Non Gamer Watches #70 More Horizon Zero Dawn

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[@leahsdreams]

"We didn't do it guys!"....who's gonna tell her? lol

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

Damnit!

[@Marqui91]

@@HannaHsOverInvested yeahhh, just remember, blame Ted

[@Zealot2GameParkCZ]

@@HannaHsOverInvested yeah, who else could destroy the planet than humans :D

[@trailerxxify]

She needs to play it @HannaH’s Over Invested would be invested😏

[@pedr0pabl014]

Speaking of humans destroying the planet, the fallout series should be on that list especially the fallout 4 intro

[@spectreharlequin]

This the best scifi story I have ever seen in a game. It would have made a great book or even TV series, and is probably too big to be contained in a movie. When you finally get far enough into the game to start to understand the story, it's actually mindblowing. One of the best games I've played in recent years.

[@hernandarioherrera1698]

Agree 100%.

[@LordFinai]

Halo

[@RoxxSerm]

Yup. The exact questions she already asked "Who built them? And why?" are having very cool and interesting answers later on in the game. I fully agree that horizon zero dawn would make for a great series. Or trilogy or more movies once the games are done. Also, Aloy is the coolest female main character ever imho. Not feeling forced or "over-badassed" in any way. Just a very authentic, strong and smart young woman.

[@zacatkinson3926]

you must be young

[@Eleglas]

Since you're unlikely the play the game to find out, let me tell you the reason for the robots. I'm sorry this is really long but it's a huge story that takes at least 20 hours to complete in the game. There's a TL;DR at the bottom. Spoilers for the main story for everyone else. The game begins with Aloy as a baby raised by Rost (the man with the beard in the first trailer), but according to the Nora (her tribe) she was born without a mother. The Nora are extremely religious around the concept of mothers, believing the mountain they live in the shadow of to be the mother of all life - for someone to be born without a mother would be incredibly blasphemous to the Nora, and so she is outcast from the tribe as soon as she is born and raised by another outcast, Rost. She is also very interested in the "metal world", the ruins of our modern (if a bit more advanced) society. She finds a small device that shows her things, holograms of the past and voice recordings of people long dead. Spending pretty much her entire childhood angry about being outcast for a reason that Rost will not fully explain to her (even as an outcast, he keeps to the ways of the Nora), Aloy trains her whole life to enter the 'Proving', a challenge for young adults to prove their skills as hunters and warriors. If she wins the proving, she will be allowed into the tribe but more importantly she will be able to ask the Matriarchs (the tribe leaders) for an explaination. Aloy enters the proving and just as she is about to win the competition, she and the other competitors are attacked by strange people who have devices similar to hers; they seemed to be specifically targeting her. Rost who was following the group arrives and rescues her, sacrificing himself to push her to safety. She decides to follow the strange people and find out why they were targetting her. She eventually discovers a "demon" that these people worship called Hades, it was Hades that ordered them to find and kill Aloy. She gets help from a strange man called Silus who tells her that some answers she seeks can be found atop a ruined tower, here she learns of what happened to the people of the past - a swarm of self-building military robots broke free of human control and began exterminating all life on the planet (they were built to use organic material as fuel in emergencies), but clearly all life did not end, somehow. She even finds one of these killer robots, very unlike the ones seen in the trailers which resemble animals, these ones are more like tanks and purely weapons of war with machine guns and rockets. Aloy learns that that Hades is trying to reactivate these robots, the ones that once threatened all life. She also learns of something called "Operation Enduring Victory" and "Project Zero Dawn", the latter was headed by a scientist called 'Elizabet Sobek' - who looks remarkably like Aloy. Led to an ancient military bunker, she finds recordings that tell of "Operation Enduring Victory", a military response to the robots by humans to try and push back their advance and provide time for the mysterious (even to the soldiers) Zero Dawn project to be completed. But eventually Aloy learns the truth, Operation Enduring Victory is throwing everyone, civilian, man, woman, and child at the robot swarm to try and slow it down, but they cannot defeat it. There is no way to stop the robots, they will continue to build more and more and consume all organic matter on the Earth until they run out of it, run out of fuel - it would take the fastest computers about 50 years to crack their codes and shut them down, but life on Earth has only 15 months at best. All this is to give Zero Dawn the time to be completed. Then Aloy discovers Zero Dawn and it is... not great. Zero Dawn is a project designed to give the Earth another chance, a series of Artificial Intelligences are made to literally rebuild the Earth and crack those codes to shut down the robots. Using cloning and genetic engineering Zero Dawn will repopulate the Earth with organic matter, first plants then animals and then finally humans. Multiple AI are built to do all this in various roles, all controlled by a much more intelligent and sentient AI called Gaia. Gaia creates the robot animals for specific tasks, such as to breakup radiactive materials, plant organic matter, etc. Zero Dawn worked after all life on earth was devoured by the robots, Gaia brought it all back over centuries; eventually creating new humans as well which left the facilities they were raised in (one of which is in the mountain of the Nora tribe). But sabotage by potentially the last human on earth had caused all of the collective knowledge of humanity (that was meant to be taught to the new humans) to be destroyed, making humanity start from scratch (hence the bows/spears, etc). Other than this sabotage, Zero Dawn was going well until some sort of virus affected Gaia and she lost control of the other AIs - one of which was Hades, an AI built as a backup to destroy all life in case Gaia made mistakes and had to start again. In order to stop Hades from escaping and starting the process to end life again, Gaia destroyed herself and most of the facilities of Zero Dawn. Hades still escaped but without the technology to end life quickly... until it found the robots long buried in the ground. Gaia's last act was to create a clone of her creator, Elizabet Sobek in order to rebuild Gaia and stop Hades - the clone is Aloy. When she was born she was deposited outside of the Nora mountain entrance and found by the Nora matriarchs, some thought she was a blessing but most thought she was a curse and spurned her to become an outcast. Hades recognised Aloy (through those devices) as Sobek and recognised her as a threat, so ordered her death. Eventually Aloy is able to stop Hades from taking control and reactivating all the killer-robots in a final showdown/boss fight. And that ends the game. TL;DR: All life on Earth to be eaten by killer-robots, humans build AI to re-create all life on earth after; the animal robots are a part of that process.

