Days Gone Should've Been Delayed one More Time

The post-apocalyptic title during its review period was mired with technical issues that have resulted in criticisms of a game which no longer exists.

[Hardiman]

It wouldn't have made a difference to the ones who already had their minds made up. A's I think is it looks great, runs great(I'm on the Pro) and the HDR in particular is incredibly well done. Go look at Just Cause 4 or even Red Dead 2 and compare the HDR.

Hell I'm having more fun with the gun play, melee and transversal in Days Gone than I did with Red Dead 2! The story not so much but it serves its point.

It's a fun game and most that have played it seem to say the same thing.

[nucky64]

hardiman, i couldn't agree more - i'm having a blast with the game - melee is SO fun and i love taking on the big hordes. then there is riding the bike looking for big jumps. hey, i said the same thing about RDR2 the other day!

[Kornholic]

Days Gone's gameplay mechanics are miles ahead of RDR2's clunky gameplay mechanics from shooting to, well, everything. RDR2's story got interesting after the 5th chapter, Guarma chapter, which was a low point in the whole game.

[-Foxtrot]

Journalists minds were already made up with this one, extra time wouldn’t have done it any favours

[PhantomS42]

What can you expect from this site? Sony gets a free pass for anything. This game is mediocre and games out in a somewhat broken state. The game is mediocre and the reviews are reflecting that. No amount of delays would have saved it from being another generic zombie game but the bugs and issues would have been avoided with even a month delay.

[ninsigma]

You know when people haven't played it, because they call it mediocre 🙄

[sprinterboy]

It's not broken at all and it's also not getting a free pass that's why it's getting mainly 7s. Good game imo but just not the usual top tier AAA 1st party title we expect from a Sony studio (bare in mind its bends 1st attempt) bodes very well for the future of the studio if this was there 1st attempt imo.

[Razzer]

Except you don't know what you are talking about. You can keep yapping this bullshit all you want, but the fact is you look like an idiot because you haven't played the game.

"What can you expect from this site?"

just laughing at the endless whining from folks like you about n4g. It is like you are trapped and can't leave! Good news! You actually can!

[CrimsonWing69]

What makes it mediocre?

[JackBNimble]

Razor
All you guys do the very something when it comes to mediocre xbox games. Actually you psfanboys are much worse, it's like a gang r*** .

Just saying

[Razzer]

@JackBNimble

Oh really? Were you here defending Crackdown 3 from click bait reviews that were giving the game scores of 3 and 4? I certainly was. So no, you are factually incorrect and just making shit up. Move along now....

[Z501]

"This game is mediocre"
Can we see your trophies?

[JackBNimble]

You obviously have selective memory, it's the n4g way to jump on the hate train for pretty much anything xbox.
Who gives a shit if 1 ps4 exclusive gets mediocre metacritic score. Get over yourself .

[rainslacker]

Sony releases a good game, gets good reviews. It's a free pass. Fan boys on the other side take any negative click bait review as proof their bias is correct, call out sony fand for giving Sony a free pass.

Media and some fan boys didn't give a free pass on cross play. Most Sony fans didn't care.

Sony isnt getting a free pass on censorship, although the feelings surrounding it are varied based on other beliefs, but oddly enough, the fan boys on the other side are not making a big deal about it. Which is probably good, because they always derail discussions to become stupid idiotic console war BS.

Sony releases a.average game, it gets some negative reviews, and the fan boys on the other side push this narrative that it's a bad game...so no free pass. Those that play it are left wondering why its scoring the way it is, because nothing supports a score less than 7. If you play the game, you'd be hard pressed to say what makes it worth less than that, and then be able to say why another similar game you do like deserves more.

The bugs and issues aren't as extensive as some of the reviews put forth, and certainly less and not as pronounced as other games which handily score 8-10s.

