My wife is playing this game and informing me of the plot occasionally. I have to say my Preconceived ideas for the robodinosaurs being remenants from when Dr Robotnik took over the world was more enjoyable than her explanation
I don't disagree.. when I heard about the story I thought this is crap.. for some reason I played it.. got it free for the monthly thing. First 30min is slow.. but somehow kept me going.. then I just sort of found myself wanting to play it and keep going. I ended the game really liking it. It's a shame many will not play it because of the idea of what you think it will be like is bad.
'Are you high?' 'Nah, bro. I think this weed isn't very good. Maybe one more hit...' *BAM* 'Holy shit, I can see the matrix. Every animal is just an organic piece of code. We're all AI, dude.'
"I"m all for keeping things simple, after all most of Sony's audience is." And then from the depths of the Sony mines a low rumbling was heard from the soulsborne pit.
I love how Yahtzee is one of the very few on the point honest reviewers , everything he says is pretty much true, also about the "climbing " and so forth.
Honestly the climbing hurt my soul the most. Assassin's creed having come out long before means I'm insulted by how primitive the climbing in this game it.
As I sit here, playing the sequel to this game, juggling literally eight different melee combo strings and watching my arrows actually curve to hit things they should have just missed, I get the distinct impression someone on the team saw this.
@@kattastic9999 see the problem with all the open world games that we get now is that none of them are really bad they're just quite bland when you play so many in a row. I've come to the conclusion though that so many of these games will be the first experience in such a setting for many people every time so it's really hard to criticize the industry for continually making these kinds of games. I mean it's just the same thing with first person shooters were in the mid-2000s
@@kattastic9999 oh believe me I'm very upset that forbidden West is still a PlayStation exclusive and will probably take a few years to make it to PC. I played zero Dawn for the first time on my PS4 back in 2017 on a Redbox rental and I fell in love with the game and then after I sold my PS4 and got a PC I was really sad because I thought I'd never get the chance to play it again but when it released on epic I bought it in a heartbeat and have played it to death and back on New game Plus on the hardest difficulty. Again I don't think it's a bad game at all but I think it is really repetitive and stale to see so many games adopting the same formula without bringing anything new or unique or innovative to the table, but that's why I only play a few of those titles. For someone like Yahtzee who has to play all the big releases in order to stay relevant as a game critic to the masses I can see things like zero Dawn and forbidden West being so tiresome, but that's why he said it's me not you LOL
End credits jokes - Berkshire Hunt: Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw - I suppose Horizon Zero Dawn would make sense if we were listening to our favorite documentary series, Mega Man character and dishwashing liquid. - Who else remembers 'Zoids'
The Hero Of Kvatch He liked the story. Which I agree the story is better than a lot of other sandbox games. But yes the games good. probably one of the better ps4 open world games from what I've played.
He probably would have liked it more if the market wasn't currently drowning in sandbox games, but yeah, it would appear Horizon Something Something gets a pass
The best way I've heard HZD described is that it is the "Singularity" of open-world games. It doesn't pretend to be any different from what was done in the past, but rather takes what worked the best in those games and puts it together really well. Another way that I've heard it put that I also like, considering most of you haven't heard of "Singularly", is it's better version of "Far Cry Primal".
Technically I wouldn't say Aloy was 'clean', I would say: She is as clean as every other robo-caveman she meets, so no one cares about the flies and whatever might be hovering over her.
I'm not sure the armorsmith can be counted as a friend/explaining why she's so well adjusted by adulthood, given that you meet him once when you're a small child and he's not allowed to speak to you, and then you don't see him again until you're already an adult and your character literally doesn't remember him.
You could also argue that since she is effectively a clone, she has genius level intelligence and a genetic predisposition to learning and seeking excellence. The focus helped bring all of that out by giving her a massive amount of data to study.
@Steven Victor Neiman Exactly! Yahtzee has degraded some of my favorite games of all times, but in his defense he's done the same thing. He's just an extremely sarcastic person, and the OP needs to learn everybody likes different shit lol
Well they're on different consoles. It's unlikely they'll be competing because most gamers won't have both consoles and won't until they're both cheap as hell to get.
Yeah, I just don't buy it. It seems like fake, internet drama. The games are similar, sure, and both very very good, but there are huge differences, too. First off, as mentioned, they are exclusives to their respective consoles, and I don't know about you, but I have a steady job, and I'm not about to shell out for both a Switch and a PS4 Pro. (yet). Also, HZD is very story-driven, whereas Zelda is kinda like "Eh, you know the plot, we'll include some optional cut scenes if you want, but whatever, save the princess blah blah blah". They will probably duke it out for Game of the Year, but other than that, I think they can live in harmony Then there's Mass Effect Andromeda sitting in the corner eating paste
Bill Qiu - I don't think the games are competing that much. There will be a small minority of people who have both consoles and will only get one. But by and large, I assume most ps4 owners will get Horizon, most Switch/WiiU owners will get BotW, and most people that own both consoles will get both.
I just want to take the time to comment how proud I am of all of the users in the comment section for not starting a Zelda vs Horizon console war again.
While this game doesn't do anything new I have to say what it does do it does really well. This has to be one of my favorite PS4 exclusives next to uncharted 4 and bloodborne
It's more the plot then anything. It does follow the same mechanics if the new tomb raider trilogy which was fantastic. The plot though really just pulled me in and I couldn't stop playing as I wanted to discover what happened in the past.
It's not the upstanding citizen part, it's just how well social able and good at speaking she is with like 3 people she's probably had regular contact with her whole life. One of them refusing to speak to her directly too.
I agree she is unusually well adjusted, but she also had the Focus so who knows what could have been recorded on that. Old TV shows? Hundreds of hours of various interactions among coworkers? It's not completely infeasible to me she had more than those three to work off of
Yeah Rost was a pretty good dad, and she had that focus to play with every night that got her pretty well educated. Her outcast upbringing was reflected in how blunt and upfront she was. Also, (spoilers) Rost was apparently some kind of badass who was only an outcast because he left the sacred land to be a badass killer and hunt down some band of assholes who killed a bunch of his tribesmen. Then he came back and raised Aloy. He seems like he'd be decent at raising a capable young woman.
Is it just me or is he getting more positive lately? Now there are three games this year that he's straight up admitted to liking, those being this, resident evil 7 & the new zelda. This is shaping up to be a good year
Dan Ross He's been going to more gay bars and bringing handsome young black men home, and his mom has been showering him with love because she's so proud of him for finally getting out of the house
TheGrandRevo DOOM 4 and Dark Souls 3. Watch Dogs 2 was really good but nobody played it because the first was really mediocre, and Titanfall 2 was really good but nobody played it because it was released at the worst possible time.
I love coming back to these old videos and comments. Just to see the continuous downfall of the gaming industry into the equivalent of the Empire and jabba the hut having kids
"Hmm, this game about robot dinosaurs and Wendy from Gravity Falls but in the future seems kind of cool." *Only on Playstation 4* "Well now that's just a fucking shame."
