Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio Reboot

I mean, it's expected as I don't think these games would survive as a purely single player experience regardless of how much we bang on about how we would love a reboot of franchise xyz.

I don't think Elden Ring really works in this analogy when you consider how much hype it's had from the huge fanbase of the developer. Aside from it's quality the audience was always there, these franchises don't have the luxury of that anymore, I could say Arkane's reboot of Prey was a brilliant game but the audience wasn't there and to the casual gaming audience it's just another FPS.

Hmm, perhaps. We'll have to see if they can flesh out Crazy Taxi into something beyond it's bitesize arcade roots especially if they're going big budget.

That's the thing, Crazy Taxi is just an arcade game you can play at home. Comparing it to epic single player game is wrong, it's more like a mobile game.

Unless they turn it into a gritty reboot and have it like Driver.

The whole point of Crazy Taxi was that it was so simple a chimp could just pick it up and play, and anybody could have a blast for the duration of a couple of Offspring songs.

Making it more substantial than hat fundamentally changes the point of the game.

These days, even mobile "casual" games seem to have multi stage tutorials where they explain the 4 different resources types and 6 different character classes to you before you get anywhere near something resembling a fucking that you can have actual fun playing.

Give me something simple and fun ffs.

They really need to do away with guided tutorials in all video games now. It's absurd. They gave away World Tennis 2 I think it was on PSN and I uninstalled it almost immediately because it wouldn't just let me do a quick exhibition game to feel the game out. I had to know where the options menu, lootboxes etc were. I don't even know if it taught me how to play, because two minutes into the tour I just closed the game.

Even we aren't getting physical instruction manuals, just make quick one or two page digital manuals you can access from the start or pause menu.

And actually, that mobile-like guided menu is exactly what I'm fearing from these rumors. Just give me a cheap classic-styled arcade game. Sell it at a discount. It doesn't need to be a this mega epic reboot of a couple of pick up and play series. Look at Hotshot Racing as an example of a small arcade-style game built for digital stores.

Really, the issue I'm having here is the reference to Fortnite, but they kind of already went into the bite-sized release format with VF5:US.

This makes me miss the Dreamcast. I remember getting one for Christmas a d spent the whole day playing Shenmue and Soul Caliber and my mind being blown.

Loved that console.

Just use Tinder

Don't, it's crap now.

I have limited knowledge of Fortnight but what I do know is it has skins/poses and a season based approach which tweaks the map - some of it free or grindable, other stuff paid for.

I mean sure, if they want to give the game away for free, add new maps over time charging a small fee, I could be interested (though it wouldn't be a game I would subscribe to). Skins I would ignore but they wouldn't effect the game (at least shouldn't). So I guess it sounds like good news (unless it literally is a subscription only "service").

You could even potentially make it multiplayer, with a collective pool of passengers to fight over (or similar), but it's arcade purity was/is it's selling point (and as others have mentioned, the extra content on the DC was solid).

It's actually one of the few retrogames both my kids love. They first played it in Four Quaters, but then they have played it on console since.

I'm kind of curious to see how they'll adapt Crazy Taxi into an "online service", but I think I'd rather just play a simple arcade version in short bursts. I suppose online leaderboards or tourneys might work or the minigames for a party-game feel. Wouldn't mind newer fancy versions of other Sega DC tiles like F355 Challenge, Sega Rally, Outrigger or even Chu Chu Rocket (think of all those hats you could get for your mice!).

It's really bad.

I could only see this working if they're all part of the same 'Super Game'. They wouldn't be able to maintain a big enough audience if they're separate games and separate userbases.

To be honest, I'd be surprised if there isn't already a Crazy Taxi game inside Fortnite. That game is getting to the point were it's a metagame what will absorb all other games.

I can't really see how they'd make Crazy Taxi varied enough to appeal to people these days, especially after all the mobile ports. It was great at the time, and deeper than you'd think, but the basic concept is so simple and already exists inside other games now.

Jet Set Radio was awesome, and all about the style. But if it comes back I'd much prefer it as a single player story driven experience.
It has the challenge that it's all about fast paced movement mechanics, and those kind of games have a high barrier to entry.

Both games have the challenge that they're mainly about fast movement around the environment, whereas service games like fortnite are partly about hanging out and chatting with your mates.

If they were looking to emulate Fortnite in a manner then I could imagine that there would be an open world or island, maybe call it Sega World or something (like the Trocadero) and all these rebooted games would be essentially coexisting in the same space, so you would be skating around doing all the tagging from JSR and then some loon would be driving past you completing a fare and some knob is doing a tweak emote. Your buy skins, emotes etc. Perhaps there'll be districts in the world themed after certain Sega IP.