While it really didn't need it, October 31 will give us Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered as announced during Sony's State of Play. Yes really, it's happening, it's a real thing.
Hold on a minute, it's how old? No, it can't be. How is it 7 years since the original release? Is time speeding up as I get older or what?
The current version of the game works well on Desktop Linux with Proton, and is Steam Deck Verified. However, the new Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered might come with some issues, as Sony confirmed in their blog post it will have the PlayStation Overlay, which is what completely breaks online play for Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT.
Hopefully it's not forced, and perhaps it will have an opt-out for Steam Deck like God of War Ragnarök, which means Desktop Linux users may need the launch option.
Here's the trailer anyway:
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Sony say it will have "over 10 hours of re-recorded conversation, mocap and countless graphical improvements that bring the game to the same visual fidelity as its critically acclaimed sequel Horizon Forbidden West". You will also see various upgrades to characters that brings "them in line with current generation advances in character models and rendering"
For the PC version there will be support for NVIDIA DLSS 3 and AMD FSR 3.1 with frame generation, along with various accessibility features that were first introduced in Horizon Forbidden West.
The new edition will be a $9.99 upgrade for existing owners on PC.
You can buy the current Horizon Zero Dawn from:
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I feel like the price is fair (Since they redid quite a bit of work from what I can see). They could have made it into another game and call it a day (looking at you, Skyrim). Still not sure if I personally want it, might just wait to see if FSR 3.1 can improve performance on the SD (as it stutters quite a bit as of right now)
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At least it's a paid upgrade, so you can just ignore it if it adds a mandatory PSN account.
And that'll get worse and worse as you progress with your character development.
Hold on a minute, it's how old? No, it can't be. How is it 7 years since the original release? Is time speeding up as I get older or what?
And that'll get worse and worse as you progress with your character development.
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What is there to remaster? It's one of the most beautiful titles on PC and Playstation.
The mandatory PSN account and PS overlay is just a slap in the face for owners of the original, in my opinion. Neither this game nor the sequel released this year has either. Stop ruining perfect titles, Sony!
The mandatory PSN account and PS overlay is just a slap in the face for owners of the original, in my opinion. Neither this game nor the sequel released this year has either. Stop ruining perfect titles, Sony!
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Re the surprise the game is 7 years old: Yep, I think time is relative to how old you are, so our perception of time speeds up as we age. That's pretty rude of time.
On another note: Not really needed an update. Not like Horizon: Zero Dawn was looking dated, or was missing some modern accessibility feature.
Last edited by grigi on 25 September 2024 at 8:33 am UTC
On another note: Not really needed an update. Not like Horizon: Zero Dawn was looking dated, or was missing some modern accessibility feature.
Last edited by grigi on 25 September 2024 at 8:33 am UTC
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hardpenguin Sep 25
I still haven't played the original one, even though it finally made its way to my library!
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You can also get the current Horizon Zero Dawn on GOG. But I doubt that will be the case for the remaster.
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I feel like the price is fair (Since they redid quite a bit of work from what I can see). They could have made it into another game and call it a day (looking at you, Skyrim). Still not sure if I personally want it, might just wait to see if FSR 3.1 can improve performance on the SD (as it stutters quite a bit as of right now)I'm pretty sure the stuttering is related to texture streaming. The stutters get much worse when you move quickly. I tried to investigate if Proton maybe causes this, but it runs just fine on my Linux desktop. So either the Steam Deck CPU is too weak (when it stutters, CPU usage will spike sharply! ), or the game just isnt particularly optimized for low power CPUs. Or both. Either way, I don't think FSR 3 will solve this problem
Last edited by Stella on 25 September 2024 at 1:35 pm UTC
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You can buy the current Horizon Zero Dawn from:Let's not forget about the DRM-free option on GOG:
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https://www.gog.com/en/game/horizon_zero_dawn_complete_edition
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As Playstation Overlay means PSN required for the game, it will be a big NO.
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time is relative to how old you are, so our perception of time speeds up as we ageWhen you are two years old, the last year accounts for 50% of your life.
When you are, say, 40yo, it accounts for 2.5%.
