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🎵 Promise of the West - Joris De Man 🎵 Horizon Zero Dawn Thread: PS4 | PC I Complete Plot Recap | The Apollo Archive  This thread will contain spoilers for Horizon Zero Dawn. If you haven't yet completed the first game and don't want many key elements of the plot spoiled for you, please spend time in either the PS4 or PC threads above. We'll wait for you to finish, we promise  .Horizon Forbidden West is the second mainline title in the Horizon series of open world post-apocalyptic action-adventure games and the direct sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn. It is developed by Dutch studio Guerrilla Games, formerly known for their first-person shooter Killzone, and published by Sony. Forbidden West will see the return of sassy girlboss machine hunter Aloy in her quest to stop the Red Blight, a mysterious plague causing ecological collapse across the ruins of what were once the western states of Utah, Nevada, and California. Along the way, she will encounter some familiar faces and forge new tribal alliances to uncover the buried secrets of the Old Ones and end the environmental threat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qo-ReoKwyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpgXz5Z9v-U Among its various contemporaries, Horizon stands out for combining lush visuals with inventive machine combat and an involving science fiction storyline far more intelligently written than a game with robot dinosaurs as its main premise might at first suggest. Zero Dawn was a huge critical and commercial success in 2017, immediately establishing Horizon as a flagship series for the Playstation and Aloy as one of its central mascots. Forbidden West promises a refinement of the core mechanics introduced in HZD, including expanded traversal options, more strategic combat against both human and machine enemies, diverse skill trees, improved character sidequests, and an overhauled crafting system. Settlements will now include workbenches where Aloy can upgrade her weapons and outfits, eat food for temporary buffs, and play the new Strike mini-game. PS5-specific enhancements include improved lighting, reflections, and a 60fps performance mode. Horizon Forbidden West will be released for the Playstation 4 & Playstation 5 on Friday, February 18th 2022. The PS4 version is exactly the same and is $10 cheaper. I repeat: The PS4 version is exactly the same and is $10 cheaper. An eventual PC port is expected, but no official release date has yet been announced.     There are FIVE(5) whole different editions of Horizon Forbidden West that you can buy, each increasing by hype level. Isn't capitalism awesome? Standard Edition - Horizon Forbidden West, available for disc or digital download on PS4 or PS5. Special Edition - Horizon Forbidden West, available for disc or digital download on PS4 or PS5, Mini-Art book, Digital Soundtrack, Nora Legacy Outfit and Spear. Digital Deluxe - Horizon Forbidden West (Digital Only) PS4 and PS5 versions, 2 Special Outfits (Carja Behemoth Elite and Nora Thunder Elite), 2 Special Weapons (Carja Behemoth Short Bow and Nora Thunder Sling), In-game Resources Pack including ammunition, potions, and travel packs, In-game Apex Clawstrider Machine Strike Piece, Exclusive Photo Mode pose and face paint, Digital Art Book, Digital Soundtrack, Digital Version of "The Sunhawk" graphic novel. Collector's Edition - Everything in the Digital Deluxe, PLUS a Horizon Forbidden West Steelbook Display Case, Custom sculpted Tremortusk and Aloy statues, Mini-Art Book. Regalla Edition - Everything in the Digital Deluxe, PLUS a Horizon Forbidden West Steelbook Display Case, Regalla-themed, custom sculpted Tremortusk and Aloy statues, Replica Focus and custom stand, 2 Art Print Cards, Replica Sunwing and Clawstrider Machine Strike Pieces, Mini-Art Book, Canvas Map. A grand adventure awaits in the Forbidden West. We'll see you there, and gently caress Ted Faro. 
