firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yeah, I assume the ending video is pre-rendered and they could only guarantee those two would show up.
Horizon Zero Dawn SPOILERS Thread
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SiegfriedFM
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Aside from everything else he did, he was literally trying to destroy mankind. A stab was better than the deserved.
MegaSackman
Member
I twisted that knife like there was no tomorrow.
Vault Dweller 111
Member
I wish I could remember the full line.
"He chose you because you were weak, no one will remember you, now look to the sun"
God damn Aloy! The 'look to the sun' line was a great callback. Overall the games writing impressed me. Especially all of the recordings and text files.
"He chose you because you were weak, no one will remember you, now look to the sun"
God damn Aloy! The 'look to the sun' line was a great callback. Overall the games writing impressed me. Especially all of the recordings and text files.
Dusktildawn48
Member
Holy shit do I need to watch the credits? It's been like 25 minutes.
MegaSackman
Member
"Your whole life was a failure and soon no one will even remember you. Turn your face to the sun and think about that".
Shiet.
The initial animated one yes I think so. And it's like 5 minutes.
It was the first time I choice aggression too. It just felt more appropriate or epic in that moment I guess
Vault Dweller 111
Member
Lawd
Then you're almost through.
But yes, you can press that Skip button and still see the post credits stinger.
Dusktildawn48
Member
Just did. Fuck.
MegaSackman
Member
Previous to that: "Chosen? Hades only choose you because you're a fool. A sadistic butcher too stupid to see you were being used".
Haha so worthy.
Vault Dweller 111
Member
Aloy is pretty fucking badass.
Disagree. The story can be a little exposition-heavy but only in the latter stages, and by then I was hungry for some explanation so I didn't mind so much.
The lore of the world is nicely handled IMO. You piece together a lot from the side quests and conversations, uncovering relationships (leading to some of them more memorable characters coming back to help in the final battle), and also how the different tribes see each other, how each one believes different things etc. For me the side quests were more important for the storytelling than for the actual action taken in them
Choosing the aggresive option with Lansra and the other matriarchs was cathartic as hell. Did not regret being harsh with them.
I'm looking for a video on that, but none of the YouTubers seem to pick that option D:
Well, maybe a bit cause of Teersa, but y'now. Collateral damage and all that 
I'm looking for a video on that, but none of the YouTubers seem to pick that option D:
Honestly, how can you not pick the "fist" option with all this vile motherfuckers insulting Aloy? I love that she can threaten Resh with death after the Provings.
Then, towards the end, she goes something like "even with all the deaths hitting the tribe, we could afford just one more" on him
Also, getting angry at Rost before the Provings can destroy you (especially with the reveal of his past)
Then, towards the end, she goes something like "even with all the deaths hitting the tribe, we could afford just one more" on him
Also, getting angry at Rost before the Provings can destroy you (especially with the reveal of his past)
She does, she's on the walk up the Spire prior to the battle and goes over the ridge with Errand and Varl for the final battle.
Resh the biggest fuckin asshole in the whole game imo
After skimming through about a dozen "Heart of the Nora" videos I finally found one where the aggressive option is picked: https://youtu.be/EDntlQZuGow?t=21m26s
"What would you know about what's necessary?" Exactly, you tell em girl!
On my "quest" to find the video I also stumbled upon this thumbnail:
Lol, perfect.
"What would you know about what's necessary?" Exactly, you tell em girl!
On my "quest" to find the video I also stumbled upon this thumbnail:
Lol, perfect.
After skimming through about a dozen "Heart of the Nora" videos I finally found one where the aggressive option is picked: https://youtu.be/EDntlQZuGow?t=21m26s
"What would you know about what's necessary?" Exactly, you tell em girl!
On my "quest" to find the video I also stumbled upon this thumbnail:
Lol, perfect.
Everyone want's Aloy though
everyday math
Banned
Going back to his grave if you did the angry option. Poor Aloy basically breaking down. ;___;
What kind of monster would get angry at Rost!?
