What the frick
THEY won? HOW?
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>90 seconds of nostalgiabait "DUDE Dreamcast LMAO" after they didnt even finish hyenas
yeah they won
>after they didnt even finish hyenas
And that's a good thing!
>after they didnt even finish hyenas
So all good news?
The fact SEGA has to dig up their old IPs from literally 23 years ago because nothing they make today holds any value is pretty pathetic.
>Make a gacha instead of a video game
>"WTF the fans said they wanted the series to come back! Why isn't it doing well????"
Gee.
Not any more pathetic than forcing this Sega hate.
Your post is not even relevant to what I had to say. Are you defending Hyenas?
>The fact SEGA has to dig up their old IPs from literally 23 years ago because nothing they make today holds any value is pretty pathetic.
They must be aware of the nostalgia to those games so I want to believe that they'll put 1/3 of their original effort into the games, also it's not so hard to please the original fans
>JSR: Sick music
>Crazy taxi: mazes and interactive gameplay, altrough it will be forever overshadowed by the arcade machine
>golden axe: JUST DON'T BE A MH CLONE
>Shinobi: Just be shinobi
You don't need infinite content, just content that people want. NEW RUSH FRICKING WHEN?!?
JSR needs more than music since JSRF expanded the gameplay and gave us less arcade-y game loops. I'd prefer a hybrid that still kept the scope small.
Please play video games. Specifically Yakuza.
>PLEASE play the turn-based Yakuza games!
No, moron. Shut up and frick off.
Yakuza dropped off after the PS3 0friend
FPBP, the cult members are so desperate after they've done nothing but milk yakuza shit for the last 20 years.
>They went back to the classics instead of developing their troony hero shooter that will be forgotten in a week
Yeah, they did win.
Yes, they won. Eat shit and die homosexual.
are these new sequels or just remakes?
they all looked like new games
New games by modern Sega
I don't have high expectations
New games supposedly, but they looked very low budget. I genuinely don't know what they're trying to do here. Nobody asked for them except maybe Jet Set Radio.
i like shinobi
wish they announced a proper phantasy star rpg
like the ones before pso
Or a new Out Run, given how stale the current racing genre is with only sims and simcades populating it.
I really wish they would just rerelease Coast to Coast or 2 on Steam. Get rid of the fricking Ferrari License I don't give a frick I don't want to play the abandonware version.
Rieko Kodama died. Phantasy Star and Skies of Arcadia are never getting done again.
>Nobody asked for them
I've been asking for a new Crazy Taxi, Shinobi, Golden Axe and Jet Set Radio game for YEARS.
You had a new shinobi game 2 years ago.
You had x2 new jet set style games this year too
I want more
>You had a new shinobi game 2 years ago.
Now give me a new 3d shinobi. Arcadey devil may cry is tight.
No they didn't. You have to wait for the games to release and be well-received first before you can definitively say that.
>2 new JSR
Bomb Rush and?
>Bomb Rush and?
Probably he means Butterflies releasing on Steam. It's ugly.
>11 (mixed) reviews
Holy grim.
>You had a new shinobi game 2 years ago
??
Shadow gangs.
It was a homage to the original shinobi 8-16 bit games.
It's hard as nails and only like 8 people have completed Crimson Ninja Mode
>Shadow gangs.
>It was a homage
So no new games then.
Sega wouldnt let the dev make it shinobi unless he paid a ton of money
Considering they were able to lease out Panzer and SOR, sounds like a skill issue (financial) on his part.
As such, this is the first new Shinobi game in over a decade
New crazy taxi is a day one purchase for me gay.
What upset me was the filthy subhuman chimp in the commercial. And I'm not talking about the dragon lady either. Get the frick out of here with these motherfricking chimps
Its gonna be a cheap return to the franchise and it will be shit. Just look at the clips, indistinguishable from your average unity shovelware.
We are superior and stole everything from you
how are people supposed to ask for what isn't around? maybe we should get another spiderman game that uses the same level though. or maybe another zelda that uses the same level though.
>Nobody asked for them
speak for yourself and only yourself. I grew up on shit like Shinobi, Gauntlet, and Streets of Rage. I am very, very interested in seeing modern version of these games.
>Nobody asked for them
Black person don't project your shit taste on everyone else.
Tons of people have been asking for these games and then some. I still want NiGHTS 3 and Skies of Arcadia 3.
