Controls should be analog.

Hah! my arse, D-pad FTW!

http://dcmedia.ign.com/media/previews/image/shenmue2/controller2.jpg
http://havefaithdesignit.com/indexfolder/images/rose-tinted-glasses.png
I think someone's being blinded by nostalgia :P
Let's face it, Shenmue's controls are clunky and uncomfortable and definitely need a modern overhaul.

The inclusion of a free sausage roll from Greggs for every tier above $29.

My brother once made up this rumor that if you buy coffee from the vending machine, there's a chance that Ryo will drink half the can and then spit it back out again in disgust. Even though it wasn't true, I feel like I've seen it happen before.

I'll still buy Shenmue 3! I'll still play it and own it.

I'm just thinking, maybe I shouldn't invest thousands of dollars in it.

You are such an attention seeker.
Don't want to contribute thousands of dollars? Don't. We're not going to stop you. Stop thinking you can intimidate the Shenmue community by throwing your toys out of the pram and having a little temper tantrum.

You're like the kid at school who brings the football but takes it away and tries to ruin things for everyone because they're loosing.

Donated $5. I really wish I could have donated more but sadly I'm not able to at this time. I really hope that we can get his name in the game. I wasn't really around when he was most active, but I've seen some of his posts in older threads. It seems he always had a positive attitude and was always willing to help the community out. He definitely deserves this. Kudos to those who organised it.

I love how your title is "Asia Travel Representative" and you're planning to set up some traveling plans. Remember what happened to Ryo?
(Only joking of course )

I'm sure most people are aware of this by now, but just in case some aren't I'd like to make something clear about watching the end of the Kickstarter campaign.
It's not over until the counter reaches 0 minutes and 0 seconds. Don't get hyped or make any assumptions before this. Sadly troll pledges seem to be a big thing across many Kickstarter campaigns nowadays and we've already seen people do it to Shenmue.
I expect to lose 10 - 15k in the last couple of minutes (unless the final rush is so frantic that we're getting at least a thousand every few seconds) and if we are only just over the Bloodstained record (which to be fair, we might not even hit at all), it may push us back down.

Again, this might seem obvious to some, but how many times did we celebrate reaching 5m?

It isn't over until Yu Suzuki sings.

I'm a bit of a strange Shenmue fan. When the first game came out, I was only two years old. However my brother had a Dreamcast and Shenmue and I always watched him play it. A few years later, I too began to play the game, but being a very young child the most I ever did was buy toy capsules as I didn't even know that there was a story to progress (I also thought that Ryo's name was Shenmue :oops: )

Soon we got an Xbox and the faithful Dreamcast was put away but I never forgot the game where you buy drinks and toys. That eventually blossomed into my love for Shenmue. As I got older, I realised that there was much more too the game and that there was a deep story to be found. I started looking into the game more, reading about the characters and watching other people play it online. My understanding and love for the series kept growing until I pretty much knew the entire plot and almost every detail.

But when the Shenmue III Kickstarter was revealed, I realised that I never did revisit the game for myself. I never sat down with the intention of playing it on my own and taking in everything at my own pace. Tonight, despite being a huge fan of the game and franchise (which I know after reading this, some of you are going to debate), I finished Shenmue I on my own for the first time. It was completely different to watching a lets play. I feel that only now can I truly appreciate just how immersive the game is - something I didn't get from reading about the game or watching videos. It really feels as if I've rediscovered the game. It took me back to when I first started researching the plot properly. After doing such research I didn't think my love and passion for the franchise could grow any more, but I was very, very wrong and I realise now that whilst I thought the wait for III was a painful one, it was nothing compared to what a majority of you here were forced to endure. I got it easy.

So I want to thank the community for doing what they did to make Shenmue III a possibility. Whilst I'm a latecomer in loving the franchise (and an even later one for appreciating it fully) there's very little I wanted more than a third installment. I can only imagine how bad the people who have appreciated the game fully for 14 years wanted one. This is one of the most passionate fanbases I've ever seen and It's an honor to finally appreciate and hold the same passion.

