Days Gone Review Thread (See Staff Post)

[Aztechnology]

Looks like another Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Fun for folks that are into that kind of gameplay but a pass for most. Both scored in the 70s.

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By the end of Ghost Recon Wildlands I wanted to end so badly. I've never been so bored of a game by the end before. The world was souless, with no reaction or dynamic nature to it from your actions. Calling it like that from what we are hearing seems apt.

 

[EssCee]

Some savage scores for sure, now, where's Syphon FIlter?

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It'll be made by another studio once Shu closes Sony Bend


Kidding, this game will sell well and they'll make back their budget. If they were smart they'd take the horde mechanic and apply it to another game/IP - hopefully one with multiplayer/co-op

 

[Nintendo]

The best you can do is look at Days Gone's score and compare it to other games of its ilk. It's there that you see that the game is way below similar games in terms of reception.

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Dying Light is only 74 on MC.

 

[Jeffram]

The best part of this is vindication for Dan Ryckert and Giant Bomb. All the fanboys of this game were shitting on him and his impressions, dismissing him as the "only one who didn't like the game, and couldn't even articulate why".

Turns out he, like so many other times at Giant Bomb, was just one of the few who were willing to call it like they see it.

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So 8 out of 10 is good and 7 out of 10 is dismissible "crap"?

Dan was being hyperbolic.

 

[Silky]

Looks like another Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Fun for folks that are into that kind of gameplay but a pass for most. Both scored in the 70s.

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I would like to imagine that Wildlands is a better game than Days Gone considering it's design flow? That you don't HAVE to follow the game's main story route and just, head straight for the boss to kick his ass?

I hope well for the Bend guys.

I gotta say, this type of game doesn't really interest me at all, and generally these types of games are always criticized heavily in reviews. I would have wished they went for a more distinctive type of game like a Resistance spiritual successor.

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distinctive video game

another shooter

 

[YuSuzzune]

All going as expected. Not a terrible game but not even a good one.

 

[DeathyG]

Getting reviewed like Mad Max and Dying Light, two of my favorite games this gen.

Pretty sure I'm going to love this.

 

[Kismet]

EDGE review should be interesting hehe

 

[Blackbird]

Are people talking about this in other reviews?

It would be pretty crazy to see the hordes being such a minor element of the game, considering how hard it was sold by its marketing campaign and reveal.

By Waypoint's Article.

 

[Duxxy3]

Publishers really need to rethink the whole "everything needs to be open world" approach.

 

[Richter1887]

I hope Bend gets another shot at this. They got the formula down so a sequel could be really great. Hope it sells well.

Ghost of Tsushima is next and they(Sucker punch) are doubly fucked as Sekiro is already out.

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Yeah sure I enjoyed the Kurosawa style cinematics or the horse riding in Sekiro.

Oh wait...

 

[IIFloodyII]

...then...

I still don't really understand why people call Horizon ZD as a turnaround story when Guerilla is known to make successful games before it?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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HZD is just on a different level of success, over 10m for a new I.P is just insanely huge, but it's not GG's first, just by far their biggest.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

EDGE review should be interesting hehe

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i expect a 5 or 6.

 

[CloseTalker]

It's funny because I voted for the 70-79 metacritic score in the poll but I was actually expecting it to land somewhere in the low 80s. It sounds like this game is kind of what everyone expected: it's a game with cool ideas/moments but overall it's aggressively mediocre (at best). It's by no means a terrible game but just very "meh".

I have no interest in playing this game but honestly I kind of hope they get the chance to make a sequel as it sounds like this game could be a good foundation for a future game.

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It's just funny because this was one game where I got into some pretty genuine debates with folks who swore this was going to be a winner, and it got to the point where I kept doing double takes and thinking to myself "seriously now, are we looking at the same game? Am I taking crazy pills?".

I feel like anyone should have seen this coming from a mile away, at no point did the game ever exude that "something special" to put it ahead of the pack. I tried my best to give it the benefit of the doubt, because I don't actively want any game to fail, but I had no idea what the fans of this game were seeing that I wasn't.

 

[Deleted member 32018]

It's a good game. And that, yes, makes me happy :)

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Well I'm glad you are happy and I hope you enjoy the game but "It's a good game" is not a factual statement. Especially when there is enough evidence to disprove that. For a first party AAA game it's average at best imo as we expect higher quality from first party studios.

 

[Shogun]

It's an enthusiast forum. I'd rather see people excited about something than be constantly negative. I never thought days gone looked that great, but I've had so so games that excite the shit out of me just the same as anyone else.

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Your right. It is good to see people excited for games but at the same time people do get a bit carried away at times. Sony have fucking NAILED it this gen with their exclusive games being pretty much unmatched but at the same time I don't think we need a new thread to tell us Days gone has snow.

 

[IronicSonic]

Can't see I didn't see that coming. People expecting >80 surprise me.

"Born to be mild" title of IGN review was like I saw the game since the beginning

 

[Deleted member 8408]

Dying Light is a better game. Full stop.

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I actually have DL on both Steam and PS4 and haven't played either.

