Days Gone

Retr0gamer · 18-05-2021 8:27pm

Looks like a very solid pc conversion according to df. Much better than horizon.

gimli2112 · 18-05-2021 8:33pm

PC Gamer bemoans it's overly serious tone, what kind of tone do they expect in the Zombie Apocalypse aftermath?
These kind of comments make me dismiss them straight away. The tone is not something I think about while running from a zombie horde.

Retr0gamer · 18-05-2021 8:52pm

gimli2112 wrote: »

PC Gamer bemoans it's overly serious tone, what kind of tone do they expect in the Zombie Apocalypse aftermath?
These kind of comments make me dismiss them straight away. The tone is not something I think about while running from a zombie horde.

You need tonal shifts to stop stuff being boring its why you see comedy in serious dramas and horror. It's exhausting otherwise. And days gone doesn't seem to realise how silly it is and embrace it.

gimli2112 · 18-05-2021 8:58pm

Where was the humour in the Exorcist? It's the article itself that's taking itself too seriously imo. Each to their own, I'm a simple guy and just see what's in front of me. Personally I didn't notice any tone, blissful ignorance.

Just as you mention tonal shifts however I do remember several comedies trying to introduce tragedy to dismal effect.

daheadonu · 19-05-2021 6:30am

Anyone play this with a mouse?would like to try it on pc but wanted to get opinions first

gimli2112 · 19-05-2021 6:53am

I was actually thinking this yesterday and have no idea how 3rd person games play with a kb+m. I just assumed people would plug in a controller if they had the option.

Retr0gamer · 19-05-2021 9:03am

gimli2112 wrote: »

I was actually thinking this yesterday and have no idea how 3rd person games play with a kb+m. I just assumed people would plug in a controller if they had the option.

It's the same as a FPS game. WASD and mouse. Works great in games that are properly configured for it.

The analyst on DF for the game said the mouse works well in this and he would definitely bring it up if it was bad as he hates bad mouse controls.

The Raging Bile Duct · 19-05-2021 9:22am

I don't remember the game being overly serious - definitely not in the way TLOU2 was. I thought there was enough interplay between Deacon and the other characters that lightened the mood at times. There was only one minor plotline

the one with Lisa

and the incident

where he kills
the woman with the broken legs

that felt a bit bleak but they stood out against the other parts that felt that a lot more gung ho. I'd put the game more as an action game with zombies in the mix rather than a horror game.

KillerShamrock · 19-05-2021 11:15am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Looks like a very solid pc conversion according to df. Much better than horizon.

I found horizon to be fine ran buttery smooth for me, other than the occasional frame drop during busy times no issues what so ever, don't think it crashed once. Ran it it the highest settings pretty much too I'd say average frame rate over 100.

So if this is better that's great

Retr0gamer · 19-05-2021 12:02pm

KillerShamrock wrote: »

I found horizon to be fine ran buttery smooth for me, other than the occasional frame drop during busy times no issues what so ever, don't think it crashed once. Ran it it the highest settings pretty much too I'd say average frame rate over 100.

So if this is better that's great

I think Horizon has been fixed mostly. It had issues at launch.

KillerShamrock · 19-05-2021 12:14pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I think Horizon has been fixed mostly. It had issues at launch.

Ah ok well I only played it late last year early this year, but I found it and death stranding to be grand over all very few issues. So when this comes down in price and I get through the rest of my backlog I'll give this a bash.

Retr0gamer · 19-05-2021 12:18pm

KillerShamrock wrote: »

Ah ok well I only played it late last year early this year, but I found it and death stranding to be grand over all very few issues. So when this comes down in price and I get through the rest of my backlog I'll give this a bash.

Death Stranding was an insanely good PC port. It's why it was so baffling Kojima Studios got it so right with Decima when Guerilla who made the Decima engine had so many issues.

Azza · 19-05-2021 12:20pm

Yeah Horizon is a pretty solid port now, got quite a few patches. A few minor bugs remain. Performance wise it doesn't run as good as Death Stranding but in fairness to Horizon it was running on an older version of the engine and is a lot more visually demanding.

As for Days Gone, might be something I'm interested in playing down the road but its not a game I'd be willing to pay full price for.

Dcully · 19-05-2021 7:10pm

gimli2112 wrote: »

I was actually thinking this yesterday and have no idea how 3rd person games play with a kb+m. I just assumed people would plug in a controller if they had the option.

