http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay5nTVljWZw

This could be nothing, but then again this always can be a hint. Either way any grain of Shenmue news is good news for me. Always fun to reignite speculation and discussion. What are your thoughts? Is it merely some magazine making their own predictions? Do they know something we don't know? Should I stop talking? Fire away.

Hahaahaa ok. Just google resealed games and begin your education from there Mr krueger

Ryudo wrote: Oh look a Sailors Shenmue Joke...except he was in the first so the comic makes no sense..yay?

It makes perfect sense. He sees sailors and goes off so his not in the 2nd which is what the comic says.

Hey guys i'm new to this board but liking it since i'm lurking here a while.
I'm a german gamer and played my whole life videogames but nothing just ocarina of time and shenmue got me so addicted. Btw: please excuse my bad english.
Love Shenmue since i got my hands on it in the early 00's and can't wait for an HD collection and hope SIII will hit the stores in the near future!

Now i want to discuss with you about my theory about SIII, so lets start:

a couple of days ago i got bored of all those new games like cod, assasins creed and other moneymaking commercial games and i surfed the internet about good old times in gaming history and so on but then i informed me about the upcoming nintendo console the wii u and watched a tech demo which was presented on e3 2011, here the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9bhS_mMjPU. as you can see this demo shows japanese houses and has for me a bit of this virtua fighter and a bit of shenmue look. furthermore this tech demo is a bit similar to the shenmue intro with the eagle flying around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNDChSl42Xw

and here a worker of nintendo of america about the tech demo, interesting at the end so about the 6. minute the interviewer asked who made the demo he must declined but take a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ5KXO4hQ8k

Ok this isn't really convincingly that this can be a note for shenmue 3 on the wii u but i got more informations that it could be possible that nintendo want the shenmue franchise so look at this article
http://www.destructoid.com/rumor-shenmue-hd-has-been-done-for-awhile-now-223972.phtml

so hold those hd collection back for future plans ? hmmm well ok another thing that got me up was that someone here in the forums got a link to a page were its written that nintendo plans to make with sega some deals


what do u guys think about that ?? could there any connections ?? i mean if the hd collection is done for over a year why poor sega didn't released them on xboxonline and on the psn ?? it sounds so strange to me

Hello and welcome to the board.

I was very interested by the tech demo at the end of your last link

Both Reggie and the interviewer have a little joke while asking if this is a retro tech demo and he also gets asked who is the developer and Reggie smiles and says "im not gonna say..im not gonna say"

Nice find! :)

Thats the first time me seeing that demo so thanks for that. I could see the possibility of Suzuki having a hand in that demo, definitely. Curious who actually made it.

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DOWNLOAD - https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qkby011a3tkgg2/Shenmue%20II%20Character%20Database.rar

Yep. After nearly a decade, it's done, people :D

HISTORY OF THE SHENMUE II CHARACTER DATABASE PROJECT
Ever since casting my eyes upon screenshots of Shenmue published in the (now defunct) UK magazine Computer and Video Games, I have been absolutely enthralled by the series. This game was definitely something different. As the famous tagline proclaimed in the trailers before its release – RPG had changed. Sure, hailing the game as being its own exciting new “genre” with a somewhat silly acronym as its name (FREE- Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment) was being a tad overzealous perhaps, but you had to admire Yu Suzuki’s ambition for this game. When I finally got to play it on the Christmas morning of 2000, it did not disappoint. The atmosphere created was just amazing to me – a realistic, living, breathing town with over 300 individual characters – all with their own specific daily routines and, in supplementary materials, all named and given detailed biographies! Throw in the fantastic music and the engaging (if not completely original) story and you really had something special. And this was only part one of the saga...

Bundled with the game was the ‘Shenmue Passport’ disc. Through the Dreamcast’s internet connection, this enabled access to all sorts of information about the game, as well as ranking leaderboards for the various mini-games and the chance to get exclusive capsule toys. One of the best features was the character profile section however; as you met and conversed with the characters during a playthrough, their profiles would gradually be added to the Passport. Now to some, giving all 300+ characters names, stats, and biographies may seem extraneous, (especially given characters that Ryo can’t even speak to have detailed information about them!) but it really shows the love and care put into the game by the developers and the amount of depth to Shenmue that few games have matched.