The story in HZD is rooted in an extremely popular book series from the 80s called Clan of the Cave Bear. The heroine is Ayla, who is raised by outcasts, and it has various points of similarity from there. I liked Clan a lot when I was young and was happy to play a game inspired by it.
@@Dizz2K7 We don't know that. She probably talked to plenty of outcasts before, and maybe she even had some tribe kids as friends when she was younger, I highly doubt she never tried to socialize
@@Dizz2K7 But at the beggining when she is still an outcast we see that there were in fact people from the tribe and outcasts who were willing to talk to her even though they shouldn't, do you really think she never socialized? That seems unlikely to me
Dizz2K7 Okay, lets go again since you still dont understand what Im saying. We see her as a kid when she was about 6 yo, and she has some minor interactions with some other people. No, that wouldnt make you a sociable person, but AGAIN, do you really think those are the only people she talked to her ENTIRE life? Im sure she’s met other people while hunting and talked to them, after all, many people in the tribe recognize her from when she was an outcast, surely some of them where willing to break the rules and talk to her? Im also 100% sure she’s seen other people talking to each other. Of course it wouldn’t make her the most social person, and she isn’t. And let’s be thankful the devs didnt make her an awkward blob, that would be painful to watch. Oh, and the focus: early on we see a video on it, she definitely saw more as she was growing up and probably saw how people behave?
For me anyway the head hotboxes might have glitched two or three times through the entire playthrough and then some edit: what I mean by and then some is playing through the main story AND then frozen wilds and other quest lines and crap
To be quite honest, the arrows definitely careen in random directions albeit to my benefit. It's not quite like far cry where you carefully account for the arc of the arrow and the movement of your target. Especially being after Breath of the Wild I could see where he wasn't adapted to it. Arrows seem to correct themselves mid-flight as long as you lined up before you let loose.
@@Alter292 Arrows in this game are super weird, though there is a method to the madness. You're not supposed to lead your shots. Instead, you're supposed to fire your arrow while the circle is on top of whatever your target is. If done right, then your arrow will automagically correct its course midflight. If the game decides you're too far away from your target, then it just fires your arrow normally, with drop and a slight accuracy penalty. You can indeed hit moving targets far away with the sharpshot bow if you lead your shots properly. The problem is that there is no indication whatsoever on how the arrow will fire. It is super weird, and kinda breaks the immersion, but gameplay wise, it is something you can definitely get better at.
I was at first turned off from this game because I didn't like running through a big world having to figure out what to stop and pick up all the time. Then I found out you just pick up everything, dump what you have too much of, and fuel up again when you run low. I never ran low on twigs but ran low on wires all the time - I like those tougher arrows. I also like that being able to blow pieces off machines or throw off weird effects on them was just a matter of buying a bow, rather than customizing your character to some specific degree. On the plus side, the more advanced bows offer multiple effects, making you able to prep for 90% of any fights with one specific loadout of weapons in your dial, with the option to switch things a little for occasionally doing something more specific and to your tastes. But it would have been nice to set that expectation earlier in the game, because when a game looks complex and kind of boring at the beginning, I won't be playing very long to find out if it gets any better. The mechanic of knowing where stalking creatures will walk, which you learn very early on, came into actual play maybe 3 times in the course of playing the game. The game lacked a good beginning hook, but when I finally got down to playing it, I would say I'm glad I did.
I loved the animation of this episode, your "character" felt like he had some kind of weight and physics, oposed to just sit there and change position every so often (and ocasional humping). I'm crap at explaining things, so I'll just give you two examples of what I mean, if I wasn't clear enough. 4:26 4:45 4:03
Saw my brother playing, an arrow shot at the left side of the human's face did not hit at all, went straight through and hit a rock while it hit when he shot the right side. EDIT: Human was standing still while it all happened, probably confused.
I've actually noticed that the arrow will correct itself mid-flight as long as you are on the target. You don't account for trajectory or the movement of the target. Makes it easier to hit moving targets that way.
Look I noticed in the first 10 mins that a ginger protagonist whom happens to be good with blades and ropes would attract a very large portion of gamers. But even with a reskin, this game is tons of fun....
Really fine this game to be one of the most satisfying mystery games I’ve ever played. Slowly piecing everything together was such a blast that I still haven’t beaten it cause after the final reveal they said “go kill generic final boss” and I said “I already did the fun part, I’m out”
@@CaptainPilipinas nahhh, they raised the level of the final boss to 50 to get you to go do the dlc, which I wasn’t invested in. Didn’t want to grind, either
I almost completely agree with everything. The grass, the unclimbable edges, the explanations for all the cliche shit like why you have a HUD, and the scacanging are all dead on. The game is still a lot of fun though.
I was rewatching this video, because I was trying to get into Horizon Zero Dawn before Forbidden West and found myself getting too bored to finish it. And I'm not above Sony open world games, I loved Ghost of Tsushima & Spiderman, but something didn't click with me playing this one. Sifu will probably be the game I get into in February!
I've just finished the game 96% mastered hunting the machines apart from the rockbreaker. A criticism of the game is the quests are all walk this way for 5 mins to investigate (press f) a few times) hope this is different in the sequel with more puzzles
Seven years later and I just started and finished the game. Pretty accurate about everything. Mechanics can be shallow and the story appeals mostly to nerds like me, but it's really fun taking down robot dinosaurs. Had the game in my library since COVID but didn't play it until after playing the HZD stage in Astro Bot.
Who cares about what arbitrary number some arbitrary reviewer slaps on to a game? Wouldn't it make more sense to look at what they're actually *saying* about the game instead?
The camra , and Yahtzee 1:57 seems to me like a reference to the game "Beholder". Where the Camras emit a red light that almost mimics the 'cones' he made. :P
I feel like the developers went through the same "Cool Sounding Title" site for Diagonal Eighty Evenings that Square Enix goes to when making a Kingdom Hearts game
Well, if you *play* the game, you'll know exactly why it's called what it is. Honestly, "Horizon" or "Zero Dawn" would both have been better names, but...
The bit at 1:50 where you mentioned the whole narrative construction of the story really hit home for me. I do, in fact, know what the fuck you're going on about.
Thank you. Not a day goes by where I marvel at how inexplicably clean our pre-industrial protags are. Especially when they live in societies where nobody ever washes themselves.
Yeah that's why I'm asking. It's "Horizon Zero Dawn" NOT "Horizon: Zero Dawn" ergo it doesn't get the "Any videogame title with the colon it in is pronounced as 'heurgh' treatment".
Don't know if they patched the aiming or the melee attacks but the issues described, I haven't experienced in my July playthroughs. Specifically, no trouble with ranged weapons hit detection (you become very accurate with a long bow draw and time-slowing mode, less accurate with quick shots or multiple arrows), and controlling the direction & timing of the melee attacks becomes second nature. The only gripe I have is that the slow attack is too easily interrupted, but given that most hostiles telegraph everything they do it's just a matter of learning their moves. Anyway, on my second playthrough on Ultra Hard mode I'm mostly just either making them fight each other, or roping down the monsters and bombing them to death. This works even better with the big ones, you rope them down, tear their cannons off and kill them with their own guns, saving on bomb ammo. It's a totally overpowered strategy. Someone should've told Yahtzee that roping was how to deal with the damn flying bastards too.
