Horizon

>>383673373
Her Focus has a vibrate function.

One of the reasons I disliked this game was Aloy was apparently an outcast who only ever talked to rust, but she could read conversations really well, was fast to come up with solutions, and was super koy.
She was literally too good at conversation for me to believe she was some outcast who nobody ever talked to.

>>383674141
Only the tribe shunned her, she talked to other outcasts but most of them probably died while she was growing up.

>>383674281
I thought it was against tribal law for outcasts to talk to each other, that's why that one mountain hermit lady refused to talk to her, and instead talked to the "all mother" instead.

>>383673373
It's rare that I actually have disdain for a character's name.

>>383673373
Generic garbage game, ugly mc.

>>383673373
She looks like she has downs

>>383673373
She looks like my sister, so I can't taker her seriously or sensually.

>>383673373
I dont think I would want to romance with a male NPC while being forced to play as a girl. I'd much prefer if male characters just objectified her more and she flirted back sometimes instead of straight up rejecting everyone. No actual romance though.

Maybe she's really good at everything because she was genetically modified or something; she is a clone, but the identiscan thing always says "99.7% match" instead of 100% match so possibly she was enhanced a little by the AI that made her. I really doubt the lady she was cloned from was some amazing fighter / climber / acrobat

>>383674480
Post sister

At first I didn't like her, but she grows on you the more you play. Her nappy hair is shit though. It makes her look like 3D-Tintin from the front. Gotta wear the exposed-belly fire armor with a headpiece to make her actually look hot.
But yeah she's definitely a Mary Sue

>>383673373
shitposting aside, how is this game?
what are the good and bad parts?

>>383675492
Bad part is the first 30mins-1hour

>>383674480

Now you know how woman feel about gingers.

>>383675492
If you like open world ubisoft games you'll love it.
If you hate them you'll probably dislike the game.
It has really nice enemy design though.

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I actually just picked this up after having little to no interest, but it was 30 bucks and I decided why the fuck not. I'm actually having a lot of fun playing the game, I don't like any of the characters and could honestly at this point care less about the story, but I like the mechanics and the combat. I'm playing on Very Hard or whatever it was called Ultra maybe? It can be downright cruel at times, but I like having to use all the tools at my disposal. I also am always a sucker for any game that allows me to break parts of enemies.

>>383673373
give her custom hairstyle options and she'd be x20 better

>>383674690
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchimerism

>>383673373
What genre is this game?

Open-world isn't a primary genre, it's a design approach that can be applied to any genre (FPS, driving, stealth).

>>383674480
> he doesn't fantasize about his sister
What a gay

>>383675839
3rd person action adventure with RPG elements

>>383675839
Action-Adventure

>>383673373
Mary Sue
There's your answer.

>>383675991
What role-playing elements does it feature?

>>383675492
It's good. It's not much of an RPG because you don't make hardly any decisions, but that's okay. Just call it an ARPG. It's like Witcher 3 meets Far Cry 3 meets Lost Planet.
The robot dino combat is awesome. The big ones are like roaming boss fights. Music isnt much, but the main quest story gets surprisingly good and I enjoyed watching the cutscenes for it.

It is cringey-feminist at times though, kinda like Wonder Woman was if you saw that. Most men in the game are incompetent morons if they arent villains.

The graphics are phenomenal. Fighting is much better and more immersive if you turn off most of your HUD, including enemy awareness indicators and enemy life bars.

>>383673373
worst looking female character since the last game with a female lead
manface
shit console
shit game

>>383674141
It's almost like Aloy is a terrible fucking Mary Sue.

>>383676182
Wonder Woman wasn't cringey feminist at all though.

>>383676230
>shit console
How is the PS4 shit when it clearly represents the mainstream/average/mediocre bar for this generation. The mainstream is the average by definition, a solid 5/10. It only appears to be the absolute bottom to those who are themselves at the absolute bottom of society, kek.

And if the PS4 is a shit console, then what does that make the underpowered Switch or the gimped-PC XBOX ONE?

