To nobody’s surprise, Sega has enshittified its beloved Crazy Taxi IP.
And just like that, my interest in either Crazy Taxi or Jet Set Radio evaporates into the ether.
I’m somewhere between sad for the people whose talents are being directed to this, and feeling so profoundly unexcited about this game that I keep having to re-read the post title to remind myself what it was about.
(This was not a complaint on the post btw - upvoted)
Is it April 1st already?
I wish, Bonkers. I really do. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
“Ohh boy another live service game” - shareholders apparently
And then when these games continue to flop critically, and never reach the player count they forecast, it’s the developers’ fault and layoffs abound.
My hope, though I’m keeping my expectations low, is that since these supposed live-service games will be supposedly releasing alongside remakes of the original games the IP is based on, that if the remakes sell significantly better than the live service games it might hopefully inform better decision-making around them.
While they haven’t been controversy-free in terms of their monetization practices, Sega has released a slew of back-to-back AAA games: Persona 3 Reload, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and Sonic Frontiers, that have generally been complete, single-purchase packages (with a few questionable omissions from base game moved to DLC that I’d consider “regular bad”, but not anywhere near the level of egregious monetization seen in most live-service games).
Only the fact that Infinite Wealth’s NG+ is locked behind a $15 paywall.
twisted metal would make a perfect battle royale game
See, that’s a great idea.
We can’t allow those.
Come the fuck on Sony
All you had to do was nothing
Sega
Different company.
Namco fucking up another beloved franchise
Next up: empty Sonic levels until you buy packs of rings.
Stick with me here… 100 sonics airdrop on to a giant map…
Could be like Mario 35, which was pretty fun
We already had Sonic with guns and Sonic kissing a human princess. Nothing will remind my affection for the blue hedgehog.
how do companies NEVER learn? I seriously can’t fathom watching industry failures time after time and still thinking “this time will be different”.
No because gamers by and large keep defending and buying this shit.
Doesn’t matter. Mile High Taxi already superseded Crazy Taxi. Just play that.
Flying taxi game? I saw some pretty mixed feedback on that which turned me off from checking it out
It’s average. Which is about the same I feel for the original Crazy Taxi.
Lol, I mean fair
Meh who needs this just go play Motor Town, stick a v12 in a tiny shit stick little car that absolutely can’t handle all the torque and do urgent taxi jobs. Yeah it is a realistic racing game with a good physics engine and well modeled tire drifting mechanics not an arcade game but when you are struggling to keep your taxi pointed straight because you are still burning out at 80mph in 5th gear while your taxi customers scream at you to slow down just try to tell me you are playing “Normal” Taxi.
Who asked for this?
Maybe let players form taxi teams and get into fights with rival ride hailing companies? Lol Could be entertaining.
100 simultaneous players seems like a lot for a game designed to be played in short bursts?
I could see it being a thing with 50 players. Honestly Crazy Taxi Battle Royale sounds kinda hectic, but fun.
“Should we throw all the shitty trappings of modern gaming into this beloved and dormant IP? Let me see what my magic 8 ball radio says.”
Radio: Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya!
Well I made a flippant comment about how I thought this would be seems being shitty and how people were in denial that SEGA, the publisher that just recently locked new game+ behind a not so microtransaction, would be doing this game dirty.
If these leaks are true, makes me sad but vindicated…
