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I'm really, really enjoying the game so far. I didn't have much time to play this weekend, but I sunk about 5=+hours into it, maybe? Love the setting and atmosphere. The controls and gunplay are really good as well.
A fun thing that happened last night: I was sneaking around a small camp, planning my stealth kill strategy for some human enemies, when they started yelling and shooting, and I'm like, "what the hell, how did they spot me?" Apparently, some wolves had wandered into their camp, and they were shooting at them. So I killed the other dudes while the rest were distracted by the wolves, then looted the corpses of everyone left. The wolves were eventually killed by the remaining guys. I love emergent gameplay like that.
A fun thing that happened last night: I was sneaking around a small camp, planning my stealth kill strategy for some human enemies, when they started yelling and shooting, and I'm like, "what the hell, how did they spot me?" Apparently, some wolves had wandered into their camp, and they were shooting at them. So I killed the other dudes while the rest were distracted by the wolves, then looted the corpses of everyone left. The wolves were eventually killed by the remaining guys. I love emergent gameplay like that.
Man, many of the review scores were so off base on this game. It's incredible.
The graphics may be the best I've ever seen. The story is excellent and well told. The characters are believable and down to earth (the facial animations are outstanding). The whole bike system is super good. Etc...
Not only is this game infinitely better than a 5-6.5, it's gonna be hard to beat out as my game of the year.
The graphics may be the best I've ever seen. The story is excellent and well told. The characters are believable and down to earth (the facial animations are outstanding). The whole bike system is super good. Etc...
Not only is this game infinitely better than a 5-6.5, it's gonna be hard to beat out as my game of the year.
It's always great when you take a chance on a game critics have slammed and it ends up being amazing. I feel bad for the devs at Bend that had to endure those harsh criticisms and the pressure of being compared to GOW and TLOU. They've created something truly special and I hope word of mouth makes the game successful enough to get a sequel greenlit.
The biggest thing for me is I love the game more, the more I play it. Usually it's the other way around in long games like this. The charcters and story are so realistic and relatable, I can't stop playing.
HELP:
I forgot how to soften a landing on the bike. They told me hold, but I forgot, and I'm trying to get used to it since I enjoy flying off ramps.
I forgot how to soften a landing on the bike. They told me hold, but I forgot, and I'm trying to get used to it since I enjoy flying off ramps.
Use the normal movement controls to try and line your tyres up with the ground so you land flat, I think.
Left thumb stick controls the bike in air, up and down.
Has the crossbow been nerfed in one of the patches?
I used the pre-order (I think) crossbow and it would always one hit kill regardless of hit location, now the basic zombies seem to shrug off chest shots and the weird blue bolts have zero effect, as in their special effect just does not activate.
Is the DLC crossbow borked perhaps?
On the plus side, hiding in a shrub and watching the wandering horde you bumped into drown an ambush camp is pretty sick.
I used the pre-order (I think) crossbow and it would always one hit kill regardless of hit location, now the basic zombies seem to shrug off chest shots and the weird blue bolts have zero effect, as in their special effect just does not activate.
Is the DLC crossbow borked perhaps?
On the plus side, hiding in a shrub and watching the wandering horde you bumped into drown an ambush camp is pretty sick.
Anyone else stealthing their way through the game? I'm constantly hopping from bush to bush in this game and I love it. I don't have any space in my inventory because I'm not using anything. I can spend so much time hidden in a bush.
I'm never going to finish this game.
I'm never going to finish this game.
I started playing on 1.0.3 and the crossbow only one hit when it was a headshot. That was with standard arrows, as I have not unlocked any at that time.
Really?
I was snagging these things by their shoelaces and dropping them. Believe me, my fine motor skills are not suited to the aiming in this game.
EDIT: Looked regarding patch stuff online, one or two threads on other sites with inconsistent remarks about damage, but no idea.
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Headshots have always been the only one-hit kill location for me with the crossbow.
Use can kill them from pretty far away just using a pistol. If you have the slow down time ability thing it helps out.
And they did nerf the crossbow as it does not do one-hit kills anymore unless it's a headshot.
Weird. Maybe it's just a combo of the OP DLC crossbow, difficulty level and distance?
Most of my crossbow antics were done whilst running away and shooting at the chasing zombies, that's why I was disregarding head shots/fine aim for myself.
