draughn101
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Same here, to both points.
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Horizon Zero Dawn |OT| The Land After Time
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Same here, to both points.
FlutterPuffs
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Oh yeahhh.
Just after a big battle I met 5 scrappers on the way to a savepoint. Decided to stand my ground.
What a game lads.
Lord Error
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No, it would downsample from checkerboard full res image, because the result of checkerboard rendering looks much better (has more actual pixel information) than the starting resolution.vWhat you are saying would hold true if the checkerboard process was a simple upscale from a single image, but it's not.
Rope caster spam.
InsertNameHere
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Best decision I made was making a majority of the HUD dynamic. It's been so long that I am waiting to go home from work and immediately play more of the game. I'll start walking towards a quest marker and then I see something else pop up on my compass and next thing ya know, it's been 3 hours and I'm finally getting back to the main quest marker. I love this game.
Amazing game, and I still find myself stopping and just looking at certain scenery in shock at how great it looks.
Some minor things that annoy me so far though...
- The voice acting is pretty terrible for some NPCs. (some of their expressions are also hilarious, one NPC was talking while looking down, but her eyes were looking up at me - like an ashamed kinda emotion - but she looked possessed)
- Aloy always has a "I'm about to poop" face in cutscenes.
- Every so often the lip sync will totally break.
- Weird transitions and closeups that change the brightness of the whole screen when talking to NPCs.
- NO INVENTORY SORTING?!?!?!?!?!?!
- One of my side quests is broken and I can't turn it in.
And as much as people are saying... "HOW DARE YOU COMPARE THIS MASTER PIECE TO FAR CRY?!" - so far I can't really say they're wrong. Sure, the story is much more engaging and combat is better, but the core exploration/collectables/side quests scream Ubisoft.
- Radio towers [check]
- Base raids [check]
- Audio logs [check]
- Mini dungeons [check]
- Hunting areas for animals with very similar icons [check]
- Icon filled world map [check]
- Fetch quests [check]
- Shallow skill tree [check]
- Annoying inventory upgrades via crafting [check] (why is this a thing?)
List goes on.
I am not saying this is a bad thing though. I am just saying that people "defending" it are delusional.
Some minor things that annoy me so far though...
- The voice acting is pretty terrible for some NPCs. (some of their expressions are also hilarious, one NPC was talking while looking down, but her eyes were looking up at me - like an ashamed kinda emotion - but she looked possessed)
- Aloy always has a "I'm about to poop" face in cutscenes.
- Every so often the lip sync will totally break.
- Weird transitions and closeups that change the brightness of the whole screen when talking to NPCs.
- NO INVENTORY SORTING?!?!?!?!?!?!
- One of my side quests is broken and I can't turn it in.
And as much as people are saying... "HOW DARE YOU COMPARE THIS MASTER PIECE TO FAR CRY?!" - so far I can't really say they're wrong. Sure, the story is much more engaging and combat is better, but the core exploration/collectables/side quests scream Ubisoft.
- Radio towers [check]
- Base raids [check]
- Audio logs [check]
- Mini dungeons [check]
- Hunting areas for animals with very similar icons [check]
- Icon filled world map [check]
- Fetch quests [check]
- Shallow skill tree [check]
- Annoying inventory upgrades via crafting [check] (why is this a thing?)
List goes on.
I am not saying this is a bad thing though. I am just saying that people "defending" it are delusional.
DeaDPo0L84
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Someone asked earlier but I didn't see it answered. Are power cells missable? Specifically the second one that is found within a main story quest. I really don't wanna redo 5 hours of gameplay...
On Very Hard, Ropecaster seems really good. It goes well with Crits and the "run away, run away" strategy.
I hope he removes it...
Buy the special items maps from a merchant.
Watch the world fill up with stuff to collect.
WordsintheWater
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If there's a sequel they need to flesh what you pointed out more and also the town's, Although there are many, there's not much you can do in them if there's not a quest there.
MegaSackman
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Need to see the end of this Compy's fight.
Zantetsuken
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Got damn.
toastyToast
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I used whatever the thing is that slings bombs. Throw enough shock bombs to stun it then use the heavy attack over and over until the last opportunity then do a critical hit.
Rinse and repeat (surprised there's no stun cooldown)
Tripolygon
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Not many games are able to pull that off as well as Uncharted 4. First time I noticed it was in Madagascar, as the characters enter the cutscene from their gameplay location.
Same. I'm also hardly using fast travel. It's such a joy to traverse this world on foot and to notice something new each time. I never travel in a straight line, I always get distracted by something.
Dance off!
There isn't resolution before checkerboarding, also the quality we get now is better as scaling is nice 4 pixels to one scaling/average.
KiefbladeMaster
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This game is so good. Did the first Cauldron last night and it looked amazing.
Really just watching the clock until I get to go home and play more.
Really just watching the clock until I get to go home and play more.
Start it on Hard. It's not that bad, really. Plus there aren't any difficulty related trophies so you can always bump it down if you need to.
There is a bow that shoots one specific kind of arrow that makes enemies drops rarer stuff IIRC. Should make things easier.
I think it's called resource ammo? something like that.
I didn't have any problems with the Brom quest. I found it emotional.
KiefbladeMaster
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Are you using trip wires and fire arrows? The latter is their weakness.
