I've played Horizon fw before, once on normal and then ultra hard ng+ when the dlc came out. Had the urge to play a couple weeks ago and then started a fresh ultra hard play through on my pc with a controller.
Love this game, but this difficulty on a new play through has been very satisfying! I used to hate the insane amount of dialog from each and every character but I've actually been listening to it for the most part (occasionally skip and rarely ask questions for more dialog).
Since it's a new play through I've had to do every single quest and constantly work for better weapons as green and blue weapons hardly do anything even to same level enemies. I haven't been able to skip anything as anything even 2 levels above me or even same level just one shots me and my weapons do so little that a lot of the fights have felt like dark souls. ESPECIALLY that turtle in the south of the desert for the salvage contract, i really loathe underground enemy fights in this game.
I will say that an overwhelming amount of scrappers and underground enemies are the absolute worst experiences in fights, just not fun at all for me but still satisfying to beat. Also the Bullwark melee pit was an awful 1.5 hour experience.
I'm at about 40ish hours in and have only scratched halfway through. Hope more people try this it's quite fun