They're robot trees that talk to you.

g.man wrote:

This has dialogue trees? I'm probably alone on this one, but god I hate that.

You are not alone.

g.man wrote:

This has dialogue trees? I'm probably alone on this one, but god I hate that.

We stand alone together.  It also has decision trees, which I dislike (someone has been mean to you!  Do you a) smile, b) not smile or c) cave their fackin' face in).  It's not so much the decisions making I find annoying, more the nagging sense of FOMO as I start to worry that I've selected the 'wrong' one, even though I'm aware that it rarely matters.  I never minded multiple dialogue options in the old point and click adventures, but you were just weeding out the wrong choices, Mass Effect & co. seem to prefer the one shot approach (post KOTOR?).

I think it's when you get options for your response, but it's just the gist of what your character says.  Which as Adam says can be annoying if the actual dialogue differs too greatly from what you're expecting.

It's pretty much that, Jon. A bunch of dialogue you can skip or do in your own order, with the dialogue accordingly compromised. As such, the camera work is your basic RPG alternating headshots, with no flair or interesting cutscenes. Not sure yet where the claims of revolutionary narrative are coming from; it's backwards compared to other games.

JonB wrote:

Choices are fine. It's when there's a load of dialogue options and I'm supposed to follow them all to the end to get info that I can't be arsed (another reason I dislike most point 'n' clickers). It's just fake interaction. Isn't that what we mean by dialogue trees?

Do you remember that game on the PS1 where you could combine words into whatever question/statement you wanted? You could also arrange your awful early polygonal face to add emotional context to your random outbursts. It was set on a space ship about to be blown up by a solar flare, and you only had a limited time to say the right things to the right people before you blew up. I spent it telling people I didn't like them.

Can't remember what it was called, I only played the demo, but I'd like them to have another stab at that type of thing now. Watching those bots on Twitter (was it?) have an argument makes me think it'd be quite fun.

Andy wrote:

 Interaction with shorter foliage is non-existent.

Woah! good job I had cancelled my pre-order then.

It's an astounding looking game, prettiest I've ever seen. Faces and expressions too

Anyhoo, think I'll pick this up next week. Be nice to get some use out of the Pro.

I feel like I need to have a good session on it to really get into it, rather than the odd

legaldinho wrote:

*Spurt*

I've been managing.

Put about 6 hrs in now , really enjoying the story so far .

Only thing that's pissing me off - sometimes when pressing L2 to aim bow , I press R2 to fire it but end up Swinging my spear instead because I've released L2

Kernowgaz wrote:

Put about 6 hrs in now , really enjoying the story so far .

Only thing that's pissing me off - sometimes when pressing L2 to aim bow , I press R2 to fire it but end up Swinging my spear instead because I've released L2

I do exactly the same. Haven't investigated to see if there is button mapping.

I'm such an idiot I went out and bought a Pro just for this. I need help. And I need to get rid of the old
PS4 before the missus sees it.

This and VR have justified my pro.

Kernowgaz wrote:

But you can believe killing a massive robot animal with a bow and arrow ?

It's all about consistency within the game world. The manner in which arrows do damage to specific weak points is consistent, and feels right; shattering a glass eye, but bouncing off plating, for example. In that regard, I don't like the way the tethering arrows automatically lodge wherever you're standing, even rock; I'd rather they worked like the tripwire arrows, so I could pick different anchor points from a vantage point, for example. In my view, having a physical effect on certain grass, but not a bush of similar height is jarring, because it highlights inconsistency in the game world.

Verecocha wrote:

I really hop to see you give Zelda the same treatment as there's a lot more to pick at in Zelda than Horizon. But most just look over it as it's Zelda.

I'm as new to Zelda as I am to Horizon, so I have no allegiance to nor prior preference for either. I may yet find holes or scab edges to pick at, but so far it's done a few things significantly better than Horizon (anything to do with water, all of the voice acting - I'll need to read some of the reviews to find out what they think is so great about the sub-par storytelling) and it is certainly - so far - more internally consistent than Horizon.