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RightHandOfIkaros ,

Aaaannnnddd its dead. Zero interest. Congratulations SEGA. I was a little bit exctied, and now I am not.

warmaster ,

It’s a live service AAAA Open World Taxi Royale Roguelite with crafting, survival and deck building, first season pass: Seaman skins.

CatZoomies ,
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“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!”

Localhorst86 ,

where blockchain?

Fal ,
@Fal@yiffit.net avatar

Black chain is dead. No one cares anymore

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

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?

variants ,

Exactly, like gta online probably

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

but at least inGTA you can have PvP and Co-op… what is the PvP or co-op play in driving taxi fares?

Rubanski ,

You can be an obnoxious passenger threatening 1 star reviews, the driver has an ult calling a wellness check on you

Demdaru ,

You can now get the experience of being aggresively tailed in a game too!

yamanii ,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

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.

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Zarxrax ,

I’m willing to keep an open mind until it releases, but that tells me that the gameplay will be nothing like the original.

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Ugh. How to kill all hype in one headline.

Guntrigger ,

But they hit so many buzzwords. 20 year old buzzwords even!

ellypony ,

haven’t heard that name since I was 11 years old in the back of a Dave & Busters

frunch ,

It’ll be like GTA except you can’t get out of the car ¯_(ツ)_/¯

variants ,

That sounds like a big audience, most of the gamers I know always go for multi-player games so they can play together so I’d imagine it’s a big market Sega wants to exploit

frunch ,

Can’t blame em for trying i guess, I’m just salty cuz i loved that franchise back in the day. Might be fun though, if it’s done right

Couldbealeotard ,
@Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, that was Driver on psx, which was a good game. It’s the MMO bit I can’t imagine

Chainweasel ,

So they’re turning it into a Driver/GTA clone?

Venator ,

Forza horizon clone.

bassomitron ,

Yeah, Forza Horizon is literally all I can think of with this announcement. The thing is, Forza has far more mass appeal due to the breadth of options it has. I am struggling to see how the hell Crazy Taxi could even come close to Forza’s variety.

The only thing I can think of, is they plan to make it like Twisted Metal meets Crazy Taxi, and by massively multiplayer they’re referring to server instances of 100+ players in a city area. You’ll have objectives to pick people up, but I would bet they’ll end up making it so you can also pick up illicit deliveries or even being a driver for bank robbers or something, similar to GTA Online. Sort of a PvPvE type system as well. If they combine all of those elements, I could see it being maybe fun. But I doubt it will end up fun.

Anyway, agreed with others that they should’ve just stuck to a smaller scale arcade style game. The previous games were all that way and they were successful and fun. I have no idea why they’d think changing that basic formula is a great idea for a game like this.

Varyk ,

That doesn’t bode well

snekerpimp ,

Yay! I won buzzword bingo on this one!

simple OP ,

I’m still missing AI and Metaverse on mine

maynarkh ,

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!

dhork ,

You can finish that buzzword bingo card by having players pay in crypto

bassomitron ,

I think the majority of developers have thrown in the towel on their crypto/NFT aspirations, thankfully.

CluckN ,

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.

Olap ,

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

Vladkar ,

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.

ocassionallyaduck ,

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.

Squizzy ,

That game needed splitscreen, all I ever want those games to do is be multiplayer locally.

kippinitreal ,

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.

Renacles ,

Only 3 As Sega? I want at least 5.

caut_R ,

I wonder how many of the devs working on the title actually believe in this direction

Blackmist ,

Given that they’re still recruiting what seems like the whole dev team, including lead designer, I’d guess none.

This project exists solely in the heads of marketing. Expect a disaster with a begging bowl.

yokonzo ,

Wonder how much skins are going to be

ivanafterall ,
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

A Crazy Taxi X Uber/Lyft skin pack would unironically probably sell well.

ieatpwns ,

Idk about yall but as soon as a publisher classifies their game as triple A it’s definitely Walmart discount bin quality to me

AceFuzzLord ,

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.

JCreazy ,

DOA

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