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Horizon: Zero Dawn | Review Thread
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Why? 1 is top like A is. Then it goes down.
Don't forget to buy Toukiden 2 in march along with the rest of us 2 people :/
GregLombardi
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Digital Chumps said:
The first sentence of their review basically makes their review irrelevant to me. Using fanboy drivel to define the goodness of a game is a great way to lose any hope that you are objective.
AuthenticM
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So were the story leaks real?
No judgement, it's probably a good idea.
Goes the other way, too, games being better than expected.
It's so funny. I few weeks ago i asked a friend if he was getting this game. He said he was on a wait and see because guerrilla. I said "maybe third person is where Guerrila actually excels, but never had the chance to show it off because Killzone?" Looks like i was right. I wanted this game to do well so bad. Now people just need to buy it. Congrats to Sony and Guerrilla Games on releasing a new, very well fleshed out IP, that does so many things right, with what looks to be nothing phoned it to get by. You deserve the accolades.
SomedayTheFire
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Generic is far too objective a term for your use of it.
Also GG'S track record is pretty great outside of Shadowfall
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
So the impression I get from glossing over some review quotes is that it's largely an amalgamation of existing open world and action RPG design tropes as popularised in titles like Far Cry, The Witcher, and what not, though expressed within admirably contextually relevant narrative and thematic framework that can mostly hold its own, thus elevating familiar concepts to a stage where they are effectively presented as engaging and purposeful. That being said some people won't gel with this particularly vision, more sensitive to the influencing design material, and may feel the gameplay loop and breadth of concepts to explore ultimately outstay their welcome instead of legitimately originating new open world ideas.
I'm just glad this is a game from Guerrilla that is both well received and actually appealing to me. I'm still not getting at launch; too many games for March, Zelda and Mass Effect in particular taking way higher priority. But after watching a fair bit of the game streamed last night my interest was peaked more than I expected and I intend to sink into this adventure eventually, likely benefited with post-launch patches ironing out some of the kinks.
Major props to Guerrilla for having Sony allow them to pry themselves away from over a goddamn decade of Killzone to successfully light a fire of something entirely new under their design belt.
I'm just glad this is a game from Guerrilla that is both well received and actually appealing to me. I'm still not getting at launch; too many games for March, Zelda and Mass Effect in particular taking way higher priority. But after watching a fair bit of the game streamed last night my interest was peaked more than I expected and I intend to sink into this adventure eventually, likely benefited with post-launch patches ironing out some of the kinks.
Major props to Guerrilla for having Sony allow them to pry themselves away from over a goddamn decade of Killzone to successfully light a fire of something entirely new under their design belt.
Translated Eurogamer PT review
https://translate.google.com/transl...-horizon-zero-dawn-analise&edit-text=&act=url
fastford58
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Damn. Ok, I'll let the hype get me now.
onemanasylum
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Nothing said there is that crazy for you to just dismiss a review...why is the reviewer a fanboy for loving the game and seeing it as a serious GOTY contender? I don;t get it.
Hah, totally in the same boat. I'm shocked both rated it so high, especially after what I assumed was open world fatigue setting in.
Damn it, Zelda, why'd you have to release so close to this game?
StarskySilverz
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I was so lost as to why Horizon was so hyped but after hearing some impressions on GAF and reading reviews, I'm sold.
For AAA games in general, but in this case AAA open world games
Yeah I don't really understand why TLG dropped that relatively quickly compared to other releases, Uncharted 4 is still like 45 euros over here though. If you want to buy second hand then yes 20 euros may be feasible by the summer.
But you're talking about pounds though so I don't really know how the market is over there when it comes to pricing.
Chill Penguin
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Wow Guerilla's perception of mediocrity wiped away just like that. Have to admit I was very skeptical of their ability to create a top tier game, but it looks like I'll be picking this one up. Congrats to them for all these amazing scores, must be a hell of a game.
Well I've only played Shadowfall so as far as I'm concerned, not a great track record.
WOW.
