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The Plain Oatmeal of Open-Worlds
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/06/2022
When it released as a PlayStation 4 exclusive back in 2017, at the tail-end of that console’s lifespan, “Horizon: Zero Dawn” (“HZD”) represented a re-commitment from Sony to release big-budget, first-party titles on their own hardware that could compete with the biggest and boldest third-party titles that were taking the gaming world by storm. This affirmation of the importance of exclusives was a balm to people who still clung to the concept as a positive, and who had already bought-into Sony’s 8th Generation ecosystem.
For me, though, the fact that “HZD” was a PlayStation 4 exclusive was irritating. It meant that, if I wanted to play this game, I would have to blow several hundred dollars on a DRM-box, which would then proceed to harass me with prompts to take it …
