| HoloDust said: Not sure why are people so riled up about that 2.5/5 star review - actual review has a lot of valid points, it's just that score is bit too low...though, one must understand that 2.5/5 stars is not as bad as 50/100, star system is a lot more akin to movie ratings. Personally, I find Destructiod's review quite useful, it's 75/100, but points to some of the bigger issues Horizon has as an open-word action RPG (though calling it RPG is a bit of stretch in the first place). |
So you level up, you craft weapons and items, you can take on fully optional side quests that has nothing to do with the story. You can customize you weapons and amor and get different strenght versions of those two respectively...... yet its not an RPG? What exactly is an RPG then?
And I have an issue with destructoids review.... not just that it contradicts with a lot of what other have said (like its talk of the story and the uniteresting side quests and characters is a contradiction to the vast majority of reviewers out there) but also cause of the things its actually complaining about. Looting? and even more looting rare items? Thats the kinda stuff that makes a lot of other games great whgen down right and he says its tedious? Then he complains about the difficulty, then complains about the open world narrowing into some dungeons here or there (so now its a bad thing to have dungeons n an open world game)...... I could go on.
The only thing I would give him credit for is the human AI.... which from previews we have all kinda figured that its not the core focus of the game but thats still a legitimate knock.... everything else though.....
Personally, I hate it when a reviewer says you are doing or seeingnothing new (then goes onto write three paragrapghs of excatly what is new and diferent about the game) cause to me, if that were the case.... then what is new anymore as far as gaming goes?
