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This game is officially confirmed for a Personal Computer release with an ETA of August 7th Horizon: Zero Dawn (or maybe without the colon; none of the sites seem to agree) is an open-world robot dinosaur hunting game made by the Killzone people. Against those odds it looks like it's actually reviewing really well. You play as a tribal huntress named Aloy who apparently travels across the land using her detective vision to scavenge every part of a laser T-rex to make sick rear end cyberbows just like our ancestors did. It sounds from the reviews exactly like what you've come to expect from recent AAA open-world games and that it doesn't necessarily do anything new, just that it does everything really well. Reviews: Giant Bomb - 5/5 Polygon 9.5/10 The Jimquisition 9.5/10 IGN 9.3/10 Gamespot 9/10 Gameinformer 8.75/10 Digital Foundry PS4 vs PS4PRO FPS Test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTH8OnQKWeY ESRB Rating : T for TEEN Content Descriptors: Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, Blood, Mild Language, Mild Sexual Themes, Violence Rating Summary: This is an action/role-playing game in which players assume the role of a hunter (Aloy) surviving through a post-apocalyptic world. Players guide Aloy as she learns to hunt robotic creatures and animals in the wild. Aloy uses arrows, spears, and explosive traps to injure and kill machines, boar, and occasional human enemies. Animals and humans emit small puffs of red blood when struck; one sequence depicts an abandoned camp with large blood stains on rocks and trees. The game contains a brief reference to sexual material (e.g., “Eighteen months hard labor in exchange for thirty years lounging around Elysium watching porn?”). During the course of the game, characters sometimes reference controlled substances: "I went to the beer fount too many times to count"; “I'm just a brewer"; "I know I'm a useless drunk"; "A tobacco cigarette?"; "Speaking of which, mind if I smoke?" The words “a*s,” “bastard,” and “b*tch” appear in dialogue. Horizon launches February 28th in America, March 1st in Europe, and March 2nd in Japan I guess you get to shoot Liger Zeros in this game Saint Freak fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 18:14 |
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Please rename the subtitle to: Hunting Robodinos in the Uncanny Valley. I so want this game to be good!! Please don't fail me European grimdark first-person shooter dudes.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 16:37 |
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From everything I've seen in the streams, it is literally another soulless Ubisoft-style Open World game with piss poor repetitive gameplay and ham-fisted lame story. They've really made fighting robot animals look boring.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 16:53 |
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Turns out the lead writer of Fallout: New Vegas (John Gonzalez) wrote most of this game. I'm way more interested in this now.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 17:05 |
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Turns out the lead writer of Fallout: New Vegas (John Gonzalez) wrote most of this game. I'm way more interested in this now. This is the most intriguing thing about it I've read so far.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 17:18 |
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Super pumped for this. Just finished Far Cry: Primal and the literal lack of an ending left me hungry for a caveman hunting game with a decent story. This game is also my consolation prize for "I just bought a PS4 a month ago and probably shouldn't drop another $350+ on the Switch right away"
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 17:36 |
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exquisite tea posted:Please rename the subtitle to: Hunting Robodinos in the Uncanny Valley. People are throwing around like 6+ million sales projections, so you're not the only one with some expectations for it. Guess we'll know in a week.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 18:37 |
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Randomzx posted:From everything I've seen in the streams, it is literally another soulless Ubisoft-style Open World game with piss poor repetitive gameplay and ham-fisted lame story. They've really made fighting robot animals look boring. Correct: My biggest source of disappointment was that fighting the robots is actually a pretty minor part of the game. I'd say the ratio of Far Cry style stealth outpost clearing-to-robot fighting is a solid 3:1. You spend way more time fighting people than robot dinosaurs. The human enemy AI is really bad too, dumber than Far Cry 3/4. The streamer was consistently taking down enemies in plain sight of their friends without anything happening. The robots are also unfortunately dumb, he'd get into fights with the tougher ones and their attacks were so off the mark 3/4 of the time that it got to the point where he would dodge directly into their attacks just to try making the fights interesting. There's a few dozen different robots, but since most of them are just reskinned variants, it's really more like 14-15 different types of robot. It goes