Horizon Forbidden Game 

I can't wait any longer. The hype is too much

3 hours from now, let's gooooooooooo

It also takes elements from dark souls. so it has a little something for everyone - IGN

He definitely released this video just now on purpose

So much good stuff coming out on February 25th

Lets hope its elder scrolls 6

@@IwinMahWay na mate, I think the rule says Japanese made open world games it's gonna be "breath of Resident souls", I guess

@@Akshay-Gupta or, an open world armored core game

@@deathserpent9747 fuck ya. Lets go, horizon 3 baby.

@@Akshay-Gupta ah yes, another *fine warrior*

Made my day 🤣

The Plan Scourge Arthur.

LMFAAAOOOO

Yo 😂

Nice reference made me smile.

"Please laugh"

Just Cause 4 already did that.

no way...

@@jogabonito8989 He literally didnt.

​@@Cactussii Rewatched it. My bad dude

@@cody3335 ...and?

@@cody3335 Cody get back to the Hotel will ya

I think it will be the open world game he’s been looking for that would really change the genre , I’m personally fine with where it’s at right now , but change is not unwelcome

@@___meph___4547 don't be toxic like that, you're making the rest of us from soft fans look like clowns

@@___meph___4547 It's just Dark Souls but open world. What is there to truly be excited about?

They should make a mod to combine it with Forbidden East, that way you can catch all 151 pokemon

Or at least release a connector cable so we can trade with friends

Imagine if there was a DLC where you go back through the cable car

@@austinwilson3602 Time for the Gold & Silver DLC

@@grug_g wouldn’t that just turn into Horizon forbidden?

In order to receive a PS5, you must win an honest duel a current owner.

hold your horses now elden ring hasnt even released to EVERYONE just yet. give it a week and we'll see what the opinion on the game is for people.

oo Which game you talking about?

@@tomcruise7481 Why would I hold my horses, even if it fails to live up tot eh hype it will still be another souls game

@@tomcruise7481 It's got 10's from people that gave BotW a 10... Without being a Zelda game... Shit's real. It's apparently even better than Bloodborne.

Horizon 3 came out back in 2016. We're on Horizon 5 now.

Classic Fromsoft. Those guys sure know how to have fun

What was going on?

From soft you came, and to soft you will return.

@@epicjonny155 It’s all behind closed doors, if you know you know

Fromsoftware are the masters of this industry. They litteraly surpassed other studios from the first try. The only thing that come close was Zelda BOTW and Ghost of Tsushima

You can do that in HFW now they added a option

@@w0nd3r6 That optiion was in the first game too, it was always there

@@w0nd3r6 what option is that?

​@@tomohawkcloud in the settings you can turn off the animation for picking up items

​@@w0nd3r6 omg I didn't notice that thank you ^^

Ludvix you gonna post elden ring footage or stick with melee?

Funny because everything Dunkey criticizes this game for also applies to Elden Ring. Oh wait, you people don't like admitting the flaws of ER.

@@bitsamui5104 Why is the sea salty? Because of people like you ;)

@@bitsamui5104 found the spam bot

@@bitsamui5104 Not even remotely accurate.

Yeah and they all voice act the same generic ass way. Hitting the inflections of how young people talk trying to be quippy. Annoying shit.

half effort tweets at that

Yep. Fucking annoying.

@@rensopinto2139 ass way?

MCU ruined an entire generation of script writers

Funny Did laugh

LUG NUTS DONT EVEN EXIST IN THIS WORLD, UNLESS THEY HAVE CARS???

@@austinwhitaker9835 the ones who you see say that are the "tinkerer" tribe so yes they do very well know what lug nuts are especially considering they repurpose old and new machine parts (Cars, planes, other shit) and also when they have built literal missile launchers and some other shit. Oh also spoiler there's spaceships and forcefields and other shit too

Came to the comments section to see if other people also laughed at this hilarious point in the video. HAHA.

Sometimes you just want to hear them say "hey fucko shut up would ya."

And playing like a pigeon in RDR2 really makes you FEEL like Radahn dropping from the sky!

Fuckin hell, that got me good.

When you are 6 deaths into a boss fight and notice there is a tiny horse between his legs.

thank you!

Is it only in FW, and not ZD?

​@zahillethe7th846 Oh I wish because I spent 70 hours on zd collecting resources, and I didn't know that

That shouldve just been default, that's so stupid

Maybe that got patched in later. Maybe bcs of this review

so well put

exactly! I always compared HZD to an excellent vodka. no matter how good a vodka is, nobody is going to remember that nuance of its taste, only that it goes down smoothly in the throat.

