Do people actually enjoy these games? There's no way, right? I'm not talking about the dudebros and the normies, I'm talking about here. I couldn't put more than 2 hours into this.
I've heard absolutely nobody talk about these games. They're the Avatar of vidya.
>>727676168I played it when I got it for free with my ps5. basically I changed the controls in game so melee was set to square and triangle and never used the bow unless absolutely necessary. I never finished it, I thought it was going to be more like zelda but it was just a 3rd person shooter.
A literal industry plant franchise lol.
It got bundled with every Playstation console sale so Herman could pretend his game was popular.the absolute hilarity of how both it and its sequel was utterly overshadowed by FROMsoft games will never stop being funny. dude really thought his inorganic hypershilled game could beat Dark Souls.
no evidence of a real gamer playing it
If I liked Days Gone, would I like Horizon?
>>727676232>>727676302The franchise's most viewed video on YouTube has only 15 million views in all. That is NOT normal given how many copies were sold. It's an industry plant franchise.
>>727676536I'm not sure about this. How many views is an exclusive game supposed to have? These games sold like seven million copies which isn't nothing.
>>727676168I don't think so. I have never played it, not even thought about playing it. I don't think I know anyone who played it. I only know about that game because of memes about protagonist woman looking weird.>>727676232nice comparison, I don't really like Avatar either. Feels like a completely soulless and boring movie
>>727676536>given how many copies were soldPack in with ps4, not exactly individual sales.
>>727676168Yes, they're very solid >8/10 games. It's in the same tier as Zelda: Bore of the Wild Ubisoft Towers and Zelda: TikTok, but lacks the Nintendo Bonus.>>727676232Avatar 1 is a good movie, feels a little derivative though, like a Dances With Wolves (good movie too) in space.
>>727676642The first Horizon game sold 24 million copies. Mario Odyssey sold a similar amount and clearly has a greater cultural footprint.
Not sure, I never met a Horizon fan.
I a plat, it's a decent game>inb4 seething incelsit sold gorillions of copies, you lost
>>727676168Played it a couple months back. Gameplay was kinda ass until you get overpowered and a lot of the quests were pretty run-of-the-mill standard fare but the world design was beautiful and I liked how the overarching story unraveled. Also hacking the machines and exploring the areas was pretty fun.The hate for the games in here is literal drone behaviour, most people just try to fit in which looks pretty pathetic in turn but w/e.
>>727676168I played it and it should have been a fairly linear action game rather than open world slop. I got it literally only for the gigantic robo beats didnt care that the protagonist is an ugly dyketroon.
>>727676168The gameplay's fun. But it's one of those rare few times where story and characters are so bad they drag down the overall experience when otherwise I'd at least be able to ignore them.
>>727676168I have no desire to play these games but the Decima engine is pretty impressive.
>>727676168Platted this since it was easy.Its been years but my thoughts were:1. Formulaic2. Not really sense of exploration3. Story was a pos4. The combat and enemies were fun as fuck as long you didnt use the High Grass of Instant Kill.
>>727676168I played the first one and it was alright. I dunno anything about the sequel except the devs left her nips in one of the costumes, which could be seen at the right angles in photo mode.
I like them. They aren't incredible masterpieces or anything. You get a pile of goofy weapons and run around killing robot animals. I think they are pretty neat. Story for the first one is so-so. Second one isn't as neat but has a couple fun ideas.>>727676232I never really talk about Horizon here because the threads are usually shitposted to oblivion. Well, not so much these days but they aren't really the new hotness anymore.
>>727676168Yes normies love horizon. One of my normie friends has been telling me to play both horizon games for years because he considers it one of the best games of all time and even was going to lend his playstation to me.
>>727676168Yeah, it was great. I'm a sucker for longtime post-apocalypse settings.
>>727676168I got it for free back when I first got my PS4 and I was blown away by the graphics. The gameplay was interesting at first, but I quickly realised this was a very boring game and I've never in my life heard anyone speak very positively about it. It's supposedly one of the best selling games on PS4 and yet no one I know even played it.
>>727676836>ugly dyketroonDo people honestly look at this and think its ugly as sin? What even counts as feminine anymore
>>727677036post the sequel cap nigga
>>727677082Don't have any since I haven't played it yet. Aloy never once struck me as ugly while playing the first one though.
>>727677036"Not ugly" "real female" according to porn addicts = uncanny valley plastic doll looks from eastern slop.
>>727676753Most Mario fans are normalfags, indians, and Japanese. I've never heard of that game.
>>727676168I wanna know why the Horizon series has such pretty box art yet the actual game is just brown and bloom.
