Did you read any of the reviews on metacritic to see why or did you just look at the average? The reviews themselves will tell you why it got a 91.
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Horizon: Zero Dawn | Review Thread
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Did you read any of the reviews on metacritic to see why or did you just look at the average? The reviews themselves will tell you why it got a 91.
potatohead
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It's actually a great game?
The things people do to hate on the KZ franchise is so fucking annoying.
SuperSonic1305
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The multiplayer still hasn't been replicated anywhere else.
It is a gorgeous game with great gunplay and multiplayer?
lowhighkang_LHK
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MegaSackman
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The hate on KZ2 probably comes from people that only played the campaign (I'm one of those people that don't play multiplayer in shooters but never played KZ2) since I understand is not as cinematic and spectacular as Mordern Warfare or well written as Bioshock (just to name two popular shooters).
Yep it is up keep trying.
Kenzodielocke
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What time does this unlock for EU?
If you order before a certain time and pay next day shipping you MIGHT. Just pay attention it will tell you when it will arrive before purchasing and it's almost always accurate.
Nope. Considering its scale this is the best looking next gen game.
The gun play, MP, and graphics were all strong points for Killzone 2. I would say the campaign was the weakest aspect, but it was still solid. I would argue that Killzone 3 had a better campaign because of the perfect pacing, still good gun play, and split-screen co-op
the fuck is this? There are A LOT worse shooters than Shadowfall and are certainly playable.
Did people not use their OWL the entire playthrough or something? Did you at least try the MP
the fuck is this? There are A LOT worse shooters than Shadowfall and are certainly playable.
Did people not use their OWL the entire playthrough or something? Did you at least try the MP
Tried about everything from restarting my PS4, resetting my internet, logging out, etc. I am on beta firmware 4.5 so could that possibly be an issue? Guess I will try to figure it out. Worse case scenario I play it later the day it comes out. Thanks for the answer
boredandlazy
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http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Video-Game-Review
A lot of people did that, and it ended up averaging about 91.
Oh yes my bad actually the MP was pretty great.
Killzone 2 multiplayer was awesome. Still think it has the most satisfying kill sound. Dat chirp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVSJg6zV8XU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVSJg6zV8XU
MaKTaiL
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Make sure to go the store first and like/rate Horizon so you can see the post related to it on the Activities tab. It's definitely a bug on the Beta firmware.
BattleMonkey
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Was legit good fps at the time of release. Think it's kinda been surpassed since then in various aspects, but at time of release, damn was it fun.
Nope.
Except for positioning the camera and zooming in or out a little, I applied no other effects or filters in photomode. This is exactly how the game looks in-game (on PS4 Pro).By the way, two action shots that I took:
It's pretty damn good, especially the multiplayer.
More_Badass
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That right there is the flaw in your argument. You're saying 1/10 and so on as if review scores are reflections of the game's quality. It's not and never has, not for games, not for movies, not for books. It's a reflection of that reviewer's enjoyment.
To use an example I like, incredible movies like The Thing and The Shining got middling reviews when they released, even though those movies are excellently crafted and very put together from a technical and film-making level. A review score isn't telling you how good a game is, it's telling you how much the reviewer enjoyed it
Nor is it an immutable measure. A movie, game, show I might rate as 5/10 or whatnot now, could be a 10/10 five years from now. Case in point, I thought Alien was kind of boring and Aliens was better in every way when I first saw Alien like seven, eight years ago. Flash forward now, with a much greater appreciation for slow burn horror, more knowledge about cinematography, and much more interest in sci-fi and sci-fi horror, and I consider Alien a masterpiece
What some people forget is that not every prospective buyer is someone who is "all in" and riding a ridiculous hype train. I'm personally pretty wary of most open world games and I find the USGamer review incredibly useful and relevant to me as a result of that.
Yes it absolutely fucking does. Giving a game 1/10 is a numerical way of saying "I really hated this game." There is no deeper objective score that reviewers are all trying to approximate, there are just different people playing it and telling everyone else what their experience was like.