without saying that Aloy gets overpowered really early on. That's right, this is a game which manages to take the concept of fighting giant robot dinosaurs and make it tedious. Just consider this. Speaking of Aloy, remember that footage they showed last E3 where she was narrating everything that happened? And how they said they had her do that just for the sake of the stage demo? Well, no, she's exactly that talkative for the whole game, which wouldn't be a problem if she just said each line once whenever a new situation came up, but no, it's the same canned lines again and again to match the scenario. Think Jack Marston from postgame RDR by a factor of 10. The writing isn't remarkably bad, but it's not very good at all, either. The game's characters are all really flat and the voice acting is equally bland for the most part (which can be expected in this sort of game, unfortunately) The animations for the ingame cutscenes are also really stilted and awkward, practically The Old Republic-level. You know that 'Brom scene' that's been floating around? Well, most of the games cutscene's are about the same quality. Story spoilers: The entirety of the game's background lore is dumped in one room where you can press various buttons to watch various holograms talk for about an hour, which is one of the worst ways to deliver a story I can imagine. Also the big 'twist' of the game is literally the same twist from Xenoblade Chronicles X beat-for-beat (all the actual humans died a long time ago and every 'human' in the game is just a robot) it's about as weak a twist now as it was then. The game's graphics are easily the high point, but even that comes with issues. There's a lot of invisible walls in odd places, but some particular objects that should be solid, like certain boulders, trees, cacti etc. have no collision at all so you just kind of go right through some of the stuff you pass. The world in this game isn't entirely 'open' in a sense, either it's several different zones connected through tunnels/canyons to load them up, kind of like how World of Warcraft does it, which would be okay if the zones were at least fully visible, but that's not the case because the fog hiding the draw distance is really noticeable, especially this one desert area in the middle of the game. But hey, at least it goes away in screenshot mode!! There's a lot of really odd design choices- a particularly glaring one was Aloy's bow and arrow, which leaves a thick white trail each time you fire it (and I mean thick- I thought she was using some kind of special rope arrow at first) I get that they probably did this to more easily indicate where your shots hit, but... was there really no less distracting way? There's a similar trail when you swing around your melee weapon, but it seemed to be totally off a lot of the time, appearing higher or lower than your swings, or vanishing halfway through, which is also bizarre and distracting. I had some hope for the game- 'cavewoman taking down giant robot dinosaurs' seemed like a pretty refreshing concept at first glance, but at the end of the day, the Killzone developers made an open world Ubisoft game. If that's your thing, you'll have fun, but I'm just kind of tired of that. Shadow of Mordor is still this subgenre's peak I think. I'm also just kind of fed up with Western-developed first party Sony games as a whole- do they all have some kind of mandate to be as drab and 'cinematic' as possible or something? Feh...
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 18:50 |
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Oh thank god I'm glad there are goons from the future here to tell me the game was always bad. Those reviews had me tricked.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 19:37 |
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Gumball Gumption posted:Oh thank god I'm glad there are goons from the future here to tell me the game was always bad. Those reviews had me tricked. here's the context behind Lumpy's review Lumpy the Cook posted:Some guy got his hands on a copy of Horizon: Zero Dawn and streamed it over the weekend and I watched it on and off while cleaning the house. So maybe trust the people that actually played the game. Like this person! ImpAtom posted:For someone complaining about the story you don't actually appear to have understood the story or watched the story. Like you're actively straight-up wrong here to the point you got the polar direct opposite of the actual plot point you're complaining about. My roommate is buying the game so I'm just going to play it after he's done with it unless the user reviews are awful (in which case I will just play more Mass Effect probably).
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 19:46 |
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As someone who left a stream playing in my bedroom while I watched the newest episode of hit TV show Riverdale at my friend's house I can safely say this game is poo poo I mean, come on Archie, kiss Betty already!
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 19:49 |
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Wendell posted:As someone who left a stream playing in my bedroom while I watched the newest episode of hit TV show Riverdale at my friend's house I can safely say this game is poo poo How is Riverdale though?