>>727677484>anti soul gasWhy? Is it because of console limitations
It has something genuinely interesting in difficult robots which require you to prepare an approach and execute it quickly and precisely. But they saddled it with all of the "obligatory" shit - open world and crafting and skill progression and a really fucking long tutorial prologue. It starts out implying that stealth kills are the way to go but you very quickly stop being able to actually get stealth kills because the bots have more health than the sneak damage. And they train you to hit the explosive canister on an enemy but after you've done that ten times or whatever they start slapping armor over it with really poor visibility that they've done so and without telling you about it.Also I don't have a gyro controller so I was doing open world stuff with a controller and swapping to mouse and keyboard whenever I anticipated needing to make accurate shots. And the slowmo mechanics (sliding and jumping slow mo) just didn't seem to want to work for me both because they probably expect that you upgrade draw speed to fit shots into the window and they just didn't want to trigger.
>>727676168I played the first one when it came out. I enjoyed it at first for the most part, this was like 10 years ago though so I was a lot more receptive to storygames. It's one of those games that's fun for a little while until you put it down one day and never experienced the desire to load it up again. Just no hook at all and the story was fucking dire.
>>727676168I liked it. It's great sci-fi, if you're into it. One of the best looking games I've ever played. Pic rel, unmodified screenshot I took with the in-game editor.I haven't played the sequel but I watched the entire playthrough of it on YT, and I didn't like it too much. I think the story took a nosedive in the second game, kinda felt like the writers/devs gave up and stopped trying after seeing the first game receive such a positive reception.>>727676842>But it's one of those rare few times where story and characters are so bad they drag down the overall experience when otherwise I'd at least be able to ignore them.I find this to be my experience with most Sony exclusives these days. I'm not sure if I'd like some parts of this game's story and characters either if I played it today. I just finished Ghost of Tsushima a couple days ago and have very mixed feelings about it. There's some parts of the story, character choices, motivations, and dialogues that I find really retarded and off putting. But same as Horizon Zero Dawn, the in-game world is really well crafted and absolutely gorgeous. Story-wise, there are parts of these Sony games that are really shallow and braindead. They're obviously meant to appeal to normies and teenagers.
The good aesthetics of this game start and end with the dinosaurs. Everything else looks fucking terrible.
>>727677581>difficult robotsIt's actually really fucking weird. The game is supposed to be for casuals but it has a pretty high skill ceiling and the difficulty settings barely scale the way it's difficult. Are the casuals just dumping arrows into the robots on babby mode?
If you've played any of the nu lara tomb raider games or that ghost of tshukima shit you know exactly what this game is like. They managed to add robot dinosaurs and it's still incredibly generic and forgettable. First post anon has it right but I remember avatar more actually
>>727676168Sonyfag here and I’ve never seen any of my friends playing these games. The hype around them is so artificial. But hey, girlboss!
I liked the first one through and through. The second one's gameplay was good, but the story was rather awful.
The setup is very interesting, I like "new society in a post apocalypse" settingsI might have played the second game if it wasn't pozzed to hell and back
>>727677484Doesn't it have color grading settings? It was properly colored for me.
>>727677484>>727677541>goes specifically to the area with that specific color theme which is different from the area depicted on the cover>"why different"Big mystery
>>727678397Where's the part of the game that looks like the cover art?
>>727678578Shut up chud you lost
>>727678397I'm sorry, but this does not impress me in any way whatsoever. And I don't just mean in particular this game, but in any modern video game with beautiful skyboxes and color dashing pallets. Any idiot can make a beautiful looking game these days, but what about areas where it's a lot harder to create a truly great game, like the gameplay? Any innovations there worthy of mentioning?
>>727676536Wouldn't an industry plant have lots of views and low actual sales.
>>727678676pssst anon, he's saying they're lying about sales
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>>727676168My GF loves them. Easy gift for her when they release a new one.
Great open worlds, fun movement. Haven't had as much fun exploring an open world as I did with HFW/HZD
>>727678578Just outside the reserve/human encampment where that screenshot with the orangish-brown theme. Different areas in the game have a different color scheme/theme, which is what makes the overall world look so nice and varied. I don't have a screenshot of that specific area from the cover art but I found pic related online and I recognize the area in it, and it looks almost exactly the same in-game as it does in that pic.>>727678609I liked the gameplay, I enjoyed it a lot. I can't say objectively how it compares to other games. I've seen some say that they like it and find it fun, and others say that it's boring and needlessly complex.
