Shots from the Wild: Horizon Zero Dawn

I have been playing Horizon Zero Dawn: Remastered on and off. Whenever I log in to this game, rather than doing the story missions and progressing, I end up doing some side quests and distracting myself with the beautiful world. I love the distribution of dangerous machines that are spread all around the different biomes. Hunting them down is much more fun than I have in quests. I am not playing this game for its story, but because I love to roam around in this open-world game. This is one of the best-looking open-world games that I have played so far, and one of the most modern as well. Its photomode is amazing, but I shifted to no HUD; this way, it is a bit more challenging and a much more immersive experience. I still stop to take some shots in the photomode, but most of the pictures I take now are just raw gameplay. I am here to show you some of them.  --- I increased the FOV in this next lake shot, and it came out fine. But I could have framed it slightly better, I suppose. Look at the reflection on the water. This is only at medium settings as well. Water is so hard to simulate in games, but now we have reached such a point where it looks realistic.  --- I have an entire folder filled with shots of the snowy biomes from different games. I took a lot of such shots in this game as well.  ||| |-|-| --- You might have guessed that I love to capture trees in my games, too. This game has some very detailed trunks, and the vegetation is quite dense as well.  --- The weather is very dynamic, too, and there seems to be a lot of weather presets that automatically trigger. Sometimes it will be clear sky, and the next day it might be a blizzard or foggy. I was roaming around in the forest and suddenly, within a few minutes, it turned from clear sky to quite foggy weather.  --- Sometime after that, it starts snowing as well. One of the coolest weather changes I experienced in the game so far. I was wandering around as well, so I am not sure if the place had to do something with the weather or if it can really change this quickly.  --- You can see how it changes the entire look of the place. I went to a similar place again in a new session and experienced a clear sky. You can see how bright it is compared to the last shot.  --- There are a lot of primitive structures made out of wood and ropes, especially near the settlements. I love to capture them too. The blue ropes give it a distinct look; you can find a lot of blue highlights in the game. It seems like the Nora tribe loves this colour.  ---  --- I can end this post without showing you a shot of a machine. After all, it is Horizon Zero Dawn. So, here is a Watcher roaming the plains and trying to observe any movements in the bushes.  --- Let me know if you liked these shots and which one is your favourite.