proud, send him a copy.



=D> :mrgreen: =D>

When there are huge conversations going, whenever new members post they're usually ignored by the long term members that are already talking amongst themselves, because of how well they already know each other.
Then i never really see those new members post again.

I remember when I first came here, I was ignored sometimes. But I kept going cause I really liked the conversations going on at the time and eventually I was heard. But I don't think i'm the most vocal or entertaining or popular guy on here, I just say my piece and go. More so now than before.

I don't really think there's an expectation to get immediately assimilated when they say one or two things (and if there is, it's not a realistic expectation especially in real life). I notice that alot of the people here who are remembered often had/have extremely strong personalities. Like you can't ignore their presence, for better or worse. And it has nothing to do with color of text or the number of paragraphs you type (well not solely anyway). It was the things they said.

Some people get noticed cause they're funnier. Some get noticed cause they're so bitterly cynical and attention seeking it's like a train wreck. Some get noticed cause they have interesting insight on a particular subject. And I like to think in my case some get noticed cause they bothered to stick around the longest.

Probably cuz the junk forum is gone. It was my Kowloon, a shithole but it was a beautiful shithole..

Hey, whats up.

Now I'll take my leave for another 4 years into the darkness.

That interview was sad. It kind of made me lessen my hope for Shenmue III.

You can see the lack of possibility of creating Shenmue III in Yu Suzuki's eyes. And Sega keeping the license and all.

It is inevitable. As for when, I could not say. Not all of it is the industries' fault, there's simply nothing you can do about other entertainment industries rising in the form of netflix/smart phones and ipads. There's more forms of entertainment competing for your dollar than ever and gaming developers are left battling for space in an ever shrinking sized pie. It doesn't help that ever since the economy meltdown people have less disposable income to spend on their hobbies either. But the industry does do some things that are very much in their ballpark that only seem to hasten their demise. Shipping out unfinished products with the belief that you can always patch later turns off a lot of fans to a franchise. But developers these days are so desperate to keep cranking out the titles at lightning speed to survive that they can't see their own desperation is diminishing their own long term longevity.

How I pray to the gaming gods that a (near finished) build of that will leak one day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foZUcPQAMvg
We have all seen this before but never fully sunk in for me until doing a little reading today.
Many have heard how when Sega panicked seeing the specs for PSone Sega rushed more processors in Saturn so it could contend with the more 3D game focused PSone. Also Saturn didn't use triangles like PSone or N64. used Quadrilaterals which was better but much harder to work with. So Saturn had a multitude of hardware problems that put developers off. So seeing this footage of Shenmue on Saturn to me this is far more impressive looking considering the machine they had to work with than Dreamcast. Dreamcast version looks great and even today. Just to me with all the damn hurdles Saturn had this is amazing and might be one of the best if not the best looking game on the big 3 consoles. Esp the faces for 32 bit era for faces to be that detailed and expressive was just not seen.

Part of the reason why I am already bored with this next gen is that I can't look forward to it when I'm afraid they're aiming to go all digital, or end the buying and selling of used games, or prevent offline play, etc. Half the fun is in collecting. I want to own something tangible, and I just want to be able to buy and sell and play games. The good news is that all this fear (that the gaming industry itself has created!) has caused a renaissance of indie games and retro gaming antiquarianism. How sad would it be if all that fun was crushed and destroyed in the mainstream by stupid greed? Just release a goddamn console without pulling any tricks! Doesn't anyone today even know how to keep the status quo? Things are good. We want innovative games, not whatever oppressive new technology you're peddling to yourselves. For I haven't read one design spec so far that was aimed at the customer. Rather, they're all aimed at their own bosses or greedy developers. I don't want to buy my own chain, and I highly doubt that anyone who knows better wants to either.

Father put us through quite a lot. Won't get into heavy details but it was very abusive in all 3 phases to me and my mother. Verbally,Physically,Sexually. While he was also an alcoholic there was a lot more to it. I know now the problems he really had now as I'm in the process of fixing my own. Well many kids when they go through these kind of things never forgive and always be angry. While it took me a few years before emotionally it no longer affected me. Just a few months after the divorce I decided to not hold a grudge and reconcile. Later in 2003 when I moved out of the house and mom moved to California. The man was broken and pitiful but trying to turn around. I became friends with him the last 8 months of his life. We got to be pretty close. I knew his time was short but I did not know how short. I long ago got over the anger or any real emotion anymore. Just was able to forgive and move on pretty quickly.

