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Horizon Zero Dawn

Amazing game! 378 72.14%
 
Very good. 88 16.79%
 
Bad game. 58 11.07%
 
Total:524
LudicrousSpeed on 31 March 2017

I'm like 30 or so hours in, at 55% completion or so. Level 41 I think. I played a ton the first week or so I had it. Lately I've only been able to play in short bursts. It's started to suffer the same problem open world games lately have. You climb he tower, you flood your map with little icons you need to clear out. But you're so OP and the enemies are so dumb, it really needs a strong narrative to keep me interested. I'm mostly ignoring the main quest, but the side quests have been sooooooo bad. So far the Hunter Lodge/Redmaw quests/tasks are the only good ones I have seen because they force you into combat situations where you're overpowered and/or outnumbered and it's one of the rare times the combat requires tactics.

I'm hoping the narrative really picks up when I get back into the main quest and get back into some of that lore. But it's quickly approaching Mad Max/JC3 levels where I put it down and never pick it back up. Still, I commend GG on the world they created and for at least trying. You're not seeing Microsoft allow one of their main devs to try something like this, even if the game plays it pretty safe with the elements it borrows from other franchises.



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epicurean on 31 March 2017
LudicrousSpeed said:
I'm like 30 or so hours in, at 55% completion or so. Level 41 I think. I played a ton the first week or so I had it. Lately I've only been able to play in short bursts. It's started to suffer the same problem open world games lately have. You climb he tower, you flood your map with little icons you need to clear out. But you're so OP and the enemies are so dumb, it really needs a strong narrative to keep me interested. I'm mostly ignoring the main quest, but the side quests have been sooooooo bad. So far the Hunter Lodge/Redmaw quests/tasks are the only good ones I have seen because they force you into combat situations where you're overpowered and/or outnumbered and it's one of the rare times the combat requires tactics.

I'm hoping the narrative really picks up when I get back into the main quest and get back into some of that lore. But it's quickly approaching Mad Max/JC3 levels where I put it down and never pick it back up. Still, I commend GG on the world they created and for at least trying. You're not seeing Microsoft allow one of their main devs to try something like this, even if the game plays it pretty safe with the elements it borrows from other franchises.

Ha, we're exact opposites!  I must just suck.



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COKTOE on 31 March 2017
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
Goodnightmoon said:

But you haven't beated BoTW and we all know it, lying like this is just sad.

My question makes perfect sense, since he said the combat was "waaaaaaaaaay" worse on Zelda, something that makes you think the combat of Zelda is bad which I think is ridiculous if you have played BoTW, and since there is so much people on the internet judging the game without even touching it (like you) it doesn't hurt to ask.

Fucking unbelievable.

Ha ha ha! Oooh boy.



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SvennoJ on 31 March 2017

I finished Zelda last night, won't be long until I'm back in Horizon. Not sure if I should start over from scratch or continue where I was. It's been a month and I was only 3 days in, might as well restart to relearn the controls.



TheBlackNaruto on 31 March 2017
SvennoJ said:
I finished Zelda last night, won't be long until I'm back in Horizon. Not sure if I should start over from scratch or continue where I was. It's been a month and I was only 3 days in, might as well restart to relearn the controls.

Yeah I would restart if I were you.



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d21lewis on 31 March 2017
SvennoJ said:
I finished Zelda last night, won't be long until I'm back in Horizon. Not sure if I should start over from scratch or continue where I was. It's been a month and I was only 3 days in, might as well restart to relearn the controls.

We're in the same boat. I feel like, even though I had it for a few days before Zelda, I only logged in a couple of hours. I'm just gonna start from scratch.



WagnerPaiva on 31 March 2017
SvennoJ said:
I finished Zelda last night, won't be long until I'm back in Horizon. Not sure if I should start over from scratch or continue where I was. It's been a month and I was only 3 days in, might as well restart to relearn the controls.

I took the day off today to play it, a day off was long overdue since I never take vacations, but, boy oh boy, this shows how much I am into it. Horizon is one of these games I get afraid of finishing it, I just do not want it to end.



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WagnerPaiva on 31 March 2017
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
Radek said:

Another Horizon thread became a Zelda thread.... just great.

Despite owning Horizon for few weeks I've only recently began playing it and it's amazing so far.

But I'm fairly early in the game.

To be honest OP sabotaged his own thread the moment he mentioned zelda. To some people its like one insult what he said in OP, god forbid to compare something to the god of all game IPs, the Almighty Zelda.

Well, I do not mind Zelda coming up because it is the quintessential Adventure-RPG-Action-Let´s Go on a Journey game. It represents the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.

It is the heights of quality that Guerrilla achieved in Horizon that shock me, it is so good.



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KLAMarine on 31 March 2017
Zekkyou said:
I had a lot of fun with Horizon. I didn't enjoy it as much as many others here seem to have, but overall it was still a fun experience.

+ The gameplay was a lot of fun, and far more dynamic than i expected.
+ It's visually stunning. Some of the cities were a bit underwhelming, but all the natural environments were genuinely breathtaking.
+ The story was dumb, but the good kind. Sometimes a man just wants quality fluff, and Horizon delivered.
+ It's the first open world game I've played where the towers are a treat rather than a chore. When you see a tall neck striding along in the distance, you know you're in for some fun.

- Everything about the side quests. The writing, voice acting, animations, and actual actives were all highly inconsistent. I did enjoy some of them, but most left me frustrated.
- Aloy is the worst kind of OP. I liked Aloy's personality, but she's almost totally flawless. Every problem she faces is because of external forces, and she pushes them all aside with ease. This is doubly frustrating because they do actually set up what could have been an interesting flaw; socialising. She's spent her entire life being ostracised, and has spoken almost exclusively to 1 person during that time. They could have used that to add interesting dynamics to how she deals with people, and made her more relatable. Instead it's ignored, and Aloy is amazing at socialising with everyone from every culture, and can turn any argument in her favour. It got old for me pretty quickly.

Overall it's an 8.0 from me.

That would have been cool to see. Aloy: an expert with bow and arrow but a novice with people.



Zekkyou on 31 March 2017
KLAMarine said:
Zekkyou said:
I had a lot of fun with Horizon. I didn't enjoy it as much as many others here seem to have, but overall it was still a fun experience.

+ The gameplay was a lot of fun, and far more dynamic than i expected.
+ It's visually stunning. Some of the cities were a bit underwhelming, but all the natural environments were genuinely breathtaking.
+ The story was dumb, but the good kind. Sometimes a man just wants quality fluff, and Horizon delivered.
+ It's the first open world game I've played where the towers are a treat rather than a chore. When you see a tall neck striding along in the distance, you know you're in for some fun.

- Everything about the side quests. The writing, voice acting, animations, and actual actives were all highly inconsistent. I did enjoy some of them, but most left me frustrated.
- Aloy is the worst kind of OP. I liked Aloy's personality, but she's almost totally flawless. Every problem she faces is because of external forces, and she pushes them all aside with ease. This is doubly frustrating because they do actually set up what could have been an interesting flaw; socialising. She's spent her entire life being ostracised, and has spoken almost exclusively to 1 person during that time. They could have used that to add interesting dynamics to how she deals with people, and made her more relatable. Instead it's ignored, and Aloy is amazing at socialising with everyone from every culture, and can turn any argument in her favour. It got old for me pretty quickly.

Overall it's an 8.0 from me.

That would have been cool to see. Aloy: an expert with bow and arrow but a novice with people.

Yeah, i think it could have been. It's a great game regardless, but the way the start was setting things up i was expecting to see it tackle a much more interesting dynamic than what i got.