Wow he was really struggling to find things wrong with this game, and he even liked the deep narrative style which is always something he is very critical on and that's saying alot from Yazhta. Hes right in the end this has alot of potential that will sadly go to waste being released so close to Zelda, it's not Horizon its us, hope the devs take that to heart.
Well I mean playstations player base is like 4 times the size of the wiiu? And the switch just released, so of course the ps4 exclusive will sell more. Question to ask yourself is whether horizon would still be doing as well if zelda was a ps4 exclusive as well instead. hypothetical situation, but it's really the only way they can accurately compete. Or you somehow make a controlled environment where a few thousand gamers who aren't fanboys pick which game they would rather play given the information from gaming media reviews etc. But there's honestly no reason both games are fantastic anyone who says otherwise are dongers. Its honestly up to opinion on which game is better, but I would say the player bases don't have that big of a player lap so that doesn't really matter either. But at the end of the day zelda botw will most likely still receive GOTY over horizon zero dawn just because of the widespread perfect scores the game has gotten. You could argue that, but the people who ultimately decide GOTY's are disagreeing.
woopeddewoop I'm in that situation where I don't own either console and have played both. I'll tell you, neither game is worth buying a new console for, though it is tempting to buy a ps4 because I've played and absolutely adore Bloodborne but that's aside the point. That being said, they're both great and if I was handed $300 to buy a new console I'd honestly just have to flip a coin. In all likelihood, I'll probably just end up playing Metal Gear Solid 3 again lol
Bustaperizm did you even play the game? Literally all of this was answered in it. Elisabet was uniquely qualified to handle it because she was the top robotics expert at the time who also worked alongside Sobek to create the green robots that cleaned the atmosphere and recreated unliveable environments, so she already had the experience of zero dawn on a smaller scale. Ted turned on everyone because he was a genius narcissist who considered himself smarter than the room, and anyone other than Elisabet, and without Sobek there to reign him in (the only person he listened to, due to their past history) decided on his he was smarter than everyone who said Apollo was a good idea. Rost was an outcast because his wife and child were killed by outcasts, and he decided to become a death seeker (suicide mission) so he could leave the Savard land to avenge them. They let him back in the sacred land as an outcast when he returned instead of killing him as custom dictated. Seriously, if you're going to whine about the story (which was actually really good) at least, Idk, follow the story? Funny you say you "guessed it immediately" but then are just blatantly wrong in your assumptions.
Well, you could call 'The Hobbit' 'Bilbo Baggins and the Adventure of the Mysterious Ring in Middle Earth' but it doesn't quite roll off the tongue as nicely, y'know?
Huh, this time Yahtzee"rambling madman"Crowshaw made this a pretty simple review. (translated from Yahtzeenese ramblings) "The story to HoUGRGHHGH was alright but was held back by the gameplay."
Dude this game is shockingly good. It doesn't do a ton new on the mechanics side, besides making bow and arrow combat actually fun, but the world and story are surprisingly deep and awesome. I'm just as burnt out on open world games as the next person, but HZD is hands down my favorite game of the year so far. Though to be fair, it's only March and I don't own a Switch and therefore can't play Zelda.
I feel like this game can be appreciated on two levels. It can be appreciated for all the flash and glory of the world and shootable things in it. Yhatzee seemed to play it on this level but, being a jaded sod and right on the heels of other sandbox games was somewhat rightfully unimpressed. The second level though, which requires a lot more time investment if you don't just look it all up online, is the storytelling which actually is pretty well layered and IMO pretty excellent. Certainly better than many other games out there. It doesn't shove it in your face, suffer from agonizingly predictable linearity, or follow a single thread. It is easy to miss though, you can readily play the entire game without coming across or noticing much of it, so.....
The real shame is that Horizon Zero Dawn came out in the same week as a masterpiece like Zelda. It got totally overshadowed by a superior game; where any other time of the year HZD would have been praised as masterful. But it got tossed along like a piece of crumpled paper. A bit of a shame for all the work they put into the game.
2.6 million in 2 weeks fastest selling new ip for ps4 doesn't seem overshadowed in my book. Honestly do some research guys, a lauch title with limited consoles available vs an installbase of 50 million yeah sure no chance there
I've had my nose buried in Zelda since its release but have still heard great praise for Horizon and it is considered the game to get if you don't have Zelda. After I am done with Zelda, I am going to finish FF15 and then pick up Horizon. Is it really being tossed along? From what I heard, the two are duking it out for GOTY.
It's just unfortunate, ya know? Horizon is a real solid title. But how can it even compare with something as grand and interactive as Breath of the Wild? - Like, its in a different league. - But imagine if HZD came out earlier in the year? It would be praised so much more than it is. But Zelda blew it out of the water this time. Total overshadowing.
It's the same problem that Battleborn and Titanfall 2 had. Battleborn coming out the same day as the Overwatch beta meaning who the hell would buy a game when Blizzard is having a free FPS and Titanfall 2 coming out a couple days after Battlefield 1 because EA has no idea who their target audience is and thought releasing 2 triple A shooters one after another was a good idea.
Yeah theres Portal, System Shock 2, BotW, Elite: Dangerous, Far Cry 3, Infamous 2, Bioshock Infinite, but yeah it’s still rare when he outright likes something
I don't really see a problem with the main character being named Aloy, as opposed to Re-Core's protagonist being named Joule, because there's actually a reason for Aloy being named Aloy. She was "born" in a tribe of people that effectively worship machines, it kind of makes sense that their naming conventions would be machine and metal based. It's also consistent with the rest of her tribe, like her "dad" Rost (Rust). It's not like Joule who just so happened to be named Joule and then chose to become someone that works with machines.
The UA-cam release is always delayed a week from the actual launch on the Escapist (they want traffic on their website, rather than UA-cam, so they post ZP here a week late to try and entice the audience over to where all their other stuff is).
Timmy Turner or better: Nintendo: We've got Super Mario Odyssey coming out! Sony: We've got Last of Us 2 coming out! Microsoft: We canceled Scalebound! Oh, wait, I did that wrong...
+JLT0087 Dude, emulators for the PS3 and Xbox 360 are STILL fucking terrible. It'll be more than a couple of years before a decent PS4/Xbox One emulator comes out.
I'm so glad he mentioned the atrocious name. It's a post apocalyptic game where technology and nature meet.....and it's name says nothing about it. Like it seems like they chose random cool sounding words and made that the title. Horizon Zero Dawn sounds like it could be any type of game....racing, FPS, Horror.
actually I think the name is pretty good. no, it doesn't say anything about the game UNTIL you play it. I think it's a nod to the Sun tribe taking over which means it's the Horizon. the Zero Dawn part would be that they don't live in the shadows of lie anymore? which means the MC finally gets answers to her questions? I may just be over thinking it....
