This game is incredible. I played it for the first time on the PS5 with 60 fps when all of the bugs were fixed and I had an amazing experience. Wish more people can experience this masterpiece.
The game runs well and is pretty fun with its gameplay but the dialogue and story are so generic and corny I just cannot bring myself to care about any of it.
I guess you are right. Maybe I’m just a sucker for a good love story😂 Regardless, had an amazing time with the gameplay and the story. I hope we get a sequel one day!
The game has many hordes, the smallest one starting at 50 freakers, the sawmill horde is the biggest one with hundreds of freaks... it would have been impossible to beat those if that part of the story takes place earlier. Plus, in the beginning you are barely making out alive from smaller encounters which establishes the world a dangerous place, done amazingly well in my opinion.
Couldn’t agree more. This game has one of the most satisfying progressions I’ve ever experienced in video games. I played on Hard 2 difficulty my first time, and early on I ran out of gas on my bike. I was crouching from bush to bush because a regular freak could one shot me. I was terrified of any encounter where I didn’t have the upper hand, and still hesitant even when I did. Fast forward to the end of the game, I’m being chased by a horde of 500, throwing molotovs and spraying bullets into the masses, and having so much fun doing it. This game literally takes you from hopeless and pathetic, to being a one man army who can even slow down time by the end of the game.
Yeah I disagree with the whole “it doesn’t pick up till the second half.” Like man you would’ve gotten butt fucked by bigger hordes in the early game. Even late game, the sawmill horde is a challenge. There’s hordes in the early game they’re just smaller. People shouldn’t have expected sawmill level hordes from the get go. The horde size progression is pretty reasonable. My biggest criticism when it comes to horde encounters was that out of all of them the sawmill was the most interesting. Wish more of the encounters would’ve required you to use the environment to your advantage like that cause otherwise you’re just kinda running around the landscape and shooting behind you.
@@Dean444ful Sawmill horde is easily the best example of level design meets horde confrontation. If we ever see a sequel (supposedly Sony said no but the game has gained a lot of popularity since then) then I think the second one would really flesh out the horde fights. The game is huge and Sony Bend were just getting their feet under them. The second game, if it happens, will be amazing.
Exactly i remember the beginning ofmy first playtrough i was even terrified to turn on the generator at the nero checkpoints , because i might have left a speaker on and it would bring down a bunch of zombies never mind taking on hordes lol
Unfortunately the hordes kept bugging for me so they wouldn't spawn. I went through almost the entire game without seeing any hordes except for one or two very early on. Probably dragged the game down 1-3 points in my book. Easily the best part of the game but doing them at the end (where I found a way for them to spawn in) quickly got old and easy.
I played days gone on PS5 like 3 times and its absolutely amazing. The game got bad reviews because of the launch stability and bugs but now the game has been fixed. This game is super fun if you are looking for an open world zombie apocalypse exploration and story game. I give this a 9-10 personally and I hope someday we get a days gone 2 🙏😎
The game where I can use a mod to play as Daryl Dixon and it looks phenomenally like him, except for the ol' crock's gait in this game. Dunno what some developer making the character walk like he shat his pants had in mind with that immersion shattering horseshite, but other than that it's a gorgeous game about a human apocalypse that at a certain point requires quite a few skills to deal with the largest of the hordes. And having a badass looking bike and going for a ride in DD's west and boots, pants with bandana and crossbow and long knife, one-shot hand-to-hand kills against breakers with yer knife, just like Daryl would do... it brings back fond memories of the good ol' Walking Dead days, when it was still good, like no other game I know of can pull off so far. Not to mention Reedus' new series, the spin-off The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, which instantly brought me back to "Days Gone" as well. With some useful mods that enhance the game graphically and improve the gameplay without ruining it by dumbing it down, and the addition of apparel, more and better bike parts, DD's face and so on, it's a gem. Though I couldn't play it without my mods. Once you know what it could have been (and can be with mods), you can never go back to the vanilla version. I highly recommend to give it a shot, then take yer time to customise it. It's not that easy for beginner mod installers, though installing mods for this game is pretty easy. But gettin' the char and the bike right without glitches or bugs needs some testing. Once done, you gonna have a great time as Daryl, If you like the Daryl-character as much as I do.
I'm glad you're revisiting this video as I've seen a lot of people look back at old reviews of the game and start attacking the reviewers saying they are 'hacks' or 'paid off' to give the game a bad review back in the day. They honestly forget that is game was broken and almost unplayable in sections. Even the former creator is acting like he didn't release a buggy, broken mess. I also played this game at launch and it was terribly buggy and I also lost my saves from a broken save system. It is THE game that officially made me stop pre-ordering games until I knew it was finished or patched enough to play. I did play it years later on the PC and did enjoy it then.
