• @[email protected]
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    1171 month ago

    Along with everything else, I find it so annoying that these games that totally didn’t need a remaster get one, and so many great older games just begging for a remaster that woud rake in cash dont get one.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because those need work. These are easy to slightly polish up and push as new game.

      Ps5 has literally only one new exclusive after all these years?

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        It has more than one… But it is incredibly lacking still.

        But it got Astrobot, Destruction All-stars are both new IPs. There is also Spider-Man 2 and Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart for first party. And you can throw in Stella Blade and FF7 Rebirth for now as well.

        I believe everything else is remakes or not exclusive to the PS5.

        Edit - ohhh scratch Ratchet and Clank off as well, that’s on PC. I thought it was the PS4 one that came to PC, but it is Rift Apart.

    • @[email protected]
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      They did it so they can sell more data from requiring a PSN account, also just more money from people buying it, I guess.

    • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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      It’s because those remakes take time to do a proper remake. I get the feeling Sony needed something fast for this one and Guerilla was able to turn it around without much effort on their part, at least compared to making a new game or remaking something older.

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        But it is, as a bundle.

        They’re having one HZD listing, for both copies If you buy it in 6 months you can still play the original release with no PSN and no remake changes, they just package the remake with it now on the store.

    • @[email protected]
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      If you already bought you can still download it can’t you? I have a bunch of other delisted games that still work fine

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        I bloody hope so, I added it to the list of games I’ve purchased on steam but never played last week

        • @[email protected]
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          Well, I can play the delisted original aoe2 and that’s been delisted for a long time, so I’m sure you’ll be fine.

    • MentalEdge
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      And you can actually still buy it there. Though for the now increased price.

    • @[email protected]
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      I have it too, and I was patiently waiting for Forbidden West to show up on GOG too, guess it’s not gonna happen now, yo ho ho?

  • Hal-5700X
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    The Sony shit show continues.

    Also if you bought the OG. You still can download and play it.

    • babybus
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      It’s funny that I could buy and play the original game, but not this remaster or the sequel. That’s because Sony doesn’t acknowledge that my country exists.

  • Lad
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    Lol remastering a 2017 game, mega cash grab.

    • @[email protected]
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      Of all the games that could benefit from a remastering in 2024, Horizon Zero Dawn would be among the last of them. That game still looks utterly gorgeous, ffs.

    • Moog Muskie
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      I checked GOG as soon as I saw this post. Hopefully they don’t take that down, too.

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        If Sony pulls it, they pull it. GOG wouldn’t have any options, it’s not theirs to sell, they are just a storefront.

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          The advantage and point of the DRM-Free nature of GOG is that once you download a game, it stays on your computer even if the game is removed and made unavailable to download. And you are able to download an “offline installer” file which can be backed up and used to install the game at any point in time even without an internet connection. So buying it on GOG knowing it may be removed is still hugely advantageous.

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            To play devils advocate, semi-similar is true on Steam for the most part. Even though the original was pulled by Sony, you can still download and play it if you previously purchased it.

            I do have an expansive offline library though, I admit. Though I’d also say that a company removing access to something you paid for is the most moral reason there is to pirate that something.

            • Moog Muskie
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              Yeah for sure. You can still download it from Steam at the moment if you already have a license for it, and probably for quite some years, so thank God for that. But if it ever stops being available for download for some reason from Steam, the game won’t be able to be downloaded at all anymore. On GOG, as long as you kept a backup of your personal installer file, the game will always be installable forever as long as you don’t lose your backups and there isn’t some crazy post-apocalyptic event that takes away our technology.

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      So basically if I get it on GOG and block it from accessing the net, I’m good?

        • SharkAttak
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          According to the other thread, the game asks for limited or full data collection anyway, so I was asking; maybe it’s just for performance analisys or smthg, but nowadays you can’t trust anyone.

  • @[email protected]
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    This original was already a privacy nightmare, even on GOG, which is why I was hesitant to buy it. Looks like I’m definitely pirating it now if I wanna play it. But hey, at least now we know why sony insisted on “remastering” it.

  • @[email protected]
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    Just pirate anything Sony puts out. This shit makes it clear that it’s not worth giving them a single dollar. And if we’re being really honest, all their games are super generic and very mid, you can just ignore them as a developer completely and you won’t miss out on anything.

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    This is not true in the literal sense.

    You cannot redeem HZD keys, and buy it as part of a bundle with both versions. They stopped selling it standalone.

    So you can get the upgrade for $10 if you already have it, or wait for a sale on the bundle.

    But in either case you can still play the original release without the PSN requirement even if bought after the remaster release.

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        Well they have structured the Remaster as a DLC upgrade that requires the base game license.

        So they would have to delist their new listing and create an entirely new release.

        Honestly 99% chance they did it this way to preserve the review history of the original game on the Remaster.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    Do you smell the sweet scent of money made by amassing more data from you and selling it.

    Hmmmmmmmmmm hmm!