[@JayStorm199]

Gaia's Subordinate functions are not AIs they were just ''functions'' (basically tools or apps if you will) until the Virus made them alive turning them into Malevolent AIs, but aside from that really good work explaining

[@byakurenhoujuu]

I think you confused sentience with sapience in your comment. o: Sentience = Being able to perceive and react to stimuli, Sapience = Self-Awareness

[@pedr0pabl014]

E3 is a trade event for the video game industry basically where a bunch of companies go to show off their new games, ideas, and tech.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

Ohhhhhh interesting!

[@Nathan-sf3ub]

@@HannaHsOverInvested E3 = Electronic Entertainment Expo

[@megavideopowermegavideopow8657]

@@HannaHsOverInvested Gamers look forward to this event because all the new games coming to XBOX,Sony PS5 and Nintendo consoles get revealed for the first time usually with game trailers like this🕹

[@EricJW]

OoOoOoO... I come from the distant future, 2023, to correct your comment. E3 *WAS* a trade event for the video game industry.

[@JennFaeAge]

Your response to it not being humanity's fault is funny, adorable and slightly depressing all at the same time XD

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Heseroth]

I think what got me the most out of the story were 3 words: "Endangered Dolphin Blender"

[@Jacobstx]

@@Heseroth "big pink swirling milkshake of dolphin chum"

[@zhenyucai8688]

It's true though, Human ego is so high that they think that they will be the ones to destroy the planet lmao. This Earth has been here long before us and will be here long after us.

[@ajaynorris3526]

I dont remember much from the story, but I remember these areas in the game called "cauldrons"(basically a dungeon). When you go into them you can see like conveyor belts moving parts and stuff, creating basically an endless amount of those robots.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@The_Flamekeepers]

all the questions you were asking during the trailer are the exact questions they want you to figure out while playing. Those are the spoilers for new players

[@merion297]

Girl, you MUST watch a whole walkthrough of this game. The story, the world, the characters are incredible. It's a must-have experience, like a great, must-see movie. All the answers for your questions are answered in the game, and they're mind-blown.

[@bjornseine2342]

Why are the robots? Well, you'll have to play/watch the game to find out :) That's the main mystery of the story.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

hahaha ohhhhkay.

[@darylobey8867]

I thought it was some primitive tribal typw game then boom those robots were somehting differnt and killing a storm bird was a challenge all on its own but i took down 1 of every type and that wasent easy

[@m_h_1988]

I love Horizon: Zero Dawn. The plot is one of the best I've played in a video game.

[@Danileith123]

"We didn't do it!" Oh, sweet summer child

[@Roymusoke]

I wheezed😭😭😂😂😂

[@ferdinomartinez]

The lore is rich enough to fill more than a novel's worth of reading, plus I bet someone uploaded a "movie" version of it on youtube using just cutscenes and key interactions in the gameplay. The overarcing plot resolves with a bang, but alloy's personal arc resolves with a quiet, intimate scene that was worth all the trouble to experience. I really hope more people get to see it, especially with the things going on in the world right now 🙂

[@sielvast]

Gamer's Little Playground is who you are looking for. Games edited into movies, and they often receive advance copies from publishers to get their videos up the day the game is released.

[@akira-hr4tv]

Lol "we didn't do it guys" I would love to see her watch the cutscenes of horizon cuz we totally did it.

