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Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered forces PSN login for PC users if they decide to upgrade (www.videogamer.com)

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[–] GetAwayWithThis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's also a remaster of a game that aged very well in my opinion and didn't really need a facelift.

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

100%

So many people defending this, is insanity. $10 is still $10, which I'll save to put into a different game.

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

See, I used to be against remasters and remakes too but nowadays it’s like, yeah, whatever. Either I already have played the game and don’t care about a remaster or don’t care about said game or will play it in a few years at which point the remaster will come in handy.

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If this was released halfway through the PS6 life I wouldn't have complained. Releasing it now is just greedy and lazy.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 12 points 2 years ago

Sony still releasing games on PS4. Still remasters PS4 game.

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm on the side that a remaster of a PS4 gen game dumb, but HZD was always the butt of the joke in regard to those awful generic bobblehead animations during every single dialog. It was laughably bad. With the reveal trailer, it does make a pretty big difference. Everything else? Not so much.

If this had been a PC game all along, these animation overhaul would have been a patch of the original game, but since the trailer insists that they re-recorded all motion captures for the dialogs of the whole game, they get to sell it full price again.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

HFW was so much worse for conversation animations.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I genuinely don't understand it, the game itself is gorgeous.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Glad the complete edition on GOG is spared from this bullshit, and I hope GOG pushes hard against this kind of stuff on their store.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There was a lot of noise surrounding GOG a few months back about something like that. GOG was going in that direction but had to pull back/remove the game(?) to due backlash.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There was Hitman in 2021 that caused some backlash

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/hitman-game-of-year-edition-removed-from-gog-apology-issued

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmm, I thought it was more recent, but it sounds about right!

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree with that stance, if a game doesn't work when the service is pulled or if the system is offline, then it doesn't belong on GOG.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it's why I always choose GOG over Steam when I have a choice, even if it costs slightly more.

[+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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[–] Stiffneckedppl@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly. Don't reward this kind of behavior.

Unfortunately, we Americans have proven that most of us would sell our very souls for the smallest convenience...and corporations know it.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 years ago

Every body got no money but some how they are still buying 100% discretionary software....

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've watched gamers en masses say this shit for 15+ years, and you know what's interesting? These companies STILL do it.

EA still sucks. Ubisoft still sucks. Layoffs are still happening. Corporatization still rules. DLC still went rampant. Games as a service still is a thing.

Interesting.

Almost like boycotting and hand wringing and rambling endlessly with whiny virtue signaling online hasn't made a difference at large.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Boycotting is doing nothing. If 99 people do nothing and 1 person buys the game, studio still makes revenue.

You know what you can do to stop bad games practices? Share resources on how to do piracy. Shoplift copies of the game and dump them in the trash. Write to your politicians and ask for customer protections reform. DDoS their servers. Use the internet to bully and troll people who admit to playing the game. Cancel people who stream the game.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 points 2 years ago

I'm boycotting EA since Origin and Ubisoft since UPlay, don't use Epic and I think I only bought one Denuvo title before boycotting them as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The problem is more that most people don't give a shit in the first place.

[–] toastus@feddit.org 6 points 2 years ago

The people that

bitch about it

probably aren't the same people buying remastered games on release.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I honestly respect the people going so far to buy the game just to badly review and then refund it. I just don't buy games with such stupid crap (well, except Doom Eternal which I bought because I overlooked the rather small golden box and actually even forgot that I linked a Bethesda account years earlier for some freebie or whatever it was).

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I think it's more that the vast vast majority of people just do not see creating or using an account as a negative.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago

Don't buy this or you're just letting Sony know this shit is okay. If you absolutely must play it:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 14 points 2 years ago

Pass.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

🤦‍♂️ Sony being Sony.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm in the middle of a play-through right now.

Is this going to boot me? Can I block the game from being upgraded? Or is remastered a new SKU?

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

There's no way they're giving you an "upgrade" for free. Don't worry, as long as you don't pay for it, you're not getting the new version.

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Anyone know if this affects its ability to be played on steam deck?