PASSPORT EXPIRED
The Passport service was eventually taken offline in April 2002, but thankfully the character profiles had also been published in Prima’s strategy guide book for the game, so the information was still readily available to fans.
Which brings us to the sequel game, Shenmue II – which I got the following Christmas in 2001. This sadly could end up being the last game in the series, despite it ending on a cliffhanger and at a game-changing point in the saga’s story. Nonetheless, the sequel’s world was even bigger than the first’s– Ryo travels to Hong Kong to continue his quest, with most of its areas completely dwarfing Shenmue I’s in terms of size, as well as the amount of characters – around 700. There was also a lot more mini-games and sidequests to discover, and fans generally agree it is more action-packed and that the plot moves a lot quicker than the first game (though some will argue Shenmue I’s atmosphere has more charm) And what of these 700-odd characters? Were they all named and profiled as per the original game? As it turns out, yes – but these were not readily available to the fans outside of Japan.

Firstly, unlike the first Shenmue, there was no Passport. There was no Prima guide either, as the Dreamcast version had been cancelled in America. America eventually saw an updated version of Shenmue II on the Microsoft Xbox, and a Prima guide was finally published. However, unlike the Shenmue I book, there were only profiles on the main characters; Ryo, Shenhua, Xiuying, Fangmei, Ren, Joy, Wong, Lan Di, Dou Niu and Yuan. The Xbox version, with the new snapshot feature, did include profiles on some of the other characters; unlocked when you took pictures of them, but it didn't come close to having profiles for all the characters. Would we ever know the names and backgrounds of the reams of anonymous characters?

A FAN EFFORT
Shortly after I had completed Shenmue II, I looked around on the internet for fansites/information about the series, ultimately finding the excellent Shenmue Dojo website. I joined the forums, and this was in fact one of the first message boards I signed up to on the internet. My handle on the forum was (and still is) ‘Miles Prower’, as I am also a long-time fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of games (and Sega games in general). I made a lot of good friends through the Dojo community and have many fond memories associated with the forums. I think between us we have probably discussed every single aspect of the games to death, but as many fans will attest, you find or notice something new with every playthrough of these wonderful games. Not to mention the very active hacking/modding scene that developed, mostly headed by longtime member LanDC, in which reams of unused content was discovered and many interesting and or humourous modifications made to the game. I still get a warm nostalgic feeling every time I watch LanDC’s Road to Amihama videos in particular.

And indeed, the question of whether detailed character profiles existed for Shenmue II’s cast was raised in discussion. In a thread from 2003, a member named Eek the Cat shared some scans of a guidebook he owned published in Japan called the Shenmue II Perfect Guidebook. The scans showed that there were indeed names and profiles for each and every character.
Eek was even kind enough to put all of the scans together on a CD for me and mail it to me, and even threw in a couple of audio CD’s he had compiled containing music from Shenmue II (sadly the second game never had any official soundtracks released).

The problem? Being that this book was from Japan, the character names were in Chinese and the information in Japanese. Through discussion in the topic, another forum member called khien agreed to help with translating the character names as she could read Chinese. And so began the effort to translate the many character profiles. I began by gradually posting them within the topic, and then eventually creating a website (which, thanks to Web Archive, you can still view here , albeit with most of the images missing).

Continuing into 2004 and beyond, progress was quite slow, mainly due to me starting university. Khien’s life ended up becoming quite busy as well, but thanks to the efforts of another forum member, Oda Ryo, the translation work still continued. The forum member Kiyuu (possibly Japan’s biggest Shenmue fan, and often referred to as the ‘Shenmue Queen’), also informed me that another book existed, the Shenmue II Complete Guide, which contained profiles for characters not included in the Perfect Guidebook; namely those for the many pedestrians who wander the streets of Hong Kong. I made the effort to acquire this book myself and make scans for the remaining profiles.

RESSURECTING THE PROJECT
As the years went on, however, my free time became less and less. I studied for three years at university and after graduating in 2008, I was working full time; in short I was growing up. It was also looking increasingly unlikely that a Shenmue III would ever emerge. Life went on. However, my enthusiasm to complete the project was somewhat fired up again when Peter from the forums (who most likely owns the biggest Shenmue collection in Ireland) got in touch with me on Facebook asking if I was still working on it, as the Dojo staff had managed to get an interview with one of the voice actors for the English dub of Shenmue II (a very interesting read by the way, which can be found here , and they had requested that video clips be assembled of the characters he voiced, which he supplied a list of – but only by name and brief descriptions. Using the information from my project I helped with finding some of them. I then found myself wanting to get the project finished once and for all, and got back in touch with Oda Ryo who happily assisted me with getting the remaining names translated.

