One of the things a lot of people who play this game overlook about the Focus (the augmented reality device that Aloy uses) that isn't to be missed is similarly one of the things that makes it so powerful. It's neuroadaptive and context sensitive. You can see it in the scene where Rost first takes Aloy out to teach her to hunt. Rost hands her the bow, and Aloy recognizes the bow as important. BECAUSE ALOY RECOGNIZES IT as important, the Focus highlights it in her vision. Rost calls it a bow, and the INSTANT he puts a name on it where the Focus can hear it, the Focus labels that Important Object as a bow. You see it again when Rost points out 'this plant is important, it's called Salvebrush', and the Focus puts a marker wherever it sees Salvebrush from then on, because Aloy learned that Salvebrush is important. Whatever she learns to do, the Focus creates routines and aids to support that skill. It learns what she learns as she learns it, and through her own imagination takes the Next Logical Step to provide the perceptual tools to support that skill using only her own five senses as a means of perceiving the world. It's how the game diegetically justifies the entire HUD and player interface, right down to the targeting reticle players use for archery.
That targeting reticle and I need to have a discussion. Me: "Please move just a hair over" Reticle: Looks like you want to jerk all over the screen And I mentally gave it the Clippy voice
39:00 yes, exactly! this is why aloy always viewed the old ones as just normal human beings, because her first real exposure to them was words of love, grief, longing, song, all painfully human and not the selfish monsters the nora painted them as. the opening bunker area is legitimately one of my favorites in the series because it sets the tone of the world and it's history perfectly with all those final words and mystery and tragedy of how they died.
I love how Rost doesn't tower over her and yell when he pulls her out. He gets down on one knee to get to her level and while he is stern, his voice is concerned, not angry
All-Mother, thank you for the wisdom you share with us and bless us with insight so that we may find the Audio settings, and always keep the Music and Sound effect levels 10% to 20% lower than the Speech level.
When I first played this game, I nearly cried when Rost stated he would continue to uphold the rules of being outcast. I had just recently left Jehovah's Witnesses and my cousin, who was more like a sister to me, told me she couldn't speak to me anymore because of the life I decided for myself. Seeing Aloy and Rost go through the same thing was shocking to me but I can understand both sides of their situation. it is VERY painful to be shunned by loved ones due to religious rules, especially someone who I considered to be my best friend and my partner in crime. I am so happy you're playing this game and I can't wait to see what you think about it. I already know you'll love Aloy as much as I do :)
28:40 isn't this a perfect representation of child mimicry like she saw the person wearing a device she knows nothing about on their temple so she put it on her temple without knowing why.
watching letsplayers get bodied the moment they step into the sundom never gets old 🤣. the fact that the path literally leads you right into a stormbird, diabolical
I absolutely love everytime he compliments Aloy as a person. Instead of viewing as writing, but seeing what she says and does and taking it in as if she was real. It makes me feel warm everytime he calls her smart lol
37:15. I also think in a way this is the first adult (that's not Rost) to talk to her in a warm friendly manner. Because the how the hologram works makes it seem like he's looking and talking straight to her. Which she only got w one person.
Playing Aloy, as a child, was such a great decision by the devs. It builds so much of who she becomes as an adult. I've heard people complain she talks too much, but she didn't have anyone, other than Rost, to talk to. So I can see how she'd end up being like that.
23:24 i feel like aloy deduces this is an old world ruin *because* rost tells her not to go to the ruins. he's likely told her what they look like (to his best ability)
I don't mind at all the pauses you do to go into analysis of the scenes. In fact, I've learned so much about mental development, thinking and adult-child behavior in the first 55 minutes alone! (as a member of the Autism Spectrum, this means a lot!) Also, Horizon Zero Dawn is an amazing game and storyline!
Kinda interesting that Rost is such a devout follower of the rules, yet breaks them on a technicality and claims it’s “different”. While he didn’t verbally speak to anyone, he “communicated” with the people on the outside of that wall who acknowledged him for who he was before he got shunned.