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Here are where some more trailers and reviews will go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-6je9T8_aA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY86drmNdV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUGTvh-WGvw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI22T1CXwR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZreAuJwMZ8 exquisite tea fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Reviews (as of 2/14/22): 89 MC / 88 OC  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcU_Ct3dcAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdFGdR28Gp8 exquisite tea fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Holy poo poo that trailer stinger could be so many things. Hype reaching critical levels. I think we may have gotten our first look at Vast Silver. Also Angela Basset AND Carrie-Anne Moss good lord 90s me is freaking out here. exquisite tea fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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The Postman posted:Did the DLC have any important plot stuff? Or was it just it's own separate story in a snowy area? The DLC shed some light on the rogue AI HAPHAESTUS, the subfunction responsible for building the machines, as well as another AI responsible for maintaining Yellowstone Caldera that survived the Faro plague, CYAN. The Frozen Wilds rules and you should definitely play it!
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Just as a reminder, Horizon Zero Dawn spoilers are safe here! At last we can be freed from the shackles of black text.
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It runs at 4k60fps with better water effects on PS5, but as far as I can tell, those are the only enhancements. Does not have the higher-res textures, foliage deformations or volumetric lighting from the PC port. Still looks pretty great though!
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Jan 19, 2022 17:51
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My bold prediction: Faro will be dead, no clones, no cryo, no take-backsies. As entertaining as it would be to have him survive 1,000 years only for Elisabet's clone to stab him in the dick, I think he got away with it.
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Jan 19, 2022 22:55
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There's a brief scene about 1:30 into the story trailer where Aloy and Co. are looking at a door with the FAS logo, so we'll probably visit Thebes.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:God drat, thanks for the plot synopses guys! I'd forgotten a lot of the story but reading them gets me pumped up for Forbidden West! Requesting OP links them in the first post, for future reference I've added them all to the OP!
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Faro definitely allowed himself to be influenced by the Antimod neo-luddites, but he only actively sought out their approval and reassurance after kickstarting the plague that would doom civilization. It became a reactionary and very convenient justification for his individual actions that led to the downfall of humanity -- "It wasn't my fault, anybody in my position would have done it, the technology's to blame." Whether Faro truly believed his own lies or not is tangential, he was always in process of rationalization for his actions.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:I think we're going to run into a ted faro clone. Aloy will be tempted to stomp his head in but probably won't because she's a good person. The faro clone will be required to open doors in faro's bunker At about 1:30 into the story trailer you can see Aloy and a new companion Alva at a door that looks like the entrance to Thebes. The fact that they conspicuously have not yet mentioned the name of her tribe, that they seem to be familiar with Ted's bunker, and are already equipped with their own Focuses make me think they're connected to Faro somehow.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI22T1CXwR0
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There's another quick scene with Lance Reddick in it, it's amazing how much more realistic the performance capture is getting.
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Jan 20, 2022 21:25
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Here are some extended interviews with the cast of Forbidden West. I had no idea that both Erend and Varl's voice actors were Bri*ish, and that John MacMillan was in Chewing Gum no less! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyLa1T_FIfU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8yJWK7lpQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vvNbG_C3gI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6CHgSLXIGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpW3aBSy90w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahj6-GPBxKA
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Here's something pretty cool... Some guy made a website called The Apollo Archive, an interactable online database of all the audio logs and text files from the game. I'll add it to the OP!
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Kazzah posted:Sylens would give his right arm to be able to talk to you, an idiot goon, for a couple hours "I believe I've fulfilled my end of the bargain. Now tell me more about this numerical configuration the Old Ones used to call, '69 420.'"
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If this recent official banner is any visual indicator, then Sylens & Tilda will ostensibly still be on Aloy's side in Forbidden West, yet serving their own motivations. Guerrilla kills it with their cover art every time.
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Jan 24, 2022 06:58
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12-minute hands-on preview with IGN just dropped. Shows off some early game content and confirms a few returning characters, if you're trying to avoid spoilers. I know the first Horizon looked good, but wowser! This is on a whole new level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxyWcRq_jnY
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Captured some cool/cute moments from the preview. https://i.imgur.com/tUhKqRc.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/XmQM0hy.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/wCK67od.mp4
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The difference is that Guerrilla had the time (and budget) to do full performance capture in Forbidden West, rather than whatever animation cycle-based software they were using in Zero Dawn outside of a few select scenes. It began with the Frozen Wilds DLC and really shows here, not just for shot composition but in getting more natural performances from your actors. Outside of one scene in HZD Ashly Burch and Lance Reddick never performed their lines in the same room, which is pretty crazy to think about. The shift to full performance capture that a lot of AAA projects are undergoing right now is gradually making video games much less like voice acting and a lot more like theatre, where you can really see all the little nuances in a character's body language. The main drawback to this method is that the process is still hella time-consuming and expensive, but that's probably not a problem for Sony.
