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KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

#142 | Horizon: Zero Dawn

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Society & Culture, History

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

It's not easy for a development studio to pivot from one group of projects to something radically different, but Sony-owned Guerrilla Games did just that when it released its open world action-RPG Horizon: Zero Dawn in early 2017. Horizon was unlike anything Guerrilla had ever done: Rather than an FPS like Killzone, Horizon is a wide-open, non-linear, character-driven affair, an interesting mixture of American Indian imagery, sci-fi tropes, and action-oriented gameplay that makes Zero Dawn among PS4's very best games. So let's chat about it, fellow Old Ones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.4

Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to knockback. My name is

0:14.6

Colin Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my brother Dagen of the Nora tribe

0:18.5

Moriarty Dagen. Thank you for joining me today. How are you?

0:23.0

If I had to choose a tribe, it might be the Nora. Now if I had to choose a machine, I was going to say I'm the machine of

0:29.9

podcasting, I think I'd be the lady killing machine.

0:34.0

Yeah, oh.

0:35.0

Not literally now.

0:37.0

I didn't know what...

0:38.0

It's interesting that Giah would conceive of such a robot.

0:41.0

I wonder what its purpose would be in the reconstruction of

0:45.9

of the Earth and its biosphere. I don't know that that's necessarily needed.

0:51.7

Love! In that whole array array kind of fits in right like the

0:55.6

Cupid so one of the one a guy is little sub i ayes there was no love one, so I could, I could fill in that role.

1:06.0

Presumably that would have been in Apollo.

1:08.3

I mean, we'll talk about all of that.

1:10.0

That might have been something that they would have been taught in Apollo that was then true that's true deleted by Ted Pharaoh but we'll save all of that for the

1:17.5

We've never gotten into a topic so quickly but welcome one welcome all to our

1:25.6

nostalgia and retro podcast knockback. We do it each and every week.

1:27.2

My brother and I, you can support it.

1:29.2

On Patreon, Patreon.

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