PS5 Will Ensure There's Virtually No Loading Screens in Horizon Forbidden West

While this is great news, designers might have to get better at teaching players controls and tips as I often found the loading screens useful for stuff I didn’t know when they listed useful info to read while waiting...

When am I supposed to light my cigarette?

Wasn't the first game like this if you were a real Nora and never fast travelled?

@Dodoo you would love Monster Hunter World then since each load screen you could read War & Peace during them or learn skills

The fast travel takes so long in the first one so this is pretty neat.

OK, before we go 1 article further and spend the next 5 years discussing it, what's the accurate title of the game?

Horizon Forbidden West
Horizon II Forbidden West
Horizon II: Forbidden West

The graphic shows an obvious II which I'm guessing is the Roman Numeral 2 but the article never once says 2.

Article also never uses a : in the title but PS always has for HZD writing it as H:ZD.

A little consistency is all I ask. 😁

Why so many AKAs?

https://www.pushsquare.com/games/ps5/horizon_forbidden_west

Also Known As
Horizon 2: Forbidden West, Horizon Zero Dawn 2

You hear that guys, the PS5 games will have little to no loading times. Who knew?

I use an external SSD on my PS4 Pro and it is so much better than waiting for fast travel loads on horizon zero dawn than the standard stock hard drive. That’s only 500mb per second, a fraction of the speed of the PS5 SSD at 5gb per second.

Crazy times. Going to be mind blowing playing PS4 games with reduced load times.

@LordSteev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhcOXlaPO_U

@rjejr I look at it along the Star Wars lines...

Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Horizon: Zero Dawn
Horizon: The Frozen Wilds
Horizon: Forbidden West

The game series is just called Horizon. The rest of the names are the titles of individual chapters. You could throw 'episode' numbers/numerals in there as well.

Awesome. Got a bit tired of the minute-and-a-half long loading times when I needed to fast travel in the original.

@LordSteev WhoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAaAa

@Paranoimia Remove the colon and you have a point.

PlayStation 5's Uber fast SSD... wow that's fast indeed.

@Paranoimia Horizon: Forbidden West

I've actually yet to see the game written w/a colon though, anywhere.

@Octane What you said.

Seriously though, somebody text, tweet, email Guerrila and just ask them what the name of the game is, it shouldn't be this hard. geez

@LordSteev I was gonna say when you die but I guess there isn't load screens for that either.

@Dodoo you only seen those times because you were bad and died

2001
[Nintendo creates power console, but sacrifices storage size for the sake of affordable proprietary technology to keep games running like cartridges]
The gaming world: Just get with the times and use DVDs! Nintendo being Nintendo. So out of touch!

2020
[Sony creates a powerful console, but sacrifices storage size for the sake of affordable proprietary technology to make games run like cartridges, again]
The gaming world: GAME CHANGER!

I guess Nintendo was right all along that load times were a bad thing. It only took 19 years for the gaming world to figure it out! The only difference is that Gamecube's optical disc size was detrimental to getting larger games on the system.

Am I the only person in the world who hasn't been bothered by load times for about 10 years??? Seriously Sony, play another record.

Yay! PS5 has super quick load times!
Nay! The graphics look on par with PS4, PS3 and Wii in some cases.
Nay! The machine is a giant binder stuffed with my Samsung Blu-ray player.
Nay! The controller looks like a Madcatz and for some reason doesn't show any back buttons.
Nay! It won't fit in a lot of people's homes.
Nay! GTA V. That was the big punch??? FFS.

@LordSteev Not just when, but how. Before you could just hold it by the fan vents of the PS4 and it'd burst into flames.

@GamingFan4Lyf You're comparing Nintendo sticking with carts with tiny storage sizes to Sony using blurays installed onto an SSD that can load the entirety of many Switch games in one second. There's no compromise with this but with stuff like the N64 they were stuck with games that were in most cases about 64mb in size, less than a 10th of a CD. The PS5 SSD could load 86 Pokemon Stadiums every second. That is a game changer. Keeping game sizes small just to save load times even when load times often weren't a problem even on PS1 (e.g. FFVII or MGS) is losing a lot to gain a little (or even nothing).

Thank God for this. I played Hellblade and never once thought it needed a sequel. It was hard enough playing the first...I wanted to quit and delete so many times.

@get2sammyb Noticed how nice Aloy's hairdo is, even under water?

@rjejr Look at the official trailer or official press material, it's Horizon Forbidden West. No colon, no 2 or II.

@Grimwood Yeah, but it's not part of the official title.

@vegeta11 haha well I’ve not read war and peace so maybe I’ll start playing MHW so I can do so! 😂

@__jamiie are you a MS paid shill?

No I've grown weary of over hyped games like horizon zero dawn turned out to be and the next installment will surely follow suit

@Dodoo No. I'm just an adult that has a non-biased opinion about chunks of plastic developed by huge multinational corporations.

@Octane "Yeah, but it's not part of the official title."

Then why is it there? You don't put a very obvious Roman Numeral 2 smack dab in the middle of your title unless you want it to be there. It's not like it's Hidden Pictures and they hid a 2 in her hair or something, it's right there "II".

@Matroska Actually my comparison was the Gamecube. Nintendo still didn't want to move to DVD because the load times were so long, so it went with a proprietary optical disc technology in an attempt to have cheaper game storage option (over cartridge), but still act like cartridge. 1st-party games had virtually no load time. Metroid Prime was practically seamless. It had the elevator animation when going to certain areas, but it was seamingly no longer than what previous games had.

I am simply commenting on how Nintendo - in all it's bullishness - saw value in absolutely no load time, even if it was the detriment of certain system capabilities (e.g. smaller disc capacity). It's similar to Sony has a ridiculously fast SSD at the detriment of a smaller SSD size and slightly less beefier hardware compared to the competition.

Hardware wise there is no comparison, we are looking at almost 2 decades of hardware difference. It's the mentality.

@Prime_Objective
Ha! What's that, ten years ago? Awesome!

@kdog
you're right, got to have easy access to the pause menu maybe.

@Matroska
You're not kidding. I think my power bill in the winter is cheaper the more I play. Supplemental heating!

@AdamNovice The fact that people are talking about the SSD would suggest to me that there's not much else to talk about.

There's not a big leap in graphics at all and plenty of others have pointed out that PS4 could pump out graphics at the same level. Keep pretending to yourself if that makes you happy and justifies the price you'll pay.

It seems idiotic to not have back buttons given that the PS4 attachment was just released.

What amazing games were you blown away by out of interest? Which games justify the price to you???