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Horizon Forbidden West: Review Thread |

Ulysses 31

Member
Yeah after watching some vids I'm passing on this. Not a $70 title to me. I'll wait for it drop on sony's new gamepass service thing or a deep discount.
Which videos? 👀

Seems like a decent sequel but not really something that'll pull you in if the first game didn't grab you.
 

Hari Seldon

Member
Which videos? 👀

Seems like a decent sequel but not really something that'll pull you in if the first game didn't grab you.
I watched the Giant Bomb one that came out a few days ago. Based on that video I would agree in your assessment, I thought the first game was good but not great and I cannot generate any excitement to buy this game day 1 at full price. This just seems like more of the same exact stuff and I cannot generate any ounce of desire to play this.
 

Jigsaah

Member
I'm only concerned with knowing if the games pacing will bore me like HZD did. Bought it day and date on PS4...couldn't bring myself to finish it until it came out on PC.

The story was just not interesting to me. I'm wondering if that has been approved. The graphics upgrade and 3d audio improvements were pretty much a given, and I'm happy to have them, but I want to stay engaged from start to finish with this. Is the gameplay loop largely the same as HZD?
 

Topher

Identifies as young
got 'eeem!



I stopped reading at "RollTide".

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(college football reference for those not in the US)
 

saintjules

Gold Member
You guys may find it silly but it really bothers me how Aloy's hair clips through her gear. I was watching ACG's walking the walk right now and I couldn't stop noticing that her hair, while wonderfully animated, kept moving through the bow on her back.
Maybe GG should give her a shorter haircut.

Might be wishful thinking but the clipping is something I hope we see come to an end once we get underway with new gen only titles.
 

Sega Orphan

Banned
89 is a great score. Will be one of the games I play when I eventually get a PS5.

The pop in is quite interesting. Same goes for Halo on XSX.
I don't see why this is happening with the SSDs both of them have.
 
Might be wishful thinking but the clipping is something I hope we see come to an end once we get underway with new gen only titles.
I dream of the day we'll see realistic cloth, hair, flesh, and fluid simulations. And I'm not thinking about porn, I swear!
Another thing that I dislike is when a character is wearing metal armor and the armor bends like it's made of rubber.
 

BlvckFox

Gold Member
stuck in hospital with diverticulitis…. Guess gonna miss the launch..
Yeah, Fuck this game. Get better man. My brother went through a wicked bout of Diverticulitis. I don’t remember much except his left side being his best friend when sleeping.
 

Sosokrates

Report me if I continue to console war
After watching about 6 different quests from the first 4hrs of the game, they seem to consist of mainly combat like the last game.
Pretty disappointing for me, I was hoping for more activity variety in the quests.
Oh well, nothing wrong with not liking all games.
For those who do like these combat focused quests, enjoy! It certainly looks beautiful 🌹🌋
 
After watching about 6 different quests from the first 4hrs of the game, they seem to consist of mainly combat like the last game.
Pretty disappointing for me, I was hoping for more activity variety in the quests.
Oh well, nothing wrong with not liking all games.
For those who do like these combat focused quests, enjoy! It certainly looks beautiful 🌹🌋

What variety was there in RDR2 quests that you allegedly loved so much?
 
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jigglet

Banned
Lol “review in progress”. This makes sense for GaaS games but I can’t believe this has crept into single player games.
 

Sosokrates

Report me if I continue to console war
What variety was there in RDR2 quests that you allegedly loved so much?
I like when the vicar dude got drunk and you had to go find him, finding lenny at the bar, the hot air ballow rides, collecting debts, preperation for hiests like setting up explosive, infiltraiting a high class poker games and playeing poker on a boat, scouting new camp locations, transporting the camp, finding new home and work for your family, job duties on the farm, escaping captivity with nothing but your fists, tracking and hunting a grizzly plus many more that I cant think of from the top of my head.

Anyway why do u even care when you dont believe me anyway 😆
 
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SSfox

Member
I like when the vicar dude got drunk and you had to go find him, finding lenny at the bar, the hot air ballow rides, collecting debts, preperation for hiests like setting up explosive, infiltraiting a high class poker games and playeing poker on a boat, scouting new camp locations, transporting the camp, finding new home and work for your family, job duties on the farm, escaping captivity with nothing but your fists, tracking and hunting a grizzly plus many more that I cant think of from the top of my head.

