MastaKiiLA
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Shenmue...the best game ever made?
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Which game was more deserving of the industry praise received, Ocarina of Time or Shenmue?
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ArtemisClydeFrog
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Shenmue was fucking awesome but c'mon now, it's Ocarina of Time and it's not even close.
lame gag1990
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Both completely different experiences and great in their own ways. Pointless vote.
FR1908
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I love Shenmue and it did something special that no other game did before. The compelling typical oriental pretentious story in a wonderful small-scale world with the fantastic OST, grabbed me from the beginning to the end. However, if you remove that, you are left with a game in which you are constantly sent from pillar to post with every now and then some basic fights and annoying quick time events. Shenmue feels like an elaboration of the interactive CD-ROM period between the SNES / Megadrive and PS / Saturn, which was beautiful in its time.
However, Ocarina of Time was revolutionary in many areas and also in terms of versatile gameplay a lot more fun with the item structure, versatile world and reward system. Which makes it more fun to go through it multiple times. Shenmue had a music library where about 4 songs were exceptionally good. The rest has hardly stuck. Ocarina of Time's music library has burned into my brain. It's not all beautiful music, but given the environments in which you heard them, they've all stuck. Nintendo has tuned everything perfectly here. It is the whole coherence of Ocarina of Time that was unprecedented at the time and still is.
Ask yourself, if Shenmue came out today with modern graphics, would it still enjoy the same euphoria it did back then? Do the same with Ocarina of Time and you have your answer.
However, Ocarina of Time was revolutionary in many areas and also in terms of versatile gameplay a lot more fun with the item structure, versatile world and reward system. Which makes it more fun to go through it multiple times. Shenmue had a music library where about 4 songs were exceptionally good. The rest has hardly stuck. Ocarina of Time's music library has burned into my brain. It's not all beautiful music, but given the environments in which you heard them, they've all stuck. Nintendo has tuned everything perfectly here. It is the whole coherence of Ocarina of Time that was unprecedented at the time and still is.
Ask yourself, if Shenmue came out today with modern graphics, would it still enjoy the same euphoria it did back then? Do the same with Ocarina of Time and you have your answer.
A Rifter in Space
Banned
Ocarina, though neither were very good.
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Member
Shenmue by miles. It did not have the water temple!
The voice acting for the bartender is actually solid. I've never played the game so I thought all of them were as bad as the first scene.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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Is this a serious question?
MvCSpiderman
Banned
No.
Both are constantly top 5 on many neutral top games lists (for consoles)
Both had games recently lol.
This already happened and fans and several reviewers still heap it with praise.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
My understanding is that Shenmue has a lot of elements that make up what is considered a great game today, but didn’t manage to build a good game around them.
Ocarina of Time, on the other hand, was an almost perfect video game at release, and is still a very solid game.
Ocarina of Time, on the other hand, was an almost perfect video game at release, and is still a very solid game.
PhaseJump
Banned
Shenmue brought us QTEs, gave us slow slice of life filler in an incomplete story, it distracted a lead developer from creating successful games in 2 console generations that desperately needed them, it burned all the cash, and it helped kill Sega.
Zelda brought us a big 3D world to explore like previous Zeldas, more depth with horizontal and vertical attack patterns, Z-targeting to tighten up the bad 3D camera work that was still common in the industry.
Tough choice.
Zelda brought us a big 3D world to explore like previous Zeldas, more depth with horizontal and vertical attack patterns, Z-targeting to tighten up the bad 3D camera work that was still common in the industry.
Tough choice.
MvCSpiderman
Banned
I'd argue the Dreamcast wouldn't have lasted as long without Shenmue since it gave it that post launch bump in the US. People were starting to wonder about when the hit games were coming out and while it wasn't a great success it got interest that covered the gap between the next wave of releases.Shenmue brought us QTEs, gave us slow slice of life filler in an incomplete story, it distracted a lead developer from creating successful games in 2 console generations that desperately needed them, it burned all the cash, and it helped kill Sega.
Zelda brought us a big 3D world to explore like previous Zeldas, more depth with horizontal and vertical attack patterns, Z-targeting to tighten up the bad 3D camera work that was still common in the industry.
Tough choice.
ReBurn
Gold Member
Both. Shenmue did get a new entry fairly recently.
Spaceman292
Banned
Maybe Ocarina is, (although that's mostly just nostalgia) but no one outs Shenmue at the tops of their lists. Especially after everyone saw how terrible 3 was.
The Hamburglar
Banned
Shen moo was ambitious but flawed. It’s actually abit shit.
Zelda is a masterpiece.
Zelda is a masterpiece.
MvCSpiderman
Banned
They did for years. Before 3.
Unknown Soldier
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The only thing notable about Shenmue now is the invention of the QTE.
Ocarina of Time is a timeless masterpiece.
Ocarina of Time is a timeless masterpiece.
MvCSpiderman
Banned
Qtes actually came from 80's FMV games. I think only the term was created, then for some reason adopted by the industry.
MvCSpiderman
Banned
Came in the thread only to attack the wrong Shenmue. Smh
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