Days Gone
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I bought this at launch and finally opened it and started playing over the weekend. Not sure if I'll play it much. There's nothing compelling me to continue playing. I'm early in the game still after dropping off some bald weirdo at some tower thing and followed some other guy into some other area to get a motorcycle. It seems like it's always raining or dark. The motorcycles control like crap and it's annoying the hell out of me so far.
I suck at driving motorcycles in most games and I've gotten really good with this one, don't know what's so crap about it, it just takes some getting used to. The story gets better and better and the weather does change, you are still very early. The game has a dynamic day/nigh and weather cycle.
It's really not until you get to the 2nd & 3rd encampments that the game really starts to find it's groove. I would try to plug away at it and give it a fair shake. The game is admittedly really rough around the edges but there is some fun to be had with it....
Hordes are definitely the absolute highlight of the game. Eventually the bike gets fun to ride when you've some upgrades for speed and gas, but for far too long it's pretty sluggish honestly...
The first horde freaked me out like crazy, they are high stress (in a fun way) whenever you encounter one.
Oh you are playing without the updates? they did update it quite a bit after launch so yeah you aren't getting the best experience, that sucks
Im currently stuck in the game as I got to the point where I have discovered my first horde. Of course it is right near a Nero checkpoint that I have to restore power to and raid. I am relatively early into the game (just got the second encampment unlocked) and I am basically looking for a way to get better weapons and such so I can defeat the horde. I do know about the traps they set up and I will be using those to help but and pointers would be great.
Oh you are playing without the updates? they did update it quite a bit after launch so yeah you aren't getting the best experience, that sucks
I got it updated, but haven't gotten around to playing it since. I finally ditched my crappy satellite internet and now use my phone to tether/hotspot to download these updates. It's still a hassle, but it's slightly faster and on unlimited data compared to 20GB per month like it was.
Ok I've started playing this a bit more (started it about a month back); I've seen a couple more cut scene's and now I'm more invested and thoroughly enjoying it.
I haven't tackled a horde yet (I don't want to, I'm dreading it!); hoping it keeps me invested!
I haven't tackled a horde yet (I don't want to, I'm dreading it!); hoping it keeps me invested!
I had to stop playing pretty early in the game. The need to always find fuel and repairing your bike is one of the dumbest things I've seen in a game in a long time. That's just AWFUL and not fun in any way. Also, the dude mumbling constantly and growling is really annoying. But, the main reason is because it's causing me severe motion sickness while riding the bike in the woods and up and down the mountains and around all of the curves...not good.
Do you also get sick from fps games? I get it from the head bobbing, if there's a slider for it I usually manage but head bobbing is a curse.
Wow you must be very susceptible to motion sickness, I used to get it from 1st person games but hasn't happened in a while.
As long as they run smoothly and don't have the head bobbing you speak of, they don't really bother me that much. I was playing CoD 2 on my PC last week, and it didn't cause any issues. It just depends on the game.
Very. I'd probably be hospitalized playing a VR game. I think with this game, the camera is too close to the character as well. God of War also gave me bad issues. The most recent TR isn't too bad, but the previous 2 with the screen wobble causes me significant issues.
I'm having major issues seeing at night, I wonder if needing glasses would cause this stuff... I didn't have these issues in the PS1 days with choppy graphics and framerates.
Days Gone hasn't given me motion sickness, but some games have on and off. Halo and COD have been an on and off affair for me for motion sickness.
It was worse for me in the PS1 days, that game Kileak made me feel nasty every time I played it and at first I didn't know what was causing it because I'd never had a game do that to me before.
Ohh yeah, took out my second Horde last night. Those encounters can be a little nerve racking since you have to constantly run and then turn around to fire on the freaks and its easy to get disoriented and lose your way. I really like to plan out my route in the area I’m going to take on a horde. But last night my plan went to sh!t after I messed up and let the horde split into smaller groups that were coming at me from different directions. Luckily the freaks can’t climb or rather are very bad and slow at it which makes escaping easier so long as there’s a ledge to climb up to. Once I got them to chase me on to a roof top it was easy to get them to flow into where I wanted them to go which was right in the path of explosives I had set as traps………kaboom, haha.
