HORIZON ZERO DAWN OFFICIALLY 2017 GOTY

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>In 10 years, people will still be talking about innovative things that "Horizon Zero Dawn" does. They'll still be talking about how gorgeous it is, how smart and funny its main character is, how it succeeded commercially in the shadow of a new Nintendo console and a new "Legend of Zelda" game.

>While playing games, I often experience a small handful of emotions: frustration, accomplishment, fear. While playing "Horizon Zero Dawn," that list expanded dramatically - outside of delighting in the graceful, smart gameplay systems that underlie the game's narrative focus, I often laughed out loud at Aloy's smart quips (she's the protagonist you see above). I found myself endlessly curious about the surprisingly deep lore of the game's world, its people and religions, and the main character's story arc. Perhaps most important of all, I actually cared about the main character, believed her motivations, and wanted her to succeed.

>"Horizon Zero Dawn" is a magnificent accomplishment of a game that stands out among standouts. And I didn't even mention the giant metal dinosaurs.

>Horizon is better than BotW

Tell me news.

I don't even know what this literally who game is now lol

HZD is a boring overrated shit fest with medicore combat

>In 10 years, people will still be talking about innovative things that "Horizon Zero Dawn" does.

They definitely won't. It will be forgotten about in a year.

And yet, being this wonderfully fantastic masterpiece the developer can't make a camera which sticks Aloy to the left side of the screen permanently. Now the she's randomly on the right side all the fucking time and you need to either aim with bow or use the magic device to reset her position. Resident Evil 4 had this already fixed for fuck sake.

Also the camera is way too close to her anyway.

It took several months for the developer to add a fucking camera sensitivity slider.

This is why I hate AAA games. It's fucking retarded.

Combat in Horizon is way cooler than BotW though, you have a lot of synergies between weapons.

>In 10 years, people will still be talking about innovative things that "Horizon Zero Dawn" does
I don't even know how big of a retard you have to be to believe this. It's definitely not GOTY, it'll either be BOTW or Nier: Tomato Ketchup.
>inb4 Nintendo shill
My personal GOTY is between Persona 5 and Gravity Rush 2

>>In 10 years
People literally forgot about it 2 weeks later

I confirm.

>In 10 years, people will still be talking about innovative things that "Horizon Zero Dawn" does.
They've stopped talking about it now.

It has been straight up 6 months since I've even heard about this game. Most forgettable PS4 exclusive there is.

>They'll still be talking about how gorgeous it is, how smart and funny its main character is

Women can be smart and funny, Wendy.

>10 years later
>Playstation exclusive

o i am laffin'

I like the game, but nah, the character is far from memorable. Serviceable and decent, yes, but nothing outstanding.

People stopped talking about it within a week or two, what the fuck is this fag even talking about?
Innovative? It's an ABC of open world games, this is why people don't take numales seriously.
Horizon was nothing but a huge virtue signal from the devs, from Sony and for others like "journalists" to heap praise on and put it on lists of games done "right".

How big is the difference between Pro an the standard PS4 version from performance?

>how it succeeded commercially in the shadow of a new Nintendo console and a new "Legend of Zelda" game.
It wasn't though, the game was being discounted like the month after it came out.

Dont you guys ever get tired of these asscreeds copy pastes.

This is just getting sad, now. Why is the industry so damn determined to push Alloy and her shitty game so hard? I just don't get it.

As big as the differences between my cock and yours

>no no guiz its forgotten
>still in headlines today

sad weebs, nier nioh and persona 5 already gone without a thought

The guy playing here is clearly too used to the BotW aim.

this game was only even really popular with sissy eurofaggots

l m a o

thanks for reminding me this game exists

How big is your dick?

But, like, isn't it really basically just Witcher 3 with a forced female lead? Didn't half the crew of Witcher work on it or something?

>implying someone wasn't paid to put HZD in the first spot
Playerunknown's battlegrounds is in 3rd place. Why would anyone take this shit seriously?

>innovative things that "Horizon Zero Dawn" does

care to name one?

Because some odd 4mil sales must mean something went right regardless of if you(we) like it. It's common sense that when you have a cash cow you don't let that shit bloat, you squeeze the milk, man. Look at Mario, Halo, Zelda, Forza, you don't have to like any of those franchises but if it sells, it'll keep going.

