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I mean Sony even mention this themselves
https://blog.us.playstation.com/201...os-release-lineup-the-next-wave-of-ps4-games/
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Days Gone Press Tour going on right now (Preview embargo lifts March 6th at 00:01 PT/08:00 GMT/09:00 CET)
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I mean Sony even mention this themselves
Means it should be mega polished, then!
Why are you only looking at YouTubers?
Literally ever written preview I saw (like tens of them) were very positive about the game. Didn't say anything about clunkiness or AI, just talked about how compelling the systems and world were.
Yep the structure of the story being more like a longform TV drama that plays out over an open world - unlike something like TLoU which is very cinema-like or State of Decay which is very systemic - is really appealing.
I don't see the Persona comparison at all, though. Persona has a tight and restrictive daily routine and calendar system which is tied to the game's gameplay loop, structure and mechanics. I'm sure the "XX days gone" aspect will impact Days Gone's gameplay, but nowhere near as much as Persona's calendar structure.
But I mean more importantly Persona are anime-like JRPGs (with all the trappings that implies) focused on mythology, rather than cinematic gritty western narratives.
I'm team 83+ on meta
And also team 3 Million in it's first month. Guaranteeing us a sequel, which is what I care about most.
And also team 3 Million in it's first month. Guaranteeing us a sequel, which is what I care about most.
Yeah, the calender system will not be restrictive like Persona but that day over day structure could be very good for Days Gone story.
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I'm thinking 81 meta. 79-82 range probably.
Also lol that mazi ban. why does he even come in these threads?
Also lol that mazi ban. why does he even come in these threads?
There were a wide ranging mix of previews, but some did mention some jank.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gaming/...18-hands-on-preview-wheels-coming-ps4-zombie/
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-05-21-days-gones-e3-demo-shows-scant-signs-of-life
I assume this is the same alpha build that was playable at PAX. I suspect most, if not all, of this stuff will have been fixed in the last year though.
One thing is for certain, whatever happens this will still be light years ahead of State of Decay 2 when it comes to jank and clunkiness.
Nice, thanks for the references.
Hopefully the extra few months of dev really let them nail all these minor issues.
Heh, yeah, I <3 State of Decay but it feels like a mid-'00s game in terms of jank a lot of the time.
Especially in the story department... Such a disappointment and missed opportunity from Undead Labs..
Why does every damn DG thread become an RDR2 thread, and why does Anthony Hopkins hold the first open world game by a smallish studio to the same standard as one of the most expensive, polished open world games of all time by a world renowned open world studio in just about every DG thread?
I think it will get around the 70 score. But i also thought Crackdown 3 would be low 80's so i dont know shit
Staying with an 85+ MC/OC prediction and 5M+ in sales between April 26th and whatever the date is that ends the month of May. It will also easily win the month of April in best game and best selling game. :)
It's like a Pandemic of awesome!
That's not what I got from what he said. He seemed excited about why it was delayed, but couldn't say why. Aside from just polishing the game, he seemed excited about something else, like they used the extra time to add more content to the game to hone it to perfection.
There seems to be DLC post launch so perhaps they have been working on extra content
Sam was talking about the base game's delay when he got all excited, but couldn't say why.
Well I'm guilty of bringing up RDR2 in this particular thread, but it does happen in most of them.
When trying to discuss what we want and what we don't want it's easiest to use another game as a point of comparison and RDR2 is the most recent and closest example that most people would know about. It can be useful as a mutual point of reference when discussing of Days Gone. Sometimes the discussions can go a bit too far, but then again I suppose we're going to have to wait 2 weeks for info from these events anyways so some slightly off-topic discussions isn't going to hurt much IMO.
When trying to discuss what we want and what we don't want it's easiest to use another game as a point of comparison and RDR2 is the most recent and closest example that most people would know about. It can be useful as a mutual point of reference when discussing of Days Gone. Sometimes the discussions can go a bit too far, but then again I suppose we're going to have to wait 2 weeks for info from these events anyways so some slightly off-topic discussions isn't going to hurt much IMO.
A vast, vast, vast majority of games - if you boil it down to its basics, are extremely repetitive. Go somewhere, engage with its core mechanics ( shooting/fighting/etc), rinse repeat.
What the best games do are give you an illusion to reduce its sense of repetitiveness or to make it fun despite its repetition.
Games like The Witcher 3 does it by making the storytelling, performance, etc really compelling that even though it's functionally the same detective-vision-tracking quest as say, Horizon and other games, it's less annoying than other games that borrow the mechanics, but not the same quality of narrative framing.
