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Days Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-UaLItvNLQ
Massively hyped about this now, was quite meh on what they showed last year but this demo sold me on the game.
Massively hyped about this now, was quite meh on what they showed last year but this demo sold me on the game.
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The demo opens in one of the encampments where “law-abiding” survivors have banded together for safety. We get a sense of Deacon’s mercenary outlook on life when he responds to an attack on a camp supply run by telling their leader, “It’s not my problem.” Harsh. But that’s not the whole story. When Deacon learns that a friend has been taken, he doesn’t hesitate and rides out. Deacon’s loyalty to those he cares about – his willingness to risk his own life for a friend – illustrates one of the central themes in Days Gone: If surviving isn’t living, what does it mean to truly “live”? What’s worth fighting for? Why do we keep fighting when the world looks so bleak? If hope never dies, what gives us hope? Over the course of the game we explore questions like these, even if we don’t always have the answers.
Deacon’s decision to find and save his friend begins a harrowing journey that demonstrates the core of the Days Gone experience: if something moves, it probably wants to kill you. And the Horde is just one of your problems. Last year we introduced three types of Freakers: Swarmers were adults when infected and are dangerous whether alone or moving in packs; Newts were children when infected and tend to use hit-and-run tactics from above; Hordes are large groups of Swarmers – and by large we mean hundreds – that move and react as if a single entity. This year we’re introducing three new types: Runners are infected wolves that can outrun and attack a Drifter bike, sending the rider sprawling; Ragers – infected bears – are powerful and almost impossible to kill; and Swarms, smaller than Hordes but more common and almost as deadly.
But the biggest threat in Days Gone isn’t Freakers – it’s other people. Bad people. Marauders, Squatters, Drifters, Raiders – call them what you will, if you step outside the relative safety of the encampments, they will try to kill you. This is one of the things that makes Days Gone unique: you don’t have to seek out danger. Wherever you’re going, whatever you’re doing – the world comes for you. In the media showcase demo Deacon is attacked by a Runner and deals with it, but while he’s distracted — WHAM. He rides into a rope strung across the road, throwing him from his bike. In Days Gone, ambushes are almost never scripted events but are part of a dynamic open-world system – Marauders can attempt to ambush you almost anytime and anyplace. Taking out their camps can make the broken road safer, but that isn’t always easy. Thankfully, Deacon has access to an arsenal of skills, weapons, crafted items, traps and most importantly, the various dynamic systems we have in place.
The bad news with Freakers is that Runners, Ragers, Swarms and Hordes want to kill you and eat you. The good news: they also want to kill and eat Marauders. Last year you saw Deacon running for his life from a Horde; this year, you see him using a Swarm as a weapon against a Marauder camp. The possibilities are almost endless and are an important part of our strategic sandbox combat.
If implemented properly the bit in bold could be amazing.
https://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/06/12/how-and-why-youll-fight-to-survive-in-days-gone/
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Wonder how they will implement that. It's really impossible to have an unscripted AI.
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Yeah i am bit concerned because great AI is rarely seen because more often than not it's just frustrating to play for the average gamer.
I'm hopeful though, btw i was reading more and apparently Weather changes the way the bike handles and freakers(the big horde they showed last year) are stronger in the cold.
Could be cool to play around the weather in a mission tbh.
They are showing an alternate way of tackling the same mission here if you stomach the talk lol.
I'm hopeful though, btw i was reading more and apparently Weather changes the way the bike handles and freakers(the big horde they showed last year) are stronger in the cold.
Could be cool to play around the weather in a mission tbh.
They are showing an alternate way of tackling the same mission here if you stomach the talk lol.
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I was just watching some of that and apparently there's a form zombie called runners which can outrun your bike and knock you off.
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need Firenze to play this
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http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2018/05/14/five-ways-days-gone-differs-from-other-open-world-games.aspx
Like all those things tbh, hope they pull it off.
1. More Focus On The Golden Path
Most open-world games bombard you with an endless array of quest givers and side activities, a scattershot approach to world building that muddies the main storyline and characters. While Days Gone still offers plenty of gameplay loops to keep Deacon busy, the vast majority of scripted missions and characters are focused on the golden path. Sony Bend is setting a high bar for itself from a storytelling perspective. "Imagine if this were like Uncharted," says Days Gone writer and creative director John Garvin. "A 20-hour game that is very linear and it has a bunch of setpieces and it goes from beginning to end. We wanted to try to have that, but have that in an open world."
