Open-World RPG 'Honor Of Kings: World' Looks To Fuse 'Monster Hunter' With 'Zelda: Breath Of The Wild'

Got Excited at the title, clicked the article. At least thank you for mentioning TenCent right at the start of the article. Saved me time from reading it any further.

TenCent = Avoid like the plague!

It looks nice, i will buy it if it will be a paid game. But i will not go near the game if it will something like genshin impact. F2p games don’t interest me.

I'm still waiting for Genshin Impact on the Switch. Have to expect this will be the case for this game too.

I don’t buy monster hunter esque games

Looks gorgeous from the screens, just a shame about the Tencent thing. I still have a large backlog of unplayed games anyway at least.

Amazing!!!
Will not be getting this for switch tho.
Right now i collect all my games for the deck, so for now PC it is lol. Till my deck arrives.

@Zuljaras : Giratina too from the looks of the trailer.

I wonder what their bootleg mascot will look like. Probably an electric rodent of some description.

Looks good, never see it arriving on switch……….maybe cloud.

Looking at this again, the "gameplay" shown in the trailer isn't actual gameplay. It's pre-rendered, controlled animations in a contained space made to trick people viewing into thinking they have something of this quality.

I've seen it so many times before and the end result never looks anything like this because realistically most game just don't actually flow that well by nature of the format. Smoke and mirrors if you will to make the company look more appealing to investors so it'll be interesting to see the differences when this supposedly gets closer to release.

TiMi Studio Group (behind this) haven't made a PC game since 2013. This'll be a CyberPunk situation but worse because the Studio has no credibility to believe they could feasibly make something of this caliber.

Looks too good for the Switch, if it ever arrives I doubt it will be with the same quality and performance seen in the trailer.

You had me until TenCent

Thumbnail looked cool. Then I watched the trailer. Another grossly over the top fantasy game. I wish there were more games that kept it a little less out there. But I guess I am a minority.

Put some Wah Wah comments about Tencent games here.

Let's be honest the switch can't handle that

Tencent seems pretty awful based on what I've just read about them. Liu Cixin being involved as a writer (well, "collaborator") is probably the most exciting part of this, though. If it's really like Monster Hunter meets BOTW, with a Hugo Award winning science fiction author at the helm, then it seems hard to ignore in terms of pure ambition and scope, regardless of which execrable company is involved.

@YusseiWarrior3000 why am I joking? The switch can't handle tales of Arise or scarlet nexus and this game looks better graphically, also probably why genshin hasn't come to switch yet either.

Looks pretty but I would have to hear how it is dubbed.

Switch can’t handle this game, I am pretty sure. Either way no loss as seeing Tencent being mentioned here.

Tencent game = no buy

@UltimateOtaku91 genshin hasn’t come to Switch because they are “working” on it as they speak.

Which means cloud version, I am guessing.

I am already against Genshin Impact but I ain’t gonna play it even if it is native on Switch

At this point, I believe Genshin for the Switch has already been shelved. I doubt that this game will come to the system but who knows.

@Octane_st1m no it’s gonna be a cloud version

@YusseiWarrior3000 it won’t at all. This looks really graphically intense. I don’t think Switch can handle it. Unless they do a cloud version of the game

How is Genshin Impact similar to this? Genshin Impact has animated visuals while this has more realistic visuals

@anoyonmus Oh alright, didn't see any info yet regarding that one. Doesn't really make sense to have it on the cloud since its on mobile anyway. Business-wise it would be better to just shelve it for Switch. Servers cost money and the game is f2p. The market share on the Switch will be extremely low as a lot of other players are already invested in other platforms.

EDIT: If you meant the new game then it would make sense, I was referring to Genshin on my comment above btw.

@Octane_st1m no I am talking about Genshin. It might be a cloud version, who knows.

Or it’s just like Doom Eternal where we get ZERO information for like several months

@YusseiWarrior3000 yeah it will handle it.