9/10 open world games released nowadays are exactly the same- cut and paste side missions, assassin's creed-esque climbing, waaaay too much talking (atleast make the dialogues interesting). "Risk adverse product" is a perfect way of describing this.

I think you are mixing up the phrases "Hit the nail on the head" and "Final nail in the coffin"

@@ProjectPlugTTV final nail in the head

Yeah well it got me to buy two games and I'd do it again. Robot animals are fucking cool man

@@TheMyguitarisblue Closest we have to a big budget Bionicle game.

@@TheMyguitarisblue who said they're not?

The game was well polished. Ill give them that. The mechanics and horse combat all that were pretty solid. It’s not a bad game. It’s just in an over saturated market

@@edroseptic9442 Fighting mechanics are pretty good. Parkour mechanics are.. moderately frustrating.

You are nitpicking and biased. I win. Bye-bye!

_Banned._

You must be a masochist, there's no way you would subject yourself to this torture otherwise!

*laughs while his money loudly burns in the background*

Every time I play this game, there's a moment my mind goes "I'm really loving it, but damn...dunkey's gonna rip it apart lol"

What was it 2017?

@@j4nsen Breath of the Wild

@@paulj6805 Dawg, there's no way on fuckin earth you're telling me that these people genuinely thought it was a good idea, not once, but twice, to drop their games so close in proximity to the release of two games labeled genre defining...next thing you know they're gonna drop the third game on the same day as The Elder Scrolls 6 or GTA 6.

@@DsgSleazy it's pretty mind blowing when you think about it lol

@@DsgSleazy I honestly don't know how they keep doing this 😭

Well you missed the twist at the end then! :O

I finished the story but never finished the DLC because I got so bored at the end. I switched to AC Odyssey and had a better time somehow even though I despise modern AC games.

@@DantesInferno96 "The game is bad, however I did not bother finishing the game."

@@Vewtle I finished the game but didn't finish the DLC. Was tired of the stiff animations and bland characters.

@@DantesInferno96 Oh, same, I never finished the dlc either lol. I was pretty tired of the game at that point.

It's really sad, games now can't be diverse, new, innovative, for western industry and its fans (that are a lot). We should just reduce to "risk adverse products" for these guys.

@@lorenzo8208 Still kind of a good timeline where Fromsoft exists and they are actually bold/allowed to make non-hand-holdy games like these.

@@Stiv64_ this is true. There are also other triple A companies that make amazing games like Rockstar games, Capcom, Nintendo, and sometimes Sony. But the people who make the most money are just EA, Ubisoft and all of those companies that have no new ideas.

lol woke shit

People are allowed to have opinions

i will feed you sourdough bread

Ducks taste good

Thanks for the heads up, shit like that makes a game unplayable for me. I want a new classic Tomb Raider game ;_;

Uncharted 4 did this too, annoyed the shit out of me

Horizon "ZERO" time given to solve a puzzle by yourself amirite guys

Hey there Gerard! Hope you're having an awesome day. If you get a chance I'd love to get your feedback on our latest gameplay. If not that's cool I understand, have a good rest of your day!

It's an ok but forgetable game.

Most triple A games now are mediocre. The industry has become homogenized and bland

It's Dunky. He doesn't like open world RPGs. You know what to expect when you clicked the link.

He’s just ranting on about open world games in general And he’s right to do it It doesn’t mean this isn’t an amazing game either way

It was relevant for mid-combat loot, where trying to get an item that broke off, or carve something from the tail came with the risk of getting hit. But yeah, outside of combat it was brutal trying to grab some honey or shrooms.

One of my favorite additions added in MH rise

A lot of people still want the old tedium back too lol

I think some of the nuisance has to stay. Making it streamlined makes stuff feel less worth doing. If I can just take a ride and be fully stacked I won't care about what happens and just chug megapotions, powering my way through everything without caring

i was in love with rise for like two weeks playing nonstop but it straight up started feeling mind-numbingly easy and i put it down

Still searching for the one PS5 to rule them all

copium

@@alexandervastardis4056 which people does he rip them from, then?

srsly i havent gotten any bug at all! just her hair being a bit overactive like always lol

@@alexandervastardis4056 He literally reacts to the bugs with his other mic, which is recorded as he plays and sounds very different, so I don't think they're from someone else.