I actually really enjoyed the slow burn pacing of the game. Delayed gratification will ALWAYS trump instant gratification in my opinion. Those upgrades to the bike, those stronger guns, etc, would not even be satisfying if you didnt have to use worse versions of those things. You finally get the better version and it feels so good. The hordes being built up and built up throughout the story as this monster undertaking, until finally the missions force you to do one, is great design. The hordes already exist on the map, so a player can seek them out from day 1, shitty little pistol in hand. Its the fact that the characters in the world treat the hordes with such seriousness that makes you take them more seriously. I do agree that horde killing couldve come much earlier however. The ones that I did kill earlier in the story I just happened to stumble across a cave entrance and got curious. Overall great video! Well said! Edit: Man those PS4 bugs definitely hurt the game a lot.
I'm playing this game right now and it's pretty cool, I just think the story bits are kinda lame, some stuff like cut scenes don't make much sense and/or are really short or unnecessary, but otherwise gameplay is pretty fun
I've played it 4x, twice on Survivor 2. Suffice it to say, I love the game and played it on release. I only ran into a few minor glitches and Bend fixed those in successive patches. Having the hordes introduced more slowly - so little hordes in the beginning when you have basic weapons and would be hard-pressed to kill them - I think is just fine, because once you get to the must-do mission hordes, you're (hopefully) well-equipped to take them on. Early on, they scared me.. lol.. so I avoided even the little ones until I got some better weapons. Were there, are there other bugs.. yes, I've run into a few, but I don't think I've played a single game that has not had some bugs and I don't expect any game to be 100% bug/glitch free. I love the game. Sony rejected original the sequel pitch, but I'm not ready to give up home on a DG2 :)
I loved this game. Missed out and ended up playing it in 2021 due to sheer sheer word of mouth on it. Have played it 5 times since and long since got the plat. A true gem and the critics screwed this one up. Single handedly made me stop listening to reviews or players just out to dogpile at launch altogether. A must play in my opinion.
Heck yea, Luke! Thanks for making this video. This game didn’t get the best reviews but really should be atleast a 9 out of 10 and it’s one of the best games on last gen
So many reviews were so confusing. I’ve never played a game where you start with the best equipment or weapons. I’m glad I found your videos it kept me playing the game. I had given up because I just figure out how to kill the first breaker. The game wasn’t the problem it was me. I didn’t prepare well enough. I had maybe 1 or 2 glitches that annoying but not game breaking. I’m sure a second playthrough will be more fun. Thanks for all your videos on this remarkable game. I almost gave up but you have inspired me to suck it up and just try harder. Thanks.
Main thing I remember about this game is 1. It was another Zombie game in a marked that was already oversaturated by Zombie games. 2. The huge amount of salt the lead dev cried due to the games low release sales while completely ignoring just how buggy and broken the game was on release. 3. The game still having issues when it was released on P.C. All of the above is also the main reasons I keep skipping the game despite it being on sale for 18 euro/bucks almost EVERY month on steam, but hey if other people can enjoy the game well good on them.
I played this game day 1 on my PS4 and had no issues at all. Not a single bug. When I played it for like the 3rd time I noticed some of the cars were glitching out but it wasn’t that big of a deal to me. After all the updates and now playing it on the PS5, again not a single issue or bug. One of the greatest game ever made. Hopefully Sony reconsiders making a sequel in the future.
Legit in the top 10 on ps4. Completely underrated due to shitty journos hellbent on making it underperform. Still sad that sony pulled funds from the sequel and moved most of the team over to work on tlou remake
You can kill hordes earlier on by being strategic and using all the craftables. i.e. using the attractors and a pipe bomb will kill a small horde. The progression of weapons is more natural that way and you can take on most of the earlier hordes.
Honestly though the fact that hordes will be in the world, and increase in size the deeper you get, but you can’t take them head on right away is much better. With that creeping horde music as well, it instills a fear in you that this world is dangerous. If you could just shank them right away they would lose impact real quick. You can still fight them earlier on though. You just have a harder battle. They just don’t start showing up in story missions until later in the game.
FYI there’s a bike recovery function in the map. Just highlight the bike and you can respawn it near you. Obviously won’t work if the bike doesn’t appear on the map, but you should check that before running to a mechanic.
I was pretty skeptical of the game at first, but I still wanted to play it some day. I took advantage of the game when it was on PS+ for free. I completed it just a while ago and I wound up loving it. It was like a solid 8 for me. But something that made me appreciate it as much was the backlash the director/writer(?) was basically scolding people that the reason we may not get a sequel because of those who didn't play it day one. Like I'm sorry, but at the time $60 was not a promising purchase because of how poorly it was at launch. It made me feel more happy I got it for free because why would I want to support someone who tells you that? But it definitely was GOTY status for me, but I'm more content with calling it my personal GOTY at the time.
