Comment on Looks like Horizon's unannounced MMO has been quietly cancelled
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes, let’s have the sequel to 2 single player RPGs be an mmo, that will make the fans happy
But it worked so well with the multiplayer shooter Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League by Rocksteady Studios! /s
I know it’s not an MMO but there’s parallels there
I love the Horizon games (didn’t play the Lego version though) and it’s similar to the Batman games but don’t have any interest in an MMO or Live Action Shooter for them.
Ever heard of Warcraft?
Yes, I’m in my 40s … I think at the time most people wanted an MMO of that RTS game.
I don’t see the parallel between that and the lore of the single player story-driven Horizon Zero Dawn but hey.
As someone who played a lot of Warcraft 3 and really enjoyed the campaign before wow was announced, I was not pleased with the MMO announcement.
Point was Warcraft was primarily single player RTS. Yes, with multiplayer mode but MMORPG is pretty big genre shift. In the end, it’s just about using the IP, nothing more.
You gave examples of games that tried something like this that failed, I just pointed out an example where it was quite successful.
We will never know if the Horizon MMO would be good or bad. I think the IP would fit MMO genre quite well tbh.
The real issue with live service game failiures is that studios design cash grabs, not games they would want to play.
It’s an open world game that takes a lot of inspiration from Monster Hunter. An MMO isn’t a huge stretch of the imagination.
TBH it worked with Final Fantasy XIV.
Well… not at first.
I vaguely remember The Matrix had an MMO that apparently evolved the lore in some crazy ways. And I’m going to guess they abandoned that for the new one.
To be fair, it was envisioned as multiplayer from the start, then dialed down and “settling” with HZD, then tried again before HFW and into the one with the 3D headset (mountain call or something?) and they kept saying they’d get to that original plan eventually. Does the Lego Horizon game have any of it? I want to believe the success of HZD and HFW as single-player helped them give that up in the end.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Most the successful MMOs are similar to that. Warcraft, final fantasy, elder scrolls, swtor…