SON OF MAN

SON OF MAN

how did they manage to make a hero so unbelievably generic

Still better than Zelda though, which hasn't had a memorable main character in three games.

>zelda
I'm sorry what? what has this to do with anything?

Why is she blind?

Didn't you know there is a fierce competition between the 30 year old franchise Zelda and the brand new IP Horizon Zero Dawn?

Thankfully Horizon is selling better (for now), so the shitpost can continue despite Zelda's higher paid reviews. If it's too one sided, the rivalry will cease.

insecure sonybros

insecure sonybros and ninten drones fighting, nintenfags shitpost on horozin threads sonyfags shitpost on zelda threads

well I can definitely tell which side you're on.

>30fps with heavy motion bluer
>2017
Yeah go fuck yourself.

Zelda didn't just sell games, it sold an entire console.

SON OF MAN
A MAN IN TIME YOU'LL BE

SON OF MAN
SON OF MAN'S A MAN FOR ALL TO SEEEEEEE

YOU'LL BE IN MY HEART

technically sold two consoles since a lot of people bought a wii u in hopes of playing botw on it only to get fucked over and the better version simultaneously released on a newer console.

sucks to be a fucking nintenbro desu and i say this as a wii u owner.

Only reason Nintendo sells any hardware at all is because of their 20-30 year old franchises.

Can someone give me a TL:DR of the Horizon Zero Dawn plot? I still have little idea what the game is about even after watching a review and skimming a few threads about it. How did the robot things come into being? Why is humanity back in the stone age now? What the goal of the main character/what's the plot?

nintendo doesn't pay reviewers, they send review copies to people they anticipate will give a good review.
The people who gave Starfox Zero a 6/10 were the same people who gave BotW a 10/10.

Oh, the power to be strong
And the wisdom to be wise

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RUFIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Gonna put it in spoiler tags just because, even though it's been a month almost.

A company called faros automated systems is a robotics weaponry manufacturing company (think private security making their own tanks and shit). The head of the company, ted faros wants to install a backdoor into the latest line of robots they're making, capable of small-scale self-replication, and continuing functioning in the case of loss of fuel through biomass acclimation (they eat living things, turn them into fuel). The programmer says "nuh uh you told me to make it military standard so they're unstoppable". The obvious happens, they go rogue (never explained how), but it starts with one swarm, hartz-timor, going rogue and basically devouring an entire villages livestock and crops, bankrupting them. Lawsuits pile up, then the robots take off of mainland africa where they were situated in a test run, and hit up the ocean, where they start destroying dolphins and grinding them up into meatpaste for fuel. It goes viral online and the company is in a world of shit. They try to shut them down, but woops, they can't cause no backdoor. They try killcodes they'd installed because that isn't a backdoor or something, but predictably, they don't work, the swarm achieved sentience, and was beginning to work on a hivemind.
contd

Jesus Christ, you are salty.

>young version of character goes off screen and turn into an adult in the next scene.

I really dislike this movie trope.

The hivemind grows because WOOPS WE FORGOT THEY CAN FUCKING BUILD MORE ROBOTS BECAUSE WE THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA. Shit's fucked, humanity is doomed, that's it, game over man, game over.

Only not, elizabet sobeck, a nobel prize winning engineer chick comes up with plan ZERO DAWN, which is basically "we're all gonna die, we're gonna store as MUCH shit as we can right now. Languages, seeds for plants, human DNA, religious scriptures, everything, and hold on to it, and set it to release in a few hundred years after the robots have made the earth barren on the surface and begun hibernation. Also we're making another AI (cause that seems like a good idea) that will work, over the course of a few hundred years, on a code to shut down the robots that are existing, so the earth might begin healing on it's own if they haven't totally ruined it." So, they do that, they gather up a team of highly qualified engineers, scientists, all sorts of shit (one of the better parts of the game, hearing all the people wanting to kill themselves when they find out humanity is doomed when the government had been lying to them for years as they fought off robots) to work on project zero dawn. They succeed, for the most part. Everything's going well, and ted faros is even footing the bill because even though he wanted to safeguard these robots, everyone was blaming him (Guess it's fair though, he's a retard). They succeed, creating an AI called gaia (heuhuhehuehaauehu) with several sub-AI under the control of gaia to work on several functionalities of zero dawn independently. Hephaestus for building more robots (the robots you see in game) to replace natural wildlife (grazers, the deer looking ones, collect pollen and distribute it), one called apollo for storing knowledge of the previous world (the metal world as it's called ingame) and a few others that aren't relevant, except hades, a sub-AI they made to destroy the world in case shit went wrong