>I still want NiGHTS 3
Same, anon, same. Even if Balan Blunderworld fricking tanked straight down the drain (FRICK Yuji Naka btw, frickin' moron gayaloon that he is!), NiGHTS deserves another chance at life.
>but they looked very low budget
That's probably a good thing.
>I genuinely don't know what they're trying to do here.
go google "super game". TLDR, live services from dormant IP.
Both
Crazy Taxi has police now and you can play as them. Don’t think that was in 3.
Sequels to revitalize the IPs enough to potentially make movies.
Well it's a bit underwhelming but also kind of based. They canceled woke trash and going back to their roots. They either trying to turn the company around like Capcom did or it's desperate attempt to stay afloat before sinking entirely.
Got to be the latter because Sega will never compare not even to Konami. Much less Capcom.
>Sega will never compare not even to Konami
Except right now Konami is the new Sega when it comes to incompetence. Between their shit remasters of MGS, that shitty Contra Rebel Forces game, their fricked up PES/eFootball game, and their perpetually delayed Suikoden remaster, they've taken the crown for legacy jap developer devaluing their name.
worst and most moronic comment I've read today. congrats.
New games with low budget and Sega wanting maximum profit out of them.
sega can't make anything new so I guess it's bunch of demakes
reboots
>Sega suddenly discovers that they have ips people want to play
Cool! Shame that they will not be made by competent devs
the nig in the commercial can't even hold a controller properly (something that is not hard to do)
besides shinobi everything looks pretty damn great
breath of fresh air
jet set looks dope as frick
goldenaxe and crazy taxi look sick, arcade style games where you can hop in and out need to come back
streets of rage just existing is brilliant
keep them coming
>Besides Shinobi
In what world does the new Shinobi game not look great? Are you just asshurt at Lizardcube or something?
Predict how they will frick up every title Ganker
>Jet Set Radio: Annoyingly reddit written movie shit
>Crazy Taxi: Overbloated "Season Pack" shit
>Shinobi: bootleg cheap feeling platinum game
>Golden Axe: just like they did the last time
Streets of Rage is honestly what I'm scared most about considering we have a direct modern comparison done with more love and care in Streets of Rage 4. Think Sonic Mania and Sonic Superstars. I'm cautiously optimistic there.
Shinobi looks like it's being done by the SoR4 team though but that's based only on the artstyle at quick glance, so more hopeful there.
Its sega.
Think about this for a minute and how much everything will cost. All these games will be short and done on the cheap. Quantity over quality.
Sega have fricked up every game they have had over the past few years. This will be no different.
Streets of rage being a reboot and 3d should be the first warning sign. Then a censored 3d golden axe...coz that worked great last time huh
>All these games will be short and done on the cheap.
See, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if those cheap games were handled by competent devs who know how to work within their budget. But this is fricking SEGA.
I know.....
These are all going to be awful. I wouldn't trust sega with a tin of beans that was already open
All SoR needs to do is copy the gameplay they know already works and this time have music by Yuzo Koshiro again
>Shinobi looks like it's being done by the SoR4 team though but that's based only on the artstyle at quick glance, so more hopeful there.
LizardCube already hinted it on Twitter.
>we have a direct modern comparison done with more love and care in Streets of Rage 4
No, any beat em up that focuses on juggling over crowd control is automatically slop
I expect everything to be made in Unity by a team of interns reusing assets from Yakuza and PSO2
ALL
MOBILE
GAMES
No virtua fighter 6.
they r dead to me.
Living-Under-a-Rock gay here, what happend? did they announce another sonic game?
They announced five games "and more" in development
>Jet Set Radio
>Streets of Rage
>Shinobi
>Golden Axe
>Crazy Taxi
>Probably a Sonic game too since we heard his ring sounds
lol proof that Sega is the Black person console and Nintendo is the white man's.
Sega always win
Unless the win condition is to make a good Sonic game.
Their games may win sometime, until the company uses the all the profit they get to feed the nearest paper shredder
the moron olympics maybe
They haven't won until my boy returns.
After samba de amigo and even space channel 5 got new games at this point I'm expecting billy to nake his comeback anytime soon
>Space channel 5 got a new game
homie you for real?!? when???
It was some ps vr shit. I don't know if it was good or not
>vr
ehhhhh
I'm literally playing rez infinite on my Quest 2 right now. As soon as space channel 5 VR goes on sale I'm buying it. VR is the future. I'm dancing while playing
>rez infinite
How disgusting.
