In the annals of zombie fiction there exist as many tropes as there are suitors for romance, clowns for comedy, and heroes for adventure. Within a bind of pervasive, persistent terror, though, the zombie survivor is necessarily tapered by the fatalistic restrictions of the world around him. There is always death and the fear of it. Of the countless ways video games have tried to systematize this sense, to make this unique type of fear real through design, none have so frequently gazed at the potential of it, and then bypassed it, as “Days Gone.”
Days Gone director claims Sony has already poured in at least a $250M in Bend's project; says Days Gone sold more than Death Stranding.
Well that sucks. Seems they want more online trash. I'd rather of had the sequel if it was single player
The past has nothing to do with the future. This is such a terrible argument. Everyone knows about their current live service push.
It's so tragic what happened to days gone. It is such an amazing game but bandwagoners trashed it and it underperformed in it's launch year. Days gone is the best open world zombie game released in the past five years. I was recently playing it on pc and I'm still amazed by it.
Games are very expensive to make and it seems like it's normal for a AAA game to cost over a quarter billion to make so if a quality game like days gone greatly underperforms then people shouldn't be upset when they see a lot of GAAS. I still remember a lot of bandwagoners calling days gone trash but years later it's now amazing when it's considered a failure by sony.
If a game isn't the best thing seen since hats with pockets then a lot of gamers who haven't played it automatically calls it rubbish and whoever made it should be incarcerated
Co CEO prefers gamers to boycott.. so be it. I’ll never buy a gaas.
Just imagine buying a game you cannot replay in some years.. this shit must stop.
Days Gone did zombies in a very original way. The story was also so engaging. You actually only meet Zombie hordes later in the game. There are many more enemy groups to deal with.
@Notelin
I am one of the few who bought Days Gone on release day and loved it completely.
However, "more online trash" is phrased like Sony has put out alot of trash online games.
We got what, 2 games? Helldivers 2 and GT7, 2 of the most sold Playstation games where both is loved by millions.
You, me and especially shinoff has no idea if Fairgames, Marathon and Concord will be trash.
Just because we (as in you and me) don't love or support online games, doesn't mean millions of other do.
And we don't know what Bend Studio is working with? We don't know if they're forced to make a online game or another amazing single player experience.
The only thing we do know is that it's not Days Gone, sadly due to poor sales the first 6 months.
More online trash wasmt meant how insee it comes across. I should've worded it different I was meaning the focus they currently have on it.
Anything online is online trash to me. How long did naughty dog spend on that dumba last of us multiplayer, how about Concord, or even the other couple we hear about. I fk with Sony because rpgs and their 1st party single player games. Been like that for years. I hate seeing them waste time, money, and talent on trash. I understand bot every game is gonna be for me but this focus they've seem to had on multiplayer is extremely disheartening. Even at the state of play the only things I was really feeling were Astrobot and silent hill 2 and I'm content with that, not everything is for me. It's just the online focus I hate. Ms bought up 3 to 4 wrpgs developers, Sony just ignores rpgs 1st party wise.
And a days gone 2 would've been much better then whatever online sht bend is working on. I do know sometimes I get very idk emotional. I do need to work on toning that down a bit lol
Ammm let's see... That All-stars, Foamstars, Babilon 5 wass gaas...
Concord... can wait to play that...Marathon uuuu... Last of them gaas... U
Horizon Zero dawn has a project that leaked as a Fortnite lookalike.
They bought Destiny that is a dead gaas...people love ti.
Helldivers 2 was luck.
Jimbo was all in and pushed Sony single player games 5 years behind.
Spiderman gaas was cancelled... I mean every 1st party studio was doing gaas.
Bend had to pitch a gaas game... Open world coop something
I can't remember more... Of that crap.
@simpledad. Destiny 2 isn't a dead game. Its the number 5 most played game on steam. I dont play it, but alot of people do.
@SimpleDad
You failed to mention a single PS Studios game that has been released last 10 years.
Either your reading skills are crap or you think Sony own every studio in the world.
I rolled my eyes at concord not only was it just yet another cookie cutter hero shooter but that qucik look for the hero select.
