Anyone else think Horizon might impact MEA's review scores negatively?

Well the series still has two movies to go. 

Dude took a bowcaster shot to the chest.  I mean, I get that she shouldn't beat him in a fair fight, but they straight up showed him hurting like hell

Don't even get me started on the black space janitor holding his own against the dark jedi with a lightsaber.

Fuck that movie ...

I think all the hype is more likely to end up blowing up in Horizon's face than have a negative effect on MEA.

If people start circlejerking it as the second coming- or worse yet, as a successor to Witcher 3 then sure, that'll not go well.

Mark my words, Horizon is gonna be one of those games that as soon as the honeymoon period is over, people are gonna be a lot more aware of it's flaws. I don't care about all the 9s and 10s it's been getting. I've been watching game footage and the human AI looks absolutely atrocious. Some of the voice acting is kinda bad, and the game follows the same tedious tropes open world games have. Go collect scrap, climb towers to reveal more of the map, go collect this, go collect that, etc etc. Even the glowing reviews have mentioned this, but are too busy cumming themselves over the game's visuals and Aloy. 

I'm sure it's a good game, but I think it's destined to eventually fall in the overrated category.

The game releases are spaced far enough apart that it shouldn't even be a factor, with critics or fans. Also, what I've seen of Horizon it seems more like an action game with light RPG elements. ME:A will have full branching narratives, more complex skill trees etc. It's also multiplat and has MP. So if Bioware does this right, very few people will be talking about HZD a couple months from now.

Considering the recent oscars I could easily see this year's TGA also promote the games with the most featured feminism or racial equality as a message against the Trump-driven america and Horizon is making every reviewer fawn over how good it is in that aspect.

Honestly as said above, ME: Andromeda is the only thing that can affect its own review.

That being said, Horizon Zero Dawn is available to play in 5 Minutes!!! Maybe I'll go dark with Mass Effect

The review hype machine has made me numb over the years. I don't even visit these websites anymore, albeit I go to Metacritic from time to time to check out aggregate scores out of curiosity and nothing else. If I'm interested in a game, I'll watch the promotional footage, visit fansites, hopefully look at undoctored footage (Twich, Youtubers etc.). The IGNs and Gamespots can take a hike as far as I'm concerned, there are way too many conflicts of interests with these sites, and my opinions don't tend to mesh with theirs.

I mean, I don't have a PS4 so it's not like I was going to buy HZD anyway. But from what I saw it looked like a fairly by-the-numbers, Ubisoft style collect-a-thon, just one with a neat setting and enemies. But Far Cry Primal was also that, didn't stop it from boring me after 30 minutes of Youtube footage.

Yep. HZD is not nearly as "amazing" as the gaming media would have you believe. Not to say that it's not a good game, but it certainly doesn't deserve all of the insane praise it's receiving. I suspect if not for the fact that it was a Sony exclusive that it probably wouldn't get this amount of attention. By the time we get to the end of the year I doubt anybody will remember this game. It's going to either be Mass Effect Andromeda, The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption 2, or something else.