Elog
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Has not been sent to reviewers yet according to several insiders.
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Horizon Forbidden West Review Embargo Details
- Thread starter Zombie9ers
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It's not in the hands of reviewers otherwise we would already know on Twitter.
GymWolf
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We are not buddies anymore, talk to my lawyer for the details.
GymWolf
Member
Did ubisoft finally made a movie about rabbids?!91
GymWolf
Member
You forgot dinobots dude, at least a 97 or we are gonna riot.
The artful mincer
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Do we have any confirmation that code's got sent out?
The artful mincer
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Nah not worth mentioning game's with dinobots are about as common as Pie's in Aloy's Fridge
Balducci30
Member
Just watched the new trailer - this game is going to be better than people are expecting I’m thinking. Like uncharted 1 to 2 levels
WildBoy
Member
Nah 95
MadPanda
Banned
little complaints and nitpicks like bland story, ubisoft style world and quests and forgettable side characters? if that's little complaints then I don't know what's big to you.
Anyway I predict 85-89 score. Judging by the first game it's going to be a very fun game I'll enjoy playing but won't care about its story, characters or quests and it will be a visual spectacle.
YoungEmperor96
Neo Member
If you play Fromsoft games, you will understand why their games are so hyped. Horizon 2 is definitely better than Elden ring in terms of graphics, dialogue and animation, but Fromsoft's games are always top notch in terms of levels and world design, explore, combat variety, enemies variety and bosses design.
Another thing is quite subjective, Elden ring's visuals are not as beautiful as Horizon's but I always have feeling it 'more interesting'. Horizon's graphics I think are very beautiful but it is too similar to real life. There is something very strange about Elden's scenery, like this
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Balducci30
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I thought the first actually had one of the better stories in videogames.
Luipadre
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skit_data
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Do we know this for a fact? Now that you mention it I haven’t seen any ”OMG I’m Playing Elden Ring!!!”-posts on twitter…
If you play Fromsoft games, you will understand why their games are so hyped. Horizon 2 is definitely better than Elden ring in terms of graphics, dialogue and animation, but Fromsoft's games are always top notch in terms of levels and world design, explore, combat variety, enemies variety and bosses design.
Another thing is quite subjective, Elden ring's visuals are not as beautiful as Horizon's but I always have feeling it 'more interesting'. Horizon's graphics I think are very beautiful but it is too similar to real life. There is something very strange about Elden's scenery, like this
Fortunately, deciding which one to play first is the only tough decision to make.
Luipadre
Member
Someone said on the other forum. ED review copies are not out yet. Game is 3 weeks away still
BotW has that plus even worse issues and it still managed to get 95+ scores, so I don't see why 90-92 should be unrealistic.
Agent Ironside
Member
Meh.. first one was a jankfest, stealth mechanics were contradictory at best, didn't really care about the story content, this will be an overhyped 9+ more than likely.
GymWolf
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World building\lore in horizon is gigantic and top notch tho, you don't even have to believe meIf you play Fromsoft games, you will understand why their games are so hyped. Horizon 2 is definitely better than Elden ring in terms of graphics, dialogue and animation, but Fromsoft's games are always top notch in terms of levels and world design, explore, combat variety, enemies variety and bosses design.
Another thing is quite subjective, Elden ring's visuals are not as beautiful as Horizon's but I always have feeling it 'more interesting'. Horizon's graphics I think are very beautiful but it is too similar to real life. There is something very strange about Elden's scenery, like this
And yeah, if from software are king in enemy\boss design, horizon and his dinobots are not that far in the list of games with great enemies\bosses.
And combat in the first horizon was pretty varied between ranged, traps and a shitty melee system, if they improved in the sequel (and we already saw improvements in the melee, new weapons and 6 skills trees to specialize in stuff like traps or dinobot hacking) the combat is gonna have more variety than most open world games (except maybe ER)
Nothing to argue about the rest, i already bought ER months ago because i love from games, Horizon and ER are wildly different games that only share third person camera and being open world, they are not in direct competition.
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mejin
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ChiefDada
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Nah, this is HFW for sure. NX Gamer and John from DF have been singing praises about Guerilla Games tech acumen today as it relates to prior projects. There's probably some crazy visual tech going on in HFW that has them excited.
I don't know about that but it will do very well. As much as I truly love TLOU2 I think this will be less divisive and more of a crowd pleaser.
