MTZehvor said:
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. |
We dont know sales numbers of Dishonored 2 but steam numbers say it sold 8 times worse than Dishonored 1. AC Syndicate doesnt have an exclusive female protagonist and neither was it featured prominently in marketing. Horizon is Sony's new big IP, it's gonna do Uncharted numbers, that means 7 to 10 million sales. Bayonetta is bomba and Metroid is dead like I said, I bet most people who heard about it dont know there is a woman under that suit. I mean remember the kid who asked y Metroid cant crawl? And why you bring up Metroid anyway? Metroid is older than 1996. So as I said, Horizon is the 2nd biggest IP with a female lead since TR in 1996.
In terms of critical success, people are saying Horizon deserves way more than 88.
