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[edersondeaquarian]

October 9

Hindi pako nakakapangalahati sa shift ko pero sinusubok na pasensya ko.

Me praying that my patience remains in all things.

Kalma Self 😌😌😌

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[metalgearkong]

Horizon Zero Dawn - Review (PS4)

4/2/20

Developed by Guerrilla Games, released February 2017

...Yet another big game I was late to the party on. Horizon Zero Dawn got a lot of praise when it came out, but I never got time to play it; Three years later, I can finally see what all the hype was about. Horizon Zero Dawn is a beautiful and detailed open world action-RPG with tons of things to do and see. Its deep combat mechanics, breathtaking environments, crafting, exploring, and character interactions make this one of the best games in the genre. Its enigmatic story was a blast to uncover, and rivals some of the best of the science fiction genre in gaming. Horizon Zero Dawn is is a massive RPG that will satisfy the tastes of those who enjoy epic titles, such as The Witcher 3, Far Cry, or Mass Effect, all the while establishing a brand new IP.

Horizon Zero Dawn couldn’t be a further departure from Guerilla Game’s Killzone series. We play as Aloy (Ashley Burch), a hunter in the forests and mountains raised by her adoptive father Rost (JB Blanc). The story takes place in the deep post post-apocalypse, where the Old Ones have left behind rusted skyscrapers and mysterious underground ruins, forbidden by the Matriarchs to be entered. The game never establishes where physically on Earth the game takes place, but contains biomes from all hemispheres. Life has reverted back to clans and tribes, with no advanced technology or luxuries whatsoever. Each tribe is distinct and has their share of superstitions and philosophies. The world is also populated with machines in the wild that resemble animals, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and behaviors. 

The machine combat is Horizon Zero Dawn’s biggest draw and its most unique aspect. Aloy can use several weapons to help take down these foes, ranging from bows with elemental arrows, to a slingshot that launches bombs, and a weapon that ties down machines with metal cables. The game does a great job of putting you in the mindset of a hunter. Many of the low level machines are easy enough to take out, but often run in packs. The idea is to lure away individuals from their pack and take them out silently (if possible) and whittle down numbers before things get too chaotic. The game gives you tons of tools like tripwires, mines, and other traps to help prepare for fights. I love this beings every encounter starts off in stealth, and if you’re good enough, many of the enemies you face (machines or human bandits) can be taken out quietly.

Machines have plates of armor, and several weakspots to target before they can be killed. Every machine has a different build, and its components are all weak to one element or another. Aloy gets a tool called a Focus, which is one of the only working pieces of tech from the Old Ones. It essentially gives the game Batman: Arkham vision, allowing you to see animals, people, machines highlighted through walls, and see their patrol paths. The Focus also lets you scan machines and learn where their weakspots are, and what element (ice, shock, fire, etc) that component is weak to. It’s fun to study the machines and eventually learn better and better how to take certain ones down. Each machine drops different kinds of loot and eventually you learn which machines to hunt to get which kind of loot.

If I had to give Horizon Zero Dawn one complaint is that there’s actually too many machines, and too many of them behave too aggressively. Virtually all of the machines will be hostile, and encounters can turn into an assault from every angle in seconds. Sometimes during a battle I would get so focused on running, dodging, and shooting, my fight would spill into the site of another animal herd, making them join the fray as well. Too much of the time I would get frustrated being drawn into fights I didn’t even want to start, and battles would get far too frustrating to be enjoyable. I did however always love the fights with just Aloy and one big machine. The t-rex and polar bear machines were my favorites, acting like stand-alone boss fights. If there were 20% less machines in the wild and they behaved 20% more docile, it would have been more realistic and more enjoyable.

Horizon Zero Dawn feels like a lost BioWare game that BioWare never made. I wasn’t expecting such an emphasis on story and characters, nor how much time is spent in dialog. Much like Mass Effect or Knights of the Old Republic, Horizon Zero Dawn lets you chose responses during dialog to find out new information and learn about your quests. The amount of main quests and side quests was truly impressive, usually involving exploration, combat, and several conversations before a climax. Next to The Witcher 3, I think this game has some of my favorite side quests in any game I’ve played. It lead me to completing every single main quest and side quest that had any narrative appeal, and nearly all of them subverted my expectations in some way. 

