Those "sim" aspects like having you take care of your bike is what worries me most about this game.
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IGN: How Days Gone Aims for Fun Above All
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Last time we had a game aiming for "fun" above all we got the absolute masterpiece Crackdown 3. Maybe this means Days Gone can match the incredible reception that that game received!
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Nothing really too worry about all that much they said they design it for players to mindful; of it not annoyed.Also you can upgrade the bike to use less fuel and take less damage as well.
It depends what you mean by enjoyment. I "enjoyed" my time with RDR2 just like I enjoy watching films like First Reformed, but the texture of these experiences is very specific, and they're clearly designed to illicit different responses than games like Days Gone or whatever.
Like, the goal of every piece of art should probably be for you to walk away from it feeling like experiencing it was more productive than just doing nothing for an equivalent amount of time, but there are an infinite number of ways to accomplish this.
Simply having management elements doesn't make something a sim. I imagine most wouldn't consider the resource management in Resident Evil 2 as sim aspects
That's exactly what I was hoping for. I'll definitely follow some random humans to see how they meet their end.
The millions of people playing games like PoE, Warframe and D3 would suggest that a lot of people find "grindy" fun.
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Yeah they all fight each other its a free for all they all dont give a damn about the other lol
Did you see one of the previous threads about Days Gone (I think it's the one called 21 things you didn't know or something like that)??? If not, then you should check it out.
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Oh so "just being fun" is a plus now? 2 months ago "just being fun" wasnt enough for Crackdown 3.
Going by reviews and responses on here many of the elements in Crackdown 3 weren't all that fun in execution.
How did this become a "but these hypocritical critics didn't like Crackdown 3" thread? What does that even have to do with this?
Came to say something similar. This claim about fun doesn't really square with how they've promoted the game so far. The reliance on the bike and the potential for emergent danger at any point suggests a more stressful kind of engagement to me. Maybe deaths just don't matter at all so even when things go horribly wrong it's still fun?
Being fun/accessible/enjoyable to play (RE 2, Last of Us, Dead Space) isn't the same as evoking a fun atmosphere (Hokokum, Pikmin, Mario Odyssey, etc). The devs have said they want the game to be anxiety-inducing
Crackdown 3 wasn't actually fun.
The comparison is silly anyway because Days Gone isn't "just" fun, it's also a large open world with modern AAA production value and interacting systems. Crackdown had literally nothing going for it so people had to excuse it's baffling lack of ambition by saying "hey it's just fun, man, it doesn't need to aim higher."
Where in this video does it actually say "it's about fun over all"? I assumed this was messaging from Bend but is it just this guy's opinion or what?
Unless there's more about Days Gone in some other part of the video, that section is all about the AI and other behind-the-scenes stuff as well as some mechanics. So yeah, I have no idea how that video title correlates to what was discussed at all.
I looked it up. Really hope it's as good as sounds. The cpu vs cpu interaction is something I really enjoy about games.
Is this just another "It's fun!" half-hearted compliment? Where you don't have anything in particular you want to say because you're struggling to think of any unique positives so you just say it's "fun"? Like what we see in reviews for bad blockbusters like Justice League or bad games like Dead Rising 4?
It's such a weird comment too, since the devs don't seem to be making a game that's "just fun". They have a focus on survival mechanics, which can be fun, but that's usually not their primary point.
It's such a weird comment too, since the devs don't seem to be making a game that's "just fun". They have a focus on survival mechanics, which can be fun, but that's usually not their primary point.
That's honestly how I hear it when i hear "its just fun". Or sometimes its used for a good game when someone can't articulate whats good about it.
There are people who would call a masochistic core gaming loop like that fun. I consider playing Nioh on way of the strong with no armor and wooden weapons fun.
I havent played Sekiro all the way through yet(just an hour or so at a friends house), but it seems to emulate the same feelings as the souls games which i've beaten all of. What makes Sekiro different?
It seems like games like DMC on dante must die mode, bayonetta on the hardest difficulty and Ninja Gaiden black(or NG2) on ultra hard mode should be widely recognized for their appeal in regards to fun
Not really, the RDR 1 had far less emphasis on animations and realism than 2.
Yeah, like critics said the same thing about shitty games like Crackdown 3, various Dynasty Warriors games, Dead Rising 4, lots of grindy games, etc. It's not a flattering thing to read, imo. I doubt Days Gone will be as bad as any of those, obviously, but so far very little said from critics or the devs themselves has really stood out to me.
It should be noted that the section where they talk about Days Gone is completely not about how the devs are aiming for fun above all and is all about the AI, how the AI works, and how other mechanics work. It's like whoever titled that video didn't even watch the video
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Its so odd to me that Unreal 4 engine does not support 2 wheel vehicles.
I guess it more of the fun they had because they talk about different topics on the game like the story and characters.
It's just really weird to title the video like that since it's an implication of paraphrasing the intent of the devs, as we see in the thread
The IGN headline does the interview no favors what so ever. It literally takes a single throw away comment and makes you think that's what the whole interview is about.
The commentator goes over some of the development techniques that he saw at a visit with Bend that he thinks have the potential to make the game interesting and other tidbits (horde management, modeling and AI, game spawn and data locations, how the bike was modelled).
Also talks about how he was reticent to like Deacon prior to attending the preview event last month, but playing the small amount of time that he had, he found the main character to be engaging (the interviewer had previously discussed this after the preview events). Obviously it's up to Bend to make the whole story engaging.
The commentator goes over some of the development techniques that he saw at a visit with Bend that he thinks have the potential to make the game interesting and other tidbits (horde management, modeling and AI, game spawn and data locations, how the bike was modelled).
Also talks about how he was reticent to like Deacon prior to attending the preview event last month, but playing the small amount of time that he had, he found the main character to be engaging (the interviewer had previously discussed this after the preview events). Obviously it's up to Bend to make the whole story engaging.
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True .
This is pretty amazing.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/08/days-gone-horde-making-of-bts
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Yeah its a really good read,the horde ai and function is much more complex then it looks.They really work hard on that.
I honestly have no idea what to expect when reviews for this game hit. All I know is I want to play it.
Except you pour molasses on top of it and sling some quicksand in for good measure.
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at this point I think it's fair to say that there has never been a game that had experienced this amount of hyperbolic criticism then that of RDR 2 on this forum. The gameplay is fine as it was for a lot of people
