Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition

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  1. ADEGaming
    Oct 1, 2020
    9
    The game itself was enjoyable. From the unique-story line, interesting side characters, and the very peculiar robotic dinosaurs. Since I always play a game at the highest difficulty, the combat was very challenging especially the rockbreaker and thunderjaw the only stepback of this gameplay would be the grindy experience for stacking up your resources.. The only problem I have with thisThe game itself was enjoyable. From the unique-story line, interesting side characters, and the very peculiar robotic dinosaurs. Since I always play a game at the highest difficulty, the combat was very challenging especially the rockbreaker and thunderjaw the only stepback of this gameplay would be the grindy experience for stacking up your resources.. The only problem I have with this game is the continuous stuttering every five seconds and the texture pop-ins. However, I got used to it since the game was quite immersive and Aloy was a really well-written protagonist.… Expand
  2. fmartins
    Sep 27, 2020
    10
    I got it from day one (Epic) and never really had any trouble running it. I was scared my computer would not run it properly reading all the news, but not even once it crashed (maybe I'm lucky). Anyway... I never really liked video games and never really had the money to buy a console or a pc, but I bought one this year a friend recommended Skyrim and HZD. As for HZD I have no words toI got it from day one (Epic) and never really had any trouble running it. I was scared my computer would not run it properly reading all the news, but not even once it crashed (maybe I'm lucky). Anyway... I never really liked video games and never really had the money to buy a console or a pc, but I bought one this year a friend recommended Skyrim and HZD. As for HZD I have no words to describe how happy I am about finishing it. Wonderful game! Would definitely play it all over again as soon as I finish Skyrim.… Expand
  3. doobiousdobby
    Sep 27, 2020
    0
    This game is complete abomination on PC, crashes every 5 minutes, weird animations and glitches, steer away from this. Its worst than red dead redemption 2 PC port
  4. tobymaybezz
    Sep 25, 2020
    0
    В этой игре мне не понравилось абсолютно ничего.
    Игра по всем параметрам не в моем вкусе и это мягко говоря.
  5. muzzcool
    Sep 24, 2020
    10
    I want to say a huge thank you to the developers of the game - you did a great job, the game is very interesting, great story, good gameplay and a variety of tasks, exactly what I expect from such games. I Express my gratitude to you!!
  6. Nekoshou
    Sep 24, 2020
    3
    The game suffers from many bugs and performance problems, but even without these problems the game is quite repetitive and forgettable. The story itself is really cool and the game looks pretty nice too. I didn’t play the game on the Playstation and I’m not sad about it because I’m likely to have forgotten this game soon which is a shame because this game definitely has more potential. DueThe game suffers from many bugs and performance problems, but even without these problems the game is quite repetitive and forgettable. The story itself is really cool and the game looks pretty nice too. I didn’t play the game on the Playstation and I’m not sad about it because I’m likely to have forgotten this game soon which is a shame because this game definitely has more potential. Due to the many problems of the port, the game is not really fun either.… Expand
  7. Andreylyakh1990
    Sep 21, 2020
    10
    Игра супер. Проработка и графика и сюжет. Вначале был минус с багами и вылетами, но сейчас всё это решили. Мне всё нравится!
  8. GitanoUrbano
    Sep 21, 2020
    5
    Un gran juego que esperaba para jugar en PC pero los bugs y la optimización pesima no me lo permitio disfrutar
  9. Efesys
    Sep 20, 2020
    8
    Despite all the problems with porting, the game awesome Assassin's Creed would still learn how to make such games that they would not become a work for 100 hours.
    I thought about taking a cheap Ps4 to Ibay and games from Sony.
  10. Sholva
    Sep 17, 2020
    7
    So, what do I think about this game, technical issues aside, a month after launch as of patch 1.05? Let’s dive into it, then:

    Graphics are really nice, especially lighting, reflections and vegetation. The character models for important NPCs and stuff are well detailed, especially in cutscenes (in engine). Performance wise, after several patches and currently on Patch 1.05 I feel like    So, what do I think about this game, technical issues aside, a month after launch as of patch 1.05? Let’s dive into it, then:

    Graphics are really nice, especially lighting, reflections and vegetation. The character models for important NPCs and stuff are well detailed, especially in cutscenes (in engine).

    Performance wise, after several patches and currently on Patch 1.05 I feel like I’m getting the expected performance on my R5 3600 and GTX 1070, the game looks nice, it has decent view distances and reflections, so I’m happy with how it runs, honestly, I can keep at least 60 FPS with mostly Ultra settings except Clouds and Ambient Occlusion set to High, and that’s it; it m ay drop a bit below 60 in intense combat situations or with that rain/storm that kills GPU performance a bit, but it’s quite better now than it was on release, for sure.

    The thing is, the world design in HZD is one of my main gripes with the game (tech/launch issues aside): this open world in HZD feels “older” when it comes to design than in other games, some of them came out way before HZD too. I can confirm that the developers had to make big sacrifices to make this game possible on PS4, according to Digital Foundry’s great interview they did at Guerrilla’s studios, at some point, so this is not really news, but it’s the reality, it was a big achievement for PS4, but this falls short in many aspects, compared to even other multi-platform games, not too much, yet I’ve seen more of the same but better realized elsewhere.

    The fact that the game literally places campfires every 50 meters, sometimes even less, at times, it’s quite annoying and I can’t stop thinking if this was like that on PS4’s release 3 years ago, or was patched later on to “balance” stuff? Because it makes me laugh, a lot, when I just quick saved on a campfire, only to find a new one 30 seconds later? I’ve found a campfire at each side of a river that was like 20 meters wide, literally, what the hell is that?
    Furthermore, fast travelling is made trivial by the fact that we have lots of travel packs and then we can also have an unlimited “epic” version of it.

    Traversing the world is not as fun as it is in games like Assassin’s Creed (any game since Black Flag, I’d say), as Aloy seems to have this lack of ability when it comes to grab on ledges, only those with ropes or specially designed to climb can be used, so many times I found myself trying to “explore” new paths on the mountains and feeling like I’m playing TES Morrowind…yeah, you remember, do you? I do.
    Combat is probably the high point of the game, as it requires some precision aiming and knowing the weaknesses of each machine and their patterns. I like that a lot, it reminds me of Monster Hunter but a bit faster paced so yeah…great approach to combat, with a bit of stealthy choices too, not great though, but the option is there for smaller machines or to strip a big one of some health, if you can.

    But, in the PC version of the game, with keyboard and mouse controls still doesn’t feel as polished as it should be, it’s gotten way better now that mouse aiming is smooth and precise (after some patches), but the keyboard movement is still way off and it’s noticeable in very intense combat situations. To compare, I feel AC Origins and Odyssey do keyboard and mouse controls better, and overall world traversal too, that’s my opinion but, as someone who’s played most of these open world games, I notice this pretty easily, as movement is crucial in all these games, or course.

    And then the story, without spoiling anything, I felt it was going be interesting just from doing the tutorial section, and I was right, it gets quite interesting in the last 30% of the game when the “secrets” begin to be revealed and some twists there too, even having some really sad moments and stuff that really makes you go and think “wow, yeah, this is cool, but so sad”, etc. I like the story, but some of the side quests (not errands, just side ones) weren’t too great, perhaps better than those in Assassin’s Creed games because, certainly, it seems Ubisoft lacks the skill to write decent quest in most games, lol, so it isn’t too hard to surpass that.

    Some of the interactions with certain quest NPCs felt quite awkward though, so maybe they should work on this a bit for the sequel. The Frozen Wilds stuff, which I assume it came sometime after the game launched on PS4, it’s not that much better when it comes to quests…more of the same, some cool locations, of course the snow deforms somewhat nicely and all that…it’s alright overall.