I did manage after his passing to repair the bridges he burned with the family where now I am fully accepted again. Proud of that.


Not just my father either. My last place of work the man who helped nearly kill me. The man who contributed to my bad heart and severe anxiety. My last boss. I actually think it took me a little longer to get over this than it did my dad. Now when I got out of the hospital I was told to sue this guy. At the time however I just wanted to heal and get better and felt I rather not focus any more time on him and move on. Also not long after I got out he was fired along with the rest of the Managers from that store. My former workers said they were so much happier they were gone. I like to think I helped. Smiths I know was scared as they were very aware of my situation and no doubt scared I would bring a lawsuit.
I did get some revenge on the guy as about a year ago I saw him and he kept trying to avoid me. I caught up to him acted nice gave some chit chat showed him my then fresh stitches and all pacemaker scar lol. Freaked him out. I am sitting here now and while I am disabled and every so often need a trip to the ER. My only feelings towards him is gratitude. Life has never been better and done more things I wanted to do and love since then. It may seem I do nothing but sit but am now studying Japanese, Collecting, Making content on YouTube saving a trip to Japan. Getting the best mental and physical health care. Made some new friends. Top it off developing a PC game myself! :D

I know it's not a piece of paper and not a measurable way of an achievement. Just I feel I have achieved ultimate forgiveness and a path towards being truly happy.

Greatest achievement in life for anyone has to be not being killed in some way yet. Just think about all the things in life that could have killed you from simply eating bad food to driving a car 80mph everyday surrounded by other cars going the same speed.

Well as a Shenmue fan my greatest achievement was when I went to Yokosuka.
As for my life when I quitted my crappy job years ago that was my beginning to become economically independent and learned the value of self- education. I learned way more than what you learn in college and all my life in school.
Right now I am working to more achievements I want to live in Asia and go to Hong Kong.

It's current state is to RPG's what current Biohazard is to Survival Horror. A shadow of its former self.

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Winner: James Brown Time Scored: 3:49:36

Entry Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tNlV9tKERc

Competition Rankings

1. James Brown (UK) - 3:49:36
2. Moonwalker123 (AUS) - 4:14:43
3. SONICSPEED36 (UK) - 4:32:56
4. Bertie Wiseman (UK) - 4:39:30
5. Sailesh D. (USA) - 4:40:83
6. Mestre (POR) - 4:48:66
7. Michael K. (IE) - 5:09:00
8. iQDaTruthMTL (CAN) - 5:11:13
9. Giorgio Sotiro (GRE) - 8:03:40

Lmao, well kinda accident i guess. I think they just wanted to show a "screenshot" of Shenmue to underline the article, my fault that i made that pic so much in-game alike. Well no claims by me, since imho all props go to SEGA/AM2, without them there would be no master K renderings at all. But yeah kinda funny since it's the 2nd case i know where some webpage reports about Shenmue and accidentially displays one of my renderings as a "screenshot". Well i take it as a compliment XD

Haha thanks guys! Can't believe some of you still remember me, it's been about 10 years i think :D...

Couldn't figure out my log in, I thought my username was jamesbrown, but i can't get it to work o0...anyways...it is me :D

Super happy that I won, I couldn't believe it...I must have been playing for like 6 hours straight for like 3 or 4 nights remembering all the different enemies, what works on them, and what doesn't, and to be honest, I think it was like the last 20 and the boss that I managed to take out pretty quick, cause watching the video back now, the start is slightly embarrassing haha, me running kicking thin air, hehe. But yea awesome stuff! I'm surprised that only 9 people entered?

Although I won't be crazy active, I hope to post again from time to time, especially since this competition reunited me with the game I love, and it's amazing community that has supported and stuck around this long. It's nice to still see some familiar names.

All the best guys, and thanks for putting on this comp, I really enjoyed it. I'd have bought the statue anyways, but this is fantastic!

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Every 3rd of the month, Shenmue fans descend upon Twitter to participate in the Shenmue Tweetathon. United around the hashtag #GiveYuTheShenmueLicense , the gaming community takes this opportunity to speak with one voice in support of Yu Suzuki's efforts to make Shenmue III a reality. We encourage everyone to spread the word and be heard on the 3rd! You can learn more about the campaign here .

