- Guerilla Games’ Managing Director Herman Hulst said to IGN that GG are not aiming to make the largest open world game with Horizon but:

“It’s a big world. It’s never been our ambition to make the biggest possible world, cause it’s not really about that, it’s about the quality of the journey, and the quality of the tactical combat against these machines. But it’s a vast world that’s hours and hours of exploration in this post-post-apocalyptic playground.”

- On how the guys at GG are creating a balance between futuristic and ancient scenery he said:

“I think the strength of Horizon is that everything that’s in the game is there for a purpose, everything is coherent. There’s a lot of cohesion between the tribes, how Aloy relates to the tribes, the machines, the robotic creatures in the game, what their function is, how they interrelate, how Aloy relates to them. So actually if you think it through, it’s one big plan.”

- He said there will be different tribes and that they may react different to the main character:

“The tribes are very different and you’re gonna explore in this game why the tribes look so different from each other, why they treat Eloi so differently. There is a purpose for that.”

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/09/12/horizon-zero-dawn-will-offer-hours-and-hours-of-exploration-everything-in-the-game-is-there-for-a-purpose/

A focus on battle system details and designing the open world with care and not just making more bland spaces just for the sake of making the world bigger sounds promising.

I wonder if some tribes are oppressive to women and they will treat Alloy with contempt for being a free-woman warrior or something.

Most anticipated game after Uncharted 4. I cannot wait to see Guerilla's magic in an open world setting like this one.

This sounds amazing actually. Cannot tell you the times ive eperience getting bored in rpg's when exploring, a player can notice when an area is there to take space, when sidequest have no impact in the enjoyment of the game, wich are repetitive mainly.

Last time I felt like this was on Xenoblade, while the game was good, it gave me no interest exploring the world and doing the sidequest, I had to do it cuz I had to grind to beat some levels. I hope Horizon delivers.

Is it Aloy or Eloi?

I do hope it's not just "conflict" with machines. Interesting stories come from conflict between people (or between "civilised" races/species). Conflict with mere machines would become bland after a while. Unless of course teh machines have a ruling class of machine that can be the equivalent of a human tribe.

I think her name is Aloy, but her people are the Eloi.   Might be making it up, but could be right :)

This is the game i will get a ps4 for next year. Good shit sony.

I just noted 2 quoted responses using different spellings 

'On how the guys at GG are creating a balance between futuristic and ancient scenery he said:

“I think the strength of Horizon is that everything that’s in the game is there for a purpose, everything is coherent. There’s a lot of cohesion between the tribes, how Aloy relates to the tribes, the machines, the robotic creatures in the game, what their function is, how they interrelate, how Aloy relates to them. So actually if you think it through, it’s one big plan.”

- He said there will be different tribes and that they may react different to the main character:

“The tribes are very different and you’re gonna explore in this game why the tribes look so different from each other, why they treat Eloi so differently. There is a purpose for that.”'

And lolwut? They have a cosplay guide for her already?

The good thing about her costume at least is that it does look fairly practical for mobility and agility. I suppose, with machines that can pretty much one shot you agility is more important that armour.

That shit would just be confusing, but you could be right. The second quote is slightly ambigious where it talks about different tribes. A quickj search says Eloi is one of the human sub-species from H G Well's the Time Machine. So I guess Eloi must be her tribe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloi

Possibly means other tribes are the equivalent of the Morlocks (though probably won't have that name), which will be behind why they treat Aloy differently when she goes to a non-Eloi tribal area.

Time machine is set hundres of thousands of years in the future. I wonder if that's the timescale here too, which is why it's post-post-apocalyptic.