Horizon: Zero Dawn - The Bear and Badger

GooberTheHat

The protag annoyed me with her talking in just that short video. She would do my head in if she kept on like that all game.

Curtis

Surely the voice-over was just for the sake of the presentation? After all, you have the freedom to approach each scenario as you please.

Some hands-on impressions from the closed doors demo:

http://www.digitaltr...wn-impressions/

http://www.ign.com/a...m_medium=social

Confirmation that its definitely a no loading "see that mountain..." open world

Paul the sparky

Yeah, it did grate a bit. The whole solemn, apologetic vibe was spew worthy too.

I agree with Curtis and think it'll be watered down for the final thing though, there's no way she'll be yammering on like that constantly.

Looks very good to me.

regmcfly

Same thing happened with Watch Dogs original video I think. It's just to have something providing anchorage going on while a person fannies about. Guarantee it's not in the final one

Curtis

It was way more preferable to having some goomba on stage describing what's going on like we're idiots with no eyes that haven't been playing games for 25+ years.

Bollockoff

Attack its weakpoint.

Bollockoff

For massive groans.

regmcfly

gtfo

Funkstain

So er what am I missing (again) this looks shit

See dinosaur attack it with bow next dinosaur attack it harvest green stuff I mean do I just lack imagination?

Shit

I don't like video games any more.

Kow

Guerrilla Games lacking sense of humor shocker.

mistercrayon

reminds me of assassins creed.

hylian_elf

The sneaking in low bushes / flora was very reminiscent of AssCrud.

Tempy

Funkstain wrote:

So er what am I missing (again) this looks shit See dinosaur attack it with bow next dinosaur attack it harvest green stuff I mean do I just lack imagination? Shit I don't like video games any more.

Don't forget that all of Monster is built on the premise of HIT MONSTER DON'T DIE, yet its fucking incredible. It will live and die on its interactions with the Robots. If they don't have enough weight and consequence, it will be a bit disappointing I imagine.

afgavinstan

regmcfly wrote:

For me, this was one of the most interesting games of the whole show, and certainly the best thing shown at Sony. Granted, they've had a look at the last of us and thought "what can we knock up with our killzone tech" but it looks different, it looks fun, it looks like a spiritual successor to Shadow of the Colossus.
I'll def be the guinea pig on this one

Dem Enslaved vibes eh

Webbins

Aye I was just thinking myself it's Enslaved writ large. Looks the bizniz, even if the tech jars with the organic. I'm not fond of the set up, darkness then life then huge robo T-Rex, seems like it will need some canny writing to weave it together whilst avoiding clichés.

acemuzzy

Those write-ups have me a bit more interested, the original video not so much. Some Witcher 3 narrative dude being on board is also encouraging.

regmcfly

afgavinstan wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

For me, this was one of the most interesting games of the whole show, and certainly the best thing shown at Sony. Granted, they've had a look at the last of us and thought "what can we knock up with our killzone tech" but it looks different, it looks fun, it looks like a spiritual successor to Shadow of the Colossus.
I'll def be the guinea pig on this one

Dem Enslaved vibes eh

H goty 2009

Aaroncupboard

I quite liked the look of this one. Nice to see it announced with some gameplay too, not just a fully cgi trailer. Looks amazing, robots were pretty cool and the actual gameplay looked fun. Fingers crossed for this one.

[Deleted User]

Um, my (tinged with multiple disappointments) view on Guerillla, and Horizon is that aside from their hugely talented art and tech depts... they're basically just a bunch of dry craven hacks.

It's good to see that they've finally brought in some proven talent to help out with the game-narrative because all of their prior efforts on that front have been utterly cringeworthy.

In short I'd like to believe....but it's Guerilla Games ffs.

IanHamlett

The core mechanics of Monster Hunter could be the foundation of a massive game in the west. The Witcher looks like it does a good job of westernising some of that shit but this could be the real deal.

As always I'll be dodging this until I know that it's good. Those Guerilla guys can talk the talk and clearly understand high-end game design but they haven't delivered once as far as I'm concerned.

JonB

The Enslaved comparisons are a bit off IMO. I mean, this appears to have some gameplay.

But yeah, who knows at the moment? Could turn out shite, could turn out good.

Tempy

I'd assume the comparisons are largely thematic, mine certainly was

Webbins

Absolutely.

adkm1979

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[Deleted User]

Robot dinosaurs mate.

Yes, but why? Idgi.

Raiziel

Game needs merchandise. Game may end up playing like shit but I wouldn't mind a few of those robodinos on a shelf somewhere.

trippy

Who makes the robot dinosaurs?

Have they evolved for centuries while mankind regressed, and they just happen to have evolved into dinosaurs?

Did the head robot pick up a book of dinosaurs and think 'these look cool'?

Were they built for a really big theme park, and when an apocalypse wiped out most of humanity it also wiped out the dinosaurs pretend skin but left them otherwise unscathed and gave them lasers?

The writer has a big task ahead. Real dinosaurs would be cooler and betterer.

Vela

SpaceGazelle wrote:

Robot dinosaurs mate.

Yes, but why? Idgi.

Some things don't need explanations. This game looks fucking amaze balls and I'm down for day one.

trippy

That's a very good counter but I don't think Zero Dawn has the imagination or wit of Calvin and Hobbes, a game featuring T-Rexes in F-14s would shit all over this.

The robots are there because they look cool and maybe that's enough. Personally I'm not a huge fan of the design but I get a Dark Souls boss vibe from some of them. If it can get your heart going in the same way then all's good.

Tempy

Back when this thread was first announced I thought the "why dinosaurs?" line of questioning was weird, and I still think it is. It's largely stylistic, but it allows the game to create a nice dynamic ecosystem that's easily read: small dinos are scouts, large herbivores harvest matter to be used as energy, predators are weapons systems to defend the herd. These are all simple analogues, and dinosaurs were apex animals, each essentially the best at doing what it did - perfectly matching form and function.

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