Horizon Hunters Gathering is reportedly being rebooted without its live service bits following negative playtest feedback
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Horizon Hunters Gathering is reportedly being rebooted without its live service bits following negative playtest feedback
Guerilla's game is seemingly the latest casualty in a string of live service fumbles for Sony.
Horizon with co-op would be excellent. As a mode inside ordinary Horizon. No one asked for whatever this is.
It looks like a shitty AI generated mobile game. Whose great idea was “ let’s replace the almost photorealistic graphics with fucking uncanny valley AI cartoons”
Probably the same person that thought “let’s make a live service game!”
Some execs are still clutching onto Fortnite aspirations.
The funny thing is that chasing photorealism is expensive and difficult and not always the right solution. A lot of time stylized, cartoony graphics can be a better option, and I’m even willing to buy that it could’ve worked here, too.
But they went with this bland, generic, flavorless toon style. This is “marketable” but clearly lacks any distinct artistic vision that could set it apart from any of the other shovelware slop these days.
I set up a library of dozens of my favorite PSP games in Emulation Station and just scrolling through them you can see how they have all wildly distinct styles but still form this kind of coherent vision of what Sony was like back in the late 00’s, early 10’s. I miss that …
Yea that’s kinda my point, this uncanny valley mobile app AI generated“style” is fucking atrocious. And it doesn’t fit the Horizon Universe - it’s a shitty cash grab
Your use of uncanny valley is at odds with what I understand the term to mean. I understand the uncanny valley effect to take hold on the approach toward realism (something trying too be realistic but not quite there) - where as this is a stylized move away from realism.
Its sad cause as a Horizon game wtf is this, but if it was its own IP it actually looks like it would be okay. I’m tired of the grafting for the IP recognition.
My partner and I love the Horizon games and I got the big special statue edition of Forbidden West. I think the game looks pretty neat, and very happy to hear they are dropping live service.
I just wish it wasn’t Horizon. Art style looks cool, gameplay could be fun, but I think it is so tonally dissonant from the other games in the series to the extent I no longer feel as invested in the setting.
Sony chasing that Game as a Service model for the last few years and failing every time will never not be funny. They know they want money but don’t have the ability to manage their products to get money. Such a laughing stock of a company.
Good job, Sony. Well, “good” is the wrong word. It’s certainly a job.
At least they course corrected before launch. After 15 miss steps, they finally did the right move by chance.
It should be rebooted into the trashcan
Why Hermen Hulst still hasn’t been fired baffles me. They rather destroy a ton of value and uproot thousands of people’s lives by shutting down these studios than put the architect of their chase of fool’s gold on the chopping block.
Didn’t even look good, from artistic standpoint. It has (or had?) this Fortnite vibe.
“you’re a hunter gatherer, correct?”