One of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered's biggest glow-ups is because of a malfunction in the original that got missed because the open world was too big for Guerrilla to check everywhere
Oct. 23, 2024“It was extremely hard to check every nook and cranny”
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“Horizon Zero Dawn was our first open-world game,” he begins. “It featured locations over a 30+ square kilometer area in a 24-hour light cycle. It was extremely hard to check every nook and cranny of the world to see if the lighting functioned correctly. This was a location that malfunctioned.”
Does that mean that all of the other locations with malfunctioning lighting have been fixed in the remaster, too? “We can only hope,” Guerrilla’s studio directorteases with a wink. Fingers crossed – it’d certainly help justify it getting a remastered version less than eight years after its original launch, even if that feels like an age in comparison to The Last of Us Part 2’s three and a half year wait for a glow-up.
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