[@Okami_Hael]

We could explain what happens in the game, but it’s honestly incredibly well told and just saying it doesn’t portray the story. I’d say at least watch the cutscenes first

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

noted. thanks!

[@dbastos]

Ahm... spoiler alert: we keep killing Earth after 1000 years in this game. I'm so sorry.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

bummer.

[@Maxine07]

Btw you always say that you will never play videogames but i'm like 100% certain you will give up at certain point and just go on bingeplaying all videogames trailers of which you watched and loved most 😁

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

hahahaha you may be right. Just not yet.

[@stealthhunter6998]

This is one of those absolutely beautifully graphically designed games, yes it does look that in the game and it is one of the prettiest games there is even in art direction so much detail that relates to the lore of the world too everythings so well thought out.

[@cphill2012]

The game reminds me very much of a series called the pelbar cycle by paul o Williams. It's also set about a thousand years after an apocalypse, in this case a nuclear one. But the characters get glimpses of the old world and it's so interesting to see what their interpretation of our culture is like. The part in frozen wild where you explore the dam is a great example.

[@marth354]

Rather than getting stories about the game from people this is one of the games I most highly recommend you watch a story playthrough of. The story for the first game is quite interesting.

[@mr_biggsmoke4202]

Those machines can be tamed to a small extent only but aren't all dangerous

[@Zagrash]

The best single player story game I have ever played. Both story and gameplay are incredible. Played it two times in a row. This is a masterpiece.

[@frez8141]

a lot of mistakes and shortcomings. Feels like this is their first project in the open world and rpg

[@Moricant]

Horizon: Zero Dawn is an excellent game with a superb performance from Ashly Burch as Aloy. I’m very much looking forward to playing Forbidden West. There will probably be synopses and explanations of the story out there if you are interested.

[@HexJK]

The games setting (Extreme spoilers, do not read if you plan on playing): TLDR at bottom What ended civilization: A tech company created "peacekeeper" machines with the intent to end all war/conflict between societies. These machines were capable of self repair, self replication, and they consumed biomass for fuel. The machines glitched and became self-aware, so they began replicating and consuming everything on the planet. Humans were unable to shut the machines down with the time they had, so they made the very radical decision of developing an endgame plan for the sake of humanity's and Earth's survival. The endgame plan was Project Zero Dawn, a massive global network of underground bunkers and automated manufacturing and cloning facilities dedicated to terraforming and restoring the inevitably ruined Earth into an ecosystem once again capable of sustaining life. They predicted the machines would completely destroy all life on Earth within 5 months, so that's how long they had to develop the project. Once the project was completed, it was entirely up to Zero Dawn to carry out its tasks many years later and bring life back to earth. Zero Dawn at this point was completely autonomous, and slowly deactivated the "peacekeeper" machines known as the "Faro Plague", and brought life back to earth. Zero Dawn's core AI was "Gaia" (goddess of earth), and it had 9 subordinate AIs. These subordinate AIs were Aether, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, Eleuthia, Hades, Hephaestus, Minerva, and Poseidon. The purpose of every subordinate AI: Aether - Detoxification of Earth’s atmosphere. Apollo - Archival of human history and culture. Education of new generations of humans created in Zero Dawn Cradle facilities. Artemis - Reintroduction of Earth’s faunal species from preserved genetic stocks. Demeter - Reintroduction of Earth’s floral species from preserved genetic stocks. Eleuthia - Reintroduction of the human species via cloning and raising of humans from genetic stocks at Cradle facilities. Hephaestus - Manufacture of Zero Dawn terraforming machines at Cauldrons. Minerva - Brute-forcing of Faro Plague deactivation codes. Construction of transmission towers to broadcast Plague shutdown codes. Poseidon - Detoxification of Earth’s water. Hades - Reversal of unsuccessful terraforming attempts vis-à-vis the suitability of created biospheres for sustaining life. Why the Zero Dawn robots are attacking humans: Robots part of the Zero Dawn project began attacking humans, because humans were hunting them and interrupting their initiative of restoring the earth. Humans of this era are unaware of Zero Dawn, and just think these robots are natural prey/predators. Some other robots are still corrupted by the glitch that first caused the extinction of life, thanks to a couple curious humans that reactivated them. A tribe of humans discovered the "Hades" AI and throughout the game they try activating it's protocol to completely reverse Zero Dawns progress. This protocol exists in case one of the subordinate AIs screw up somehow, or new unpredicted variables create complications. Hades isn't evil or corrupted, it's just perceived that way throughout the narrative because we don't have context of Zero Dawn. TLDR: Humans made robots to end war, they mess up and destroy world. Humans make AI to rebirth world after they're extinct. Hundreds of years later, after humans were reintroduced to the world, they lived among the Zero Dawn robots that are fixing the world. Some humans found part of the AI that destroys things, and they try activating it because they think it is a god.

