Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores

the final battle is just amazing and aloy is a lesbian let's gooooo

Only problem with this DLC is that it’s not longer 🤍 Finished it in like a day and a half. 🥲

It's more Forbidden West. Doesn't do anything new or interesting. More of an additional 3 hours to the base game. Doesn't add anything to the story besides a new notable character.

I played Horizon Zero Dawn (and the Frozen Wilds DLC) and Horizon Forbidden West and I was really looking forward to the expansion of the story.

First off I actually played the base game on a 2015 base PS4 and honestly it performed fine, though I knew it wasn't the ideal experience. I only got a PS5 in March so other than replaying The Witcher 3 with its own PS5 updates I haven't really played next gen titles yet. I will say that this game is drop dead gorgeous and other than a couple of textures popping in and some clipping stuff I found it to be really well optimized. I'm probably a weirdo but I prefer resolution over performance... meaning 60 FPS doesn't matter a lot to me. I didn't notice any obvious graphic stuttering or frames dropping but I'm not exactly an expert. The cloud tech really is cool and I look forward to what they're gonna do with flying mounts in Horizon 3. This is just a taste.

I absolutely love the way the Horizon lore is just a classic "the ancients were more advanced and their tech is basically magic to the stories society" but this makes our culture (at least a couple decades from now) the lost civilization because our technology, even from 25 years ago is just insane. We take for granted that our 24/7 instant communication is normal. We have the collective knowledge of humanity basically in the palm of our hand throughout the day and we don't get that to a person a century ago (or more recently even) it would seem like a magic trick. The use of classic mythology names for the AI functions in the franchise is inspired as hell. Fantasy/mythology story but give it a sci-fi coat of paint.

As far as the "controversy" of the super foreshadowed canonically queer romantic interests of the games protagonist Aloy... my guys... we had like 30 years of 99% heterosexual storytelling and characters in mainstream games. Aloy and Ellie are like the 2 best known game protagonists that are definitely not 100% straight despite player choice in recent years. I think the gaming industry will survive. I say this a cis-gendered, heterosexual white guy: I thought the story built upon what came before and Seyka is an excellent character and match for Aloy. Give me more of their dynamic and relationship in Horizon 3.

The developers are telling the story they want to tell, and I can't wait to see more.

Absolutely disgusting! To single handedly destroy beloved franchise with woke agenda in the final dlc. Just awful

A very nice short story that highlights the best and the worst of the main game. It plays much smoother, much more varied, and less bloated. At the same time, it doesn’t innovate much nor change the regular game much (the equipment is fine, just not game changing, like Zero Dawn’s or Ghost of Tsushima DLCs, which gave tools that revolutionise gameplay). One of its main contributions is to have much more interesting farming locations of some machines.

The story, instead of a small arc, like Frozen Wilds, is more like a long side quest, but one that pays off nicely, despite the blandness of LA, the questionable Quen and the villain’s background.