If they wanted to name it after the Sun tribe taking over, a title like Sunrise would have been a lot easier to get. Also take out the zero all together and make the subtitle just "Dawn" if it's trying to reference "coming out of the shadows".
How is that people are going around the comments saying they also don't understand the name of the game. The later part of the game LITERALLY tells you why. It repeats it so often that even if you weren't listening at first you're still bound to hear it 10 seconds later. It's also in writing on walls of one of the bunkers that you go in near end game.
LateNightGaming - Halo News & Entertainment A lot of reviewers says it definitely borrows from other open world games by using the same tropes, but does it in a very unique and refreshing way. Figuring how to mount the enormous moving Tallnecks (or whatever they're called) and then scaling up them in order to reveal more of the map was one such example.
SicParvisMagna123 but that's nothing special... you just jump on it and hold up and she automatically climbs it for you... it's just a radio tower that walks in tiny circles... what would be inventive is if the game DIDN'T have generic radio towers
Come on yahtzi I thought you were supposed to be good with puns. Clearly the protagonist who works in a sewage treatment plant would be called Piper
BECOME AS GODS
Doctor Deceit a better name would be... Sue Age.
Sue Age could also be lawyer simulator.
*Slow clap to standing ovation*
Mr Inne Nocent.
Horizon Zero Punctuation?
That title would make more sense than the actual one
I bet he went to the store and announced to the clerk. "Bring me the Horizon... Zero Dawn..." Then got embarrassed and slinked away.
An anthropomorphic penis with a trilby fires arrows made from dildos at robotic imps and waifus
I am a bit disappointed in this Horizon spin-off, the car selection is terrible and the tracks are not designed well.
+Luciffrit It’s embarrassing because Bring Me The Horizon is kind of a shitty band!
My wife is playing this game and informing me of the plot occasionally. I have to say my Preconceived ideas for the robodinosaurs being remenants from when Dr Robotnik took over the world was more enjoyable than her explanation
Well you arent far from the truth
I don't disagree.. when I heard about the story I thought this is crap.. for some reason I played it.. got it free for the monthly thing. First 30min is slow.. but somehow kept me going.. then I just sort of found myself wanting to play it and keep going. I ended the game really liking it. It's a shame many will not play it because of the idea of what you think it will be like is bad.
Yahtzee giving two open world games positive reviews for two weeks in a row? This is a sure sign of the apocalypse!!!
Or maybe the post-post-post-apocalypse?
It helps that neither is Ubisoft.
"positive" only in the sense that he did not completely destroy those.
That's as positive as he gets
" It's the end times! " - Jarl Bargruuf.
'Stealth Grass' sounds like an awesome kind of weed.
It doesn't smell like anything, looks exactly like oregano, and gets you high as balls. Breeders, get on it!
Sounds like a kind of weird weed equivalent to "Creeper drinks." It emits no smell, no color, a clear puff of smoke, and yet hit's almost immediately
I want some
'Are you high?'
'Nah, bro. I think this weed isn't very good. Maybe one more hit...'
*BAM*
'Holy shit, I can see the matrix. Every animal is just an organic piece of code. We're all AI, dude.'
MGS V would like a word with you
"I"m all for keeping things simple, after all most of Sony's audience is."
And then from the depths of the Sony mines a low rumbling was heard from the soulsborne pit.
Man, you are my hero. My cynical, abrasive and utterly hilarious hero
BlackThorne WarGamer Well, it is a character. He's a bit different and less witty in person
Mac he writes the character so the wit is still from him, he cant be less witty than a charcter he plays on a weekly basis
Don't forget blatant, but in a great and awesome way \m/
you mean *[Deep]-Serving* , no?
I love how Yahtzee is one of the very few on the point honest reviewers , everything he says is pretty much true, also about the "climbing " and so forth.
Honestly the climbing hurt my soul the most. Assassin's creed having come out long before means I'm insulted by how primitive the climbing in this game it.
As I sit here, playing the sequel to this game, juggling literally eight different melee combo strings and watching my arrows actually curve to hit things they should have just missed, I get the distinct impression someone on the team saw this.
And learned nothing from it.
@@ObsoletePerson sorry I can't hear you over how good this game is
@@kattastic9999 see the problem with all the open world games that we get now is that none of them are really bad they're just quite bland when you play so many in a row. I've come to the conclusion though that so many of these games will be the first experience in such a setting for many people every time so it's really hard to criticize the industry for continually making these kinds of games. I mean it's just the same thing with first person shooters were in the mid-2000s
@@abramwalker882 I just fucking LOVE this setting and it's world, I am so emotionally invested in it
@@kattastic9999 oh believe me I'm very upset that forbidden West is still a PlayStation exclusive and will probably take a few years to make it to PC. I played zero Dawn for the first time on my PS4 back in 2017 on a Redbox rental and I fell in love with the game and then after I sold my PS4 and got a PC I was really sad because I thought I'd never get the chance to play it again but when it released on epic I bought it in a heartbeat and have played it to death and back on New game Plus on the hardest difficulty. Again I don't think it's a bad game at all but I think it is really repetitive and stale to see so many games adopting the same formula without bringing anything new or unique or innovative to the table, but that's why I only play a few of those titles. For someone like Yahtzee who has to play all the big releases in order to stay relevant as a game critic to the masses I can see things like zero Dawn and forbidden West being so tiresome, but that's why he said it's me not you LOL
End credits jokes
- Berkshire Hunt: Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
- I suppose Horizon Zero Dawn would make sense if we were listening to our favorite documentary series, Mega Man character and dishwashing liquid.
- Who else remembers 'Zoids'
brainflash1 Zoids sound... familiar.
brainflash1 zoids ready... fight! bit cloud and the liger zero!
brainflash1 I remember when they first came to the US as toys in the early 80s.
Nick V I thought they were 90s/2000s?
brainflash1 It's dumb they don't include the end credits on UA-cam. Those watching each episode here are missing out.
He liked it then
The Hero Of Kvatch He liked the story. Which I agree the story is better than a lot of other sandbox games. But yes the games good. probably one of the better ps4 open world games from what I've played.
The Hero Of Kvatch well he didn't shit entirely all over it...so...maybe?
He adored it. Its obvious.
The Hero Of Kvatch he likes games?
He probably would have liked it more if the market wasn't currently drowning in sandbox games, but yeah, it would appear Horizon Something Something gets a pass
The best way I've heard HZD described is that it is the "Singularity" of open-world games. It doesn't pretend to be any different from what was done in the past, but rather takes what worked the best in those games and puts it together really well.
Another way that I've heard it put that I also like, considering most of you haven't heard of "Singularly", is it's better version of "Far Cry Primal".