I tried playing this recently, I really liked it at first, thought the concept was cool, but after playing for a few hours I put it down and haven’t touched it in weeks now.. I hear it gets better as u progress n become stronger but early on it’s kinda rough to get through for me.. I plan on trying again but haven’t had the desire lately
Its called a slow burn for a reason. Every great story takes time to tell. I disagree with Luke and you on this one. I LOVE that the game makes you feel like shit in the early hours and as you progress you get stronger. Much more gratifying than just being a bad ass out the gate.
Oh dude, keep going. I swear it gets sooooo good. If you finish the Sawmill Horde and feel the same then I guess stop, but man the game turns up big time as you keep going and doesn't hit the brakes.
@Neb Knows Yea I loved the power progression in this game! Everything starts out super difficult but by the end the bosses that give you trouble in the beginning become regular enemies. It felt earned. I was personally devastated when I heard Bend wasn't given the green light for a sequel 😔, especially after the disaster that was TLoU2......We need more Days Gone.
Its so weird, I bought Days Gone for PC to try it out on 60fps vs the version from my Ps4, and I forgot how much I loved this game. I've also seen it get a lot of love recently, which is great.
The bird stuck in one place could be on stationary flight. Some birds do this. Hawks for example do this wind hovering. In German (and the reason why i am writing this) it is called Rüttelflug. :D
I didn't get the chance to play until it was free in ps4. And I'm assuming most if the bugs were fixed by then because nothing I experienced was at all abnormal for an open world game. I honestly can't remember any bugs so anything I did see/experience must've been minor. Love this game.
You say that we only get to fight the hordes like 20 hours in but the only horde I fought the entire game, except for the sawmill horde, was one I met very early on (the train tracks horde) and beat using every enviromental thing, every piece of ammo and weaponry I had. It was super fun. Then for the rest of the game... hordes never spawned (except for the sawmill horde for the mission). There was a certain thing I could do to spawn the hordes but it was annoying and time consuming so I just ended up doing the hordes at the end and it got old quick quite frankly. Having those encounters spread throughout the game time would have been so amazing. Unfortunately the almost only genuinely GREAT part in Days Gone is the hordes and I didn't get to experience them right. The game overall was very "meh" for me. Wasn't bad but they should have cut the game down and just put more effort in the parts that were there. This was one of those game were at a certain point I just wanted to finish it, I wasn't having fun anymore. Edit: Also I played this more than one year after release. That bug being there is indefensible.
The company was clearly trying to make a fun game which sounds like a weird compliment but it’s becoming less common these days.. the passion was clearly there
Okay this narrative about "you don't get to kill hordes untill way later in the game" is false. I killed 3 hordes before even getting to the Lost Lake camp. I feel the people pushing this narrative were more focused on Copelands camp for bike upgrades instead of Tuckers camp for gun upgrades. You need better guns for hordes which tuckers camp has so I focused on gaining trust there and got good guns early. You also have to clear the marauder camps early for item upgrades like the attractor which is very useful for hordes, and trap bomb recipes which you can only unlock by clearing marauder camps.
i absolutely loved Days Gone when i played it on my ps5 with the enhanced framerate but only played it because it was in the ps collection and it was definitely worth it!
You keep saying "black sheep", when the term you need us *Cult Classic.* I love this game. It's great in almost every way, especially how long it is and Witwers acting as Deacon. Great goddamn story, and one hell of a cliffhanger. I WISH we were getting a sequel. You can take out all the Hordes way before the end of the game. Fyi, you can douse the fire by dodge-rolling. You also keep forgetting Focus is a mechanic.😂
I'm sick of this turnaround. The game was not treated unfarily, it was mid as fuck. ESPECIALLY compared to all the other things in that year, No Way in Hell is it GOTY. (course, opinions be opinions and all)
For me the story was very generic the characters were really weak. Even the dialogue was gingy but there was just something great about this game. I like the motorcycle mechanic and the open world was cool especially going into abandoned buildings looking for things and the hoard game play was really cool. Its just just weird how much this game got my attention when compared to Forspoken.
As someone who had an Xbox when the game was released, now a PC player. Is it worth getting for PC, as it looked like a solid console game, but heard a lot of critism and bugs? It’s pretty cheap on steam last time I checked!
If you can get it for cheap then hell yes, get it. Many of the bugs have been fixed post release. There's still a few, but it's a lot better than it was early on. It is a long game though so prepare yourself.
Best £14.99 I have ever spent,I got it in 2021 and only problem i had was I could not save the game until I got to Coplands camp for the first time and got the bike,just started to play it again for the forth time the other day.
The game was great other than the bike (driving, dependency, gas system, damage system) gunplay, close combat, dialogue, story, character development, bugs, pop in, frame drops.....Other than those couple things it was a great game
I love this game I tried playing years ago for the ps4 and just couldn't get into it, I bought it on steam black friday 2023, I started last week but just trying it and just fell in love it runs great on my i9 13900kf 4080 liquid cooled, at 4k highest settings with scale render to 100 I get about 120 fps at 2k render at 150 I get about 170+ fps.
