Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

Main complaint is I don't like the combat controls. Third person action games of this sort don't usually have a lot of aiming and shooting, but this one does. That creates a problem: use the gamepad or mouse and keyboard? For me, trying to aim in a shooter with a gamepad is frustrating and hard, even with time-slowdown. This is fixed if you play with a mouse and keyboard. However, now the melee is hard to manage. This is primarily because the mouse and keyboard implementation is lazy. Controls can't be remapped, and rather than design the controls for the mouse and keyboard it just substitutes for the gamepad. For example, rather than having the number keys directly map to items, you have to cycle left and right as if your keyboard was a d-pad. The game is somewhat woke. How is it in a remote tribal village, somewhat themed on Viking culture, you have every race represented for no apparent reason? And the developers noticeably went out of their way to make most of the leaders and heroes all minorities of some sort or another. It's also hard to see the protagonist in a positive light once you start killing humans instead of machines. I can see killing people who clearly did …

The game feels woke, and breaks its own world rules within four minutes of game play. More Sony is killing its physical media.

Exceptional game in every way. Combat system and skill tree are good. World introduction, storytelling ,and delivery in terms voice acting and character portrayal are all great. BGM and SFX are remarkable as well. Worth much more on sale

Combat allows you to go stealth, strat set-ups, or just run in guns ablazing. Story is good, kept me interested and excited for what was to come next. DLC was a bit underwhelming tbh. Overall I had fun with the game but I started feeling major burnout and decided I have no interest in finishing the DLC or chasing other achievements. My honest thoughts about big open world games like this is sometimes less is more. Felt like there was too much to do and it killed the spark the game had for me early on. Combat woes.... I felt that my arrows would shoot through enemies, and this was happening frequently. Even when they were stunned or I was using slow mo, my arrows would straight up miss even though the crosshairs were centered. movement woes.... Climbing and jumping ledges would not always connect. The pole jumps was notoriously the worst. This game was obviously designed for console, which is why i'm not too hell bent on this. But the mount riding experience was absolute ♥♥♥♥♥ on PC. The movement might have been one of the worst for a AAA game i've ever experienced.

One of my favorite games.

It's pretty good. Close to feeling like BotW. Runs pretty well on the Steam Deck.