DriftingSpirit
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Horizon just moved up to number 3 on Amazon's best selling of 2017. I can see Sony making an announcement for first week sales.
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Horizon Zero Dawn |OT| The Land After Time
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ChubbleDucks
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My 1st ever purchase for ps4. I'm mainly an xb1 user but just had to get this after recently been gifted a ps4.
Hispanicguy
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I took this photo on the OG PS4 a few days ago:
Safe to say, it looks pretty freaking amazing! If you have an OG PS4, there's no need for concern. You are in for a treat!
These past 2 days, I haven't done any missions. Just been roaming around for pictures, lol. So much fun!
It is about quality. Horizon's claim to fame will be the consistency of the quality, while offering the player a bit less freedom. Combat is fun. Exploration is fun. Cutscenes are good. Dialogue is good. Pretty. Good music.
It has a checklist of Open-World tropes, but doesn't beat them into the ground.
The loot and upgrade system is actually good, too! Bethesda/Bioware/CDPR/Ubisoft kind of fumble those mechanics.
FullMetaltech
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NoctisVsStar
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It's clean
It's number 1 on Amazon UK for 2017 since this morning.
Ah lol, the crafting menu of course.
I only checked my inventory to search for an option, thanks.
squeee
Wait really? People are still playing LBP? (I wish it were more popular but it seemed LBP3 killed everything)
gundamkyoukai
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Did the same thing.
Saw 3 of them hack one and then let them battle it out .
Was fucking awesome lol .
The 4K mode also has crisper, more detailed textures and better texture filtering. Anisotropic filtering is imo something that makes a pretty big difference in how a game looks.
Ground textures turning into slush just a few feet away is a pet peeve of mine.
I am playing it on a slim and it looks magnificent. Plays like liquid as well.
I found that whole Brom criticism was blown way out of proportion, and taken completely out of context. When you actually do the quest, you find out that the guy has
severe mental health issues
Yep. I'm attached to my robo horse now and i don't want him to fight alongside with me in battle so he won't die lol
This reminds me of one of your FFXV's gifs
This reminds me of one of your FFXV's gifs
The font size is way too small. I'm sick of games making the font size so small. It's small on my 60" TV in the family room and when I try to relax and play in the bed at night on my 32" it's unreadable. Loving the game so far though...
Thanks!
Those pro images made me wonder if I am going to be missing out.
NoctisVsStar
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No one got left behind.
Im getting some Jade Cocoon vibes here..
STILLethal
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Can you unlock the OP Shield-Weaver armor where you need to get all the power cells at any part of the game? I'm about 8-10 hours into the game. Thinking about taking the time to get it, is it possible or do you have to progress further in the game to get it?
sounds like it.
Bloodborne
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I was going to play this game for about 30 min just to see how it is, but then i ended up playing it for 5 hours straight.
-Right off the bat the game looks stunning. Probably the best looking open world game i've ever played. This game wowed me more than uncharted 4 (uncharted 4 got better facial animation though.) Sometimes i had to stop and just look around to admire the environment.
- I really enjoy the gameplay mechanics a lot. There's a lot of games out there that give you tons of gadgets and weapons, and sometimes they just end up being fillers that you would rarely use. With this game, I find myself switching back and forth a lot of weapons and gadgets while fighting robots to defeat them. It feels very satisfying.
- The story is engaging. It's one of the game's strongest point , and i can't wait to see what's gonna happen.
My only minor complain so far would be that there's some lip syncing issues, and it would have been cool if they would have had a lock on system, but it's no biggie.
-Right off the bat the game looks stunning. Probably the best looking open world game i've ever played. This game wowed me more than uncharted 4 (uncharted 4 got better facial animation though.) Sometimes i had to stop and just look around to admire the environment.
- I really enjoy the gameplay mechanics a lot. There's a lot of games out there that give you tons of gadgets and weapons, and sometimes they just end up being fillers that you would rarely use. With this game, I find myself switching back and forth a lot of weapons and gadgets while fighting robots to defeat them. It feels very satisfying.
- The story is engaging. It's one of the game's strongest point , and i can't wait to see what's gonna happen.