I always liked the look of this game so I'm glad it got some great critical feedback too.
Given how ludicrous my current gaming backlog is (Bioshock Infinite is still on there!!!) I look forward to checking out this game a week but before the sun burns itself out.
But what if you don't?
I always liked the look of this game so I'm glad it got some great critical feedback too.
Given how ludicrous my current gaming backlog is (Bioshock Infinite is still on there!!!) I look forward to checking out this game a week but before the sun burns itself out.
But what if you don't?
onemanasylum
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Is there as much concern for open world fatigue in Zelda as there is Horizon? Just Wondering.
Okay I actually very much agree with your points in the second post which explains that post more now. Also my fault for not reading more into the thread has there is always more towards a story.
SomedayTheFire
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That's fair, it's also worth noting that the combat is reviewing far higher than those aforementioned action RPG games, which could be a leading contributor to it not feeling stale.
Well that's just utterly bizarre.
Zelda seems to be more minimalistic in design so it might have less filler quests (hopefully) than Witcher or Fallout for example.
great reviews.
Was expecting over 90 on metacratic when seeing all the praise though - it's frustrating when 1 negative review can really drag the overall down.
Also like someone said - we had so many games getting higher scores last gen. It's good to be critical of course, but how will any game break into that hallowed territory now?
Was expecting over 90 on metacratic when seeing all the praise though - it's frustrating when 1 negative review can really drag the overall down.
Also like someone said - we had so many games getting higher scores last gen. It's good to be critical of course, but how will any game break into that hallowed territory now?
Diprosalic
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dgrdsv
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It's the same every generation. This one was among the lesser offenders here actually as most launch games weren't totally overhyped.
TalentAlwaysWins
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You know the answer to that :3
neurosyphilis
Definitely not an STD, as I'm a pure.
I'm hyped for Zelda but that open world looks barren as hell.
King of Cups
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VERY glad to see Guerilla pulled it off! I've always felt they were a supremely capable studio that just hadn't quite gotten all of their pieces lined up.
Definitely looking forward to picking this up later this year.
Definitely looking forward to picking this up later this year.
Purely what I've read and what I've seen - and do keep in mind I find many of the highly rated third person action adventures woefully tedious and bland to play. Just my taste. The saving grace is usually always narrative and exploration / world. The setting isn't something that thrills me and narrative I've not seen much of to this point - then again I've not looked very hard since I'm not likely to get it for a long time
SnowFlakeCake
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Holy moly GG did good, thinking of buying rather than renting.
BlackBuzzard
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Cant imagine Ubisoft being happy having to follow this up with Ghost Recon Wild Lands or the next Assasin Creed.
onemanasylum
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[QUOTE=Nzyme32;230654558]Purely what I've read and what I've seen - and do keep in mind I find many of the highly rated third person action adventures woefully tedious and bland to play. Just my taste. The saving grace is usually always narrative and exploration / world. The setting isn't something that thrills me and narrative I've not seen much of to this point - then again I've not looked very hard since I'm not likely to get it for a long time[/QUOTE]
Horizon isn;t so what's your point?
Horizon isn;t so what's your point?
NHarmonic.
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Lol, every studio/company has had mediocre/shitty releases. I really wouldn't go saying Nintendo has a shitty track record even if i only played wii music. i. e
Ganzlinger
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Great reviews!
michaelius
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I'm just glad they avoided Ubi design iceberg 
GregLombardi
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Yes, the first sentence is crazy enough. You are reviewing a game. You are not reviewing a game against future games. There is no reason for you to compare that game to a future game unless, for some reason, you want the comparison made. It's blatant and dumb.
Of course not. Its funny cause Zelda BOTW even has what would be described as the dreaded ubisoft radio towers.
I think that zelda and horizon are both probably exceptional works that are so good, those reused elements won't really matter in the long run though.
Polygonal_Sprite
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Horizon is getting great reviews but it's an 88 metacritic, you're talking like it's a 95 or something.
I think BotW will be around the 90 mark on metacritic personally.
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