Singularity was diffrent in a very samy way. I lovee the design of it
"horizy zozy dozy"
why did this get me
I love it when the title turns into something completely disconnected from the real one. "Erection: Nice Breakfast"
Technically I wouldn't say Aloy was 'clean', I would say: She is as clean as every other robo-caveman she meets, so no one cares about the flies and whatever might be hovering over her.
it does explain why she is so well adjusted. her focus has basic knowledge that she is seen studying as a child.
Also, she had a solid father figure and mentor (Rast) whom she loved. She also had friends in the village, namely the smuggler and the armorsmith.
I'm not sure the armorsmith can be counted as a friend/explaining why she's so well adjusted by adulthood, given that you meet him once when you're a small child and he's not allowed to speak to you, and then you don't see him again until you're already an adult and your character literally doesn't remember him.
one of them is Teb, the one who outfitted her early during her end of teenage.
@@Dooms1ayer fine then. what about one of the nicest there to speak with compared to the rest of his tribe instead?
You could also argue that since she is effectively a clone, she has genius level intelligence and a genetic predisposition to learning and seeking excellence. The focus helped bring all of that out by giving her a massive amount of data to study.
"a mystical technique for making their heads non-corporeal for brief moments."
Is it bad that I kind of want to see this in a game, now?
Read this as he said it. You get a like even if I don't understand it
Is it just me or does every time Yahtzee give a good review it makes you want to buy that game immediately
Thats the purpose of reviews?
@Steven Victor Neiman Exactly! Yahtzee has degraded some of my favorite games of all times, but in his defense he's done the same thing. He's just an extremely sarcastic person, and the OP needs to learn everybody likes different shit lol
I love how he still Dry heave's when saying a title with a :
Sucks both Horizon and BotW came out in the same week, regardless of which one might be better they're still directly conflicting. :/
Well they're on different consoles. It's unlikely they'll be competing because most gamers won't have both consoles and won't until they're both cheap as hell to get.
It's just like when Prototype and Infamous came out. Those two were stacked against each other all the time for a good while.
Yeah, I just don't buy it. It seems like fake, internet drama. The games are similar, sure, and both very very good, but there are huge differences, too. First off, as mentioned, they are exclusives to their respective consoles, and I don't know about you, but I have a steady job, and I'm not about to shell out for both a Switch and a PS4 Pro. (yet). Also, HZD is very story-driven, whereas Zelda is kinda like "Eh, you know the plot, we'll include some optional cut scenes if you want, but whatever, save the princess blah blah blah". They will probably duke it out for Game of the Year, but other than that, I think they can live in harmony
Then there's Mass Effect Andromeda sitting in the corner eating paste
Bill Qiu - I don't think the games are competing that much. There will be a small minority of people who have both consoles and will only get one. But by and large, I assume most ps4 owners will get Horizon, most Switch/WiiU owners will get BotW, and most people that own both consoles will get both.
least those two are exclusive of two different platforms so yea that changes the dynamic quite a lot
I just want to take the time to comment how proud I am of all of the users in the comment section for not starting a Zelda vs Horizon console war again.
It shows that hope does exist. =D
It's probably because people have gotten a real sense by now that Zelda really is better than Horizon.
....waiting...
Kentama *sigh*
you spoke way too soon.
Kentama oh for fucks sake.
As someone who absolutely dreads the stormbirds, 3:12 has become something i'm regularly calling them.
While this game doesn't do anything new I have to say what it does do it does really well. This has to be one of my favorite PS4 exclusives next to uncharted 4 and bloodborne
It seems like after all these years we have finally *perfected* the open world game. That's nice. Hopefully now we can move on to something else.
If you like Uncharted you’ll love this game because there is Horizon Zero thought involved
It's more the plot then anything. It does follow the same mechanics if the new tomb raider trilogy which was fantastic. The plot though really just pulled me in and I couldn't stop playing as I wanted to discover what happened in the past.
My God, I can't believe how positive this review was!
So many years later, I'm still not sure if it was positive or not.
4:31 THANK YOU. I'm glad someone finally brought up how Aloy's up bringing doesn't make sense considering how well adjusted her adult character is.
It's not the upstanding citizen part, it's just how well social able and good at speaking she is with like 3 people she's probably had regular contact with her whole life. One of them refusing to speak to her directly too.
Bill Qiu Lol I remember Colin saying something of that sort
I agree she is unusually well adjusted, but she also had the Focus so who knows what could have been recorded on that. Old TV shows? Hundreds of hours of various interactions among coworkers? It's not completely infeasible to me she had more than those three to work off of
Yeah Rost was a pretty good dad, and she had that focus to play with every night that got her pretty well educated. Her outcast upbringing was reflected in how blunt and upfront she was.
Also, (spoilers) Rost was apparently some kind of badass who was only an outcast because he left the sacred land to be a badass killer and hunt down some band of assholes who killed a bunch of his tribesmen. Then he came back and raised Aloy. He seems like he'd be decent at raising a capable young woman.
FrigginManatees the people he left to kill didn't just kill his tribesmen. They killed his wife and young daughter.
Is it just me or is he getting more positive lately? Now there are three games this year that he's straight up admitted to liking, those being this, resident evil 7 & the new zelda. This is shaping up to be a good year
yeah, 2017 is starting of *really* strong.
Dan Ross He's been going to more gay bars and bringing handsome young black men home, and his mom has been showering him with love because she's so proud of him for finally getting out of the house
TheGrandRevo DOOM 4 and Dark Souls 3. Watch Dogs 2 was really good but nobody played it because the first was really mediocre, and Titanfall 2 was really good but nobody played it because it was released at the worst possible time.
Is titanfall 2 good because of single player or multiplayer? I'm not a multiplayer guy myself, which is why I never played the first one
I love coming back to these old videos and comments. Just to see the continuous downfall of the gaming industry into the equivalent of the Empire and jabba the hut having kids
I've not heard such a striking description of this game in any other review!
pooper scooper hurr everyone is a weeaboo durrr
M.I.L.F.S
It'sAGundam Slightly ominous comment if I’m honest Gundam...
Glad to see you here outlander, never thought I'd see a familiar face around these dangerous lands... Or a familiar virtual face
"Hmm, this game about robot dinosaurs and Wendy from Gravity Falls but in the future seems kind of cool."
*Only on Playstation 4*
"Well now that's just a fucking shame."
nordic fatcheese Nope
Because they need even more money from their slightly different than every other open world survival game and their 5 year out of date console.
Shifty Moron alert.
nordic fatcheese i mean... get a ps4
I really don't want to pay $350 for a PS4 along with another $60 for the game. The game looks good, but not $410 good.
>Implying her being ginger isnt the reason you bought this game
>tfw no gf in general
thebladesofaids19 your dp goes so well with the comment
True, because Yahtzee has a soul! Don’t believe me, watch his Earthbound review!
The story in HZD is rooted in an extremely popular book series from the 80s called Clan of the Cave Bear. The heroine is Ayla, who is raised by outcasts, and it has various points of similarity from there. I liked Clan a lot when I was young and was happy to play a game inspired by it.
I thought the title was quite clever and catchy. It makes more sense near the end of the game.