I had also spoken to the member ‘thegreatchai’, who had also been attempting to catalogue the character information on her wiki site, and over time we assisted each other greatly. I began transferring the information to an Excel spreadsheet with the intention of creating a complete database of all the Shenmue II characters – which after assembling a numbered list I discovered there are exactly 700 – surely a deliberate intention of the creators? At any rate, after a few months work the project was finally finished. I am glad that this information is now easily accessible to Shenmue fans, and while some may consider me obsessive or downright insane for pursuing with the project, it was worth it for a game series that I love so much and one day hope will be continued in some form. We can but hope. The saga may still go on....

DOWNLOAD - https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qkby011a3tkgg2/Shenmue%20II%20Character%20Database.rar

Please feedback and let me know if you spot any mistakes or errors, or any factoids about the characters that I may have missed. Most of all, enjoy :D

redline wrote: i think its called penis envy

I believe it was Freud who made that up. Dirty old Freud.

KiBa wrote: Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2vT0sgrftM[/youtube]

There is already a shenmue anime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxFZ1CZbwX0

Also Check this post
http://www.shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35914

I made a post about this but could not find it.
Anyway in that anime there is a Gui Zhang
http://www.sixfortyfive.com/temp/vfanimekowloon.jpg

, Lan Di and There is even the battle scene from shenmue 2!


http://www.sixfortyfive.com/temp/vfanimeshenmue.jpg

Since shenmue was basically the story of young Akira but changed some aspect latter.
This anime is almost exactly how a shenmue anime would be like.
Ryo character would totally be changed and made into an idiot like most animes to increase views or something.
Also watch Street Fighter anime too Ryu there has almost same personality as Akira in this anime and he dress just like Ryo Hazuki... Also he uses Elbow move too..

I think we tend to forget that extreme violence like this has always existed. Since we have the media now, all these incidents seem connected to eachother instead of just a series of isolated incidents. I honestly believe if we didn't glorify these stories and feature them 24 hours a day, we wouldn't have major incidents like this as often. They need to just localize the story and make it as boring as possible in the newspaper and tv coverage.

We all know the section of Shenmue related items / collections here on the forums.

But is there a overview / database available with all Shenmue related items Available?

For Example:
Games TM, Year 2010, Issue 12, Ryo Hazuki in the spotlights


Sometimes, there are great issues about Shenmue, but sometimes, they doesn't arrive at the Dojo community.

It should be great when someone can make some database, maybe included with demo discs like the dreamon wat number, what year), and maybe other magazine related items.

By the way, I would love any feedback you guys may have or any design ideas you may have thought of (I have plenty!).

Thanks for your time :mrgreen:

i know your trying to make money but it would be nice if you had this design for download as a jpg. so members could have there own printed up or make them their self (print out, iron on transfer)

Sure, that's not a problem. Here you go:

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/1/heavens.jpg

If anyone would like to add the image to the Dojo gallery, then you are more than welcome to. It's about time I gave something back to this site ;-)

aw yeah.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvkRy22AAnQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVlPoa9i-k[/youtube]

All E3 shows need to be done by this lot.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6OCnvvkSLM[/youtube]

Chinese guy speaks out against censorship,gets thrown into van by a group of plainclothes state security agents.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCvP74asWL4[/youtube]

Its a Shenmue 2 sticker. I have bought some Shenmue 2 items in the past and these were included. Perhaps given away with a magazine, or included at some game stores when the game was bought, but its a 3 inch by 2 inch sticker

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV3tH-R3R7Y[/youtube]

The expression on her face is priceless

For those that haven't seen it this is hilarious.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUwkqeI7XWk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc[/youtube]

I refuse to believe this is real

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJDn0jRnUQ[/youtube]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-22-kojima-says-mgs-ground-zeroes-may-be-too-risky-to-be-publish-sell

Kojima getting "mature" and "taboo" on our arses with the new MGS! What could this mean? Personally I still rate MGS 1 as being the pound for pound most mature MGS game, not that the other games didn't have poignant moments, it's just that they were usually a tad more jarring and harder to take seriously in the context of all the other extreme ridiculousness or overblown indulgence (things that I did like too, to be honest) that they were caught up in.

I like the way Koj is talking though, even if it doesn't turn out as "taboo" as he's hyping it (I find it unlikely that it will be), it sounds like he's got his creative juices flowing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIfNv9qLvy4[/youtube]

Poor Scotty. He's gotten so senile he thinks he's aboard a Galaxy class starship.

Looks like he shit himself.