Any game that requires aiming is instant M&KB for me on PC, played some of it lastnight plays very well with M&KB.

dohboy · 19-05-2021 8:02pm

https://twitter.com/MckKirk/status/1394997422955323394

Grumpypants · 19-05-2021 8:22pm

I'll give both sides some leeway here. Yeah it is clear when a reviewer didn't play it. But at the same time having to clear a 70 hour game in a week or two ruins the experience.

I said it before it came out playing because you are enjoying it over being a job changes it completely.

quokula · 20-05-2021 11:48am

Grumpypants wrote: »

I'll give both sides some leeway here. Yeah it is clear when a reviewer didn't play it. But at the same time having to clear a 70 hour game in a week or two ruins the experience.

I said it before it came out playing because you are enjoying it over being a job changes it completely.

Yeah I watch a lot of Yahtzee Croshaw (of Zero Punctuation) podcasts and he often talks about how he avoids reviewing certain games because playing them to a deadline ruins the experience, and how playing a game for review is a completely different experience to playing it for enjoyment.

That's why there is often such a discrepancy between reviewer consensus when a game first comes out and a bunch of reviewers are rushing to complete it in a few days, and community consensus when everyone's been playing it as it's meant to be played.

Not that Days Gone is necessarily one of those cases though, but I can understand the perspective.

Retr0gamer · 20-05-2021 12:07pm

I've done reviewing and reviewing to a deadline can colour your perspective of a game negatively alright.

However you don't get this when it's a good game. It's usually when the game isn't so good and the negative points get exasperated as they annoy you even more and it's fair to say Days Gone has plenty of annoyances and niggles. Honestly reading the more negative reviews (which still gave good scores, not every game can be 90+) that they are spot on in their criticism. I mean when Mike Williams is giving a Ubisoft style open world game a 3.5/5 there's something up, he usually loves these types of games and rates them higher than the average.

You are allowed to enjoy games that aren't perfect. Nier fan here so I know all about that. But if you are a reviewer, you aren't doing your job glossing over issues.

Vicxas · 20-05-2021 12:29pm

I enjoyed Days Gone on the PS5, while there are some issues i've highlighted here already (the radial wheel for weapons) overall i finished the majority of it.

B.A._Baracus · 20-05-2021 12:51pm

Gonna have to give this a look now. Been in the 'to play' now for a while.

So you're looking at a 70plus hour game?

The Raging Bile Duct · 20-05-2021 12:53pm

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Gonna have to give this a look now. Been in the 'to play' now for a while.

So you're looking at a 70plus hour game?

About 35-40 hours to complete. Maybe another 4-5 to platinum it.

Vicxas · 20-05-2021 12:54pm

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Gonna have to give this a look now. Been in the 'to play' now for a while.

So you're looking at a 70plus hour game?

Yeah about that, main story does drag on and theres a fair few side quests and "clear x out of y" quests to do

The Raging Bile Duct · 20-05-2021 12:55pm

Vicxas wrote: »

Yeah about that, main story does drag on and theres a fair few side quests and "clear x out of y" quests to do

It's long but it's definitely not a 70 hour plus game.

_CreeD_ · 20-05-2021 1:51pm

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

It's long but it's definitely not a 70 hour plus game.

Was 70+ for me, didn't rush but also didn't idle either. I don't do achievement hunting but I did just about every activity, horde and mission in the game.

I'm looking forward to playing this again on the PC but with the Metro Exodus Enhanced, Mass Effect Legendary and now this releases so close together my replay urge is waning.

rizzla · 21-05-2021 8:54am

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

About 35-40 hours to complete. Maybe another 4-5 to platinum it.

Yep, I platinumed it in around 40 hours. It felt like 70 though. I then booted up New Game plus and critical pathed it for awhile, skipping cutscenes and it was a much more enjoyable experience.

The game needed an editor, I read it has 6 hours of cutscenes, it's definitely not needed to tell the same story.

_CreeD_ · 21-05-2021 9:42pm

So I spun it up just to see what the port is like, just about 30 mins before heading back to ME, and they did a pretty damn good job imho. Super-UW support out of the box, decent graphic and audio options and some surprisingly in-depth M+KBD control options. It's also running buttery smooth, though it is still previous-gen visually, I'm getting between 90-120 fps at 5120x1440 with everything maxed.

Dcully · 23-05-2021 8:02pm

Im only about 4 hours in but to my surprise im really enjoying it.
The combat and difficulty is where the game shines imo.
I feared it would be too arcadey type of game but thankfully its not and they really nailed it here.
Playing on normal difficulty its dangerous but very doable it just feels right for a first playthrough, already looking forward to new game + .

