Kenzodielocke
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Horizon Zero Dawn Spoiler-free Impressions (for real this time)
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What score would you give it as of now?
BlackBuzzard
Banned
On a scale of 1 to 10 white women.
Musician655321
Banned
It's still in the 8's to me easily
from what i've seen, i agree with this.
spear attacks could have been better if there was some sort of lock on i think.
ZeBraTurtle
Neo Member
You are very bi polar with your impressions with this game. Is the game good or not?
Emma Stone out of Nicole Kidman
onemanasylum
Banned
Man your posts are all over the place, you acted like the game wasn;t very good, now you are saying it is over an 8 for you lol.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Sorry, but your latest posts didn't sound like that. It would be nice of you to be less hyperbolic.
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Well an 8 is considered low these days lol
Musician655321
Banned
That's what I'm saying. It's a real mixed bag but overall it's really good. Especially if you love your Far Cry's and open worlders.
It just doesn't reinvent the wheel or anything.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Guess they will improve overall melee in part 2.
For HZD you can see they use there FPS skill for the combat .
onemanasylum
Banned
It is? News to me, if it is, then people need to re-evaluate things imo.
Alright here's some wandering/traversal gameplay where I hunt a herd, witness the stormbird eating the prey, stormbirds then attack me, I fast travel to a new part of the map, and I reach a new area where I am quickly surprised. The fast travel and times where I paused are edited out. Quote to view.
What score would you give it as of now?[/QUOTE]
I know you didn't ask me, but as far as what the game is trying to achieve, I think it has done it with barely any hiccups. It created a consistent, living world with lore and politics that make it real. It created great open world RPG systems, quests, and loot that feel necessary but not incredibly over-done, extraneous, or bogged down IMO. It's fun to play, the story is engaging, and the side quests are interesting. In the context of what Horizon seems to have set out to achieve and what it promised, I think it's definitely an 8/10, if not at least a 9/10 (although I hate number scales). I'm almost near the end but I'm not there yet. I'll give a proper review when I finish. It's fantastic. It's got a few things it could improve. But I think a sequel that maintains this level of quality + polishes a few things I would have liked to see added would probably be my favorite open world RPG of all time lol (that current crown goes to the Dark Souls franchise, although I have yet to finish one because they last me over 100 hours each...). I just love the setting. And it reminds me of so many games I love all at once (inFamous 2, MGSV, Uncharted, Tomb Raider reboots, The Witcher, Monster Hunter, Zelda BotW...)
What score would you give it as of now?[/QUOTE]
I know you didn't ask me, but as far as what the game is trying to achieve, I think it has done it with barely any hiccups. It created a consistent, living world with lore and politics that make it real. It created great open world RPG systems, quests, and loot that feel necessary but not incredibly over-done, extraneous, or bogged down IMO. It's fun to play, the story is engaging, and the side quests are interesting. In the context of what Horizon seems to have set out to achieve and what it promised, I think it's definitely an 8/10, if not at least a 9/10 (although I hate number scales). I'm almost near the end but I'm not there yet. I'll give a proper review when I finish. It's fantastic. It's got a few things it could improve. But I think a sequel that maintains this level of quality + polishes a few things I would have liked to see added would probably be my favorite open world RPG of all time lol (that current crown goes to the Dark Souls franchise, although I have yet to finish one because they last me over 100 hours each...). I just love the setting. And it reminds me of so many games I love all at once (inFamous 2, MGSV, Uncharted, Tomb Raider reboots, The Witcher, Monster Hunter, Zelda BotW...)
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Than was a joke by the way.
FinalStageBoss
Banned
That's a good score tbh. Your biggest gripe is the story?
onemanasylum
Banned
Oh lol ok, hard to know on the internet.
How is this not ignorant and racist given the context of time period as to when the game takes place?
gundamkyoukai
Member
That is good to hear .
Once they have a good\great foundation they can work from there.
They won't have to start from the beginning since they have so many assets from this one .
