Days Gone

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

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

Fred The Red wrote: »

I'll wait, one redditor and an Xbox fan on Twitter isn't enough to spin a negative on the whole game

Plenty of positive previews and we will see what the situation is when the reviews come out

This type of stuff tends to come up whenever Sony release a AAA exclusive

We all remember how #puddlegate played out :P

Yeah I've seen some clips of one or two bugs in the game, but as mentioned previously there's already a pretty big day one patch coming and most won't encounter any serious bugs anyway. None of them are gamebreaking or that troublesome (biggest one I saw was just a horde coming out of a cave fell through the map instead. Would be disappointing but not gamebreaking at least).

For example I went back to play Assassins Creed Odyssey a bit over the weekend to take advantage of a levelling exploit and was stunned that it's still suffering from a slowdown/stuttering/gamebreaking issue when taking down forts. It's a serious, common issue that's been there since launch and is still happening it seems. At least no reports of similar happening in Days Gone so far anyway, so I don't think there's any cause to be concerned about bugs at this stage.

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

Looking at the Days gone sub-reddit it seems a bit of panic is setting in. Its like people are trying to will it into being an awesome game but its unlikely to happen. At least not a launch.

The expectations are way too high imo, this isn't the last of us. In truth I think its a stretch calling it an AAA game. The studio that make it have done pretty underwhelming work in the past.

I think the reviewers will do their best to show its positive points but it will be a very underwhelming affair with the game dropping quickly off the shelves.

Looking at the Days Gone sub-reddit I see nothing like what you describe. I even searched by Controversial and most of the threads were just people asking questions about the game. You say there's panic setting in and people are trying to will it to be an awesome game, but it very much seems like you're ascribing your own feelings to their posts.

Your own opinions aside, it's a new IP so people are always going to be somewhat hesitant. I am myself, and I'm not expecting this to be game of the year material or anything of the sort. I think it'll be a fun game to play, hopefully with a decent story. I think it's the same for most people, as it should be with a new IP. Ultimately, we can't properly judge it until it's out and we've played it, but there's nothing in the reviews, discussion boards like Reddit or gameplay videos so far that align with what you're claiming.

Syphon Filter underwhelming?? :pac:

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yeah, over rated as well and the Vita Uncharted game was kind of dull in retrospect. Still with the colossal ramping up the team went for this game they are a very different team than when they were making portable games.

I'll wait and see what the reviews say about how it plays but story I feel is shaping up to be poor with some bad writing so far and the story seems to be focusing on the origins or the world, which is always the least interesting aspect of post apocalyptic stories.

Ah here, I absolutely loved Syphon Filter and anyone I talked to back then who played it back then loved it as well, thought that was the general consensus. Never played the Vita.

And as for opinions, my favourite part of apocalypse stories are the origins. Watching Black Summer at the moment and I love the setting of everyone in pure panic not knowing what's going on and just relying on adrenaline to survive making split life & death decisions because they don't know any better.

I mean, we can all agree Deacon St. John is a terrible name but I some some people who played it this week say they really enjoyed the story/writing.

Biggest complaints I've seen so far is the torch that doesn't seem connected to Deacon and the fetch quests in between the good story missions that can slow it down a bit. 1 guy who got 100% in it said he really enjoyed it, spent 30 hours on the story, 20 hours on side stuff.

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

2007 and prior. I think underwhelming is a fair assessment of their capabilities.

Also this is an open world game, so apples and oranges.

I think most, if not all would have said similar about Guerrilla games, given that pretty much all they'd done was Killzone games. Then they made Horizon Zero Dawn, one of the best games this gen and completely different to anything they'd made before.

I think given that they're making a type of game they've never made before (like Guerrilla did), and given the amount of resource and information sharing that goes on between Sony first party studios, I'd be hesitant to hold Bend Studios previous games against them.

Watched a little bit of a freeroam earlier. Game looks good but the aiming looks off, maybe it's because the speed the freakers move at but the guy playing seemed to struggle to hit them. That could get very frustrating very quickly.

gimli2112 wrote: »

I've seen a few comments that the gunplay is off, from some time ago mind. I imagine something as fundamental as that is tough to fix.

I'd say it's down to the speed of the freakers. They seem to move direction very quickly so it's hard to adjust your aim to match their movement.

Benzino wrote: »

Couldn't agree more. I always recall people at the end of previous E3's complaining about all the sequels, but then when you have a new IP coming out, people are trying to bash it before it's even released.

I'm looking forward to this one, I'm not expecting the greatest thing ever, more of a 70-80% rated game, looks like there is a lot of fun to be had with this game.

I'm not bashing it if that's what it seemed like. I got my PS4 off the back of the original Days Gone E3 trailer because I loved the look of it. Unfortunately it was delayed and I sold my PS4 in the meantime after building a PC, but I'll be borrowing my brothers to give it a blast.

One thing I don't like the look of is the xp numbers that jump out of the enemy as you hit them but luckily, you can remove that in the interface menu.

I've heard the bike runs out of fuel. It sounds like an interesting mechanic that will quickly become very annoying.