Board 8 > Horizon Zero Dawn just lost me

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denying me absolute freedom this is not how you get on my good side, video game
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I thought you were going to say it had multiplayer only achievements or something.
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at least put up more barriers or something

putting an invisible wall around mother's embrace until you finish the proving was a bad call
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Wow, that's actually pretty awful
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Eh, my biggest problem with the game is the raining while inside/under a roof.

Give 'em a break though, this is the first open world game these dudes have made and it's already one of the best. Hopefully they fix those minor issues for the second game.
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I mean yes I'm still going to play it and finish it because it's a good video game

but when I'm doing my top 10 list for the year that's a strike I've written down in my notebook
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Make sure to add a strike for the indoor rain as well cuz that shit breaks my immersion every time
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All open world games should be on islands surrounded by massive water and cliffs

"you can go anywhere you see!!!!"
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What? This is kinda dumb.

You can't go in, because story-wise you're forbidden. Sure, they could have taken the time to have you completely derail the game by going somewhere forbidden by law, and ostracizing the entire community you are about to play with, but that'd be a huge waste of material for literally 20 minutes of play time.
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SuddenlyNinjas posted...

What? This is kinda dumb.

You can't go in, because story-wise you're forbidden. Sure, they could have taken the time to have you completely derail the game by going somewhere forbidden by law, and ostracizing the entire community you are about to play with, but that'd be a huge waste of material for literally 20 minutes of play time.

No, there's not really any defending this. A game touted as "open world" shouldn't have invisible walls. If they want you to not reach a certain place, there are plenty of better ways to do it.
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maybe they could put really big dinos outside that fart really hard so the wind makes you fly backward
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more like horizon zero/10
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HashtagSEP posted...

No, there's not really any defending this. A game touted as "open world" shouldn't have invisible walls. If they want you to not reach a certain place, there are plenty of better ways to do it.

Fine then it's not open world

Problem solved
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HashtagSEP posted...

SuddenlyNinjas posted...

What? This is kinda dumb.

You can't go in, because story-wise you're forbidden. Sure, they could have taken the time to have you completely derail the game by going somewhere forbidden by law, and ostracizing the entire community you are about to play with, but that'd be a huge waste of material for literally 20 minutes of play time.

No, there's not really any defending this. A game touted as "open world" shouldn't have invisible walls. If they want you to not reach a certain place, there are plenty of better ways to do it.

Because you haven't finished the tutorial? Are you angry that you can't get off the boat in Morrowind before you talk to the guard who's escorting you, too? How un-open-world.
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To be fair once you get past that point it really is open world, ain't nowhere you can't go
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Open World*
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SEP argues about everything.
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AquaArcane posted...

To be fair once you get past that point it really is open world, ain't nowhere you can't go

So its basically not that different than the beginning of botw
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VeryInsane posted...

AquaArcane posted...

To be fair once you get past that point it really is open world, ain't nowhere you can't go

So its basically not that different than the beginning of botw

To be fair, there are ways to go anywhere from the very beginning in BotW. And even without those ways, you can atleast try. You just die if you don't find a better way to do it.

If it's a place they don't want you to go in the tutorial, then there should be a different way to keep you from going there/dissuade you than just slapping up an invisible wall and some text. That's just lazy.
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Yeah they should just put a big moat or cliff surrounding the starting area like every other open world game. That's not lazy.
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When you're doing the tutorial there should be a literal rope tied around your waist that prevents you from going too far
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How about this guys...

No tutorials
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Also breath of the wild literally says "you can't go any farther" at the edges of the map with no explanation for why you can't.
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pjbasis posted...

How about this guys...

No tutorials

This would probably be the best solution!
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I mean, would it be more elegant if Aloy simply refused with some "I'm not allowed there" speech?

Sure. But what's the difference?
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Johnbobb posted...

When you're doing the tutorial there should be a literal rope tied around your waist that prevents you from going too far

Hire this guy to work on Horizon: One Dawn
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If only this game let you cut down trees and ride them through the sky
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