Horizon Forbidden West [PS, PC] (2024)

iroboto said:

if you only have a ps5, you can't force the store to sell you the ps4 digital edition. So you have to buy it with a PS4 or get a PS4 disc to get the free upgrade.

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On the web store I can see both:
Horizon Forbidden West™ (PS4™) at £59.99
Horizon Forbidden West™ (PS5™) at £69.99

I don't usually pre-order before reviews but I've pre-ordered the PS4 version in case the shifty bastards at Sony decide to change their policy again. Thank you, UK consumers rights.

BRiT said:

Right now Sony only has a single Digital edition for Horizon Forbidden West listed. It's $70 for PS4 or PS5. So they raised the price for lastgen to $70. My that's some moves there Jim Ryan.

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https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/horizon-forbidden-west/

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Try this

US
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10000886/

GB
https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/concept/10000886/

DSoup said:

On the web store I can see both:
Horizon Forbidden West™ (PS4™) at £59.99
Horizon Forbidden West™ (PS5™) at £69.99

I don't usually pre-order before reviews but I've pre-ordered the PS4 version in case the shifty bastards at Sony decide to change their policy again. Thank you, UK consumers rights.

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yea the webstore will give access. Nice!

BRiT said:

So will they drop the price of PS5 edition down to $60? Cause as it stands now, you'd have to a fool to buy the PS5 edition for $70 at the start.

Your two options to buy are:

1. $60 for PS4 edition and FREE Upgrade to PS5 Edition
2. $70 for PS5 edition ONLY and no PS4 edition

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This is what I'm waiting for. I have the PS5 version preordered. I'll move it to the PS4 and save $10 bucks if the PS5 version doesn't move on price.

BRiT said:

So will they drop the price of PS5 edition down to $60? Cause as it stands now, you'd have to a fool to buy the PS5 edition for $70 at the start.

Your two options to buy are:

1. $60 for PS4 edition and FREE Upgrade to PS5 Edition
2. $70 for PS5 edition ONLY and no PS4 edition

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it was already a case with miles morales, I bought cheaper ps4 versin and had free update to ps5

And there we go, that didn’t take long …

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...-ps4-to-ps5-upgrade-policy-following-backlash

And note they promise it will be for all their announced first party titles yet to be released.

Arwin said:

And there we go, that didn’t take long …

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Nothing new covered in that article over the direct blog statement posted on Saturday in the thread [ https://forum.beyond3d.com/posts/2220916/ ]. I was thinking something more happened when you said "and there we go".

I presume it is nothing more than that the default RRP for PS5 gen games is 10$ higher than for PS4 games.

[mention]BRiT [/mention] I missed that that was already discussed, apologies.

I tried to move most general current-gen and last-gen pricing discussion to an existing thread, possibly missed some posts but hopefully it's enough to continue discussion here: https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/nextgen-games-new-70-price-point-and-paid-upgrades-2020-07.61859/

I found part two really interesting. I followed a little bit in HZD but not enough to catch the whole saga. Part two really makes the HZD universe interesting. Awesome!

Looks nice, but wow her feet are very not connected to the ground at the end of that. Bug?

Regards,
SB

From what I could see here, and I am going to talk only about the gameplay / design here, they added a few interesting things but they learned not much from Horizon 1.

The new water environment is nice and the verticality dimension will bring more options to the combat (which will still be the best thing about Horizon). But based on this (and what we have seen before) I'd say the general handling of the character (except bow handling which is OK) hasn't evolved at all. It was okay back then, but now it's jank. Currently I am playing Nioh and before that I had doubts but now I am sure of what I am going to say. In many 3st person games the character controls like sh*t by design. They have no excuses anymore.

Then the FOV is still too narrow, please just reduce the details and show us more of the world. No excuses again as in many recent games you can improve the FOV with no apparent downsides.

Now the melee hasn't evolved much and is still way too slow and laggy, I don't care to show off a virtual character in slow poses, I want immediate and effective strikes. In higher difficulties we'll have no choice than to stay at distance and use the responsive bow. Also the fact that the game relies so much at slow motion moments is proof that the game handling hasn't evolved at all. Indeed we'll need to slow the action in order to beat the foes because the camera and character are not responsive enough (and FOV too narrow) to be able to fight against ennemies fast as lighting (and who will still perfectly and annoyingly predict where we'll stand in the next few seconds).

Finally I fear that the world (including the water) will still look like a lifeless decorum where exploration will still be useless. A beautiful world with no real reward to explore it, so sad. And while verticality is nice, it's too easy and uninteresting as the path is labelled with no possibility to fail (so again, exploration is discouraged). They could learn so much from games like Kena (), even the last Tomb raider had interesting exploration and verticality.

snc said:

for me graphics looks great only problem have with lack of vegetation interaction, looks bad and shouldn't happen on ps5 version

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Indeed. But I doubt they'll fix it.