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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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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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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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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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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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exquisite tea posted:The most damning criticisms I've read say it adheres a little too closely to the conventional open world RPG formula, which is probably true if you're already burned out on them, but I've only played a couple over the past few years (DA:I, TW3, RotTR) so to me it's all still pretty fresh. These kinds of games live and die by their settings and I'm totally into the setting. Yeah, in terms of Ubisoft-style games I played uh, Black Flag like 4 years ago? And I got Shadows of Mordor for like a buck in a bundle but I ended up hating it.
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Feb 22, 2017 15:19
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Evil Canadian posted:Jeff Gerstmann loves it and that's good enough for me. Been reading/listening to the dude for like fuckin almost 20 years now and I trust his opinion. I dunno, Jeff Gerstmann once gave a Zelda game like 4.8 points more than it deserved.
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Feb 23, 2017 02:23
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Isn't she based on a literal model? An actress apparently. Hannah Hoekstra, but it looks like all her stuff is in some kind of crazy moonspeak. 
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Feb 23, 2017 18:09
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Mindblast posted:
I'm looking but there ain't no such place as Dutch on my map
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Feb 23, 2017 20:24
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Uhhh excuse me but isn't that term basically reserved for japenese? She's dutch as gently caress, son.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Guys, if this game is actually bad does that mean Breath of the Wild is also bad? They are both open world games which have always been bad. There's actually only been three good video games ever; Fire 'n Ice for the NES, EHRGEIZ: GOD BLESS THE RING, and 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet.
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Feb 24, 2017 00:28
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exquisite tea posted:But then why would you cast this imaginary sensual, feminine woman as your own sister. 
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Feb 24, 2017 14:52
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If only $ony had made them put in a bishie lead instead.
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Feb 24, 2017 14:57
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VolticSurge posted:I can live with that. Are any of them fun? Or are they all AUGGGH NOT AGAIN You have to follow two laser trexes around town closely (BUT NOT TOO CLOSELY!) so you can listen in on the location of the next laser trex templar meeting.
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Feb 25, 2017 02:58
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like the side activites in most Ubi games?
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If you were real scum you'd be waiting for your collector's statue version to arrive.
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Feb 27, 2017 17:34
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Jimbot posted:I want steel cases. That's my weakness. Art books and the OST too. Statues are just too big and often aren't good quality. Oh yeah well I'm gonna put it next to my 2B statue and make them kiss! 
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Feb 27, 2017 18:04
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I had both Fallout 3 and New Vegas do that to me, because they decided I was using 5.1 at some point and started playing vocals out of channels that didn't exist.
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Feb 28, 2017 01:27
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The matriarchy crushed me before I even got to the title screen.
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Mar 1, 2017 00:18
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After some screwing around I'm going to settle on all dynamic UI, except for an always on compass I think. I don't know. I've never had this many options.
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Mar 1, 2017 14:24
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The story of Aloy; an outcast who deforests and entire region in order to build the biggest backpack anyone had ever seen.
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Mar 1, 2017 17:19
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Haledjian posted:Aloy is real and she came to work today: Where is the person in the watcher looking out of? I can't really tell whats going on there.
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Mar 1, 2017 18:50
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Ol Cactus Dick posted:Switch to custom hud and you can set everything to dynamic except your hp And if you do need anything back brushing the touchpad at all flicks them back on for a second so you can see where you stand on your medicine bag or whatever.
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Mar 1, 2017 19:46
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You can buy an infinite fast travel item.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:14
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As a 1/64th indigenous first people's cyberbowmancer on my mother's side I find the whole thing very triggering.
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Mar 1, 2017 21:34
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Oh my God is this guy's name seriously Errand Vanguardsman because that is the best fantasy name I have ever heard.
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Mar 2, 2017 02:52
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Aloy repel off the longneck from literally any other direction except in front of it where it's walking tia.
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Mar 3, 2017 15:57
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Sakurazuka posted:It had to be good or back to the Killzone gulag for a decade That's what the in-game references to Kojipro are about. They can sympathize with being bound to a series.
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Mar 3, 2017 16:04
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exquisite tea posted:Another thing I can think of is that each new merchant gives you a resource crate for free the first time you meet them. I find something very exciting about getting crates, even if you know it's probably a bunch of junk. It's like opening up a pack of Magic Cards or whatever.
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Mar 3, 2017 17:08
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Note: Aloy died on the way back to her home planet https://zippy.gfycat.com/DefiantDrearyDoctorfish.webm
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Mar 3, 2017 19:57
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Shooting a fire arrow into a robodeer back and causing a huge chain reaction that gets you like 12 kills with one arrow is dope. Having the grazer freak out and run at your face because it's a panicking idiot and explode on you is less dope.
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Mar 4, 2017 05:25
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I finally ran the two lenses back to those dorks in Lower Sunville that were arguing. They gave me a box as a reward. It had one of the lenses I gave them in it. 
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Mar 5, 2017 02:52
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Steve2911 posted:It puts so many recent PS4 releases to shame too. I haven't played much on it since FFXV came out, and having this to compare just reminds me how inexcusable that game is from a technological perspective. It plays like absolute arse in comparison while looking significantly worse. And has like 1/15th the load times.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:So.. Is that weird interface/hud flickering on movement intentional? Your PS4s dying Cloud. Edit: Or your hands are so fat they keep hitting the touchpad somehow which activates hud elements.
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Mar 6, 2017 14:41
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I just use rattler freeze because I'm always less than a foot away from what I'm fighting.
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Mar 7, 2017 15:42
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I really like the Hunter Trials and the little side-quests you get when you buy a weapon (FREEZE 3 LIGER ZEROES or whatever). It's a real nice way of tutorializing you on some strategies without explicitly holding your hand through them.
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Mar 7, 2017 22:08
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Fat Samurai posted:Every "Tier" of weapon is exactly the same, right? As soon as I get a purple weapon I can ignore every other version, unless I want to dick around with modifications. Yeah, just be aware some weapon types actually have different versions (IE you would end up with 3 different purple bows, 2 slings) Saint Freak fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Mar 8, 2017 |
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Mar 8, 2017 14:22
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If only there was a fire rattler.
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Mar 8, 2017 16:19
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:Ropecasters can do damage to parts - they inflict a lot of Tear when machines pull away from them (I don't think it works like that if the ropes pull them all the way down, though). I've blown the chest compartment on a Glitterhawk using only a Ropecaster. Glitterhawks sounds amazing. Like a gay football team. I would buy a glitterhawks jersey.
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Mar 9, 2017 20:02
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veni veni veni posted:Tbh I think I have spend a total of maybe 20 minutes on a mount in the whole game. It just feels pretty useless and Aloy controls better Mounts autofollow roads. You don't have to touch the controls at all.
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Mar 10, 2017 04:39
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In the post-post-apocalyptic future there's apparently going to be sunshine in Scotland.
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The reward is ~the journey~
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