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Horizon: Zero Dawn Trailer (Guerrilla, post-apocalyptic pre-historic adventure)
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DrROBschiz
Member
This was my personap game of the show so far. Just fantastic
wild wild rice
Member
I totally agree, but think the issue is that certain games tend to take themselves very seriously and put the emphasis on the story telling without putting much creativity into the gameplay (the having fun), and it only makes sense to compare them to other story telling mediums where gaming of course falls incredibly short in comparison.
Unaha-Closp
Member
well shit I am in - not a fan of shooters so Killzone although good looking were never my thing but this looks awesome. Can't wait to see more.
amstradcpc
Member
Mine too (along with Uncharted 4 that we already knew). The combination of the engine, atmosphere, detail and story makes it "integral", it has bits of everything so far.
Dommel
Member
I didn't get that either, if they're hunted for tech what's up with the cave man like outfits and way of living?
Snkfanatic
Banned
Really loved this trailer. Can't wait to see more. The robot designs were pretty amazing
KoruptData
Member
Also, my Game of the Show. Do we know who was doing the voice? I thought it might be Ashley Johnson?
amstradcpc
Member
Yes. First gameplay, after story. Today thanks to technology progress the story boosts the game a lot from an entertainment point of view, but we mustn´t get mad about it because the problem is nowadays some journalists and gamers think they have to compare games with Orson Welles films.
DEAR GORILLA GAMES, if you guys are reading, please please please let us climb the dinos. I was waiting the entire fight for the Dragon's Dogma moment and it never came.
It was still absolutely mindblowing, my game of E3 BY A MILE, but please let us climb those things.
And put Senator Armstrong as a boss.
Ok maybe not the last one.
It was still absolutely mindblowing, my game of E3 BY A MILE, but please let us climb those things.
And put Senator Armstrong as a boss.
Ok maybe not the last one.
Veritigo_X
Member
Best game shown at E3. FFVII and Last Guardian got me hyped up but I'm looking forward to this the most. The fact that they've hired ex-devs from CDPR makes me even more excited. The world and robo-dinos have an amazing look to them too.
TheCarrotKiller
Banned
Do we know yet why the game has the 'Zero Dawn' subtitle?
It reminds me of "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune". Maybe because they are planning it to be a franchise?
WolfForager
Member
Well they announced it as a "new franchise", so I'd guess every game will have a different subtitle.
amstradcpc
Member
Because humanity has to start from the beginning?.
megabytecr
Member
Loved everything about it, we knew they were showing something new, but even then, this really surprised me in a good way.
Revolutionary
Member
Game of the show for me so far. Still can't get over how amazing it all is.
Because of the mobile tie-in games that will come out at release
Because of the mobile tie-in games that will come out at release
sorry
Rephin
Member
Clearly this was the best new IP shown by Sony this year, and that presentation really blew me away. I want to know more about the game and a release window. In a conference where TLG, Shenmue 3, and FF7R are shown alongside a new Star Wars game and Call of Duty, being not only notable but actually exciting people about a brand new IP also shown next to these mammoths is truly exceptional. Well done, Guerrilla.
kallisto76
Member
I have fallen in love with this game, best new reveal in a while.
It does sound a bit repetitive, if not logorrheic. Horizon - Zero or Horizon - Dawn would have been enough. Unless Zero, Dawn or both are something else, like the name of the heroine.
wild wild rice
Member
To me, it's the best new IP reveal since Splatoon. One can only hope it lives up to and surpasses expectations as Splatoon did.
Dying for more info about the structure and the protagonist of the game because I'm sold on the gameplay and setting.
Chuck Norris
Banned
She was aiming for the green canisters. Which seem to fill up when the animals are eating the grass. So it could be a food or some other sort of resource
What's weird is they are clearly wearing furs though, so there must be organic animals around too.
Cornbread78
Member
insane... this looks awesome...
BlackBuzzard
Banned
There is already a game called Horizon,i think that is why they have the subtitle.
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
i think that Horzion looks like it could be Guerillas first really big IP. Killzone was nice and all but it never really took off.
