Board 8 > Rate the VG Story Day 74: Horizon: Zero Dawn

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Sorry for the late topic, anyway todays game is Horizon: Zero Dawn. How would you rate the story on a scale from 1-10?

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Previous Results:
Planescape: Torment - 9.83 (12 votes)
Omori - 9.67 (6 votes)
Outer Wilds - 9.6 (21 votes)
Nier Automata - 9.25 (31 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations - 9.18 (33 votes)
The House in Fata Morgana - 9.14 (7 votes)
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 9.1 (14 votes)
Red Dead Redemption 2 - 9 (8 votes)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 8.85 (10 votes)
Umineko When They Cry - 8.82 (11 votes)
Xenogears - 8.71 (23 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 8.67 (31 votes)
Metal Gear Solid - 8.67 (27 votes)
Final Fantasy Tactics - 8.65 (23 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask - 8.58 (25 votes)
Disco Elysium - 8.56 (16 votes)
Undertale - 8.44 (41 votes)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 8.41 (19 votes)
Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 8.4 (5 votes)
Final Fantasy X - 8.38 (54 votes)
Mass Effect 2 - 8.38 (28 votes)
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective 8.35 (18 votes)
Final Fantasy VII - 8.26 (36 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - 8.13 (39 votes)
The Last of Us - 8.13 (35 votes)
The Walking Dead Season 1 - 8.13 (20 votes)
Xenoblade Chronicles - 7.94 (27 votes)
Bloodborne - 7.88 (20 votes)
Life is Strange - 7.85 (31 votes)
Doki Doki Literature Club - 7.81 (25 votes)
Bioshock - 7.64 (23 votes)
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors - 7.62 (29 votes)
Celeste - 7.62 (25 votes)
Skies of Arcadia - 7.62 (13 votes)
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - 7.46 (28 votes)
Mortal Kombat (2011) - 7.46 (13 votes)
Mass Effect - 7.35 (28 votes)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - 7.26 (29 votes)
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 - 7.25 (12 votes)
Tales of the Abyss - 7.24 (28 votes)
Red Dead Redemption - 7.23 (11 votes)
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - 7.17 (23 votes)
Mass Effect 3 - 7.16 (21 votes)
To the Moon - 7.07 (7 votes)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - 7 (5 votes)
Super Paper Mario - 7 (21 votes)
Hollow Knight - 6.98 (21 votes)
INSIDE - 6.93 (15 votes)
Gone Home - 6.91 (17 votes)
Death Stranding - 6.73 (13 votes)
Chrono Cross - 6.69 (16 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All - 6.66 (30 votes)
Firewatch - 6.65 (10 votes)
Dark Souls - 6.62 (20 votes)
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - 6.6 (27 votes)
Valkyria Chronicles - 6.5 (16 votes)
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 6.5 (13 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 6.31 (35 votes)
DOOM (2016) - 6.15 (13 votes)
Professor Layton and the Curious Village - 6.1 (13 votes)
Star Fox 64 - 5.79 (24 votes)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 5.72 (9 votes)
Final Fantasy IV - 5.72 (29 votes)
Uncharted: Drakes Fortune - 5.26 (28 votes)
Final Fantasy XIII - 4.82 (28 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright - 4.83 (12 votes)
Fallout 3 - 4.76 (17 votes)
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty - 4.72 (9 votes)
Fallout 4 - 4.43 (15 votes)
Final Fantasy - 4.14 (18 votes)
Resident Evil 6 - 3.74 (17 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest - 3.46 (15 votes)
Starcraft II (overall) - 3.4 (5 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates (overall) - 3.32 (11 votes)
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void - 2.83 (6 votes)
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) - 2.77 (15 votes)
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm - 2.57 (7 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation - 2.33 (9 votes)
Tales of Zestiria - 2.14 (7 votes)

You can still rate previous days games if you missed them, just write <game name><rating>. If you want to change your rating you can just specify that you are changing your rating. Nominations for future days are also welcome, nominate as many games as you like and I will get to all of them.

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Still need to play this eventually.

Hmmm...I'd like to nominate a Ratchet & Clank game, but I doubt they have enough of a playrate to get any traction here, unfortunately.

So let's nominate Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls instead.

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9.5

Definitely one of the biggest surprises in recent memory.

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6.5/10

It definitely gets better as it goes along. Everything surrounding Aloy is pretty well done and interesting, and the game's higher concept, lofty sci-fi ideas are compelling and creepy especially as it unfolds in survival horror-like files. Damn, does this game have a serious problem with characters though. Every character besides Aloy is a bland slate dumping exposition at you left and right, with a half-baked (this is an understatement) choice system that shouldn't have even been in the game. I especially couldn't give one crap about Erend's story quests with its underwhelming and piss easy anti-climatic antagonist. The background of this game works tremendously, but the actual script and execution is one I hope sees touching up in the sequel.

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Hmm, I really liked this one and it's the most I was invested in a story for a while

Didn't have a great climax though and I was more interested in the slow reveal of how society collapsed than the modern day one.

That said there aren't many characters in gaming I want to kill more than Ted Faro. Helis was a weak villain by comparison. I like the way that was revealed and how it eventually matched up to the present day.

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7.5/10

Great lore and worldbuilding, and the storyline has its moments. Aloy and Rost are solid characters, but I couldn't care less about the rest of the cast.

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8.5

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9/10

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8

6.5 for Majora's Mask

9

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I need to finish this.

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8.5

The story of the past and the lore of the creation of this civilization are excellent, but as many others have said, its weak points are with its current story, which is good but nowhere as interesting as the lore

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7.5

Pretty much agree with everyone else. Also the best character dies almost immediately

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8.6

They do a real great job telling the story of the past and integrating it with the present.
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8

Obligatory fuck Ted Faro

8/10

8/10

The backstory and how it's unveiled is largely great, the current day part of the story can be a bit lacking though

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6.5/10

some awkward settler colonial stuff in here, but certainly not as tone deaf as uncharted/tomb raider games. this is a good game but I can't really remember the plot whatsoever. the lore is more memorable, but even then it's not super original.

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6.

Great backstory well told to the player and a strong twist on a classic idea. However, the main storyline is largely dull and full of some pretty troubling stereotypes.

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