Killzone Shadow Fall, Other Guerrilla Games Now Stripped of Online Play

That’s a real shame about mercenaries. Was a great shooter on the Vita.

They could've left them on for a bit longer. Ffs Sony

RIP to all these games online. You shall be missed.

Definitely the end of an era, here’s hoping for a new Killzone multiplayer experience in the near future.

I honestly never even know Shadowfall had an online mode. This doesn't really diminish it. It was an ok game. Fun, very basic, but not really special or memorable, but an interesting improvement in the series. I wonder how many bought it for a reason other than "it's the only exclusive to show off a launch PS4" lol

From the Killzone series I never really thought much of Guerilla. They really surprised me with HzD.

It's a huge shame, these games were pretty much the end of an era. Sony completely ditched the shooter genre for 1st party after they got CoD marketing and timed exclusivity in 2015.

The last Killzone was a big dissapointment for me i did not even finish the singleplayer. They stripped KZ of its identity and made it a COD clone. I missed the heavy controls and KZ3 was a great sendoff for me.

Apparently previous games have given longer notice (90 days) but this time it was only 3 weeks!

That sucks. Mercenaries is my vote for third best Vita game, after Persona 4 and Lumines Electronic Symphony

Shadow Fall had awesome multiplayer! They could do some great things with the single player too.

Kz has always been a standout multiplayer title and could easily become a heavyweight in the space if Sony/GG decide to focus some of that "live service" funding into it. It could do really well as Sony's flagship competitive FPS, especially considering their concern over Activision buyout. Free-to-play could be a huge boon too.

🤞 I seriously hope Killzone and Resistance make a resurgence this gen

@Gloamin ONG, especially since Microsoft is buying up COD. Killzone has easily the coolest story and lore out of any FPS, and the gameplay is incredibly satisfying. If they recreated that gameplay and story as a new exclusive PS5 game and gave it a proper budget and marketing, I bet it would be a huge success. The interplanetary futuristic war story by itself is enough of a reason to play it instead of just another WWII game. And the graphics in these games have always been amazing showcases of their consoles.

@Constable_What not true there are tons of Xbox games that had servers closed a good amount of the old Ubisoft games for example as well as some of the Halo match making on Xbox 360.

I finished Mercenaries a few years ago and just grinded out Shadow fall boy was it a grind.

@Constable_What
All of the Halo games on Xbox 360 got their online servers shut down so no I don't call that an advantage.

@Constable_What That is just complete nonsense. They do even worse crap like Forza Motorsport 7, a game that was only released at the end of 2017, was pulled from the digital store and Gamepass not even 4 full years after release. At the end of the day I don't blame either company. If no one is playing the game why waste resources on servers? I feel like this is another thing people complain about yet no one here has played any of these games in years.

Managed to get a few games here and there in mercenaries. I may not won them all but I was just glad to see people giving the game one last chance before they shut down the servers.

@Goat_FromBOTW Yeah, I really like the futuristic twist on WWII which Kz clearly echoes. I'm sure theres rich enough lore to justify an interplanetary battle system thats 'live' to player input. Kinda like MAG but obviously they now have the extra funding to go way further - Large multiplayer skirmishes that actually affect the direction of the game over time and future content such as maps and game modes.

Killzone 3 was the best online fps i've played. Shame about shadow fall, how did they get that so wrong.

@TechaNinja the terms of service for these Killzone games even said they'd try to give 90 days notice too. To be fair, it also said the announcement would be made on a website that no longer exists, so maybe they did give the longer notice, just nobody could access the site to see it.

@Gloamin I’ve actually been playing through the Resistance series again on my PS3 and was wishing they’d remaster the series or do a new entry or something. So, I definitely agree w you - I’d love to see that series make a a resurgence this gen, for sure! Killzone too!

@TechaNinja Dont worry those trophies wont be done really fast anyway but i agree they should have given notice sooner.

@z0d15g0d Same here i hated it so much 8 didnt even finish the singleplayer campaing the whole KZ feel was dropped for a boring COD clone feel.

Always disagree with online trophies, since you have to pay to go online.