This guy not tearing a game to shreds is the equivalent to a regular person making a cult around one
Dude Aloy lived in a house with that dude up until where the main game begins. You act like she was a hobo or something, she was an outcast not a bum.
@@Dizz2K7 We don't know that. She probably talked to plenty of outcasts before, and maybe she even had some tribe kids as friends when she was younger, I highly doubt she never tried to socialize
@@Dizz2K7 But at the beggining when she is still an outcast we see that there were in fact people from the tribe and outcasts who were willing to talk to her even though they shouldn't, do you really think she never socialized? That seems unlikely to me
Dizz2K7 Okay, lets go again since you still dont understand what Im saying. We see her as a kid when she was about 6 yo, and she has some minor interactions with some other people. No, that wouldnt make you a sociable person, but AGAIN, do you really think those are the only people she talked to her ENTIRE life? Im sure she’s met other people while hunting and talked to them, after all, many people in the tribe recognize her from when she was an outcast, surely some of them where willing to break the rules and talk to her? Im also 100% sure she’s seen other people talking to each other. Of course it wouldn’t make her the most social person, and she isn’t. And let’s be thankful the devs didnt make her an awkward blob, that would be painful to watch. Oh, and the focus: early on we see a video on it, she definitely saw more as she was growing up and probably saw how people behave?
"The hit detection is for shit"? Something tells me Yahtzee wasn't holding down R2 when firing arrows.
For me anyway the head hotboxes might have glitched two or three times through the entire playthrough and then some edit: what I mean by and then some is playing through the main story AND then frozen wilds and other quest lines and crap
To be quite honest, the arrows definitely careen in random directions albeit to my benefit. It's not quite like far cry where you carefully account for the arc of the arrow and the movement of your target. Especially being after Breath of the Wild I could see where he wasn't adapted to it. Arrows seem to correct themselves mid-flight as long as you lined up before you let loose.
@@Alter292 Arrows in this game are super weird, though there is a method to the madness. You're not supposed to lead your shots. Instead, you're supposed to fire your arrow while the circle is on top of whatever your target is. If done right, then your arrow will automagically correct its course midflight. If the game decides you're too far away from your target, then it just fires your arrow normally, with drop and a slight accuracy penalty. You can indeed hit moving targets far away with the sharpshot bow if you lead your shots properly.
The problem is that there is no indication whatsoever on how the arrow will fire. It is super weird, and kinda breaks the immersion, but gameplay wise, it is something you can definitely get better at.
“In a post-post-post apocalypse”
So it’s a Ghibli movie
4:27 that animation was perfect
I was at first turned off from this game because I didn't like running through a big world having to figure out what to stop and pick up all the time. Then I found out you just pick up everything, dump what you have too much of, and fuel up again when you run low. I never ran low on twigs but ran low on wires all the time - I like those tougher arrows. I also like that being able to blow pieces off machines or throw off weird effects on them was just a matter of buying a bow, rather than customizing your character to some specific degree. On the plus side, the more advanced bows offer multiple effects, making you able to prep for 90% of any fights with one specific loadout of weapons in your dial, with the option to switch things a little for occasionally doing something more specific and to your tastes. But it would have been nice to set that expectation earlier in the game, because when a game looks complex and kind of boring at the beginning, I won't be playing very long to find out if it gets any better. The mechanic of knowing where stalking creatures will walk, which you learn very early on, came into actual play maybe 3 times in the course of playing the game. The game lacked a good beginning hook, but when I finally got down to playing it, I would say I'm glad I did.
I love watching Zero Punctuation on 0.5 speed, he sounds so drunk.
I loved the animation of this episode, your "character" felt like he had some kind of weight and physics, oposed to just sit there and change position every so often (and ocasional humping).
I'm crap at explaining things, so I'll just give you two examples of what I mean, if I wasn't clear enough.
4:26
4:45
4:03
1:55 Comments like this are what prove that yahtzee is a real analyst and not just a professional troll.
I got a notification for this video as I was watching it. Nice.
The way that the game bashed in your head with a hammer looked kinda nice
I haven't had trouble with hit detection, are you sure you're not just a bad shot?
well, it IS aiming with a controller so I wouldn't be surprised.
Saw my brother playing, an arrow shot at the left side of the human's face did not hit at all, went straight through and hit a rock while it hit when he shot the right side.
EDIT: Human was standing still while it all happened, probably confused.
the arrows are so precise, the thing can be a nanometer from a person's face in the game and still not hit it
One trick for those who have probs with hit detection is to get better at aiming, it worked for me.
I've actually noticed that the arrow will correct itself mid-flight as long as you are on the target. You don't account for trajectory or the movement of the target. Makes it easier to hit moving targets that way.
I found 'Focus vision' and the accompanying cut and paste of a Ford on Aloy's face way too funny.
A comment-based salt farm?! This is exactly what I wanted for my birthday ZP! Thank you!
Absolutely hilarious. My stomach muscles have had a good work out this morning.
Time to do Mass Effect Andromeda to get some diversity in this run of positive reviews. ;)
Look I noticed in the first 10 mins that a ginger protagonist whom happens to be good with blades and ropes would attract a very large portion of gamers. But even with a reskin, this game is tons of fun....
It helped that I didn't have a lot of experience with these kinds of games.
Their heads don't turn incorporeal, they just forget to get hit.
Really fine this game to be one of the most satisfying mystery games I’ve ever played. Slowly piecing everything together was such a blast that I still haven’t beaten it cause after the final reveal they said “go kill generic final boss” and I said “I already did the fun part, I’m out”
maybe just complete the whole thing?
@@CaptainPilipinas nahhh, they raised the level of the final boss to 50 to get you to go do the dlc, which I wasn’t invested in. Didn’t want to grind, either
That last line absolutely killed me.😂😂😂
I wish I could double-like for that Mecha-Godzilla pic.
I almost completely agree with everything. The grass, the unclimbable edges, the explanations for all the cliche shit like why you have a HUD, and the scacanging are all dead on. The game is still a lot of fun though.
I just got an ad for BOTW from this video
I was rewatching this video, because I was trying to get into Horizon Zero Dawn before Forbidden West and found myself getting too bored to finish it. And I'm not above Sony open world games, I loved Ghost of Tsushima & Spiderman, but something didn't click with me playing this one. Sifu will probably be the game I get into in February!
I've just finished the game 96% mastered hunting the machines apart from the rockbreaker. A criticism of the game is the quests are all walk this way for 5 mins to investigate (press f) a few times) hope this is different in the sequel with more puzzles
My resume: the game is still very good by the way.
Yahtzee, mountains next to deserts are natural, it's called a rain shadow. Storms hit one side of the mountains so the other side becomes a desert.
I felt the aiming was pretty good, especially at a distance. Then again, I could just be very lucky? :)
That last line made me wince and shout "Jesus!" Great job m8 👍🏼
Hey look it's Assassin'sCry: RoboDinos
More like Shadow of Skynet actually
More like FarMonsterhunterCreed or aka look at me I'm a new IP, don't let people notice I'm far from an original game
MetalGamer Who cares about that when a lot of reviewers have said it uses those same ideas and tropes better than the games it borrowed from.
