New SHENMUE announced!!!!!!!!!

Not even very close to something like good.

 

The saddest part being having such affection for the iPhone apps and not the arcade games. They're fun... to kill time. That's about it.

 

And you know whats sad? SA2 was really polished, fixing most of the bugs of SA and with some really awesome graphics. It still holds a 90% score overall.

That was as far as ST went to make a game that could be compared with the best available at the time. What came after it looked either cheap or rushed, making even the old SA look good.

 

I'm confused...

You had previously said...

I know you bum the iPhone and think Japanese phones are shit, but aren't you saying opposing things here?

 

No. Not at all and I don't "bum" the iPhone. I've said a million times that I don't like Apple at all. I just think a Jailbroken iPhone is a very useful bit of kit that NO Japanese phone can compete with. By the way, I have always been a Japanese phone fan until the last 2 years when innovation just stopped.

Anyway, what I'm saying is that Japanese will play very basic flash based games that are NOT fun. Looking great or not doesn't matter, it's whether the game is fun and most of these flash based games are not.

Too true for the most part. Like you, GaijinPunch, I'm not a hand held gamer. Never have been and never will be. Saying that, I was in work last week with nothing to do in my own little room. So out come the earphones and on goes DoDonPachi Resurection. It was like having a mini arcade in my hand. Though I will admit that was the most I ever played on the phone in a long long time.

yakumo

 

Little bit more here

Official website here

 

100% it's going to be some shitty flash or Java based crap. No way will it be a real game. You can tell that just by looking at the host platforms.

Yakumo

 

Sigh...its so sad that the once promising Shenmue franchise has come to this.

It was almost 10 years ago to this day when I finally brought home the US version of Shenmue 1 and popped it into my DC. I never expected a game to grab me as strongly as this one did...everything seemed perfect (to me at least). The atmosphere is still nearly unmatched to this day. In fact, as I reminisce while typing (it's a dark fall night not unlike the one when I first played Shenmue) this I still fondly remember the moody soundtrack and the great sense of "being there" that no game since has managed to convey.

I had never been to Japan, but yet I felt like I was really there when I played Shenmue. It was such a great, intimate virtual world, unlike anything I had ever experienced before in a video game. Shenmue II, while still great, feels a bit too large and open compared to the first which I think takes away some of the magic.

But yeah, I just want to see the series wrap up properly. Hell, I'd even take a short XBLA iteration just to see things through. Or in the worst case, I'd be happy with a DVD movie that takes us through a decent ending.
But a cell phone game? Err, no thanks.

 

I felt the same way, so much so to go there Yokosuka, when I went I went to Tokyo.

That was fun.

 

Shenmue is now japanese farmville...

 

Well, seems that here we got Shenmue Online, and i prefer it that way, over the original SO plans.

In any case, this doesn't follow the story, so we still have to wait (haha!) for a decent sequel.

 

Apparently this is coming to the iPhone as well? Not sure if I've missed this in the thread but I just read it on a site.

 

Yu Suzuki speaks with Famitsu

clicky

Mafia Wars ?? Oh boy.

 

Cool photo

 

Makes sense, those guys are making a giant wad of cash from casuals, even when only 1 out of a 100 players actually pays