Random Shenmue Thoughts

[ShenGCH]

Anyone getting a vibe here? Near my house.
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Absolutely. But it's missing something...

 

[Switch]

For those interested in the recent TV show about members of a Japanese idol group trying out Shenmue, here's an English transcript!

https://www.phantomriverstone.com/2023/09/japanese-idol-group-plays-shenmue-on-tv.html

 

[Truck_1_0_1_]

lol awesome, but the staff couldn't beat Chai on the first try? I did way back when!

 

[Eishen]

 

[24Nathan]

This is a great read. https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/09/04/shenmue-is-a-beautiful-grief-simulator

 

[code l name]

This is a great read. https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/09/04/shenmue-is-a-beautiful-grief-simulator

Wonderful read, thanks for sharing. When listening to the Dojo’s music discussion podcast the other day, it really struck my how melancholy a large part of the first game felt, largely through music. It wasn’t until my adulthood I could better articulate and understand the feeling of grief, dealing with loss and sadness the game often dips into or explores.

It’s really fascinating for such a huge production to focus on that. I mean it’s right there from GDC presentation-

 

[jurassicriveria]

Was Randi the VFRPG Lan DI?

 

[chaikilla]

I know I'm probably really late to the party on this but it looks amazing. If the original Shenmue titles were Sony classics, we could have got a remake of this calibre.

 

[code l name]

I know I'm probably really late to the party on this but it looks amazing. If the original Shenmue titles were Sony classics, we could have got a remake of this calibre.

I’m not sure if this is still accurate but I know at one point they talked about bringing this guy on to help work on Dragon/Phoenix game. With Lemon no longer part of this community, I’m not sure who could clarify this anymore.

 

[WuyingRen]

I’m not sure if this is still accurate but I know at one point they talked about bringing this guy on to help work on Dragon/Phoenix game. With Lemon no longer part of this community, I’m not sure who could clarify this anymore.

Wait, wut? Lemon left the dojo? When did that happen?

 

[KiddMarine]

Wait, wut? Lemon left the dojo? When did that happen?

https://www.shenmuedojo.com/forum/index.php?threads/server-admin.5427/

Not sure what happened but it seemed to be pretty ugly.

 

[WuyingRen]

https://www.shenmuedojo.com/forum/index.php?threads/server-admin.5427/

Not sure what happened but it seemed to be pretty ugly.

Thanks for sharing. I rarely venture into that part of the forum and so had completely missed that whole thread. That sucks. Lemon was an important part of the Shenmunity. If there’s no chance of reconciliation, I hope that he continues his good work elsewhere.

 

[spud1897]

I’m not sure if this is still accurate but I know at one point they talked about bringing this guy on to help work on Dragon/Phoenix game. With Lemon no longer part of this community, I’m not sure who could clarify this anymore.

He was brought on at one stage but not sure if that continued or not.

 

[KiddMarine]

 

[darksniper]

SEGA of America 1997 internal documents posted online, showing e-mails and revealing profit margins

Have you ever wanted to know what SEGA of America talked about privately about SEGA as a brand goi…

segabits.com

Not much about Shenmue here unfortunately, but some interesting things about SEGA regardless. The only tidbit we get is that as far back as March 1996, SEGA Of America was planning on Virtua Fighter RPG being released in May 1998 for the Saturn (page 199).

This further supports my belief that Shenmue would have had more success had it released on the Saturn first than the Dreamcast. If Shenmue would have released before Metal Gear Solid and stole some of it's thunder, it would have brought a lot of eyes on what the Saturn could really do. There was already nothing like it when it came out on the DC, but rewind it a generation earlier and it would have been even more of a technically renowned software piece than it already is.

In a perfect world, Saturn would covered the events to the end of Shenmue 2. Then the real Shenmue 2 (what we would consider Shenmue 3) would have launched on the DC with them wrapping the series up in around the 3rd game. One can only wish

 

[Catchanysailorshere?]

This further supports my belief that Shenmue would have had more success had it released on the Saturn first than the Dreamcast. If Shenmue would have released before Metal Gear Solid and stole some of it's thunder, it would have brought a lot of eyes on what the Saturn could really do. There was already nothing like it when it came out on the DC, but rewind it a generation earlier and it would have been even more of a technically renowned software piece than it already is.

In a perfect world, Saturn would covered the events to the end of Shenmue 2. Then the real Shenmue 2 (what we would consider Shenmue 3) would have launched on the DC with them wrapping the series up in around the 3rd game. One can only wish

I'm pretty sure someone had said that exact sentence the same way but was proved to be incorrect

 

[jurassicriveria]

Work have told me that they need me to do forklift training this week.

 

[Seaman]

Work have told me that they need me to do forklift training this week.

Here you go

 

[jurassicriveria]

Here you go

That was amazing

 

[JP_]

Here you go

Pretty damn good for a rookie