Granted it's been many years since I played rez on DC, what's wrong with his version, besides you flatgamers being lazy Black folk who can't stand and game?
The audio mix for Infinite, at least on PC, is completely fricked. Many samples in the songs are either missing or muted and makes them sound limp. Play Rez HD instead.
My feathered brother.
What if Yuji Naka and Chris Chan were cellmates?
That would breed the worst videogame oc ever made in reality
G I N T E G G
This game is a fever dream, some random game an elementary school buddy played whenever I come over and it'd just have sonic characters.
Thunder Force 7 and Gunstar Heroes 3 please.
Awesome. Especially the Shinobi game.
>no sakura wars
>no phantasy star
>no valkyria chronicles
>no shining
sega sucks.
Will eternally be mad about no new Shining force game, but it would never have been done right. All of the original artists who worked on the game are dead or close to dead.
>no sakura wars
They made one and it bombed and then they made a gacha and it bombed even worse
>no phantasy star
should have played NGS
>no valkyria chronicles
Pretty sure VC4 hit 1 mil sales so I'm actually surprised they didn't revisit the franchise. Maybe its just padded by $5 Steam sales and didn't actually make them that much money.
>no shining
they've already done irreparable damage to this franchise, why do you want them to touch it again?
>They made one and it bombed and then they made a gacha and it bombed even worse
They're fault for not managing it properly.
>should have played NGS
I despise Phantasy Star Online, it basically has nothing to do with the RPG I love.
>Pretty sure VC4 hit 1 mil sales so I'm actually surprised they didn't revisit the franchise. Maybe its just padded by $5 Steam sales and didn't actually make them that much money.
Maybe they should have taken that as a sign of INTERST
>they've already done irreparable damage to this franchise, why do you want them to touch it again?
SRPGS are BIG AGAIN.
>They made one and it bombed
yet it sold better at release than the Yakuza something Erased spin-off lol
anyway, it has shit Kubo art so it deserved to bomb harder.
>should have played NGS
The fans that Sega is pandering to want Phantasy star 5, not the subhuman MMO spinoff
Might be cope but at the end of the trailer it said that more sequal sega titles are coming
SW could still come back. It was in SRW30, and surely the recent game didn't bomb that badly, right?
I'm cautiously optimistic. The 3D streets of rage and golden axe seems like something that would have come out in the mid to late 2000s with mediocre to bad results.
By actually advertising themselves for once.
I feel like half of the games they showed there will get cancelled
I have a weird feeling that one or more of those games shown in the trailer are never going to come out and 5 or 10 year from now people will be like "what happened to that new streets of rage they showed of at the gane awards yearabago"
It looked like all 5 games combined had the same budget as hyenas.
i wont be interested unless a new crazy taxi cabinet shows up at my arcade. thats where their strength was.
>sega cabinets start showing up again
>leads to revival of arcades
>sega banks and makes new console where the games all have their own identity rather than same game diff system
sega home games should let you play against local arcade machines
>Have to hear One More Time as an attract mode.
>Virtua Tennis remains dead
🙁
They are trying to sell IPs designed for a white middle class to a new demographic. It's like McDonalds trying to sell beef burgers in India or pork in the Middle East.
What did they win, a new console?
that trailer will age worse than bam margera.
There was a leak on Ganker a few months ago that said Lizardcube was working on a "Shinobi 4" but it was ignored because it wasn't q Nintendo Direct leak.
>sega finally delivers all these games
>they are exactly what fans wanted, with a AA budget
>they sell like shit
>sega never revisits these again
It’s all so predictable. When Jet Set Radio flops, I wonder if they even release the rest
I'm tired of pretending like jet set radio was good. The tony hawk games were much better. All the others in excited about, but JSR has never sold well, only really weird fricking nerds like it like the people here, it shouldn't be first out the gate. I've bought crazy taxi on what, five different consoles? I've known girls who have never mentioned video games in their lives go oh man that's my favorite game. Everyone loves crazy taxi, give it to us now
Crazy taxi definitely benefited from arcade games being everywhere at one point. But I like this idea, crazy taxi would be a great game to start with.