>>383676292
Well I guess you wont think HZD is either, then.

>>383676135
Experience points
Skill upgrades
Weapon and armor mods

>>383676135
You role play as someone who shoots robot dinosaurs with a bow

>>383676513
What do any of those have to do with role-playing? Those elements come from wargaming.

>>383673373
>romance options
No you fucking faggot. The best part of this game is that they didn't shove in romance options. Not every person is motivated with needing to find a relationship like you are. I get it, YOU'VE never been laid so you want to play out that fantasy in your games, but Aloy is literally trying to save the fucking human race right now, so getting some deep dick probably isn't on the menu right now.

>>383676612
If that's the definition of RPG then practically every videogame is one.

>>383676637
Wargames have level ups?

>>383673373
There are many implied male attractions for her.

>>383676461
Wew that was some argument there.

She actually wants Erend's dick after you captured Dervahl.

>>383677123
No she doesn't.

>>383673373
>So what's the /v/erdict on Aloy?
Ugly and irritating, she never shuts the fuck up and doesn't have a real personality.

>>383673373
>What exactly are you talking about?
I want to go balls deep in your sweaty virgin cavegirl pussy while yanking back on your nappy ginger hair and calling you a dirty savage outcast

>>383673373
The real mistery is how anyone would even want to fuck Aloy to begin with

>>383676768
You said EXP but yes.
http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Battle_Mechanics#Tank_Experience_and_Credits

Statistics/strategy have nothing to do with role-playing, early RPGs only used them for things like battle-systems since they lacked the resources to properly simulate them. They have nothing to do with good role-playing today.

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>>383676701
pretty sure theyll just make her lebsian like all libtards aka marxists end up doing

theyll make her lesbian in dlc or sequel, post success, because libtards would never dare be contrarian pre-success, or else they might have to succeed based off their merits alone

>>383677291
I want to fuck her because she is a qt.
Mistery solved

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>>383673373
Good buttfucking Lord that fucking face. Jesus H Christ on a stick westacucks.

Get your shit together. Stop getting bullied by mentally ill hambeasts.

>>383677313
you're an idiot
its rpg because youre playing the role of a character, with a narrative

you sound like a fucking redditor playing word politics trying to dictate that racism is impossible if youre black,

its a fucking RPG. it has all the trappings of an open world rpg

>>383677386
>a young girl kissing another young girl makes her a lesbian

That's average experimentation. Ellie is too young to know her sexuality. But sure, anything that doesn't fit heteronormative in your book is homosexual, got it.

>>383673373
Damn she's ugly.

>>383677963
>lesbian kissing scenes
>its just experimental!
>totally normal!
>our gay propaganda is totally normalized you see! its totally just experimentation!
im sure youre some fat ugly hambeast whore from neogaf who sits and makes her tinder profile pan sexual while chugging chad cock every other day

>>383678012
That's why they released a makeup patch, she looks much better with it.

>>383677785
>its rpg because youre playing the role of a character, with a narrative

Wow, you really earned that (you)

>>383678068
>woman
>on 4chan
Jesus you're fucking retarded. I should have known from your previous post.
If you ever picked up a book on developmental psych and read about sexuality, you would see that experimentation is completely natural. I doubt you have ever read anything other than the back of your tendies box though, you fucking mongoloid.

>>383673373
She doesn't want to be with anyone you meet in the game because she still misses Rost. She shagged him every night from age 13 to his death / after the prologue

>>383673373

She's pratically an enfant terrible.
Just like Sylens

>>383673373
The characters are by a country mile the weakest part of this game. (Maybe the side quests as well)

The central mystery/story of the game kept me going but there are no good characters.

That said Aloy gets excessive hate from autists for some reason, misplaced anti-SJW hate. Shes no worse than most protags.

>>383676637
Rpgcodex pls
Pls

>>383673373
Man I just started playing this game and I'm so mad, I've been reading her name as the same pronunciation as Alloy because I figured it was a pun. Heard Rost shout Ayloy and it ruined my game.