Quick Stamps for General Mental Health Topics (if any stamps are labeled wrong or missed please don't hesitate to let me know, this one was particularly dense) 7:09 Specified Considerations (culture) 9:37 Rewarding desirable Behaviour (child development) 12:16 How sociological norms/cultures develop 13:05 Unfair contextual social actions (child development) 19:51 Attachment Figures (child development) 24:48 Children and Death 30:38 How children conceptualize 32:54 Being careful not to treat smart children like adults 36:37 Children and Curious/Novel experiences 42:32 (TW SU!CIDE) Context and trauma (Child Development) 46:25 (TW SU!CIDE) How much detail to share with a child 51:45 Why parents should pause and reflect (child development) 56:23 Technology and boundaries (child development) 1:00:49 Demonstration of Scaffolding (child development) 1:03:14 Teaching and phrasing (child development) 1:08:34 No context vs projected context (child development) 1:26:19 Learned isms and prejudice (child development) 1:37:09 Parental acceptance of independence 1:40:17 If someone seems off 1:42:55 Curiosity before casting judgment (culture) 1:59:32 Empathy and Breaking through harmful traditions (culture) 2:03:14 Leadership considerations before casting judgment (culture) 2:08:12 Prasing with the need to delay answers 2:10:06 Negotiating and Respecting Boundaries 2:16:19 Transition from Child to Adult 2:20:22 Scaffolding follow through 2:25:43 Teaching wider perspectives and consequences 2:37:26 When teachings override empathy (culture) 3:02:55 (TW SU!C!DAL IDEATION) Crisis Deescalation 3:22:30 Navigating relationships and choice
Thanks for posting this to UA-cam. I've never come across your channel before but YT recommended you, guess because I watch a lot of gaming videos. I really enjoyed you sharing your thoughts and analysis of this game, as I have played it multiple times and love it so it's good to see someone else breaking down a story I feel so familiar with. Hoping you keep playing and that I get to see more. Thanks!
One of my favorite things about this game is it's approach to mental illness in a world that no longer understands it. It goes to show how fast knowledge can be lost when society crumbles. They only know how to describe it through their culture's faith and experiences. This game is just so well thought out and dense in lore and culture.
Some context on Grata. She saved Rost's life years before. She broke the rules doing so and was outcast. Rost takes care of her and wants Aloy to add well.
I, being autistic, have always been a visual learner. I picked up words and patterns quickly from a young age. My mom picked me up and put me on the window sill to look outside. Next day she would ask me if i wanted to sit on the window sill and look outside again like yesterday. This way i learned more diffcult words and concepts from a young age. She would do something and later connect said thing to a word
im excited to watch this playthrough!! i’ve always loved this game series and excited to hear your insight. i’ve always felt for aloy and the burden she bears throughout the games
YES!! This is genuinely my favorite game I've ever played, especially in terms of worldbuilding, and one of the few I went into spoiler-free. I love the analyses in your playthroughs and I'm SO EXCITED to hear your thoughts on Horizon!!
Really looking forward to this run! Not only is this a great story to experience blind, but Aloy is such an interesting and unique character I can’t wait to hear your analysis on her outlook of the world.
Both Horizon games are very special to me. I enjoyed what you shared with us in your GoW:R playthrough. I'm looking forward to see what you think of Aloy and the world and culture of Horizon!
What I always found hilarious in the beginning is when you talk to the Nora Braves, or other NPCs and they go "I will not talk to you". Yet, they are talking by saying they will not talk. So I head canon it that they see I want to start a conversation and is just talking to themselves about how they shouldn't talk to me.
I know I'm late to this particular party, and I've only watched thirty minutes, but this is really good. I've always known that Horizon Zero Dawn is well-written, but this is giving me another level of appreciation.
So glad I found your channel. Insightful therapy content, related through my favorite pieces of media, with down-to-earth delivery that’s almost perfectly tailored to be accessible to my generation and interest demographic? If the guys at Cinema Therapy are our internet therapy dads, you’re our internet therapy bro. And I’m totally here for it.
Watched your first Forbidden West video and decided to watch all of your Zero Dawn series before resuming your Forbidden West playthrough. Thanks for sharing with us!
I am in the same boat. So hilarious seeing and hearing DrMick's take on things while being so blissfully unaware of just how much he is not in Kansas anymore. To be fair, at this stage none of us had a clue.
At first I was just excited because this is my favorite game. Now I'm invested from how awesome the content and deep topics have been. This is gonna be one hell lf a ride!