[@firestorm1088]

Forbidden West is the upcoming sequel. Also, a big part of the game is following Aloy as she pieces together what happened to the old ones, but if you want to know SPOILER WARNING Megacorporation built war robots that can absorb organic material as emergency fuel. War robots got out of control and begin eating all organic material and multiplying. Human realize they can't win so brilliant scientist Elisabet Sobek created an AI named Gaia who could spend the decades it would take to decode the war robot's shutdown codes and then rebuild life on earth after humanity was gone. Now Gaia is gone and her automated terraforming system is breaking down. Aloy is a clone of Sobek that Gaia created just before her destruction to save the world.

[@TheNeonParadox]

Your same questions were those I waited about 100 hours of gameplay to have fully answered for me. They did an amazing job crafting that narrative among with many other stories.

[@gateauxq4604]

I played a hundred+ hours as well but to be fair I was all about discovering every damn thing I could and Im still considering doing new game+ which I NEVER do. I think the main story can be completed in 20-30 hours of gameplay.

[@jeremymelendez8406]

The story simplified Been awhile since I played but off the top of my head I’m pretty sure we created an AI built for war. It went haywire and decided to destroy all life. In a last ditch effort the last surviving humans created another AI build to create life instead of destroy. The plan was after the Evil AI finished destroying the planet, the Good AI would awaken and create these robots that mimic the function of earths creatures to restore the ecosystem. In the first game the Evil AI begins to wake back up and Aloy (the protagonist) is tasked with stopping it from repeating the destruction of the planet. I think that’s how it goes. ✌🏽

[@malkavian2]

for Horizon 2 the red weed makes me think of war of the worlds

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

I get that

[@victormurphy7956]

You should look up a video that summarizes the story of horizon zero dawn. It's super interesting. It will get you more familiar to what you are watching and it will answer all your questions.

[@nobodyatall2551]

"unless we created the thing that did?" Yeh and now shits going south again because we couldn't see obvious problems with our "solution".

[@circusmonkey28]

"It wasn't us." Oh boy... If you don't want to play the game, i am hoping you would watch someone play the game to see the important story parts so that you can see the truth for yourself.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

haha okay.

[@circusmonkey28]

@@HannaHsOverInvested I hope my comments didn't sound like I was trying to be condescending. That was not my intent. My whole reason for trying to convince you to explore it more is because you are asking all of the right questions. The only way to get the answers is to play it, or ride along with someone.

[@alexhamel7336]

You should watch the trailers for A Plague Tale. One of my favorite story-centric games!

[@gumballegal]

dude the game has a "story mode", so even if you wanted to skip the gameplay, ya can just focus on the story

[@Danileith123]

If you aren't going to play this game, and since you don't play games that's a given, you owe it to yourself to track down the cut scenes and video exposition and watch them in order. There's more flavor to the game when you play it but it will answer many of your questions. It's also a very good story.

[@Benri05]

The storytelling in this game is phenomenal.

[@morgezorge6387]

Yep we are the old ones, we fucked up and reset the world. The game is awesome, but what elevates it truly is the story and narration, which is a really unique tale of we fucked up :) Yeah the game looks like that, at least on high end PCs, but it looks really good on console too. It's just a well optimized, excellently written game, that was a joy to play.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

This pretty cool, and yea us messing up the world sounds on brand.

[@gateauxq4604]

I have a much larger TV and am sooo excited to play Forbidden West on it AAHH

[@leonardocastro410]

Alloy's story is a great one, a interesting twist that if you are looking hard into the game lore, you will get floored by. I recommend the Trailers for Final Fantasy 14 series. They are all Cinematic masterpieces in Fantasy Genre. For you I recommend FF14 Truth of Flames.

[@andrewdemilton]

Can you watch "Apex Legends - The stories from Outlands" ?

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

Apex is on my to watch list!

[@andrewdemilton]

Thank you , i am big fun of you ;)

[@Maxine07]

Actually Forbidden West is a sequel to Zero Dawn))

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

Oh! thanks!!

[@scirrhia_kruden]

Both those trailers were fully in-game footage, no visual trickery (as far as we know, given the second trailer is for a game that isn't out yet).

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

I feel like I will never not be surprised by that.

[@DontGiveUp_Skeleton]

It's about 50/50, but you need a good eye to tell the difference. Games looking like CG movies is something that's jumped on us suddenly.

[@GummiAnd]

Horizon: Forbidden West is the sequal to the first game Horizon: Zero Dawn. It hasn't been released yet, but I can't wait because the first game was nothing short of amazing!

[@Yggdrasel]

so.... basically we did fuck up the earth.... those machines were built by us xD

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

bummer.