Yeah, there's dialog regarding that after you do the Ersa questline, he'll ask you to pretty much take Ersa's place. It's really quite awkward.
MegaSackman
Member
He offers Aloy a similar "partnership" like the one he had with Ersa and you have to answer, I gently said no, so afterwards you have that dialogue you mentioned.
Edit: What Paganmoon said.
She has all the rights to get angry at her father for straight up abandoning her because of his attachment to the moronic tribal laws that brought misery to her life from day one
And she goes 0 to 100 REALLY fast
SteamyPunk
Member
I couldn't hate Helis completely because his voice was so beautiful. ^^ Very nice acting!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It makes sense given his backstory though. By all rights, he should be dead.
Of course, there's no real reason why the Nora are weird isolationists in the first place.
Not sure the correct terminology for this question, but if you know the answer it should be obvious what I am asking about.
In the North, the snow area where you fight the thunderhawk near a vantage point. If you go past it and continue up the mountain you come to an area with an intense orange light shinning out of a hole in the mountain and a very deep drop near it.. To the left is some climbing areas, but I can't seem to progress much past them. I get to the spot about even with the hanging gear, but I see no further way to climb or do anything else. I just end up climbing down a couple ledges and using the grapple.
Am I missing something? If this has a purpose later, but I am not to it yet, let me know that and I'll figure it out. If not and you can offer a hint or three, please do.
In the North, the snow area where you fight the thunderhawk near a vantage point. If you go past it and continue up the mountain you come to an area with an intense orange light shinning out of a hole in the mountain and a very deep drop near it.. To the left is some climbing areas, but I can't seem to progress much past them. I get to the spot about even with the hanging gear, but I see no further way to climb or do anything else. I just end up climbing down a couple ledges and using the grapple.
Am I missing something? If this has a purpose later, but I am not to it yet, let me know that and I'll figure it out. If not and you can offer a hint or three, please do.
Why are you in a spoiler thread? Go play play the game and finish it, then come back.
Aaronology
Member
You'll have to return there. Don't worry about it now, nothing you can do but take some great screenshots and enjoy the scenery.
I am reading nothing but the replies. Got what I needed, come back and check it later.
Thank you
lol Sorry. I don't think my post came across as funny as I thought it did. Just play the game and every major area opens up. If it's called a "bunker" on the map, it's a story area.
Likely to destroy broken machines, clear debris, building demolition.
Someone remind me what the Apollo module function was again?
Also, where did all non-Alloy persons come from?
I think I crossed some streams somewhere in here and am a little confused.
Are Sylens' weird tubing just part of him tinkering on himself from the knowledge he learned? Is that addressed at all?
Also, where did all non-Alloy persons come from?
I think I crossed some streams somewhere in here and am a little confused.
Are Sylens' weird tubing just part of him tinkering on himself from the knowledge he learned? Is that addressed at all?
Apollo was one of the subroutines under Gaia that was all the knowledge, or as much of it possible to gather and digitize, of humanity from history to sciences to random pop culture. It was supposed to teach the next generation of humanity but Ted Faro deleted it in one final moment of grand shittiness.
All the humans came from womb facilities like the one inside the Nora Holy Mountain that was controlled by one of the subroutines of Gaia.
Sylens seems to be a member of the Banuk tribe who all do something similar in terms of self scarification using what looks to be wiring.
LastMinuteHero
Member
To impart knowledge and history and all that jazz
Artificially made by GAIA from selected people before the world finally gave out
The tubings are like stitches to close up wounds or something. If you pay attention to some Banuk npcs have the same blue things. They say they get them from machine parts
So...
The side-quest that takes you to the Banuk camp, you climb the mountain and tell the pillagers to piss off. The relic breaks and sends the machines in the village back to loopy.
Nothing ever comes of that tech? A relic that seemingly reverses (or at least keeps at bay) the derangement?
