Cinelinx - "The current generation of gamers is rather young and continuing to evolve, but gaming itself has been around for decades. Considering how massive the game industry is now, it’s crazy to think they’re not trying to expand beyond your living rooms. Movies have theaters, music has concerts, and even comic books have evolved beyond comics. Why is gaming not trying to “put on a show” like everyone else? With events like E3 and PAX, it has been proven that gamers can and will spend money to get more out of gaming. The problem is that gaming was once actually popular as arcades and now those arcades have vanished. However, arcades could be the concert or movie theaters of the gaming industry, if they were ever given a chance, but due to the history of the arcade, that may never happen. Let’s discover what arcades were and re-imagine them in a new way that could lead to a massive expansion of video games."
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Say what you like, but virtual farming is big business. And that means the release of Farm Tycoon onto the Xbox ecosystem should appeal.
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
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, and let's all grease up our hair and wear leather jackets again.
Im not going to lie but this article is pretty damn good and is a breath of fresh air gamers that love gaming no matter what platform especially if you are a varied gamer that loves barcades like me. This article truly makes me wish that many can see the return of arcades as something possible it just need to be modernized, its truly a market waiting to be revived considering how gaming has blown up.
Fond memories of the arcades, spent hrs in them. In the UK kids have nothing to do when out and about most of the time especially at night where they end up causing trouble cause they are bored. If done right I could see a return of the arcade in a new form, food/refreshments or competitive racing games or High score battles with prizes maybe
Oh joy, the arcades, I remember the scene well, the fights, the drug dealers, the pedophiles, the smell of stale cigarette smoke and B.O and the hassles with the cops who assumed anyone who played video games was a mentally disturbed satanist.
You punk kids don't know how good you've got it...why back in the 1980's we had to ride our bikes for miles just to stand in line waiting for our turn at the Defender machine, you'd put your coin on the bottom of the screen to mark your place.. etc etc
Awesome days. Making a day of it to ride down to the local arcade.
Star Wars cabinets in vector graphics and real sound clips, YEAH!!!
Double Dragon two player, dual arcade sticks. Trying to beat your mate to the conveniently placed roast chicken to get some extra health :-)
Ikari Warriors trying to imitate Rambo and be a one man army.
Or massively multiplayer (4 player hehehehe) Gauntlet. Ah man I loved that.
Those days are long gone and will never come back. The cost of the machines is the biggest concern and the cost of venues. Plus most arcade halls are only money making in the Summer months. Looks like we all will have to make do with our home machines. Sad, sad, sad.