Really though what's ruining the game for me is the absolutely awful voice acting and animation. I will say the gameplay is pretty solid so far, though I'm not a fan of the Witcher senses for following tracks. The animation and voice work is really shoddy though, on all characters not just Aylmao

>>383674141
>>383676235
The thing that bothered/disappointed me the most was how at the beginning Aloy is acting all holier than thou and shit, and Rost takes her aside in what seems to be a pivotal heartwarming moment and tells her that the proving goes both ways -- she'll be accepted but she also has to accept the Nora as her people, tolerate them and protect them. I kept expecting there to be this character arc where she acts all smug throughout the game, only to finally have it blow up in her face at the worst possible moment, then she learns her lesson, grows up, etc. Instead it just goes ALOY YOU'RE THE BESTEST MOST SPECIALLEST SNOWFLAKE THAT EVER EXISTED AND EVERYTHING YOU DO IS BEAUTIFUL GURL AND YOU'RE LITERALLY INCAPABLE OF MAKING ANY KIND OF MISTAKES OR POSSESSING ANY FLAWS

>>383678468
>Witcher senses for following tracks

You'll be more disappointed when you realise literally every side quest is just following tracks. They do it so many times that it starts to seem like a practice joke.

Only explanation I can think of is that devs were under time constraints and thought interesting side quests were less necessary than some other features.

>>383678642
Shit I hadn't realized that until you said it, thanks anon

>>383673373
I want to breed Aloy and make ugly kids

>>383673373
is there any equipment that cover her face?

>>383678874
Unironically, yes.

Can someone help me out little, I just bought every shadow version of weapons, but at the moment I don't have any purple mods for them. What mods for what weapons should I be putting to make most out of them?

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>>383677963
>young people kissing
>they just don't know any better!

>>>/pol/

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I found the game fun__ but it has little replay value. Once I completed all sidequests which was pretty straightforward I finished the MQ and put the game back in my library.
It's also kind of weird since it's supposed to be a post apoc game of some sort but there is no such thing as resource scarcity because you always find fucktons of resources so you never have to be worried about running out of shit.
Might buy the DLC as well depending on the price and duration.

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>>383678468
>>383678642

Well HZD feel similar to Witcher because the same people worked on it. Geralt's VA is even on the game.

http://www.gamesradar.com/ex-bethesda-and-cd-projekt-red-developers-helped-build-horizons-open-world/

Also they are first ones to play the game early because they were play testing it

>>383673373
very unattractive

Shovel faced and manly looking.

Seems like they intentionally made her ugly.

>>383673373
Jesus fucking Christ why is her hair so ugly what the fuck were they thinking holy shit
That's my view on the matter.

>>383673373
I love the game and had a great time playing it, but Aloy is one of the biggest Mary Sues I've seen in a long time.

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>>383673373
>design nice-looking female mc
>maker ugly in the actual game
it's shit

>>383681002
make her*

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all the people who were left on earth are genetic waste and the attractives (at least their genes) got shipped off into space by another company

>>383680930
she can't be a mary sue on the sole basis that she is the most repugnant female protagonist of any videogame

>>383680930
No, she's a perfect, nuanced, realistic female protagonist. More games should have them. Thankfully, Sony is leading the way with another exclusive being released this year with more nuanced female protagonists, this time of diverse backgrounds, with Uncharted Lost Legacy.

>>383676701
All women are motivated by cock. There should have been a nice black man to impregnate her.

She would be much hotter if she was blond.

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Post yfw you're not the sister of Anthony Burch

>>383676423
It is cool to hate on the PS4 I guess and Breath of the Wild Hunt, the so innovative Zelda game where Legendary weapons break from laying in the sun f or 3 seconds is the best shit ever.

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>>383681392

What is really impressive is the amazing post-launch communication and support by Guerrilla Games. They respond directly to questions via reddit or twitter, they keep pumping out patches to fix QoL stuff that people suggest, with the NG+ and Ultra Hard difficulty given for free last week. I finished the game in the week it was released, but if I even try a NG+ it'll be like a whole new game.

