All the screenshots in this game are making me want to play it again and I've already played it twice. Such an incredible, beautiful game - the sequel is going to be absolutely jaw-dropping, I have no doubt.
Horizon Zero Dawn has sold well over 10 million copies worldwide (2 year anniversary update)
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Game one of exclusive new IP A sells 500k units, but game two sells 50 million. Both within one generation.
Game one of exclusive new IP B sells 1 million and game two (of that new franchise for the current generation) sells 10 million.
Game one of exclusive new IP C sells 2 million and does not get a sequel.
IP C is the best selling exclusive new IP of the generation. Makes sense.
I really need to sit down and finally beat it. I'm right before the end and I've been putting it off.
Nope. After the first game, it'is no longer a new IP. Stop. You're not convincing anyone. You're just arguing in bad faith at this point.
Why did you get unbanned, come back and continue to pull tales from your ass?
Whatever you argument is, Sea of Theives hasn't sold more than Horizon. I can't remember what the first Splatoon did but you don't compare 2 games with just 1 when we're talking about how well a new game from a new IP did,
Saw this posted on the PSblog site for the article:
And my first reaction was: "What! what? I don't remember there being options to paint Aloy's face... was this a preorder bonus?"
Took me a while to scroll down and realize that was cosplay, very well done cosplay. God dang. If anyone is interested here is her insta: https://www.instagram.com/keyvei/?hl=en
Fuck. I had exactly your reaction when I looked at the pic before I scrolled down to read your post. I even zoomed in on the pic. This just proves how amazingly lifelike the graphics are.
New I.P usually means the 1st game. Best selling new I.P and best selling new franchise (which would include Spidey PS4, as it's a new exclusive, one which will likely sell the best in the end) of a gen don't necessarily have to be the same either.
Doesn't matter anyway, because I don't think an exclusive new franchise has sold 10+ million this gen either. Splatoon is multi gen, it doesn't count, but even if it did for some random ass reason, so would TLoU using the same logic and it's over 17m.
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Goddamn until I saw YOUR post, I still didn't catch that it was cosplay. Thought it was in-game. Amazing.
It's a beautiful and very immersive game, with an intersting story, and the combat against the machine is outstanding. But the lack of any kind of interactivity with the environnement is a real problem in this game and made the exploration uninteresting which is a pity with such beautiful vistas.
I would have liked to discover plenty of caves with meaningful secrets (like loot or hidden scroll with secrets) behind a bush or behind a waterfall. Find secret rooms (again with interesting stuff) by destroying walls, grounds or glasses.
The puzzles are too few and incredibly and uselessly easy. With that kind of environement and details, they could have done incredible environmental puzzles with varied devices.
Yes, there is a few secrets to discover in order to have one special object, but that's not enough. Such a big, old, mysterious world and there is just a few really hidden interesting rooms. And as a whole the world is so static that you are not encouraged to try breaking walls or stuff so I learned about those few hidden rooms by reading stuff on Internet.
Also the verticality is completely wasted. All paths are clearly labelled, they should have rewarded exploration when climbing, maybe by making climbing really dangerous and also I would have liked to climb on all seamingly climbable surfaces in the ruins and moutain and find secrets after a dangerous, adventurous and long climb.
I would have liked to discover plenty of caves with meaningful secrets (like loot or hidden scroll with secrets) behind a bush or behind a waterfall. Find secret rooms (again with interesting stuff) by destroying walls, grounds or glasses.
The puzzles are too few and incredibly and uselessly easy. With that kind of environement and details, they could have done incredible environmental puzzles with varied devices.
Yes, there is a few secrets to discover in order to have one special object, but that's not enough. Such a big, old, mysterious world and there is just a few really hidden interesting rooms. And as a whole the world is so static that you are not encouraged to try breaking walls or stuff so I learned about those few hidden rooms by reading stuff on Internet.
Also the verticality is completely wasted. All paths are clearly labelled, they should have rewarded exploration when climbing, maybe by making climbing really dangerous and also I would have liked to climb on all seamingly climbable surfaces in the ruins and moutain and find secrets after a dangerous, adventurous and long climb.
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Even though you're wrong, Splatoon 1 and 2 are not part of the same generation anyway so the point you are trying to make is completely moot.
lol?
It was competing with Nier: Automata and Nioh on the same platform within weeks of its launch. I think Nioh launched at the same time and Nier maybe a week or two later.
I don't believe in ending messages with /s but I should.
Thank you for reading and also for the kind words.
I didn't expect anyone to go through that entire wall of text, but Ms. McCarthy's review struck me as deceitful ever since it was published, and I felt that this thread was a good opportunity to finally voice my opinion about it.
