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Post by AnDromedary on May 20, 2024 13:52:06 GMT
So, I got DEMETER and met the Quen. Really liked Alva right away. I guess her quirky nerdiness was relatable. Also liked the reveal at the end, that she knows who Aloy really is. That scene with all the warriors bowing and almost falling to their knees and Aloy having to try really har not to go full on was a nice callback to Zero Dawn, when she comes back out of "Mother Mountain". Good stuff. On a side note, Erend's taste in music. First he is listening to that shitty punk song from those two girls in the dam in Frozen Wilds. Then Varl and Zo tell us that he has discovered death metal. Anyway, I think I am mostly gonna do side stuff for now. Want to finish up most side quests and get the map cleaned up and some upgrades done before moving on with the main quest. I have a feeling that things will escalate quickly, once we start capturing HEPHAESTUS. By the way, one thing, I'd kinda have liked to see: When Aloy meets MINERVA, she has to convince her to merge with GAIA in the end. I was expecting something similar to happen with the others. I thought it was a bit of missed opportunity that Aloy just has a one-sentence conversation with them bevore basically wiping them clean. Seems almost cruel, given that these are supposed to be fully fledged AIs at this point. Ah well, would probably have become a bit repetitive to have that persuasion talk with each of them but still...
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Post by Element Zero on May 21, 2024 2:07:51 GMT
I really like Alva, too. She's adorable, and much tougher than she initially appeared. Her actress really did an amazing job with her. All the VAs did great work, but her motion-capture is particularly great, in my opinion.
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Post by dazk on May 21, 2024 2:24:17 GMT
I really like Alva, too. She's adorable, and much tougher than she initially appeared. Her actress really did an amazing job with her. All the VAs did great work, but her motion-capture is particularly great, in my opinion. I wasn't that enamoured especially at the first meeting of her in my first PT but she definitely won me over on the second PT.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 27, 2024 11:46:44 GMT
I really like Alva, too. She's adorable, and much tougher than she initially appeared. Her actress really did an amazing job with her. All the VAs did great work, but her motion-capture is particularly great, in my opinion. I wasn't that enamoured especially at the first meeting of her in my first PT but she definitely won me over on the second PT. Yeah I was su8spicious of her a tfirs tbut after getting to know her she wasn't bad. She kind o freminded me a little of Liara(no in the whole romantic way but in that all she wants is knowledge.)
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Post by Element Zero on May 28, 2024 1:48:58 GMT
I wasn't that enamoured especially at the first meeting of her in my first PT but she definitely won me over on the second PT. Yeah I was su8spicious of her a tfirs tbut after getting to know her she wasn't bad. She kind o freminded me a little of Liara(no in the whole romantic way but in that all she wants is knowledge.) Their circumstances are very different, but I can see the similarities. Each is an eager scholar who meets someone who improbably knows all the truths they have been painstakingly trying to uncover.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 28, 2024 9:14:40 GMT
Yeah I was su8spicious of her a tfirs tbut after getting to know her she wasn't bad. She kind o freminded me a little of Liara(no in the whole romantic way but in that all she wants is knowledge.) Their circumstances are very different, but I can see the similarities. Each is an eager scholar who meets someone who improbably knows all the truths they have been painstakingly trying to uncover. Yeah that's what I was referring to. Well tha tand th efac ttha tAlva isn't a fighter really as Liara wasn' tone much either befoer she met Shep. She only learnedto become one through working with Shepard. Which is what I put her reactions to everything happening in ME3 down to as Liara hadn't visited what you might call warzones. Thankfully Alva didn' t have to live through anything like that but yeah that's largely what I wa srefferring to.
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Post by AnDromedary on May 28, 2024 15:18:12 GMT
Finally got to play again last night, if only for an hour or so. Rebooted the Land Gods with Zo. I think they are very generous to interpret that noise as singing. Also beat the Enduring. I thought she herself wasn't that much of a problem but man, that pit master in Thorn Marsh with the shield was brutal. I don't know how many times i tried him. I am playing on Hard difficulty and usually I don't have too many problems but with him, I was very close to just reducing the difficulty level. Not sure if in the pit challenges you are still wearing your own armor or not. Maybe I should ahve upgraded a little before trying him.