If they wanted, they could do a lot with it post launch too. Do a Simpsons road rage crossover, do something fast and furious related, mad max dlc, etc etc
Oh yeah an arcade resurgence would make life a hell of a lot easier for sega, but still, crazy taxi probably has 10x the name recognition and fanbase of JSR, that's more largely my point
Gotcha, and definitely agree. Hopefully focusing on JSR was a Game Awards hardcore thing more so than indicative of release schedule. Crazy taxi would be an easier impulse buy
This would be really neat, I hope they can pull it off
yup. we're at a point where creative licensing could do wonders to solidify soid IP. imagine chasing down a car that has michael trevor and franklin hanging out the windows. or spike faye and jet.
segas got to get in there and get some bangers so people play a game and think "yeah this is a sega game" in a good way
Sega games are mostly about music anyway. People online are going to be overly fond of certain nostalgia bait titles, but all these games need to come out and be refiltered through an ecosystem.
Yes, tony hawk 2 is better than jet set. But wrappng up a game of Tony hawk 2 makes switching to jet set all the more fun.
Segas got to get some good developers together and start rebuilding its platform.
Nintendidn’t so Sega did it themselves!
Soulless
yea the problem is the games just look like vanilla UE5 student projects
no style....at all.....
This doesn't look any better tbh.
>that SEGA blue sky
>if made today it would be filled with anti-soul gas
I'll have to see more to officially declare it soulless but so far it is
I'm p sure it will be better than JSRF
>JSRF
Imagine being a hipster homosexual that defends JGR.
I hope Beat doesn't actually look that bad in the final game
I wonder if they're keeping that concept art where Beat, Combo and Gum all look mid 20s to mid 30s?
The timeline is completely fricked at this point cause iirc JSRF takes place in 2024 so we might as well have aged GGs like the Oldheads in Bomb Rush.
Feet too small.
Hair too "realistic"
Damn, but I'm still down for it.
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No Virtual On, no buy.
Sega always wins, baby
crazy taxi looks like a unity asset flip game, it's fricked
They all looked exactly the same. Genuinely thought it was some kind of Sega MMO. They somehow managed to remove the soul from Crazy Taxi and JSR.
Thank god for Bomb Rush.
>HOW?
Because you idiots are sleeping on their games. Yakuza and Persona are making bank because they're actually GOOD, and now that they have money again, they're using that money to bring back gamr development again instead of inflating CEO checks.
I don't understand why people have this predetermined mindset that Sega sucks and that's that. Outside of Sonic and PSO, their games are more often than not leaps and bounds ahead of the competition in terms of quality.
sega games are great, they always have a satisfying gameplay loop.
Id like to see music come back in a big way with segas in house band doing songs for new titles.
>sega games are great
Which is why they're doing to well and not a total flop and a decades-long embarrassment?
what does a game being good have to do with a game being financially successful or even well known?
starfield sold 10 million copies
it's also rated so badly that the rating is hidden
>Yakuza and Persona are making bank
yakuza sells like shit. the miku gacha makes more than it
>persona
tactica sold like shit and so will metaphor
Sega still has Puyo Puyo
SEGA
>used the exact same soundclip
>Wake up in middle of night to loud noises
>See TV floating in air, being carried by white set of floating teeth
Ayo
He just wants to play some Dreamcast man
>you should play sega NOW
lel
>YOU STILL DONT OWN A SEGA CD?!?!
SEGA DO FINNA BE COOKIN DOE
SEGA has so many fantastic IPs that have been laying dormant since the Genesis days, no idea why they decided to just ignore so many of the IPs they had when the Saturn came out, though with the Dreamcast it makes more sense since it lasted for about 3 years before being taken out of the market for good. I hope this trailer means that they'll revive more IPs from now on aswell.
I personally would love to see Bonanza Bros. and Kid Chameleon, Altered Beast, Comic Zone, Ecco and Vectorman make a comeback, and there are even more good IPs I didn't even mention here.
they brought back samba and panzer dragoon so I feel nothing's off the table at this point
It's time, cowards.
I want a new Phantasy Star game. Not another MMO, an actual Phantasy Star Game with an engrossing story and characters like we used to get from the likes of Square before they shat the bed.
>no idea why they decided to just ignore so many of the IPs they had when the Saturn came out,
Because those IPs don't deserve to be desecrated on a piece of shit like the Sega Shiturn.
Just give us a new Panzer Dragoon and keep it away from those Mega Pixel homosexuals.
Which fricking mixed couple? Who the frick looks at the video and spots shit like that? You /misc/Black folk are fricked in the head.
>Too bad the black person
HEY
YOU STILL DON'T PREP SEGA BBC!?
