Feminina O'Ladybrain posted: " Spoilers for a side quest thingie in Horizon: Forbidden West Sigh. I was tired. I had little time. I just wanted to do a couple little things. Kill some rebels, light some campfires, etc. It started fine. I took out two or three rebel camp"
Spoilers for a side quest thingie in Horizon: Forbidden West
Butch:
Sigh.
I was tired. I had little time. I just wanted to do a couple little things. Kill some rebels, light some campfires, etc. It started fine. I took out two or three rebel camps, quickly, quietly, easily.
But then, then...I saw a new quest.
It was Morlund. He had a balloon. "How hard could this be?" thought I. I'll do it. I have 20, 25 minutes before the hockey game starts.
If you have done this, you see where I am going with this.
I missed the start of the hockey game.
The fuck was THAT?
Feminina:
Oh, sweet naked Zeus, the balloon. Yes. That escalated quickly. Once again, hiding behind rock outcroppings for the win!
I assume that balloon is how we're going to be able to fly to the mountain peak to recover the gear of that fighter who was carried off by a stormbird or whatever, that we heard about many quests ago, but he's going to have to make it actually work first and I have no sense of when that will be. I should go back and check on him.
Butch:
Yes. Escalated.
I thought it would be climbing. I thought, "This is one of those quests where the jumping will piss me off, but that will be that." I did. I thought that.
I started to get nervous when I was going back after getting the burner and there was no green "you did it, get your reward" checkmark on the quest marker. "There's more?" thought I. Then, I thought "Oh, just a balloon ride. Nice views. A calm little aside."
HA!
I did like the cutscenes. I did. The stormbird, less so.
I was, seriously, out of healing when I got there. I used what I had on the first fight, as that longleg or whatever kept kicking my ass. I had nothing but some chicken wings. Seriously. Me, bar food and an NPC against....that. And I was tired, and I could NOT keep track of where it was, and....that sucked.
Is it just me, or have you noticed that the ropecaster, or whatever the "tie things down" weapon is doesn't seem to work as well in this game as it did in the first one? Is it nerfed? Am I just using it wrong? Flying things are just a disaster for me because the whole "tie them down then kill them" trick from the first game doesn't seem to be as easy here.
That sucked.
Man, I forgot all about that quest! That was forever ago!
That and the weird, locked, tallneck.
How did you hide behind rocks with the stormbird? I tried that. It broke the rocks.
Feminina:
There was that one really big rock tower that it couldn't seem to break, and I just kept running around and around that.
Also, I always forget to have the ropecaster equipped, so I don't know if it works less well than before or not since I've never actually used it. I mostly just switched off shooting at it with those precision arrows or whatever they're called (the sniper ones) and the acid shredders, and then dodging back behind the pillar.
Yeah, that tallneck is still locked. I even went over and went into the offline cauldron to poke around, but it was silent and nothing happened except that Aloy said "I guess I have to find a way out of here." Which is a pretty good sign that you might as well just leave.
There will probably be a quest about it later. Maybe something to do with Zo's plan to reprogram the land gods? We shall see.
Butch:
Ha! That's it? That's all she said?
She's all "What's down here?" Rappels down. Long pause. "Well...this sucks."
The ropecaster is not earning its keep. Every time I use it I either a) miss (whoever designed the aiming system also did those ballistae), b) hit...something and she's all "It can't grab there!" (why not?) or c) I actually get it to grab, which fills up its "tie down" meter (like the acid meter or fire meter) by about .02%.
Rather disappointing, that.
Still, better than the shredder gauntlets, which, other than looking kinda cool, have not served me in any way, shape or form.
Feminina:
I kind of like the shredder gauntlets and use them semi-often on things that are weak to acid. They don't do a ton of damage, but I like that they bonk around a couple of times so it's like two hits for the price of one.
My go to is really that precision bow, though. I use that all the time for shooting at things from a distance. Which means I'm also continually making arrows for it since I can only carry 6 at a time, but it's worth it.
I like how you can sometimes hit someone from the tall grass and they don't come after you right away, and if you wait they forget about you and you can do it again. It's especially amusing when you shoot someone in the head and break their helmet, and they're faintly alarmed but then decide it was nothing and go back to wandering around. There was an arrow that shattered your headgear, man! Be more alarmed! (I mean, don't, it's much more convenient for me if you don't, but you SHOULD.) Apparently some people are not super bright, or else have been conditioned to shrug off nonlethal blows by years of life in a dangerous world full of random arrows.
Butch:
That is pretty great! "Meh. Must've been a defective helmet. Is is made from 1000 year old plastic, after all."
Being able to one shot (helmetless) people sure does make stealth easier. Love that thing.
Whoa, the shredders bonk around? I am doing something wrong. That thing sounds amazing, and yet, I am screwing it up.
Feminina:
Oh, never mind, I'm thinking of the special shredder thrower that...someone made for me. I just read "shredder" and assumed I knew what we were talking about, but actually I have no use for shredder gauntlets either. But you may love this other thing, when you get it!
And yeah, shooting helmetless people in the head is gold. "Why is Kevin dead? Oh well, must be nothing..."
Weaker machines, too, you can fry them with a single shot, which is awesome for sneaking. I love that bow.
Butch:
I just love that, even after 1000 years, Kevin hasn't learned that standing shock still over your dead companion who has obviously been shot by a precision weapon is, maybe, not the best idea.
Be you, Kevin. Be you.
Feminina:
"This approach has always worked for us, right until the protagonist shows up. Which hasn't been in a thousand years, so we're sticking with it."
Butch:
Hey....yeah....there hasn't been a protagonist in 1000 years!
See, there's a thing that separates Horizon from all other gaming franchises: In Horizon, Kevin has an excuse.
In other news....
Remember the other day you were pondering where candles went when you burned them?
I just ran the self clean on my oven, and now I am both pondering and fearing the answer to a similar question.
Sure as fuck don't smell like lilacs.
Feminina:
Vaporized. Into tiny, carcinogenic particles, most likely. Best not to think too hard about it.
Butch:
Probably.
Well, better to have an invisible film of stinky carcinogens all over everything I own than a dirty oven, right?
RIGHT?
Sigh.
Feminina:
Right! I guess.
I don't know, man.
I haven't cleaned mine since we moved in.
Butch:
Life would be so much better if we just let things be dirty.
T SHIRT OF THE CENTURY!!!!!!
Feminina:
Rallying cry of 2022!
Butch:
Fuck, 2021 would have been so much better had that been its rallying cry.
Feminina:
Honestly, there isn't a year that couldn't be improved by it. Not since the last filth-based plague, anyway.
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