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Horizon Zero Dawn Spoiler-free Impressions (for real this time)

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Musician655321 said:
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.
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Nothing you're saying regarding the arbitrary race of the characters in a
post-apocalyptic America
reflects anything I've seen in every one of the videos I've watched

And I've watched all of them
 
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The Lamp

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Blackleg-sanji1 said:
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
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If you don't mind a mild spoiler, I have an example that I think will make you happy
Probably the toughest main character I've met so far is the War Chief of the Nora Tribe. She's a black woman, and a mother, and her son is a soldier in her army.
 
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love on your sleeve
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Reposting for new page. Quote to see more gameplay of me wandering the wilderness 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.
 
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The Lamp said:
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.
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Cool, when I saw the whole map that comes with some collector's edition, I really felt it like something with a lot of effort put into it but I was worried since I thought you were nowhere near the end and suddenly you are. Probably missed some of your post here and there. :p
 
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Blackleg-sanji1

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The Lamp said:
If you don't mind a mild spoiler, I have an example that I think will make you happy
Probably the toughest main character I've met so far is the War Chief of the Nora Tribe. She's a black woman, and a mother, and her son is a soldier in her army.
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I ain't reading that lamp you damn well know lol I trust ya
 
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Now what's the next step in your master plan?
I'm fairly sure the whole idea of everyone turning into a generic looking brown race in the far future doesn't really work unless the entire population of humanity was a small area and didn't travel out of it. Even in the far future there were would be groups of people who would be isolated from others whether its because of physical features of the environment like a mountain range or are just incredible far apart. Its just not a situation that would turn up as the separated populations would breed and take on "unique" features because of their local group of people but other groups could look very different.
 
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gundamkyoukai

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The Lamp said:
If you don't mind a mild spoiler, I have an example that I think will make you happy
Probably the toughest main character I've met so far is the War Chief of the Nora Tribe. She's a black woman, and a mother, and her son is a soldier in her army.
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From the vids and stream i have seen race don't seem to be a problem .
They seem to have a good mix compare to most games.
 
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sleepr said:
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):

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.

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!
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Ooh, I actually saw this one during a stream. Like you said, definitely not on W3's level, but it's alright I guess.

Musician655321 said:
They needed to pepper in some more crackers is what I'm saying.
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Sigh.
 
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The Lamp said:
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.
[email="https://youtu.be/22Elp1fecME][/email]
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Damn that ending. I was hoping for a machine that did what that one does.
 
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Enclose

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The Lamp said:
Reposting for new page. Quote to see more gameplay of me wandering the wilderness 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.
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Is this a base ps4 or the pro? The pop in at 2:23 is weird.
 
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Enclose said:
Is this a base ps4 or the pro? The pop in at 2:23 are weird.
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This is on pro.

There is pop-in sometimes, particularly when the game decides to suddenly generate enemies or NPCs and you just traveled into a new area it's not finished loading yet. But it's rare and it's usually not very harsh.
 
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Musician655321

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Really guys? What the fuck lol

Diggin up my pro and all. Okay.

Sorry if my honesty offends some.

I'll continue to suck the games dick and give nothing but great impressions.

Better?
 
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i-Lo

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The Lamp said:
This is on pro.

There is pop-in sometimes, particularly when the game decides to suddenly generate enemies or NPCs and you just traveled into a new area it's not finished loading yet. But it's rare and it's usually not very harsh.
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Was there a day 1 patch? And what about encountering bugs?

Whilst I have it pre-ordered, I wonder if it'd be best if I left it till a few patches came out and sorted everything out as that seems to be the norm this generation.
 
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