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Days Gone sales so far have not suffered at all from the reviews - Benji
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Yeah it really doesn't mean a ton. We'll have to wait and see how it does overall. Some games keep selling, others crash and burn.
People have already forgotten who Benji is.
This is all true from what I've read. Dying Light launched roughed but greatly improved since its released. It's kinda like looking at Splatoon 2's reviews from when it launched and playing the game now. Same thing happened with Warframe to the point that many reviewers had to update their original review with all the changes made to the game.
Personally, I hope it sells well enough to be profitable enough to keep Bend alive enough to make another game.
I saw gameplay footage of shooting kid zombies and it made me want to buy it. A bunch of other people mustve too
I would imagine a lot of people see a 7/10 game and assume it's pretty good.Around here it means it's not worth your time,for some reason.
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It blows my mind that we're at a point where people here and some critics refer to every white Male protagonist as "generic". It's beyond stupid.
Seems like yet another testament to choosing your release window wisely. Not a lot of competition right now.
Either way it's good news - I never like seeing games bomb unless they are clearly trying to rip people off or oversell themselves. Like, I won't shed any tears over Anthem, and I think it's failure sends a good message. But Days Gone seems to be a pretty "what you see is what you get" type product, albeit with some flaws, and I could never argue that it deserves to fail.
Either way it's good news - I never like seeing games bomb unless they are clearly trying to rip people off or oversell themselves. Like, I won't shed any tears over Anthem, and I think it's failure sends a good message. But Days Gone seems to be a pretty "what you see is what you get" type product, albeit with some flaws, and I could never argue that it deserves to fail.
I mean, makes sense. It's still a zombie game with a more "rustic" setting that definitely appeals to a mainstream audience. From my five-ish hours with the game, it's been a decent time so far and there's nothing horribly wrong with the game like Anthem.
Every platform and/or publisher with their own service leans on purposeful obfuscation of their numbers when they feel the need to. So I'm not sure how console war entered the conversation. Check EA's PR around the last installment of Battlefront or Ubisoft's PR around AC Victory. The obfuscation isn't tied to one specific platform.
Last EA PR on Battelfront said 7 million copies, sooo i don't know what are you trying to say with this.
Saying "players" does not always mean "obsfucation numbers", Siege is going strongly and Ubisoft talks about players, not units, anyway we are going OT.
He's not even generic. If people actually play the game they'll realize he's an insane person. He's not quite like any AAA protagonist I can think of. He's crazy.
I imagine most people don't base their buying decisions around reviews. I mean, I enjoy reading reviews. But, I would never not buy a game I was interested in because it reviewed badly.
I think it's less Deacon's race & gender that make him generic, so much as his personality, motivation, and "violent BUT WITH A CODE" demeanor. He's like a parody of AAA gaming's worst narrative habits.
It hits a lot of areas that the population at large loves and that the niche of reviewers do not, so it makes sense. Just having the bike is enough to get a lot of people interested in Days Gone
I'm looking forward to getting it, but I've got other stuff on my plate right now, so will wait a month or two and hopefully get it for around $40 with a bunch of patches that make things better.
Not to nitpick, and the sales could really be awesome.
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saying that Day1 sales are unaffected by reviews when most people had already bought the game before the reviews were out, is no strong indicator on how reviews had impacted a game.
BUT!
saying that Day1 sales are unaffected by reviews when most people had already bought the game before the reviews were out, is no strong indicator on how reviews had impacted a game.
I would like to see it do well, have not played it yet but it's on my list.
I did find it amusing that for every review that was bad based on gameplay and mechanics there were two more bad reviews based soley on story and theme, things that don't matter much to me to begin with, especially considering how waves of chasing trends and derivatives is in all media especially games.
But while I can't guarantee this until I play it I have a feeling that for me it's going to be another Mad Max, which I enjoyed a lot.
I did find it amusing that for every review that was bad based on gameplay and mechanics there were two more bad reviews based soley on story and theme, things that don't matter much to me to begin with, especially considering how waves of chasing trends and derivatives is in all media especially games.
But while I can't guarantee this until I play it I have a feeling that for me it's going to be another Mad Max, which I enjoyed a lot.
It's a great game and already 3 performance patches have hit since launch.
Fuck reviewers, they gave dying light a 74 which is one of the greatest zombie games of all time.
Fuck reviewers, they gave dying light a 74 which is one of the greatest zombie games of all time.
Indeed. You can easily tell who has and has not played the game. Deacon is not your typical protagonist.
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im liking days gone(and couldnt even finish RDR2) but u just over exaggerated.
Why are you so agressive to reviewers just because they have a different opinion about the game then you? 72 isn't even that bad. This is just sad.
You like it PT? Hmm you have good taste maybe I'll check it out
I won't say "fuck reviewers" since I genuinely don't believe reviewers are disingenuous, but quite a few times in recent history they've (in aggregate) severely dinged some truly amazing games, including some absolute top of genre masterpieces like Alien Isolation
Dragon's Dogma, Alien Isolation, Don't Starve, Evil Within 2, Dying Light, Vampyr, Detroit Become Human all have MC in the 70s
I think RDR2 is literally bad -- As a video game. The controls are bad, gunplay is bad, quest/encounter design is miserable. I actually hate the game -- so, honestly, it's not hard to be better, and Days Gone is better by virtue of playing well and being entertaining.
Check EA's PR between the two Battlefront games. One sold far less at launch and so other obfuscated metrics were used for PR purposes. Everyone on this board can point to the exact same strategy being employed more times than anyone really cares to mention. And we're going OT because you labeled familiar PR as console wars. Despite the fact no console or platform was mentioned.
Please remember that companies outside of gaming use the exact same obfuscated PR for the exact same reasons.
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