Horizon Forbidden West

It was probably that I had completely forgotten how to play the game then. It's why I don't often bother with dlc and also tend to play games until I finish them. Any sort of gap of more than a couple of weeks and it's like someone has reversed my hands.

Different strokes for different folks as I found the first one only slightly challenging but very rewarding

Loved the combat and loved using every weapon as they all had real value. You couldn’t stick to just one weapon unless you wanted to try missions more than once - which I never did, other than the timed ones that took a couple of attempts once or twice

The bandit camps were one of my favourites, doing them without being spotted once was delightful

I played it on hard and glad I did. A good level of challenge and having to be fairly strategic.

I also had all of the hud off apart from health and weapons on dynamic which really helped with just discovering stuff with more immersion . Head in a general direction for main quest and see what happens was my motto.

I started Zero Dawn again last night, NG+ Ultra Hard difficulty, with the aim of golden-pathing the campaign and doing all the Frozen Wilds DLC for the first time. I guess I won't be starting Forbidden West tomorrow.

Simply have despatched so hopeful for tomorrow

Good luck, I dread to think what the would be like on that setting! I only just about did it on easy/normal...but I am pretty terrible at games though!

I will have my copy tomorrow, but I'm about 60/70% into ME1 Legend, so think I will complete that first. I have gone back to only playing one single player/campaign game at a time once again, it suits me better.

Kinky, I did that as well, ended up paying £52 (well £37 as I had credit) from Amazon, I didn't fancy paying the additional £17 for box art!

I thought the first game's combat was a bit crap and weedy feeling. Buuuut the DLC with those charge up bows felt great.

I think they said you'd need to wait until it launched.

Any word on if they’ve dropped the one thing that really bugged me about the original, getting locked into a combat situation you may not be prepared for that wasn’t clearly signposted, with the save point happening after the lock?

Delivery from Amazon just landed. But I am being mean and not giving it to the boy until tomorrow, otherwise he'll be up at 6am wanting to play it on his day off. He needs his sleep.

Bah, I got excited for a moment as Amazon seemed to have dispatched early - had an email saying delivery today and everything, but it now seems to have changed to tomorrow on the main site. The local Amazon depot is literally round the corner from where I work but they seem to be holding it there.

Ah well, can’t complain really.

Re difficulty in the first game - I absolutely agree it comes to life when you’re challenged and have to use all the wider range of weapons at your disposal. Not to go on about EG’s review of Forbidden West, the the couple of comments about having to arrow things to death was pretty telling of someone who isn’t bothering to try out the range of weapons. Once you get into blowing weapons off so you can use them yourself, and exploiting elemental weaknesses, it’s a lot more fun. Oh, and using environmental hazards to help you too.

I found Frozen Wilds pretty tough at times (on Normal) despite going into it having finished the main game and fully levelled.

Ha, I've always loved how the lean forward is when things are serious. Especially playing something like Pro Evo back in university.

I did pre-order a month or two ago, dunno if that makes a difference. I may have a play later tonight if my migraine subsides. Just make sure it's all installed properly and patched etc of course.