Already has a free section then paid section along with a they/them she/her dei crap top right.
Nothing like a day off of work to fire up concord to read about the new characters sexual identity and or preference then a paywall do you want o buy this character shit like no i just want to shoot my gun have fun.
It would be a shame if it was true that Hermen never gave the franchise a chance simply because he didn't like it and they already had a "Zombie" game with TLOU.
NaughtyDog are most likely moving onto a new IP next so it would have been the perfect time to do it.
Days gone 2 was canceled before Herman was in charge. That happened like 4 years ago.
4 years ago he was head of Playstation Studios. He would've probably had a hand in the cancelation.
Man two seconds of research could have saved you from this comment. Amazing work Grilla you fit in with the uniformed N4G community who speaks before verifying anything that they say.
Maybe encourage people to buy the game at full price and not when it's heavily discounted or go on plus. If this game had sold well when it was full priced a sequel would have been in the works. They made a single-player game that most people didn't support until they dropped the price.
The guy’s just a moron.. he should have stayed within game development. His choices will have a terrible impact on the brand in the long run.
Dude is pretty pathetic. Sounds like a guy who's girl left him for someone better. Always talking about days gone sequel that never was, even though he is no longer at bend and hasnt been for a while. I for one am not upset about the lack of a sequel. It is one of the worst 1st party games in recent memory. Completely jank, played like an xbox game. The only redeeming quality was the hordes.
Yep. Kind of weird since it wasn't a sales flop, no?
I know we have to take what Ross says with a grain of salt since we're hearing just one side of the story, but even so, the game wasn't bad at all. Heck, it's my brother's favorite last-gen game from what I recall.
The amount of zombies on screen, imagine that with the PS5 and SSD? That would be insanely fun!
Most copies were sold on sale. Not enough ppl bought it at full price. I paid 20$ for it 6 -7 months after release.
Yeah we should never believe the creators side until we hear the corporate/big business side as history has shown we should always believe billion dollar corporations.
What a bootlicker statement.
@Notellin, of course you'll believe an embittered ex-employee with an axe to grind because it's evil Sony he's complaining about. You guys act like days gone was this huge success and somehow Sony hates easy money a sequel would have generated. The game was mid and so was the response to it. They're still supporting the developer who is making a new ip that could be great.
Days gone was fantastic. I bought day one but didn't get around to it for months. When I finally did I was pissed at myself for waiting so long lol
Well I don’t want 10 live service games, but they have no problem doing that lol. Ugh.
Oh great so we only get what the big wigs want… y’know, the people that really have their fingers on the pulse of what their consumers want. Faaaaantastic!
Well consider they know the sales... they do know what the consumer wants.
It sold shit.
But if it’s true what this guy says it sold better than Death Stranding
Yet that got a sequel and Kojima aside out of them both DS didn’t really NEED a sequel compared to Days Gone which ended on such a cliff hanger twist.
Days gone was ok. Not great. So I understand Sony wanted something else.
I like that Sony is trying something new with these Online games.
What an atrocious opinion, I'm devastated you're representing the gaming community.
I can really see you are the spokesperson for the gaming community with these likes 😉
New? I don't play online but I've seen hundreds of comments calling Concord a hero shooter, yet another hero shooter is what their saying. Doesnt sound new.
The game was straight ass, give us something original or get left behind. I’m all for the direction sony is going in, adapt or perish
I'd hate to live by your standards... it must be impossible to enjoy most games for you.
I just enjoy whats appealing to me and move on with my life instwad of whining about it like some of you.
Such a shame I love Days Gone. Not the best Sony single player experience but it was decent. I much rather have a days gone 2 that has a full on single player (maybe even allow co-op) story mode. With a tacked on live service looter shooter escape from tarkov type of multiplayer.
Rather than something like concord. Looks like the run of the mill destiny/overwatch type of game that's not even free to play and is most likely going to die within months.
“I do have an opinion on something that your audience may find of interest, and it might piss some of them off,” Garvin replied. “If you love a game, buy it at f****** full price. I can't tell you how many times I've seen gamers say 'yeah, I got that on sale, I got it through PS Plus, whatever'.”