>calling HZD haters weebs when the only appeal your female protag game could possibly have is if you were sexually attracted to the woman, unless you literally wish you were a woman and enjoy pretending to be one like a crossdressing faggot

top fucking kek

>implying I have to like the protagonist and not the gameplay

Weeb confirmed

>still in headlines today
Where exactly?

>HZD came out before BoTW
>this was taken during the stream made prior to HZD full release

>how smart and funny its main character is

bithc please, I HAVE NEPTUINA FOR THAT

HZD had an interesting setting and story which made me want to play till the end but the gameplay was utter garbage.

Horizon is hyped up B game that occasionally looks nice in screenshots.

>>calling HZD haters weebs when the only appeal your female protag game could possibly have is if you were sexually attracted to the woman

Wrong the appeal is great gameplay, now go back to jerking off to Neptunia or some other weeb shit

Because they are trying to justify a lot of things by marking it as a "success" such as

1) female leads in AAA games
2) massively inflated production costs
3) new IPs being given production costs to rival established IPs
4) HD graphcis still being more important than innovative gameplay ideas, and the main selling point in games period

People think this is about gender politics or sony vs. nintendo but it isn't, HZD is being pushed as a success because it reinforces the wobbling status quo in the game industry, the same status quo that's been raping the industry for quite some time, but keeps the super rich publishers super rich, and drowning out any creativity because of impossibly inflated production costs

It sounds goofy but its the lamented indie hipsters who have done this

Why does the arrow just fly straight.
There's like no arc to it.

plx rply

need to know

>this was taken during the stream made prior to HZD full release
>one of the last quests

You're delusional.

I'm waiting until someone I know gets a Switch so I can give them my extra copy of Botw, I don't even play my copy anymore but fuck it.

dude i hate weebs but your game is gay as shit

id play tomb raider or mirrors edge but this is just full homo, the protagonist looks like some hippie ANTIFA slut who would get her shit bashed in the moment the world stops being a civilized patriarchy

No, he's right, it was days before the game officially came out, Sup Forums had stream threads where we were all laughing at this shit, so by the time the game came out many on Sup Forums knew all the game had to offer and it's storyline.

>the protagonist looks like some hippie ANTIFA slut who would get her shit bashed in the moment the world stops being a civilized patriarchy

You mean Zelda?

>i didn't play it but here are a bunch of Sup Forums buzzwords

>he's right
>quoting yourself

GOTTA GET A GRIP user

i dont know why too they zoom the camera to right behind her back whenever she enters a town.

I mean, we all know it won't get GOTY, but holy damn, if it did, I would spend the entire day on Sup Forums, the only place that would just foam at the mouth from those results.

>Innovative
Killing dinosaurs made out of metal is innovative now? This is becoming desperate.

sure i dont care for that game either

It would be great, but it will not happen
the asspain would be great to see

>outside of delighting in the graceful, smart gameplay systems that underlie the game's narrative focus, I often laughed out loud at Aloy's smart quips
I bet this guy unironically enjoys watching Marvel movies

I already forgot it. No one really talks about it.

It has a diverse cast of characters, and a woman in the lead role.

Meanwhile, Zelda is mostly white dudes, and still insists on having a male link because "tradition."

>b-but Gerudo
Ah yes, we need even more Arabic stereotypes in gaming.

really makes you think

you mean the guy that fall of the mountain at the final boss

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting, my love

Who said this? That's right, I didn't think so.

>In 10 years, people will still be talking about innovative things that "Horizon Zero Dawn" does.
one random article is saying that about Horizon while a bunch of other articles and developers are saying the same thing about BOTW and the way it aproaches open world gameplay.

not even nintendofag, I have a PS4 but nobody gives a shit Horizon. It's one of those games that generate money but doesn't have any relevance on the long run or videogames in general.

>Ben Gilbert
>Cares about the story and characters
>Doesn't mention the gameplay
Sounds like your average sonybro.

Zero Dark Deep Horizon oil fire will be forgotten in a year and not be on any top 10 lists. It's not as bad as The Last of Us which will be number 1, in most overrated game of all time, but better to be forgotten by history than remembered like that.

Also didn't Sony already bin the game?

Guys real talk even if it isnt the best game is it still alright? Like would you say it is above average or just garbage?

>the autism is too strong doc, I can't help it

Everything Guerrilla Games produces is garbage. They're a shit developer. Do not believe their lies.

