lol 2 hours long, I know kojima wants to fusion the movie and video game experience but this is a little ridiculous

I don't recall paying £25/$40 for a movie ticket. And it would be an incredibly weird day when Kojima would edit any of his stories into 2 hours. Are Konami a charity nowadays, or something? Just release it with Phantom Pain, ffs.

Hi,

I've found this website by chance. I don't know if this was posted here before. anyways, feel free to explore this gem as you will find some shenmue art. I wounder who funds the website and keeps it running.

http://nocomputable.net16.net/sfiles/Shenmue/

make sure to click on any of the words that have a forward slash >>> / <<< to take you further into the site.

This is my first post. go easy on me :p

mue 26 wrote: Ah, but it was a double bluff, and it will be revealed at GDC that it was Yu Suzuki that developed Aliens: Colonial Marines

Of course! We should have realized as soon as that alien strolled up and asked, "Do you know any places where marines hang out?"

Again, the wording will not be Sega's. Hardcore Chocolate, or whatever they're called, will have been responsible for that throwaway line.

^^People just say that because he went deaf. And Beethoven went deaf. It's a shallow comparison that helps simpleminded people to draw a parallel between eastern and western culture.
I personally think Beethoven is overrated anyway, but that's besides the point.

But if you want a better example of why Samuragochi was held in such high regard, check out the intro music for Onimusha:

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

Had my operation. I'm still recovering, but i'm a lot more mobile then I was a few days ago.

The next step is for them to investigate the affected testicle and determine what type of cancer it is.

They said they would call me next week to come back into the hospital in order to have my blood checked. Apparently, once you have the diseased testicle removed, you blood levels should go back to normal after 7 days.

Next, they will give me a CT scan of my body to determine if the cancer has spread.

From there, I guess further treatment begins.

On the bright side, the chest xray that they performed a week ago was completely clear. Im guessing this will have to be reconfirmed with the ct scan, but it does make me a little bit more hopeful.

Tough times ahead.

Thanks for everyone's kind messages. It really does mean a lot.

ShenSun

There are many practical reasons that make an all-in-one release an attractive option, but I fully agree with this:

It HAS to be called Shenmue III. If it comes with a different name then people won't understand what it is immediately and likely turn their heads. The name "Shenmue III" has the power to send an earthquake around the world and if the news don't say "Shenmue III" then the internet won't have the "near-death experience" that's needed to promote the game. The need to let the hype train roll!

"Shenmue III" carries a lot of weight. People who have never played the series and barely even heard of it won't recognize the word "Shenmue" on its own, but when they see or hear "Shenmue III" it will trigger a much stronger spark of recognition. That's the game they've heard everyone begging for. It's a single phrase, a collective sound, greater than the sum of its parts. "Shenmue III" is a brand in its own right and brings with it a lot more excitement and satisfaction than it would without that magic number.

will wait eagerly

It's been pointed out on Facebook that San Francisco will actually be in daylight savings time by the 19th, so all international time zone comparisons should be made with PDT, not PST.

The UK for example doesn't enter daylight savings until later in the month, so the postmortem begins at 9pm there instead of the previously thought 10pm.

This is huge. He always deflects answers for Shenmue-related questions, and here he will be talking about it exclusively about it for an hour- translated by the architect of the PS4.

Even if there isn't a word about the potential future of Shenmue, this at the very least will be a fascinating dialogue into what brought this game to light in the first place.

Hype.

Have been lurking on these forums for as long as I can remember - but until now - never felt the need to post. Not sure if anybody else noticed this (or whether the information has been posted elsewhere before) but...

【Shenhua Ling】

At first, we had prepared a different character as the main heroine of the game. Later, when we provided the image sketch for a young girl whom Ryo would meet in Tibet , our producer decided on the spot to use her as the main heroine.

http://nocomputable.net16.net/sfiles/Shenmue/Shenmue_2/GD%202/OMAKE/HTML/CHA_FRAME01.HTML

I appreciate that there is no way of verifying this information - but if it does come from a legitimate source; could it be an indicator that Ryo's journey will take him to Tibet?

I mean shit like coins, collectible cards, figurines, soundtracks, posters, etc. It's fair enough if you use some of them for decorative purposes (e.g. figurines, posters) If it goes unopened, untouched, unused or whatever though, seriously, what is the point? The only time I ever buy shit that won't be used is if I've torrented an album or game and thought to myself "yeah, this defo deserves my money". There's a purpose behind that though, a reason in which it's bought. To collect just for the sake of collecting though, not avin it. Just a waste of money.