I think it's just that he's recording all the time, and he only needs to get a few frames of a bug in one playthrough to include it. In a game that can stretch for dozens of hours there's a lot of room for that

You have 2 now enjoy

@Rock girl Yea it's sad to say it but that's how some company's play things nowadays. It's one of the main reasons I dont buy certain games cause they all look and play the same it's almost like open world is the way people are going but it's getting old when you have nothing to show for exploring in terms or rewarding you. This was why I hated zeldas breath of the wild cause there was no rewarding for exploring!!!

@@Aqualad2097 I mean there are rewards for exploring in BOTW, I don’t know what game you played.

@@Aqualad2097 wdym no rewards for exploring??? Did we play totally different games or something 💀

FACTS.

lol, Horizon is basically assassins creed but even in assassins creek you can swipe things while riding a horse.

Honestly lost my shit when I figured that out.

At a buttery smooth 12 fps.

And said horse can double jump too.

Considering how big the game is, we might have to wait a little longer, there’s just so much in that game. Can’t wait for his video

he's probably still trying to beat Margit

@@GordonGEICO to be fair, Margit is pretty damn tough.

@@chgjake2230 Yea. I beat him at level 19 in Stormveil, and then ran into the "field" version of him near Altus around level 50 and it was still tough as shit. Same move set but a lot more health.

Bet 10 bucks it’s called “Elden Dunk Souls”

That’s why you don’t play a fucking assassins creed game…

Took me about 2 days to realise that I had already finished the game, Valhalla is the funniest game ever.

This guy still plays assassins creed BOOOOOOOO EVERYBODY BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Im still salty about buying AC: Odyssey. I got most my money back cause i sold my physical copy of the game. But that game sure is such a waste of time.

0 dislikes would mean hardly anyone viewed the video

No one can stop him now

@@haloha329 Just shows how amazing dunkey is

@@haloha329 I disliked your comment.

I have the extension and as of this moment he really does have 0 dislikes Now the moment has passed, and somehow, being truly the greatest RU-vidr of all time, he has achieved negative dislikes

This

...and?

So open I don’t want to play it because it’s garbage

But that's Elden Ring I'm excited for ER btw, looks great

...with all the exaggerated swagger of a ginger neanderthal.

Yeah, I intentionally avoid open world games because they are 95% similar to one another. It’s a type of game whose loop burns you out faster than most.

Yeah I was amazed how many he actually rattled off even though he consistently despises them (or at least finds them criminally boring, which I can't disagree with)

yes, there is a reason so many games use the same formula It works. But after a time, you want to see something else

Meh, I barely play them anymore and am still bored by them. I ocasionally try them out when they're for free on Ps+ for instance. Or when they gave HZD away for free. I played it for a couple of hours and was bored to death.

Yeah the last open world i played was ghost and miles.

Play Hitman or Teardown

Hitman and Assassin's Creed are both supposed to be about assassinating people. One of those games lets you be creative and silly. The other one has hours of unskippable cutscenes.

@@littlemonztergaming8665 I will! I can't believe I forgot about them, they both seem really interesting

@@littlemonztergaming8665 Teardown's take on "heists" is genius.

So Hitman in the middleages hehe

Holy shit my guy you cracked the code

im gonna leave my comment just incase if it happens

I feel the same way but for combat in the Arkham games I loved it

I literally thought of Spyro/Ratchet and Clank too when he mentioned that. Its so unintrusive that its painless.

100%. It makes not having the dragonfly - and every game that makes you actually touch the model - feel painful.

But that's not realistic! We absolutely need to spend 5 seconds everytime you want to loot something to see Arthur Morgan crouching down to go through someone's pockets

Also it's crucial that you hold down a button for a very long time before the animation even triggers for some reason. Maybe so you don't get locked in to the animation by accident. But what can you do, not animate it every time??

True. Way too many. Open world often is an excuse for stale games because the players excite themselves rather than the game doing that.

Open world games, much like linear, have massive potential. They however, end up falling into the same loops and pitfalls as every other open world game.

the problem is not the number of open world games. is the lack of innovation. zelda was popular due to the revolutionary physics they implemented and the freedom they gave the player. i found horizons movement very tedious to play and linear ish especially after playing monster hunter rise, the wire bug freedom spoiled me as well

You dont have to play every single fucking one

I think it’s a good thing. Not every style is gonna be for everyone, and most of the good ones are unique in that way. I’m not super into the old west so, so red dead just isn’t for me. But i love sci fi, and mixing it with a tribal theme like Horizon does is fairly unique and cool to me.

