Im bored. Is this worth sinking some time into? I was told it has an interesting and unique story

It's alright. The game play is slightly above average and can be challenging. The environments are very pretty.

The MC approaches Mary Sue levels of competence and moral purity which gets really fucking old really fucking fast. Lance Reddick voices an interesting, calm sociopath character obsessed with knowledge for knowledge's sake. He's probably the only morally ambiguous character in the game and thus the only interesting one.

The story is rather unique. I won't spoil it but it's kind of a like a weird twist on the Matrix mixed with the aesthetic of Waterworld and with robot animals, if that makes sense.

The dialogue is infuriating and arguably the worst part of the game. It's A LOT of moral righteousness from the squeaky clean protagonists and muahahah evil monologues from the mustache twirling villains. And there is a mythical fuckload of repetition. You will hear the word "Sun" uttered so many fucking times, sometimes in the same sentence, you'll want to die. The villain says his 3 sentence cheesy ass mantra like 4 times in 8 minutes.

It's good for a play though. A lot of collectibles for the completionist and TONS of interesting backstory.
Also pic related is a total bro.

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It's not worth it for the story, but it is worth it for the combat and exploration. It's the only open-world game like this to actually have good combat. When you travelling around exploring the map it's like you are hunting / creeping around tons of roaming giant robot bosses. The weapons feel good too, arrows have surprisingly tight hitboxes.
Fighting humans kinda sucks though

Ok? What’s that got to do with gameplay?

It's a 7/10
It looks good in most places.
The combat can be very fun, but can also be exploited very easily even in early game.
The voice acting is so-so
The story itself isn't that great. Aloy goes from outcast to receiving more kisses on her ass than the pope gets on his ring. The antagonist is cool though.
The lore is super weak.
Mastering the balanced mechanics can be really fun.
Stealth is hit or miss.

Interesting? You could say that. Unique? Not entirely
It has good gameplay though.

Depends. Did you play Killzone Shadow Fall, and, if yes, what do you happen to think about it?
Horizon basically develops sensibilities from KSF putting them in a completely different setting and in a completely different game format.
It is very important to understand, that despite trying its damnedest to seem an Ubi-like openworld game with RPG elements, at its core this game is a shooter, third person one. This is important to keep in mind because KSF was explicitly a heavily directed Halo-like shooter, every bit of each mattered in the context of overall picture of events. The unfortunate thing is, Horizon, by comparison, has a shitload of filler and also occasionally tries its damnedest to shoot itself in the foot in a frankly amazing assortment of ways. Honestly, I am not at all sure whether, had I not have previous experience with KSF, I would've been able to put the right emphases on different parts of the game, and to distinguish the parts of it that mattered and converged upon a coherent point. Which it does ultimately have.
See, the way I perceive it, KSF and, ultimately, Horizon are examples of genuine modern high art. And, ultimately the only way to get what Horizon is all about is to experience it yourself.
I however advise you to play Killzone Shadow Fall first, trying to find Every Goddamn Collectible (it's extremely important in this particular game, you'll see why) and on penultimate difficulty, first. Moreover treating is either as its own game completely, or as a very distant spin-off to the mainline Killzones at least. Because, frankly put, in contrast with Horizon, it doesn't beat around the bush, and its actual point is by far more comprehensible if you are willing to pay attention and treat the game seriously. After you get solid foundation in regard to nu-Guerrilla's general style of sorts, it just might be that you'll see Horizon from a much more sensible standpoint than the majority of people who played it.

I had fun with it. Our vice in French and focused on English subtitles to get past the shitty voice citing. He gameplaynwas one of the best in modern games, and each weapon felt different and offered different enough gameplay to make it interesting. Hunting and crafting has been the most rewarding since crafting became the norm in these type of games and no game since has matched up. Fucking blows my mind it got crafting better than rdr2, and its one of the reasons I can’t play rdr2.

The game is challenging if you want, especially hunting the larger robots. 8/10 overall for me

Protagonist design trumps gameplay when its an open world meme game.

>The game is bad because girl is ugly
That's the most braindead braindead response I've ever heard. How does that affect the gameplay

No it doesn’t. Gameplay is the most important thing in any game.

she's supposed to be a clone of a female engineer. as someone who works with female engineers, I can assure you the devs have presented a faithful representation of an "attractive" one

it's busywork assassin's creed style faggotry where you aren't really having fun but just barely feel compelled to keep playing it. just like all of these sandbox games today.

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yeah its good
it even has actual dungeons with bosses

Setting is nice.
vs. machines gameplay is good.
vs. humans gameplay is sub-ubisoft.
Characters are all abysmal unlikeable unmemorable ugly boring and poorly animated.
Pacing is all off, gear progression is all out of wack and leveling+equipment upgrading isn't tied to quests properly.
You realise that the story is boring and awkward and all the fun of the game is tied to the ubisoft map completion formula.