As for Raithos' "They go easily spend $60 bucks at a bar drinking and smoking for a few hours, then have nothing to show for it but a hangover the next morning lol." comment... are you mental ? Do you really need a keepsake for every moment, every memory? A collectible for everything you do? It's called living in the moment, enjoying life. Actively socialising. And besides, sometimes you do have something to show for it. A pint glass you walked home with, a bus ticket, a broken wrist, a bird's phone number, an STD, etc.

All I'm saying is, I can't see the attraction, entertainment, enjoyment or whatever in buying something just for it sit there unused doing nothing. This doesn't just apply to gamers, celebrities and antique collectors are just as bad. Buying expensive shit just to throw it in a lock-up and forget you ever owned it. And in the case of a celebrity, it's usually the lock-up itself they forget about. I actually used to know someone who bought shitloadsa books constantly to fill his bookcases up. Place was like a fucking library. Never read a single one of em. What is the damn point? It's even worse when the same people plead poverty n shit. Irritating as fuck.

Mittenz, you're the worst kind of fan. Of anything.

Just voted. Whether it makes a difference to anything or not, it's surprisingly done me no harm.

X-ONE Magazine held a poll to vote for your top 3 games that Xbox One needs.

ONE OF THE OPTIONS IS *** SHENMUE 3 *** !!!

Therefore... we shall Tornado Kick this poll, as Crazy Shenmue fans we are!!!

!!! LET'S GO ===>>> http://poll.fm/4mzf8 !!!

‪#‎SaveShenmue‬

P.S.: Even though Phil Spencer tweeted that he's not interested, we shall rock this poll anyway! (Read why in the 2nd "spoiler") Do you remember the PSM_OK poll? Then the votes were with comments. NOW, the votes are with checkboxes. THEREFORE, they will not be able to deny any of our votes.

You know what I mean? The votes are obvious and counted by a system and not by a imperfect human being. :P

SO, if we TOP this poll, then it will DEFINITELY appear in their Magazine, *especially* when *themselves* add the "Shenmue 3 option", THEREFORE our "SHENMUE 3" votes are more welcomed than ever!

Just do it! :D I have to mention something for everyone who hesitate:

Our intentions is not where we want Shenmue 3 to end up, but we want to top this poll so as SHENMUE 3 will get more *recognition* and the fanbase alike, something that will advertise the power of our demand.

If Shenmue 3 TOP this poll, then it will *definitelly* appear on their Magazine. (Terry's Invitation to Hell, it's 5 secs job to vote anyway...)

Saw this for the first time at the weekend, apparently Poland's best selling energy drink.

Niccolo Paganini, for example, was an absolute master of the violin in ways that Beethoven would never be able to match with any instrument,

Well that's just not true. We have no actual(video or audio) evidence to base skill level assessments of either of them on so we have to go by second hand sources. All, or at least most, of which attribute god-like unsurpassable abilities to both Paganini and Beethoven. Now considering the human affinity for exaggeration we have to break it down in to realistic terms and assume this means they both achieved a very high level. Virtuoso even. Technical skill-wise, the Igudesman and Joo of the 19th century. I don't think there would be any butt whooping from either side really. Just two masters exhibiting their instruments fullest potential.

As for fame Beethoven is more well known because his shit is more accessible. Simple as that. He has "hits" so to speak. He wrote melodies like a motherfucker. Paganini wrote stuff that was impressive to play at his live shows but to the average listener not that fun. Beethoven did his fair share of musical showing off but filled in the gaps with Pathetique Sonatas and Eroica Symphanies. Stuff to get the hoes panties wet. You don't even have to like music to understand those kind of pieces(or at least the famous bits of them).

Ludwig van 4 Lyfe Bitches!

A tweet from the "X-ONE Magazine":

The Shenmue community mobilised fast. Good work. Massive lead over Fallout, Elder Scrolls, HL3 and the rest http://poll.fm/4mzf8

Source

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This shit goes hard. I'm headbanging my headphones right off over here.

Just had a convo with a japanese shenmue fan at Super Potato in akihabara. We talked about Shenmue 3 abit while he was picking up the JP LE. Love this freaking city.

Sent from my SO-02F using Tapatalk

CT Scan CLEAR.

It doesn't look like the cancer has spread.

I just have to hope that my blood levels go back to normal now.

It looks like they caught it super early, so ill have more treatment options available.

I should be back to normal in no time........hopefully.

I can't stop listening to this shit. I'm particularly jealous of how good the bridge/pre-chorus/whatever is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sjy3coYyUg

You might appreciate the weirdness here mue.
A bunch of oyaji dress up as a young black girl group from the sixties and somehow we got a few awesome songs out of it.
They even released a movie as these characters but sadly it kinda sucked.

Thanks Jeff. I really appreciated you sharing your story. Cancer sucks balls. Ironic coming from me, I know.