I played it last year and it was great maybe a few glitches here and there but nothing completely game breaking it's a big game with a lot going on. Now God of war Ragnarok I'm still locked out of the strond so I can't clean up collectibles and get my platinum and it's been months I got it at midnight the day it came out and I had it 98 percent after 2 weeks now I'm waiting for ng+
You can change your mind. It's not illegal. Lol. I have said games suck, but then I gave them another chance and loved them. For example the souls series
I liked a LOT of things about this game. It was only really the story that I really disliked. I didn't like the characters and the overall story from beginning to end of the game didn't really feel as impactful as say, the last of us games. We're meant to feel for these characters who have lost everything but the main character basically 'gets everything back'.......as such it makes the inital theme of 'loss' rather.......pointless. Not to mention two of the main characters in avertedly had hands in things with disasters outcomes and it never really seems to affect them emotionally or have any impact on their characters at all. makes them come off as very uncaring or dense at the absolute worst.............great gameplay and settings though.
I never saw a single bug so never understood what people were talking about now that I've seen this I finally understand what people were talking about it been a buggy mess and it been unplayable
Apparently I'm in the minority here. I did not care for Days Gone at all. It felt a copy and paste mediocre zombie game with tedious fetch questing gameplay to me. It was a snooze fest and I gave up on it after 12 hours.
One of the most overrated underrated game ever. The story and characters were awful and cringe inducing. The gameplay was fun enough with the hordes being the stand out.
The whole game is really bland. It doesn't ever set itself apart in any original way. If you're gonna argue the horde is the main selling point, I'd refer you to fucking Mob of the Dead, cod blackops 2. Really cod zombies has the best mob feeling from zombies. Oh and you don't have to slog through 18 hours of boring shit just to get a mob following you. Days gone offers such a generic and uninteresting story as well with the most basic characters out there. Also ik video games are supposed to be made up and allow you to be fictional but gasoline expires after about 6 months, you're gonna tell me the fuel is still salvageable, let alone his unlimited tank? And seriously running from the horde is so boring.
Story was ass, every cut scene is fade to black, deacon always yelling to himself about nothing..but I’ll be damned if that game isn’t so fun. I loved it so much I got the platinum for it.
Horrible take. Story was great. Deacon yells to himself because he's fuckin losing his mind. 2 years into a zombie apocalypse... non stop killing... you think a person would be normal after that? Did you learn anything from Covid lockdown? I was literally talking to myself and my dogs like a crazy person. Its VERY realistic.
When it first launched in 2016 I was soon hyped waiting for reviews and it turned me off never tried just because, just started yesterday free on ps5 store, 60 fps ps5 smooth gameplay graphics are crisp and really good its worth it and a great game. Really did slow bor8ng start first half after that you start unlocking skills and more weapons with reputation from various camps and upgrade your bike it really picks up and good action feels rewarding as you get stronger.
This game is incredible. I played it for the first time on the PS5 with 60 fps when all of the bugs were fixed and I had an amazing experience. Wish more people can experience this masterpiece.
The game runs well and is pretty fun with its gameplay but the dialogue and story are so generic and corny I just cannot bring myself to care about any of it.
I guess you are right. Maybe I’m just a sucker for a good love story😂 Regardless, had an amazing time with the gameplay and the story. I hope we get a sequel one day!
@@CommanderCodyChipless Rockstar games dont have good movement and gunplay lol.
@@CommanderCodyChipless btw im not saying rockstar games arent amazing, they are. There's just levels to this shit.
@@alexm4163 switch the voice to different language you don’t understand makes the game 100% more fun I choose polish 😂
Great game don’t care what anyone says. One of my favorites
Did you notice it doesn't reach actual night time unless you put the brightest to literally have night time
The game has many hordes, the smallest one starting at 50 freakers, the sawmill horde is the biggest one with hundreds of freaks... it would have been impossible to beat those if that part of the story takes place earlier. Plus, in the beginning you are barely making out alive from smaller encounters which establishes the world a dangerous place, done amazingly well in my opinion.
Couldn’t agree more. This game has one of the most satisfying progressions I’ve ever experienced in video games. I played on Hard 2 difficulty my first time, and early on I ran out of gas on my bike. I was crouching from bush to bush because a regular freak could one shot me. I was terrified of any encounter where I didn’t have the upper hand, and still hesitant even when I did. Fast forward to the end of the game, I’m being chased by a horde of 500, throwing molotovs and spraying bullets into the masses, and having so much fun doing it. This game literally takes you from hopeless and pathetic, to being a one man army who can even slow down time by the end of the game.
Yeah I disagree with the whole “it doesn’t pick up till the second half.” Like man you would’ve gotten butt fucked by bigger hordes in the early game. Even late game, the sawmill horde is a challenge.
There’s hordes in the early game they’re just smaller. People shouldn’t have expected sawmill level hordes from the get go. The horde size progression is pretty reasonable.
