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Horizon: Zero Dawn Trailer (Guerrilla, post-apocalyptic pre-historic adventure)
- Thread starter VisceralBowl
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Well deserved. I get the feeling it could win GAF's as well. Bravo GG. Out of nowhere, and against a sea of countless titans of all titans as well.
12 hours from now
NoMoChokeSJ
Banned
Game looks really cool. I'm looking forward to seeing more of it. World reminds me a lot of Enslaved, which is cool.
Anos Voldigoad
Member
WHAT. haha. I actually prefer male characters in video games too but not for the same reason as yours. Aloy is a fukin awesome character! I like her.
No other games can make me watch the freaking trailer more than 50 times for these past few days.
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Wolves Evolve
Member
Really really excited to see the company move on from KZ, which they never really nailed or knew how to frame with a coherent game premise. This already looks like a genuine top-tier AAA game that you immediately want to root for. Whereas with KZ, you sort of felt like it had to prove itself.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
YES PLEASE!
illmatic22
Banned
Shenmue is a cool guy.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Nice edit lol. All I saw was Shenmue 3
I still haven't come down from all the crazy E3 hype bombs.
I've got so many damn tabs open I'm confusing myself! >_>
It's all good dude. Me neither! I internally rejoiced with you, even though your initial post was off topic lol.
Yeah, what does Zero Dawn mean?
It's necessary since "Horizon" is very generic just by itself. Good luck Googling it.
The hype just keeps rising
Loving the hype, but is this guy's twitter tag really "@notaxation" with a "Don't tread on me" avatar? lol.
The subtitle plus overgrown city landscapes actually made me think of Batman: Zero Year haha.
I'm guessing it's referring to some kind of new "dawn" or some kind of major change/advancement of Aloy's tribe (or humanity in general) over the course of the story. Seems like a good subtitle for the first entry in a series for me.
Machinehead
Member
I made a shitty countdown timer for the stream.
Go easy on me as this is my first time and I have no idea how to do a proper one.
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150619T09&p0=234&msg=Horizon+stream
Go easy on me as this is my first time and I have no idea how to do a proper one.
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150619T09&p0=234&msg=Horizon+stream
The_Buttman
Banned
So...it appears there is no melee combat other than stealth takedowns. Just bows, stealth and dodging. Pretty disappointing.
Damn. Need to decide whether to stay up for this, as it'll be about 1am in Australia.
I read somewhere there were swords and other weapons? Where did they confirm otherwise? There's definitely more than just bows, as we've already seen the launcher taken from the T-Rex, plus the grapple weapon that fires hooks to pin enemies down. I believe impressions of the behind the doors play through mentioned another weapon which sets explosive traps or something like that.
I agree with this. When I play games that start out with boring tutorials it really bores me. It's a real turn off in games for me these days.
where'd you hear this?
HORRORSHØW
Member
just use secondapps.com/countdown. time until live demo:
Machinehead
Member
Grimløck;168977748 said:just use secondapps.com/countdown. time until live demo:
SO much better! Thanks!
I believe the only thing we can infer for certain is that there are 4 weapons with 3 types of ammunition for each, from the weapons HUD.
I've seen people say it is for melee weapons, but it seems that it is just speculation. But, then, I can't see them making 4 types of ranged weapons... Unless traps take one slots and maybe firearms take the other? I dunno.
You can't just say that without proving any link to back that up.
Mike Zhang
Member
I'd like to know that as well because if you're just assuming thats the case based on what was shown in about 5 minutes of early gameplay thats much to early to jump to such conclusions....
Raven Prime
Member
The tripwire mines are also fired by the ropecaster, you can see it if you look at the weaponwheel.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Link?
The_Buttman
Banned
Sorry guys, i was going off what the person on reddit detailed. Maybe there is some sort of combat for human vs human encounters. I can live with that
I probably worded my post poorly and that led to everyone thinking i was making a statement rather than an opinion. Apologies. I want this game to be amazing.
I probably worded my post poorly and that led to everyone thinking i was making a statement rather than an opinion. Apologies. I want this game to be amazing.
Take it with a grain of salt, but someone on the Giantbomb forum says they were told about Aloy being able to dual-wield swords and other weapons. They could be bs'ing, maybe something changed in development. Hope we find out soon.
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/hor...magination-ran-wild-when-seeing-this-1773929/
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/hor...magination-ran-wild-when-seeing-this-1773929/
Raven Prime
Member
That doesn't prove nor suggest much, we already know there is going to be contextual melee in the game. What people really want to know if there is some type of free wielding melee.
Very poorly worded. Also Reddit reports from random users should not be taken as gospel.
The tripwire mines are also fired by the ropecaster, you can see it if you look at the weaponwheel.
Looking at that, I reckon there will be 4 main weapon types at least. Probably all upgradable.
There needs to be a justification for melee to exist first.
So far, you're not going one-on-one with flesh fist against solid steel. The argument stops there. And you're certainly not presented with a tribe that has samurai ancestry...more of a Nordic kind.
The hunting spear is a meleeish weapon....but again, versus machines of that composition (steel, metal - no flesh), it naturally begs to have limited uses.
Now, if the game had human enemies (that you engage on occasion), or flesh animals/monsters then sure melee is to be expected. Until then I am not sure why the expectation.
So far, you're not going one-on-one with flesh fist against solid steel. The argument stops there. And you're certainly not presented with a tribe that has samurai ancestry...more of a Nordic kind.
The hunting spear is a meleeish weapon....but again, versus machines of that composition (steel, metal - no flesh), it naturally begs to have limited uses.
Now, if the game had human enemies (that you engage on occasion), or flesh animals/monsters then sure melee is to be expected. Until then I am not sure why the expectation.
There are other tribes, villages, cities etc. I would be surprised if you never came across other hostile humans or tribesman. Either way, lots of interesting potential.
The closed session showed one of the devs playing the same sequence in the game, plus a couple of other things, so I don't know how much 'truer' the gameplay can get...
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Was thinking the same. This is EASILY going to be the first WRPG I'll actually enjoy (at least since WoW and GW2).
Dear AAA devs... want to make a lot of money off me? BRIGHT, INTERESTING environments! The amazingness that we get to fight robotic dino's is just the icing on the cake. LITERALLY PERFECT.
Following on from a discussion in the other thread. Can you imagine this encounter when it's night time in the game? Just seeing those red lights and not being able to make as much else out. Not even knowing which enemy type it was, just knowing it was huge. And then it charges at you lol. Would be terrifying!
Those setups have been faked before though so I'm not willing to believe that completely. Have we forgotten that Aliens Colonial Marines was played by devs for people as well. We gotta be careful about this. I want it to be true though because I want to play this game and know more about it.
I did not put that as a diss to KZ2 though
. I think KZ2 is one of the best fps games with some of the most stunning atmosphere in any military shooter period. I just put that to emphasize the change the studio has undergone and commend them for experimenting.StrongBlackVine
Banned
How often does something like that happen though? Not enough to concerned about it for sure.
Following on from a discussion in the other thread. Can you imagine this encounter when it's night time in the game? Just seeing those red lights and not being able to make as much else out. Not even knowing which enemy type it was, just knowing it was huge. And then it charges at you lol. Would be terrifying!
Imagine heavy rain....add some mud into the mix...lovely...
IAmRandom31
Banned
What occurs on screen makes you think it isn't possible or wasn't true gameplay?