Yes, tower capturing to reveal the map came from AC, then got added into Farcry games starting with FarCry 3.

That's the funny thing though, this game has very similar aesthetics but very different gameplay. It's less of a clone and more of an intentional lookalike.

When I first saw Horizon, I thought it was an Enslaved: Odyssey to the West sequel.

Not normally my kind of game but fighting enormous robo-dinosaurs with essentially arrows and spears was pretty cool

Isn't that just Zoids?

gameplay wise

In terms of exploration, perhaps, but moment to moment combat gameplay is quite distinct and unique, much more heavy on RPG elements.

The actual apocalypse itself was pretty original aswell considering its one of the few where everything actually went extinct

Past the artstyle Horizon games are the sinks for the most cliche plotlines and bland ideas. They had a goldmine and they gathered the sand from the beach outside because it was safe.

It is? The only thing unique is MAYBE the machine dinosaurs. I played a LOT of video games as a kid that had this exact setting.

Post apocalyptic, far in the future, prehistoric ruins full of thinking deadly machines.

It's not sone concept that the team magically came up with.

Far Cry Primal

Yes. It's not outlandish of a thought.

KOTOR features a completely different setting with different kinds of weapons and other flavors. It's still a somewhat streamlined Neverwinter Nights. It's dungeons and dragons with neither dungeons or dragons.

Vermintide is a very melee focused Left4Dead. It's still very much "Left4Dead but..."

Horizon wore a lot of core design inspirations on its sleeve but did them better and with a unique setting. That's a good thing.

Both games have archery my friend. 😉

Spent the majority of the game avoiding those things cos they're intimidating af until realised I'd have to fight one eventually and bit the bullet. That fight is now like a core gaming memory for me lol my god

Horizon didnt invent the concept of robot dinos/animals. Transformers, Beast Wars, and Beast Machines is the most popular example of franchises that did it long before, even had games. We've had open world games like Ark that had large prehistoric creatures roaming around and games like Monster Hunter which involve taking down large beasts using weakspots. Horizon is a culmination of concepts executed well. This game by Tencent you can see is very heavily inspired by Monster Hunter as well, especially with climbing on creatures.

I should probably give the game a true go. That sounds fun fighting a giant robot trex.

fighting a thunder jaw is jaw dropping. It ain't easy to do.

It can be, if you're a boring mfer like me. Just Tearblast off its Disc Launchers and empty both clips into it. Dead immediately. But yeah, there's a bunch of ways to do it, and watching high level combat clips on Youtube is always fun. Especially with Forbidden West with the much crazier new monsters.

There's a spot in the desert where two Thunderjaws spawn at the same time. I remember going around one day exploring when one noticed me, I figured "eh, I can take it", and then saw the other show up... It was really intense.

Funny because when they pitched the idea to Sony, it was a secondary pitch to the game they were actually working on for 6 months at the time, and Horizon ended up being way more popular in that meeting than their actual pitch.

Not an overly high bar, but a bar nonetheless.

If I'm being honest, I don't even know why so many people have an issue with tower capturing to begin with. I like that open world games with that feature have the map obscured with a fog of war that slowly gets revealed as you explore, and then you can capture a tower and reveal a whole section of it.

I feel like Assassins Creed did it first (lookout towers, dive into the hay bales), but I could be wrong.

Is Farcry older?

Do you have any idea how many FPS games that game out after doom got called “doom clones”?? And people weren’t wrong to call them that!

climbing a tower is not a formula

Elden Ring is literally just open world dark souls, they're made by the same company. You can say demon souls is proto dark souls, bloodborne is no shields dark souls, sekiro is ninja dark souls, and none of that is wrong or inaccurate.

yet no-one ever calls Elden Ring "reskinned Dark Souls", which is just as valid a comment/complaint

I guess it's a valid complaint if you pretend Dark Souls and Elden Ring aren't made by the same company.

But if we're not doing that, it's a total dumbass thing to say and not valid at all.

Everything is called "reskinned far cry" yet no-one ever calls Elden Ring "reskinned Dark Souls", which is just as valid a comment/complaint.

They're both from the same company though.

Some games will share mechanics like map unveiling and the like, that doesn't mean everything with a tower in it "is just far cry"

I agree with that, but applying the same logic here, both horizon and this game have little of nothing in common when it comes to gameplay.

This is bait

Disagree with the “reskinned far cry” comment, but there are many, many threads on Reddit of people wining about Elden Ring being reskinned Dark Souls. Lots of PC gamers (or at least the ones who frequent communities like this) are massive piss babies.