I'm disappointed the new golden axe isnt a 2d game.
People hate Sega as much as they love them. How the frick
Those who care the most, get the most angry.
Because they're a company that are still capable of making great games even now, but also often choose not to and/or make absolutely baffling business/gamedev decisions.
>they'll sign on the Mania team and end up with the best-reviewed Sonic game in 15 years that struck a good chord with fans
>but then they'll tell the Mania team to frick off and let them scatter to the winds, never to work on the Sonic IP again and instead having to farm out Mania's spiritual successor to fricking Arzest
>they'll give $100 million to Creative Assembly to shit out a tonedeaf looter shooter that missed its window into the market years ago, having no real oversight over the project until the closed beta which spooked them so badly that they cancelled this essentially finished $100M game right before its retail release
>but then months later they'll just casually drop a trailer announcing revivals of five fan favorite and cult classic IPs with the promise of more to come still
Don't even start on reminding me of Mania, and what could of been for Mania2, being 90s 2D Sonic for the next generation. Hyena's was a trashfire, but Mania2 was a surefire slam dunk, and the team's disagreements and refusal for that game is petty and unforgivable.
And please, don't frick up, Golden Axe! Beast Rider was enough.
Same boat
>make every zone original
>Mighty, Ray AND Amy playable at the start
>simple fun story about stopping Eggman
>banger music
It was alright there, the team even waiting for the green light, but no.
nice
>they're a man and a woman so they MUST be fricking
Chimp and bug, not male and female. But you're a disingenuous homosexual anyways, you support race mixing I won't speak with you libtard you argue and discuss in bad faith and with bad intentions.
>projecting
I accept your concession.
Please SEGA revive Shining Force as it once was. I was desperate for that mobile game before it was canned.
THE SEGA
YOUTH'S DREAM!
It's like they're taking a page from the world of horror movies, and are going to throw out a bunch of low budget crap and hope to make money on at least one of them.
Please Sega do not soil shining force with new entries, just release a collection with every game.
THIS is so SOUL i just cant. i love shinobi series. III is peak ofc. just cant make which style it is. seems like latest streets of rage or remind me a bit of shank.
> III is peak ofc.
Unfathomably based
We already have Lizard Cube working on it. Now we just need a good musician.
just hire yuzo again the guy will work on anything
Yuzo didn't work on 3 OST btw. According to wikipedia but I swear that in the intro scene he is credited? idk, it has been a while since I played.
but he did a great job on GameGear shinobi, I trust him
>New streets of rage
>New Crazy taxi
>NEW MOTHERFRICKING JET SET RADIO WITH A SHIBUYA LEVEL
Sega's back to style on all those sony and nintendogays
I hope they're bringing arcade style games back. Tired of this AAA piles of bloated content trash being over-hyped.
>"DUDE THEY WON!"
>10 second clips of all of the games looked like they were outsourced to Western studios like the shitty Panzar Dragoon "remake"
I can't wait for SEGA to die.
You'll have a nice day before Sega dies out. LMAO
fricking ANOTHER outsourced shinobi game?
ffs man I even liked 3D but come on sega put the effort and budget you put into stuff like sonic frontiers into your other IPs please it doesn't even have to be good just show you care
>Crying about another good outsourced game instead of a Shinobi Legions disaster.
What a weird thing to be upset about. Especially given you're not going to get the devs from the old days either way, Griptonite's Shinobi game was sick, and the SoR4 devs did an awesome job already.
>all these people mad that Sega aren't making 20 games at once
People's hatred of Sega is getting dumb.
no one fricking said this why do you keep projecting this onto people?
The thread is full of people moaning about not getting a Vectorman, and an Ecco the Dolphin, and a Phantasy Star, and a... so on and so forth.
You can say "they wanted those games instead" but what about the people wanting the games that Sega is actually working on? It comes across that Sega's fault is not doing everything everyone wants everytime.
>The thread is full of people moaning about not getting a Vectorman, and an Ecco the Dolphin
Only one that mentioned them is this guy who is cautiously optimistic
>and a Phantasy Star
Anons are going back and fourth on saying to play the MMOs while the others saying they hate it.
More than half the thread are optimistic about these bad looking revivals. You're making up people just to win internet arguments
>More than half the thread are optimistic
lol
Don't lie. You know for a fact this is bullshit. Why would anyone be "optimistic" about any Sega output?
