Days Gone

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Andy said:




I agree with him that she marked the game down because she didn't like Deacon.


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Was she calling sexual harassment victims survivors? Sorry but people who beat cancer and other life threatening conditions are survivors, women who are raped and able to go on are survivors, people who live through violent attacks are survivors but someone hearing some inappropriate words at work is not a survivor especially when in her case she was the one who seemingly started it all.
 
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What happened to your first PS4?
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Bought it solely for uncharted 4 (play multiplatform on xbox), played about half of it and sold the console lol. Too far between any exclusives I wanted at that point and thought I'd sell it before the standard ps4 dropped in price (rumors about the pro where at a climax). Already paid for shenmue 3 via the kickstarter, so I'll have to buy a ps4 at some point lol.
 
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Yeah, it's a game about biker subculture. It's bound to rub SJW types the wrong way. We already know IGN wasn't happy with "another gruff white male protagonist." The GamesRadar and Gamespot reviewers, as well as others (see link below) take issue with Sarah''s sexual reference during a wedding ceremony ("I hope you ride me as much as you ride your bike"). Admittedly, that's kind of a cringey line, but videogames have never been known for good writing, and what they all missed is that it's a reference to something said in Sons of Anarchy and apparently in biker culture. Of course that was outside their little bubble frame of reference. They just saw it as stupid and offensive.

The Gamespot reviewer also highlighted and criticized a screenshot where Deacon is looking at Kate's ass as she bends over. Oh noes, male bikers have sexual attraction to female body parts. She also complained about all the freakers being white. I guess Days Gone 2 needs a more ethnically diverse cast of freakers, so it'll get higher review scores.

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Not that I'm saying the game scored below expectations because it didn't conform to the identitarian agenda of some gaming journalists. Obviously, the game has a number of genuine, significant problems. But I also think a game like this will naturally suffer in the reviews, because it will rub some gaming journalists the wrong way.
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Wtf I love this game now.
 
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One thing I don't like about the game, is that it suffers from what a lot of other games do. Wipe out a squad of enemies and they each only have like 5 rounds left on them. Yet you could hide there and they would shoot for 30 minutes. Dead people should have at least a full magazine left on them come on now.
 
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One thing I don't like about the game, is that it suffers from what a lot of other games do. Wipe out a squad of enemies and they each only have like 5 rounds left on them. Yet you could hide there and they would shoot for 30 minutes. Dead people should have at least a full magazine left on them come on now.
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It would be interesting to see a game where ammo is a real thing- Where it's finite and the AI has to change tactics if it runs out. ... I'd love that, and it it would certainly force real game-play decisions (Like sneaking more if you want access to ammunition).
 
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It's the little things (besides my wiener) that make a difference. I was doing the mission where I needed to get meat for Boozer. It was dark out and I was over looking an area below me that had a horde of freakers. I started to tag them, probably got around 20 tagged when all of a sudden they started swarming in a specific direction. I noticed my yellow marker for my objective was now moving too. It was a deer. Sure enough, the freakers were chasing down this deer. I saw red diamonds chasing a yellow marker below me, the deer was giving it his all running and running. After a couple minutes of watching, the deer realized it was all he had in him, and the freakers prevailed. All witnessed from above by me. So cool.

And I got the deer meat :)

Oh, and the BIG ASS BEAR.....I pumped lots o rounds in him, but no luck. I shot a red barrel next to him.....oh yes, seeing a big bear up in flames, jumping on freakers only to have the freakers run around on fire and have them all crumble like little bitches.......PRICELESS.
 
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Andy said:
I picked up a copy at lunch, and I've got it downloading now. The environment is definitely one of the reasons I wanted to get it. I think I'll just enjoy being in that terrain. I love the mountains and forests on the west coast. I used to hike them a lot, when I lived there. I haven't seen them for 25 years or so, and I miss them. I also want to support Sony Bend, which, like you say, seem to have gotten a bit of a raw deal on the reviews.
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If you like it now you'll love it 10 hours in. The game is super intense and it gets better and better.
 
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After watching both reviews, I'd say the GS girl may not have played the game. And she put too much emphasis on the story.

The IGN review was probably closer to reality.

Repetition is always a tricky thing to gauge. Reviewers find Remedys games repetitive. I don't.
A lot of RPGs seem highly repetitive and boring to me, while fans enjoy the grinding aspect of those games.

I've only played a few hours of DG. But I could see it being repetitive 10s of hours later.
 
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Lots of RPG-ish games have repetitive elements. Although it's a fair criticism, I think Days Gone got dinged harder for it than other games that are equally repetitive (e.g., AC, Far Cry, Elder Scrolls, RDR 2, many others). I think one reason that happened is the perception that "it's just another zombie game" added to the sense of repetition.
 
Dno69 said:
After watching both reviews, I'd say the GS girl may not have played the game. And she put too much emphasis on the story.

The IGN review was probably closer to reality.

Repetition is always a tricky thing to gauge. Reviewers find Remedys games repetitive. I don't.
A lot of RPGs seem highly repetitive and boring to me, while fans enjoy the grinding aspect of those games.

