I accidentally unlocked Horizon Zero Dawn's N64 mode

3 years 8 months ago

A screenshot of Horizon Zero Dawn showing a very blocky Rost and Aloy.

Over the last week, I’ve sat through Horizon Zero Dawn‘s lengthy optimisation process more times than I care to count. Most people will only ever have to do this once when they play Horizon, but in my attempts to benchmark the game with lots of different graphics cards, it meant sitting through that 10-15 minute start-up sequence every time I put a new card inside my PC. Most times, it worked absolutely fine. But there was one occasion when something had clearly gone horribly, horribly wrong. I’d accidentally turned Horizon Zero Dawn into an N64 game.

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Author
Katharine Castle