Shenmue game out in 1999 when most games weren’t even doing voice acting.
You name a game from 1999 with voice acting that hold up “incredibly well”
Combat is trash and nowhere near as good as pretty much any modern beat em up I can think of
I don’t care that you don’t like it. Just don’t make up dumb shyt to express your dislike.
Shenmue influenced most modern narrative driven games, and still does it better than most. How the hell you say the gameplay doesn’t hold up when games now literally 20 years later are using gameplay ideas and systems that this game pioneered. Hell, theres an entire genre of games based off opening drawers and reading notebooks.
The thing that’s different about shenmue and modern “movie games” is that you as the player dictate the story. It’s uniquely a video game experience you can’t have in any other medium. “Movie games” are literally trying to be movies where the story is dictated to you.