This is a quote from the Days Gone director. The game clearly did not do well when it mattered. Most of the talk about a sequel came after the game was heavily discounted. Here is my question, why should Sony or another company invest 100s of millions into a sequel when most didn't care to support and buy the game at full price, but only after it was discounted?
Absolutely this. I don't mind that people loved Days Gone, I personally couldn't get into it, but acting like Sony is some sort of evil corporate machine when the game was not a massive financial success is bizarre when we're talking about the same publisher that backed games like Dreams, Death Stranding, Stellar Blade, Returnal, Ghost of Tsushima and now Astro Bot.
I'm sorry but at this point this director needs to stop being salty about his game. Death Stranding was a niche game that ended up selling five million copies before its Director's Cut came out and it's made by a video game legend in Kojima. It getting a sequel is not out of this world to imagine.
I mean, they did all the work making the game, they could have put more effort in trying to sell and market it. If it really was so outstanding it would have sold out the gate, but the characters and overall appearance was drab. Timing of this design wasn’t great and nobody asked for another zombie open world game.
They showed off the hordes some before launch I remember, but should have shown more and not held back and done more aggressive marketing.
Days Gone is an above average game, it’s simply not great, and nostalgia always looks rose tinted. It was no day one $70 game for most and wasn’t sold or billed as being AAA
Is this guy ever going to shut up and move on with his life? Days Gone did fairly well, got decent reviews, but frankly doesn’t even crack the top 20 best PlayStation exclusives. They don’t owe you another 250 million to make a sequel dude.
and i feel like we all forget what a broken mess is was at launch. it might not be anymore but people move on quickly
Totally. Personally I don’t like the characters or writing, the hordes were cool but everything else had been done before…and better. I would rank it average at best and he’s acting like he got screwed over… and he does this every 6 months or so for the last 5 years.
There are so many games that are way better than Days Gone that completely flopped due to a hundred different reasons. S*** happens and it sucks and a lot of people worked really hard on it I’m sure, that does not mean you are guaranteed success or a franchise to make your career off of… happens all the time.
While I think this stuff should not be forgotten, I don't think you can really put that all on the dev. The people in charge (publisher) are the ones who decide when to release the game. If it was up to the dev, it wouldn't have been released until they were ready.
He created generic characters in a familiar setting, people should stop going on about this “hidden gem” that is under appreciated and not properly supported by Sony.
That game (series) is Infamous.
I so agree with you ShwaaMan, and everyone seems to forget that this game scored more than 10 percent and up to 20 percent less OVERALL on Metacritic compared to Sony's usual standard. We should actually respect the fact that Sony isn't swayed by the number of units it sold, when it didn't meet their quality standards. By these people's logic Sony should push whatever crap sells rather than worry about delivering top quality games which they do.
I cannot believe some commenters here are comparing a best-of-the-generation game like Bloodborne to this decent-at-best game that most of these people won't show up for a sequel for. Yet people are still begging for a Bloodborne remaster.
I think the majority of players who played Days Gone know it got reviewed bomb before they even fixed it. Some reviews came out 2 weeks before the game released and those bugs were pretty much fixed or almost fixed. So it really didn’t have a fair chance since Sony wants 90 and above metacritic score on their first party games. I understand Ross’s fustration since it had a good story and you would want to see it completed.
On Bend Studio’s title. I think I’ve read that it will have multiplayer. I don’t know if that means it’s a story game with a multiplayer features or a multiplayer focused title. Some think it’s another GAaS game. Whatever it is $250 million seems like normal budget for a new title these days. The only Playstation Studios that didn’t have this big budget was Sucker Punch with Ghost of Tsushima.
All in all I just hope for a fun experience and give them the benefit of the doubt. And see what they can do.
I bought the collectors Edition and never opened it. I bought another copy too. The game was great to me but it got crapped on by the media and the a lot of gamers crapped on it. It sold well only have the big price drops
Look I love Days Gone, and I wish there was a sequel. But I feel like not a month goes by without the director publicly complaining about it. Even before launch he was always whining “why is everyone calling them zombies, they’re freakers” etc. I get that it sucks to see something you worked on so hard to not get the respect it deserves, but move on bro. It’s been 5 years, throw yourself into whatever’s next.
yea. i feel like he always comes back every year to say how sony didnt want a sequel lol
I fear Bend Studio next game will fail badly since it’s a Gaas game, and thus may have their necks on the chopping block soon.
