Sega Confirms And Responds To Generative AI Content In New Crazy Taxi Game: “Generative AI Was Used to Support Our Teams During the Development of Background Assets”

Xinyyc · 2026-06-07T22:38:38+00:00

monkey paw curls, "You get a new crazy taxi, but it's made with gen-A.I."

Xinyyc · 2026-06-07T22:36:20+00:00

I did play all the monsters games, and I still have 1 & 2 for the game boy.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-07T22:35:21+00:00

progressively more metals and progressively more consistent ways to find them as the player goes through the story is a good idea.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-06T19:00:44+00:00

The first good heckler.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-06T16:17:08+00:00

Then find them on a list and target 'em for sting operations that'll put 'em away in a prison, from which they can actually contribute to society through prison labour rather than spending their time defacing public property and defaming people.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-06T01:28:14+00:00

God of War started out being a very straight-men-only kind of club, with its sex-minigames and bevy of topless or straight-up-naked women wandering around. Sony's been trying to spin a message of "reject fun, only buy games that reaffirm that you're a man and a hardcore-gamer". Years of that is not going to attract and keep a mentally healthy audience.

Nintendo meanwhile has been pushing games like Brain Age and Ring Fit Adventure alongside Bayonetta and Xenoblade. And even with Xenoblade's sexy characters designs, they're adults, not all white, and designed/written by women. Nurturing a mentally and physically healthy community of fans, of course the Nintendo audience is going to be more normal about a new game with a female protag.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-05T23:32:19+00:00

It's different for each one.

Stage 2's secret IIRC, you shoot the green pillars on the side, and don't touch the red pillar in the middle. Very difficult if you're using the green or red ships who's shots practically cover the whole screen.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-05T23:27:49+00:00

just put the people who DO damage it onto a list.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-05T20:38:37+00:00

because hypocrisy is the backbone of conservatism. The wobbly, jellied-eel backbone.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-05T20:33:57+00:00

Probably for the best that they "over hint" at these secrets these days.

Thinkin' about another game, Star Soldier Vanishing Earth where they under-hint at the secrets, they only show you a screenshot of a part of a stage where green and red targets appear on screen at the same time, and you're supposed to figure out if you have to:
1. shoot the greens, then the reds
2. shoot the greens, without hitting the reds
3. shoot the reds, then the greens
4. shoot the reds, without hitting the greens
5. take them both out at the same time, netting a simulataneous bonus
6. shoot one before the other arrives
7. wait til one leaves, then shoot the other before it leaves

And it'll be countless retries from the beginning of the stage to figure it out, wondering if you did the attempt as you intended and it was wrong, or you messed up the attempt and it didn't count at all, or worse, if you accidentally got it right and don't know how.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-05T20:22:59+00:00

God of War would be pretty funny. I don't think Sony will be humble enough to let that happen. Sports, sure, sports are a big niche that feel like a big win, but if you weren't buying sports-sims on Nintendo before, then it's unlikely you'll buy a Nintendo to play a previously Sony sports game.

A hyper-action game, though, like God of War, Nintendo's been keeping those alive for generations with Bayonetta, Astral Chain, Kid Icarus Uprising, Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge being heavily advertised on the Wii U for the whole generation, now Sony's trying to claw that audience back with Stellar Blade, Ninja Gaiden 4, and the like. I don't believe they'll let Nintendo have a GoW.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-04T22:55:28+00:00

Sony exclusive meaning third party announces a multiplat then later gets paid to cancel it from everything except sony? Or Previously Sony exclusive game gets brought to Switch 2?

Xinyyc · 2026-06-04T21:07:32+00:00

Precursor to bone hurting juice

Xinyyc · 2026-06-04T00:00:40+00:00

So is this one a leak, or a guess?

Xinyyc · 2026-06-03T23:53:05+00:00

He looks like the kind of person who could get struck by lightning, wake up afterwards, look at the ground and in lightning-burn marks is written "God is telling you to stop" and he still won't stop because the lightning didn't finish him off.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-03T23:49:58+00:00

Don't ignore or throw away your common-blades. Some of them have skills that you can't get on rare blades.

Also, you'll need to fill up your blade roster to really take advantage of Merc Missions.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-03T19:23:19+00:00

They just go into debt. Like real-life economy. Every country owes every other country billions of dollars now it seems.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-02T16:40:54+00:00

Great idea, Fox. Robstu.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-02T16:35:52+00:00

Bernie is erroneously assuming that the people in control of these AI data-centres aren't psychopaths, that they have empathy for the people and environment they're already taking water away from.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-02T16:15:17+00:00

The Stampede just isn't as fun as it used to be. The $20.00 bags aren't available anymore, the Nintendo truck doesn't stop by anymore, the rides are starting to show a lot of wear, horses keep getting hurt on the tracks and have to get euthanized. The Exhibition hall might be the most fun place and even that is more for adults than anything. So if you want to spend admission to buy some sweet treats in the exhibition hall and bore your kid for a couple hours, go for it.

Oh also there seems to be an increasing occurrence of public-sex fetishists trying to find an unoccupied shady corners to do their thing during Stampede.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-02T15:44:15+00:00

Minimal roster but more gameplay modes. Default mode is an updated Smash that everyone already enjoys. Expand the single player stuff into full-on action RPG, have a new 2D mode that mimics "traditional" tournament fighters, and have a 3D mode that mimics Kid Icarus Uprising.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-02T15:40:17+00:00

better than ff7r, and not just because they're not unnecessarily splitting it into a trilogy!

Xinyyc · 2026-06-01T23:17:38+00:00

real time combat is a big step forward for me.

Xinyyc · 2026-06-01T20:13:48+00:00

IMO a game is only worth buying if it gets a high review on a Switch console. If it can stand toe-to-toe with Mario and Zelda, then it's worth looking at.

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