It's even worse when you're on a mount... the looting turns to hell. I wish it was TLOU2 style, where looting felt quick and wasn't cumbersome.

What’s up moga!!!!

the story isnt even slightly interesting to me, but thats me

Haven't played it myself but I think it's unfair to shit on a game just for being part of a genre. Of course I'm sure he's aware of it, his reviews often have that element of tongue-in-cheek humor. That's the fun thing though just about everything is subjective.

I don't get why some open world games have a lot of story and dialogues. For me open world means lot of exploration and gameplay, it means the game should be fluid and not have a lot of dialogue interferencies. I'm frustrated about pkmn legends, just why put so much dialogues when the game is good, why ruin the fun out of the game?

He's right though: the gameplay looks fun, but I don't want to be trapped into cringey dialogue and all sorts of chores when I want to explore and fight robo-dinos. AAA developers spend too much money on the wrong things when they can be making god-tier, focused gameplay experiences. Instead they also think "hey, we can be hollywood TOO" and start writing in a way that mimics whatever is hot at the moment... which is unfortunately snarky and unlikable characters or nothing but jokey characters. Thankfully elden ring is right around the corner, so I'll have the big open world game that's very focused on its actual gameplay loop.

yeah but i like the big yoshi.............he's....he's sittin there

@@randomd00d19 diologe and dialogue based systems can be good but seemingly most triple a games are terrible at it probably because they make open worlds to big and emty and have to fill with generic npc encounters. The best dialogue ive seen in any triple a game or really any big scale game is persona 4 one of the only times I actually thought aboyt my word choices and enjoyed conversations. And its integril to the gameplay not thrown in to mask a games shortcomings

Persona 5* my b havent played 4 yet till they port/ remake it or i can wait till i can afford a pa vita

@@turokokokoko9714 I love dialogue systems. Fallout 3 and NV are great. The persona games are great with that too. But who wants to hear THESE people talk? The examples he showed illustrate that bad writing can turn these sections into a chore. What I'm getting at is that the AAA video game media is acting like the little brother of hollywood with its "I CAN DO THAT TOO" and then starts copying hollywood's horrible writing style that thinks snark annoyances = likable characters. In the games mentioned above (and in mass effect as he also stated) your dialogue actually interacts with characters instead of you saying "yes ms sassy npc character #23, please talk at me MORE". It your character isn't going to be making big decisions, it would be best to communicate the world in some other way than locking it all away behind dialogue.

dunkey has a loud bideo

How cool would it be if game designers didn’t patch out their own work due to not realizing it sucks until AFTER they release it. I actually like the animations for picking things up, but what they NEED to do is severely limit the amount of looting required to progress and stay topped off with supplies. And THEN make crafting a far more intentional part of the gameplay instead of a nearly passive mechanic.

Played thru Forbidden West recently, and I found there's a setting to disable pickup animations in the start menu. Idk if they always had that option or not, but it really is a complete game-changer

@@dookielorn now that its on PC it was a huge change to enable that setting but they still have an animation > pause to loot chests and other things. i dont understand why they disabled it for one thing and not the other but eh..

Of course it's not, it's horizon forbidden west.

I'm over here thinking he's talking about Forza Horizon...

Pay attention??? Lmao what

Dunkey ONLY comes out against majority of other critics. I already know what I am getting before I get here. Dunkey needs a new schtick.

Completely false, look at the amount of dislikes all this guy does is pander to everyone

@@rich1051414 This is just blatantly untrue. He's fairly consistent in the kinds of games he doesn't enjoy, but he has given many positive reviews to well-received games. I suspect the reason it feels like he's always against the grain is because it's more memorable to hear a review that's counter to your opinion or the popular opinion. Even in this video he directly states his preference for BOTW and Eden Ring, which are both acclaimed titles.

@@rich1051414 hes pretty consistent to the type of games he dislikes.

@@creativebeetle Let me guess on Eldin Ring: Pretty dark souls that's too long. I died alot. Fuck swamps. 4 out of 3 out of 10.

I burst out laughing at that, hilarious burn.

@@hemligman8221 it wasn't even a burn, just talking about horizon's incredibly unlucky releases

@@dylanj950 Calling something "market-tested, risk-adverse" isn't about release timing; it's about how it's safe, familiar, by the numbers. Those aren't complements.