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Obviously he's in the honeymoon period keep up
Musician655321
Banned
Yeah pretty much. That and the only real unique thing about it is it's setting and the enemies. Everything else is familiar and has been done. But Guerilla nailed it with using all of those inspirations.
MegaSackman
Member
Remember when you were at 28% and had like 1/5 of the map uncovered? How's the rest of the map? It's unveiled at the right pace or you clean the whole map magically in a few hours? It is cohesive?
Primethius
Banned
The Marvel vs. Capcom 2 theme is playing in my head as I read these posts.
There will be people who refuse to accept this game is good for very, very, very stupid reasons
And that fills me with glee
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Good point. I'd be more than fine with the game getting lot's of 8's, which is a solid score. I expect to see lots of 8's and 9's when the reviews hit tomorrow.
KZObsessed
Member
Has someone said they're doing the OT yet?
The title is going to be Horizon: Zero Dawn [OT] The Land After Time, right?
Nothing else would be acceptable and Id have to troll the thread into the ground if it's not.
The title is going to be Horizon: Zero Dawn [OT] The Land After Time, right?
Nothing else would be acceptable and Id have to troll the thread into the ground if it's not.
onemanasylum
Banned
You can say this about every game ever made....but do you know what you are saying sounds like? If you ignore what makes the game unique, it isn't lol. Something doesn;t need to be innovative/unique in all faucets.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
From the top of my head, the only game that had unique mechanics in this genre is probably Shadow of Mordor.
Another thing. So you are saying this game is racist or it doesn't handle it well? Quite confused.
lmaoo. you actually tried jumping all the way from that height
thanks tho!
edit: damn the machine at the end!!.
It is.
Hurricane43
Member
Yeah I was pretty shocked...
Musician655321
Banned
You'll know what I mean once you play it.
everyday math
Banned
That ending
DriftingSpirit
Member
Love it lol
gundamkyoukai
Member
Well i mean i think that is a given .
I can't think of any game that had anything new per say in years .
It mostly come down to setting and how good they mix and match stuff when they do it .
onemanasylum
Banned
I know what you mean, what I am saying is that applies to every game, heck most games don't have anything unique about them, it's execution that matters.
Gudji
Member
Haven't seen everything but so far the story seems intriguing and I do want to see the rest.But hey I just saw streams so might I'm wrong. And the player I saw was really advanced in the game like 30 hours or so.
Also to give a side quest example (SPOILER):
I mean the narrative is not as in depth as the witcher 3, but I think it's fine. The best parts are obviously in the main story!
Also to give a side quest example (SPOILER):
Aloy is in meridian, shes walking down a street, she hears a NPC talking to a guard. The NPC is asking help because his family is in danger.
Aloy stops by and talks with the NPC. He explains that he barely escaped alive, machines are attacking his family estate, so his father send him to get help in the city. Aloys says that she will see what she can do.
She then procedes to the location and finds a couple of machines in front of a building. Fight happens. Later you can hear a girl locked behind a door, "Help, Hello anyone there?", etc. Aloy then opens the door and a conversation starts.
Girl says thank you to Aloy and says she thinks everyone else is dead. You can then ask two questions or proceed right away with the quest (finding other people), Aloy asks if shes has any ideia why the machines where there. Girl says they've been seeing more and more machines lately, but that they never attacked like that before. After that the player decides to proceed with the quest.
Aloy then proceeds to find other people in the estate. She can hear a "bip bip bip" and uses the focus, there's some sort of device inside a cabin. Aloy opens the lock and examines the device. It seems the device is sending a signal to call the machines. She disables the device and says something like "someone put this thing here to call machines in order to kill everyone in the estate".
After that she leaves the cabin and you can hear some kind of robotic roar and some noise like something was flying near by. Aloy sees the girl outside and talks to her, she says she found a lure and that someone might have placed that deliberatly to draw the machines. She asks if her father had enemies. Girl talks about her brother, says he first started by gambling, then started stealing and lastly did some extortion. He swore vengeance when his father kicked him out of the estate.
