(Serious Question) Do you guys find HZD kind of...Boring?

[12InchParadise]

I can't shake this feeling.

I've played this game for over 50hrs and I find it boring af.

Story:
Is as generic it can be. Within 10 minutes I could tell the whole plot.

Dialog:
It's there. This is the best way I can describe it. They give you this false feeling of "choices" but realistically you can pick anything and will have the exact same dialog. It feels lazy if anything.

Combat:
Is actually good and fun. The robot design is superb and entertaining. Only reason I've come back.

Side Quests:
They are really Fetch Quests - Go there kill something, come back. Literally offered no 'wow' element.

Visuals:
Graphically, this game is great.

Facial Animations:
Mass Effect Andromeda called, wants their animations back.

Overall, this game is a solid 7. Worth replaying? No. Not at all.

What do you guys feel about this game?

[Dr.Abscondus]

No. Personal taste is personal taste, but the facial animations are nothing like MEA.

[zplosion]

I agree with everything you said, but also the setting was pretty great. The combat and setting were enough to make me stick with it but I didn't really care about any of the characters and the story could have been better. The game is missing a spark. I'd still recommend it.

[Shahadem]

It is an open world lite game. The open world lacks substance or purpose of any way of interacting beyond a completely superficial level.

Dragon Age: Inquisition has the same exact problem. In fact most "open world" games have that same problem. SKyrim was the first to do the open world right imo.

[A.T. Still]

I guess it really is personal taste. IMHO this is going down as one of my all time favorite games. I really connected with the characters, stories and environment.

The facial expressions are indeed a bit flat but are significantly improved in the frozen wilds expansion. Feels like a different game once you reach that area.

[Seamus]

引用自 Shahadem：

SKyrim was the first to do the open world right imo.

How? By being a buggy, poorly written mess with no real driving force to the plot?

[xabungle]

I love the game. Get new dialogue each play through when I do something in a different order then my previous play through. I personally think it's a well thought out game. The main story could have been more polished but you can see with Frozen Wilds that they are getting better at it. I think the next installment it will be even better. But again just my opinion.

[MoonMen]

It's normal you might find it this way, in the end each have a taste and no game is designed to be loved by all.
for example I personally didn't get into Mass Effect 2 or Skyrim which was loved by so many ppl, it doesnt make them a boring games, it's just not my cup of tea.

On the other side of what I feel about this game.
I find this game great all around, I agree the side quests weren't that good of a story, however many games are rich in story but lacks combat, graphics, controls or other things
I feel Horizon had a good amount of everything all around, story, combat, and visuals which makes it one of my fav games of all times!

I did the first play through 100% and then a new game plus back to back got all achievements.

[zero]

im surprised you find it boring if you managed to play it for 50 hours.

its mechanically a good game, with an interesting enough game/reward cycle to encourage me to play it, if there was more progression i probably would keep playing it but i managed to get the best equipment quite quickly.

storywise its an interesting premise, albeit a common "years in the future" trope one, it kept my attention enough to actually watch the cutscenes so overall i cant say much.

i personally dont find it boring as i enjoy the mechanics but personal prefence is just that

[Void]

引用自 Seamus：

引用自 Shahadem：

SKyrim was the first to do the open world right imo.

How? By being a buggy, poorly written mess with no real driving force to the plot?

Surprisingly, yes!

[Shahadem]

引用自 Seamus：

引用自 Shahadem：

SKyrim was the first to do the open world right imo.

How? By being a buggy, poorly written mess with no real driving force to the plot?

By having a world full where you can talk and interact with every character. Where every character has a routine which gives them a life. Where there are things to interact with all over the world. No matter where you are there is something there. Find a little town in the middle of nowhere? You know that by talking to the NPCs you are going to uncover some shady secret about this town or the people who live there. Every part of the world has a story to tell even if it is found just in how the funerary offerings are arranged around a statue.

Skyrim doesn't revolve around the most poorly written main story in any game to ever be made, but around everything else.

https://youtu.be/XHOLFZnFa0w

[valera-wrx]

Yes, HZD is carried by combat, graphics and visual design.

引用自 Seamus：

引用自 Shahadem：

SKyrim was the first to do the open world right imo.

How? By being a buggy, poorly written mess with no real driving force to the plot?

Skyrim is not poorly written, 95% of dialogues are immersive and make sense. Technically, only thing which is out of place are "radiant" repeatable quests, but who forces you to do them? There are hundreds of normal quests, all with unique NPCs, dialogues, locations etc. Radiant quests was experiment of adding MMO-ish stuff into the SP game. I think expirement was unsuccessful, but unfortunately devs have other opinion, ton of modern SP games have fetch quests now and HZD is one of them... why did they copied weakest part of the Skyrim instead of going Witcher's way and making EVERY quest a separate interesting story? I don't know.

[Will]

引用自 12InchParadise：

Is as generic it can be. Within 10 minutes I could tell the whole plot.

I don't believe that for a second, unless you already knew. Some things are obvious but the actual conflict is not.

引用自 12InchParadise：

I've played this game for over 50hrs and I find it boring af

Oh I'm sure, I don't expect any game to be more than 50hrs. I already beat this game in 30 hours it was great and I'm happy about it. If I have to play it for another 20 hrs I would probably also find it boring.

[WardedPredator]

For me it's a extreme bore, it looks pretty and story is ok and I enjoy the combat and the UI options are nice but the world is large and empty, janky facial animations, hardly any interior locations, nothing really to interact with, generic towns and villages the list goes on. Skyrim in my opinion is significantly better.

[Seamus]

Skyrim's combat is a dumpster fire and the game is only vaguely playable with heavy modding and community fixes.

You really shouldn't use it as a yardstick.

[valera-wrx]

引用自 Seamus：

Skyrim's combat is a dumpster fire and the game is only vaguely playable with heavy modding and community fixes.

You really shouldn't use it as a yardstick.

Unmodded skyrim has wagon of flaws or problems, but unfortunately nothing comparable was made since 2011. HZD, Witcher, Assasins etc, it is just different genre, they only adapted some TES-like features to boost sales.