I'm really hoping that, in Shenmue 3, they won't be using Japanese character variants in Chinese writing, as they did in Shenmue 2. I'm talking about stuff like this: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EDwimdjz00c/WAcu6yPBdBI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/x5Anr2Z2z50vr-QFExhgKIN5cVrqDAUMwCPcB/s320/BuyingMap.png http://1.bp.b...

To me it's more about what Open World features I don't want to see, like absolutely NO mini-maps with quest/enemy/item GPS tracking (actually no quest tracking at all on the UI if possible other than Ryo's notebook), NO battle HP item use and NO vast areas devoid of anything interactive, but merely...

Things are looking good, my friends...

I'm a bit surprised no one so far has included Kingdom Come: Deliverance in their list. Maybe it's just me, but when I watch those developer videos they have on Youtube, and see just how ambitious they're being in trying to be as true to (medieval) life as possible, and with an insane attention to d...

Do we know anything about the volume of spoken dialogue? Voice acting is expensive. I hope they can manage to have it all voiced like in the past.. Oh yeah, couldn't agree more about that. That's one of the things that made Shenmue so special back then. It would be a real shame if they took a step ...

Keep it Shenmue style bad and cheesy but has that certain charm that's grown on us? I'm sorry, but I fail to see any "charm" in it. As much as I love Shenmue, its English voice acting was absolutely atrocious in pretty much every aspect. I mean, I already thought it was bad back then, whe...

There was this promise in the beginning that backers would have an unprecedented level of involvement with the development of the game, and they've done such a lousy job fulfilling it. Thank God for that. I was never too keen on that idea. I don't want backers interfering on the game's development....

I hope you all feel bad like I said you should. :) Yep, can't say I didn't see this coming. I mean, I'm obviously not happy about Shenmue 3 being a no-show, but most people here were just setting themselves up for disappointment, being insanely hyped and acting as if it had been confirmed that Shen...

OK, not wanting to be that guy, but there is waaayyy too much hype on this thread for something that has never even been confirmed. While I too am looking forward to see if we get some nice Shenmue 3 news (and I do agree that chances seem good), there's a real possibility that there won't be anythin...

I don't see much of an issue about backers' faces, tbh. The Guilin region is a very touristy area and nowadays it is hard to find some place with no western tourists around, even in the rural areas of that region. While western tourists might have been somewhat rare in the 1980s Guilin region, Refo...

Not sure if anyone around these forums have mentioned this already. If so, my apologies. As we all know, some of the Kickstarter rewards include having the backer's face in the game. It seems to me that, as nice a gesture of appreciation as that may be, we are all worried that it may be immersion-br...

Great topic! I'm something of a sinophile, so trying to guess possible Shenmue locations all over China makes me very hyped and giddy. I've even learned Chinese and lived and studied Chinese in Beijing for one year and also made several long backpacking trips a little bit all over China (and am alre...

FUCK YEAH!!! If someone asked me just two months ago, I'd say that Shenmue was dead and that Hell would freeze over before we got Shenmue 3. And yet, today, here we are, Shenmue 3 is happening, this is the best video game related news I've ever had in my life and it's the most successful video game ...

I noticed the Baisha buildings were Tulous as well! I posted it to reddit yesterday, but no one seemed to care :( Here's another wikipedia article about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_walled_village Apparently they're designed to be easily defensible, which would make sense, as Baisha vi...

Yeah, I got the feeling that Choubu will be the game's main area. The structures seen in the artwork, by the way, are called "paifang (牌坊)" or "pailou (牌楼)", but those can be found all over China (and other places in Asia), so the tulou in Baisha's artwork really caught my eye. E...