It just didn't interest me. Especially because i'm not into ubisoft games anymore
It's an even more retro FarCry: Blood Dragon.
Seven years later and I just started and finished the game.
Pretty accurate about everything. Mechanics can be shallow and the story appeals mostly to nerds like me, but it's really fun taking down robot dinosaurs.
Had the game in my library since COVID but didn't play it until after playing the HZD stage in Astro Bot.
I can agree with this video. Horizon Zero Dawn was cool, though it doesn't deserve a 10/10 though.
dooo DgJi which ones?
dooo DgJi who has given it a 10/10? no good reviewer I've known off.
Didn't know you were a critic :P
Who cares about what arbitrary number some arbitrary reviewer slaps on to a game? Wouldn't it make more sense to look at what they're actually *saying* about the game instead?
i would give it 7/10 because i hated every character and started agreeing with the cultists
The camra , and Yahtzee 1:57 seems to me like a reference to the game "Beholder".
Where the Camras emit a red light that almost mimics the 'cones' he made. :P
I feel like the developers went through the same "Cool Sounding Title" site
for Diagonal Eighty Evenings that Square Enix goes to when making a Kingdom Hearts game
Well, if you *play* the game, you'll know exactly why it's called what it is.
Honestly, "Horizon" or "Zero Dawn" would both have been better names, but...
The bit at 1:50 where you mentioned the whole narrative construction of the story really hit home for me. I do, in fact, know what the fuck you're going on about.
I loved every part of this game, but this made me laugh!
Thank you. Not a day goes by where I marvel at how inexplicably clean our pre-industrial protags are. Especially when they live in societies where nobody ever washes themselves.
Nier when?
far when?
That Samus Main it's already out on the website.
It is up on the website
Nierby
I totally love your work mister yahtzee, I praise you now.
Um Horizon Zero Dawn doesn't have a colon in it, shouldn't it NOT get the "heurgh!" treatment?
It did, the first sentence...
Yeah that's why I'm asking. It's "Horizon Zero Dawn" NOT "Horizon: Zero Dawn" ergo it doesn't get the "Any videogame title with the colon it in is pronounced as 'heurgh' treatment".
I guess an implied colon is still a colon.
Don't know if they patched the aiming or the melee attacks but the issues described, I haven't experienced in my July playthroughs.
Specifically, no trouble with ranged weapons hit detection (you become very accurate with a long bow draw and time-slowing mode, less accurate with quick shots or multiple arrows), and controlling the direction & timing of the melee attacks becomes second nature. The only gripe I have is that the slow attack is too easily interrupted, but given that most hostiles telegraph everything they do it's just a matter of learning their moves.
Anyway, on my second playthrough on Ultra Hard mode I'm mostly just either making them fight each other, or roping down the monsters and bombing them to death. This works even better with the big ones, you rope them down, tear their cannons off and kill them with their own guns, saving on bomb ammo. It's a totally overpowered strategy. Someone should've told Yahtzee that roping was how to deal with the damn flying bastards too.
Wow he was really struggling to find things wrong with this game, and he even liked the deep narrative style which is always something he is very critical on and that's saying alot from Yazhta. Hes right in the end this has alot of potential that will sadly go to waste being released so close to Zelda, it's not Horizon its us, hope the devs take that to heart.
Well I mean playstations player base is like 4 times the size of the wiiu? And the switch just released, so of course the ps4 exclusive will sell more. Question to ask yourself is whether horizon would still be doing as well if zelda was a ps4 exclusive as well instead. hypothetical situation, but it's really the only way they can accurately compete. Or you somehow make a controlled environment where a few thousand gamers who aren't fanboys pick which game they would rather play given the information from gaming media reviews etc. But there's honestly no reason both games are fantastic anyone who says otherwise are dongers. Its honestly up to opinion on which game is better, but I would say the player bases don't have that big of a player lap so that doesn't really matter either. But at the end of the day zelda botw will most likely still receive GOTY over horizon zero dawn just because of the widespread perfect scores the game has gotten. You could argue that, but the people who ultimately decide GOTY's are disagreeing.
woopeddewoop I'm in that situation where I don't own either console and have played both. I'll tell you, neither game is worth buying a new console for, though it is tempting to buy a ps4 because I've played and absolutely adore Bloodborne but that's aside the point. That being said, they're both great and if I was handed $300 to buy a new console I'd honestly just have to flip a coin. In all likelihood, I'll probably just end up playing Metal Gear Solid 3 again lol
Bustaperizm did you even play the game? Literally all of this was answered in it.
Elisabet was uniquely qualified to handle it because she was the top robotics expert at the time who also worked alongside Sobek to create the green robots that cleaned the atmosphere and recreated unliveable environments, so she already had the experience of zero dawn on a smaller scale.
Ted turned on everyone because he was a genius narcissist who considered himself smarter than the room, and anyone other than Elisabet, and without Sobek there to reign him in (the only person he listened to, due to their past history) decided on his he was smarter than everyone who said Apollo was a good idea.
Rost was an outcast because his wife and child were killed by outcasts, and he decided to become a death seeker (suicide mission) so he could leave the Savard land to avenge them. They let him back in the sacred land as an outcast when he returned instead of killing him as custom dictated.
Seriously, if you're going to whine about the story (which was actually really good) at least, Idk, follow the story? Funny you say you "guessed it immediately" but then are just blatantly wrong in your assumptions.
Ludonarrative synchronicity, about time this started becoming a thing.
If you pay attention to the story you will discover that the name actually makes sense.
he did not play it that's why
just because it makes sense doesn't mean it's a good name.
I'm apparently alone on this view point, but, I actually like the name.
It's one of those things where it explained half the name and does the ol' "says part of the name in conversation" cliche
Well, you could call 'The Hobbit' 'Bilbo Baggins and the Adventure of the Mysterious Ring in Middle Earth' but it doesn't quite roll off the tongue as nicely, y'know?
Whether you're talking about glinthawks or stormbirds, you're right to call them that.
Huh, this time Yahtzee"rambling madman"Crowshaw made this a pretty simple review.
(translated from Yahtzeenese ramblings)
"The story to HoUGRGHHGH was alright but was held back by the gameplay."
The translation I got was "The machines are fun, the humans are not."
More like it's meant for someone but not me.
Dude this game is shockingly good. It doesn't do a ton new on the mechanics side, besides making bow and arrow combat actually fun, but the world and story are surprisingly deep and awesome. I'm just as burnt out on open world games as the next person, but HZD is hands down my favorite game of the year so far. Though to be fair, it's only March and I don't own a Switch and therefore can't play Zelda.
