Is Horizon Zero Dawn Worth Playing in 2023?

LET ME KNOW! What are your thoughts on Horizon Zero Dawn?

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It just started playing this game this year too. It pretty good... just level system sucks

I loved this franchise with all my heart, and it even proceeded all my expectations with Forbidden West (it's emotional, exciting, profounding and well-crafted). It felt like I had become a close friend with Aloy and it made me care for her and the world she lived in.

This is always worth a play. Insanely fun and beautiful game

Impressive game..my girl love me playing it..then we made love after the ending 😮

To for no spoilers. I just started this year due to my new PS5. On issue you missed the biggest annoyance - you need to select as active quest (new weapons) to be counted and not be part of your normal playthrough. That’s so dumb

This whole video just feels like you not liking that the game requires you to do anything other than play the main quest 😂😂😂

i just played from 2 weeks ago and completed yesturday. just today i got notification on steam where horizon the forbidden west PC coming soon added and added it to whitelist.

So I have just beaten Horizon Zero Dawn today, and uh........well....... I mean the game is..... well uh....

In all honestly, I really did like Horizon earlier, the idea behind Horizon Zero Dawn and the feeling of being a bad-ass female hunter was so cool. I also found the gameplay to be fun as well, being very similar to Open-World Games very much like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Immortals Fenyx Rising and a few others, I really do like the since of freedom and exploration that the game gives you and, while I didn't do all of the side missions, there's a huge replay value that makes it fun to replay again and again.

Despite that tho........the later parts of the game were a bit.......ughhhhhhh, and the reason is simple.....its difficulty.

While I do like a challenge, very similar to Prototype, Horizon Zero Dawn just get WAY too brutal near the end game, and while I wouldn't call it as brutal and hard as Lost Planet 2, Dragon's Dogma and ECPASSITLY Days Gone, there were many missions and bosses that really....REALLY got under my skin, the last three-to-four bosses in particular were also HUMUNGUST pains in the asses.

But I am willing to let them slide because to be trueful, I didn't do any of the side-content or got any of the stronger weapons as I was somewhat rushing to get this game beaten, but even then from what I saw, this game still looks a bit brutal given how I saw some Players in videos were they were around Level 50-ish and still took quite a bit of damage.

Overall, Horizon Zero Dawn is a bit of a mix-bag for me, I WANT to like the game, I really, really, REALLY do, but there are too many elements that hold it back, chef of which is its difficulty and its lack cluster bosses.

I am looking forward to play Horizon Forbidden West, tho I just hope its' difficulty is more....balance then previously.

Can upgrade an ability to call a mount always... very useful.. act as a weak teamate and distraction.. and you get better mounts in tougher areas.

60 hrs.. im 30 in and not nearly half way through..but i do everything.. all complete..add and ocd 😅😅

My 2nd favorite game of all time :)

Although i do agree with most of your statements, i do not agree with the fact that the mounts are hard to find or hard to obtain , on quest's or just on the road most of the time they are quite close, it might take 2-3 minutes walking if it's really THAT far but other then that they are easily able to be obtained, however if it is far away in your opinion then that's alright it's no hard feelings

Horizon was supposed to look as realistic as possible to so of course there's not gonna be horses and other creatures everywhere because its not very realistic if it did

I don't care what other people say this game and the sequel are masterpieces

You forgot to mention something, the audio problems with the voices being a bit robotic at times 😅, but it only happens on PC, unfortunately 😓.

This game just gets crazy good from the middle to the end. I'm not even a Sony fan boy, but this is one the best games to grace their console.

this game is so visually impressive, that I would ignore fast travel and happily go by foot, so yeah screw fast travel, hardly ever used mounts Forbidden West's map was so much bigger so only then did I make an exception on using fast travel, but then it didn't use the "pack" in that game as long as you were already at a fast travel site

After playing that back in 2017, i was so impressed of this game in all these passed years. After the cliffhanger in the outro, i looked forward to get the chance to play a sequel of this gem. Last week i decided to make a replay, before i dive into the second release. It's not just a lot of fun - the creators of the game gave a us a chance to overthink the AI hype we have nowadays. Highly recommended title for the PS4 system. 😊

I remember rage quitting after this time trial thing where you zipline to this plateu and theres all these raindeer looking things and you gotta shoot those yellow tanks of their backs and i kept failing 😂😂😂

I bought it like 2 years after release and did not finish it after watching this ima go finish it

Im on my 4th playthrough....i might like it

I bought this game like 1 month ago. I'm in love with the story, gameplay and graphics. I hope HFW comes to PC too in the near future.

ooga booga?

It is i love Aloy(PS4 girlfreind)

I think I wanna start it again, played it a bit for a few hours some months ago, but couldn't really get hooked. Combat and all that was really fun though, it's kinda the futuristic vibe that puts me off. But maybe I should try it again.

