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Horizon the robot dinosaur game, not Forza Horizon the racing game in case anyone was confused like me.

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[–] lobut 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

Yes, I'm in my 40s ... I think at the time most people wanted an MMO of that RTS game.

I don't see the parallel between that and the lore of the single player story-driven Horizon Zero Dawn but hey, maybe I'm wrong and a Horizon MMO was gonna do gang-busters.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

As someone who played a lot of Warcraft 3 and really enjoyed the campaign before wow was announced, I was not pleased with the MMO announcement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Real question: after WoW had been around for a year or so, were you still unhappy about it? I never played any of the Warcraft games before WoW and had never played any MMOs before Wow, so I had no feeling either way about the announcement. I started playing WoW because two of my close friends and two of my coworkers were playing a bunch, so it was a good way to have more gaming friends than just my one gaming friend. Were most WC3 players unhappy about the announcement? It's clear that millions of people ended up being pretty happy about it in the end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not OP but yeah.

Still am, to a point, because thanks to WoW we never got Warcraft 4.

And arguably chasing the WoW demographic also made DND 4th edition suck balls but that may be just the old grognard in me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, my gaming group talked the same shit about 4e. We went back to 3.5 a bit and a ton of GURPS before the group disbanded.

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