In terms of sequels, there’s maybe only one that we’re looking forward to more than Horizon Forbidden West – and that one’s got Kratos in it. It’s fair to say that Guerrilla Games nailed its transition from gritty sci-fi shooters to fantasy role-playing games with aplomb when it released Horizon Zero Dawn in 2017, and it sounds like its PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 sequel will delight series fans.
“The new areas that Aloy is traveling to, the tribes that she's meeting, and the story that unfolds […] I got a primer on it all before recording for the game, where the writing team took me through the arc of the story and it was like being a kid at a campfire,” beamed retuning voice actress Ashly Burch as part of an interview with Games Radar.
“I'm just so excited for it,” she continued. “I'm also a fan, so I'll be in recording sessions and we'll be recording a scene and I'm like, 'I can't wait to do this fight or I can't wait to explore this area!' All of the things that people loved about Zero Dawn – the gorgeous world, the immersive story, the awesome gameplay – Forbidden West is just more and better.”
Burch added that progress on the project is ongoing despite the global pandemic. “I have a record [for Forbidden West] later this week,” she teased. “It's going – it's still happening!” Whether or not the title hits its previously announced 2021 release date, of course, is up for debate – but it’s good to know that the title is coming together, and we can’t wait to see more.
[source gamesradar.com]
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Please Sony your big Christmas 2021 game.
With R&C now June 2021 it has raised my hopes a little more.
Was going to wait for a PS5 price drop to play this, but I don't think I can hold off. Way too excited, but still cheap hahah. I'll just play it on PS4
I know it's still coming to PS4, but if there's anything that can convince me to try and get a PS5 this year, it's going to be Horizon Forbidden West.
My most anticipated game. Now if they can just release a PS5 upgrade patch for the original that would be great.
Please let us be able to tame flying machines!!!
I can’t say that fills me with confidence! I wasn’t a big fan of the first game despite the solid combat so if they manage to create sidequests and a main story that actually interest me then I’ll give it a go. ‘More of the same’ is precisely why I haven’t jumped on Miles Morales despite enjoying the first Spider-Man, I don’t have the time or energy to waste on stuff I’ve basically already played when there are so many new experiences out there.
@nessisonett So did you just buy a PS5 for clout?
Y'all can have Kratos and Ratchet, I'll start attempting to buy a PS5 when this releases.
Cany wait for more HZD. Still the most beautiful open world ever created imo. And to see it come to life on PS5 is going to be breathtaking.
Fell off the first time playing HZD but am currently giving it another go. I really like it, but otherwise don’t see what’s so special about it. To me Sony first party games are generally great, but they’re also mostly 8/10 kind of games for me.
@nessisonett I guess you dont play GTA and any Ubisoft games. 🤪
Dang, I was kind of hoping they were going back to the drawing board with HFW. There were elements of the first game I really enjoyed like the story and setting but I found the open world structure and crafting to be pretty mundane. So to hear the sequel is "more of the same" doesn't sound to reassuring. Oh well, it may not be for me but I'm sure countless others will enjoy it
HZD was maybe my second favorite PlayStation game during the PS4 generation. I'm looking forward to Forbidden West even more than the next God of War.
I will never understand how incredibly butthurt people get over somebody not enjoying a game they did.
The fact that the PS4 version is going to hold back the PS5 version has lowered my expectations.
There is more to next-gen than ray tracing and higher frames. I expect very little growth NOW in gameplay, animation and AI.
I’ll play it on my PS5 but I bet it’ll feel like a PS4 game.
@OmegaStriver
I thought that at first and yes there will be some PS4 cross generation hold back for sure.
But if any team can make the best of it on the PS5 then it is this Sony Studio and maybe also Naughty Dog.
I feel confident and loved the first game so more of the same jazzed up a bit is cool with me.
I really hope the sequel has more interesting characters cause my God everyone in HZD was so boring and uninteresting besides Aloy and Sylens.
Horizon Zero Dawn was one of my favourite PS4 exclusives and along with Ratchet and Clank are the exclusive games I'm looking forward to the most. I do hope the side quests are far more interesting though and the human combat needs some big improvements too.
Though in terms of purely sequels its still Resident Evil Village at the top for me
As long as I get more Talanah i'm happy and the comic book has already confirmed that I will ^__^ (though it sunk my ship in the process XD)
One of the few Sony-published exclusives I'm actually really excited for! I'd love to see them double-down on interesting new robot designs.
Although it remains to be seen how big of a difference there will be between the PS4 and PS5 versions of Forbidden West.
If they are recording now, then they must be done with pre-production? I still don't see this or Ragnarok coming out this year.
@Tchunga there is no need to go to back to the drawing board. They just need to improve on what they have there and, maybe, create some new interesting gameplay mechanics. The 1st game was a huge success so it makes zero sense to start again from zero, especially when this is just the 2nd game.
