Topic: Horizon Forbidden West

@render Strike is great what I've played of it so far. My wife txt me to say she would be later home. So instead of prepping her supper guess what I did ? 😂

There's a water tower somewhere on the map, and you're supposed to climb it going by the yellow spots on it. But it's virtually impossible.

@Octane sounds like you gotta git gud

I completed some sunken caverns after getting the diving gear. Turns out they contain a bunch of greenshine. Since I’m doing things in order of suggested level (for now anyway), I guess it’s time for another story mission.

@MightyDemon82 I’d be doing the same. Waiting for the kids to go to bed and then it’s on 😄

@Voltan I think that’s one thing that kinda annoyed me. You’re dead excited to polish off the icons on the map with your new equipment and the only reward is the one chest or some greenshine.

@nessisonett Greenshine is needed to upgrade some of the better equipment though, and it's not that easily found elsewhere (especially the chunks and clusters). Anyway, so far I didn't mind.

In other news, I didn't end up doing the story mission yet but I did override another tallneck (and met some monke machines). This week will be a little slower for gaming (because of reasons ) so I don't expect to finish the game until the next.

All these NPCs are so ridiculously overdressed. It's just silly.

@Octane sounds like you gotta GIIIT GUUUDD

I’m sorry.

@RogerRoger Like others have said, I don't really have a problem with the controls either. Yes, they tried to overcomplicate jumping/climbing by having you press circle to jump to something behind you, but I've only had to do it a couple of times. My only real issue so far is that it takes a few tries for me to choose the correct weapon on the weapon wheel because it occasionally won't go where I tell it to. Climbing has probably regressed a bit, but I manage.

Maybe it helps that I replayed Horizon Zero Dawn a couple of months ago, so the basics are already second nature. I'm loving it, so it is going to be a shame if I see somebody else not enjoying it like I am, but in the end it is what it is. I see you are getting some enjoyment out of it at least (the main story and such), so hopefully it can at least be enjoyable overall in the end.

@velio84 The Utaru region is where I'm at right now. It would have been going fine so far honestly except for the fact that I've had to try to collect the 6 metal pods from the Widermaws 3 times. Once I died, but the second time the first one I killed disappeared into thin air. I still kept going and killed the second one hoping there would be another one around, but no dice, so I had to reload my save and try it for a third time. I was about to go and fight the 2nd one again, but I ran out of time and had to put my PS5 in rest mode. I'll finish that in a little bit.

@MightyDemon82 I think I figured out what you did. You got the couch ready since that's where you'll be sleeping tonight?

Game crashed.

Already experienced a couple of time where the game went black for a few seconds, but now it straight up crashed. I least I didn't lose hours of gameplay, like what happened with Pokemon Legends.

Game crashed today and wiped a couple of hours of progress. Seemed to automatically download from the cloud for some reason, which hadn’t updated due to the hard crash.

@Fragile I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have a feeling the fact that they still have to work from home is a big reason. Sony first party studio games usually release in pretty good shape. Not saying this didn't release in better shape than several other games over the last year or so, but the pre-pandemic first party releases usually were pretty clean (with rare exceptions of course, like Days Gone).

I have faith these issues will be fixed by them, but I do hope everybody can start working in the studios again soon enough.

@KilloWertz Nah she got fed and to watch her shows on the t.v. then I played from about half 8 till half 11 before going to bed.

I had planned on continuing the main story but didn't quite go to plan. 2 sidequests, 2 bandit camps and a new activity then it was bedtime, could have easily stayed up longer, being a responsible adult sucks sometimes 😂

@nessisonett I turned off auto sync to the cloud, because I kept getting error messages, both for Horizon and Spider-Man, every time I booted up my console.

@Octane I've found (with another game but I've been doing that since) that closing the game before turning off the console lets you avoid that entirely.

@Fragile I reckon there's a lot of truth in what @KilloWertz is saying, working from home has really had an huge impact on these games releasing now. It was mentioned back when the lockdowns started to happen that the real impact would be felt further down the line and that is really playing out now.

Unfortunately another fact feeding into that is that software always launches with bugs. Some of them will be unknown of course but the developer will also have a bunch of issues they know about and will assess those to determine if they are so bad that they need to get everyone working like crazy to fix or push the release date out. There's only so many delays they can announce before the public will loose interest in the game and the publisher will also need to recoup some of their investment in order to continue paying people / showing the shareholders that they are making profit. It's a shame when we do experience issues with these games, especially PS Studios games when we are used to such high quality, but I do think they have to make that call sometime as otherwise they risk never releasing or losing money on their investment.

@velio84 You are motoring along. Good to hear that it's a straight forward platinum though 👍

I like the traversal changes, having more freedom to climb everything is great, basically climb every mountain, hill or rock you see, like rock climbing you just have to plan a bit on the route obviously you not climbing a flat sheer face. Only bits where its part of quest or something that they put some restrictions in.

@velio84 I found that Nessi to be a disappointing and killed the 1st too easily I thought, find Cobra Kai much tougher, even glued down its a pain.

Braced Shot + precision arrows = win.

@MightyDemon82 Ok, so you did what you were supposed to do. Smart man. You probably slept a lot more comfortably too.

Not too surprising that you got distracted by side quests and such. I still have yet to touch much of anything with the main story since the Embassy went sideways. I know that's really early, but I'm also only roughly a Level 16, so it also shows I haven't gotten to play as much as some others have.

@render I'd imagine one of the biggest things it has messed with is QA. It would likely take a lot longer to do thoroughly like every game needs, but I highly doubt any publisher is going to take all of the extra time needed.