The side-quest that takes you to the Banuk camp, you climb the mountain and tell the pillagers to piss off. The relic breaks and sends the machines in the village back to loopy.
Nothing ever comes of that tech? A relic that seemingly reverses (or at least keeps at bay) the derangement?
I remember the one hologram of the kids getting kicked out. People like that? They sorta... reverted back to tribalism?
For some reason I was thinking the Alphas were chosen to be the genetic source of the future civilization.
Was there info in the game on when Aloy was... created? Elisabet cloned herself no? Do we know what her end goal with that was?
TheSadRanger
Banned
In one of the Eleuthia text logs it mentions that humans currently living on Earth were introduced in 2350 or something. So about two hundred years after the faro bots destroyed everything. So the current civilization has been around for 700 years since Aloy was created in 3015 or something.
The first generation of humans was thrown back into the world 700 years ago with the general knowledge of young children or toddlers. They weren't very advanced because the robots taking care of them weren't programmed to deal with teenagers and adults. Apollo wasn't around to teach them anything either so they were basically told to fend for themselves once the food stores in the womb facility ran out.
The Alphas just ran the Zero Dawn programs and helped design and guide the AI systems. The genetic material was from all manner of sources so that their was genetic diversity in the new world.
Gaia created Aloy, not Elisabet.
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
Hmm, come to think of it that thing looked a lot like HADES did. It'd be pretty funny if that was one of the AIs and no one realised.
Some of the data points mentioned a project lightkeeper program that got scrapped early on. IIRC, they don't go into specifics but the gist of it was that the Alphas were gonna clone each other and then raise their clones to take their spot. I assume it was in case something went wrong someone with an understanding of the system could correct it.
When they scrapped it they purged their genetic information from the system but GAIA secretly decided to hold on to Elisabets genetic makeup as a memento. When the signal attacked GAIA and she decided to blow herself up she used Elisabets DNA to make Aloy cause her DNA (Elisabets) would give her full control of the system and access to all the bunker doors.
LumpOfCole
Member
If there's a sequel, I really hope it's a descendant of Aloy and not Aloy herself. I feel that they told her story really well and giving her more to do would just be messing with a good ending.
She still has to rebuild Gaia as the one big thing left to do so Aloy still has a lot of story left to cover and that doesn't include everything going on with Sylens.
but there's so much left to do!
Finished the game. I enjoyed the latter parts of the story quite a bit, Aloy really clicked with me when she started getting pissed off at Sylens for sending her on all these dangerous missions. I -really- liked her visiting Elisabet's final resting place, it was beautiful, I teared up. A+++.
Beautiful graphics, aside from the sometimes ugly NPC face animations (but what incredible face designs!!).
Gameplay uhhh...I made the mistake of picking Silent Strike and Lure very early on, so I spent most of the game hiding in a bush and whistling. Not exactly compelling. The down d-pad menu was really unwieldy. Was hoping there would be more I could do with tamed machines, but there really wasn't since I couldn't convince them to follow me outside of their patrol paths aside from the sheep/bulls/horses. Had trouble seeing quest markers a lot of the time (kept most of the hud off).
Eagerly awaiting a sequel with potential gameplay/HUD improvements, and more of Aloy's story.
Beautiful graphics, aside from the sometimes ugly NPC face animations (but what incredible face designs!!).
Gameplay uhhh...I made the mistake of picking Silent Strike and Lure very early on, so I spent most of the game hiding in a bush and whistling. Not exactly compelling. The down d-pad menu was really unwieldy. Was hoping there would be more I could do with tamed machines, but there really wasn't since I couldn't convince them to follow me outside of their patrol paths aside from the sheep/bulls/horses. Had trouble seeing quest markers a lot of the time (kept most of the hud off).
Eagerly awaiting a sequel with potential gameplay/HUD improvements, and more of Aloy's story.
Dusktildawn48
Member
Had any kind of new game plus been rumored for this game?