@@AmanojakuX They're not insults either.

@@dylanj950 In this context, yes they are.

The true final boss of Elden Ring.

What an achievement

Fuck off checkmark

He’s at 7.01 million you’re lying everybody they’re lying!

@@Vvccshhshzhjsjsjahdhd it doesn’t help that a few of them legitimately ARE bots. Example being Blexzy, and Recitation to Hear.

@@Vvccshhshzhjsjsjahdhd EXACTLY! Even more confusing when they gave me a copyright strike, just because I LINKED A RICKROLL!

Yeah i liked wasting time "preparing" back when it was called mining in Runescape, some 20 years ago. Nowadays, I kinda prefer games that don't fell the need to pad out the runtime with nonsense, and just give that goodness. And when the goodness runs out, just end. No need to keep me spending 100 hours per game when 80 of those are either walking or talking.

The robot fights were the most boring thing in this game because it just feels like shooting an arrow that has no effect. What indication is there that you just did hit something with your arrow? A red health bar goes down? wow, super fun. In most fps games you get some kind of satisfying audial feedback, in a game like doom you get gore for each shot, in a game like RDR2 or fallout time slows down and the guy's fucking head explodes. In this game: Nothing. This games combat is about as satisfying as WoW combat, you just slowly watch a meter deplete to 0. And for those reasons, I'm out.

@@zodiark111 Have you played the game? When you hit the robots with your arrows you see pieces of their armor fall off opening up more vulnerable parts of their circuitry often making it possible to hit certain elements to make them literally explode, it's one of the most rewarding combat experiences I've played in terms of every shot actually resulting in something happening...

@@zodiark111 Actually nitpicking and biased lmao

@@zodiark111 wtf are you talking about lmao

and it was also pretty much a universally accepted fact before either of the games came out that Elden ring was going to be better

Watch Horizon 3 come out a week before Elder Scrolls 6.

Kinda feel bad for the devs but like cmon better games literally come out DAYS later

@@magick7278 well, the devs apparently tried to shit on FromSoft on their Twitter accounts so I wouldn't feel bad for them

In Forbidden West's defense, Elden Ring was originally supposed to come out a month before FW, but then FromSoft delayed it. So FW had a pretty good release date until FromSoft tossed a wrench in the gears.

With so many games out there, I feel like enjoyability is hardly a factor anymore. If I want to have fun, I already have like a dozen or so games I can load up. Games nowadays have to offer more than just being enjoyable.

@@stysner4580 well the difference is the polish, combat, and rpg mechanics are more in depth. Theres more replayability. Theres pvp.

if hfw and elden ring are as great as people are making them out to be then we might have a neck and neck game of the year race here. until something comes out later that can trump them both.

@@stysner4580" elden ring is much as innovatio as hzd" Tell how elden ring have a ubisoftstyle formula like hzd?

@@stysner4580 funny how botw is innovative but somehow elden ring is not. If anything elden ring open world design is a hevier risk than hfw, despite being technically inferior.

What video did you watch? game is trash

@@lolwillow188 "game is trash" what video did YOU watch?

Yep that’s all that matters, people are different and some will love it and others won’t. But pretty much all games are a wash rinse repeat type of game. Indie games do try to be different.

Except its any nintendo game.

Well, less "new" and more "a prettier version of the last one" by his consensus.

It is marvelous! even when the opinion is unpopular he still gets 0 dislikes. He's truly respected

Do you even remember the last time you made a comment that wasn't lazily copied 1000+ times?

@@snoozley853 me when i dont understand the concept of memes in the year 2022

He’s quite the prophet, yes he is

@@snoozley853 it's almost like that what jokes and memes are in the first place. After all these years, do you truly believe that all those funny jokes you heard were actually original. No, it was just new for you and you specifically. People can laugh at the same joke 100 times, and they can get bored the 2nd time, but what they shouldn't do is be annoying like you. And yes, I am being annoying. To people like you. Specifically. Yes, I have a vendetta.

But qUiRkY dialogue shows that we are self-aware, don'tcha know?

"most accurate review I've ever seen" bro he literally said it's the same game as borderlands. Like I can understand his criticisms of 5he game but saying it's the same as borderlands is ridiculous

@@H56Nooc The two are not mutually exclusive.

