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New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega (automaton-media.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Crazy taxi seems like it would be best to remain a mid-budget single player game sold for a mid-budget price. Who wants this as an MMO? How can it possibly retain people for long enough to justify such an expense?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Some dumb execs think they can make it into something like GTA online I'm sure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

How will the mega studios justify layoffs if they don't force every title to be AAA and then bemoan the millions of dollars loss???

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

Oh. Well I guess I'm not interested in it anymore. That's a shame.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Sega should should start a meatspace cab company and their fleet is operated remotely by players in the game.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

It could've been the first YAAA YAAA YAAA YAAA YAAA game. Instead, it's just an AAA game, and I'm probably going to skip it. :(

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Oh.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I mean, I don't know about "open world" being a good idea, but a crazy taxi take on Fall Guys would be pretty amazing. Throw 99+ people into various scenarios, all behind their own taxi, could have a lot of crazy outcomes. They just need to find the right balance for shenanigans and they'd have a solid multiplayer hit.

Trying more than a structured arcade-style approach would probably hamstring those efforts though; it ain't GTAV.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Huh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Q/A in Japanese

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Sweet! Hopefully we get live service with a dash of loot boxes and a side of season pass. Oooh maybe a real money auction house?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They already have this mini game in LAD:IW. This is just the polished version.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I hope it has battlepasses!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can't wait for my taxi skins to be locked behind the premium battlepass instead of game progression!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The only way to get the in-game currency used to buy the premium battlepass is loot boxes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Have the taxi drivers compete and fight for the fares.