Days Gone

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Did you play left for dead? L4D 1 is my favourite multiplayer of all time. And WWZ looks very much like it. Gonna hold off till the summer before deciding on it anyway. Been watching Black Summer on Netflix to get me in the mood. Even though that got poor to average reviews, I'm loving it, scares, action, suspense all the way through. TWD could learn a few things from it.

Absolutely, I've played L4D 1&2 for years.

WWZ does some of its own stuff. Shooting hundreds of zombies with a RPG during a wall pill up never gets old!

ERG89 wrote: »

Whuh?? I thought the reviews weren't until the day before release. Its not out until Friday

I think it means YouTubers and the like can stream it but reviews have to wait til Thursday.

I said I wouldn't watch any more videos but this is fairly impressive. I thought the snowy parts in trailers were from regions up north but this video shows it starts snowing and overtime, the landscape becomes covered in snow. I read thunderstorms can also change the landscape making roads muddy but this is cool.

I assume the weather changing will affect how your bike handles etc.

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Can you pre load yet? how big is it? still unsure if I'll wait or get this.

Pre-load will start Wednesday (always 48 hours before release). Think I read the install is about 67GB, but I think there's a pretty substantial Day One patch too as per Zero-Cool's post above.

Fred The Red wrote: »

Why the need to preload a digital game I will never understand!

so you're good to go at 00.01 on launch day. It's insanity but I do it myself.
nothing better than launching and being met by a 5 gig patch which on PS can take anything from a few minutes to an hour to sort out depending on what mood it's in.


this one really interests me but I'm obsessed with the division and just got the original borderlands last week (a fall back as I was horrified when my internet went down and couldn't log on) so it's on the backburner for now, pending reviews.

yeah you'd think after being burned so many times I'd have learned my lesson but TLOU2 and Borderlands 3 will be getting pre-ordered whether they like it or not.


Pre-order bonuses are getting really annoying. There's three versions on PS for BL3 and I'll need to get the most expensive one for the season pass, the middle one just has a load of cosmetic gunk. My least favourite things are xp boosts and early access though.

I guess I could get it and then blame Zero if it turns out to be a disaster.

Fred The Red wrote: »

It's more so having a wee bit of patience and waiting for an accumulation of reviews which might give you better idea if you are on the fence over it

There are just always games I know I'm going to get, especially sequels to games I loved where I know they can't f*ck it up so badly that I'm not going to want to play it the day it comes out anyway. Take MK11 for example. I love the MK games, especially what they do with the single-player story modes. Even then it's always fun to just pickup and play, take on a few towers whenever I'm bored with nothing else to play. This game, it seems there's a lot of outcry over them making getting customisation options a much bigger grind than ever before (and having way more customisation items to make it even worse), and making some of the towers damn near impossible to make you use/lose consumables.

But, story mode and the pick up and play things are why I'm getting it. The grind for customisation options doesn't interest me (bar some fatalities/brutalities, but you can still find/use the inputs without unlocking them), and because of the backlash they were receiving in reviews and online, they announced yesterday they'll be fixing/adjusting from day one. So I'm still glad I pre-ordered, pre-loaded, and will be ready to rock with it when I get home from work.

Same with Days Gone. I knew it was going to be a pretty solid 8/10 at least and is the type of game that really appeals to me. I'd no hesitation with taking a punt on pre-ordering as I knew it was extremely unlikely it'd end up getting slaughtered in reviews, even if it's not being hailed as a masterpiece.

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

So you can play it on release day and not have to wait for a download?

I think Fred means preorder a digital game? As in, they are not gonna run out of stock so why preorder? That's what I took from it anyway and like Gimli said, of you know you're gonna give it a go day one, nicer to have the 70gb download done and out of the way.

In a similar way Retro, I find I have more time to talk about games than actually play them I love some release day hype though.

If people want to wait for reviews, then that's grand but I ain't waiting for a review for Endgame and won't be waiting for this. If either disappoint me (I doubt either will), I'll get over it..... Except Spiderman 3, I'll never get over that disappointment

I hate that tbh if it's ever present, won't be so bad if it's pop up

It turns the game into a checkbox exercise

Pre-order completed (€20 GS trade-in offer). Bring on Friday!

Fred The Red wrote: »

I'll be getting the physical release once I make that decision. One of the biggest exclusives of the year so Argos should have it.

The hype train has definitely taken off tho, led by Zero Cool who's already caught a few stragglers

I'd give a few weeks, maybe months for the devs to fix the game and make positive changes.

Judging by new game releases that launch in poor condition it will only be a few weeks until the game is slashed in price and in the bargain bins.

Best to play the waiting game and save some €.