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Re:Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game by anthk on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @10:25AM (#23628232)
True, I forgot the Saturn protoypes, my bad.

But the concept of "open world" could date back to Ultima RPG. You could set Ultima VII under an "open world" genre.

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Re:Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game by laumars on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:04PM (#23633860)
You could argue the concept of open world games date back to 70s with Dungeons and Dragons. The point I was making was that Shenmue introduced the world to a new way of approaching game design -- even if not all of the ideas were truly unique it did still package them in a way that hadn't been (successfully) tried before. Which is why it's such a memorable game.
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