@Tempy

Totally agree with all of that, it makes perfect sense from a gameplay perspective and requires little fathoming out by the player. A savannah analogue would have worked well, too, for the same reasons.

For me 'Why dinosaurs?' is always a silly question. My question is more 'Why robot dinosaurs?'. It just doesn't quite work for me. Still glad to see somebody doing something bold like this, though.

Doesn't "why ROBOTS" work for you in particular though? If you're having to harvest stuff from them, bring them crashing into the dirt to break their limbs etc, making them robots allows for more intense, destructive, and involving combat without blood, guts, broken bones, and maimed animal corpses being skinned.

Monster Hunter pits you against "real" animal analogues, and their personality and AI makes them feel alarmingly alive. The payoff for stunning a charging dragon works well because they often fuck you off, but there is also comedy in their pratfalls and stumbles which stops it from feel indulgent, and when they finally die, harvesting is abstract and not focused on - beyond calling it 'carving'

With a high fidelity title like Horizon, i'd rather see a robot toppled and feel a little ashamed, than watch my character cover herself in vicscera. It's crass, and from a marketing perspective really restricts who you can sell to.

Essentially it circumvents the violence against animals disliked in Far Cry, but keeps the awe, spectacle and hint of remorse you feel in Monster Hunter and Shadow of the Colossus. This is all from a purely conceptual stand point. It might fail in the actual game, but I'd rather high fidelity games pursue these avenues than pitting us against simulacrum of living breathing things for gaudy sequences of violence.

Not trying to piss on anyone's parade, just not feeling it.

Bird Wyverns have Bird Wyvern Fangs, other wyverns don't.

Dinosaurs also makes sense in terms of scale. They basically filled every single macroscopic niche, so it makes sense to use them as source material if you are a robot civilisation looking to take control.

Of course you could equally choose mammals.

But they aren't a) as cool or b) as big when it comes to land living species. 

You get the full scale of small nimble bird-like types all the way up to lumbering behemoths.

Show me a game with good narrative in the first place. Pretty much every big budget game has a shit story, be it GTA or Halo or Gears of War. 

So long as the world is internally self-consistent it can do whatever it likes. I'll be happy taking down robo rexes without a care in the world as to whether the game has a tie-in series of novels with equally shitty writing.

They used to stock Edge in the Waterstones near Spui. That was a long time ago, though.

Its the best way to be mate, gives that spark back to gaming rather than analysing everything to a big degree. Just play and enjoy, if its got an entertaining tale to tell, bonus.

g.man wrote:

*From the makers of Killzone*

But will they have the gall to emblazon that shameful admission on this game's cover.... I'd bet monies they will.

Get on Shadow Warrior, Sparks. It makes zero sense, has no real cohesion but lord is it fun. Cheap too.

regmcfly wrote:

Y'all should go back and play Enslaved with that attitude

Enslaved was a combination of my first devil may cry combat and fisher price platforming segments. Utterly boring to play.

Enslaved is ace. I remember it looked ace too. Colourful for a mainstream title during a time of mass market greige.

Trailer and release date. Apparently there are also Lego giraffe's out there, which is actually pretty cool.

Stunning looking. It's kind of a given with the studio, but wow.

Also, as above cliche-ridden with it. Good to see GG's trademark cheesy dialogue returning there too. 

Hope it turns out well... but...fool me once etc.