Now that I’m taking on Hordes it looks like I’m nearing the end of this adventure. This has been a really fun game but one of the hardest to get into because it starts so slow. I’m not exaggerating when I say this game doesn’t get good until you’re about 15 hrs. into it. That’s just poor pacing in my opinion but there’s a nice pay off if you stick with it. The game does have New Game + so it might be fun to play from the beginning with maxed skills and powerful weaponry.
Now that I’m taking on Hordes it looks like I’m nearing the end of this adventure. This has been a really fun game but one of the hardest to get into because it starts so slow. I’m not exaggerating when I say this game doesn’t get good until you’re about 15 hrs. into it. That’s just poor pacing in my opinion but there’s a nice pay off if you stick with it. The game does have New Game + so it might be fun to play from the beginning with maxed skills and powerful weaponry.
Agree with you, it's rough going for a long time but once it gets good the hordes are very fun. For the sequel they definitely need to add a "look behind" button for when you're running from the hordes and in general just tighten the whole experience up. After 10+ updates to the game the aiming still feels a bit 'off' to me, maybe thats just the playstation controller, I vastly prefer xbox's for shooters, but it just never felt quite right in the responsiveness to me... Also, make a more intuitive weapon wheel, I hated the way it worked with the directions opening up with additional options thing.... RDR2's weapon wheel was 100x more intuitive...
Yeah the weapon wheel is way too touchy, I'm surprised they haven't done anything about that.
I completed the story on Sunday night. This game is a surprise sleeper hit for me. I can’t remember another game where my opinion of it flipped so wildly.
The Sawmill horde was an awesome boss like encounter. It forced me to use all I have learned about how to deal with a large group of freakers. And the Sawmill horde has to be the biggest horde I have taken on so far. Thankfully I was fully stocked with traps and explosives and I used them to great effect. It took me about 45 minutes of prep work before I actually attempted the Sawmill horde. And thanks to careful planning I completed it on my first attempt. Surveying the area was what took the most time. And once I was familiar with the route I was going to take the freakers on it was easy to lead them into all the traps I had set.
The main story is complete but I still have missions and a few random hordes to destroy. I’m not going for the platinum trophy or anything but plan on continuing to play because the game is so much fun. Plus its awesome to be able to take on things I remember struggling with at the beginning of this game. I don’t feel overpowered, in fact I’m still quite vulnerable if I’m not careful but with powerful weapons and all skills unlocked it’ll take a lot to bring my character down.
For the sequel the devs have to rev things up much faster in the beginning. Also, I didn’t like locking off half the game world. I understand it was for story purposes but I still didn’t like being walled off from certain sections of the map until reaching a point in the story. Tighten up the gunplay/controls too. Its surprising how sloppy the controls were from a developer that made its bones on a popular shooter. And yeah, the weapon wheel could’ve used more refinement.
Great Game.
The Sawmill horde was an awesome boss like encounter. It forced me to use all I have learned about how to deal with a large group of freakers. And the Sawmill horde has to be the biggest horde I have taken on so far. Thankfully I was fully stocked with traps and explosives and I used them to great effect. It took me about 45 minutes of prep work before I actually attempted the Sawmill horde. And thanks to careful planning I completed it on my first attempt. Surveying the area was what took the most time. And once I was familiar with the route I was going to take the freakers on it was easy to lead them into all the traps I had set.
The main story is complete but I still have missions and a few random hordes to destroy. I’m not going for the platinum trophy or anything but plan on continuing to play because the game is so much fun. Plus its awesome to be able to take on things I remember struggling with at the beginning of this game. I don’t feel overpowered, in fact I’m still quite vulnerable if I’m not careful but with powerful weapons and all skills unlocked it’ll take a lot to bring my character down.
For the sequel the devs have to rev things up much faster in the beginning. Also, I didn’t like locking off half the game world. I understand it was for story purposes but I still didn’t like being walled off from certain sections of the map until reaching a point in the story. Tighten up the gunplay/controls too. Its surprising how sloppy the controls were from a developer that made its bones on a popular shooter. And yeah, the weapon wheel could’ve used more refinement.
Great Game.
I'm not an achievement whore/ trophy hunter, but DG is a pretty easy platinum if you care at all about that sort of thing. I really don't but this one barely required going out of my way to get them all so I figured might as well. I think the only other game I've platinum'd is Horizon...
I was gonna ask about him before, but didn't know when or where or if it was some top secret stuff that nobody is allowed to know...
Lol
Can't wait to play this on the PS5!