Shenmue 3 - The Answer To Open World Fatigue?

Naomi Daniels writes about the causes of Open World Fatigue caused by sandbox games like GTA and the possible solution for this problem.

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In a genre that increasingly has grown to the point of causing fatigue in players, known for its large worlds and emphasis on letting them do what they please, certainly there’s enough room for a story-based take on the genre that stresses the personal. While many argue that Shenmue’s time has passed, I argue we need it and games like it now more than ever, and thankfully we’re getting it. While other games do their hardest to not tie themselves to the mundane or the everyday, the Shenmue series is fantastic purely because it ties itself to the everyday and most human in all of us. If Shenmue III replicates even a quarter of the magic of the originals, it’ll be something special.

We need more games like it. Sometimes, maybe bigger really doesn’t necessarily mean better.