YuSuzuki, creator of Shenmue @GDC "Updated"

[Peter]

Well done dude, i really would live to meet Yu one day, but i know i wont. He seems like such a nice man. Well done on achieving that accolade. It would be definitely something i would treasure for the rest of my life. Did you mention the Shenmue Dojo??

[*Kenshin Himura*]

^I second that Peter; uh Alimn? Please say you did mention the dojo?

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

No pressure or anything Alimn, but how you answer this question will determine whether or not we invoke the sacred fraggle rite of "Surprise Buttsexskis".

[shengoro86]

Awesome, I always wanted to meet him too. I could think of so many questions I would ask him.
Me - "Mr. Suzuki, may I please read your Shenmue manuscripts?"
Yu Suzuki - "Just Wait."

but to quote an age old dojo saying:

pics plz or stfu

haha, I remember that!

[shengoro86]

I told him how much we love him at Dojo,

I believe he said that he told him. What was his response?

[shengoro86]

triple post

[Peter]

Where is Alimn from? Or where does he live, i mean does he live in the states or did he travel just for this conference?

[Bluecast]

Where is Alimn from? Or where does he live, i mean does he live in the states or did he travel just for this conference?

Thought he lived somewhere in the middle east..then again he has internet so...

[Peter]

If he does, and came all that way just to meet Yu, then fair play to him. A bit scary. But fair play to him. Also if he, did he must have a few spare notes, so Alimn, any chance of paying off my bank loan?

[Lan Di-sama]

Where is Alimn from? Or where does he live, i mean does he live in the states or did he travel just for this conference?

Thought he lived somewhere in the middle east..then again he has internet so...

Seriously? Is the Middle East an internet-free zone? That's quite an assumption you're making

[Panda_rapist]

Where is Alimn from? Or where does he live, i mean does he live in the states or did he travel just for this conference?

Thought he lived somewhere in the middle east..then again he has internet so...

Seriously? Is the Middle East an internet-free zone? That's quite an assumption you're making

i think he was just joking

[Bluecast]

Where is Alimn from? Or where does he live, i mean does he live in the states or did he travel just for this conference?

Thought he lived somewhere in the middle east..then again he has internet so...

Seriously? Is the Middle East an internet-free zone? That's quite an assumption you're making

Twas a joke considering libya and egypt.

[alimn]

BIG UPDATE: ___COMPLETE REPORT

Most important things:

First of all, THANKS a lot to all of you and kind comments!
Thank God, I am grateful that I could finally meet Yu and YES!
I EVEN TOLD HIM that IN SHENMUE DOJO WE LOVE YOU!
^This is all I said about Dojo, well, can't remember exactly...
suppose I even told him I am Ali M.N from Shenmue Dojo at first....
YES, YES...I think during introduction I told him.

Other things:

Before me, He has already shown the prototype Shenmue smartphone screen capture to some Journalists,
but I was lucky too to see this, during our first meeting, as for Shenmue III I told him, tommorow people
gonna ask you! he he....(I said be careful) while as for us, fans....we are waiting and no worries CUZ
Shenmue I and II are already awesome and we still playing them, at least a few times a year,
then he gave me his bussines card, and he was like "This is my new company"

I LOVED the way, he said this....AND WE SHOULD PROMOTE his company!
let's make him as sucessful as other guys with their own companies like
Hideo Kojima (Productions) or Hiroshi Matsuyama (Cyber Connect 2) or ...

I love to him, someday as a company BOSS, who knows, maybe even SEGA's boss,
Marc Cerny was saying....This is truly amazing that this man is back after 10 years! and is
making this starting on his won from his own house(I think he meant his company and low budgets)
----Starting with a Shenmue town instead of Online or World or III! for smartphones
^THIS IS WHAT WHICH IS ALMOST CONFIRMED,....SO PLEASE SUPPORT LOVE SUPPORT!

One important thing,
people like Kojima (even though he has only made one good franchise) are more known better
CUZ they have been for newer generation (console) gamers....they had the internet power.

But come on, did my uncle knew that Yu Suzuki has made Out Run or Hang On?
when playing it?

Even my friends which are from our generation don't know Suzuki...

---Since I am gonna be busy for some time,
let's GIVE YOU A COMPLETE REPORT on HOW I MET YU TWICE and WHAT HAPPENED EXACTLY!
word by word (maybe I can't remember all details)

My first meeting with Yu, Thanks to someone which let me in,
(I found him via his tweet! ----He was saying such a nice rooftop SEGA party, lol!)
-First I went to front door, then back door, when the friend saw me,
he could ask for my official entry!, lol...I should do something for his favour,
while I know he refuses, because I have been a long time SEGA fan.

Yu was busy talking with some SEGA boss, after a girl also talked with him....

Then I asked from the person next to Yu, can I speak with him!
(CAN'T SAY THAT MOMENT MY HEART WAS ABOUT TO CRASH)

Then the first moment was so special!
He saw me, I felt he knows me,....but he didn't reveal if yes or not!
but HE FELT the huge LOVE I had for Virtua Fighter, Shenmue and his other works!
in fact for him...

