yeah i know people (including me) kept joking but i honestly thought just by the virtue of being a big budget open world game 75+ was on lock. this is very surprising.
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I see.
That makes it a bit better. Though I am still feeling iffy about it.
This games big hook from the start was the swarm of numerous zombies coming at you and the whole "oh wow look at this processor melting shit how are they pulling that off!?".
Well yeah, fine, but that sort of screams "power of the cloud" guff to me. You're gonna need a bit more than that to sell a zombie survival game in 2019.
Well yeah, fine, but that sort of screams "power of the cloud" guff to me. You're gonna need a bit more than that to sell a zombie survival game in 2019.
Yeah, the more cheesy and humorous concept of DG when it was called "Dead Don't Ride" sounded much more interesting to me than current one.
God Deacon is even worse than I originally thought for even doing that in the first place.
Hmm. This is disappointing.
I've preordered the collectors edition, so I hope I enjoy it more than the reviews indicate.
Between Just Cause 4, Crackdown, Anthem and now Days Gone - the last ~6 months have been a struggle for open world titles. Repetitive and/or boring mission design - combined with bog standard gameplay mechanics.
Devs need to be looking to games like BOTW and Horizon - find an interesting angle and/or strong gameplay mechanics. Don't just make another collectathon, fetch quest title with basic mechanics. It's just not cutting it anymore.
I've preordered the collectors edition, so I hope I enjoy it more than the reviews indicate.
Between Just Cause 4, Crackdown, Anthem and now Days Gone - the last ~6 months have been a struggle for open world titles. Repetitive and/or boring mission design - combined with bog standard gameplay mechanics.
Devs need to be looking to games like BOTW and Horizon - find an interesting angle and/or strong gameplay mechanics. Don't just make another collectathon, fetch quest title with basic mechanics. It's just not cutting it anymore.
It's because of a certain fan contingent defending this game tooth and and nail no matter how garbo everything they showed looked, isn't it.
Wow looks meh. Let me just remove it from my GameFly queue and-
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It's Era mate. Anything under a 9 is abysmal. These threads are always a shit storm.
Yeah all the devs at BEND were so passionate about it in the interviews :/
Small studios should not venture in open world...... People will always compare it to a Rockstar, Ubi output.... It's almost impossible to produce content and not be repetitive. Syphon Filter would have been more interesting.
So I've been playing the game for the past couple of weeks and my review went up at Gamer.nl (its in Dutch though).
I'll translate the conclusion and the pro's and cons.
Gave the game an 8 out of 10.
"Days Gone is a mix between different open world and zombie games. There's a lack of variation in gameplay, but the strong acting, the joy of driving around on the motorcycle and the light survival elements offer an experience you want to experience through the end."
Pros: Survival aspect and the motorcycle, acting and story are high points, fantastic realised open world.
Cons: Gameplay starts to drag in missions, there are some bugs, a lack of unique identity.
I'll translate the conclusion and the pro's and cons.
Gave the game an 8 out of 10.
"Days Gone is a mix between different open world and zombie games. There's a lack of variation in gameplay, but the strong acting, the joy of driving around on the motorcycle and the light survival elements offer an experience you want to experience through the end."
Pros: Survival aspect and the motorcycle, acting and story are high points, fantastic realised open world.
Cons: Gameplay starts to drag in missions, there are some bugs, a lack of unique identity.
They could have delayed this game forever, it still would have been bad. It got multiple delays as it was.
The diehard fans would basically shut people out from discussing the game's shortcomings in every Days Gone thread and divert the attention towards it's commercial viability, so you have threads gassing the game up to astronomical levels.
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A broken clock is right twice a day, hopefully that's all the dissapointment will get this year.
Shuhei Yoshida must be feeling sad now, having regrets greenlighting this game all those years ago.
Also why bring up that game?
Better? Sea of Thieves has a 69 https://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/sea-of-thieves
Also why bring up that game?
This average is higher than I was expecting based on the previews. It sucks; I was hopeful for the game, the studio and their vision.
I only played the preview build and like one hour of the final version so far, but I'm still surprised about those scores, especially if you consider than the really bad State of Decay 2 received a higher score than Days Gone from IGN (just as an example). And I really liked State of Decay 1, but 2 was just a really bad on so many levels, so well I'll continue playing Days Gone, but I really think I'll personally like it way more than State of Decay 2...
Also, for me as a surprise, the scores in Germany seem a lot higher (even from the usually super critical 4Players.de...)
Also, for me as a surprise, the scores in Germany seem a lot higher (even from the usually super critical 4Players.de...)
- GamePro.de - 82% (5% down from the score, due to technical issues)
- 4Players.de - 80%
- Maniac/M!Games - 83% (print)
- Giga.de - 8/10
- Spieletipps.de - 83
- ComputerBildSpiele - 1,7 (good)
- PCGames.de - 7/10
IGN Italia 8/10
https://it.ign.com/days-gone-ps4/153765/review/days-gone-la-recensione
IGN Spain 8/10
https://es.ign.com/days-gone-ps4/148705/review/analisis-de-days-gone-para-ps4
COGconnected 8/10
https://cogconnected.com/review/days-gone-review/
vandal 8/10
https://vandal.elespanol.com/analisis/ps4/days-gone/38421#p-73
https://it.ign.com/days-gone-ps4/153765/review/days-gone-la-recensione
IGN Spain 8/10
https://es.ign.com/days-gone-ps4/148705/review/analisis-de-days-gone-para-ps4
COGconnected 8/10
https://cogconnected.com/review/days-gone-review/
vandal 8/10
https://vandal.elespanol.com/analisis/ps4/days-gone/38421#p-73
It's game reviews, not Era. A 6/10 is not good, that's how they're using the scale.
its reviewing better than i thought for now. I predicted in the 60's. Which means the quality is actually lower, cause you dont think they're going all the way, do you? Its still a sony big bucks exclusive, heavily marketed. I take what they say and substract 20 points for actual reality
Sounds like it's a decent enough game, but obviously nowhere near Sony's other big hitters. If the game does well commercially I hope Bend are able to move onto another IP in a smoother transistion compared to how they eventually got to making Days Gone, maybe back to Syphon Filter.
I doubt Days Gone is going to be a multi-game hit franchise like Uncharted or what Horizon is likely to be. Shame, but it's not a bad starting point for the studio.
I doubt Days Gone is going to be a multi-game hit franchise like Uncharted or what Horizon is likely to be. Shame, but it's not a bad starting point for the studio.
Something must be wrong with me, I watched IGN's review and I think it looks like a ton of fun.