[@karazhas2876]

This is one of my favorites storylines, and they did a great job on keeping you interested in the story that a lot of current games are failing at nowadays. You keep on asking, "what happen? How did the world get this way?" The story is very much worth while, if not play the game, at least watch the "movie" of it. Movie as in finding a video with all the cutscenes. I can't wait for Forbidden West to be released.

[@ladychrya9379]

The trailer uses the more cinematic moments, but the game does look like this when you play

[@carbonfibercarpet4655]

I feel like you may enjoy the Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice trailers. The game is very cinematic

[@sebastian114]

uhm the game is... complicated the storyline in it is well, heavily focused on finding our past in the first game, I cant say for the second game as its not out yet. But the first game is very deep and the stroryline is quite amazing, id tell you about it but do not want to spoil others from playing the game. It is one of the best games I played and I have enjoyed many.

[@faolon9343]

I wasn't a big fan of Horizon's gameplay. It required way too much focus from me. Each enemy is dealt with differently, and you need to constantly be aware of your surroundings while fighting. It was just too much for me, maybe if I were younger... The story was really good, though, and caused me to force myself to power through the game as fast as I could so I could experience the story. You start the game with all of the questions you currently have and as you progress you get all the answers. You learn what destroyed the planet, why there are nothing but machine animals, and you learn their purpose. Edit: I should clarify that it was the combat vs the robots that was overwhelming. I absolutely loved the exploration.

[@kevinworytko1099]

I HIGHLY recommend checking out Halo's "We are ODST" trailer. BTW it stands for Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.

[@darkmyro]

If you don't mind spoilers and I repeat *spoilers* : the story of horizon zero dawn is that it's the far future. Some time in the 2060s or so we created AI controlled robots that could essentially create their own weapons using nanobots cause money, well the AI eventually went rogue and killed humanity. Before all that the best and brightest essentially created an ark full of human and animal DNA to recreate the world after the gray goo essentially destroyed everything. Though what was supposed to happen was that a part of the new AI created to save the world had a part that went haywire and it wants to kill all the humans. As alloy you uncover all this as your a clone of the woman who set the world saving ark thing in motion. So what zero dawn is is basically the world resetting back to zero, the robots were supposed to help in that process, but again rogue AI mucking it up. People being stupid think the AI is a God so the bad guys come and destroy your village cause the AI tells them to basically. That's what gets the game started.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

How many terminator movies do we have to make before we realize we should not be MAKING THE MACHINES SMARTER!

[@darkmyro]

@@HannaHsOverInvested yeah it's basically a terminator apocalypse mixed with a gray goo apocalypse in the game, you do find a good AI in the games DLC. The worst part about it is the guy who started the apoclypse(again cause he wanted to be rich off fat military contracts) gets in over his head with the AI and then just unilaterally decides knowledge corrupted humanity so he deletes files that are supposed to teach the first humans created after the apocolypse about their history and science and etc. Like the man just makes all the wrong decisions out of greed and a misguided sense that he's helping. Essentially dooming most people back to the stone age.

[@richieroberts16]

Since you are unlikely to play it. Why don't you watch a no commentary playthrough, so you can experience the story for yourself. As a writer, you should definitely check out some of the amazing writing that goes on in video games now. Many movies wish they could have writing this good. The Last of Us, Mass Effect, and Horizon Zero Dawn all have amazing stories.

[@rotikaeju9303]

The first horizon...it was us destroyed the world...lol

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

bummer.

[@BamBam17140]

7:05 'just u!' Hannah... The amount of death and destruction Aloy caused in the first game... I'd rather say, just 20 ppl and 2 robot mammoths are an easy Morning workout! Piece of cake XD

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

haha got it.

[@TA3DArtist]

Yup we created the thing that destroyed the planet. The sequel (which is the second trailer you watched) is taken from in engine footage, so the game will be pretty close to that. The first trailer had sections that were gameplay and sections that were pre-rendered. The sequel to the game hasn’t released yet.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

Bummer. I was so happy that maybe it wasn't us.

[@TA3DArtist]

@@HannaHsOverInvested it’s always us. Lol

[@CChissel]

HZD is really fun, been playing it a lot lately. Good story, good gameplay, all around solid game.

[@Exvaris]

Just now stumbling across your channel. I highly, highly recommend watching maybe some cinematic, non-commentary story playthroughs of Horizon Zero Dawn or some compilations of the cinematics in the game! It's full of rich lore and is honestly one of the best stories I've seen in a game in a long time.

[@monkeyddragon9024]

Spoiler for all that want to play the game. . . . . . . . . . . We did destroy the world explained in game one. 😂

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

hahahahahah well shit.

[@monkeyddragon9024]

@@HannaHsOverInvested true 😁

[@GirlofCulture]

HORIZON ZERO DAWN - Project: Zero Dawn Explained / Machines Origin... could answer your questions sweetie.

