Shenmue Dojo

BlueMue wrote: Wow, a first peak at somewhat of a gameplay scene.

looking good. shenhua needs more detail for her inner ear, and maybe more detail in the clothes, like stiching or something.

nice update. keiji is hopefully going to create great and unique atmospheres for shenmue 3 that rival the old games.

johnvivant wrote:

BlueMue wrote: Wow, a first peak at somewhat of a gameplay scene.

looking good. shenhua needs more detail for her inner ear, and maybe more detail in the clothes, like stiching or something.

nice update. keiji is hopefully going to create great and unique atmospheres for shenmue 3 that rival the old games.

As far as I know, this is the E3 shenhua model. I suppose they are using old model just for tests instead of using the new ones. I wonder how are going the new ones..

Seeing how happy all of you are makes me so very happy as well. I, like all of you, waited for such a very long time for this. It's ok to get emotional over a few seconds of actual gameplay footage. We are getting Shenmue 3 and we all helped to make it happen! This update certainly makes me feel more optimistic about how the end product will end up like.

It's always great to see old member joining the new team.

That timex on the bottom left corner... dem feels.

Amir wrote: She had earrings here (I had this as my wallpaper for ages back in the day):



Maybe they included it in that early model as a test for this getup later on, but I don't think the earrings will be part of her standard outfit.

This clothes of Shenhua are marvelous! At some point of the game she will reveal his mystical powers like saw in older Shenmue teaser... and at this point I think she will be treated like a princess or something!

About the child drawings... maybe they will be prizes in those "ball machines"...

Radar wrote:

Switch wrote:

Spaghetti wrote:Anyway, Switch signal is up again:
Any chance of figuring out what the stuff on the right means?

I missed noticing this, you've got eagle eyes! Each figure has a name written next to it.
Nozomi
Seiji
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The drawings have a very simplistic style... wonder what these represent.

Could be representation of some of their in-house staff?

The more I've thought about it, could it possible be designs for toy capsules? To avoid conflict with Sega over using their characters (although I can't see that being an issue) perhaps they could use the 750+ characters from Shenmue and Shenmue 2 as the capsule toys?

Hazuki Residence Set
Yamanose Set
Sakuragaoka Set
Dobuita Set
Harbour Set

So on and so forth. I mean they have the designs already so it saves money in a way. Plus Yu did say he wanted to so the I'm a chibi style (although not exactly like this).

Peter wrote: Amir..... That's just a tease man. 44 days

Did anyone notice the camera pan out at 4.15??



Look over the top of his cubicle, is that the size of the dev team?!?! That's on Shenmue 1 scale (not 200 staff mind) but that's a lot bigger than we have been led to believe they even had working on the game. That's a lot of rows of cubicles!!

This guy is playing a prototype of the game. I mean, he's playing an actually PLAYABLE build of Shenmue III. Even now, i just cannot fucking believe it. SHENMUE 3 is REAL.

I think Peter may be right and those could be capsule toy designs. They may want to make them more cute and deformed this time. They may be even from a deformed set of capsule toys like how there's a normal set of VF toys and a VF kids set.

ShenmueTree wrote:

Peter wrote: Amir..... That's just a tease man. 44 days

Did anyone notice the camera pan out at 4.15??



Look over the top of his cubicle, is that the size of the dev team?!?! That's on Shenmue 1 scale (not 200 staff mind) but that's a lot bigger than we have been led to believe they even had working on the game. That's a lot of rows of cubicles!!

This guy is playing a prototype of the game. I mean, he's playing an actually PLAYABLE build of Shenmue III. Even now, i just cannot fucking believe it. SHENMUE 3 is REAL.

I feel the same way.

Yeah, they did say some of the capsule toys would be "Chibi" big head style ones in the Kickstarter. Maybe some are of fans/backers?

We're starting to reach end of the period where Shenmue 3 exists only in the abstract.

By the end of this year I'd expect to have a proper teaser trailer.

Playable demo early next year.

Full trailer @ E3 2017

SMDzero wrote: We're starting to reach end of the period where Shenmue 3 exists only in the abstract.

By the end of this year I'd expect to have a proper teaser trailer.

Playable demo early next year.

Full trailer @ E3 2017

That's the most expected but what about a first solid appearance in a magazine preview?

Am I the only one worried that they are hiring a subdirector at this point?

The project has been underway for a long time now to be hiring for such a top level position as this...

Bellator wrote: Am I the only one worried that they are hiring a subdirector at this point?

The project has been underway for a long time now to be hiring for such a top level position as this...

No, not really. For two reasons, one It's just about ready to get into the meat of the development starting around now, and another thing to point out, that's how the other Shenmue games were made(They hired people as they became needed, not before hand/upfront)

killthesagabeforeitkillsu wrote:It's always great to see old member joining the new team.

That timex on the bottom left corner... dem feels.

And what an old member! He's considered as the 3rd most important developer of Shenmue I after Yu Suzuki and screenplayer Masahiro Yoshimoto.

Bellator wrote: Am I the only one worried that they are hiring a subdirector at this point?

The project has been underway for a long time now to be hiring for such a top level position as this...

Nah. Yu was looking at how much extra money he now has from the slacker backer campaign and just wanted to find a way to spend it.