*shit-ass Days Gone

@@derekdunbar6352 you messed up his quote

I agree with the dude above that says, just form your own opinion. Seriously, have 70% of the people in this comment section even play the game? Yet they are bashing it, because 'ELDEN RING' 🙄

@@crazybabuskaman3923 if elden ring would never exist, this game would still be in the "mundane repetitive open world" list. This is my opinion. Decide what to do with it.

Yeah, From nailed the Open World. Something it made me realize is just how rote questing has become in most video games. Menus in games like Horizon and Assassin's Creed all have a tab that might as well be called "chores" now. I can't tell you how many times I've opened up my long ass list of active quests and saw multiple "go here and do this" boxes to check that I didn't even remember agreeing to. Like, if the game removed the indicator of where I should go to turn in the quest I would have to visit every single hub area and talk to every character with an interact prompt. How does Elden Ring handle this issue? It doesn't inundate you with rote tasks and it doesn't keep a list or point you in any direction. What this means is that you only go where you are interested in going and you're only doing what you chose to do. Bored? Walk in a different direction; trust me, there's something mind blowing just around the bend. Never do you you say to yourself, "Well, I guess I'll get back to saving the world after I turn in these twenty furs to that chick who needs to make blankets for the kids in the orphanage...". Bitch, you want me to tell you how many blankets those kids are going to need after the world has ended because you're wasting my damn time? And furthermore you almost never get asked to do menial shit anyway. After twenty hours I've had one dude ask me to help him with something and he wants his whole castle back. In most of this style of games I would have had two dozen Tom, Dick, and Harrys ask me to find all manner of useless goo gaws by now because you know how valueless my time is, not like I've been tasked with saving the fucking world or anything.

I hear you, some of the sites I've seen have floored me

There’s no colon in the title

elden ring was great and i've beat it now but i really wish there was more cool loot to find, maybe i missed alot and thats definetly possible but i used one-hand my playthrough and i literally used the same one from the start of the game because i could not find a single cooler one, two handers and magic tho there is a lot of that for sure, the castles and everything is amazing but eventually i just found myself speedrunning to boss locations not even careing for loot anymore which sucked

@@carl9966 every souls game is kinda like that unfortunately. Everything you find is worthless than what you start with. Even some boss weapons.

This game makes you FEEL LIKE DUNKEY

Ooooohhh u like that knaack dontchaaaaaaa

Had to scroll past like 30 comments to see a genuine classic dunkey comment section comment. Surprised me how many top comments were actual responses to the video and thought out. Kinda miss the old dunkey comments lol

@@PerryLePlatypus You know, maybe you should just begin to accept that the gaming landscape is changing. We have lots of games worth playing now and Dunkey is coming around to it to produce insightful content that caters to a new---- OHHHHH IT'S KNACK BABYYYYYYYYYYYY KNACK 3 COMING SOON

press triangle twice

This is a problem with a lot of game design at the moment. Designers don't consider "what choice does the player make about this?" If the player makes no choice, you need to remove literally all of the friction between the player and their objective around that thing. The only exception is for simulation type games that are going for realism above gameplay.

While I agree with you, there actually IS a strategy in TLoU (although I will admit it’s minor) to picking up items; and it’s so weird that I’ve seen reviewers mention it as you have, when it’s simply not true. You gather things in fractions but can only hold a whole. So if you have 3/4 scissors (shrapnel) and you pick up 1/2, you lose the additional 1/4. It just disappears. You should craft an item with the 3/4 you already have, THEN pick up the item. Now you’ve crafted something, as well as gained back 1/2 shrapnel instead of only gaining 1/4. If you want to maximize what you pickup and the items you can craft, then the auto pickup is not really your friend. It’s subtle, but it’s certainly there.

@@wrenboy2726 people who play the last of us dont consider how much there picking upz they just do. Theres no inventory weight, so you can just pick up everything you come across

In the first game I remember the inventory space being so small for no good reason other than to force you yo upgrade it. That was a needless feature for the game imo.

I mean it somehow sold 20 mil copies yet it's social media footprint seems to have vanished into thin air. Its subreddit alone is just 1/5th the size of Elden Ring yet by the numbers HFW outsold ER. Discourse in other platforms for HFW also seem to pale in comparison to ER and GoWR. So clearly something went wrong.

H... HOW DARE YOU PLAY SOMETHING OTHER THAN DbD!!!!?!

Blessed be this day, the DBD Streamers are returning to Souls. Nature is Healing.

Other than the robofights it's very generic, but I still haven't found another game that lets you fight giant enemies and chopping bits of them and disabling systems with well placed shots.

