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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 ,
@CatZoomies@lemmy.world avatar

“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.

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.

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!

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.

Binette ,

Open world, MMO and AAA are like red flags to me lol

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.

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.

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.

Asafum ,

Ahhh the new magic words to make me not buy a game: “AAA”

Tronn4 ,

What if we said … AAAA!

ZeroTemp ,

Damnit… here take my money.

bfg9k ,

youtu.be/TD84oMyeWXs

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

that sounds like a joke 😭😭😭

JCreazy ,

DOA

InterSynth ,
@InterSynth@r.nf avatar

Let’s be honest here. The original series was on arcades and you had to get from point A to point B. For the current generation of gamers this is the equivalent of a mini-game you play on the loading screen of the main game. I’m not defending the GaaS shit, but what did you guys expect?

knightly ,
@knightly@pawb.social avatar

In terms of expectation, this is more in line with my fears than my hopes.

All the effort they’re putting into slowing the pace of the game is just added cost for development and it’s going to hurt them where it really matters, music licensing.

Half the appeal of the original was a soundtrack of popular music that fit the mood of the frenetic gameplay perfectly. Now they’ll have to pick lower-energy tracks to suit a meandering “open world” game that might get interrupted by other players at any moment.

CaptPretentious ,

Your forgetting the sweet music! Something I’m fairly certain this version wi6ne have.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

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.

Nacktmull ,
@Nacktmull@lemmy.world avatar

And of course it will be full of micro-transaction bs. No thank you, I will keep playing my indie games instead.

CaptPretentious ,

You know it. Think of all the skins, decals, tires, and practical effects for the car. Then there’s going to be all the clothes for your character! Oh and spray paint for some reason, every game needs spray paints that everyone hates so it can fill up slots in the loot box!

snekerpimp ,

Yay! I won buzzword bingo on this one!

simple OP ,

I’m still missing AI and Metaverse on mine

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