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>Horizon thread alive for hours /v/
>Meanwhile
>ctrl+f on Zelda: 0 results
>ctrl+f on BOTW: 0 results
>ctrl+f on Breath: 0 results

>>383675492
>good
Monster hunter inspired combat mechanics. Weak points, weakness and buildup to elemental states (stun/knock down/fire/armor debuff), destroy limbs to get loot or change attack patterns, monster loot tables, you craft all your consumables from monster loot, and a pretty good narrative
>bad
Battles are quick, can overstock resources with very little grinding, economy is kind of broken, besides having a limited loadout and damage reduction there isn't really any customization, little side content, a few of the towns only involve a single side quest, there's nothing to do if you get there early, can't interact with irrelevant npcs

Even if you try to make it last long, there just isn't a reason to keep playing after you beat the story. Combat and narrative was good, just wish there was more to do and think about. Game would've been a 10/10 with custom protagonist, random encounters, more side content, more boss variants, armor customization, stat sheets, and more grinding, everything they didn't borrow from monster hunter

>>383681969
I have a PS4 but not a Switch.

I'd still rather have BotW than HZD if I could. Both have really faggy aesthetics and stories but BotW seems to offer more refinement on the open-world concept.

>>383680930

She was a savior figure but she hated her tribe to the end

That's not what a Sue sue does anon

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>>383682962
>>good
>>Monster hunter inspired combat mechanics

>>383683073
>more refinement on the open-world concept.

Explain please
You don't own a switch and are talking out your ass, If by refinement you mean feels empty then sure botw takes the cake

>>383683110
But does she pass the Mary Sue test?
http://www.springhole.net/writing/marysue.htm

>>383683227
Found the dorksouls fanbitch

Why the fuck did they make her so ugly? I mean, how hard would it have been to model an attractive face like wtf were they thinking?

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>>383683615
>not thinking this is cute
Here in the Netherlands Aloy is considered a 10/10 QT3.14

>>383683394
'Souls has almost as shitty combat as MH but at least has a higher skill-ceiling or depth.

None of these adventure-focused, item-gathering simulators feature a good standard of combat, they only need the combat to be of an acceptable/mediocre standard. The combat is only there to give the average player the sense of interactivity and progression during their grind. It's like you've never played any of the action-focused games they take their combat from, where those games live and die, are judged, on the basis of their combat alone (practically).

>>383683952
maybe if they bothered to actually model her face

>>383684574
They looks strikingly similar, what have you been smoking?

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>>383673373

>>383673373
She looks so ugly.

>about 50% of replies say 'shes ugly' and nothing else

Who gives a fuck

>>383687962
About 50% of the people who replied?

>>383681969
Thats because zelda is in /vg/ or /aco/
While there was no horizon thread for one month. This one just stopped a 1-2 montg hiatus period.

>>383688324
Spastics, then.

something something clone of a super genius something genius powers

or something it was all pretty boring and tedious and I didn't really pay attention

>>383673373
I think Aloy is

C U T E
U
T
E

>>383675762
Yea I think she would look hot with 2 braids one on each side.

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>>383681392

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>>383673373
Grew up her entire life, training day and night to win The Proving so she could find out why she was made an outcast, and why Rost wasn't allowed to mention her parents.

Her only goal in life was to be the fastest/strongest.

>>383673373
not anymore, in the new update she get makeup, now she is a whore.

>>383673373
ENCHANTMENTS?

>>383687962

Maybe they shouldn't have made her so ugly?

>>383692971
Yet she's a fucking twig

Why cant I have some stronk unga bunga women in my video games

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>>383673373
>So what's the /v/erdict on Aloy?

Ugly as shit like the rest characters.

INTENTIONALLY butchered and was made ugly.

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The game is also generic Far Cry clone with dull story and nowhere near as good as The Witcher 3.

