Days Gone

I usually skip dialogs in many games but not for this one. The stories around the different characters make sense in this world and they behave in a believable way. The only minor exception are random people you meet and they get annoying soon, but that's really the only issue i had with the game. Compared with other titles this is a minor annoyance. Would love to see a sequel and perhaps that one about Captain Kouri's because i found him a very interesting character and the way the game ends for him has a nice setup for a sequel already.

This gets compared to The Last of Us all the time, but I'd honestly say it's a better game with a better story and mostly likable characters. It's rough in a lot of areas though. The story, while unique in some ways, is standard and predictable in others, and feels simultaneously padded and missing content. Sadly, a lot of content was cut before release, including a major decisions system. The combat is enjoyable at first, but eventually becomes repetitive and far too easy, even on Survival II - the highest difficulty. Both human and freaker (zombie) enemies have only two fighting styles: sitting in one spot and inaccurately shooting at you, or charging straight at you. No tactics, no situational awareness, and no reactivity to the player, things that The Last of Us did surprisingly well. Nothing deep on the player's side either, boiling down to mashing buttons in melee or spamming a slow-mo "Focus" mode in ranged. The higlight of the game, its hordes, are fun and challenging, but they're static setpieces that never form naturally and only a couple of them ever respawn. Since you run into the biggest one in the game early on, you pretty much see them all. The game does look gorgeous, and playing on Steam, I never noticed any performance problems or stuttering. It sounds good for the most part, but some voice lines are inconsistently recorded or delivered (Deacon shouting at the top of his lungs during stealth sequences became a community meme) and the faces of minor NPCs look noticeably worse than the main characters. The soundtrack's great, with a subtle, "zombie western" style - think Telltale's Walking Dead games. On a scale of 1-10, I'd give this somewhere between a 6 and 7. It's a good game, however, that got unfairly maligned by critics at launch. Regardless, it needed more time, more story content, and a combat overhaul. On sale? More than worth it. Full price? I'd give it a pass.

Just finished the game, 60hours in. What can I say ? Great story, well written characters, very fun gameplay, weapons have a great feel to them. I'd be struggling to find things I dislike here. If you buy this at full price you won't regret it. 10/10 game

Without a doubt, Days Gone is absolute top notch. Story is TOP, gameplay is TOP. Didn't get bored in 200 hours of playing. Game mechanics work for the purpose. There are no pointless things, no fancy shit just show to gamers: "Hey look, we can do this in the game". The whole game just works perfectly and fits. It's 3rd prsn open world, cannot be compared to AC, GTA or so... it is kind of a genere itself. Like Mad Max was. Simply put: A perfect game. Just perfect. Doesn't force you to endlesly grind around the map, spending hours looking for secrets like RDR2. no stupid mission like: "Hey there is this ultra hardcore boss" when you have to painfully find out how to kill him, dying 50 times. nothing like that. really extraordinary, civilised, one-of-a-kind game. One of my most favorites, if not most favorite Open world. Yeah, pleayed WTCHR 3 and all the ACs and others.

it would be even better if there wasnt a game-breaking bug in the last mission and I could actually finish it. Other than that I liked the world, storytelling, guns, most of the characters, gameplay feels great even though menu navigation is reused straight from the consoles which means it is slow and all over the place.