I'm only 25 seconds in and had to take a second to say... just look at that water fall of to the right. Call me weird I don't care but that is beautifully done water whoever worked on the water in this game should be proud of their work. I'll be back with an edit later for this I am sure but for now... I like it, Picasso. (Chef's kiss) I am back with my edit. I was too enthralled with the game that I watched the whole video before adding more to the comment. Something that I'm not sure DrMick caught, the guy who he bought the trapper from I believe is the one who he saved as a kid. The boy was much older than she was at the time, so it makes sense that now since she is an adult, he would be much older than her as well. He had the same face markings as he did when he was younger and even the same hair style. So, I just thought that was really neat how they tied in his character. She first met him briefly while hunting for the first time where he smiled at her from afar, then she saved him when he was in danger, and now he interacts with her still and sells stuff to her despite her being an outcast. I just find that really sweet. And the way they did it was so subtle that it wouldn't surprise me if a ton of people didn't catch that he was the same person and assumed it was someone completely different.
I've been holding of watching other people playthrus of this in the hopes that u would get to it sometime..first playthru og yours I'm going in completely blind😊..super excited..as always..keep doing ur thing..Thanks Doc 🤣🙏
18:09 OK so sorry for my mediocre English here. But if people want another example of this..I being a wheelchair user and disabled experience a variation of this situation most days Kids looking at me being curious wanting to ask questions etc, but parents just shutting that down immediately, scolding them and walking away from me. I genuinely believe that most parents don't mean anything hurtful with this response..but at the same time I feel like this reinforces the idea that people with disabilities are scary or "the others" as you are saying It warms my heart when I meet parents who actually allow their kinds to look and ask questions..That kind of approach to where children are allowed to ask questions is gonna lead to a more inclusive society in the long run. ❤
Just found your channel and I'm really enjoying your commentary. I'm a father that has played these games with my son, so the discussion on Rost and Aloy as parent and child, and eventually parent and adult child, is refreshing.
I am just in awe of this series. The chance to see a deeper meaning in one of my favorite games is awesome. I’ve always been interested in relationships between people and being able to see it described using characters I know is making things much more clear. Thank you so much for these videos!!!
HECK YEAH!!!! Horizon Zero Dawn and the sequel Forbidden West are some of my favorite games of all time! can't wait to see your analysis of these games
This is one of my favorite games. I saw a few of your videos on tik tok and i absolutely love your commentary of this game. Cant wait to watch the rest of your playthrough. Hope you eventually get to play the sequel.
Ive already played both HZD and HFW platinumed them both. Amazing games! And even though ive played both of them so much, watching and listening to you has given these interactions a whole new perspective. I cannot wait to see what else i learn as you play through more.
While I absolutely love the shit out of this game, When Dr. mick said, "I hate that this menu has music" I thought to my self. "yeah same, that hate will grow"
I am extremely excited to see this one played, and I absolutely can't wait for your analysis of several moments in the future. I loved playing it for myself, and while I don't have access to a console to play the sequel, I'm looking forward to that as well.
Well now that I know I'm not being annoying lol. You accidentally explained why people found me creepy as a child compared to my sister. I also now feel like I was a much creepier child than I thought I was. I had much more direct experience with death itself from a very young age into my early teens (pets, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cuzins) cause being everything from accidents, to purposeful, to disease. It was a near constant for me that was almost biyearly if not yearly sometimes. So I had zero issue with the concept of it and what it meant. My sister who is almost 2 years ahead of me had a more traumatic grasp of it than I did at any point in time so it hit her differently. Into adulthood I was able to talk about the things about it that most people really avoid like the logistical next things after someones passing along with how to protect against/ prevent drama. My mom and dad made a conscious point of making death not a taboo in the house to try to help my sister be less traumatized with it. Legitimately lit off a bunch of past experiences in my brain making much more sense in how I was perceived when something unfortunate occurred.
One major difference between my playthough and yours, is that as soon as it becae freeroam, I went straight for the ruins. You've probably learned this by now, if you click on the map quest markers, you turn that quest active.
awesome..be sure to do the DLC too. and take time off-screen to hunt and upgrade your pouches..it will help so much in the long run. and please do the Side Quests.
I know I am commenting very late to this series but I am loveing this a lot but it's so hard to see him not loot all of his kills or use the skill points he has earned to make Aloy better. I am overjoyed he is doing the side quests as so many folks seem to just blow past them.