As a cloud version

I know when I've seen a game made for playstation/xbox, not the Switch.

korean and chinese devs always put so many special effects in games that i'm very fast bored. Looks crafted well but soo boring at the same time.

Yeah they shouldn’t even attempt to bring that to the “current” switch.

this game look like something we can only expect on the Switch sucessor and ewww Tecent.

@Jeronan I wish i could avoid Tencent, but they're like a plague, just everywhere, ruining everything..can we even escape?

3 Body Problem is fantastic. Will probably play for the writer alone, I never imagined he’d write a game story.

@Kyranosaurus wow, company's actually do that?

Genshin 2.0...for switch..yeah

@BirdBoy16 Very much so. While Western devs have to be extremely careful to get away with things like that with some cautiously organised wording (or hoping people don't read at all), I can't tell you if it's just as strict for China or not.

My only guess is "no, it's not" as at no point in the trailer can I see any small text telling you things like "not actual gameplay" or even a "gameplay not final" to tell you the opposite.
It has an Unreal Engine watermark for a little bit to of course tell you they've used the Unreal Engine but they're banking on people assuming the Unreal Engine can only make gameplay or something and nothing else.
Small text no matter how subtle is usually in most western trailers because they absolutely do not want to be liable for being even slightly shady even if their intention was to trick you. But I'll be glad if someone with more know-how on the China side of things could tell me.

That being said, one of the biggest indicators for me is how unnaturally the minimap moves in accordance to what's happening on screen. Things like the player icon moving way too much on the map despite the player themselves performing actions on the spot and things like the camera cone wiggling in response to an impact despite the camera itself keeping steady during screen rumbles (it's an indicator of vision, not every little screen shake less these devs really wanted to waste their time implementing such things).

But yeah, it's a thing. It's been done with CyberPunk trailers before and other things like Call of Duty and the like since it's easy to make a cinematic in first person, put the small text and because it's an FPS, a good amount of public will only assume it's representative of gameplay because they don't have the time to look into it or even assume they've seen something... different.

@Kyranosaurus wow that’s very fascinating, might need to look into that whenever I see a triplet for a new game

Does NLife sincerely think this has a chance of coming to the Switch?

Cloud most likely, but no chance natively no matter what miracles a port house can muster!

Tencent can die in a fire thanks!

>Tencent

And like that, you lost me.

On a more serious note, this could indirectly help Genshin. This project might light a fire under MiHoYo and force them to make Genshin better to counter Tencent. But then again, this could turn into a Cyberpunk 2077 and MiHoYo will win by default, like Luigi.

Puts tinfoil hat on I also have a theory that Genshin isn't on the Switch just yet because of Tencent leaning on Nintendo not to do so. Tencent REALLY hates MiHoYo for it's success mostly because of envy and being rejected as a publisher for the game. Tenecent literally called September 28th 2020 (The launch day for Genshin) "The Darkest day in Video Game History"

Or it could be that the PS4 version of Genshin is a bad port and the Switch is less powerful than a PS4.

@naxuu But then it's going to loaded with so many mircotransactions that even EA and Activision would be wary.

@Octane_st1m I think the main technical problem with Genshin is that it runs on Unity. Nintendo's version of Unity has a number of differences than PC Unity. The question now becomes "Is Genshin on Switch going to be a native port or a cloud version?" If it's the later, I don't think the Switch version is going to arrive until the mobile cloud version happens.

I did see this yesterday (or the day before) and saw that it said "multiplatform" but there's no way in hell Switch gets this. At most, it'll have a Cloud version or something but no way to the actual game lol.

@Edwirichuu They have grown too big, buying up more and more studios. /sigh

We have to see what kind of damage they going to do to Grinding Gear Games and their Path of Exiles games.

@ThatNyteDaez This is just typical mobile trash bait and switch videos from TenCent. Their facebook and internet adds are annoying and stupid as hell.
The game itself will nowhere near look anything like that.

To be honest it just looks like every other Chinese hack'n'slash game with more particle effects than you can shake a stick at.

They are even riding on the Windfish! A must buy only for that!

