Posted on: October 1, 2022

williemctell

Games: 110 Reviews: 16

I enjoyed it

I've finished the main story line and am in the middle of the DLC. Pros: The story , artwork, and voice acting are good. The presence of Lance Reddick in the cast is a big plus. There isn't much need for grinding in order to reach the level necessary to complete quests. Combat involves patience and the heavy use of range weapons. Cons: There are two types of puzzles, operating devices and navigation. The device related puzzles aren't especially interesting. The navigation puzzles, which mainly involve climbing, can be frustrating. Lateral movement can be downright weird because the left/right keys often don't behave in the way you'd expect. Also your character encounters ledges that are impossible to jump to even though they're not as high as ledges that are reachable. This includes areas that don't use the color coding system. Overall it's fun. I wanted to finish it.

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Posted on: November 6, 2022

mina86

Games: Reviews: 10

Beautiful world with boring gameplay

On positive side, the world is quite beautiful and the concept is interesting with robots like animals roaming the world. On neutral side, the game replicates Ubisoft open world formula. There are watchtowers, bandit camps etc. The execution of the formula isn't as good as in Far Cry or Ghost Recon: Wildlands though. Also note that this is not a roleplaying game. It's less of an RPG than Assasin's Creed. Your only choices are which side quests you're going to do. But what really killed this game for me was combat. Sneaking around and planning trap placement was fine but once discovered the fight turns into palyer running like a headless chicken. You cannot stop to aim or reasses situation because something will charge at you, shoot you or throw a projectal at you. There's no taking cover either. It didn't help that the story was told in rather heavy-handed fashion. The game hammers player with 'corporations are corrupt' and 'automation is bad' messages rather than subtly hinting that through environmental story telling or ambiguous diary entries. Side quests were also nothing to write home about. Rather generic and I couldn't get myself to care about any character in the game (including the main one). Speaking of main character, I couldn't empathise with her motivation in the prologue at all. She's an outcast from birth (for reasons she doesn't know), essentially everyone in the tribe hates her, but somehow she desparately wants to pass a trial which will make her a member of the tribe, the tribe whos people mostly hate her. Oh, and if she passes, it's likely that she's going to loose her adoptive father who she deeply loves. So yeah, I didn't buy those motives. If this was an RPG, I'd choose not to go through the trial and justs hit the road to explore the world. I need to admit that I haven't finished the game, but after like 10 hours I stopped carrying about the plot so I doubt finishing would change my opinion on the writting.

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Posted on: June 20, 2024

yuchao5212_3750

Games: 0 Reviews: 1

It's a good deal.

This game offers a great deal

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Posted on: December 5, 2020

ktaalgsto1

Games: 160 Reviews: 2

HORIZON ZERO DAWN = HORIZON ZERO SLEEP!!

Firstly, thank you to Sony & GOG for restoring my faith in re-made for PC titles. My previous experience has been very mixed - ranging from Grr to downright unplayable. Not so with this one! It is superb, a little long on the load out due to the rig I'm running (1050 GPU) it is slow to build out shaders and fine tune the graphics - the first time. Once done, can't stress this enough let it run the configuration fully and then fine tune for your rig! Once done this has beauty and cinematic scope and that's just the game play. There is something refreshing and important with the choice of heroine. Vulnerable, and hard as rock all at once. I loved the self-talk and reactions. Game play - yes is grindy and a lot of fetch and build, but the overarching story keeps you coming back I've completed this and I can only remember 3 Games that have made me want to go back in and do it again straight away. The Witcher 3, ACBF, and now Horizon Zero Dawn. Thank you from a very old campaigner!!!!!!

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Posted on: May 4, 2021

MaciejKrok

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 47

Super enjoyable action - rpg mixture.

This game is a beautiful, action - packed RPG with great graphics, very good and fluid animations, very good voice acting, engaging and demanding combat system, streamlined to the point it's a pure pleasure to play it (RDR2, watch and learn!). The story is its stropngest point: dark secrets, logical outcomes, well - written and designed in a great way, it grabbed me from start and held me until credits rolled, and a bit beyond that too ;-) This game also seems very well optimised for a PC, which is not always the case with ports. I played on Asus G14 2020, Ryen 9 4900HS, RTX 2060 max-q and 16 gb RAM (DC) with max settings and it was extremely fluid even when the entire screen was covered in flames and smoke from multiple enemies. So great job at this front too. Cons: It's lighter on RPG side, meaning the story is linear and your choices don't affect the outcome at all. The NPCs haven't grabbed me either. And there is the Shader Optimalisation, which takes about 5 minutes and it was pissing me off when I didn't know I can just skip this process altogether for a slightly longer load times (which are rare in this game anyways). So really, cons here very few and far between. Despite all those minor cons, I still rate it a 10/10. This is my 3rd favourite RPG of all times, and since I'm playing RPGs for over 20 years now, it's saying something. It's right up there with Mass Effect saga and The Witcher 3 for me. If you like RPGs and your PC can handle it, don't even think about it, just get it.

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