Horizon Hunters Gathering Is Guerrilla's Next Big PS5 Game, Horizon 3 Still Years Away

It's kinda insane to me that Insomniac is the only first party studio that manages to produce multiple games at the same time (as far as we know? Might have changed with Spider-Man 2 and afterwards).

Sony DESPERATELY needs more studios. Even more so now where games take 6 to 8 years to be made and it looks like some studios will focus on areas other than the single-player games that the fan base demands.

I'm happy to wait but after that can they move onto a brand new IP,. Don't get me wrong I like the Horizon franchise, but there's only so much you do with it. I have same energy with Sucker Punch and the Ghost series.

Cool, this soulless multiplayer focused game creates a nice void in which I can chip away at the old backlog while I wait for the next real Horizon game.

I enjoyed the first Horizon but the second one had the most bland, cliche and unoriginal final arc for a game with such high production values. Or it is just me, I don't know. The DLC was more of the same but with a romance that came from nowhere for good measure.

That said the cliffhanger in the end is a least kind of interesting, providing that you still remember it if or when the series continues. I have not played any spin off so I don't know if those elements are addressed.

So Guerrilla was capable of releasing and supporting this but Naughty Dog couldn't support Factions? Which I would have been more excited to play.

Worst timeline…

I finally played Helldivers 2 yesterday with friends and it was a blast. Definitely the best Sony-published online/co-op game.

That did get me thinking. The only really successful PlayStation Studios online game in the PS5 generation is really Helldivers, which is developed by Arrowhead, an independent studio. Every other game—excluding Destruction AllStars, a Lucid-developed game that most people already forgot about—was developed by an in-house PlayStation Studios team, and most or all of them failed. Destiny 2 doesn't really count, that released before Sony bought Bungie.

I wonder if there's a reason for that, if Arrowhead's independent nature made them more free from Sony Interactive's input, or if Arrowhead just has more experience compared to other PlayStation Studios.

I'm hoping Horizon Hunters Gathering is different. I do really like the art style, contrary to some other commenters here, and I think that it could be fun, but I worry that it'll fall for the same issues that the last few projects like Concord, Firewall Ultra, and their many cancelled titles have. I'm hoping for the best, but worried for the worst.

I actually Hope this does succeed because Sony needs some variety of different games not to mention I look forward to seeing how guerrilla games pushs the Decima engine with a more colorful art style.

Horizon 3 I will definitely be looking forward too, but this multiplayer Fortnite dauntless horizon game is not my cup of tea 👀

Reminds me of outlast & how the devs sold out for live service slop before releasing a third game

Makes sense since they're putting a lot of resources into Hunters. Not a lot of dev teams can be like From Soft where they have a few different games being worked on at the same time.

@HotGoomba But's the thing, all they need is one online game to pop off and they will make bank, your example of Helldivers 2 proves that, Yes it wasn't done by a first party studio, but Sony won't mind as they own the IP and thus reap the rewards.

@nomither6 But Outlast Trails, is loved by the fan base.

@Oram77 That is very true. Helldivers being successful is a net-positive for Sony Interactive Entertainment, as, in-house or not, it is their title, and it's likely made up for the cancellations and the failure of Concord, and even if Horizon Hunters Gathering or Marathon fail or don't meet expectations, they have enough money to continue funding more online games and get another success story like Helldivers.

WE DON’T WANT THIS FORTNITE IMITATION

The sheer amount of money, time, and resources Sony's studios has wasted this generation is embarrassing. Yet another live service game that isn't appealing to the majority audience is already DOA, along with the likes of Concord, Sony Bend's cancelled game, $3Billion Bungie's upcoming disaster... They are literally burning money.

@AdamNovice According to these people every single game with a Colorful art style is copying fortnite.

What a waste of time, hope they don’t regret it later.

@AdamNovice I guess so. I deleted my comment cause I'm starting to get too negative. I'll put it on my not interested list and move on.

I'm not in love with the character designs, but I'm always down for online co-op games with a story.

I'm kinda interested on trying the game out but unfortunately, everytime I try to sign up for the playtest, it keeps redirecting me to the country selection page before kicking me back to the website home page. Not sure if it's the device or browser I'm using.

As much as I dislike Sony's — hopefully mostly dead — live-service push and as tired as Forbidden West made me of the good-first-impression Horizon franchise, I've been cautiously optimistic about a co-op Horizon game since we started hearing about one. And this looks fine — at worst.

Yes, the multiplayer push is cynical. But it could still be quite fun, regardless. Yes, its art style is Fortnite-sterile, but I honestly prefer that to more generic-realism. If this is any good, I might give it a whirl. If not...eh. I've better things to worry about than the quality and success of a Horizon multiplayer spinoff.

Well hopefully they release horizon 3, 4 and 5 soon, God knows when we will get horizon 6 as per the question? Unless your talking about forza horizon 6

I find it funny when people want development times to be shortened, while also being against companies using AI-generated assets, which is a solution to shortening development times, while also wanting games to have high quality, which would lengthen development times. You just gotta love unreasonable demands.