Horizon: Zero Dawn

[Dave_S]

Re: Horizon: Zero Dawn

I don't specifically have a answer for you as I'm not skilled enough to ever get a platinum. In my playthrough from above pics i got a total of 54% of the trophies, 61% main game and 23% DLC. I'm sure with a few more hours focusing just on side stuff I could have got some more trophies especially the DLC as those animals are intense. I do remember seeing on here the audio files you gather don't affect anything which is nice because they are a lot of them.

I'm the worst gamer ever and I platinumed it. Only time I really used traps was to tie down and override stormbirds. For difficult part of platinum trophy I did it on new game plus. Mostly I use different arrows aimed at vulnerable areas.

[bry422]

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Bought this from Game Stop last week. I played 5 hours and it did not click with me. Can't even put my finger on why. Actually, that's not entirely true. The amount of crafting it appears one must do, may be the reason. Also, I feel like I'm lost in a sea of weapon options and upgrades so early on. Seems like a lot. lol

I'm going to delete my save file and start over. I know from experience some games don't "take" until the second or third attempt. Annoying, nonetheless.

I watch a video on YouTube entitled "Things to do first in HZD". Don't like doing that type of stuff, either, but I felt I needed to in order to help the adoption process here.

[AUChase]

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There really isn't even that much to craft in this game is there ?

[NoDakHusker]

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There really isn't even that much to craft in this game is there ?

You craft your arrows and ammo, so quite a bit of crafting but I never found it problematic as resources are super abundant and crafting can be done on the fly.

[AUChase]

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You craft your arrows and ammo, so quite a bit of crafting but I never found it problematic as resources are super abundant and crafting can be done on the fly.

Yeah I just didn't think it was very complicated compared some other in-depth games like The Witcher 3 that has a steep learning curve.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Don't you have to gather resources for upgrades, too?

[AUChase]

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I may just be remembering it wrong or selling the crafting system short ,but I don't remember ever really feeling strained for resources or a real big need to craft much of anything. The ability to craft on the fly in the heat of combat made things easy.

I can see how it would be a burden to someone though.

[NoDakHusker]

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Don't you have to gather resources for upgrades, too?

Ah, you're right, forgot about those.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I remember hunting animal skins/meat for upgrades, but that's about it. Nothing too strenuous - just a little time consuming.

[rudyjuly2]

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Bought this from Game Stop last week. I played 5 hours and it did not click with me. Can't even put my finger on why. Actually, that's not entirely true. The amount of crafting it appears one must do, may be the reason. Also, I feel like I'm lost in a sea of weapon options and upgrades so early on. Seems like a lot. lol

I'm going to delete my save file and start over. I know from experience some games don't "take" until the second or third attempt. Annoying, nonetheless.

I watch a video on YouTube entitled "Things to do first in HZD". Don't like doing that type of stuff, either, but I felt I needed to in order to help the adoption process here.

I was in the exact same boat as you. I didn’t realize how RPG heavy the game was. I was expecting it to be more like Uncharted but it’s not. They throw all these weapons out there, collecting and things I felt over whelmed. Furthermore it’s not really a shooter. It’s more stealth based and difficult. I quit after 10 hours.

But I gave it another chance a year later and ended up really enjoying it. Don’t worry so much about the weapons. You can get by with just using your bow and the tripcaster. Other weapons can be ok but not necessary. The story is good but also long. I played on Easy the second time and that also helped.

[ricky24]

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Ropecaster is a must imo.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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They're all fun and each offers something different to utilize. Experimenting with them is fun and discovering various strategies for each is what drove the gameplay and exploration for myself.

[PPerfect_CJ]

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This is a game I can't wait to replay, one day soon. So fun, beautiful, and it had an amazing story. Still haven't touched The Frozen Wilds.

[Dave_S]

Re: Horizon: Zero Dawn

I played it a few times and upgraded everything. I liked pretty much everything about the game..... except the crafting upgrades that required animal skins. I really didn't like that. I felt like a serial murderer killing crazy amounts of animals and not taking anything from them. (I don't know if it's been patched, but some animal skins took forever to find)

[Smallville102001]

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This is a game I can't wait to replay, one day soon. So fun, beautiful, and it had an amazing story. Still haven't touched The Frozen Wilds.

Frozen wilds is amazing may be even better than main game it is that good. I still need to do a second play threw and do side missions. I beat the story and frozen wilds but did like no side missions. I also do just like story and like no side missions on my first play threw on games and than go back and beat it again doing side missions if it is a game I like a lot and this is my favorite excusive on ps4 cant wait for a sequel and I think we will get one around launch of ps5.