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Gameinformer: Why Guerrilla Needed Horizon Zero Dawn To Be An RPG
- Thread starter Loudninja
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shinobi602
Member
Someone needs to GIF that.
GravityInsanity
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2nd
civilstrife
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I'm listening...
Inf3cted_b3ast
Member
I have to say this is one of the best coverage from GI.
DrunkShogun
Member
Not sold on the game yet minus the visuals because I'm getting vibes of infamous second son that looked great but then felt boring. Glad they experimented with rpg after doing killzone so hope the game delivers.
GIANKRATOS
Member
I love the music in the background
nelsonroyale
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I am still struggling to understand how this game looks this good visually. I was just watching the Gears 4 intro and while that looks impressive, this looks a step up to me and it is open world...very impressive.
Omnistalgic
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Epic
The studio has always had some great tech.
Omnistalgic
Member
blasphemy!!! Infamous mechanics was amazing! it just need variety. Bigger worlds, more enemies, more powers etc...
I thought it and fetch DLC was excellent, and the limited variety was just due to launching early.
This seems far far more fleshed out than Second Son which while a good game with decent mechanics was really lacking on content especially things like different styles of enemies to fight and mission variety. Horizon already looks to have much more content than SS just from a glance as it has several other gameplay systems involved such as loot and crafting, more RPG elements, etc. That and the actual robot hunting and fighting gameplay seems like it has a ton of depth to it, especially with taking down the larger bots.
Baroquemantic
Member
Those flying machines looked really cool.
Yeah I'm hoping someone who know's what they're doing with Gifs gets that shot. Just a really cool look at robo birds as well as the landscape. We see pretty far into the distance and you can even make out what looks to be a town/city.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Still not buying the RPG label. Looks like it has FarCry / Tomb Raider level RPG elements and no one calls those game RPG's.
That's exactly what it is.
This game already has far more RPG elements than those two games combined. I don't think its a stretch and from the start its been an Action RPG not a group based real time with pause kind of RPG or anything of the sort.
Baroquemantic
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The devs are saying it's an RPG and I see no reason to doubt what they've said.
Omnistalgic
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It's an action RPG...and they've said many times, even in this video they want it to be as streamlined as possible so no one is overwhelmed. It's deeper than both of those games you mentioned though, already a ton of footage about leveling weapons, changing clothes for different status effects, buying new weapons, skill trees, quest giving you rare materials and weapons, etc...
RPG-lite I guess you could call it, but again it's an action RPG. They want everything to be fast
ShemhazaiX
Member
It's literally the Witcher 3 with less melee weapons and fleshed out ranged attacks and better combat, but trades off some of the dialogue options. It doesn't look anywhere near as basic as Far Cry and Tomb Raider.
killatopak
Member
Where dem gif?
QuantumZebra
Member
A monster hunter-style open world RPG utilizing Guerilla's graphical/design prowess and robot dinosaurs is literally the opposite of "Yet Another..." ala Far Cry, Watch Doges, etc
mejin
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Voila!
Looking like robo vultures or some sort and at the end of the gif you can see what looks to be a large settlement on the leftside of the gif.
gijsbrecht
Neo Member
Man, everytime I see something new like these flying robots or that desert building ( or even a city? ) I'm just blown away. And I really don't care if it's called an rpg or not. This world seems so interesting that it deserves to be seemlesly open. Very hyped for this game.
I agree with both of these. I get the feeling we're going to see a take on either the classic Ubisoft-like open world or Sucker Punch's model which is the epitome of style over substance.
I hope I'm wrong, and there's a decent variety to environments, weapons, quests, enemy AI, and is fun to play.
I still don't understand posts like this, what is it about this game that makes it "not an RPG"? Is it not janky enough?
From what we know so far, the RPG elements are much deeper than The Witcher for example, but no one said that game was Tomb Raider or Far Cry, likely because it still had the "janky RPG" trope.
This was the first interview that actually made me less excited and worried about this game. I don't like the way he described how systems were added and the stats cut because of concern of complexity. Looks pretty but now they seem to be not sure what kind of game they wanted to make ("I don't know what to compare it too"...really, that unique?) and it could be some open world mess. Assassin creed comes to mind and the killzone messes that they made in the past. Maybe they are shooting for a casual explorer game? Find out in 5 months or so.
El-Pistolero
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Guerilla is a match for Naughty Dog and Sony Santa Monica when its comes to tech and art.
The pattern I am noticing in these Horizon threads is becoming really annoying.
Within first few posts someone will question if it's really RPG. Add in couple of mentions of Tomb Raider and Far Cry and we have a derailed thread. Followed by posts quoting said earlier posts explaining to them how we have footage that proves that it is in fact RPG. At some point Loudninja will make a list of all the features that makes it RPG, still someone else will waltz in and question it again. And another round begins.
At some point someone will bring up Killzone in a negative way, forgetting that it is critically acclaimed, one of top selling franchises spanning multiple generations and consoles.
Then there will be a post questioning enemy variety and combat design, which is probably the most bizarre thing because we have plenty of hands on evidence that combat is great and we have already seen variety of creatures with lot more yet to be seen (which they have deliberately kept secret).
Can we just make a thread titled "Concerned for Horizon" and get this shit out of some of your systems?
Within first few posts someone will question if it's really RPG. Add in couple of mentions of Tomb Raider and Far Cry and we have a derailed thread. Followed by posts quoting said earlier posts explaining to them how we have footage that proves that it is in fact RPG. At some point Loudninja will make a list of all the features that makes it RPG, still someone else will waltz in and question it again. And another round begins.
At some point someone will bring up Killzone in a negative way, forgetting that it is critically acclaimed, one of top selling franchises spanning multiple generations and consoles.
Then there will be a post questioning enemy variety and combat design, which is probably the most bizarre thing because we have plenty of hands on evidence that combat is great and we have already seen variety of creatures with lot more yet to be seen (which they have deliberately kept secret).
Can we just make a thread titled "Concerned for Horizon" and get this shit out of some of your systems?
nelsonroyale
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Yeah, that is for sure now. This game for me looks quite a lot more impressive than Killzone SF, and is much larger in scale.
Jayu26: I agree, I don't think the criticisms are very well founded. Nothing shown in this game has reminded me either of AC or Far Cry. I think it is somewhere between Shadow of Morder and Witcher 3 in the rpg stakes. It seems more strongly story driven than the former though.
Voila!
Is that scene even possible on the regular PS4? O: In the video you see it much better but the LOD is amazing. It is on a whole other level than other open-world games on console.
I agree
E3 demo was straight outta far cry, down to the gameplay loop and world map with animals on it
Moving towers didnt help
.... what
Pretty sure that all of Game Informer footage is from OG PS4.
Voila!
Look at dem graphics... Sony first-party don't f**k around.
What gameplay loop?
This!
I honestly don't get the concerns for this game. If it's not your kind of game or style, that's fine, but for what Guerilla is trying to do, they are absolutely nailing it and it looks like one of the best technical achievements of all time.
And honestly, finally an open world game that doesn't either play itself (Assassins Creed) or have jankified horrid controls (anything Rockstar).
They are raising the bar no matter how RPG some of you want it.
I havent rewatched it since E3, but I remember he was looking for a specific kind of animal to kill to craft something, popped up the world map to find the animal (which was behind the rock next to him) and it was litteraly a far cry moment
then we get the tower video...