    I'd say that now that the game is (should be) mostly crash-free for most people it's safer to buy for those wanting to play it and resisted their initial purchase intentions.    … Expand
  11. empleat100
    Sep 17, 2020
    6
    Hmm... I have 60 fps+ on Geforce 2070 super on medium/ultra. No crashes, or tearing! This game is interesting, better than what we get nowadays. Story is engaging and game is fun to play! Only thing which is frustrating is - there is no way to set sensitivity in config for 1:1 mouse feel and in game there is just a slider... I am playing on 800 dpi and i can't hit anything! Also becauseHmm... I have 60 fps+ on Geforce 2070 super on medium/ultra. No crashes, or tearing! This game is interesting, better than what we get nowadays. Story is engaging and game is fun to play! Only thing which is frustrating is - there is no way to set sensitivity in config for 1:1 mouse feel and in game there is just a slider... I am playing on 800 dpi and i can't hit anything! Also because there is slightly higher input lag... And negative acceleration is just painful! Otherwise game is decent! But gameplay suffers, therefore 6 only. Also ttk seems wrong and crafting and looting is boring, i don't know why they put it to every game nowadays. As there is not even strategy much... You just grind... Hey at least it doesn't have micro-transactions... Stealth also could be better! I walked past dude mining looking the other way (crouched!) and he notices me, yet i had stealth upgrades... Funny thing is, if i call him, they will find his body very quickly, while there aren't even any patrols. Also i can't even hide body to the bush lame... Also seems like devs got lazy, there is not even description in trading menu what each icon, which presents attributes of an item. Repetitive side missions, too much grind! Btw please devs is it so hard to implement one window - on which you can click and enter value 1.00 for no interpolation? It is possible in much older games... I feel like only good things in this game are story and graphics...… Expand
  12. Dorren
    Aug 17, 2020
    10
    The game is really cool. The graphics were pulled to a new level and on average parameters it looks much better than most projects of 19-20 at maximum settings. The plot and gameplay are also made just fine and very addictive, and in some places I was very surprised by unexpected turns.
    In terms of optimization, I did not feel any particular problems, although I played on a low-mid-range    The game is really cool. The graphics were pulled to a new level and on average parameters it looks much better than most projects of 19-20 at maximum settings. The plot and gameplay are also made just fine and very addictive, and in some places I was very surprised by unexpected turns.
    In terms of optimization, I did not feel any particular problems, although I played on a low-mid-range PC. I saw the unloaded texture of the character only 1 time at the beginning for 1 second, and the sorties visited me only 2 times, but all this is quite forgivable if you remember that for developers this is the first experience of a port from PS4 to PC, and even more so on such a large scale.
    As a result, my score is 9/10, 1 point I took off for optimization flaws.    … Expand
  13. Atrsh
    Sep 15, 2020
    5
    Ive played it on PS4 and loved it - but on PC iam still waiting that they make the game playable. Way to many Bugs and Performance Issues. As soon as it runs smoothly i will enjoy it finally on PC with nice controls and nice graphics than on ps4
  14. hjmaier
    Sep 13, 2020
    0
    The game crashes while analyzing the hardware. I cannot recommend buying this game. I cannot even play.
  15. HealingToolbox
    Sep 9, 2020
    10
    For me, one of the greatest games of ANY game generation. What other game makes so clear--thru its game mechanic, fighting mech dinosaurs--a metaphor for the harmful rule of corporations who stride the earth, rule the Earth, ruin the Earth and the courageous Cultural Creative individuals needed to stand up, resist and defeat them?

    Can you name even one more game making such a bold,    For me, one of the greatest games of ANY game generation. What other game makes so clear--thru its game mechanic, fighting mech dinosaurs--a metaphor for the harmful rule of corporations who stride the earth, rule the Earth, ruin the Earth and the courageous Cultural Creative individuals needed to stand up, resist and defeat them?

    Can you name even one more game making such a bold, progressive statement--in gameplay--about what our real world needs less of and more of?

    The truly human values of Aloy are a welcome relief to me after endless game genres celebrating every flavor of toxic apocalypse.
    Unlike the recent three Tomb Raider reboots (also favorites of mine), Horizon avoids the inconsistencies of the Lara Croft character: alternating between soft and feminine one moment and brutally lethal the next. Aloy is a hard ass, "get it done" character who also has a heart when this is safe and appropriate.    … Expand
  16. Zuultaan
    Sep 9, 2020
    0
    The heavy handed PC/SJW/woke propaganda simply makes it unplayable. The cringe just kept getting worse as I played it. The side quests are boring, the lack of choices is ridiculous, its not an RPG. Its a "you will" be an sjw warrior or not play the game. It could have been fun, the mechanics are decent (combat is really one dimensional) as well as the graphics...the storyline I just foundThe heavy handed PC/SJW/woke propaganda simply makes it unplayable. The cringe just kept getting worse as I played it. The side quests are boring, the lack of choices is ridiculous, its not an RPG. Its a "you will" be an sjw warrior or not play the game. It could have been fun, the mechanics are decent (combat is really one dimensional) as well as the graphics...the storyline I just found too absurd to continue. I like to get into games otherwise its just galaga. If you are into unreal, revisionist sci fi history fables, and force fed sjw propaganda then this is the game for you.

    The game is witcher 3 WITHOUT the great side quests, interesting characters, multi dimensional combat, great dialogue, super story. Yeah

    The beginning is the worst, you have a girl that has been tortured by this woke tribe (her own tribe) and just magically she wants to protect it after having been shunned and isolated for 18 years. There are no RPG options to side with the Karja. I mean I would want revenge. The main character is simply vapid and shallow never questioning her love for the tribe which brutalized her and made her into surprisingly well adjusted misanthrope, for having been shunned for 18 years. The game is utter garbage. You keep waiting for the SJW propaganda to die down..but it doesn't...keeps getting worse and that is when I put down the game at about 50 hrs in.    … Expand
  17. chase000
    Sep 9, 2020
    4
    Another wannabe open-world with a bow and wall climbing. Ridiculous setting, poor and bland writing, paint-by-numbers progression/"crafting", mediocre animation with self-clipping, poor facial animations with a sprinkle of uncanny valley, bad lighting with lens flare galore, poor water visuals. Bad melee combat, bad and way too easy ranged combat with slow-mo aiming, insane zoom and anAnother wannabe open-world with a bow and wall climbing. Ridiculous setting, poor and bland writing, paint-by-numbers progression/"crafting", mediocre animation with self-clipping, poor facial animations with a sprinkle of uncanny valley, bad lighting with lens flare galore, poor water visuals. Bad melee combat, bad and way too easy ranged combat with slow-mo aiming, insane zoom and an integrated wallhack. Intensely stupid AI. How does this get any praise is beyond me.… Expand
  18. Tornan
    Sep 9, 2020
    6
    Wonderful game yet not ported well for PC. I also think that it somehow damaged my GPU.
  19. nJoe
    Sep 8, 2020
    10
    Awesome game. I've had zero problems since 1.03 and I encourage all who gave it a bad rating because of its previous problems to update their review.
  20. TitaniumDragon
    Sep 7, 2020
    7
    Horizon: Zero Dawn is an open-world game where you fight giant robot dinsosaurs and giant mammal robots in the post-apocalyptic Midwest. You play as Aloy, a red-headed young woman who was outcast at birth from her tribe, the Nora, for an initially unspecified reason.

    I thought that the “It was Earth all along!” thing would be a twist, but the game literally puts it in one of the loading    Horizon: Zero Dawn is an open-world game where you fight giant robot dinsosaurs and giant mammal robots in the post-apocalyptic Midwest. You play as Aloy, a red-headed young woman who was outcast at birth from her tribe, the Nora, for an initially unspecified reason.

    I thought that the “It was Earth all along!” thing would be a twist, but the game literally puts it in one of the loading screen hints, and the very start of the game has you walking through a ruined facility to get your Focus – a device which serves as an excuse for giving you an in-game HUD, as well as allowing you to scan and analyze the robots.

    This is quite the contrast to your weaponry – you carry around a bow and arrow, along with some other “primitive” equipment, but it is much more advanced than it seems – your bow is a compound bow, and you quickly start getting strange weapons like a sling that fires explosive and elemental rounds, a crossbow that launches explosive tripline traps, and a rope gun that can tie enemies to the ground.

    This sort of weird mixture of retro and futuristic runs throughout the game – you fight giant “animal” robots, while using weapons that you craft ammunition for using stuff you drag out of the corpses of the robots after you kill them.

    The core promise of the game – fighting against these cool giant robots – works quite well. There’s a reasonable variety of enemies (though a few types – like the various grazer robots – do end up being a bit samey), and each has their own strengths, weaknesses, and attack patterns. There are buffalo that charge around and leave firey trails, birds that shoot frost attacks at you, giant robots with multiple laser cannons attached to them… it’s a nice bit of variety, both in terms of the size of the robots and in how easy they are to defeat.

    Indeed, the game has some nice scaling at first – you start out fighting robots that are about your size, and then encounter your first mid-sized robot, which is a scary challenge. By the end of the game, you are dispatching those mid-sized robots easily and fighting gigantic robots that are more dangerous – well, at least in theory.

    In practice, sadly, like many open world games, this game’s scaling is messed up. And part of this is because the game runs out of new robots to throw at you. By the time you reach Meridian – the major city center of the game – you are less than halfway through the game’s playtime, but you will have likely encountered all but one type of enemy robot. This makes the second half of the game a bit of a letdown, as the game ends up running out of new challenges, and fighting the robots you’ve faced already becomes increasingly rote. The shiny new game smell wears off, and it ends up becoming a series of challenges that are just pretty trivial to overcome, except for the DLC area (which is included in the main game now) and the second to final major battle in the game.

    The game tries to make up for this in another way – the story of what happened to the world before, how it is that everything is in ruins, why it is that Aloy was cast out at birth, and why there are giant robotic dinosaurs wandering around is all very intriguing, and as you progress through the game, you come to unravel this mystery, seeing the story of the old world come together and just how Aloy’s unusual birth ties into these ancient mysteries.

    Indeed, this is where the game shines the most – the facilities look really neat (particularly some of the more active ones, like the Cauldrons, where robots are still being made), and the various audio logs and holographic images are very well done.

    Unfortunately, the game has some issues elsewhere with the story; in particular, the normal dialogue scenes often feel a bit stilted, with a lot of the voice actors seeming a bit flat. While the situation is certainly a bummer a great deal of the time, it still ends up being rather stilted at times in delivery.

    Still, these shortcomings can be overlooked, and they weren’t a dealbreaker for me.

    That being said, this game does have one major flaw: it is far too long.