@@Kaunte have you tried Monster Hunter

@@Kaunte That sounds like the premise of Monster Hunter, which even had a Horizon collab a few years ago.

That’s unfortunate to hear. That was a big issue I had with Days Gone. The dude just wouldn’t shut up. NO one talks to themself that much. Especially not out loud. (Maybe the first Horizon did it too and it’s just been so long I don’t recall.)

Oof that sounds terrible. Is there an option turn her off

@@trippinhard250 no

@@wrenboy2726 At least Deacon in Days Gone had probably severe mental issues because of what he has lived through, so it wasn't completely out of place imho. But the best thing was when you were sneaking and suddenly "Radio Free Oregon" begins to blare out of your radio and Deacon screams his answers while you hide in a bush a few feet away from zombies and nothing happens. Couldn't stop laughing at that, badly broke immersion though. :)

the consequences of modern AAA pandering to the lowest common denominator

my favorite part was how all the characters have nothing to say dispite talking for multiple hours and the story instead of telling not showing has everything through holograms so they can make u sit through a history class on a world that doesnt exist

Pretty much this, i felt the story on this one was just a mess overall, the plot goes from "exploring the so called _forbidden_ west" to tribes drama to aliens from space, it just tries to do so many things and resolve everything in the same plot. Not to mention that the dialogue at times was just...what was said in the video. The game was fun, i really enjoyed it, but it was the ubisoft formula all over again, it was the first game with a new'ish skin and bigger map (which i thought was unnecessary), devs need to learn from the Yakuza games that bigger maps don't mean better.

Until you get the ropecaster in the first game to just rip all the armor off of the robots. Then it just becomes a low IQ game of just mashing one button for every robot that might as well all be reskins of eachother with how similar they die to the ropecaster. Then again you could just not use it which makes the game so much better.

I didn't finished the game, I got really bored...

Agreed

Definitely sums up most of Sony's first-party lineup.

Most people will enjoy*

basically the game is mid

@@samrezaei1196 no lmao, that’s not what anyone said. The game is great, but it’s not original and doesn’t take risks. It’s like MCU movies, some are great, some suck, most are enjoyable enough. HZD is great, but it’s nothing new. Tbh I play the game for the story so I don’t need new mechanics, I need mechanics that work. Something that can’t be said for a lot of AAA games that follow this same open world formula

@@samrezaei1196 Not at all. The game takes practically everything the first did wrong and improves. It didn’t reinvent the wheel, but for fans of the first game, this game is fantastic.

I see you are a Clone Wars tv show fan. It’s good to meet another man of culture.

Lmao

I'm not even a fromsoft fan boy but even I can see the writing on the wall with Elden Ring. Until God of War comes out I'm calling it now Elden Ring is game of the year.

At least you can skip the dialogue. Flashbacks to Hermaeus Mora in Skyrim and his utterly slow, plodding dialogue that you can read the subtitles for in 5 seconds but he takes 30 seconds to say, and can't be skipped

@@TheGarnian Oh yeah him. Sooooooo anoying

Dunkie has always been an xbot. He's such a tool, he's saying that basically every game in existence is like Horizon. How about he use his own logic. Zelda plays like every game in existence before it. Every game is irrative, building on what's already been done. Zelda BoW had many elements ripped straight from Asassins Creed. What game has ever been completely brand new? But of course he pins that dishonest "criticism" soley on a Playstation game. Of course he only applies insane hypocritical double standards only to Playstation games. But by his own words he himself refutes the entire premise of this troll video. "What seperates Horizon is its robot Dino combat." Enough said. By His own words Horizon does enough to seperate itself. This man is just a straight up xbox fanboy clown. And you can even search his history and watch his old videos to see how he's always been a hypocrite xbox fanboy. My message to neutrals, don't let this troll clickbait clown discourage you. Horizon is an amazing game and well worth it. Don't take anyone else's word for it. Buy the game yourself and see for yourself what it's truly about, than you will know how amazing Horrizon Forbidden West is for yourself:)

@@christianchristian3059 yeah we get it you can shut up noe

@@christianchristian3059 Well it's not really a hot take that Playstation exclusives have become dominated by these 80+ hour 3rd person adventures, something that is exacerbated by third party studios also making them, resulting in Dunkey feeling burnt out (atleast that's my interpretation of the video).

