E3 2016: 10 Minutes of Horizon Zero Dawn Gameplay

I think this was the best looking item at Sonys conference

@steveurkel: I second that

dope ass mecha-dinos

This looks cool, but the animation bug on the tall grass drives me crazy. Blows like crazy in the cut scene while talking to the guy, but is dead still during game play. Shorter grass seems to be fine later. Have to put that off for now as an E3 demo bug.

I feel like you can see a lot of the Witcher in here, which I mean in a good way.

@xfuturesx: I got that vibe too! Especially in the self narration when analyzing the machine's weaknesses and examining the wreckage. Not sure if that was just for the demo, but I wouldn't mind a bit of it when playing. Sometimes it is just nice to hear what the character you are playing is thinking.

This still looks very promising. I just hope they show a hub/town if it exists and also I wish I had an idea of what the overall point of the game was beyond just scavenging and picking apart enemies for specific scrap, which by itself sounds good, but it helps to have a greater force driving the mechanimal horse

This looks cool but I am not at all a fan of the whole main character narrating things. It felt especially weird when the player was looking at the map and she was commenting on these things. Are we meant to believe that she's just visualising this map in her head? Even if she was it just doesn't feel that natural. Either way the game in itself is looking pretty good.

@pjgut: I think some of that was for the sake of the demo. It was especially telling when she said that she was making two traps. Unless they recorded every possible crafting outcome, I doubt that will be in the game. My guess is that dialogue when she walks up to the wreckage of the last enemy is probably more like what we will see in game.

@mycoolyounghistory: I think you're right, just started watching the GB stream and noticed that no one was talking during the gameplay demo. That's a releif.

What's with games look visually amazing and having TERRIBLE writing/voice acting this E3?

I continue to be mystified this is being hailed as "Best of E3". Just looks like amazingly generic characters, action and environments with animatronic enemy types. Concept is well worn...

If anything Far cry/Enslaved. I thought trends were moving away from this trodden ground?

Weird Future Princess Mononoke/Witcher/Far Cry angles in this cool. Plus the "so far after the apocalypse society has built back up" theme is one I'm always into.

I have to wonder if a lot of this is dialogue specifically for these E3 demos. I can't imagine "I'm saying everything I'm doing as I'm doing it and telling you about my current quest objectives" is likely to be in many final games. At least I hope not.

Mecha Witcher? I'm in! Need to see there's more to the game than the stuff they showed though.

Aaaaaah this looks so rad.