Considering that Nintendo popularised the template for kart racers on the SNES, in 1999 Naughty Dog fine-tuned the sub-genre's gameplay mechanics with first-rate physics and controls in Crash Team Racing on PSone, which encourages you to combo Turbo Boost Meter and jump hang-time speed bursts.
Even if its fantastic track design seems directly influenced by Mario Kart 64, and its diverse Adventure mode suggests inspiration from Diddy Kong Racing, Crash Team Racing surpassed decent cutesy racers like Motor Toon Grand Prix 2, Speed Freaks, and Toy Story Racer on the original PlayStation.
It also bettered mascot racers like Sonic R on SEGA Saturn, so Crash Team Racing's imaginative visuals, funky soundtrack, and addictive arcade gameplay ensures that it belongs at the front of the fifth-generation's karting pack, alongside the finest kart racers on Nintendo 64.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
They can form a company if they want, they are just as jobless as if "Microsoft had left them as 3rd party".
"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.
HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.
It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
I wish Jak X was as revered a kart racer
how many Kart racers were there on ps1?
Naughty Dog created the best kart racing ever made. No matter how many kart racers I played, none of them came close to how awesome CTR felt except maybe Mario Kart 8 but it still wasn't close enough. It's insane how well CTR holds up almost 20 years later.
Damn straight