    Open world games often have this problem, and Horizon: Zero Dawn is no exception. There is way more content than there is INTERESTING content, and while there’s tons of space to explore, and a big world to look at, a lot of it honestly ends up being a bit old hat. It is the main quest that is the biggest strength of the game, the mystery of the old world, with the present-day people (with the exception of a handful of characters) being much less interesting than the mysteries of the old world. And given that almost all of the side quests involve the present, not the past, it ends up exacerbating the common issue of sidequests feeling worse than the main plot.

    This is combined with the fact that the game ends up running out of new robots to throw at you.    … Expand
  21. wildmongle
    Sep 6, 2020
    10
    There were crashes at the beginning, but after the patches there isn't any serious crashes or bugs on it with the Gigabyte 1060. Great port and upgrade.
  22. Samnity
    Sep 6, 2020
    10
    Its fixed now.

    Its fixed now.Its fixed now.Its fixed now.Its fixed now.Its fixed now.

    Needed 75 characters long.
  23. HunterXJacob
    Sep 6, 2020
    10
    Excellent, beautiful game. I love you Aloy!! Don’t tell my wife (even though she is red headed)
  24. TheCLAYMAN
    Sep 6, 2020
    3
    В техническом плане - 6/10. Сюжет 4/10. Оптимизация и багфикс - 3/10. Открытый мир и его жизнь - 9/10. Графика 8/10.
    Сюжет полная фигня, уэе на середине ты уже просто хочешь поскорее закончить этот бред, максимально растянутый, такие себе квесты, самая банальняа мотивация персонажа, многие персонажи вообще не прописаны, просто болванчик для квестов с которым можно поговорить, ноль.    В техническом плане - 6/10. Сюжет 4/10. Оптимизация и багфикс - 3/10. Открытый мир и его жизнь - 9/10. Графика 8/10.
    Сюжет полная фигня, уэе на середине ты уже просто хочешь поскорее закончить этот бред, максимально растянутый, такие себе квесты, самая банальняа мотивация персонажа, многие персонажи вообще не прописаны, просто болванчик для квестов с которым можно поговорить, ноль.
    Открытый мир хороший, его наполненность и независимая от тебя часть отлично сделана, ИИ среднячек. Даже на самом сложном уровне сложности, не особо то и сложно. Прокачка оставляет желать лучшего.
    Боевка норм, уникальные для каждого уязвимые места, специальные стрелы, это все хорошо.    … Expand
  25. curzon_dax
    Sep 4, 2020
    7
    The game is great for its genre, however it is not very original, so you will love it if you have not played a lot of action adventures/soft-RPGs before but if you're very experienced in this kind of gaming you might find it repetitive/a sequel/another of the same for a large part of it.
  26. Hexen-Slayer
    Sep 4, 2020
    5
    HORIZON ZERO DAWN is just an average open world game. It features the same open world tropes that we've seen in other games from Ubisoft to Bethesda. Unremarkable NPCs have quests for you, that they are incapable or unwilling to do themselves, so they just wait for some random stranger to walk by to do it for them. Once you've finished their tasks, it's goodbye, never see ya again. TheseHORIZON ZERO DAWN is just an average open world game. It features the same open world tropes that we've seen in other games from Ubisoft to Bethesda. Unremarkable NPCs have quests for you, that they are incapable or unwilling to do themselves, so they just wait for some random stranger to walk by to do it for them. Once you've finished their tasks, it's goodbye, never see ya again. These "quests" are your average quests that we've completed several times before in just about every open world game before, usually find x somewhere, fetch x here and bring to me or kill x. Early on Aloy, the player character finds a device called a focus which is this game's "detective/witcher vision". Yeah, yeah, yeah, same old, same old.
    Crafting is as tedious as ever, too, collect x amount of x to craft x... it was interesting the first time they had this, now it's just tedious and I wish developers would EXclude crafting completely.
    There's your obligatory skill tree, nothing new here either, a basic stealth system - same mechanics as always, yada yada yada.
    So the bottom line, HORIZON ZERO DAWN is a patchwork of mechanics from other games, with tedious and boring missions, unmemorable NPCs and an unnecessary skill tree. It does everything other open world games do, but there's nothing it does extraordinarily well or completely different than others. I actually got bored playing this and most quests were chores. Only recommended for die hard fans of the open world genre.    … Expand
  27. Teerhand
    Sep 3, 2020
    0
    i won´t play this game when it crashes. this is my first playthrough of the game and i´m pissed it crashed during a part of the storytelling...immersion is completely gone.
    Its the third of october now, two months after release and the game is still unstable. i regret buying this immensly
  28. Thegm963
    Sep 2, 2020
    1
    Game looks stunning and seems extremely promising.

    However, it's a broken product. In my high end system (6700K, 1080ti etc) it barely runs at 60 fps but more importantly, it crashes like all the time and some googling shows its quite a common issue across the board. I cannot give a higher rating to a product that is malfunctioning to that extend despite the potential. Sony has released    Game looks stunning and seems extremely promising.

    However, it's a broken product. In my high end system (6700K, 1080ti etc) it barely runs at 60 fps but more importantly, it crashes like all the time and some googling shows its quite a common issue across the board. I cannot give a higher rating to a product that is malfunctioning to that extend despite the potential. Sony has released like 2 patches already that claim to address crashes but personally has seen zero difference so far. I don't care if they ll fix it in a year, I bought the game and want to enjoy it now.

    As it is, I cannot recommend the game to anyone, all that technical garbage will kill any enjoyment you might get out of it. Frankly, it seems like a cash grab by Sony, who should just stick to Consoles where at least they know what they are doing...    … Expand
  29. diegobeew
    Sep 1, 2020
    1
    Jogo totalmente mal otimizado pra PC. Travadas constantes. Queda brusca de frames. Uma falta de respeito com o consumidor. Totalmente insatisfeito com o que fizeram com o jogo pra pc. Mesmo com as atualizações o game continua travando bastante. Decepção!
  30. Oswinoswald
    Aug 31, 2020
    7
    Pretty good story but dialogues between characters were pretty boring I would usually go for the fastest way to end the convo
    It has crashes and bad fps problems but I still finished it
    I would recommend it But bosses are easy to defeat you can just spam your arrows it doesn't matter how much you pull your bow it will do same damage so that's really bad I pretty much defeated every boss    Pretty good story but dialogues between characters were pretty boring I would usually go for the fastest way to end the convo
    It has crashes and bad fps problems but I still finished it
    I would recommend it
    But bosses are easy to defeat you can just spam your arrows it doesn't matter how much you pull your bow it will do same damage so that's really bad I pretty much defeated every boss by spamming and if you try to play on lowest graphics it doesn't render some enemies but they are able to shoot you so that was very annoying as well    … Expand
  31. MadclownJack
    Aug 30, 2020
    5
    Everyone praised this thing to the point that i thought i was playing it wrong. But this is nothing special. The story might be interesting, but since the gameplay becomes dull very quickly, I'm not left with a wanting to pursue the actual story further. It's ok, at best. Combat feels a bit plasticky too. Like i'm using auto-aim all the time. Bosses are just a grind, not very fun, justEveryone praised this thing to the point that i thought i was playing it wrong. But this is nothing special. The story might be interesting, but since the gameplay becomes dull very quickly, I'm not left with a wanting to pursue the actual story further. It's ok, at best. Combat feels a bit plasticky too. Like i'm using auto-aim all the time. Bosses are just a grind, not very fun, just interesting to look at. And riding the machines i guess can be fun too, but how long will that hold you? Just a generic TPS with elements better done in other games.

    Worst part though is that i had to wait 10 fkin minutes for it to "calibrate". Ten minutes? What the actual hell?    … Expand
  32. kartd05481
    Aug 29, 2020
    0
    Take several hours to experience the game crashing, good job guys！！！！！！！！！！
  33. Mordecai_253
    Aug 29, 2020
    10
    This game came out Mardi Gras day 2017 and I still remember booting it up after a long fat Tuesday. It was a blast to play then and the polish was really remarkable for a studio with only one moderately popular IP. Still think it's interesting that this and BOTW came out the same year and had very, very similar post-apocalyptic backstories (and some enemy designs). In any case, playing itThis game came out Mardi Gras day 2017 and I still remember booting it up after a long fat Tuesday. It was a blast to play then and the polish was really remarkable for a studio with only one moderately popular IP. Still think it's interesting that this and BOTW came out the same year and had very, very similar post-apocalyptic backstories (and some enemy designs). In any case, playing it three years ago even on a PS4 Pro, I couldn't help but yearn for running it with the full backing of PC hardware.