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Post by colfoley on May 29, 2024 4:00:02 GMT
So just got this game last week, been positing my adventures for the moment in the What did you do today thread in any game out there... instead of here. Though I guess if people keep posting here I may switch over as well especially given that there was a brief what did you do today type post above this one. But for today's purposes two questions. How do you eat food, and how do you get fast travel packs?
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Post by AnDromedary on May 29, 2024 4:25:02 GMT
So just got this game last week, been positing my adventures for the moment in the What did you do today thread in any game out there... instead of here. Though I guess if people keep posting here I may switch over as well especially given that there was a brief what did you do today type post above this one. But for today's purposes two questions. How do you eat food, and how do you get fast travel packs? Food: It's in your tools menu. Fast travel packs: Craft them in the tools crafting menu (hold tools button, R on PC) or buy them from vendors.
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Post by colfoley on May 29, 2024 4:26:18 GMT
So just got this game last week, been positing my adventures for the moment in the What did you do today thread in any game out there... instead of here. Though I guess if people keep posting here I may switch over as well especially given that there was a brief what did you do today type post above this one. But for today's purposes two questions. How do you eat food, and how do you get fast travel packs? Food: It's in your tools menu. Fast travel packs: Craft them in the tools crafting menu (hold tools button, R on PC) or buy them from vendors. Oh duh I'm an idiot at least on the crafting bit...though I haven't found a vendor that sells them yet or know where to look in their inventories. Also haven't seen food in the tools menu either is it something that is a default or will I have to change it?
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Post by AnDromedary on May 29, 2024 4:28:58 GMT
Food: It's in your tools menu. Fast travel packs: Craft them in the tools crafting menu (hold tools button, R on PC) or buy them from vendors. Oh duh I'm an idiot at least on the crafting bit...though I haven't found a vendor that sells them yet or know where to look in their inventories. Also haven't seen food in the tools menu either is it something that is a default or will I have to change it? For me, if I have food in my inventory, it's just there in the tools menu and I can eat it by scrolling to it and then pressing the tools key (R on PC). You might also be able to eat it from the inventory itself, not sure, never tried (I don't eat much food, always forget about it).
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Post by dazk on May 29, 2024 4:50:01 GMT
colfoley that was the most confusing thing for me and I really made limited use of the food except when desperate and very little use of anything else in the tool menu, rocks maybe twice and I ended up with nigh a thousand of the damn things. I am sure there was something else I used in the tools but I cannot remember. I never crafted a Fast Travel thing, I just bought them (not every vendor has them????) to full capacity and used the existing Campfires to fast travel for free. I want to play again but am for the moment enjoying Odyssey but I just keep thinking I want to play HZD FW. Oh re the Tools on PC I think as AnDromedary said it is "R" but then you have to use Z and C to scroll through it. And as to swapping stuff out and in to your toolbar someone else will have to explain it I never figured it out.
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Post by colfoley on May 29, 2024 4:51:28 GMT
colfoley that was the most confusing thing for me and I really made limited use of the food except when desperate and very little use of anything else in the tool menu, rocks maybe twice and I ended up with nigh a thousand of the damn things. I am sure there was something else I used in the tools but I cannot remember. I never crafted a Fast Travel thing, I just bought them (not every vendor has them????) to full capacity and used the existing Campfires to fast travel for free. I want to play again but am for the moment enjoying Odyssey but I just keep thinking I want to play HZD FW. Oh re the Tools on PC I think as AnDromedary said it is "R" but then you have to use Z and C to scroll through it. And as to swapping stuff out and in to your toolbar someone else will have to explain it I never figured it out. Yeah starting to get a little tired of all the rocks I'm collecting to. Wish there were easier ways of telling which resource was which so I could just ignore them.