I've only played a few hours of DG. But I could see it being repetitive 10s of hours later.
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Every game is repetitive in nature but the real question is whether the game remains fun. That's up to the reviewer/player. I'm replaying the same missions in The Division 2, that's repetitive but its still fun to me since I'm constantly tweaking my builds to see how performance differs. I'm not one who cares all that much for story, I mean I love a good story but gameplay is more important to me. But I can't fault someone else who puts heavy emphasis on story.

Online game reviews are just an opinion but one that carries a lot of influence and I find that this time I put too much into the negative reviews. I was already hooked on Division 2 so I think I was looking for en excuse to hold off on purchasing this game. But last weekend I was watching a stream from one of my favorite youtuber and the game looked like a lot of fun. Watching him sneak past a horde was intense and then he travel to a camp to deal with some humans and I witnessed melee combat that looks deliciously satisfying. I think this will be my next game purchase soon.
 
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Andy said:
Lots of RPG-ish games have repetitive elements. Although it's a fair criticism, I think Days Gone got dinged harder for it than other games that are equally repetitive (e.g., AC, Far Cry, Elder Scrolls, RDR 2, many others). I think one reason that happened is the perception that "it's just another zombie game" added to the sense of repetition.
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Yeah and let's be real there were quite a few gaming "journalists" questioning it's need to exist well before it came out so they were already going in with a negative attitude. That should never be a part of the review process, they should judge the product on what it does right and wrong not if they should even be playing it at all.

I have been playing it more and more and liking it more and more over the last few days, that GS reviewer said she didn't buy Deacon and Boozers friendship, I do especially the deeper I get into the story. I'm getting the feeling she either just half assed it or didn't really finish the game.
 
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JinCA said:
Yeah and let's be real there were quite a few gaming "journalists" questioning it's need to exist well before it came out so they were already going in with a negative attitude. That should never be a part of the review process, they should judge the product on what it does right and wrong not if they should even be playing it at all.
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I agree it shouldn't be, but realistically, it will always be that way. People get an idea about something, and that idea/frame filters all information and experience from then on. Reviewers are also subject to group-think and confirmation bias the way anyone is. I haven't found gaming journalists to be particularly insightful or self-aware people, at least as far as I can tell. So I wouldn't expect any changes. Some of these urinalists are straight out of indoctrination in the modern feminist/SJW way of viewing things, and so that nonsense affects scores, too. In addition, gaming sites are always on the hunt for clicks, and publishing unusually harsh reviews is one way of getting attention. Another factor is the selection process in becoming a videogame reviewer. If you've selected "videogame reviewer" as your career path, you're probably an idiot or very young.

Oh well. Sometimes all of this works in favor of games I am rooting for, and other times it works against them. This time it worked against. But it looks like, judging from early sales numbers, Sony Bend will come out okay. That's the main thing. Bad reviews you can deal with, but bad sales numbers are another thing.
 
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Andy said:
I agree it shouldn't be, but realistically, it will always be that way. People get an idea about something, and that idea/frame filters all information and experience from then on. Reviewers are also subject to group-think and confirmation bias the way anyone is. I haven't found gaming journalists to be particularly insightful or self-aware people, at least as far as I can tell. So I wouldn't expect any changes. Some of these urinalists are straight out of indoctrination in the modern feminist/SJW way of viewing things, and so that nonsense affects scores, too. In addition, gaming sites are always on the hunt for clicks, and publishing unusually harsh reviews is one way of getting attention. Another factor is the selection process in becoming a videogame reviewer. If you've selected "videogame reviewer" as your career path, you're probably an idiot or very young.

Oh well. Sometimes all of this works in favor of games I am rooting for, and other times it works against them. This time it worked against. But it looks like, judging from early sales numbers, Sony Bend will come out okay. That's the main thing. Bad reviews you can deal with, but bad sales numbers are another thing.
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Yeah I hope so, I think they are onto something here with this IP and being that it's their first attempt at a console game I think they have a good chance of doing some great things if they do a sequel. Of course I haven't finished it yet so I don't know how this story ends but I'm enjoying the world, the characters (and I'm generally not a biker kind of guy) and just the overall atmosphere.

I also have to say this game can look stunning at times, it always looks good but if you get the right light during the right time of day WOW lol.
 
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https://gamingbolt.com/days-gone-enjoys-impressive-debut-in-japanese-sales-charts

Despite relatively mixed reception, Days Gone has clearly had a strong start in terms of commercial performance. In the UK, it topped the charts in its debut week, before retaining that position the following week, while also becoming the biggest retail launch for a game in the country for 2019. In Japan, too, the game has enjoyed a very impressive debut, selling over 114,000 units to take the top spot, as per sales data provided by Famitsu.
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JinCA said:
Yeah I hope so, I think they are onto something here with this IP and being that it's their first attempt at a console game I think they have a good chance of doing some great things if they do a sequel. Of course I haven't finished it yet so I don't know how this story ends but I'm enjoying the world, the characters (and I'm generally not a biker kind of guy) and just the overall atmosphere.

I also have to say this game can look stunning at times, it always looks good but if you get the right light during the right time of day WOW lol.
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Well, since PS2 that is. They made the Syphon Filter games on PS1 and PS2, the last of which released in 2004.
 
I only ever played the first Syphon FIlter, and I never beat it, got stuck on a level and gave up, but I liked it and when rumors of Bend making a new game first started cropping up I hoped it was a syphon filter reboot.
 
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