"Why Did I Wait So Long To Play This?!"

[GrahfsLament]

COKTOE said:

GrahfsLament said:

Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition.

I bought it shortly after it came out. I finally played it a few weeks ago. It mostly came down to time. I knew it was open world. I knew I generally like to experience 100% of a game's content. But I've also been extremely busy for a long time. It probably didn't help as well that I expected it to be just really good if not excellent. Instead, it surpassed my expectations in just about every regard to the point where I would argue it's the most impressive game on the PS4, as well as my favorite game on the PS4.

Horizon is a good pick for this thread for me as well.

Yours is very similar to my path towards playing it, and the experience I had when I did. Bought it around launch, played it 2 1/2 years later in June/July 2019, and it's my favourite game this gen. My expectations appeared to be a bit higher than yours were.

I ended up liking it so much that I platinumed it on the first playthrough on accident. Wasn't my goal necessarily, but the game made me want to explore everything, so I did and the platinum trophy followed :D

As a side note and in my humble opinion, this and God of War (PS4) are good examples of how best to implement trophies (and, thus, is a small part of what elevates H:ZD in my estimation). I generally don't care about trophies, but I certainly enjoy them more when they're designed around encouraging the player to do all the optional stuff instead of those designed around grinding or farming or ridiculous Olympic gaming feats. If you do everything in H:ZD, you'll likely never need to grind/farm/etc. in order to platinum it. You still can grind/farm and some non-trophy related stuff can require farming, but you can also avoid those tasks and still get the full experience. When games are balanced like this, they automatically get a +1 from me.