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Post by AnDromedary on May 29, 2024 5:03:07 GMT
colfoley that was the most confusing thing for me and I really made limited use of the food except when desperate and very little use of anything else in the tool menu, rocks maybe twice and I ended up with nigh a thousand of the damn things. I am sure there was something else I used in the tools but I cannot remember. I never crafted a Fast Travel thing, I just bought them (not every vendor has them????) to full capacity and used the existing Campfires to fast travel for free. I want to play again but am for the moment enjoying Odyssey but I just keep thinking I want to play HZD FW. Oh re the Tools on PC I think as AnDromedary said it is "R" but then you have to use Z and C to scroll through it. And as to swapping stuff out and in to your toolbar someone else will have to explain it I never figured it out. Yeah starting to get a little tired of all the rocks I'm collecting to. Wish there were easier ways of telling which resource was which so I could just ignore them. You can basically ignore almost all the plants, unless you want to cook a lot. Ridgewood, you’ll have thousands in your stash, just from caches. So basically, you mainly just want the healing plants when you need a refill. Oh, and greenshine of course. You always want to get all that greenshine. As for tools, I am also mainly using rocks and “call mount”. Still, I remapped tool scrolling to the mouse wheel since I always open the weapon wheel to switch weapons.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 29, 2024 10:36:29 GMT
colfoley that was the most confusing thing for me and I really made limited use of the food except when desperate and very little use of anything else in the tool menu, rocks maybe twice and I ended up with nigh a thousand of the damn things. I am sure there was something else I used in the tools but I cannot remember.I never crafted a Fast Travel thing, I just bought them (not every vendor has them????) to full capacity and used the existing Campfires to fast travel for free. I want to play again but am for the moment enjoying Odyssey but I just keep thinking I want to play HZD FW. Oh re the Tools on PC I think as AnDromedary said it is "R" but then you have to use Z and C to scroll through it. And as to swapping stuff out and in to your toolbar someone else will have to explain it I never figured it out. Yeah I neve rused the food much as by the time I go tinto the nex tfight the timer on i tha dexpired. I suppose I could ea tthe food jus tbefoer going inrto the fight but wh owould eat food in th ebushes that's jus tweird. Bu tyeah I'm kind of tempted to g obac kin myself for another run with playing Zero Dawn and this back to back but holding off because what wit hF1 24 just coming out and I'm still working through m ytennis and Fifa careers I'm a bit busy with my sports games atm. Plus I wantt otry the Dragon's Dogma games befoer I attempt another run of Horizon. M yplan atm is to get into it the next tim eI d oa Mass Effect playthrough so i treall ydepends on when I pick up the trilog yand Andromeda again. I was always hunting wildlife for other matreials s oalways ha denoug ht okeep the fast travel up whenever I needed to. Thankfull yfas trave lis easier in FW than in Zero Dawn probabl yone of the few things in the game I found that was easier
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Post by melbella on May 29, 2024 11:12:58 GMT
I never crafted a Fast Travel thing, I just bought them (not every vendor has them????) to full capacity and used the existing Campfires to fast travel for free. I never crafted any either. I bought some just to keep a few in my inventory but 99% of the time I used the campfires or other free locations for fast travel. They are plentiful enough it's not hard to get to one.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 29, 2024 12:27:41 GMT
I never crafted a Fast Travel thing, I just bought them (not every vendor has them????) to full capacity and used the existing Campfires to fast travel for free. I never crafted any either. I bought some just to keep a few in my inventory but 99% of the time I used the campfires or other free locations for fast travel. They are plentiful enough it's not hard to get to one. Yeah I rmostly rtied to do tha tdidn' talways achieve i tthough as there were times I forgot I could.
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Post by AnDromedary on May 29, 2024 19:37:51 GMT
Did all the hunting grounds. Will never do that shit again. But now I have just about 12739 medals to throw at the arena lady. Spoilering quest progress from now on, so colfoley doesn't get spoiled. Went back to Vegas helped out the explosion sisters. They were kind of annoying though, especially the younger one. I don't like characters who only have one thing going and she is just explosions this, explosions that. It got old quick, even though they just have two short quests. Riding the hot air balloon with that showman dude was fun though ... while it lasted. Good times. Man, I need more time to play a little longer in a row but it won't happen until next week, I'm sure.
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Post by colfoley on May 29, 2024 20:19:39 GMT
Did all the hunting grounds. Will never do that shit again. But now I have just about 12739 medals to throw at the arena lady. Spoilering quest progress from now on, so colfoley doesn't get spoiled. Went back to Vegas helped out the explosion sisters. They were kind of annoying though, especially the younger one. I don't like characters who only have one thing going and she is just explosions this, explosions that. It got old quick, even though they just have two short quests. Riding the hot air balloon with that showman dude was fun though ... while it lasted. Good times. Man, I need more time to play a little longer in a row but it won't happen until next week, I'm sure. I've seen let's plays so at least I'm aware of the big events. Forgot some of the connective tissue though.
