Horizon Zero Dawn’s about wrapped up, not bad though releasing it about a year earlier would have fit a bit better although besides the visuals being a bit dated it’s holding up pretty well overall.
Standard open world fare with a few twists and turns, story works well enough early on but the late game trying to wrap up and explain things and I expect also leave enough for a sequel (Which now is in development.) eh it falls apart a bit but not too terribly compared to many other open world games.
Gameplay suffers a bit from being incredibly easy and the New Game+ mode and ultra difficulty comes with a few rewards but ultimately it just pads out the numbers a bit it’s still easy it just takes a bit longer for each encounter.
(Bonus for the game removing that nonsense one-opponent rule though, few games do.)
Suppose HDR might work well for the underground areas, poorly lit purple everywhere makes it really dull to explore these locations although the ridiculous amounts of one-use PDA’s scattered about gives some neat back info at least while at it.
Some hitbox problems but otherwise the bow combat and assorted tools do a good job and the AI while simple works pretty well for the various robot animals and not well at all for humanoids ha ha.
Like the angry screaming bird in particular, long-leg or what it was kinda like a cassowary but the game model looks like it’s using implants.
(And it’s a bit bigger.)
EDIT: Liking that the sequel showed underwater areas too felt a bit limiting that you couldn’t go under the water and having played a lot of the early 8 and 16 bit games under water levels are…horrifying.
(But can be quite imaginative and creative when it’s not a constant death streak for the player.)
EDIT: Now what to do for November/December.
Xuan-Juan Sword VII
Watch_Dogs Legion
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
Yakuza VII
Cyberpunk 2077
And probably a fair bit more.
Cyberpunk seems like a clear case of wait and see and pick up maybe at discount it’s probably really good but Witcher all the games needed some patching up.
Valhalla got it’s content roadmap and once again two major packs and a discovery tour so another candidate for wait and pick it up at least partway through that after several usual sizeable Ubisoft updates for the game.
Legion seems like it’s going to be similar and they also announced the in-game micro transactions though as always focus on how it’s cosmetic stuff and unique appearance for agents and so on.
(Don’t want that pig mask? Cash!)
Yakuza well there’s a gap here due to SEGA being SEGA and being incredibly committed to the PC platform which they re-affirm every year with little happening until it does and surprise announcement and sudden release reveal ha ha.
Or just more backlog work, still another hundred or so larger titles to go and a whole bunch of indie games after pruning the early access development troubled titles, had way too many of those.
EDIT: Definitively Baldur’s Gate 3 but that’s a 2021 title hopping over the early access version.
Nier 1 and hopefully the PC port’s solid and whenever the PC version of Nioh 2’s out likely after DLC #3 early next year is out for the console version.
Sakuna should be out at some point as well.
And then another yearly increase of bills and what not as 2021 starts, yay.