Random: Killzone Superfans Want to License the IP from Sony

Hey their is creativity out there just look at Skyblivion and Fallout London

No harm in it, very much doubt that it would come to anything though

Im tired of horizon games.sony is milking the series worse than elsie the cow.wtf.killzone games are excellent.word up son

Doubt Sony would license it, but would be cool if publishers would start licensing out their game to passionate fans.would love a remake of part 2.

Killzone died for a reason. And what would be the point of licensing the IP without the game engine.

I'd be perfectly fine seeing it get licensed out. Judging by how some folks comment on it apparently the series was never popular anyway (even though it had six entries in the series) so what would they have to lose?

I would love to see stuff like this happen. Even if these projects were released under a "fan" umbrella or label, ensuring that Sony isn't held "responsible" for potentially sub-par products, it would allow passionate developers a chance work with an IP they love.

Edit: Even if Sony ultimately chose not to release whatever these folks work on, it would be a really cool opportunity to incubate novel ideas. Seed money, baby!

I really liked Killzone, and I think the world had more potential.
Hulst though he had Star Wars with Concord? He already had it with Killzone. The world could have lent itself to many different types of games.
However, everything comes to an end. The good part about this, is that eventually, we'll inevitably witness the death of Horizon, and then I can start paying attention to Guerrilla again.

They may license it to actual developers they deem suitable. They may just hire someone else to make a game. They may give someone a license to make merch,.

They won't giving the game development IP rights to some fanzine makers.

I also don't think Freedom Wars is a good example, since the game was developed by Dimps and published by Sony under an IP ownership deal. It's a bit different from a multi game franchise created and built by a studio you owned when they developed the games.

That could work, licensing is a way for companies like Sony to release old IPs as an AA product.

What would they do with the IP? I was assuming they'd make a new game, but they don't seem like game developers, so curious what they'll want to do. Unless they are game developers, then ok.

It's not like Sony have never let external devs work on their IP, but they will be very careful in their choice of partners. They're obviously protective of their IP, just like any other company. This appeal seems a little frivolous.

First time I see the term "fanzine", had to google it.

@Lup Fanzines were all the rage in the 80s and early 90s in many areas like games an anime but its rarely used now.

This is just a course that'll correct itself eventually. Sony's gone full 😺 and the whole industry is releasing these absolute toothless games. Horizon is fun, but it's so lame in terms of characters, world, grit.

People are already tired of these toothless games and Sony will come crawling back to Killzone when they can't make money on their clown games anymore

I'm sorry to whine a little bit but is anyone else getting frustrated with people acting like Horizon is some super extreme milked IP on the level of something like COD or Assassin's Creed? Like we've had 2 main games, small VR Game and now a Lego spinoff and remaster over the span of 7 bloody years people are acting like Sony is churning Horizon games out on a yearly assembly line and it's starting to get really disingenuous. Look if you don't like the series that's cool not everyone likes the same stuff but I'm getting really tired of people who don't like Horizon constantly having this attitude of "Well I don't like it therefore no one else is allowed to either"

Good luck. I hope their dreams become reality. 🤞

Could I do that with Concord then?
I promise to make it into an IP everyone will like

I don't think these guys are developers let alone has a lot of experience when comes to making games. So, probably the best they can do with the IP is either make a comic, novel, tabletop, or they hired an indie devs to make a 2D side scroller.

But good luck to them i guess.

@Keyblade-Dan Yeah it's really weird to see some people acting as if Horizon already has 20-30 games like AssCreed or CoD. What's more weird they want Guerilla to kill the franchise just because they don't like it. Gamers nowadays are so fking weird.

@Keyblade-Dan It really depends how you look at it i think. If you start counting at HZD on PS4 then its 7 years indeed, but starting at HFW gives a different picture. Since HFW in 2022 we got HFW, Burning Shores, the VR game, HZD remaster, Horizon LEGO, the PC port of HFW and on top of that the cancelled tv show, a mobile game in development, rumours of a console online game and the inevitable Horizon 3. All these things being covered in media, so i can understand some people are getting tired of hearing about Horizon.

I love the series though, so i dont mind more Horizon myself. Cant wait to replay HZD next week.

@PuppetMaster I did see a comic strip the other day that applies, basically some people aren't happy unless they insist on being openly negative about things other people like just for the sake of it.

It's one thing not to like something. It's another thing to make a critical comparison and have a healthy debate. It's another thing to wade into a comments section and tell everyone how much you dislike a game when the topic is about how good it looks now.

Some people need to go outside and touch some grass and take stock of their life choices.

It's scary what Sony 1st party studios have become. Naughty Dog might as well be renamed in Last of Us studio, Insomniac in Marvel, Guerilla in Horizon. I look forward to Ghost of Yotei, but really wish Sucker Punch would do something different after it.

