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Horizon remains quite possibly the single most astro-turfed "franchise" I've ever seen. Outside of is release window, no one ever talks about it - the fuck fanbase is this even for?
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Probably because it's a GameCube game and just running the same exact code on Wii?
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Other than @Marissa Moira, who kept a sacrificial altar to PlayStation much like that official God of War one, I have never heard anyone mention a Horizon game as something worth playing, or something to be excited for.
Horizon's always been a pack-in, right? I remember they gave the first game away for free on PS4 during the Corona Virus Situation. That's its whole legacy. Kids born in 2015 will grow up and reflect on Horizon as "that game that came with my PS5 so we played it until we got something better".
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Bro, no one was even talking about them when they released. They dropped the first game right next to BOTW and they dropped the second game next to Elden Ring.
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It's still hilarious that both came out at the same time as BotW and Elden Ring making people not give a single fuck about them at top speed.
I got it as a present, game is incredibly pretty, the water is amazing. And it's a boring slog that managed to fuck up "fight robot dinosaurs". I did some exploring, climbed some towers, but hated Alloy quite a bit going forward, never properly enjoyed the combat and there it lies, forgotten in the backlog with 0 interest to get back to it. Would love to see official completion metrics of it, because I could imagine it having a surprisingly high rate of "left unfinished" compared to other similar games.
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I bought the first one for $20 after all the positive word of mouth. I try *not* to talk about it because I'm so embarrassed I got suckered into buying that slop.
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That's a little disappointing. They used to sometimes add unique stuff to RE ports.
That's hilarious because it's true.
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Things like this give me the impression that the Horizon IP is under a gypsy curse or something, Both games releashed around the time another open world game did and in both cases it was the game of the year.
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I trsded Horizon for gran turismo 6
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When Sony did that international woman's day banner Aloy was front and center and they didn't have 2B on there at all.
Brickface is not as iconic as 2B not even fucking close.
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To be fair, they were all supposed to be 1st party characters, right? The real problem was they cropped out Kat.
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Oh I didn't know it was restricted to first party only. Even so there are a hundred Sony ladies I'd put there before Aloy.
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Horizon exists just to fill out console bundles. No one can convince me otherwise.
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Horizon honestly looked interesting to me but the overall character design kept me from trying them out.
If I'm going to be playing a female I don't want the face to look like plank from Ed, Edd, & Eddy.
If I'm going to be playing a female I don't want the face to look like plank from Ed, Edd, & Eddy.
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The lego horizon games is a blurry mess if you actually look a little closer.
TLDR: I hate modern graphics, expect the switch port to look like smeared asshole
For some reason the game uses raytraced shadows and reflections despite targeting 60fps at "4k", meaning there is HEAVY temporal accumulation on a very low sample count, so shadows and reflections just dissolve entirely into an amorphous blob the second anything moves. There is also heavy TAA or upscaler, can't tell which, so edges dissolve in motion as well.
Look at the edges, you have two distinct edges visible, a sharper blobby edge and a fuzzy ghost trail, this is from temporal reprojection, I assume there has to be some sort of upscaling going on since TAA just usually blurs in motion, not this blotchy look. Also notice the reflections.
The reflections are really bad and I have no clue why they thought this was acceptable.
Shadows aren't baked for some godforsaken reason, and they went full soft shadows meaning you need an even higher sample count to make them look good when using RT, but the aforementioned "4k" and 60fps target means you get these indistinct dithery blobs, which also have ghosting trails when anything moves across them because of the tiny sample count
This is hard to see in pictures, so you can check the video if you would like, then the shadow gets cast by a fast moving object it leaves that blotchy trail behind it for a second. The sample count is so low that it can't keep up with anything moving.
Another look at the blurry reflections and blotchy shadows even while the camera is stationary.
This is motion smearing from the camera panning slowly, this is indicative of the temporal accumulation history being higher than it should be, since moving the camera slowly means the previous frames are closer to the current frames so it doesn't reject the reprojected frames and you get a smear trail.
Just another super dithery shadow.
Look at the edges, you have two distinct edges visible, a sharper blobby edge and a fuzzy ghost trail, this is from temporal reprojection, I assume there has to be some sort of upscaling going on since TAA just usually blurs in motion, not this blotchy look. Also notice the reflections.
The reflections are really bad and I have no clue why they thought this was acceptable.
Shadows aren't baked for some godforsaken reason, and they went full soft shadows meaning you need an even higher sample count to make them look good when using RT, but the aforementioned "4k" and 60fps target means you get these indistinct dithery blobs, which also have ghosting trails when anything moves across them because of the tiny sample count
This is hard to see in pictures, so you can check the video if you would like, then the shadow gets cast by a fast moving object it leaves that blotchy trail behind it for a second. The sample count is so low that it can't keep up with anything moving.
Another look at the blurry reflections and blotchy shadows even while the camera is stationary.
This is motion smearing from the camera panning slowly, this is indicative of the temporal accumulation history being higher than it should be, since moving the camera slowly means the previous frames are closer to the current frames so it doesn't reject the reprojected frames and you get a smear trail.
Just another super dithery shadow.
TLDR: I hate modern graphics, expect the switch port to look like smeared asshole
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Don't you mean Gran Turismo 7? In any case, good trade!
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Shhhh, the Switch version isn't the port.
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One thing I notice (I think), is the lack of fanart and fanfiction (in both SFW and NSFW varieties) for the Horizon series, and their characters don't seem to be popular to cosplay as.
On FF.net, the first game has only 161 fics, and the second game only has 34 fics, which trails the top series in the Games category:
Horizon series has a lot more fics on AO3, about 4.2k, but it still massively trails the top 5 series in the Games category:
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Nobody cares about Horizon. I've been saying this for years, but I wish I would have had the idea to look at shit like cosplay and fanfiction to prove this fact.
I'm not even joking. It's such a good indicator of just how much *nobody* gives a shit.
I'm not even joking. It's such a good indicator of just how much *nobody* gives a shit.