weapon/item diversity

[Doktor_Eisen]

I just bought the game without knowing much about it
Like it so far - but isnt the weapon diversity kind of disappointing?

No special weapons to loot anywhere - no comparing - just these few weapons that you can buy at the merchants in their different colors and thats it

Same goes with armor

And every merchant sells the same stuff

I want to explore some caves to find the ancient speer of cthulhu or something ...

[GoulactiX]

The weapon system is more than enough in my opinion...Its not Borderlands/Dark souls where you collect weapons....also the different armor and weapons dont just differ in Color and thats it....read their description as all of the gear is important in certain fights/enemies

[Doktor_Eisen]

Of course I dont expect a borderlands - but I just miss the feeling to venture out in the dangerous wild to get myself better gear

The merchants just selling everything to me feels quite unrewarding (yeah, they need some machine parts for that - but that is not satisfying at all)

[EisenKreutzer]

It's just not that kind of game.

[Doktor_Eisen]

apparently not :D

missed chance though

[Grizzly UK]

It would get pretty damn boring if every game played exactly the same as every other game. Variety is a good thing, games that do things differently is a good thing. I get that that's not for everyone, some folks like to play the same way in every game, and that's fine. We each like what we like, and that's all good as well, It's all part of the freedom to choose what type of game you want to play. Not every game has to follow some sort of pre-determined style of game-play, in fact I find it somewhat refreshing when games do things differently.

While HZD doesn't have armour and weapons spread all over for players to go out and find it does have Modifications spread around as loot for players to find. Plus some of the machine parts you need for trading to acquire armour and weapons from merchants can be a little troublesome to acquire. Then there are all the Datapoints spread around the world for players to find.

The only missed chance I see is the one where Sony and Guerrilla Games failed to take advantage of a marketing opportunity when they didn't re-release (or rather update and re-release) the official guide book, nor did they release a Collector's Edition for PC, both of which I suspect would have sold rather well.

But Guerrilla Games must have done something right with the game because there are millions of players who love HZD and a whole lot of Playstation players have been waiting for the news about a sequel for a couple of years. Now there's a whole lot of PC players wanting to know if and when that sequel will be coming to PC. Of course there's going to be some who dislike the game for some reason, but I think it's safe to say that the majority like the game.

[Doktor_Eisen]

I dont dislike the game
Just saying that a bit more time invested in the loot table would have made it even better

The progression feeling would be way more intense with a large amount of weapons and gear you could find in the wild .. and my reward center would be stimulated a bit more.

Yesterday I stumbled into a merchant in the mountains with special offers and I was "ohh thats cool .. why didnt they implement special merchants earlier in the game?"

... turns out it was the expansion start area xD