Experience the epic Horizon Forbidden West™ in its entirety with bonus content and the Burning Shores expansion included. The Burning Shores add-on contains additional content for Aloy’s adventure, including new storylines, characters, and experiences in a stunning yet hazardous new area.
Releases for €60 in my local currency, so far it seems on a technical level it’s done well enough, FPS seems stable except during cutscenes (oddly enough, a lot report dropping to 30 or lower).
Sadly have not found information yet about FoV or keybindings.
I own the first one and cant really find a drive to play it. IDK the main character just gives me uncanny valley repulsiveness. I made it about 8 hours in.
Game play is better, but similar. The improvements make it a fun challenge to take down the monsters piece by piece. I didn’t enjoy the game play of the first nearly as much.
The continuation of the story is good, but not as intriguing as the first. If story in the first was 10/10, this one is 8/10; so still pretty good.
If you enjoyed the first one, this one is definitely worth playing. There will also be a 3rd and having played the 2nd game will be required to understand the story.
The world building was solid enough to distract me from the writing for a long time. This probably sounds like a nitpick but here goes.
The part where the scientists are explaining GAIA (whatever its called) was so badly done I lost all suspension of disbelief. Like why did these people spend, presumably hours of their precious time, creating an Apple style keynote speech explaining their plan to save the world. Like maybe just focus on saving the world? And one of them has a valley accent. No disrespect to valley accents but if you’re trying to convince me I’m listening to one of the smartest people in the world it’s definitely a bad choice to give them an accent attributed to ignorant white girls.
The place where it broke down for me was a moment where, as part of the main quest of the game, a character asks Aloy to help with a very emotionally personal request (help figure out what happened to his dead sister), and Aloy starts off with “that’s your war, not mine” and is super reluctant. Then, not 2 minutes later, I talk to a side quest NPC asking for help investigating a stolen heirloom, and Aloy is like “yeah sure, I have time for that and also maybe I could run and get your grocieries and do your dry cleaning and whatever else no problem.”
The story of the present day in the first was bland. The story of the past was interesting to explore. I agree about the side quests, I skipped them entirely in the first, but some of the side quests in the 2nd were worth doing. The 2nd does a good job of listing which are side-story and which are side-fetch quests.
Eh. You can ride a lot more machines this time and the biomes are much more diverse. Other than that, it kinda lost its mystique when the plot twist was revealed at the end of the first game, the second game feels like it could (should) have been the final chapter in the first game. Still, graphics and art style are amazing and honestly worth playing just for that alone.
For a game that has been released since February 2022 to only have bullshots on their steam page…
Edit: Even the trailer they have on the steam page for the pc release has barely 10 seconds of real gameplay in 1:30 minutes, they really dont believe in people buying the game for what it is.
The game has been out for more than 2 years, not 1, most of what is in the trailer and screenshots of the steam page is cinematics and bullshots, bullshots are in game images edited to appear better than they are, most of those fit that definition, both by framing and by retouches that are not present in moving gameplay, like lighting fixes, focus, depth of field etc. Im not critizing the game, just stating what is on that steam page, which is pretty sad for a game that has been out for more than 2 years and has pretty good graphics by itself.
Thanks for stating im right. Have a nice day and try to not be so passive agressive with someone that is stating facts and not even saying anything bad about a game in an online forum.
Maybe you should reflect on that mate, even if it was true that those were done in photo mode, not in engine, photo mode does let them change light, focus, blur, depth of field, and so on, which would by definition be already bullshots not how the game looks in movement. Not to say that its obvious most of the steam pics do have post edits. So yeah, i think this place is indeed becoming worse than reddit, there people wasnt so protective of game companies to such a stupid level and people didnt take offense from a comment about the steam page of a game that doesnt even talk about the game itself.
I remember back in the day copying my PS3 save file for fallout 3 and then running it through a hex editor so that I could pick up where I leftoff on PC lol
Digital Foundry review for those that are interested. They generally give it the thumbs up. Not much in the way of new graphical features over the PS5, but just the higher resolution and DLSS/FSR makes a big difference. I’ve got it waiting on my computer to try out tonight. I loved Zero Dawn, so I’m really excited to finally play this
You can change FoV and keybindings. There’s a lot of customization options in general. For example, it’s possible to switch between pickup+animation, pickup and Auto-collect.
