Okay then

[fan_eunice]

*blows dust off this thing*

Sooooo, anyone still here (or returning I suppose)

Lol it’s been so long this pushed my sticky posts down, nice having an edit button though)

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[dorinda]

Can I horn in on the videogaming talk and say, thanks fan_eunice for mentioning Horizon Zero Dawn a lot, because that encouraged me to try Horizon Zero Dawn, and I loooooooooooved iiiiiiiiiiit. I loved it so much that, uh, I am actually perennially paused right before the big final battle, because after that battle the game will be over?

(Also I admit because the big final battle kind of shoehorns me into fighting one particular way, instead of my preferred way, which is to sneak around and snipe from a distance whenever possible or else I Die...)

I'm glad to hear about The Entropy Centre! Although I do need to be increasingly careful about motion sickness with some first-person things, as rhoboat mentions. I started Subnautica: Below Zero recently, and it seems to have the 'occasional unexpected motion sickness' thing that the first one did. Although the first one was still manageable, in short sittings, and sometimes didn't bug me at all! In short: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[fan_eunice]

❤️❤️❤️ Horizon Zero Dawn is one of my favorite games ever so this makes me so so happy! But like if you finish it that means you get to play Horizon Forbidden West and get countless MORE hours with Aloy and her friends!

I totally get what you mean about the final battle though, I am absolutely a hide in the bushes and silent strike kinda gal whenever a game lets me, I believe that battle is one that I run around like a chicken with my head cut off and mash buttons and hope for the best until I win by accident.

[dorinda]

There was some ginormous fight in the desert northwest area, where I admit I found a spot crammed behind/between a couple of rock columns where the monster couldn't quite hit me, or at least not for actual damage, but I had just enough of a gap to fire arrows through.

Occasionally the Behemoth would knock me off my perch, but before it could run around behind the rock face to find where I fell and stomple me to death, I'd climb back up and squeeeeze into the awkward spot.

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...LOOK ALOY'S JUST REALLY GOOD AT HIDING OKAY

[fan_eunice]

I think hiding behind a rock is a VERY appropriate reaction to some of the robot dinos. I’m pretty sure I yelled ‘absolutely the fuck NOT’ out loud the first time I saw a thunderjaw.

[rhoboat]

I spent hours hiding behind a rock to defeat my first giant bird thingie.

[rhoboat]

Aww, I totally don't mind the shoehorning here. This is fun!

Horizon Zero Dawn is one of my favorite games ever. Having just finished Breath of the Wild recently which was almost across the board GOTY the same year HZD came out, I personally would place HZD over BOTW. I did like BOTW but I didn't have the same intense feelings with the characters.

I'm excited to make my way through HFW now.

[dorinda]

I also hugely adored BOTW, and it was a really restful one to start over with a fresh playthrough, until my controller developed terminal stick-drift on one side and I stopped playing until I could get a repair or replacement.

But I love them in such different ways! I got attached to Eloy and her context and emotions and life as a person, in ways I totally didn't with Link, even with the flashbacks to the various Champions. So my BOTW enjoyment was much more about the sense of openness and freedom, creativity/weirdness in the game mechanics, puzzle solving, etc., and not about people and feelings.

[fan_eunice]

I never finished BoTW and I think that’s why. I thought it was gorgeous and I really enjoyed the game mechanics but I didn’t really have any feelings about the story or where it might go so it never felt urgent to continue it as opposed to wandering around collecting things and cooking and climbing trees.

[dorinda]

I think out of my various playthroughs I might only technically have "finished" BOTW, i.e. defeated Ganon, once. Maaaaybe twice. Because that is not actually what I play the game for, and it's not the funnest boss battle... I like the Divine Beasts, because puzzles, and those bosses are the price I pay for the puzzle-dungeon vibe. But Ganon is just basically, 'can I find my way through the confusing castle' (spoiler: not well! the change to that 3-D map throws me off big time!) and then 'fighty fighty fight' the end. Well, then the second part with riding the horse, which I scarcely remember. :D

Instead, I like to start over and run around in my underwears, and when I'm extremely advanced and have all the divine beasts on my side, and could theoretically fight ganon, instead I throw myself into the DLCs, and also into obsessive completionist things like finding more korok seeds.