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 19:49 |
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Riverdale is quite enjoyable, but the open world aspect is overdone.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 19:50 |
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Was looking for this thread last night and was surprised there wasn't one until now given all the pre-release hype from past E3s.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:00 |
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IcePhoenix posted:here's the context behind Lumpy's review Not to get into a fight about defending a game that isn't out yet but watching a steam and playing a game are two different things. A game can look like poo poo on a steam and still be a great game. The first couple posts being about how it is a bad game from people who have not played it is really dumb. Also Riverdale is surprisingly good.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:07 |
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I remember complaints about the person playing being kinda bad so I'd take it with a grain of salt. Stuff like the animations and story though, those don't look so hot.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:14 |
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I'll be holding out until people are actually playing it. Very interested though.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:20 |
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I thought somehow you got an advance review and yet it amounts to simply "watching a stream on and off so therefore here's my REVIEW" lol, gently caress off.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:30 |
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I'm excited for the sequel, Vista: Nadir Sunrise.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:33 |
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Lawrence Gilchrist posted:I'm excited for the sequel, Vista: Nadir Sunrise. Zero Dusk 2 Dawn, where the robosaurs are revealed in the final act to be vampires.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:39 |
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Rhaegar posted:Was looking for this thread last night and was surprised there wasn't one until now given all the pre-release hype from past E3s. This forums trends towards niche and Japanese games. So games like Yakuza Zero and Neir Automata get very active threads over AAA blockbusters.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:55 |
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Niche games also tend to have more drip info and weird drama around them to talk about. I honestly have no idea what this thread would be about before the game came out. I guess everyone talking about zoids?
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:58 |
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I was worried about the UI overlays looking too busy for this game, but I read that it can be set to "Dynamic" so that your screen isn't always lit up with cursors and POI.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 21:40 |
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Gumball Gumption posted:Niche games also tend to have more drip info and weird drama around them to talk about. I honestly have no idea what this thread would be about before the game came out. I guess everyone talking about zoids? Yeah I was pretty much at a loss what to even put in the OP for now except for reviews, so if anyone has rad suggestions to add let me know. I assume the GB guys will do a Quick Look at some point this week too.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 00:22 |
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This game got called feminist by a couple of outlets and features women and people of color in positions of power. This game is going to have a -1000000000000000 user review score on aggregation sites, isn't it?
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 01:07 |
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Jimbot posted:This game got called feminist by a couple of outlets and features women and people of color in positions of power. This game is going to have a -1000000000000000 user review score on aggregation sites, isn't it? The bar for "feminist" in video games is set so low as to be subterranean, but yeah. There's probably going to be some troll drama.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 02:41 |
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Wanderer posted:The bar for "feminist" in video games is set so low as to be subterranean, but yeah. There's probably going to be some troll drama. From the examples they used, it sounds like there is some really liberal writing in the game that'll piss off the "PC culture ruining everything" crowd. A low bar, like you said, but for an AAA game to even have it and not as a marketing bullet point (apparently it's pretty subtle) is a pretty big deal. At least the liberal LGBTQ industry folk I follow on twitter or get retweeted by people I follow are impressed with it, so that at least says something. Jeff Gerstmann was also really gushing about the story in the Giantbombcast this week, so it sounds like the writing is top-notch all around.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 02:59 |
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That is good to hear, Jimbot.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 03:03 |
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Lumpy the Cook posted:the Killzone developers made an open world Ubisoft game. open world ubisoft games are bad and why would anyone copy that? poo poo gently caress this game looked so cool
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 03:15 |
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Jimbot posted:From the examples they used, it sounds like there is some really liberal writing in the game that'll piss off the "PC culture ruining everything" crowd. A low bar, like you said, but for an AAA game to even have it and not as a marketing bullet point (apparently it's pretty subtle) is a pretty big deal. At least the liberal LGBTQ industry folk I follow on twitter or get retweeted by people I follow are impressed with it, so that at least says something. Jeff Gerstmann was also really gushing about the story in the Giantbombcast this week, so it sounds like the writing is top-notch all around. from what I've seen, the story and writing definitely were not the high points of the game, and being 'subtle' is really pushing it.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 03:30 |
