Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

I really wanted to like this game just couldn't get into it.

Zero Horizon Dawn has a really nice world and story. My only gripe is that it tries too hard to 'educate' its players. Apart from that, it could have been really great. (1) Story is very linear. It would have been nice to have several endings or to simply ignore the proving. After all, the villagers don't want you, so why should you try to kiss up to them? (2) Survival of early antagonists. It would have been interesting to see Bast or the girl in the beginning survive. And maybe eventually come to respect Aloy. (3) Depiction of men and women. Ok, I get that Sobeck/Gaia/Aloy are all good and wise and nice. And all female. And that Ted Faro/Hades/Helis are all evil or incompetent. And all male. And we have at least Rost and Jenna counteracting this extremely black and white world view. But after some time, it gets really tiresome. (4) Stone age utopia. This is a fantasy story, so you can of course depict utopian societies. But the suggestion that a tribal culture would work as a 'modern', 'multicultural' society is a bit wishful thinking. Just have a harsh winter, a bit of starvation or quarrel among the Nora or Banuk and these tribes would immediately splinter and break apart.

crashes, would not start

I've never played a game that felt like a perfect well crafted story AND incredible addicting and fun gameplay. HZD truly nailed it. This is probably the most complete and well polished experience I've had in a game since the original Portal game.

I was waiting for this game to come to GOG for ages and now that I've had a chance to sink some time into it I can safely say that It's a mediocre game. The characters are pretty cool, the gameplay is okay, the combat get's a bit repetitive and the storyline is really weird. I can certainly understand why people like this game, but it's not for me.