Horizon Forbidden West Delayed to February 18, 2022 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 September 2021 / 2,307 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Guerrilla Games have delayed Horizon Forbidden West from Holiday 2021 to February 18, 2022. It will launch for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.
"While the decision to move the game’s launch to 2022 certainly wasn’t easy, we’d like to take a moment to thank all of our fans for their unwavering support," said game director Mathijs de Jonge on PlayStation Blog.
"We know how much you’ve been looking forward to reuniting with Aloy and her friends, continuing her story, and exploring a new and more dangerous world. Your passion, fan art, cosplay, virtual photography, and videos have meant the world to all of us."
An enhanced performance patch has also been released for the PlayStation 4 version of Horizon Zero Dawn. It lets users who play the game on the PS5 to play it at 60 frames per second.
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Glad we finally have a release date.
HZD was one of the best new IPs of last gen and one of the most memorable titles in recent memory so I’m eagerly awaiting this sequel.
It was one of those few rare open world games where when given the option to fast travel I purposely declined just to see more of the world and interact with it. Truly amazing.
It will be interesting to see where they go with this next adventure. I would love for them to explore more of the backstory that led up to the events of the first as there is a lot of questions the first game left unanswered.
Hopefully all the extra time in the oven pays off when gamers finally get their hands Aloy again.
-FINALLY ON THE HORIZON NINJA APPROVED-
Finally, a 60fps patch for Zero Dawn on PS5.
Not too much of a delay really. I was honestly expecting it to be pushed towards Summer, but thank goodness I'm wrong!
To the surprise of exactly zero people....
Yup. SNY don't like to launch their blockbuster games near or during the holidays, which is smart.
Sony, please stop! I can only get so wet!
All jokes aside, I gotta play this, Ghost of Tsushima, and Final Fantasy VII Remake by the end of the year, now. Might even replay God of War even though I already got the platinum on it. So many great games on PS4/5!
I would say more like scheduled to February 2022 since they hadn`t gave any date for that Holiday 2021 window.
Then the new Horizon and the new Zelda will launch in the same year again. But Zelda should be an holiday '22 title, I guess.
finally now i can finish the frozen wild dlc on ps5! gaddamn!
Good news, this means they will further improve the game. I have far too many games to play anyway
this game will be amazing even with bugs
Well then PS5 certainly has had a lackluster 1st year in terms of 1st party games from Sony. Horizon FW, GT 7, GoW Ragnarok are now all 2022 and cross gen. I can't even think of a single upcoming PS5 only exclusive from Sony that has been announced for release. Oh well...
2022 will be great though.
Things may be disappointing in terms of games that were announced as 2021 or assumed to be 2021 being moved to 2022 , but in terms of what first party has been released like Morales, Rift Apart , Returnal it's been a great first year, and I'm sure when 2022 arrives we will be glad to be in a year with plenty of 1st party games to play that have been improved with the delay .
Hopefully they craft a better world this time. I’m sure there will be a lot of much cooler robot dinos and better abilities but the game world and NPCs were a joke in the first one imho. Honestly can’t remember the name of a single city or NPC and I plat’d the game. The only guy I even remember is the psycho who murders bandits.
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