Ah yes, PC and mobile. Two platforms that are both very similar and absolutely core to Horizon’s fanbase.
This will go well, I’m sure.
Maybe theyre adding a companion app? The focus is a big deal in the game, and niantic has sold out the technique to 3 game series with middling to better success already. Maybe it will have some gimmicky pokemon go esque deal for minor game resources.
At least when it was popular, Pokemon Go was basically a reskin of an existing game, Ingress. The concept was cool, but the execution was lacking.
I was surprised they seemed to have learned nothing, like the rural/urban problem, and made basically no changes.
A mobile app is one of my most hated gameplay experiences. Think of what the greats did on original consoles and how they used their limitations to push boundaries and now think of how GTA V, which had an in game smartphone and Internet required you to use your real world phone to train your in game dog.
Gimmick is the right word, the fuckers were also harvesting data.
Thats pretty variable on how its used tho. If it was used like pikmin go, a step counter that you use to gather crafting materials (akin to the actual gathering experience in the horizon games) while you go about your day to day life, it would actually be kind of cool.
What Im picturing is basically the add on that pokemon soulsilver had, where you could put a single pokemon into a literal step counter that gave the pokemon exp as you walked, and sometimes found items or pokemon for you to transfer into your game when you played next. Its a minigame on your phone to gather otherwise semi tedious crafting materials.
And, yeah theyre absolutely going to be harvesting data. Thats a given, which sucks ass. But thats hard to get away from when literally everyone does it. You start a movement to cut that shit from gaming, and Ill march with you. But its not like this is breaking ground on that front.
Heck, you can even add MMO to that too, as it’s one of the PS single player crafted games.
It would be like a God of War or Uncharted MMORPG, that’s not the niche for those fanbases.
True, but at least that could make some sense if it were in an ecosystem where people might make the jump.
PC and mobile… therr goes my potential excitement.
I had a woosh of excitement in my tummy until I read that. 😔 I really want to hope it won’t be jank and micro transaction-riddled, but I automatically assume it will be because they added mobile.
How is Horizon going to translate into an MMORPG? It just doesn’t strike me as a franchise that would get an MMO, but here we are.
Even in game the tribes often sent people out in groups to explore and hunt robots. It would be pretty easy to turn killing giant robots into an mmo. There’s enough gear in the games to make some basic archetypes prevalent in mmo games. There’s really just not an apparent healer, but you could work around that with a design where every player has to occasionally be the tank and then heal themselves when needed.
It wouldn’t be a fast paced “bullet time” style shooter like the main games, but there’s solid potential in it.
More likely the world with an mmo in it
Sounds like bullshit. This is based off job adverts on LinkedIn. Given Guerilla have been releasing for PS all along, it’s likely they already have the people to write that. They’re lacking for the other platforms so they’re hitting for those.
What is “Horizon MMO”? Even the link doesn’t explain
An MMO set in the universe of Horizon:Zero Dawn and Horizon:Forbidden West.
I think it refers to an MMORPG related to the Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West games.
