re: Horizon Zero Dawn

It's definitely more stealth than I was expecting.

I'm not far in, so maybe I'll get more overpowered at some point, but it definitely seems to push you in that direction a bit. When you come up on like two watchers and three striders, I guess you could just barrel in, but it doesn't seem like it would work very well.

I'm only comparing it to the witcher because that's the last game I played (not because they're both open world), but I'm having more fun with this so far, just because I like the combat more and I'm more intrigued by where the story is going.

I haven't really had that problem. If you can get back into the uncharted 4 high grass after a stealth kill it shouldn't be a huge problem.

man, this game is a blast so far. it succeeds where the Witcher succeeds in that the shite you do feels meaningful and masks the tropes present. story is much better than expected

my issues:

lots of weird graphical things. ill be talking to someone and itll stutter and look like like the character was dropped in at lightspeed. it happens quite often (running Pro with Favor Performance setting)

The camera seems weirdly offset at times (slightly to right or left). Anyone bugged by this. Also, the camera goes to complete shite and gets too close when youre in the settlements. Wish there was a setting to prevent that.

combat with humans kinda sucks. a bunch of reviews mentioned this, but man I didnt think it'd feel so bad. fighting the machines is fricking awesome and you really feel like you're hurting them. Fighting humans feels like Elder Scrolls almost. You feel like you're hitting them with nerf darts and you just watch their hp trickle

Very early in but loving it so far. The mechanics seem very smooth to me so far, especially the climbing, it feels much easier and smoother than say an Uncharted.

conle lives in this area and he was awesome enough to let me come to his house and finish downloading the game.

This is an exclusive I wish I could get on PC.

That's what I need to do more of, just explore. I keep getting caught up in the main and side quests, the story is so good.

Did my first side mission last night and it was fricking terrible. I looked it up after and it apparently was shown in previews and got blasted, so I hope it's not an indication of all side quests. It's the brother/sister one. You literally follow a trail for 15 min, stopped to kill shite and use detective mode along the way. The payoff is horrible voice acting

Main missions have been awesome so far. Just got through the gate into the new area with my trusted steed

Yeah I've seen people say it's better than W3 and I won't go that far. I think it is flawed but still much better than most open world games like fallout 4.