Do fans of this series exist? I never see any posts on Ganker discussing Horizon unless it's to mock Sony, yet it has sold millions.
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Do fans of this series exist?
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>but does the sun really burn?
>never see any posts on Ganker discussing Horizon unless it's to mock Sony
DURRR I WONDER WHY NINTENDOGAF DOESNT LIKE THIS SONY GAME HURRRR
we're too busy playing it and having fun to be posting about it on this shithole
It was bundled with ps4s on amazon, those are considered sales.
I know 2 dudes who liked the first. And no one who likes the second.
You can tell both of them that they are homosexuals on my behalf because that was the most soulless ubishit I've ever witnessed, at least the first asscreeds story wasn't such a cringeshow
I enjoyed both games and also know it can't be seriously discussed here. This is fine because it's single player games and discussion with strangers isn't necessary to enjoy them, as I have
>I enjoyed both games and also know it can't be seriously discussed here.
They're super boring. Not awful, just not engaging at all. Despite all the fluff and budget they can't make the game entertaining simply because they're terrified about offending anyone. So they have dumb it down so much.
>Do fans of this series exist?
Realistically no. It's the kind of game clueless normies pick up or have bundled with a console, they play it for like an hour, then forget it exists. The vast majority of game sales are to people who don't actually beat the games. So it's hundreds of thousands of people who barely remember the game and a few actual fans but they're nothing. In contrast, a big game has the same dynamic but there's still a fanatical core of a few million.
btw she has this FAT GIANT HEAD in the sequel, and it doesn't mesh with her body at all which is very thin. You can tell two teams were working on this one for the body the other on the head.
I knew exactly one guy who was into this game. These games feel like you would only like them if you're a snoy who's so defensive about no platform really having true exclusives anymore that you have to latch onto anything you can find to puff up your console.
First one was decent, perfectly pretty tech demo sort of 7 outta 10 type deal. It's playable from beginning to end in about 40 hours, traversal is decently fun, combat is simple but works for the vice they're going for. Second one is just a slog. I keep trying to finish it and get bored after like thirty minutes. It doesn't help that enemy placement and environment design feels dramatically worse than the previous game. Too much is designed around the aesthetic rather than making basically any part of the map into a compelling combat arena. It also looks worse in some spots compared to the first, and the stilted dialogue animations and crappy upgrade system haven't gone anywhere(I personally think the new tech tree is garbage), so it just steadily slides downhill into total mediocrity. Every time I boot up Forbidden West, I look at the big ole map I've barely started to unlock and end up quitting out of annoyance. Aloy's story could have been perfectly wrapped up in the first game, sequel baiting and dragging out the lame plot hook into a long-ass sequel doesn't make me excited to continue her story, it makes me want to quit and play literally anything else.
It's got top tier production values and it's technically polished to a spitshine but its also lacking in any kind of identity. It's the game that would exist in the background of a movie. I honestly think it did a disservice to female representation in gaming by being so painfully generic.
Kind of hate to say I agree. I feel like making her a lesbian in the DLC for FW just drags it further down into mediocrity by digging for brownie points. I'd kill for a new Western IP with a woman more like Lara Croft or Bayonetta, someone fun and flirtatious who's capable but not just a stock grizzled action girl.
Making a character lesbian in post-launch content is such a b***h move
>gotta do LGBTQ representation for left-wing points
>only L though so the brodudes still think it's hot
>can't make it too essential because we'll need to remove it for the China release
Right? It's annoying and lazy at best. If you want to write a gay female lead, commit to the bit.
Holy shit there's dlc for the game? See that goes to show how little of an impression it left. This the first time I'm hearing about this.
Yeah, the DLC for Forbidden West is PS5 only
Don't use their framing, since it just reinforces their position that we need more perfect positive female characters. The idea is that media needs to perfect perfect morality since it affects the real world. Which is why you get a bunch of dykes who are perfect who can't do anything wrong.
Should there be female leads? Sure. There's been tons and tons of cool ones. But the feminists immediately discount them if they have ANY kind of titulation "for the male gaze" even if the character is well written. Like Aya Brea was pretty cool in Parasite eve, but some promo art has her bra-less showing some cleavage so I'm sure they'd be mad.
We should have positive female leads, but not perfect ones, I agree. It's the Galbrush Threepwood issue all over again though. I'd love to see a game with a woman lead that's as fricked up as Harry from Disco Elysium.
Some females in video games should look "perfect" just as some women in real life do.
From the makers of Killzone. This assessment makes sense. Generic game dev goes on to make generic game.
It's a Ubisoft game with shitter gameplay. People complain about the story and her looks, but none of that matters when the gameplay is boring.