What the best games do are give you an illusion to reduce its sense of repetitiveness or to make it fun despite its repetition.
Games like The Witcher 3 does it by making the storytelling, performance, etc really compelling that even though it's functionally the same detective-vision-tracking quest as say, Horizon and other games, it's less annoying than other games that borrow the mechanics, but not the same quality of narrative framing.
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A few seconds of new gameplay you see a glimpse of the Breaker again.
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Agreed.
The best games make you enjoy doing the same thing over and over again.
EVERY game is repetitive. The Witcher III, God of War, Horizon, BOTW, Bloodborne, RDR 2, MGS V, AC, FC, COD/BF, SMO, etc. Doesn't matter what game it is or what genre it is. They are ALL repetitive. It simply comes down to "are you enjoying the gameplay loop and what you're doing in that gameplay loop to keep doing it over and over and over again until you conclude the game?". That's basically what it comes down to.
The only real issue for this game is that the actual setting could be perceived as uninspired(third person post apocalyptic zombie game). From what i can tell, the game itself has huge amounts of effort put into it by the team in terms of actual quality and production value
I'm really hoping this game ends up surprising everyone .
Remember Sony's gaming philosophy: First.Best. Must.
Days Gone only fits the second criterion.
I'll still be up to my eyeballs in Sekiro when this drops but for some reason these last few vids have really sparked my interest in the game.
I've stopped following MC scores but I'm hoping it ends up being an essential title.
Havent all of Sony's non-launch titles knocked it outta the park this gen? Why should Days Gone be any different?
Remember Sony's gaming philosophy: First.Best. Must.
Days Gone only fits the second criterion.
I'll still be up to my eyeballs in Sekiro when this drops but for some reason these last few vids have really sparked my interest in the game.
I've stopped following MC scores but I'm hoping it ends up being an essential title.
Havent all of Sony's non-launch titles knocked it outta the park this gen? Why should Days Gone be any different?
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Thanks! So it looks like only the Boozer storyline has multiple endings and the final one has one definitive ending? Hmm...
What, no, I'm 25 and I like a lot of recent games, just not these ones. It's not that big of a deal. I'm hyped for a lot of games too, like Sekiro for example.
Their event organiser packs them back away in to boxes and ships them back to base along with everything else. It's not very exciting.
I suppose you could say there's a difference between a game being repetitive and feeling repetitive. Most games are the former, some are the latter.
For me, it's not only gameplay mechanics, but also visual diversity as key in preventing the feeling of the latter. Some open world games have the issue where it all feels like one big world of the same thing, with very little variety. Compared to a linear game where there's more of a feeling of adventure and different environments to keep things interesting. Open world games like HZD, N:A and BotW are particularly good because they cram so many different environments in to their worlds. The problem is we keep seeing the same environment in Days Gone, and as beautiful as it is, I really want to see more variety. But that said we've seen an incredibly small snippet of the game - 2 missions I think, of a 20+ hour campaign.
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I thought I read somewhere that Boozer is just one of the many important NPC that you can interact with, esch with their own story and dialog options.
Since the first gameplay demo I have seen until the most recent I see 2 problems with this game :
- The controls (maybe also because of the view and camera system). you have to deal with fast ennemies around you, particularly behind you, and it's visibly a pain to move around and quickly turn around. In most demos I have seen, either people would fail and struggle because of this, or the developers knew exactly where the ennemies were so they could always position themself in the right angle while running just before the next encounter, but that's cheating.
- Character's faces (friends, ennemies, zombies) all look very similar, like if they all belonged to the same family. I think this is one of the reason the game is labelled as generic by many. The characters faces (not the gameplay or settings) are generic.
- The controls (maybe also because of the view and camera system). you have to deal with fast ennemies around you, particularly behind you, and it's visibly a pain to move around and quickly turn around. In most demos I have seen, either people would fail and struggle because of this, or the developers knew exactly where the ennemies were so they could always position themself in the right angle while running just before the next encounter, but that's cheating.
- Character's faces (friends, ennemies, zombies) all look very similar, like if they all belonged to the same family. I think this is one of the reason the game is labelled as generic by many. The characters faces (not the gameplay or settings) are generic.
I have not been so interested how a game is going to be received in a long time, I'm kind of hyped for the game, almost even more hyped for the review thread, it's going to be a shit show no matter how the game is reviewed.
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I'm excited to enter towns and neighborhoods and go scavenging! It's just creepy cool to go into buildings and homes where people used to live and thrive only to see it abandoned and empty; full of once important things to scrounge through for supplies to get ourselves by to the next day.