My biggest criticism when it comes to horde encounters was that out of all of them the sawmill was the most interesting. Wish more of the encounters would’ve required you to use the environment to your advantage like that cause otherwise you’re just kinda running around the landscape and shooting behind you.
@@Dean444ful Sawmill horde is easily the best example of level design meets horde confrontation. If we ever see a sequel (supposedly Sony said no but the game has gained a lot of popularity since then) then I think the second one would really flesh out the horde fights. The game is huge and Sony Bend were just getting their feet under them. The second game, if it happens, will be amazing.
Exactly i remember the beginning ofmy first playtrough i was even terrified to turn on the generator at the nero checkpoints , because i might have left a speaker on and it would bring down a bunch of zombies never mind taking on hordes lol
Unfortunately the hordes kept bugging for me so they wouldn't spawn. I went through almost the entire game without seeing any hordes except for one or two very early on. Probably dragged the game down 1-3 points in my book. Easily the best part of the game but doing them at the end (where I found a way for them to spawn in) quickly got old and easy.
I played days gone on PS5 like 3 times and its absolutely amazing. The game got bad reviews because of the launch stability and bugs but now the game has been fixed. This game is super fun if you are looking for an open world zombie apocalypse exploration and story game. I give this a 9-10 personally and I hope someday we get a days gone 2 🙏😎
Days Gone 2 with a better director and better hardware could have been epic. So sad we'll never get it
The game where I can use a mod to play as Daryl Dixon and it looks phenomenally like him, except for the ol' crock's gait in this game. Dunno what some developer making the character walk like he shat his pants had in mind with that immersion shattering horseshite, but other than that it's a gorgeous game about a human apocalypse that at a certain point requires quite a few skills to deal with the largest of the hordes.
And having a badass looking bike and going for a ride in DD's west and boots, pants with bandana and crossbow and long knife, one-shot hand-to-hand kills against breakers with yer knife, just like Daryl would do... it brings back fond memories of the good ol' Walking Dead days, when it was still good, like no other game I know of can pull off so far. Not to mention Reedus' new series, the spin-off The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, which instantly brought me back to "Days Gone" as well.
With some useful mods that enhance the game graphically and improve the gameplay without ruining it by dumbing it down, and the addition of apparel, more and better bike parts, DD's face and so on, it's a gem. Though I couldn't play it without my mods. Once you know what it could have been (and can be with mods), you can never go back to the vanilla version.
I highly recommend to give it a shot, then take yer time to customise it. It's not that easy for beginner mod installers, though installing mods for this game is pretty easy. But gettin' the char and the bike right without glitches or bugs needs some testing. Once done, you gonna have a great time as Daryl, If you like the Daryl-character as much as I do.
I'm glad you're revisiting this video as I've seen a lot of people look back at old reviews of the game and start attacking the reviewers saying they are 'hacks' or 'paid off' to give the game a bad review back in the day. They honestly forget that is game was broken and almost unplayable in sections. Even the former creator is acting like he didn't release a buggy, broken mess. I also played this game at launch and it was terribly buggy and I also lost my saves from a broken save system. It is THE game that officially made me stop pre-ordering games until I knew it was finished or patched enough to play.
I did play it years later on the PC and did enjoy it then.
I actually really enjoyed the slow burn pacing of the game. Delayed gratification will ALWAYS trump instant gratification in my opinion. Those upgrades to the bike, those stronger guns, etc, would not even be satisfying if you didnt have to use worse versions of those things. You finally get the better version and it feels so good. The hordes being built up and built up throughout the story as this monster undertaking, until finally the missions force you to do one, is great design. The hordes already exist on the map, so a player can seek them out from day 1, shitty little pistol in hand. Its the fact that the characters in the world treat the hordes with such seriousness that makes you take them more seriously. I do agree that horde killing couldve come much earlier however. The ones that I did kill earlier in the story I just happened to stumble across a cave entrance and got curious. Overall great video! Well said!
Edit: Man those PS4 bugs definitely hurt the game a lot.
Loved days gone, it's so unfortunate we might not get days gone 2😥
One of my favourite games ever. Great atmosphere, fun gameplay, maybe a bit too long.
days gone is the best open world zombie game ever
Still wished they had made another I truly loved this game
I'm playing this game right now and it's pretty cool, I just think the story bits are kinda lame, some stuff like cut scenes don't make much sense and/or are really short or unnecessary, but otherwise gameplay is pretty fun
I've played it 4x, twice on Survivor 2. Suffice it to say, I love the game and played it on release. I only ran into a few minor glitches and Bend fixed those in successive patches. Having the hordes introduced more slowly - so little hordes in the beginning when you have basic weapons and would be hard-pressed to kill them - I think is just fine, because once you get to the must-do mission hordes, you're (hopefully) well-equipped to take them on. Early on, they scared me.. lol.. so I avoided even the little ones until I got some better weapons. Were there, are there other bugs.. yes, I've run into a few, but I don't think I've played a single game that has not had some bugs and I don't expect any game to be 100% bug/glitch free. I love the game. Sony rejected original the sequel pitch, but I'm not ready to give up home on a DG2 :)
I loved this game. Missed out and ended up playing it in 2021 due to sheer sheer word of mouth on it. Have played it 5 times since and long since got the plat. A true gem and the critics screwed this one up. Single handedly made me stop listening to reviews or players just out to dogpile at launch altogether. A must play in my opinion.
