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[Draugoth]

Horizon Online confirmed to expand the story of the Horizon Universe Update

Horizon online recently got a new job listing for a Narrative Director with the main focus of the job being

Guide the vision for storytelling as the world of Horizon evolves into the multiplayer space”

Previous Earlier in 2023 Horizon Online concept art and Horizon online gameplay leaked

 

[Deft Beck]

Well, yeah, it will. Imagine the game that leads with the tagline "Limit Your Expectations"

 

[NeverYouMind]

Shit... wrong Horizon.

 

[Flabagast]

What a waste of time

 

[dotnotbot]

This is a good IP to turn into something online, I like the idea

 

[Unknown?]

Hope it's similar to FF14.

 

[Del_X]

Another franchise turning into a FOMO money-pit.

 

[lh032]

Herman really love his Horizon IP

 

[TheHolyGhost]

I seriously cannot think of a more forced gaming IP in all of videogame history.

 

[Lokaum D+]

bring back Killzone your cowards

 

[Doom85]

I seriously cannot think of a more forced gaming IP in all of videogame history.

Yeah, the first game only sold over 20 million, the fuck they were thinking this could be a franchise?

 

[El Pistolero]

I don't know...Show me the game first, maybe?

 

[TheHolyGhost]

Yeah, the first game only sold over 20 million, the fuck they were thinking this could be a franchise?

hmm I wonder how it sold 20 million copies! that's as much as Spider man and God Of War it's amazing how a new IP out of nowhere manage to do th-

oh yeah

Trophy tracker tells the story you need to know, Horizon Forbidden West's first trophy is a non-missable one which you unlock by default after a 30 minute ish or so intro, only 55% of Horizon players unlocked it which is shockingly low and almost a record by itself for a story/narrative game.

Compared to God Of War Ragnarok's 85% for the first non-missable trophy also 30 minutes into the game.

Not forced at all, totally organic, it sold 5M copies in it's release year then mysteriously "sold" another 5M on the dot on average for 2018, 2019 and 2020. That's rockstar level consistency.

Horizon Forbidden West could sell 50 million copies if Sony really wanted to do by giving it away for free with every PS5 sold from now on, completely meaningless figures, but they have to pump it out the live service is coming and then the movie/hbo series whatever the hell they're working on, the definition of a forced marketed IP.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

OMG are they turning the franchise into GaaS?

 

[rhodesianshepard]

Gorilla Games created one of the best open worlds of all time in Forbidden West but the combat/gameplay loop was so mediocre. Hopefully they fix that. If they do, this could be an awesome Monster Hunter type experience.

I'm more excited for this than Horizon 3 because the story is pretty rubbish

 

[Unknown?]

hmm I wonder how it sold 20 million copies! that's as much as Spider man and God Of War it's amazing how a new IP out of nowhere manage to do th-

oh yeah

Trophy tracker tells the story you need to know, Horizon Forbidden West's first trophy is a non-missable one which you unlock by default after a 30 minute ish or so intro, only 55% of Horizon players unlocked it which is shockingly low and almost a record by itself for a story/narrative game.

Compared to God Of War Ragnarok's 85% for the first non-missable trophy also 30 minutes into the game.

Not forced at all, totally organic, it sold 5M copies in it's release year then mysteriously "sold" another 5M on the dot on average for 2018, 2019 and 2020. That's rockstar level consistency.

Horizon Forbidden West could sell 50 million copies if Sony really wanted to do by giving it away for free with every PS5 sold from now on, completely meaningless figures, but they have to pump it out the live service is coming and then the movie/hbo series whatever the hell they're working on, the definition of a forced marketed IP.

In most of those bundles it has another game packed in too but none of those games sold like Horizon.

Also you posted bundles with Spider-Man despite acting like that was any different.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

I seriously cannot think of a more forced gaming IP in all of videogame history.

Only 2 games(that have been marketed like any other game) and it's forced? Ok....

 

[StealthGoblin]

Really interested to see what they are doing here. The MMO is a different project so what will we be doing in this one?

 

[Neolombax]

I'm really disinterested in this franchise. Wished they would go back to Killzone.

 

[Danjin44]

I didn't liked SP version Horizon let alone online version.

 

[YukiOnna]

Hoping Guerilla move on from this IP soon or do something else, but then I see they have another Unannounced Horizon project... great.

 

[Valonquar]

Yeah... I imagine they will be copying Monster Hunter. So many ways to fuck it up.

 

[Esca]

That's more horizon than I need, no thanks.

 

[Raonak]

Horizon fits an MMO world real well.

 

[Fake]

They are like pushing this IP unecessarily to the limits.

Give a rest. What about new IPs?

 

[Aces High]

I'm still baffled how they managed to turn the concept of robo dinosaurs into something boring as Horizon. The graphics are amazing, though.

 

[Kilau]

Gorilla Games created one of the best open worlds of all time in Forbidden West but the combat/gameplay loop was so mediocre. Hopefully they fix that. If they do, this could be an awesome Monster Hunter type experience.

I'm more excited for this than Horizon 3 because the story is pretty rubbish

 

[StreetsofBeige]

They are like pushing this IP unecessarily to the limits.

