Shenmue 3 would probably have Persona-ish world map if it doesn't get to $10M

[Samus Aran]

MikeRox said:

Samus Aran said:

MikeRox said:

The_Sony_Girl1 said:

i might not have played Shenmue, but I don't remember it being an open world rpg when I watched playthroughs of it.

It was open world, but not in the sense of GTA 3 etc (remembering that nothing like that existed at the time). It was cut down into smaller segments with loading screens. But you could go anywhere you wanted, whenever you wanted (before 9pm was it? hahah!) and do what you wanted (go to the arcade etc.).

Open World was very much in it's infancy at the time and the Dreamcast was the first system really with enough clout to properly run it.

OoT, MM and that one N64 game the GTA 3 devs made come to mind...
 

Like I said, Dreamcast was the first system with enough clout to run an open world properly. Absolutely nothing going on in OOT field, it's just a big room linking other dungeons. :p There were games like Driver 2 on PS1 as well, but it was really overambitious for the hardware.

Shenmue was in another league as far as interactivity with the environments and what was going on was concerned.

Shenmue is quite a terrible game (opinion, duh), I played it last month. The overworld in MM is ten times better.

OoT and MM easily aged a lot better than Shenmue.