Comment on BAFTA Crowns Shenmue "The Most Influential Video Game Of All Time" In Surprise Result | Time Extension

fartsparkles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Shenmue was insanely cool when it came out in 1999. To consider Ocarina of Time came out the year before, open world games were a brand new thing. Shenmue paired that with an epic action life-sim. It was just so unexpected; so many minigame-like mechanics for doing things around the world. It was incredibly immersive and ahead of its time.

I don’t think it has as big an impact on players as it had on developers.

The Yakuza series sticks out as greatly inspired by Shenmue / spiritual successor, as with Persona series. Also games like Lake, Fahrenheit / The Indigo Prophecy, GTA/RedDead, FFVII Remake, all owe a little to Shenmue.

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