:)

It is what it is I guess. But just to let you and everyone else know, the Dr's are confident that they caught my cancer in the earliest stage possible. No spread to the cord that connects to the testicle, lymph system, abs, chest etc. They say its about 75% that i'm already cured. Their not allowing me to take chemo as they strongly believe I dont need it. They say that there is no reason to poison my body as it could have potential long term risks. In other words, use the drugs only when you need them. For the next few years, I'll be monitored closely, just in case i am in that 25% and relapse. Check ups every month. I would like to celebrate fully, but Im gonna wait until I get my blood results back to see if everything has gone back to normal. (prior tumor).

If anyone is wondering, I haven't noticed any difference with the one testicle. Scary thing is, my groin was working perfectly well before I found out. I later learned from my pathology report, that the affected testicle was practically destroyed by the cancer, so that's probably why I haven't noticed any major change.

It's scary to think that I only went to the hospital for a slight pain, and it turn't out to be cancer. As I've said before, I encourage everyone to get a general examination once in a while, just to safe. I'm only 27. This disease can hit anyone at anytime unfortunately.

I know there are some immature guys on this forum, but if both of our stories can encourage the majority to get checked when they notice something wrong, or when they experience certain irregular symptoms, then that's a win in my book. Haters be damned.

Thanks again Jeff for informing me. It really does mean a lot. And thanks to everyone else. I know I posted this thread a while ago, but the messages still do mean the world to me. :)

I should have my blood results back hopefully before the 19th. If its all good news, then what better way to celebrate then to watch Yu Suzuki's GDC presentation. :)

Thanks again

mue 26 wrote: And still no attempt to rectify that list? Proper heartbreak.

You know I would meet you first and foremost. Your muesings alone would be worth it.

Greetings!

I'm sorry to tell you guys but maybe you haven't notice it, the presentation was full of SPOILERS! Gigantic SPOILERS! Like: Akira (Ryo) defeats Randi (how the Japanese pronounce LanDi).

So we've been shown the basic scenario from begining to end of Shenmue... and what does it mean??? NO SHENMUE 3 EVAH!

Why? Well, for the same reason Suzuki has kept shut about the continuation of the Saga for so many years... you don't spoil the end of your game. That is, if there's a game in the works or there's the possibility for the game to be in the works. However if you are completely sure that your game is NEVER, EVER gonna be finished, then, spoil it as much as you want, at the end of the day, no one is not gonna buy a game that's not gonna be released.

You get me guys. Hopefully I'm overreacting, and the plot changed so much from VFRPG to Shenmue that the sopilers don't mean anything anymore, but when I see those 11 pictures I see a lot of stuff and characters that ARE in Shenmue and I can read too many spoilers not to be concerned.

What do you guys think?

i think its obvious to shenmue fans everywhere that we will eventually beat lan di. it's pretty much the whole premise for the game.

Fire up the game now. 1 or 2 and the feelings constantly is where is lan di. You feel as though you're going to encounter him sooner or later.

I don't think anyone expects them to shake hands at the end of the game. All bad guys get beat at the end of stories usually.

I do see your point though. Games developers don't talk about the end of the game etc in any detail.

But still do you really think this means he wouldn't/couldn't do it because he told us how its going to pan out?

wait! heroic battle with randi (lan di) loses purpose begins new journey????

All we wanted to do was kill lan di? So we kill lan di then there's another game/journey.

am i wrong in thinking the following:

Introduction = Shenmue 1
Development = shenmue 2
Denouement (kill lan di) shenmue 3
conclusion = ???? begins a new journey? shenmue 4?

can anyone shed light on the meaning?



Lan Di doesn't get killed. Ryo doesn't get vengeance. The whole point of Shenmue itself, as a tale, is about being faced with the pointlessness of the vendetta.

Just came across this on Eurogamer. Yu Suzuki is researching kickstarter to fund projects. (Shenmue 3?)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-03-20-yu-suzuki-is-looking-into-kickstarter

He is also currently working on something.

What do you guys think?

Imagine walking into battle ready to pull out a grenade only to find out mom mixed up your onigiri pouches with your grenades. How embarrassing.

mue 26 wrote: Just deactivated my FB account (and I'm never going back baby!). Is my next step towards spiritual emancipation deactivating this dojo account?

No, because here you have real friends.

I hate when people talk about Shenmue like it sold 2 copies.

It's one of the best selling games on dreamcast !

If the shitty games (like REALLY SHITY) that david cage does make profit, Shenmue can fuck that number over. It's marketing, just put some phrases like: "one of the most awaited games in VG history" "revolutionized videogames" "like nothing you played before", pay for some good reviews and the fanbase is going to get the hype over 9000.