If you are going to go back to the drawing board, then just make a new game instead.
@nessisonett Yeah, good game, but there's a lot of room for improvement. "More of the same" is hardly ever a good thing.
@rpg2000 I never said they needed to go back to the drawing board, I said I wanted them too. Its selfish, I realize that but I don't play video games for other peoples enjoyment, I play them for my own. So at the end of the day it doesn't really matter how much of a "huge success" the first game was when I simply didn't enjoy it. I don't base my enjoyment of media on how successful it is
I had a couple times where I started HZD and put it down, where recently I just finished the base game and Frozen Wilds on PS5. After finishing it I can understand why so many people rave about it to this day, and while it didn't crack my top 10 favorites I can confidently say I adore this game.
I'm not sure if I'm the only one with this impression but HZD really reminded me of my first time playing Skyrim, specifically with the exploration/discovering new enemies and dialogue with NPCs. Personally I think HZD has some of the best combat in the open world genre and perfected the Ubisoft formula, until Ghosts came out.
Improvements I'd like to see, Traversal: With a game where there's so much verticality I was disappointed to see how little options there were to optimize Traversal. There needs to be more ways to climb up and ways to get down, period. What do you guys think is Aloy's ropecaster could make ziplines? Grappling hooks are overused in games and are always welcome, but in recent games Pathfinder is the only one I can think of who makes ziplines. I think Aloy creating ziplines makes sense in her world and doesn't break the game.
Storytelling/World building: Please for the love of God don't depend on having 200 text datapoints, because in my 50 hours of play I didn't care to read even one, although I did listen to the voice recordings and dialogue with NPCs was always A1.
Combat: With a game where you have to strategize enemy weaknesses, please make it an ability to swap weapons from the weapon wheel like RDR2 so I don't have to pause mid combat to switch to a different bow.
I'm sure I'm overlooking other flaws but these were the ones that stuck out to me, what do you think fellow gamers?
So wish it was a PS5 only game..
@NYJetsfan123 you can just sell your PS4 after you buy the PS5 for extra money. That’s what I did. I only spent $300 on my PS5 by doing that.
@OmegaStriver same here. I've my ps5 ready but really not expecting anything spectacular. Ps4 is holding it no matter can be said about it.
I cannot wait for this game!
Thank god, I thought they'd make it everything we hated about it.
I just want it to try a little harder this time. The first could have been really cool, but it played it super safe.
More Ashly Burch, that's good enough for me.
@nessisonett I disliked the first one to be honest.
Also seeing the hairdo on the Aloy underwater in the 2nd one, just too weird. I know it`s knit picking but I`m knit picky I guess😊
Is Alloy going to more than a really average character this time? I can’t say her being excited does a lot for me. The first one is a good game with cool robot hunting, but it’s not amazing or quite what it’s made out to be. I might finish it one day. No way am I touching the DLC though, it’s long enough without it.
Gonna give this preorder one more try for this gem. As long as it isn’t cyberpunk 2077 bad, I should be ok.
The original was my Game Of The Year so absolutely can.not.wait!!Even the Expansion was brilliant.
So excited for this one and Ratchet and Clank
@BearsEatBeets I too really want a PS5 update for the original. I didn't get to play the original until they released the PC version, but with all the issues it had... I stop playing early into the game. Now with them leaving the PC version half fixed. I doubt I'll go back to finish the game.
If they can bring all the improvements they made from PC version and add them to a PS5 patch for original. I'll gladly go back and finish the game even if I have to pay for the game a third time.
@TraCuz-
I thought it was more like Skyrim lite. I loved the game for what it was, but I think they could improve on things like crafting, more interesting side quests, more interesting people, and better developed underground areas such as caves and ruins. It was a great game, but it was no Skyrim.
Horizon Zero Dawn was one of the few PS4 bangers that never clicked with me, even trying it on pc. Okay that AND Death Stranding were totally mediocre imo
Still good to see a developer double down on the “more is better” approach however unoriginal it may be
HZD was one of my favorite games of the past decade, I think because I really connected with the story. As a natural skeptic, I really liked her and her reactions to figuring out what her people's beliefs were really based on, rather than taking everything at face value. She was an explorer in more than one sense and I liked that. The gameplay was secondary to me (though I thought it was good).
@nessisonett It's because you're such a whiney little git about it though. One of a few on here who act as if they're the font of all knowledge and good taste and the rest of us should be honoured to merely be in your presence.
Also, what wonderful brand new original never experienced before games are you talking about? There's aren't any, they all borrow from what has gone before. Stop being such a snob.
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Horizon Zero Dawn is a brilliant game and also a very beautiful one at that. More of the same but bigger and better sounds fine by me. The sequel to HZD, for this gamer anyway, is much more anticipated than the next Kratos adventure.
