Shenmue Dojo

Let's Get Sweaty wrote: Now that you're back I imagine you'll want to answer people's questions about your last thread before getting too bogged down in a new one:

http://shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=49162

johnvivant wrote: during the early prototype phase when the game was still in production for the sega saturn (circa 1996) they actually created pre rendered CG cutscenes for all the major events in the game (all 11 chapters). what you are seeing here is a part of one of those scenes that was either cut from the final game or intended for a future chapter. it seems likely that the scene with lan di and Shenhua in the temple and shenhua using force push on those martial arts guys is a future event. however Yu suzuki confirmed that the scene of Ryo jumping onto a moving train has been cut from the final game, but he said that he may rearrange certain events allowing for the possibility of including it later.

Zoltor wrote: Like 5 years ago someone made a Shenmue retrospective series of videos on Youtube.

Now I have watched these in the past, but I cought a glimse of something, that not only doesn't fit into any of the known cannon Shenmue stuff, but due to the art, clearly being DC, doesn't fit into any of the spin-offs or the canceled Virtua Fighter RPG.

The only thing I can think of, is maybe this footage is concrete proof, that at some point Shenmue 3 was in production, and that this was leaked footage from that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvFaM92zos

It happens within the 1st 31 second, pay close attention, because It's not even on screen for 1 full second.

Does anyone know where this is actually from(I don't recall ever hearing about actual entire cutscenes that weren't used, being on the Shenmue 2 discs, so I was very shocked when I saw that, as no concrete proof has ever come to light, that Shenmue 3 really was in production(all we have, is Sega employees statements, that claim at one point, Shenmue 3 was being worked on. However that's not much to go on, as at the time, they could've really been referring to the Shenmue MMO, for all we know)?

Zoltor wrote:

Let's Get Sweaty wrote: Now that you're back I imagine you'll want to answer people's questions about your last thread before getting too bogged down in a new one:

http://shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=49162

What, the shrine visitors? That's gonna be easy to reproduce(I'm actually super shocked, people haven't stumbled across that yet), It's just going to require a lot of waiting, as it seems to be tied into the real world date system, similar to how the weather system works, and it is fairly rare, so yea, a lot of waiting is going to be required for me to take pictures of such.

ShenGCH wrote:

Zoltor wrote:

Let's Get Sweaty wrote: Now that you're back I imagine you'll want to answer people's questions about your last thread before getting too bogged down in a new one:

http://shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=49162

What, the shrine visitors? That's gonna be easy to reproduce(I'm actually super shocked, people haven't stumbled across that yet), It's just going to require a lot of waiting, as it seems to be tied into the real world date system, similar to how the weather system works, and it is fairly rare, so yea, a lot of waiting is going to be required for me to take pictures of such.

I think people are more concerned about the street fights with the thugs that nobody else around here has ever seemed to encounter, as opposed to the shrine visitors.

Zoltor wrote:

ShenGCH wrote:

Zoltor wrote:

Let's Get Sweaty wrote: Now that you're back I imagine you'll want to answer people's questions about your last thread before getting too bogged down in a new one:

http://shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=49162

What, the shrine visitors? That's gonna be easy to reproduce(I'm actually super shocked, people haven't stumbled across that yet), It's just going to require a lot of waiting, as it seems to be tied into the real world date system, similar to how the weather system works, and it is fairly rare, so yea, a lot of waiting is going to be required for me to take pictures of such.

I think people are more concerned about the street fights with the thugs that nobody else around here has ever seemed to encounter, as opposed to the shrine visitors.

Oh ok, that may or may not be hard to reproduce, depending if it requires a special trigger to unlock(I'm hoping It's just talk to them a couple times).

I really hope I can get that to happen again, because it was so awesome, and gives people a whole new way to play/go about mastering moves.

I was playing through Shenmue 2, but I've been thinking about replaying 1 again, so I'll definitely be trying to get that to happen.

shengoro86 wrote:

Zoltor wrote: Like 5 years ago someone made a Shenmue retrospective series of videos on Youtube.