I have a feeling that this is not the end of the road yet either. I still have Shenmue II to play. Maybe it will happen again.

Did we break Kicktraq or is this supposed to happen?

Taren Fox wrote: IMPORTANT: Is anyone recording the LiveSteam? This is Shenmue history.

Twitch will do it automatically so no need to worry.

Just bought a Radeon R9 290X GPU to replace my old Nvidia 650ti.

The thing is a beast! One of the biggest graphics cards I've ever seen. Somehow I managed to fit it into my mini ITX build but I can barely get the case's shell back on now lol.

Please excuse the dustiness under my desk and on the top of my case! I can assure you it's been dusted since this picture was taken :P
https://i.gyazo.com/cea4780baca85d85178972a33fd7af5c.png

Can anyone else confirm that about Blitter Limit Pix/Sec?
I have no idea what Blitter Limit Pix/Sec and doing google search was not helpful.
Does this makes a difference in certain scene that I can check myself?
I am trying to find the best performance settings available.
I have no idea what it does but the difference is like night and day for me. However these things can be hardware dependent and what works well on my PC might not work so well on yours. Try it and see if it does anything for you. Spending an hour or so tweaking settings to find the best config for your machine is really worth it. It's all trial and error in the end.

Or it could just be that around a week ago, we all threw a combined total of 6.3 mil at them, and they are in no real hurry to get the Paypal page up because they know we're all currently broke :)

Speak for yourself. I'm sitting on millions. I just want them to work for it.
YS NET Behind the scenes
https://youtu.be/7bXjWRXDFV8?t=11s

I don't know the extents the search has already gone to, so forgive me if this suggestion is something that you've already tried, but I noticed that you tried reaching out to him on Facebook. Have you reached out to anybody on his friends list, mainly people he might have listed as relatives or close friends? I know that there's a language barrier but if you haven't tried it yet, it really might be worth investing in a translator. I'd be willing to donate towards that and I'm sure other members of the community would be too.

Demul is running better in Win 10 64-bit than it did in 8.1 64-bit for me.

I really like this video actually. Sure, it makes reference to the whole "Kickstarter only used to gauge interest" idea, but it does it in a neutral way and looks at a number of different points and arguments. I definitely wouldn't say that they are misinformed unlike a number of other game journalists. It also shed some light on the planning of Shenmue III which is always nice to see.

(they also used snippets of my video which was a nice surprise for me :D )

Scottish Stereotype:
http://anglotopia.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/friedpizza.jpg
It's a fried pizza crunch (basically a pizza battered and deepfried) with chips and chippy sauce!

No, but in all seriousness, I have to agree that Mexican food is great. But Indian food is also fantastic. Went to a really good Indian restaurant (one that served the kind of food that they would actually eat in India and not our interpretation of it) and it was one of the best meals I've ever had.

There was a Seaman 2?

How the...

SMDzero wrote: What if the world literally ends the day before Shenmue 3 comes out??

My guess is that it would ruin the chances for a fourth installment.

If anyone is interested, BBC's Billie JD Porter is currently doing a series of documentaries which look into the lesser known social issues facing modern day China. Despite the fact that this isn't even slightly related to the China we'll be seeing in Shenmue III, I still thought I'd share it here as it's a very interesting watch and it's still sort of vaguely relevant to this community. The first episode expires on the iPlayer this Wednesday.

If anyone wants to take a look, here is the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b068232r/secrets-of-china-1-fit-in-or-fail
If you're outside of the UK, just find some browser proxy and you should be fine.

Absolutely fantastic work!

After 14 years, Ryo and Shenhua's epic staring contest has finally come to an end.

