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Horizon: Zero Dawn | Review Thread

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Skux

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A review is not just a subjective opinion, but also must exist for the benefit of the reader. The US Gamer review just feels like a rant. Yes it's subjective, but the frequent slang hurts its professionalism. And its and lack of empathy to what others may find positive about the game just make it seem like a selfish blog post, written for the author's benefit, not the reader's.
 
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MegaSackman said:
PRE-LOAD IS UP! (US)
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Skux said:
A review is not just a subjective opinion, but also must exist for the benefit of the reader. The US Gamer review just feels like a rant. Yes it's subjective, but the frequent slang hurts its professionalism. And its and lack of empathy to what others may find positive about the game just make it seem like a selfish blog post, written for the author's benefit, not the reader's.
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If it is not a subjective opinion then what is it? Outside of frame rate, resolution and input responsiveness the vast majority of a games fun and quality is entirely subjective. Writing from the authors perspective is the most honest way to create a review as you cannot know what millions of viewers will like. The review from US gamer lines up with a lot of other impressions for the game and the writer just didn't enjoy the aspects of the game, the score looks fair and as professional as a game review can.
 
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Man, this is some foolishness, heh. I preordered the digital deluxe edition and it's started downloading. It also downloaded a theme for the PS4, however, the theme is for some reason locked out of use until the game actually releases. As though the theme were a game in itself. I don't think I've ever seen that before.
 
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Damn I got really hyped for this game really quickly over the past few days.

Preloading now, can't wait to check it out.
 
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MCD250 said:
Man, this is some foolishness, heh. I preordered the digital deluxe edition and it's started downloaded. It also downloaded a theme for the PS4, however, the theme is for some reason locked out of use until the game actually releases. As though the theme were a game in itself. I don't think I've ever seen that before.
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On mine it let me select it as my theme although I only purchased the regular edition so it might be a bug with the deluxe edition.
 
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How do I pre-load??? Please, need help guys. Download button not showing up for me anywhere. Just the countdown.
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You're screwed, try buying the game again.


For real though, try disconnecting and reconnecting to the internet. That used to work for me when it wouldn't trigger automatically.
 
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Now I want to get the deluxe edition since the theme for the base game is not that great. Can I upgrade thru the psn and only pay the difference? Or would it charge me full price?
 
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Finally got it to show up. This is what I had to do:

Library --> Horizon --> Activities --> "I liked Horizon" post --> Show Game Information

The download button finally came up.
 
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Jawbreaker said:
That if you don't like the core of a title, you likely won't enjoy it much. For whatever reason, you ran with my mention of Monster Hunter, when it was just a throwaway example. Also, that the overwhelming majority of reviewers enjoyed it. It's valid to dislike it, but it's also suspect when you only want to push the outlier opinion despite, presumably, never having played it.
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Ok, so the only thing I'm pushing is against the attitude that because it's a low score, despite it laying out why they scored it the way it did, that it's some how less of an opinion or that they shouldn't be playing video games. It's childish. I've not once commented on the quality of the game myself, merely been pointing out what other reviewers have said and calling out that terrible attitude that some defenders in this thread have had. And the core of the game isn't just robot monsters, if that was the case, sure 10/10, but it's a third person action shooter open world game. There's a lot of baggage in the third person shooter genre and a whole different type of baggage for the open world. How they handle all of it, seems to be commendable, but at the end of the day, it's all about everything working together. It's why many reviewers have said the game is more than the sum of its parts, it works for some and not for others.

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A review is not just a subjective opinion
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There is no guide to follow on how a review "should" be. Every review is subjective, in everyway, down to even giving the game a score or recommendation. Every review is about what you take out of it. I don't even read giant bomb because i don't really agree with a lot of reviews, but you can search my posts and you'll never once see me in a thread saying this, or saying they should just stop playing games cause their views don't align with mine.
 
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