Oh, rad. I might check this ou—-

No, no they weren’t.

The problem with Nemesis as a villain is that now that the Zeniths are gone so is its motivation for destroying Earth. It already got its revenge. Now what?

Yeah, a lot of the complaints brought up in this article could have been mitigated by just paying attention to what the characters said and did throughout the game.  

Tilda betrayed them because she just didn’t like them anymore

“a whole galaxy, and you’re going back to where you started, because Reasons?“

All I gathered from reading this is “I didn’t understand a lot of what happened”. Most of what you got wrong was explained in the game especially about it being the only planet with an AI capable of doing what they needed. It’s like you skipped over a lot of the story then wonder why some points don’t make sense to…

Just shut the fuck up and play something else if you don't like it, devs can make whatever game they want. 

Oh, I thought it missed the mark in every way. Not only does the key plot point not make logistical sense—a whole galaxy, and you’re going back to where you started, because Reasons?

Neither of you paid much attention to major cut-scenes. You’re confused about plot points directly mentioned. You didn’t do data loss either it seems; not even the audio ones.

Well, plasma or acid arrows.

It’s wild that multiple people in this discussion missed key plot points and subtext that outright contradict many of the criticisms. You’d think at least one person would be like “wait, I thought the squiggly AI thing sent the signal and the zeniths were just here for the Gaia kernel to start over elsewhere,…

I’ve followed kotaku for a decade now and stuff like this makes me wonder if that was a good decision. This article is awful and has so many issues for far too many reasons to list succinctly and you should feel bad and embarrassed.

Ari, if a 1,000-year old roided-out Elizabeth Holmes in a transformer asked you to follow her across the galaxy to reboot life on an alien planet, how would you respond?

If you somehow missed Beta literally spelling it out that no, the Zenith did NOT send the signal, then I’m hesitant to really take any opinion in this article seriously.

Really don’t get the criticisms of the story of Forbidden West here as though somehow it’s a sudden leap from Zero Dawn when almost all of it is set up in Zero Dawn (what happened to the Odyssey, what was the signal that turned GAIA into rogue AIs, what is Sylens trying to obtain from HADES), or the idea somehow this…

Thank you for saying it because I was coming here to post exactly this. Like, yeah, the game goes buckwild - but a lot of the things that had confusion expressed about them in this chat were just like . . answered directly by the game. And not buried in lore and journal entries either - like outright stated in major…

Nemesis sent the signal that caused gaia to fail and wake up hades, not the zeniths. Zeniths stopped at earth as a pit stop to get a copy of gaia so they could terraform a new planet. Tilda betrayed them because she just didn't like them anymore, but agreed with the original plan.

So why is there so much focus on disarming law abiding Americans? Why the desire to take away long rifles despite the FBI saying rifles and shotguns combined are used in only 6% of crimes?

Umm....”Police recovered spent rifle rounds near Byrd’s body at the crime scene.”