Horizon: Zero Dawn, does it get better?

[warheat]

I bought complete edition about a week ago. I'm now around 7-10 hours into the game and so far the sidequests are underwhelming with little to no story behind it, basically just go here kill machines/humans or go find and track some items/person.

I played on Very Hard and I find the combat is good at first, but after a while it's kinda boring because the enemy is bullet sponge and the AI is garbage, I feel like higher difficulty just make it more annoying than challenging due to easy way to exploit the AI.

I also find that the archery and jumping in the game so "janky/jumpy" (sorry I don't know the right word for it), this is not a problem in open field, but inside a cave/dungeon, this became a problem because I feel like the jumping doesn't have weight in it so I kept failing trying to jump on some platform.

I might have to turn the difficulty down to get auto-aim because I feel like I can't shoot to save my life. So, does it get better? To me, it feels like Infamous 2nd Son all over again, beautiful games but lack of depths.

 

[Mario_Bones]

Nope, uninteresting sidequests and combat persist throughout. Just do the cauldrons and beeline through the storyline. If the story doesn't interest you then don't even bother

 

[ClickyCal']

Not every game is for everyone.

 

[Radishhead]

The combat against robots and stealth is the standout part of the game, if it's not doing it for you then it's not going to get better.

Not sure why so many people feel they have to like games like Horizon: Zero Dawn. It's not perfect, and even if it was, it wouldn't suit everyone.

 

[shaneo632]

The plot and characters? Nope. A bunch of the lore is continually dumped by way of unskippable hologram sequences.

I took the critical path and breezed to the end in about 15 hours.

 

[potentialtodisplease]

Oh look the hipsters are here to tell us Horizon combat sucks. You might as well find something different to play because not too many people care when a thread is plastered here day in day out.

There is absolutely no lack of depth in Horizon combat. You clearly just don't know what you are doing so put it back on Normal.

The AI for these machines is more technical and polished than you could ever know. Period.

 

[KiLAM]

Nah.. story gets better in the final few hours of the game but that's pretty much it. I forced through the game to prevent buyer's remorse.

 

[Aters]

Oh look the hipsters are here to tell us Horizon combat sucks. You might as well find something different to play because not too many people care when a thread is plastered here day in day out.

There is absolutely no lack of depth in Horizon combat. You clearly just don't know what you are doing so put it back on Normal.

The AI for these machines is more technical and polished than you could ever know. Period.

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[potentialtodisplease]

Not every game is for everyone.

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No shit. I am sorry but these fucking threads ARE actually becoming an eye sore. I feel like I posted in this same exact thread for the past 4 weeks, but it's like ten different threads. Look, you do you OP, but you can definitely answer your question without posting another thread like this.

 

[Deleted member 1413]

Think we had this exact thread recently.
Edit: here

There are abilities you can equip that'll make the game better, but if it doesn't grab you early on it probably never will

 

[Deleted member 32822]

I found it to be pretty boring. Especially playing BotW before it.

 

[Deleted member 2254]

Oh look the hipsters are here to tell us Horizon combat sucks. You might as well find something different to play because not too many people care when a thread is plastered here day in day out.

There is absolutely no lack of depth in Horizon combat. You clearly just don't know what you are doing so put it back on Normal.

The AI for these machines is more technical and polished than you could ever know. Period.

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Calling him a hipster definitely doesn't give you a better argument. Some people don't enjoy open worlds much, deal with it. Or should we only have "HORIZON IS THE BEST GAME EVER MADE" threads?

 

[Deleted member 8196]

Oh look the hipsters are here to tell us Horizon combat sucks. You might as well find something different to play because not too many people care when a thread is plastered here day in day out.

There is absolutely no lack of depth in Horizon combat. You clearly just don't know what you are doing so put it back on Normal.

The AI for these machines is more technical and polished than you could ever know. Period.

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"hipsters" lmao

 

[potentialtodisplease]

This person is angry.

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Good call on that constructive and amazing post. This forum is about making threads matter. We've been over this same exact thread 500 times already, and it's suspiciously seems to attract the same people. I rarely post in them, but yeah this one is annoying as all hell. Like ten other threads could not have answered your question. At some point you are beating a dead horse to death twice.