And then there are people hate Ubisoft games because of collectible...Hah
I said this yesterday, in order for me to explore a game world the game needs to have some sort of surprise element. Like you can stumble upon an area where you end up with a nice story about the area/community or a nice multi part quest rather than just 1-2 fetch quests. While someone else can completely miss it and the game is full of it which prints exploration. If a game doesn't have that then the only other thing that'd make me explore is if I can get equipments and abilities via dungeons and such which I might have missed had I not explored.
If it's just collectible then I won't explore the world. Doesn't mean I don't like the game, just that exploration feels redundant in that case as it's just one empty location to another that is only populated by enemies and collectibles.
WhiskerFrisker
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I played this right after I finished Nioh and it wasn't a big deal at all. In fact Guerilla implemented a very good use of motion blur. It's very pleasing.
Yep. Seems like a bullet sponge kinda enemy so i don't mind turning down the difficulty for these sort of fights to get them over with quicker.
Can hunting ground trails be framed for skill points?
Also gotta praise this game's save system ; autosave is non-intrusive, quick and manual save are the fastest I've ever used in a console game.
Playing on hard seems about right to me.. Normal seems like it would be fun for a chill experience.
Also gotta praise this game's save system ; autosave is non-intrusive, quick and manual save are the fastest I've ever used in a console game.
Playing on hard seems about right to me.. Normal seems like it would be fun for a chill experience.
MaKTaiL
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Use the trip wire on the path he takes. Also try to shoot a fire arrow below his belly which will make the cannisters explode. One more thing to note as well: it takes a few shots for the elemental attack to actually trigger (you will notice a small circle that fills up everytime you shoot a fire arrow at him for example. Once the circle is full the fire damage will actually hurt the enemy you are hitting). The same.goes for shock and freeze damage.
Got my copy yesterday and played for a couple of hours after I'd put the kid in bed.
I found the first 20-30 minutes pretty hard going. I didnt enjoy playing as 6 year old Aloy and found things pretty slow moving. However, as soon as she grows up and the first open world bit becomes available I started to enjoy things quite a lot more.
I got to level 6 before moving on with the main story and killing that buzz/sawblade (whatever it's called). Did I miss the tutorial on how to make traps? Because I had no idea how to kill that thing and just managed it with a smidgen of health left.
I'm enjoying the game and cant wait to get back into it tonight for a couple of hours.
I found the first 20-30 minutes pretty hard going. I didnt enjoy playing as 6 year old Aloy and found things pretty slow moving. However, as soon as she grows up and the first open world bit becomes available I started to enjoy things quite a lot more.
I got to level 6 before moving on with the main story and killing that buzz/sawblade (whatever it's called). Did I miss the tutorial on how to make traps? Because I had no idea how to kill that thing and just managed it with a smidgen of health left.
I'm enjoying the game and cant wait to get back into it tonight for a couple of hours.
You mean for exp and therefore levels? No. You don't get exp on repeats. Only when you complete a full sun and blazing sun.
ScriptedReality
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I set up my Aloy statue last night. Told myself I'd try the game for like thirty minutes, ended up playing 4 hours and most of that time was spent tuning running around harassing robots.
Great. Not a hint of slowdown or frame issues in the first couple of hours. Loading and saving are quick. I haven't seen what it looks like on a pro but so far I've had no cause for concern.
Consider yourself lucky
. Mine was supposed to arrive today...won't get it till tomorrow... Shattered!ScriptedReality
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Looks dope to me. Tbh I didn't feel that curiosity or urge that I've felt to upgrade with other games at all.
Can't wait to get home and play this more tonight!
I just got to
and am really loving this so far. I'm glad I went in not seeing much pre-release content - I went in expecting something like Uncharted with some light RPG elements so it was a pleasant surprise to find that the RPG elements were much more core to the experience; it really feels to me like The Witcher 3 in terms of narrative, lore / world-building, and the strength of the side quests in accentuating those elements, but with a much more enjoyable movement and combat system.
Took some lovely shots in photo mode last night; will post those later!
I just got to
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Took some lovely shots in photo mode last night; will post those later!
I know what you're saying but I'd argue that the reason people are "defending" it is because the end result is different; yes it has those elements / boxes but as mentioned above the way Horizon's story presents these features / systems and incorporates them into the lore of the world results in a very different (and more engaging) experience compared to a game like FC (for me at least), where it feels less organic and more prescribed.
Omnistalgic
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Tks for the impressions mate...funny enough I have the 'spiritual' predecessors to these games as well unopened lol.
Both MGSV and Witcher 3 are waiting for me to play for the first time. I hope playing Horizon and Zelda first doesn't spoil them too much lol.
DriftingSpirit
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Those things aren't inherently bad and they aren't exclusive to Ubisoft. It is about implementation.
For example, the "icon filled world map" can be adjusted.
EternalDarko
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Gotta say I don't particularly enjoy the 'young version of you' missions and it's a bit of a downer to start with that. But it grew on my by the latter part of that section. I gotta wait until tomorrow to play more, but I'm liking it...
KZObsessed
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Didn't realise Guerrilla were making a CG movie to go along with the game.
Omnistalgic
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Yea, first thing I adjusted was how much stuff is on screen. I took off health bar for aloy, compass, anything Quest/Exp bar and even the little bar that tells you how long your focus Last on arrows. It's made the game genuinely feel like I'm interacting with a painting, I'm much more focused on the combat and discovering things by hearing people shoot out for help and just exploring the map. I don't play many open worlds to be fair, but this game feels like nothing I've ever played before.
Yautja_Warrior
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Man, you have some big games to get through there but both great games too, enjoy.
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