    So let me cut to the chase, I have been running the latest patch (1.02) without any problems whatsoever being 13 hours into the game at this point. It looks FANTASTIC and my frame-rate is at least average for a heavy game like this in terms of stability. I get 55-70fps (1440p most everything maxxed) most of the time with occasional dips into the 30s and periodic dropped frames, not too unusual but there is room for improvement to be sure.
    I'm running on CPU - Ryzen 2600x GPU - MSI Duke 1080ti 11gb w/ 16gb DDR4
    The dips and drops occur when a lot of models and effects are loaded quickly (i.e when running on a mount into a group of enemies or through a settlement with a lot of NPCs) ; fairly standard hiccups for a graphics heavy game.
    the TLDR: the game has been running phenomenally for me and is more than I could have wished for imagining a PC release while settling for the 30fps on PS4 in 2017. I've read people's performance results have varied substantially especially in previous patch builds of the game. That had not been my experience at all.
    The game itself is a blast, you can read other reviews about the gameplay and graphics. Suffice to say that exploration is fun, combat is very good with a lot of variety in enemy attacks, weaknesses, weapons, and character abilities. The story is more than passable, the world is very large, and most notably, absolutely stunning. This is easily one of the prettiest and artistically stunning games I have ever played on PC.
    The PC performance boo-hoos have been greatly blown out-of-proportion assuming my mainstream PC is fairly representative. If you like action-adventure games and have a decent rig (idk how well this game scales pre-2016/15 hardware) this is absolutely worth checking out.    … Expand
  34. RaidenLucifer
    Aug 29, 2020
    5
    An unfortunate miserable disaster of a PC port. The game doesn't even look great, feels like anti-aliasing doesn't even work meanwhile your entire ram and Vram are completely filled. This allocates like 8Gb of ram just by being in the menu, like 12gb in game. Massive amounts of stutter and lag spikes
  35. Thesiberian87
    Aug 29, 2020
    3
    you can't play, the camera make you sick, stuttering and bugs everywhere.
    on ps it was way better, this is a very bad porting
  36. Ascgmartin
    Aug 27, 2020
    4
    Il gioco si presenta in condizioni pessime.

    Sul mio pc (hardware : gpu 2080 sea hawk, cpu rayzen 5 3600, ram 16 gb Vengeance da 3200,) il gioco e consigliato in alto, ma comunque presenta problemi di micro lag e scatti, ma non è la cosa più grave anzi, la cosa peggiore e che presenta problemi con credo il caricamento o dei poligoni o delle texture, siccome i personaggi e alcuni oggetti    Il gioco si presenta in condizioni pessime.

    Sul mio pc (hardware : gpu 2080 sea hawk, cpu rayzen 5 3600, ram 16 gb Vengeance da 3200,) il gioco e consigliato in alto, ma comunque presenta problemi di micro lag e scatti, ma non è la cosa più grave anzi, la cosa peggiore e che presenta problemi con credo il caricamento o dei poligoni o delle texture, siccome i personaggi e alcuni oggetti (alberi bestie montagne persino il suolo) nel ambientazione si ritrovano deformati come se fossero tirati, e creano forme completamente assurde anche durante le cutscene ad esempio io durante una delle prime cutscene non vedevo nulla perche un albero copriva tutto, praticamente un albero ai lati del inquadratura era diventato talmente largo da coprire tutto.
    Ad un mio amico invece tutto questo non succede il suo pc mota una 1050 ti e un i 7 non mi ricordo la gen, e a lui questi problemi non capitano ma in compenso ha crash continui gli fps che vanno da 15 a 62 senza essere stabili, anche lui ha riscontrato problemi con i modelli, texture ma solo sulla protagonista,essi sono estrema semplificazione del modello ovvero era un triangolo strano per il petto e una forma che non so definire per le gambe ma il volto era normale, e un altra volta la pelle era diventata completamente trasparente ma questi due bug sono successi solo una volta uno dietro l'altro e poi non si sono ripetuti, per ora.
    Io vi consiglio caldamente di aspettare le patch    … Expand
  37. Combiner
    Aug 27, 2020
    10
    Masterpiece ! I hope that devs will fix all technical problems very soon.
    Amazing game !
  38. lapkina
    Aug 26, 2020
    3
    The game itself is good and beautiful, but sony can **** themselves. Instead of working on a proper port they preferred to outsource it to some low skill low budget slaves. R u kidding me? It crashes every time!
  39. Deathbysnoosnoo
    Aug 25, 2020
    9
    One of the best games I've played in a very long time. Beautiful environment , great soundtrack. Game play was really good and the story was very really good. Kept me wanting to keep playing and find out the next part in the story. I took one point do due the pc version constantly crashing on me. A must have game.
  40. Twirlenkiller
    Aug 25, 2020
    1
    This is straight up the worst optimized port of PS4 into PC. The story and mechanics are outstanding, but they are overshadowed by the terrible performance.
  41. 12Stig12
    Aug 25, 2020
    7
    Edited after patches

    now when I can play the game I can change score to 9. It is post apocalypse game but so much different than others. Nice story, interesting combat - traps, stealth and so. I am looking forward for HZD 2 to watch playthroughs at Twitch. But eventhough I have recommended specs and I have the lowest quality setings I dont have stable 60 FPS so still game need a lot    Edited after patches

    now when I can play the game I can change score to 9. It is post apocalypse game but so much different than others. Nice story, interesting combat - traps, stealth and so. I am looking forward for HZD 2 to watch playthroughs at Twitch.

    But eventhough I have recommended specs and I have the lowest quality setings I dont have stable 60 FPS so still game need a lot of optimalisations and so I cant still give it green rating.    … Expand
  42. SewAwOw
    Aug 24, 2020
    8
    Игра хорошая - красивая, увлекательная, динамичная. Сюжет интересный и захватывающий, боевка круто поставлена (против роботов, с людьми сражаться скучно), артдизайн невероятно красив, особенно, дождь с ветром, удобное управление с клавомыши. Из недостатков отмечу общую слабую оптимизацию и кривоватость порта (хотя мне повезло, багов и сильных просадок фпс не было, только 1 вылет, когдаИгра хорошая - красивая, увлекательная, динамичная. Сюжет интересный и захватывающий, боевка круто поставлена (против роботов, с людьми сражаться скучно), артдизайн невероятно красив, особенно, дождь с ветром, удобное управление с клавомыши. Из недостатков отмечу общую слабую оптимизацию и кривоватость порта (хотя мне повезло, багов и сильных просадок фпс не было, только 1 вылет, когда обновил драйвер), проблемы с анимациями в катсценах, а также какие-то одинаковые и слишком лощеные лица второстепенных НПЦ, которые еще и выглядят пластиковыми. Ну и загадки кажутся лишними в такой игре.
    В целом игра понравилась, советую любителям приключений и игр в открытом мире.    … Expand
  43. Migay
    Aug 24, 2020
    2
    I give this game a 2/10. I have crashes every 2-5 minutes and everyone saying "Its because of your PC specs" please shut the **** up. Please do not buy this game at this state of the Port because its just luck if it works for you. I have 3 Hours in this game so I cant refund it on steam... so Im stuck with one of the worst PC Ports I have ever played.
  44. Renaigse
    Aug 23, 2020
    6
    Помнится консульщики восторгались данной игрой, хотя она крайне средняя, из плюсов только графика ( на пк, конечно) и роботы ( то как они сделаны , сражения с ними) и на этом все. Запоминающихся/интересных персонажей 0, сама Элой тоже ни о чем, сюжет...чем дальше , тем нелепей, сам игровой процесс очень уж скучный, сайды говно, ей богу в ассасине лучше делают. Крч крайне посредвстеннаяПомнится консульщики восторгались данной игрой, хотя она крайне средняя, из плюсов только графика ( на пк, конечно) и роботы ( то как они сделаны , сражения с ними) и на этом все. Запоминающихся/интересных персонажей 0, сама Элой тоже ни о чем, сюжет...чем дальше , тем нелепей, сам игровой процесс очень уж скучный, сайды говно, ей богу в ассасине лучше делают. Крч крайне посредвстенная игра, распиаренная сонибоями… Expand
  45. Eiria
    Aug 22, 2020
    0
    Juego roto con crasheos constantes. Sony siendo sony intentando estafar a los jugadores de pc con un port cutre.
  46. Emanuelska09
    Aug 21, 2020
    0
    No me gustó, me aburrió parecía una película pero bueno, igual dense la oportunidad de jugarlo
  47. WryMouth
    Aug 21, 2020
    0
    Buggy, Needs a LOT of patches. Story is ok, nice open world but its a wait for a year to buy game.
  48. Moskititaa1987
    Aug 21, 2020
    0
    Malisimo port , puta mierda de juego la de los piperos historia aburridísimo y repetitiva como la mierda.
  49. zzkaiser
    Aug 21, 2020
    10
    Juego que pese a sus fallos, luce igual o mejor que en ps4 cuyo rendimiento es entre 55 y 60 fps, con una 1060, en el peor de los casos 25 fps mas que en ps4. la gente parece olvidar que en ps4 tenia bajones, a recordar que otros juegos iban mucho peor optimizados y les ponían medallas y a este solo criticas de salida
  50. Tecco
    Aug 21, 2020
    9
    I had none of the issues with framedrops and stutters people mention on my 8700k - 32gb - 1080ti - WIn 10 system.
    Frames from 70-180fps all the way on a 1440p display, so i suspect it is peope not smart enough to setup their system and game properly, since none of the usual people who comes to me with problems has had any issues with the game so far.
    Story wise the game is great, a rare    I had none of the issues with framedrops and stutters people mention on my 8700k - 32gb - 1080ti - WIn 10 system.
    Frames from 70-180fps all the way on a 1440p display, so i suspect it is peope not smart enough to setup their system and game properly, since none of the usual people who comes to me with problems has had any issues with the game so far.
    Story wise the game is great, a rare jewel in todays low IQ gaming sphere, though padded abit too much with kinda cringey feminist tropes, especially towards the end, but bit due to the overall quality of the game it's something i can easily live with.
    Gameplay felt clunky and frustrating at first, but eventually i got into the flow and now i find it quite enjoyable aswell.    … Expand
  51. Xplocion
    Aug 20, 2020
    6
    The good:
    Seeing a "native" Sony Playstation game came to PC Steam. The history of Alloy. It is the full version that includes the expansion of The Frozen Wilds. The anti-crash patch is now available, but it is still buggy. Steam offers refunds for games that have performance flaws.
    The Bad: This poorly optimized game costs money. Even with its anti-Crash patch, it still has flaws in    The good:
    Seeing a "native" Sony Playstation game came to PC Steam. The history of Alloy. It is the full version that includes the expansion of The Frozen Wilds. The anti-crash patch is now available, but it is still buggy. Steam offers refunds for games that have performance flaws.