>>727678780My GF doesn't like video games and she has bullied me out of playing them by shaming me whenever she says me playing them. Nowadays, I only post on 4chan and watch the occasional YT video on a game. And I still play OSRS on mobile
>>727677191Plastic dolls look better desuIt’s a video game, nobody wants to see real women, they want to see fantasy women. Thats what a video game is, escapism to a perfect ideal world
Concorde if it safe feminist DEI
>>727676168The gameplay is fun and fairly unique. The first game had an interesting backstory. They look nice.
>>727678676No, because the high sales come from it being a pack-in title, and the low views are a result of zero actual interest.>>727678838That looks nothing like the box art lol. Where's the lush greens and deep blues?
How much did the sequel game sell?I think the first one was like bundled with lots of PS4's so people got it as a free game, basically like Wii Sports. (Wii Sports is a great game, but it wouldn't have half the sales if it wasn't free with the console)
>>727677191YWNBAW
>>727678149>pozzed to hell and backShe's a little uglier and kisses a cute Asian girl in the dlc and uuuuuuuuuuuh???
>>727677484Jungle areas are pretty lush but I don't have any screenshots to prove you wrong.
>>727678872Differences in artstyle really. Whenever I play some korean slop I get bored of the sameface perfect proportions look relatively fast so I'd disagree that it's better.
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>>727678953Do you realise it was not a launch title and so being bundled would not increase sales that much? Like every major exclusive gets a bundle for every system.
>>727677541>anti soul gas
>>727678797>Haven't had as much fun exploring an open world as I did with HFW/HZDI don't see how anyone can think this. It's packed full of chokepoints funneling you into nuisance enemies on the road that take way too damn long to drop combat if you just run past.
>>727678953>Where's the lush greens and deep blues?You do realize that cover arts tend to be slightly exaggerated and stylized, right? I played this game many years ago and I don't remember there being deep blue skies like that but I may be wrong. But what you actually get in the game is pretty close. Here's a video of the kind of area that the cover art is depicting.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV7FogKC8iQ
>>727678865Don't take that shit, faggot.
>>727679169wasn't this entire tribe depicted as vegan hippies
>>727678838This would look more like the actual box art.
>>727679169Ok? Do you think its some sort of enby colony because the moids have their tits out?
>>727679215You get away pretty fast with a mount and it just makes sense that machines are more or less relentless since they don't function on regular stamina. You can also take them out quickly with some bombs which is what I did most of the time. The most annoying part to me was how quickly reinforcements arrive every single time, even if you only want to take out a single nuisance it suddenly becomes a horde of giant mecha bisons if you're not fast. I guess it makes sense in the world but sometimes I just wanted to explore. That's why stealth hide and reinforcements are the goat.
>>727679291Yes, but is that what you want? The way it actually looks in the game looks more natural with softer tones, because cover arts, as you might know, tend to be a bit exaggerated. But you can always change your monitor settings to make it look more vibrant like that.
>>727679243That video is the lite version of brown and bloom.
>>727679215Because Aloy can actually move quickly and has good jumping unlike most 3rd person shit.
>>727677484Yes, that one arid desert area, amongst all the other varied biomes in the game, is brown. No, there is not a great deal of bloom. The game is actually exceedingly pretty for how well it performs. It's open-world with massively detailed enemies/NPCs, large view distance, shit loads of dense foliage, the lighting is really good, with detailed shadows, AO, highlights, GI etc on all objects all of the time, really clean and smooth looking too without typical ray tracing blur, and yet it performs smoothly and at high frame rates. It might well have the best graphics to performance ratio of any modern game from the last 10 years.It's a flawed game of course, the gameplay is fun at times with some interesting ideas but gets repetitive and is ultimately pretty derivative open world stuff. The dialogue is wooden and all the characters bar Aloy are completely boring. But the graphics and optimization, at least in the remastered version, are outstanding.
>>727679265Let me tell you something, I am 28 years old, and I've been with her since I was 27. So for about a year now. She is my first ever girlfriend. Ever. I've never had a girlfriend as a teenager or a young adult. Truthfully, I've NEVER even talked to a girl romantically until I met her. I've been a shut in incel until last year. The fact that I have a girlfriend that pretty, successful, and "normal" is something I never thought would've happened to me. If she wants me to stop playing video games, I will accept that. I'm not young anymore, I don't have many options if I fuck this up.
>>727679654Don't take that shit, faggot.
>>727679434Yeah, I can see there's a slight brown-orangish tone going on there still. But it's still markedly different from the encampment area. It's not exactly like the cover art, but that's something to expect. HZD isn't the only game that has a more eye catching, vibrant and stylized cover art. Games tend to do that, movies too. If you wanna call that false advertising or misleading, then I'd be inclined to agree somewhat.