I feel like this game can be appreciated on two levels. It can be appreciated for all the flash and glory of the world and shootable things in it. Yhatzee seemed to play it on this level but, being a jaded sod and right on the heels of other sandbox games was somewhat rightfully unimpressed. The second level though, which requires a lot more time investment if you don't just look it all up online, is the storytelling which actually is pretty well layered and IMO pretty excellent. Certainly better than many other games out there. It doesn't shove it in your face, suffer from agonizingly predictable linearity, or follow a single thread. It is easy to miss though, you can readily play the entire game without coming across or noticing much of it, so.....
Playing it for free 4 years later babyyyy!
Breath of the Wild Ad on this Video. *LUL*
1:57
That moment when a video game critic inadvertently gives you new insight into how to write a story
The real shame is that Horizon Zero Dawn came out in the same week as a masterpiece like Zelda. It got totally overshadowed by a superior game; where any other time of the year HZD would have been praised as masterful. But it got tossed along like a piece of crumpled paper. A bit of a shame for all the work they put into the game.
2.6 million in 2 weeks fastest selling new ip for ps4 doesn't seem overshadowed in my book.
Honestly do some research guys, a lauch title with limited consoles available vs an installbase of 50 million
yeah sure no chance there
I've had my nose buried in Zelda since its release but have still heard great praise for Horizon and it is considered the game to get if you don't have Zelda. After I am done with Zelda, I am going to finish FF15 and then pick up Horizon. Is it really being tossed along? From what I heard, the two are duking it out for GOTY.
It's just unfortunate, ya know?
Horizon is a real solid title. But how can it even compare with something as grand and interactive as Breath of the Wild? - Like, its in a different league. - But imagine if HZD came out earlier in the year? It would be praised so much more than it is. But Zelda blew it out of the water this time.
Total overshadowing.
It's the same problem that Battleborn and Titanfall 2 had. Battleborn coming out the same day as the Overwatch beta meaning who the hell would buy a game when Blizzard is having a free FPS and Titanfall 2 coming out a couple days after Battlefield 1 because EA has no idea who their target audience is and thought releasing 2 triple A shooters one after another was a good idea.
Darius Batista you are completely delusional
Finally platinumed zero dawn before getting the sequel. Still sorry he didn't like this like I did, but more for me i guess
this was a positive review if i ever heard one
Serial Experiments Dave He has given positive reviews before but he's mosty cynical.
Phantom Drags he gives positive reviews all the time.
and by all the time you mean souls games and the odd "meh" every now and again
Yeah theres Portal, System Shock 2, BotW, Elite: Dangerous, Far Cry 3, Infamous 2, Bioshock Infinite, but yeah it’s still rare when he outright likes something
great review, especially the part about c+ -> a
Horizon > Zelda
I don't really see a problem with the main character being named Aloy, as opposed to Re-Core's protagonist being named Joule, because there's actually a reason for Aloy being named Aloy. She was "born" in a tribe of people that effectively worship machines, it kind of makes sense that their naming conventions would be machine and metal based. It's also consistent with the rest of her tribe, like her "dad" Rost (Rust). It's not like Joule who just so happened to be named Joule and then chose to become someone that works with machines.
Fucking FINALLY...
Big T. Larrity you know he releases these reviews a week earlier right? he just reviewed nier on the escapist website
The UA-cam release is always delayed a week from the actual launch on the Escapist (they want traffic on their website, rather than UA-cam, so they post ZP here a week late to try and entice the audience over to where all their other stuff is).
The Escapist still has a website? Next you'll tell me they still have staff.
their staff is yahtzee
Yeah I know, but the Escapist site has a worse video player than pornhub.
CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA REVIEW!!
PS4 gamers: We have Horizon Zero Dawn!
Nintendo gamers: We got Legend of Zelda BOTW
PC gamers: We got shitty Steam survival games?...sigh
Xbox 1 gamers: We got a console RTS...
Timmy Turner or better:
Nintendo: We've got Super Mario Odyssey coming out!
Sony: We've got Last of Us 2 coming out!
Microsoft: We canceled Scalebound! Oh, wait, I did that wrong...
Give it a couple of years and we'll have an emulator for it.
+JLT0087 Dude, emulators for the PS3 and Xbox 360 are STILL fucking terrible. It'll be more than a couple of years before a decent PS4/Xbox One emulator comes out.
"oh wait, I did that wrong" - microsoft - 2013
Rost is just that good of a parent, which is why Aloy is so well adjusted despite living among superstitious primitives :)
I'm so glad he mentioned the atrocious name. It's a post apocalyptic game where technology and nature meet.....and it's name says nothing about it. Like it seems like they chose random cool sounding words and made that the title. Horizon Zero Dawn sounds like it could be any type of game....racing, FPS, Horror.
actually I think the name is pretty good. no, it doesn't say anything about the game UNTIL you play it. I think it's a nod to the Sun tribe taking over which means it's the Horizon. the Zero Dawn part would be that they don't live in the shadows of lie anymore? which means the MC finally gets answers to her questions? I may just be over thinking it....
If they wanted to name it after the Sun tribe taking over, a title like Sunrise would have been a lot easier to get. Also take out the zero all together and make the subtitle just "Dawn" if it's trying to reference "coming out of the shadows".
+mikejonesnoreally XD good point he would tear it a new hole if it was named that
The name does make sense once you get into the last third of the game.
the name makes sense, to me atleast
I haven't watched one of these in four years. The memories.
Sewage is an Xbone exclusive because most games on that console are shit
come up with that one all by yourself?
Supafly03 *starts tearing up*
I learned it from you, dad!
Max J Just like a lot of PS4 exclusives. And I say that being a PS4 owner.
Most games on that console are the same games on PS4, minus a few.
Max J Yahtzee describes folk such as yourself at 4:10.
Nice reference to the Agatha Christie poirot book 'death on the nile'
it sounds like he's really struggling to insult this, how good is this game?
It’s wonderful play it
It’s one of those games that’s so polished that there’s nothing to dislike but other than the story there’s nothing that was directly exciting to him
it's absolutely spectacular.
How is that people are going around the comments saying they also don't understand the name of the game. The later part of the game LITERALLY tells you why. It repeats it so often that even if you weren't listening at first you're still bound to hear it 10 seconds later. It's also in writing on walls of one of the bunkers that you go in near end game.
Im surprised you liked this game, i found it to be "its just another Ubisoft style open world game that does nothing new or interesting"
LateNightGaming - Halo News & Entertainment Same.
LateNightGaming - Halo News & Entertainment It reuses but improves upon those reused mechanics.
Howya Doin i dont think it improves at all... it just uses them...
LateNightGaming - Halo News & Entertainment A lot of reviewers says it definitely borrows from other open world games by using the same tropes, but does it in a very unique and refreshing way. Figuring how to mount the enormous moving Tallnecks (or whatever they're called) and then scaling up them in order to reveal more of the map was one such example.
SicParvisMagna123 but that's nothing special... you just jump on it and hold up and she automatically climbs it for you... it's just a radio tower that walks in tiny circles... what would be inventive is if the game DIDN'T have generic radio towers
I had the opposite problem with hit detection actually. It was like the bandits attached magnets to their foreheads.