Anyway why do u even care when you dont believe me anyway 😆
RDR2 and RDR1 are my favorite open world of all time, i know already that Horizon 2 won't beat those, it will be very good game but won't top other games of the genre to me, so far the best open world by Sony is Ghost Of Tsushima, idk about Horizon the characters just don't touch me as much as other top open world like RDR, GOT, or early AC games.
 
RDR2 and RDR1 are my favorite open world of all time, i know already that Horizon 2 won't beat those, it will be very good game but won't top other games of the genre to me, so far the best open world by Sony is Ghost Of Tsushima, idk about Horizon the characters just don't touch me as much as other top open world like RDR, GOT, or early AC games.
From what I've played of Horizon 2 it's gameplay is much improved. I'm very happy with the game so far. Only bummer is that the 60 fps mode isn't sharper looking so I'm playing at 30 fps.
 
I watched the Giant Bomb one that came out a few days ago. Based on that video I would agree in your assessment, I thought the first game was good but not great and I cannot generate any excitement to buy this game day 1 at full price. This just seems like more of the same exact stuff and I cannot generate any ounce of desire to play this.
It's a sequel and it's improved in almost every way. So if you can't generate excitement that's more on you (it's probably just not your thing) than the game.

Most sequels I've played these days don't improve on this many things.
 

TrebleShot

Member
Action RPG game focused on action with ROG elements wow how controversial.

You have to wonder what is in peoples minds when they post comments.

“I didn’t like Halo Infinite as all you do is shoot :/“
 

Men_in_Boxes

Snake Oil Salesman
Cyberpunk and MGSV was the biggest wake ip call thats reviewers are shills for their own clout. In no way shape or form should cyberpunk and MGSV got such high scores as it did.

The fact that complete games that dont suffer the same performance issues as those games yet they have lower scores is daunting and shows how the current rating system/reviews is fraudulent

I've noticed this as well.

"Giant Publisher that churns out a cadence of high profile AAA (FOMO) titles...what can we do to keep getting early access to your big AAA FOMO titles?"

Publisher: "Uh...just give us good scores and encourage people to buy our game?"

"Deal!"

I've heard Greg Miller describe his position as "enthusiast press". All media that benefits from special access is garbage.
 

TVexperto

Member
Yeah after watching some vids I'm passing on this. Not a $70 title to me. I'll wait for it drop on sony's new gamepass service thing or a deep discount.
yeah i dont get the hype. looks like another open world fetch quest game with upgraded graphics and awful story
 
I've noticed this as well.

"Giant Publisher that churns out a cadence of high profile AAA (FOMO) titles...what can we do to keep getting early access to your big AAA FOMO titles?"

Publisher: "Uh...just give us good scores and encourage people to buy our game?"

"Deal!"

I've heard Greg Miller describe his position as "enthusiast press". All media that benefits from special access is garbage.
Greg Miller. 'Nuff said that guy is a clown
 
I like John the most out of the three stooges, but fucking hell he goes all out sometimes. He got Naughty Dog to downgrade the native 4k 60 fps PS4 Pro version of TLOU remaster to 1800p just because it dropped a few frames during action. He shat on the 60 fps mode in GOW on the Pro because it dropped some frames. Told everyone to use the 30 fps mode instead. NX Gamer did the same analysis and found that the 60 fps mode averaged 56 fps in combat. This is the same guy who was given a tag 60 fps by gaf mods telling people to play the game in 30 fps because it wasnt locked at 60. How 30 fps is better than 56 average is beyond me. I played over a 100 hours of end game content in GOW in the 60 fps mode and never felt the framerate was bad.

Who cares if it doesnt look realistic. Movies go through extreme lengths to light the characters even in outdoor areas to ensure they look their best.

Shouldve stuck with their first choice.
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So.. When she is walking in the shade, you want her to look as if a spotlight is hanging over her head? Oke, what ever rocks your boat
 

Freeman76

Member
I have a wierd issue where when moving the camera the grass loses a little colour, its really offputting. PS5, any fixes or ideas what it is?
 
Im not really someone who is big into review scores other than seeing the critical review just out of a passing interest.

I just seen the game was review bombed as far as user score goes. Then I went and looked and it seems lots or first party games on both sides are having the same thing happen.

Metacritic should have sorted this out when it happened to TLOU. It makes the user score completely useless to anyone who wants to look at it.

There is a Funny Twitter thread looking into some of the people leaving scores:

 
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