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Horizon Zero Dawn
I thought this would be right up my alley but I really did not like the protagonist and the fighting and exploring seemed kind of boring.
The Last of Us
This game gets praised all the time but it felt too limited and 'on rails' whilst the gunplay and stealth was not for me.
Horizon is my answer too. I was expecting an open world that felt alive, but instead it was a jam-packed theme park. You don't hunt, you go to the right exhibit and kill everything within it. The entire herd is within a 50 meter radius, go nuts. Go away and come back later and it'll be full again, exactly where it says so on the map, jammed between other points of interest with extensive, contrived looking plarforming challenges connecting it all. It's like a zoo and a vending machine had a baby but we're supposed believe it's a big open natural world. Great concept, garbage execution. I felt like Bobby Hill hunting at La Grunta.
Lol, I enjoyed the game overall but that really is a perfect description of it's biggest problem. It could have been so much more if they had been willing to take a risk and make it a little less game-y.