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Post by Jenny on Aug 21, 2004 5:15:09 GMT
****Shenmue Online >> Places and Locations (20040805)***** shenmue.t2cn.com/scene.htm------------------ Background ------------------ - The scene background of the game take place in Hong Kong and China -------------------------- Confirmed Location -------------------------- - Hong Kong - Guilin (info from conference) - Tian Jin (from t2cn page) - Suzhou - Xian -------------------------------------- Future Upgrade Version Location -------------------------------------- - Shanghai - Beijing - and more... Source is from the T2 Director Marketing General's Interview. The definition of "upgrade plan" is vague. ----------------------- Style 3D Design ------------------------ - You will see lots of detailed 3D - Including the greeting paper/ card , there is a word "Fuku" (means Luck) which is inverted and sticked on the wall . In this way, the word will be "inverted" when you see the "luck". It's a symbol that luck will come, in chinese traditional. - Kowloon walled City, different house design...etc. - In TianJin (Old City - South Part), you will see the street art of "Three-No-Supervise" on the wall -------------------------------- yu suzuki expresses -------------------------------- - Yu Suzuki expressed that he think that there has been no such type of online game that really completely belongs to Chinese (culture?), so all the scene will be located in China for the whole Shenmue Online , to become a game that is full of Chinese culture and martial art and combat. |
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Post by Jenny on Aug 21, 2004 5:23:49 GMT
***** Shenmue Online Translation >> Characters ****** shenmue.t2cn.com/character.htm----------------------------- Story of Shenmue Online ----------------------------- The Story of Shenmue Online would continue the things happen after " The Chapter of Hong Kong". (Which chapter is not specified) PS: It's interesting to see how they put the S1 and S2 cutscene working in this game and the game player...if the story is about the things happen after "the" chapter of hk. ------------------------------ Who are you ------------------------------ - you are not Ryo Hazuki in the game - instead of this, you are a kung fu master in the game, you are training your kung fu and to be a real master. - in the story you will meet other NPC , including Ryo hazuki, Ren, Fangmei, joy, wong. etc. - there are lots of different style of kung fu in-game. including Chinese Kung Fu , Wrestling, pankuration...etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Three group of characters you can choose to act : ------------------------------------------------------------------ From the chinese shenmue online site : 1) Traditional Kung Fu Master 2) Modern Combat ( Grappling + Virtual Fighter?) 3) Ancient Chinese Mystic Power -------------------------------- human models and scene ------------------------------- - 1300 human models in shenmue-online - 6000 "animation scene" ---------------------------------- About Traditional Kung Fu ---------------------------------- - Shaolin Quan - Tai Chi Quan - Baji Quan - Jeet Kune Do - Praying Mantis Boxing ---------------------------- Battle Mode ---------------------------- In a battle, you can choose to attack in the following ways 1) ARPG Mode 2) Virtual Fighter Mode ------------------- Mini-Games ------------------- 1) afterburner 2) space harrier 3) hang on PS: Mini-Games Info is from online magazine about "4 characteristics of this online-game", mini-games are the 4th chracteristic |
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Post by Jenny on Aug 21, 2004 5:26:56 GMT
Shenmue Online News from T2CN Translation CHI->ENG shenmue.t2cn.com/news1.htmManagement , Administration, Working Structure for Shenmue-Online -------------------------------------------------- 3rd paragraph : (Role of each companies) ------------------------------------------------- - JC Entertainment : Game Development , Marketing, Promotion - SEGA : Supervising the whole making process , looking for other potential coporate partners from all over the world . Also mentioned Yu Suzuki (the supervisor) is the creator of Shenmue 1,2 have been surpervising the making of shenmue-online - T2CN : licence SO, and running administration of SO in China. |
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Post by Jenny on Aug 21, 2004 5:29:03 GMT
