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I can't imagine SEGA saying "you can use the name but if you use the font we will sue your ass back in to retirement".
Amen.
I can't imagine SEGA saying "you can use the name but if you use the font we will sue your ass back in to retirement".
The current one doesn’t. I’m referring to the very first papyrus logo used on the Kickstarter.So it does bother you?
Very good point, it definitely does look better when it isn't embossed or have any color. My only thought pertainint to some legality/license fees would be the logo font itself costs extra per month/however long and many times it is used during development. Could go back to the original logo for release; simply saving a few dollars for the past couple years with a different logo.Not a huge fan of the golden version of the logo, but the flat white version is growing on me a fair bit actually.
The original logo would still be the best option, but this looks fine to me:
Pretty sure that's always been the case.And if it IS real just as simple as Suzuki really liked that kindergarten fingerpaint logo better, than I'm worried he's gone George Lucas/Kojima on us...
You guys are also forgetting that Yu Suzuki has some pretty bizarre taste at times, especially when it comes to western stuff. Wasn't it in a dojo interview where one of the English VA for shenmue said that it was Suzuki that specifically requested they speak in such a bizarre way?
“And here’s a thing about Shenmue that made it even more complicated, and I can’t recall why this was the case, but for some reason we were also looking for voice actors who would physically look like the characters. I think Suzuki was planning to do some kind of non-videogame media thing. Like there’s that guy Corey Marshall, who played Ryo. And Debora Rabbai too. I hired these people. I came back to America, right, and I found some unknowns and some knowns. There weren’t enough actors in Japan and it was the case that Mr Suzuki wanted a good looking, young unknown. Like an actor. Not even an actor, a young newbie... I don’t know what he was thinking, actually, because if you look at the page of actors on Shenmue Dojo, they’re all good looking people. And Deborah Rabbai, I remember interviewing her in America, she’d had a lot of experience working with animes. Look at these people, these are voice actors that were hired partially because of their looks. Doesn’t that seem strange to you?”
“The one thing you can do to make hiring a voice acting cast even more difficult, you can add this condition: they have to be good looking. So here we are with this ridiculous thing added on top of it. But we weren’t going to say no. So I went back to America, I put out advertisements and I got a couple of people. And the people I got were Deborah Rabbai, and certainly Corey Marshall. And he did martial arts, that’s one of the reasons why he got the job. So I wrote contracts and sent them back to Japan. Corey had never been to Japan, he’d never done acting. We were doing some weird stuff, and that’s just how weird a project Shenmue was. Nobody else was doing anything like that – flying actors from one country to another.”
Despite all the hard work that went into finding Corey, the end result was not without irony, as Blaustein notes. “Now, let me recap. We’ve done a worldwide search for this guy, we find a complete amateur, not hugely talented but good looking enough to be called good looking. He did martial arts so we could say he did them. He satisfied a lot of the checkmarks, and then they changed his voice electronically at the end of all this, to make him sound younger! Isn’t that ironic? Isn’t that hilarious, that after all that work they change his voice?”
Idk. I did not like the new logo at first, but I'm starting to get used to it.
You also have to think that with budget constraints and fan expectations they're trying to stick to the feel of the old games and not try too many new things in S3. For Yu Suzuki, someone who loves to try new things and keep moving forward, changing the logo might be one of the few things he can really do to satisfy has creative urges to venture out into the unknown. Let Yu have his logo dammit.
Sorry, but why would Sega allow the use of the IP and all assets, but for some reason prevent YsNet from using the logo? It's strictly Yu Suzuki's choice.
I don't think it's sad, it's definitely eccentric but ulimately I think his peculiarity as a developer did far more good than harm, at least from my point of view as a Shenmue fan.@Bambi
That was incredibly interesting, hilarious...and, simultaneously, kinda sad.
Wow!
Interesting that THQ are using the normal logo. Do you think they pulled rank on it?
THQ Nordic had another presentation yesterday: http://www.thqnordic-investors.com/app/uploads/2018/08/THQ-Nordic-AB-publ-Interim-report-2018-Q2.pdf
They are back to using the "proper" logo that matches the original Shenmue logo back in the Dreamcast/Xbox days. Also of small interest is that they use Shenmue I & II as one of their "selected upcoming releases". It is listed ahead of Sonic Mania Plus.