Days Gone's main storyline (which the studio says is probably closer to 30+ hours) will revolve around three subplots. The first focuses on Deacon, offering a drip-feed of revelations about who he is and what he's been through, including playable flashback sequences. The second focuses on Deacon's relationship with his tattooed biker brother, Boozer. These missions include player-driven choices that affect how Boozer feels about you, and even lead to different endings. The final storyline involves NERO, the National Emergency Response Organization that is researching the infection and its bloodthirsty carriers. Garvin hopes that having multiple avenues to explore will keep players engaged for the long haul. "It's almost like having these three storylines that intertwine and the player is constantly bouncing between them," Garvin says. "It's a classic novelistic technique...when the player starts getting bored with Boozer, boom, that's when this other thing's happening. And when they get bored with that, this other thing happens."
Based on the handful of main missions we played, Days Gone's story does indeed feel more thoughtfully directed and cinematic than most open-world games, thanks to the liberal use of cutscenes that feature motion-captured performances by professional actors. Whether that translates to a good story remains to be seen, but Bend is clearly swinging for the fences. "There are 20 named characters in the game who are as important as Boozer," Garvin says. "It's a big game."
2. A Matching Tone For Story And Gameplay
Grim storylines are nothing new for open-world games, but once you're set free to do as you please, all that tension and drama is usually shoved aside for sandbox shenanigans. Don't expect Deacon to don a wingsuit anytime during his journey through Oregon. "With Days Gone, it's a very serious tone," says lead open-world designer Eric Jensen. "A lot of bad stuff has happened, and we've tried to carry that into the open world... We don't want it to feel arcadey, which a lot of open-world games can feel when you're away from the story."
The connection between the narrative tone and gameplay came through loud and clear during our hands-on time with Days Gone, which at times felt more like a survival-horror game than open-world veterans might expect. Even the smaller jobs that Deacon can perform for survivor encampments are faithfully aligned to the tone and story; hunting deer for venison accomplishes the very real-world need of feeding each encampment's survivors, while hunting down marauders prevents them from preying on other drifters. Deacon in turn isn't arbitrarily making more work for himself; he must build up trust with the various camps (which operate independently from one another) in order to afford the weapons and supplies he needs to continue making progress. Once again, the focus on the golden path keeps things grounded. "You're not going to find the guy pushing the cart on the road who needs your help," Garvin says. "That guy just doesn't exist in our world, so that kind of a distraction doesn't exist in our world."
3. More Difficult Than You Might Think
A big part of capturing Days Gone's grim and unforgiving tone is the game's difficulty. While other zombie games like Dead Rising and Left 4 Dead allow you to easily cut a swath through massive crowds of the undead, Days Gone's infected enemies are a constant and deadly threat. Even a handful of freakers can overwhelm Deacon if you're careless, and using a firearm to dispatch one can very well attract several more to your location. Leaving your bike to scope out a location on foot immediately ratchets up the tension, and when things do get overwhelming (say by accidentally setting off the loudspeakers at a NERO checkpoint), your best tactic is often to run away. Even when you're driving, you have to keep an eye out for roadside ambushes or unseen freakers that can pull you off your bike if you're going slow enough.
The result of all this is that you never feel completely safe once you venture out beyond the walls of a friendly encampment, and Sony Bend is leaning into that sense of danger. "It's definitely unforgiving," Jensen says. "We do stuff in this game that I don't think other games do, where we screw the player over a lot. But I think it's a welcome change, and I think our tagline of 'the world comes for you,' that's what we try to embed in the open world. You're not safe anywhere. If you stand in one place too long, something's going to come for you."
Days Gone's unflinching difficulty gives the gameplay a different feel than other open-world games. It's a feeling that players won't be able to opt out of – Days Gone only features one difficulty level.
4. The Bike's A Big Deal
Vehicles are surprisingly disposable in most open-world games – if you can't spawn a convoy's worth of customized rides in your personal garage or have one delivered to your location, you'll find plenty of other transportation opportunities littered throughout the environment. Not so in Days Gone. Deacon only has one bike throughout the game, so you're going to want to take care of it – and remember where you parked. "We're against freebies, like letting a player throw his bike in a lake and say, 'Eh, whatever, man, I don't need it,'" game director Jeff Ross says.