@Col_McCafferty This coming from the person who acts as if certain games are better and that’s a fact? This coming from the person who had a massive rant about God of War and how it was overrated? This coming from the person who drones on and on about how RDR2 was ‘robbed’ in 2018? Give it a rest you insufferable twonk.
@nessisonett yeah, that's right. At least I'm generally positive about games, you're generally a bit of a moaner about pretty much every game you've ever played or at least that's how it comes across.
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@Tchunga @nessisonett @Octane wow things kinda escalated in here since I last checked.
Anyway was thinking about it and it's worth considering that "more of the things people loved..." is fairly ambiguous and probably needn't be taken to mean more of the same. Especially considering this is coming from the voice actor and not someone actively involved in gameplay development.
But we'll see I guess.
Hope they improve on the combat - the actual scanning of the machines to find weak points and vulnerabilities is cool, but I am playing this for the first time on my PS5 and find controls very clunky, especially after Ghost of Tsushima which is smooth as butter.
Loved this game and cant wait to get back into the world. Don’t really get people saying the story was weak, I thought it was really well thought out and digging into the lore side of it was part of the fun. Different strokes for different folks though.
@emj2010...... Not sure what you are on about but the last 10/10 game was HZD.
Yes it was flat on the forward storytelling direction wise since the open of the narrative is excellent. The exploration is the appropriate amount in that Alloy is not necessarily a scavenger hence she does not have a need to go out an explore hence the world not needing to be combed through.
So apart from that, everything about the game is masterpiece/ game of a generation level.
Not sure we're you have been but in the past 7 years:
SONY
THE LAST OF US - 10/10 MASTERPIECE / GEN DEFINER.
UNCHARTED 4 - 10/10 MASTERPIECE / GEN DEFINER
HZD - 10/10
MARVEL SPIDERMAN - 10/10
GOD OF WAR: LOKI aka Valhalla - 10/10
DAYS GONE - 8/10
LAST OF US PART II - 10/10
GOT - 10
NO DEV OR PUBLISHER HAS 7 MASTERPIECE GENERATION DEFINING GAMES IN ONE GENERATION OF GAMING CYCLE EXCEPT SONY.
ALOY AND LOKI(TOGETHER WITH KRATOS) ARE GOING TO BREAK THE RECORDS THIS YEAR
@Octane..... You should not be worried....
More of the same in this case means "More of the same when Uncharted went from 1 to 2", Naughty Dog had an idea in Uncharted 1 and when Uncharted 2 launched it showed that they firmly into grips with their vision and execution of the idea of the game.
HZD was Gorilla's fleshing out of the idea and giving the Decima Engine a first run in the wild. Forbidden Worst is Gorilla finally flexing their muscle and segmenting themselves on the same level as Naughty Dog and Insomniac.
PS: Remember the stars of the show are the Robot Dinosaurs.
@Col_McCafferty.... Yep the guy is a snob. He always has a high horse attitude about him.
Always carries on like he has hire taste in gaming
@Col_McCafferty..... He only likes Assassins Creed Syndicate, it's the only game game he wcks lyrical about, he even makes excuses for it by saying it's good when it's patched.
@Casco........ Not fair to compare controls of a game released in 2017 to a game released 8 months ago..... Forbidden West will be polished and smoove
@Weebleman...... The story in HZD is excellent,
My only issue is that I prefer the background story to the foreground story, in the sense that I actually when to play it out to actually see the robots being created and the world behind destroyed to its current state, I hope Gorilla has the background story as the opening of Forbidden West sort of like Rockstar did with the open chapter of RDR2
@GREGORIAN i think the combat issues I have are not really related to tech advancement. Just the way the combat is designed feels clunky to me. Immortals came 3.5 years after BOTW, in much powerful systems, yet BOTW is the better game in almost every aspect
Hold on, this is going to be on PS4?
Why was PS5 released?
@GREGORIAN
Yeah, I like all those games, but don’t agree. But to each their own, and that’s great.
I loved the style, gameplay and the lore as an idea but the game felt a bit flat and unengaging, I could not focus on the dialogue because of how stale and uninteresting it was and the plot was very cliche.
I was hoping that with the success of the first part they could focus on these aspects more but I have a feeling we will just have more of the same which is a shame because I think the full potential of the world was unrealised
The first game is the one I bought a Pro for.
The way things are at the moment, the sequel will probably be the one I buy a PS5 for. Assuming there are PS5s available by then, of course.
It’s already 4 years in the making and it builds heavily on the roots built by first Horizon, so this should be ready any minute now.
Horizon Forbidden West along with Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was the reason I chose to buy a PS5 rather than an Xbox Series X as the related games on the PS4 are both fantastic and at the ripe old age of 57 I'm still "excited" by a select few games.
Having said all that (garbage?), I will be going over to the datkside when Forza Horizon 5 is released.
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