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!