TheSkullPrince
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Gonna pick this up at its Midnight release (9 pm for us West Coasters) and try to to play the fuck out of it before Zelda drops. I haven't had anything to play since Resident Evil 7 and next week I'll have too much to play lol
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Horizon: Zero Dawn | Review Thread
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Jawbreaker
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Bahaha. That's pretty embarrassing.
boredandlazy
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That chamber is still echoing...
yeah but that fog doe
BigTnaples
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Awesome. GG has to be over the moon about this. Hopefully the game gets the sales to match.
7 days of word of mouth of the stellar reviews should do wonders.
Back-In-Black
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Um, any half-way decent RPG in the past couple decades? Where have you been? How exactly was TLOU a leap forward? Fallout: New Vegas was a greater narrative leap than TLOU.
Moz La Punk
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You really need to stop worrying about that. It doesnt feel like a Ubisoft-game at all.
The story is okay in the first half, and got me on the edge of my seat in the second half. Some nice world building in it.
Acquiescence
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Empire, the popular UK-based film magazine that devotes about two or three pages of its issues to video games.
Shivvy_NTL
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Wtfff i just opened this up and holy shit the scores wooooow
Wind's Howling
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Absolute incredible praise. Never saw this coming.
Equanimity
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onemanasylum
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Based on what?
Gudji
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I know...
TheSkullPrince
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Wait a minute, aren't you the same person that like Revenge of the Sith better than The Force Awakens.
And The Last of Us is a masterpiece.
So only one reviewer then?
Can you guys... not?
BigTnaples
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Whelp. Can no longer take anything you have to say about narrative seriously anymore...
With some complaint of the game is about the "repetitiveness" of its hunting part, I guess Guerrilla managed to nail the page from hunting action games.
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papercan55
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Can someone who has read reviews or better yet played the game answer one question.
Someone said a few pages back that the game has dungeons.
Is this true? and if so how many? are they good?
I'd rather not read reviews and spoil anything if i do eventually pick this up later on.
thanks!
Someone said a few pages back that the game has dungeons.
Is this true? and if so how many? are they good?
I'd rather not read reviews and spoil anything if i do eventually pick this up later on.
thanks!
I bet he is. Horizon should have been their third big new franchise, but seeing how 1886's situation turned out, and the rumors of BB not continuing as a franchise, it's their first of the PS4 gen.
onemanasylum
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Not a single character in New Vegas is as in depth or well written as Joel and Ellie. Either way agree to disagree, you are derailing. TLOU is masterpiece.
Aceofspades
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I don't understand the mentality of "I adore W3 or Zelda, Horizon has to be worse than both..it shouldn't be better at all!"
Why does everything has to be compared to other games?
Horizon being better/worse than those games has zero effect of the brilliance of W3, Zeld or even FC3. You won't magically stop enjoying Zelda because Horizon reviewed better. You should be happy to add another great game to your collection.
Why does everything has to be compared to other games?
Horizon being better/worse than those games has zero effect of the brilliance of W3, Zeld or even FC3. You won't magically stop enjoying Zelda because Horizon reviewed better. You should be happy to add another great game to your collection.
just like one dude from the press started calling Killzone the ''Halo Killer''
thats how shit like this starts
To be fair we often look at the Witcher 3 as the gold standard for rpg story telling....yet we forget the main quest was relatively generic and nothing riveting. It merely served its purpose. It would be hard for Horizon to beat it. It was how each character was written and the smaller interactions which made TW3 such a fantastic game.
Disclaimer: TW3 is my favourite game of all time tied with the first Dark Souls
Disclaimer: TW3 is my favourite game of all time tied with the first Dark Souls
poor guys i feel sad for them
NumberThree
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Wow, 5 stars from Jeff fucking Gerstmann
edit: Ugh, was hoping it was coming out this week. Next week is going to be for Zelda :/
edit: Ugh, was hoping it was coming out this week. Next week is going to be for Zelda :/
Newtype-001
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aussiedude08
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Yeah i was talking about open world games. I havent played Wildlands yet, but will try the BETA. To me looks kinda like the Division which i thought was good till endgame stuff.
Everything I've seen of combat with human enemies indicates that they're brain dead AI automatons that barely react to the main character's presence, and that melee is literally just mashing the attack button to warp to the enemies.
I'd like to be wrong. Robot dinosaurs are cool.
Moz La Punk
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I do have to say - I usually dont compare games a lot in reviews but Horizon almost FORCES you to compare it to other games because it wears its inspirations on its sleeve.
There were so many times I was thinking "this is like the best bits in The Witcher, the best bits in Enslaved, or the best bits in Red Dead Redemption, or in Far Cry 3", etcetera. The combination of all those different influences creates a new, unique product and it just works.
So I really understand the comparisons, I am making them myself. The beauty of it is that when compared to those classics, Horizon shines just as brightly.
I mentioned that and:
Yes it is true, but they arent as big as say Zelda-dungeons, more like smaller area's. Its not so much filled with puzzles as with enemies and a few environmental puzzles on how to proceed. The dungeons look very different than the rest of the game and thus are cool to do, and they are optional but they do give you some special powers that I won't spoil for you.
onemanasylum
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Maybe read some reviews....
-Amon-
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did u just made that up on spot?
Back-In-Black
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Caesar, Arcade Gannon, The King, Benny, the NCR as a whole. Listen, you're not going to go far trying to make New Vegas look bad. But, I agree is is derailing the thread. Suffice to say that Brandon Jones and the USGamer review went in-depth in speaking about the narrative and their impressions didn't bode well for my interest in the game.
You just described 90% of GAF, so not that surprising tbh.
That post from Nzyme32 is a real eye opener. At least us folks into "that kind of thing" get his/her blessing 😂😅😂.
Good thing they nabbed the New Vegas writer for Horizon then.
LOL, that's an egg on face moment for Back to Black
Annoying Old Party Man
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Ubisoft wishes it had created such a beautiful and polished open world... as I said before though, gameplay-wise it is enjoyable but, I feel, quite limited.
But half the joy in open world games is the exploration and discovery of the world, and Guerilla has nailed this down. I think they found the genre that matches best with their assets, imo.
But half the joy in open world games is the exploration and discovery of the world, and Guerilla has nailed this down. I think they found the genre that matches best with their assets, imo.
gundamkyoukai
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The robos combat is the star of the game.
As some reviews said you don't have to fight to many humans .
Also this is more a TPS and with traps than a melee base game.
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