Hello there! I just found this playthrough, and as an adult in his 30s who still has a LOT of parental issues, I am so very happy to learn from you while you play through one of my favorite video games of all time! I have just one comment about what you played through in this installment, and that is when Aloy first finds the Focus, she remarks, "A dead person!" Not a dead 'body,' but a 'person,' as if the notion that being dead doesn't make it any less of a person. Or, depending on your point of view, any less alive. Just an interesting word choice, I think. What would you make of that, as a therapist looking at a young child?
holy god yes about the tablets/tech for kids. YOUR job is to be more interesting, and have good boundaries for that stuff- it's not the responsibility of a CHILD to find a way to escape a novelty that even adults struggle to cope without access to. In game of course there's a bit of a different story, phones are much more physical and contained, that interface being just a new feature that's a part of the world would be such a huge leap beyond the stuff we have today. Of course many of the same things are there, but phones don't reach out and tell you what you're looking at, you have to go to the phone not the other way around.
Id love to see you play and analyze The Witcher 3 Dr Mick. That game is a RPG like this one and is choice based. Its was names GOTY if im not mistaken and i hope to see you play this game in the future
I began watching these vids because I love Horizon Zero Dawn so much. And Dr Mick tells viewers he is here to talk about things in the game more than to "just play the game". And its true. So while I love his comments, but after 12 vids (8 here and more on Twitch) I can no longer bear to watch him walking past important things he is missing. So that's on me, and not his fault. He is here for exactly what he says in the intros. So if you want what is on offer, I'd say its excellent, but I can't bear to continue watching. So my comment is not a vote UP or DOWN, but to say listen to Dr Mick's intro.
I just found this, but seen some LPs of both games. I love how in this game most people are.... Overall decent but flawed. Aloy is a good person who wants to help but her social skills.... Yanno. Erend is a drunk but loyal and a fun guy who knows how to handle people. Silens.... Smart but yeah
One of the coolest things is that the Nora have a matriarchal society, So they don't have any prejudices towards women or about gender, but we still see That their society is very prejudiced, for reasons that seem completely unfair to us, It just shows how artificial prejudice really is.
Not done with the video yet but I have to say as we were approaching the bit where Rost has to decide whether to take Aloy's Focus away I was wondering how you'd react to him. It's fun how you geeked out over that moment. :) We
One of the things a lot of people who play this game overlook about the Focus (the augmented reality device that Aloy uses) that isn't to be missed is similarly one of the things that makes it so powerful.
It's neuroadaptive and context sensitive. You can see it in the scene where Rost first takes Aloy out to teach her to hunt. Rost hands her the bow, and Aloy recognizes the bow as important. BECAUSE ALOY RECOGNIZES IT as important, the Focus highlights it in her vision. Rost calls it a bow, and the INSTANT he puts a name on it where the Focus can hear it, the Focus labels that Important Object as a bow.
You see it again when Rost points out 'this plant is important, it's called Salvebrush', and the Focus puts a marker wherever it sees Salvebrush from then on, because Aloy learned that Salvebrush is important.
Whatever she learns to do, the Focus creates routines and aids to support that skill. It learns what she learns as she learns it, and through her own imagination takes the Next Logical Step to provide the perceptual tools to support that skill using only her own five senses as a means of perceiving the world. It's how the game diegetically justifies the entire HUD and player interface, right down to the targeting reticle players use for archery.
Very insightful!
That targeting reticle and I need to have a discussion.
Me: "Please move just a hair over"
Reticle: Looks like you want to jerk all over the screen
And I mentally gave it the Clippy voice
It also realizes it's being worn by a child and resets itself to teach her to read English text. Most people in her world can no longer read it.
She can read several languages by adulthood. @@piratetv1
39:00 yes, exactly! this is why aloy always viewed the old ones as just normal human beings, because her first real exposure to them was words of love, grief, longing, song, all painfully human and not the selfish monsters the nora painted them as. the opening bunker area is legitimately one of my favorites in the series because it sets the tone of the world and it's history perfectly with all those final words and mystery and tragedy of how they died.
I love how Rost doesn't tower over her and yell when he pulls her out. He gets down on one knee to get to her level and while he is stern, his voice is concerned, not angry
All-Mother, thank you for the wisdom you share with us and bless us with insight so that we may find the Audio settings, and always keep the Music and Sound effect levels 10% to 20% lower than the Speech level.
That transition from kid Aloy to teenage Aloy, was soooo smooth. I'm impressed each time I see it.
that is pure cinema, a well executed elipsis is one of the most elegant devices in visual storytelling.
When I first played this game, I nearly cried when Rost stated he would continue to uphold the rules of being outcast. I had just recently left Jehovah's Witnesses and my cousin, who was more like a sister to me, told me she couldn't speak to me anymore because of the life I decided for myself. Seeing Aloy and Rost go through the same thing was shocking to me but I can understand both sides of their situation. it is VERY painful to be shunned by loved ones due to religious rules, especially someone who I considered to be my best friend and my partner in crime. I am so happy you're playing this game and I can't wait to see what you think about it. I already know you'll love Aloy as much as I do :)
Still no contact?
