Horizon Steel Frontiers announced - MMORPG from NCSOFT for iOS, Android and PC
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mayham2199
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This looks great. Just surprised it's not on PS5.
Dorfdad
Gold Member
That's clearly pc footage. No mobile slip look that good and frame pacing was smooth. I'd like to see it in mobile first
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
That gameplay trailer actually looks surprisingly good.
mayham2199
Member
If this does really well I don't see any reason they wont bring it to console.
Plague Doctor
Member
Can we.. can we have Korean versions of all western properties?
I have seen the light. Korean versions are where it's at now.
I have seen the light. Korean versions are where it's at now.
AmuroChan
Member
It's free money for them. They license out the IP to a 3rd party who has experience making mobile games. PS has wanted to venture into the mobile space for a while now. They've failed at trying to do it themselves. So this path makes way more sense business wise. It doesn't waste any internal 1st party resources.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Remember when Xbox was releasing games first on PC than their own consoles?... I 'member...
Sorry Phil, you were right all this time
Sorry Phil, you were right all this time
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Combining two of GAF's favorites.
Horizon and AI art / code generation.
m.ruliweb.com
Horizon and AI art / code generation.
[지스타] 호라이즌 MMO 등 신작 공개, 새로운 행보를 알리다 - 엔씨소프트 지스타 2025 오프닝 세션
엔씨소프트가 지스타 2023 메인 스폰서로서 신작 신더시티 아이온 2 호라이즌 스틸 프론티어스 등 다양한 라인업을 선보였다 특히 호라이즌 스틸 프론티어스 는 이전 프로젝트 스카이라인에서 ai npc 도입 계획을 밝혔으며 실제 게임 내 ai 활용도를 높였다 아이온 2 는 출시가 임박했으며 호라이즌 스틸 프론티어스 는 2027년 초 출시를 목표로 하고 있다 엔씨는 앞으로도 글로벌 스탠다드를 기준으로 비즈니스 모델을 구축할 계획이다
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delishcaek
Member
Purple is a launcher like Steam, guys, you can buy all kinds of games on Purple (Sony has been selling their games like Spider-Man, Ratchet and Horizon on there for quite some time now). Stop with the "emulator like bluestacks" bs.
This game will have a native PC version, just like Genshin, WuWa, Arknights or any other cross platform game.
This game will have a native PC version, just like Genshin, WuWa, Arknights or any other cross platform game.
Gambit2483
Member
Ugh...so this is basically Horizon Hunter? Need to see more but at least it's not that rumored Chibi crap
Hero_Select
Member
Purple launcher isn't like Steam. It's NCSofts emulator for mobile games.
Trekinspace88
Member
The game is now confirmed to be using AI. '
Internally, we are also using AI assistance for production, from coding to art.
It is being substantially implemented in actual development, and the technologies will likely be revealed one by one later. The Horizon development team is also the team that wants to utilize AI the most. We are using it extensively, and you will be able to see the level of AI utilization increase significantly in the games released after Aion 2.'
https://m.ruliweb.com/news/read/217907
No wonder all the characters in the game look crap as they are all designed by an AI rather than a real human artist. Just another lazy dev who isn't interested in putting in real work into their games.
Internally, we are also using AI assistance for production, from coding to art.
It is being substantially implemented in actual development, and the technologies will likely be revealed one by one later. The Horizon development team is also the team that wants to utilize AI the most. We are using it extensively, and you will be able to see the level of AI utilization increase significantly in the games released after Aion 2.'
https://m.ruliweb.com/news/read/217907
No wonder all the characters in the game look crap as they are all designed by an AI rather than a real human artist. Just another lazy dev who isn't interested in putting in real work into their games.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
A Horizon 3 game would sell a minimum of 10 million copies though.
delishcaek
Member
Ah, so the Purple versions of Spider-Man 1 and 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Rift Apart, Guild Wars 2 and Throne and Liberty are all emulated mobile versions. Alright! Gotcha. I guess I must've missed Sony's move to release games on Android now.
Purple has outgrown its "It's just an emulator for Lineage W" stage since last year when NCSoft rebranded it to become a "comprehensive gaming platform" (there is even a PR for that). It's a launcher just like Steam, Battle.net, Origin or Uplay (or any other launcher). It emulates some games that are only available on mobile, that's it.
kevboard
Member
Purple is literally an emulator lol.
most of the big mobile publishers have their own android emulators on the market.
some bundle them with game installs as to making the install and gameplay process feel almost like native PC apps... almost
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CentralScrutinizer
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I don't think that is a given. But it's okay that we disagree. Not gonna argue over it.
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Hero_Select
Member
Those games already have native PC ports and aren't available on mobile, I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
Hugare
Gold Member
How tf are they going to make it playable on Android?
If the mobile version is that Fortnite looking version that leaked ages ago, I swear to God lol
mayham2199
Member
I think what he's trying to say is that just because the game is on the purple store doesn't mean it's being emulated and it just might be a PC port. I have no idea if he's right or not.
delishcaek
Member
I am saying that Purple nowadays is not just an emulator. It is a regular launcher that launches PC games. It also launches mobile games with an emulator, yes, but most of the mobile games on Purple still have a dedicated PC version.
People have thrown "Bluestacks" around in this thread and Purple is not that.
