15 Best Video Game Moments Of 2017 (So Far)

2. Asking One Of The Most Profound Questions In Gaming History - Horizon Zero Dawn

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Summarising all of Horizon's labyrinthine plot requires a ton of philosophical and scientific insight to fully appreciate, but one of its best parts is still a fascinating question to ask any group of friends.

Coming after Aloy has learned of the Zero Dawn Project and its attempt to compartmentalise all human knowledge - the good and the bad - into data banks that would then be left for future generations, one Ted Faro (who's financing the whole thing) decides to delete all the information, and kill all those involved.

Why? Because he posits that passing on knowledge of humankind will only lead to another race repeating the same mistakes.

It's one hell of a question: Would you leave something like the plans for a nuclear weapon lying around - alongside footage of Hiroshima and its effects - assuming another human race would learn from this and never create another, or have you just provided the fuel for another apocalypse?

Are we better knowing all our warts n' all history, or is ignorance bliss?

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