Religion is society's accepted and encouraged mental illness. Time to stop accepting and encouraging. You are better off without the Witless ones
28:40 isn't this a perfect representation of child mimicry like she saw the person wearing a device she knows nothing about on their temple so she put it on her temple without knowing why.
Sawtooths being made out to be scary. Then you exit the nora-land and realise the world is even bigger and scarier.
watching letsplayers get bodied the moment they step into the sundom never gets old 🤣. the fact that the path literally leads you right into a stormbird, diabolical
I absolutely love everytime he compliments Aloy as a person. Instead of viewing as writing, but seeing what she says and does and taking it in as if she was real. It makes me feel warm everytime he calls her smart lol
1:31:56
Rost doesn't smile but the graphics are so good you can see the love and pride in his eyes.
37:15. I also think in a way this is the first adult (that's not Rost) to talk to her in a warm friendly manner. Because the how the hologram works makes it seem like he's looking and talking straight to her. Which she only got w one person.
It's true. Grata will talk to Aloy but pretends to be praying so no one else will know if they see her. That's got to be painful
A whole playthrough of this AND you're already well into Forbidden West?? Take my subscription now, I've got some catching up to do!
Playing Aloy, as a child, was such a great decision by the devs. It builds so much of who she becomes as an adult. I've heard people complain she talks too much, but she didn't have anyone, other than Rost, to talk to. So I can see how she'd end up being like that.
Still a valid complaint from a gameplay perspective. Its like playing with someone who is constantly backseating you
@@CHEESEpuff69 Yes, completely fair.
The sequel really took it too far.
23:24 i feel like aloy deduces this is an old world ruin *because* rost tells her not to go to the ruins. he's likely told her what they look like (to his best ability)
I don't mind at all the pauses you do to go into analysis of the scenes. In fact, I've learned so much about mental development, thinking and adult-child behavior in the first 55 minutes alone!
(as a member of the Autism Spectrum, this means a lot!)
Also, Horizon Zero Dawn is an amazing game and storyline!
Kinda interesting that Rost is such a devout follower of the rules, yet breaks them on a technicality and claims it’s “different”. While he didn’t verbally speak to anyone, he “communicated” with the people on the outside of that wall who acknowledged him for who he was before he got shunned.
Quick Stamps for General Mental Health Topics
(if any stamps are labeled wrong or missed please don't hesitate to let me know, this one was particularly dense)
7:09 Specified Considerations (culture)
9:37 Rewarding desirable Behaviour (child development)
12:16 How sociological norms/cultures develop
13:05 Unfair contextual social actions (child development)
19:51 Attachment Figures (child development)
24:48 Children and Death
30:38 How children conceptualize
32:54 Being careful not to treat smart children like adults
36:37 Children and Curious/Novel experiences
42:32 (TW SU!CIDE) Context and trauma (Child Development)
46:25 (TW SU!CIDE) How much detail to share with a child
51:45 Why parents should pause and reflect (child development)
56:23 Technology and boundaries (child development)
1:00:49 Demonstration of Scaffolding (child development)
1:03:14 Teaching and phrasing (child development)
1:08:34 No context vs projected context (child development)
1:26:19 Learned isms and prejudice (child development)
1:37:09 Parental acceptance of independence
1:40:17 If someone seems off
1:42:55 Curiosity before casting judgment (culture)
1:59:32 Empathy and Breaking through harmful traditions (culture)
2:03:14 Leadership considerations before casting judgment (culture)
2:08:12 Prasing with the need to delay answers
2:10:06 Negotiating and Respecting Boundaries
2:16:19 Transition from Child to Adult
2:20:22 Scaffolding follow through
2:25:43 Teaching wider perspectives and consequences
2:37:26 When teachings override empathy (culture)
3:02:55 (TW SU!C!DAL IDEATION) Crisis Deescalation
3:22:30 Navigating relationships and choice
Thanks for posting this to UA-cam. I've never come across your channel before but YT recommended you, guess because I watch a lot of gaming videos. I really enjoyed you sharing your thoughts and analysis of this game, as I have played it multiple times and love it so it's good to see someone else breaking down a story I feel so familiar with. Hoping you keep playing and that I get to see more. Thanks!