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Post by dazk on May 30, 2024 0:06:04 GMT
Did all the hunting grounds. Will never do that shit again. But now I have just about 12739 medals to throw at the arena lady. Spoilering quest progress from now on, so colfoley doesn't get spoiled. Went back to Vegas helped out the explosion sisters. They were kind of annoying though, especially the younger one. I don't like characters who only have one thing going and she is just explosions this, explosions that. It got old quick, even though they just have two short quests. Riding the hot air balloon with that showman dude was fun though ... while it lasted. Good times. Man, I need more time to play a little longer in a row but it won't happen until next week, I'm sure. Oh I liked Boomer and Deliah (SP?). There were I thought some really good NPC's I kind of wish Aloy was able to spend more time with some of them and especially casual relationships with some of them. Or serious ones with one particular one Talanah I really liked Morlund and his crew. I hate the Hunting Grounds.
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Post by melbella on May 30, 2024 0:30:47 GMT
I hate the Hunting Grounds. They were better than the Melee Pits
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I hate the Hunting Grounds. They were better than the Melee Pits 100%
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So on dazk suggestion going to move these posts in here...at least for now. Because well I didn't at first because 1. this thread seemed to be a dry hole at the time and B. wasn't really sure if this was a good place for a 'what did you do today' kind of thing since that wasn't in the title. But since things are picking up in here again and since people have been posting bits of their adventures, figure kind of, why not? Though if I start talking to myself I will take my bacll back to the other thread I've been doing... That being said I will continue to spoiler quests like I do for all of these games...so we shall begin: First things first following on the advice from AnDromedary I did figure out how to use and craft fast travel packs and any food. I can kind of see some of the thoughts from last time time to the tool bar is kind of...clunky...especially if you are in the middle of a fight so there is that. On the other hand this games lack of a proper save system kind of reared its head on me finally so not amused. Guess its fine with regular autosaves but this game does not seem to do that either so...will try and stick with it but am not amused. Plus this did make the thing I am bad at, the puzzles, even worse. PLUS since I am like 99% sure I recognize the arena from a very important boss battle coming up I didn't also want to get too much farther to trigger it or I would have been REALLY screwed. From the combat I guess the big news here is that I didn't actually level up for the first time in a play session. Always a bit of a bell weather when that happens. Of course given how ineffiecient I was during puzzles and finding stuff...its not that surprising. Actually on that note first was running around the beginning of the quest area proper and just having a devil of a time trying to advance but can't decide if the game took pitty on me or if I just accidentally stumbled into the objective. But yeah combat I was actually getting a chance to use my sharpshot bow more. First off against a Glinthawk and then against some Leapshear's or whatever. Nice having a sniper type bow in the arsenal...and my wife made a comment that the hunter bow has the four limb thing going on and was wondering how accurate that would be or effective to do for a bow...kind of looks cool but...meh once it was noticed it can't be unnoticed. But also since I got the upgrades for the knockdown bow actually has made it a super fun play style just sniping/ knocking them down and then running in there to do a crit. I was missing the tear shockwave arrows from the last game but this does have some promise. Of course if you don't hit them fast enough it is...problematic. Just realized also have to equip a coil on the thing to. Deaths Door(ironic name for a quest given what has happened and what I think will happen)So running around trapsing after Sylens in the desert and I find him and what he did with HADES and tracking down a possible Gaia backup. Now I really like Sylens he was my favorite character from the first one and indeed probably my favorite thing from the first one...RIP Lance Reddick...but the man is also kind of a dick sometimes. But there is a lot to say and a lot to unpack here all told. First off just got to one of the best scenes that I remember from watching the LP one of the ones that made me go 'oooh this game could be onto something'. Aloy chatting with Hades. Just such wonderful writing and tenor. I really notice that the game does tend to be very high red tint. But just like the 'no data available thing' Hades does and he does really manage to get under her skin. Now Sylens is a bit of a fascinating case study here though because he is very much in the 'anti hero/ villain' really gray morality really self focussed morality kind of characters that I do tend to like. Which also brings me again to wondering another example of how they might do this for Solas... Now it is kind of cheating though because I do not remember much of HFWs marketing campaign so not sure how much this applies and really the end of the game very quickly set up as Sylens