LAMEWAD wrote: ^ Just to clarify Peter, when you said "this one is by far the best" were you referring to the 3rd or 2nd one you posted?

The bottom book.

It seems like something corrupt just happened.

Sorry I missed saying Happy Birthday to you Lamewad. So I will do it now. Hope you had a good one.

Happy birthday to everyone i have missed!

Scheman, NOW I remember who you are!

Happy Birthday.

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Simply beautiful.

http://i.imgur.com/e3MfX.jpg
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I have nothing from Japan or China but I have what reminds me of Shenmue.

That gate when I see it every time
I think of Ryo asking "Where is Wan Chai?!" The banners I have because of Shenmue and remind me of the Hazuki Dojo. I have all my Kanji because of Shenmue. My Dream to go to Japan is because of Shenmue. Shenmue brings Happiness whenever I play it and that it why it sits on top of happiness. That is why I made a spoof video on Shenmue.

Nah, the original just had a more Funky Radio.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMgHCL7dhEs[/youtube]

DOWNLOAD: http://soundcloud.com/rukunetsu/earth-a ... eme-of-ryo
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_EbI_pJMoA

That GameCube must of donated to the Dojo..

Burning Rangers HD possible if Nights sells well? Hope so.

https://twitter.com/okunari/status/253453198227017728

Hi, All on Shenmue Dojo
I'm trying to make a Custom USA Black Dreamcast Cover and Back for my 99 Min copy of Shenmue II English Voice.

At this time I only have a good disc cover for the 2nd disc and trying to make the other 3.
(if you like to see my disc 2 cover you can if you like)

If some people can help me get some good photo of Shenmue II cover art and Shenmue locations that are on disc 1,3, and 4 .

Thank you for all your help.

I've look on google and other site to find photo but all the good ones are to little and bad looking.
also the cover art on "theisozone.com" is not what I'm looking for, someone on "theisozone.com" made a great cover and back but someone f*&$ it up by adding some logos on it in Windows Paint.
http://www.theisozone.com/images/cover/dc_1851.jpg
http://www.theisozone.com/images/cover/dc_2422.jpg


Hi Vash,

I'm the guy who did the ORIGINAL version of that cover. I didn't add the amateurish MS Paint logos. Holy crap. Slapping "SHENMUE 2" on the back? Really?

I did that custom cover when I was 18, in fact I think it was the last custom one I ever did. I was surfing around on Google and came here. I was so angry to see what some ********** has done to it that I had to sign up. I see that it's been adapted since for other covers, but that first one you posted is especially inept!

Not only that but I made the cover for US/Canadian gamers who had imported the Euro version of Shenmue II (I live in Europe but found Sega's EU DC cases and covers to be butt ugly). I didn't make it for "ISO zone" kids with CD burners who expect other people to finance their entertainment for them. Although I guess this late into the game, piracy is a moot point for Dreamcast games. (And I'm guessing you've sent a good amount of cash Shenmue's way, so adding English voices sounds like one of the better uses of a CD burner to me :) )

Anyway, here is the version that I did, with the front, back, and inlay (which would ideally be printed onto the backs of both sides). It's intended to fit a quad-CD case, like the US release of the first game.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/furev9

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Spring at night

It makes him happy you dick. Leave it out yeah.

They should throw us a curve ball and have Lan Di as DLC. A Black Car for driving, helicopter for flying, and.. a boat (to Hong Kong) for the water segments?
Yes. He uses a private boat to get to Hong Kong. Like a boss.

And Ryo? Maybe some kind of water motorcycle similar to the boat he takes at the end of Shenmue I? LOL!

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I watched the show, purely to see what the fuss was about. Watched it with an open mind. I actually don't fucking get it. It is literally *just* a kid's show. Totally unremarkable.

also if ryudo is gonna get shit for having a nintendo christmas tree, and people who like my little pony aren't, there is something wrong with the world.

On TV they were trying to interview one of the stars of this show, but she seemed to be a little hoarse.

Just installed this.

Not really pissed off, but more disappointed.

Neil Cavuto (Fox News Interviewer): How does it feel to be the last man to walk on the moon?

Eugene Cernan: Horrible.

Last man on the moon: 1972.

Thanks to wude for providing me a save file.

Well they've been saying that for 4 years. Its kinda hard to take what Svensson is saying seriously on a good day.

I'm just don't trust Capcom. They very often do things like this "Hey we love fans" and then a week later they do something really messed up. I'd like break down in tears of next week they fired Papa Kawano or Ono or something.

It is, ultimately, a totally pointless thing to bitch about anyway. Boxart doesn't affect the game itself. It's there for marketing and selling it. He makes a good point, even though I found little fault with the boxart in the first place (the main character with a gun; surely a proper representation of the game's contents, at the very least).

Hooray!!!!!

Thanks!!!!

I will be keeping them in great condition.

Thank you!

Thief wrote: Super excited!

Just because Superman can break out of handcuffs doesn't mean he will.

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Hope you guys are doin ok. Just been partying and spending far too much money in Sydney. But tomorrow that all ends, and i really try to get a job. Been scary at times, and have even thought about going home once or twice. The financial aspect brings so much pressure, never mind the fact that i am with my sister and her 2 friends who constantly talk abouy guys and sex. In Sydney, i cannot get a girl for shit, there are just far too many good looking guys here. But i need a job. Badily. But hope all is well, and i will try and check in more often :)

Well Fahrenheit is perhaps one of gaming's biggest problems. Its not so much that its bad, as a game it isn't terrible it works most of the time, but its full of such pretentious bullshit that its hard to take the game seriously.

