The Yakuza/Tracker Fight Scene was Inconsistent

#1

I think in general actual melee combat with a predator should be a death sentence. A lot of people point to the scene where the Yakuza killed the Tracker predator as how a skilled human could fair against a yautja. The more I think about it, unless that predator was extremely weak it shouldn’t have gone down so easily.

City Hunter survived being blasted with a shotgun, having an arm chopped off, falling from a building and almost being frozen before he lost to Glover and one of his own weapons. I know the filmmakers behind Predators wanted to show what we missed in the Billy vs Jungle Hunter melee battle from the first movie. But really they kind of dishonored Billy and the yautja. Billy was a bada$$ and he lasted like 5 seconds against the Jungle Hunter hand to hand, but the Yakuza manages to kill a pred? Meh.

As for the game the parry is ridiculous at times but I get why it’s there.

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#2

I think we’re diving into the logic of a movie about long haired space hunters pretty deep

#3

I suspend a little disbelief, sure, but I don’t turn my brain completely off for these movies. Scenes like that make me want to, however.

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#4

My brain was never on 🙂

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#5

Lol

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#6

Well predators seem to be extremely weak. Jk but really sword that can hit vitals > boxing. Not much point in punching a bear, but cut it deep enough with a sword and you win. Yakuza had the longer sword.

He was on respirator full of space drugs after this lol

#7

Yeah it was super dumb

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#8

I would like some actual melee weapons to use for FT as a replacement for knife but it disables your primary choice instead. And if Glover comes out as FT, then he needs a passive to pocket Preds gear, obviously once he’s downed the Predator gets their gear back.

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#9

lol the fact a man missing two fingers can effectively wield a katana is a much bigger plot hole but hey preds can be shit swordsmen

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#10

Lol good point. I was going to leave that part of it alone.

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#11

Well the Yakuza had a katana, the blade was longer then the weapon the predator had, the Katana, as as sword that you hold in your hand and not mounted on your wrist is also far better. So the Yakuza had a superior weapon to the predator. I still think the slices should not be enough to put the predator down but the way the fight went down I don’t think it was not plausible. I also find the way predator fought… not the best, let’s just say that.

CH vs Harrigan. The bullets shoots and other injuries seem to have been healed by the predators healing device, I am not big into predator lore so correct me if I am wrong. The bleeding was stopping and the injuries “fixed” for the most part. The falling part was slowed with the wristblade and the pipe helped to again, slow him down. The freeze thing did little to him.
All in all I think that said fight was the predator with a missing arm and minor other injuries. He still defeated Harrigan to the point he underestimated him and having his guts torn out.

Oh and we don’t know what happened to Billy (at least from the movie).

Thing is Harrigan had a far inferior weapon to the Yakuza’s katana, FAR inferior. If he did so well with the disk, a katana would make short work of the predator.

As for parry yeah, it makes no sense but its a needed game mechanic as you said.

#12

wtf-arnold
tenor

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#13

Ya…

And he still lived. He was injured but he endured. Not Predators easy 3K preds ggwp

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#14

Era un sangre joven especializado en el halcón mecánico y el yakuza es experto en katana, pero aun así no es creible la pelea.

#15

I would also like to point out that I don’t thing comics really follow movie “limits”. Just look at jedi/sith in movies and then in games and comics. They are so much more powerful in comics/games. Starkiller pulling a damn ship out of the sky, Sith blowing up stars. Sidious creating a force storm to cover an armada… Shit like that.

#16

One of the worst ‘fight’ scenes in all of the Predator movies.

Never has it been more obvious that it’s a guy in a heavy rubber suit who can’t see shit.

The guy they got to play the Falconer also seemed to think he was supposed to be acting like an ape - the movement style is stupidly animalistic and nowhere near as menacing and intelligent as the majestic work of Kevin Peter Hall.

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