Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

Only a few hours into it, it runs pretty well https://imgur.com/a/rIH23Pf benchmarks Might run warm in beginning since it does shader compiling's in the back Gameplay itself is reminiscent of AC odyssey and every other console game, its all third person something something, in any case its a high fidelity experience with a unique presentation to itself. Im super glad this game arrived on this platform, gog once again worth the wait.

Horizon Zero Dawn is an absolute gem of character development, world building and writing. From the lead protagonist Aloy, an absolute benchmark on how well written, deep female lead through an intricate and beautiful open world, this game can shackle someone to the screen for quite a while. The main portagonist, Aloy, thrives through logically and emotionally sound characterization. I thoroughly enjoyed every single response she gave and made me deeply care for her as a character. Both the main narrative, while taking a few hours to really start picking up pace, but then really goes wild, with great pacing and unexpected story beats around every odd corner that left me guessing as to the grander picture throughout the game, as well as the diverse, well written sidequests are really driving this game home. The open world exploration, while a bit worn out due to its shared DNA with Ubisoft open world titles, still stay interesting due to the visual storytelling through the world itself. Theres something uniquely defining at every corner of the world. While servicable, the character progression is a bit of a mixed bag. Traits unlock abilities that, especially early on, feel rather bland and could have well been part of Aloy's core capabilities and the itemization feel like far more was planned for it but scrapped in the end. Now to the bad thing: The PC port. While by no means broken, the shoddy handling of shaders lead to quite a few loading screens in the open world interrupting gameplay and texture-streaming and LOD-handling needs a few fixes still. There was more than one occasions where cutscenes played out using puppet-like looking models. Overall, a masterpiece that doesn't quite realize its full potetential but gets really darn close to it, further burdened by few, but noticable, technical issues on the PC platform. However, I still heavily recommend this game, if not for the excellent writing and world building alone!

I bought this game full price and I regret nothing. Fantasy, Sci-fi, Survival like, extensive semi open world. Great story, memorable hero's and villains, beautiful landscape. Stealth gameplay, ability to climb and jump over any terrain. Extensive attention to detail, clothes get wet in rain or in water and covered in snow! Foot prints in sand, dirt and mud too. No annoying quick time events, every second is logical and extreme emphasis on story telling. World is big enough to feel full but small enough to make fast travel not necessary. Combat is great, different options to win fights, never too draining or tedious. Satisfying game all around.

Every so often, I feel I've quit AAA gaming, then something like this comes along and brings me right back. You're sneaking around robotic dinosaurs and punching them (or shooting them with a bow and arrow). Somehow the game often reinvents itself and keeps things fresh, not getting stale like so many open world games I've played. I didn't get to play the DLC (which is helpfully packaged here), but the main game is pheeenomenal. Think I might pick that up now, actually. As always, there are some...weird, gross reviews (not unlike the lot that flipped a table and spammed Chuchel with 1-star reviews for redesigning its main character), but don't listen to them. Great, great game from a very promising studio.

I was eagerly awaiting this game on PC, I was very tempted to get it on Steam but I knew it will end up on GOG and I was right. This game is fantastic, unique, challanging and very well writtem. Main character is not a feeble peasant, actually none of the characters are, they are all people with their wisdom, and humility towards nature. Across the stroy we learn what hapened in the past and how this world came to be. Beautiful landscapes, complex intrigues and exceptionally well designed world and all of it's inhabitants. This game will be in my books as the defining game of the decade. It defined true survival game style with storytelling and interesting character skill development. I was awestruck seeing videos and was envious of this game towards PS4 players, however I knew that this game will eventually come to us, PC owners. I can only give this game 5 stars, especially since I started playing it and everything is so damn good. Thank you developers, thank you for making a sequel, thank you for making it also for us PC players. We know we will get it eventually :)