 

[NewErakid]

Nope, uninteresting sidequests and combat persist throughout. Just do the cauldrons and beeline through the storyline. If the story doesn't interest you then don't even bother

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what games do you consider to have good combat exactly?

 

[ClickyCal']

Calling him a hipster definitely doesn't give you a better argument. Some people don't enjoy open worlds much, deal with it. Or should we only have "HORIZON IS THE BEST GAME EVER MADE" threads?

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I mean why would anyone get horizon if they aren't into that type of game? It's pretty clear on what type of game it is.

 

[potentialtodisplease]

Calling him a hipster definitely doesn't give you a better argument. Some people don't enjoy open worlds much, deal with it. Or should we only have "HORIZON IS THE BEST GAME EVER MADE" threads?

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Nobody in their right mind is going to come into this thread that has been posted 40 times in the past 4 weeks and give a reasoned argument. Nobody cares anymore. This thread was posted a day ago, and then two days before that, and then two days before that.

It's called SEARCH.

It's not that I think the thread in-itself is bad, it's that clearly everyone at this point knows this thread has been posted 4000 times before. And quite honestly I don't think there is any game other than Horizon that gets this kind of weird attention from people that apparently are just now playing a game with thousands of reviews, videos, et cetera, and they "want to know if it gets better."

It doesn't. Quit the game. Have a nice day.

 

[Deleted member 2254]

I mean why would anyone get horizon if they aren't into that type of game? It's pretty clear on what type of game it is.

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Fair enough. Thing is, attacking a user for expressing a negative but civilized opinion on a game isn't fair imho.

 

[Deleted member 9714]

It doesn't. I played it for a few hours. The combat was really boring and the controls felt so clumsy. It's an example of a game that really suffered from not having gyro aim assist. The game has some nice animations to make it feel lifelike but it comes at the expense of being fun to control.

The story and characters aren't engaging either. I literally fell asleep during a cutscene.

Short answer: Basick

 

[Deleted member 2254]

Nobody in their right mind is going to come into this thread that has been posted 40 times in the past 4 weeks and give a reasoned argument. Nobody cares anymore. This thread was posted a day ago, and then two days before that, and then two days before that.

It's called SEARCH.

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You can report the thread, explaining there have been identical threads already where this could have been posted, or that such an opinion doesn't deserve another extra thread when we already have a lot of Horizon-threads he could have posted this in. Mods may or may not agree with your stance. Calling the guy hipster just because he doesn't like a game you do shoots down any chance of a decent conversation though.

 

[Dr. Mario]

The beginning was the best part.

 

[KushalaDaora]

Can't speak for combat as I only played on Normal. I say it became better once you encounter bigger Machines and more gadgets.

As for sidequests, have you gotten out of Nora territory ? The ones in Nora territory are underwhelming. Still I find most of the sidequests decent at best. However, f you still find them undewhelming, just skip the sidequests and focus on Cauldron and main story. And if don't like the main story (and the lore found in the audiolog), I say drop the game.

Frozen Wild however, I think improves everything from the base game. Much better sidequests, story, characters, open world, and even collectables have story behind them

 

[NewErakid]

It doesn't. I played it for a few hours. The combat was really boring and the controls felt so clumsy. It's an example of a game that really suffered from not having gyro aim assist. The game has some nice animations to make it feel lifelike but it comes at the expense of being fun to control.

The story and characters aren't engaging either. I literally fell asleep during a cutscene.

Short answer: Basick

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Never had trouble aiming myself and the controls are clumsy? How exactly?

 

[Zippo]

Nope, uninteresting sidequests and combat persist throughout. Just do the cauldrons and beeline through the storyline. If the story doesn't interest you then don't even bother

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[Messofanego]

Oh look the hipsters are here to tell us Horizon combat sucks. You might as well find something different to play because not too many people care when a thread is plastered here day in day out.

There is absolutely no lack of depth in Horizon combat. You clearly just don't know what you are doing so put it back on Normal.

The AI for these machines is more technical and polished than you could ever know. Period.

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Yikes. Hope other Horizon fans don't have this kind of attitude.

 

[Lonestar]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lttp-horizon-zero-dawn-is-just-boring-and-repetitive.55118/

Topic is ongoing and still being used, please use it to discuss your opinions on this game.

 

[Thebeast!]

Yes its does. I think its more fun than botw

 

[reKon]

Red heads need more heroes