Hey good video man, helped me with my decision to get it. Thank you. You're an underappreciated channel

I just started two days ago lol oh my…

one of my top games of all time. On my second playthrough which was on the pc, I got so engrossed with the side missions and just kicking ass (First time into the deserts I took down a stormbird even though it was 10+ levels higher). I really could not see eye to eye on your criticisms, the games travel pack resources simply means you need to kill some wild life animals in your journeys. you are surrounded by them. Shoot something. I think the flawed AI works very well because it FEELS like your are outsmarting a flawed AI system which works out well, because these machines are flawed. They make up for it in aggressiveness. Also putting your weapon kit together and known the takedown strats helps immensely. My only frustration is when dealing with some of the big boys you are constantly moving and shooting and I am constantly getting hung up on terrain and falling back into walk mode. This is so common in open world games. One thing of note, not all quest show up on the map screen until you are on top of the person. second play through I found a bunch more side quest in the open, including a multi tierd one dealing with a seer. This game took $200 million to make and it feels like it.

Nice review thanks. Steam summer sale got me researching all sorts of games!

I just got here also. So far the game is amazing but I’m having a hard time getting the mods to work. Any tips ? I’m using nexus

Worth it!

This game was mid imo. Just another ubisoft like collectathon that doesnt even use its strengths in its story past the introduction to them. The cool boss dino cauldron fights are rare in the story which is lame because it is something the game does really well.

I finished my 100% on this game a month ago and now I'm pretty far into Forbidden West. Let me just say if you like Zero Dawn, Forbidden West improves a lot mechanics and issues with the first game. (Btw theres no spoilers) Transition from cutscenes to dialogue options are seamless and you don't even realize most times it's happening. The resource system lets you hold more and it seperates items depending on there use (crafting, selling, trading, etc.) so you don't have to pick out the items you want to sell. The best thing is what they did with Aloy herself. She feels more fleshed out and humanized as a character compared to what she is in this game. I like her in the first game, but I really like how much more they did with her in the next one. There's so much more to talk about, but I recommend anyone who likes this game to definitely play the sequel.

Great game ruined by a trash sequel and it's DLC.
The story and writing of forbidden west and Burning shores are so bad makes you wonder if a 3rd game is even necessary.

Zero dawn had such a good story and good world building....only for forbidden west to come along and destroy everything.

Forbidden west might look and play better than Zero dawn but the story and writing of zero Dawn gives it that extra edge.

A Shame it's now a generic story with a generic world...wouldn't be surprised if it's another mass effect 3 style conclusion after that "invasion".

Picked up a PS5 a month ago , got ps plus and have been playing nothing but this, this game is truly a masterpiece, planning to plat it.

It’s officially a modern Classic. Worth 100% ting

Just buy it folks. There’s better games out there, but WOW

yeah super fun for the most part. so worth it. $15

when i bought hotizon forbiden west i played horizon zero dawn for the third time again and started horizon forbiden west right away so yes it is worth cause horizion is the best game ever made

Played it on PC, loved it except for much of the side content. Nothing beats the Witcher 3 when it comes to side content, loads of fun quests there.

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Me- yes yes it is

I bought this game at discount only 4 hours in and I got to say it's good, the looting/crafting system is simple so it's not that immersive but it's okay, but the main point for me is the combat and the graphic/environment

This is the best game I’ve ever played.

Didn’t get a grip with my ps4. I tried to focus but got bored really fast. I tried again on pc built recently and 100 hrs in and completed everything lol. Once you get the feel of the storytelling and combat systems a bit and just a browse through the world I accidentally found myself immersed into the game so easily so many times. Good game in my opinion. 😅

The fast travel could have been easily fixed. Instead of the golden travel pack, they should have made unlimited fast travel linked to having a mount.

So, if Aloy is (fast) traveling by herself, she needs some supplies (though less "food" and more "hunting supplies" like arrows) to make it without your intervention.

But if she has a mount, she could just have it take her there. They are intelligent machines after all, and faster.

I get serious apex legends vibes from this game.

I just bought this game and a pre-owned PS4. I'm very much enjoying it 🙂

Quality game. Took a few hours for it to click with me. So glad I persevered. Story is immense.

Also just started this game this year. Game's slow to start, but I got immersed into it probably around Mother's Crown where more quests start to pop up & you start to get the feel of the combat system. Graphics is amazing every time I turn on my PS and progressively getting better at targeting & dodging with the controller feels satisfying too. There's a lot of depth to this game that you slowly learn about that makes the game more dynamic instead of straightforward hack n slash combat. Last game I previously played was Diablo 3 so was kinda burnt out from isometric arpg's, and changing over to open world over the shoulder POV really freshens things up.