This should come as no surprise, but I definitely recommend finishing the game. The revelations at the end are really interesting, and if you were enjoying the story, I'm sure you'd feel satisfied with its conclusion.
You absolutely did the right thing. I had to read the review again in order to write my critique of it, but you'll notice I didn't add a link to it and included many verbatim quotes as to make checking the source material redundant.
It is, unfortunately, a pretty common practice in the industry. It doesn't get discussed much simply because it's a matter hidden in contracts between publishers and developers with very strict NDAs. General audiences only hear about those deals when they leak.
And while I believe that it's an unfair system, as review aggregators are inherently flawed, I also strongly disagree with Ms. McCarthy's arguments, and discussed in great detail here how I don't see the validity in her criticisms.
Not everything is for everyone, true. But when you're objectively wrong about most of your assessments, your judgement should be reevaluated.
That sounds like an excellent idea. Are there any tasks in that process that can be automated, or do you simply transfer the image files from your PS4 to a PC using a flash drive, and them upload them to Google Photos?
I don't think it could be automated other than having some sort of script that pulls images from your Facebook / Twitter, and even then you'd have to manually upload them from your PS4. Plus you'd be getting crappy compressed JPEGs anyway.
So yeah, I use a USB stick to copy the photos to my PC or phone about once or twice a month and just upload everything to Google Photos as PNGs.
This is one of the things the Xbox One handles much better, as it can be set to automatically upload every capture to OneDrive and then you can set your OneDrive folder to automatically upload to Google Photos on your PC.
Man I'm happy it did this well and that we'll get more. Horizon has some of the best world building of this generation and I just fucking loved it.
The audio and data logs are also the most *haunting* part of any video I've ever played and I play the hell out of Horror games. Nothing in any of them has come close to the terror of the world ending that Horizon invoked in me. The more you listened to them and read them the clearer the picture formed in your head and it was just brilliantly done. The deeper and deeper you go the the more the dread builds and when it finally hits you it's just this "oh, fuck..." moment and man it was great.
Whoever pulled that off, mad props, because you got me like nothing from Resident Evil, Silent Hill, TEW, or anything else has before and I love that shit.
The audio and data logs are also the most *haunting* part of any video I've ever played and I play the hell out of Horror games. Nothing in any of them has come close to the terror of the world ending that Horizon invoked in me. The more you listened to them and read them the clearer the picture formed in your head and it was just brilliantly done. The deeper and deeper you go the the more the dread builds and when it finally hits you it's just this "oh, fuck..." moment and man it was great.
Whoever pulled that off, mad props, because you got me like nothing from Resident Evil, Silent Hill, TEW, or anything else has before and I love that shit.
Congrats to Horizon <3
Yoooooooooooooooooo what. I had the same thinking process as you. Holy shit, that's borderline as impressive as that insane Lady Maria (Bloodborne) cosplay I saw a while back. Absolutely stunning.
I have six copies. One from my then deceased grandmother, 3 from my mom (from best-buy get 3 for 2 deal), one I found on my doorstep and 1 that came accidentally bundled with my little bro's 2DS. Still haven't got around to playing it, I'm sure I'm not alone
I'm pretty sure you are lol
I know you meant about not having played it yet
You could say they introduced a new IP in the context of a generation, but as soon as the second title releases it becomes a franchise, and thus when discussing sales of a said new IP, sales are seperate instead of combined. In that same way, Uncharted 2 and 3, or Gears 2, 3 and Judgement, may have been sequels to new IP's that launched last gen, but ultimately they ended up becoming franchises.
Similarly, Splatoon 2 is not a new IP. Horizon Zero Dawn and Sea of Thieves are.
Splatoon 2 isn't a new IP because the first game came out on the Wii U, technically the previous gen
What constitutes a new IP isn't dependant on the generation or any other arbitrary time frame, but the actual intellectual property itself. For example, one could say that Epic introduced a new IP with Gears of War last gen, but Gears of War 2 is not a new IP, and neither is Gears of War 3 or Judgment. They do however form part of what was the introduction of a new IP (Gears of War 1) earlier in that gen, going on to then become a franchise (in the same gen).
No, that's at >13 million total, so probably >11.5 million just on the Switch.
Fuck yeah! Bring on a sequel on PS5! One of the best games on PS4.
Bigger badder creatures please.
And they did it all on a single player game with worthwhile paid DLC too.
Bigger badder creatures please.
And they did it all on a single player game with worthwhile paid DLC too.
days gone from bend, ghost of tsushima from sucker punch and tlou2 from naughty dog (if it's cross gen) will probably join that list too.
How many has Heavy Rain sold? I remember Detroit reaching 3 million at some point before.