Lots of graphic customization too.
It’s lightyears ahead of the launch of Zero Dawn (which isn’t hard tbf).
Still, 60€ for a few years old game is annoying
Man reading through comments here… I’m getting real burned out on the constant negativity in the gaming community. It’s always been negative, but ffs we used to have fun too. Now a new game drops, no issues I’ve heard so far and it’s still only negative stuff. Isn’t anyone excited?
Feels to me like some folks just want to give due warning to help others from throwing money away. I don’t think most are being negative for negativity’s sake - but I may just be too optimistic about the state of the discourse.
Man I feel the same way, the internet can be so negative sometimes. People just need to relax. I’ve been waiting to play ever since it came out on PS5 and I held out for the PC version. Now it’s finally here and I am super excited for it to be honest. It’s a good port by Nixxes and runs like a dream on my PC. The game looks insanely good too, so it’s a technical marvel in my book.
See, that’s awesome to hear, and that makes me happy. I personally haven’t played them but my SO is super excited, and I think I’m going to pick it up for them. Thanks for being excited about games!
Yeah that’s baffling, I thought it was better with KB/M, it’s easier to target the machine’s subsystems with a mouse! Even compared with auto-aim on the gamepad.
I’m not excited just because my backlog is huge, I maybe play this in about ten years when it has gotten a bit smaller.
That’s the problem, there are too many games and so little time. But I agree, this doesn’t seem to be the next unfinished buginfested piece of shit but actually worth it’s money.
If you would now excuse me, I’ve got to get back to Arx Fatalis. Backlog…
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I own the first one and cant really find a drive to play it. IDK the main character just gives me uncanny valley repulsiveness. I made it about 8 hours in.
I played it for like 108 hours and it’s one of my top 5 games of all time. Tomato tomato.
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Is it basically the same thing?
Game play is better, but similar. The improvements make it a fun challenge to take down the monsters piece by piece. I didn’t enjoy the game play of the first nearly as much.
The continuation of the story is good, but not as intriguing as the first. If story in the first was 10/10, this one is 8/10; so still pretty good.
If you enjoyed the first one, this one is definitely worth playing. There will also be a 3rd and having played the 2nd game will be required to understand the story.
The world of the first one is 10/10, and maybe the “story” is fine, but the actual writing in the first was awful. The sidequests were especially bad.
Thank youuuuu.
The world building was solid enough to distract me from the writing for a long time. This probably sounds like a nitpick but here goes.
The part where the scientists are explaining GAIA (whatever its called) was so badly done I lost all suspension of disbelief. Like why did these people spend, presumably hours of their precious time, creating an Apple style keynote speech explaining their plan to save the world. Like maybe just focus on saving the world? And one of them has a valley accent. No disrespect to valley accents but if you’re trying to convince me I’m listening to one of the smartest people in the world it’s definitely a bad choice to give them an accent attributed to ignorant white girls.
The place where it broke down for me was a moment where, as part of the main quest of the game, a character asks Aloy to help with a very emotionally personal request (help figure out what happened to his dead sister), and Aloy starts off with “that’s your war, not mine” and is super reluctant. Then, not 2 minutes later, I talk to a side quest NPC asking for help investigating a stolen heirloom, and Aloy is like “yeah sure, I have time for that and also maybe I could run and get your grocieries and do your dry cleaning and whatever else no problem.”
The story of the present day in the first was bland. The story of the past was interesting to explore. I agree about the side quests, I skipped them entirely in the first, but some of the side quests in the 2nd were worth doing. The 2nd does a good job of listing which are side-story and which are side-fetch quests.
I guess I’ll get it once the price goes down, the first one was fun.
Eh. You can ride a lot more machines this time and the biomes are much more diverse. Other than that, it kinda lost its mystique when the plot twist was revealed at the end of the first game, the second game feels like it could (should) have been the final chapter in the first game. Still, graphics and art style are amazing and honestly worth playing just for that alone.
For a game that has been released since February 2022 to only have bullshots on their steam page… Edit: Even the trailer they have on the steam page for the pc release has barely 10 seconds of real gameplay in 1:30 minutes, they really dont believe in people buying the game for what it is.
