Bikers are pretty cringey tbh so this doesn't really feel that out of place haha
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Days Gone Review Thread (See Staff Post)
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Bikers are pretty cringey tbh so this doesn't really feel that out of place haha
It's so stupid in zombie fiction when they don't call them zombies. Also, the good biker characters wear cool jackets, not shitty little vests. Main guy looks like he smokes meth.
I think it's pretty emblematic for how women are treated in games media that a reviews editor for a major site like Kallie Plagge is automatically assumed to have less credibility than some random guy with a moderately sized YouTube channel.
I'm racist for calling out shitty biker culture of my own skin color ok.
No need to call people losers for pointing out a very, very dumb line of dialogue.
Generally I don't think developers who put out a game with average scores in the 70's deserve to lose their jobs.
Really? You k ow what I meant. Got objective and subjective mixed. Get over it.
Yep. He clarifies in a tweet later that he's never had a bigger disparity between how much he enjoyed a game in previews, and how much he didn't enjoy it at launch.
Randomly in the world? Hmm, you might find one every hour or so? Maybe a little longer than that?
If any polish at all, think a delay was in order imho. I rather devs get the shit right vs launching games with all these annoying issues.
Not stunned - it was looking a little shaky all along. Really hope this isn't a big problem for Bend, they're a super talented team.
This kind of shit reminds me of the nonsense on GAF around Andromeda's release that resulted in Shinobi leaving the site. Disappointing to see it play out here as well. Someone's excited for a game on an enthusiast forum - if you don't like the threads, don't click them and/or ignore them and they go away... magic.
This kind of shit reminds me of the nonsense on GAF around Andromeda's release that resulted in Shinobi leaving the site. Disappointing to see it play out here as well. Someone's excited for a game on an enthusiast forum - if you don't like the threads, don't click them and/or ignore them and they go away... magic.
You'd think somebody who has been in the industry for several years and probably played countless preview builds over the years would be smarter than proclaiming something as "a hell of a game" after a couple of hours too. There's not even a link or direction to a more in-depth discussion about what he played.
It's true we shouldn't put much stock in a press previews but that's partly because they're prone to nonsense like this. Greg Miller isn't the only one guilty of this but it isn't informative or quality content so what's the point of it? A little self-awareness about the fact you're playing a preview and not the full game wouldn't go amiss, rather than just full on boarding the hype train based on a vertical slice.
If you exclude several PSVR games, there's still Knack 2, Drawn to Death, Tomorrow Children...
2 weeks is not much time at all even if you play hours and hours a day. And besides the point is that isn't how most people experience these games. So looking to reviews that are played in a totally different way with as much credibility as we give them is just insane to me. We need a new way.
I'm definitely still picking this game up. It's gorgeous, sounds like it's competent gameplay wise and I'm over most of the games I've been playing, and am back in the mood for some open world action that ISNT Assassins Creed.
I don't know what it is about those games, but they are just Ambien for me.
I don't know what it is about those games, but they are just Ambien for me.
Hm ok only thing I'm really interested in at this poing lol
I think it's fair if their behaviour is closer to a wild animal than it is to an actual zombie.
Never said you were racist but that comment definitely was. Who says you cant be racist against your own? I don't know much about biker culture but I do know lots of PoC that ride bikes and say things that are much worse than that line.
ya think? i mean, it never occurred to miller, who's been around a while, that the preview gameplay he loved so much might simply be repeated for another 30-40 hours? that he actually thought he'd be doing a whole bunch of, y'know, completely different stuff? there is no defense :) ...
I don't know. If I said to my girlfriend "I'm going to ride you" in front of Nun I think it would be f*cking horrible.
No, nothing to do with her being a woman. At least in my case. Some of my most trusted games reviewers and journalists are women. So don't play this card on me.
I regularly look to Lucy O'Briens work and Allanah Pierce for their impressions.
They are pretty mediocre on Days Gone as well, but that Gamespot review seemed pretty uncharitable. Especially in the context of her omissions on where the story goes.
This argument doesn't work for me because according to the impressions I've read this game takes itself very seriously.
The Easy Allies review seems very fair and makes me feel better about buying the game. They seemed to really enjoy everything about the game except for the numerous glitches they encountered. Having survived Fallout games, I'm okay with some glitching, lol. I'm sure more patches will help iron things out. I highly doubt this will be sent out to die.
By saying that we overvalue reviews and put to much weight into someone that experiences a game in a different way than most people do? Or that we need a new metric of measurement for how good or bad a game is?
This unironically makes me want to play this.
Shits funny. This is the tone they should have led with.
How does one go from
"Days Gone is a hell of a game. Sam Witwer and Courtnee Draper are great, the combat is fun, but the real hero is the world. It's fascinating to explore, littered with cool moments, and beautiful. You never know what's next."
to
"It's not a rewarding or particularly fun video game."
except they are not racist bikers? they literally try to save a latino woman named alvarez in the first 10 minutes of the game and they revenge her right after.
the bald guy best friend of deacon make a remark on the radio about how important is for him to take care of alvarez body.
also 2 of the main character and allies of deacon are respectively a black woman and a girl named patil, an indian name...
i mean, what other proof you need?
The game could still be a decent seller. There's plenty of games that despite middling reviews still manage to sell millions.
What if a freaker ate that nuns intestines during the ceremony?
There are plenty of movies, books etc etc that take themselves seriously that also include risqué humor.
I'd have to imagine Greg talked about his time with the game on the video content he produces for Kinda Funny. I think your criticism is more how shitty a platform for meaningful discussion Twitter is.
I'm not going to defend press preview events. If it were up to me I'd want them not to exist but with 'influencer' culture becoming more and more the norm in how companies interact with the public before games release, I still want journalists to attend so that influencers don't dominate a game's coverage before it releases.
The fact that Greg's tweet is getting any kind of traction on here is pretty bizarre to me. The fact that Greg had a negative opinion of the game after his positive experience with a demo is a testament to his integrity and not something for him to be derided for. It shouldn't be a mystery to anyone why the experiences could be very different and his opinion of the original demo experience isn't wrong because he didn't like the full product.
My girlfriend is pretty vulgar. I could literally see her saying something like it. She has no fucks to give.
