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kleinbl00  ·  1590 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Recreating the 'Left Behind' Books From Memory: Let's get apocalyptic.

HZD was a Playstation exclusive. Horizon: Forbidden West is a Playstation exclusive.

I dunno. It's lonely being a playstation guy up here in the Land of Microsoft but since the XBox first came out, Playstation games have always been prettier to me. They've always been less focused on murder.

I played maybe 50 hours of Fallout 4. It made me hate Fallout and all games derived from Fallout. Outer Worlds was maybe okay but I had the good luck of playing it before Fallout, so instead of "huh, this is a vaguely uplifting port of Fallout" it was "why is this combat system so weird? Why are all the colors so ugly? Why are all the NPCs so static? Why do none of your choices matter in the end?"

And the mechanics are so dumb. "What's that? You'd like to line up a shot with your sniper rifle? well if you just pull the trigger we'll shrink the hitbox but if you use our stupid SCMODS system you get to digitally roll a 1d20!" "Need to survive a massive and violent gorefest against an army of robots? Just walk behind the NPC who gets wiped out and resurrected again!"

But hey. Don't listen to me. I've discovered I hate everything Naughty Dog has ever put out.