Aaaannnnddd its dead. Zero interest. Congratulations SEGA. I was a little bit exctied, and now I am not.
It’s a live service AAAA Open World Taxi Royale Roguelite with crafting, survival and deck building, first season pass: Seaman skins.
“Crazy Taxi now leverages the power of AI. This transformative machine learning will transform the way gamers interact in our game, as our AI powered engine will robustly streamline the way gamers connect and socialize. Embark on a new journey, where AI will AI. Now, take the next AI step with AI!”
where blockchain?
Black chain is dead. No one cares anymore
what is even the point of making a taxi game MMO? just so you can see other players driving fares around you and potentially fucking your shit up?
Exactly, like gta online probably
but at least inGTA you can have PvP and Co-op… what is the PvP or co-op play in driving taxi fares?
You can be an obnoxious passenger threatening 1 star reviews, the driver has an ult calling a wellness check on you
You can now get the experience of being aggresively tailed in a game too!
I mean, both forza horizon and the crew exists and are successful, so multiplayer open world driving is a thing people like, I just don’t think how they can put Crazy Taxi on it without diluting the gameplay.
Those are racing games, not Taxi games. Of course racing games are a perfect fit for online PvP. But you’re not racing against other players while driving a taxi fare.
Some fuckwit VP needs fired over this decision. It was a simple game: pickup fairs, earn extra time, unlock stuff as you progress. If a publisher want extra cash, do more levels, or different jobs (delivery driver addon anyone?). And a fun soundtrack
Should have been able to bang it out for a million quid, and then reap the rewards. But nooo, now we have a game nobody wants to play, costing 20mil and will have servers shut down 2 years after launch
Everything that is wrong with gaming in 2024
Surely this AAA-budget live service game with a terrible premise won’t faceplant immediately and force us to close the studio…but let’s make it an MMO, just to be safe.
I genuinely dont understand how SEGA are still in business, after decades of being completely detached from reality
Ugh. How to kill all hype in one headline.
But they hit so many buzzwords. 20 year old buzzwords even!
Open world, MMO and AAA are like red flags to me lol
So… Burnout Paradise, but with competition for fares?
I don’t want to play Uber: the Game.
Open world AAA is fine. Praying they are just blowing smoke with their MMO ambitions.
That game needed splitscreen, all I ever want those games to do is be multiplayer locally.
If I had to guess why it didn’t have split screen was the open world. My guess it streaming assets from two different places on a huge map was costly to do twice (memory wise). Atleast when it was designed/launched.
Interest level 0
Ahhh the new magic words to make me not buy a game: “AAA”
What if we said … AAAA!
Damnit… here take my money.
Idk about yall but as soon as a publisher classifies their game as triple A it’s definitely Walmart discount bin quality to me
Oddly enough, I saw the base Sims 4 and a couple expansions last time I was at Walmart. They were mixed in with the discount PC gambling, match 3, and other low quality games.
Why AAA? Come on Sega, you can get it to AAAA, have people pay for time like back in the arcade days! Game starts, you get “Insert coin” and a microtransaction!
Dream big!
You can finish that buzzword bingo card by having players pay in crypto
I think the majority of developers have thrown in the towel on their crypto/NFT aspirations, thankfully.
AAA means bigger budget which means more money. Investors don’t want a $30 sleeper hit they want a $60 game of the year edition that adds fishing.
I’m willing to keep an open mind until it releases, but that tells me that the gameplay will be nothing like the original.
Am I gonna be taxing around other players? Why would they do this to an arcade-style classic? Also clearly using “open world” as a buzzword since the original game was also an open world; you just had a time limit that prevented any real exploration.
How the heck is that supposed to work? If every taxi is being crazy, it’s just unmanageable chaos.
trust the system, man… 🗿
that sounds like a joke 😭😭😭
Well, who else is gonna wait for some passionate fan of the original to play 2 minutes of that game, get a refund, then work on an open source clone of the original that will absolutely be the unofficial official sequel literally all fans wanted?