Yes it absolutely fucking does. Giving a game 1/10 is a numerical way of saying "I really hated this game." There is no deeper objective score that reviewers are all trying to approximate, there are just different people playing it and telling everyone else what their experience was like.
Tomeru
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Killzone 2 is a great fucking game.
Still no shooter that controls like it. Probably never will...
That's fair, but numerous reviews are also by open world cynics. Many say "I'm tired of open worlds but this works".
Obviously still might not work for you, but USG isn't the only review worth listening to.
Found a solution but not that one cause I had no activity for the game. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. For anyone having this issue: Go to the Library>Search for Horizon in the search bar> The Download icon should now show up when you click on Horizon. Weird issue. Hope everyone has fun with the game.
FalsettoVibe
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Because it's good.
Those forests... O:
(PS4 Pro)
Damn, that is absolutely beautiful.
Fahzgoolin
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I got a PS3 for it. Loved it
Tomeru
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It's a reflection of the reviewer standard. Or at least it should be. But it must not be only of their enjoyment. If you grade something, its based on your standard.
I'm of the mind that all review scores are equally arbitrary because it's nearly impossible to take something as subjective as the experience to play and consistently translate it to a numerical score, even if you have a long list of rules for how many points a game gains/loses for X, Y, and Z.
ronaldthump
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Animation isn't tied to the engine and it looked really good on decima. I had a blast with UD, don't recall frame rate issues so if it had it, it didn't bother me. Most people who played it seem to love it. One of my favourites this gen.
I really liked kz2. Bridge assault. Offfgh. Looked so good for it's time too. Loved the grey and brown world. Too bad they took the criticism of the colour palette onboard and kz3 was so colourful. :/
Jack The Nipper
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I've seen a few things that said things got toward FarCry, but yeah will have to play myself to know for sure like usual. I won't mind bad side quests either, as long as the main stuff is decent.
Tomeru
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We can't escape from some measure of description of enjoyment from reviewers. The whole numerical scoring is a double edged sword because even if one reviewer's 5 is another reviewer's 9, then something is afoot. And we are talking numbers here:: and 8 is an 8 is an 8. You see this best when a game gets a majority of its reviews scored about the same (8~9). That means that most reviewers are working off the same standard of scoring. Statistics and anomalies and such.
Thanks to a price mistake cancellation giving me a $10 credit, I just got a sweet deal. I was late to this hype train because I wasn't sure it would be one...
Oh and KZ2 hate was mainly due to two things:
- People that didn't forgive them for claiming that infamous E3 trailer was entirely "in-game" (bullshot controversy)
- Your character was not an arcadey hoppin' spider monkey. Stupid realistic weight and gravity!
Oh and KZ2 hate was mainly due to two things:
- People that didn't forgive them for claiming that infamous E3 trailer was entirely "in-game" (bullshot controversy)
- Your character was not an arcadey hoppin' spider monkey. Stupid realistic weight and gravity!
Kenzodielocke
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Yes, but I would also argue that Guerrilla Games also have one of the best art designers in the triple A industry.
More_Badass
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Of course they're arbitrary. Not only among different sites having different meanings and definitions for what defines their scores, but among every individual writer on those sites, because every person will weight and view things differently based on preference and personal experience
DriftingSpirit
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Nice.Thanks to a price mistake cancellation giving me a $10 credit, I just got a sweet deal. I was late to this hype train because I wasn't sure it would be one...
I got the Prime discount and a $5 credit applied to mine because of a mistake on Amazon's part with another order I had. I'm getting it for ~$45.
More_Badass
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But that's exactly what it is. For anything.
And no, an 8 isn't 8, because review scores aren't a science or some standardized measure. Every score from every site is on its own individual scale. There is no standard.
We're not talking numbers. We're talking labels. What are 8/10 graphics or a 7/10 story? The numbers are arbitrary labels, a numerical representation of something that's non-numerical. You can just as easily replace 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 with Bad, Mediocre, Average, Good, Excellent, and nothing would change
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