Enough live service games have lost enough money, including Sega’s Hyenas, that at least one company is now scared enough to stop making them. Video games are healing.
Over 100 developers who were working on free-to-play titles have already been transferred to ‘Full Game’ development teams, “focusing on mainstay IPs”, according to the company.
Good to see them doing that instead of massive layoffs.
They’re sitting on IP’s with crazy potential like Jet Set Radio / Crazy Taxi and are doing nothing with them.
Both of those are coming back, but I’m curious to see how you make Crazy Taxi make sense more than two decades after the death of arcades.
Given trends, probably open world online craziness.
Crazy Taxis: World
Well, if the article is any indication…
Planned revivals of classic franchises such as Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage remain in production, Sega said.
I have heard that every year for the past several years, I’ll believe it when I see it.
In the meantime, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is goddamn amazing and there’s a “sequel” being made called Hyperfunk
Glad to see that’s getting a sequel. It was a really nice, fun game.
Hey hey hey! It’s time to make some crAZY money! Are ya ready? Here… we… GO!!!
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Here’s hoping we can get something like Skies of Arcadia. It’s probably nostalgia but it was such an amazing game back when I was younger.
Last House of the Dead game is ages ago.
They’re literally making new jet set radio and crazy taxi games right now though
It’s just too bad they’ve turned PSO into some weird anime shell of its former self. I’ve tried so many times to play it but the characters look creepy af.
I heard they are doing a Jetset remake. We’ll see tho
Finally! Of all the gaming companies, I think Sega is #2 behind EA on properties they own that they are doing fuck all with.
I’d love a current gen Burning Rangers, or Phantasy Star (not online).
I think Microsoft is right there at the top, with all studios that they’ve acquired.
Curious how EA is sitting on all of the Bullfrog properties and MS on the Lionhead ones
The market has shown time and time again there’s a place for good 2D games or 3D games that aren’t using bleeding edge graphics.
Rolling thunder, Golden Axe, Outrun, Eternal Champions, Bonanza Bros…
There are many abandoned great franchises that in the right hands (see the latest Shinobi) would do great IMO.
They do fuck all even with titles that are “active”, like PSO2. It’s so far behind the big MMORPGs I don’t even know why are they keeping them online, even the lack of content is just absurd.
Add Puyo Puyo to the list of Sega IPs suffering a fate worse than death, they sold the series’ soul to keep selling Tetris over and over. We’re never getting a main series game ever again.
Even Sonic feels like it deserves so much better. It’s been almost 25 years of shipping 6.5/10 reviewed games, just a little bit too unfinished and just a little bit too janky for anyone to really recommend. Sales figures look OK but they’re boosted hard by being thrown in the bargain bin mere months after release.
This is of course with the exception of racing game spinoffs, which are a protest buy for when Nintendo messes up Mario Kart. And last decade’s Sonic Mania, which they didn’t make.