Looks like a really cool game. Will it come to the Switch?

@anoyonmus A cloud version wouldn't make any sense when Genshin impact already has a android/ios port that they could port to switch...

@Octane_st1m I don't know... The Switch has what 90 million units sold. That alone is enough to make any port worth it.

Also saying that lot of other players are already invested in other platforms as reason for poor market share is a poor excuse when Genshin Impact is cross-platform/cross-save with all platforms. Being able to grind out Expeditions, dailies, and use your resin while on go away from your PC or PS4 would be a God send. Genshin impact on Switch could be the definitive handheld version for the millions of player who refuse to play on smartphone/tablet.

@Floki I think my point was a little misunderstood. It was based from an earlier comment regarding a cloud version of the game. Cause if it is indeed in the cloud it can never be a definitive handheld version as you say. The general verdict regarding cloud gaming on the Switch is mostly negative and I suspect that very little of those 90 million users are interested to spend money on this. Also, current players invested in the game have very little incentive to play it on the cloud on a portable platform when they can just grind on their phones natively while they are away from their home consoles/PC. Now a native port is a different story of course. As an example, Apex Legends took the porting route and are now reaping the benefits of it.

If it's not a game I could own then sorry I ain't gonna bother. Still it looks like these Chinese devs are doing a much better work at making fantasy RPGs than even the Japanese veteran itself (Square Enix). Now if only they make actual RPGs that could exist and not craps that are tied to a server for once.

@Floki I mean, it works a lot better on high end phones which are more powerful than the Switch. Also note that the PS4 version of Genshin didn’t run well

@Peder7berg no, it won’t come to Switch.

Unless via cloud

@Jeronan Same here. Chinese gaming company = plague.

@anoyonmus And most high end phone cost almost 2-3 times more than Switch so it isn't surprising.

And while the PS4 version didn't run ok. It wasnt unplayable, nor was it even all that bad; unless you was someone who super sensitive to performance inconsistencies. They've also made massive changes to the performance over the last year.

We're also talking about the Switch... A platform where people are fine play DOOM, a 60FPS game, at 30FPS... As long as the performance is at least on par or better than BoTw. People will be fine.

@Floki well. There is the issue with Unity. I heard some issues on Unity games on Switch in general

@anoyonmus Unity have generally always had an issue with console hardware in general. But there is nothing wrong with Unity on the Switch as long as the developers know what they are doing. Games like Cuphead, Snipperclips, Ori and the Blind Forest... And that new game that just came to switch, Dusk, all run fine on the Switch.

Too bad honor of kings never came to switch in US. They abandoned arena of valor years ago & all the players were watching worldwide as HoK was released, India got a new version,,so we thought other regions were next, but i gave up waiting after 1 yr of playing the dead version of AoV.

I don't trust this company (tencent), first off, for western releases (i hope u pokemon unite players don't get,too attached, cuz they'll rip the rug out from under u, watch). Secondly, i doubt the game shown could run on switch, even with tons of sacrifices. It would be great to try on series x or ps5, tho, if it stays true to the big boss battles in the trailer (boss design reminded me of nioh, kinda).

@Floki BotW is a 1st party game that not many can pull off on switch hardware (ask Ubisoft), especially some 1st time developer on the system, IMO, so don't get ur hopes up.

@Floki look at the number of people who already own a high end phone, tho. It's not something ppl would go out & buy to play the game.

@twztid13 Uh... I was only mention BoTW cause it game performance is still extremely sub par considering it a big IP from a first party team. We've had many better open world games on the platform that performance doesn't even come close to performing as bad from both 3rd and 1st party studios.

Many people can still find Botw playable. So if Genshin hit that bare minimum for performance it'll be fine on the Switch.

@twztid13 Million of people own high phones, but very few of them use it for games, and even fewer used it for high end gaming experiences like Genshin Impact. That number get even smaller in the west where mobile games aren't nearly as popular as in the Asian markets.

Millions of people would rather of the game on a dedicated handheld than their smartphone.