Update; Interview with Tak Hirai, lead Shenmue programmer

[Rikitatsu]

This is not Ryo's movement, this is the stock example character in UE4. If you download UE4, you can play around with it.

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Great interview, I wonder what will they do with the battle system. I'm hoping something similar to the original VF-esque combat.

I have never messed with Unity, but I assume you can change the different character traits off the stock character right? Like walking gait, movement, and also not jumping 10 feet in the air.

Yep.

[Himuro]

Thanks for the link

[shenhua legend]

Good video, I like how the environment look.

[Jibby]

The guy doing the English dub of this video is the same guy who said "Yeah" and "uh, ok" in the Kickstarter video

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Wait, so there's not going to be any fighting mechanics like Shenmue 1 & 2 and only QTES?

Am i reading you guys correctly?

[Hyo Razuki]

Wrong. It seems Hirai wants to incorporate QTE into the free fights. Which sounds like a cool idea to me. Let's see what they can come up with.

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Wrong. It seems Hirai wants to incorporate QTE into the free fights. Which sounds like a cool idea to me. Let's see what they can come up with.

Weren't QTE's already involved in some free fights?

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[Hyo Razuki]

Wow, I hated that QTE! Had to use index finger and middle finger to do it. So annoying. Well, I don't know what exactly Hirai is planning but I guess he will have a new approach. Wait and see.

[elmatto]

Sounds like they're taking ques from modern games. I can't think of a specific name but I know I've seen it before. You'll be free battling and an enemy will take a 'i'm exhausted pose". Usually that's a que for the player to initiate a QTE to finish him.

Like I already said, so long as the combat retains some complexity I'll be okay.
If they go sleeping dogs/batman route I'll be a tad upset. That combat is all automatic. I don't want automatic.

Or I guess at the very least have the virtua fighter style stuff for major bosses and the watered down stuff for groups of enemies.