Heck yea, Luke! Thanks for making this video.
This game didn’t get the best reviews but really should be atleast a 9 out of 10 and it’s one of the best games on last gen
So many reviews were so confusing. I’ve never played a game where you start with the best equipment or weapons. I’m glad I found your videos it kept me playing the game. I had given up because I just figure out how to kill the first breaker. The game wasn’t the problem it was me. I didn’t prepare well enough. I had maybe 1 or 2 glitches that annoying but not game breaking. I’m sure a second playthrough will be more fun. Thanks for all your videos on this remarkable game. I almost gave up but you have inspired me to suck it up and just try harder. Thanks.
Main thing I remember about this game is
1. It was another Zombie game in a marked that was already oversaturated by Zombie games.
2. The huge amount of salt the lead dev cried due to the games low release sales while completely ignoring just how buggy and broken the game was on release.
3. The game still having issues when it was released on P.C.
All of the above is also the main reasons I keep skipping the game despite it being on sale for 18 euro/bucks almost EVERY month on steam, but hey if other people can enjoy the game well good on them.
I played this game day 1 on my PS4 and had no issues at all. Not a single bug. When I played it for like the 3rd time I noticed some of the cars were glitching out but it wasn’t that big of a deal to me. After all the updates and now playing it on the PS5, again not a single issue or bug. One of the greatest game ever made. Hopefully Sony reconsiders making a sequel in the future.
Love love love love days gone!!!!!
How did they not add any character skins or outfits??
Should be in the sequel
One of the best looking games ever. I cant believe it got a bad rap upon release.
I played it on Ps5. OMG LOVELYYYYYYYY
Legit in the top 10 on ps4. Completely underrated due to shitty journos hellbent on making it underperform.
Still sad that sony pulled funds from the sequel and moved most of the team over to work on tlou remake
You can kill hordes earlier on by being strategic and using all the craftables. i.e. using the attractors and a pipe bomb will kill a small horde. The progression of weapons is more natural that way and you can take on most of the earlier hordes.
I've played this game twice and completed everything there is. I absolutely loved it. The atmosphere is something else.
I like the longer recaps like a main channel upload
One of my all time favourite games and worlds to revisit - a bit like Elden Ring in that regard. Can’t believe theres no part 2👿
Honestly though the fact that hordes will be in the world, and increase in size the deeper you get, but you can’t take them head on right away is much better. With that creeping horde music as well, it instills a fear in you that this world is dangerous. If you could just shank them right away they would lose impact real quick. You can still fight them earlier on though. You just have a harder battle. They just don’t start showing up in story missions until later in the game.
FYI there’s a bike recovery function in the map. Just highlight the bike and you can respawn it near you. Obviously won’t work if the bike doesn’t appear on the map, but you should check that before running to a mechanic.
I was pretty skeptical of the game at first, but I still wanted to play it some day. I took advantage of the game when it was on PS+ for free. I completed it just a while ago and I wound up loving it. It was like a solid 8 for me. But something that made me appreciate it as much was the backlash the director/writer(?) was basically scolding people that the reason we may not get a sequel because of those who didn't play it day one. Like I'm sorry, but at the time $60 was not a promising purchase because of how poorly it was at launch. It made me feel more happy I got it for free because why would I want to support someone who tells you that? But it definitely was GOTY status for me, but I'm more content with calling it my personal GOTY at the time.
I tried playing this recently, I really liked it at first, thought the concept was cool, but after playing for a few hours I put it down and haven’t touched it in weeks now.. I hear it gets better as u progress n become stronger but early on it’s kinda rough to get through for me.. I plan on trying again but haven’t had the desire lately
Its called a slow burn for a reason. Every great story takes time to tell. I disagree with Luke and you on this one. I LOVE that the game makes you feel like shit in the early hours and as you progress you get stronger. Much more gratifying than just being a bad ass out the gate.
Oh dude, keep going. I swear it gets sooooo good. If you finish the Sawmill Horde and feel the same then I guess stop, but man the game turns up big time as you keep going and doesn't hit the brakes.
@Neb Knows Yea I loved the power progression in this game! Everything starts out super difficult but by the end the bosses that give you trouble in the beginning become regular enemies. It felt earned. I was personally devastated when I heard Bend wasn't given the green light for a sequel 😔, especially after the disaster that was TLoU2......We need more Days Gone.
