AusGamers recently went hands-on with Horizon Zero Dawn out at Guerrilla Games in Amsterdam and writes:
"But to put a point on what I took away from my time with the game, and developers, is this is less The Witcher-esque, and far more Far Cry in its delivery. We were served with the usual company lines relating to ‘nothing influenced us, but ourselves’, however, it’s abundant early on that this is a heavy action-adventure game with some RPG rules set in an open-world whose dynamic, emergent play is driven by player curiosity, rather than any series of sneaky design systems set to make you think you’ve stumbled upon something unique and new to you.
Please don’t take that last statement as detriment though. Horizon Zero Dawn has a number of design heroes that stem from a core principle built around world-building and player-engagement. For one, combat is probably as on par as the robot ecology as anything else in the game, in its key deliveries. While I mentioned The Witcher earlier, its combat actually really has nothing on this. Horizon Zero Dawn is a John Woo action movie come to life in a world we don’t wholly understand, but it works. Similarly to Far Cry, you can fill out an ability tree with varying levels of stylish attacks designed to ignite the player senses and help sell this over-the-top world. Oh, and what a world, I might add."
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Sony is hosting its press conference at the start of CES 2025 in Las Vegas. As usual, PlayStation took the spotlight during the presentation, but not in the way you'd expect.
I was about to say, they can just copy Starship Troopers homework and change it up a bit so the teacher won't notice.
Yet let's ignore Ghost of Yotei, Intergalactic, wolverine and Santa Monica's New IP.
Yep all TV shows and remasters alright.....
Ghost of Yotei looks like a ps 4 pro game at best, intergalactic only showed 4 seconds of in game footage, despite being in development for more than 4 years, wolverine might be good, Santa Monica's New IP was just for you to fill space and cover for sonys lack of 1st party games.
Remasters aren't games?
Didn't realize the same folks making games are also making films and shows (which Sony actually has been making before games, but ok).
Silly comment aside , Ghost of Tsushima as an anime sounds grand. Don't care too much about Horizon or Helldivers media, but it sounds cool to get more Jin.
You do realize Sony has a completely separate movies and tv series division right? They are simply catching on and actually taking advantage of their popular gaming ips
Naaaaa, you are supposed to pretend they don't have a completely separate movie/TV division
@Here uh huh Right watch Ghost Of Yotei get the highest score on meta this year. ND doesn't miss so I expect Intergalactic to be a damn near Master piece, insomniac making Wolverine so you know they'll knock it out of the park. Santa Monica will probably announce their new IP this year and it'll be epic. It's about track record and all these studios have great track records. You wanna argue facts go ahead I'll win.
out of all the titles they could have chosen, those 3 could actually make decent movies.
They’ve tried a Horizon series and it fell apart, what makes them think a film is going to work with a shorter run time.
I was hoping the GoT series would focus on Jinn after the main game.
Im not sure about the show or why it allegedly fell apart, but the story in Horizon is pretty cool. I can see people enjoying it.
they probably recorded some footage for it and now want to make a quick buck out of the remnants. You know what they say: fail once, rip your audience off.
As PlayStation celebrates its 30th anniversary, let's explore the best PlayStation games Sony has to offer.
There's too many games to choose from
No Metal geat solid 1,2,3,4?
No Resident evil?
No Silent hill?
No Midnight club 3?
No NfS Underground 2?
No Final Fantasy?
No Burnout 3?
No Dragon quest 8?
No Days gone?
No Ace combat?
No Tekken/Soul calibur?......
just from the top of my head
PS1 era was full of great RPGs, PS2 was racing generation i would pick top 200 and even that would be just a fraction.
30 is way too low over the entire history of Playstation, I just wouldn't be able to narrow it down that much, I would pick 100 at least.
Yeah...really odd list. I get that it is personal preference and I love most of the games listed, but my list would definitely be different. I agree though, it would be incredibly difficult to come up with just 30.
I only picked first-party titles. Otherwise, I agree!
EDIT: Except for Days Gone, I don't get the love for it but you do you!
I have been keeping my eyes on this game since E3 2015 announced and I'm glad this game got a lot of positive feedback. Here the thing, I'm glad GG making something new. You people call me a troll or whatever, but I want 343 to step out the gate and make something news. Making New IP is risky move even if you failed or success, but you gotta keep trying to improve.
Shadow of Mordor was also labeled as assassin creed and Batman Arkham esque game but that didn't stop it from becoming a surprise hit.
I can see the same thing with horizon. It might be the next big thing.
Oh, so this is the reason that people are saying that Zero Dawn is like an Ubisoft game on this site. I was wondering where it was coming from.
Far Cryesque is fine. So long as its not like ass creed thank god. Didn't like the witcher tbh.