Pure PlayStation: As I’ve seen around the interwebz, and thought to myself as well, a lot of people believe that Days Gone is quite the polarizing title. For the most part reviews are either love it or hate it. Either meh or good. I happened to be on the I enjoyed it side and feel free to check out our review that went up Wednesday if you haven’t already. Point being that some are confused or questioning why the review scores are all over the place. Having read, skimmed, and seen a lot of different opinions I may have a simple answer. Although it goes without saying (and not the first time I’ve mentioned this here at Pure PlayStation), but the best way to get the most out of reviews is to follow individual reviewers you trust and who have similar gaming interests to you.
Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?
Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.
Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.
I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.
Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.
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Never say never, I really didn't expect to ever see Space Marine 2 and 12 years later its almost here.
So there is still hope for all these games.
I've completed 5 of the games on the list, but the author forgot to include Advent Rising. It was supposed to be a trilogy, but it bombed hard, and the two sequels never got made. It was Mass Effect, a console generation before Mass Effect.
The game is buggy and unpolished, it needed a few more months of development, but the potential was there. At the end of the game, you have all these super abilities, I remember the stomp attack that created a shockwave being especially powerful.
I personally think days gone will recieve some sort of sequel at some point. I'm personally also hoping it's not the rumored multiplayer online stuff. I'd think most that enjoyed it would rather thisnto.
Sony needs to dust off Sly Cooper and Days Gone so needs a sequel two of my favorite Sony titles. Bulletstorm I love great game wish it also got a sequel. And I wish Namco would finally give Enslaved a sequel another great game.
This was so fun I love the hoards. People need to stick with it because the start is very slow
The critical reception had Sony relegate Bend to a support studio. Thank God the fans spoke up and Sony reversed that decision.
“...but the best way to get the most out of reviews is to follow individual reviewers you trust and who have similar gaming interests to you.”
Truth. Aggregates like RottenTomatoes, Cinemascore, Meta/Opencritic can give you an idea with their own subjective letter or number (weighted reviews afterall), but that stamp is also weighted by critics like Slant magazine, who would have me believe that next to nothing is worth playing. Gotta find the diamonds in the rough that relate to your interests.
The fatigue thing doesn't hold water because to a minority EVERYTHING is suffering from fatigue! Forbes did a piece the other day focusing, again on super hero fatigue, the day Endgame numbers come out lol. It did over a billion dollars in four days by the way.
The point being that if something is good people will come. I still say certain reviewers hold PS exclusives to a different standard because Just Cause 4 is pretty bad and does feel rough around the edges (more than usual) is very repetitive and it didn't get near the shit Days Gone has. How come they aren't fatigued by the other third party open world games?!?!
What's sad is that most of the gamers who have actually PLAYED it, say it's great or good.