If the gameplay was actually good or decent at least it would had a small following to begin with. The problem is that besides graphics everything is terrible and the gameplay is painfully mediocre, so there's nothing you can salvage out of it beyobd the pretty visuals.
>I never see any posts on Ganker discussing Horizon
A. Because you can't seriously discuss it here.
B. It's honestly just a very easy, very... mild I guess? Sort of game? There's not really much to talk about, I'd call it competent but unexciting.
I played it at release, got the plat, haven't really thought of it since.
It's the FIFA of movie games
Horizon, forbidden chin
None, only trophy hunters are fans of it, and it it discussed with passing note
We exist, we're just not going to talk about it on a website full of moronic incels.
Oh frick off
So unless you were forced here at gun point.. Sort of a self own.
I come here to shitpost, not to discuss vidya.
Too bad. one of us.
One of us.
Of course, I'm here forever now.
I bought it, but I haven't played it.
I liked the first one because I kinda thought they would go with the Witcher route of story telling when they did the next game. Actually got excited when i heard it was coming. Then it turned out to be a good Ubisoft game. Nothing about this one clicked like the first. Aloys movement leaves much to be desired. The weapons were somehow made worse talking specifically about the line traps. Gave us new tribes and towns but I could care about any of them I don't even understand how they function. I tried I really tried to get into the game but it seem like it didn't want me to have fun. Then got to pterodactyl and thought oh yeah time to try some- invisible wall here- invisible wall there. Like it should've been a knock out but they played it safe instead and I got like nothing from the game that I care to remember. Like I beat far zenith then checked out. Honestly the worse thing for me about this is how it wasted my time without even a shred of enjoyment to be had.
My coworker loves Horizon more than any other franchise, even has an Alloy poster at his cubicle lmao
I actually had a good bit of fun playing horizon zero dawn.
But I went back and tried to play it again recently and I just didn't want to deal with the open world shit. I think I finally got hit with the fatigue. I got the second game as a bundle with my PS5 and nope, haven't even bothered downloading it.
Horizon is basically the AAA video game industry's Avatar, to a lesser extent.
It doesn't have an active fandom, very little discourse happens around it, barely anyone who considers video games as a primary hobby regard is as anything especially good or bad beyond maybe the technical capability of the Decima engine.
But millions of people buy it in droves because it's an eyecandy open world game that plays nice enough and looks great on their big 4K TVs.
Wouldn't you know it? Sony is a TV manufacturer.
For what it's worth, out of every game I've played, it has the best implementation of HDR aside from Returnal and that GOTG game, weirdly enough.
Wouldn't be surprised if Sony sent the Bravia people to work with Guerilla/SIE and gave them some heads up.
No idea about the first game, but I remember the second getting shittalked because the MC supposedly talks nonstop about how to play the game. Just curious, is there a "shut the frick up" option?
No but that's par for the course with Sony games. The voice actor for atreus said he hated his character wouldn't shut up.
I got it for free and still hated it. It has no personality, just boring cookie cutter crap.
It might sound strange, but I found the most interesting part to be her exploring the ruins and playing around with the holos as a young girl.
No see because there's wonder and actual intrigue there. I played this game and genuinely wanted to see how the world works. It felt "real" like new vegas, Witcher 3 and mass effect felt real. By which I mean it stuck to it's internal logic and the world feel cohesive. Like despite not having the movement freedom with climbing or a fast way to traverse the world I actually wanted to run around and see it. Which is makes me wonder what the frick happened with the second one. Oh you got a crab shield now. Can I use it as a paraglider no no really? It's just to break my fall okay... Oh a zip rope can I use it to climb cliffs and combo into a dodge roll to get more distance? No just to climb some towers and ladders and legdes, remove duct covers and crumbling rocks, and get to occasional destructible vantage point okay... Ooh new weapons that that don't leave any lasting impression and they nerfed the old ones too. I just don't understand how a slam dunk wasn't capitalized on.
My gf really liked the first game and even went platinum on it,she played the 2nd one but dropped it halfway because it was too boring
Why the hell her eye color changed between games?
My boss likes Horizon and puts her hair up like Aloy's sometimes. It's cute looking when she does it. Shame about the character herself.
There is basically nothing interesting about it besides impressive visuals.
And honestly it's not even the most impressive game on the PS5 so it doesn't win that category either.
This series is the textbook definition of visual noise. Where calls the visuals impressive, I think it's an eyesore that only distracts people from realizing that the graphical jump between PS3 to PS4 and less so PS4 to PS5 was not that big.
