Topic: Horizon Forbidden West

@RogerRoger Well worth it playing without fast travel definitely.

I finished The Gemini quest last night. Won't say anything about it other than I was shouting at the t.v., can't wait to continue the story but I'll do a few more side things first.

Argh! Today's patch seems to have fixed firegleam markers on the map, but it's broken the new-thing status indicators in the inventory. I assume it's not just me?

(I should say, I'm loving the game - it's stunning, and I've had a mostly problem-free time apart from these minor gripes!)

@JigsawPieces Not criticizing you as I'm not sure why it got mentioned as things they are still looking into, but the Firegleam markers got fixed in the last patch. I've had no problem with them disappearing after patch 1.08.

I'm still surprised they haven't been able to fix the Performance Mode, especially since the shimmering wasn't an issue in Horizon Zero Dawn. I'll just continue to play it in Fidelity Mode, which I'm perfectly fine with at this point anyways. The framerate only being 30 FPS doesn't even come to mind whenever I'm playing.

@KilloWertz I remember them saying it was fixed in a previous patch, but I'm 99% sure the firegleam markers weren't fixed for me until today (I could be misremembering, but I don't think I am). I still had some displayed on the map that I'd cleared a long time ago.

Glad you're enjoying it in fidelity mode I am too, though I've avoided performance mode so I don't make comparisons.

Only 4 trophies left to go for platinum. Not sure whether to finish the main quest and then do the final bits for 100%. Over a 120 hours played!

@RogerRoger I might Just go for it tonight, as I'm eager to see how it all pans out. I only have a handful of things to do, so to keep the game lasting that little bit longer I can play something small and still jump in and out till it's done.

@MightyDemon82 Somebody must be hiding offline since according to PSN you haven't been on in 17 days.

@KilloWertz can't enjoy Horizon when my nephews constantly bug me to play Rocket League 😂

Just watching the credits, phenomenal game. So when are we getting DLC and sequel? I want them now haha!

@MightyDemon82 It’s probably kinda safe to assume the VR game launches with the new PSVR set (or at least “launch window”).

can someone tell me, is it better to play in performance or resolution for this kind of game ?

@MightyDemon82 Ok, that makes sense. I wouldn't want to be disturbed often while playing this either.

DLC? Good question. Since there's been nothing said about it since they hinted at DLC being done a while back (I think they did at least), I'd imagine sometime in 2023.

As for a sequel, I'd say probably in 2027 if the time between Zero Dawn and Forbidden West is any indication. It'll be something to see a fully new gen Horizon game.

@Wasted_Smuggler Usually I'd say Performance Mode since it would make combat and such more fluid, but given the shimmering issues with that mode that they have still failed to fix, I've been playing it in Resolution Mode for the vast majority of the game. While I replayed Zero Dawn in 60 FPS a few months before Forbidden West came out, I've gotten used to going back to 30 FPS for Horizon to the point where I don't even think about it at all while playing. It also doesn't hurt that it's drop dead gorgeous in Resolution Mode.

If you can still enjoy games at 30 FPS, I'd go with that unless it's really hard for you to enjoy games at the framerate anymore. Honestly, I'd start with that and then see if it's ok with you.

@KilloWertz Thank you for your advice. I've been struggling to play this game honestly, I think I just suck at it. I loved the first game though, and I want to see this game through to the end at least.

@MightyDemon82 Nice work on finishing the game and it sounds like you enjoyed it as much as I did.

I've got my fingers crossed for some DLC and I'm really looking forward to the third game to see how they wrap it all up. I know the story wasn't perhaps for everyone but I thought they did a really good job of coming up with something that managed to introduce plenty of twists and turns right to the end. Now that I've moved on to other games I think back to how well made that side of HFW is and how for me that really brought the characters and world to life in the way other games don't quite achieve.

@render yes it's a 10 out of 10 for me personally and I loved the characters introduced, I've heard others saying they are forgetful but I enjoyed spending time with each of them. Even some of the more miner characters like morlund, some folks also weren't fond of Aloy but I loved her. Her responses to characters in certain situations gave me a good laugh, it's cool that Aloy has a family of sorts now.

Still about 20% to go so I might start something small and mix it up but I can see myself just jumping in to take photos!

@RogerRoger Thanks Rog, Just got to do bandit camps, scan one more machine and do two hunting grounds challenges and that'll be the platinum.

The final battle was top notch, felt like I was inside a blockbuster movie with the scale of things going on!

Platinum acquired, 137 hours 90.74% so still a few things to do before completely finished. I'll Probably start something little this weekend and use the forbidden west to relax and chill out in. All in all a fantastic experience with very little problems.

The one thing that was annoying was the hunting grounds trying to shoot off Tremortusk tusks, but at times they would clip underground when knocking it into the shocked state!

@voltan excited for pretty much anything Horizon related, VR will be insane in that world.

@MightyDemon82 Congrats. I basically never go for a platinum for a game, mainly because I don't have the patience and I also have too much of a backlog. I always want to move on to the next game no matter how much I love the game, hence why I still only have 1 platinum after all these years.

I may end up going for my $1.49 platinum if I have an extra half hour or so though (The Cow G). I doubt it though as I usually just get sucked in to Horizon Forbidden West on the weekends when I actually have several hours to play it.

I would love to play the VR game, although I'm undecided if I want to spend however many hundreds of dollars the PSVR2 will end up being, especially when I have so many other non-VR games to play. Obviously the Horizon game at least makes me consider it.

@MightyDemon82 Awesome work 👍. You’ve done well completion wise as well, not that much more to go to join the 100% club 🥳.

I remember that tremortusk task being a bit of a challenge so I left it tight till the end when I’d got better kit.

@RogerRoger that's the outfit my Aloy is rocking, I love it!

What outfit is that?