Should I replay Horizon Zero Dawn before playing this?

[That Fox Terra]

Just wondering, I never finished HZD and it's been quite a long time since I last played.

[Jakubi]

Well, I would recommend it, yet at the start of forbidden west you get a small revamp of the story. Yet many characters you meet are from part one.

If you have time and will go for a playthrough

[ᑕYᗷEᖇᑕᗩT]

I did and have no regrets

[KAgeRO_XD]

You must. Otherwise you couldn't understand the lore and the main story

[bizarre]

You should play none of them.

[Alt0153]

im going to do a ng+ playthrough on hzd before i play this :)

[cube]

Depends how far you got. There's nothing particularly important in the endgame or DLC that matters in H:FW as far as I'm aware of. If you've still got the savegame though (or it's saved on the Steam cloud), you should finish that.

[GlowWorm]

The older game's Frozen Wilds DLC does have some lore related to Forbidden West. It's not groundbreaking "ZOMG!" lore, but there are story-connections.

I want to push back at the OP, however: If you didn't find the older game compelling ... I think you really should consider that you might not find this newer game compelling. As a test, try putting in a few hours with the older game. If you find it meh, you might very well find this new game meh. You can then look at the full price for this new game and decide whether, for you, a meh game at that price is ok. Or you could wishlist this new game and wait for a discount. Or you can just walk on by this game and look for something else.

[Raider Deci]

I still have the dlc left myself, should really push through that atleast. Never got around to it despite liking the basegame

[MadAsAHatter]

Yes. it's a direct sequel and the story continues with all the major characters.

[harouto]

Yes of course, it's a direct sequel of the first one.

[longjohn119]

Depends ..... On one hand you get some background on the story however you may have problems with the combat because things that worked well in the first game (for example the Tripcaster and the Ropecaster) don't work so well in Forbidden West and could be frustrating

[Mistamufu]

I played HZD on PS4 and half way on PC. I think I'm going to replay it on PC before HFW comes out on PC again just for the hell of it.

[Akula Kor'Ah]

If you can remember all the main & side story plot points then no. If not, then you be spending the first 4-6 hours wondering why this person, that Aloy obviously knows, is important to anything. Petra is the best example as she is so easy to miss in HZD's story.

[Deviant]

hzd was one of the very few games where i literally did everything there was to do on hardest diff that game was amazing

[sjsharp2007]

Originally posted by ᑕYᗷEᖇᑕᗩT:

I did and have no regrets :B1:

Yeah I did a playthroug hof Zero Dawn recently t orefers hmyself on the story. Also I'm thinking later in the yea ro fa possibl eback to back run o fboth games. Not right away but later on.