re: Horizon Zero Dawn

Cool. Still waiting for some youtubers (Before You Buy, Buy/Rent/Wait for Sale/Skip). I may buy this yet. The Sterling score is encouraging. I just don't want to be picking up twigs and berries and shite for an empty crafting system

Just read a USGamer review and now I'm scared again. Talks about all the shite I feared.

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It’s here where Horizon Zero Dawn settles you into a familiar grind, if you’ve played any modern RPG ever. You pluck herbs from the ground for health and supplies. You hunt (robotic) creatures using a variety of upgradeable bows (alongside other less-useful weapons) along with infinite boars and foxes (literally the only living animals that aren’t robots) so that you can craft more things. You talk to strangers on the road and in towns that you’ve never met before, and help them with their troubles despite any trust issues Aloy should bear inherently. Horizon Zero Dawn is a conglomerate of familiar RPG tasks, and fails to make any of them feel worthwhile; lacking the strong narrative to pull you through or differentiating hook to set the game apart from others in the genre.

The side missions in Horizon Zero Dawn are consequentially stale, in that they feel repetitive and pointless to a fault. In one, I help gather supplies for a woman's superpowered gun. I slaughter some people, get the supplies, slaughter more people with the new gun, and then we're pals. In most cases, you're fetching something for someone, you're helping someone fight (whether it's against robots or bandits), or you're finding a missing person. In another, a distressed father worries his daughter has fled to commit suicide, so I investigate to track her whearabouts. In the end she's not dead, just cornered by an alligator-like robot. I kill it, she thanks me, then she sends me to find another person (her lover), who winds up dead. She returns to her father, heartbroken, but alive. Aloy leaves, to likely track down another stranger.

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After about fifteen hours with the game, the game’s main plot reaches an apparent climactic point. The story plateaus at this point, dragging out the additional revelations and twists, and slogs at a painfully slow pace for approximately 15 more hours. The main story within Horizon Zero Dawn has hardly any variety, like the side quests. Seemingly every main mission ends in an arena fight of sorts against a giant-to-medium-sized machine, with a plethora of corridor battles against living humans to get there. Horizon Zero Dawn waddles in an identity crisis. The game is action-packed and "open world" to the fullest extent of the definition, but then it shoves you into another battle of running in a big circle, flinging arrows aimlessly at your devilishly (and as the game drags on, redundant) massive target. It urges you to embark on bountiful side quests, but the bulk of them feel pointless and distracting to the central, pressing conflict. It attempts to tell a grand science fiction tale of humans and the mistakes we make with technology, but its central heart feels cold and unearned, and grows increasingly reliant on boring information dumps.

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Pre-order canceled!

I'm glad someone else said it.

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trying too hard to push your agenda

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Dude your opinions were invalidated with this statement:

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might even throw the elder scrolls series and fallout 3 - 4 in there.

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I love these Bethesda games and have played them all, but you are really going to say they aren't repetitive? Come one now....

Its just a little too convenient that you are the one hating on the game pre-release. You wouldn't be caught dead in any Xbone game pre-release thread doing the same thing....even if all signs did point to the game being shitty.


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Looks I am late to the party.

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So the single bad review out of 60+ is the one you take to heart? You could do this with any game to fit your agenda.

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I'm not fitting an agenda, I'm just bringing to light a less-than-stellar review. I'm not discounting the other reviews. Like I said, this one worries me because it talks about shite I don't like. You may like stale side quests and picking up twigs and berries to make a new pouch, I don't. Maybe that reviewer doesn't like it either. Doesn't matter that we've never heard of this site, I'd take a random nobody over a paid-for IGN hack. I will keep reading the others, no need to break up yalls circle jerk. Waiting to see what EasyAllies has to say

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but I do believe they aren't paid off to say whatever someone wants them to say,

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I don't think it's this as much as it is the ads and shite. If someone spends 10s of thousands to advertise on your site, it's very hard to be totally impartial

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I don't think it's this as much as it is the ads and shite. If someone spends 10s of thousands to advertise on your site, it's very hard to be totally impartial

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Which is why I like Kinda Funny Games - they are paid mostly through the Patreon and are a Youtube video game group.

I'm excited about the Switch - but their attack on Nintendo after the Press thing they did to reveal the Switch - was spot on because of their objectivity.

They said Horizon is the best First Party game to date on the ps4 and this game is so good that Guerrilla games should from this point on be known as an amazing open world game developer - because anything else would be a disservice.

Don't own a PS4.

Considering buying one just for this game though. Sad it isn't coming out on PC.