[@yacchaga]

If you don't plan to play the game, watch Dr. Sobeck's presentation of Project Zero Dawn.

[@JediRaul6]

Hi, nice videos - Wanted to suggest Life is Strange 1. It's similar to Detroit: Become Human ⚜️ I hope one day you'll find a good game that will make you want to play

[@davidbetancourt4028]

Horizon Zero Dawn was the first real console game I played in maybe over 20 yrs back in 2017. At the end (2 wks), it just felt like I "played" a movie. I really loved the story. Just like I'd want another book like "The Martian", I'd want another game like Horizon Zero Dawn. Just a super unique experience. I don't expect you to play (Hanna), but if you ever do, this is the game.

[@OOFUS4103]

you should watch a TF2 short movie called "Let and Live Spy" it's fanmade but it's REALLY GOOD

[@MisterSunshine17]

Spoilers for Game!!!!! . . . . . . The Faro Plague, also referred to as the Faro Swarm, was the name given to the rogue swarm of Chariot war machines that caused the extinction of all life on Earth in Horizon Zero Dawn in the mid 21st century. The Chariot line of peacekeeping robots was developed in the late 21st Century by Faro Automated Solutions under the direct oversight of the corporation's founder, owner and chairman, Ted Faro. Geared at the military market, the Chariot line utilized a concept of robots acting as a swarm, similar to an insect swarm. The robots were designed with formidable capabilities, such as the ability to exponentially replicate, consume biomass as fuel, and instantly hack and take control of any enemy automated military equipment such as drones. As per Ted Faro's instructions, the robots were secured from being hacked themselves using an extremely difficult encryption protocol that would take several decades to brute-force, even using the most advanced super-computers, and no back door access was built into the robots' OS, making remote access impossible. In Quarter 4 of 2064, one particular Chariot swarm, owned by a corporation called the Hartz-Timor Energy Combine, began exhibiting very troubling behavior: they stopped responding to commands. In response to this "glitch," Ted Faro instructed his programmers to use remote access to shut the swarm down, only to be reminded of his strict instruction not to include any such access in the OS. Thus, shutting the swarm down remotely was out of the question. Worried, he contacted former FAS employee and renowned robotics engineer Dr. Elisabet Sobeck and asked her to come to FAS Headquarters to solve the problem. Dr. Sobeck studied the "glitch" and was horrified at what she found. In a tense meeting with Faro, she informed him that the swarm was not merely unresponsive to commands, but it had become a completely independent entity, answering only to itself. This, coupled with the robots' abilities to exponentially replicate and consume biomatter as fuel, meant that the swarm would quickly grow to numbers beyond any hope of containment. Unfettered and uncontainable, the swarm would overrun the planet, consuming all organic matter, until it had consumed the entire biosphere. All life would be exterminated and the planet would be left sterile. The swarm thus came to be known as the Faro Plague, out of contempt for Faro's recklessness in creating the robots. Its complete consumption of the biosphere was projected by Dr. Sobeck to occur within 15 months. Realizing that all of human civilization, and indeed, all life on the planet, was doomed, Sobeck devised a plan: instead of wasting resources on futile attempts to stop the swarm, she would build an automated terraforming system, completely independent of the need for human input, which could be designed to eventually brute-force the codes needed to shut the rogue swarm down. The AI would subsequently reseed the Earth with new life after life as it was known had been exterminated. The project was called Zero Dawn. At its center was an AI designated GAIA, assisted by a number of subfunctions, each responsible for a different aspect of the terraforming process, such as detoxification of soil, air and water. Faro, faced with being exposed to the world as the sole party responsible for the coming global death and destruction, was coerced into approving and funding the project in its entirety. As predicted by Dr. Sobek, the Faro Plague overran the planet and obliterated all life, leaving the Earth dead and sterile. The robots consumed all organic matter, exterminating all living organisms, including humans. This happened directly via their consumption of biomatter, and indirectly via consumption of all plant life, which reduced oxygen levels to zero, rendering the atmosphere unbreathable. All land, water, and air became toxic, rendering the Earth unable to support life. With no more biomatter left to consume, the robots, which by then numbered in the millions, went into a state of dormancy, ready to awaken and consume any organic matter should it ever appear. However, life was not permanently exterminated, as Zero Dawn was successfully completed and implemented before the end. Within 100 years after the extinction of life, GAIA succeeded in brute-forcing the swarm's deactivation codes and transmitted them worldwide, shutting the robots down. Within another 100 years, global flora, some fauna, and finally humans, were restored. As for the Faro Swarm's robots, they were buried underground in the terraforming process, and with the passage of time, were forgotten by the new humans and their descendants. However, subsequent events led to their rediscovery.

[@Sandro_de_Vega]

The Horizon Zero Dawn story is really great. If you are interested in it, you can watch the movie "Horizon Zero Dawn | Full Story Explained | Everything You Need To Know".

