Its sad cause as a Horizon game wtf is this, but if it was its own IP it actually looks like it would be okay. I’m tired of the grafting for the IP recognition.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Horizon with co-op would be excellent. As a mode inside ordinary Horizon. No one asked for whatever this is.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 day ago
My partner and I love the Horizon games and I got the big special statue edition of Forbidden West. I think the game looks pretty neat, and very happy to hear they are dropping live service.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I just wish it wasn’t Horizon. Art style looks cool, gameplay could be fun, but I think it is so tonally dissonant from the other games in the series to the extent I no longer feel as invested in the setting.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It looks like a shitty AI generated mobile game. Whose great idea was “ let’s replace the almost photorealistic graphics with fucking uncanny valley AI cartoons”
Probably the same person that thought “let’s make a live service game!”
audaxdreik@pawb.social 19 hours ago
The funny thing is that chasing photorealism is expensive and difficult and not always the right solution. A lot of time stylized, cartoony graphics can be a better option, and I’m even willing to buy that it could’ve worked here, too.
But they went with this bland, generic, flavorless toon style. This is “marketable” but clearly lacks any distinct artistic vision that could set it apart from any of the other shovelware slop these days.
I set up a library of dozens of my favorite PSP games in Emulation Station and just scrolling through them you can see how they have all wildly distinct styles but still form this kind of coherent vision of what Sony was like back in the late 00’s, early 10’s. I miss that …
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yea that’s kinda my point, this uncanny valley mobile app AI generated“style” is fucking atrocious. And it doesn’t fit the Horizon Universe - it’s a shitty cash grab
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some execs are still clutching onto Fortnite aspirations.
uninvitedguest@piefed.ca 14 hours ago
Your use of uncanny valley is at odds with what I understand the term to mean. I understand the uncanny valley effect to take hold on the approach toward realism - where as this is a stylized move away from realism.