Stil havn't played it to many other good games I might give it a look later but the setting and main character both didn't appeal to me.

The fact I was playing Nier Automata on PC and Persona and NioH where available on my PS4 certainly didn't increase its chances of being played.

And Shadow of War and AC are releasing soon which look like more my type of open world game but I am happy single player exclusives still sell well and people are enjoying them!

To be honest I don't get "hyped" for games really anymore ... but I think my hype for Horizon went down the closer to release it got. I saw other stuff being released in the Triple A market and started to question if Horizon would go the same route, I ended up being thoroughly surprised though. I feel like a lot of the game is similar to Tomb Raider(and maybe AC ... but i've never played AC) so you might like it if you enjoy the standard open world game. You might not though.

With so many games coming out this year .. it's great to see everyone find their niche! I'm looking forward to Shadow of War with caucious optimism ... and I might pick up my first AC game this year

Ya. I needed the freakin' sleep. Ha. That's what I get for commenting at 4:18 am.

https://youtu.be/vTThyYf8zlg

80% complete right now and Horizon just keeps getting better. It's not perfect, but holds its own for an original.

Had a good laugh when I came across "Zavala" from Destiny. Made me wonder if the Cauldrons and Rasputin war bunkers/Dino's and the Traveler/Corruption and Siva, all have something in common. Not really, but there's some similarities.

With the old texts and data points mentioning more dino's to the west, and something about a massive dead lake, I would have to imagine if there is a Horizon 2, that it could be set near Salt Lake City, Utah, considering Horizon is basically set near Denver, Colorado. I can't wait for the Frozen Wilds DLC and a possible sequel.

What I love most about Horizon: Zero Dawn is that it is familiar but also really refreshing at the same time. It's not a short game (I spent around 30 hours with it), but the storytelling still feels concise and efficient. The combat has some nice options that make encounters fun, even when you're just stacking up stealth kills from the relative safety of a bush. And the presentation end of the game holds up its end of things with a solid soundtrack, great voice acting, and a cohesive design that makes all its disparate parts fit together. All in all, it's a great game, it's Guerrilla's strongest release to date. I'm glad to see you enjoyed it as much as I did!

How would you rank the rest of the 3? I'm curious, because Horizon is really great. xD

Fair enough, that's a good top 5. About NiOh, I guess it just wasn't for me. xD But I still have to play the final version to judge it (I'll it later this year).  

Did you try Nier Automata?

So I finally finished Horizon Zero Dawn. My thoughts?

I was a little bit more than halfway done when I made this thread. A lot of the extra hours I spent where on the campaign, which I apparently was not very far into. It feels like a pretty short campaign all things considered, probably around 7-9 hours which is short for an open world game. I think the campaign got significantly worse when it started focusing on the mysticism behind the games lore rather than the tribal warfare. On the one hand the concepts explored where fairly interesting, on the other hand they weren't exactly creative. I really think Open World game designers need to find an alternative way of making fleshed out stories, because the way Horizon does it ... it literally wouldn't be any different if the levels were linear. You ride to one destination(usually really far away), walk a few steps, usually don't even engage in combat, and then just read a bunch of old data files. I really don't like this trope of a third party randomly contacting the main character, not doing jack shit throughout the entire game, and then just acting like they're part of the story. I mean, I can't even remember the dudes name, but he randomly just appears sometimes. Why didn't he do shit for 99% of the time he was in the game?

That being said, this is still a really good game and my opinion hasn't changed too much. The sidequests are what I played for and for the most part they were pretty good. Still one of the better games of the last few years, whether that's indicative of it's quality or of the game industry i'm not sure. I really love it, would probably give it an 8/10.

So, which game do you plan on playing next?