Le Bruise · 25-05-2021 11:22am

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

Awful. I don't know why it's so sensitive and fiddly. It was selecting the wrong item for me all the item.

Started playing it about 2 weeks ago (downloaded it through PS Plus) and the radial wheel is definitely a trying experience...I thought it was just me!!

Overall enjoying it though. Only get to play sporadically for an hour or two at a time, so am ignoring a lot of the side missions or 'busy work' at the moment to get through it.

dreamers75 · 31-05-2021 5:21pm

Runs quite well on PC in 4k

Does it rain all the bleedin time tho? Reminds me of Ireland

dreamers75 · 01-06-2021 7:57am

How do you kill the horde or am I not supposed to yet?

Zero-Cool · 01-06-2021 8:11am

dreamers75 wrote: »

How do you kill the horde or am I not supposed to yet?

How far into the game are you? Your first mission to fight a horde is tough enough without trying to take them out even earlier. You become a horde killer by end game, that's when i started hunting them. Just keep increasing your stamina with nero boosts and you'll need plenty of skill upgrades in the shooting section. You could probably do okay against the smaller hordes of 50 freakers but you could also come across a 500 freaker horde.

gimli2112 · 01-06-2021 8:50am

The hardest hoardes a probably the mandatory ones.

The first one in a town because you're so under-levelled, one trapped in a cave can be tricky, the sawmill one and one late on , the latter two simply because the hoardes are SO FECKING BIGS

One you are levelled up with all the good gear they become a walk in the park but pretty intimidating early on.

dreamers75 · 01-06-2021 9:59am

Have found 1 in in the starting area beside a lake, its a NERO base on the way to the 2nd area. I tried to kite them to the boxes marked EXPLOSIVE which didnt explode, I died a lot with them. I tried pipe bombing them nothing seems to work and they overpower me. There is also a gas truck which imo would be ideal if I could push towards them.

The 2nd one is the cave and I noped the fcuk out of there.

Some sort of minigun would be great.

gimli2112 · 01-06-2021 11:37am

tbh it's much much easier once you get access to the guns and equipment later in the game. I'd hold off challenging hoardes until you get a decent LMG and SMG, rank them up and have access to napalm bombs and distraction bombs

dreamers75 · 06-06-2021 8:51pm

https://www.pcgamesn.com/days-gone/mod-hordes

Modder Aigmir has posted a new Days Gone mod that dials up the size of the open-world game’s zombie hordes to make them truly enormous. Hordes are a big hazard in Days Gone, which are made up of anywhere between 50 and 500 swarmers, and 40 of them roam about in-game waiting to pounce on poor old Deacon. This new mod, however, changes that range to 280-600, with boss hordes being a tad bigge

This was a bad idea but its ****ing hilarious

:D:D

_CreeD_ · 07-06-2021 1:05pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

How do you kill the horde or am I not supposed to yet?

It's worth noting in addition to what was already said that there are some hordes that you cannot completely kill until the explicit mission to do so pops up. The results can be pretty strange, at least they were on my PS4 playthrough, where I did one of them twice too early and they would re-activate on my next drive by but when the mission did activate to kill them they were gone (and thankfully I did get credit for it). Also if you're following a guide for dedicated horde killing there are some in the second major map area that don't appear until a certain amount of main mission progression.

dreamers75 · 09-06-2021 12:08am

Its ehh quite long played 21 hours and have 3 camps open, cant get to level 3 with any of them and I do every mission they ask

Just turned on power in 3rd camp.

Main character is a bit of a dick.

gimli2112 · 09-06-2021 1:46am

I've finished this several times and the first playthrough I really struggled. Several times I thought it was over and it just kept going and tbh I was struggling to get to the end. Funnily I didn't have this issue with any of the subsequent runs and just bombed through it but it is certainly a valid criticism.

I've heard plenty of criticism for Deacon which I never really empathised with. Living after the Zombie apocalypse I'm certain will be challenging and normal rules of society will be difficult to follow but I think on the whole he's a pretty decent individual. Definitely get the vibe he's trying to do the right thing unlike say Joel who is a much darker character. I prefer Joel who I think is a much more realistically drawn character, if my assumptions as to how society will evolve after it crumbles are correct.

dreamers75 · 09-06-2021 8:50am

Wonder how much of that 21 hours is cut scenes, there a lot of cutscenes.

Still yet to fightbeat a horde, turned off that horde mod until I do.