The first thing was how they sold the game. They hyped it as a TPS but thats not really what it is, but I remember even watching an E3 show where they compared it to Max Payne(which was what got me excited).

So this is all "expectations", granted they kind of brought this upon themselves by hyping it a certain way, it dosen't explain why I got annoyed when booting up the game.

But there was one more pre-release mistake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO9ke7ohkv4

Yea....where to start here. This game designer decided to jump into the game, having his team use time and money making this demo where he teaches you to press buttons. I mean this guy claims he invented QTEs (which he calls soothing stupid like interactive events) and actually believes this is a new genre (Hello Dragon's Lair)

then there comes the story (which I don't remember too well, but considering its like 2$ on gog i might beat it again for shits and giggles) but I remember pretty distinctly that the story makes no effing sense. Its like, he was made to kill someone, but then he didn't, but no he did, but now he's having sex?

You know Heavy Rain is basically the same game now that I actually think about the story, even the pacing because doesn't the sex scene happen like halfway through?

See thats part of what makes this all a problem. If David Cage keeps saying something people just kind of assume its true. Did he invent QTEs? Are there games with multiple endings? Also isn't his entire view on game design completely anti actual y;know game design.

I need to replay the game to get into the specific story stuff but I'll cut myself off on the implications of its actual creation.

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don't know but maybe someone posted this one before, this song is filled with good memories for me, really nostalgic

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3dB0qEcG20[/youtube]

I'll just kind of hit the bullet points for the IP hate.

-As Segata mentioned, the level of pretention seeping out of every bit of it is nauseating as hell. I don't need the director to have himself rendered into the game, just to tell me how great his game is. This is the very definition of being up one's own ass.

-The QTE's make absolutely no sense from a control standpoint. Look at the ones in Shenmue; they follow a certain logic. If Ryo is going to throw a punch in a QTE, chances are the button you have to press will be the same one you'd hit to punch during the free battle mode.
In IP, this logic is nowhere to be found. QTE's are relegated entirely to thumbstick control, and basically just go in random patterns while a video plays. It's not an interactive cinema scene, as you'd find in Shenmue; it's just a cutscene where you have to fling the thumbsticks around for no reason. It's lazy and dumb.

-The stealth bits are just flat-out awful. Truly the worst stealth sequences I've ever played. I don't remember the specifics, I just remember for the first time feeling like I was absolutely wasting my life playing this crappy videogame.

-There's almost no aesthetic congruity throughout the entire thing. It'll first try to present itself as some kind of mature thriller, then it'll have an idiotic sequence where two characters are literally kung fu fighting in a sparring ring, then it'll have giant bugs chasing the main character through an office building, then it'll have something involving Mayan prophecies in a museum, then it'll have ancient energy beings flying around Matrix-style in another kung fu fight. It's about as idiotically random as can be.

-Necrophelia.

You know, I think the worst thing about it is that it has certain elements that legitimately could have been great.
The initial concept of the main character being possessed into killing someone, and later finding out that it was done in an insanely precise way, severing each individual artery connecting the heart to the rest of the body...
That's really cool. The idea of it tying in to the method of Mayan sacrifice or something makes it seem even cooler.
And I do remember a couple of sequences that felt like they should have been more affecting to me; one involved the main character visiting some old woman in her apartment on a snowy day, the other involved him searching a library for something or another. Something about those two instances just struck me as having great potential for atmosphere. But they ultimately failed, because the rest of the game was just so damn poor. The context killed them both entirely.

It's just a truly bad game. I don't say that often at all, because most games have at least some merit to them. But IP is just poorly-made trash. It starts out okay , but very, very quickly abandons anything it could have done right.

With Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain and Omikron, I really think one should look at the positives rather than the negatives. We all know the storytelling is bad. But so is on a lot of other games.

The QTE was bad in Fahrenheit, but I really dug mimicking the actions of the character, like you'd do later with HR. I played it on the PC so perhaps it was better there than with the analogs. But at least he was doing something different.

I think his works, rather than being looked at like commercial products were the labour of a pretentious lunatic, if you want to call him that, but that at least tried to do things differently, tried to pick up the format of a video game, but didn't make them from a fixed genre. People get very angry at his stories, but I think that's beside the point, really.

They're not great games, but they were great experiences in game-making. I think, with all of them, with what he tried to implement, all had very novel concepts in it, that people didn't pick up because they were so unfazed by the narrative. If they were less story-heavy and drew more from the gameplay they'd be classics.

Don't really get the My Little Pony thing myself, but I don't really see the big problem with it either. So what if some men happen to appreciate a cartoon show with cutesy characters? It's not really anything new or that out of the ordinary.

Last week I was at a holiday party by one of my insurance carriers. It turns out I was the only agent invited to the head table by this carrier. I sat right next to the VP of the company that night and for some reason they really like me lol. They must be sick or something haha. Anyways, I met this Italian chick and really hit it off with her, tonight we had our first date and it went quite well. Hoping it amounts to something good. :)