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Days Gone Review: Gone Killin' | GameSkinny

Joseph Ocasio - "Days Gone may not be game-changing like other PlayStation exclusives, but it's still a well put together title."

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Abnor_Mal1846d ago

Having a great time with Days Gone, up to "They won't let me leave".

chris2351846d ago

the game is a masterpiece. the facial expressions are superb. usually i click away those boring sequences. here i watch them all cause they are done so well. the game may be repetitive but the engine is fun enough to keep me playing more than a week later.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH1846d ago

I just killed my first horde and I have to say it was underwhelming. All I did was run circles around explosives shooting the barrels til I killed nearly all of the horde. Wash repeat done. I like the game though and I’m looking forward to finishing it.

sushimama1846d ago

Some hordes are bigger than others. I'm playing on hard and its way more fun

Eidolon1846d ago

Dude, have you run into a horde without the right equipment. it's devastating. How about riding into horde only to damage your bike to 0%. you're fucked.

P_Bomb1846d ago (Edited 1846d ago )

Take the W! It might not play out that way again. I haven’t seen many barrels lumped together since the body dump Nero outpost with the train cars.

I just passed two more roaming hordes at night. Down south. One cottage neighbourhood, outside the window of a house I almost jumped out of. Sufficed to say I changed my mind lol. No explosives in that ‘hood. Although I will try again with the proper gear. Figure I’ll kite through the houses, funnel them through molotov windows and hallways.

The other walked past a gas station I was about to light up. Had two infestation nests in it. One downstairs one upstairs. I was about to light up the one upstairs then jump out the window to go downstairs when I saw what was walking by. Helluva surprise! I was waiting for them to pass like something you’d see on TWD, walker noise all around me. Then they stopped to feed on the corpses I left. Tense AF! Sitting on top of two infestation nests with a horde outside. I got spotted through the window, they frikking climbed up and through! So I lit up both nests with Molotovs as I knew I wouldn’t be back, grabbed a gas tank for my bike that I ditched on the other side of town, popped a stamina drink and RAN like a mofo lol! Made it out. A+

sushimama1846d ago

There is NO WAY Days Gone is a 7. It's at least an 8. I know it's just the authors opinion, but it truly baffles me that some people don't rate the game higher. I platinumed Sekiro. I platinumed Red Dead 2. I platinumed Uncharted 4 and Bloodborne etc. I will platinum Days Gone. It's just an awesome game. 9/10 for me so far

Question_Mark1846d ago

You said it yourself, it’s the author’s opinion, so get over it.

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Days Gone – Five Years Later

How does Bend Studio's underrated open-world survival title hold up after all these years, especially following its updates?

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GhostScholar3h ago

One of my favorite games of all time. Hate that ain’t didn’t allow a sequel.

Cacabunga2h ago

This MUST have a sequel..
Enough said

GhostScholar1h ago

Sony didn’t green light a sequel and I hate it.

SimpleSlave3h ago

The Motorcycle was actually fun and the idea and effects of the Hordes was actually great. Sadly, the zombies in the horde have no health bar so they drop like flies, even if you hit them like once or twice on the knee. Also, no Head Shot Only Mode in another Zombie game.

In the end, it was a very generic game, with terrible mission design and cookie cutter everything. And with terrible writing and terrible written characters, the whole thing was just an Asylum level bad. This was just Sons of Anarchy at home with Zombies but somehow worst.

But again, the motorcycle was fun though...

shinoff21833h ago

I really enjoyed it. Shame it never got a sequel. Unless that sequel was online focused.

Phantom682h ago

Fixed long time ago. Shame there i no sequel

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Days Gone, 5 Years Later

Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?

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mkis00728d ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows9028d ago (Edited 28d ago )

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

Cacabunga28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

game is outstanding. I was addicted to it until I got that platinum to pop.

i understand some people who find it thin in terms of content in comparison to RDR2 which released 1 year before it but DG has very fresh good ideas.

it has been my favorite PS4 game......until I played RDR2.
PS have one more gem in their crazy catalogue of exclusives...

-Foxtrot28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis00728d ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel198928d ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Michiel198928d ago

@fox it was maybe 2 outlets that made a stupid woke statement, not every journo. Not even close.
I think the director himself crying about that the game should have gotten better reviews might have had something to do with not getting a sequel. That was just a pathetic display on his part.

anast28d ago

Most reviewers are a certain type of person that won't allow them to explore those types of themes.

PhillyDonJawn28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

Nah the game is 7. The only good thing you even said about it was the horde/enemy count. If that's the only positive it's not an 8 lol

Crows9028d ago

As you can see...some are so blind because of fanboyism that they honestly can't see the writing on the wall. It wasn't just 1 or 2 reviewers...it was a lot of them. Some more direct than others ..just like with stellar blade.

They all coordinate with each other...especially evident seeing as they start submitting the same type of article over the exact same issues within 20 minutes of each other or nearly the same time..that's not a coincidence.

We all know it happened...some are just oblivious so feel free to ignore them.

BISHOP-BRASIL27d ago

Why are we pretending there's some huge difference between a 7 and a 8, don't both of them mean "above average/good"? On a 5 star system they would both be 4 stars, no? Heck, I simply put games on either of 3 cateorgies, it's either bad (don't play), good (play once if you can), great (make the effort to play and keep it), it's enough for me to make a logical decision or to recomend a game to someone or not... I'd say Days Gone was something between good and great but closer to good, so 7 sound fair to me anyway.

At the end of the day the reviews, be it journalists or users, on average or a punctual review, decimal or star based or whatever measuring stick we get... Reviews simply weren't the reason the game didn't get a sequel, it's performance on the market was. Reviews could say it was dogshit or the second coming, it wouldn't make a difference, or at the very least they are not the deciding factor, the game selling under Sony's expectations was the real issue... Heck, I'm sure the studio's issues and the lead director running his mouth figured way higher on the list of reasons for not making a sequel than any review ever was.

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Babadook728d ago (Edited 28d ago )

I concur. It’s main problem of frame rate slowdown is gone with a ps5.

Leeroyw28d ago

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.

Pyrofire9528d ago

I hear it's big enough that it could have just been 2 games. Maybe that would have worked out better, with some changes to make it fit that mold better. Idk, I haven't played it much.

mkis00728d ago (Edited 28d ago )

Just the first section was a slog...but I never found it boring if that can make sense. You don't have much of an arsenal until after about 6 hours if memory serves. Some more half-step bike upgrades and a few more weapons could have filled the gaps.

Inverno28d ago

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.

phatak28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

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.

andy8528d ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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15 Biggest Unresolved Video Game Cliffhangers We May Never Get Answers To

Cultured Vultures: These 15 unresolved video cliffhangers could be solved in the future, though if we’re really honest with ourselves, we all know there’s no chance in hell of that happening.

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Fluke_Skywalker104d ago (Edited 104d ago )

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.

Chocoburger104d ago

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.

shinoff2183104d ago

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.

Knightofelemia103d ago

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.