/v/ - Video Games

Objectively speaking, it's a decent game to play. Aside from its ugly looking 3d characters, shitty character personalities, and crappy overall story, I would say that everything else is rather fine. Especially the visuals.

Basically, sjws can make some pretty looking games sometimes, but like always, fuck it all up with their incessant need to add unlikable characters in it.

>>16280291

The problem with Horizon Zero Dawn is only its story. It doesn't have anything to make you excited. I can't play games where people are constantly talking about their feelings and motivations. Especially when there's no exciting lore.

>I would say that everything else is rather fine. Especially the visuals.

I didn't like the combat. And the visuals are great, but who plays games just to look at mountains and forestry? The real world looks infinitely more awesome than high res computer graphics.

>>16280296

Once you start to learn about the Zero Dawn project, I was pretty interested in where the story was going. It doesn't just tell you all at once it slowly drips it out during a few quests. But then once you find out everything the game just blew its load I went back to not really caring.

The problem is the game is really boring. It's an aimless open world game where you run around doing samey quests, collect resources and craft. Every quest starts the same way "oh, what can a woman do to solve this problem of dinorobots killing our wheat farmers!" "I'll show you women are just as capable, bigot!" and ends the same way. "I guess women truly are as good as men. That'll show me."

It's pathetic. The whole post-apocalypse thing is pretty uninteresting, it's not really a very interesting world or story but it really puts it in your face and wants you to care there was a muslim scientist or a concert in an open field at one point. It best serves the fact that the game is very pretty more than anything.

The only thing that had potential is the combat with the robot dinosaurs which isn't half bad. It doesn't happen enough or mix itself up enough to last, melee becomes way too useful to justify shooting weak points or going overboard with traps. A little more shadow of the colossus as an influence would have made it far more interesting. Sure is a pretty game however, easily one of the best looking these past few years.

>>16280594

industry prophets need to be hanged

>>16280594

There's unironically nothing wrong with Uncharted though. If you don't like Uncharted that's fine, but it predates the review-whoring era of video games.

>>16280661

depends what it does with it.

>>16280594

This exactly. My friends were so into the game, but i couldn't see why they were enjoying it. The game is meh, nothing new, it looks technically good, but I'm not a fan of their art direction. Last of Us is a 5/10 at best, ok game, nothing new.

>>16280257

Press dodge to win

>>16280661

There's nothing wrong with scripted games if they're not shit. Final Fantasy XIII is unironically better than any of the shit we've had we've had in the last five years bar one or two games, and almost every faggot reviewer at the time repeated the same "hallway simulator" meme.

Not saying the same for Uncharted, but at the very least it predates the reddit trend talked about in that screencap and even with the nigress Uncharted 4 is somewhat up to par with the previous games. So at least credit it with being a real game and a continuation from an era when they still made good games.

I got it used for cheap at a games shop and it actually surprised me by being better than I thought. I assumed the gameplay would be typical modern shit but it was surpisingly fun and encouraged a variety of tactics and weapons against different enemies that could actually present a decent threat to you even on the easy mode they called normal these days. I'm a sucker for the whole fantasy like setting that is actually post apocolypse but they were a bit too obvious with it, this kind of setting takes a bit more subtlety to work well and they just blew their load too early. The machines also lose their threat too quickly when you start taking down fucking herds of the dangerous ones and just 1v1ing giant death bots. That first fight against a deathbringer should have involved you hiding in a ruined building and having to use both the enviroment and everything you have against it while barely surviving it's onslaught thanks to cover and stealth, not 1v1ing it in a open arena complete with a full squad of enemy humans fighting you as well. It completely destroys the threat of the machines and makes it feel too gamey when you just tank through minigun blasts from what was supposed to be a warbot. It would be fine if this game wasn't based around being a story heavy "immersive" game but the gameplay isn't enough to make it anything but that.

I didn't finish the story yet so I can't talk about how retarded it may or may not be but it feels like it was about to drop off and lose it's appeal. It had a strong start and I initally liked the setting but they blew their load too early. Characters were pretty meh since modern games writers seemed to forget how to write anyone interesting and the models were not that great. Better than I expected and worth a play if you get it cheap or free but not that incredible. Visuals were pretty nice though characters aside.

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This is really terrible bait.

>>16280257

Think of any bland open world game, this is just like that one. Pretty sure most AAA games are being made according to a strict checklist to hit the widest audience possible.