Give a rest. What about new IPs?

It’s video game studios as a whole.

The second they find a popular gravy train they’ll milk it till it comes to a trickle. Then the new ideas come.

Cod, sports, assassins creed, Sony SP franchises, MS with tons of gears and halo back in the day.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Fantastic news, really liked the first two games and this world is well suited to an online setting.

Hope they do it right. I’m excited to explore the world.

Also hope it goes pc too

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Hope it's similar to FF14.

It will most likely be similar to Horizon with friends with some Destiny sprinkled in. In other words:

 

[mrmustard]

hmm I wonder how it sold 20 million copies! that's as much as Spider man and God Of War it's amazing how a new IP out of nowhere manage to do th-

oh yeah

I don't think bundles helped Zero Dawn as much as it helped Forbidden West (or Ragnarok). For several months you had to buy unoffical and official Forbidden West bundles if you wanted a PS5. But the PS4 wasn't sold out in 2017 so people bought the bundles voluntarily.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Hope it's similar to FF14.

I think that is going to be a different game -- currently being co-developed by NCSoft and Guerrilla's Exteranl Dev team.

This one, being internally developed by Guerrilla, is a multiplayer game, similar to Monster Hunster.

I'm interested in seeing how they differentiate the MP game with the MMORPG one.

 

[BlueLyria]

Tried it on release, didn't like it.
Tried it again a year or two ago, got further in, liked it a bit more but still would rather have a new Killzone.

 

[semiconscious]

so: expanding the story of the horizon universe? the one that i lost interest in following the end of the first game? thanks for letting me know...

 

[Fbh]

The franchise has potential for an online game. Taking on big mech dinos with friends could be fun.

I'm not really interested in the story though. First game had a pretty good story but I didn't really like the direction it took in the second game.

At least it won't focus on Aloy, which is something. Maybe your own character will be likeable

 

[Montauk]

Bore-rizon Online

 

[geary]

Gorilla Games created one of the best open worlds of all time in Forbidden West but the combat/gameplay loop was so mediocre. Hopefully they fix that. If they do, this could be an awesome Monster Hunter type experience.

I'm more excited for this than Horizon 3 because the story is pretty rubbish

I think is the opposite. Combat was the best part of the game....the rest was average open world game.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

I don't think bundles helped Zero Dawn as much as it helped Forbidden West (or Ragnarok). For several months you had to buy unoffical and official Forbidden West bundles if you wanted a PS5. But the PS4 wasn't sold out in 2017 so people bought the bundles voluntarily.

Where I live, you couldn't buy a ps4 without 3 games bundled for atleast 5 years.

And it shows in all first party titles being 10-20 million sellers.

Even average games like Days Gone.

 

[Apocryphon]

Dogshit series. Bring back Killzone.

 

[T0minator]

This has the potential to be amazing and a beautiful experience or a complete disaster that's still a beautiful experience

 

[Optimus Lime]

Cool, now I can be bored shitless while Sony begs me to 'buy currency'.

They are desperate to make Horizon a thing, but outside of the beauty of the engine, it just sucks, and Aloy is a crap mascot.

 

[StueyDuck]

Is this the cartoony one farmed out to some Chinese studio? Or the monster hunter co-op one? There's so many damn rumors about horizon IP and honestly they all sounded pretty terrible

 

[Gudji]

This is a good IP to turn into something online, I like the idea

Yeah depends on the execution tho. I'm hoping that leaked stuff is like really old.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

I could be wrong, but I feel as though Guerrilla would be much better suited pouring resources into a new IP.

 

[ArtHands]

Right after Sony increases the PS+ 12 months price.

 

[TheRedRiders]

Colin from LastStand made a good point about this, Horizon is an amazing game, but Sony are giving it the MCU treatment, turning into several different spin-offs, series and games. It'll have a drastic impact on the quality of the games moving forward especially in terms of story-telling which Horizon excels at.

 

[StealthGoblin]

Is this the cartoony one farmed out to some Chinese studio? Or the monster hunter co-op one? There's so many damn rumors about horizon IP and honestly they all sounded pretty terrible

From what I understand the MMO is being made by the team that made Guild Wars and the Online game is being made internally at Guerilla with assistance from a support studio. This would be the game that the director of Rainbow Six Siege is working on.

 

[STARSBarry]

In most of those bundles it has another game packed in too but none of those games sold like Horizon.

Also you posted bundles with Spider-Man despite acting like that was any different.

I think that's a fair point and looking at the image it was my first thought to, but the trophy data on the other hand suggests that there is an issue with the number if people who actually played the included game compared to other similair bundled titles.

 

[GymWolf]

Hopefully are just sidestories, i don't wanna be forced to play a multyplayer game to understand the plot of horizon 3.

Maybe it's just like factions 2 where you only have other survivors stories.

 

[Venom Snake]

In the absence of next-gen Monster Hunter, i would love to see an online version of Horizon. I've always missed the possibility of a cooperative gameplay in this title, if the single-player formula is already exploited (and done for), maybe it's worth turning this game into something like this.