This is ridiculous. I can't believe that there are people here who actually think that it would be viable to make Shenmue III using the original Shenmue engine.
One minute, you complain that these pre-pre-alpha screenshots don't look good enough and point to a shit Shenmue and then next you suggest that using the DC engine would somehow make it all better? As if that engine is completely flawless? Do you not understand just how limited that would make the game. Remember all of those stretch goals that we so hope to achieve? They wouldn't be possible using the old engine. Maybe Shenmue III could have been done back in the day on that engine, but we need to stop living in the past. Shenmue III isn't a game from multiple generations ago, it's a game for the current gen and that needs to be expected and accepted otherwise it isn't going to be an enjoyable experience for anyone.

And for those who think that these incredibly early screenshots suggest that YS.NET don't know what they are doing, can we please use this as a reminder of just how much things can change:
Lan Di (Project Berkley)
https://i.gyazo.com/fa42c18bb253a2dc20e3bc889efe78b5.png

Lan Di (Final)
http://www.vgnetwork.it/images/Shenmue/Shenmue-landi.jpg

What's the point of using a more powerful engine, if the people using such, are doing way worse then what has been done with another, yet older engine?

And what are you basing that on? Some pre-pre-alpha material? If you were to take a look at ANY game this early into development cycle, they'd all look much, much worse than the final project. Is the concept of improvement over time foreign to you? Or do you expect the team to finish in 3 months and then have some beers and kick it back for a few years before deciding to actually release the game?

I don't think it's fair to claim that he's a troll for suggesting this. He's not trying to bait or fool anyone, just sharing a thought.

Personally, I don't think the fortune teller has any relevance. Just seems like a hint system for stuck players, and obviously they'd want to make it look mythical explaining the similarities to the Phoenix mirror.

Oh hey, Mittens is back. That's pretty nice.

Amir wrote:
Wonder if the striped T-shirt will replace the Ryo jacket as the Shenmue cosplay of choice.

New PayPal reward: Yu Suzuki's striped shirt (Limited to 1).
Would sell in an instant!

It's just been re-uploaded to the official channel. I wonder why it was taken down in the first place.

We need to remember that it isn't just us. We need to appeal to new audiences with no prior knowledge of Shenmue and they aren't going to take a game in a series that's supposed to be 'revolutionary' seriously if the font is written in Papyrus.

Congratulations!

When you do something that needs a loading screen such as enter a city or a building then, no doubt keep them. But in an open world where you can seamlessly cross into different regions, I don't think showing them for the sake of showing them is really a good idea.

Haha wow, that was surprisingly accurate! Good job.

Knock Knock...

If the Shenmue Dojo had a dating service, what would it be called?

GYO6161 wrote: Has anyone reported any slowdowns on Demul. Im curious if Demul is able to emulate the dreamcast limitations.

I recently played through Shenmue II on Demul and never got any slowdown.

Who is the most sleepy character in Shenmue?

Here is a better version of the subtitle font file that was posted to 500k a while ago (it supports numbers and punctuation).
Can't remember who made it, but all credit goes to them:
https://mega.nz/#!XF01jJiQ

Here is a better version subtitle font file that was posted to 500k a while ago (it supports numbers and punctuation).
Can't remember who made it, but all credit goes to them:
https://mega.nz/#!XF01jJiQ

It requires a password. Do you know it or who to get it from?
Oh, sorry, I've never uploaded to mega before. This should work:
https://mega.nz/#!XF01jJiQ!jLikh3-cm4Da3vptyaCcxVgJhwVCrP38GueLeBaqJF0

Looking good so far! I can potentially do titles and end cards when the time for them comes if you like?

That would great! At this point I don't what I'd want it to look like though. I was thinking of opening with the Shenhua prologue, then having a custom "title screen" per se that's similar to the original (the one I used as the thumbnail for the trailer), but obviously it would say Shenmue: The Movie . If it were animated that would be amazing, but a static background would be enough, and I could chroma key a flashing "press start" prompt over it. Immediately after that would be the iconic opening cutscene at the dojo.

I could easily do an animated version of the title screen, including a "Press Start" prompt. Just let me know when you want me to start on it and if there is anything else you want added to it! There's obviously no rush, so feel free to think of some more ideas. Feel free to PM me and hopefully I'll be able to get it exactly how you want it.