>>727679654That's retarded, as long as it's not an addiction who the fuck cares. Accepting feedback is healthy, changing yourself because someone wants you to be someone else is idiotic. It took me untill I was 28 for my first gf too so I know how you feel but this shit will make you miserable
>>727676168do people enjoy open world action RPGs with high production value? i'm afraid the answer is yes, sir.
>>727679654You can't be happy with a crazy bitch that tries to control your behaviour. The situation you're describing is similar to Idubbbz, do you want to end up like idubbbz anon? She probably has BPD and will ruin your life.
>>727679860>action RPGu wot
>>727679419>Yes, but is that what you want?Yes?>way it actually looks in the game looks more naturalMaybe if you're a fucking Indian who's never seen a temperate climate free from smog before. The shills aren't sending their best, lmao. Go look at pictures of California where the game actually takes place, or if you're lucky you'll even get a H1-B to see it in-person.
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>>727680117>immediate Indian boogeyman>posts the oceanYou're not too bright
>>727676168back then, it was supposed to be the BOTW killer. Take that as you will.
>>727678872>Plastic dolls look better desuThat's just your opinion, waifufag / porn addict.>It’s a video game, nobody wants to see real women, they want to see fantasy women.Speak for yourself.>Thats what a video game is, escapism to a perfect ideal worldNope, videogame is just a form of fun, if you wan to escape to "another world" that's your issue. I wonder what the perfect world of Tetris would look like, would you fuck a L-Block baddie?>>727679036That Chineseslop has nothing to do with Dead or Alive, DoA has plastic dolls, the Chineseslop has characters modeled after PLASTIC women.Chinese women, like Korean women, are hilariously fake / plastic to the point they look uncanny. I'm not attacking "Asian" women, just telling the truth, pic related has an attractive young East Asian woman and an attractive MILF, the difference between them and the uncanny plastic women in Chinese media is as clear as day.
>>727680323>posts the oceanYeah: https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Long_CoastYou may now post beef.
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>Here's your temperate west coast bro
>>727680117Just tweak your display settings if you want it more rainbowy you faggot. When I played the game, I didn't mind how it looked. Actually try playing it yourself and I don't think you'd mind it either, it's a really pretty game with very good lighting. But when I look at these pictures and videos, I agree that the brownish tint looks a little stuffy and that the game might look better without it.The way you edited this pic however >>727679291 to make the colors pop does not look good. It looks cheap, and ironically something that might appeal to Indians. Lot of third worlders online who will post pics that look like that with the contrast turned high to make the colors pop, and they don't realize how unnatural that can make it look. Similar to how they post "AI enhanced" photos with overdone smoothing that makes everything look artificial.
>>727680623>Just tweak your display settings if you want it more rainbowy you faggotCC in post isn't as effective as actually rendering the game properly to begin with. Make the game look like the box art and we'll talk.
>>727679721Thank you for your advice.>>727679806She wants to spend that time with me and for me to go to the gym because I'm skinny fat. Honestly, I feel pretty good now that she has come into my life. I feel a lot of sharper and motivated in my life if that makes sense. Not being behind my PC 24/7 feels pretty good. >>727679884I don't know who that is, but she's not that obsessive bro. She only wants me to quit playing video games. I tried to get her into video games, but she hated it. She didn't like playing Minecraft, House Flipper 2, Sims. She kind of liked Portal, but only for a few hours before finishing it.
>>727680712>She only wants me to quit playing video gamesWhat does she want you to do instead of video games? Next question actually is why she's dating you if she thinks you have such a red flag.
>>727676168Tumblrtards do
>>727678838>Different areas in the game have a different color scheme/themethat's how you now the visual design is shit tier.
>Chineseslop character was modeled after real women, bro!Meanwhile the real women in China's media.It's unbelievable how coombrains are unable to feel an uncanny sensation looking at plastic dolls and plastic women. What anime and gacha toons do to a motherfucker.
>>727680804>What does she want you to do instead of video games?>>727680712>She wants to spend that time with me and for me to go to the gym because I'm skinny fat.I used to be skinny fat, but I managed to get rid of that. I'm now bulking up. Aside from that I spend time with her shopping, going to dinner and just generally spending time together outside and going on vacations etc. >Next question actually is why she's dating you if she thinks you have such a red flag.She's an accountant and I'm the IT guy, so I helped her out quite a lot when she had issues. That's how we got to talking one day. When we started talking more and more, I guess I was pretty smooth looking back it. I didn't know I had this in me, but I guess was pretty charming and cute? Idk. I eventually got the courage to ask her out and that was it.
