Good old videogame drama revolving around a major exclusive release. You know, metascore obsessing, constant comparisons to other big titles, list wars, shit posting due to feeling threatened by certain games... the usual.
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Horizon: Zero Dawn | Review Thread
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Good old videogame drama revolving around a major exclusive release. You know, metascore obsessing, constant comparisons to other big titles, list wars, shit posting due to feeling threatened by certain games... the usual.
Lol I always find these posts funny. Where y'all say you don't really like the robots that much, but meh, you'll just get over it because of everything else. Yet that's the main appeal of the game lol
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
You tell me. Is it getting a 'free pass' or is it worthy of great praise?:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/horizon-zero-dawn/critic-reviews
Positive 71
Mixed 3
Negative 0
That's a disgusting comment! D:
I hope not! My prediction was 88, right where it is now.
I think Guerrilla had some of the earliest access to the PS4 technology and some of the biggest support from Sony on Killzone: Shadow Fall. They seem to know how to build for the machine backwards and forwards.
They seem proud of their super-fast bootup too. Apparently Horizon takes seconds to get from boot up to main menu.
Swimmer9800
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Will play after zelda for sure.
Drive by shit posting? You get a free pass because?
ZettaiSeigi
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Oh yeah, not worried at all. I have no stakes on that since I'm not a developer. Just stating that reviewers today no longer dish out perfect scores like they once did, so it'll be really unfortunate if people who develop excellent games won't get that bonus because because they fail to hit a certain MC threshold. And that's why I agree with what the following guy says:
And yes, that's a very good thing.
Funny enough, that still tied in to the whole Sony vs MS narrative, with the former banking on Blu-ray and the latter on HD-DVD, Haha!
Blackleg-sanji1
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Well one side litterally blew themselves up so..IDT that's a war
MegaSackman
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I don't think they are on MC.
They said the same thing about KZ:SF. Game booted up lightning quick straight to the menu screen.
LastMinuteHero
Member
Ooh there's a new horizon vid
Yup
Now i want a Horizon Game with zombie-dinosaurs...
Lol, how many times have you told someone you've put them on ignore this week, yet still respond to them 5 mins later. Horizon turned out great, you can chill now.
Where? o . O
DriftingSpirit
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I've never played a GG game but I've known of their technical prowess. They are legit.
He's not "taking sides"... Noone would accuse a sports journalist of taking sides if he said the Patriots are killing it this century.
MiamiWesker
Member
Yes save the game often. The game creates like 10-15 quick saves for you and like 3 auto saves so don't worry about overriding a previous save. You can manually save too.
Always save, the auto save is not used much, only after a goal is completed. If you are just hunting around and die you lose everything you did before the last campfire.
Always save, the auto save is not used much, only after a goal is completed. If you are just hunting around and die you lose everything you did before the last campfire.
BlackBuzzard
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For now, that 89 can still happen.
Glass Shark
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As soon as I saw this compared to The Witcher 3 I immediately lost interest. I'm getting really tired of open worlds.
From what I've seen this combat looks more fun and engaging than most open world game I've seen and even looks as good or even better as much linear games.
MegaSackman
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Pretty sure those don't give scores.
Been a while since I've watched one of their reviews, but from what I remember that's just how they always do them. More of a discussion rather than an actual video review with gameplay.
onemanasylum
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lol, such a reductionist post. It is a lot different then the witcher, especially mechanically. Research is your friend.
Open worlds aren't inherently bad, though I get where you're coming from.
i wonder what did people expect? it was well known that it was an open world game, so if someone is tired of those, just skip the game (or wait untilll interest on that genre recovers) and move on.
I am not interested in fps, so i won't go into a halo/cod/killzone thread to say i don't like fps or i am tired of them.lol
9 out of 10 times mc scores tend to go down tho.
It will end in 87-86 most probably.
Gradly
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I think to keep it as spoiler free as possible cuz honestly all video reviews I watched revealing a lot in terms of locations and characters etc
Future PhaZe
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I did not expect these scores. Will buy on Tuesday.
Yup.
That and various publications like Eurogamer have done away with scores altogether, which I assume doesn't contribute or become a detriment to the meta.
Yep, I mean, Witcher 3 would've been like a 97 last gen, Skyrim is at 96 for god's sake.
Tal Shiar Agent
Banned
Maybe one day all reviewers will stop using scores.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Yeah thank god we've moved along from that nonsense. Metacritics scores were completely meaningless.
That's what people said when it stood at 87, it's not happening unless some pretty "bad" scores come in. Remember metacritic already has over 70 reviews listed.
antyk
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Too bad, because Kotaku's review sounds as if it could have been 8-9/10 easily.
Personally, I was never really convinced about getting this, primarily because I just don't have time and patience for open world RPG games, but since my son expressed interest in playing this, I'll be getting it day one
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