Jay

30 / SoCal-based film and tv producer / this is where I nerd out about video games, fictional detectives and race cars / ask anything

[pnwander]

bad hair day

[thyminee]

No Hawk could ask for a better Thrush

[highest-violet]

Horizon Forbidden West - scenery

[cadillacjohnf1]

unfortunately i do kinda love whatever genre of image this is

[inadvertently-biblical]

Jamie Tartt x Roy Kent in TED LASSO

[convexly]

New York Brunch at Peels by Paris in Four Months on Flickr.

[nevver]

Gummbah (@therealgummbah )

[captvreme]

[itslightsoutandtosleepwego]

[thecorpsethatwalks]

and another thing about aloy horizon. i absolutely love the way forbidden west shows her discomfort around community with its gameplay, even if it wasn't an intended effect. the way the fov shrinks whenever you enter settlements, the much louder ambience and tighter corners, sounds you hear nowhere else in the world, the fact you can't run anywhere too fast without hitting things, the constant chattering. and then the way it all fades behind you the moment you leave, the camera zooming back out, the sigh of relief you experience because of it. all of this was present in zero dawn, but it feels so much more prominent here. the claustrophobia of it all makes you so much more single-minded whenever you're there, in the same way aloy probably is; just get in, get what you need, and get out. back into the wilds, where it's quiet and you can think. even the home base feels tight. you go there to check in on everyone, to make sure all your equipment is up to scratch, and then you leave. from a gameplay perspective you're really only ever there to tick off quest markers, and that disconnect feels very much like how i imagine aloy interpreting it. It's just very cool to have a narrative about learning to be closer to people when all the main character and the player wants to do is be alone in the wilderness.

[animentality]

[rootlessly]

26 may 2025 — central coast, california

[rootlessly]

26 may 2025 — central coast, california

[rootlessly]

26 may 2025 — central coast, california

[novelconcepts]

Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

[forestdenizen]

source

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizon zero dawn (remastered) | the frozen wilds