And sometimes things live only to die prematurely because you didn’t out compete Nintendo in the first week of your life despite how absurd it would be to ever think you could win out against Nintendo in the handheld wars.
Life is joyous and precious but it can also be brutal and terminally unfair.
Also Remastered, the classic, age-old title from 2017, Horizon Zero Dawn…
PS5’s never escaping the “no games” allegations with this ohh boy
There is a 10$USD Upgrade path for owners of the original PS4 version.
It features your typical PS5 version “enhancements” like 3D Audio support, Haptic Feedback on the controller, faster load times, and surprisingly, enhanced character models and entirely re-recorded mocap animations for character conversations.
(That last one is pretty interesting to me, since my first impressions of the game that was a big weird red flag. The RPG-like dialogue trees and conversations looked like they were made in a completely different engine than the main game. They looked very stilted and stiff.)
It’s a full game, they’ve been working on it for 2-3 years already. I do remember the announcement trailer for GoT being a lot longer before release though.
True, I’ve kind of been conditioned to expect game delays with Big Game releases. Probably especially after their 2014-16 releases and trailers: Uncharted 4, Last of Us 2, Spider-Man, and Ghost of Tsushima. I distinctly remember tuning in to yearly E3’s and kept seeing those games due to how much they’d show it off but weren’t ready with a release date/delay.
Sony’s studios have mostly kept their cards close to their chest these days, and probably because they’ll only reveal info when they’re certain of a specific release window, because a lot of those old games (uncharted 4 and TLOU2 especially) infamously had multiple delays.
I loved HZD and GoT so this is good news for me. GoY I will definitely buy. The Horizon Remaster does feel a bit unnecessary as it still looks really good imo but I guess it has been more years than it feels like and a bit of polish doesn’t hurt. In any case, being on PC I will probably will have to wait 2-3 years for these
Well that was certainly unexpected. If nothing else, I´m rather excited by the Hokkaido setting (I assume the main protagonist will be Ainu?), especially given the premise of the game. Good thing they finally ported GoT to PC this year, cause it´ll probably take another 4+ years for this one (hopefully not).
GoY should hopefully be distinct enough in terms of setting, since only a small part of southern Hokkaido was under control of the Japanese, so it wasn’t your “typical” Feudal Japan, but more like the Wild North (the music choice for the trailer also implies they might be going for a somewhat Western vibe?). The fact that it takes place in the same year the Tokugawa Shogunate started should be interesting as well. I guess the question is how will both games stack up against each other gameplay-wise.
And speaking of Shadows, I was counting on having to wait for it to come out of its Epic exclusivity prison, but thanks to Ubisoft’s general incompetence, that no longer seems to be the case!