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- Feb 7, 2019
Look man, as a general observation, any time someone has something positive to say about S3, you have to come barrelling in to tell them how they are wrong and how their perspective makes no sense. It’s something that goes back to before the game was even released. I’ve said I get where you’re coming from re. some of your points, but overall I can get on board with the Chai QTE’s and the reasoning behind them. Both in-game and real-life dev reasons. That’s the third time I make this particular point.
I would be inclined to elaborate more and engage if I thought it would lead to some kind of useful discourse. But it’s not very productive to predictably be met with “no, makes no sense”, “no, credibility destroyed”, “no, no, no”. It makes it very hard to take any valid points you may have seriously.
No, you misunderstand me here.
Here's the two things I said:
1. Chai fight being QTE isn't a problem at all. Is it sad ? Maybe. But I can totally get the reason that animating his specific moveset was too much of a budget constraint for barely two fights.
2. What I criticize is the poster's point not making sense. OP's point is the following:
"Chai is weaker than Ryo, therefore he only deserves a QTE".
Which means "Weak opponents should only be a QTE".
What does it mean then ? That if Chai is only a QTE, that was because it made sense as it's a weak opponent and that any random thug in the game is stronger than Chai (bullshit). On top of that it also implies that Lan Di's bodyguards are weaker than the average thugs you fight (bullshit too).
Shenmue 3 has issues. It's fine. It doesn't make it a bad game. But I feel like it's getting tired to trying to rationalize every decisions made as perfect and that it couldn't be any better.
If Chai fights are QTE, it's not because "it was the best artistic decision that you could take and in term of plot it totally make sense". It's because it was too much time consuming and costy. So wasting money on two fights was a wise choise. It can be a good decision for different reasons. And that's what I'm saying: "It's a good decision, but let's not pretend it was for sake of continuity and story".