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Horizon: Zero Dawn Trailer (Guerrilla, post-apocalyptic pre-historic adventure)

cripterion

cripterion

Member
Domcorleone said:
In an industry that churns out a lot of the same ole same ole, we have people complaining about mechanized dinosaurs. That gameplay reveal looked great, and showed stealth, hunting and strategy. The weak points weren't so obvious and it seems there will be specific ways to take down each machine. The fact that its an open world RPG with:

-day/night cycle
-weather systems
-Monster Hunter gameplay aspects
-Writer of Fallout NV
-stealth
-Witcher devs
-Enslaved/ Dark Earth/Turok vibe
-female protagonist
-tribes and factions (which leads me to believe there will be human vs human combat)

is a breath of fresh air. Color me impressed.
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It's funny, from the little they have shown, combat looks already 10 times more interesting than The Witcher 3 to me and I was hyped for that game like a madmen a couple weeks ago lol.

What a time to be alive!
 
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Domcorleone

Member
knoted said:
AMX-games

It seems they're defunct by now.

Their game was still in development december 2012, but they had a full comic book
which outlined the story premise of their game. Especially the intro with fallen decrepit city scapes and tribes living in wildlife, seems almost 100% identical.

Basically, you'd have these clans of adolescent tribes ( since no human would reach adult age ) and along the player's quest, you'd slowly find your way to the last surviving 'modern age' man - so the goal was to give humanity its full life span back.
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Well Dark Earth had a similar premise as that was well. So its certainly not the first. No idea is original ;)
 
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kaching

"GAF's biggest wanker"
The main character looks like she might be modeled off someone familiar. Do we know anything about who they're using to model Aloy?
 
Coulomb_Barrier

Coulomb_Barrier

Member
Soi-Fong said:
People need to stop saying this. Again, they got New Vegas' writer to pen the plot for this game along with some of Witcher 3's scenario writers. I wouldn't worry about plot for this game with the talent they were able to get.
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Oh yeah forgot about that. Gives the title even greater prospects.

Has there ever been a Sony first-party WRPG before? I find the idea very exciting.
 
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Cthulhu_Steev

Member
Creamium said:
So basically the setting is kind of a second 'prehistoric' age? There were cities and civilizations, but after a big fallout humanity got back to hunting/gathering, but the machines from the earlier period are still around. That pretty much it? I love this concept.
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'Zero Dawn'

I took that as they started the year count again from zero.

TheCarrotKiller said:
Do we know yet why the game has the 'Zero Dawn' subtitle?
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It allows them to use named sequels if this does well, instead of 'Horizon 2'.
 
Hydrargyrus

Hydrargyrus

Member
Domcorleone said:
In an industry that churns out a lot of the same ole same ole, we have people complaining about mechanized dinosaurs. That gameplay reveal looked great, and showed stealth, hunting and strategy. The weak points weren't so obvious and it seems there will be specific ways to take down each machine. The fact that its an open world RPG with:

-day/night cycle
-weather systems
-Monster Hunter gameplay aspects
-Writer of Fallout NV
-stealth
-Witcher devs
-Enslaved/ Dark Earth/Turok vibe
-female protagonist
-tribes and factions (which leads me to believe there will be human vs human combat)

is a breath of fresh air. Color me impressed.
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Couldn't be more hyped.

For a new IP, it has all what I want
 
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AgentOtaku

Member
Jhn said:
Controversial opinion: This was the only truly exciting thing on the Sony conference.
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Im a pretty devout Sony fanboy and even im inclined to agree.
Only other thing impressive was Uncharted.

We still havent seen Nintendo's hand, but I'd def say MS won the show

...that's for another thread tho :)
 
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Amentallica

Unconfirmed Member
Despite my excitement with the Final Fantasy 7 Remake announcement, this was by far the most appealing thing to me at the conference. It was so beautiful, it looked fun, and I want to try it as soon as possible. I'm truly excited for this game.
 
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Tagyhag

Member
Jhn said:
Controversial opinion: This was the only truly exciting thing on the Sony conference.
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I agree, mostly because we actually got to see gameplay, and it looks rad.

Uncharted 4 was cool too, but let's be honest, it was just more Uncharted with the same cinematic gameplay that would get old if you failed a segment once.
 