Shenmue Online ---------------------------------------------------------- Coporate Company > Shanghai T2 Technology ---------------------------------------------------------- A little background of this company, it might help to understrand why Suzuki-sama chose it instead of other mainland chinese online game companies to administrate running the game in China : History 1999 * Full Name : Shanghai T2 Technology * Founded at : 1999 * 1st Business : Text Click Bill Board Services * Investment Venture: Chengwei China Ventures, New Margin * Number of Coporate Websites : 150,000 * Number of Registrated Users : 5,000,000 * Page Statistic Views per day (in total): 50,000,000 Explore into online gaming industry since 2003 * Since May-2003, this company explore into online game industry. Past-Record for the game "Hell in Heaven" * One of the online-game they have been administrating: "Heaven in Hell" * Most users ever online (at the same time) was 83,000 (players) * Now, this game is still very popular Micellaneous Background : - 2003 is a turning-point of our company that we've finally explored into online-game administration market. Indeed, it's our honour that our company has been selected by Berkeley Management of Technology (MOT) at the University of California, Berkeley. as a research target for groundbreaking technology entrepreneur. - (Business partners: (Internet Service and technology) Sony, HP, INTEL , MOTOROLA, JOHNSON&JOHNSON....etc.) - Investment Venture: Chengwei China Ventures, New Margin --------------------- >> New Margin --------------------- New Margin: "New Margin, based in Shanghai and backed by the Chinese government, has provided $110 million in funding to companies such as AsiaInfo and RedFlag Software. San Francisco-based Chengwei Ventures, with $60 million in funds from Silicon Valley institutional and individual investors, also has a number of technology companies in its portfolio. Yet entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors alike find China a hard market to crack." -by BSC - Harvard Research on Chengwei Venture 2002 : www.asiacase.com/ecatalog/NO_FILTERS/page-TECHNOP-559310.html--------------------- Business Partners --------------------- (Internet Service and technology) Sony, HP, INTEL , MOTOROLA, JOHNSON&JOHNSON....etc.) |
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Post by Jenny on Aug 21, 2004 5:33:20 GMT
------------------------------------------------------------- T2 CEO's (Jim Wang) speech about Shenmue Online ------------------------------------------------------------- shenmue.t2cn.com/news2.htmBrief Summary of News Page on T2CN: ------------------- 1st paragraph : ------------------- -hello everyone!!! ------------------- 2nd paragraph : ------------------- We would like to express our gratitude that it's our honour and we are thankful for sega's invitation and select our company joining one of the biggest project in the gaming industry. ------------------- 3rd paragraph : ------------------- Sega has been developing lots of well-known games : SONIC, VR fighters, VR Racers, and of course Shenmue which has been bringing us lots of happiness and good experience , which is a dreams-come-true that we should be proud of. Sega has become Chinese's important coporate partners to the core in gaming industry. It's an honour to us and our team to work with Sega. ------------------- 4th paragraph : ------------------- - The internet gaming industry business has been growing rapidly in China. The chinese online games market scale reaches around $1,900,000,000 cn dollars (19 billions cn dollars) in 2003. This year (2004), it may even reach $3,300,000,000 cn dollars (33 billions cn dollars). - That data hasn't even included the hardware markets, software markets, online market...(etc) yet. if the general market scale summing up all these , it actually reaches "severel-hundreds multiples hundred-million" cn dollars this year. (several hundreds * 100,000,000 = the english terms is several what....?) -------------------- 5th paragraph -------------------- - In the past , due to the ---pirated software--- problems in china market, lots of game companies (such as SONY, Nitendo and even microsfot) was having dilemma decision on their investment strategy in china game market. - However, it's now a different story as online game business is booming rapidly. Online game industry is a great potential market here. And all of the game companies have been growing here (some companies names here - not translated), we are catching up the opportunities as well as the international game companies which have been working hard for that too. - There is a clear picture that the gaming industry of china is shining and it will keep growing. It's the era of great moment. In fact, there are lots of the potential in china game market that T2 Technology Company is very honored to have the opportunities to coporate with top companies : Sega and JC Entertainment, with their expertise, skills and creativity. We are really grateful and thankful. ------------------ 6th paragraph ------------------ - Even though we have been exploring into online gaming industry since 2003 , however , our administration teams are very experienced. Every employee, without any exception, they all have experience of administrating at least two online games. - 2003 is a turning-point of our company that we've finally explored into online-game administration market. Indeed, it's our honour that our company has been selected by Berkeley Management of Technology (MOT) at the University of California, Berkeley. as a research target for