The trailer is all ingame content. The game has been out for a year, it’s not that hard to check. None of it is a bullshot.
The game has been out for more than 2 years, not 1, most of what is in the trailer and screenshots of the steam page is cinematics and bullshots, bullshots are in game images edited to appear better than they are, most of those fit that definition, both by framing and by retouches that are not present in moving gameplay, like lighting fixes, focus, depth of field etc. Im not critizing the game, just stating what is on that steam page, which is pretty sad for a game that has been out for more than 2 years and has pretty good graphics by itself.
It’s the photo mode, it’s just ingame images. Literal screenshots. This is stupid.
Thanks for stating im right. Have a nice day and try to not be so passive agressive with someone that is stating facts and not even saying anything bad about a game in an online forum.
It’s okay to just say I was wrong. Reddit was better than lemmy has become honesty. It’s full of this shit.
Maybe you should reflect on that mate, even if it was true that those were done in photo mode, not in engine, photo mode does let them change light, focus, blur, depth of field, and so on, which would by definition be already bullshots not how the game looks in movement. Not to say that its obvious most of the steam pics do have post edits. So yeah, i think this place is indeed becoming worse than reddit, there people wasnt so protective of game companies to such a stupid level and people didnt take offense from a comment about the steam page of a game that doesnt even talk about the game itself.
I haven’t finished it on my PS5, and I could essentially buy it twice. But Sony blocks save transfers 🤷♂️
Where is the EU when we need them.
I remember back in the day copying my PS3 save file for fallout 3 and then running it through a hex editor so that I could pick up where I leftoff on PC lol
Did the same for Skyrim. It wasn’t even that time consuming.
Digital Foundry review for those that are interested. They generally give it the thumbs up. Not much in the way of new graphical features over the PS5, but just the higher resolution and DLSS/FSR makes a big difference. I’ve got it waiting on my computer to try out tonight. I loved Zero Dawn, so I’m really excited to finally play this
You can change FoV and keybindings. There’s a lot of customization options in general. For example, it’s possible to switch between pickup+animation, pickup and Auto-collect. Lots of graphic customization too. It’s lightyears ahead of the launch of Zero Dawn (which isn’t hard tbf). Still, 60€ for a few years old game is annoying
Man reading through comments here… I’m getting real burned out on the constant negativity in the gaming community. It’s always been negative, but ffs we used to have fun too. Now a new game drops, no issues I’ve heard so far and it’s still only negative stuff. Isn’t anyone excited?
Feels to me like some folks just want to give due warning to help others from throwing money away. I don’t think most are being negative for negativity’s sake - but I may just be too optimistic about the state of the discourse.
Man I feel the same way, the internet can be so negative sometimes. People just need to relax. I’ve been waiting to play ever since it came out on PS5 and I held out for the PC version. Now it’s finally here and I am super excited for it to be honest. It’s a good port by Nixxes and runs like a dream on my PC. The game looks insanely good too, so it’s a technical marvel in my book.
See, that’s awesome to hear, and that makes me happy. I personally haven’t played them but my SO is super excited, and I think I’m going to pick it up for them. Thanks for being excited about games!
Hope they enjoy it 🌻
The excited people are playing the game right now instead of shit posting on Lemmy. :D
On a HZD post, I remember saying years ago I can’t wait because I’d love to play it on keyboard and mouse!
Got downvoted like hell and someone replied, “you can’t play it with a mouse and keyboard”.
I was completely baffled as to what’s going on.
Yeah that’s baffling, I thought it was better with KB/M, it’s easier to target the machine’s subsystems with a mouse! Even compared with auto-aim on the gamepad.
So many gatekeepers. And worse when you’re having fun doing something that they don’t approve of.
New games without bugs are always a good thing.
I’m not excited just because my backlog is huge, I maybe play this in about ten years when it has gotten a bit smaller.
That’s the problem, there are too many games and so little time. But I agree, this doesn’t seem to be the next unfinished buginfested piece of shit but actually worth it’s money.
If you would now excuse me, I’ve got to get back to Arx Fatalis. Backlog…