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It’s the pleasurable passing of time and happiness that matter. Give me a good time and I won’t regret it.

Feeb wrote:

Agreed.

I have such a love hate for these open world shinny games but man, Horizon... Is just fun. Both BotW and Horizon just do it better than others by making it worth it to blow time doing all the various efforts. Last one I did this was with Ghosts... Which was cool and all, but felt too much like a chore, repetitive, and not enough payoff.

Truly excited to be done and move on to Elden Ring! This community will be done by then =(

Is anyone actually playing HFW?

79 hours, 88% complete, hope to be done this weekend. At this point, totally Op'd and just running around demolishing everything, even on very hard. A bit disappointed in the lack of Legendary gear, especially no spear. At this point, should only be story left as I've closed out every single side mission, task, exploration... Done! Primary armor and 3 weapons fully upgraded. May upgrade the others but I never use them. Two bows + sling is really all that is needed.

Mixing it up with different Valor perks is fun, but realistically, only the traps, melee, and power arrows are worth the effort (more so the latter). Stealth can be fun too to fudge with the big boys and never have them see you but at this point it's about just taking them down in a few seconds with a sharpshot explosion and a few follow ups.

I'm kinda surprised how many lengthy efforts yield no trophies. I never hunt trophies, but quite a few of these tasks, I'd assume trophies should have happened as they took nearly the whole game to complete.

Definitely an amazing game. Really excited to see how it ends. I'd be shocked if they don't leave it open for DLC and a sequel. They're gonna milk this as long as they can (and I hope they do).

Very much so ready to be done and get underway with Elden Ring, and then Dying Light.

I’m planning to come back soon. Almost plat Elden ring.

Well.... Finished.... These butt-holes left it on such a cliffhanger that will clearly be covered in the DLC.

Absolutely loved the game. Handful of minor complaints, fair amount of technical bugs, all in all, incredibly happy. DLC can't come fast enough.

Onto Elden Ring finally!

Opposite for me. Onto HFW finally!!! Lol

Feeb wrote:

How much did you sink into ER?

MrBean wrote:

90 hrs so far. Just need a few more items for plat. @Kommie has plat. But he’s unemployed socialist so way more time on our dime.

Feeb wrote:

Haha, well... In two weeks (15 days to be exact), I put in 82 hours and got plat on HFW, with a full time job, two kids, and a crazy home life.

Noice. No divorce?

Feeb wrote:

Haha, not until I do the same thing with ER and DL2. Lots of late nights, early mornings, and some PTO.

I read they left a cliffhanger. Any reason you think it'll be resolved in DLC vs a third title? Review that mentioned it felt like it'll be a trilogy.

Slickriven wrote:

They absolutely could delay to the sequel, but given how they ended HFW ... It'd be tough story telling I think. If they don't address what's happening at the end of HFW in the DLC, and simply add some side story, it could work, just would feel off. More so from the sense of urgency of where things are at the end.

I think they will use the dlc to launch the third game into a very different setting, after addressing what happens at the end of HFW. If they don't, I fear it'll be too saturated and milked based on how much is covered in HFW.

We'll see!

I love the main story and I just did not want to deviate from it's path. I did some side questing but really some was accidental. I am LVL 37. I am 32% done the game, I am at the point where the game tells you that if you go past this point you can't go back, so I am assuming that's near the end. That also kind of blows my mind if true. I mean damn, the main Story is what roughly 25% of the game and the other is filler? It's good filler I mean the side quests are very well done and I am currently going back to finish most and clean up a bunch of stuff I have going on. I roughly have 40 hours of gameplay time and love every minute. I wish I had more time to play, I can't even blame my kid she is awesome and actually likes watching... has to be all the colors. But my Wife wanting to spend time with me... UGH... ah it's all good. I am pretty grateful that she is doing this reading challenge, when she reads I play... works out. However, as it starts to warm up we will be doing more stuff outdoors, So I got to Hurry so I can start God of War.... Then I will bite the bullet and try Elden Ring, I have never tried the genre and I am tempted more then ever to give it a go.

Once I actually get to playing this, I'll only be doing the main story+ whatever side crap has Trophies. Open World games are awful with useless sidequests.

I would usually agreed and that's why I skip them most times... But the side quests here are largely pretty satisfying.

Finn wrote:

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I sunk 82 hours doing EVERYTHING (minus Strike, kinda got boring). The side stuff in this game was worth it for the story. The rewards could have been better though. Surprised by the overall lack of gear.

