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bcdcdude · Post by **bcdcdude** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:48 am

http://www.shenmue-online.com/

Thank you!!

Now if only my broadband allowed me to play gaming...[/url]

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 5:04 am

A Shenmue MMORPG... how would that work? Seems kinda fishy to me.

bcdcdude · Post by **bcdcdude** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 5:21 am

Yeah, as i thought about it - the idea does sound kinda odd. I'm not very happy that it's a MMORPG as opposed to a proper 3rd game really 'cos i don't play online.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:14 am

Many people already didn't like Shenmue because of cultural differences. I don't see how well this will do in the US.

Post by Bo » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:26 am

What the hell? MMORPG where everyone's Ryo?

Segata · Post by **Segata** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:04 am

I was just about to post this. Interesting stuff.

<<Minor details.>>

Ash Holt · Post by **Ash Holt** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:50 am

How about a game of Lucky Hit?
Want to play Lucky Hit?

Geez, I can't wait to do that online.

Meh, I liked Shenmue and Shenmue 2, but I have no clue on how they're going to make this work.

Post by **Popcorn** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:42 am

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bcdcdude · Post by **bcdcdude** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:32 pm

I too am perplexed...

Perhaps the entire game will consist of asking sailors questions round the docks.

It sounds interesting, but it could fall apart SO easily. Why not a Shenmue III? It's probably the only game i am looking forward too ever now...well Half-Life 2 but that's different.

Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:15 pm

How many people does it take to find a goddamn sailor?

Psxphile · Post by **Psxphile** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:07 pm

One to spot him.
One to hold him down.
One to go through his pockets for loose change.
One to hurl insults about his fat Norwegian mother.
One to give him a Lombardi Slap.
One to...

Dache · Post by **Dache** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:31 pm

I wonder whether Gibbon is crying out of joy or sorrow right now.

Post by **Esrever** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:46 pm

MMORPG seems like a natural fit with the gameplay, but not so much for the storyline. Still, it's so bizarre... I'm not really sure what to think at all.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:46 pm

I think it's a hoax.

How would that even work? Everyone's running around trying to hunt down the murderer of their father asking each other inane questions. The game would play like this:

Player 1: "Can you tell me how to get to Queens Street?"
Player 2: "I'll answer that if you tell me about the black car on the day the snow turned to rain."
Player 1: "Darn, I don't have that information."
Player 2: "Well, I'll sell the Queens Street info to you for 500 yen and a Bonanza Brothers figure."
Player 1: "How about 500 yen and two Nightopian figures?"
Player 2: "Fair enough. Okay: to get to Queens Street, you go that way." *points to a building*
Player 1: "I see."

Big fun, there. Who the hell are JC Entertainment and T2 Technology, anyway?

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:37 pm

I guess it would just be some online life sim/fighter set in the Shenmue "universe"? But what would be the fun in that? So you can run around having idiotic conversations with <I>human-controlled</I> NPCs?

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:53 pm

Segaholic2 wrote:I guess it would just be some online life sim/fighter set in the Shenmue "universe"? But what would be the fun in that? So you can run around having idiotic conversations with <I>human-controlled</I> NPCs?

Or even idiotic conversations with human-controlled NPCs from other countries.

YOU: Can you tell me where I can find some sailors?
THEM: I do not understand many english ^.^;;

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:54 pm

This is definitely not a hoax. Proof? Site info dug up by guys at a Shenmue fan forum.

Creation Date........ 2004-04-14
Registration Date.... 2004-04-14
Expiry Date.......... 2005-04-14
Organisation Name.... digitalrex Co., Ltd.
Organisation Address. 1-2-12, haneda
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Ohta-ku
Organisation Address. 144-0043
Organisation Address. Tokyo
Organisation Address. JAPAN

Admin Name........... Masaya Saida
Admin Address........ 1-2-12, haneda
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Ohta-ku
Admin Address........ 144-0043
Admin Address........ Tokyo
Admin Address........ JAPAN
Admin Email.......... dommaster@mark-i.jp
Admin Phone.......... +81-3-5736-7320
Admin Fax............ +81-3-5736-7321

Tech Name............ Tetsu Nakamura
Tech Address......... Les Belles Modes bldg.
Tech Address......... 3-3 Kojimachi
Tech Address......... Chiyoda-Ku
Tech Address......... 102-0083
Tech Address......... Tokyo
Tech Address......... JAPAN
Tech Email........... dommaster@mark-i.co.jp
Tech Phone........... +813.52752789
Tech Fax............. +813.52767537
Name Server.......... fixer.sega.co.jp
Name Server.......... ns2.sega.co.jp

Basically the only info there is right now is this:
Shenmue Online is MMO Action RPG in which tens of thousands of players will participate in the virtual world of Shenmue staged in China including Hong Kong in 1980Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s. Players, acting as militants, will use mysterious powers, kung-fu, Chinese weapons and Qigong in real-time fight-action.

Either way, go to http://www.shenmue-online.co.kr and check out screens and a trailer? I think, I haven't looked yet because the site is broken for me.

And actually, some guys at that forum had discovered this a couple days ago. They'd gone to shenmue-online.com, and the site was nothing but "..." then, but it was known to be coming. I didn't post anything here because I... didn't post here at all back then.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 12:16 am

Wait, the info is from a Shenmue fan forum, thus obviously proving its authenticity. No hoax here, people. Go back to looking for sailors.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 12:26 am

Yes, because it's impossible to get those statistics, and because he'd obviously go through the trouble of making up all those names and numbers.

Oh, and he was one of the veteran admins (with 6000+ posts) of the forum (2000 members, 250000 posts), not some stupid random n00b who came along from nowhere.

Post by Bo » Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:33 am

So is this just a cash in on the success of FFXI that they attached the Shenmue name to, because the only games that get made these days are sequels?

CE · Post by CE » Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:02 am

And there is the fatal flaw is Sega's logic of making Shenmue Online.

Final Fantasy has tons and tons of fanboys that will buy up any FF game.
Shenmue has none.

Maybe Sega should hook up with Treasure and make a "Radiant Silvergun Online" to sell to all the Treasure fanboys?

bcdcdude · Post by **bcdcdude** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:55 pm

No Shenmue fanboys? Blimey - there are! Of course, there aren't as many as Final Fantasy fanboys - but they are definitely around.

Segata · Post by **Segata** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 3:58 pm

For some reason, I still laugh every time I see this.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:33 pm

I just don't get how a Shenmue MMORPG would work. The premise of the game is you are Ryo and you are trying to avenge your fathers death. I don't see how that could possibly invovle more than one player.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:43 pm

Light Speed wrote:I just don't get how a Shenmue MMORPG would work. The premise of the game is you are Ryo and you are trying to avenge your fathers death. I don't see how that could possibly invovle more than one player.

Exactly why I think this idea is pretty lame.