One of my favorite things about this game is it's approach to mental illness in a world that no longer understands it. It goes to show how fast knowledge can be lost when society crumbles. They only know how to describe it through their culture's faith and experiences. This game is just so well thought out and dense in lore and culture.
You couldn't STOP me from touching all the pretty lights
Some context on Grata. She saved Rost's life years before. She broke the rules doing so and was outcast. Rost takes care of her and wants Aloy to add well.
I, being autistic, have always been a visual learner. I picked up words and patterns quickly from a young age. My mom picked me up and put me on the window sill to look outside. Next day she would ask me if i wanted to sit on the window sill and look outside again like yesterday. This way i learned more diffcult words and concepts from a young age. She would do something and later connect said thing to a word
AW HELL YES
I'm so glad you're playing my favorite game series, I've wanted you to play this so badly
im excited to watch this playthrough!! i’ve always loved this game series and excited to hear your insight. i’ve always felt for aloy and the burden she bears throughout the games
You're past 3 series have literally all been games in my top 10 of all time. This is number 1, I'm so excited
YES!! This is genuinely my favorite game I've ever played, especially in terms of worldbuilding, and one of the few I went into spoiler-free. I love the analyses in your playthroughs and I'm SO EXCITED to hear your thoughts on Horizon!!
Really looking forward to this run! Not only is this a great story to experience blind, but Aloy is such an interesting and unique character I can’t wait to hear your analysis on her outlook of the world.
Both Horizon games are very special to me. I enjoyed what you shared with us in your GoW:R playthrough. I'm looking forward to see what you think of Aloy and the world and culture of Horizon!
Really excited to see your reaction to this game. It is a masterpiece in my opinion
I have never been so excited for a series. I'm so interested in your analysis of the game ❤
aloy is my favorite new gen. video game protag!! so excited for this whole series!
Absolutely love this series. The horizon games are fantastic and so is Aloy as a character. Really looking forward to more of this.
I've always struggled to get into this game! So I'm glad I can hop on this journey with Dr. Mick!
The Lore and story starts slow, so maybe some players give up before the deeper Lore kicks in after many hrs.
What I always found hilarious in the beginning is when you talk to the Nora Braves, or other NPCs and they go "I will not talk to you". Yet, they are talking by saying they will not talk. So I head canon it that they see I want to start a conversation and is just talking to themselves about how they shouldn't talk to me.
Incredibly educational and fun gameplay. Love the conversations you are having with chat, and your passion for human development
I know I'm late to this particular party, and I've only watched thirty minutes, but this is really good.
I've always known that Horizon Zero Dawn is well-written, but this is giving me another level of appreciation.
17 minutes in and aleady in love with your concept. I have played this game 3 times now and enjoy seeing the new perspectives you give to the story.
it’s weird to hear Ashly Burch voicing Alloy, I’m so used to hearing her voice in Life is Strange lol
So glad I found your channel. Insightful therapy content, related through my favorite pieces of media, with down-to-earth delivery that’s almost perfectly tailored to be accessible to my generation and interest demographic? If the guys at Cinema Therapy are our internet therapy dads, you’re our internet therapy bro. And I’m totally here for it.
Watched your first Forbidden West video and decided to watch all of your Zero Dawn series before resuming your Forbidden West playthrough. Thanks for sharing with us!
Hope you enjoy it!
I am in the same boat. So hilarious seeing and hearing DrMick's take on things while being so blissfully unaware of just how much he is not in Kansas anymore. To be fair, at this stage none of us had a clue.
It gives me the thrill of discovery all over again for the series. Love watching both playthroughs.@@davejohncole
At first I was just excited because this is my favorite game. Now I'm invested from how awesome the content and deep topics have been. This is gonna be one hell lf a ride!
So very much excited to see the play through of this game as see you analyze the characters and react to the world they live in. Have fun.
I'm only 25 seconds in and had to take a second to say... just look at that water fall of to the right. Call me weird I don't care but that is beautifully done water whoever worked on the water in this game should be proud of their work. I'll be back with an edit later for this I am sure but for now... I like it, Picasso. (Chef's kiss) I am back with my edit. I was too enthralled with the game that I watched the whole video before adding more to the comment. Something that I'm not sure DrMick caught, the guy who he bought the trapper from I believe is the one who he saved as a kid. The boy was much older than she was at the time, so it makes sense that now since she is an adult, he would be much older than her as well. He had the same face markings as he did when he was younger and even the same hair style. So, I just thought that was really neat how they tied in his character. She first met him briefly while hunting for the first time where he smiled at her from afar, then she saved him when he was in danger, and now he interacts with her still and sells stuff to her despite her being an outcast. I just find that really sweet. And the way they did it was so subtle that it wouldn't surprise me if a ton of people didn't catch that he was the same person and assumed it was someone completely different.
