Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered PS5 Is Official, Out 31st October with $10 PS4 to PS5 Upgrade

Like most others I was a bit cynical about this one before but I'm very happy with the improvements for that price!

HFW is still one of the best-looking on PS5 so I imagine this'll be a stunner. The fact that the VO/mo-cap is gonna be improved is a big plus too as it was probably one of the weaker points of the game.

For £9.99 I'm deffo giving it another playthrough.

Does that include the version the gave away for free during lockdown? I bet that will be exempt

I'm guessing that won't be applicable to the people who got the game through the Covid offer lol

$10 is a good price. The game looks incredible now (it already looked great)

…I’m quietly hopeful this will be worth the money. Wonder if they’ll do a physical PS5 release.

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk was checking that, it seems like they just revoked that from peoples libraries

So...I should just pop in my PS4 disc and I get to download the PS5 remaster for $10?

I'll take the upgrade. It looks really nice.

I'm 100% for these remasters. The biggest hindrance to re-playing PS4 titles are the insanely long load times. For $10, I'm in.

I hate myself but yeah I'll upgrade as unnecessary as it is I love Horizon and the upgrade does look really good for a tenner why not. Also Aloy's looking extra gorgeous in this remaster ^__^❤️💗

This looked so good! Went from “do we really need this” to “I need to play this” in seconds. Hopefully the save data transfers and I can do my NG+

They can have my 10$

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk @Orpheus79V PlayStation Blog confirms the free version given away during COVID will be included in the $10 upgrade offer.

It wasn't needed - that does not change. Horizons PS4 is playing like a charm on my PS5.

BUT... That being said...

That price just made all these concerns wash away.

Off course I'm gonna upgrade ! :

Alright, they can sucker me in for 10 bucks.

Oh wow.
This looks...unnecessary as hell.
🤣

Meh, I will probably not upgrade this on my Steam library.

Then again...I only paid $11 for the PC version...so never say never.

Honestly I'll take this over a Days Gone Remaster. Especially since Days Gone is still a visually pleasing game, even for 2024.

I still dont think this remaster was needed but the £10 upgrade path is pretty solid

Well, hopefully Rockstar will feel embarrassed by this after they put out Red Dead Redemption 1 without changing anything for £50.

They eventually upped the frame rate but I mean that should have been done out the gate!

This here is a genuine visual upgrade and worth the price if you're a fan of the series

The cheap upgrade cost very much flipped my opinion of this Remastered edition, and I'll probably be picking this up now!

Still not interested. Loved Zero Dawn but Forbidden West was enough Horizon for me until the next game. Plus my backlog is unbearably big so no time to put 60 hours into a game I already played.

The problem is that in order to appreciate the visual upgrades, I’d have to play Horizon again.

Cool, I will be happy to upgrade as it is a good few years since I played the original and I've not yet played forbidden west. Does anyone know if this includes the dlc too as I haven't played that yet. Also I hope the trophy's don't automatically transfer over? as I would like to get them again.

I was hoping for a free PC version-like upgrade back when that was released, but an even better version for £10 is fine by me.

@LowDefAl
Allow me to clarify a bit:
It looks unnecessary...to me.
I at least never felt like it was a game that could benefit from being remastered.
Not in a world where Killzone 2 deserves the remaster treatment way more than this game.

I know, I know.
I'm very much not the target audience for this one but still.

Will definitely be dropping a tenner to play this one again with the upgrades.

I will be buying the physical copy as horizon is one of my favourite franchises

Well, it was a good game, but I’ve forgotten a lot of plot points which put me off forbidden West. Maybe, if it has a new trophy list (which it should as a remaster) I’ll play through again with better graphics as a refresher before a potential forbidden west playthrough.

Honestly, after I saw it was a $10 Upgrade, own it Digital now too because of that "Play At Home" initiative (I wouldn't want to be putting a Disc in to play a Digital Download, that's why I'll always opt for a PS5 Physical over a PS4 with the Free PS5 Upgrade) I'm in 🤷‍♂️

Maybe I'll FINALLY make it out of that initial/tutorial area of the game 😅

Actually somewhat sold on the redone motion capture and upgrade path. Good job, Sony; you turned an ostensibly terrible idea into a mostly unnecessary luxury.

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk not sure if any one responded but it says in the article above its included to upgrade for 10

Even though I am not the biggest fan of Horizon or its sequel, $10 is a fairly cheap price so can't really be upset about it getting a remaster.

@Fishysensei seeing who is working on it , i can see it being a pretty easy project since they ported it to pc. its not like they were taking up a studios time instead of working on another project, they bought nixxies as a remasters/ pc ports studio.

Didn't like the rumor back then and don't like it now that's it's official. Waste.

Will there be a physical edition?

Ten pounds. That's like the equivalent of 3 Freddos nowadays.

Will saves carry over our be incompatible?

“In a PlayStation Blog post, it's confirmed all current PS4 and PC owners of their the standard game or the Complete Edition of Horizon Zero Dawn can upgrade to the PS5 remaster for $10. This offer includes anyone who owns the game via the Play at Home initiative that was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic.“ 😷 👍

Upgrade is quite big, went from look good to looking stellar. Happy that we get that!