>>727681354So she just wants to engage in various bourgeois frivolities with you. Isn't it good enough for you to say:>I'm an IT guy. I like the engineering that goes into software. Video games are software.
>>727681236Yellow fever weebs are not a normal people. How many times do you need to be told and shown this? They're fucking insane.
>>727681236No one wants to look at ugly frumpy dykes in their media.
>>727676168Yeah I played both games. They're fun. They would be better if they dropped the terrible story and perhaps made Aloy a mute custom character you made with a creator, but simply running around for robots and shooting off their individual weapons to make a larger fuck you weapon is fun. At its best it's a more fluid Monster Hunter. At its worst it's like Witcher 3 and BG3 where you're stuck in a lame fucking loop of dialogue that adds nothing. I'd give both games an 8. If they were Nintendo franchises they'd both be 9.5/10s and would have revolutionized open world gaming forever.
>>7276761682 hours is a lot of time for a videogame... enough to beat like 2 arcade videogames
>>727676232This, this is very accurate.
>>727681485I've already given up hope. I'd rather spend time with her instead of playing video games anyway. Thanks for talking to me
>>727676648You're a weeb on a weeb website. Avatar is a very Western gen X/millenial-coded movie directed and produced by people at least twice your age. No wonder your sensibilities don't align.
>>727676168I tried to play this but looking at that hideous women just put me in a bad mood so I refunded it
>>727676168We already know marketers for Playstation games come here to /v/ from that TLoU twitter thread, so I just assume anyone talking about this game positively is a paid shill
>>727681721>i want to look at a malefag
>>727676168I like the first one even though the story is ass and I'm enjoying my current playthrough of the second one. They're woke as shit but the gameplay lets me ignore the woke. My biggest issue with these games are the lack of enticing story and characters. The writers fall into the trap of setting their story in a post apocalyptic world but trying to TELL the story of the pre apocalypse. If pre-apocalypse was interesting, we'd start our story there. The audience cant get emotionally invested into a world that is already dead.
>>727685481Adding on to this. Breath of the Wild avoids this problem by making the pre-apocalypse story optional which allows players to focus on the here and now. Its not important how Link got defeated by Calamity Ganon, whats important is that Link revived and is setting out on a quest to kill Ganon.
>>727677191You will never be a woman
>>727684765Only troons play as women
>>727676168Fuck no. The games are literally the free shit you get with buying 50% of consoles and nobody cares to play them.
>>727677619I thought GoT was one of the better ones stroywise. It didn't try to overcomplicate itself and most of the characters were pretty clear cut. The only one I didn't like was the bow guy who let his discipline go after spending so much trying to find and kill her.
>>727676168>Advertise how woke your team and product is>Get scared your white female protagonist is getting to close to BBC>Invent a black female love interest out of nowhere for the BBC so you can justify pairing your white female protag with literally anyone elseThis is exactly what happened with the nu-Star Wars movies.
>>727678953The game is meant to be played in HDR. It's a lot more lush and saturated in HDR on an OLED. The fog is a lot less visible too due to increased contrast. Looks almost exactly like the box art when I'm playing it, though I am playing the remastered version.
>>727677036>What even counts as feminine anymoreA woman's hairstyle is a massive part of their attractiveness and Aloy has one of the ugliest hairdos ever seen.
>>727676168I played it cuz it was free, and it was alright. Like a solid 5/10.
>>727676168Thoroughly enjoyed the first game for how nice the traversal and combat felt on the medium settings. Alongside only bloodborne, dragon's dogma, and mad max, it's one of only four games I have platinumed.Normally, I play rts and multiplayer shooters with my bros, or the occasional rpg and horror game alone, but something about the whole package of hzd just really captivated me. Annoying too cos I went back to play the expansion and couldn't get back into it.
>>727692787cope
>>727690761Suck on my fat white cock faggot
For who was this for?
>>727695137Why the fuck would Lego collaborate with this franchise? Don't they have people who look into if these things are feasible or not? Nobody is going to buy a fucking Lego Horizon game. It does not have that fucking strong of a fanbase. Nobody fucking cares about Horizon
>>727676168My mom, a woman in her fifties, enjoyed this.I think that's who these are for.
>>727688268only fags play as men
>>727676168first one had a interesting backstory but the characters, story, dialogue are mediocre, 2nd one is just straight up garbage with the only redeeming quality being some fun side quests and nice visuals, also they are very normie games, girls like them, my gf plays the first one all the time on my ps5 and owns the sequel on steam
>>727676168Game was good. We get it you incel fags here hate games.