    The Bad: This poorly optimized game costs money. Even with its anti-Crash patch, it still has flaws in loading textures and in shadows. Its "garbage collector" is bad, the PC memory reaches stratospheric levels without releasing resources. Some patterns in the background do not load very well (fix by reducing the draw distance). Fight phases are filled with Motion Blur to handle saturation

    Lo Meh !: Many are evaluating the PC version based on what they remember of the PS4 version, the PS4 version is not evaluated here, that has its own tab. The game is poorly optimized, hopefully they fix it soon. Hopefully they have better ideas at Sony and this game also comes to PC Epic and PC GOG or they put it in Humble Bundle. PC resources (such as console are finite) the subject is the management of priorities and resource management and in a system that monitors the antivirus, the anti-piracy, the CPU heating, the number of FPS, the weather Widgets ...    … Expand
  52. flexxx1ble
    Aug 20, 2020
    7
    Для начала стоит сказать, что это один из тех портов, на которые стоит равняться.
    Да, моя система не сказать, что слабая(2070S+9600K 4,4), но даже на ней большинство проектов, портированных с PS(привет, RDR2), идут со скрипом, тем более в 2К. Этот же порт выдал относительно стабильные 80-100 кадров на средне-высоких настройках, при том, имея довольно неплохую картинку(привет, RDR2). Это    Для начала стоит сказать, что это один из тех портов, на которые стоит равняться.
    Да, моя система не сказать, что слабая(2070S+9600K 4,4), но даже на ней большинство проектов, портированных с PS(привет, RDR2), идут со скрипом, тем более в 2К. Этот же порт выдал относительно стабильные 80-100 кадров на средне-высоких настройках, при том, имея довольно неплохую картинку(привет, RDR2). Это лайк.

    Теперь основное:

    1. Сюжет - то, что вытягивает эту игру. Он действительно неплохой, давно меня в играх так не цеплял именно этот аспект. Даже несмотря на некоторые клише, но без них никуда.

    В то же время, раздражало искусственное растягивание сюжета путем посылания Элой на другой конец карты по любом мало-мальски важном делу. Спасибо, что хоть фаст трэвел есть, но об этом ниже.

    2. Геймплей - ну, он есть. По факту, играется это как Uncharted 2, но с красивыми текстурками и открытым миром.

    В основном, портит впечатление кривая система паркура с возможность залезать только на уступы, которые есть в основном на локациях, на которые НЕОБХОДИМО забраться по ходу повествования.

    Автоматический выбор игрой дальности прыжка на уступ. Ты можешь сколько угодно брать разбег и высоко прыгать, если игра решила, что ты можешь зацепиться только за нижний уступ, будь добр, лети до нижнего и карабкайся с него или не цепляйся вообще и привет загрузка.

    Непонятно, для кого и зачем были добавлены комплекты быстрого перемещения, без которых оно, соответственно, невозможно. Просто зачем? Почему? Для чего? Ладно хоть попадаются часто и стоят недорого.

    Передвижение верхом тоже максимально неудобное с точки зрения управления и непонятно как и для кого сделанное.

    Открытый мир не сказать, что пустой, но и увлекательным его назвать язык не поворачивается. Да, иногда попадаются случайные квесты по пути, какие-то места интереса, но чаще всего попадаются стаи не очень доброжелательно настроенных машин. Хоть это и обосновано лором, но все же.

    В целом анимации, как лицевые, так и в целом, кажутся довольно картонными, на 2017 год не тянет, тот же уровень второго Анчартеда.

    Если играть, то только ради сюжета. Однако, очень жду продолжения истории Элой и искренне надеюсь, что сони допилят механики передвижения и паркура.

    Всем мир.    … Expand
  53. alibsan
    Aug 19, 2020
    5
    Terrible port (the game is in occasions unplayable), but when you can play it is a good game
  54. DeeGamer
    Aug 19, 2020
    1
    Even after the 1.02 update, the game performs like **** on my device which has a GTX 1060! Not acceptable considering that the devs had more than enough time to work on a PC port, and that it costs a ton of cash!
  55. skataras
    Aug 19, 2020
    0
    if you want the ultimate crash expirience every 5 minutes then look no further than this game
  56. P4inskiller
    Aug 19, 2020
    4
    It does not catch me. The graphics are good and it has the Witcher formula of an AAA RPG. But combat is boring and not satisfying. The AI is sometimes not existing and despite of the beautiful world, its very boring to run through. Crashessometimes did not bother me, but the gameplay is simply not good. Expected more...
  57. Kunray
    Aug 18, 2020
    10
    Very interesting and emotional main story line quest surrounded by tons of local quests, trials e.t.c. Main character without charisma, but still pretty good young lady.
    In game main soundtrack and background music in game are top notch.
  58. UAndreyUA
    Aug 18, 2020
    10
    This is very beautiful game! One of the most memorable stories! Thanks Guerrilla!
  59. NickV21
    Aug 18, 2020
    0
    Really nice game, much much better then Odysey but, Terrible optimization a lot of bugs and errors,
  60. Baronz
    Aug 18, 2020
    3
    So nice having to wait ten minutes while the game "optimize stuff for your PC" then having texture and models **** up. Then you change drivers and wait another ten minutes to see that it is still **** up.
  61. Meow_Meow
    Aug 18, 2020
    6
    The game is great, but the big minus is I can't choose whether I want to play for a girl or a boy.. All my "game life" I play for men and now I play for a girl?! = -30%..I must also remind you that I have not seen so many ugly characters in the game for a long time as here. I would also like the opportunity to choose the type of game characters depending on which part of the world I liveThe game is great, but the big minus is I can't choose whether I want to play for a girl or a boy.. All my "game life" I play for men and now I play for a girl?! = -30%..I must also remind you that I have not seen so many ugly characters in the game for a long time as here. I would also like the opportunity to choose the type of game characters depending on which part of the world I live in.. = -15%.. total score = 55%… Expand
  62. MaxMiros
    Aug 18, 2020
    4
    Скучная гриндилка с посредственной механикой и сюжетом.
  63. CharlePL
    Aug 17, 2020
    3
    Very poor optimization for this port. Game graphics are definitely subpar for this level of hardware demand. Plenty of visible aliasing and shimmering textures. Gameplay is kinda boring and repetitive, the combat system is nothing special.
  64. t34mki11
    Aug 17, 2020
    2
    Very fun game from what I've experienced, but it is so plagued by bugs and crashes that I can't recommend it in it's current state. Probably 10 crashes in 5 hours of playing. It saves often, so at least you're not re-completing big portions of gameplay due to the crashes.
  65. LeetPanda
    Aug 17, 2020
    2
    maybe the worst pc port what ever been developed for last 10 years, i can't play even on lowest settings cuz of crashes, missing and blurry textures, freezes for a second and low fps overall
  66. Vipega
    Aug 17, 2020
    2
    Купил в Steam наиграл полтора часа, игра вылетела, рефанднул, купил на торренте. А знаете для бесплатной игры её качество на 8 из 10.
  67. Filar
    Aug 17, 2020
    10
    Very impressed that Sony decided to adapt the game to PC.
    I played the PS4 version at launch and now playing the PC version which has better FX, way better framerates (who remembers the big framerates drop on the PS4 version?) and an impressive deep of field.
    The game was stable on my PC (2080, i7, 32GB ram).
    So big thanks to Guerrilla to give more players the chance to play this gem.
  68. slipkout
    Aug 16, 2020
    0
    esse jogo tá uma porcaria pra rodar em qualquer PC experiência frustrante. Por favor sony fique com seus exclusivos só no playstation o PC não precisa de porcarias como esta. :D
  69. estuspete
    Aug 16, 2020
    10
    I have personally had none of the crazy technical issues that supposedly make the game "unplayable." It has worked perfectly. I moved FOV to 100, turned off FPS limit, Vsync, motion blur, and tweaked some of the graphic settings to balance FPS with fidelity. I couldn't be happier with the game. Obviously the story is amazing, and it has been just long enough since playing the PS4I have personally had none of the crazy technical issues that supposedly make the game "unplayable." It has worked perfectly. I moved FOV to 100, turned off FPS limit, Vsync, motion blur, and tweaked some of the graphic settings to balance FPS with fidelity. I couldn't be happier with the game. Obviously the story is amazing, and it has been just long enough since playing the PS4 version that it feels almost like a new game. For instance, I didn't remember the "secrets" of Zero Dawn, so it was fun to experience again, at 144fps no less!