Imagine Days Gone 2 with single player and multiplayer component. The last one being like a World War Z, Left 4 Dead like missions... That would be awesome and open the franchise to new horizons, but oh well dreaming is free at least for now.
look, whatever it is u think about Days Gone, this is such a weird thing to bring up every.damn
year.
if he wants to make another spiritual successor, he should do it, but all he does is shit talking stuff he was a part of. ha.
that might have been appropriate the year of the launch and maybe the next. but its been 5 years.
time to move on.
Good lord, Mr Ross move on already. Still whining about what your ex-employer is doing instead of talking about the project you are working on now.
I preferred Days Gone over LoU. Days Gone focused a bit more on gameplay and world building, the story was a bit rough but there was a lot more going on compared to LoU.
Geez still butthurt Ross? Sony Does NOT want another zombie game in the fing oversaturated market of zombie games dude. You gambled your project with Sony, you KNEW they had final say, so please stfu already. Fing pathetic.
Sony's logic:
Sell 7-7.5 million units = Failure, no one liked the game. (Bloodborne, Days Gone)
Sell 9+ million units = Success, everyone and their grandmother love the game. (Ghosts of Tsushima, TLOU, Uncharted)
Sony's criteria between success and failure is razor thin and insanely out of touch with its player base. If 7+ million people went to see a new movie while in theaters, it would be hailed a massive success, but in the games industry within Sony's world, it means screw all the people who enjoyed it and move on to something "better". Like I said, out of touch.
Spiderman 2 sold 11 mill
Sucseess!
But...
Spiderman 1 sold 22 mill
So...it failed?
No no no it didn't no!
Are you seriously ignoring that Days Gone had lukewarm to weak critical reception? It scored 11-20 percent less than Sony's games on average on metacritic and launched in a messy state. The fact that it sold lots of units is no guarantee its sequel will be a success given how it was received. Not to mention the Days Gone devs crying about people not buying the game at full price and reviewers being "woke".
The game clearly didn't get the reception Sony expects and they didn't feel a sequel should be greenlit. By your logic Sony should release games with the quality level of Fast and Furious, Call of Duty and Transformers because they sell units. There's something called quality standards as well. Days Gone isn't fit to lick Bloodborne's boots in terms of quality, I'm afraid.
They also put way too much stock on what meta critic says. Whether a good or bad score, the problem with meta critic is way too many on there are just following the herd. They don’t want to be one outlet that gave the opposite review from everyone else.
Still angry Sony scrapped Days Gone 2 I quite enjoyed the first game yeah it had bugs but I thought it was fun. I enjoyed trophy hunting that game.
How does Bend Studio's underrated open-world survival title hold up after all these years, especially following its updates?
Yeah the director is still bitching about it 5 years later. Lol. It does suck though. Definitely plenty of room to do more with the IP.
I'm with you on that. I lived in the bend area for a long time and it was nice to see that part of the country in a game. As noah Gervais said (in his negative review that I don't agree with mostly) "day gone is more oregon than far cry 5 was Montana, and far cry 5 was pretty damn Montana."
The Motorcycle was actually fun and the idea and effects of the Hordes was actually great. Sadly, the zombies in the horde have no health bar so they drop like flies, even if you hit them like once or twice on the knee. Also, no Head Shot Only Mode in another Zombie game.
In the end, it was a very generic game, with terrible mission design and cookie cutter everything. And with terrible writing and terrible written characters, the whole thing was just an Asylum level bad. This was just Sons of Anarchy at home with Zombies but somehow worst.
But again, the motorcycle was fun though...
Best motorcycle gameplay of last gen!
The writing though really was the worst. Deacon was one-note and overly bitter, everyone else was a trope. You could cut off the first 30-40 hours of the game and then it would actually be a great game.
I couldn’t disagree more about the writing. I thought deacon, his wife, and his friend were all great. It’s one of my favorite open worlds ever to explore too. I had no interest in the game at launch but my friend loved it and kept urging me to play it and once I started I couldn’t put it down. One of my favorite platinums.