My only minor complain so far would be that there's some lip syncing issues, and it would have been cool if they would have had a lock on system, but it's no biggie.
Primethius
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Turned off the enemy stealth indicators. GG did a fantastic job with the ememy tells. I feel like I'm not missing out on anything at all with the information off.
Yep. I'm attached to my robo horse now and i don't want him to fight alongside with me in battle so he won't die lol
This reminds me of one of your FFXV's gifs
Horizon Zero Dawn's world is the world that I had hoped FFXV had.
Sheer size and still extreme detail, visiting many different regions with unique cultures and towns. Last but not least an interesting lore that really makes the world come alive, making me care about it.
GTA 5 did it beautifully almost 4 years ago
STILLethal
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There's too much going on in the HUD...just read up something:
"Switching it off will let you see the glorious visuals far better, and if you miss the HUD, all you have to do is rest your thumb on the touchpad to bring it back up."
Going to try today.
Bartholomuse
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Been playing for about an hour now, loving what I'm seeing.
The whole game is graphically great but the foliage and hair physics are like another generation.
Been messing around in the starting area but I love the mechanics so far, running and jumping feel weighty, melee and ranged have nice feedback, not too much wind up on animations, really responsive controls on the whole. Been having just as much fun hunting critters (rabbits / foxes etc) as the robots, and I think that's a good sign
I love just running around and shooting geese out of the air and shit lol, it really scratches my Red Dead Redemption itch.
pro tip; dont forget about your spear, it's heavy attack wrecks shit, and it's easy to close range on account of the really responsive dodging
The whole game is graphically great but the foliage and hair physics are like another generation.
Been messing around in the starting area but I love the mechanics so far, running and jumping feel weighty, melee and ranged have nice feedback, not too much wind up on animations, really responsive controls on the whole. Been having just as much fun hunting critters (rabbits / foxes etc) as the robots, and I think that's a good sign
I love just running around and shooting geese out of the air and shit lol, it really scratches my Red Dead Redemption itch.
pro tip; dont forget about your spear, it's heavy attack wrecks shit, and it's easy to close range on account of the really responsive dodging
QuantumZebra
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I just checked and its #1 unless we're looking at diff things.
I still haven't seen a game do it better.
WordsintheWater
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But it's not just collectibles, that's your problem, you're not exploring. I've found some interesting sidequests by exploring. I found the Banuk tribe all on my own by exploring. I mean if you don't explore, don't expect to find these things. A bunch of people in here have already told you that they found interesting sidequests by exploring, if you refuse to do it that's your thing, but don't try to act like they're not there.
Melee is pretty much required in half, if not more of the cases.
Certain machines need to be hit with certain ammunition to efficiently dispatch them though. So far from my experience, you could melee everything to death although inefficient.
Magic Mushroom
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Those SunhiLegend gifs are amaze. Which program are you using, if I may ask?
wapplew
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Melee is OP against smaller robot, act as critical hit when enemy is down or stealth back stab.
DriftingSpirit
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WordsintheWater
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R1 light attack R2 strong attack, it's not really extensive. There are jump attacks as well, and stealth attacks, but the meat of this game is shooting the bow, if you don't like that I don't think you will enjoy this game too much.
Nightengale
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2017/videogames
#3 in yearly charts.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2017-02/videogames
#1 in monthly charts.
DriftingSpirit
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In what sense?
NoctisVsStar
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nycgamer4ever
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Was able to find time between my babies to play for about an hour. So far the story got me interested. Still in tutorial but got damn this game looks crazy on my LG oled with hdr!!!! Can't wait to find time to play tonight.
Primethius
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Mine is set to dynamic with quest and waypoint pathfinding off. I also have the compass, enemy awareness, stealth symbol and quest trackers set to off.
It's been working out pretty good so far.
Just depends on what type of ammo you prefer. They differ between bows, so focus on that.
I switch between a shortbow and a longbow for different ammo types.
WordsintheWater
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I believe that's the one with Tear Arrows, so yes it's worth it. Shoot one of those arrows and watch armor get torn apart, so satisfying. Also adds resource arrows and precision arrows. Those are all crafted using different components.
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