Retro Gaming

[Dirty Duck]

Permission granted, no domestics though please.

It kind of blueprinted NPCs having lives which adhered to times and schedules. Honestly, absolutely insane. Imagine being the programmer they ask to do that? You're essentially going into uncharted territory for the sake of a player's immersion.

I was about to say Majora's Mask but then remembered MM came out in 2000-a few months after Shenmue. Mad that SEGA and Nintendo were innovating the same thing completely individually of one another for such different games.

Yeah its really interesting! I was watching Tim Cain's youtube channel a little while ago and he was talking about how he would frequently bump into friends at old game studios or developers who had heard of him but never met him and get talking casually in the pub or on the street or whatever, and they'd end up talking about new mechanics they had come up with and would talk about problems they encountered too. Makes you wonder how many of these trailblazing kind of mechanics were shared casually over a drink in a bar lol.