Oh that machine that I couldn't understand what it was in the last trailer was a triceratops! man, this is gonna be incredible!
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The icons on horizon zero dawn map are mostly fast travel camp and just marker of which machines reside in which area. There's not many collectible or quest you had to clear out in Horizon if you compare it to Assassin Creed games.
Like There's only 5 tallneck/tower in the first game
yeah there's honestly not a lot of ubi-style content in horizon zero dawn. i think there's like 10 bandit camps for the whole game?
lol
You could still be right since there are a good amount of reviews left looking at other PS exclusives, but I thought it was funny seeing your comment right after checking OC.
I think it's also how by default the UI and map are pretty cluttered with loads of points of interest. The first thing I had done when I started Zero Dawn was to keep the UI minimal through the menu options. Many likely didn't do that and complain about screen real estate. It's on the developers to be fair to have more faith in the gamers to naturally want that instead of hand-holding. Sucker Punch did that very well with Ghost of Tsushima.
It's the classic first party review thread. It doesn't matter the score, if it got a 92 people would argue how bad it is it didn't reach 93.
It's the most absurd Era tradition.
Some of that popin is insane in some of the reviews I've seen. Hopefully they can patch that up.
Man what I'm reading about side quests is really amazing, people are actually comparing them to the ones you find in RDR2 or TW3, bot for writing and quest design which are described as awesome. It appears subquests are even more engaging than the main quest for some reviewers lol
This is an incredible jump in quality compared to the first game, in which side quests were mostly mediocre and with bad writing/weak characters.
Between this and the huge improvement in open world structure, this is probably going to be my dream open world game. Can't wait
This is an incredible jump in quality compared to the first game, in which side quests were mostly mediocre and with bad writing/weak characters.
Between this and the huge improvement in open world structure, this is probably going to be my dream open world game. Can't wait
It's a tentpole game, brings all the folk out for a big old hoedown of losing their minds because of numbers.
The game looks and sounds great, really looking forward to it.
Really didn't like the first game at release, it sat on my shelf until I got an oled a few months ago and I was looking for stuff to try out and gave it another chance, ended up loving it.
Really didn't like the first game at release, it sat on my shelf until I got an oled a few months ago and I was looking for stuff to try out and gave it another chance, ended up loving it.
i think ghost of tsushima had the best methods for organically guiding players to open world content. the birds, the smoke and wind GPS were inspired methods.
Because Giant Bomb is totally disconnected from everyone and everything, for better or worse.
Nice. I'm avoiding all reviews, only watched a bit of a few techincal videos to see how the PS4 version performs and that was it.
tbf they said that they only played the opening hours of the game
I hated the birds and the foxes after a while, tbh. Ideally you should want to explore a particular location because it looks interesting, not because you have to follow an animal. To this day I think Skyrim is probably the best game at making you want to explore for purely the sense of discovery
Reviews are great and within the band of scores I expected (85-89 on the aggregator sites). I think people saying 'its the same score as Zero Dawn, I thought there would be improvements' are being slightly disingenuous to how game development and review scores work. Reviews are not done and game development is not done on a linear grounding, they are dynamic, critique is dynamic.
To have two 89 rated games back to back shows consistency in high-quality output. It is extremely hard to stay on that level. The conflation of 90 is great and 80 is okay or just good is seriously detrimental to the review scale (for those who opt for numerical ratings). It is this conflation that has meant 7 is now seen as mediocre rating in games, when it should be far from it. Fair enough if critique around story or about individual gameplay mechanics is not to your taste, but scores are arbitrary and ratings are weighted differently by almost every outlet. It is always my opinion that people shouldn't immediately be put off by just a number.
To have two 89 rated games back to back shows consistency in high-quality output. It is extremely hard to stay on that level. The conflation of 90 is great and 80 is okay or just good is seriously detrimental to the review scale (for those who opt for numerical ratings). It is this conflation that has meant 7 is now seen as mediocre rating in games, when it should be far from it. Fair enough if critique around story or about individual gameplay mechanics is not to your taste, but scores are arbitrary and ratings are weighted differently by almost every outlet. It is always my opinion that people shouldn't immediately be put off by just a number.
Awww yeahh called the 89. Good reviews, but was expected that it won't break through the 90's barrier
I agree and it doesn't get enough praise for that in my opinion. It struggles with the type of content (aka why eventually you stop following the animals) and its general lackluster stealth/auto fail mechanics but what it does well is heads and shoulders above its contemporaries.
Breath of the Wild and Red Dead Redemption 2 however truly focus on that organic sense of exploration that few match. I understand why people want more organic world exploration instead of icons showing them the way constantly.
Everyone remembers the GOW thread where a single review brought it down from 95 to 94 and all hell broke lose.
I expected 90+. I think I predicted 92. I just didn't expect the generally mixed reaction to the substance of the game. I thought it'd be a slam dunk.
To be honest I'm not a fan of reverse engineering a review based on the author. I much prefer the EDGE way of not naming the writer so people can focus on the content.
I hope difficulty setting are still relevant for that aspect. Can't wait to play it after plat the first game a month ago !
I disagree, I think knowing the opinions of reviewers on other games is actually very helpful to understand whether their taste is likely to match your or not. If anything, I think it's stupid to compare ratings from the same publication when the reviewers are different people
Im a little surprised at the mixed reviews. I was debating trying to really hunt down a PS5 this week for this but it seems many of the things I wasn't a fan of in the first game carried over..I'll definitely wait till the dust settles on this game and see if it's worth it. Still need a PS5 by March 4th for GT7 tho.
I know, I also remember how he forgot everything about it a few months later.
Yep. He didn't even argue for it to be in the top ten for GOTY in 2017. He mentioned how he had cooled off on it a bit. So I'm not surprised he's not feeling it as much so far. That's what I'd expect him to say. Pretty predictable.