Wait, there is a Horizon Lego game? lol
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The whole Horizon "franchise" seems astroturfed to me. I know only ONE person who's actually played all the games and he's barely talked about em, only said they were okay. Sony seems to want to make Aloy a household name with games that are okay. This isn't how you make a big franchise and I am kind of sick of people pretending it's a big and beloved franchise.
Ignoring the obnoxious girl boss shit, the premise is interesting to me. Mechanically, the games were... Fine? Nothing too unique, but it all worked okay, just too complicated at times for it's own good (in terms of in game stuff, having 30 different bows with different ammo types was fairly dumb and avoidable, for example).
Not saying the games are bad they are okay, okay isn't gonna make people fans though. Why do people like for example Lara Croft? Cuz it was something different at the time, entirely unique. This is just the same old open world game we've seen everywhere. I can live without.
I agree. They could have been so much better, and had more of an impact.
But they just didn't really (outside of Sony cultists, and the woke groups).
I will 100% stand by the writing and the story of the first game. It was great.
The second game was very meh in that department, however.
They're all just reskins of the same over-the-shoulder pretend-open-world action collectathons. We've all played this game before somewhere. Gaming is saturated with this derivative nonsense.
At some point, that's always going to be true if you want to generalize that far. It doesn't mean they can't be good, it just means you have to rely on good story telling and characters instead of new mechanics (because they've all been done at this point).
the first one, somehow, by some miracle, made up for its lackluster story and characterization by revealing the plot in really, really interesting bits and pieces. i usually hate AAA slop like anyone else, but it had me running around the plot mission areas looking for all the audio logs i could find because i actually wanted to hear them.
the second one, having no plot to reveal, relied entirely on its shitty story and shitty characters. i finished it only because of the robo dino hunting, which is probably why anyone even gives the two games the time of day.
Muh strong female protagonist!
Aloy is just the American version of Lightning.
A generic and forgettable character from an otherwise okay game that nobody really cared much about, but is obviously the Waifu of somebody with a lot of sway and power.
So she keeps getting treated as a Mega Mascot that has an endless adoring fanbase and gets pushed hard into more and more places well above her actual popularity.
Not just couch coop, but couch coop with your kids. Which is why every adaptation otherwise is huge family movies like Star Wars or Jurassic Park, or Batman.
Might just be me, but Steam has always been difficult to get couch coop games working on. Online usually works fine, but sharing runs into controller issues or the like everytime.
Really? I play couch coop all the time on Steam, and I've never had any problems.
Any recent recommendations for coop? I've been chasing the high of Overcooked for years now.
Both Double Dragon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have came out with a bunch of really good couch coop games lately.
3 sucked real bad. Cause woke. But Borderlands is still peak coop.
Of course Nintendo will still put out bangers for this from now until infinitum. Mario Wonder.
Wizard of Legend is sooo good but it's hard. So it'll depend on your couch and their flavor for that.
I long for the day when I can rope someone into TMNT. Thanks for the recs!
Probably my biggest couch coop recommendation (especially since you like Overcooked) is Plate Up. Up to four players cooperate to run a restaurant. Each day you earn money, which you can spend on randomly generated things like additional tables, sharp chef's knives, a mop, an oven, and so on. Every few days you will have to pick a complication, like adding another dish to the menu, or breaking the parties down into parties of one (so it's the same amount of guests using many more tables). The goal is to make it through fifteen days of service without a single dissatisfied guest, so it's like a restaurant roguelike. It's fantastic, and I recommend it highly.
Nice, thanks!
I have constant issues with multiple controller setups through Steam. Single is fine, but more than one is nonsense.
Though, since I don't have bluetooth setup and have wired controllers, maybe its just me.
I've only ever had issues with Bluetooth. As others said I use a wired connection (I even have a four-port USB on an extended cable, so it's like those old-school Mutli-Tap adapters for the Genesis/PSX), plug in all sorts of controllers; Switch, PS4, Xbox, and third-party controllers. Never had any issues except for using Nucleus for split-screen play on games with non-native split-screen.
Usually once you enable Steam input and re-order the controllers it should work fine, I also found that you sometimes have to restart Steam in Administrator Mode on Windows 10/11, otherwise you will run into some serious controller issues for a ton of games. But I just have Steam boot into Administrator Mode to bypass that problem.
I usually use a wireless dongle, but I've played split screen Rocket League on Steam with wired controllers just fine.
I’m not letting my kids play a game where the main series heavily promotes gays and trannies
Steam isn't really a big platform for kids. Most of the younger generation barely even touched a desktop in their life outside of school. Not that they wouldn't like to, but they just aren't raised on them anymore. I showed my nephew what it was like to play a shooter with a mouse and I had to peel him off of it just to get my computer back. It was like giving sight to the blind.
Even if it wasen't shit, was there a market for this? Likely not.
Certainly not for EIGHTY (80) FUCKING CANADIAN DOLLARS.
What does it cost in real money? Maple leaves and gravy are not substitutes for a real economy.
~$57 USD
Honestly I am always surprised anyone pays full price for any lego game. Seems like they usually hit $5 by the following christmas sale. Maybe it takes a little longer, but I've never paid more than $5 for one, and even without actively seeking them out I have like 8.
They just had a humble bundle like one month ago with over 20 of them for $21 cad I think it was. Eventually people are going to stop paying full price for the latest one, right? Right?
Technically, looks like.
The best part is this game is released on switch.
Wait, why?
My guess? Partially because the execs thought there would be a good crossover audience between Horizon and LEGO because an official set of a Tallneck was released a couple of years that sold amazingly well. But also because Hermen Hulst, one of the original co-founders of Guerilla Games, is now working as the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, and is likely trying to push his old company's flagship series as the greatest thing since sliced bread while making his waifu, Alloy, the next big icon in gaming.
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Sony owns the engine used to make the Horizon games. This brings down development costs and increases Sony's profit per game. That's probably the real reason why they seem absolutely determined to make this franchise popular.
A game and series no one asked for.... They even forced a remaster of the last game which was one of the most pointless things I have ever seen in gaming as of late. No one asked for any of this.