I think being graphically impressive and having good art direction are two distinct categories. The former is mainly detail, texture resolution, polycount, etc. The latter is the actual composition. Visual clutter/noise is more to do with art direction.
I don't necessarily love the art direction but the amount of detail is impressive.
>Visual clutter/noise is more to do with art direction.
I hate the art direction and its desperate attempt to look graphically impressive to hide its corporate blandness.
When everything looks so high detail, it makes the low detail stuff in the image really stand out. The bindings around the wood and the flat moss really stand out to me not to mention the aggressive LODs. It's definitely nitpicking though.
What does this visual language communicate about the game? Sure, it's pretty to look at, but what is it supposed to motivate me to do?
Like honestly there was never anything in the distance that pulled me to take a look around.
right looks cuter
One of the best stories ive seen in a video game. Actual gameplay, 6/10… Reddits obsessed.
Zero punctuation was 100% on point on how insufferable of a character she is.
I don't know anyone who bought this game. The few people that I know who played it got it bundled.
Tried to get into the first one a couple of times but the combat just feels tedious. The storyline is intriguing but I just can't really be bothered with it when the gameplay doesn't hook me. As others in the thread said it is a pretty looking game so it has that going for it at least. I didn't even realize that the cover for Forbidden West was supposed to be the golden gate bridge until a random post on Ganker it's that unmemorable for me.
Wait it is?
They kinda fricked up by putting too much overgrowth on it honestly. The distinct red color doesn't come through.
There are lots of locations recreated from San Francisco and LA in Forbidden West/Burning Shores but you probably wouldn't realize it unless you looked at a side by side video.
It's not like TLOU2 where the city is still intact enough to recognize it.
>I never see any posts on Ganker discussing Horizon unless it's to mock Sony, yet it has sold millions.
I'm certain that a fairly big chunk of those "sold" copies is just because the Horizon games are often bundled with PS4s and PS5s, so anyone who buys one of these consoles ends up also "buying" a copy of these shit games.
The trannies on Reddit and Sony dick riders on Xitter love that series.
Elden Ring doesn't belong there. It's a kino redpilled game with no Black folk, no handholding and emergent gameplay. The redditsoy shivers in fear at Elden Chad.
The Elden Ring subreddit disagrees with you.
It sold more on Playstation
What inspires this kind of fantaticism towards Sony? Many of the properties displayed there are recent so it's not nostalgia driven like Nintendo. Not even ripping, I've owned every Playstation but for awhile I kept my PS5 hidden behind the TV because I didn't want to display the glowing tower.
Strikes me as a poorgay thing. It's like it's a status symbol to be able to afford a piece of plastic and they get insecure because it's a buyer's remorse thing since exclusives are less and less frequent as stuff goes multiplatform. It's why there's so much moronic squabbling over mid games like this, redfall, ect. when nobody with any sense gives a frick about this trash.
holy frick what did they do to her face? she looks like someone who has a pot belly with the sheer volume of fat on there, it's fatter than mine when I was obese good grief.
anyway everyone ignores the game because it's the definition of soulless slop. I got the first game free and got through the first area then quit because it wasn't going anywhere worthwhile. protagonist had no personality the plot had no engaging hooks and the concept of killing mecha dinos was more engaging than its execution.
I picked up the first game for cheap when it came to Steam. It came with all the DLC and was a decent enough open world title. Its odd the second one hasn't arrived. Its also how striking they ugliered her up in Forbidden West. Aloy was never amazingly beautiful but in Zero Dawn she wasn't quite that bad.
Frick Snoy for not releasing this shit on Steam, but i'm massively more annoyed at the lack of Ghost of Sushi Director's Cut (and that Supaidahman 2 doesn't get a concurrent release after both Spider-Man Remastered and the Spider-Black stand alone expansion both did very wel ).
I was until I played the second game
Obviously if it sells. Shitposting about it is rather old, so every motherfricker has moved on.
Still funny that they got assraped twice on release by better games though. They could've netted an extra million bucks if only their sales team were competent.
It's a game that was endlessly bundled and given away so of course the numbers are pumped up. Shit I technically bought Last of Us Remastered so I could get a PS4 but I DID NOT REDEEM, and I wouldn't be surprised if literally millions of Horizon's sales are actually the same.
I liked the first game a lot. Gave up on the second one a few hours in.
This pretty much seems like the general consensus .
I would have played this by now, but I can't get interested in it for the sole reason that the main character is SO UGLY
She moved to Minnesota and had 2 kids.
>Do fans of this series exist?
No. Only Sony employees who are paid to like this game, like this game.
>sold
I want some grilled beef hot dogs now for some reason
>>>>>>>>>>"sold"
It's called forcing it into millions of bundles.
where does she get her chili cheese dogs?
