Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio Reboot

I honestly don't remember which one I played. I remember the music though!

I could see JSR(F) and Crazy Taxi inhabiting the same persistent online world, but they're talking about an FPS and other stuff, and I can't really see how you could throw those into the same world without wrecking everything.

Once you have cars, other weird movement, shooting in a persistent open world then you basically have GTA Online / Fortnite, so what's the hook?

That said, the Fortnite model of a persistent but always changing open world *is* something I could see working quite well in a number of games. I'm just not sure the number of players would be enough to maintain it. And it must take a fair amount of work to keep adding new content.

Sweet! The dreamcast is one of my all-time favourite consoles but even I have to admit that a lot of games were "of their time". Still properly hyped for JSR and Crazy Taxi though.

So it's a bunch of entirely separate games?

They looked quite good, but it seems a bit unusual to do them all at once. I assume they're all different studios.

PS/ Maybe they're doing a Fortnite / Lego Fortnite / Rocket Racing / Fortnite Festival and effectively going to stick a bunch of separate games in the same UI. 

I'm unconvinced for many reasons, but mainly because it's extremely difficult to capture the magic of the original game with a remake.

People are nostalgic for very specific things, but it also takes a studio to intricately understand what made the original game so good in the first place to create a compelling remake... Even direct sequels made by the same team fail in this respect a lot of the time.

Also "In development" is an empty statement these days.

I hope all these games turn out to be "a Streets of Rage 4" but I doubt it.

Shinobi, Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi looked great.

Not sure about 3D versions of Golden Axe and Streets of Rage but I'm willing to be convinced.

Can't believe we're getting all five - I would've settled for just one! As a huge SEGA fanboy this was the best announcement of the show.

Now where's Skies of Arcadia?!

I'm here for Jet Set Radio alone.

I'm glad that they're calling them new games in the franchises rather than straight up remakes. Take what was there, bring it up to date, give it an interesting spin. Crazy Taxi seemingly letting you drive a Crazy Cop Car, for example - that looked fun! Presumably adding a chase-me chase-me component to an already fun conceit.

As said above though, a lot of this rests on which firms they have banging these out and what level of supervision there is. Hope it's not a ridiculous drip feed too. If we've just seen the next five years of their output I'm out. But all of that in the next 18-24 months? Yes please!

How many times have they tried to do a new version of Golden Axe though? No particular reason to think this version will be any more successful than previous attempts.

But even the original was shit, so...

#Amiga

Golden Axe was good fun as an arcade machine and then the Megadrive version was cool because it was “omg it’s like an arcade at home”, but there wasn’t much there in terms of iconic characters or game elements that makes an update particularly worthwhile.

I suppose you could make a God of War type game out of it, but this looks more like a shitty PS1 era attempt to make a 2D game 3D type thing.

So, Beast Rider.

Altered Beast 3D REMAKE or GTFO!

I remember playing Golden Axe a lot on the arcade machine at the leisure center, after going swimming.

Then completing the entire thing in co-op with the french exchange kid one summer.
Very proud.

Not sure it was ever a very good game though.

Booting those potion guys was basically the hardest and most important bit of the game. With your very lackluster looking little boot animation.