Sega Reboots Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio To Chase Fortnite Riches (bloomberg.com) 18
Sega is developing big-budget reboots of its Dreamcast games Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio as it taps its back catalog in search of global hits like Epic Games's Fortnite, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with its plans. From the report: The two titles would be the first entries in Sega's Super Game initiative, which the company announced a year ago as an effort to develop recurring revenue sources and build online communities around its software portfolio. Fortnite has become the role model for such games: free to play, it's available across platforms, hosts large multiplayer contests and includes extras like vehicles, construction and social events on top of the usual combat, spurring player purchases of in-game items.
The new Crazy Taxi has already been in development for over a year and the Tokyo-based entertainment group aims to release it within two to three years, the people said, asking not to be named as the information is not yet public. It was named alongside Jet Set Radio in Sega's annual report a year ago on a list of intellectual property assets that Sega wanted to recapitalize by bringing them up to date. Both new games are in the early stages of creation and could still be canceled, the people said.
The new Crazy Taxi has already been in development for over a year and the Tokyo-based entertainment group aims to release it within two to three years, the people said, asking not to be named as the information is not yet public. It was named alongside Jet Set Radio in Sega's annual report a year ago on a list of intellectual property assets that Sega wanted to recapitalize by bringing them up to date. Both new games are in the early stages of creation and could still be canceled, the people said.
Focusing on the wrong aspects (Score:5, Informative)
spurring player purchases of in-game items.
Many game companies are merely chasing money when they try to copy Fornite especially when it comes to micro-transactions. They forget to make the games fun or sometimes even playable. The list of games: Fallout 76, Madden, FIFA, Battlefield 2042, etc
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Crazy Taxi was a lot of fun, and so was Jet Grind Radio. Multiplayer online though...
Crazy Taxi is a very fast game, not sure if internet lag will be an issue. Fighting games get around it by having lag built into the controls, not sure if that will work for a twitch driving game.
Jet Grind Radio will probably just be a crappy microtransaction gang-wars style thing.
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The transition from 30 to 60 FPS will take care of a lot of that.
Also, I played a lot of crazy taxy on my Dreamcast, and I don't remember it being super ultra precision timing.
Not like a first person shooter anyway.
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Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast and arcade were both 60fps. To get the top rankings you needed to be able to weave in and out of traffic while doing the turbo boost over and over again.
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I loved Crazy Taxi - it was one of the reasons I bought a Dreamcast. But as the OP suggests there's nothing about it that requires 'super ultra precision timing'. Not any more than any other modern online game, like Rocket League or Overwatch, and they seem to get by OK.
I can't see it being anything other than disappointing though. Like most of the good Dreamcast games (Hydro thunder, Nascar, etc) it was the arcade simplicity that made them. Anything other than a straight HD remaster is just going to ruin i
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Is 60i really dramatically better than 30p?
Is crazy taxi really more reliant on twitch timing than any other racing game?
My instinct is no, but I honestly can't say because of the time gap between.
I really hope the game basically amounts to crazy taxi but other drivers. But somehow I suspect there will be pay to play or pay to win elements that make it frustrating relatively quickly.
The amount of time I've spent trying to shave fractions of a second to get through shortcuts through Apple is immense, and I'd
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Crazy Taxi runs in 60p if you have the right cables.
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And screen.
But that doesn't match my experience of playing it.
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I remember really enjoying Jet Set Radio Future on the xbox. I think it came on some promo disc that had two games. Loved the premise and the gameplay.
Let's hope they preserve the spirit of the game and that it's still fun to play in the new incarnation.
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I am not even a game developer but I found this GDC talk on netcode from Netherrealm Studios very interesting in terms of how modern games can deal with latency for something like a fighting game. Very in the weeds on how the network latency, the visual animations and the underlying game engine all have to interact.
8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2 [youtube.com]
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Rollback is okay in fighting games where it's acceptable for inputs to have an 8 frame delay. I don't think it would work for Crazy Taxi.
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Fighting games also use rollback where the games assume enemy input amd correct it on the fly.
Um... the 1st 3 of those are extremely profitable (Score:2)
Anyway, yeah, Fallout 76 is hot garbage, but is also sadly very popular and very profitable. I say sadly because it means we're not gonna get another mainline fallout game anytime soon if at all. Madden and FIFA
in Crazy Taxi need to pay tolls with real money! (Score:2)
in Crazy Taxi need to pay tolls with real money now!
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The list of games: Fallout 76...
Microtransactions aren't what made FO76 unplayable. The gameplay, questline (mainly, lack of NPCs), and glitches/crashes made the game unbearable. I played the game when it first came out, and I would agree, at that point it was not playable. I picked it up again recently, and they've fixed most of the aforementioned issues. I still think the controls are wonky, but the quests are better now that they've re-introduced NPCs, and they've fixed a lot of the crashing issues. If you want to talk about the bu
How about a New Phantasy Star online (Score:2)
How about a New Phantasy Star Online that doesn't take a degree in mechanics and resource management to understand.
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its a lot more work than just barfing out an arcade game that lets you buy skins and upgrades, they might have to come up with a story with anything deeper
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