Hm...I'll have to have another look.
Still doesn't explain the blue bolts just having zero effect though
Finally took out my first horde. The one in White King Mine. Waited till they all went out at night, snuck into the mine to get all the stuff and then laid a proximity mine on the bridge that they needed to cross to get back and waited with some grenades/Molotovs. Nice and easy.
They seem to be working on that
https://www.reddit.com/r/DaysGone/comments/bidc22/days_gone_105_patch_notes/
Agreed.
It's like most of the review outlets had a grudge against this game or something and the reviews that are giving it piss-poor scores like sub-5's and such; like what the fuck?? What game did they play??
Excellent!
Thank you :)
Oh yes. Encountered one "dead" group in a tunnel. Omg it scared the shit out of me when they suddenly attacked me lol
I've been using that crossbow and playing on Hard, but maybe so. The blue bolts have always worked for me, too.
After playing this for a few hours yesterday I can safely say it's better than what most of the reviews made it out to be, and the variety of ways you can tackle encounters is nice, though I'm finding the combat itself just not very satisfying from a control and reactivity standpoint. By reactivity I mean things like hit decals on zombies (shot a zombie point blank in the head and not even a simple blood spatter effect). It's a bit jarring coming off World War Z that has this detailed dismemberment system where you can really see the effect of where each bullet hits. There's just a sort of floaty disconnect where the weapons lack the oomph I want them to have in terms of both sounds and enemy reaction. The melee animations and kills are pretty satisfying though.
Game is certainly aces at the realistic art style yet somehow manages to look sort of bland overall, as one that's no stranger to PNW climes the muted palette is to be expected in a rainy deciduous environment, but the overall world presentation is a bit lacking. It feels more Ubi layout style wrt camps and other locations rather than a more seamless, organic looking forested region. I guess RDR2 spoiled the shit out of us on that front (though base gameplay is certainly more enjoyable in DG). I guess it doesn't help that there feels like there's almost no down time for pure exploration and there's always some jackass barking at you through your radio, and you can't drive more than half a minute without getting popups for 'clear out x location 0/9' or whatever your next task is. It feels too cluttered. It's like damn Bend let your game breathe a minute with the player, this shit don't have to feel like work.
I know I'm mostly harping on it but it is more in depth than I initially expected and other comparisons to certain aspects of MGSV feel appropriate, if only the controls felt as nice. I'll tackle it more later on today.
Game is certainly aces at the realistic art style yet somehow manages to look sort of bland overall, as one that's no stranger to PNW climes the muted palette is to be expected in a rainy deciduous environment, but the overall world presentation is a bit lacking. It feels more Ubi layout style wrt camps and other locations rather than a more seamless, organic looking forested region. I guess RDR2 spoiled the shit out of us on that front (though base gameplay is certainly more enjoyable in DG). I guess it doesn't help that there feels like there's almost no down time for pure exploration and there's always some jackass barking at you through your radio, and you can't drive more than half a minute without getting popups for 'clear out x location 0/9' or whatever your next task is. It feels too cluttered. It's like damn Bend let your game breathe a minute with the player, this shit don't have to feel like work.
I know I'm mostly harping on it but it is more in depth than I initially expected and other comparisons to certain aspects of MGSV feel appropriate, if only the controls felt as nice. I'll tackle it more later on today.
Still loving the game. I'm taking a melee heavy approach so far (although I somehow lost my favorite machete despite keeping it repaired). I use the crossbow a lot as well, and really enjoy turning enemies against each other!
I agree with a lot of what you said. Particularly when you're just trying to explore and you think you're in the clear, and then some freakers spawn and you have to either engage them or bolt from the area.
Bruh, this game is intense during the night.
Spent a good chunck of my resources fighting wolves and zombies at once while trying to jump over to the NERO center over the cliff. Why the hell are they buddying up against Deacon anyway?
So be it, decided to Look for another NERO checkpoint to rest until the day, but what do you know, it's freakin occupied by striders, just after I cleared it off the rippers during the day! Well, that was the end of Deacon.
Spent a good chunck of my resources fighting wolves and zombies at once while trying to jump over to the NERO center over the cliff. Why the hell are they buddying up against Deacon anyway?