>>383673598
Criminally underrated and fpbp

>>383675685
game devs still don't get how bows works

>>383686176
Maybe if you're fucking blind, Aloy is so ugly Sony had to put a makeup patch to make her presentable

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>>383683312
>And for those who wonder about it - I use the gender-neutral terms "xe," "xir", and "xirself" because A: it's shorter than typing out "he/she" etc. all the time, and B: there are plenty of characters, particularly within the SF supergenre, who are neither male or female, and C: "They" often results in weird grammatical snaggles that make it sound like one is talking about a collective.

You mean people unironically do this shit?

>>383684097
>unironically using the term "skill-ceiling" when talking about a single player game

>>383679326
I use three freeze mods on my elemental slingshot because hitting enemies who're frozen does massive damage, and three damage mods on my blast sling to do that damage. Also three tear mods on my sharpshooter bow to rip off particular weak points (with tearblast arrows). Basically just focus on one aspect of the weapon and try to minmax it

>>383683952
so your women are shit

>>383680563
That's fucking horrible. Why did I have fun with Witcher 3's side quests, then?

I think she is cute. Maybe her eyes are a little too close together and her hair is too high, but that's all. I only got the game like a week ago though and they apparently added a makeup patch right before I started playing

>>383673373
>So what's the /v/erdict on Aloy

she ugly

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>>383678468
>absolutely awful voice acting
THIS. Why do nearly all the nogs and NPCs in this game have preppy hipster white voices? Why was this rough-looking Nora Barbarian that cuts machines daily and probably chews on their insides sound like some faggot who would get a manicure? It blows me back everytime and ruin immersion.

>>383695715
Because you're biased and an idiot.

>>383695026
Ok, thanks for the tip. I have played like 20 hours, still on my way to that sun city and up to this point I havent used any otger weapons than the starting bow and that one weapon that shoots wiretraps. Just met my first thunderjaw and those big birds and they raped me pretty bad so I tought that maybe now is the time to up my arsenal. I start to hunt those mods now.

>>383673373

I'll autism for a bit.

>So what's the /v/erdict on Aloy?

/v/ hated her before the game was out and that hasn't changed.

>Why is she so good at everything? She's 19, right?

Because she grew up isolated from everyone, was trained by one of the best hunters in the tribe and had nothing to do but hunt, climb and run errands for Rost, Karst and the crazy lady on the hill.

>So why does she seem to have no interest in getting laid?

Western developers are afraid of feminine women, so they make them androgynous and asexual so there won't be repercussions. Her original design was quite cute.

>>383693437

There are a bunch of giga nigga women in this game.

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>>383681969
Well unlike Zero Dark Deep Horizon, people are still playing Breath of the Wild.

Bear cavalierly faget.

>>383697701
botw was already proved a huge blunder with minimal sales

>>383697775
Still more sales than horizon, despite the Wii U+switch player base being like 1/4 the size of the Ps4's

>>383697775
>Implying your definition of success matters.
It still cost less to make than Zero Dark Deep Hozion. So by your defination. Dark Horizon is a massive flop.

Nice job.

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>>383675685
>that drawback

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So, I'm finally at Meridian, and I'm fucking bored. If there was ever an example of a "empty" open world, this would be it. I love everything about the game, especially the graphics, but fucking Christ there is nothing to fucking do while walking to point A to B except look at the gorgeous eye-candy environment. Why are the side-quests so spread out abd that you almost never met them on the road? Why are they all bunched up here in Meridian? Why doesn't the ""dangerous"" bandits ever venture out from their hide-outs, either? Having them attack camps of people or try to rob you on the road would have been atleast something.

Also, why do all the quests act like Aloy is some god-tier tracker? There was a side-mission here where some thieve stole a sword from a rich man and no one knew where he went, yet there was a fucking BLOOD-trail right next to the people who gave me the mission. Seriously, no one could have looked at that shit? There's another main quest where you find a supposed battlefield but figure out that the people there were killed somewhere else, and see yet again, a goddamn huge bloodtrail with cart marks right next to the scene. C'mon