It's not the 90s any more, Tyrone. You can download a SNES emulator and ROMs of the games your hoodrat mother couldn't afford to buy you. You can let Sega go.
Wow, you sound mad.
>Dude you played Nintendo games while I played Sega trash? You're so mad!
Santa isn't real and Sega were never good.
>Doesn't even bother to look at the spoilerd text
Fricking moron.
Holy shit the projection has broken his mind
Stop.
>Trying to lie by making up random people
SEGA aren't even making these games you dumb schizo, they're outsourcing them. Infact, SEGA of Japan hasn't made anything besides Sonic and fricking Yakuza games.
They just did the obvious: gave fans what they needed.
A remake or just a remaster of the first PSO with better gameplay would be great
Frick off Sega, give me a Puyo game with crossplay for once so I don't have to rely on fricking Discord to get games and I'll gladly start shilling everything for you but I know you won't.
Sega representative here, hit me on discord.
>Posting blacks
Frick you
What game?
Shinobi?
Now you say it, they didn't show any boss in the trailer. A giant snake head seems cool enough for a Shinobi game.
They're definitely mid budget games but as long as the gameplay is good I don't mind.
not so fast
Least schizo weeb
first of all
>xitter
secondly, only Shinobi is confirmed to be from a western studio. JSR and Crazy Taxi are confirmed to be developed by Sega of Japan.
>JSR and Crazy Taxi are confirmed to be developed by Sega of Japan.
source?
Job postings for SoJ have matched Crazy Taxi, and JSR has shown up with other Japanese developed titles in an investor video.
>I could go on but I'd rather leave letting you know that Shadow Dancer is OBJECTIVELY better than Shinobi 3.
Don't agree but Shadow Dancer is a really good game.
>Super Game
Is that still a thing, or was that Hyenas?
The "Super Game" is separate from the revivals and Hyenas, and it's aiming for a 2026 release. Pic related is from the same financial report where they confirmed Hyenas cancellation
Depends on the era they're borrowing elements from but I understand the concern
It's complicated
At first, Sega said it was one game
Then, Hyneas started to get leaked
Sega said that "Hyneas" wasn't the super game
Then Hyneas gets announced and Sega backtracks and says it is the super game
Then they backtrack again and say Hyneas is only one of "many" super games they have in development
And of course everyone knows Hyneas got canceled.
Basically, we don't know what this super game or super games are, because Sega keeps changing the definition every other week.
What I really think happened is that Sega silently canceled their true super game because it was never officially reelvaed, and are simply taking advantage of marketing by saying whatever game comes out within the next 5 years is said "Super Game"
It was probably an investor bluff, yeah.
>Western movies, music, fashion, automobiles
Grim
I pity these third worlders who think I wouldn't kill them just because they spout /misc/ jargon from ten years ago.
>from ten years ago
Bro ive seen euros talking exactly like that this week
>lmao
>slop
Giving computers to am*ricans was a mistake
Big words coming from someone whose country hasn't made anything good and relevant within the last 20 years.
I hate zoomer slangs.
>show 5 games
>none of them look any good except for shinobi
>more outsourced garbage
It's all so tiresome.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2023/12/08/sega-reboots-crazy-taxi-jet-set-radio/
In the 1990s, Sega marketed itself as being the counterculture. Its TV commercials had a guy screaming the company’s name, representing a “rebel yell” against Nintendo’s dominance of the games industry.
That same yell returned in a trailer at the Game Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday night. The trailer showcases five new games from Sega series that mostly have been dormant for more than a decade: “Crazy Taxi,” “Golden Axe,” “Jet Set Radio,” “Shinobi” and “Streets of Rage.”
“Golden Axe” and “Streets of Rage” are traditionally 2D brawler games now being adapted to 3D. “Crazy Taxi” was an arcade hit centered around time-based street racing that’s getting a modern update. “Shinobi” seems to stay true to its 2D action roots but stylized with colorful flat-shaded animation. And the Tony Hawk-inspired “Jet Set Radio” will get a second chance after amassing a small but loud cult following.
Sega co-chief operating officer and Sega of America CEO Shuji Utsumi said this is a strategy he initiated that’s finally bearing fruit. Utsumi was instrumental in launching Sony’s first PlayStation console and Sega’s last console, the Dreamcast.
“We really want to show edginess and a rebellious mind-set,” said Utsumi, recalling Sega’s cultural impact as the “alternative” game console.