Some people in this thread are 100% sure this will be a mobile version emulated to run on PC just because "it's Purple".
M mayham2199 yes, this is what I mean.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
You might be confusing it with other Horizon MP title which is in the works at Guerilla.
So that's why the NCsoft game didn't look like that early leak from Horizon's MP we saw years ago:
Doesn't make much sense to make 2 MP projects from that saga in a row but we'll see
Doesn't make much sense to make 2 MP projects from that saga in a row but we'll see
Neofire
Member
Did Sony outsource this? Kinda crazy that Sony's own platform doesn't get the game but PC does. Not a good look imo.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
NC Soft with a mobile port? Yeah I'm not going anywhere near this micro transaction hell.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Yeah, especially since neither one of us can prove our opinion. At this point it's going to depend if these Horizon multiplayer games make the IP better or worse.
LectureMaster
Has Man Musk
Damn, so fucking pleasing. Even Horizon can have aesthetic feels.
You just have got to trust Koreans.
You just have got to trust Koreans.
Hugare
Gold Member
You might be confusing it with other Horizon MP title which is in the works at Guerilla.
So that's why the NCsoft game didn't look like that early leak from Horizon's MP we saw years ago:
Doesn't make much sense to make 2 MP projects from that saga in a row but we'll see
Why even bother making 2 Horizon MP games?
CentralScrutinizer
Member
One for the gooners (the one that will succeed) and one for the journalists to fluff up (and will fail).
Why even bother making 2 Horizon MP games?
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
If I had to guess, this one is aimed at Asia and mobile markets, and the the Guerilla in-house one is more western and for console/PC markets.
Why even bother making 2 Horizon MP games?
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Angry_Megalodon
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It's unbelievable that the one for PS5 looks like saturday morning bullshit while the other looks decent.
There is no room for one more retard at SIE.
There is no room for one more retard at SIE.
Hugare
Gold Member
2 Horizon online games and not even one TLOU extraction game
Sony is lucky that MS execs are even dumber
nial
Member
Incoming long, over-explanatory, and very specific post that I do think is needed because people still get confused with this:
Hermen Hulst went from being president of PlayStation Studios (reporting to previous president and CEO of SIE, Jim Ryan) to CEO of Studio Business Group in June 2024 (reporting to previous SIE chairman, Hiroki Totoki), a role that he still has (only now reporting to current president and CEO of SIE, Hideaki Nishino), meaning that he keeps the same higher salary compared to his old one.
Hideaki Nishino went from being president of Platform Experience Group (reporting to previous president and CEO of SIE, Jim Ryan) to CEO of Platform Business Group in June 2024 (reporting to previous SIE chairman, Hiroki Totoki), to president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment in April 2025 (reporting to the executive management staff at Sony Group), meaning that he now has a higher salary compared to his old one that was even higher to the one when he used to report to Jim Ryan.
It's not that Hermen Hulst got demoted (he literally now has a higher salary compared to the rest of the SVPs at SIE that were also reporting to Jim Ryan), it's just that Hideaki Nishino got further promoted.
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AmuroChan
Member
Not outsourced. NCSoft is licensing the IP. They're publishing and developing the game. So Sony has little to no involvement at all other then collecting the license fee.
Hero_Select
Member
"Horizon Steel Frontiers is a full-fledged MMORPG that NCSoft has built specifically for mobile," Jan-Bart van Beek, studio director at PlayStation's Guerilla Games, says in the video.
Sevyne
Member
You haven't been keeping up at all with mobile advancements have you? Visually this game is not at all surprising to those of us who know what phones are capable of these days. Even my outdated Oneplus 12 can probably run this game smoothly.
Hell, I can play most of my Steam library on my phone, and that's natively, not streaming.
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Plague Doctor
Member
We should use the technical term for gooners.
General Audiences.
Marketing 101: Attractiveness sells. Always has and always will. It's what all industries in entertainment knew until roughly 2015 before they decided to reinvent the wheel going for that "modern audience".
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Fake
Member
Korean will save gaming.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
So this is the version Sony is making?
Absolutely hilarious. Just fucking resign.
Absolutely hilarious. Just fucking resign.
Radical_3d
Member
This whole shit is so Hermen Hulst I don't even know where to begin.
Fake
Member
So this is the version Sony is making?
Yes, from California right to your home console.
The mobile version are from Korean devs.
Trogdor1123
Member
Phones have come a crazy long way in the last few years. The hardware is overkill most of the time.
I wonder if it will come to Apple TVs so you can use a ps5 controller to play?
Generic
Member
Koreans first need to ditch their MMORPG game design.
AmuroChan
Member
GG is in Amsterdam, which is interesting because I've been there and I can confirm women there do not look like that.
delishcaek
Member
I don't see this as confirmation for "will run on an emulator on PC", but I guess we'll see.
Fake
Member
I'm talking about SEI, because those GaaS got co-op between a bunch of studios, including Bend Studios.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Angry_Megalodon
Member
That thing on the right... jesus... I dont want to even speculate what the fuck that is. You need to be mentally ill to put that in a videogame. The comparisons are painful.
Gambit2483
Member
Idk...you'd think he would at least put it on a PS platform but, mobile only? No one on mobile gives a shit about this franchise.This whole shit is so Hermen Hulst I don't even know where to begin.