Horizon Zero Dawn Forbidden West and DLC SPOILERS Thread

I've played for a couple hours.  The game looks good.  Met a few characters from HZD when back in Meridian.

I'm currently in no man's land soon to be in the Forbidden West.

I can't play the game because I don't have a PS5 and I will have to wait for it to come to PC...if it even does, or ever does....So for now I am very interested in at least seeing how the story progresses. I am sure that by the time I get to play it on PC (if I ever do) I will have forgotten pretty much everything I have watched, and as I can't play it myself...I am not concerned about "spoilers* per se.

After all....I watched videos of Zero Dawn for years before it came out to PC in 2020 or whenever, and yet when I finally got to play it myself....Everything felt brand new to me because I was experiencing it for myself rather than just vicariously through a video.

I truly do hope it comes to PC as Zero Dawn has with a Complete Edition; and I hope it doesnt take a decade to do it.

It has MET vibes. Well, I had a sense of déjà vu after I watched the finale. 

There will be a third installment. It will probably take another two, three years for the third.

Well bugs can be fixed so it's not really a huge issue for me as for example MEA runs prefectly for me now whereas it didn't when it first came out. With MEA though I could see a good game underneath all the bugs a game I knew I would enjoy which was why I stayed patient as I knew given enough time Bioware would fix it Personally when it comes to games I look at gameplay story and graphics if they seem to be working together well like they do in most games I can overlook bugs as I know hat at the very leas tmost of the bad ones ge tfixed. I don't count bugs as most games can be buggy when they firs trelease and most of the bad ones are fixed over time. I've heard Dying light 2 for example is extremely buggy too atm.

Not really a fan of only being able to have two traps active at one time, I assume this is upgradeable, but why tho? If someone wants to spam a bunch of traps, let them. I cleared my first cauldron, I got a warning about being under leveled but went in anyway. It was my first encounter with Widemaws, I forget what the scan said there weak to, I'm like, "I don't even know what that is." I was concerned at first, but melee-ing them until candy came out worked pretty well.

I finished the quest that gives Aloy the breather mask. Good quest. 

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This game does not disappoint...

I didn't know there was a minigame like Gwent! Immersive version of chess. And I SUCK AT IT. Never learned chess. And apparently I would have been too stupid for it anyway. Took me about an hour to complete the first Npc's tutorial and real matches. The last one where you actually win a piece took like 10 attempts. Ugh. Embarrassing. OK, I sucked at Gwent too at first and later I crushed it and got bored even on Hard. But this seems way too complex for me already.

Loving having such a thing to do on the side though!!!

Met more old friends. Made me smile. Haven't gotten far from the starting point though. Did some side quests. Did my first ruin puzzle and then got confused about the passcode because I didn't read until the very end where it's written! I thought the gibberish symbols further up were the code and then when the numbers keypad unlocked I got stumped. I'm officially too dumb for this game, hahaha.

The characters all have great voice acting and the facial animations are really great this time around. I just wish Aloy would actually look people in the eyes. The way her eyes dark around makes her look autistic and it's a bit distracting. I wonder if they'll patch that...

I climbed Angel's Landing, Twilight's Landing in the game, which was such a delight to me because I kept seeing the real life hike in front of my eyes, remembering the rush I felt on the somewhat dangerous steel rope part that gives so many people bad vertigo. Climbing with Aloy was free of danger this time but it was awesome and rewarding too. I was stupidly happy to be back there in virtual reality. The view from up there can't compare to the real thing but the landscape in the game is still stunning.

I've now done everything I can before the embassy, I believe. Labored for my second strike piece. Took me way too long to beat the NPC 3 times. I'm really not good at this. But hopefully it will be similar to Gwent in the sense that gaining better pieces increases chances of success dramatically.

Starting to really enjoy the game. All the new skill are overfly complicated for me so far. Will have to see if using them is necessary later on. So far I'm just silent strike killing everything, lol. So there's no need for fancy shit yet.

Does it make sense to buy all green weapons in the first area? I've skipped a few so far. Haven't bought the warrior bow yet or the rope caster.
Was very confused to find the sharpshot bow to have only 6 arrows, for real?! Why??

I have upgraded all my green gear as much as I can. Does that make sense? Or should I save the materials for when I have better gear?
I like that coils and weaves can be reused from the get go. If I remember correctly that perk had to be unlocked later in in HZD.

Kratos excellent


Platinum trophy. My first one with the ps5 excellent