I think Sony owns SOCOM IP so if they wanted to revive it, they could.
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Guerrilla Games next project to feature multiplayer, tournaments, clans - Likely a second project
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I think Sony owns SOCOM IP so if they wanted to revive it, they could.
You could just make it dedicated missions where you join a lobby in a village, and then you collectively set off to hunt a pair of super-powerful Thunderjaws or something!
I mean, the IP belongs to Sony, so if they wanted to make a new Socom I'm sure they would be allowed. Especially given the studio head (Herman Hulst) is also like vice president of WWS, if I recall correctly.
Tell me about it. :(((( That makes me sad. The fun i had with T-hunt in Vegas 1 and 2 is unmatched.
The problem with KZ3 is they moved the gameplay to get in line with CoD, but left behind the MP stuff that made KZ2 so amazing. IT still hurts to this day the changes that they made. Resistance 3 did the same thing as well; instead of building on what the game did so well, they all moved to be more globally viable as CoD flourished.
Hopefully, now that CoD isn't the end-all and be-all, they can move back towards what made KZ2 so special. I would pay good money to have custom servers and the build in clan tournaments again. Our clan would be all over this..
Really enjoyed the multiplayer in Killzone 2 and 3, so I'm hyped to see what they are working on. Also wouldnt mind a horizon 2 but please less of the "Witcher Sense" use in quests cus man some were dull imo 😅
Please don't be Killzone. I really don't think the Killzone name does them any favours at this point.
would be interesting to see a big multi-player focused IP from sony. their catalog is leaning way too heavily towards single player games.
Though not necessarily multiplayer focused (seperate teams working on each aspect of the game), I think TLOU2's multiplayer will be very big. Probably the biggest of any Sony exclusive up to that point.
Killzone 3 felt different from Killzone 2, I agree. But it still was vastly different from CoD. I liked KZ3 Multiplayer more than 2's. But 2 is still amazing. I also loved online in Shadow Fall, but it lacked the grittyness of the older Killzone games.
And I guess you mean Resistance 2 because it lacked the weapon wheel? It still had the best multiplayer of any Resistance game. Both versus- and coop-modes were amazing in that one.
That could be cool. Like a much more refined version of AC Unity's co-op mixed with Monster Hunter.
I reallllly reallllllly realllllllllllly am praying somehow this is a new SOCOM or a true spiritual successor to the originals. Fuck I miss socom so much, I really don't want anything else.
I'm not gonna argue the latter but
What do you want out of your multiplayer games to avoid being 'repetitive'.
Can you name any multiplayer games that aren't repetitive
Well, battle royale set in the world of Horizon would be kinda interesting.
Landing on a map that is fully populated with all the robots, needing to stealth/fight against hostile robots while handling all the human players. T-Rex rampaging through last few circles, seeing robot birds attacking distant players, hacking a robo-horse for faster travel... Plus, Horizon weapon set has nice traps which were so far underutilized in battle royale games.
And maybe the match goal would not be to be last survivor, but the person who hunts down the big dino boss in the last few circles. Heck, they could even remove PvP damage throughout the entire match, and just overwhelm the players with hostile robots. That would be a nice twist. Server-wide coop royale.
Landing on a map that is fully populated with all the robots, needing to stealth/fight against hostile robots while handling all the human players. T-Rex rampaging through last few circles, seeing robot birds attacking distant players, hacking a robo-horse for faster travel... Plus, Horizon weapon set has nice traps which were so far underutilized in battle royale games.
And maybe the match goal would not be to be last survivor, but the person who hunts down the big dino boss in the last few circles. Heck, they could even remove PvP damage throughout the entire match, and just overwhelm the players with hostile robots. That would be a nice twist. Server-wide coop royale.
In regards to Resistance 2:
Correct, if they kept the weapon wheel of RFoM and added into it everything they did for R2, it would have been even better! I was one of the rare ones that pulled 10k kills and a plat trophy for R2! I also helped run a clan that pretty much dominated the game (used to get hate message on GAF, lol) because we would load in with a full party of 20 and just go crazy. I loved the variable map sizes ans the subtle weapon changes they made for it.
In regards to KZ3:
The tweaks they made to the core of KZ MP in KZ3 was to attract some of the CoD crowd over by making it much quicker paced, but also making the parties/clans smaller and removing all the server customization. There was nothing better than grabbing 16 clanmates in KZ2 and crashing another clans custom server and beating the at their own game. The mp maps were also much better in KZ2 and the bots and turrets felt useful, where they toned those down in KZ3 and move towards more straight CoD gun-play. Unfortunately, with Shadowfall being a Launch title it lacked the large player base and I didn't jump into the PS4 until tax return season after launch, so the community had already moved on in those 4 months. I did try to play some, but it wasnt the same playing without clanmates/friends
jump aboard the hype train, lol.
Sony's released a handful of games on PC, but this below has me doubt that pretty hard this won't be on PC as well.
Honestly, it's just the nature of the beast with solely Competitive MP games. Games that mix Cooperative and Competitive MP tends to have vastly less repetition in maps, game modes, and approaches to play. (and I'd argue cooperative MP games have less toxicity) But I could look past the repetitive nature if it weren't for the souless drive to monetization from above (The pubs and devs) and the toxicity from below (the racist sexist tendencies of significant portion of the playerbase). Some of you may look past all these issues for solely competitive MP games, and to each their own.
Btw, not singling out GG here. I feel this way despite the best intentions (and the less than good intentions) of all devs who go this route.
Hell yeah, make it like that infamous faked trailer lol but seriously I'd be hyped as hell for kz2 remake.
Those were special cases, we're talking about an AAA game from a first party studio.