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ethomaz on 26 November 2013

Found in GAF and seems interesting.

For March's Game Developers Conference 2014, we're announcing one of the most exciting game postmortems yet.

Yu Suzuki, the influential Japanese game designer famously known for his work at Sega, will be delivering a Classic Game Postmortem on the iconic Dreamcast game Shenmue. Mark Cerny, game designer and lead system architect for PlayStation 4 will be on-hand to translate Suzuki's presentation into English for the audience.

Suzuki, currently president of his own studio YsNet, will talk for the very first time about the creation of the console classic Shenmue. Beginning with the origin of the title as a Virtua Fighter-based RPG on the Sega Saturn, he will take the audience through the long journey of the game that led to its ultimate release in 1999 on the Sega Dreamcast.

This is an hour-long session - we'll have more scheduling details about the talk as GDC gets closer, but we figure a lot of you would like to get this on your radar! If you can't make it to GDC, be sure to watch the session livestreamed on GameSpot.

http://www.gdconf.com/news/yu_suzuki_revisits_shenmue_in_.html

If Sony and Yu Suzuki revives Shenmue I will die and live again just to play this game.



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Wright on 26 November 2013

I don't understand the text. What is this supposed to mean? Yu is going to conmemmorate Shenmue in front of an audience?



ethomaz on 26 November 2013
Wright said:

I don't understand the text. What is this supposed to mean? Yu is going to conmemmorate Shenmue in front of an audience?

He will do a pesentation of one hour talking about the first Shenmue game... about how they developed it (techs, issues, challenges, etc)... and Cerny will translate from Japanese to English.

I'm dreaming with a reboot for PS4 or Shenmue 3.



Wright on 26 November 2013
ethomaz said:
Wright said:

I don't understand the text. What is this supposed to mean? Yu is going to conmemmorate Shenmue in front of an audience?

He will do a pesentation of one hour talking about the first Shenmue game... about how they developed it (techs, issues, challenges, etc)... and Cerny will translate from Japanese to English.

I'm dreaming with a reboot for PS4 or Shenmue 3.


An HD collection would be nice, since that's how Sega works these days xD



SxyxS on 26 November 2013

i hope there will be more than just blabla.

If there is no HD or third part than he shall use the time to tell the whole shenmue story.



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ethomaz on 26 November 2013

padib said:

Did you originally play it on the dreamcast?

The first two.... yes and I loved.



STRYKIE on 26 November 2013

Hope for Shenmue 3 aside, this ought to be interesting. Always been curious about what Suzuki had in mind back when the series was planned for the Saturn, cause honestly, it probably would've been a much bigger game-changer for the Saturn than it was for the Dreamcast.



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Wright on 26 November 2013
padib said:
ethomaz said:

padib said:

Did you originally play it on the dreamcast?

The first two.... yes and I loved.

:) Nice! The games had a decent following, I wasn't able to enjoy them back in the day but I heard so many great things about them.


Pffff. Two of the best games ever made.



Lafiel on 26 November 2013

Hehe, I hope Cerny is translating in more detail than when he translated the japanese producer of Knack in one of the interviews. As far as I remember that guy talked for several minutes and Cerny just summarized it in one very short sentence.



Aerys on 26 November 2013

I think Cerny is becoming his friend (because he doesnt seem to have many friends) to convince him to make a next shenmue only on PS4



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