Horizon GAIA Cast – Episode 2: Events of the 21st Century
Official PlayStation Podcast
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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Anne and Chantéare joined by narrative director Ben McCaw as they dive into the historic events of the 21st Century.
Highlights include their discussion into Faro Automated Solutions creating environmentally friendly robots through the Claw-Back decade; Elisabet’s career goals before she began to work on Project Zero Dawn; Ted Faro’s life and motivations; and what the world was like before the Faro Plague robots finished their extermination of all organic life.
Ben McCaw is the narrative director on Horizon Forbidden West, and was lead writer on Horizon Zero Dawn and The Frozen Wilds.
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Stay tuned for our next episode, where we’ll be diving into Project Zero Dawn, an effort to give the world another chance, years after extinction.
ESRB Rating: Teen with Blood, Drug Reference, Language, Mild Sexual Themes and Violence.
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| 0:00.0 | rated T for team. Hello and welcome to Gaya Cast, a spoiler-filled deep dive podcast into the world of Horizon from the team here at Gorilla. |
| 0:19.0 | We're looking forward to diving into the law, hearing some behind the scenes anecdotes, and maybe even |
| 0:24.2 | learning some new things. |
| 0:26.0 | Our first series of episodes will be focusing on Horizon Zero Dawn, the first installment of The Horizon |
| 0:30.8 | series which we launched in 2017. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Chante and I'm joined by my co-host Anna. |
| 0:36.0 | How are you feeling about today's episode, Anna? |
| 0:38.0 | I'm really looking forward to it. |
| 0:40.0 | And today we're also joined by Ben, who you may have seen in our previous episode. |
| 0:43.8 | Please introduce yourself in case they didn't listen to the first one. |
| 0:46.9 | Yeah Ben Maccah, narrative director here at Gorilla and I was the lead writer on Horizon Zero Dawn. This episode, we're exploring the catastrophic events of the 21st century, which the planet is still |
| 0:59.7 | recovering from over a millennia later. |
| 1:02.4 | How did one tumultuous century full of greed and |
| 1:04.7 | desperation both doom the globe and also give them another chance? I already feel |
| 1:09.4 | we're going to go deep into the law hole today and I'm looking forward to it so let's get started. |
| 1:15.0 | Great. |
| 1:16.0 | So when it came to writing such a deep and rich backstory for Horizon Zero Dawn, how did the team |
| 1:26.7 | approach creating it? |
| 1:28.7 | Well, I mean, for one thing we really wanted to do something different. |
| 1:32.1 | One thing we did not want to do was sort of have the Terminator version of the 21st century. This is the sort of completely skull encrusted robotic wasteland that we've seen in a lot of different post-apocalyptic |
| 1:45.4 | movies and TV shows and books. We want to do something different. But more importantly |
| 1:50.1 | it had to explain how the world of Horizon came to be, the world that you're going to see in the game. |
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