Seen that way, it makes a lot of sense :-)
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What is there to remaster? [...]Well, it would be nice if they'd remove the phone-home-feature and their atrocious data collecting policy. Not getting my hopes up though...
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A totally unnecessary Remaster + mandatory PSN account linking = No, thanks.
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A totally unnecessary Remaster + mandatory PSN account linking = No, thanks.
That's how I feel. At first I thought the rumors of this remaster were just satire, like the studio was making fun of the entire industry with all the remasters everywhere. But nope. Real life.
Also hilarious because I guess this means they have absolutely no other constructive or original ideas coming anytime soon? I guess after Concord lost them a nice cool $200 mil, they have to try and scrape a few pennies out of a remaster of a game that needs no remaster.
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Looking at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzO5JbQO6c they seem to have made the colors more vibrant and varied, and for once I can say I do see the improvement. There seem to be other added details to make the world seem more lively as well. Probably wouldn’t run on my machine anyway, but maybe I’ll grab it for a dollar in a few years after I’ve upgraded, if the PSN nonsense has been dealt with.
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Appears that you can also get the PC version of the remaster for $10 if you have the original game on PS4.
Not too shabby considering I got the original game on PS4 when they were giving it away for free a few years back. Though I'm obviously not going to buy it if it doesn't work on my computer.
Not too shabby considering I got the original game on PS4 when they were giving it away for free a few years back. Though I'm obviously not going to buy it if it doesn't work on my computer.
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Looks like the Steam version came out 4 years ago (going by the Steam page). Was it 7 years ago for the original Playstation release? According to Metacritic, yes - there was a 3.5 year gap between.
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A totally unnecessary Remaster + mandatory PSN account linking = No, thanks.It seems like all the games coming from PS are going to have the stupid account linking...
That's a shame. I was quite happy to hear that titles are getting ported, especially because I really want to play Ghost of Tsushima... but I am not going to get any ports if it means that I have to put up with another account.
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I am so tired of Sony remastering games that are less than a decade old.
Zero Dawn is still a relatively fresh game and takes a decent computer to run consistently.
Playstation overlay? You mean they're moving their whole ecosystem to PC now?
Yet we still don't have a new WipEout game, no Killzone, none of the big IPs that made Sony successful. No word about any of them since the PS Vita. And yet they want to expand further to PC. What are they thinking? WHAT is there to bring to PC? Unless they're doing a 180 and bringing back everything they killed with the PS4 then there's no point. Helldivers getting a sequel was probably the only time they actually got that right and then they managed to screw it up anyway post-launch by roofing customers.
Some of the details shown in the Horizon Zero Dawn remaster are improved and sure the lighting is better. But it just looks like every other game ever now. For what reason? Couldn't you have spent that developer money on an IP that actually needed it?
Last edited by bonkmaykr on 26 September 2024 at 7:57 am UTC
Zero Dawn is still a relatively fresh game and takes a decent computer to run consistently.
Playstation overlay? You mean they're moving their whole ecosystem to PC now?
Yet we still don't have a new WipEout game, no Killzone, none of the big IPs that made Sony successful. No word about any of them since the PS Vita. And yet they want to expand further to PC. What are they thinking? WHAT is there to bring to PC? Unless they're doing a 180 and bringing back everything they killed with the PS4 then there's no point. Helldivers getting a sequel was probably the only time they actually got that right and then they managed to screw it up anyway post-launch by roofing customers.
Some of the details shown in the Horizon Zero Dawn remaster are improved and sure the lighting is better. But it just looks like every other game ever now. For what reason? Couldn't you have spent that developer money on an IP that actually needed it?
Last edited by bonkmaykr on 26 September 2024 at 7:57 am UTC
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Claude_Lib Sep 26
Curious if the PSN bypass mod will work with it. The original repo had been taken down by the author, but other people have reuploaded it since, hopefully they'll be able to update it if/when it breaks.
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PoliticsOfStarving Sep 26
The original version is what, 80gb? In my experience remasters are around triple in size. So this will be a 200+gb download.
And then unpack it to 250-300gb.
And then unpack it to 250-300gb.
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