I think I’ve sent myself on a guilt trip.
The dust has long since started to settle on E3
2016, with no shortage of information to parse through. Granted some things were still a no-show -- a
new Sonic game is on the way, but Sega just teased an announcement of an
announcement of an announcement to screw with everyone’s heads -- but I doubt
anyone will go on a rant about how the industry’s major players kept all their cards close to the chest.
And that’s where my guilt comes in. At last year’s E3, I was intrigued by Horizon: Zero Dawn. Very intrigued; it was new, it was different,
and it looked as if it had plenty to offer for gamers vis a vis robot dinosaur
hunting. I’d assume that’s not all you’ll be doing, but if that’s the
core gameplay, then it seems all right.
Well, that’s what I’d like to say; cut to a year later, however, and I’m
suddenly not so intrigued by it. What
would’ve once made my eyebrows slide up my face now makes me go “Ehhhhhhhhh…”
and “Awwwwwwwwwww…” I don’t understand
what happened, and it’s kind of tearing me up inside. That’s especially true, because -- at least
on a superficial level -- The Legend of
Zelda: Breath of the Wild ticks some of the same boxes, yet my hype is
breaking through the atmosphere.
What the hell’s going on? Well, I intend to find out with this LONG overdue post. Even though I already kind of have
an answer, but let’s pretend we’re going in raw.