Whilst I agree with you - what the guy is getting at I do kind of agree with. Microsoft threads on here always end up bad nowadays.
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Microsoft hiring for Horizon Zero Dawn-like game, maybe by Playground (Forza Horizon)
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UnemployedVillain
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Oh boy! Nothing more that I like than devs who from the onset set out to make derivative games! Hopefully they just meant graphically *sigh*
Tal Shiar Agent
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Did you play it? Horizon was extremely original. No other game has gameplay or a story like it.
They absolutely are fanboys, definitely not console warriors though
They got the scoop on those two new Rare games
Yes....
pretty much this too.
This just means there's an open world action adventure game that may be more about fantasy and wilderness (Horizon) than current time 'realistic' city (Watchdogs) that's being made by a studio funded by MS.
It doesn't mean "MS is making horizon ripoff and not even hiding it by posting by themselves a job posting mentionning the game"
Now if it's a blatant riff on the same ideas I'll be the first one to make fun of it in 3 years (if it isn't killed), but let's not read so much into it.
However, this thread is probably the reason why recruiters shouldn't be so specific in their public announces on linkedin. I wonder if this one got a bit of an angry call after that. Maybe not until it catches more attention than a 6 pages thread on gaf, ie like an article on a popular website.
Also another thing, just because this is a UK recruitment company, doesn't mean they only recruit for UK studios.
http://g-3d.co.uk/clients
(fun fact : guerilla is in the list of clients ZOMG MS JUST SECURED HORIZON2 !!!!)
Come on now.
Garrett 2U
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Nonono, if you're going to copy, might as well copy the best!
Bits N Pieces
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Has the thread title changed or did it always have Playground Games in it? Been a long day, lol.
Tal Shiar Agent
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I've never heard of a game with a remotely similar combat system.
anothertech
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The only unreliable source is ppl like you talking out your ass. Geesits
No idea who you're talking about do you
SomedayTheFire
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Guerilla games had a UK studio until quite recently. Not outside the realms of possibility that they haven't updated that since they were closed.
wouldn't surprise me if MS demanded from the dev team that they surpass any visuals on PS4 (Horizon, the Order etc)
I mean, they are releasing the most powerful console ever this year, they need games to prove its worth.
El-Pistolero
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Knowing you, you must have found a way to pre-pre-order it...
How did this thread turn into anything other than a recruitment agency looking for artists to do landscape similar to HZD... and any other game with open world, outdoor environments.
No. They actually mean a direct copy of Horizon: Zero Dawn. Red-haired lady protagonist. Robot dinosaurs. The whole shebang. It's called Roborizon: Hero Dawn.
privitsan02
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Playground will have to mass hire if they want to make a Horizon style game. I know Guerilla had to as well, but unlike Guerilla Playground have been making racing games exclusively, not action.
It's also very likely to be years away. If anything people should be upset that they might not be working on Forza Horizon 4.
Best wishes.
It's also very likely to be years away. If anything people should be upset that they might not be working on Forza Horizon 4.
Best wishes.
They opened a second studio for a new game.
Yeah maybe if it were a One X exclusive but keep in mind that game would still have to run on an original Xbox One lol...talk about a dead weight. Also, MS is just not capable of producing Sony-level graphics..look at God of War and Spider-Man. Nothing came close to those.
Insomniac makes Spider Man a independent dev.
Yes, you are correct. But the point still stands.
Disgree tho. Gears looks insane.
hanspampel
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There is no poorly-contructed recruiter pitch
Just a normal perfectly fine recruiter pitch
Rumblebones
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If it's a Playground IP why would it be noted to be for Microsoft? Isn't their new IP supposed to be multiplat?
Shpeshal Nick
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"Where is Microsoft's Horizon? They have no new IPs"
*Microsoft begins work on an open world action RPG*
"lol So original Microsoft"
*Microsoft begins work on an open world action RPG*
"lol So original Microsoft"
SuperSaiyanWithDreads
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Just make an open world 3rd person shooter perfect dark game
ElfArmy177
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I think it's just a genre thing guys...
I really hope this the case. Fable sells well makes no sense why MS haven't greenlit another (traditional game)
So do Sony and Nintendo threads... what's your point?
You always see the same trolls in Sony and Nintendo threads, or at least the same agenda followed by trolls of fanboys, the same happens everywhere, let's not pretend Microsoft is a poor sheep chased by wolves.
Horizon is a pretty rad game, I'm totally okay with having similiar games like it.
Same goes for BotW.
Shpeshal Nick
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ElfArmy177
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Like assassin's Creed? Or uncharted?
Rumblebones
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Some of y'all PS fans need to relax.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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Wow, Horizon is high key iconic 💅🏾 Guerilla really did THAT
cyber_ninja
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His insights are more reliable than your opinions.
Nintendo threads can get ugly, but not always and "usually" not as bad.
Sony......um, sorry they don't get anywhere close as bad as MS threads. A Sony thread about something stupid they did (e.g. "We must protect the children from the evils of crossplay") can get hairy, but any MS thread....be it Good News or Bad News...brings out the Sony fanboys in droves to shit it up.
I agree with this. No need for everyone to get so worked up. I'm just happy that MS is working on a new RPG IP as it is a genre that I enjoy and that their first party lineup is largely missing.
As for originality, just about anything game you make (or even anything you do) is going to show influences from other things. That's just a part of learning from the past. There's nothing really wrong with that as long as it's not straight up plagiarism and trying to claim it as your own.
Though a lot of people have forgotten about it and it's a FPS instead of action RPG, I think you could make a case for Turok having similarities to Horizon. The main character is part of a Native American tribe who is chosen to protect/save the world while battling dinosaurs (also aliens and robots etc). There's a sci-fi plot and villain. The 2nd and I believe 3rd game are even semi-open with a hub world and non-linear progression. The 3rd game you even get to choose between a male or female lead which was pretty uncommon for the time. There's upgradable weapons and etc too. Hell, throw in some towers to climb to reveal the map plus quest giving npcs and you've got a pretty solid base for a more modern open world game.
Toni
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MosquitoSmasher
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Yup that's true.
If they really were to make a Horizon Zero Dawn like game basically they would be making a game that has aspects of Tomb Raider, Zelda, Uncharted etc. Horizon borrows heavily from many games, it does it well though.
Boy, do I like the way this thread is going.
This is magical. He is way too familiar with that.
3rdamention
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Not even hiding it. First, Phil just had to have his own Uncharted, so he money hatted Tomb Raider...
Now, they need their own Horizon...
Now, they need their own Horizon...
Saucycarpdog
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They said Horizon, not BOTW.
MisterR
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Everybody on here takes turn taking shit. The whole week has been shitting on Sony about cross play. People just get defensive when it's their console of chose getting heat.
ScaryShark
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Outside of being 3rd person shooters, where exactly are the similarities?
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