[TimmiT]

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Classic Game Postmortem: Shenmue

• Who: Yu Suzuki | President, Ys Net (with PS4 lead architect Mark Cerny translating)
  
• When: 2:00PM-3:00PM (12:30-2pm set up)
  
• What: Yu Suzuki will talk for the very first time about the creation of the console classic, Shenmue. Beginning with the origin of the title as a Virtua Fighter-based RPG on the Sega Saturn, he will take the audience through the long journey of the game that led to its ultimate release in 1999 on the Sega Dreamcast. (via the GDC website)

Will be live streamed on Gamespot tomorrow: http://www.gamespot....s/1100-6418362/

Also, Mark Cerny has the loveliest voice in the entire game industry, so that's another reason to watch it.

EDIT: It's over. Here's the archive for those who missed it: http://www.twitch.tv...pot/b/512524852

This post has been edited by TimmiT: 19 March 2014 - 05:09 PM

[Mecha Sally]

Figures it takes place while I'm at work. -_- Will be interesting to see how it goes. I'm certain a lot of people are hoping for an HD remake announcement but I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

[Miles Prower]

In before a Shenmue 3 / Shenmue HD "Only on PS4" announcement.
I want to believe

TimmiT, on 18 March 2014 - 11:25 AM, said:

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Classic Game Postmortem: Shenmue

• When: 2:00PM-3:00PM

Timezone?

This post has been edited by Miles Prower: 19 March 2014 - 09:59 AM

[TimmiT]

Miles Prower, on 19 March 2014 - 09:56 AM, said:

In before a Shenmue 3 / Shenmue HD "Only on PS4" announcement.
I want to believe

TimmiT, on 18 March 2014 - 11:25 AM, said:

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Classic Game Postmortem: Shenmue

• When: 2:00PM-3:00PM

Timezone?

PST.

[TimmiT]

Update because it starts in 7 minutes: http://www.gamespot....e/2300-6417813/

[Meat Miracle]

TimmiT, on 19 March 2014 - 03:53 PM, said:

Update because it starts in 7 minutes: http://www.gamespot....e/2300-6417813/

>Please use a Flash capable browser to watch videos

wow, even porn sites don't need flash nowadays! Good old gamespot for you I guess.

[Donnyku]

man lots of stuff that would be great for Sega Retro to have, sadly I can't really save anything due to not being on PC

[Meat Miracle]

Miles Prower, on 19 March 2014 - 09:56 AM, said:

In before a Shenmue 3 / Shenmue HD "Only on PS4" announcement.
I want to believe

It was the first question in the q&a, hahaha.

[TimmiT]

Meat Miracle, on 19 March 2014 - 04:43 PM, said:

Miles Prower, on 19 March 2014 - 09:56 AM, said:

In before a Shenmue 3 / Shenmue HD "Only on PS4" announcement.
I want to believe

It was the first question in the q&a, hahaha.

I love how Yu Suzuki's answer was literally "...".

Also, for those who missed it: http://www.twitch.tv...pot/b/512524852

This post has been edited by TimmiT: 19 March 2014 - 05:09 PM

[Caniad Bach]

I can't see it right now. Any notable highlights or hints?

Don't worry if it was all development and legacy, I'm just interested if anything was said on Shenmue's future.

This post has been edited by Caniad Bach: 19 March 2014 - 05:18 PM

[sonicblur]

Caniad Bach, on 19 March 2014 - 05:16 PM, said:

I can't see it right now. Any notable highlights or hints?

Don't worry if it was all development and legacy, I'm just interested if anything was said on Shenmue's future.

Polygon has a written summary of it:
http://www.polygon.c...game-postmortem

In short:
He talked about a prototype about an old man and a pear tree that was created before hand. Then it became Akira RPG. Then it became Shenmue when they decided it should launch on Dreamcast and not be limited to the Virtua Fighter franchise. The most interesting part I think was that the original story was broken up into 11 chapters and there was a concept sketch for each one. (Shown during the presentation). A few of those concepts resemble things we know from Shenmue 1&2, like one with Ryo and Ren and the Phoenix mirror. But there are some others that show things which could only be speculated at this one. One looked like it could be Ryo with a group of people from Bailu village. The presentation only lasted about 38 minutes, and he stops before Shenmue 2. Overall, I don't think anything too significant was revealed.

I did find it interesting to know that a lot of the areas were procedurally generated. I kind of assumed that maybe the buildings in Kowloon had furniture layouts stored somewhere, but it sounds like those are actually calculated at runtime.

[Miles Prower]

Slides 15 and 16 basically tell us the whole Shenmue story, with familiar characters (hello, suspicious Niao Sun look-alike). Including the ending.

Very interesting conference. Of course, I'm still disappointed by the lack of Shenmue HD / Shenmue 3.


Heh: http://www.eurogamer...nto-kickstarter

TimmiT, on 19 March 2014 - 05:02 PM, said:

Meat Miracle, on 19 March 2014 - 04:43 PM, said:

Miles Prower, on 19 March 2014 - 09:56 AM, said:

In before a Shenmue 3 / Shenmue HD "Only on PS4" announcement.
I want to believe

It was the first question in the q&a, hahaha.

I love how Yu Suzuki's answer was literally "...".

The translator said "dot dot dot".
Yu Suziki said "作りたいですね" > " Tsukuritaidesu ne" > "I want to make", according to a japanese friend.

More on this: http://www.computera...make-shenmue-3/

This post has been edited by Miles Prower: 20 March 2014 - 09:12 PM

[sonicblur]

This has been floating around recently, and I figured I'd post it here in case anyone interested hasn't seen it yet. While it's completely unfeasible for him to do this for the entire game, I hope he releases whatever he decides to do someday.

This post has been edited by sonicblur: 17 August 2014 - 07:45 PM