I liked Zero Dawn a lot, so I didn't hesitate when the PC port of the sequel came out on Steam a couple of days ago.  Surprisingly, I found it for $10 off on gamebillet.com .

I haven't played long enough to comment on the gameplay, except to say that it's more of the same so far.  But I wanted to report my hardware and settings, for those who might be wondering whether their rig is adequate.

My monitor is 1440p.  I have a 3080 12 GB (overclocked), a 5600X (slightly overclocked), and 16B 0f 3600 15-15-15.

I have almost all the graphics setting at the max (I turn off film effects like vignetting, and chromatic aberration).  With DLSS off, I'm getting 80 - 90 fps average and around 65 for 1% lows.  Turning on DLSS Quality increased the fps by about 15 for both.  It's using around 8.5 GB of VRAM and 10 - 11 GB of system RAM, with a couple of browser tabs open.

In short, if you can play most modern games at acceptable frame rates, I think you should be fine.  Cyberpunk and Avatar are more demanding, as examples.  If you only have 8 GB of VRAM, it may be worthwhile to tweak the settings a bit to keep usage below that.

I'll be interested to see what mods come out for it, and of course, I'd like to hear your impressions if you're playing.  

The first one is top 10 all time for me.

This one was good, but it didn't measure up.

I disagree. Story wise it wasn’t nearly as good, but the gameplay was way better.

The story got downright retarded and I guess I dislike swimming puzzles.

Still a great game.

I never finished the first one, maybe one day I will but the gameplay on the first one was pretty boring and lackluster.   Is the second one any better?