Maybe I should play DL for my zombie fix.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

Ghost of Tsushima is next and they(Sucker punch) are doubly fucked as Sekiro is already out.

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GoT will easily do 85+

 

[Neuromancer]

Lower scores than I expected, but I don't care. I'm still excited about it.

 

[travisbickle]

I wrote the Slant review and didn't go into a lot of the story stuff both for space reasons and perhaps being overly cautious re: spoilers, but the thing about the slaves is....yeah.

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The game tries to obfuscate some of the bad things Deacon does (or did in the past) so they're not TECHNICALLY slaves so much as people in a "work camp" or whatever and Deacon somehow acts confused about all this, and I can see some folks trying to defend it on those grounds, but...those are slaves, man.

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I'm not that interested in the game but this peaked my interest. It is set in a post-apocolyptical world and I wonder how many people would protect the vulnerable from being exploited under those conditions. For example in Austin's review, I wouldn't correlate a code of not shooting someone dead to protecting them from working in a forced labour camp when we all live with zombies outside the gates.

 

[Corky]

vinny at giantbomb seems to really like it atleast

 

[JohnnyMoses]

I can't believe some people are using the word "massacred". lol. It's a 72 on Metacritic!

Dying Light is a 74 on Metacritic and it's one of my favorite games this generation.

 

[Loudninja]

Are people talking about this in other reviews?

It would be pretty crazy to see the hordes being such a minor element of the game, considering how hard it was sold by its marketing campaign and reveal.

By Waypoint's Article.

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Eh? the game has 40 hordes 3 are story related we knew that for a long time now. Hordes was always just a enemy type.

 

[EssCee]

The edge review will drag the meta below 70 in the end

As for sony, they dont need a big first party game. They'll be fine coasting until the ps5

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They'll have TLOU2 release this fall and all will be forgotten and forgiven

 

[Rodjer]

I actually have DL on both Steam and PS4 and haven't played either.

Maybe I should play DL for my zombie fix.

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DL with co-op on PC is the best open world zombie experience.

 

[Territories1]

GoT will easily do 85+

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Nah, good graphics but story and gameplay look spookie, i predict a 77-82

 

[OrdinaryPrime]

The best part of this is vindication for Dan Ryckert and Giant Bomb. All the fanboys of this game were shitting on him and his impressions, dismissing him as the "only one who didn't like the game, and couldn't even articulate why".

Turns out he, like so many other times at Giant Bomb, was just one of the few who were willing to call it like they see it.

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Dan doesn't need vindication, I doubt he cares. He's a guy who records himself farting in his sleep 😂

 

[Deleted member 13798]

Looks like another Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Fun for folks that are into that kind of gameplay but a pass for most. Both scored in the 70s.

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The he narrative around that game here still baffles me. It was a good game, and was successful: Wildlands sold 4 million units in its first 6 months. I don't see how that's categorized as a pass for most, and I'm willing to bet with the heavy marketing Sony has been doing, as well as their general track record even mediocre reviews are not going to stop this from being a successful sales hit.

I'm a bit surprised by the trend towards the middle as far as the reviews go, but I'm still looking forward to playing it on Friday. There's no way it can be more disappointing or bad than Just Cause 4

 

[thepenguin55]

Bend will survive to strong sales. IP will not.

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I hope so. As uninterested in this game as I am I'd really prefer that a bunch of people didn't lose their jobs.

 

[Danielsan]

Pretty much what I expected.

 

[CloseTalker]

So 8 out of 10 is good and 7 out of 10 is dismissible "crap"?

Dan was being hyperbolic.

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A lot of these scores are less than a 7/10. Metacritic might still be in the 70s, but there are some genuinely bad scores here.

This ain't the hill to die on bud haha

 

[Odesu]

I wrote the Slant review and didn't go into a lot of the story stuff both for space reasons and perhaps being overly cautious re: spoilers, but the thing about the slaves is....yeah.

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The game tries to obfuscate some of the bad things Deacon does (or did in the past) so they're not TECHNICALLY slaves so much as people in a "work camp" or whatever and Deacon somehow acts confused about all this, and I can see some folks trying to defend it on those grounds, but...those are slaves, man.

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Gotta say, that seems like a huuuge misstep to just ignore during a review :o

 

[get2sammyb]

There are some crazy overreactions in this thread. The game's entertaining; it never, ever looked like some Game of the Year winning magnum opus. It's exactly what the Metacritic of 71 suggests it is: good, honest open world entertainment.

Like I wrote in my review, it's gaming comfort food: unremarkable but enjoyable all the same.

 

[Iwao]

Dying Light is a better game. Full stop.

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Well yes, it appears that way.

 

[apieceofstrange]

I wrote the Slant review and didn't go into a lot of the story stuff both for space reasons and perhaps being overly cautious re: spoilers, but the thing about the slaves is....yeah.

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The game tries to obfuscate some of the bad things Deacon does (or did in the past) so they're not TECHNICALLY slaves so much as people in a "work camp" or whatever and Deacon somehow acts confused about all this, and I can see some folks trying to defend it on those grounds, but...those are slaves, man.

