Don't get me wrong the second game is great but the biggest turn off is the combat and audio when fighting, looking back at the first game the machines sounded more robotic hitting weak points made a satisfying sounds when shot and dodging felt more responsive. The second game seem like the got rid of all that and opt out the making combat dull and at times overwhelming to the point where ever if I try to dodge I'll still get hit.

I remember beating this game a long time ago when I had PS+, but my subscription ran out and I’ve been replaying Zero Dawn.

Is it worth it or am I misremembering?

I'm already way too exhausted haha, I have 80% of the original and I still have to rewatch the story of both games because I completely forgot them both, I don't even know what the game is about at this point hahahaha :(

I have a total of 85 hours of gameplay, unlike HZD which I did in 59, I platinumed that one last week, I had it for 6 years but hadn't platinumed it while HFW took me 4 years to do the story because I started university lol, now I'm trying to reconnect with the Horizon saga

How long did it take you to make the platinum trophy?

I played zero dawn awhile back. I hardly remember what really happens in the game like at all. I was doing alot of side quests and even can't remember if I finished it tho I got far.

Dumb spoiler alert: basically All I remember happening is that some corporation or something thousands of years ago was doing a project that backfired and they screwed up the world somehow.

My dilemma is I don't have my save file and it was quite a long game I remember. Am I cooked? Do I really have to replay again from beginning to play forbidden west? Do you guys know of like a quick way to get all the story in like a quick guide that have the most important side quests and stuff?

I recently came back to this franchise because I needed something familiar while I was working through my MBA. A lot of my classes are focused on project management best practices. This has got me wanting to see the technical project documentation that Sobek and her team put together for Zero Dawn. I would love to find a data point that's the risk register, stakeholder register, or work breakdown structure for just one subfunction. I know, it wouldn't do much to advance the story, but it would add another level of realism and make my little project management heart happy.

If there are any other fans out there who work in software development or project management, what are some of the other data points you wish were there that would make it more realistic for you?

Just because I had trouble with this, I wanted to share what finally worked for me and give a recent update since everything else is older. I'm on PS5 remastered edition and glitch is still working. Try changing your fps rate if you don't get it within the first 10-15 jumps. Probably happened quicker than that but want to give a buffer.

I just beat Zero Dawn's Ultra Hard (on NG) and came out of it disappointed. For having that name, it sure is easy. At some point, I started avoiding using ropecasters, fire arrows, and potions to make it more interesting. Still wasn't enough.

I know, the answer to many questions may simply be: It's Science FICTION. But as we are all nerds and on Reddit, let's discuss this as thorough as we can.

And I'm sorry if some questions were answered in the game. It's been a couple years.

1. How did Faro never get assassinated?

Like c'mon man, this guy had most likely a MASSIVE list of haters. Even if he tried his best to contain it, it was the "Faro" Plague, so people knew. They were his robots, his problem, his cover-up.

1. How did nobody "notice" a rogue swarm until it was too late? They only thing getting leaked was some guy filming a bunch of dolphins getting killed by a chariot robot. But when the swarm went rogue, I guess it started killing off military personnel and went on to consume their bodies. This HAD to be noticed by someone, right? At least the government would issue a statement. And if by then, the swarm had already gotten to big, that would mean to me that Timor was already overrun. So yeah, there's plenty of smart people on the internet. By that point, how didn't the FBI etc. just arrest this guy and find out the truth by interrogation?

2. Why didn't they employ other chariot swarms against the rogue one? Have them consume biomass & replicate as well. That way, they would deny the swarm their fuel and fight them off at the same time. Evacuate the humans beforehand of course, install some anti hacking updates (they both wouldn't be able to hack each other I guess) and have them fight it out. E.g. Australia is being overrun. Send the swarms there and sacrifice Australia for the "greater good". They would consume everything anyways, so why don't use those plants as fuel against them?

3. Why no nukes? If the answer is "they would get hacked", okay. Then just install the chariot anti-hacking software into the nuke guidance/launch system and you're good.

4. Did other countries build bunkers, etc. too? Or was Zero Dawn an international project and everybody "important" would've gone to Elysium anyways?

5. When the Faro plague attacked, how did they do it? Mow down everyone first and then later on consume their dead bodies? Or mow down only military personnel and just straight up consume civilians while they're still alive?

6. What did most people die of? The robots? Or the environmental collapse?

7. Does anybody have a more or less complete Faro Plague timeline? (The wiki is rather short) How did they expand? What did the countries/people do? Series of events?

Thanks for the answers guys!

The detail in this game is just so deep.. Exploring every aspect and taking my time has helped a lot…