The Dreamcast was Sega’s last console before the company made the historic decision to become just a games publisher and developer, conceding the console market to Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Despite its failure, it’s grown a loyal cult following that recognizes how the machine was ahead of its time, including having built-in online connectivity.
Utsumi said when he returned to Sega four years ago, he found a “treasure trove” of intellectual property to revisit. Originally for Dreamcast, “Jet Set Radio” (2000) was an experimental game that mixed extreme sports, 3D platforming and graffiti art, a concept so unique it was only replicated earlier this year by another studio.
Utsumi said these legacy series can find second life now that the games industry has a captive global market large enough to sustain Sega’s weirder concepts. Utsumi has firsthand knowledge of testing strange concepts as co-founder of Q Entertainment, a studio behind games that played with the concept of synesthesia and dance music.
"Shinobi" is a classic Sega console and arcade series, and a new title was announced at Thursday's Game Awards in Los Angeles. (Sega)
“The concept of games like ‘Jet Set Radio’ is advanced. The original creators are involved again, and its time is now,” he said. “It’s a good time where people can appreciate all kinds of concepts.”
Utsumi credited three ongoing Sega franchises for holding up the company in recent years: Sonic the Hedgehog, which has now released two blockbuster Hollywood films; Yakuza, the crime drama (now rebranded as Like a Dragon) that’s grown a large U.S. following; and Persona, the role-playing series about mystery-solving teens.
“We’ve been investing into these three titles the last three years, making these pillars grow, and they grew very well,” he said.
Sega also promises to revive even more legacy properties. Fighting game fans have been wondering why the first 3D fighter series Virtua Fighter is so dormant. Utsumi said the company is aware of the game’s niche status.
“We are evaluating right now. Virtua Fighter doesn’t use so many tricks, special moves like in Street Fighter, it’s very realistic,” Utsumi said. “How can we make it more dramatic? It’s something we’re working on.”
Will they put in real-life businesses in new Crazy Taxi?
>showing 5 seconds of half-baked footage is all it takes for Ganker to start wagging their tails, because the footage is of stuff they regonized when they weren't nihilistic losers.
Why does Ganker treat Sega like this?
The amount of hate against sega is proportional to the amount of love they have, unlike with other shit where it's 20/80 love/hate
cant wait for these games to come out only to have everyone b***h and how shit they are.
shinobi and jet set radio are the only ones that look good.
crazy taxy, golden axe and streets of rage looks so fricking rough.
i was pretty hyped in the initial trailer reveal but after watching the video again and taking a good look at every scene, it just dont look good at all.
Golden Axe looked the worst, holy shit. You could have told me it was an indie successor.
i wouldnt even call iit an indie successor. it literally looked like one of those "hire this man!" afternoon projects.
>outsourced
>Shinobi is the only one that looks polished
>the rest look like low budget games you'd find on Xbox Live Arcade
>SoR is 3D
They didn't win anything.
Crazy Taxi is going to be monkey pawed so badly.
you all know deep down NuCrazy Taxi will be an Early Access roguelite in the vein of vampire survivors. Probably slap on some multiplayer as well.
>didn't finish that run in time? well that's okay because the fare you DID collect can now go into upgrades to make your car 10% faster at max upgrade level!
>preorder bonus
>get a $100 in game credit head start to upgrade your ride!
i can fricking see it now
All I want from Sega is for RGG Studio to stop making the same game over and over again for 10+ years.
When was Binary Domain? Like 2012?
After the Monkey Ball remakes, I never want GX brought back
>SMB remade in unity with completely messed up controls
>zoomers and brand cultists tell you to be happy and that it's better than nothing
I'm so baffled in hoiw Sega continously fricks up the controls of a series that uses only the stick for 99% of its functions. The only other button used most of the time after that is the A button.
>GX would be fricked up so hard and even more censored than it initially was on English release.
God, just thinking about it makes me want to down a nice cold DRINK
Pretty fricking based list I have actual hope, BUT
Where is Phantasy star 5
Where is Shining in the darkness 2
Where is a new Oasis
Where is a new Outrun
I could go on but I'd rather leave letting you know that Shadow Dancer is OBJECTIVELY better than Shinobi 3.
>Shining in the darkness 2
We call it "Shining The Holy Ark", and it's pretty great.
I wish it was good.
The Takahashis are hack frauds compared to Naito.
>Where is Phantasy star 5
Yuji Naka is in prison and Phoenix Rie died.
