I really wish I liked Horizon Zero Dawn but the story was incredibly boring and the voice acting was atrocious. The gameplay was really fun but I could not stand being locked in with an NPC just to listen to some awful voice acting and cringe animations. I really tried playing this 3 times, each time getting further than the last.
Odd, I thought the gameplay was bland and somewhat repetitive, while the world, voice acting, and story kept me coming back.
Fuck Sony.
Also fuck Nintendo.
Maybe Guerilla can pull a Naughty Dog and convince Sony this isn’t the right direction for their studio.
What if we still lived in the era where games could have single player and multiplayer modes without worrying about constantly updating the multiplayer mode and monetizing it in perpetuity?
Seriously, the Last of Us had a really fun multiplayer mode. They didn’t have to make it some shitty treadmill of garbage for people to engage with it.
I remember playing that game and thinking, “this is okay but I really wish there was a way to make it more toxic. Also, I’d like to feel the thrill of my access being taken away permanently.”
Edit: Also, I thought, “Why isn’t God of War a MOBA yet?”
Sony needs to stop with these live service games. Nobody is interested in a new one. Everyone who wants to play one, already has their game chosen and do not move from it.
It’s the same thing we had 10+ years ago with MMO’s. Everyone wanted to unseat WoW,
MMOs to MOBAs to BR… On and on and on. Publishers being 2 years too late to a trend and trying to jump on the train after it left the station fucking over their existing fanbase in the process. The MBAs in charge of these decisions should be fired… Out of a cannon into the sun.