Very surprised at the marketing dollar being thrown at this game. (In a good way)
Was expecting for it to be swept under the rug like Crackdown after the negative E3 turnout.
Suppose you are right actually. Wonder if they recouped the cost on Order. Doubt it considering the lack of sequel and separation from RAD.To be fair, it's not as if The Order 1886 lacked in marketing dollars back then either in terms of press/preview events back then either.
In spite of the media's lack of enthusiasm for Days Gone compared to other Sony tentpole games, the metrics for Days Gone so far has shown that there's a lot of consumer interest and even if Days Gone doesn't turn out to be an amazing game, so long as it's good ( enough ), it should do pretty well commercially.
I think Shinobi commented on that one time and said The Order made a profit for them. He didn't get into the specifics of that, however.Suppose you are right actually. Wonder if they recouped the cost on Order. Doubt it considering the lack of sequel and separation from RAD.
In any event, it seems this method has been mostly successful with the other blockbusters that has in the running.
You almost sound like you're grinding the axe for the studio...I'm just glad no one can blame publishers or whatever external factors determining the success of this title.
It's been given every opportunity to succeed. Prominent E3 billing, tons of trailers, promotional cuts, preview events, time and funding for delays to improve quality.
If it's a fuck up, it's on Bend.
Damn can it...can it come out firstI'm just glad no one can blame publishers or whatever external factors determining the success of this title.
It's been given every opportunity to succeed. Prominent E3 billing, tons of trailers, promotional cuts, preview events, time and funding for delays to improve quality.
If it's a fuck up, it's on Bend.
Just to follow up on that.Suppose you are right actually. Wonder if they recouped the cost on Order. Doubt it considering the lack of sequel and separation from RAD.
In any event, it seems this method has been mostly successful with the other blockbusters they had in the running.
I did say if.
Nope nothing like that from what I seen.
Yeap. Hoping someone gives a general hint. It's too long of a wait till March! Lol
Off topic but can I upgrade my Amazon pre-order of this to the Digital Deluxe version or do I have to cancel it first? Will I get the gift card money back if I cancel?
Alright, thanks for the info.You would have to cancel your current preorder and order as Digital Deluxe version. As for the gift card, I never tried myself, but I think it credits your account back if you cancel a purchase with a gift card.
I seem to remember one of old God of War game had reviews out a month before the game is releasedI love this part of the year, a new IP getting it's big preview blowup, with a few weeks lead up to it, waiting to hear anything from previewers teasing their experience with the game, I am actually surprised at how early the preview embargo is. I remember previews from Sony usually be a bit closer to the reviews. Sony sounds confident.
Suppose you are right actually. Wonder if they recouped the cost on Order. Doubt it considering the lack of sequel and separation from RAD.
In any event, it seems this method has been mostly successful with the other blockbusters they had in the running.
I'm kinda thinking Sony should have kept the original February 22 date, looking at how mixed reception everything is in February so far besides Apex and maybe Metro but whatever.
Sony giving it plenty of marketing support with early previews feels like a good sign so looking forward to reading some impressions.
Calling it now, Days Gone is gonna surpass Red Dead Redemption 2 as an overall game :)
Calm down, Satan :p
Nothing is surpassing RDR2 for a long time to come.
I bought my ps4 for its exclusives and even if I'm not convinced by the exclusives that I played so far overall, I'm still interested by this one. Now it's wait and see.
Calm down, Satan :p
Nothing is surpassing RDR2 for a long time to come.
If you played them all, then I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you're done with gaming?
I'm still slightly confused by this game. Early sightings seemed more like a tech demo for zombie swarms but the game itself didn't seem that interesting. But the recent marketing (in particular the three videos 'get to know the world of days gone') pretty much swung me round.
The marketing is Sony getting their weight behind a new first party IP which is good to see, but doesn't necessarily mean its a AAA game. Aren't Bend still a relatively small developer? I'm wondering if this is possibly a lower scope/ambition game being pushed into being more than it is through marketing.
I have my fingers firmly crossed and from what I've seen so far Bend looks to be delivering - but if it is a 'smaller' game than eg GoW/Horizon/Spiderman I hope that doesn't backfire on Bend due to Sony marketing it how they are.
I'm still slightly confused by this game. Early sightings seemed more like a tech demo for zombie swarms but the game itself didn't seem that interesting. But the recent marketing (in particular the three videos 'get to know the world of days gone') pretty much swung me round.
The marketing is Sony getting their weight behind a new first party IP which is good to see, but doesn't necessarily mean its a AAA game. Aren't Bend still a relatively small developer? I'm wondering if this is possibly a lower scope/ambition game being pushed into being more than it is through marketing.
I have my fingers firmly crossed and from what I've seen so far Bend looks to be delivering - but if it is a 'smaller' game than eg GoW/Horizon/Spiderman I hope that doesn't backfire on Bend due to Sony marketing it how they are.
I have certain areas of concern with Days Gone even now ( tightness of gunplay, lack of hipfire which imo could make horde clearing unfun, poor sound design, and animation that isn't as visceral or well-animated as the WWS peers ), but otherwise it looks to be plenty worthy even just looking at its checklist of features.
As of the old E3 demo ( which was playable by the public in some events recently ), it wasn't. At least not for on-foot combat.
Interesting. I guess we'll find out in a couple of weeks if that's been added.
this part is what that grabs me about days gone. you rarely see games that are so complex systemically. if they can pull it off, then i find that part even more interesting than the horde tech itself.-Pitched or positioned to be a rather 'dynamic' open world, one where enemies have movement patterns and a degree of randomness. ( enemies will sleep at different times of the day, stronger in cold weather, will move around the map, won't just be in one location, etc etc )
I mean, it doesn't need to be in the game. But looking at the videos of the horde gameplay I feel like it's a poor design choice to have the player have to stop and shoot everytime you want to chip away at the horde. I get the worry that hipfire would make horde clearing much easier, but I would imo balance that with making hip fire extremely inaccurate for high ROF weapons. ( accurate for handguns, but handguns are useless against horde anyway )
I'm still slightly confused by this game. Early sightings seemed more like a tech demo for zombie swarms but the game itself didn't seem that interesting. But the recent marketing (in particular the three videos 'get to know the world of days gone') pretty much swung me round.
The marketing is Sony getting their weight behind a new first party IP which is good to see, but doesn't necessarily mean its a AAA game. Aren't Bend still a relatively small developer? I'm wondering if this is possibly a lower scope/ambition game being pushed into being more than it is through marketing.
I have my fingers firmly crossed and from what I've seen so far Bend looks to be delivering - but if it is a 'smaller' game than eg GoW/Horizon/Spiderman I hope that doesn't backfire on Bend due to Sony marketing it how they are.
Very surprised at the marketing dollar being thrown at this game. (In a good way)
Was expecting for it to be swept under the rug like Crackdown after the negative E3 turnout.
yea the previous trailer was originally running at 60fps, but sony cut the framerate back 30fps now, which probably means that trailer wasnt even running on a PS4....This game is going to be prove all those naysayers and skeptics wrong! You all ready to eat crow?
That being said, did anyone else catch a glimpse of the 60fps gameplay bits in the last released gameplay trailer?