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Not defending it and I obviously haven't played the game so I don't know exactly how the concept is being conveyed, but isn't slave trade a fairly common theme in post apocalyptic stories? Mad Max and Fallout are two series that immediately come to mind.

Anyway, this game is looking like a big letdown. I had pre-ordered it years ago for $40 and I'm still debating cancelling.

 

[Dre3001]

These scores have me shocked. If you go back far enough in my post history I legitimately believed this game was going to be a huge hit (85-90s score) and was surprised everyone was so down on it.

Looks like I wasn't seeing what everyone else was.

Hopefully the sales are decent enough to warrant a sequel.

 

[BDS]

This game is basically the Silence from Doctor Who, I completely forget it exists when I'm not actively looking at it. One of the most forgettable, generic-looking AAA games I've seen in years and I'm shocked it's from a major Sony studio.

 

[Ocarina_117]

The game looked mediocre from the first reveal. Not surprised by the reviews I've seen

 

[i-hate-u]

I would like to imagine that Wildlands is a better game than Days Gone considering it's design flow? That you don't HAVE to follow the game's main story route and just, head straight for the boss to kick his ass?



distinctive video game

another shooter

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A Resistance-type shooter, what other games that are like it on the market? Doom? Halo?

 

[GTVision]

I guess most of us PlayStation fans just want to see another horizon-ZD turnaround story but alas, it was not to be.

Not saying days gone us a bad game by any means but if your development house is under the same umbrella with studios that produced uncharted, TLOU, god of war, horizon ZD among others, the contrast of quality in terms of output is much more noticeable.

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So true. Unfortunately they couldn't make a more than average game out of this, even though Sony gave them the time and (i reckon) resources to do so.
Hopefully for them it still turns into a commercial success so Sony has a reason to keep them on. Otherwise I doubt Sony will give them another shot at such a big project.

 

[Guaraná]

Dying Light is a hell of a game and the score in Meta is 74...i just dont understand all this commotion

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Different kind of games, though.

 

[HussiZooT]

As expected. I wanted to eat crow. I wanted to be wrong.

But this game never looked better than what was shown. I want Bend to be able to make up with sales for this game. I'll buy for support, but man... this direction looked wrong from the get-go.

Okay, not get-go, the first showing was impressive but every other showing post that has been surprisingly sub-par. I kept hoping they would somehow reel me in but I kept seeing a game that didn't look compelling at all.

Anyway, best of luck to Bend. I'll be buying my copy in a month or so. Busy with DMCV and Sekiro at the moment.

 

[Masagiwa]

Wait what? Horde is a late game stuff??

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It is?

 

[TheRulingRing]

Man I'm surprised at the amount of people saying they'll wait to get this on sale in here.

..surely your time is worth enough not to be spending it on this.

 

[Proven]

This game looked really generic from the start, but a lot of the recent optimism made me think it might end up being pretty decent. I voted for the 70-79 score and thought it would be in the mid to high 70's. The game got really mixed reviews from the previews. 72 isn't a terrible score but really bad compared to other Sony games.

I guess gut impressions and years of thinking this game looked generic actually came to fruition.

 

[WordsintheWater]

This is the problem when people on this site run full fucking free PR campaigns for games and studios and let their hype get wildly out of control. We get the usual faces posting multiple upon multiple threads pulled from the official PlayStation site/blog with no thoughts of their own, just copy and pasted videos. We got a hype thread with people discussing the glowing previews. It happens all the time but it's overlooked because it's strangely the norm. It's no wonder people expect the world and then feel let down when a game just turns out to be average to good.

I'll be picking this up in a few months with a heavy discount no doubt. The horde mechanic looks great, sadly it seems like it's not used enough.

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People post about what they are excited about, what a shocking revelation. People make hype threads for games they're buying, who cares. It's on us to parse out the articles and stuff posted here and make our decisions. I'm not faulting people for posting about things they like. That's just weird to me.

 

[Deleted member 437]

Stop with the Syphon Filter nonsense. They days of Syphon Filter games are gone.

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Why is it nonsense again?
A reboot would be at least pretty fresh setting instead of more zombies.

 

[Memento]

Even if it sells well, I wonder... will Sony greenlight a sequel or maybe new IP?

 

[nib95]

This is the problem when people on this site run full fucking free PR campaigns for games and studios and let their hype get wildly out of control. We get the usual faces posting multiple upon multiple threads pulled from the official PlayStation site/blog with no thoughts of their own, just copy and pasted videos. We got a hype thread with people discussing the glowing previews. It happens all the time but it's overlooked because it's strangely the norm. It's no wonder people expect the world and then feel let down when a game just turns out to be average to good.

I'll be picking this up in a few months with a heavy discount no doubt. The horde mechanic looks great, sadly it seems like it's not used enough.

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Tbh, that happens for all the platforms. There are literally posters who have entire post histories of posting mostly news threads, OT's etc related to a particular platform, that said, I don't necessarily mind it. This forum is so damn toxic and negative that sometimes the news or PR as you put it, helps balance things out somewhat.