Random Shenmue Thoughts

BruceWayne911 said:
Once the Shenmue series is over Sega should release Shenmue the complete OST soundtrack. It would be like 300 tracks. I'd buy it no matter the cost.
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300 bucks well worth it(just the first two games comes to 800 tracks, not counting the unused tracks). I imagine it would have to cost atleast 500+, unless they release it on a unrewriteable thumb drive, instead of discs.
 
Its crazy that a great game like Red Dead Redemption 2 gets praise for its insane level of detail and its immersive realistic gameplay. Sega had a game(Shenmue) back in 1999 that was doing those things but more. My mind gets 🤯 just thinking about the hundreds of NPCs that had daily routines and mini back stories.

IMO the downfall of Shenmue was Sega's bankruptcy. If Sega was able to squeeze out 2 more console life cycles I believe we would've only been 1 game away from completion. The Dreamcast only sold a little over 9 million units and with Sega's bankruptcy on the horizon Shenmue 2 was doomed. There was no way another developer was gonna invest the type if money Sega had already.

Going forward Yu has said he wants to make Shenmue more appealing to a wider audience(way points, mini maps, time skip, etc). I don't have a problem with this I just hope there is a Shenmue mode were you can enjoy the game as it was meant to be.
 
BruceWayne911 said:
Its crazy that a great game like Red Dead Redemption 2 gets praise for its insane level of detail and its immersive realistic gameplay. Sega had a game(Shenmue) back in 1999 that was doing those things but more. My mind gets 🤯 just thinking about the hundreds of NPCs that had daily routines and mini back stories.

IMO the downfall of Shenmue was Sega's bankruptcy. If Sega was able to squeeze out 2 more console life cycles I believe we would've only been 1 game away from completion. The Dreamcast only sold a little over 9 million units and with Sega's bankruptcy on the horizon Shenmue 2 was doomed. There was no way another developer was gonna invest the type if money Sega had already.

Going forward Yu has said he wants to make Shenmue more appealing to a wider audience(way points, mini maps, time skip, etc). I don't have a problem with this I just hope there is a Shenmue mode were you can enjoy the game as it was meant to be.
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Yea I agree, but frankly I'm pretty positive the only reason Red Dead Redemption 2 got the praise it got, was because It's a rockstar game. Everyone's always sucking off Rockstar, even though the only widely known IP under their belt, is GTA. For some reason the media acts like rockstar is ATLUS, Square or even Capcom, which have a long history of releasing masterpiece lv games. However in reality, Rockstar is more like a Bethesda, if Bethesda actually had competent coders(speaking of which, Bethesda's another company that gets praise they don't deserve).

We've had mini maps throughout the entire series, as well as way points(time skips existed, except in 1 too), so this worries me. I seriously don't want a map pointing out my next objective, and current points of interest. It would utterly destroy the entire point of Shenmue to beginwith. If people wanted that kind of stuff, they should go play a ubisoft game.
 
SEGA has announced that Herzog Zwei will be the last SEGA Ages game for Switch. However, the company is stating that they will continue with re-releases for the platform! In addition, the former SEGA Ages team’s next project is already in the works for Switch. Here’s what SEGA had to say, courtesy of Nintendo Everything:
“Although the SEGA Ages project has come to an end with the release of Herzog Zwei, there are many games in the collection you can still buy and play. So please check them out if you don’t own them yet. However, this doesn’t mean that this is the end of SEGA’s plans to re-release past titles. I, along with SEGA’s own (Rieko) Kodama and (Kagasei) Shimomura, are currently hard at work on our next project. At this point in time, unfortunately, I can’t tell you whether or not M2 will be involved. If this makes you think, ‘Oh, then they’re definitely doing something with M2,’ I hope we can live up to your expectations.
Considering SEGA Ages has ended, some may be wondering if we have plans to continue re-releasing past titles on Nintendo Switch – I want that to happen. I hope to bring something over that will really satisfy Switch players. So until then, we hope you’ll look forward to it.”
M2’s Tsuyoshi Matsuoka also shared the following:
“For us at M2, there are still a lot of other titles we want to port over as well. Personally speaking, I want to re-release SEGA’s entire history of interactive games!”
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Imagine an M2 Shenmue port (doubtful :’()
 
BruceWayne911 said:
Going forward Yu has said he wants to make Shenmue more appealing to a wider audience(way points, mini maps, time skip, etc)
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I'm not worried about this. The series already has 2 out of the 3 anyway.

I think everyone is getting worried about way points but I don't see the big deal. S2 allowed you to mark points on the mini-map and NPC's would take you places, this is just an extension of that in a modern way.

I can see way points working, just have the player be able to set their own so they can easily get back to a shop or locale. Even if the games are telling you where to go to an extent, it won't be without figuring out the location first anyway.
 
So are Nagoshi and Yu still friends? With Sega owning the rights to Shenmue they could make a Yakuza X Shenmue game? I know they would still run the idea past Yu and Nagoshi out of respect. They ciukd use the Yakuza dragon engine and just add the Shenmue 1 cast maybe even Ren.

This game would sell well as many here have point out the Yakuza games sell anywhere from 500k-1M. Yakuza assets are already in place so all they really have to do is focus on Shenmue character models and maybe Dobuita.
 
I don't know if I post this here or in the small details post but I didn't find out til a few months back that you could actually call Nozomi and thank her for the flowers. That blew me away! I don't believe you can thank her in person though. What a truly masterpiece of a game. That even 20 years on I'm still finding out new things.
 
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I was thinking about how cool it would have been if the player in Shenmue 2 was tested on their knowledge of the Wude in a qte situation.

For example, imagine if during Ryo's first meeting with Ren, he gets a knife put to his throat and Ren tells him not to move. If you don't press a button, you successfully complete the QTE, just like in the barber shop. Ren is impressed with Ryo's guts and this opens a door to the optional event with Yuan.
 
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