Horizon Forbidden West

Some next-level woke-ness in the newest horizon game. If you thought she was ugly in forbidden west, check this:

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Finally got around to buying it (BTW it's on sale now at CDKeys for $34.01 in case anyone is interested in buying it), and wow it's a lot nicer visually than the PS5 version. It is an amazing port. Putting my Erd Tree run on hold for now cause this type of game is more in line with my mood at the moment.
 
I wound up feeling similar to a lot of people who played Forbidden West, it just isn't as good as the original. There's just too much stuff and none of it feels necessary. Everything feels sort of tacked together and grindy. Want item x? Grind these materials or grind the hunting ground or grind the arena. You don't earn much in terms of top tier weapons organically. You get some good stuff but not much. The worst part is you get a blue javelin that shits on pretty much every weapon in the game pretty quickly rendering most of it moot.


For me, I'd rather play a much smaller, more focused experience than a map filled with copy pasted quests and events. Also the story in the second game was dull compared to the first.

By all means it should've been better than Zero Dawn, but it being simpler and having a flat out better story makes it the superior game.


Anyway, I'm just about to finish Ghost of Tsushima which is a similar forest but better game. Decent story with some real impressive high points and an excellent combat system. The game is copy pasted for the most part as well, but you don't notice it because the combat and progression is so satisfying by comparison.
 
Decko87 said:
I wound up feeling similar to a lot of people who played Forbidden West, it just isn't as good as the original. There's just too much stuff and none of it feels necessary. Everything feels sort of tacked together and grindy. Want item x? Grind these materials or grind the hunting ground or grind the arena. You don't earn much in terms of top tier weapons organically. You get some good stuff but not much. The worst part is you get a blue javelin that shits on pretty much every weapon in the game pretty quickly rendering most of it moot.


For me, I'd rather play a much smaller, more focused experience than a map filled with copy pasted quests and events. Also the story in the second game was dull compared to the first.

By all means it should've been better than Zero Dawn, but it being simpler and having a flat out better story makes it the superior game.
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The game got longer, more grindy, with a more lame story. In the first game the factions were better developed and so much more interesting. In this game they were copy/pasted and so generic. Everyone wants to eat your flesh, until you meet them, then they're your best friends. That is more or less the lore depth of the factions this time around.
 
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The story was fine to me. Don't care that she turned lesbian in the DLC. The gind was terrible but not needed. I beat the game without upgrading gear much.
 
Just finished it a couple of days ago (only the main campaign, haven't played the DLC yet).

Definitely agree that the game had too much... fluff. I don't know if I'd classify the game as grind-y, most of the upgrades I needed to grind for were relatively easy to get (and the copious amount of free quick travel locations made this easy).

Lowest point for me was the melee combat; The melee system never felt comfortable for me, though I really only had to rely on about three different melee movesets to beat most human enemies in the game. Hoping we get a more 'GoT'-inspired melee system for the next game.

I enjoyed the storyline - felt it kinda dragged on in the middle, but the beginning and ending portions of the story were good. I also liked the new characters and their individual questlines.
 
I too did not like the melee. I hardly used it in this game, where as I used it a good bit in the first.
 
Everybody is a critic these days. Game is absolutely amazing and I really enjoyed the storyline and can’t wait for third installment.

You add things to make it RPG like and people complain. You simplify things then people complain. Damned if you do or don’t.

Play the game for what it is and to me it is stunning with a lot of things fixed for part 2. The complexity is optional for the most part and if you are leveling up steadily, it is not a tough game to beat with sufficient challenges.
 
GoldenTiger said:
The person in the tweet. Don't pretend to not know when it was just posted... :rolleye;.
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please tell me why I should know about some random chud on Twitter who has made 15+ posts about body proportions in the last day

why would I want to know about them is a better question
 
socK said:
please tell me why I should know about some random chud on Twitter who has made 15+ posts about body proportions in the last day

why would I want to know about them is a better question
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Please tell me why I should know whether you want to know.....because quite frankly I don't care. Use the ignore list if you find it too triggering to read things you don't like to read on a public forum.
 
haha the only person triggered is the goon in your quote who needed to whine about ass sliders for ten hours on twitter
 
This game adds so many new buttons to push compared to ZD, several pointless.

1. Auto Sprint doesn't work on KBM despite the fact that it does in ZDR. +Shift
2. Auto Pickup doesn't work when your bag is full. +E
3. Focus now has a scan ability, which was inherent in ZD. +V
4. New valor ability. +F and +Space. New ability is fine but why 2 buttons?
5. Pullcaster. +Rbutton and +E. Another 2 button combo.
6. Grappling hook. +Space
7. Grapple launch. +Ctrl
8. Wall eject. +Ctrl
9. Shieldwing. +Space

Already wrote 200 lines in AHK solving this fluff.


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^I've heard FW was a little clunky with the controls compared to ZD. I have still yet to play this and I doubt I will tbh, and this was supposed to be a day 1 for me. But HZD felt perfect to me with the controls using my own custom settings.

Nothing I hate more than when devs can't even get sprinting done right. Darksiders 3 has this stupid crap where you hit a key for sprinting and then it just toggles sprint for like 10-20 seconds, not sure exactly. I'm pretty much anti-toggled movement across the board. I just held the button down anyway because thats whats comfortable to me.
 
Did not read this entire thread, but is this game worth playing? I did finish Horizon Zero Dawn and really liked it. A very well done game in my opinion.
 
Executioner said:
Did not read this entire thread, but is this game worth playing? I did finish Horizon Zero Dawn and really liked it. A very well done game in my opinion.
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Yes, it's very much worth playing, but I enjoyed the first one more. It's still a great game, though. If you liked the first one, you'll like the second one. The ending of the second one is a clear cliffhanger for a third game, though, whereas the first game felt complete on its own.
 
Executioner said:
Did not read this entire thread, but is this game worth playing? I did finish Horizon Zero Dawn and really liked it. A very well done game in my opinion.
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Def worth playing even though most (including myself) thought it regressed a tad in terms of gameplay and subjectively story as well. I think mostly due to them trying to broaden the scope of the game a bit too much and it's hard to follow and keep focused on the main story. I just recently finally finished the Burning Shores too and it was fine, I just didn't care much for the forced gay relationship they put you in.
 
Executioner said:
Did not read this entire thread, but is this game worth playing? I did finish Horizon Zero Dawn and really liked it. A very well done game in my opinion.
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It’s a very well done and refined game compared to the first. People who didn’t like the gameplay usually complained about the complex mechanics to take down mechs and too many powers etc to choose from. I had no problem trying different things. Definitely worth playing with a very good main storyline. I never played the DLC so don’t know much about the story there.
 
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