I've been holding of watching other people playthrus of this in the hopes that u would get to it sometime..first playthru og yours I'm going in completely blind😊..super excited..as always..keep doing ur thing..Thanks Doc 🤣🙏
18:09 OK so sorry for my mediocre English here. But if people want another example of this..I being a wheelchair user and disabled experience a variation of this situation most days
Kids looking at me being curious wanting to ask questions etc, but parents just shutting that down immediately, scolding them and walking away from me.
I genuinely believe that most parents don't mean anything hurtful with this response..but at the same time I feel like this reinforces the idea that people with disabilities are scary or "the others" as you are saying
It warms my heart when I meet parents who actually allow their kinds to look and ask questions..That kind of approach to where children are allowed to ask questions is gonna lead to a more inclusive society in the long run. ❤
Using this game to analyze psychology is a stroke of genius this is one of my favorite games of all time
Just found your channel and I'm really enjoying your commentary. I'm a father that has played these games with my son, so the discussion on Rost and Aloy as parent and child, and eventually parent and adult child, is refreshing.
Can’t wait to see Dr. Mick play one of my favorite game series of all time
I am just in awe of this series. The chance to see a deeper meaning in one of my favorite games is awesome. I’ve always been interested in relationships between people and being able to see it described using characters I know is making things much more clear. Thank you so much for these videos!!!
I don't know anything about this game, so I'm a bit excited to see your playthrough of it.
HECK YEAH!!!! Horizon Zero Dawn and the sequel Forbidden West are some of my favorite games of all time! can't wait to see your analysis of these games
Im so heckin ready for this playthrough. It's one of my favorite games ever and you are one of my favorite creators on tiktok
this is one of my favourite game series of all time, i'm so excited for you to playthrough it!! 🥳🥳
thank you for posting here and sharing
Guerrilla's writers put an incredible work into the ethnographic aspects of the game. 😊
YEA Awesome! I love these games and i have enjoyed the other playthroughs of yours i watched. So excited to watch you play Aloy's journey. Have fun 💜
YES! So excited! And just in time for summer break. Let's GOOO!
This is one of my favorite games. I saw a few of your videos on tik tok and i absolutely love your commentary of this game. Cant wait to watch the rest of your playthrough. Hope you eventually get to play the sequel.
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I confess one tripwire and just speared to death after. Granted, I set it on Story and the only thing to kill me so far has been gravity
Ive already played both HZD and HFW platinumed them both. Amazing games! And even though ive played both of them so much, watching and listening to you has given these interactions a whole new perspective. I cannot wait to see what else i learn as you play through more.
Rost IS your dad....
just cos he's not blood doesn't mean he's not your dad :P
I 100%'d both first and second game and always wanted to know more of the game, and here you are! perfect hehe
While I absolutely love the shit out of this game, When Dr. mick said, "I hate that this menu has music" I thought to my self. "yeah same, that hate will grow"
coming over from tiktok. Can't wait to see the whole playthrough!
catch you a lot on stream, but i cant wait to watch it all the way through! thanks for uploading these!
Welcome back for another amazing playthrough
Currently replaying this series! I wonder if Plato's Cave will be brought up 🤔 Thank you for playing this game!!
Oooooh I had no idea you were playing this, very much looking forward to hearing your take on everything going on in this game
Really looking forward to seeing you play this game and experiencing it through your eyes, never had the chance to play it myself.
hey it's nice to have you in my ear when hunting in the wilds
Are you gonna do the DLCs as well?
I am extremely excited to see this one played, and I absolutely can't wait for your analysis of several moments in the future. I loved playing it for myself, and while I don't have access to a console to play the sequel, I'm looking forward to that as well.
Well now that I know I'm not being annoying lol. You accidentally explained why people found me creepy as a child compared to my sister. I also now feel like I was a much creepier child than I thought I was. I had much more direct experience with death itself from a very young age into my early teens (pets, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cuzins) cause being everything from accidents, to purposeful, to disease. It was a near constant for me that was almost biyearly if not yearly sometimes. So I had zero issue with the concept of it and what it meant. My sister who is almost 2 years ahead of me had a more traumatic grasp of it than I did at any point in time so it hit her differently. Into adulthood I was able to talk about the things about it that most people really avoid like the logistical next things after someones passing along with how to protect against/ prevent drama. My mom and dad made a conscious point of making death not a taboo in the house to try to help my sister be less traumatized with it. Legitimately lit off a bunch of past experiences in my brain making much more sense in how I was perceived when something unfortunate occurred.
