Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

I played the game through on a PS4 pro, but that gave at most 60fps (performance mode) with okay visuals or a much better looking game that couldnt even hold 30fps (quality mode) utilizing 4k checkerboard rendering instead of native 4k. On PC with an rtx 3090 I can maintain well over 60 fps at 4k. Visual settings are substantially improved from the PS4 pro quality mode. The game looks absolutely stunning on PC and the combat feels much better/more fluid with the increased fps. I am pretty sure even with a gtx 970 gpu and i7-4790k processor one would have a much better experience in terms of visuals and fps than the PS4 version which makes it well worth playing again. For those who have never played, horizon has fantastic story, voice acting and game systems. Along with bloodborne and god of war, it is the reason I even purchased a PS4.

I fell in love with Aloy. The character is just so ... right. It just works, fits perfectly. Love open world games. The moment I really started to appreciate the story was when I was trying to explain the whole thing to a friend, and while I was doing so I thiught "Holy crap, there's actually a lot going on in this game".. and it has it's movie worthy moments. I've completed it on PS4 with over 80% accomplishments. I'm soooooo tempted to buy it on PC and start the adventure again.

Loved the game and I love DRM-Free

Story: 10/10 Excellent, main selling point for me. Loved it. Only negative, they announced a sequel, what is not required here IMHO. It is good as it is. Gameplay: 9/10 Nice design, feeling. Almost perfect. But too hard, played it on story difficulty, that was good. But I am a noob, what do I know? Sound: 8/10, deep bass, good music, sometimes scrappy voices (too loud recording!?) Graphics: 10/10 even in 2021. Superb DLC: I think directly after the main game, it is the wrong time to play it for me. I'll keep that for when I re-install it after some month/years to have something to do when I want to "feel the vibe again" (I do this with many titles :-). Currently, directly after the epic main part, it is boring for me to be honest... Recommended overall 4/5

I've played this game a lot on PS4 and it's worth buying a preowned PS4 just to play this game if you don't already have one or a Ps5 or whatever. On PC this game refuses to work which is really disappointing. It's Guerilla Games' first time putting a game on PC which is understandable but it seems like it's going to remain in this state where it works for many people and doesn't work at all for a few. Unfortunately I'm in the few where it doesn't work. I have tried many things to make it work including, but not limited to: -Reinstalling Windows -Refreshing graphics drivers, rolling back/updating -Hardware-Assisted GPU scheduling (actually made it worse) -Changed graphics cards The game appeared to run fine for a while on my old system running an i9 9900K and GTX 1080 TI SLI (this game does not support SLI) but later upgraded to an RTX 3090. Somewhere between those two I guess something must have changed and now the game doesn't work right. I don't even have to do anything and it just crashes. I start the game and just idle in it for 10 minutes and it crashes. That was just a few minutes ago of this review. Now I run a Ryzen 9 5950X with a new motherboard and the same RTX 3090 and the game doesn't work right even still. My 1/5 star rating comes entirely from the game's inability to run. The quality of the game is unbelievably good but if you can't even play and enjoy it, what's the point?