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Sony’s Horizon Netflix series is reportedly not moving forward

www.videogameschronicle.com Sony’s Horizon Netflix series is reportedly not moving forward | VGC

It’s unclear if it will progress with a different creative team…

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That's a shame... and also probably for the best.
- I can’t imagine they’d put the money behind it. It would either need to be game of thrones money, or you’d just see robots in the pilot and finale.
  
  "Run Aloy! I see the shadow of a T-rex on the horizon, if we hurry it will be 6 episode before it catches up!"
- The games are well written and any adaptation would be default be lesser.
  
  Ha. They have some of the most hackneyed dialogue of any Sony AAA game by a sizable margin. Well written they are not.
- Yeah my exact thoughts… so much potential there but it would never have gotten justice in that format/studio
Would have involved massive amounts of CGI for a story and plot that could have been done in any number of other ways. Loved the game, but probably not a fan of anything live action.
Horizon is like Sony’s test franchise. First Sony franchise on a Nintendo system (lego), the game they bundled with PS5s, the only first party game on VR2 right now (and bundled with that as well), one of the first games on PC, one of the biggest AAA titles to be thrown into the subscription service, and now it apparently had a TV series that just got canned…

Funny thing is that I doubt it actually has the kind of draw that Sony just assumes it does. They’re great games, but I’m not going to pay into new hardware or services just to get more of it.

Isn’t one of the new CEOs from Guerrilla Games?
I haven't played hfw yet but zd was essentially the same story as the surge, and I've seen the same plot in movies and books in the past too. Post apocalypse where the big bad is long dead and the people are just suffering the lasting consequences of the actions of the dead. Hella plot twist if it hadn't been done so many times. I'll still play hfw if it can ever get past the unskippable intro cutscene without crashing and needing to start over every time. Its the only game I have encountered that will crash to power off on steam deck with default confkguration.
- Yeah but this is true of 90% of movies and it's far from one of the most common tropes.
Sony couldn't get Nicocado for the acting roll it seems.
Who wanted a Horizon show?

The Horizon “franchise” is astro turfed to high hell.
- It's one of the best written games I've played.
  
  Even ignoring the actually rare setting and well done world building, Aloy's growth from kid out of her depth into the Savior of the planet, and how she reacts to primitive tribal cultures with beliefs she knows are outright laughable are really well done and really well executed. I'm more of a "play games for the mechanics" person and that's what originally got and kept me hooked, but the writing works well.
  
  I think the writing is fine and have some major notes tbh, but damn if the Operation: Enduring Victory reveal and summary discussion among the generals wasn’t jaw dropping. Aloy is a joy to watch too. Great dialogue sometimes, just overall a fun character.
  
  Horizon has good writing, but somehow all of it is in the lore and none of it in the actual story you play.
  
  and how she reacts to primitive tribal cultures with beliefs she knows are outright laughable are really well done and really well executed.
  
  This is the most annoying part of the writing for me, because it happens every other conversation. At that point just make her look directly at the camera and say "this guy, am I right, player? He's not like us, the civilized people" and get it over with
  
  Maybe because I played it after Witcher 3 but I ended up dropping the first game because I found the characters so dull, and side quests were especially lacking. Funny thing is I played BOTW afterwards and that hooked me despite worse graphics and much weaker story, but the gameplay and exploration I found so fun.
- In what way is it astroturfed?
  
  They don’t like it lol, simple as
  
  Sony keep on trying to make Horizon into a big franchise. No one ask for the Lego game, and they tried to make an show. Who still talks about Horizon outside of posts like this one? The answer is no one.
- No it isn't. I've played the first game thrice, the second twice, and genuinely adore both for a variety of reasons.
  
  Forbidden West is literally the only game I've bothered taking a week off work to play on launch, and then did it again on PC to play the DLC.
  
  There is nothing about Horizon which makes it's popularity unwarranted. The fans are real and there's tons of us.
  
  I'll admit the idea of a live action adaptation felt stupid, but after my parents got to experience the story of the The Last Of Us through the actually well executed adaptation, I was cautiosly ready to wait and see if they might not pull of a decent adaptation of Zero Dawn for them to watch, too.
  
  Hearing of its cancellation is no great loss though.

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