1998 IGN article on "Virtua Fighter RPG"

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1998 IGN article on "Virtua Fighter RPG"

Postby Mr357 » Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:48 pm

I happened to see this on Reddit; pretty interesting, especially the old picture of Lan Di.

https://web.archive.org/web/19981203161444/http://www.ign.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/19990218041724/http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/5927.html


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Re: 1998 IGN article on "Virtua Fighter RPG"

Postby Ziming » Thu Oct 15, 2015 12:08 am

Thanks. I have added this to the archive of Yu Suzuki/Shenmue related interviews.

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Re: 1998 IGN article on "Virtua Fighter RPG"

Postby SMDzero » Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:56 am

So if I read this right they created the music first in Shenmue and the music inspired the story?
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Re: 1998 IGN article on "Virtua Fighter RPG"

Postby Amir » Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:32 am

SMDzero wrote: So if I read this right they created the music first in Shenmue and the music inspired the story?


Yeah, Suzuki either created or co-created a four-part orchestral suite that was intended to inspire the writers before they really had a plot.
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Re: 1998 IGN article on "Virtua Fighter RPG"

Postby Yokosuka » Thu Oct 15, 2015 7:42 am

Mr357 wrote: I happened to see this on Reddit; pretty interesting, especially the old picture of Lan Di.


The picture of Lan Di is not new, it's from the Project Berkley trailer.
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Re: 1998 IGN article on "Virtua Fighter RPG"

Postby Mr357 » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:36 pm

Yokosuka wrote:
Mr357 wrote: I happened to see this on Reddit; pretty interesting, especially the old picture of Lan Di.


The picture of Lan Di is not new, it's from the Project Berkley trailer.


Where did I say that it was new?
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Re: 1998 IGN article on "Virtua Fighter RPG"

Postby Miles Prower » Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:07 pm

Ah, late 90's web design :lol:
Nice find :)
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Re: 1998 IGN article on "Virtua Fighter RPG"

Postby Yokosuka » Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:51 pm

Mr357 wrote:
Where did I say that it was new?


So why would that be interesting lol ?
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Re: 1998 IGN article on "Virtua Fighter RPG"

Postby Mr357 » Thu Oct 15, 2015 7:22 pm

Yokosuka wrote:
Mr357 wrote:
Where did I say that it was new?


So why would that be interesting lol ?


Because I simply didn't recognize it at first as being from the Berkley video
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