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Horizon Zero Dawn MMO Reportedly Cancelled - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.21.25
Tue, 21 Jan 2025
Go to http://shadyrays.com and use code FUNNY to get 35% off polarized sunglasses. Go to http://rocketmoney.com/kindafunny to cancel your unwanted subscriptions with Rocket Money. Horizon’s MMO has been seemingly cancelled, Bend Studio’s still planning on making cool games, and how tariffs could affect video game prices. Thank You For The Support! Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping Today after, KFGD, you’ll get: GAMESCAST - Tim’s Nintendo Switch 2 predictions The STREAM is Bless playing Eternal Strands then Mike playing Kingdom Hearts If you’re a Kinda Funny Member: You can get today’s Gregway And you can get Kinda Funny Podcast this afternoon, and tomorrow on YouTube and Podcast services. Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Delaney Twining & Karl Jacobs The Roper Report - - NCSoft’s Horizon MMORPG has seemingly been cancelled - Jordan Middler @ VGC - Bend Studio Dev Says 'We Still Plan on Creating Cool S**t' After Sony Live Service Cancelation - Wesley Yin-Poole @ IGN - Ad - Mexico tariff could lead to ‘fewer physical game releases and increased software prices’ - Tom Ivan @ VGC - Marvel Snap is back! - Microsoft has announced a new special edition Xbox controller - Wee News! - SuperChats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened to Horizon's MMO?
Joy-Con. My little Joy-Con mouse. Can't wait for that. Can't wait for that. I'm sure it's going to be very accurate. You can play Counter-Strike on that thing. It's going to be very accurate.
I cannot wait for it. You won't even... I mean, I'm sure... Obviously, Nintendo will make it Bluetooth eventually. You'll be able to use it right there. You won't even need that. Oh, yeah.
No, for sure. I'm going to be scrolling through my PC with my Joy-Cons. Yeah. Clicking on the right bumper.
Yeah. It'd be great. Where are you right now with your Switch hype? Of course, you've done one half of the games cast duo where yesterday you predicted your first year for the Nintendo Switch. Today, Timothy steps up to do it.
I'm excited. Honestly, I think Tim's predictions might get me more excited. I'm, of course, like in a perpetual state of, wow, I'm very much looking forward to the next Switch thing. It's been years and years of being like, man, we kind of need a new Switch because these games are starting to look a bit stale, starting to look a bit old. They still play great because it's Nintendo, right?
But, like, there's a level of, like, I look at these... Visual fidelity. Yeah, I look at the visual fidelity. I look at these assets. I look at these characters, and I'm like, ooh, I don't like the jaggies. I don't like how rough some of these environments look. I play Pokemon Scarlet, and I'm like, why does it look like this? Like, what are we doing here?
And so I've always been excited for it, but I will say I don't think the Switch 2 hardware reveal got me...
more excited necessarily i think for me it will be software driven like we got to get to that nintendo direct to let us know what the software is going to be because i think sure enough we're going to get one or two or three things that make us go oh snap i can't wait for that right we're going to get a 3d mario we're going to see more of mario kart and i'm sure we'll get one more thing that's like oh man like i can't like those are the big ones like metroid prime 4 probably right yeah but then we're going to get a bunch of weird shit that we have no idea what to make of
Like we're going to get the arms. We're going to get the snipper clips. Like we're going to get the one to switch. Like we're going to get the weird ass games that make us go, oh, that's weird. I guess we'll see. Like, and that's the thing that excites me, right? Like I think nobody does a, I think a year one launch slate like Nintendo when it comes to embracing the weirdness of their platform.
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Chapter 2: What are Bend Studio's future plans?
They want more space between that. They want to get more juice from it. I wouldn't be surprised, because it is Nintendo, if they made a big deal about... Animal Crossing getting an update for Switch 2. See that?
I can see. Yeah, right? Yeah, that'll be pretty cool.
We heard you guys, you wanted more content, so we are doing this thing while we continue hard at work on the next Animal Crossing or something like that.
To switch gears from Nintendo to wrestling. Have you been watching Raw week to week now that it's on Netflix?
I've still mainly been doing the social media clips the way I do. Because, again, it's ruined, right? Let's just kick it up, right? We've had three Raws on Netflix. Raw number one, of course. We came here. We watched it with you. Thank you for hanging out. Loved it. Raw number two. What was it? Last week, Monday night. Yeah. What did I fucking have in my car on the way home? Paris fucking Lily.
Oh. Just yak, yak, yakking. It's like, I don't need to hear about Danny Pena anymore. All right, I get it. That's all he talks about is Danny Pena. Can't get enough of him. He's your fucking friend. I get it. But it was... We were shooting the shit, having a great time, chopping it up on the way. So... I don't drive distracted, but my plan has always been with raw Netflix. Oh, fucking awesome.
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Chapter 3: How could tariffs affect video game prices?
But I put it in my mount and I just have it play. Oh, I mean, it's going to be playing, but I don't watch. You know what I mean? It's not so much about the moves as much as the promos, right? Yeah. Because usually what I do on the way home is every red light, refresh Twitter, refresh TikTok for WWE.
How many of those red lights are like, they go green and you're just sitting there? What are you saying?
Hey, I do a fucking goddamn... I do a podcast from my car every day. And how many times have I been rear-ended or in a car accident? Not that many. It's fair. You can't justify it. You can't find it. Anyways, Paris was in the car last week. And then yesterday, MLK Day, Ben was off school. We all stayed home with Ben. So even 5 o'clock rolled around. What happened inevitably?