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
TLOU was huge. Horizon isnt as big. IIRC, it sold 10 million whereas TLOU sold 20 million.
It should easily sell 4 million in the first month though.
GOW Ragnorak should beat TLOU2's 4 million in 3 days record.
The artful mincer
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Not sure about that. I think it can likely beat ghost or maybe God of wars opening 3 days.
It's difficult because it's got smaller a userbase but then ps5 owners are likely starved for content so who knows
ResetEraVetVIP
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Lmao
Guilty_AI
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ChiefDada
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A Chinese review has been posted early. Link below. There are obviously MAJOR GAMEPLAY SPOILERS (nothing story wise) with new screenshots here so PLEASE DO NOT CLICK IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS.
If what this reviewer is saying is true, then HFW will score nothing less than 92 on Metacritic and is easily in pole position for GOTY. Holy crap none of us are ready.
If what this reviewer is saying is true, then HFW will score nothing less than 92 on Metacritic and is easily in pole position for GOTY. Holy crap none of us are ready.
Ferdimage
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Slocap deserves some praises though, fun gameplay and art style.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Any spoiler free summary? Is flying in?
iHaunter
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I liked the story of the first one, everything else is just preference.
DonJorginho
Banned
you can fly sunwings yes
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
lol this is so idiotic. Why keep this a secret until then only to have reviewers spoil it.
Why is this even a spoiler. It’s a gameplay mechanic. I’m so fucking out of touch with the current marketing landscape. None of this makes any sense whatsoever. I feel like a boomer.
G-Bus
Banned
Well fuck.
ChiefDada
Gold Member
I personally don't feel spoiled, but I can totally see why many people would want it to be kept a secret. It's likely a very epic moment in the game.
Kaiserstark
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Maxwell Jacob Friedman
leads to fear. Fear leads to xbox.
Maybe they didnt even want the reviewer to talk about it and they went our out of their way to do it anyways. Even Naughty Dog for TLOUS P2 reviews has specifics for their reviews of what they didnt want talked about.
Have a feeling GG wanted gamers to not find out about what was posted and instead have it be natural in the game and an epic moment of "oh my god yes"
Sosokrates
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Is there a mirror? Its been deleted.
Yoboman
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They probably saw how successful it was keeping surprises for the players was for GOW and kept with that
I much prefer this low spoilers approach, why would you not want to experience it yourself
Sosokrates
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I will be surprised if they fix having to many simple and repeitive missions in zero dawn. But I hope they do.
Moses85
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Thirty7ven
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CamHostage
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Yes, certain systems sometimes get intentionally secreted before launch for a reason, although usually those reasons are story or endgame/late-game surprise protection, that there's value for the players in suddenly discovering a brand new thing is possible or a game-changing system just threw your whole play out the window... this thing we're talking about has been question #1 for many Horizon players, and has been guessed at if not assumed to be in there from bits of every trailer shown of H:FW. The first response was already, "lol", because of course...
...That said, I still get why they'd maybe not promote it? (Although I still have a feeling that some launch trailer will hit and the very last shot is maybe this thing actually being in the game...?) I don't personally think it'll be a massive surprise to the players if/when it happens or that it'll transform the game, but having this mechanic puts ideas in people's heads that are really hard to fulfil. Will there be a whole combat system built around this mechanic? Will this be available in all areas of the game and change traversal? Will this now become the way I want to play this game instead of all the stuff you've sold me on for 2 years? People became obsessed with this type of thing in the GTAs, for instance, and in that case, they were able to just quickly show off in VC among a ton of other additions, and that worked out; they have still never really never needed to expand it much more SA or 4/5, it's just one more thing you can do. And Horizon is a game where it could be imagined as a huge deal to have in, whereas in reality it'd probably only have reasonable limitations and only so many places of uses and just not be a big part of the design because the game really wants you running about smashing robodinos and sneaking up on tribesmen and just generally playing the game as we know it to be so far. So maybe there's a big moment, or maybe it's just a thing you can do (or maybe it's not even in... I'm trying to stay unspoiled, although I could guess pretty surely at this point,) but they've teased enough that maybe it's in there, and it wouldn't be tragic if it wasn't so probably it isn't the one thing holding back too many people from actually getting the game, and we'll see when we see.
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jonnyp
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Trollocaine is a hell of a drug, son!
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