The environments are visually stunning, and the world has a beautiful day and night cycle. I can’t say how many times I would stop at a vista or a moonlit grove and just breathe in the scenery. From  a Wyoming mesa bathed in orange light from a sunset, to a midnight blizzard atop a snowy mountain, the environments in this game were consistently gorgeous and varied. I also never ran into a character or background NPC that I ever saw copied (aside from city guards and hostiles). The voice acting all around was very good as well. I can’t think of a single weak performance in my entire 55 hour experience with the game. Aloy gets a lot of concentration on her character development, and it begins when we play as her as a child. The developers and actors did a great job making us care for her and identify with her plight. She does get a bit sardonic for my taste late in the story, but its the only chink in the armor of an otherwise excellent RPG protagonist, one who stops at nothing to help anyone she comes across.

Rivaling the best juggernauts in its genre, Horizon Zero Dawn fits in with the best of the industry. From the well crafted quests, to the emphasis on character, to the environments, to the deep combat mechanics, this game is easily one of the best exclusives on the PlayStation 4. Other than the sometimes frustrating machine encounters and battles, I enjoyed myself throughout the experience, plus the Frozen Wilds DLC expansion. I hope Guerilla Games continues this series, as Horizon Zero Dawn has laid the foundation for a fantastic new series. Some room for improvement here and there, but as it stands, this game is definitely an action-RPG fans of the genre need to own and play.

9/10

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[storiesofthesahabah]

I need to address this. Have you ever seen these videos made by our Muslim brothers who imitate the clothing of our women and make a parody of their own mothers, sisters, or the muslim women? Oh you find it funny, right? You laugh so much when you see it because you realize, O this also happens in my life, then you share it on your feed, right? I ask you, how can you find it funny? How can you find a man who wears same clothing as your mother and does what your mother usually do with you, funny? I really understand that it is has light humor in it, but to do an act that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam forbade and Allah Azza Wa Jall has cursed shouldn’t even make you tingle your smiling thought. How is it that nowadays, it is so easy for us to do an act that is well prohibited in our deen? I’m not being extreme, but Islam and it’s teaching is not a subject of fun and joke. We shouldn’t take things lightly when it comes to our deen. When you are a Muslim man and you are dressing and imitating the way a sister clothes herself and you make a parody about it and post it online to your hundreds of thousands of followers, do you even for a minute think about what your video can influence or leave as an impact to your viewers? Yes, maybe for a second you thought it is just to bring some fun and make people smile, but please think again about the long term effect this can give to your viewers, because as far as I am concerned, I’ve seen little boys wearing hijab and doing comedy acts just like how they see it in these videos, this can harm them in a sense that they feel appreciated when they wear such clothes and eventually may make them used to it and practice it eventually - this is a harm that can’t be seen in the first hand but it deliberately grows within these kids.  Brothers who do this, please rethink and think long term of the effects of your videos, if you want to do something to make a person smile, there are other ways for it rather than this parody videos. And this pertains as well to sisters who make a parody of our muslim brothers in their videos.  Let me tell you of this one incident that happened during the time of the Sahabah RA where Nafi’ narrated: “Once Ibn ‘Umar RA and ‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Amr RA were sitting with Al-Zubair Ibn ‘Abdul-Muttalib RA when a woman driving a flock of sheep and shouldering an arrow came to them. ‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Umar RA asked, “Are you man or woman?” She said, “A woman.” Thereupon ‘Abdullah said to his companions,“Surely, Allah curse the women who imitate men and men who imitate women.” I do not wish to make this long, but don’t give me the notion that I’m looking this in a different way and using this hadith to justify my reasoning, because really if you have heard of a thing that Allah has cursed and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam has prohibited, would you come near of doing this thing? Tired of being reminded of your acts when you are a Muslim? Allah says in the Qur’an to remind each other for that benefits each one of us and by Allah everything you do is connected to Islam because you are a chosen person of Allah to be a Muslim. Remember that. Be responsible. Think before you act. You’re a Muslim, what a great honor it is to be one! Realize that.  ______

May Allah help us and guide us when we do things out of worldly desire and remind us that our actions and deeds should be done solely for His Sake. Amin Zohayma ______ Story was taken from Sahih Al Bukhari