Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

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Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

Postby Supa » Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:42 pm

Looking at this:
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Can we get a glimpse of the skill tree system for Shenmue III in an early form? I just now took the time to pause and look at all of the quest pages the video includes, and it shows how Shenmue Online differed from Shenmue II with learning Brawling Uppercut and Wild Throw. Could this be an early glimpse at what Yu wants to include in Shenmue III's skill tree system? It's not much to go off of, but still a bit interesting.

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Also, could this.... Image

be the same skyline as this?

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Re: Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

Postby Hyo Razuki » Fri Jul 24, 2015 12:31 am

Man, every Shenmue Online video just makes me so effing glad, this... thing... was never released. :D

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Re: Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

Postby shredingskin » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:35 am

It seems like the UI is not polished, but you can be onto something.
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Re: Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

Postby Yokosuka » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:39 am

I don't understand the HK skyline point.

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Re: Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

Postby johnvivant » Fri Jul 24, 2015 6:25 am

Supa wrote:Image



can anyone make out what it says?
it would be nice to know what the other annotated stills say as well.
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Re: Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

Postby Supa » Fri Jul 24, 2015 10:39 am

If you view the video in highest quality, you can make out most of what it says.

The skyline I just randomly noticed. Nothing to do with the skill tree system. Just that the Shenmue Online skyline could be modeled exactly after Hong Kong's skyline.
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Re: Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

Postby ShenmueTree » Fri Jul 24, 2015 10:57 am

Hmm. This looks to be very similar to a turned based RPG level up system.

An example

You engage in a battle
You're rewarded with experience based on your strategy.
Sometimes you gain skills that may be helpful.

So, basically it looks like you're just getting random move experience which will make it easy to perform that move?


Maybe after battles something like this will pop up in Shenmue 3

+3 speed
+1 endurance
+ 5 Strength
Learned Elbow Assault.

but instead of choosing the move from the list you actually have to do the button presses, except for combos where as it would make sense for you to choose from a list.

I dunno.
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Re: Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

Postby Ceej » Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:06 am

So glad this never saw the light of day.

While I like the environments, this was all such a bastardization of what makes Shenmue great. The fact that everyone is throwing fireballs and lightning strikes in the gameplay portion of that video makes me hopeful that Ryo won't start throwing hadoukens in Shenmue III all of a sudden either, which is good.
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Re: Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

Postby Henry Spencer » Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:17 am

Was this going to be canon? I don't suppose Suzuki really said either way, the closest he ever stated to it was saying that it's a "spin off" or something to that effect, which doesn't really clear things up. We had our chance to ask some questions about Shenmue Online, but nobody cares about it (or likes it), obviously, ha. I actually recall someone posting on here stating that they knew somebody working on the game and that it was "in development hell" and that the game was a mess and never going to leave alpha stage. Guess that person may have been legit.

As bad as Online looked, [and those gameplay videos looked rough] I would rather play that than Shenmue Gai/City...
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Re: Glimpse of the skill tree from...Shenmue Online?

Postby Supa » Mon Jul 27, 2015 7:07 pm

I would not mind a Shenmue Online at all after we got the complete story through the original games. And it got past alpha...it was in beta testing in Korea, I think, before development stopped. And I think as far back as TGS 2004 or 2005, they were playing it on stage.


I think he said the game's story would run parallel to Shenmue and Shenmue II's story, and maybe go on past II. But it wouldn't have been a direct sequel.
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