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Days Gone Review Thread (See Staff Post)
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Woman makes crude joke in church = ERA goes full Tipper Gore
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Also, I kinda dig how utterly crazy Review threads get. They're definitely the funniest shit on ERA.
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Also, I kinda dig how utterly crazy Review threads get. They're definitely the funniest shit on ERA.
I want to buy this digitally. Is there a way to avoid tax in US so i can just get a $60 gift card?
Absolutely. If the game is some kind of auteur, artistic take on gaming that's premise and gameplay are very "out there" and "wacko", then yes the game won't review that well with some reviewers.
That has nothing to do with what the other poster said, he said it could be the most divisive reviewed game which looking at Kojima's track record doesn't make sense.
MGSV had some serious flaws with the story and it still managed over 90, Kojima always delivers a special complete package and I don't see why it would be different even if it's trying new things, actually that's even a plus to it reviewing very high.
Yeah, the game just seems waaay off tonally. Your review makes me think, why would I even want to start to play this. It's a shame they didn't land this one, but it seems like there's a multitude of issues.
A 7 is about what I expected. It always looked like a 7 so no surprise for me. 7 is not a bad score assuming the full scale is used. Wasn't interested but a score of 9 or so would have made me check it out but I'll wait for a cheap copy down the road. Not every first party game can be incredible.
I was going to get it for 10 bucks but now I lost what little interest I had.
I think the game will be slightly better received once all the bugs, glitches and frame pacing issues have been ironed out via patches. Hopefully the devs are hard at work on this as we speak.
For as long as this game has been in development and with all the earlier builds not showing most of these bugs, glitches and frame pacing issues, it's a wonder why it was delayed at all if it was going to release in an even worse state than it was shown previously.
For as long as this game has been in development and with all the earlier builds not showing most of these bugs, glitches and frame pacing issues, it's a wonder why it was delayed at all if it was going to release in an even worse state than it was shown previously.
Yeah, lots of good stuff in that review hitting both the stuff he liked and some of the main issues that have seemingly come up in multiple reviews, also makes me pretty interested since he still gave it that 7.5 despite the problems since he really reiterated multiple times the stuff he really liked he really liked a lot even despite some of the problems and repetition/bloat as well as the glitches he ran into.
It's not uncommon to get a slice of the game and be positive about it, only to discover the full game is less so. I played the 3 hour preview build too, and it left me more positive (but still wary) than the actual game. Why? Because one of the main problems of Days Gone is the pacing, which is hard to 'feel' in 3 hour preview. That preview also had one of the better missions in it, and as you only get a small slice of the story it wasn't possible to notice the story is kind of a mess. It's also impossible to notice how tedious the progression system is in such a small slice of such a big game. And that's not stuff 'you ask' the developer, imo, as you only get PR-approved answers anyway. In my case I got the interview a lead animator, so I focussed on asking questions about animation.
All of what I liked in the preview build, I liked in the full game too. I liked how the action played, I liked the atmosphere, liked some of the enemy AI (the humans can feel smart in the way they look for you and try to counter you, though at times they are dumb as fuck too). But the full game gets dragging for multiple reasons, and became less and less interesting and fun over time.
And about the technical problems: when you play a preview build, you kind of take into account you play 'work in progress' and that bug squashing is the last part of the development process anyway. In Days Gone not all the problems disappeared sadly, but 2 months ago it could very well be that the full game would run smooth as butter;
Reading the actual text does not read like a 7.
Avengers Endgame is 6 points apart on Metacritic from Days Gone. Shows how different these industries reviewing practices are.
If there is a PC version one day, you just know someone will mod her in as the bike itself.
But didn't you know, bikers always speak with pure class, lol. I know people in bike clubs that are very raunchy with their wives. One recently had a nsfw pinup done of his wife and shared it on fucking facebook. She was absolutely thrilled.
I gave in. Luckily i actually had some credit left over so it more than covered it.
I'm lie the fact that this game is long. I love long games.
Not necessarily. Not everyone cares to respect outmoded social mores.
Also, I think in the context of the game, with one witness, it's not that odd.
Obviously a big wedding yeah you want to be respectful: but it's a little different when it's your own wedding with no one else to please.
Could happen. Most of the reviews are positive, it's only on places like Era where a 72 could be a dumpster fire.
This is such a skewed way of looking at things. HZD was by a seasoned and large high end studio. Bend was a far smaller team who mainly made ports.
"Droll" means tired, boring and overdone
Pretty sure nobody cares that it's a sex joke. It's just really lame and unfunny.
Saying "but it's part of biker culture!" doesn't lessen that; a lot of things from biker culture are still stuck in the 90s. But she'll be here all week! Try the veal. Badum bum!
Its how we've been conditioned to interpret game reviews because they've traditonally used about 3 numbers on a 10 point scale. This generation has definitely changed that more than it has been in the past.
Haha what? How is that a troll? Wait I'm known as a troll? Huh? Just a troll in general or a troll of something specific.
I didn't know they rebooted development on this game as recent as a year ago. What was it before they changed itAlmost preordered too. Dodged a bullet.
