If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

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If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby khmlight3 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:28 am

What would your thoughts be lets say if Shenmue V is the last Shenmue game. Would you be fine with a spinoff game called Shenmue Life being created after where you can make your own character have your own life in the Shenmue world? Please dont hate me for this idea I know this may be a dumb idea but I would like to see it when the Shenmue story ends!
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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby Let's Get Sweaty » Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:56 am

I'd buy it.

A big part of Shenmue's appeal is in presenting a world that people want to live in, with a local community that actually feels like home to the player. That could definitely be expanded upon with a separate game that branched into a more Animal Crossing or Second Life style of gameplay.

It would need the right marketing to appeal to those crowds and not just a subset of the Shenmue fan base though.

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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby Niowiad » Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:07 am

You mean the MMO experience? I'm fascinated by those games but they are too time consuming for me.
I was thrilled by the idea of Shenmue Online in my late teenage years but as of today things radically changed. :|
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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby khmlight3 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:09 am

Niowiad wrote: You mean the MMO experience? I'm fascinated by those games but they are too time consuming for me.
I was thrilled by the idea of Shenmue Online in my late teenage years but as of today things radically changed. :|

In Shenmue Life you would be able to play offline and online!
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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby Niowiad » Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:27 am

khmlight3 wrote:
Niowiad wrote: You mean the MMO experience? I'm fascinated by those games but they are too time consuming for me.
I was thrilled by the idea of Shenmue Online in my late teenage years but as of today things radically changed. :|

In Shenmue Life you would be able to play offline and online!

Oh well in that case, if they can ensure an even comparable quality level, I would definitely play an offline side-story with a character created after me. :-k

Never really thought about it in Shenmue, but I really enjoyed that concept with the last SouthPark RPG :king:
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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby Kiske » Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:18 am

I guess I would buy any game with the name Shenmue in it.
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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby shredingskin » Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:47 am

I would buy it, but I don't think it would work.

Shenmue's world is interesting because there's a story there, a definite goal, and even the sense of atmosphere that Shenmue created would be diluted if it weren't for those narrative elements.

It would have to been a lot more cartoony to approach "worklife" without being too serious and being enjoyable (thinking about those harvestmoon-type of games). And I just don't like those open ended games or mmorpgs, seem addictive for the sake of being addictive without much content (or at least the content I like).

It wouldn't be a bad idea of thinking it as an adventure game, were every citizen has some sort of story/quest ala Yakuza (or that even stretches over a whole narrative), but I don't see it as a big difference between that and the actual Shenmue. But I would love a game with similar mechanics but with a different story, a serial killer in yokosuka, a prostitute, a policeman, maybe even just a romance story (that it's an inexistent genre outside of VN).

I would take any contemporary setting in games though. I'm fucking tired of medieval/sci-fi settings.

And it makes me realize that they also cut the tokyo/like city from ffxv that appeared in the versus trailers :mad:

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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby Yokosuka » Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:15 pm

My vision of a Shenmue spinoff would be rather a true Shenmue game without any combat but focusing on investigation and enigmas. The main character may be Shenhua further into the story, in a city at present days or sometime in the past. Maybe with free time travel. Oh damn I basically ask for a Shadow of Memories game.
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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby Let's Get Sweaty » Fri Jul 07, 2017 3:01 pm

Yokosuka wrote: My vision of a Shenmue spinoff would be rather a true Shenmue game without any combat but focusing on investigation and enigmas. The main character may be Shenhua further into the story, in a city at present days or sometime in the past. Maybe with free time travel. Oh damn I basically ask for a Shadow of Memories game.

Or Life is Strange: Day of the Incident.
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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby darksniper » Fri Jul 07, 2017 3:09 pm

It would be nice if they did a Ren of Heavens spinoff game with Ren as the main character. That would be sick!
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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby khmlight3 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:09 pm

darksniper wrote: It would be nice if they did a Ren of Heavens spinoff game with Ren as the main character. That would be sick!

That would be cool!
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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby BlueMue » Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:19 pm

The first idea for a spinoff is obviously a fighting game with all the characters that have a proper style in game.
The roster would easily be big enough for todays standards.

A spinoff inside the established world of Shenmue would be awesome. Like absolutely revisiting Dobuita and Wan Chai as a different character with totally different goals and gameplay elements.

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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby Steenkoud » Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:35 am

You mean a Shenmue Online type of game?
Im okay with it. As long as they finish the original Shenmue story first.

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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby Sonoshee » Mon Jul 10, 2017 3:22 am

khmlight3 wrote:
darksniper wrote: It would be nice if they did a Ren of Heavens spinoff game with Ren as the main character. That would be sick!

That would be cool!


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Re: If a Shenmue Life Spinoff gets announced!

Postby ShenmueForeseen » Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:36 pm

I'm gonna go against the grain on this one and say I don't want it. I don't want the name tarnished by yet another run of the mill MMORPG.

For me Shenmue is all about Ryo's story. Without Ryo, is it Shenmue?
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