@Flaming_Kaiser You're absolutely right. I didn't finish it either. Was this down to publishers insane demands? as they probably wanted some cod monees. I recall them falling out with sony for something or other when this came out.

Hopefully the Vita homebrew community can bring these games back online. I preferred Killzone's MP to COD's

@DETfaninATL I recently booted up my PS3 to play through the Resistance trilogy too. Such a great franchise! Felt very original with all the different weapons - 2 was definitely my favourite in this regard.

I'm certain a remaster of the trilogy would be lapped up by the PlayStation fanbase. Imagine if they upgraded the engine to current Spider Man/ R&C grade 🤤 beautiful.

The should eliminate online trophies for a platinum too if they are unobtainable

I managed to get all online trophies in Mercenary except for 1 - Aces High. It was one of the most bs trophies I've ever come across. If I had known about it beforehand I wouldn't even have attempted. I'm not even a hunter, but ever since Killzone 2, I always wanted to platinum a KZ game and this one looked doable. Boy was I wrong. The game is excellent however. One of the best KZ games imo. And possibly my favorite Vita game.

I'm not sure why so many people are down on Shadow Fall. I remember really enjoying both the single player and MP. The narrative was nothing special, but that's true for all the KZ titles. The lore is what's really appealing about them, along with the gameplay and visuals.

According to the NA PSN store, Everybody’s Golf is online till the end of September

@z0d15g0d I completely agree, Killzone 3 is the best FPS package of all time. I actually got the platinum in that one, couldn’t get into Shadowfall as much.

@z0d15g0d I hope that Sony was not that stupid i loved. I loved operations and ioved the first person kills the feel and sounds when you killed someone.

How fun was it to cloak yourself and get people pi**** off. The interactive stages the fun trophies it all clicked my proudest Platinum im sad i could not get all the expansion ones but i had such a blast.

If Sony had fuc**** it up by ordering a boring COD clone then they where stupid and such a waste. It aost cause anyway you not defeat them. Its better to make something else something different and special.

Now there is just that mid CoD game on the Vita...

The trophy hunters who own this game have been busy for the past 3 weeks. Manufacturers should avoid multi-trophies. If the server is down, there is no way to get it.

@Flaming_Kaiser Yea it was this game that got me into sniping. I had always hated it before but that class was so much fun to use that I always go for sniper rifles as primary weapon in games now even though they don't compare to KZ3.

@Flaming_Kaiser Yea but the multiplayer was NOTHING like COD tho. Had different classes with activated abilities, plus was one of the few mp shooters with spawn bases for all modes, which of course means you never had someone spawn behind you and cheap-shot you in the back. Definitely top 5 multiplayer shooters of all time for me. R.I.P.

@STINKYXY. My favorite was KZ3 especially operations i loved that.

@Boucho11 Yeah, it was one of my favorite Vita games. I really hope Sony adds it to the premium tier on plus, as the campaign was pretty decent

One thing is wrong in this article, everybody's golf isn't shut down yet. Me and my Austin friend are doing it now it shut downs Sept 30th so still over a month away

Shadowfalls mp was good didn't take long at all, did all base game mp trophies in 4 days after shutdown announcement. Super easy all solo with bots lol

I didn't bother with any of the Killzone MP but it really does suck tbh. This is why I don't like online trophies at the end of the day.

I'm glad I got all MP trophies and DLC stuff that can only be done in Co-op / VS done too.

Spicy!

Hate that it is going offline. KZ2 was my favorite on the PS3 along with Section 8. Those are my top 2 favorites of all time. Very fun games

@stinkyx The singleplayer turned me off so much i didnt even start it up its a pity a played every game up till the end. The KZ2 was awsome but so unbalanced if you where against a better team that made play a lot less great singleplayer though.

Always a shame to see games be shut down. But if there's like zero playing probably no need to keep them up. When there's still a small dedicated number of people playing stuff, I don't understand the need to turn off servers, yeah you don't need to have 100s of servers running you just scale down to the number of people playing. I'm sure as numbers deplete the much lower the cost of running