u/alvinochipmunko

I'm not proud of myself, but there it is. I also bought the LRG edition, which is still sitting wrapped on a shelf--should probably just throw it out. Yeah, no way in Hell am I spending another $ on this turd, especially when all the dev can muster 7 years later is a couple extra toggles in the options menu.

I was like all the other Bell Wood's-gulping fans, stoked on the continuation of my favorite game series ever. "It's just the same as the first two games," the generous fans cry--"It feels just like a Dreamcast game; that's why you don't like it!" Go run out of stamina, nerds. This piece of garbage doesn't come CLOSE to either game.

Maybe the team ought to spend less time thinking up tacky trinkets and box sets and spend more time on designing a playable game.

Why is every business deal that YS Net gets into so shady? Why does it always feel like a scam? Almost seems like they're a bit shady themselves. The "upgrade path" suddenly disappeared once they started trotting out 3D Printed "Ryo taking a Shit" sculptures and $300 box sets. Greed is bad, folks.

A couple years ago YS Net was hanging out with 110 Industries, a company that released one game and then disappeared into the mist.

When will the House of Cards fall apart?

I love Shenmue, but a man and company of integrity would've significantly re-scoped the entire series based on circumstance. Our boy Yu's ego appears to be way too large for his current position in life. Perhaps he really believes #letsgetshenmue4 is an organically grown trending topic on social media and he's too naive to see what's really going on.

This is one of the incredible arguments one faces when entering Hashtag Territory. In the eyes of the Twittermue Cult, a “67 Metacritic Average” is proof Shenmue 3 performed well.

In the modern era, a 67 is extremely disappointing. While there are cult games “the industry” doesn’t get, we all know the 7.7 user score is a result of the Twitter Tools brigading and inflating reviews.

Everywhere you go, outside the Shenmue Fanclub, and see discussion on Shenmue 3, the tone is absolutely negative. The other subReddit is covered in negative posts.

We needn’t analyze the Steam score, as we have proof Twitter Dojo bribes users to brigade any poll or site that allows it.

Conclusion: Shenmue 3’s 6.7 Metacritic average is further proof the game stinks.

Anyone know what’s going on with this? Always amazes me what fans can do compared to actual studios. This sounded like a pretty impressive undertaking.

Anyone got the gossip on why the dev, a former admin at the Shenmue Tweet Brigade, was exiled from the community?

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Shenmue Dragon & Phoenix Collection is an engine replacement mod for the 2018 release of Shenmue I+II for PC that replaces the original engine with Unreal Engine 4, allowing for massive improvements across the board. This also modernizes the games, and brings their gameplay more in line with Shenmue III, while still maintaining the original look, feel, and core gameplay mechanics. Assets such as models, textures, and animations are extracted from a legitimately owned copy of Shenmue I+II, and placed into Unreal Engine 4 at install time which allows us to avoid many of the pitfalls other attempts at remakes have fallen into. This also allows us to cut back on some areas of development, such as recreating various gameplay sequences, and focus instead on smoothing out rough edges in the original gameplay, adding new features, and making the world look absolutely stunning and feel more alive than ever before.

Features

Thanks to our use of Unreal Engine 4, we’ve been able to utilize modern rendering features such as PBR materials and real time raytracing to really bring out the best in the original models and textures, the world truly looks better than ever before. On top of this, we’ve also managed to stitch the whole game world together in one congruous map; this has necessitated some minor map changes to avoid clipping, such as expanding the exterior of the You Arcade, but no significant changes have been made. We’re also utilizing libretro for the arcade games such as Hang-On and Space Harrier, however, this also means other emulation cores may be used with minimal effort, allowing a potential for even more games to be included in the arcade or even for Ryo’s Saturn (or perhaps for you, the player, to add games yourself). Many, many more features are also planned, too numerous to list here even; however we cannot go into detail at this time, which we’ll discuss in a minute.

Dragon -AND- Phoenix Collection?

Okay, now for the interesting part. Included in Shenmue Dragon & Phoenix Collection will be not one, but two ways to play the games. Dragon Edition, a true 1:1 port of both Shenmue I and II to Unreal Engine 4, or at least as close as we can make it, warts and all. For Dragon Edition, we plan to do very little in the way of new features, aside from small changes within reason, to preserve the original gameplay experience. However, there will also be Phoenix Edition, a full UE4 reimagining of the games. Again, all the core assets and gameplay present in Dragon Edition will be present in Phoenix Edition, but with more emphasis on modernizing the game, and adding new features. These features can be something as fundamentally game altering as the stamina system from Shenmue III (although less intrusive, before we get shot for saying that), or as minor as new cassettes in the Tomato Store. We’ve not really locked down any of those features just yet as we are still working on Dragon Edition, which means we can still use your suggestions and help if you’re willing and able.

So when can I play this?

We have no set release date or even window at this point, the best we can say is “when it’s ready”

I want to help you. How can I do this?

Join the Shenmue Modding Discord, contact us, and we’ll see what can be done. https://discord.gg/yM24FhMTsa

You’re lying! There’s no way you managed to do this when Sega couldn’t do it themselves.

Don’t believe us? That’s fine, have some screenshots; none of these are mock-ups, these were all taken in-engine, and in some cases even in-game, and most are out-of-date by now at that, so just know that any screenshots you see now, or in the future, are likely to be out-of-date by the time you’ve seen them/they’ve been posted here.

They really need a new marketing strategy. I don't think paying a guy with a voice that makes chalkboards cringe is the way. I suggest we all hashtag Sydney Sweeney and explain our predicament to her. Perhaps she's secretly a Dreamcast fan.

Is this how YS Net is raising money these days? Sad. Let's pre-order 5 copies each so we can help them develop their new options menu.

I'm not sure why they saved it for Niaowu. It's too good to stay exclusive to the big city. Hope they patch a Smartball Center into the Enhanced edition.

Incredible life-like models, imo.

I like that they stiffly walk and that the screen randomly fades to black so you know they've walked for a while while they mumble about mundane stuff. Killer opening for this cinematic tour de force. Auteur-like direction like Suzuki-san's is rare these days.