S

[sprinterboy]

At the end of day its there loss, I've literally just unsubscribed from IGN and kinda funny games, Tim is clueless, Andrea over analysing (so much hate on the using binoculars and standing up) and as for Greg well in his head he thinks he's a celebrity now or something.
Edit: all you need to get a opinion on games is as follows;
- Sacred symbol, Colin moriarty
- Digital foundry, performance analysis
- Angry Joe

[ShadowWolf712]

>Angry Joe

Hmmmmmmmmm nah

[alb1899]

Yep another day another article trying to justify a days gone......just on n4g.

[EliteComments123]

LMFAO!! TRUE

[NXFather]

So do you think this game is as good as spiderman or horizon or is it better?

[-Foxtrot]

Bloodborne
God of War
Horizon
Persona 5
Uncharted 4
Spiderman
Ratchet and Clank

...

THEN Days Gone

So it's decent for what it is, it's...good

However it's not that good compared to everything else

[2pacalypsenow]

Wait so NOW technical issues matter?

They don't seem to matter when Fallout games come out with 500 bugs.

[King_Noctis]

Really? And where do the 52% Metacritic score for Fallout 76 come from?

https://www.metacritic.com/...

[SamPao]

I think he means EVERY fallout game, not just 76... :)

[King_Noctis]

@Gahl1k

So you are saying that you haven’t seen ton of articles before that criticize Fallout 4 for its buggy mess?

[Razzer]

@King_Noctis

Fallout 4 has a metacritic of 87 which is exactly his point.

[NecrumOddBoy]

You can't patch in enough "woke" for IGN's Lucy O'Brien to be unbiased.

[Silly gameAr]

Ugh. Another anti sjw rant incoming?

[rainslacker]

Considering she likes to make a lot of reviews into some political diatribe, and down rates games because of it, she's kind of done it to herself.

She's one of those reviewers who believes the readers or gamers in general care about her opinions on political issues, or political issues on games which dont set out to tackle political issues in the first place.

If that's a rant, then so be it. She shouldn't be given games with male.protagonists to play, because she is too biased. She's a terrible reviewer to begin with, but giving her a platform for her drivel has only enabled her to think highly of herself. Consider she us one of the ones that perpetuated the idea that gamergate was about Male gamers harassing women, and it says all I need to know about her.

[Silly gameAr]

Good luck with the clickbait. Just hope not to many people fall for it.

[rpvenom]

I didn't read the article.. but i'm about 10 hours into the game now and it is fun.. but i notice certain parts that could've used some work. for example.. the way cutscenes transition.. was kinda B grade.. also certain scenes.. like the flashbacks when they hand you the controller to simply walk or watch him drive.. was pointless.. i have yet to encounter any bugs luckily in my playthrough but I can see why it didnt reach an above 80 score.

still a fun game though and i'm always excited to get home from work to play

[chris235]

days gone does right what rdr2 did wrong: they implemented fun gameplay. bitching and moaning about this title in blogposts is just attentionseeking :(

[Kubark]

Days Gone would have been better if they tweaked things just a little.

If they had just made DSJ a little less cringe worthy by changing him into someone who's not a biker with a baseball cap on backwards. And then perhaps slightly changing him so that he's someone completely different but actually interesting.

They could then have tweaked the AI just a little to emphasise the "I" part of the "AI."

Maybe they could have slightly changed it so you're not repeating the same cardboard cut out missions over and over and over.

Then finally a slight tweak to history, if Bend could go back in time and and make sure Days Gone never existed, that would do wonders for Days Done.

[ShadowWolf712]

I'll never understand the hate boner y'all have for Deacon just because he's a biker. You have hardly any protags who are, he's quite unique in that regard.

[xX-oldboy-Xx]

So edgey - I know a company that cancels games, support them - see how far that gets you.

[william_cade]

Journos don't like white male protagonists, especially when they are bikers. They also don't like gamers, which is why they will give 8's and 9's to grindy generic games that are filled with MT's.

[victorMaje]

If it had been delayed again I have a feeling we would’ve started seeing “what is happening with Days Gone?” articles from those journalists who gave it bad scores.

