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[mckmas8808]

Massive bias in reviews here.

Game wasn't even primarily developed by Guerrilla Games...

Exactly! Very disappointed in the bias here.

 

[Arachnid]

Another year, another mid Horizon game

 

[mckmas8808]

Yeah, just keep farming this trash IP ever and ever lmao.


Hust dumbass.

That trash IP has generated over $1 Billion! Maybe learn what a good IP is first.

 

[diffusionx]

That trash IP has generated over $1 Billion! Maybe learn what a good IP is first.

maybe they can pack this in with PS5s to drum up the numbers

 

[BennyBlanco]

Another year, another mid Horizon game

To be fair they didn’t launch it directly next to a massively hyped modern masterpiece as is the custom with the Horizon series

 

[Loomy]

This is where reviewers need to check themselves. I was reading the Eurogamer review this morning and this is the subhead

Too simple and childish for adults, and too one-note to convert the kids, Lego Horizon Adventures does little to recommend it to either existing Horizon fans or series newcomers.

Too simple and childish for adults: Yes, it's a lego game
and too one-note to convert the kids: I'm planning on playing this with my 6 year old. She enjoyed the Horizon level in Astrobot, and loves watching me find and climb on Tall Necks in the remaster. She's not going to play the Horizon games anytime soon, so no conversion needed. We just want a fun co-op game to play together.

You'll always begin following trails of studs down some linear corridors with a bit of gentle platforming in tow, until you reach one of its large, circular battle arenas full of long grass and nasty machines to beat up. Then, once the battle is over, you're funnelled back into tunnels of stud-collecting again until the next big battle sequence. Rinse and repeat for seven hours, with the occasional, once-per-biome break to chase the area's single Tall Neck (a rare highlight) or punch through a tech-filled Cauldron factory.

Again, this sounds perfect for a kid. Short enough that we can probably finish it in a weekend, simple and repetitive enough that she can grasp/master it relatively quickly.

 

[Gambit2483]

Ouch. These are bad scores.



The last "big" LEGO game was the Skywalker Saga, which scored in the 80s.

Most high profile LEGO games tend to score in the low to mid 80s. This is fairly low for a High profile LEGO game.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Half-assed efforts like this and the next Horizon MOBA won't turn the IP into Horizons Creed. Not happening.

In the next report, Totoki-san will tell us how Wukong saved them again from another embarrassment by Hermen Hulst.

 

[Fake]

'We want more new IPs'
Herman: 'Bruh they want more Aloy'.

Still missing a Aloy fightning game, Aloy racing game, Aloy FPS besides Killzone, Aloy Mario Party game... the options are endless.

 

[Saber]

That trash IP has generated over $1 Billion! Maybe learn what a good IP is first.

Its a Lego. I know you're a fanboy sicko, but even for Lego that doesn't matter. Its another public entirelly.
Whats next? Horizon Kart game? Horizon farm simulator? Lol only you and Hermen would justify these silly routes for Horizon spamming these numbers in every opportunity.

 

[Fortress of Regrets]

Hermen hits again. Sony's trajectory towards 'mid' continues.

 

[Vyse]

Not sure who is asking for this. Will be curious to see how it sells.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Horizon Midscore

 

[Complistic]

Sounds like it's a pretty standard LEGO game then. Shocking.

 

[diffusionx]

Sounds like it's a pretty standard LEGO game then. Shocking.

Except it's not made by TT. I think people were hoping that would give it some freshness, but it seems like they just did the same thing, better in some ways worse than others.

 

[EN250]

Oh look, as average as anyone could have ever imagined

Horizon as is, it's not some outstanding franchise, but the robo-dinos are what makes it attractive, I don't know anyone who played the games, clamoring for a game focused on the redhead with the personality of an amoeba

 

[DryvBy]

It's a LEGO game. I'll end up buying it for $20 with my kids and I think Horizon is a horrible series. But the LEGO games are always fun beat em up adventures.

 

[Fbh]

Sounds pretty bad.
Lots of reviews complaining about the game feeling repetitive and running out of steam before the end. That's always a problem, but specially so when we are talking about a game that's reportedly only 6-7 hours long.

 

[Minsc]

I quickly found the entire experience very repetitive and not a true representation of what makes Horizon special. Look, I'm a Lego fan. But this time around, I feel it really doesn't do the source material justice.

This review of the game also works for Lego sets as well! Friggen repetitive as all hell, just keep attaching piece after piece after piece...

 

[Nydius]

GameFly has already notified me that this will be shipping soon so I’ll be giving it a try. But reading all the reviews, even the positive ones make the same point about the extremely dumbed down level design.

Seems like Studio Gobo just couldn’t emulate Travelers Tales LEGO “magic”. It’s nice the entire world is made of LEGO and destructible, unlike TT games, but that doesn’t really matter if the gameplay doesn’t make you want to stick around.

Guess I’ll find out myself in a few days and at least I’m only paying a rental fee.

