Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

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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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!!!!!!

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.

I owned this game on the PS4 pro, it's an open world that's not stuffed with activities. I loved the story and gameplay. Sure, the game had (and still has) some technical issues, like some invisible walls and sometimes very strange behaviour when it comes to lights (you can activate and deactivate sunlight or spotlights by stepping forward and back in certain places) and if you are used to games like Assassin's creed you have a hard time to comprehend why you can't climb in certain places. Climbing works completely with hotspots here. The story is good and compared to other games the text messages you find really add to understand what it was like for the persons involved. The main story talks about the big guys in charge, while the messages mostly are from people who suffered the consequences. So sure, I had to buy this game and I finally came to play it again on the PC and ... it's even better with mouse and keyboard than with gamepad, due to the higher precision. Also the game runs in high fps, currently I play in 4k with DLSS and except the one time after a driver crash I never had any fps drop. Also the short loading times (on a PS4 without SSD it could easily take one and a half minute to get to Meridian) add to the comfort. One could argue that in such a "early" society people on the one side are religious fanatics, but on the other side are very politically correct by modern standards when it comes to gender roles. In a society like this the main focus would be to get as many children that they can possibly feed. You just have to roll with it. All in all ... great game.