It's like every single game nowadays is contractually obliged to have an Open World, a crafting system, multiple skill trees with branching paths, tons of meaningless side quests and collectables, bandit camps etc. Like, nobody thinks about whether or not these elements are actually beneficial to the game, they just HAVE to be there. Oh yeah, and the story needs to be so bloated that it takes you at least 30 hours to finish it, otherwise morons won't feel like they got their money's worth lol.

$200m budgets are the same problem for video games that they are for hollywood -- they make creators risk adverse, driving heavy iteration upon established formulas.

Me, too. It's awful, and I almost feel bad for my friends that fall for the trap every time. Elden Ring, on the other hand, breaks that mold extremely well. I'm sure Dunkey will cover it soon.

Look at that, they already normalized charging you $69.99, that you defaulted to that price, the corpos have won.

I wonder what the next cycle will be. I'm sure there are some here that remember when people complained about games being too linear. This will fade, as linear games faded when people grew tired of them.

Imagine if he dunks on it because it's like dark souls like some were saying and not revolutionary, that would be so out of left field lol

Some people call it “immersion”. I call it “wasting my mutha fuckin’ time!”

RDR2 has this problem to me. It does seem like an amazing game, but everything you need to do has an animation tied to it. It looks good on the first couple of times, but it gets annoying 1 hour in

There’s an interesting bit of a matthewmatosis video where he compares western dev’s focus on “immersive” or “realistic” elements which complicate or slow down gameplay, in comparison to Japanese design focusing more on simplifying and streamlining things to emphasize the videogame experience. I believe the example was footsteps; In a western game, there might be dozens of footstep sound effects so that you traversing the world is more realistic and grounding, whereas in a Japanese game there might just be the same sounds used in every environment so the behavior is predictable and consistent, even if it’s not an accurate replication of reality. When that western immersion mentality is done well with full commitment, like Red Dead 2, it can feel like you’re inhabiting another world. When it’s only done halfway without applying that mentality to the entire game, it can just feel like your time is being wasted and like the priorities of the developers weren’t in the right place.

@@deathm00n2 Well, for starters, Red Dead Redemption 2 is supposed to be a slow game (like how Spaghetti westerns are slow movies). It works for me because it adds to the atmosphere and rythm the game is trying to achieve. Is it for everyone? Of course not. But it doesn't need to be.

They could solve it by just giving you more shit per pickup. I am getting pretty sick of the looting

Im also just fine with every videogame not needing to be a masterpiece and inovator. The open world model is fairly enjoyable, the theme and setting are cool and the games play fine. Im really OK with that

@@XThunderBoltFilms I really want to try Elden Ring's open world and see if it's any diff

I know there's a lot of discussion about how much Breath of the Wild progressed the Open World genre. Some say it rejuvenated it while others say it was bland and only got praise because Zelda. I don't know about you but for me that was the last time I had fun in an open world game and that was what, 5 years ago now?

@@milliondollarmistake 1000% agree, can't wait the few hours remaining for ER

Agreed, an open world in a video game should be treated more as a tool than as a template. It’s good to see that games like botw and presumably elden ring are using the open world more as a tool to suit the scope and variety of the content they deliver, but for every great open world game it seems that at least 10 come out that bastardize the concept into something considerably less impactful than what the term “open world” really means. Even breath of the wild plays on tropes like “climb tower, unveil map” and “walk around to discover locations that show up on your map”, though it’s done much more tastefully there. I’d like to see an open world game where you never get a map, or one that’s procedurally revealed based on render distance. At least then it would force the player to think outside of the assassin’s creed template and create more immersion by placing more responsibility on the player, really making them feel the scope of the game firsthand. It just feels like having an open world with lots of boring/tedious little things to do has become an excuse to shortchange the player on other aspects of the game that received less focus by the devs.

I hope dunkey sees this comment 🤣

How, that boss is easy lol. He is beating the game to give a full review.

Easiest boss in the game

@@eye4104 You're thinking of Mimic Tear.

If the price of those graphics is ridiculous amounts of pop in even at short distances (which is the case for this game) I think I'm fine with the graphics being slightly worse so my immersion isnt completely broken.

I've put 30 or so hours in the game and really haven't noticed the pop in. But on the ps5 the open world graphics are amazing. The only game that looks better on ps5 is Demons Souls and its tiny compared to this.

no matter how good the graphic is, if the game feels already old when you play it's a pass for me

@@redcrown5070 so you didn't play RDR2? That game is great. But movement sucks ass.

@@nongmaithemavinash3977 You mean horse walking simulator?