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Should They?

Yes 268 48.20%
 
No 288 51.80%
 
Total:556
Serious_frusting said:
They just need to go full all out sci-fi with Killzone.

I like Killzone. They should do an invasion where the helghan have found aliens and the war really goes to outerspace.


Or maybe start a civil war/revolution.

From what I understand, Vecta/Helghan was a colony. If the Helghast could successfully defeat the ISA, other rebellions could have started.

 

Sort of copying Code Geass would be cool. With 2 factions that are ultimately self centered, and the people caught in between, actually fighting, fighting for sympathetic ideals.



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I think they should try something different aswell. The franchise doesnt seem to be very popular. It actually seems to be decreasing in popularity.



sales2099 said:

To play devils advocate, and I seriously am being honest here, it shouldn't be scrapped.....but dialed down. It should not be marketed as a AAA FPS.

To use Halo as an example, and only because it is my favorite sci-fi FPS, and not because its the rivals sci-fi FPS, there are clear differences why Killzone just falls flat. For one thing, the lore is sloppy at best. Most of the time, you fight for a a side that the players don't care about whether they win or lose, or the ideals they have. The Helghast by comparison are more interesting on a aesthetics and ideological standpoint......yet you are killing them most of the time. In Halo, Master Chief is different in appearance. Badass looking, different from the others, but still Human, fighting for a noble cause while still following orders.

In Halo, you fight for humanitys survival, and with Halo 4 going forward, humanity's rightful place in the galaxy. In Killzone......you fight a pointless human on mutated-human (?) conflict with snowballing petty squabbles being the main focus. Wheres Earth in all this? Just Vekta and Helghan? If this is a war.....gimme a REAL war, spanning dozens of star systems. Granted my knowledge of KZ lore is spotty at best, I may be wrong with specifics but Im sure my general point is coming across here.

The series just screams "COD with scifi". Now when I say that, I mean its like COD players, where they buy it for the multiplayer and ignore the bare-bones campaign.

I can't comment on MP, because that is KZ's strong suit as I am told, but as far as campaign/lore goes, it leaves a ton to be desired from a fellow sci-fi junkie. Bash Halo all you want, but they got the lore down to a T.

KZ sells well enough to warrant sequels, but it definitely shouldn't be AAA anymore, if reviews are anything to go by.

Some great points I agree with. I've never enjoyed the "good" characters in KZ. Personalities range from lifeless to terrible. Then, on every KZ advertisement, for some reason the only thing shown is the helghast. 

Multiplayer (in kz3) is fantastic--only fps multi I've ever been able to enjoy. The campaign, though--at least the story, cutscenes, dialogue, characters, and character development (i.e. Everything other than the gameplay)--is very poorly done. 



They should put it to rest for awhile like GoW IMO and create something new, yes. I also think that about Uncharted.



I don't understand the reviews... I don't understand the hate... I love the Killzone franchise and Shadow Fall does not disappoint. Beautiful looking! WARZONE is awesome multiplayer fun! It is a better shooter than COD. GG knows there shit!!!!



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Why would Sony give up on one of its best franchises? Except the first one, all Killzone titles are great shooters. Whether or not it's better than Halo, it is a matter of personal opinion (i prefer Halo, but i highly appreciate Killzone as well). On a commercial standpoint, i don't see a point either; i may be wrong, but i think Killzone is profitable.



Haven't played Shadow Fall, but Killzone 2 and 3 are fun games that feels in my opinion more realistic and the storyline as a franchise is just better than CoD/BF.



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I don't know about Shadowfall, but Killzone 2 and Mercenary are game design lesson in themself. Excellent games too.

If Killzone should day, Call of, Battlefield, could go by the window too.



Fuck people are really overreacting about this whole metacritic "debacle" first ps3-sales, Aldro, now you.

If Sony are still thinking that it will be the halo-killer then yes, they should drop it. If we are going only by review scores on metacritic then lol. After one game gets a 73 average we should drop the franchise? That's fucking crazy talk :D

Overall no, they should not, it's a franchise that averages around 2,5 million in sales, that's pretty big for Sony IPs. Shadow Fall looks like it will be the best selling entry, of course inflated by being a launch title but still doesn't change the fact. Plus Guerrilla is already working on another IP, they have 2 teams now, one should work on KZ the other on a new IP.

I haven't played SF yet, but for me personally I hope they won't. I like the setting, design, conflict and gameplay mechanics are easily my favourite for FPS shooter judging by KZ3 & and slightly lesser extent KZ2. Hope they didn't change it much for SF. I don't like the fact the they have gone for a more open mission structure, I would like it to stay linear.
If they would drop KZ, no big deal for me, just be sure to keep the shooting mechanics in your next game and I'll be there. If they would do a WW2 shooter though (empty market now, since CoD is not going back to WW2 anytime soon, and MoH being dead) drop KZ in a heartbeat.



So it is happening...PS4 preorder.

Greatness Awaits!

Killzone's multiplayer is more fun to me than COD and it is right up there with Battlefields. Take out the few platforming sections and awkward falling controls and the game score shoots up.

Give up not hardly.