Good morning friends. I still mostly feel horrible, but less horrible enough that I am going to attempt doing work and such. Yesterday late in the day I did in fact make a blog post happen, in part because I wanted to get the review of something new out there as soon as possible. On the gaming front I am still very much living my life in the world of Horizon Zero Dawn. Right now I have paused the main story a bit to catch up on side quests, and figured it was a reasonable time to do the expansion content, or at least the bulk of it.
When I first played HZD on the PlayStation 4, I beat the game at level 39. As of last night I dinged 45 and have so much more content left to go. The game in theory caps out level wise at 60, but supposedly progression keeps on trucking after that if things I have read are to be believed. It will be interesting to see exactly where I wind up upon finishing the story. The key difference is I seem to be killing a lot more random stuff in the world just because I can and it is fun to watch dinobots explode.
I am pretty sure my favorite part of Horizon Zero Dawn though is finding and mounting the Tallneck in a given region. In the frigid north you have an interesting side quest related to saving one, and it might be my new favorite part of the game. These tall friends are the best and I want them to live happy lives. Also the north is absolutely visually stunning… which causes me to stop and take photos of this sweet sweet friend lumbering around happily. I am probably weird to be personifying the robots so hard but whatever… this one has never tried to kill me.
Another weird thing that I apparently like doing… is dressing appropriately for whatever climate I am in? I mean the armor has no impact on your surroundings, but I find myself wearing Banuk armor when I am in the north and Carja armor when I am in the south because apparently I don’t want Aloy to get hot/cold. It legitimately makes next to no difference what type of armor I am wearing, because I can move the mods around at will, but for some reason it makes a significant difference to me as the player. The weird part is that I have never worried about dressing appropriate to the climate before in a game, but for whatever reason I just do so instinctively here.
The only problem with playing a single player game is that more or less I don’t have a lot that is terribly interesting to talk about, that is also not deeply spoilerific. Yes this game is now three years old at this point, but for the PC crew it is brand new and I don’t want to do anything that would heavily damage the impact of the story beats. So instead you are probably going to get a continued sequence of content with me posting pretty pictures and talking about largely unimportant things until I get Horizon Zero Dawn out of my system again. I think I might be entering another sequence of single player titles, because I believe more than likely I will be playing Ghosts of Tsushima after this.