    I'm running an i7-8770 / 1080Ti / 32gb DDR4 / older SSD w/ 600 mb up/down. The game runs like butter. I did have one technical issue, where the game didn't remember my graphics or key bind changes, and it took all of 3 minutes to restore them to my liking.

    This game is amazing...awesome story, great action gameplay, amazing weapons and upgrades. 9.5/10.    … Expand
  70. Rudal
    Aug 16, 2020
    0
    Update after 40 hours...
    I am lowering the score to 0. I like the game but the crashes are getting worse.
    There was a couple of patches that supposed to fix this but all what was done is fixing some minor gameplay glitches. I used to have crashes during cutscenes, now after the patch I keep crashing even more and in random places. I won't be "reviewing" the game. It's a 3 years old    Update after 40 hours...
    I am lowering the score to 0. I like the game but the crashes are getting worse.
    There was a couple of patches that supposed to fix this but all what was done is fixing some minor gameplay glitches.
    I used to have crashes during cutscenes, now after the patch I keep crashing even more and in random places.

    I won't be "reviewing" the game. It's a 3 years old title and you all played it already or read about it enough, so you all know what's going on and if you want to play it on PC or not.

    My biggest concern in here is the state of the PC port.
    Here's my set up for the reference.
    i7-8700K @3,7GHz
    32GB RAM
    GTX1080 @1440p with G-sync @165Hz
    Game runs on ultra settings with motion blur turned off.

    The game has very unstable fps on my rig but overall runs at about 50 to 60fps. It can occasionally jump to 90 or fall to high 30's but most of the time stays within that 50-60 range. To my surprise it can jump to 150-180 during cutscenes and starting to think is this what causes the problems?

    The game crashes randomly during cutscenes and it can be anything from major plot scene to a short conversation with a merchant. There is no quick save in this game where you can press the F5 and save it, you have to go to a camp fire (go figure....) and "quick save it" that way.
    With random crashes and when you don't really know what will happen around the corner you can loose hours of play, and the game won't let you quick save before any attempt at conversation or interaction with NPC's.

    HZD is a mash up between the Tomb Raider(2013) and AC Origins and it looks and plays quite nice but unfortunately not as good as TR or AC O.
    There is something odd in character movement and it has some weird "glitches" like characters moving quickly or fall back into places after a cut scene.

    According to Steam I played for 10 hours. Take 2 of them for setting up and general testing. That gives you around 8 hours of gameplay. Probably 3-4 hours from this 8 were lost to crashes where I had to replay the whole sections of the map.
    My first 3 crashes happened in the firs 20 minutes of tutorial.

    At the moment - DO NOT BUY IT! Wait for updates and fixes. Give it a month or two.
    If by then you won't be playing Cyberpunk and still be interested in this game then yes, but until it's fixed - NO.    … Expand
  71. magicmoo
    Aug 16, 2020
    3
    Games work really well here on my RTX 2060. Maybe because I have a 12 cores CPU.

    That's pretty much the only good thing I can say about this game. I really don't see why so many are calling this a masterpiece, while this seems to me just a desperate and uninspired attempt at emulating the "iconic" soulless Ubisoft formula that I simply can't stomach anymore. Honestly, if this hadn't    Games work really well here on my RTX 2060. Maybe because I have a 12 cores CPU.

    That's pretty much the only good thing I can say about this game. I really don't see why so many are calling this a masterpiece, while this seems to me just a desperate and uninspired attempt at emulating the "iconic" soulless Ubisoft formula that I simply can't stomach anymore. Honestly, if this hadn't been a PS4 exclusive at the time, I wonder if this thing would have gotten as much attention as it got back then.

    Everything in there is incredibly bland. The big empty world, the excruciating dialogs and characters, the main protagonist with absolutely no charisma, the bulletsponges mobs with 2 or 3 moves max and godawful AI, the pointless perks that you have to grind for because every game has to have RPG elements these days (so many missed opportunities there to make the progression actually fun), the horrendously boring gameplay with tons of cheap artificial difficulty crammed in there in order to make you feel like you're actually doing something, etc... Speaking of the last point, I really think the health/healing system is one of the worst I've ever seen in a modern game. It simply couldn't be any more obnoxious and feels like an absolute chore. The fact that you didn't even bother making it easier over time with perks (or at least by letting us heal at campfires...) just shows how little you care about your audience actually enjoying themselves instead of just ensnaring their reptilian brain with your pointless and repetitive tasks, while conveying a fake sense of fun on par with terrible mobile games design. This game actually made me feel like it was using the infamous mobile game concept of making a game just fun enough to keep you going, but while being very careful of not making it too fun, so you actually really enjoy yourself. That's how bad my experience was.

    Because of this, in the 10 hours I could handle before giving up on this charade, I don't think there was a single time I could enjoy the world, because I was constantly looking to collect an absurd amount of health plants instead of looking at the scenery. That would have been fine if a few hits taken wouldn't mean I had to start again this garbage and ruin the pacing at the same time. But, no, you made it this horrible on purpose.

    Maybe I just don't get it. That must be it. After all, I somehow don't even find the whole premises of the world actually interesting or remotely believable in any way, although this could have something to do with the awful presentation. Anyway, I'll take Bloodborne over this any day. Sony should have started with this if they really wanted to make on impact on the PC community (and tons of cash of course). Hopefully it's gonna happen. Fingers crossed !    … Expand
  72. Leonardo10
    Aug 16, 2020
    9
    It's one of those heavy games that the PlayStation 4 has and it's finally coming to PC. The game is perfect but not all computers will be able to run it.
  73. YotaXD
    Aug 16, 2020
    9
    Amazing Game but pretty bad port. (update)

    Why i rated the Game so low ? First thing i wanna say is that I already played the game on Ps4 (3 years ago) and it was pretty nice (9/10) and since it was announced that Sony will bring it to PC i was hyped. Considering that. i wont obviously not review the story etc. but rather the Pc Port itself. Well consedering my Hardware and    Amazing Game but pretty bad port. (update)

    Why i rated the Game so low ?

    First thing i wanna say is that I already played the game on Ps4 (3 years ago) and it was pretty nice
    (9/10) and since it was announced that Sony will bring it to PC i was hyped.

    Considering that. i wont obviously not review the story etc. but rather the Pc Port itself.

    Well consedering my Hardware and that this is 3 years old
    i was hoping for a smooth 4k Ultra experience. But i have to dial down graphics and scaling on a 2080ti and it still seems to be not very smooth.
    So, not only is the game currently bad optimized it also still has bugs and crashes from time to time. And im not alone with problems like that.
    So no, for a full price game that was released some years ago. I dont reallly like seeing something like this. There are people beside some bugs who dont have problems with crashes. Others cant even start the game. Its 50/50
    So far it looks like lottery if it runs stable and smooth.

    If you have never played this game before, i suggest you buy the game but wait for fixes or lower price, since the game itself is pretty good
    If you are here for the Pc Master Race experience like me and already experienced it before... well i dont suggest it atm.

    Maybe next time release the game in a respectable manner.

    I mean:
    - some skills not working correctly (update FIXED)
    -Many Animations locked at 30fps
    -Fps drops
    -constant crashes (updated mostly fixed)
    -might not even start on some people
    - Movement issue using Keyboard + Mouse (updated Fixed)
    -graphic bugs
    and many more

    Sry, but we deserve better. For now its update 6/10 ( it was 3/10)    … Expand
  74. mrsad
    Aug 15, 2020
    0
    Crash, Crash, Crash and again Crash! ports not working... bad graphic and what the hell
  75. Tori_Hanzo
    Aug 14, 2020
    5
    I will simplify my review as much as I can.

    First 15 minutes of game play: 2 out of 10 Control : 4 out of 10 Graphics : 7 out of 10 (I really do not like games where strafing sideways is not possible) Story : 7 out of 10 (Nice story, a bit silly but nice) UI : 4 out of 10 Stability : 2 out of 10 (Game crashed around every 20 - 30 minutes, even crashed during    I will simplify my review as much as I can.