Anybody here have or try this on a ?
HFW is the main reason I want a 5, but wanting and finding are 2 different things. Was curious if the bump down would just ruin the experience.

I think it would run fine on a pro. It's a beautiful game no matter what you play it on and it's definitely a good enough game that if you want to play it just play it. You could always play it again on the PS5.

Also I never did any Cauldrons until tonight... 3 of them plus a few small things bumped me 8% to 40%. Kinda shocked that they account for so much of the game.

NPC: Hey, Aloy go check on this person.

Me: No, main story only!

Kommie wrote:

Man I wish I had the discipline to do this.

MrBean wrote:

I will be doing all the tall necks and Pouch Upgrades though, just no side quests unless they're trophy related.

There's a TON of stuff that I was amazed doesn't get trophies. I could care less about them but still. There's a ridiculous amount of story in the side quests though, worth doing in my opinion.

I don't remember any of these characters from the first game besides Lance Reddick.

The 'see-er' dude in HZD was great - he was the guy you gave machine 'blood' to and he drank it, was an annoying side task especially if you didn't find him early enough to avoid having to face more machines just for him, but his dialog was pretty good.

I am doing a bunch of trophy cleanup before I finish the game... But I am having a issue with 2 trophies ...

The kill all Acquisition types. I have it all, unless that means there sub category also. But the thing is every time I killed a variation the tracker just stayed at 94%.

The other trophy is Scan all the Machines. I got the one you can miss, so that's not the issue. I know there is also one that's the End Boss... But I am still missing two that I can't seem to find.





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FFS I think it's the Sunwing I am missing for the acquisition machines... I have used them for mounts but never killed and I assumed they were transport. I will try this tonight.


It was a damn Grazzer.... That's what I was missing.

I'm not too crazy about this game, mostly I think cause of the story. The cool mystery was solved in 1, and this game is just like "hey, you didn't really save the world, but you gotta try again!"

I also dumped it to Story Mode just to do the story. I don't think I'll bother with the Trophies in the end.

Kommie wrote:

You'll be disappointed at the end then

Kommie wrote:

While the story does indeed not have the first ones mystery it's still pretty gripping. I had planned on doing most side missions and everything along the way but I had to stop. The main story just sucked me in. The story is IMO very well done. The side missions are also much better in this game then the last IMO. The side missions that are in the trophy list I highly recommend. There are a few side missions in San Fran that gives out good rewards.


When it comes to the Trophies, go for it. They are not hard IMO. There is only one missable. So scan everything. Do the arena and go through all difficulties, scan everything before you jump down and that should clean up anything you may have missed.... There will be one at the very end. Plus you have access to some new venders at the end.

The only thing in this game I hate is the damn strike missions, but I am not going to have it stop me from the plat.

I'm 12/17 Main Missions in and not really liking the story, I'll finish it though.

2 main missions left, have not done a single side mission besides one Tall Neck.

Gotta say IMO your missing out, to each his own I suppose.



I am 85% done the trophies. I have two more before I can finish the main quest. Basically I have one flying quest left and I need to to do Two gauntlet missions. Finished Strike, glad that's over with!! I am 70% done in game. Once I finish the two trophies I plan on doing a few more side quests ... But I am getting pretty damn antsy to continue on with the game and finishing it.

I will be able to maybe finish the trophies tomorrow, rather the two I need, but my sister and brother in law are down and we will be finishing off most of the Kitchen Reno's. So the game will have to wait until maybe Sunday.

At 16:16:13 I beat Horizon Forbidden West while doing no side content besides one Tallneck:

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Horizon Zero Dawn Remake/Remaster in the Works for PS5; Horizon Multiplayer Game in Development

https://mp1st.com/news/report-horizon-zero-dawn-re...

Twitter on fire over that HZD news. Personally if the tech is better and a game is last gen I see a justification for doing it. Lots of folks shut up when they saw TLoU part 1. Although I did platinum HFW on ps4 and it was fine. The ps5 controller with weapons / feedback is the only thing that I missed.

Now I’m seeing that HZD has been optimized for ps5 already? Not exactly sure what that means.

The HZD optimizations actually happened awhile ago. Basically a 60fps mode.

I’ll have to check it out. Says it performs about 2.5x better than ps4 pro. Loading times is thebig thing for me.