One major difference between my playthough and yours, is that as soon as it becae freeroam, I went straight for the ruins. You've probably learned this by now, if you click on the map quest markers, you turn that quest active.
My seatbelt has been buckled; 'cause I'm here for the whole ride, Dr. Mick!! 🤩😁
Yeeeessss this is what I’ve been waiting for! ❤
Yeah, the Sawtooth is very much the last step of Aloy moving through the zones of proximal development.
Coming back for a third rewatch, have learned a lot :>
Horizon Zero Dawn is one of my favorite games, I'm excited to binge this series of videos lol
awesome..be sure to do the DLC too. and take time off-screen to hunt and upgrade your pouches..it will help so much in the long run. and please do the Side Quests.
I know I am commenting very late to this series but I am loveing this a lot but it's so hard to see him not loot all of his kills or use the skill points he has earned to make Aloy better. I am overjoyed he is doing the side quests as so many folks seem to just blow past them.
3:20:40 YOOOO up to now I didn’t know you could do that!!
OHHHHH i haven't been able to finish god of war coz I've been so buisy but I have to watch this! One of my favourite games!!
Funnily, My current Original Character (OC) Is named Nora. So every time someone said NORA, I can't help but chuckle.
My favourite game I’m almost crying from happiness ❤
Comment. Really excited for this playthrough!
Hello there! I just found this playthrough, and as an adult in his 30s who still has a LOT of parental issues, I am so very happy to learn from you while you play through one of my favorite video games of all time! I have just one comment about what you played through in this installment, and that is when Aloy first finds the Focus, she remarks, "A dead person!" Not a dead 'body,' but a 'person,' as if the notion that being dead doesn't make it any less of a person. Or, depending on your point of view, any less alive. Just an interesting word choice, I think. What would you make of that, as a therapist looking at a young child?
Just noticed the holograms in the beginning were all missing their left shoe for some reason.
holy god yes about the tablets/tech for kids. YOUR job is to be more interesting, and have good boundaries for that stuff- it's not the responsibility of a CHILD to find a way to escape a novelty that even adults struggle to cope without access to. In game of course there's a bit of a different story, phones are much more physical and contained, that interface being just a new feature that's a part of the world would be such a huge leap beyond the stuff we have today. Of course many of the same things are there, but phones don't reach out and tell you what you're looking at, you have to go to the phone not the other way around.
Id love to see you play and analyze The Witcher 3 Dr Mick. That game is a RPG like this one and is choice based. Its was names GOTY if im not mistaken and i hope to see you play this game in the future
I began watching these vids because I love Horizon Zero Dawn so much. And Dr Mick tells viewers he is here to talk about things in the game more than to "just play the game". And its true. So while I love his comments, but after 12 vids (8 here and more on Twitch) I can no longer bear to watch him walking past important things he is missing. So that's on me, and not his fault. He is here for exactly what he says in the intros. So if you want what is on offer, I'd say its excellent, but I can't bear to continue watching. So my comment is not a vote UP or DOWN, but to say listen to Dr Mick's intro.
UA-cam! Discover!
Just finished god of war love watching these series ❤
Aloy is quite possibly one of the worlds smartest people even at 6
I just found this, but seen some LPs of both games. I love how in this game most people are.... Overall decent but flawed. Aloy is a good person who wants to help but her social skills.... Yanno. Erend is a drunk but loyal and a fun guy who knows how to handle people. Silens.... Smart but yeah
I'll like before watching because you asked so politely and also because i normally forget 😅
Thank you!
Okay dude seriously. How do you get your reticle to aim so smoothly?
One of the coolest things is that the Nora have a matriarchal society, So they don't have any prejudices towards women or about gender, but we still see That their society is very prejudiced, for reasons that seem completely unfair to us, It just shows how artificial prejudice really is.
I'm interested if a person can be traumatized retroactively the moment they realize what they have witnessed as a child?
Not done with the video yet but I have to say as we were approaching the bit where Rost has to decide whether to take Aloy's Focus away I was wondering how you'd react to him. It's fun how you geeked out over that moment. :) We