Aloy says it was him that asked her for help. She also says that he needed the machines cleared out to claim the property. Girl says that they can't let him do that, he's a snake. Meanwhile the brother appears, and says "can't do what sister? Claim my inheritance?". Meanwhile they keep talking and he's saying that he will have the estate. He has a device in the hand and turns it on, while he's talking a flying machine attacks him out of nowhere and kills him. A fight starts and after aloy defeats the machines she talks to the girl again, she thanks her for helping her and a bit about his family and gives a reward.
Aloy stops by and talks with the NPC. He explains that he barely escaped alive, machines are attacking his family estate, so his father send him to get help in the city. Aloys says that she will see what she can do.
She then procedes to the location and finds a couple of machines in front of a building. Fight happens. Later you can hear a girl locked behind a door, "Help, Hello anyone there?", etc. Aloy then opens the door and a conversation starts.
Girl says thank you to Aloy and says she thinks everyone else is dead. You can then ask two questions or proceed right away with the quest (finding other people), Aloy asks if shes has any ideia why the machines where there. Girl says they've been seeing more and more machines lately, but that they never attacked like that before. After that the player decides to proceed with the quest.
Aloy then proceeds to find other people in the estate. She can hear a "bip bip bip" and uses the focus, there's some sort of device inside a cabin. Aloy opens the lock and examines the device. It seems the device is sending a signal to call the machines. She disables the device and says something like "someone put this thing here to call machines in order to kill everyone in the estate".
After that she leaves the cabin and you can hear some kind of robotic roar and some noise like something was flying near by. Aloy sees the girl outside and talks to her, she says she found a lure and that someone might have placed that deliberatly to draw the machines. She asks if her father had enemies. Girl talks about her brother, says he first started by gambling, then started stealing and lastly did some extortion. He swore vengeance when his father kicked him out of the estate.
Aloy says it was him that asked her for help. She also says that he needed the machines cleared out to claim the property. Girl says that they can't let him do that, he's a snake. Meanwhile the brother appears, and says "can't do what sister? Claim my inheritance?". Meanwhile they keep talking and he's saying that he will have the estate. He has a device in the hand and turns it on, while he's talking a flying machine attacks him out of nowhere and kills him. A fight starts and after aloy defeats the machines she talks to the girl again, she thanks her for helping her and a bit about his family and gives a reward.
I mean the narrative is not as in depth as the witcher 3, but I think it's fine. The best parts are obviously in the main story!
I was thinking about and admiring the site of old rusted satellite dishes in the middle of a desert and then that suddenly happened lmao
LifeBrandRobot
Member
I feel so sorry for Guerrilla if this is what expected of them.
Musician655321
Banned
It's just fucking weird. You're the lone white chick in a sea of every other race in what's supposedly what's left of the world. And I'm a black dude and this makes me feel funky.
Maybe whitey got wiped out between 2066 and whenever it takes place lol
And no I didn't vote for Trump. Jeez fellas.
onemanasylum
Banned
Good god man, just stop.
It's still not totally uncovered but yes it unveils at a good pace. And the game will take you back to other corners of the map you went by but never delved into, so it kinda cuts through and then fills in around the sides as you play.
I think the world is very cohesive. The areas make sense and this giant world makes me feel so far from the place I started, which I think is intentional, because Aloy must be feeling far from home too.
Your mentor is white. Several of the main characters are white. But also black, among other races.
Your comments don't make sense to me.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
So, if there would be fewer non white people, and more white people, it would feel more appropriate to you?
It totally makes sense for there to be very few white folks in the future, or at least for us to be in the minority. Although to be more accurate there would probably be very little racial diversity at all excluding racial purists that would refuse to breed outside of their race. I expect it to be kind of like the people that come from the future in that episode of South Park.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Considering there's been an overwhelming amount of games with like only one no name dark skinned character I'll take this where they seemed to have given prominent and important roles to my people
Are you saying the story in this game uses the white saviour trope?
DriftingSpirit
Member
I see this sometimes and I never understand. None of these games are reinventing the wheel lol.