Days Gone - about 7/10
Well, I haven't fininshed the game but I've put around 40h into it and may not finish it because it's been decently fun but also consistently average throughout. Oregon, bike handling and some occasionally fun fighting scenarios kept me going and made me enjoy it overall but other than that: average combat, some jankiness to it all, rather poor story with mostly forgettable characters and about 15h of filler content and some good parts in between. The pacing is just bad and most missions are really not too well designed. The way the story is divided into all those threads really doesn't do it any favours. It's not all terrible but still.
I expected better since some people here think this is better than RDR2 and that game also has some problems with pacing and mission structure sometimes but overall the depth of the world and the things and little stories you can discover are incomparable, sorry. As is the realism, details and many more aspects that become a part of the experience in the long run. Maybe if someone just rushed through RDR2's campaign but still a stretch even then.
It's not a bad game and better than the sum of its parts IMO but it's nothing that would make me jump and say it's incredilble. The hordes were a standout but other than that it's a fun but rather generiic open world experience with some pretty graphics but average mechanics and repetitive stuff like clear ambush camp x, find underground bunker, destrony nest 1/2/3/4/5, another Nero site, fill generator with petrol and so on and so forth. It's fun but it gets old quickly. It's at least not as extreme as in Ubisoft games.
I guess a part of it is that I'm getting a bit tired of open world games and the setting has to be absolutely exceptional for me to bother. Oregon is very pretty but also rather flat and I never felt the urge to explore, whereas in something like RDR2 I even spent a couple of hours just observing the incredible amount of work that went into animal behaviour alone.
I might finish the game since there's not that much to go through but there are some games I want to try so I'll probably put it on hold.
Well, I haven't fininshed the game but I've put around 40h into it and may not finish it because it's been decently fun but also consistently average throughout. Oregon, bike handling and some occasionally fun fighting scenarios kept me going and made me enjoy it overall but other than that: average combat, some jankiness to it all, rather poor story with mostly forgettable characters and about 15h of filler content and some good parts in between. The pacing is just bad and most missions are really not too well designed. The way the story is divided into all those threads really doesn't do it any favours. It's not all terrible but still.
I expected better since some people here think this is better than RDR2 and that game also has some problems with pacing and mission structure sometimes but overall the depth of the world and the things and little stories you can discover are incomparable, sorry. As is the realism, details and many more aspects that become a part of the experience in the long run. Maybe if someone just rushed through RDR2's campaign but still a stretch even then.
It's not a bad game and better than the sum of its parts IMO but it's nothing that would make me jump and say it's incredilble. The hordes were a standout but other than that it's a fun but rather generiic open world experience with some pretty graphics but average mechanics and repetitive stuff like clear ambush camp x, find underground bunker, destrony nest 1/2/3/4/5, another Nero site, fill generator with petrol and so on and so forth. It's fun but it gets old quickly. It's at least not as extreme as in Ubisoft games.
I guess a part of it is that I'm getting a bit tired of open world games and the setting has to be absolutely exceptional for me to bother. Oregon is very pretty but also rather flat and I never felt the urge to explore, whereas in something like RDR2 I even spent a couple of hours just observing the incredible amount of work that went into animal behaviour alone.
I might finish the game since there's not that much to go through but there are some games I want to try so I'll probably put it on hold.
Some aspects of RDR2 might be overhyped but it's still the most impressive open world to date and has loads of depth and detail once you stop following mission to mission and immerse yourself. it's just not a fast food experience like Days Gone, though even that took ages to take off and actually do something with the plot. But yeah, horses for courses, no point in arguing especially that we don't have a similar taste in games