There are some games that Ganker plays wherein is quite the taboo to mention here.
Literally have a thread where everyone is saying they played it some liked the first one but almost everyone says the second was mid.
normal people use the term "shit".
They're probably too busy enjoying the game to give a frick about screeching on Ganker
or nobody likes it enough to play it
>free copy of horizon zero shit bundle pack ps5
the girl that does Awkward Zombie seems to like it and she usually has pretty good taste so it's probably not that bad
I have no real interest in playing it though. Feels like the kind of game your parents get you for your birthday when you're 14 and you're grateful because that's nice of them and you'll still play it but not too grateful, you know?
Yeah but why would i post about it here
One of the biggest things that convinced me that this is arguably the most manufactured """success story""" of all time is that I've literally never heard anybody talking this. I live in the Portland area and used to spend all day, every day working around hundreds of people in their early 20s. If you don't hear about it HERE, what's it like around the rest of the world?
Meanwhile, I've heard discussions of Fire Emblem, Nier, and other series that don't supposedly have Call of Duty levels of popularity.
In my country this game came bundled with the PS4/5. That probably helped a lot.
Sony gave it out for free but I couldn't play it for more than an hour. Just boring gameplay.
The combat seems kinda fan, from what I have seem you can set traps and shit, it looks like the best implementation of the strategical third person combat AAA games try to sell now. But I can't get into the modern open world template.
It's the Cameron's Avatar of Video Games. It's that fricking dull and forgettable.
Ubislop is very popular
Oh, it's the cope thread again.
https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/5879-horizon-zero-dawn
https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/15451-horizon-forbidden-west
If you move the cursor over the percentages you can see the percentage of people who got a particular trophy, and for both games over 30% of people who ever started the game finished it, which is a perfeclty normal percentage for video games, with about 5% who even got the platinum trophy (in line with other Sony exclusives, much higher than for the average game).
Now let's go over the other copes. I'll focus on Zero Dawn because I haven't looked into Forbidden West and honestly don't care to. I doubt the situation is much different, though:
>b-but they gave away HZD for free!
They gave it away for free in 2021, when it had already sold 10 million copies
>b-but the game was included in bundles!
Let's say that a significant percentage of those 10 million copies were part of bundles, and that no one who got it was interested in it: it's fair to assume that most of them started at least once if only to check it out, given that at this point the vast majority of them couldn't have had more than a couple other games for their brand new console.
That's not taking into account the fact there were other bundles with other games they could choose from, and finally I don't know what it's like in other countries, but where I live barring special discounts bundles with a game are more expensive than just the base console, though slightly less expensive than the console + game bought separately. If it's like that elsewhere too then it wasn't given away "for free"
>it's fair to assume that most of them started at least once if only to check it out
It's not. It's not like that shit is preinstalled on the consoles it's bundled with, you'd have to actively bother to redeem and download a game you don't give a frick about in an era of PS+ games and rampant f2p.
>barring special discounts bundles with a game are more expensive than just the base console, though slightly less expensive than the console + game bought separately.
Horizon, as a first party game nobody gave a frick about, was typically a freebie in the cheapest option compared to other bundles with games people would actually spend money on.
once again t.man with an expired TLoU code in a box
>actively bother to redeem and download a game
Too bad the physical game was included the bundle
https://blog.playstation.com/archive/2017/01/24/horizon-zero-dawn-ps4-bundle-announced-with-a-bonus-3-months-of-playstation-plus/
>was typically a freebie in the cheapest option compared to other bundles with games people would actually spend money on.
Source? Even then, am I really supposed to believe a significant portion of those 10 million copies was bought by people who had so little interest in the game they didn't even bother to boot up the game a single time, yet they weren't willing to spend a few more dollars for another game? You're grasping at straws here.
That's the launch bundle for whatever morons actually wanted to buy a PS4 specifically because Horizon was being released, not the bazillion "here's some old first party shit as a pity prize" bundles that came later.
>7.6 million copies in one year
Just accept "go woke go broke" is a meme and move on.
Bud Light says hello
>sold
It got bundled with millions of consoles.
I like it. Robot dinosaurs are cool.
>But the main character is ugly!
Why the frick are you looking at the main character instead of the ROBOT DINOSAURS?
>S-snoy!
have a nice day, directionbrain. I haven't given a shit about console brands since my age was in the single digits, and I have no idea why the frick you do. I just play shit.
>The plot is WOKE!
Wouldn't know. Skipped it to fight more ROBOT DINOSAURS. If I wanted an engaging story in THE CURRENT YEAR I'd read a fricking book from twenty years ago, not play a videogame.