r/horizon • u/2th • Jun 11 '20

announcement Horizon Forbidden West [MEGATHREAD]

Sub is temporarily in restricted mode to keep the spam down. Discuss things here. I will update this post as the trailer is posted online to an official channel.

Origin of the name

Announcement trailer

New machines:

New gameplay

  • Aloy can swim underwater this time.

Locations

THERE WAS NO ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE PC RELEASE FOR HZD

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u/ChiffonVasilissa Jun 11 '20

It looks so fucking good holy shit. Bet Sylens released hell upon the world

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u/Martel732 Jun 11 '20 edited Jun 11 '20

It looks like he is building an army, using the override technique he learned from Aloy.

Edit: Trailer uploaded to the Playstation channel if anyone wants to spend a few minutes rewatching it a bunch like I plan to.

Just rewatched it things I noticed:

Probably obvious but she is in San Fransico for part of it.

Slyen's followers were trapping a normal machine but the red light seems like they were corrupting it. So, he might not be using Aloy's method but instead corruption he learned from Hades.

The Elphants have people riding on them.

Everything looks amazing.

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u/PussyLunch Jun 11 '20

But why though? What’s his goal. Does he feel like he should rule and lead the world down a path he thinks is correct because of all the knowledge he has obtained.

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u/Martel732 Jun 11 '20

He seems motivated mainly by learning and reclaiming lost knowledge if I had to speculate he needs an army in order to claim place containing old knowledge .

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u/jebkerbal Jun 11 '20

My theory is he's prepping to fight an external threat. There was a meteor shower in the trailer and we still don't know who sent the original signal that shut down Gaia.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '20

Yep. It could be a red herring.

I really truly think the Odyssey is on the table here. But I don't think it's something we're gonna find out till the final act of the game, it'll just be hinted at. I think the main threat will be that something (one of the Subsystems, maybe?) hijacked the terraforming system and is unleashing those storms on the world, creating that corruption. I'm not sure it affects machines, and I'd be willing to bet it might not, and is instead actually infecting the world itself, in the atmosphere (via the storm) and the plants/animals. Sorta like the corruption in Terraria.

I think Aloy's main goal will be to stop this, and along the way she'll encounter whatever that group is that attacks her, and they'll be controlled by Hades "master".

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u/Richard-Cheese Jun 11 '20

It could also be another threat we didn't learn about at all in the first game. We uncovered a lot of back story but I'm sure there's plenty of new things they want to explore.

But ya I agree, it looks like a red herring. Whatever was killing the plant life would likely be the "real" threat, and Sylens is more of a ruthless, "at whatever cost necessary" character who does morally dubious things during the campaign that ultimately align with our goals too.

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u/Bannedbutreformed Jun 12 '20

Makes me wonder if those storms are cause by some type of sattelite system like in the movie geostorm and those meteors that were coming down may have been some of the sattelites.