It is definitely a Ubisoft open-world game. What it makes up for in interesting setting and mechanical fauna it loses badly on soulless characters, awkward progression and offensively dull plot.

Could've been a cool mecha game, but hey lets play as a human instead.

It really was good. I thought the core sotry got really interesting, like a mix of the matrix and terminator at times. Collecting all the tidbits of backstory also kept me really interested which is a rare thing for me to say about an open world game. Combat was really solid. Tight, fluid, and fun. Amazing visuals if playing in "4k" with HDR on. I do remember the dialogue getting a bit corny at times and one particular endgame spoiler getting the kids of Yea Forums all up in arms, but all my memories of the game are generally positive to great and I paid full price when it came out.

I liked the first 2-3 Hours but hated it by the time i finished it. Boring MC, Boring Characters, Empty World and Shitty Missions.

I don't know how anyone could make a game about Mechanical Dinosaurs boring but they somehow did it.

Mostly this. Lance Reddick should have been the MC.

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"It's not my problem you are bad at what you do" hurled at him was priceless.
As was the "curved shadow" bit later (that argument in regard to Earth being spherical was actually widely known and discussed by Ancient Greeks).

It's one of those 6/10 games that's decidedly more enjoyable than an average 6/10 but definitely still a 6/10.
>The worlds lore is super interesting, everything going on with the ancient world, machines, and how it ties into the modern day is fascinating. The story mission piecemeal out the full picture of the state of the world to you in a way that's very compelling and it really makes you want to strike out to the next story mission and find out more right away.
>On the flipside, everything involving the modern day factions and people's problems is boring as fuck with few exceptions, this includes the main character and most of the plots major players being fucking unlikable and not people you give a fuck about. The only good modern characters are Sylens and the Frozen Wilds DLC characters.
>The combat is overall enjoyable, the robots pretty much carry it though, your toolkit mostly revolves around placing traps before aggroing if possible and then abusing the shit out of slowdown to knock bits and pieces off of the machines, melee attacks are terrible feeling and mostly useless
>The final battle is cool, but the actual last boss is lame as shit, on the flipside the frozen wilds DLC's final segment and boss is probably the best part of the entire game
>The world is beautiful and detailed and discovering a new part of it is satisfying, however the actual traversal mechanics are basic and lacking, either walking/running everywhere or mounting robutts, coming off of BOTW this felt especially lacking
>Some of the side quests were pretty fun, some are very lame, errands are always pointless
>Character progression gives you lots of nice new tricks that keep things from getting stale
Basically it's a decent game that does some stuff very well and a lot of things good enough while other things are lacking but the DLC takes everything the game did well and poorly and improves upon it. I'd probably rate the frozen wilds at least 1 above the main game.

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>I'd probably rate the frozen wilds at least 1 above the main game with the same "good for it's rating out of ten" quality that the base game has

plot is interesting, story is awful

If you are HORNY AND LONELY, attracted to women and you play this game enough, you will want to bone Aloy. Even if you start out the game thinking she's a potato (and she kinda is). The graphics are candylicious and she is animated so well / seems so lifelike, shivering in the cold, wincing in pain etc. And her body is honestly pretty good for a chestlet.

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>Interesting
Eh, it's okay. Nothing to write home about.
>Unique
Not really. It's a combination of an "Outcast proves their worth" story and "Evil AI wants to wipe out all life."

One thing that I think is worth noting is that it's not just the graphics that are good, the visual design in general is top tier. They take areas like ruined modern cities and forests/deserts/snowy areas that are par for the course for a AAA game and make them look visually striking and unique. I kind of wish the game was stylized because the visual design is even better than the graphics and with stylization we could have avoided potato people/pop-in/awful water/only one type of plant reacting to movement

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It's pretty bad, I would avoid all Soiny cinematic bullshit.

>If the protagonist isn't a 10/10 qt loli (who's really 3,000, so she's totally legal), the game is automatically bad, regardless of whether the gameplay's any good

The world building is quite nice, really made me interested in finding out what happened. They definitely put plenty of time and detail into it.

WHEN will we get a lolibaba action game with AAA-tier graphics and animations? The people have spoken, dammit!

$0.01 has been deposited into your Sonybro account.

Too bad the gameplay is not good.

Game is definietely worth spending couple of weekends. Nice graphics, cool fights with robots, not-so-cool fights with humans. Just keep in mind that it's an open world and it's suffering from common faults of such settings. DLC is a solid extension of the game..
Story is decent, but it's like Star Trek: easy to get into, full of nice details and pretending to be based on real science, but completely falling apart when you start to looking closer.
but it suppose to be a fucking game, not a Ph.D. thesis

If you can get it cheap, go for it.