Yes but Metal Gear Solid V was a sequel to an already established franchise, so you kind of knew what to expect gameplay-wise and narrative-wise. Death Stranding is a new IP and as such, we know nothing about it and strangely nothing narratively has been shown off and the game is supposed to be releasing soon?? There's a slight chance that this game could be Kojima's first major flop, but none of us will know that until the reviews hit or we play it ourselves.
Me personally, I love Hideo Kojima and all the games he makes, so I will definitely be checking out Death Stranding - but I'm not excited or hyped for it because I know nothing about it; other than it looks pretty and has celebrities in it. I will definitely wait for reviews and impressions to see if it's even something I would like to play.
Thanks for this post, Appreciate the response.
Yeah, I totally get the technical side of it. A lot of the smoothing out comes in the last few weeks. I just think he should have maybe not been as hyped and chilled a little. Like said, something like. I'm optimistic, there's some pretty bad technical issues that I hope will be ironed out and as long as there is a considerable more variation, we could havea hit on our hands.
Not too sure.
I think the response we're saying to the dialogue really shows how much people don't know about biker culture at all.
If PT is an example of what Kojima can come up with outwith the constraints of Konami/"YOU MUST MAKE MGS SEQUEL #12!", I don't think there should be much to worry about.
MGS5 proved the man and his team needed away from being trapped doing life-long MGS. Do not forget the talent in Team Kojima just because of the head of it.
The budget, mo-cap, engine and talent going into Death Stranding is pretty overwhelming.
Tbh I didn't read his hands on nor his review, but I have to say I was more bumbed out with how Days Gone ended up after the 3 hour preview really suprised me (my expectations were low going into that one). So I can understand him being enthousiastic at first.
I think it shows that most folks' knee jerk reaction to biker culture one-liners is "lame"
Wildlands is fucking awesome, and I say that as a 100% solo player
That's quite disappointing for a Sony game... Well, they made us get used to 90+ games so it's all their fault :p
I was expecting low 80s because even previews were not super optimistic but I was expecting a solid game nevertheless. Low 70s makes me not want it, not because it doesn't seem fun, but because it is too long of a game (heard 30 hour? Is it true?). Still, I enjoyed The Order so this will be fine if I get on sale.
I was expecting low 80s because even previews were not super optimistic but I was expecting a solid game nevertheless. Low 70s makes me not want it, not because it doesn't seem fun, but because it is too long of a game (heard 30 hour? Is it true?). Still, I enjoyed The Order so this will be fine if I get on sale.
Kojima already said the gameplay will be similar to Uncharted 4 and The Division, we just know enough about the game to make it interesting and I hope it remains this way for the surprise factor but Sony probably won't do that as it needs marketing.
The game also isn't releasing soon btw, the recent Wired Sony article made it seem like it could be a crossgen game which would be over a year away.
Kojima had enough clout to make whatever he wanted at Konami.
What broke the camel's back was his insistence on gobbling up bigger and bigger budgets for singular games that took years to develop and deprive the rest of the video game division of resources. Kojima effectively reduced Konami to a blockbuster-or-bust game studio when their output used to be a lot more varied.
Wildlands, Dying Light and Mad Max are fun but not some self evident counter that 7s are good games. Dying Light's the only one I would call flat out good.
Mad Max in particular is like 1/3rd of a good game that is crazy repetitive, gets way too easy way too fast, and negates it's survival mechanics fairly quickly. The hand to hand stuff was mostly a more boring Batman + with even shittier boss fights.
Mad Max in particular is like 1/3rd of a good game that is crazy repetitive, gets way too easy way too fast, and negates it's survival mechanics fairly quickly. The hand to hand stuff was mostly a more boring Batman + with even shittier boss fights.
Yeah, it's just the mediocre-rated reviews are on the real low end score-wise.
The next week or so is going to be really interesting (I'm going to pick this game up). I'm really curious to see how much "game" (emergent, multiple mission solutions, playstyles, etc.) will come from more players' play times.
This isn't a criticism of game reviewing per se, but reviewers do have to get through a portion of the game in time, and may or may not be able to (or even want to, based on all the long-time pre-review complaints of "generic" and "zombie game, really?" type comments) lean into everything a game may have to offer.
But the game may also not lead them to do so, either - I remember playing NFS: Most Wanted and got 4 or 5 cars in a row that were really different, but were all configured with the exact same race list - it left a big negative impression on me, and I got tired of playing for a while - and this is for what is otherwise a good game. Had I run into a different set of cars, I could have gotten a much wider spectrum of races to play during that time, and it would have affected my opinion for sure. But nothing in the game told me ahead of time that a real sufficient variety of races would be available.
If Days Gone left all these reviewers behind in such a fashion, that's a shame - but it could happen to Greg or others just as easily as it happened to me with NFS: Most Wanted.
The character was described as white trash for behaving that particular way and then after several posters chimed in with the church aspect. That's not criticizing the corny writing, which yeah, it totally is corny.
No. They were the token Western handheld team. Then the Vita died and they had to pivot.
It's a weird complaint because aren't gameplay loops...loops?
