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Days Gone Review Thread (See Staff Post)
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Okay, thanks for the clarification. Sounds very similar to the situation with retro studios. Although retro may pass bend on that seven year figure if there is no game before metroid prime 4.
Yeah for sure! That stuff is great. There's really only a few missions that lock you into a set path (there's some forced stealth missions and although you can use different routes and distract different guards etc. if you go too far off the path you get a game over).
The level of choice in the open world reminds me of MGSV. There's lots of traps and tools and systems for choosing how to approach different encounters. The groups of enemies fight each other and don't just group up on you so it's fun to lure a group of zombies over to an enemy camp and watch them get swarmed. There's definitely a lot of different ways you can approach the vast majority of the missions
Not really 7 years. They were pitching ideas and had an early version of a Vita game, if I remember correctly. And there were a 55-60 studio when the DG development started. They were Sony's smallest studio back then. And now look how good DG looks.
My guess is 5 million worldwide. Nice profit and good, yeah :)
Nobody here knows what the threshold for success is going to be and how Sony will view it, and the ones that do aren't going to talk about it.
Well, from another review it sounded like the game was trying to portray the protag as a good, but conflicted individual, but nope! Bashes zombie kid's brains in and sells woman into slavery!
The fact that we're kind of assuming the possibility really shows an ugly part of Sony's trackrecord in this. I hope theu changed as well
It's because zombies means you never have to think about why you're shooting your gun, obviously. After all, they ain't human. It's a genre wholly devoid of problematic elements as a result! /s
I said this in a different thread but do you guys really think it will sell a "couple" million? Detroit sold over 2 million and that's from a niche genre and 78 MC. WWZ did over million in a week from a 60 MC. Days Gone should easily do 4-5 million bare minimum.
The only thing I have heard being changed was the narrative and dialog choices. Usually these things get changed when faux reviews come in that are bad. They want stories that critics like because they get better scores. Maybe the original narrative was bad or it challenged the tastes of critics or it just wasn't mainstream enough.
The scuttlebutt is that they pitched Golden Abyss 2 and then pitched Infamous Vita, both of which had demos made. They then pitched a couple new IPs for Vita, then finally switched to PS4 to get something going.
If you feel guilt and bad emotions when killing video game enemies, why are you even playing video games let alone giving buying advice to people who like doing that?
I think it'll do more. I was just responding to the other poster, who clarified that he meant more than a couple million. 5 mil sounds like a fair number, but I wonder how many of those will be at discounted prices.
Yeah they definitely try to paint him as ultimately a good person and it feels weird after how evil a lot of what he's done is. although I don't remember him selling anyone into slavery? he's definitely taken "bounties" for someone who runs arguably a slave camp though but he usually (mild spoilers)
ends up helping them to escape
and yeah, it's not just him, everyone kills the kids. there's things in the story that make that element feel very creepy and it's probably meant to be unsettling but yeah they might have crossed a bit of a line
well for one thing a majority of videogames don't let you do violent things to children for another I don't really buy the implication here that violence is necessary to drive a video game either
It feels pretty disingenuous to read the paragraphs and not think it's more a criticism of not having much player choice.
I agree the larger landscape of console owners who won't visit this site or have not idea what it is along with other enthusiast forums will still probably have a big interest in this game. Despite the reviews I feel like this is right up my alley.
The poster I responded to suggested that Days Gone got a rough ride with GameSpot because the reviewer had an agenda. This ignores not just the overall content of her article but the exhaustive list of issues that other reviewers had with the game too.
I know we can all enjoy games that don't rate high with reviewers, I don't doubt people will have fun with Days Gone. It will no doubt sell well. That wasn't my point.
Lets be honest, AAA videogames are about killing, and lots of it. They may exist, but I cannot think of any AAA game not based around killing. There is no choice in these games when it comes to progression.
Remember when this, Crackdown 3 and Anthem were all supposed to launch on the same day? That would have been one hell of a day for reviews. I guess in the end Days Gone won by being ok.
The big three in Feburary. Days Gone won the critical praise, I guess, compared to the other two.
Even tho it would have been for a handheld.... I want more Infamous ;(
Yeah around 14 points below DG, but still... ;) And Anthem is a way waaaay bigger game.
The reviews aren't dreadfully bad and it's most likely going to sell well, so I don't expect we'll see a 'Bend Over' headline any time soon.
Clicked to the last page of the thread. Control F'ed for "Breath of the Wild" or "BotW". Was not disappointed lol...
Happens every time a big exclusive from Sony or MS comes out and underperforms reviews wise. The poor fucking game gets it every time haha.
Days Gone looks good to me personally. I'm from the old school where a 7/10 is still a good (but not great) game so I'll get it when it's drops in price.
The ACG review was a good watch.
Happens every time a big exclusive from Sony or MS comes out and underperforms reviews wise. The poor fucking game gets it every time haha.
Days Gone looks good to me personally. I'm from the old school where a 7/10 is still a good (but not great) game so I'll get it when it's drops in price.
The ACG review was a good watch.
Do you guys think Bend is in danger at all? I really really really hope not, I'm just asking out of genuine concern after seeing some studios I really like get killed off or divorced from Sony after not meeting expectations. (zipper, evolution, ready at dawn, Lightbox).
See my post above. Not at all. They will be fine. More than fine actually :)
I might be misunderstanding you, but I'm thinking of AC mission where the game drops you into heavily fortified place and you need to stay near target "circle" to eavesdrop. The problem is the game want you to keep up with the moving "circle" all while avoiding guards, get caught and you fail the mission immediately. I recall nearly giving up on Black Flag because I get stuck on one such mission.
In the Kotaku review apparently the eavesdropping mission is designed just like that, you can't get caught at all or you immediately fail the mission.
Think I will get a refund from Sony. This does not sound good.
Maybe be on sale at Christmas.
Maybe be on sale at Christmas.
Yup! Although I don't get what they're saying about rocks. You can definitely distract all the NERO people with rocks. I thought the missions were fairly easy and kind of interesting because they're basically going into a bit more of the Sci-Fi elements of the game.
I'm surprised I have seen this type of post more than once....And the game haven't even launched yet.
Can we at least have a couple of months go by first to at least see if it sells...lol.
I hope not but sadly I think yes. It isnt just about money in cases like this. Game was in development for way too long.
Most of the time, it is all about the money. And so far it's tracking to sell really good.
He writes trophy guides for the PS4 platform, his twitter handle is fine. Stop focusing on that, there's better arguments to be made.