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Horizon Forbidden West story trailer

Usually story trailers don't usually show gameplay footage?

Gameplay footage no doubt in an upcoming State of Play.
I guess I should have said, I would like to have seen "more in-game sequences" represented. Most of what was shown was a cut scene. I want to see what fidelity We'll be getting in-game.

Also have they shown off the 60fps mode yet?
 
I'm gonna need one of those Youtube plot recap videos closer to the time. I can barely remember a thing about the plot from the first game. Aloy is important and Lance Reddick is a badass, that's about it.

Probably gonna be putting this on the backburner so I don't have to squeeze it in the week before Elden Ring. I made the same mistake with BOTH and Horizon got shelved hard.


this trailer didn't do it for me. Too many cutscenes.

That's some platinum bait.
 
I'm gonna need one of those Youtube plot recap videos closer to the time. I can barely remember a thing about the plot from the first game. Aloy is important and Lance Reddick is a badass, that's about it.

Probably gonna be putting this on the backburner so I don't have to squeeze it in the week before Elden Ring. I made the same mistake with BOTH and Horizon got shelved hard.




That's some platinum bait.

Nah bro I legit just wanna see what the game looks like running in-game at 60fps. I legit just wanna see that.
 
The combat mechanics on H:ZD were strong and this gives me hope for this game. Having said that all about the story / lore disappoints me. The actress doing Aloy's voice is specially annoying.
 
Looking good, I thought the story in 1 was surprisingly good, so hopefully they keep improving in 2.
The graphics look amazing, though is it me or does it look more cartoony/stylized than 1 ? The graphics themselves look much improved, but it doesn't look more "realistic"

They definitely seem to have gone for a more cartoony style this time. The first one was mostly realistic, just with saturated colours.

I'm just sick of bloody cutscene footage. I don't understand the aversion to just showing 60fps gameplay. We know from the state of play that gameplay looks much better than cutscenes, and 60fps looks much better than 30fps. Just show that ffs. But I guess we'll probably have to wait for reviews now to see that proper footage.
 
Nah bro I legit just wanna see what the game looks like running in-game at 60fps. I legit just wanna see that.

It's labelled STORY TRAILER my guy. It's like being disappointed that a gameplay trailer showed too much gameplay.
 
no idea, probably, youtube is your friend. it's a bit of a strange thing to moan about tbh.

Feels like your just trying to manufacture something to be upset at or throw shade on the game.

No, nothing's been shown of the 60fps mode yet.

I can't be the only one to realise that 1440p60 footage looks much better than 4k30 footage on *Youtube*, given the compression and the actual displays most people are watching on??

60fps holds up perfectly on Youtube. 4k doesn't hold up at all, even in the unlikely scenario that someone is watching on a 4k screen. So show 60fps!
 
More attractive than Alloy.
Not an hard task dude

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Well for me, despite all of MS's acquisitions, I still much prefer Sony's first party games and i suspect I'm not the only one. I was rather disappointed with Halo Infinite. Sure it's better than Halo 5 but still a far cry from Reach in my book. There's really no first party MS game I'm super excited to play except maybe Forza 8. I am curious about Starfield and maybe that will get me excited once I see actual gameplay, but I'm really afraid it'll be Elder Scrolls/Fallout but in space with all the same shitty mechanics both of those games share. I hope that won't be the case. But on PS5 there's at least 5 or 6 exclusives I can think up that I'm excited about. I'm not saying MS won't have great exclusives down the line but as of right now, they're just not there, and acquisitions are nice but those new studios will need to crank out some amazing games to matter in the end. I have a PS5 and a Series X with Gamepass so in the end I'll get to play everything I want to. I've learned to live without nintendo for 15 years so I don't miss their games at all and as for PC I've given up on it til I can buy a GPU at MSRP.

EDIT: I meant to post this in the IGN content war thread not this one, my bad.
 
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It's labelled STORY TRAILER my guy. It's like being disappointed that a gameplay trailer showed too much gameplay.
Whats funny is that Sony devs have been doing this for an entire generation. The last trailer they release is a story trailer that is almost always all story.
 
Because it leaked via ESRB ratings. might as well reveal it in a trailer than have people read about it on gaf or twitter.
It's more complicated than that but i don't wanna go into spoiler territory.

I didn't watched the trailer yet, does she has many screentime or they just released a pic of her?!

I don't want any other spoiler about her.
 
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Apparently Aloy discovers an ancient tribe of twitter users.

I'm looking forward to this though. Story beats specifically. Will be interesting to see how far Guerilla have come with refining all the systems etc.
 
Love everything about this but the story

Just watching this trailer made me cringe. Dont know why, it doesnt gel with me since the first Horizon.

I would have enjoyed much more if it was personal instead of something this epic

When they showed the sidecharacters I went:

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I remember the fat guy, but the other one was really into the first game's story at all?

Looks absolutely gorgeous tho
There was the fat guy who spent the whole first game crying, the black guy who no one rememebers but has a cool beard now and that other black guy who is clearly the villain but Aloy still just does everything he tells her for some reason .
 
It's more complicated than that but i don't wanna go into spoiler territory.

I didn't watched the trailer yet, does she has many screentime or they just released a pic of her?!

I don't want any other spoiler about her.
she is in the very last scene of the trailer. Just as an after credit scene of the trailer. doesnt say anything so might as well be a screenshot.
 
Do you think Sony was holding onto this just in case Microsoft purchased a big publisher?

Because good LORD, what a trailer! Day zero - Red Bull, midnight, whole works.
 
Looks way better and more interesting than the first. First one didn't look interesting to me at all but this one I want to play,probably gonna have to play HZD first though.
 
Looks way better and more interesting than the first. First one didn't look interesting to me at all but this one I want to play,probably gonna have to play HZD first though.
HZD is very good, just give it a try and it gets better the more you're further into the game.
 
I have this pre-ordered since June last year and it's probably going to be awesome on the PS5 anyway, but I have to say some of the footage shown in this last trailer really seems to be showing the PS4's legacy IMO.

The greener zones with all the foliage still look great, but the scenes in the desert just look like they might as well have been taken from a PS4 Pro.


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Humans have this plastic-y skin feeling and the lighting seems to be all over the place. It looks like they're using some pre-baked lighting for the tents and floor that just doesn't match the NPCs'.
 
Oh cmon why revealing such a character...

That's a big fucking spoiler...
I have no idea who that character is. But she looks interesting as hell. From the looks of it, it's one of the
AI characters
I'm assuming. Could be completely off
 
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