being a potential antagonist for the next one. I bring this up because its also something I hate, ala Battlefront 2 and Halo 5, where the marketing campaign sets up a specific type of story and then rips the rug out from under you. All of this is window dressing because despite Aloy going off after Sylens very quickly though he is revealed to actually not be that bad and they have the same exact motives. Not like 'we have the same goals but our tactics diverge so wildly that we are at odds.' But pretty legitimate. He is even going in and being a voice in her ear again...despite telling her he had no interest in her any more! But this does set up the idea that he is not actually the bad guy and has maybe the same role as the first game...because despite all of his -bordering-on-extreme-pragmatism-evil-self interest he doesn't want to die, of course not. So he has a vested interest in seeing Aloy succeed...even though he does have his own agenda. Plus like with Boyd Crowder and wondering if they will do this for Solas I know he is not ultimatley going to be the big bad of the game...we might even meet them soon. Which brings me to juicy plot point number 2 that I realized...in relation. Now one of my least favorite bits of Harry Potter was Harry's insistence of 'going it alone'. Like I am a super big individualist maybe to a fault but I do recognize/ believe the theory that teams of individuals joining together can make themselves balanced and stronger. So Aloy seems to be going on a similar arc...leading to similar annoyances. But, I realized in the doing that this game actually has a bit of a twist because in running around the lates Zero Dawn facility that Travis Tate does go and says that Elisabet did the same thing as Aloy did, go it alone, and not have a single friend...just employees I guess. Sylens even comments that the very great is a solitary life as both of them know. And it just seems to me that is the ultimate difference because this game does have an interesting take on 'nature versus nurture' and Aloy is a clone of Elisabet and also in the sense that they share a lot of the same personality traits in addition to having genetics. But if Elisabet pushed everyone away and just viewed Zero Dawn as being her burden alone despite having other people working on it with her... What does that say, spoilers for the end of the game... When Aloy essentially overcomes this lie that both of them believe and build a team to take on Far Zenith and the Tenakth? Even manages to get Sylens onboard at the very end in order to stop the next threat. Of course we will have to see where this theme goes in the next Horizon game if/when we get it so its possible that she could just have the same relationship with her people as Elisabet did with hers...but given how much Varl and Errend legit care for her so far, and despite Sylens be so curmugeonly, I don't think so. That Aloy is genuinly interested in being a leader of strong individuals and not a solitary figure just using people to achieve her goals...like Sylens for that matter. It is, if nothing else, an interesting thought.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 30, 2024 12:16:02 GMT
So on dazk suggestion going to move these posts in here...at least for now. Because well I didn't at first because 1. this thread seemed to be a dry hole at the time and B. wasn't really sure if this was a good place for a 'what did you do today' kind of thing since that wasn't in the title. But since things are picking up in here again and since people have been posting bits of their adventures, figure kind of, why not? Though if I start talking to myself I will take my bacll back to the other thread I've been doing... That being said I will continue to spoiler quests like I do for all of these games...so we shall begin: First things first following on the advice from AnDromedary I did figure out how to use and craft fast travel packs and any food. I can kind of see some of the thoughts from last time time to the tool bar is kind of...clunky...especially if you are in the middle of a fight so there is that. On the other hand this games lack of a proper save system kind of reared its head on me finally so not amused. Guess its fine with regular autosaves but this game does not seem to do that either so...will try and stick with it but am not amused. Plus this did make the thing I am bad at, the puzzles, even worse. PLUS since I am like 99% sure I recognize the arena from a very important boss battle coming up I didn't also want to get too much farther to trigger it or I would have been REALLY screwed. From the combat I guess the big news here is that I didn't actually level up for the first time in a play session. Always a bit of a bell weather when that happens. Of course given how ineffiecient I was during puzzles and finding stuff...its not that surprising. Actually on that note first was running around the beginning of the quest area proper and just having a devil of a time trying to advance but can't decide if the game took pitty on me or if I just accidentally stumbled into the objective. But yeah combat I was actually getting a chance to use my sharpshot bow more. First off against a Glinthawk and then against some Leapshear's or whatever. Nice having a sniper type bow in the arsenal...and my wife made a comment that the hunter bow has the four limb thing going on and was wondering how accurate that would be or effective to do for a bow...kind of looks cool but...meh once it was noticed