Horizon: Zero Dawn

I've already been called a heretic to my face because of this, but I am actively enjoying this more than Zelda. Granted I admit that I haven't gotten very far in Zelda since after only a couple hours I found myself jonesin to shoot fire arrows into robodinos and switched back to Horizon.

What is really quite silly is that we've gone for ages with mostly mediocre titles and then two great games released in the same week

i tried save scumming with purple vendor treasure chests and it doesn't work, it seems to "lock" each chest to an item until you at least completely exit the game. Save, buy chest, unpack it, be disappoint, reload, buy chest, same item, try reload/buy 5x time all the same item.

I think though when I quit for a day and came back it gave me a different item, so dunno if its timer or game cold restart.

its a nice touch they thought about that

My biggest issue is I tend to forget to "scan" a monster for its weaknesses before I fight, and then trying to do it while you are fighting is just a clusterfuck. I also only really understand fire/water, theres the sharpshooter bow weaknesses which is like fucking... down arrow and broken shield and my brain is too dumb to understand that, so I just go "fuck it, i'll just keep trying to freeze this bitch"

I acquired a Shadow Bow and loaded it up with three (1 purple two blue) + Fire damage mods. Then I proceeded to cackle with glee as I set dinos ablazing until I promptly burned through my whole Blaze stockpile and had to start rationing my pyromania. I was wondering why there was a large carry capacity for weapons and it has become clear that you are absolutely expected to build up an armory of specially modded tools for a variety of occasions. I have yet to get a decent 'ice' weapon and that has made certain things inordinately difficult.

Loving this game, but why can I not buy wire in bulk??

Also, on what I think is 2nd last mission...every time I die the game crashes.....

The 'down arrow' is just piercing damage. The torn shield is 'Tear' effect which is ability to tear components off of the machines (like weapons and radar systems etc.,).

**Minor in game spoiler to be aware of**

Inside the Hunting Lodge in Meridian. There are like 3 books which you can scan with your focus and then read from your data collectibles. You may want to finish all of the lodge quests before reading those. It will kinda spoil some in game stuff as I think one of them documents things that your character does during the quest line. Just an fyi.

Soygen said:

The games industry has been edging for a couple years and now it's finally blowing it's massively built up load all over us. It's a bukkake of great gaming right now.

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Maybe this deserves it's own thread but do you guys think that we feel this way because it's been ages since there's been several great games released? I honestly don't remember that last time I felt game anxiety like this either so it's just a question...

The Great Game Bukkake of 2017 came out of nowhere it seems and I'm not sure if it's because we're desperate or if they are legitimately amazing games. Zelda definitely is... HZD seems like it if you're going to draw UC4/Witcher 3 comparisons. Nioh and Nier are of a certain niche IMO and I'm not interested in them but they do seem to be great for that Dark Souls gamer.

The edging analogy is apropos however I'm not sure it's intentional is all.

Turned level 30 yesterday, just got past the first Carja waypoint on my way to Meridian which I still haven't been to 25 or so hours in. Maxed all but two inventory upgrades (not sure if others unlock later). Done all side quests, max hunter rewards and picked up everything as I go (though I can't find the damned metal flower that appears to be in or around the very first ruin you fall into...). Still missing several weapons to use some of the ammo I have bought.

I really enjoy the game, but not been an appropriate level for quests for a while. I was level 15? when I did the proving.

Only real negative so far is the inventory system. Not sure why there is such a large discrepancy between stacks of items from 250 down to 5 considering how quickly you stack up 5 of some items. Overall though, amazing game with amazing visuals. Robot combat is fun which is why my level is so high.

Question though, seen some posts over mine mention a high shard cost for some items. What is the cost for the most expensive ones in Meridian? I have around 12 or 13k now, which just keeps increasing since I have nothing to spend them on after doing all the 500+ cost upgrades. Probably have another 10+k in items since I only sell all the items marked for shards only, while keeping at least a few of each other item in case later vendors require them along with metal shards for weapons.

Patch today, crash fixes I guess. I need to work on my weapons this week, I'm still using all blue weapons.

I think the timing feels overwhelming because there was a bit of a drought holiday 2016, and some of the games ended up not being that great. Mafia 3 was decent but not polished and super grindy. COD Infinite Warfare was bad. Battlefield 1 was good but also not good in some ways. FF15 was divisive. DR4, Last Guardian, GOW4 and PSVR were disappointing. Watch Dogs 2 and Titanfall 2 were really the only decent holiday games, which was a big surprise.

By contrast Nioh, Nier, RE7, Yakuza 0, and HZD have all been fantastic and better than most people expected.

My main complaint with the game is too much combat with humans. It's really lame compared to dino fighting.

Mine would be everything to do with the hunting lodge. I cannot stand timed shit like that, especially when it gates a bunch of skill points and at least one equipment upgrade.

It's a fairly minor complaint though, I tried the first hunting grounds at the very beginning of the game and failed at all three tests, haven't gone near another one since. I guess I should go back with all purple weapons and mostly purple mods and see what they are like now, but I suspect that retarded log trial is still just as retarded with 30+ hours of levels and gear upgrades. Hell, I don't even think knocking the difficulty all the way down from very hard to easy would help with that one.

Vorph said:

Mine would be everything to do with the hunting lodge. I cannot stand timed shit like that, especially when it gates a bunch of skill points and at least one equipment upgrade.

It's a fairly minor complaint though, I tried the first hunting grounds at the very beginning of the game and failed at all three tests, haven't gone near another one since. I guess I should go back with all purple weapons and mostly purple mods and see what they are like now, but I suspect that retarded log trial is still just as retarded with 30+ hours of levels and gear upgrades. Hell, I don't even think knocking the difficulty all the way down from very hard to easy would help with that one.

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For the log trial, you can do that easily without any upgrades I think. You just jump in, use the bomb launcher to lob a ball in front of them. They will run, run right towards the path they take and use the ropecaster on the logs since the force of it will cause the logs to fall. At your upgrade level, the bow might even do it and be better since you don't have to be so close to the logs. They die even running into the logs, don't have to fall on them. When you hit the herd, odds are you will kill far more than the required amount. Just ignore all Watcher robots.

I was a bit worried about this game because Guerrilla Games never seemed to figure out the Killzone series. They had some cool ideas that were implemented poorly and the game was never really that fun. And the storyline and voice acting were cheesy as fuck. Is there any of that residue on this game?