Submitted 2 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2420110/Horizon_Forbidden_West_Complete_Edition/
Releases for €60 in my local currency, so far it seems on a technical level it’s done well enough, FPS seems stable except during cutscenes (oddly enough, a lot report dropping to 30 or lower).
Sadly have not found information yet about FoV or keybindings.
You can change FoV and keybindings. There’s a lot of customization options in general. For example, it’s possible to switch between pickup+animation, pickup and Auto-collect. Lots of graphic customization too. It’s lightyears ahead of the launch of Zero Dawn (which isn’t hard tbf). Still, 60€ for a few years old game is annoying
If you own the first one, just play through it again.
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Is it basically the same thing?
Game play is better, but similar. The improvements make it a fun challenge to take down the monsters piece by piece. I didn’t enjoy the game play of the first nearly as much.
The continuation of the story is good, but not as intriguing as the first. If story in the first was 10/10, this one is 8/10; so still pretty good.
If you enjoyed the first one, this one is definitely worth playing. There will also be a 3rd and having played the 2nd game will be required to understand the story.
Eh. You can ride a lot more machines this time and the biomes are much more diverse. Other than that, it kinda lost its mystique when the plot twist was revealed at the end of the first game, the second game feels like it could (should) have been the final chapter in the first game. Still, graphics and art style are amazing and honestly worth playing just for that alone.
I own the first one and cant really find a drive to play it. IDK the main character just gives me uncanny valley repulsiveness. I made it about 8 hours in.
I played it for like 108 hours and it’s one of my top 5 games of all time. Tomato tomato.
For a game that has been released since February 2022 to only have bullshots on their steam page…
The trailer is all ingame content. The game has been out for a year, it’s not that hard to check. None of it is a bullshot.
The game has been out for more than 2 years, not 1, most of what is in the trailer and screenshots of the steam page is cinematics and bullshots, bullshots are in game images edited to appear better than they are, most of those fit that definition, both by framing and by retouches that are not present in moving gameplay, like lighting fixes, focus, depth of field etc. Im not critizing the game, just stating what is on that steam page, which is pretty sad for a game that has been out for more than 2 years and has pretty good graphics by itself.
Digital Foundry review for those that are interested. They generally give it the thumbs up. Not much in the way of new graphical features over the PS5, but just the higher resolution and DLSS/FSR makes a big difference. I’ve got it waiting on my computer to try out tonight. I loved Zero Dawn, so I’m really excited to finally play this
I haven’t finished on my PS5, and I could essentially buy it twice. But Sony blocks save transfers 🤷♂️
I remember back in the day copying my PS3 save file for fallout 3 and then running it through a hex editor so that I could pick up where I leftoff on PC lol
Did the same for Skyrim. It wasn’t even that time consuming.
Where is the EU when we need them.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
Man reading through comments here… I’m getting real burned out on the constant negativity in the gaming community. It’s always been negative, but ffs we used to have fun too. Now a new game drops, no issues I’ve heard so far and it’s still only negative stuff. Isn’t anyone excited?
lobut@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
On a HZD post, I remember saying years ago I can’t wait because I’d love to play it on keyboard and mouse!
Got downvoted like hell and someone replied, “you can’t play it with a mouse and keyboard”.
I was completely baffled as to what’s going on.
Kinakuta@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah that’s baffling, I thought it was better with KB/M, it’s easier to target the machine’s subsystems with a mouse! Even compared with auto-aim on the gamepad.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
So many gatekeepers. And worse when you’re having fun doing something that they don’t approve of.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 months ago
The excited people are playing the game right now instead of shit posting on Lemmy. :D
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Man I feel the same way, the internet can be so negative sometimes. People just need to relax. I’ve been waiting to play ever since it came out on PS5 and I held out for the PC version. Now it’s finally here and I am super excited for it to be honest. It’s a good port by Nixxes and runs like a dream on my PC. The game looks insanely good too, so it’s a technical marvel in my book.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
See, that’s awesome to hear, and that makes me happy. I personally haven’t played them but my SO is super excited, and I think I’m going to pick it up for them. Thanks for being excited about games!
QubaXR@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Feels to me like some folks just want to give due warning to help others from throwing money away. I don’t think most are being negative for negativity’s sake - but I may just be too optimistic about the state of the discourse.
leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 2 months ago
New games without bugs are always a good thing.
I’m not excited just because my backlog is huge, I maybe play this in about ten years when it has gotten a bit smaller.
That’s the problem, there are too many games and so little time. But I agree, this doesn’t seem to be the next unfinished buginfested piece of shit but actually worth it’s money.
If you would now excuse me, I’ve got to get back to Arx Fatalis. Backlog…