I'm getting him set up for dinner, but I'm scrolling on Twitter. And then I start seeing it. And for me, wrestling is... one of the few things in my life that once it's spoiled, I don't want to watch the match. You know what I mean? Like if I know how it's going to end or all, you know, Nia Jax is going to attack Rhea here. It's like, okay, well, I don't want to watch that segment.
So once I start seeing all of Raw fall apart in real time live, it's like, all right, well, I got it. If there is a big thing to go back and watch, I can, but I instead will play video games and Jen watches some murderino shows, usually how it goes.
For me, it was for the second week in a row. I've done the thing where I put up raw. I'm like in my living room, in my living room. I mean, I have my coffee table and like raws on the TV going for two and a half hours. And during that entire time I have magic cards in front of me and I'm organizing and like Michael Haim came out last night and he like saw me and he was like,
damn bro like this guy this guy's locked in and i'm like dude it's a problem because i'm having like when i tell you i'm having the time of my life just playing with my magic cards and having raw up on the tv like seeing these promos and then like yeah the wrestling's happening and i'm like i don't give a fuck about the wrestling when i'm watching wrestling and so i'm like locked in looking at my cards thinking about like re-sleeving certain things because like oh it's a green deck so i should get a green sleeve i'm living my best life you're talking about like the daydream for me that i don't think is far off hopefully knock on wood next week
I listen in on Raw on the way home for that, you know, drive there, right? Then I get there, I'm in dad mode where I'm not really on my phone, right? And then, you know, put my time in with the wife and then I go downstairs and yeah, I'm playing on Portal or on Steam Deck. I'm playing a great game on Steam Deck right now. Playing a game on Steam Deck, playing a couple great games on PlayStation.
I started last night too. I want to talk to you about one of them. Yeah. Anyways. I mean, I want to talk to you about them all, you know, playing these games. And then, yeah, Raw's on the TV, right? And so it is that, like, I'm checking in, doing whatever. Pause, catch the thing. Because I did that the Friday night. I finally watched George A. Romero's Resident Evil. Oh, how was that? It was good.
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Chapter 4: What are the predictions for Nintendo Switch 2?
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Amazing!
Oh. I wasn't prepared for the super fast one. Good job. Number one, NC Soft's Horizon MMORPG has seemingly been canceled. This is the one, the only, the bald one, Jordan Midler at VGC. Super Chat, I need to know on youtube.com slash kindoffunnygames where you can write in with your Super Chats to possibly be part of the show. Would you have wanted a Horizon MMO and why or why not?
An MMORPG based on the Horizon series has reportedly been cancelled. According to South Korean site MTN News, publisher NCSoft has cancelled projects being worked on at three studios codenamed H, J, and Pantera. Ooh, I don't want to be on Pantera. You don't like Pantera? I'm saying, if I had to be on one of these codenamed projects, I want to be on Pantera. Oh, I see.
I'm on Project H. I'm on Project Pantera.
They got me on Pantera. Like, oh, you got you on Pantera? Yeah, man. Can't wait for the aliens.
Although the story doesn't give further information on the projects, it's been reported for some time that Project H was the codename for an MMORPG based on Sony's Horizon franchise. Now, according to the report, it seems Project H has ceased development with developers previously tied to the project leaving NCSoft.
It's reported that developers who didn't leave following the cancellation have been moved to different projects across the company. The company signed a strategic global business partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2023, following reports that Sony and NCSoft had struck a deal to create an MMORPG based on Sony's franchise.
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Chapter 5: Why is there excitement for the next Switch?
Would you have wanted a Horizon MMO? To the Super Chat question?
Oh. No. I would have been excited to see what this looks like. I... From... From the outside, hearing about it, being a PlayStation guy, liking Horizon, I would be interested to see what you do with that to make that unique and cool and whatever. I'd be super interested to see what a, even though it's not strictly them, an MMO from PlayStation looks like. How do you do a PlayStation 2025?
How do you do an MMO in 2025?
I know we talked about God of War a few KFG's ago and about how, like, nobody wants a live service God of War thing. Yeah. I would prefer a God of War MMO than a Horizon MMO. Really? I think there's something... At least, I think that world is interesting.
Yeah, like, their version of North mythology. See, I think all of these... The things that are similar here, I think these worlds are interesting through the eyes of the protagonist. Through the eyes of Aloy, through the eyes of Kratos slash Atreus or whatever. Like, I don't... Like... Take away Atreus and Kratos. I don't really want to wander around that world and get missions from fucking Thor.
Yeah, exactly. Whatever. And run off and do the other thing and not have powers or get powers or whatever. This is an interesting thread to pull on because I choke up. Joe writes in and says, Horizon has released two games and a Lego spinoff. We get a new Yakuza every year. I love Horizon, but balking at it being too present feels wrong.
My interesting argument, I love to get into it, and I respect you, Joe. My counter argument is, every time there's a new Yakuza game, Roger freaks out. People online freak out. That is a fan base that is saying, give us as much as possible. Give us more, give us more, give us more, give us more. Whereas Horizon feels,
When we're talking about a Lego game, when we're talking about a TV show, when we're talking about all these different things, that feels so manufactured. That feels like PlayStation telling us, oh, we've heard you. You want more. And I'm like, but have we? Have the masses been saying they want more? I want more of the core game. I want to finish the trilogy.
I want to see where we're going with this. But I'm not sitting there going, oh, man, I can't wait for just anything Horizon. Yeah, I agree with that. Okay, fine. Good enough. That was fun. I mean, Street Shadows coming with a very similar one. There have been three Horizon games released so far. There's a perceived notion that it's too much. What about Mario?
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