| Turkish said: gawd the gamefaqs board for Horizon is as toxic as the worst youtube comments
Metroid is dead and TR is a staple franchise, both have been around for decades. Horizon is probably the biggest game with a female lead to launch since TR in 1996. |
Define "biggest." Biggest as in biggest sales numbers? Dishonored 2 and Assassin's Creed Syndicate will likely sell better, and 2013 Tomb Raider (8.5 million) is all but guaranteed to out sell it. Biggest as in greatest amount of hype surrounding it? Metroid Prime and reboot Tomb Raider definitely outdid it on that front as well. Biggest as in highest reviews? Horizon (88) won't surpass the Metacritic scores that any of the Prime Trilogy had (97, 92, 90) or Bayonetta 2 (91). Heck, if early reviews of Nier: Automata are any indication, it might not even be the highest rated PS4 game with a female lead this year.
To get back to the original point, I'm all for developers putting whoever they want, regardless of gender, on the cover, but let's not pretend like ND broke some uncharted (pun intended) ground here by sticking a female character on the front of their game when some still yet to be identified entity asked them to not. Admirable decision? Yes. Trend setter? No. Samus, Lara, and others broke that ground before Guerilla Games even existed.
