Recent content by chaikilla

Thanks for this. Yu really was ahead of his time with the magic maze technology to get around loading times. I'm not 100% sure but I think this was used in Shenmue 3, Niawou specifically, where Ryo was forced to walk on a certain part of the map to allow time for the area ahead of him to render...

I think Chai was just in training and that's why we didn't see him in the second game.

Niao Sun and Chai's interaction before Yanglang and his thugs went to Bailu village...

This was an amazing find. I really like Yanglang's DC model. He was clearly meant to be more important than a random thug, what with him appearing in at least 2 GDC cards as well. This is speculation but Shenhua's fathe not dying after all the death flags and parallels we were given makes me...

First of all, I wish you a speedy recovery. This thread resonates with me somewhat because I have been listening to some Shenmue osts recently and Serene Nights (the one that plays during nighttime chats with Shenhua) has caught my ear. It has even made me want to play Shenmue 3 again for the...

The original Shenmue still has secrets that have only recently been discovered. For example, Ryo using a shoryuken on one of the harbour thugs courtesy of inputting a sequence of buttons before the cutscene begins. This made me wonder if Shenmue 3 has anything like this. I'd doubt it, because...

Oh man, Dino crisis! I was speaking about this with a friend the other day and he looked through me. It's refreshing to hear someone mention it... I'm slowly but surely getting through then Silent Hill 2 remake. I lowered my expectations and it has exceeded them all so far. Goober did a great job.

He tornado kicked a beer bottle into Roy’s face under the guise of ‘teaching’ him the move, so we know he can be pretty sneaky already…

Bailu wasn't perfect but I still enjoyed that portion of the game. The Niawou chapter was so poor that I consider it to be the biggest stain on the legacy of the series. In my mind, that section of the game has to be revisited and touched up either in a potential remaster of s3 or s4. This is...

I will buy it for myself if there's something new added. I will buy and gift it to my brother if it's a straight port for the Xbox.

I would like Yu's original vision for the game to be realised. Every 'for the fans' addition would be scrapped. No need for lucky hit vendors or an arcade in Bailu village. Remove modern appliances from Shenhua's house and resurrect the primitive feeling it had in Shenmue 2. Add Baisha, the...

Imagine a trailer where Yu says 'the PS5/PC game was for the fans but this director's cut is for 🤬 me!' before it pans to a clip of Shenhua levitating, Ryo firing Hadokens and a dragon and phoenix fighting in the sky, followed by the 'exclusively for Xbox' sign.

Thanks for that. I used to be petrified of Chai and my young self got a jump scare from it when I put it in the cd player 😂 I thought it was a fake memory for a second.

I would love a director's cut version where the end portion of the game was touched up but I'm just glad the series hasn't been forgotten about. I will definitely buy it if it has been tweaked or something has been added...