For $10 visuals/frame rate sure. The artstyle already blended things well so resolution and frame rate besides the PS5 update it got sure whatever. For those it interests why not.

Did they say 10+ hours of content, re-recorded audio or new audio I couldn't understand it in the showcase?

I'm not buying this anyway but just trying to make sure I heard them right.

Have the standard edition on disk (not playstation hits copy either) and play at home complete edition digital when that was a thing (how I played it, I skipped the disk and the DLCs and got it with play at home and went eh I'll play it then went eh 20 hours, played to see enough of what each quest/other tasks in the environment is like and general gameplay is like, pass).

@LowDefAl it’s not the performance capture was redone for the dialogue sequences but has been done for the first time for them. In the original they didn’t use motion capture but instead had the models manipulated like animatronic puppets, which is why they felt so unnatural

@SuntannedDuck2 they recorded new motion capture for the dialogue sequences in the game as in the first game they simply manipulated the character models like animatronic puppets. Gave the characters in these sequences a real uncanny valley vibe. Think Disney Worlds Hall of Presidents attraction for comparison

I'm gonna replay this after the Remaster launch. I love the gameplay of HFW, but the story of HZD is just so good. Only issue I ever had was the cringy Uncanny Valley of the conversations.

Yo I’m so hyped for this they went above and beyond and for the 10 upgrade it’s a no brainer this ***** looks amazing

This is the way. Lets hope I can snatch a PS5PRO to check it out.

Oh nice! I missed that. Cool that makes it even better!

As long as they didn't tweak the gameplay to play like Forbidden West. I still can't believe what a downgrade that sequel was.

Oh yeah, I forgot how janky the NPC talking animations were. Cleaning those up is worth the price alone.

@MFTWrecks lol downgrade smh the combat in the sequel was better in every way and didn’t allow you to use one op weapon so the combat didn’t get stale at the halfway point like it did in Zero Dawn

It looks good to me for the price of a sandwich; HZD is a 10/10 game with an incredible narrative. For the 3rd game, I hope Guerrilla goes back to the style of the original; FW got pretty silly at the end.

@dark_knightmare2 Waste. Unnecessary as hell.

They didn’t mention anything about the lighting or colors but they seem way more realistic here. I was kinda bummed about the rumors of the remaster but seeing it now… it’s definitely worth $10. Will be playing it this Halloween, I suppose!

A bit weird as they just removed forbidden west from extra. Poor timing or perhaps trying to get people to buy forbidden west after playing the horizon remaster, either way, poor.

@LowDefAl
Cheers for the reply. Yeah now you mention it I'm sure I have the ps4 version DLC in my library from when it was gave away, I just never bothered to download it. So I think I will buy the £10 upgrade and play the original again and DLC before getting forbidden west at somepoint.

The big question: Will it play at 4K 60 fps on base ps5s? Because the ps4 version can do that now. If it can't why would anyone upgrade unless they're getting a ps5 pro?

Is it exciting? Not at all but to their credit it does look a bit better facial animation-wise and it's only $10 so it's tough to get too upset about it. I'm just glad this isn't what they closed the show on.

Price genuinely matters for something like this and Sony uncharacteristically got it right on this one. It's completely unnecessary as the game already looked great, but $10 for a texture and model mod basically? Sure, fair enough.

If I hadn't already got platinum and hadn't already switched switched to PC I'd have upgraded. Even for $12 on steam for the old version though, I already played it and can't see playing through it again, much as I love it.

Put over 200 hours into the main game and DLC on PS4 but for $10, might as well upgrade even if I don't plan to revisit it anytime soon.

@dark_knightmare2 Funny. I didn't mention the combat as being the problem. Concerned someone has a different opinion than you? You hafta white knight for a videogame now?

@-Sigma- thanks for that insightful contribution bravo

@dark_knightmare2 No problem. Thanks.

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk It's included. Don't worry.

We’re never getting a worthy remaster like Resistance or killzone are we? Just pointless remasters of recent games that already look and run fine.

Since it didn't take time from the main dev team working on the eventual sequel, and it's being sold only as a 10$ upgrade, i guess it's ok, and I'm gonna buy it.
BUT
What irks me is that Sony chose again to remaster a game that didn't need it, while still grossly ignoring games that really do... like Bloodborne, the first 3 Uncharted games etc.

Another superfluous remaster. Why does anyone need this?

@Shinnok789 Exactly. All we want is Bloodborne. Why is it so hard, Sony?

I would like to know if it is the visuals of the base game or Burning Shores? Not sure what they did but Burning Shores looked amazing. I think it was the cloud system them added which really helped.

@Arnna Bloodborne will come I’ll bet my life on it

@ZeD It should be based on burning shores mate. That was PS5 only which is why it could show that improvement.

Been looking for a reason to go back to the zero dawn game and a £10 upgrade is the reason I needed!

@Titntin it makes sense to based on Burning Shore. It looked stunning.