Cope harder, Br*zilian

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I hate it because a woman is the protagonist
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Combat is great on the harder difficulties, desu

>New thread: Hey guys is this Playstation 4® video game that I added an image of worth buying? I've heard that it's truly amazing and worth buying a Playstation 4® for.
>"Anonymous poster": Not only are the graphics amazing but the visual design is top tier. Here look at all these super high resolution promotional screenshots I just happen to have saved
Sony please go.

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>talking about video games on a video game board
When will they realize this place is only for meta-discussion and forced memes?

I'm afraid you're gonna keep being bored if you get it. Fighting machines is very cool and the game looks incredibly good. But anything that is not combat is painfully boring and dull.

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>Anyone who so much as mentions anything I don't like is a paid shill

I wanted to like it but I just didn't find the combat satisfying. Too often it feels like I'm just plink plink plinking these big robots with my shitty little bow and it doesn't have any oomph to it.

That said, I did play the game on hard. My question is: is this one of those games that's actually more fun on normal mode, even if you can handle the challenge of the harder difficulties?

character design is also important
i dont want to play as an orangutan for 40hrs maybe some but for me, no thanks

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The premise is interesting, the story is total shit and completely unbelievable. The gameplay is casual console shit.

>plink plinking these big robots with my shitty little bow and it doesn't have any oomph to it
You can't just mindlessly ping things to death, you need to exploit weak points and use appropriate ammunition. It's one of the few good points of the game

It's not really evil though. Hades just wanted to perform his primary function. He didn't want to make thing suffer or try to gain power, he just wants to do his job.

And the backstory is hilarious. An absolutely fucking retarded CEO has the bright idea of making self-replicating, unhackable war robots capable of using BIOMASS AS FUEL and no one during any stage of their creation says "This is an extremely bad idea. We should stop." Even though the thought of robots eating every single cell of life on Earth is actually pretty disturbing, the way they came about is so idiotic and absurd that I couldn't help but laugh.

it's a fine game

The characters are fairly standard, but it gets the job done.

The lore's decent, the world's pretty and enjoyable to explore, and giant robot dinosaurs are fun to fight. It feels kind of like a modern Ubisoft sandbox game that's actually good.

Ted Faro feels like a comical parody of what Tumblr thinks a rich white man is

Overall though I found a lot of the accounts from the end days of the old world to be absolutely chilling. Same with the defunct nurseries.

He says as 2 more promotional screenshots drop into the thread.
Quick, do God of War next.

It is not a text adventure, so it is pretty braindead braindead braindead to not care about "video" part of "game". Especially if technology allows it to be good, but it was purposely made bad. And it is single player open world game, so don't lie, you are here mostly for the show. I mean, people play "Candy Crush" mostly to look at pretty colors and effects, not to flex their brain in anticipation of exquisite gameplay.

You aren't going to get an honest read on this game from Yea Forums.

Sylens is easily the most interesting character, but he's not really an action-hero type, putting himself on the front lines to throw rocks at mecha-godzilla.

I'm cool with him working his own agendas from behind the scenes.

The core game's decent and I had a blast with Frozen Wilds. It feels like they tried to give side-quests a lot more variety and personality in the expansion.

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so all of Yea Forums

>An absolutely fucking retarded CEO has the bright idea of making self-replicating, unhackable war robots capable of using BIOMASS AS FUEL and no one during any stage of their creation says "This is an extremely bad idea. We should stop."

Have you ever read about events like Three Miles Island, Chernobyl or Deepwater Horizon disaster? This is EXACTLY what happened, although on much smaller scale.
The phenomenon of otherwise smart and resonable humans acting like complete retards when put within some organization are well know, user.

>he thinks sony is shilling a 2 year old game?????

Boring, plays like shit but looks good. Get this ONLY if you are a homo.

I love the blanket sense of horror that comes with the reaction from everyone figuring out the truth nearing the end.

Like it's so irreversibly bad in such a short amount of time that it hardly registers beyond exasperation.

>plays like shit
how

Most of Yea Forums knows, that "NieR:Automata" exist. "™"

It's a classic game, good versus bad with various elements devirated from classical moral, ethical themes: I won't spoil the plot, but eventually you'll know why the protagonist is such a SJW, and I don't mean it in a bad way.
It's a game with a "good heart", not like the Witcher 3 or Days Gone where you explore greay zones, MC is mostly a good person trying to bring good to the world. Sometimes is fun playing games like these.

Gameplay is pretty good, combat are fast paced and you need to think quickly against giant bots, while sneaking and clearing enemy camps can be fun.

I love exploring all the old city ruins, with some parkour elements like Ass Creed, but not too repetitive.

DLC is very solid, and also gives you the opportunity of know more about one of the tribes.

I really like the lore building, I bought the Art Book and it's very impressive what they've done with this game. Meridian is a town full of life, and one of the best towns I've seen since Rattay or Novigrad.

