Japanese website online game website Famitsu chatted with RGG Studio’s director Masayoshi Yokoyama whose workforce is engaged on the acclaimed Yakuza collection and the newly unveiled Challenge Century and Virtua Fighter video games. Requested about what it was wish to work for SEGA and the way tough it was to get mature video games greenlit, he mentioned they’re greater than keen to take a threat with them absolutely accepting the potential of failure on new tasks. He went on to say that the corporate “doesn’t simply maintain pursuing” what he calls “secure bets.”
“One such instance is the brand-new Virtua Fighter title we’re making from scratch, and one other is Challenge Century. I really feel very enthusiastic about these new challenges, however I additionally really feel some nervousness about them.” RGG Studio’s chief goes on to recommend that the studio is benefiting from Sega’s accepting coverage in the direction of risk-taking. “I believe facet of Sega is that it accepts the potential of failure. It doesn’t simply maintain pursuing the sort of tasks it is aware of are a secure guess.”
Jokingly, Yokoyama says that this mindset is what led to “one thing like Shenmue” being created within the Dreamcast period. “You possibly can say that’s Sega’s DNA. I imply, they weren’t glad with merely persevering with to make the standard Virtua Fighter video games, and determined to show it into an RPG, leading to Shenmue.” In accordance with Yokoyama, RGG Studio is now doing one thing just like Shenmue, though solely in spirit.
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