For me the game keeps getting better & better. I like riding that bike, I like increasing the encampments’ trust & unlocking the upgrades & weapons, I like using the crossbow on rippers & the guns on them freakers, I like getting surprised attacked by hordes (I scream like a little girl when it happens), I like Deacon, the story & by God I wanna know what is going to happen!

Bottom line I am having fun :)

[Doomeduk]

Mint game, kited a massive horde up to a camp but I didn't see the traps which knackered me bike up, I just managed to get over the brow spluttering engine but just managed to roll down the hill and the horde veered off and wiped out the camp I wanted to the sound of mad gunfire while I hid near, a couple of attractors and pipe bombs took care of a load of horde then just mop up the rest
Got a small taste of this with left behind pitting infected against humans and its really well done here

[bluefox755]

I disagree, I mean, I'd be okay with it, but the rough edges haven't really taken away from the experience for me. The game is a lot of fun, give it a try, I truly don't know what the negative reviews are on about, hasn't been my experience whatsoever. Many of the complaints about the game either don't seem to exist, or don't even make sense.

[Hellbound1978]

I've been playing for about a dozen hours and I'm loving it, especially the stealth aspect as those type games are far and few between these days. The game does have a few issues that keep it it from being the top shelf PS4 exclusive we're used to, but alot of the glitches and bugs are shared across many Unreal engine games (they should have used an in house engine). I do think the reviews are way off (and biased) though (don't know why), I haven't seen a game get this much Journo hate in years, it's like they all gathered ''Legion of Doom'' style and made the decision that this game had to die! I know it can't just be about glitches or the game not being AAA, because every time a mega developer sh!ts out a new ''micro transaction simulator'' disguised as a game they jizz themselves on the way to the keyboard to praise it. [P.S.] DSJ does come off as quite insane sometimes, and I absolutely HATE the backwards hat. These are just minor observations and personal opinions though.

[AK91]

As said before it wouldn’t have mattered, game journalists made up their minds as soon as they saw the protagonist was a white dude, honestly speaking the best option is to ignore reviewers and judge a game for yourself. I’ve been doing that for a decade and haven’t regretted it.

[Imalwaysright]

Explain how TloU, Witcher 3, RDR2, Uncharted, BoTW, Mario Odyssey, GoW... are so highly rated and have dozens of GOTY awards.

[SpinalRemains138]

I love it. This game is like Guardians of The Galaxy first film.

FUN

Not for nothing, but Skyrim was literally broken and it received 63 reboots. What's with the double standard? A huge studio gets leeway with issues, but a smaller studio is held to a higher standard? Ok.

[Larrysweet]

Yall nuts iv had zero issues

[Hroach616]

I can see this. There’s some frame dips in places. Nothing major. But in the third act there are two places that made my frames drop well below playable levels. But as soon as I leave those areas it’s fine again. So those areas def could have been worked on a bit. Rest of the game has run fine. No crashes or broken elements.
I just finished replaying Witcher 3 before this came out and omg CDPR kinda broke the game since I last played it at the end of 2017. When I played it then everything ran fine and I encountered no issues. Now there are MULTIPLE quests that are just broken and can’t be completed. So coming from that to this I don’t see many issues. A little technical fine tuning for an extra month or so would have been fine at most.

[thetriforks]

Wow, people at N4G are incredibly misogynist and narrow-minded, who would've thought?

[Latex74]

So much unjustified hate for this game it's a joke sure it's not for everyone but it's no different from other open world games I'm loving mine xx

[Storm Shadow NF]

Couldn’t disagree more, sick of these morons and their negativity. The game is a 9/10 for me. Having a blast with it. Sales numbers are great as well. These same so called basement game journalists gave far cry 4 a 9/10 this game is so much better IMO. A true gem. Check it out yourself.

[Phantom68]

Oh shut up. So much negative. The game is selling well and many people are enjoying it.