Since its introduction in 2016, the Dragon Engine has played a crucial role in defining the look of the Yakuza series.. However, studio Ryu Ga Gotoku (RGG Studio) and series executive producer Masayoshi Yokoyama acknowledge that it’s time for a “big update”“.
“The Dragon Engine is currently a bit of an old engine. We’ve done a bunch of minor updates over the years, or we’ve done a bunch of minor updates on it, but we haven’t done any updates major. so probably the next one would be a major update if we had to do anything», dice Yokoyama.
First used in Yakuza 6, the Dragon Engine has since powered Yakuza Kiwami 2, Yakuza: like a dragon already the series Judgement. Like a dragon: They were will use Unreal Engine 4, so the future of the saga could be transferred to Unreal Engine 5.
The debate of the change or not of engine
In an interview for IGNYokohama said the following: “Regarding Unreal Engine 5, yes, we are considering it.. We analyze it and say: what are the merits of each? What is the merit of the Dragon Engine? What is the merit of the Unreal engine? And in the moment of truth, the Dragon Engine… is perfectly designed to represent a city at night. The night city. While Unreal, it is better to show the nature and the day and this kind of feelings“.
“Rather than the challenge of adapting to a new generation, much more powerful technology, the main challenge is that we now have many platforms,” Yokoyama continued. “We have PCs, we have Steam, we have Xbox, we have all kinds of things that our game can be a part of, so to create a game that can be on all of those platforms and take the opportunity to share our game with everyone world in the world is the main challenge that we believe we want to address in the future. And because of all these different pieces of technology, we also want to try to do something unique. Whether we do it or not is a bit of a secret.”
That said, we can’t wait to see what lies ahead in the RGG Studio saga, especially with the upcoming Like a dragon: They were, like a dragon 8 and a new side story featuring Kazuma Kiryu.
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