it can't be unnoticed. But also since I got the upgrades for the knockdown bow actually has made it a super fun play style just sniping/ knocking them down and then running in there to do a crit. I was missing the tear shockwave arrows from the last game but this does have some promise. Of course if you don't hit them fast enough it is...problematic. Just realized also have to equip a coil on the thing to. Deaths Door(ironic name for a quest given what has happened and what I think will happen)So running around trapsing after Sylens in the desert and I find him and what he did with HADES and tracking down a possible Gaia backup. Now I really like Sylens he was my favorite character from the first one and indeed probably my favorite thing from the first one...RIP Lance Reddick...but the man is also kind of a dick sometimes. But there is a lot to say and a lot to unpack here all told. First off just got to one of the best scenes that I remember from watching the LP one of the ones that made me go 'oooh this game could be onto something'. Aloy chatting with Hades. Just such wonderful writing and tenor. I really notice that the game does tend to be very high red tint. But just like the 'no data available thing' Hades does and he does really manage to get under her skin. Now Sylens is a bit of a fascinating case study here though because he is very much in the 'anti hero/ villain' really gray morality really self focussed morality kind of characters that I do tend to like. Which also brings me again to wondering another example of how they might do this for Solas... Now it is kind of cheating though because I do not remember much of HFWs marketing campaign so not sure how much this applies and really the end of the game very quickly set up as Sylens being a potential antagonist for the next one. I bring this up because its also something I hate, ala Battlefront 2 and Halo 5, where the marketing campaign sets up a specific type of story and then rips the rug out from under you. All of this is window dressing because despite Aloy going off after Sylens very quickly though he is revealed to actually not be that bad and they have the same exact motives. Not like 'we have the same goals but our tactics diverge so wildly that we are at odds.' But pretty legitimate. He is even going in and being a voice in her ear again...despite telling her he had no interest in her any more! But this does set up the idea that he is not actually the bad guy and has maybe the same role as the first game...because despite all of his -bordering-on-extreme-pragmatism-evil-self interest he doesn't want to die, of course not. So he has a vested interest in seeing Aloy succeed...even though he does have his own agenda. Plus like with Boyd Crowder and wondering if they will do this for Solas I know he is not ultimatley going to be the big bad of the game...we might even meet them soon. Which brings me to juicy plot point number 2 that I realized...in relation. Now one of my least favorite bits of Harry Potter was Harry's insistence of 'going it alone'. Like I am a super big individualist maybe to a fault but I do recognize/ believe the theory that teams of individuals joining together can make themselves balanced and stronger. So Aloy seems to be going on a similar arc...leading to similar annoyances. But, I realized in the doing that this game actually has a bit of a twist because in running around the lates Zero Dawn facility that Travis Tate does go and says that Elisabet did the same thing as Aloy did, go it alone, and not have a single friend...just employees I guess. Sylens even comments that the very great is a solitary life as both of them know. And it just seems to me that is the ultimate difference because this game does have an interesting take on 'nature versus nurture' and Aloy is a clone of Elisabet and also in the sense that they share a lot of the same personality traits in addition to having genetics. But if Elisabet pushed everyone away and just viewed Zero Dawn as being her burden alone despite having other people working on it with her... What does that say, spoilers for the end of the game... When Aloy essentially overcomes this lie that both of them believe and build a team to take on Far Zenith and the Tenakth? Even manages to get Sylens onboard at the very end in order to stop the next threat. Of course we will have to see where this theme goes in the next Horizon game if/when we get it so its possible that she could just have the same relationship with her people as Elisabet did with hers...but given how much Varl and Errend legit care for her so far, and despite Sylens be so curmugeonly, I don't think so. That Aloy is genuinly interested in being a leader of strong individuals and not a solitary figure just using people to achieve her goals...like Sylens for that matter. It is, if nothing else, an interesting thought. I think most of us had finishedthe gam enow that it's had it's PC release in March whic hi dswh ythis thread went a little quiet. I am thinking of coming back and playing both games again though but jus ta little busy with my sports games right now. But once I' mdone wi ththem and given Dragon's Dogma a go I can see myself coming back for a second run.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 30, 2024 12:26:35 GMT
Found a coupl eof vids on my youtube feed from when Zero Dawn was in Bet aand came acrossthis fight Aloy has with a Corruptor which looked kind o fcool
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