As we mentioned before, getting stranded on foot in the wilderness can easily be a death sentence, so you'll want to keep a close eye on your bike's fuel and health levels – if either reaches zero, you'll be hoofing it to the nearest encampment. There's also no gameplay equivalent of whistling for your horse and having it warp up behind you; your bike is going to remain wherever you left it. While managing your bike may sound tedious, it feeds into Days Gone's distinctly unforgiving tone and provides another layer of tactical choices. Drive up too close to an enemy outpost, for example, and you're liable to alert the entire camp to your presence (motorcycles aren't the stealthiest of rides, after all). Parking further away, however, will complicate a quick getaway – which isn't great if a roving freaker horde decides to drop in and see what all the gunfire is about.
Deacon can earn a wealth of bike upgrades over the game, including new engines, frames, mufflers, and much more, effectively giving you two progression paths to split your time between. After playing the opening hour of the game and then skipping ahead to a later mission with a more upgraded bike, we can confidently say that you'll feel – and appreciate – the difference.
5. Beware The Horde
You can't have a zombie game without teeming masses of feral enemies, and Days Gone is no exception. However, when Sony Bend debuted Days Gone during a 10-minute gameplay demo at E3 2016, its horde technology was so impressive that many gamers questioned if it was even real – an accusation the studio still frequently hears to this day. After facing off against a horde ourselves, we can say that not only are these epic showdowns legit, they are unlike any other zombie game we've played to date.
One thing that the E3 debut didn't reveal was Deacon's objective during horde encounter sequences. Unlike other zombie games, you're not just trying to escape freaker hordes or survive for a set period of time. Deacon actually has to kill off the entire mob, each of which is comprised of a finite number of freakers. A bar within the game's HUD shows approximately how many are left in a given horde, though it's easy enough to judge yourself by how many grotesque foes you have shrieking and snapping at your heels.
Horde encounters require you to be constantly running and thinking on the fly as you traverse the environment and use it to your advantage to (hopefully) stay one step ahead of the pack. They can also happen at virtually any time – hordes exist as entities in the game world, and wander between locations on the map to feed and sleep. As you may have guessed from the fact that just a few freakers can be deadly on their own, clearing out a horde is a huge undertaking, and is generally considered a late-game activity. It took us several tries with a fully upgraded and well-stocked Deacon to take one down during our demo –only to have game director Jeff Ross tell us that it was considered a "baby horde" of just 300 enemies, and that other hordes get a lot bigger. Trying to avoid a freaker horde is a nerve-racking experience in its own right, so tracking down and dispatching the massive seas of enemies should hopefully offer plenty of late-game excitement during Days Gone's lengthy campaign.
Like all those things tbh, hope they pull it off.
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All of that sound quite promising.
30+ hour story though.
30+ hour story though.
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Yeah just hoping when the game comes out it lives up to it, honestly the idea of a open world which feels threatening but at the same time is very linear story wise appeals to me.
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22nd of Feb 2019 is the release date.
so basically next summer after delays
so basically next summer after delays
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Doubt it, the game was ready to launch this fall but they delayed it out of fear of Red Dead.
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M99 wrote:Doubt it, the game was ready to launch this fall but they delayed it out of fear of Red Dead.
Yeah game has been ready.
That's why they showed 2 hours of gameplay during game informer coverage.
Also if we assume Ghost of Tsushima and TLOU part 2 are also 2019 there honestly isn't much more room to move Days Gone again tbh.
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Prematch for TLOU2 in summer
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not long now lads. looking forward to this now.
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i hope this game dont shit the bed. lots of vids ive seen is 40-50 zombies chasing after you at the same time. i hope its more that a run and gun game.
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This looks like a piece of shit honestly.
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Said it in the general gaming discussion as well, that it just seems heavily outdated, mindless (zombies in a game are an excuse to have sub-par AI) and only hyped due to it being an exclusive.
Next.
Next.
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I'm getting this day 1 but I'm not really in the mood, still havent even finished Sekiro ffs
really interested in seeing reviews though
really interested in seeing reviews though
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Reviews are in like an hour iirc.
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@mole let us know if its worth getting ASAP.
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IGN reviewer hated it lol.
But i haven't watched any other reviews yet.
But i haven't watched any other reviews yet.
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71 average atm.
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may just send it back without opening tbh
I figured there could be a big swing with the reviews but didn't imagine it'd review as badly as this
I figured there could be a big swing with the reviews but didn't imagine it'd review as badly as this
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Firenze wrote:may just send it back without opening tbh
I figured there could be a big swing with the reviews but didn't imagine it'd review as badly as this
Why in the world were you so hyped for it? It looked generic as f. The Mafia 3 of zombie games. You are better off buying Resident Evil 2 or Metro Exodus.
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