Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon Zero Dawn
I love hiding in grass and putting arrows in the eyes of stalking mechanical horrors.
Anyone else?
I'm not at the terrible, preachy part of the game yet. Just enjoying myself while running around and doing silly quests for generic people I don't care about.
Anyone else?
I'm not at the terrible, preachy part of the game yet. Just enjoying myself while running around and doing silly quests for generic people I don't care about.
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Re: Horizon Zero Dawn
Yeah I've been enjoying Breath of the Wild too, but weird thread title.
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Finished this game recently. So as a redheaded girl, voiced by the same that did Tiny Tina, armed with a fancy spear and a bow, you fight robot dinosaurs and critters.
There's some brobdingnagian bastards in the later parts of the game. Like the Thunderjaw.
The Thunderjaw is the unholy hybrid of a double decker bus and a T-Rex. It's got heavy blasters on it's head, a somewhat potent spread laser, and these disc launchers on the hips that'll create a cloud of little drones that will then crash into the area near you and explode violently. This is on top of it chasing you, biting at you, stomping you, using the tail to bat you across the desert or jungle like a baseball. If you try to hide, it's got a radar system it'll use to ping and find your location. The only good news is they have somewhat fixed zones and won't chase you beyond a certain point. It has weak points, but they're tricky to get to, and it'll feel like you're trying to fire a crowbar through a compound bow.
The first time you fight one it will feel like hell. It's quite a rush.
There's some brobdingnagian bastards in the later parts of the game. Like the Thunderjaw.
The Thunderjaw is the unholy hybrid of a double decker bus and a T-Rex. It's got heavy blasters on it's head, a somewhat potent spread laser, and these disc launchers on the hips that'll create a cloud of little drones that will then crash into the area near you and explode violently. This is on top of it chasing you, biting at you, stomping you, using the tail to bat you across the desert or jungle like a baseball. If you try to hide, it's got a radar system it'll use to ping and find your location. The only good news is they have somewhat fixed zones and won't chase you beyond a certain point. It has weak points, but they're tricky to get to, and it'll feel like you're trying to fire a crowbar through a compound bow.
The first time you fight one it will feel like hell. It's quite a rush.
Re: Horizon Zero Dawn
I am fucking dying to play this game
To the point I am actually considering a PS4
To the point I am actually considering a PS4
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It's very enjoyable.
Though the ropecaster trivializes... almost all robots, provided you have the wire to keep it running. Ropecaster bindings loosen on damage. Sticky bombs do a fuckton of damage, but only after a delay. You can see where this is going.
Anyone know if there's a way to purchase multiples of something from vendors? Having to buy 1 wire at a time via long press isn't great.
Though the ropecaster trivializes... almost all robots, provided you have the wire to keep it running. Ropecaster bindings loosen on damage. Sticky bombs do a fuckton of damage, but only after a delay. You can see where this is going.
Anyone know if there's a way to purchase multiples of something from vendors? Having to buy 1 wire at a time via long press isn't great.
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I've beaten the game about two weeks ago. It's fucking great. PS4 is having a stellar year.
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One of the latest patches changes the behavior to 'hold to keep buying'.
sei wrote:It's very enjoyable.
Though the ropecaster trivializes... almost all robots, provided you have the wire to keep it running. Ropecaster bindings loosen on damage. Sticky bombs do a fuckton of damage, but only after a delay. You can see where this is going.
Anyone know if there's a way to purchase multiples of something from vendors? Having to buy 1 wire at a time via long press isn't great.
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Man I know tutorials are inevitably going to involve some suspension of disbelief but "thanks to the ancient high-tech artifact you have found, you now have the unique ability to look at a thing that is slowly walking in a circle and determine that it is walking in a circle" is something else
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Thad wrote:Man I know tutorials are inevitably going to involve some suspension of disbelief but "thanks to the ancient high-tech artifact you have found, you now have the unique ability to look at a thing that is slowly walking in a circle and determine that it is walking in a circle" is something else
This kinda sets the tone for the whole game, don't it? Like, Aloy's superpower isn't so much that she has super-powerful, technologically augmented observation skills so much as that she has...observation skills. In a world where everybody else is like
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What set the tone for the whole game for me is the guy right outside the village whose story is he was so lazy that he killed a guy.
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I was thinking specifically of the murder investigation where nobody who examined the scene without a sci-fi doohickey was capable of noticing that it was obviously staged and had bloody wheel tracks leading away from it.
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i feel that the geography of this game raises certain questions
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Brentai wrote:What set the tone for the whole game for me is the guy right outside the village whose story is he was so lazy that he killed a guy.
for me it was when they name the main character a misspelling of a real word that no one in the game seems to know
Thad wrote:i feel that the geography of this game raises certain questions
robots did it
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okay so you're gonna have a guy who repeats the same three fucking lines of dialogue over and over again for an entire lengthy fight
and then the same fucking guy, you can visit him in jail, and he has like twenty different lines of completely optional, totally inconsequential dialogue
writers, you're fucking trolling me, right? I'm being trolled right now.
and then the same fucking guy, you can visit him in jail, and he has like twenty different lines of completely optional, totally inconsequential dialogue
writers, you're fucking trolling me, right? I'm being trolled right now.
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Game, if you're going to have checkpoints where I respawn with full health if I die, then just fucking restore me to full health when I get to them.
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Experienced hunter: "Where did the machine go?"
Aloy: "Hold on, I can track it." (scans) "It went this way, through these trees that it knocked over."
Every fucking time.
Aloy: "Hold on, I can track it." (scans) "It went this way, through these trees that it knocked over."
Every fucking time.
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They put Aloy in Genshin Impact, because of a cross-promotion.
A gritty bitch like Aloy rendered as a fluffy, teen, ginger Pocahantas cosplay feels wrong, and her character is sorely out of place among the GI cast.
A gritty bitch like Aloy rendered as a fluffy, teen, ginger Pocahantas cosplay feels wrong, and her character is sorely out of place among the GI cast.
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...so the animals are just straight-up unfinished, right? Like, there was going to be a variety of them, and they were going to be distributed in geographically-appropriate locations, but they didn't quite finish so there are just, like, eight kinds, and six of them appear everywhere and the other two are only found in completely inappropriate environments? "Where do geese? On a plateau in the middle of the desert I guess?"
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god damn it sei you found another one for your av
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Maximillian wrote:There's some brobdingnagian bastards in the later parts of the game. Like the Thunderjaw.
The Thunderjaw is the unholy hybrid of a double decker bus and a T-Rex. It's got heavy blasters on it's head, a somewhat potent spread laser, and these disc launchers on the hips that'll create a cloud of little drones that will then crash into the area near you and explode violently. This is on top of it chasing you, biting at you, stomping you, using the tail to bat you across the desert or jungle like a baseball. If you try to hide, it's got a radar system it'll use to ping and find your location. The only good news is they have somewhat fixed zones and won't chase you beyond a certain point. It has weak points, but they're tricky to get to, and it'll feel like you're trying to fire a crowbar through a compound bow.
The first time you fight one it will feel like hell. It's quite a rush.
My favorite thing about Thunderjaws is that every fight is different. I've set tripwires and lured them in circles around spires, found a vantage point where they can't hit me but I can very slowly whittle them down with arrows, covered them with sticky bombs and run away. By the time you encounter one in the Frozen Wilds, you're an unstoppable killing machine and can just take it head-fucking-on.
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