@@Lithenius slow burners must be well phased to be good. And this game wasnt well phased AT ALL
This is a game where amazing story telling got burried by its lack of mission sturtucre in an openworld setting.
Days gone is perfect all the way through.
No way
Its so weird, I bought Days Gone for PC to try it out on 60fps vs the version from my Ps4, and I forgot how much I loved this game. I've also seen it get a lot of love recently, which is great.
Resident evil 2 was my goty for 2019 but days gone was close. Maybe 3rd or 4th?
The bird stuck in one place could be on stationary flight. Some birds do this. Hawks for example do this wind hovering. In German (and the reason why i am writing this) it is called Rüttelflug. :D
Played it last year for the first time. Enjoyed the hell outta it. the hoardes gave me anxiety. lol
Days Gone was 2019 not 2016 dude lol. I loved it!
I didn't get the chance to play until it was free in ps4. And I'm assuming most if the bugs were fixed by then because nothing I experienced was at all abnormal for an open world game. I honestly can't remember any bugs so anything I did see/experience must've been minor. Love this game.
You say that we only get to fight the hordes like 20 hours in but the only horde I fought the entire game, except for the sawmill horde, was one I met very early on (the train tracks horde) and beat using every enviromental thing, every piece of ammo and weaponry I had. It was super fun. Then for the rest of the game... hordes never spawned (except for the sawmill horde for the mission). There was a certain thing I could do to spawn the hordes but it was annoying and time consuming so I just ended up doing the hordes at the end and it got old quick quite frankly. Having those encounters spread throughout the game time would have been so amazing.
Unfortunately the almost only genuinely GREAT part in Days Gone is the hordes and I didn't get to experience them right. The game overall was very "meh" for me. Wasn't bad but they should have cut the game down and just put more effort in the parts that were there. This was one of those game were at a certain point I just wanted to finish it, I wasn't having fun anymore.
Edit: Also I played this more than one year after release. That bug being there is indefensible.
The thing I respect most about this game is we got what they marketed
The company was clearly trying to make a fun game which sounds like a weird compliment but it’s becoming less common these days.. the passion was clearly there
Okay this narrative about "you don't get to kill hordes untill way later in the game" is false. I killed 3 hordes before even getting to the Lost Lake camp. I feel the people pushing this narrative were more focused on Copelands camp for bike upgrades instead of Tuckers camp for gun upgrades. You need better guns for hordes which tuckers camp has so I focused on gaining trust there and got good guns early. You also have to clear the marauder camps early for item upgrades like the attractor which is very useful for hordes, and trap bomb recipes which you can only unlock by clearing marauder camps.
you can fight hordes right in the first few hours if you know where to go seek them out
When you said my balls dropped!!! Lololololol. Lost it
i absolutely loved Days Gone when i played it on my ps5 with the enhanced framerate but only played it because it was in the ps collection and it was definitely worth it!
Just started playing this and I'm already addicted. I can easily see why you gave it GOTY. 😁
You keep saying "black sheep", when the term you need us *Cult Classic.*
I love this game. It's great in almost every way, especially how long it is and Witwers acting as Deacon.
Great goddamn story, and one hell of a cliffhanger. I WISH we were getting a sequel.
You can take out all the Hordes way before the end of the game.
Fyi, you can douse the fire by dodge-rolling. You also keep forgetting Focus is a mechanic.😂
one of my favorite games Sony really fumbled not making a sequel
I'm sick of this turnaround. The game was not treated unfarily, it was mid as fuck.
ESPECIALLY compared to all the other things in that year, No Way in Hell is it GOTY.
(course, opinions be opinions and all)
For me the story was very generic the characters were really weak. Even the dialogue was gingy but there was just something great about this game. I like the motorcycle mechanic and the open world was cool especially going into abandoned buildings looking for things and the hoard game play was really cool. Its just just weird how much this game got my attention when compared to Forspoken.
As someone who had an Xbox when the game was released, now a PC player.
Is it worth getting for PC, as it looked like a solid console game, but heard a lot of critism and bugs?
It’s pretty cheap on steam last time I checked!
If you can get it for cheap then hell yes, get it. Many of the bugs have been fixed post release. There's still a few, but it's a lot better than it was early on. It is a long game though so prepare yourself.
It's my favorite game I played in the past few years. It's the only game ive tried to 100%
it is not trust me
Best £14.99 I have ever spent,I got it in 2021 and only problem i had was I could not save the game until I got to Coplands camp for the first time and got the bike,just started to play it again for the forth time the other day.
Screw these 'reviewers' that make a review video after 5hrs playing a game.
another wanna-be-gaming-journalist who thinks his opinion is valid...
The game was great other than the bike (driving, dependency, gas system, damage system) gunplay, close combat, dialogue, story, character development, bugs, pop in, frame drops.....Other than those couple things it was a great game
Best walking dead game we never got, or at least thats how I feel when I replay it
I love Days Gone.
