Twisted Metal maker David Jaffe has weighed in on the state of the franchise, releasing a video as response to the “numerous” daily tweets he receives from fans asking about the future of the car combat series. In the ten minute clip, he makes clear that he doesn’t own the brand and so any decisions about its development will be decided by Sony, but he shares various thoughts on how it could be resurrected.
The outspoken veteran believes that, of all the options, a smaller downloadable title would be the best direction to take. “You could go huge and make a $60 AAAA game where it’s Grand Theft Auto meets Twisted Metal, but I don’t imagine that would be something Sony would do because the investment would be so high on a franchise that historically has only done really well in America,” he said.
Jaffe notes that a smaller, downloadable game with regular updates like Rocket League would make more sense. “There’s still clearly an audience for it,” he added. “I think it’s still a solid intellectual property.” He went on to clarify that he’s not aware of anything like that being in the works at this moment in time, but reiterated that only Sony’s top brass would be privy to any plans of that nature.
The industry legend also touched upon the possibility of a remaster. “It’d be great to see them re-launch Twisted Metal PS3 on the PS4 with all of the online stuff figured out […] but it’d be a pretty big endeavour, and for a title that did well but not staggeringly well it’d be hard to imagine that they’d want to invest in that,” he said. However he concluded that with the likes of MediEvil making a comeback, there always a possibility.
Would you like to see Twisted Metal on the PS4, and if so, in what form? Park your ice cream truck in the comments section below.
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Just remaster Twisted Metal World tour.
As long as it's nothing like the PS3 one.
I doubt very much we will see a new Twistered Metal.
@johncalmc I liked it. Underrated.
@get2sammyb My problemo with PS3 Twisted Metal was that it didn't feel like Twisted Metal to me. Now, there are reasons for that that make sense, but it didn't change how much I didn't like it.
The old games were totally old school in that you had like ten characters and they all had endings and you could play split-screen and that was about it. So my experience with it was playing the game over and over again with different cars and getting the endings and whatnot and then playing with friends occasionally. Similar to a fighting game back in the day.
The PS3 one made sense in the PS3 era because it was online centric, but hopping between cars and stuff just went entirely against what I liked about the originals, regardless of how out of time those games would have felt on PS3.
Perhaps it could work, similar to Overwatch, as an online character-based shoot 'em up, or something.
@get2sammyb PS3 Twisted Metal was great. You could play the whole story mode with couch coop, and the online multiplayer was a refreshing change from other deathmatch games. Car combat games are still cool IMO.
I wasn't a fan of TM PS3 at all, if the plan is to bring the series over with a remaster I would hope it would be 2, the pinnacle of the franchise. A smaller downloadable 'game as a service' idea isn't terrible either though. Provided Sony rolls it out correctly.
I liked Twisted Metal PS3 a whole lot. Some of the most fun I ever had with a split screen game. I'd be super stoked if they remastered it.
No thanks, if it’s going to end up like Jaffe’s last project, Drawn to Death.
A Twisted Metal game taking notes from Rocket Leafue would be nice. Just as long it isn't burdened with forced microtransactions (or lootboxes) and doesn't get its servers shutted down early, I'll be down for that. Besides, at least it will be more succesful than David Jaffe's current game Drawn to Death. Heck, I wouldn't even mind Sony remastering Twisted Metal Head On.
TMps3 was okay. Part 2 and black were the best imo. He lost me at smaller downloadable even tho it'd make the most sense in "todays" world.
I seriously haven't played Twisted Metal since the original on PS1. I'd like to return to the series someday.
..I remember LOVING TMB (getting hit by that fairground wheel and ploughing through people as a massive truck!) - but I think games and tastes change over time... you've had a few attempts like Hardware Rivals (F2P), etc. and although there's some fun in them, gameplay feels a bit dated now (I think it's the lack of control / precision for me) - there's that other mad-max style one that's F2P too, again, all very serviceable, but maybe (maybe) people want more or at least something new added on... :/
Well I guess he's has to make up the money he lost for drawn to Death.
In all honesty though I would love a new Twisted Metal. TW is one of my favorite series PS wise in fact TM1 was the first game I bought when I bought my PS.
I can see it being like Rocket League but instead of soccer it would be like the battle mode in Mario Kart. Perhaps they could add different modes like a soccer mode, or even like a team battle mode.
@Th3solution Play Twisted Metal 2 and talk to me again i know you will love it.
@Tasuki Whats wrong with the oldskool Twisted Metal 2 World tour just release it like that and put in a PVP mode i want to blow up some windmills (im Dutch btw).
@get2sammyb Almost no characters and i loved the multiple endings and characters which it does not have.
Many years ago I bought the online adapter thing for the ps2. It came with a mail in rebate for a free copy of Twisted Metal Black. So I sent it in, this was like 17 or 18 years ago. So I never received it...
Just remembered that. 😔
@Flaming_Kaiser I’m kidding. I know he does good stuff. D2D was an anomaly. He gave us God of War too, after all.
Remaster World Tour from the psone, that was fun.
I liked the series and wanted to like the ps3 one. I did a little, but something seemed off. It’s hard to remember - maybe the difficulty was wonky? And those racing levels 😂
@Flaming_Kaiser Honestly I never played TM2 as much as I played the first one. I never owned it and thus had to rent it. Not quite sure why I never bought it.
@Tasuki It was so fun with the cheats i played it so much with my best friend. And i loved the endings thats why i did not get it on the PS3 so little characters.
There's probably no place for this kind of game now...unless they do it with a particularly low budget
Now this is just me speakin', but if you were to, say, give us all the PS1 titles in a bundle I'd be so down to clown. Of course, I just really love the originals.
Please bring it back to ps3 there are a lot of gamers still playing with the old school console
@Flamning_Kaiser
best simple idea for david jaffe and SONY...remaster the TM WT
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