Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Rated for PS5 and PC - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 September 2024 / 3,856 Views
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered has been rated for the PlayStation 5 and PC by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).
Horizon Zero Dawn released for the PlayStation 4 in February 2017 and for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store in August 2020.
Read the rating summary for Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered below:
This is an action/role-playing game in which players assume the role of a hunter (Aloy) surviving through a post-apocalyptic world. Players guide Aloy as she learns to hunt robotic creatures and animals in the wild. Aloy uses arrows, spears, and explosive traps to injure and kill machines, boar, and occasional human enemies. Animals and humans emit small puffs of red blood when struck; one sequence depicts an abandoned camp with large blood stains on rocks and trees. The game contains a brief reference to sexual material (e.g., “Eighteen months hard labor in exchange for thirty years lounging around Elysium watching porn?”). In text/audio files, characters sometimes reference fictional drugs, overdoses, and getting high: “...not even out of junior high and already a drug addict”; “...I ran across a pusher who was selling Razorwing for eight bucks a tab”; "I'd spend a few days getting high, then OD on Overcast." The word “sh*t” appears in the text/dialogue.
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This does not need a remaster
This literally still happens all the time...
The latest Doom re-release did exactly that.
With that being said, this is Sony... expect to pay for even the smallest upgrade.
okay then go ahead and play your 2017 version of HZD at 720p w/ unstable 30fps.
HZD runs at 2160p (1440 upscaled) @ 60fps on the PS5
Think before you speak buddy...
(that’s actually kinda crazy ngl.)
Yawn. This game is only 7 years old and don't need a remaster
Boy they sure love wasting money and time making things that their fanbase never asked for....brain dead suits running game companies.
If they are going to remaster a pretty new game why not Bloodborne, he'll throw Demon Souls remake also to pc. If you wanna make lazy money at least give gamers what they want
Seriously? I would be ASHAMED to release a remaster or remake of a previous generation. In fact, I support a remake of a game that is 15 to 20 years old, because it would have taken 2 generations to pass. PS4 games and later already have beautiful graphics, so backwards compatibility would already meet the needs of users.
Another anti-consumer attitude from Sony!
This is even more egregious than the TLOU 1 remaster. That at least was 10 years old when they remastered it. Horizon: Zero Dawn released in 2017 and this remaster will presumably release around the 8 year anniversary in Q1 2025. Even worse, it only released on PC like 4 years ago. They better offer a cheaper upgrade path for current owners, especially on PC.
TLOU 1 on PS4 was a remaster. PS5 version was a remake. Point still stands though.
If the PS5 version was a remake... then so was Metroid Prime 1 on Switch lmao
For nearly any other game... Redoing the graphics, some enemy ai and quality of life features isn't a remake. Just a well-crafted remaster.
The major difference between the 2 was MP still used the same source code as the original and TLoU 1 on PS5 was remade on the sequels separate engine. Granted I still thought it was pointless regardless lol I would much rather Sony remaster PS3 era games than PS4. This isn’t the same setup like the Wii U where very few people got to play the games on that system because the Wii U sold poorly that Nintendo decided to port majority of them to the Switch.
Honestly, in spite of the name I thought Metroid Prime on Switch was a remake.
It ticks most of the remake boxes and goes much further in terms of upgrades than most remasters do.
I'm assuming this will be more of a remake than a remaster personally. if it was just a 4k 60 fps thing on PS5 it wouldn't make much sense to also release it on PC, because a good PC can already play Horizon Zero Dawn at 4k 60 fps. I'm assuming they are going to be doing things like adding in higher res textures, higher polygon character models, ray tracing, etc.
I just don't see them doing what Bethesda and 2K did for Skyrim Special edition and the two Bioshock remasters respectively (they were given for free to users who owned the original games).
Possibly a 10-25% reduction in price for owning the originals, but I don't see them going any lower than that, and tbh, that would still be a bad deal, and also likely require you to have a PSN account.
I know that they are basically going to remaster what they've ported to PC, just to enforce the PSN accounts across the board so they can then slide in their PSN dashboard for PSN trophy support (and data collection).
Yaaay a phew years old game that still plays and looks amazing..
Damn pointless
Yeah.........
Maybe remake GoW 1-3 or Sly Cooper or infamous... or any other AAA Sony PS3 game...
God damn, 7 year old game now. Time flies.
EDIT: So, everyone is moaning, I too already own this on disc and the free version I got from Playstation digitally but you guys all know that this game wasn't released like 2 years ago right? It was 7 years, 8 by the time this comes out. Uncharted series, Kingdom Hearts 2, Halo (some of them) Bioshock 2 and many others for a remaster in about the same or even less time. If they want to make this by tweeking some settings, let them.
If this was a one off thing, people wouldn't be making that much of a deal. But, this will be Sony's 8th PS4 era remaster this gen. 9th if you want to count the Nioh remastered collection since Sony did publish those games. Just 4 years in. This isn't a case like the Wii U where the system sold so poorly that barely anyone got to play those games, so that led Nintendo to port them to the Switch. Nearly 120 million PS4 players got to play these games (very successful games at that) and Sony are now re-releasing them the very next generation? Come on man lol. If these were at least PS3 era games, most wouldn't be making that big of a deal either.
Freedom Wars Remastered from Japan Studio is being more widely praised because how few got to play it on a platform that failed almost as badly as the Wii U did with the PS Vita.
Right, so? If they want to waste their time, let them. This feels more like it's just the graphics designers upping a couple of settings and then releasing a 7 year old game, like many companies have done over the years probably because the programmers haven't finished with work yet. :P
For all we know this is more than just a remaster with upped graphics, it will have more added stuff. Or it might be a collection of the first 2 games with their DLCs in a package and so they upped the originals graphics and adding it as a PS5 game and selling it individually.
However, probably sell a few copies too for people that for some reason don't want to go to their local CEX and buy it for £5.
More resources that could be better utilized elsewhere.
It's like the last of us remaster remaster all over again
I would guess its gonna be something like The Last of Us. An overhaul to make it look more next gen-ish.
lol, this will make me buy a pro PS5
It looks and performs great on PS5, this is pointless.
Wouldn't it be better if they remastwred the first 3 god of war games, have it redone in unreal engine 5.
The base game already runs at native 4k and unlimited fps.. remaster make little sense for PCs.
Er... is the bottom of this article right? Something seems off.
Inb4 the Remaster on PC requires a PSN account (I already own the original so there is no need for me to buy the remaster anyway).
There is no need to the game to have a remaster.
Pretty sure for this Cosy you could make a few legacy reboots. IDK take your pick, ask ASTRO Botbfor ideas seeing ad you think you are limited in your IP bank
