I'm not a fanboy. I hate mediocrity, and a lot of these "aaa" games are the definition of it. I haven't played horizon, thankfully, and I don't need to to know it's a deficient and subpar game that offers little beyond presentation. That's my biggest beef with these type of games, they focus so much on graphics and story but forget about having compelling gameplay. Games like resident evil 4, bionic commando 2009 & rearmed, orcs must die, guacamelee, punch out, downwell etc. games that focus on gameplay, that have unique mechanics that you won't find elsewhere, are what I enjoy about this medium, not constant cutscenes and story shoved down my throat. The combat is the only thing going for horizon(besides graphics) and it's simply not good enough to make me want to play it. I mean pattern driven combat as a positive? that's merely basic game design. It's not exactly interesting by itself.