I see the usual suspects are out here shitting on Horizon. Your precious Killzone isn’t coming back. Two Horizon games have sold better than the entire Killzone franchise. If you don’t like it, that’s a you problem.

 

[rkofan87]

70 ouch.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

inb4 We could have had the Bloodborne remake, Bloodborne 2, Bloodkart and Blood Party, but instead we got HZD reamster and this.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

this ain't it. PlayStation, this ain't it

 

[sainraja]

Sounds like a big swing and miss. Kids don't give a fuck about Horizon. lol

I don't think kids were reviewing the game here lol

 

[rofif]

73$ On polish psn. For a lego horizon game... althought it can't be more boring than forbidden west

 

[Kacho]

I don't think kids were reviewing the game here lol

That wasn’t what I was saying. Kids in general don’t care about Horizon.

 

[sainraja]

That wasn’t what I was saying. Kids in general don’t care about Horizon.

Kids might care about games. Kids also don't think like us.

 

[Punished Miku]

The "socks" of video game Christmas presents. Good luck kids.

 

[Hypereides]

Eh, this was to be expected, I guess.

This is a weird comment though:
"Sacrificing Killzone for such productions raises some regrets,"

I wouldn't say it was totally out of line. Time, money and resources went into this which could've or might've been spent elsewhere.

'We want more new IPs'
Herman: 'Bruh they want more Aloy'.

Still missing a Aloy fightning game, Aloy racing game, Aloy FPS besides Killzone, Aloy Mario Party game... the options are endless.

I'm still waiting for Horizon cart. Get in gear, Hulst.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

I wouldn't say it was totally out of line. Time, money and resources went into this which could've or might've been spent elsewhere.

It's not a GG game though.

 

[mckmas8808]

maybe they can pack this in with PS5s to drum up the numbers

 

[mckmas8808]

Its a Lego. I know you're a fanboy sicko, but even for Lego that doesn't matter. Its another public entirelly.
Whats next? Horizon Kart game? Horizon farm simulator? Lol only you and Hermen would justify these silly routes for Horizon spamming these numbers in every opportunity.

Damn, why you so mad son?

Just don't buy the game and move on. You taking this game being made pretty hard.

 

[Flabagast]

Another banger from Sony

 

[nial]

Holy shit, this must be one the biggest threads out there to show how absolute retarded this forum has become.
>kids don't care about horizon lul
Yeah we know, smoothbrain, every game in the series UP UNTIL NOW was rated T, this title was made for a reason. You know what kids don't care about either? Review scores and unhinged hatred against the series in general or Aloy.
I mean, there's at least two parents in this very thread looking to buy the game for their children. This little piece of data isn't obviously a full representation of the real world appeal, but you know? Take it as you will.

 

[midnightAI]

Most high profile LEGO games tend to score in the low to mid 80s. This is fairly low for a High profile LEGO game.

I have a feeling some of those reviewing it aren't judging it by Lego standards but by Sony/Horizon standards. The game looks (graphically) like the best a Lego game has ever looked and playability wise looks to just replicate what other Lego games have done before it with a bit of Horizon combat thrown in. Either way, I dont care, I've seen enough to know the game looks fun and I'll enjoy it, it isn't groundbreaking and it doesn't need to be. I've also enjoyed other cutesy short-ish platformers on PS5 this gen like Sackboy and Astro, sometimes these fun little games are a nice distraction (and like Sackboy this looks like its very fun multiplayer co-op)

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

with that score it should have been on Xbox Game Pass.

 

[Little Chicken]

with that score it should have been on Xbox Game Pass.

 

[nial]

BTW, Heimdall_Xtreme I wonder if you will also claim that woke reviewers are trying to hurt Lego Horizon or some shit like that.

 

[Saber]

Damn, why you so mad son?

In what part of my post I was mad?
If anything this situation and your attitude(defensive, spamming emojis and "don't buying" rebutal) are funny lol

 

[MacReady13]

Some of the reviews saying this game is based on a modern "classic"! In what fucking world are we living in where Horizon is a classic game? Fuck me the bar is so low for classics we are putting Horizon in that category???

 

[nial]

Hermen hits again. Sony's trajectory towards 'mid' continues.

If you think so, but Sony already made dozens of games with scores like this in past gens.
I just looked up and Knack 2 (that was being released in a similar point of PS4's lifecycle) got a MC score of 69, and you know? I enjoyed the fuck out of that game, especially in co-op which seems to be a big focus on Lego Horizon as well.
Sony was also publishing games like Knowledge is Power or SingStar Celebration in the fall of 2017 that weren't exactly hits with reviewers either, but they still managed to do well, at least in some particular markets like Europe.

 

[pasterpl]

What a waste of time.

Probably with outsell stellablade, rise of ronin and Astrobot combined.

 

[mckmas8808]

Probably with outsell stellablade, rise of ronin and Astrobot combined.

I doubt that. Come on man....

 

[Danjin44]

Even bing Lego game can help Horizon from being boring.