I imagine the majority of PS4 owners have played 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Horizon Zero Dawn. The open world adventure has sold 24 million copies since launch, and since experienced a healthy life thanks to expansions, a sequel, and an upcoming remaster for the PS5. It was also given away for free as part of the P൲layStation Days of Play promotion ဣa few years ago, meaning if you were playing games at the time, you could have picked it up for literally nothing.
While I don’t think Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered needs to exist, knowing I’ll only need to pay $10 to enjoy the upcoming upgrade is a welcome surprise, and one we’ve seen several times in the past generation with games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered.
To be blunt though, these sorts of upgrades should be free, and it constantly feels dirty that corporations are willing to sell us games we already own - most of which still feel very 🅘new - again and again in pursuit of easy profits. It’s gross, especially when the price of the base game is increased only a few weeks before one of these remasters breaks cover.
Set to launch on October 31, because there is no better way to celebrate Halloween than the death of a medium through stifled creativity, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is being viewed as a marquee title for the PS5 Pro. If you don’t own Zero Dawn though, you will need to pay $40 for the digital vers🍌ion to enjoy it on Sony’s souped up co♎nsole. Either that, or you fork out extra for a disc drive to utilise both your physical version of the game and the $10 upgrade.
Owning the game is beside the point in a lot of ways, as raising the price of an older game because you know interest is going to increase, and you’re going to make more money feels gross, doubly so when a lot of people have already decided it doesn’t need to exist. Sꦓony is well aware that its audience is going to notice this ludicrous mov🍎e and comment on it too, but the company is so fueled by misplaced hubris that it simply doesn’t care.
For years now, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition has been retailing for $19.99, but now it is listed for $39.99. That’s a sharp increase, and one I imagine Sony is hoping newer or more casual consumers (who would be the target for a game that has sold 24 million already) either won’t notice or will overlook thanks to their excitement about a remaster that not another living soul on the planet is excited for. What’s stopping Sony from upgrading 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Forbidden West in a few years' time and pulling thꦡe exact same move, acting like it will somehow benefit🎉 players by being more out of pocket for a game they’ve already played?
I personally love it when remakes and remasters are launched, and the original version remains available. This just happened with Dead Rising, and before that countless Resident Evil titles have done the same. Thankfully, Horizon isn’t wiping its own history away even if Sony really wants us to play the remaster.
Remakes and remasters aren’t even always an improvement. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lollipop Chainsaw: RePop looks and feels worse than the original experience in almost every way, costs loads, and squanders an otherwise impressive legac🃏y. The GTA Trilogy gave us upscaled messes of open world classics with none of the charm and all the bugs, and Konami’s Silent Hill HD Collection took two horror classics and made an utter mess of them.
I’m not suggesting that Nixxes is going to turn Zero Dawn into an unplayable mess, but acting like it is suddenly the best way to play a game we alre🥃ady own, and charging extra on top, is kinda disgusting. Let alone forcing newcomers to pay more digitally if they don’t seek out a physical copy.
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered feels like an awkward middle man. Its announcement was already met with relative derision, but the $10 upgrade fee was easy enough to swallow for most of us curious enough to play. But in raising the price of the digital version and making the disc drive a pricey e🙈xtra for an already $700 console, Sony is digging its own grave and shouldn’t be surprised when an angryꦅ mob pushes it into it.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Horizon Forbidden West
- Top Critic Avg: 88/100 Critics Rec: 96%
- Released
- February 18, 2022
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Blood, Laღnguage, Use of Alcohol, Violence
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Guerrilla Games
- Publisher(s)
- Sony
- Engine
- Decima
- Cross-Platform Play
- ps5, ps4
Horizon Forbidden West again follows Aloy as she navigates a post-catastrophic world populated by mechanical fauna. She must travel west into unknown territory in order to find a GAIA backup and save the planet's biosphere.
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