    First 15 minutes of game play: 2 out of 10
    Control : 4 out of 10
    Graphics : 7 out of 10 (I really do not like games where strafing sideways is not possible)
    Story : 7 out of 10 (Nice story, a bit silly but nice)
    UI : 4 out of 10
    Stability : 2 out of 10 (Game crashed around every 20 - 30 minutes, even crashed during the initial intro so I missed the entire entry-story)    … Expand
  76. DrNegative
    Aug 14, 2020
    10
    >Objectively one of the best open world games ever made
    >A based backstory discovered through exploration instead of spoon-feeding
    >Graphics 10/10 >A top 3 female protagonist of all time >Best "post-post" apocalyptic game ever created >Top notch soundtrack >Side quests are actually meaningful >Crafting is simple and fun >AC style game play against humans, Souls like combat with the    >Objectively one of the best open world games ever made
    >A based backstory discovered through exploration instead of spoon-feeding
    >Graphics 10/10
    >A top 3 female protagonist of all time
    >Best "post-post" apocalyptic game ever created
    >Top notch soundtrack
    >Side quests are actually meaningful
    >Crafting is simple and fun
    >AC style game play against humans, Souls like combat with the machines
    >Beautiful art direction, especially the ancient cities and ruins of Colorado    … Expand
  77. Jakku_TR
    Aug 14, 2020
    0
    Terrible pc port. There are graphical glitches, constant shutter and constant FPS drops across all hardware configurations. . Game is unplayable.
  78. Fallos
    Aug 14, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This s...t crushes 5 sec after launch.
    If not, it will crush after 5 min.
    If not, it will crush after 10 min 100%.
    This port was made in windows notebook by apes.    … Expand
  79. Mullouch
    Aug 14, 2020
    0
    I created an account to leave this review. Don't buy! Random crashes. Didn't want to believe the reviews but they ARE true. Never had this big of a problem out of a game. What a SHAME. I can't believe they would release it broken for so many purchasers.
  80. Immortal2Knight
    Aug 14, 2020
    1
    Runs like **** on 2080 super. Horrible port. Lazy effort by the developer and a vile attempt at cash grab by Sony and in hopes of converting some pc users to ps5 for hzd 2. Thing is pc users are not as stupid as ponies.
  81. skeetertbone
    Aug 14, 2020
    10
    Great game: story and game play are too notch. The quintessential female protagonist.
  82. Light-Sword
    Aug 14, 2020
    0
    amazing environment and character, good combat mechanic and mobs. the game still need some fixes to optimize the game play experience
  83. dmytrs
    Aug 14, 2020
    0
    Скачал пиратку, наиграл 6-7 часов, игра перестала запускаться. Переустановил windows, перепробовал все способы, нихуя не помогает. Хорошо, что не отдал за это говно деньги.
  84. Chebelna
    Aug 13, 2020
    0
    Are you a'h'uel tam? 6 дней прошло, патча нет, новостей о патче нет, предварительной даты нет, обновлений нет. Выкатили новость в твиттере, мол работают над патчем, ЕЩЕ БЫ ВЫ НЕ РАБОТАЛИ. ИНДИ разработчики делают подобные патчи за пару дней, сейчас прошла почти неделя, НЕДЕЛЯ КАРЛ. И это крупная студия? И это бывший эксклюзив от Сони? Это самый настоящий плевок в лицо от разработчиков. ЯAre you a'h'uel tam? 6 дней прошло, патча нет, новостей о патче нет, предварительной даты нет, обновлений нет. Выкатили новость в твиттере, мол работают над патчем, ЕЩЕ БЫ ВЫ НЕ РАБОТАЛИ. ИНДИ разработчики делают подобные патчи за пару дней, сейчас прошла почти неделя, НЕДЕЛЯ КАРЛ. И это крупная студия? И это бывший эксклюзив от Сони? Это самый настоящий плевок в лицо от разработчиков. Я всех призываю обрушить оценку игры до минимума, пока вы будете жрать ****но с ложки они дальше будут так поступать! Самое ужасное, что не объявлены сроки, многие купили игру и безответно ждут новостей. Не позволяйте разработчикам Вас игнорировать! МЫ НЕ БУДЕМ РАБАМИ… Expand
  85. Aseptik
    Aug 13, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. All bastards it's a white man. All good persons it's a woman and a black mans + many bugs… Expand
  86. o00oalex
    Aug 13, 2020
    0
    Купил игру в Steam. Из 12 часов игры в саму игру наиграл от силы часа 4, все остальное время - это поиск решения проблем на форумах.
    Как можно было выпустить ЭТО не протестировав до конца?
    Короче, я сильно возмущен, но деньги уже не вернуть. И кстати, скачал пиратку - работает идеально, наиграл уже 20 часов. Слышите, Гориллы, пиратка ИДЕАЛЬНО работает, в отличии от вашего куска кода.    Купил игру в Steam. Из 12 часов игры в саму игру наиграл от силы часа 4, все остальное время - это поиск решения проблем на форумах.
    Как можно было выпустить ЭТО не протестировав до конца?
    Короче, я сильно возмущен, но деньги уже не вернуть.

    И кстати, скачал пиратку - работает идеально, наиграл уже 20 часов.
    Слышите, Гориллы, пиратка ИДЕАЛЬНО работает, в отличии от вашего куска кода.
    Так что дело не в моем железе.
    Пилите патчи, может быть и вернусь обратно на лицензию, если успеете.

    Ставлю 0 за криворукость.    … Expand
  87. Asterysm
    Aug 13, 2020
    8
    The game isn't perfectly unbuggy, but there are a lot of people who seem to really enjoy creating their own problems.

    Don't precompile shaders without forced antistropic filtering, then force it. That's a bad idea, and will cause you issues. Don't try to run it below minimum specs because "other AAA games are fine". This is a console port. It won't run as well as a multi-platform    The game isn't perfectly unbuggy, but there are a lot of people who seem to really enjoy creating their own problems.

    Don't precompile shaders without forced antistropic filtering, then force it. That's a bad idea, and will cause you issues.

    Don't try to run it below minimum specs because "other AAA games are fine". This is a console port. It won't run as well as a multi-platform developed game.

    An alarming amount of the complainers on reddit have comment history showing they're doing one of these two things.

    As far as general recommendations, the frame limiter and vsync in-game tend to hit performance harder than I'd like. The clouds seem to be a bit too taxing as well, even if they look nice. Turn em to Medium/High, unless you're taking screenshots. It also favors high end AMD GPUs, so that's an easy win if you have one. Just make sure it's running at PCI-E x16, the game uses all the bandwidth it can get! It does appear from the limited benchmarks I've seen that AMD CPUs fall behind due to lower single core performance. Definitely takes more resources than it should at 4k, and underperforms. If you want to run 4k, it seems like turning down the resolution scaling and not trying to play at Ultra is the right way to go. You will probably still go down to 60fps for the average lows, and peak around 75ish, even with the best non-sli hardware around, unless you turn the settings down to medium, which will gain you 5-10, in my experience. I don't play on my TV most of the time though, I play on a 1440p monitor where my 2080ti/6700k gets me 75-95 FPS. Occasionally with a lot of enemies and explosions all going on, it'll dip to 60s, and one time I saw it in the 50s for about a second and a half. Don't try to run it on ultra if you want high FPS. I'm about halfway between Ultra and Medium, settings wise.

    By not f***ing around with forced settings on the GPU drivers, running the latest drivers, and having all my windows updates and drivers up to date, I have yet to crash at about 30 hours in.

    All that being said, the game itself is very fun, as anyone who played it on PS4 already knows. It's a little cheesy on the time slowdown mechanics, but I'm nowhere near good enough to beat Ultra Hard without it.

    My big drawbacks are having to precompile shaders on first run. I would like to see them have a way around this. I also would like performance to be better, but a console port may not improve too much. It's best on higher end hardware. I'd say 1070 or higher, and 6700k or better intel, or Ryzen 2 3800x or better. I'd also have preferred it to be cheaper, but I picked it up for $45, which is decent enough, considering I've already gotten 30 hours, and will probably get 100 more.    … Expand
  88. Yox92
    Aug 13, 2020
    9
    Seriously it s been a long Time since i ve not play a very good game like this game. In the begin it s very long to enter on the open world but after 1 hours u can. With my gpu on 144 hz 1440p it s a very beautiful game. The world is wonderfu.
  89. max1c
    Aug 13, 2020
    7
    The game has great art, the world is beautiful, the music is good, and the main story is interesting. I've had no performance issues. Only occasional crashes which is annoying but not the worst thing ever. Playing on all Ultra settings the graphics are good but not great. The main thing that makes this game shine is the enemy variety. There are plenty of cool creatures to fight and theyThe game has great art, the world is beautiful, the music is good, and the main story is interesting. I've had no performance issues. Only occasional crashes which is annoying but not the worst thing ever. Playing on all Ultra settings the graphics are good but not great. The main thing that makes this game shine is the enemy variety. There are plenty of cool creatures to fight and they are somewhat unique and fun to fight. And while the combat itself is primitive a variety of traps and ranged weapons make it fun.

    Now let's talk about all the terrible things with this games. First off, facial animations and many other animations in the game are just awful. The voice over and writing are incredibly bad and cringy. The **** face attitude unlikable protagonist doesn't help either. The basic gameplay features like crafting arrows, using 3 arrows, horse riding, junk selling and some others are very poorly done and outdated. The hit boxes are also not good. The arrows can go straight through the enemy head without hitting them or get stuck in the cover you're shooting from which is clearly not there. In addition, the lighting effects and sound are also terrible. Visibility at night is terrible, and when someone calls you to come over it sounds like they are right next to you which makes it hard locating them. There are probably other small issues that I am forgetting. Most of these issues are definitely the problems with the game itself and are not platform specific. It's a decent game but by no means a masterpiece.    … Expand
  90. Cell1e
    Aug 13, 2020
    10
    I really love this game and am so glad that Sony ported it over to pc as I don't have a play station. I have a mid range computer and it plays well for me, I'm staggered that people with old pc's think they should be able to play this relatively new game. Ive been playing on my pc for years and know that I have to update my pc on a regular basis to be able to keep my hardware up to scratchI really love this game and am so glad that Sony ported it over to pc as I don't have a play station. I have a mid range computer and it plays well for me, I'm staggered that people with old pc's think they should be able to play this relatively new game. Ive been playing on my pc for years and know that I have to update my pc on a regular basis to be able to keep my hardware up to scratch for the newer games. In fact my husband is going to upgrade my computer for the release of Valhalla at the end of this year.