Yea Forums obviously hates it because of a female protag and all the good stuff you do, and because it's not edgy enough

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play it and find out.

I thought Aloy was kind of dry and predictable as a protagonist, but I genuinely liked her when she finally told her old tribe that they could all get fucked in the end. With them treating her like an outcast for her whole life only to turn around and try to treat her like a Goddess on an arbitrary pseudo-religious whim.

I platinumed both the main game and DLC and honestly enjoyed it more than I expected

Fucking hell. Retards upon retards upon retards.

What is the punchline of the main story? The hologram of Aloy's ancestor deciding to suicide for THE GREATER GOOD or something - and its resolution where it shows it was a monstrously retarded decision that left Faro (she knew for a fact was still dangerous) unchecked, which brought death to those exact people she was trying to shield by suiciding.

Why did it happen? Because Aloy's ancestor let the thought of her being a hero get to her head, to let her social role prevail over her human side.

How does Aloy differ and what is her primary talent? Her talent is being direct and EFFECTIVELY putting morons who try to seem someone they are not (Sylens included) into their place.

Why does she have this talent? Her personal past of being an outcast (and the game lets us choose how to interpret that past). Why does she also have ability to empathize? Her experiences with foster father.

The whole game is about contrasting humans with the social roles they willingly play. The personal growth arc of Aloy is that observing how her ancestor's, let's say, inclination to empathize too much and with the wrong people, led to her perishing, and then, by extension,to the destruction of nearly all she fought for, resulted in Aloy setting her priorities dead straight and ensuring she won't ever get carried away with that hero stuff she roleplays.

There. And no, jargon-ridden chattering of the Ancient Past is not about humans being themselves, it's about them acting out someones they are not.

I applaud them for taking what I originally thought was the most generic and interchangeable video game title that I had ever heard and actually being able to make it mean something in the end.

You know, I originally dropped this game a few hours in because I found the Nora to be so fucking obnoxious. Maybe I'll pick it back up if she tells them to go fuck themselves eventually.

No, the jewish shills on Yea Forums are lying as usual

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I enjoyed that part too, desu.

>Maybe I'll pick it back up if she tells them to go fuck themselves eventually.
She does, essentially. Toward the end of the game, she basically says "Fuck all of you. You shun me as an outcast for most of my life, but you're suddenly kissing up and practically worshipping me now that you NEED me to deal with the shit you can't handle."

Horizon 2: Utaru Edition fucking WHEN?!

I like Aloy, she's quite literally a "strong independent woman who don't need no one", but actually she's a NEET who grew in the wilds as an outcast, basically playing with her Focus for all her childhood, and so she lived enough outside of all that social/tribal dogmas and she know when BTFO people. she can be kind, but she doesn't take shit because she's been treated like some kind of monstrosity since her birth.
I like how she's very inquisivite and genuinely interested in other tribes' tradition, but eventually, she just doesn't give a fuck

Also, speaking of lore, I loved these dudes
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yes, we need to know more about other parts of the country

Does it have a demo?

I'm not completely disregarding character design. If a studio is able to make good/interesting looking characters, they should, and if they don't then they should be criticized for it. But completely chastising a game because of the appearance of the main character is ridiculous. Gameplay, story, worldbuilding, and the actual characters themselves are far more important than how a character looks.

One thing I wasn't totally clear on in the end was whether or not the machines were still necessary for the world's stability. Is the biosphere officially fixed? Or would wiping out the machines now just slowly doom everything again?

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The sequel will be called Horizon Far Zenith and is about how the Odyssey ship's destruction was faked by the eponymous group in order for the occupants to one day come back to Earth and rule it. They convinced Faro to destroy Apollo on Earth so that their copy of it was the only one and they would be educated and advanced when they came to conquer. They sent the signal that freed the subordinate programs but didn't think Hades would go to such extremes to complete it's function.

Sylens is the only interesting character in the game.

No. Artemis wasn't able to introduce more species of Fauna outside the pioneer species because Humans were meant to do that themselves after using Apollo, but since Apollo was destroyed Artemis is in a permanent limbo and thus only a small percentage of animals exist.

Source?

I never actively disliked her, I just thought that a lot of her reactions and general commentary on things were just kind of, standard? Most moral choices are the player's instead of hers, and she's just a generally competent and progressive perspective on things that's not unlikable, but doesn't have a lot of stand-out moments either.

Like her first encounters with technology and the like are all just taken in stride and allow her to become a tech genius without much issue from the get-go. Whereas I'd have expected most tribal children to react in sheer horror to holograms popping up for the first time. She does have some good moments in the ending, but I would have liked a few more distinct character moments on her part. I actually liked her more after Frozen Wilds, because she has some more time to connect with people a bit more there, beyond just running errands for them.

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She is sort of a hell-bent realist.