@Keyblade-Dan You're definitely not alone in that, it's one of the more absurd recent developments on here, combined with completely fictitious alternative histories where certain older series were wildly successful and beloved.

People on here claim Horizon is being milked to death and we need more Killzone, when there were no less than 4 mainline entries and 2 handheld games in that franchise over a period of 9 years. There's so much stuff being said in comments on here that simply has no basis in reality.

Look, I liked Killzone, but is it really the beloved IP these fans are making it out to be?

@Dalamar I think making new IPs is way more of a gamble then you realize. Pretty sure the next Naughty dog game isn't about the last of us (something to do with space I think). But yeah some times, it's better for devs to stick to "their lane".

@AdamNovice Really? Sure it can, there has been so many Cods and assassins creeds that I can’t remember. How many killzone games ? or Resistance? When did we get the last Splinter Cell? Those were all games I enjoyed and miss…Bring back Killzone, I really miss good shooters

At the very least we should see remasters of 2 and 3 (and a remake in the case of the first game). I think most people would welcome the return of Killzone in some form

@Keyblade-Dan It confuses me as well. Especially when Killzone sold so soft in comparison to Horizon. Also, horizon is a an IP only seven years old and new IP is what a significant portion of the fanbase wants.

@Markatron84 Not at all. Entire series sold about ~9 million copies over seven games. Perfectly respectable but not enough to garner another game over horizon which hit ~30 million with just two games.

I‘ve never played a Killzone game, and the most recent discussion made me curious. So I ordered a used copy of Shadow Fall on eBay, should arrive tomorrow.

What are your experiences with that entry, what to expect?

@IamJT yeah, I always got the impression that Killzone was never a sales juggernaut. Good games but if you have one series that does ~9m across 7 games and another that does ~30m across 2, it's clear why Sony had Guerilla focus on Horizon.

@Max_the_German it was technically impressive at the time, but it was my least favourite in the series. Not that I remember much about any of the games anymore, it was so long ago.

@AdamNovice Can you say that about Horizon? I really think is a boring game anyway.

The saddest part is not even the franchise will probably never come back, but the PlayStation "fans" hating or saying the franchise doesn't need to come back.

Are you guys not tired of 95% of Playstation exclusives being generic open world Ubisoft like games? I miss when Playstation used to make different genres.

Now I get why people say PC is the way. More and better games.

@playstation1995 Horizon games are boring as hell. They are indeed beautiful games, but the story and the characters are freaking boring and forgettable.

@Keyblade-Dan Here Here!

@Vault_Mcfly I mean Sony has to follow the sales. I do think they need more variety but if a genre or series doesn’t sell then they pretty much have to follow the wider audience reception.

No good multiplayer games anymore so I hope it works out they should also sell licence for the socom franchise if they going to let it die not big fan of horizon bland acting and story looks good tho I guess that what people like nowadays

I'd love to see Killzone in VR. How about camouflage now that they've successfully revived batman Arkham in VR.

I don't see why Sony would harbor such a broad collection of IP and collect such a stable of development houses to then limit each of them to one, maybe two, games a generation. And generally keep them limited to a single IP, as well.

Let passionate teams pick and choose whatever they want from the collection. And license the IP out to 3rd parties who can work closely with Sony the way Nintendo does it.

Create those sorts of relationships and that strategy and it'd broaden the output quite a bit and deliver some bangers and reignite interest in various titles that otherwise don't see the light of day.

They seem to be SUPREMELY selective in recent years and it's like they would rather throw development costs to the wind and eating the costs instead of putting something out there that they don't think will set the world on fire. And while that's admirable, it's also not sustainable. It's okay to have some B tier releases every now and then that can turn a profit, even if they're not all-timers.

@Vault_Mcfly It couldn't hurt Sony to have slightly more variety, but it doesn't help your argument when you include such silly statements like 95% of Playstation exclusives being generic open world games. Looking at releases of the last 5-ish years, only 3 IPs could be counted in that category: Horizon, Spider-Man and Ghost of Tsushima.

This is up against a list that includes Ratchet & Clank, Gran Turismo, God of War, Astro Bot, Helldivers, The Last of Us and borderline first party titles like Demon's Souls and Returnal. The situation is clearly much better than the picture you're trying to paint, but I'll grant you that a good single player shooter would be welcome. I doubt that the answer is bringing back a franchise that had run its course, whose developer has moved on to vastly more successful things, however.

@Max_the_German I hate to say this since you've bought it, but I found it incredibly bland and boring. It felt like the game equivalent of the kind of action film you watch with friends while drinking, and you all end up ignoring the film and talking. That said, some people like it so hopefully you're one of them.