groundbreaking technology entrepreneur. - We are also thankful to become investment venture especially New Margin and Chengwei China Ventures ------------------ 7th paragraph ------------------ In the coming year, we are looking forward to publish Shemmue Online with SEGA and JC Etertainment together. It's the first time that this new combination of coporation exists in history. Expertise from China, Japanese and Korea bonds together to create a new online-game journey. T2CN, Sega and JC Entertainment will do the best to provide the best online game ever made - "shenmue online". ------------------ 8th paragraph ------------------ We are proud to present "Shenmue Online" to all online gamers. It will continue brings more happiness and excitement to all the gamers through a healthy and best-online-game ever made. We are sure that we will learn a lot from working with Sega and JC Entertainment. We will continue to contribute the skills and knowledge we've been learning. We will create a new page and contribute ourselves whole-heartedly for gaming industry and providing new technology and good management continously in China. Thanks for all your support! CEO, (Wong) Jim Wang T2CN.com |
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Post by Jenny on Aug 21, 2004 5:37:18 GMT
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Shanghai T2's Contract/Licence Period for Shenmue Online --------------------------------------------------------------------- - License / administration / contract period (for T2): 3 Years - T2CN have to pay Sega: $25,000,000 US dollars (25 millions us dollars) - T2CN has already paid : $5,000,000 US dollars (5 millions us dollars) - Calculation: T2CN has to pay the rest of the fee : $20,000,000 us dollars within this 3 years. (20 millions us dollars) Information Extracted from : 21th Century Econ. Report (china) news.17173.com/content/2004-8-8/n575_492088.html------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Running the Shenmue-Online game online on PC is impossible? the massive data and broadband cannot get afford to it?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vice-CEO from TC2N replied: "Because of this , the contract has stated that Sega has to completely modify the game." JC Entertainment and Yu Suzuki has been working on the modification together. News from : 21thCM Mag. --------------------------------------------------- Particular Requirement for Shenmue-Online -------------------------------------------------- Contract Requirements on shenmue-online world by T2 , to Sega 1. No Japanese Flags 2. No Japanese Clothes (Wafuku, Kimono) 3. No Japanese Names (¡ÖÎá×sounds like chinese, might be acceptable). ...etc. Source from someone from 21th century economic magazine) Also, there is some news here Sega has invited HK music composer for shenmue-online game music compositions. (strange requirement, probably korean and chinese share some sort of common "history" in World War 2) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Korean part. Date: 3rd August, 2004 Sega Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------- JC Entertainment CEO. Yang-Shin Kim Answering a female journalist's question about shenmue online (smoothness for running shenmue-online PC) "It's almost a completely re-developed game of a new style. We have only jie4jian4 the character and story from Shenmue. . We have examined and researched the smoothness of running this on PC and changing the control system of this game. The control system is basically identical to the online games in Korea." [jie4jian4], v.i., to benefit by another person's past experience and avoid similar mistakes. news.17173.com/content/2004-8-8/n575_492088.html----------------------- Gamepad on PC? ----------------------- Source from a company (name not translated here): Gamepad/Joystick will be available on internet bar for users to play shenmue online on PC to overcome the difficulty of keyboard control and attract customers. |
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Post by Master Pilcher on Aug 23, 2004 14:14:49 GMT
Cool Thanks Jenny Well done!
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Post by pilcher3 on Sept 3, 2004 21:17:22 GMT
Umm!
Did you copy that from somewhere
Cause i dont think you spent all that time Typeing it out!
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Post by RavinRoadie on Sept 18, 2004 12:52:22 GMT
just shut the fuck up, who cares if she did copy it, she has done more for this site in a few posts, then u have in a nearly a year!
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Post by JoePesciAddict on Sept 19, 2004 4:47:40 GMT
Awsome post, hopefully you'll come back and make another
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Post by Rome on Oct 23, 2004 18:43:06 GMT
Nice work Jenny, im actually excited bout SO  |
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Post by Residential on Oct 23, 2004 19:26:04 GMT
I don't like Shenmue Online.
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