Now I have watched these in the past, but I cought a glimse of something, that not only doesn't fit into any of the known cannon Shenmue stuff, but due to the art, clearly being DC, doesn't fit into any of the spin-offs or the canceled Virtua Fighter RPG.

The only thing I can think of, is maybe this footage is concrete proof, that at some point Shenmue 3 was in production, and that this was leaked footage from that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvFaM92zos

It happens within the 1st 31 second, pay close attention, because It's not even on screen for 1 full second.

Does anyone know where this is actually from(I don't recall ever hearing about actual entire cutscenes that weren't used, being on the Shenmue 2 discs, so I was very shocked when I saw that, as no concrete proof has ever come to light, that Shenmue 3 really was in production(all we have, is Sega employees statements, that claim at one point, Shenmue 3 was being worked on. However that's not much to go on, as at the time, they could've really been referring to the Shenmue MMO, for all we know)?

Shenhua's Force Move?
That was shown in the Project Berkley CG trailer video so yeah it was prob planned for a future story element or left out of the series after revisions to the story possibly. We won't really know until the games have been completed. But since it was a CG trailer, I doubt it was anything in game.
Trailer:

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Peter wrote:

shengoro86 wrote:

Zoltor wrote: Like 5 years ago someone made a Shenmue retrospective series of videos on Youtube.

Now I have watched these in the past, but I cought a glimse of something, that not only doesn't fit into any of the known cannon Shenmue stuff, but due to the art, clearly being DC, doesn't fit into any of the spin-offs or the canceled Virtua Fighter RPG.

The only thing I can think of, is maybe this footage is concrete proof, that at some point Shenmue 3 was in production, and that this was leaked footage from that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvFaM92zos

It happens within the 1st 31 second, pay close attention, because It's not even on screen for 1 full second.

Does anyone know where this is actually from(I don't recall ever hearing about actual entire cutscenes that weren't used, being on the Shenmue 2 discs, so I was very shocked when I saw that, as no concrete proof has ever come to light, that Shenmue 3 really was in production(all we have, is Sega employees statements, that claim at one point, Shenmue 3 was being worked on. However that's not much to go on, as at the time, they could've really been referring to the Shenmue MMO, for all we know)?

Shenhua's Force Move?
That was shown in the Project Berkley CG trailer video so yeah it was prob planned for a future story element or left out of the series after revisions to the story possibly. We won't really know until the games have been completed. But since it was a CG trailer, I doubt it was anything in game.
Trailer:

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Over the years i became obsessed with that video, like, unhealthy levels. Its the video that to this day, fires my imagination so much, and why I went down the dark road of theorizing all those years ago.

I segmented each scene of that video, and uplpaded them to my own personal YT channel. Whilst we can now deduce what parts became Kowloon in Shenmue 2 etc, that specific scene around the 30 second mark where the camera pans between 2 tortoise sculptures on pillars to a stone Buddha face which magically lights up is again, still to this day, my favourite Shenmue scene of all time. I have so many theories on it, the first being that it's some sort of temple which reacts to when the 2 mirrors are combined. Is that where the Chiyou Dragon gets magically summoned from? Is that where actual physical treasure of the Quing Dynasty is located?

I have thought about that one shot so much over 15 years that next month, I will be showing Yu Suzuki that one clip and asking, "Do you remember this scene?", and if so, "will we see it in a future Shenmue, unlike the train shot?". I don't care if he thinks it's a bizarre question.

I have to ask. I need to know!

Peter wrote: There are so many aspects of interest though. The flames, the mystical light, is that someone standing in the mouth? What mechanics causes the symbols to part? What's with the bridge that rises up at the bottom of the screen? There's no way that scene will be cut. It looks far too important.

If Yu has cut it, well he will be receiving a brogue kick to the throat and drop toe holded.