Submitted 8 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
No Sega, a remake of a, admittedly great, nearly 25 year old game is not a triple A game but does make you sound like a quadruple A-hole.
You realize that AAA is used to refer to the budget, scale, and expectations of the game, right? And that it’s more of a reboot than a remake, meaning it’s probably not going to be an arcade style game. They’re talking about their aims for the game, and trying to justify charging $60-70 for it beforehand.
Whatever you need to tell yourself that ‘This is fine’ is fine by me.
If Rockstar made a fully-fledged open world Crazy Taxi game with the scale and quality of Red Dead or GTA, that is quite indisputably deserving of the “triple A” label. Putting aside where you draw the line for it to be considered AAA, they clearly mean that their goal is an AAA experience. It’s not that deep.
AAA means they’re going to charge $70 for it.
I only go for QUADRUPLE AAAA title now! Thanks Ubisoft
Shitting into your hand simulator is my anticipated AAAA game.
Sound like a Games As A Service title! Better let EA handle that one
I cannot imagine it’ll be any good
crazy taxi was an “arcade” game, basically.
How they gonna fuck this up?
Not even basically, it literally was an arcade game.
Oh good, I was worried it would be AAAA.
Quad is us to good
It’s too bad. Uni have is a sweet treat of AAAA having. We can’t go back now
Yeah, it better be AAAAA
I think it’s fine to have a AAA “reboot”. I mean look at the DOOM games. Not everything needs to be new IP and there is some old IP that definitely could use if nothing else a coat of paint and some UI/UX updates.
But do we want an AAA Crazy Taxi? I’d rather just have a simple arcade-y game tbqh
You mean you don’t want a crAAAzy taxi?
Can’t say until we see it lol
Yeah I’m actually pumped for this game. I secretly hope they’ll have PC steering wheel support so I can disable all my normal range of motion and do the whacky driving like the arcade game haha. Also fine if not, I’d happily play this title on my PS5 too. It’s ok to have minimal expectations for a game even if they don’t have everything you want imo.
Just wanna get some airtime in the San Francisco hills haha.
How about the triple A remake of Pong we’ve all been waiting for?
That’s a PC2 exclusive
Pong RTX
We do have a AAA space invaders called infinity gene…
AAA games has lost its meaning to me.
Don’t forget, Sega called out these games along side things like subscription services www.tweaktown.com/news/94151/…/index.html
It was AAA back then so why wouldn’t a new game in that franchise also be AAA?
according to Sega
“ The upcoming reboot of Crazy Taxi will be a triple-A game, according to one of the Sega studios working on it.”
Oh, so not Sega then.
It better have steering wheel support or I’m not buying it.
“We’re responsible for titles such as Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis and Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage in cooperation with the bases in Tokyo and overseas,” Segawa explained, before bringing up the Crazy Taxi reboot.
“We are also participating in the development of triple-A titles, including Crazy Taxi,” he said. “At present, we don’t have any titles developed independently by the studio, but we intend to do so in the future.”
Dude’s just trying to communicate the scope of work his studio is involved with, I’m going to take the AAA remark with a grain of salt since it’s not from Sega.
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of the content of the article?
They for confused and meant Segawa
CEOs: Hey, hey, hey! It's time to make some craaazzyyyy money! Here we gooooo!
I’m sure they will take everything that made the original game great and bin it in a misguided attempt to appeal to a customer base they don’t understand.
Can we not bring the “make up things, then get mad at the made-up thing” mentality over from reddit, please?
But people will still, en masse, be like "REMASTER DIS GAME! REMASTER DAT GAME!"
Never learning what the risks are.
Fuckin hype!
Sorry, do I have to be an insufferable, cynical pessimist to comment here?
No you can be a delusional, corporate happy pill taking person that loves live service games and the enshitification of the gaming sphere drowning in microtransactions driven by psychologists designed specifically to prey on addiction to comment.
it’s the beauty of the 1st amendment.
What would that even look like? Is it becoming a game like Driver instead of just arcade timed fun?
Death Stranding.
It’s a reboot. They could definitely turn it into a AAA budget production. Maybe make it an open world GTA clone, like the Yakuza series; where 90% of the game is side activities.
With the leak/rumor that is going to be a GaaS with a 100 player survival mode well it’s a distinct possibility.
Hold up… Battle Royale in CRAZY TAXI?
maybe its got a 5th Element taxi level or something.
is this not SEGA being cheeky about Ubisoft claiming that Skull & Bones is a quadruple A game?
or are they being serious that they’re dumping that much into Crazy Taxi?
From what I remember it was kinda like a GTA 3 predecessor?
AAA means reinvent the wheel. Too bad, but not surprising. Younger gamers can’t possibly like old games? Crazy taxi was an arcade game so we can only hope they don’t veer the taxi off a cliff (or do veer off a cliff like Crazy Taxi should do).
AAA simply means a huge ass budget. Most AAA games stick to tried and true formulas because they are less risky
Deus Ex, Doom, Mortal Kombat, Mario, Need For Speed, Sonic The Hedgehog, Tomb Raider etc. all have had AAA reboots and not always following the same formula as the originals. AAA game design tends to be driven by the latest trends and technology, reboots included. This isn’t to say all AAA reboots fail, many do not because of brand loyalty and high expectations.
It’ll never be better than Crazy Taxi for PS2. NEVER.
Can’t wait for the in-game task to choose between developing a mobile app to make taxi service easier to access or alternatively lobbying politicians to make ride sharing apps and services illegal.
garretble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Please just give us what we want: micro-transactions to paint the taxi different colors and then a skin for $50 to change the taxi into a London black cab.
Then it will truly be AAA
Dirk@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
It will be a shared world multiplayer-first service game so it can be an AAAA game like that recently released Black Flag add-on that got out of control.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If they charge 70 bucks for it and include the mtx store then it’ll be even better as a AAAA game.
Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You just made some executive somewhere cum
Thassodar@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Oooh I have an idea: instead of in-game MTX tie it to a soda product, like Coke, and make it that every time you get more Coke PointZ you can unlock a new in-game skin that makes your car into a rolling advertisement for Coke.
The only way to get the right amount of Coke PointZ is to buy a 24 pack a week for 3 months, or a 20 oz bottle a day for 5 months, and the half the PointZ expire after a month and a half.
Coke, you have my contact info.