    So the negative reviews based on peoples poor computers are totally unfair and completely ridiculous to my mind. Now if you have a fairly decent pc that you look after well you should have no trouble with this game apart from the odd stutter.

    Its extremely pretty and very story rich. I love my character Alloy and trying out the various weapons and armours on her. I also love that you can craft on the go and there are lots of materials around to gather.

    There is a great range of difficulty levels to choose from, thanks so much Sony, not all of us are hard core players. I would have preferred to be to quick save whenever I want but the system of saving at campsites is good, there are many, many of them all over the map and I travel from one to the other saving as I go and exploring the new areas that are revealed.

    Theres lots of nice sneaky ways to take down enemies and a variety of very specialised and interesting weapons to master and use in different scenarios.

    The characters are funny, some of them and I am greatly enjoying playing the story and side quests and seeing what the outcomes of quests will be.

    I like that I'm killing machines not real animals as I'm a bit soft hearted and hate killing copious amounts of animals (even though I know its a game, silly I know.)

    Really this game has been a wonderful experience so far and I'm greatly enjoying every moment. Look its a solid 9 but I have to bump it up a bit to make up for the crazies with cranky and old computers who are offended because they can't play a modern game.    … Expand
  91. matiosao
    Aug 13, 2020
    6
    Cool history, gameplay and graphics, but pay almost full price for a game released about 3 years ago and with the amount of bugs and crashes, honestly, better save for Cyberpunk...
  92. Qwayb
    Aug 13, 2020
    8
    Да игра оптимизирована не шикарно, но и не так плохо, как об этом все говорят. У меня (1660S i5-8500 16ОЗУ DDR4) на ультравысоких выдаёт 30-50 fsp. Но если спуститься только к высоким, то стабильные 60, так, что я просто не понимаю всех этих претензий по поводу оптимизации. Да можно было и лучше, но это не плохо.
    Сюжет с первого взгляда кажется очень банальным, но потом заворачивает, и ты    Да игра оптимизирована не шикарно, но и не так плохо, как об этом все говорят. У меня (1660S i5-8500 16ОЗУ DDR4) на ультравысоких выдаёт 30-50 fsp. Но если спуститься только к высоким, то стабильные 60, так, что я просто не понимаю всех этих претензий по поводу оптимизации. Да можно было и лучше, но это не плохо.
    Сюжет с первого взгляда кажется очень банальным, но потом заворачивает, и ты просто не можешь оторваться. Могу отметить, что как мне показалось, когда бежишь прямо персонажа немного клонит в сторону.
    Если брать геймплей, то в нём есть и, то что уже давно устарело, например, как вышки обзора и посты разбойников, так и разные геймплейные механики которые открываются по мере прохождения.
    А так игра очень хорошая её не стоит пропускать мимо себя и обязательно при возможности нужно пройти.    … Expand
  93. Stellsnake
    Aug 13, 2020
    0
    The game does not support Windows 7, some options do not work in the game, there is no snow deformation, general problems with the game: frequent crashes for no reason, optimization leaves much to be desired. And where is the first day patch?
  94. ColtTrip
    Aug 12, 2020
    9
    Игра шикарная, советую всем, единственный минус это анимация лиц, уж слишком пластилиновая, но это не главное.
    PS. все те у кого она лагает фризит вылетает.... сочувствую, и поэтому шуруйте за новым железом имхо
  95. EZGGWP
    Aug 12, 2020
    7
    Overall - a pretty nice game. Console players praised it as if it was Jesus Christ himself. However, it is not. It's just a well-looking bow-shooting game. Kinda on par with Far Cry Primal, but with robots. And graphics in Far Cry is better. DEFINITELY not something that should be brought above other games of this kind (Tomb Raider and said Far Cry). But it's worth a shot.
  96. Doggokanjiz
    Aug 12, 2020
    2
    Buy it on ps4 if you have one instead.

    The game is incredible, it really is, but the amount of issues on pc make it very poor, I personally think it should not have been ported, guerilla has made horizon get its first real horde criticisms
  97. Bruh_MrSushi
    Aug 12, 2020
    7
    Just get a crack or wait for the game to get patched. It has several bugs and issues, but story wise and gameplay wise, it has a few flaws but is pretty great.
  98. muzmuz
    Aug 12, 2020
    7
    As much as I was excited for this game to finally release on PC, I also cannot ignore the fact the Horizon: Zero Dawn at PC launch fails to run well even though the hardware monitor reports that my computer isn't being used to its full potential. This shows that this game needs more work to be done in this area as this performance issue absolutely cannot be ignored. Not to mention that theAs much as I was excited for this game to finally release on PC, I also cannot ignore the fact the Horizon: Zero Dawn at PC launch fails to run well even though the hardware monitor reports that my computer isn't being used to its full potential. This shows that this game needs more work to be done in this area as this performance issue absolutely cannot be ignored. Not to mention that the game randomly crashes, which makes it even less tolerable to play, if not even game breaking -- as I have lost a ton of loot because of crashes.

    While the actual game is fun, as we all know from its years in the PS4 market, I wouldn't buy the PC version until they fix the current problems in the technical department.    … Expand
  99. Prizrak_13
    Aug 12, 2020
    2
    Зарегистрировался впервые, ради этой игры. Это не игра, а очередная рутина, весь геймплей это одна большая работа, а не игра. Мир совершенно статичный и не интересный. Захваты вышек и аванпостов, миссии на собирательство. Всё это мы уже видели и до сих пор видим в серии игры от юбисофт. Но однако же, эту игру чаще вспоминали на консоли положительными эпитетами, чем тех же асасинов. Нет, яЗарегистрировался впервые, ради этой игры. Это не игра, а очередная рутина, весь геймплей это одна большая работа, а не игра. Мир совершенно статичный и не интересный. Захваты вышек и аванпостов, миссии на собирательство. Всё это мы уже видели и до сих пор видим в серии игры от юбисофт. Но однако же, эту игру чаще вспоминали на консоли положительными эпитетами, чем тех же асасинов. Нет, я не защищаю игры от юбисофт. Я просто не могу понять, откуда столько восторга. История мира подаётся через надоевшие до боли записки и аудиодневники. Персонажи и враги, как тупые болванчики с примитивной анимацией. Цена этой игре не 2800, а как изначально и было указано 930. Для любителей не играть, а работать в игру. Ну а если копнуть поглубже в этот куций сюжет. Попросту не веришь в этот мир, серьёзно, машины в виде животных и люди скатившиеся до уровня первобытно-племенного строя. Мозг просто отказывается воспринимать такое развитие событий, я не против сказки и фантазии, но необходимо что-то, что дало бы повод поверить в этот мир.… Expand
  100. AQbornking
    Aug 12, 2020
    10
    First of all, I am not a paid reviewer. I didn't face a single crash while playing. My pc specs are:

    Intel Xeon E5 2650 v1 @2.4 Ghz 16 threads 16 Gb RAM DDR3 RX 570 4 gb pulse sapphire First game optimized to lowest settings possible. There is a lot of stutter in first scene. Then I change preset to original and lower the shadows and AA off. And I face no effect on game. So after    First of all, I am not a paid reviewer. I didn't face a single crash while playing. My pc specs are:

    Intel Xeon E5 2650 v1 @2.4 Ghz 16 threads
    16 Gb RAM DDR3
    RX 570 4 gb pulse sapphire

    First game optimized to lowest settings possible. There is a lot of stutter in first scene. Then I change preset to original and lower the shadows and AA off. And I face no effect on game. So after restart, there is a decent change in game and playable at avg 45 fps and stutter gone after the first scenes.

    I think this game made for AMD gpu (of ps4), so May be worse performance on Nvidia cards than AMD cards. I used to run emulators game (pcsx 2, cemu etc) so I think its better than atleast ps3 emulator.

    I am satisfied with this game. To balance it with negative reviewers 10/10    … Expand
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  1. Positive: 46 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 50
  3. Negative: 0 out of 50
  1. GameGrin
    Jan 10, 2022
    100
    Horizon Zero Dawn truly expresses how videogames nowadays are an art form, if not only through its visuals and storytelling, then certainly through its expertly incorporated combat. A glee-filled experience through and through.
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  2. CD-Action
    Oct 15, 2020
    85
    I had tons of fun with the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn. I appreciated the story, enjoyed exploring the vast, remarkable world crafted masterfully out of extremely diverse elements, and found defeating the largest mechanical beasts to be deeply satisfying every single time. Additionally, the Complete Edition features The Frozen Wilds expansion, which is not only large, but also visually stunning. [10/2020, p.56]
  3. DualShockers
    Aug 25, 2020
    85
    Even with its technological hangups, the PC port of Horizon Zero Dawn brings an experience wholly unlike anything else I've ever played.
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