Good game and other than a few CTD runs well on PC.

Klonker · 09-06-2021 9:08am

I'm about 20 hours into this and really enjoying it. Its not a perfect game but it's enjoyable and challenging. I got stuck in the middle of the mountains with no petrol in the middle of the night with a load of swarmers around and no decent ammo, I must of died 20 times before I made it back to Copelands camp and got the bike brought there to me :pac:

It's not without its faults, like others have said there's a lot of unnessary cut scenes, way too many calls with Boozer and some of the stories are a little weird (seems characters would rather risk getting ripped apart by freakers than do a little work in Tuckers camp :pac: )

gimli2112 · 09-06-2021 9:12am

you can skip most of the cutscenes but there's some painful ones you can't. I remember one picking flowers with yer wan.

I'm terrible for skipping cutscenes. I do it all the time. Unskippable ones are almost a deal-breaker for me. I genuinely think the first game I watched all of them was TLOU. First and last time.

dreamers75 · 09-06-2021 9:17am

Klonker wrote: »

I'm about 20 hours into this and really enjoying it. Its not a perfect game but it's enjoyable and challenging. I got stuck in the middle of the mountains with no petrol in the middle of the night with a load of swarmers around and no decent ammo, I must of died 20 times before I made it back to Copelands camp and got the bike brought there to me :pac:

It's not without its faults, like others have said there's a lot of unnessary cut scenes, way too many calls with Boozer and some of the stories are a little weird (seems characters would rather risk getting ripped apart by freakers than do a little work in Tuckers camp :pac: )

Pro Tip gas respawns in the exact same spots, there is always gas on main roads usually in the back of tow trucks but I have yet to have to walk far to get some.

Minor bug on PC is you can sometimes have a call with Boozer, Radio Free Oregan, The other "dude" and the 2 or 3 camps at the same bleedin time!!!!!

Its like they all kick at the same time happened more than once now and kinda annoying.

Klonker · 09-06-2021 2:03pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Pro Tip gas respawns in the exact same spots, there is always gas on main roads usually in the back of tow trucks but I have yet to have to walk far to get some.

Minor bug on PC is you can sometimes have a call with Boozer, Radio Free Oregan, The other "dude" and the 2 or 3 camps at the same bleedin time!!!!!

Its like they all kick at the same time happened more than once now and kinda annoying.

I was literally in the middle of the mountains, very little vehicles or even roads around. I'm playing on 'hard', I'm not sure if that means there's less fuel in the game but apart from towns or Nero centres there's not much fuel around.

Had that radio thing happen too, Boozer and Copeland were going at the same time. I think the Copeland radio thing is supposed to be funny, something like the stations on GTA but I never really pay attention to what he's saying!

Dcully · 09-06-2021 2:49pm

I regularly abandon my bike and just do it by foot , makes it a much better experience imho.

dreamers75 · 09-06-2021 3:09pm

Dcully wrote: »

I regularly abandon my bike and just do it by foot , makes it a much better experience imho.

Sometimes do that but then next objective 2.2km and fcuk that tbh.

Now that I have unlocked the big dude certainly fcuk that but we have an agreement he stays in his quarter of the map and I stay very far away!!!!

Dcully · 09-06-2021 4:53pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Sometimes do that but then next objective 2.2km and fcuk that tbh.

Now that I have unlocked the big dude certainly fcuk that but we have an agreement he stays in his quarter of the map and I stay very far away!!!!

I hear ya but that 2.2k treck offers up random gameplay i enjoy more than just move to mission rinse repeat.

dreamers75 · 09-06-2021 11:55pm

Dcully wrote: »

I hear ya but that 2.2k treck offers up random gameplay i enjoy more than just move to mission rinse repeat.

Is it not just a bit boring then? you are going by places you will revisit in a mission almost every place is used in some way from bounties to story missions.

Its not like State of Decay/7tdt etc where you are rewarded for exploring.

AmirPelavin01 · 10-06-2021 2:19am

Loved the gameee, It is available on pc now which is great, I think it was released a few weeks back. We can now play it on high resolution lol

Dcully · 10-06-2021 9:37am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Is it not just a bit boring then? you are going by places you will revisit in a mission almost every place is used in some way from bounties to story missions.

Its not like State of Decay/7tdt etc where you are rewarded for exploring.

A bit boring after a while when the story has progressed a bit and you have done most of the current area.

Penn · 11-06-2021 10:51am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbnJfQV4hyw

Days Gone

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