Rakim, here you go. It's hasty, but the point is sketching in quantity.


3.

This is quite different, but here you go





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Axm and Yama, I enjoyed those nature photos, particularly these:

 




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Having these is really nice. Thank you for your efforts.

As OL pointed out, it's not about misogyny. It's about androcentrism.
Having said that, games are as much androcentric as society itself.

St. Elmo's Fire wrote: Awesome skillz;

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It's incredible by itself but, with both hands?

There shouldn't be a Shenmue III.





I win.

And now for something completely different

It seems to be that a lot of people that prefer the Japanese dub don't even speak Japanese. If so, how can you have an educated opinion on that? Not saying anything about Chaikilla's Japanese skills or lack thereof, but that seems to be the case with a lot of people.


It isn't a dub, it's the original track. Speaking Japanese has anything to do with it - the work's identity, singularity and cultural connection suffers from being stripped of the original expressions and mannerisms (which people are keen on hearing regardless of their mastery of the language), much like any dubbed French, Italian, Russian, Japanese or Korean films would.


Voilà!
Ecco!
Ni Pukha, Ni Pyera!
Wakarimashita.
Ah... Shibaloma.


What blandness, having these replaced with "Here you go" or "Got it".

[color=yellow]Shenmue is inherently spiritual anyway, I think it's the mysticism that's throwin everyone off.



I wouldn't agree that it is inherently spiritual, since we're are far from sure whether the story and setting (i.e Lan Di's reason for collecting the mirror) originally stems from such concept. Also, I should say, growing from boy to man isn't a spiritual transformation, as it's been said. Personally, regardless of the so-called prophecy in the epilogue, spirituality seems far from taking any kind of major place in the series, prevailing, instead, the mundane and everyday's relationship with it. On the deeper level, philosophy, especially through Ethics, is fundamental to this story of perseverance, accountability and emotion - natural, human endeavours.

Perhaps we ought to have some sort of reference in both main site and board index. I would suggest adding to the headers some reference of the deadline and stressing the 10mil urgency, with a hyperlink to the kickstarter page , beneath or even replacing the home hyperlink. Credit to ash55 for the Shenmue III png file.



Maybe something resembling this

http://i.imgur.com/2YuV5dJ.png




Is it worth it? What should be taken off or added in?

Courtesy of mue 26

Olha, um português. Excelente tópico, Rei, obrigado.





Having this setting conceived by Yu Suzuki for a Shenmue game gets me more excited than it ought to.


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Here. These serve as a suggestion. George (Yama) would do a better job.

What a beautiful creature, Outlawstar.




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England belongs to Europe?

Rakim wrote: Sepultura - Arise

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I saw Dave Grohl mention them in an interview and decided to check it out. Nice shit!

Here's some more Sepultura for your enjoyment

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I'm sorry people are so easily offended. I'm sorry people are too weak to toughen up and continue on with their life. I'm sorry people feel the need to identify with a gender, race, nationality, sexuality, or religion rather than just identifying with their own self. And most of all, I'm sorry people are too lazy, or apathetic, to attempt to fix a problem after they have identified it as being such.

Do not think that I am belittling anybody for being transgender, black, white, gay, a christian, a satanist, or any other arbitrary reason. No. I only belittle the weak and the lazy, because their actions have allowed them to be belittled.




You proceed to claim that people seek to be identified with a group - which is precisely what they are against - and then criticize them for being lazy and apathetic in solving the problem (Wait, isn't fighting for what they believe what movements like feminism are about?). You belittle the weak because their actions have allowed them to be belittled? Even without going into questions of free will, I will just point out just how profoundly obtuse that remark is.


I can't be arsed to reply to your obnoxious response to our argument ( Failing at a conversation ? Are you 15?), but I'll make the effort to remark something which should be made quite clear. This isn't about movements, the need to belong, or of identifying with something greater than themselves. It's not a case for "feminism".

I got my Star Wars interest mostly through KOTOR and KOTOR II. To anyone remotely interested in Star Wars, I'd say that's your safest bet.

I love the halloween art! So cute :)


Truly? Personally, from the start of the campaign I've wondered about the reason of this juvenile and, for the lack of a better word, corny theme, along with its corny fonts and over-enthusiastic, marketing-like exclamations.

As an appreciator of the overall imagery of Shenmue, from character and environment design to the cinematography, and also its immersive and enthralling atmosphere, I gotta say overly "cute", gleeful and jolly manifestations and exclamation points aren't really things I relate with the whole aesthetics and, more importantly, concepts of the series. It doesn't reminisce capsule toys and, for all of its quirky characters, this goofiness of sorts seems ill-placed in the world described in the original writing. As a crowdfunding project, I would say it detracts a lot more new fans than otherwise.

Trusting in Yu Suzuki, I'm confident this pertains exclusively to the campaign team's design and visual culture ineptitude and that it won't somehow seep through to the actual game.

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 transitional areas just to walk or run by.

Other than those I also have to point out to NO narratives that betray the game mechanics, like an avatar worrying about having enough money to live by and swearing to not use violence unless necessary but when translated into gameplay, he is able to amass a fortune in no time and is able to shoot or run over any NPC in front of him (GTA IV); or an avatar on a quest of uttermost urgency but the game doesn't actually press the gamer to do that in any way (Skyrim).
Well said. Couldn't agree more.
While games have evolved and Shenmue 3 would do well to learn from them in some aspects, thus also evolving, I do want Shenmue 3 to still be Shenmue and not yet another open world game, full of gamey stuff and hand-holding. To this day, one thing that Shenmue 1 and 2 still do better than all these modern open world games is their sense of immersion. Shenmue doesn't need, and shouldn't have, an overbearing HUD where every little thing is explained to you, where you'll never need to learn its streets, where you'll always know exactly what you should do next to advance, as if you were playing with a walkthrough. Sure, Shenmue needs to evolve, because, let's face it, the first two games are pretty outdated now, but it should not lose its soul and should not change the things that are still good about it just for change's sake and/or because "that's the way things are done now".

What I was thinking is what will be the size of Ryo? 2/3 of the screen like in the previous games or less? Will it interfere with the identification we have? And will we be able to move the camera freely with the mouse on the pc version ?I wonder how the gameplay evolution will impact our feelings towards the game. So much question... What do you think?


I think they should change the camera angle.

No one wants to look at Ryo's gargantuan caboose all day.
Disagree with that one. I think the fact that the camera was so close to Ryo, and kinda low, thus allowing for a better view of the surrounding environments, was one of the reasons why Shenmue was so immersive. You felt more inside of its world, so to speak.
Of course, as someone suggested before, an option to walk around the world in first person view would be lovely and would make it even more immersive. I once saw a video of a Witcher 3 mod, which allowed just that, and it made a huge difference. Would definitely love such an option.


Concordo com isso tudo.
I'd welcome a playing screen without HUD in it, or at least the option to conceal it.