The Bike

[ChaiOgawa]

the bike would have been probably the coolest feature of Shenmue, why the hell would they take it out?

[Juanfran]

Maybe it took too much time to program, and they were up against a deadline. Then, if it was Ryo's bike, you would have to pick it up every day from where it was chained just inside, cycle it down. You wouldn't be able to stop and chat to people as you went along, there was no need to go any faster than you could when running, it would have nullified the use of the bus and, above all, you would have to leave it outside when you went into a building, and unless you wasted several long minutes chaining it up, someone would probably have come along and nicked it.

[Veteah]

It did look ace despite it's amazing abillity at being useless.

[pico]

Only nerds ride bikes. All the cool guys in Dobuita might pick on Ryo if he were to ride a bike!

[Master MuMbLes]

I Think The Bike Would Of Been Awsome.

[wuhei the shit demon]

those cornholes took it out to bore us like hell!

[ShenmueAddict]

i think juanfran's got a good point, if yo rode the bike you wouldent of been able to talk to people, so all the money spent on voice actors, all the lip sinc, realism of face's and lots of time spent on the characters peronality would have been all for nothing.

[MidnightGamer]

Well, wouldn't it kind of hard to manuver? haha, but it would have been cool if you could knock people over!

[TEEPO™]

You never know, they may bring the bike in Shenmue 3, for the purpose of travelling great distances, from town to town and such.

[Juanfran]

That would only happen if the task was time critical, like with the motorbike, otherwise it'd be incredibly tedious, I reckon.

[ShenmueAddict]

yeh that would be cool if they did, it took ages running all the way to shenhua's house

[LanDC]

I can see why it wasnt added in shenmue 2. So many stair ways and stuff. You could probably pick it up and carry upstairs.. but still. Now shenmue 1 could have easily had it. Its funny though. All of the information for the bike is still on Shenmue 1 and 2. I wish there were some way to activate it...

[Without Remorse]

im sure theres a way man, if anyone could figure it out, it would be the mod in the dc.

[Without Remorse]

holy crap, what about implanting the crouch feature from whats shenmue into shenmue, it wouldnt serve much purpose, but hell, why not? You could also transfer a few of the coke machines over, to make it feel more authentic. Holy shit, the possibilities are flooding my mind, somebody teach me how to hack quickly!!!

[LanDC]

Yeah, all you have to do is give the MOTION.BIN from whats shenmue over to shenmue 1. and BAM!! crouch!! the coke machines! sure you can put them over too.