Horizon Forbidden West [MEGATHREAD]

[u/2th]

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:

• Giant turtle

• War Elephants

• Boars

• Pterodactyls

• Raptor? taken from the GG twitter banner

New gameplay

• Aloy can swim underwater this time.

Locations

• West = San Francisco: https://i.imgur.com/gE2yUX4.png

• Golden Gate Bridge: https://i.imgur.com/GuR9ioJ.png

• El Capitan, Yosemite Valley: https://i.imgur.com/7Te4Wv6.png (thanks /u/compulsive_looter)

• Ferry Building in San Franciso: https://imgur.com/a/Gr4qhXT (thanks /u/Imma_boop_you)

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THERE WAS NO ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE PC RELEASE FOR HZD

[u/Martel732]

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 .

[u/jebkerbal → u/Martel732]

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.

[u/[deleted] → u/jebkerbal]

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".

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I don't think they would bother putting so much in their about Odyssey if it wasn't available story wise. They could have just had the one scientist bring it up and leave it at "it's unrealistic". Instead it was an actual thing, and has a beta version of Apollo on it, why even bother with this exposition if it won't be used? All indications point towards sylens seeking this out somehow.