I really enjoyed it. Shame it never got a sequel. Unless that sequel was online focused.
Need to play this again with the 60FPS update. Haven’t gone back to it since I beat it at launch. Definitely underrated, just sucks that people bounced off of it because the first several hours are a little bit of a slog. It’s worth it though.
They bounced off of it because all anyone cares about is the last of us. It’s better in every way to the last of us for me personally. I enjoyed the first last of us game, but the second one was atrocious
Still my favourite game of 2019
Fully stand by that it starts off terrible though for a few hours
And it was the first game I think that made me realise games can't ever stfu
There has to be constant noise and yapping
Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?
For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.
I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.
In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one
game is outstanding. I was addicted to it until I got that platinum to pop.
i understand some people who find it thin in terms of content in comparison to RDR2 which released 1 year before it but DG has very fresh good ideas.
it has been my favorite PS4 game......until I played RDR2.
PS have one more gem in their crazy catalogue of exclusives...
Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.
I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.
I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.
Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.
the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.
@Michiel1989
I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.
Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?
@fox it was maybe 2 outlets that made a stupid woke statement, not every journo. Not even close.
I think the director himself crying about that the game should have gotten better reviews might have had something to do with not getting a sequel. That was just a pathetic display on his part.
Most reviewers are a certain type of person that won't allow them to explore those types of themes.
Nah the game is 7. The only good thing you even said about it was the horde/enemy count. If that's the only positive it's not an 8 lol
As you can see...some are so blind because of fanboyism that they honestly can't see the writing on the wall. It wasn't just 1 or 2 reviewers...it was a lot of them. Some more direct than others ..just like with stellar blade.
They all coordinate with each other...especially evident seeing as they start submitting the same type of article over the exact same issues within 20 minutes of each other or nearly the same time..that's not a coincidence.
We all know it happened...some are just oblivious so feel free to ignore them.
Why are we pretending there's some huge difference between a 7 and a 8, don't both of them mean "above average/good"? On a 5 star system they would both be 4 stars, no? Heck, I simply put games on either of 3 cateorgies, it's either bad (don't play), good (play once if you can), great (make the effort to play and keep it), it's enough for me to make a logical decision or to recomend a game to someone or not... I'd say Days Gone was something between good and great but closer to good, so 7 sound fair to me anyway.
At the end of the day the reviews, be it journalists or users, on average or a punctual review, decimal or star based or whatever measuring stick we get... Reviews simply weren't the reason the game didn't get a sequel, it's performance on the market was. Reviews could say it was dogshit or the second coming, it wouldn't make a difference, or at the very least they are not the deciding factor, the game selling under Sony's expectations was the real issue... Heck, I'm sure the studio's issues and the lead director running his mouth figured way higher on the list of reasons for not making a sequel than any review ever was.
I concur. It’s main problem of frame rate slowdown is gone with a ps5.
Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.
I hear it's big enough that it could have just been 2 games. Maybe that would have worked out better, with some changes to make it fit that mold better. Idk, I haven't played it much.
Just the first section was a slog...but I never found it boring if that can make sense. You don't have much of an arsenal until after about 6 hours if memory serves. Some more half-step bike upgrades and a few more weapons could have filled the gaps.
Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.
I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.
Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.
Just replayed the entire game on ps5. Game has held up very well. I still rate it among my top 5 games of last gen. I think it got a bad rap mainly because people were sick of zombies and it didnt check enough identity boxes. Overall though, it had a very unique take on zombies with the hordes as well as a good balance between zombie and human enemy combat. Visuals are still stunning and look better than the majority of ps5/series X games.
The story was good enough and although the voice acting was hit or miss, overall I was impressed. Along with sleeping dogs, this is probably the game I would like to see a sequel to most, even though it will never happen.
Meh! The Video Game. Amazing Graphics, Amazing Motorcycle Physics, a pretty noble, and to some extent, great execution of the Zombie Horde, all wrapped up in absolute mediocrity. Mediocre missions, mediocre characters, mediocre dialogue, mediocre exploration, and mediocre Zombie Hordes that somehow died faster than the normal zombies.