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Raptor

Member
That fact that she took down that Robo T Rex on her own using tactics and the different kind of arrows is incredible to me.

Im so fuckig hyped right now that I dont know what to do.
 
R

Rats Off To Ya

Banned
Skux said:
Why does she apologise to the first robot she kills? Maybe she believes they are alive, or have spirits?
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Honestly, that's the moment that makes the entire trailer for me. To us these are giant badass robot dinosaurs, but to Aloy and her people the machines are simply the creatures they share the world with. Such a brilliant detail that speaks volumes about how GG is approaching the premise. I am ridiculously excited for this game.
 
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Violater

Member
Domcorleone said:
In an industry that churns out a lot of the same ole same ole, we have people complaining about mechanized dinosaurs. That gameplay reveal looked great, and showed stealth, hunting and strategy. The weak points weren't so obvious and it seems there will be specific ways to take down each machine. The fact that its an open world RPG with:

-day/night cycle
-weather systems
-Monster Hunter gameplay aspects
-Writer of Fallout NV
-stealth
-Witcher devs
-Enslaved/ Dark Earth/Turok vibe
-female protagonist
-tribes and factions (which leads me to believe there will be human vs human combat)

is a breath of fresh air. Color me impressed.
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Wait what?
I did not know this, I guess I can relax now.

Faith said:
So basically it's just something similar to The Witcher 3 with much better visuals?
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I am not expecting the same scale as TW3
 
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Squalor

Junior Member
It looks incredible, and I can't wait to play it, but...

"Let's make a game about a Native American woman, but make her white..."

Come on.

Also, she talked too much during gameplay.
 
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qa_engineer

Member
Faith said:
So basically it's just something similar to The Witcher 3 with much better visuals?
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Similar in the sense that its an open world rpg and perhaps some of the mechanics are similarm you could say that about any open world rpg. We need more details before any parallels can be drawn

Squalor said:
It looks incredible, and I can't wait to play it, but...

"Let's make a game about a Native American woman, but make her white..."

Come on.

Also, she talked too much during gameplay.
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The talking was for show, you know since it was being shown on stage and streamed across the interwebs for millions of people. If you saw that trailer for the first time would you have known, without the talking, what was going on outside of a red haired woman killing robo dinos? Would you have known that she felt bad for killing the first dino and that she was out hunting others for their green goo?
 
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pastrami

Member
Squalor said:
It looks incredible, and I can't wait to play it, but...

"Let's make a game about a Native American woman, but make her white..."

Come on.

Also, she talked too much during gameplay.
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Uh, what makes you think she's Native American? This is a post apocalyptic world, not 1492.
 
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EDarkness

Member
Looks interesting. Not a fan of stealth games, though. Might give it a shot when it comes out anyway provided the combat mechanics are fun.
 
T

The Smoking Bun

Banned
RatsOffToYa said:
Honestly, that's the moment that makes the entire trailer for me. To us these are giant badass robot dinosaurs, but to Aloy and her people the machines are simply the creatures they share the world with. Such a brilliant detail that speaks volumes about how GG is approaching the premise. I am ridiculously excited for this game.
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I'm expecting some wonderful Native American style philosophy about living in harmony with nature even if that nature is cold and alien. This is a good thing and wonderfully shown.
 
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amstradcpc

Member
cripterion said:
combat looks already 10 times more interesting than The Witcher 3 to me and I was hyped for that game like a madmen a couple weeks ago
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Combat is one of the things we will see improve greatly this gen. We are starting to see this: Horizon, For Honor, From soft. games...
It was high time the main gameplay feature was settled in the first place, where it belonged.
 
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Fenderputty

Banned
Badgerst3 said:
Graphics look fantastic and I love me bow mechanics but...

I personally just wished for regular Dino's. Mech Dino's kinda lost it for me.

To me the mech concept does not match the setting. Will be keeping an eye on.
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How does mech Dino's not match a post apocalyptic setting where tech has taken over?
 
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MatrixMan.EXE

Member
Reminder to everyone that one of the quest designers from CD Projekt Red will be working on this as well. For all those who've played Witcher 3, y'all know the implications of this. Exciting doesn't even begin to summarise.
 
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