The CGI intro has a section with salmon swimming upstream, and the narration talks about the animals taking back the world.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
Bingo. Gotta have those subtitles if you wanna start a franchise.
Deified Data
Banned
Yeah, really hoping that was just for the trailer, otherwise I'm gonna need to mute voice volume. The voice acting is fine but the one-liners were coming a mile a minute.
toastyToast
Member
Given the characters name I'm pretty sure you'll find a way to interface/ride robots and it turns out the main characters dad was a robot or something.
It's by the writer of Fallout: New Vegas. I'd be more worried about some other game's stories like Halo 5. New Vegas had an amazing story.
flipswitch
Member
That was Troy Baker's sister, Tory Baker.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
Banned
I said it last night and got no bite, but Im tellin you, the fallen civilization looks like Vekta
What if this is an entirely new IP that still exists in the KZ world. Vekta/Helgahn are long gone, and have been for 10s of thousands of years but whats followed the fall of their great civilization is the mecha dino, and the tribal humanity that struggles to survive. GG even teased Horizon on the facebook using concept art for Vekta.
What if this is an entirely new IP that still exists in the KZ world. Vekta/Helgahn are long gone, and have been for 10s of thousands of years but whats followed the fall of their great civilization is the mecha dino, and the tribal humanity that struggles to survive. GG even teased Horizon on the facebook using concept art for Vekta.
SlipperyMoose
Member
This game looks pretty amazing. I think I'm going to prefer this way over Killzone anyday.
CaptainTiptop
Member
The concept art had a pirate-looking guy jumping on a robodino and attacking it with a spear, so it could happen.
Fancy Clown
Member
I doubt they could record enough dialogue to have it at that incessant level for an open world game.
Oddvintagechap
Member
I thank you Obama, for not making this guy in charge.
KakesuSora
Member
This is Day 1 for me This game looked so beautiful and that game play was fucking great.
Cave Johnson
Member
I going to go out on a limb here that the dinosaur design isn't a coincidence and whole new twist in the future of the species by some mad scientist.
Instead of pushing humans to a higher awareness (aka robots/androids) the scientist(s) may have preferred a more prehistoric method as the dinosaurs once dominated the land and is preferably the one known of to extinct not because of their unwilling quest to dominate the earth but because of an unfortunate disaster that was outside of their control.
I guess with robots, they can keep some semblance of intelligence but not enough for a complete for a full sentience. With their modified bodies more likely to adapt to the changing climate of the earth.
The concept itself is sound and they've managed to get the Fallout:NV lead writer to tell the story so I'm hoping the expositions and/or RPG narrative would make sense of the universe.
note: it would be EXTRA cool if this was part of the KZ universe. That would seriously blow my fucking mind.
Instead of pushing humans to a higher awareness (aka robots/androids) the scientist(s) may have preferred a more prehistoric method as the dinosaurs once dominated the land and is preferably the one known of to extinct not because of their unwilling quest to dominate the earth but because of an unfortunate disaster that was outside of their control.
I guess with robots, they can keep some semblance of intelligence but not enough for a complete for a full sentience. With their modified bodies more likely to adapt to the changing climate of the earth.
The concept itself is sound and they've managed to get the Fallout:NV lead writer to tell the story so I'm hoping the expositions and/or RPG narrative would make sense of the universe.
note: it would be EXTRA cool if this was part of the KZ universe. That would seriously blow my fucking mind.
YankeeDonB
Member
As someone who never gave a fig for KZ, this looks awesome. They've billed it as an RPG, so hoping the story actually goes somewhere interesting, and it's not just an open world robo-Dino-hunt simulator.
wild wild rice
Member
Thank you. The only thing keeping my excitement form exploding through my nipples is anticipating the unfortunate tedium of the vast majority of open world games. I want well designed events, levels and scenarios based off gameplay mechanics. I want a sense of progress, not an unending list of waypoint simulator filler quests.
Yeah, I was thinking along similar lines - semi-sentient AIs that looked back to the most successful species in Earth's history, and modeled themselves on that.