If you have a playstation 4 I don't see any reason to not buy it.

its a good game but zelda fanboys will rage about anything this game does

>Forgot about Horizon prior to release
>Heard nobody talk about it post release
My own experience obviously but really, who cares about the game?

>people will still be talking about innovative thing
...such as?

yea if you go out of your way to avoid a game that will happen

>While playing games, I often experience a small handful of emotions: frustration, accomplishment, fear.

Was this written by a mental cripple?

>frustration, accomplishment, fear
Sounds like a job or even worse.
Maybe this nigga should just not play video games

does new game plus on the new difficulty make you gather a fuckton of resources? and are craftables like arrows and line traps still require the same amount resources to craft or more because it's of the higher difficulty?
gathering resources in that game was the thing that killed the pace for me, the rest was fine. I never exactly had an issue gathering funding resources or running out, but I dreaded having every now and then having to take time to gather stuff when the numbers of resources started to get low, it was fun for the first 10 hours but gathering shit after that just because tedious, not to mention resource management in those menus where annoying.

I haven't played this game since I beat it two weeks after it came out so I don't know what they've changed other than the addition of new game plus.

Doubt you'd notice much of an arc at that distance, but then again the arrows seem to be travelling slower

Dude that entire list is retarded and you know it.
>inJUSTice2 better than tekken 7
Fuck off.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is better than this shit

>implying it's not

Tekken 7 is the worst release to date that's nothing more than a half assed story mode and online. Many features previous in other titles were either outright removed (team battle) or downgraded (ghost mode because treasure mode and character customization) it's an exact repeat of the blunder that was SFV but it gets a special exception because it's the first time it's on PC.

cool meme go back to /vg/ and cry and have no arguments

>innovative things

>like?

>...Uhhh muh graphics

Every fucking time.

Exactly. It's not that frustration, accomplishment and fear are small things, they're exciting at best, but games are mostly worlds of subtle feeling (which doesn't apply to most work, which is about filling an inhuman gap in a machine). The way the scrolling backgrounds of platformers make us feel is pretty subtle almost entirely beyond words, and this effect is a part of every art form. Someone who loves games would emphasize this, and they wouldn't call it a "small handful of feelings". That just sounds like a small-handed person is talking.

Imagine translating music or movies into purely frustration, accomplishment and fear. A lot is missing from that. What about delight at a beautiful illusion, how promising something appears? There's actually a lot of alien feelings to be found in art if you know how to feel it in your body.

It is nice to look at. Players like Far Cry Primal to me. It has a lot of mechanics in the game that they never explain and have to find out by yourself. The combat is fairly simple and you do spend a decent amount of time collecting things to upgrade. The animations are pretty bad.

I bought it at release for $60, played it, beat it and then never picked it up again. If you can get it for $20, I say it's worth it

>kidsole shitware
>goty

so you can ride robots in farcry

horizon is better than zelda.

deal with it.

Yeah, but just one at first. It's been a while since I've played it, so I don't remember what they're called. But you go into caves/spaceships and clear those to unlock the overrides for all the metal animals. But you can only ever ride like 5 different types

No, ithe plays like Far Cry Primal. The only mounts you get in Far Cry are the bear and Sabertooth of I remember correctly.

the HZD fans are literally the most butthurt demographic on this board, lol

every thread on hzd (which they make) is FILLED with their tears

>In 10 years, people will still be talking about innovative things that "Horizon Zero Dawn" does.
nobody talks about the game now, what makes you think a console exclusive launch title that is already dead will still be talked about?

you sound fucking retarded

>In 10 years, people will still be talking about innovative things that "Horizon Zero Dawn" does.

People have stopped talking about it days after it came out because it couldn't even manage to prevent itself from being overshadowed by Nintendo's babbys first open world game

If not for the shills on Sup Forums I would've forgotten Horizon exists entirely

Thanks

this

>HZD tops the list
>butthurt

sorry zeldafag, but your 20fps tablet adventure can fuck off :)

>people

Sup Forums isn't people, user

>shills

honestly its easy to tell

i think its someone who was close to the project and is super sour Sup Forums thinks it's forgettable

>people will still be talking about innovative things that "Horizon Zero Dawn" does.

like what?

It's like 4 meters away at most. You'd have to be using a really shit bow to have the arrow drop that fast. This is a future bow used to hunt giant robot dinosaurs, it would presumably have pretty good draw strength.

First shot was in slow motion.