People should definitiv give this game a try. This game is amazing
IMO Days Gone has better writing then Horizon, at least for the characters dialogues (not Lore), so it's a shame that everybody thinks it was a flop
I love this game I tried playing years ago for the ps4 and just couldn't get into it, I bought it on steam black friday 2023, I started last week but just trying it and just fell in love it runs great on my i9 13900kf 4080 liquid cooled, at 4k highest settings with scale render to 100 I get about 120 fps at 2k render at 150 I get about 170+ fps.
It's one of the best games I've ever played. I played it on ps5
Man I couldn’t get into this game. I tried it and kept dieing so I gave up. I’ll have to try it again one day.
I played it last year and it was great maybe a few glitches here and there but nothing completely game breaking it's a big game with a lot going on. Now God of war Ragnarok I'm still locked out of the strond so I can't clean up collectibles and get my platinum and it's been months I got it at midnight the day it came out and I had it 98 percent after 2 weeks now I'm waiting for ng+
You can change your mind. It's not illegal. Lol. I have said games suck, but then I gave them another chance and loved them. For example the souls series
I liked a LOT of things about this game. It was only really the story that I really disliked. I didn't like the characters and the overall story from beginning to end of the game didn't really feel as impactful as say, the last of us games. We're meant to feel for these characters who have lost everything but the main character basically 'gets everything back'.......as such it makes the inital theme of 'loss' rather.......pointless. Not to mention two of the main characters in avertedly had hands in things with disasters outcomes and it never really seems to affect them emotionally or have any impact on their characters at all. makes them come off as very uncaring or dense at the absolute worst.............great gameplay and settings though.
I just played through most of it. Amazing game if you get through the first 20 hrs. Which just takes patience and persistence.
best game.. RIP.. press F to pay respect
Zombie game = only feature = more zombies
days gone is good; even despite people’s pacing criticisms.
I got the game on my Steam Deck and I loved it.
I never saw a single bug so never understood what people were talking about now that I've seen this I finally understand what people were talking about it been a buggy mess and it been unplayable
I have run into that bike glitch it was so annoying
My 2019 GOTY was RE 2 remake
One of the most mediocre games I've ever played, truly don't understand why ppl love it so much.
I love this game just wish pony would make another one
its just bias and guilt telling you this
it was not goty with sekiro,dmc 5 and death strancing,disco elysium that year
Apparently I'm in the minority here. I did not care for Days Gone at all. It felt a copy and paste mediocre zombie game with tedious fetch questing gameplay to me. It was a snooze fest and I gave up on it after 12 hours.
Lewis Capaldi sang the song for the credits of this game. Years before he blew up. That's the only thing I remember about the game
Love this game
Days gone is rlly not my thing i can see why someone would like it tho its just not for me and thats fine
One of the most overrated underrated game ever. The story and characters were awful and cringe inducing. The gameplay was fun enough with the hordes being the stand out.
Main character was just so, so irritating. Seems like an ass irl too, given his comments 'defending' the game
Gave this broken game game of the year when it came out but hated Horizon forbidden west...smh shit take.
If we all agreed on everything the world would be a very boring place.
The whole game is really bland. It doesn't ever set itself apart in any original way. If you're gonna argue the horde is the main selling point, I'd refer you to fucking Mob of the Dead, cod blackops 2. Really cod zombies has the best mob feeling from zombies. Oh and you don't have to slog through 18 hours of boring shit just to get a mob following you. Days gone offers such a generic and uninteresting story as well with the most basic characters out there. Also ik video games are supposed to be made up and allow you to be fictional but gasoline expires after about 6 months, you're gonna tell me the fuel is still salvageable, let alone his unlimited tank? And seriously running from the horde is so boring.
The dialogue is the biggest problem in this game.
Sorry deacon, but always saying "Son of a b*tch" does not make you cool. Just a creep
Mid game
first
Story was ass, every cut scene is fade to black, deacon always yelling to himself about nothing..but I’ll be damned if that game isn’t so fun. I loved it so much I got the platinum for it.
Horrible take. Story was great. Deacon yells to himself because he's fuckin losing his mind. 2 years into a zombie apocalypse... non stop killing... you think a person would be normal after that? Did you learn anything from Covid lockdown? I was literally talking to myself and my dogs like a crazy person. Its VERY realistic.
@@Lithenius my opinion is every bit as valid as yours. And it’s better.
@@spookyuncle3243 Great counter argument, really made a great point there... lmao
@@Lithenius not here to argue.
@@spookyuncle3243 Nah you just dont have one.
When it first launched in 2016 I was soon hyped waiting for reviews and it turned me off never tried just because, just started yesterday free on ps5 store, 60 fps ps5 smooth gameplay graphics are crisp and really good its worth it and a great game. Really did slow bor8ng start first half after that you start unlocking skills and more weapons with reputation from various camps and upgrade your bike it really picks up and good action feels rewarding as you get stronger.