I'm starting to agree. I'm 22 hours in now and starting to get to the point where there's some scenes with a LOT of exposition and cutscenes that you MUST watch. Half-hour videos are just not going to cut it any more.

@The_MightyJingles Oh cool, I'm glad you agree. I'm looking forward to seeing everything you find in this game, and what you think of it. I like the way you actually analyse everything and think about things. This game is even better than the first game so it'll be an experience :)

@@The_MightyJingles Can you play = Chernobyl Liquidators?

@@The_MightyJingles I can say for certain that i would be *extatic* to see 45m or even 1 hour long vids of you playing this game

@@The_MightyJingles Wouldn't mind that one bit. This is nearly as good as binge watching The Expanse.

That he did. He is a perfect anti hero. Doing what he thinks is best, even if it hurts others. In his mind, HE is the hero. Flawed though he may be, he is interesting, and interesting is enough.

also, I barely remember the first game... I read the wiki for a refresher

Most women don't handle stuff like that well

I liked Aloy's characterisation in these games. I think she's a very well written character.

@@davidford85 she told him that she wants to go alone

I cannot help but notice that Aloy has retained the 'leap from high place, *then* deploy rappelling line' method of descending that's suggestive of some lingering death-wish.

I remember that exact video lol. It has been quite a while! Probably about time that Jingles do a sequel.

@@VincentNajger1 we can only hope

@@VincentNajger1 "the most fun you can have in a tog with your pants off"?

really, with his commentary i could go on for a whole day.

@@lith0s094indeed!

She has a severe hero complex at the start of this game, thinking that because only she can understand the Old World... and as the clone daughter of Elisabet Sobeck, it's her sole responsibility to save the world. Pretty insane but she didn't grow up under anything near normal conditions

@@errorcrj110 Fair explanation for such a logical fallacy in her mind, true enough.

Fortunately the PC version comes with the DLC.

​@@jeffreygriffith6157 I was looking for the DLC on Steam for so long before I figured it out, I thought I was blind 😅

@@EGRJ , with the character of Sylens as frenemy, there is a whole game just waiting to be made.

@@spellsecurity Well...there might be a slight impediment to the idea.

@@EGRJ , no spoilers. Could make it as a prequel. I mean, Sylens couldn't just happen. A tribal bumfuck one day just decides to evolve into this world's equivalent of a G-man? Nonono. There has to be more to his origin story.

The detail-free version of his backstory is that he was a Banuk, likely a Shaman, who realised the blue light that connected the machines was more than mysticism; that there was logic and reason behind the machines' activity. He must have discovered some device with audio files or something that taught him to read, or at least inspired him to study the data until he could comprehend it. From there he became obsessed with studying Earth and its history and potential. One assumes he was always misanthropic and obsessive before that; and he got more extreme after realising what was hidden from everyone else.

@@spellsecurity The impediment being that Sylens' actor has...moved on. Heart disease.

Vash has/had so many funny lines that he has missed.

Morning Tiger!

Goooood mornin!

I would guess, that if Apollo, the teaching program, had worled correctly, bigger animals could have been introduced into the eco system through trained genetic engineers etc. (Like, maybe there is a genetic bank to draw prototypes from or something). I can't imagine the Gaia program and all subfunctions to not include bigger animals (it was meant to restore earth, right?). So, I guess, more than just the teaching has been sabotaged or hasn't been activated due to certain checkpoints not being reached because of the sabotage. The people that came up with Gaia and subfunctions never wanted an agrarian culture as the one, that has developed. They wanted to teach the new humans their knowledge, their history, their past. Including art, technology, industry, music, ... everything you can think of. I'd kinda hope that by the end of forbidden West, Aloy finds a non-sabotaged copy of all of Gaias functions and thus humanity can relearn it's abilities - if humans want to. I really don't see that happening yet either. But you never know... Game 3 is a war between tribes of who should be trained by "the godess" in lost knowledge to become super humans, capable of curing blights, illnesses etc. (if people aren't later afraid of doctors and operations, for example). There's so much, that can still go wrong, even if Aloy finds a working, non sabotaged copy of Gaia...

@@57thorns , I don't mind paying for quality. When dumpster juice is priced at triple A, now, that is a problem.

*Technically* if you look at the title screen, the game is called Horizon II: Forbidden West

Aloy is a bitch throughout the story 😅

That's why I love jrpgs: Final Fantasy, Xenoblade and many more. You are still the key, the hero but you are never alone. You have your party, your friends and sometimes entire nations or even the entire planet behind your back and everybody is essential for your success. This solo stuff made sense in Zero Dawn because Alloy was an outcast, a weirdo and nobody would believe her. But now she's a hero, people worship her. It makes zero sense for her not to ask for support. What's worse, Varl proves her wrong in the tutorial because his suggestion to go back to the city to gather information causes her to finally make some progress but she refuses to learn and repeats her mistake again (going into unfamiliar completely solo...). If this will go somewhere (she'll fail again and eventually learn), then fine. But if they'll just ditch it and don't show any character development, then it's shitty writing.

For 100% expect it to take 70-80h. 50 or so if you leave the sidequests.

Boeing must've made the shuttle before it blew up.

Sylens isn’t a Clone just a very intelligent, ruthless and driven man searching for knowledge. And immortality is definitely a thing in this world. The first game was set in the Mid West around Colorado and Yosemite National Park. In this game you go West to California near San Francisco and Los Angels

@@maxpower3990 I see, so that DOT was WHERE he sent the data not where its FROM. The Guy just seems to "know too much", certainly way more then anyone else we have met in this world. And yet, as noted he is "neutral", deceptive to be sure, but he is just seeking knowledge and understanding of the world around him. Like, I hope he doesn't turn into an antagonist ever in this series. But man he sure feels like an "asshole" who just WON'T tell you what you want to know less you do something for him first. its just like: My guy, the world is broken and dying, just tell me where the McGuffin is, then we go do History class when the world isn't LITTERALY coming to an end.

I suspect he might pop up later in the story, just when it looks everything is lost.

Grow up. Shes not a bitch shes reluctant to let other people die for her and she is anti social...