This wasn't done by me, but thought this was pretty cool!
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Horizon Forbiden West - Real Life Photo Comparison!
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This is very cool. I love that we're going west and I really hope the world itself is exciting to explore. Finding these landmarks will be fun but I want there to be a good reason to wander around. I felt the first game did a pretty good job of it, with the long necks to climb and sites to see. I'm assuming this one will follow suit and judging by the trailer we'll get a lot of variety. Seeing this post apocalyptic land scape is already awesome though.
Twice actually but It's been a a while and don't really remember any details about landmarks and such. ;p
I've only just started the first game, does that have locations based on real world counterparts?
The first one wasn't really based on a location right? More of a general idea of that area. I could be wrong though
Yeah, but they dont jump out as much. It's a mix of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, but not to scale
Cool comparison.
I remember visiting the Palace of Fine Arts. Such a grandiose title for a Neoclassical monument that was first meant to be temporary—but was then rebuilt with classical, more 'permanent' materials such as concrete and steel beams.
And it still looked like it was falling apart.
I remember visiting the Palace of Fine Arts. Such a grandiose title for a Neoclassical monument that was first meant to be temporary—but was then rebuilt with classical, more 'permanent' materials such as concrete and steel beams.
And it still looked like it was falling apart.
Pretty much, with some bits of Utah and Wyoming thrown in there too.
It's Colorado and Utah, there are a lot of landmarks.
List of Real Locations in Horizon Zero Dawn
This is a list of the most significant or striking real life locations used in the setting of Horizon Zero Dawn. For additional locations see Real World Location Info. Horizon Zero Dawn is set in the Southwestern United States, specifically the states of Colorado, Utah, parts of northern Arizona...
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I'm not from the USA, so I wouldn't recognize it directly, but the story names it concretely.
It's Colorado and Utah, there are a lot of landmarks.
List of Real Locations in Horizon Zero Dawn
This is a list of the most significant or striking real life locations used in the setting of Horizon Zero Dawn. For additional locations see Real World Location Info. Horizon Zero Dawn is set in the Southwestern United States, specifically the states of Colorado, Utah, parts of northern Arizona...
I'm not from the USA, so I wouldn't recognize it directly, but the story names it concretely.
Ah didn't know that. Also not from the USA, but thats pretty cool!
It's Colorado and Utah, there are a lot of landmarks.
List of Real Locations in Horizon Zero Dawn
This is a list of the most significant or striking real life locations used in the setting of Horizon Zero Dawn. For additional locations see Real World Location Info. Horizon Zero Dawn is set in the Southwestern United States, specifically the states of Colorado, Utah, parts of northern Arizona...
I'm not from the USA, so I wouldn't recognize it directly, but the story names it concretely.
Oh yeah, that would explain it, I'm not from the US. I know a bunch of SanFran and New York land marks and places but no nothing off Utah or Colorado.
I think they'll likely do a scaled-back version so that they can include a lot of surrounding space, without making the world too big. The first time takes place over a real-world area that stretches for hundreds of kilometres, but is scaled down to a much more manageable 6km or so on each side in the game. The Horizon Wiki gives a scale of about 107.5:1 (though the map isn't a perfect correlation, so any scale is just an approximation). If the Forbidden West map has a similar size and scale then it's totally possible that the game map would be ~6km on each side again, representing a real-world area of ~600+km on each side - enough for it to include shrunken versions of San Francisco on one end and Los Angeles on the other.
It's never explicitly stated, but if you add up the dates you find in optional text and notes it is set in or around 3020
They're pretty much at sea level. The name of the first building (the Ferry Building) is purely descriptive - it was built as a ferry terminal on San Francisco Bay.
Actually, based on the lore of the first game, all that would have been already cleaned up for fuel
Awesome! HZD and this sequel must be even greater experience for people who know a lot of US landmarks.
Hmm yeah also it's 1000 years after now so it probably doesn't look anything like San Fransisco anymore, just need to put those landmarks here and there lol.
The city should look quite similar to now. Explaining why a moderately large spoiler for the original game, so:
In Horizon Zero Dawn, all life - and all biomatter - on Earth's surface is extinguished in 2066 by a plague of self-replicating machines that use organic material as fuel. The "Zero Dawn" of the title was an automated terraforming project that would firstly brute-force decrypt the codes to deactivate the machines (which took a century or so) and then gradually start reintroducing life to the planet, eventually cloning and reintroducing humans. That means that, although the game is set about a thousand years from now, San Francisco in the game will be the ruins of the city as it existed in 2066 - long enough for some significant changes, but not so much to totally change the character of the city.
While I'm not bothered by it in Horizon as much because it's set so far into the future, I find it kinda disappointing that it's doing 'famous American city' like so many other games.
The setting makes me more excited about the game, always love seeing reimagined versions of areas I'm familiar with.
Horizon III to take place in Seattle?
Horizon III to take place in Seattle?
You really should. For me it's one of the best Sci-Fi Stories in recent gaming history.
It absolutely was based on real locations
List of Real Locations in Horizon Zero Dawn
This is a list of the most significant or striking real life locations used in the setting of Horizon Zero Dawn. For additional locations see Real World Location Info. Horizon Zero Dawn is set in the Southwestern United States, specifically the states of Colorado, Utah, parts of northern Arizona...
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