Please, I'm begging you, just copy/paste (A Horizon Zero Dawn post)
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If rumors are to be believed, Sony is developing a Horizon Zero Dawn show for Netflix. If you’re not familiar with the property, it’s a video game about a lone female warrior named Aloy living in a post-apocalyptic future Earth who slowly discovers the truth about what happened to humanity. I freely admit to being biased about it, but I think the story of Zero Dawn is one of the best science fiction tales I’ve encountered in a very long time. It’s familiar in ways that prevent the need for too much onboarding of lore: It’s not a huge stretch to imagine how humans might develop after centuries without functioning technology. But Zero Dawn is also wildly creative, which keeps it from feeling tropey. I mean, yes, humanity is living in the ruins of old cities, but it’s also dealing with zoomorphic robots. That creature in the image above is a Tallneck, a robot somewhere between a giraffe and a…I dunno, an allosaur, maybe? Zero Dawn has robots modeled after hippos, alligators, gazelles — even a T. rex. And believe it or not, it even comes up with a reason for the robot fauna to exist that actually makes sense.
Please, I'm begging you, just copy/paste (A Horizon Zero Dawn post)
Please, I'm begging you, just copy/paste (A…
Please, I'm begging you, just copy/paste (A Horizon Zero Dawn post)
If rumors are to be believed, Sony is developing a Horizon Zero Dawn show for Netflix. If you’re not familiar with the property, it’s a video game about a lone female warrior named Aloy living in a post-apocalyptic future Earth who slowly discovers the truth about what happened to humanity. I freely admit to being biased about it, but I think the story of Zero Dawn is one of the best science fiction tales I’ve encountered in a very long time. It’s familiar in ways that prevent the need for too much onboarding of lore: It’s not a huge stretch to imagine how humans might develop after centuries without functioning technology. But Zero Dawn is also wildly creative, which keeps it from feeling tropey. I mean, yes, humanity is living in the ruins of old cities, but it’s also dealing with zoomorphic robots. That creature in the image above is a Tallneck, a robot somewhere between a giraffe and a…I dunno, an allosaur, maybe? Zero Dawn has robots modeled after hippos, alligators, gazelles — even a T. rex. And believe it or not, it even comes up with a reason for the robot fauna to exist that actually makes sense.