So be it, decided to Look for another NERO checkpoint to rest until the day, but what do you know, it's freakin occupied by striders, just after I cleared it off the rippers during the day! Well, that was the end of Deacon.
The more I play the more I think I even prefer this game to Horizon Zero Dawn. And Horizon was my 2017 goty.
Finally got the game. Currently downloading the patch 1.0.5 (supposedly 19.65 or so GB??? I thought it was supposed to be bigger). Gonna play when I get home from college
Ok, now I love Bend even more.
So, anyone have any ideas what happened to this game in development? I just did the first Sara flashback, and I felt like I was watching a YouTube video were they splice all cut scene from a game together. It looks like there was originally game play moments that they cut out and then just edited the story beats from that part together. I really like the gameplay but if the rest of the scenes are going to be like that I'm going to stop playing, I'm thinking they had a issue with feature creep.
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No, the first cutscene is an exception in this game (you'll find out more later on). I'm about 8-10 hours in and I haven't seen similar jumps yet.
No, the first cutscene is an exception in this game (you'll find out more later on). I'm about 8-10 hours in and I haven't seen similar jumps yet.
So far there are definitely some weird "shouldn't this be gameplay" moments that are kind of jarring when they just skip.
BUT there is so much gameplay in the open world, I quickly get over it myself. :)
Doing too many Red side missions is the Hinterlands of Days Gone: you lose your focus on what matters..
I know which scene you're talking about. That one was jarringly put together. There was probably some cut content in between or something. The rest of the scenes are fine.
The game used to have player choices that got removed late in development. Maybe that's why.
So far I love this game. I gave yet to encounter a bug. Bike controls aren't really good but you get used to it... Other than that, the initial loading was kind of off putting and so were the other load screens during the intro. Had to adjust the volume equalizers to hear something (voice 10, sfx 7, music 6).
I just got off a two day binge playing this game. I wasn't really impressed by it during the first couple of hours, but the more you play it the better it gets. The world just draws you in. All this talk about this game being generic, but I can honestly say that I never played anything like it. Sure the gameplay mechanics are familiar. However, if you take the whole package for what it is, it's pretty unique and interesting. It's basically an open world The Walking Dead the video game.
I'll address your points in order:
- He's flirting with her, that's why he didn't just go straight for a "you need a ride."
- The cliche was clearly said ironically.
- I agree that his "that's the best thing I ever heard" wasn't a well written response, but justifying Sarah being where she is kind of necessitates exploring her background.
- I don't understand. So, because Deacon is from one location, everyone who resides there.. should also be the same?
- Surprise: not everyone is civil and talk things out. Surely the men stealing Sarah's car want to engage in a debate with Deacon, right? Come on.
- It was a good idea for Sarah to pull out Deacon's gun, he was getting ganged up on and beaten down. What's the problem?
- If the rednecks had a gun then that'd lead to a shootout. A shootout would defeat the purpose of that scene. Maybe Bend should have written a better scenario, but that's not something I'm going to get hung up on. This is called suspension of disbelief.
Yeah, let's agree to disagree on most of these, but specifically on your notion that escalating a conflict by pulling a firearm is a fantastic idea, doubly so when you clearly have no experience using one.
(also with my "what grown up thought this was cool", I was referring to the people writing that scene, but I guess now I know?)
why are the suppressors disappearing randomly after fast travel? had one on my rifle, fast travel, gone. bought a new one, fast travel, gone again...
The old Syphon Philter roll trumps the Souls game roll anyday. Good stuff!
I faced a bug yesterday that left the game practically unplayable, the framerate lowered to something around 8 ~ 12. Probably because I had left the console on standby a few hours earlier with the game running.
Had to restart the console to fix it.
Had to restart the console to fix it.
That's the question I ask every time I play the game - what fucking game did they play, because Days Gone is incredible. lol
user reviews can´t be taken seriously though, there are enough fanboys going like "fuck reviews. this game is a 10!" as there are people going like "fuck this game! 0/10"
never rely on user reviews and never rely on normal reviews, just play a game and if you like it, good, if not, also good. it is highly subjective, what one person likes about a game another person will hate it
for me the game is a 7 at best, too many things that could be much better and it does just nothing really great, it is ok-good, has its moments but too many things are just not done in a great way. it is really the Mafia III of 2019 so far, was also an ok-good game which was fun but nothing mindblowing or really well done.