James Brown wrote: Yeah he was also really surprised at the unreal engine, saying that he feels anyone could make a game these days if they wanted to, which tells me that he's finding the engine alot easier than he thought to use, so maybe alot of what he used to have to put time and money into back in the Dreamcast days is no longer the case and so he is capable of giving us more game for the same budget?
That is exactly what i was thinking, Unreal Engine 4 is already a well established and supported engine and multiple titles have already been released using it, it's a far cry from Yu starting from scratch on the dreamcast and developing new technologies that hadn't been developed before,the foundations are already there.
If shenmue 3 only ends up being roughly the same size as shenmue 1 then let's hope they can focus on making it as detailed and interesting as possible,from what we have already seen it seems to be looking quite good already and with 2 years to go the engine is only going to get better and more optimized ,the main thing i'd hope for is Epic adding a form of Global Illumination like FFXV will use,i think it makes a pretty substantial impact on everything in the game world.