[@DrMustacho]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWfNk4ycorZ0fZY Fist 15 minutes is the intro and well contained gamplay starts around 8;30 After that 15 min it's 5 min tutorial (pretty boring) She grows up around the 30 min mark If you want ro continue watching after that you'll probably have content for the next couple of months First "chapter" is 1h 20 min and should just be made into a movie

[@juggalonumber27]

I'm loving these videos Hanna, but, it almost seems like you're.... anti-gaming. I know that sounds weird because of the depth of content you've created and then genuine enthusiasm you've had to a lot of these, but... you always make it a point to stress that you will NEVER play any of these games. Why not?

[@QuestionableLifeChoices]

honestly, maybe you should check out a video with just the story, or the "movie" as it's sometimes called. it's basically all the cutscenes in a game that make up the plot. it does leave a lot to be desired, though as a ton of the atmosphere and gravity comes from being able to explore the world. like idk how many times i was just walking through a wooded area and realized that that wasn't a rock i was looking at, but a maibox, and a house with an iron fence. that's not a tree, it's a bent and decrepit billboard. it's all just so striking and interesting and the entire time you're just wondering, "what HAPPENED?"

[@mrtuanhandsome13]

We destroyed the planet, sacrificed ourselves to revived it. And 1000 years later, the new human race still manage to put everything on the brink of oblivion. Oh the irony...

[@costinhalaicu2746]

Hannah, I really recommend finding a clip containing the entire story of Horizon: Zero Dawn and watching it. I promise it's mostly like watching a movie, a damn good one if I may say so, one that makes you think and consider things. It wouldn't come in handy for a reaction video, it has about 5 hours of story, but I promise you won't regret it. This one comes to mind: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJaxXpyZiMypfZI

[@joshgreiner2599]

When I saw the first trailer, All I wanted was to run around shooting robot dinosaurs, lol. That would have been enough game/plot for me. Instead, they managed to make the robot animal concept makes sense, but also be believable, while at the same time making the discovery of the story line completely compelling and engrossing. Simply incredible. Since you're not playing it, I'd really recommend either watching a cutscenes playlist, or at least reading a synopsis on the wiki. All your questions are answered in a coherent plot, which is no mean feat for a game with robot dinosaurs, lol

[@Delostacia]

Took a little to get into your first book but enjoyed it. Second is more engaging. Looking forward to the next. Have a wonderful coming week!

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

Thank you so much! Please, if you have time, review it on amazon and goodreads. It is so so helpful.

[@Delostacia]

@@HannaHsOverInvested I shall!

[@christophvogel1080]

You may want to give Miracleofsounds videos a go. IMHO, they're better than any trailer, I've seen so far. Just a suggestion.

[@Endarfin]

It was actually by a very real threat, nanotechnologie. But, in the game we have been extinct for at least 30.000 years. The short laymens stort is, we kill the earth with self replicating and life force feeding robots. Emergencyplan into effect. Creaties New world what we see. Not giving anything else away, i played this game for the 5th times and it still gets me.

[@TimdeVisser86]

The mystery of what the robots are, and who built them, is central to this story. There's no way to talk about them without spoiling the ending. So if you don't intend to play the game, here goes: The robots were built by an AI designed to rebuild earth's ecosystem after total collapse, i.e. from zero. It was the only way to ensure that human life would endure on earth, or rather, that humanity would be 'rebooted' after the apocalypse. The robots are meant, at least at first, to tend to life. This whole operation was necessary because an unstoppable self-replicating machine army was consuming all the biomass on earth. It was apparently easier to terraform earth back to a liveable state and clone new humans than stop the end of all life on earth. But the asshole that built the unstoppable machine army was so guilt-ridden, that he erased all the education databanks that were supposed to educate them on the history and science of the past: he didn't want to be remembered as the guy that Doomed Humanity. On top of that, there was a failsafe AI programmed to keep the original life-creating AI in check, but it turned out to be stronger than anticipated, wanting to end all life on Earth. It was awakened by a dude enticed by its knowledge. And now it has a cult following and you're supposed to stop it.

[@xenonnati]

its weird to hear you so against playing videogames, even when you obviously are engaged and interested in the story, and its obvious you'd enjoy it, i understand why, but like so categorically no i refuse to play them, while games like this exist, its better than any movie i have ever watched, yes it can be a time sink but i rather play a masterpiece like this than watch 2 hours of Netflix.. gaming has long since stopped being that niche thing, its a platform for immersive storytelling and both visual art and music, and fusing all that with technology. i hope you can watch a playthrough or at least a "story cut" of this game and great games like it.. but it is different when you are playing and you feel that attachment to that character.. regardless of all that, i'm happy to see people in all different walks of life, opinions and histories can appreciate the work and artistry put into games like these.