To mark the June 3rd event, we are pleased to announce the winner of our 70-man battle competition held in conjunction with First 4 Figures . Brawling his way through the grueling gauntlet of Mad Angels in an impressive time of 3 minutes and 49 seconds , James Brown from the UK has earned himself an Exclusive edition Ryo Hazuki statue. Congratulations James! The winning video and competition results can be viewed here .

YouTube Journalism! Because facts dont matter!

my close friends from high school, shane, works at disney interactive and is at E3 right now and posting pictures of him at E3 on his FB and im like, ok im jelly bro. Me and him and his twin brother jon have all played many hours of video games and watched many hours of anime together along with a handful of my other friends from back then, we used to have like weekend sleep overs, we would go to the arcade play DDR, Soul Caliber 2, Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken 4, and were in hot anticipation of getting Tekken 5, MvC 2, Street Fighter 3rd Strike etc etc etc all in the arcade and this was every day after school. I used to play alot of fighting games back when I was mall rat (one of the arcades was at the mall, it was the arcade with the "good" DDR machine, those of you that have played DDR arcades know what I mean) I think it had DDR 3rd Mix, the one across the street had DDR USA and it didnt have as many good songs. This was around the time of my nerdiest years when I was 16-19, watched anime every single day, mandatory had to, I made a rule to watch anime every day back then. Games I was just playing back to back, also the time I played FF10, FF7, FF8 for the first time, in that order, Phantasy Star Online, Grandia 1 and 2, Lunar 1 and 2, Skies of Arcadia, fucking shenmue. The glory days man, my last couple years in high school was when I really got into JRPGs, and became a true gamer and also experienced some of the best games of all time. I really miss those guys from back then, but most of them have spread out unfortunately. Some of you guys here may even remember parts of that, and here we are almost 10 years later and have seen alot of great games in that time period, cheers to the good ole days.

Sensei! Please, teach me, how?

When I find time I'll send you a private message and show you how.

Ryo's waiting to get at the canned tuna, and Lan Di wants a closer look at the tapes, but they're both too polite to make it obvious. The longer it lasts, the more the awkward stalemate becomes a battle of wills, until one of them breaks and says, "Sorry, could I just... Thanks." The other wants to then celebrate a quiet moral victory, but can't overcome the feeling that it's a hollow one. A mildly bitter resentment lingers on both sides, escalating to paranoia when they cross paths again at the chilled goods section, little able to hide it in their eyes as they emphatically offer to let the other have their pick first, because oh, you've just always got to have it your way, don't you? No, no, be my guest you little prick. Have the whole fucking store to yourself, I've got all day. All freaking week. Give me a call when you're done, no problem at all.

And so the Shenmue saga... begins.

Hey Dojo.

We finally have a Shenmue Community thread over at Neogaf. This is all thanks to our good friend IrishNinja. I think we can all agree that this is well overdue.

What this means is that we now have an extra outlet to expand the Shenmue fanbase, #saveshenmue campaign, projects, videos, etc.

Thousands and thousands of people will see Shenmue daily. This thread will revolve around everything Shenmue, so if you have an account, feel free to subscribe. I will be actively including everyone's work into the thread, so that you all get the recognition that you deserve. Check out the thread below.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=779411

In addition, there is also another active Shenmue thread which strictly focuses on the Shenmue Campaign.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=762839

If you want to include anything in the opening page, post it here and I will pass it on to Irishninja.

Hopefully, with GDC, E3, and TGS, Shenmue will turn into the monster that it once was.

Enjoy.

:)

^^And even if you couldn't enter a door in Shenmue/II, Ryo would still at least interact with it, either knocking or trying to pull it open to no avail since it's locked. Gave off the feeling that even if you couldn't enter, something still exists behind it. More games ought to do that kind of thing.

Just hooked up my dremacast and started playing shenmue 1 . I just cannot wait for the time to pass!

Damn...
I can halfly relate. I had been having diffuse pain down there over a year ago, got some infection apparently but tests didn't show any bacteria or transmittable diseases (which they suspect first of all). With some pills the pain eventually went away but came back a few months ago. I also have some trouble with a nerve in my back (due to work before) which radiates so I thought that this maybe was the cause.
But I did notice a "floating" lump where the pain seemed to radiate from. Finally they checked with ultrasound two weeks ago and told me that it didn't seem dangerous. Just today I got a letter again, confirming that it was a benign cyst attached to the pipe work down there ;) We'll see.


So glad to hear that its nothing serious. Good on you for getting it checked.