While there are plenty of FPS specialists who would facilitate Guerilla Games shelve the Horizon series, it has spent the last decade getting off the ground and returning to making Killzone, it seems that the studio itself is still quite comfortable deciding to switch to creating adventures for Aloy.
In an interview with Washington Post Office on LEGO Horizon Adventures, one of many soon-to-be-released Horizon games, longtime Guerilla art director Roy Postma shared the developer’s perspective on the call for a fresh challenge following the release of 2013’s Killzone Shadow Fall, which now serves as a swan series singing.
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“We’re done with it as a team. As a studio, we had to refresh our palette. By choice, it was the opposite of Killzone,” said Postma, who has worked at Guerrilla since 2000. He added about Horizon: “I think the themes that this story and characters represent are relevant to all ages and people, like having a family of friends and finding your place in the world.”
This is no doubt frustrating for people who are personally more interested in dim, futuristic shooters than adventurous open worlds full of bow-fighting machines and a nature-like post-apocalypse. But hey, if creators are happier doing it, surely that’s the most vital thing?
Plus, you’d be hard-pressed to make any argument that Guerilla hasn’t had success with its newer IP, even if it left Sony without the large homegrown FPS it once had in its arsenal. That said, if you were desperate to get it back and allow Guerilla to continue playing, certainly loaning Killzone to another PlayStation-affiliated studio would be an option, even if there are fewer takers currently.
Anyway, since we’re talking hypotheticals, I won’t hesitate to ask whether Motorstorm and Burnout will be able to emerge from their versions of the beloved IP afterlife.
And speaking of disgruntled video game players, Sony recently pissed off some people by using the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered to add the game to the list of those with PlayStation Network account requirements, thereby blocking people living in countries , where the service is currently not operational by purchasing it on this platform.