>Where is Shining in the darkness 2
Climax was dissolved a long fricking time ago and you'd be much better off asking for a new Landstalker, since SitD was just an Eye of the Beholder clone.
>Where is a new Oasis
Yuzo Koshiro doesn't have the manpower or money to make big games.
>Where is a new Outrun
Yu Suzuki is a fraudster these days.
>Shadow Dancer is OBJECTIVELY better than Shinobi 3.
no credible person ever said it wasn't.
>sega starts reviving old IPs
>other companies see how much praise is sega receiving
>konami and others start doing the same
A man can dream...
They will probably all be bad.
I doubt these will be full fledged games, they will be minigames inside a larger SEGA megahub.
>they actually went and made a new Streets of Rage look like this
The only similarity is that they both have 3D graphics.
jet set radio still has that cartoony look though
No, that's a reasonable opinion. What they showed us of JSR is actually really bad.
While that might be true it doesn't look like complete shovelware either, and it depends on the music, gameplay and the background. Future sucked because it went too far onto the futuristic aesthetic, missing the point by a fricking mile.
>called jet set radio future
>complain about the futuristic aesthetic
you should get that autism checked out
>Future sucked because it went too far onto the futuristic aesthetic
It literally looked like a larger scale version of JGR except shit had some more antennas on it. You didn't play the game.
>the future game looked too futuristic
moron
What are the odds that some of these are F2P games where you need to put in quarters to keep playing?
Only crazy taxi and japan-arcade only.
If Sega is rebooting Streets of Rage does that mean there won't be any more Dotemu games? If so, that sucks.
I'm concerned for many reasons, but also hoping that the shotgun approach will mean that even if four of them are trash, one of them will at least be fun and/or decent.
At the very least, it's good that they're remembering they exist again.
Shinobi and Crazy Taxi will be the only good ones.
It seems like instead of the cubism futuristic feel Jet set Radio future have they're going with a more glossy glassy modernized feel in the buildings, as well as some comic book looking stuff with the chromatic aberration. Don't really dig it so far. A lot of people are fine with it cause well it looks cel shaded at least! but these people are simpletons. Even BRC understood the cubism aspect of the game.
Sega committed a grave sin years ago, and deserves to collapse because of it.
Where the frick the video I want to see this games?
They don't show the video games, they show a Black person and a asiatic playing grabass in front of a TV but you can't see what's on it, then the black draws its about back, starts beating its chest and yells SEGA!!! while the yellow bawd orgasms
Kys homosexual
Mald harder libtard
Project harder troony
Cant make anything new so back to the well
Sega=hacks
I wanted 3D Shinobi...
Hotsuma bros...it isn't our day....
They will never be winners again in my eyes until I see some Skies of Arcadia and VC5.
>Skies of Arcadia
why do people want a sequel to this game, everyones just going to hate it due to nostalgia goggles
Same reason people cry about wanting a new Golden Sun.
I don't want a sequel so much as an expansion on its concepts (Discovery, adding new crew, mix of ship and land combat.)
I want a skies of arcadia rerelease with a fixed translation
Am I the only one who thinks Cyberfunk was way more soulless looking than the new JSR? Just copying the old style without iterating on it is the epitome of soullessness. I like the new style much more.
Just saw someone allude to the fact that Golden Axe could have GOW/Arkham combat and man my heart just sank lmao. I really hope that's not the case.
slop
by existing
They finally hit their panic button now that their arcade business is gone and first "supergame" died prematurely.
>finally a new Jet Set but after Bombrush
Why should I care now?
but jsrchads told me bombrush is shit
It's not a bad game, just too easy.
I have no hope for Sega doing anything good with it but I hope I'm wrong
>bombrush is shit
It is, never and I mean never listen to games this place hypes up.
shinobi was the only game that looked good, admit it Ganker.
That's a nice wrong opinion you have there, that's wrong.
Jet Set looks good but not what people wanted.
Also Wrong
WHERE IS HE?!
A
FRICKING
POLOGIZE
They really should have just hired the SoR4 guys to do Golden Axe, but with a more Frazetta art style. Would print money.
I like that they're bringing it in to 3d, it looks fun
A less anime Dragon's Crown is the perfect style for Golden Axe
>announce multiple games that will totally absolutely come out....one day...for goodwill
All these games will be canceled.
Two of them are releasing next year.
absolutely fricking delusional OP, can't wait for every single game to come out and be completely shite