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Doorknob Slobber posted:open world ubisoft games are bad and why would anyone copy that? poo poo gently caress this game looked so cool all accounts say they did it in a good way instead of the bad ubi way but maybe its not for you
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 03:32 |
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I'm still excited for Horizon as I haven't really played any of the Ubisoft open-world games. Nothing else to do until the Switch hits on March 3rd. Or Mass Effect comes out on the 21st... Okay well there's actually a lot to do.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 06:02 |
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This game looks incredible and all the reviews have been glowing so far, I haven't played many Ubi games in general so can't wait for this. By most accounts they cribbed only the "best parts" of those games any ways and didn't just copy/paste it. Some of the reviews are calling it the best PS4 exclusive yet.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 06:05 |
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Scorps posted:This game looks incredible and all the reviews have been glowing so far, I haven't played many Ubi games in general so can't wait for this. By most accounts they cribbed only the "best parts" of those games any ways and didn't just copy/paste it. Some of the reviews are calling it the best PS4 exclusive yet. There's a reason why most of the high score review gloss over the gameplay, they cribbed pretty much all the turn-off-your-brain stuff and other mechanics and the game still manage to be more shallow.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 06:17 |
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Randomzx posted:There's a reason why most of the high score review gloss over the gameplay, they cribbed pretty much all the turn-off-your-brain stuff and other mechanics and the game still manage to be more shallow. I'm pretty sure most of the reviews praise the gameplay and say it's one of the best open world combat systems out there.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 06:54 |
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Randomzx posted:There's a reason why most of the high score review gloss over the gameplay, they cribbed pretty much all the turn-off-your-brain stuff and other mechanics and the game still manage to be more shallow. Jeff Gerstmann posted:Zero Dawn is structured quite a bit like the recent Far Cry games. You'll level up, gain new abilities by slapping points onto a skill tree, and hunt for crafting materials that let you hold more things in your inventory. You'll happen upon a handful of bandit camps, tag enemies, and try to prevent them from setting off an alarm if you're spotted. You'll climb a few things to reveal objectives on the map, but the game manages to craft a decent take on that concept that doesn't overstay its welcome. The stealth is satisfying, though some of the options you get to handle enemies can be a little game-breaking. For example, hiding in tall grass means you're effectively invisible, provided you haven't already been spotted. Early on, you can choose an ability that lets you whistle. It only ever alerts a single enemy, and that enemy comes right over to you, where you can take them out (unless they're one of the larger machines or armored humans) with a "silent strike." That doesn't alert the other enemies, usually, so you can do it again and again, clearing out entire areas with zero risk. Is this weird crusade against this game maybe being good people hating on Ubisoft by proxy or is the internet just eating its tail again?
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 07:01 |
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L-O-N posted:I'm pretty sure most of the reviews praise the gameplay and say it's one of the best open world combat systems out there. If you consider simplistic combat consisting of shooting weak points on braindead enemies for the rare moment you actually have to aim and MMO quest designs to be 'good gameplay'. The gameplay was designed so poorly, that even though you have 'limited' arrows for combat, you just instantly replenish all of them by crafting midcombat in menu. Stealth attacks so broken you can literally kill people right in front of others from the grass. mass effect dialogue wheel that hardly affects anything at all, randomized loot that discourages actual exploration, blatant level scaling, boring equip upgrade system of watching generic numbers go up, bloated as hell UIs and batman vision so you don't ever have to pay attention to anything at all, and empty open world that you could hardly interact with at all.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 07:13 |
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I guess it is Ubisoft backlash but that seems so weird to me. The hate on that open world style is misguided, that style is just a canvas that a good game or a bad game can be built around. Shadow of Mordor, AC: Syndicate, Watch Dogs 2, are all good games using that format.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 07:16 |
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Randomzx posted:If you consider simplistic combat consisting of shooting weak points on braindead enemies for the rare moment you actually have to aim and MMO quest designs to be 'good gameplay'. No really, just keep making GBS threads up the thread with your impressions based on watching a couple of streams.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 07:30 |
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Gumball Gumption posted:I guess it is Ubisoft backlash but that seems so weird to me. The hate on that open world style is misguided, that style is just a canvas that a good game or a bad game can be built around. Shadow of Mordor, AC: Syndicate, Watch Dogs 2, are all good games using that format. The Nemesis system was the only thing that really saved Shadow of Mordor. I can barely imagine how boring the last gen version of that game must be.
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