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You can watch some more of IGN's b-roll footage without commentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWacKol8Rdo It seems like the predictions that Aloy's shieldweaver armor would break down at some point were indeed correct, although it doesn't seem to quite line up with her acquiring the Shield Glider. My guess now is that you'll start the tutorial mission with the shield intact and it'll become inoperational by the end, giving new & returning players a good excuse to ease back into the combat. Hopefully there will be some way to restore it by the end of the campaign. 
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A compilation of some random Forbidden West details by IGN. Something that I haven't seen discussed yet is that overfill on limited-capacity items like berries and potions will now be sent directly to a stash located near the workbench in town. Vantage points will return as environmental puzzles. There are also some more details about the Machine Strike game in part 31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVDAy3uQZA
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MH Knights posted:How hard is it to buy a PS5 for MSRP these days? If you’re willing to pre-enter all your CC information into Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Amazon etc and camp out on a Discord for a couple weeks smashing the add to cart button as soon as a notification pops up, then you can get a PS5. We’re still far away from being able to just walk into a store and get one, though.
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I know it’s disappointing now but I’m confident that by the time we get to Horizon 3 Aloy will be able to suplex a robot.
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Hopefully these are all melee pit unlockables.
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https://twitter.com/Guerrilla/status/1486685414375280644
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Here are some previews of what Forbidden West will look like on a PS4(Pro). The resolution is a bit fuzzier and it's obviously locked to 30fps, but the texture quality and draw distance still look to be an improvement over Zero Dawn. That new Utaru settlement looks amazing! Like something right out of Dinotopia. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PinkFittingBoaconstrictor-mobile.mp4 https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ClutteredWeirdAmethystgemclam-mobile.mp4
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It's 100% gonna be Horizon Far Zenith, taking one initial from both of the previous games and thus confusing people forever.
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Nottherealaborn posted:Always a good sign when there aren’t review embargoes. Sony games typically have their reviews drop 3-7 days in advance. Even Days Gone, which was the last Playstation exclusive to have kinda middling reviews, got a 24-hour notice. Review copies have already gone out so they must be pretty confident in giving the critics almost 3 weeks to play it.
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I mastered this game at 30fps on a DS4, no control scheme will hold me back from excellence.
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Horizon predicts a rather grim future where the lands reclaimed by the claw-back and their resources in the 2040s are now fought over by corporate sovereigns in the 2050s and 60s.
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If it makes you feel any better Forbidden West was already one of the games listed in the GeForce Now leak, which indicates it might be arriving on PC much sooner. And even if you can't find + don't want a PS5, these days you can grab a PS4 Pro for only... $400 retail wtf is this?! 
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I already pre-ordered. 
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I don't think anybody has actually used a strategy guide strategically in 25 years, nowadays they're just glorified artbooks and where you can get situational information like how much tear damage a Thunderjaw disc launcher will take on Ultra-Hard before it breaks off.
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To me that looks like the red blight, indicating that whatever it is infects both organic and machine life.
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I always thought it was a cool bit of worldbuilding how all the tribes call it the Forbidden West, but not because it's like, actually forbidden to go there or anything. It's just a name given by the dominant regional power after a failed colonial expedition that was eventually sort of adopted by everyone. It's kinda how like Wales literally meant "land of outsiders" to the Anglo-Saxons but it stuck around for centuries and now even native Welsh people call themselves a word that means "foreign." When you're the most organized and militant society in an area like the Carja, it's probably easy to imagine that you're at the center of everything.
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A final boss fight against a Metal Devil would be epic now that Aloy actually has the pullcaster to get around. I think that's been like one of the #1 most wishlisted things so I'd be delighted to finally see it happen.
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"Too soon, Sylens! You have awakened me too soon!"
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