A LOT of people knows about Shenmue that haven't even played the games.

It will not be a killer app, but it will bring a lot of new buyers, and it will certainly be a better exclusive to show off than pretty much 80% of exclusives.

I think it would make SO much news it would sell.

So Thief (in direct defiance to the implications of his own name, apparently) decided to be supercool and sent some of his Front Mission posters my way. I just swiped these images on the net so I didn't have to take my own (and the last one is just the base image used for the poster, not the poster itself), but all the posters look great. As a nut for both Front Mission and authentic Japanese store posters, this stuff made my week.
http://oi61.tinypic.com/21l4tn6.jpg http://oi57.tinypic.com/oszi1f.jpg http://oi58.tinypic.com/25p5x0h.jpg

Coolest thing is that each poster is for a different version of the game. First image is the DS version, second is the PS1 version, and I believe the last one was for the SFC version (I think so, at least).

Also, years ago someone on here (for the life of me I can't remember who, it was so long ago) pointed me in the direction of a site called bidJDM where you can buy stuff from Japanese auction sites. So I hopped on there recently and finally decided to try it out. Got myself an original poster for the game Soumatou (which was localized as Deception III: Dark Delusion in the west).
http://oi61.tinypic.com/2efmh79.jpg

I just won it this morning though, so I'm still waiting for all the confirmation and whatnot from the site. Having not used it yet, I'm not sure exactly how things go, or how long it all takes.

Oh, and I also preordered Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. The Namco blurbs for it are making it sound like the physical release will be really limited (it's only on Amazon and ClubNamco, and supposedly won't be in stores), with the primary release being on PSN. So I figured I ought to get it while I can.
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I woke up thinking about Gargoyles for some reason. The old 90s cartoon from Disney. Always loved it, but early on I never got to see all the episodes, since I moved overseas.
So a couple years ago, I finally picked up the DVDs and got to see more of it, and it was really, really great. They hadn't released much of it though; Disney only put out two volumes of it, with only about 39 episodes altogether. There was still about 39 more episodes they hadn't released, and they put it off for years.
So when I woke up thinking about it, I decided to look it up. And lo and behold, they actually put out another volume last year. Wasted no time in ordering it.
There's still another season left, and it's uncertain if that'll ever see the light of day, but I'm thankful I'll at least be getting this set either way.

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Yeah for sure. There aren't a lot of hi-res pics of some merchandise, so it would be great to update the media section here on the Dojo.

I've been kicking around the idea of creating a document showing all merchandise that's been released, along with whatever information is available; like when the merch was released and where, and in how many quantities. Basically whatever info is known on these items. I'd take pics of things I have, and look to the net for stuff I don't have. Then export the document as a pdf.

Would probably take awhile to do and would need the help of others on here, but it could be fun.

Interesting. I don't really see how Suzuki can be "out of touch" on a form of art (the video game). It would be refreshing to play a game such as Shenmue with all of the War/Zombie/FPS/Halo/CoD clones out there

For I myself play popular games from time to time, as they are not all bad.
For not I, nay!

Never shan't I dabble into the trough whence slovenly masses getteth thy sustenance. Such pestilence; cut-purse to to thy mind; a parade in squalor.

If thou were a lush, woulds't staineth ivory hands in a box-tree for ruffians, brim with Duty of Callith? Poppycock for naughts.
One dost heaves thy supper at such thoughts.

Come come, wench! Fetch thy snuffbox, for such a lather has overcome thou with tizzy.

Latest Purchases :

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Part 2 :

Tales of Graces F Collector Japonais !!!

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And finally got my hands on Niao Sun Card :

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Still missing Ryo's one and i will be done with TGS 99" Cards.

As an obsessive Idol fan I am all for yaeba. Just not fake ones. Not exactly perfect, but natural teeth can be a cute "charm point" as they say.

I have no clue the extent of its popularity(fake yaeba that is), but I do think that it got exaggerated when the concept of yaeba (re?)entered the consciousness of the west when some media outlets put out stories about them within the last few years.

Here's some google image searches for you to enjoy if you're interested in getting some more info from a Japanese perspective:

"cute yaeba"

"cute teeth alignments"

I promised myself I would make this post short, but you guys are finally on a subject I have a lot to say about. As weird as that may be.:lol:

The full clip from the image you posted came up if you'd like to see it mue.

Here's some pictures of idols whose yaeba I thought were kawaii recently.
http://i.imgur.com/HrWaSP5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xlDf20P.jpg

Japanese lesbos getting fake married at Tokyo Disney:

http://i.imgur.com/stFjURA.jpg

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They look so happy. I hope they scissored the hell out of each other after that.

Recent purchases :

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