contd

In case gaia accidentally did something like used the genetic material she had to make a pig-human or some shit and released them unto the world like the cunt she is, hades would clean up her mess. ANYWAY. gaia is made, it's setup before robots take over entirely, and people live out their natural lives in shelters, including the creators of zero dawn, on a snowy mountaintop. Only gaia's such a retarded AI it can't close a fucking door, and elizabet sobeck dies trying to fix it, technically. She dies later but you know what I mean. After that, ted faros is a retard and decides "I'm gonna kill you all because this is never gonna work even though we'd all die in 30 years when food ran out anyway". So he does that. We never see what comes of him. So, all of that shit is revealed, then towards the apex of the game, you find gaia (what's left of it), and she explains that you (aloy) are actually a clone of elizabet sobeck, that she created in the hopes that you might be not retarded enough to stop the rampaging hades (lightning struck it, literally, and made it go rogue, lel). Obviously, as the MC, you do, in time, stop hades, that's the conclusion of the game. But it cops out with a "WAIT HADES ISNT REALLY GONE" moment, where a sneakret badguy asks about who made hades evil, sent the lightning bolt or whatever. Then it cuts out.

so, a tl;dr to the not so tl;dr explanation is, humans made robots, robots went rogue, humans sealed themselves up in caves for a few hundred years, robot has artificial wombs and begins birthing humans and teaching them through stored information, only the stored information is only PARTIALLY accessible, so people don't learn about anything past like the kindergarten information storage. They don't learn about technology, or any of that beyond what they find in old ruins.

The story is actually pretty good, but it's very VERY front and backloaded. I can touch on more if you want/have questions.

Thanks!

oh, and as for the goal of aloy, she could not give less of a fuck about anything. The clan she's in (the nora) are matriarchal and consider anyone without a mother a disgusting subhuman monstrosity, and for the first 16 years she's living with some old pedophile in a shack on a mountain. Her only goal is to join the nora as a proper warrior, which is the goal up through the beginning of the game, you get through the tutorial, and flung out into the open world proper, and then it's revealed that a metal door they worship as a god thinks you're elizabet sobeck, and your goal becomes to find her, until all that shit I mentioned starts popping up and you learn. She's pretty realistic as a hero. She literally does not give a fuck about saving the world from impending doom and corruption, bitch just wants to find her mom.

Why did Willow turn into robot feminist lady?

I can see already Horizon already has a more in-depth story than Zelda.

It's not a matter of depth or not. zelda is an established franchise and can't stray too far or you get retards shitting all over a game for "not following structure" as we saw with twilight princess and windwaker when they came out. Zelda games also aren't sold on their story. They're fun adventure games.

Frankly I enjoyed both of them a pretty much equal amount with all things considered. Horizon edges it out in having a more thriving world that I care about, zelda has way better things to fuck around with mechanically.

Is that Olivia Munn?

would you rather sub 30 fps with no motion blur?

like...er... ZELDA BOTW.

pull the stick out of your ass. There has been a vocal population shitting on Zelda since Majoras Mask.

>can't stray too far or you get retards shitting all over a game for "not following structure"


>see people in zelda threads complain about the lack of dungeons and only have shrines to go to
>zelda fans says the change is good and that dungeons in past games were always boring and bad

i just dont fucking know anymore.

>movie trope.
Finally people are staring to call things by their true name.

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Eyeeeaa
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is that link?

Shadow Carja>Oseram>Banuk>Carja>>>>>>Dogshit>>>>>Nora

Oseram>>>>>>shadow carja though. the fuck you smoking. oseram are literally dwarves but not midgets. the shadow carja are retarded too, they're like ancient romans, but without the skill or tact or grace. regular carja are at least civilized.

agreed on nora being trash though, there's a reason everyone fucking hates them.

At least they have an kick ass motto:
>the army's no match for Nora!
Wait...

>one normal ass girl with no more expertise or combat training than anyone else, and only one minor piece of technology that does nothing more than highlight glowing bits of already-dangling metal that most of them know already as weakpoints
>25 of the strongest nora warriors in the entire game
>it takes the girl to take down 30 machines and dozens of human bandits,while the warriors just die in puddles of piss and blood.

this tbqh

Banuk best tribe. Rest are shit.

Banuk are retarded, they are constantly dumping people that question the "harmony" on the glacier and then complain why the survivors and the smart people decide to fuck off.