And then we started talking, I said well done, on amazing masterpieces, I named Virtua Fighter 3D and Shenmue Saga.

Then we got pictures, (4 pics, which in all of them he looks great but in 3 of them I LOOK SILLY)
Then I asked him to sign my Shenmue I and Virtua Fighter 4 EVO, for VF he used my marker,
for behind Shenmue I book it didn't work, so we borrowed a pen, he tried again!
AND HE SAID "SUCESS" , lol....

Then I told him back in my undergard I wrote a small book on him ( I was a editor in my country for sometime),
I also gave a lecture on his work, (He laughed...I think he was like "Was I this famous?"),

I told him I am from the most far land (lol, Persia) to here,
and he was like! DO you have games there! and I said....of course, we play a lot!
and well, Call Of Duty, Little Big Planet and some other are the best selling ones over there.

Then I left him, polietly, waiting for him to leave...cuz he was almost done,
because I offered to Yu, I can take you to a special restuarant some time and my treat!
and he tought I mean right now! LOL, the other guy said, but we were already about to leave....
so, this is another reason I knew he was about to leave....

My friend came to me, and asked how it was!
I showed him the signatures, and I told him, I don't have any other wish!
(while I had Virtua Fighter 3tb and VF5 too, without signatures...cuz I was worry
to ask him to do more than 2 signatures for me, I didn't ask him to sign them)

But my friend told me, come on...how many people have two signatures with him,
you should be already happy...hopefully next time.

And then Yu was leaving...I went to front door and said, BYE BYE! and also said Good Bye.

----Lol, so romantic...

PICTURE one of four (please don't ask for the rest, two are bright, one damaged)

http://i56.tinypic.com/2qdtp3l.jpg

NEXT DAY:

I woke up, late...missed Nintendo's keynote
(CUZ LAST NIGHT ALL I HAD IN MIND WAS SUZUKI)

I went to room 135, I asked to let me in, they said...SORRY, NO...only ALL ACCESS PASS.
I waited...(While the door was opened, I SAW HIM THERE! and the room WAS FULL and BIG)
She closed the door, I waited, the door keeper changed, conference was over...I got in!
thanks to the door keeper, Suzuki was about to leave....people asking signatures, paintings, pictures....
YAY! I PREPARE HIS GIFT! ....Some kind of nut....special....original from Persia...A BIG PACK OF "PESTE" I think
same pestasue (sorry I can't write correct maybe)...I went to him! and he was like "You again!"
but he didn't say...he is so KIND and cool...I gave the gift to him! he asked what is it?
I was down, he was up behind the desk...and I said special gift for you, please enjoy ....you can have it
with beer and wind, LOL! It is pestasue... he was listening! and said Thank you!

Well, was I was preparing the gift someone took a picture from me, lol

With my ipod touch, someone took this! I also got a pic from him, when he went to Yu and asked for a pic.
http://i55.tinypic.com/aevf48.jpg

Then I got up, last picture, asked him when you leave?
and he said friday, I SAID take care, enjoy San Francisco....see you next time.

ALL DONE(while I should mention, a Japanese fan aslo went to him, and he knew him, and he said
&%$& SAN , you here! and he said yes...)

Then he left the hall, he went somewhere from stairs and with his team,
then he came back to the NORTH HALL D, he went in...(LOL, I could watch all these by chance,
I was waiting for AUTODESK's conference)

I think in the same room he made the mega64 clip!
Not sure...

The evening came, the award ceremony!
EVERYBODY happy for him!
his picture and work info on magazines
and then Mega 64 clip, Suzuki awarded...
while he was talking Kojima was very near to me
(With his team, and a VERY VERY PRETTY JAPANESE GIRL! LOL)
during the MEGA64 clip, everyone laughing SO HARD!
even more than when he was talking!
when the MEGA 64 guys where taking before the clip!
the NINTENDO miyamoto fan next to me said "THIS IS REVENGE", lol.

Ye clip over, he came got his award, thanks to mark cerny too.
And he left...

One point...before last award Kojima left...

So fans didn't stand a chance like me to get a pic with him! *(well, this is not a fan event, so no one should expect it)
and BTW during the EXPO (a few hours before AWARD)
while I was waiting for Autodesk lecture, after I met with CYBER CONNECT 2's Hiroshi Matsuyama-Naruto games's creator

LOL, I made Kojima feeling because I we bumped to each other twice while he was in hurry
with a tight schedule to check some stuff and getting into the ceremony, anyway...that's another story.
Kojima is awesome, SUZUKI is a pioneer,...and THE NARUTO guy WAS SO COOL too
(You can see his clips all over You Tube and he has many followers on Twitter too)

Ok, that's all folks, Suzuki left...Kojima left sooner, didn't see the Naruto guy again,
-Of course I saw many american and european developers around, while Suzuki was on TOP of my list.

The next day....NO NEWS from Suzuki.

Friday:
I missed his tweet that he was at burger bar other wise I could capture him again, LOL!
THIS WAS the last day...


Best Regards, Ali M.N

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

I take it you were/are excited huh Alimn?

PS terribly envious you lucky bugger.

[Riku Rose]

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