@Orpheus79V they will ask to pay 10$ for the upgrade, which I find fair.
Ah, it's official:
https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/24/horizon-zero-dawn-remastered-is-coming-to-ps5-pc-october-31-2024/

"For existing owners of Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4, PC) and/or Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition (PS4, PS5, PC): you can upgrade to the digital version of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered for $9.99 on both PlayStation 5 console and on PC (via Steam or Epic Game Store). This includes fans who added the game to their libraries during PlayStation’s Play At Home initiative. 5 "

@Shinnok789 It shouldnt irk you at all.
This title needed a little work anyway ahead of the PC release and was intended to launch with the TV series (since cancelled). The LOU remaster apparently sold 18 million, so its a no brainer for them, and theres clearly a market.
Bloodborn sold 7.5 million. Its simply not as sure fire a revenue driver as other titles.
Sony can only invest in smaller or unproven ips if it makes money on its established franchises, thats simple buisness economics.

@Fishysensei Killzone 2 sold 2.5 million. Its smallfry and thats why its unlikely to be remastered.
I enjoyed though, so I wouldnt mind!

but can i get the PC version upgrade for a tenner?

@BellEvil @LiamCroft Actually great move. Wasn't expecting it.

I'm interested but only if a physical release is coming/planned.

Not sure if Sony are doing that, from the announcement sadly doesn't appear to be the case but hopefully I'm proven wrong!

to me 10$ to play a better version of a game i enjoyed i'll gladly do it. i'll not pay full price for it though, but these 10$ upgrade's i'll more then happy to replay it again. since saves carry over i'll be able to do a ng+ on the new version.

So those of us that bought on disk for the PS4 but now have a digital PS5 we are SOL?

@Arnna no one needs this. Same way you don’t need Bloodborne. But you want it, right? Same way it seems a bunch of people in this thread want this… 🤷🏾‍♂️

@GreatAuk nope. Works the same way either way.

This game is more of a soft-remake than a remaster. 10 hours of re-mocapped cutscenes and re-recorded dialogue. The game looks absolutely fantastic and totally worth a $10 upgrade.

10 Bucks is okay. I'll pay that. I wanted to re-re-re-replay the game soon anyway. I love the lore of Zero Dawn! Forbidden West a bit less so.

@AhmadSumadi

Wait, I can pay 10 dollars to get the upgrade? How do they know I bought the game to begin with?

@GreatAuk you don’t even need to have bought it. As long as you’ve downloaded it you can get the upgrade. They gave it away free during COVID. Even those users can get the $10 upgrade.

@GreatAuk if you have the game you can upgrade it , including the free copy that was given away during covid.

@AhmadSumadi

But I only have the disk that I used to play on the PS4. I don't have it installed on my PS5 since it's the digital version, no disk drive.

How do they know I bought it? I don't get it.

@PloverNutter Thanks that helps a lot. I had no issue with the facial animations but sure if they wanted mo cap then squash and stretch and otherwise for animations sure makes sense to do so. Not $10 upgrade worth it or full new purchase. Why wasn't it part of the prior PS5 update for the game. Sigh.

Visual upgrade, sure.

@SuntannedDuck2 the original PS5 update wasn’t an actual update to the game. It was just combining the graphics and performance modes the game had separately on ps4 pro.

The reason this is getting a $10 cost is because they had to record over 10 hours of mocap performances since there is a lot of dialogue sequences in the game. They als added new textures, no loading times, advanced lighting and ray tracing, and new character models. It really is a big overhaul. I have been playing the game on ps5 for the first time in years and the footage of the update shown is really impressive

Will you be able to do gyro aiming?

Straight from the Playstation Blog:

"Owners of the Horizon Zero Dawn PS4 game disc can access this offer by inserting the game disc into their PS5 console (and will need to keep the disc inserted each time to play the game). PS4 game disc owners who buy the PS5 Digital Edition disc-free console will not be able to access the upgrade offer."

So I am in fact SOL. Oh well.

@PloverNutter See that description makes more sense. It's still a bit eh $10 for it and also why have a team focus on this. Also gyro aim a thing in this upgrade no?

But you explained more (likely PS Blog or other sources) then the presentation did and didn't even have in a small fine print did they?

I can see more reason for $10 now with the more you have detailed as I can see the effort made there more now then they said in the presentation.

@SuntannedDuck2 the team that did the hozion remaster is nixxes , which only does remasters , and pc ports. thats why they bought them.

@twitchtvpat I"m aware of Nixxes. I thought they mostly did the PC releases, not the remasters.

I get they can have more possible things they handle so the main teams don't have to bother splitting others off to do so (it is why they have them so they don't have a Bluepoint [prior to their purpose now of course with their in development game], Sanzaru, Mass Media or others like they did PS3/Vita era remasters) I just didn't think far enough towards the remaster side of things mostly PC releases.

So that clarifies things a bit more then I was thinking very narrow prior indeed. Thanks.

@SuntannedDuck2 they started off just doing pc , but they are also handling a lot of the ps5 remasters now. it took a while , but i think the games that come out the rest of the year 25/26 are going to make people happy.