Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

It took me 20 hours to complete both original and DLC stories, collect all collectables that awards achievements and do 99% of side quests (i couldn't be bothered to push for 100% quests at that moment). Side quests are side quests - you forget about them and characters involved the moment you complete them. The problem is with main story line - it is told very uneven and after 20% of playthrough you know 95% of all relevant information and you are stuck with very little unknow for the rest of the game. NPC characters are fotgettable, even the main ones. Only Sylens stands tall among them, but when everyone else is so poorly developed all you need to stand out is a bit of written motivation behind your choices. Lets talk about robots. They are key selling point of the game, but also its biggest problem. There is no difference which robot you are fighting the routine is the same - hit week spots, dodge their attacks. Rince and repeat. The bigger they are the more time it will take and the arrows you will need. It gets boring after 30 minutes of gametime. But map is filled with robots so you will have to fight them. You can use traps - it will save some time, but you need time to set them on the ground while dodging incomming robot attacks. Humanoid enemies are way easier to kill. All in all combat is disapointing - either too easy or too tedious and too long. The fact that you need beefy computer to run it not in slideshow mode is another issue, but PC gamers should be used to poor console ports. Graphics are nice, but nothing we haven't seen on PC in other AAA games. All in all - quite a nice, short and boring game.

Sorry I can't support the intrusive spyware...there are other games similar to this that don't do this so I'll pass on this and possibly games from Sony where they try to pull this crap.

Great story line, very well written. The apocalyptic setup fits well the current times... and it was released before Corona even Good graphics, nothing to complain, but I expected a bit more of a 2017 game. Fun gameplay, enjoyed the mechanics. I found the potions annoying to use, but I guess this is one of the few thing where the PS game lacks a bit the comfort you'd expect as a PC user. In the long run the game lacked a bit of variability... it ended up being too much grind... another machine down, another mountain / elevator shaft to jump up. They could have added a few more puzzles to the jumpy bits, more weapons, more variety of enemies, more ways to be sneaky, ... its not like an open world with lots of things to do; You run around, there are machines you need to get past at every corner, you do sidequests which are greatly written, but basically mean killing machines. It is fun at the start -- as I said great mechanics -- but had its limits. Overall I can highly recommend it. I really enjoyed playing it. On the downside, I was glad when I finished it. Havent play the expansion yet and most likely will not for a while.

The strongest point of the game is combat. It's polished and well thoughtout. You feel well rewarded after landing a headshot, or making a timely dodge. The environment in the game is beautiful too. And this makes wandering from one quest to the other not so boring. The main issue I have with the game is the storyline. After like an hour into the game, you can easily predict the things Aloy is going to unravel. I'd say 60 to 70% of the story is predictable and I didn't find much excitement in learning the things I already knew. There are also other smaller issues with the game. I'll try my best to not spoil anything. Weapon/outfit upgrades: I found the upgrade system to be very weak. You will never find any new weapons or outfits killing enemies. They have to be purchased from merchants. Even then most of the new weapons do not offer a noticable improvement over your existing weapon. Also most outfits are purely cosmetic and doesn't give you any benefits on their own. Very strange. 'Horse riding' : Riding system is annoying. If you are not pressing sprint, your mount moves at the pace of a snail and when pressing sprint, it takes off. Also there is a strange delay between sprinting and normal walk for the mount. This makes it extremely annoying when trying to pick up resources while sitting on the mount. Also your mount is not permanent and it will not be allowed to enter human camps. If you exit through the opposite end of the camp, your mount won't follow you and there is no way to summon it over a huge distance. Clunky inventory UI: This is a console game ported to PC. As a result the UI mainly consisits of huge square pieces that represent items. Something that would have taken a simple drag and drop instead will take clicks

The game didn't start and the error message always appeared: "Unfortunately, the game crashed. Would you like to help us fix the problem by sending us a crash report?". (Translation German - English) While researching on the internet I found a software called "Special K" with which you can start the game without any problems.