And another Zombie Game with no Headshot Mode.
There were some great ideas that sadly were wrapped in a mediocre execution of almost everything they set out to achieve. You could almost see greatness in the distance and what it could've been, but all it managed was to be an inferior Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare clone, but without any of the charm.
I really did like the Motorcycle though. Such a shame.
The Hordes were great. Sadly, once you realize that the Zombies in a Horde have like 1HP, they kinda lose their appeal and scare factor since you can just take them out from afar fairly easy.
But using the Sawmill horde to take down one of the Bounties in one of the Missions was highly satisfying for sure.
One of my favorite games I had fun getting the platinum for it. I am disappointed Sony scrapped the sequel I would have bought it day one. I like Sam Witwer as an actor and think he did a good job as Deacon.
To me it was a pretty mediocre but well executed game, a solid 6 or 7. It does a lot of things (stealth, melee, survival, sandbox exploration, shooting, hordes, survival, cinematic storytelling ...) but it doesn't go particularly deep in none of them, the stealth is basic, the melee is just buttom mashing, the world is pretty empty, the hordes are underused, the gunplay doesn't feel particularly great, the survival is very basic... jack of all trades but master of none.
To me the greatest games are the ones that try to go deep in a few specific elements rather than do a little bit of everything at a decent level. There are a feel titles that manage to excel at multiple areas but they're rare
still a great game, one of the best of last generation, I hope there will be a part 2. I never got the review scores once, but already played this game with first update.
Playing through it right now on PC for the first time and I'm having a blast. Love the zombie hordes, bike mechanics/dynamics feel good, gunplay is satisfying and feels realistic (enemies don't have perfect aim), and the story beats have got me intrigued for what's in-store. I'm about 10 or so hours in.
I'd like to play it but I just can't put in the time. I already play JRPGs and they take so dang long. Every other big game also feels the need to be extra long cause people lose their [doodie] over 12 hour games.
I was one of those that slated it on release but I genuinely think Days Gone was one of PlayStations best ever games. Which makes its situation so much stranger.
The game is really fun especially if you like to immerse yourself into a survival situation. It's absolutely nerve wrecking being far from a safe haven and seeing your gas at a quarter tank knowing freakers and humans are just around the corner. Fun game.
I happen to be playing this game now for the first time, it was PS+ game a long while back and finally playing it and I sure as hell love it. The first time of panic when a horde comes at you is a massive highlight and one of the better gaming moments I've had in a while.
I enjoy this game. It's a ton of fun. I just wish Deacon would shut up. Talking to himself just doesn't work in this video game, he does it too much for amount of time it takes to beat the game.
Its a good game, the main issue I think still is it takes 'too long' to get going, you have to be quite a few hours in to it before things pick up and you can do well, the game. Not sure of a better way to describe it. I did love the Easter egg at the end though relating to ***SF*** if you know you know.
I think this is why a sequel would be sooo good. You could eliminate all the annoying early on from the first game trying to get your bike up to speed. They could add cars and other vehicles as well to upgrade. What would be amazing is if you could take followers from camps along but risk losing them forever if they die. Would truly add a sense of connection and loss.
Loved the game, still do, and am actually playing through it again albeit at a slow pace. Shame we never got a sequel.
Game had potential but wasn't executed well. Being nice it's a 7/10 but I'd go as low as 6. Lack of weapons, poor character, bland story, repetitive. A sequel could've been much better. Scrap the setting, characters and story and start fresh with interesting people, a metro setting with vehicle building along with weapon variety and a great story and you'd have a hit
Great game. It didn’t have anything special that would push it from 8/10 to 10/10. Maybe if the story elements offered up choices or if the weapons to fight hordes came sooner. A sequel could have built upon it.
5 years later and we're still listening to the horde on either side voice their opinions in a dull roar.
Only PS 2,3,4,pro or 5 I have played more than two times. Really wish that game had more traction. They set it up for a sequal and now leave gamers haning
Guys the game is mid. If you enjoy it more power to you, but let’s not act like it’s this injustice that it didn’t blow everyone out of their minds. Solid 6/10.