[@Portal2Fan1234]

To find out what happens and everything for every game you have to watch the full gameplay on the game or play the full game yourself

[@TheRealTezzandra]

Love this game. Have played it twice. Cannot wait for the secobd game (forbidden west).

[@syranon]

Yea we kinda are the old ones in her world. In our world, in the far future, there is a reason for the machines and the apocalypse. So the gimmick in this game is to uncover that story while she is rather clueless because all of that so is foreign to her. The machines just roam the land and can be programmed / converted to help her journey. While all this is running on its own, you have a bunch of people in different tribes/cities with different believes and agendas, be it hostile, friendly or religious.

[@pabloesco2007]

Just for this game Horizon 2 : Forbidden West, i'm gonna buy the PS5.

[@aronmurphy1586]

Listen girl I've been sitting here watching you watch video game trailer saying "oh ill never play the game" but do you realize that there is a story mode difficulty allowing you to progress through the game without dying really at all just to get the story so stop making excuses and get a playstation and play this game

[@sproo6412]

Why have you decided you simply won't play any of the games you enjoy watching the trailers of so much?

[@sephire25]

watch a play through, its a really good story!

[@NoMADnecro]

Yea check out how humanity messed up again lol. Also if interested in a game with a heavier focus on dialog and it's writing I recommend Disco elysium

[@Grimfaxe]

We are always guilty 😅 It's an amazing and beautiful game, can't wait to play the next one 🙂

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

it is always us, huh?

[@generalx13]

@Last man Walking IDK, there was an entire side story about that they sent a colony ship to Alpha Centauri that they lost contact with. It could be us and aliens at the same time...

[@STSGingie]

@@HannaHsOverInvested In the case of HZD, It happened twice. The first time climate change, the second time was one man's incredibly poor foresight and greed.

[@brucelankford6236]

Funny that you say “Is this a Destiny crossover?” since the main guy during the scene you said that is also voiced by Lance Reddick, who voices Zavala (blue bald man) in Destiny.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

YEa! Thats why I said it!

[@brucelankford6236]

@@HannaHsOverInvested I was afraid of that, somehow completely missed it that you got it. While I am slightly embarrassed, receiving a comment from the boss lady herself is a worthy trade indeed, and thus, this comment shall remain!

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

@@brucelankford6236 🙏🏼🙏🏼 thanks for watching!

[@creaturecore13]

Spoilers if you dont want to read them: Its essentially a terminator 2 scenario where man created artificial intelligence and of course it destroyed the humanity of our current time. In the future they know nothing about us except the crazy architecture they see.

[@CharlieSpring_]

Hello I love your videos, the robots you see In the trailers are made to terraform earth if you want you can react to a KZbin channel called random side Quest, his channel is all about horizon zero dawn😊

[@dominickthornburghakaTRG]

Horizon Forbidden West just Dropped a gameplay trailer the other day.

[@capcolombie3834]

If you want all your questions answered then play the game. It's my favourite game ever.

[@templeofthegods]

There are Horizon storyline explained videos you can watch :)

[@davevy276]

@HannaH's Over Invested there has been a huge development in the TF2 community in the form of a fan made SFM short "The Red the Blue and the Ugly" it is extremely impressive coming close to "End of the Line" in its quality I and many of your TF2 viewers would love to see your reaction also I recommend the TF2 comics as they contain a lot of lore and would explain many of your questions about TF2

[@ASSASSIN19923]

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition is free for download from April 19 until May 14.

[@mathewnunya2434]

Hilarious! "We didn't destroy the world!" Who gonna tell her?

[@rayclay3249]

I'm surprise no one recommended you some portal trailers, they're all hecking funny like the team fortress 2 ones

[@zaneex4043]

Does it look like that in the game? For once I'm happy to say that yes it looks almost just like that. Horizon is one of the best looking games of its generation

[@hannah-marieskellern3062]

It is a beautiful game but the story itself felt alive I was hooked on it from get go I was actually a non gamer before I played this game but it draws you in

[@NoxxiaMondus]

Dead space 1 2 and 3 trailers THIS Game is a survival horror Game

[@WhatBigClawsYouHave]

I got and Platinumed it on realese and finished soon after. Forbidden West just did not appeal to me at all.

[@DellKaGor]

I think assassins creed origins would be a really cool reaction idea

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

The machine "animals" aren't good or bad per se. They act based on the AI masters.

[@cyberexile3507]

'somethings killing the earth and it wasnt us' well, actually...

[@sarahscott5305]

It's one of a handful of games I've actually played. From a feminist point of view (which is how I view most things 😂) it was fantastic seeing a game with a female protagonist who was a vital and capable heroine in her own right. Many games with female characters in them, even some of the more lauded ones, still seem to exist solely to appeal to various fetishes.