Days Gone is actually a fun game. Its linear, which is annoying, but its worth a play through or two.

Sorry, I never saw your reply, for some reason.

I read the synopsis over on wikipedia once, but I don't remember much. But it didn't make me not want to play the game, the way the synopsis of Far Cry 5 made.

I keep saying that the guys behind the Far Cry series are terrible at making a simple "shoot the goddanmed villain in the face" story, even though they're always setting that up, and they always go for silly dream sequences and bizarre twists, and the ones in Far Cry 5 made me not want to play the game. Other than that, I keep postponing buying 4 because it got more expensive some time ago and it never gets cheaper when in promo (I've been doing the same with AC Revelations). But I'm yet to play Primal, which I bought some time ago.

About HZD, I hope I enjoy playing it whenever I get around to getting a copy of it (not at the current price, unfortunately).

So it's a Sony ploy to destroy PC gaming by flooding the platform with shoddy ports.

Lucky for us is that there haven't been really worthwhile exclusives since the PS1 era and those can all be emulated.

I've been havign that problem, too, lately. The problem with Far Cry is they wanted to have their cake (Open World) and eat it to (forced abductions). If i played Far Cry 5 in some sort of non-campaign mode, maybe i'd actually enjoy it, but then it wouldn't have substance. There's some things to make mods or something even on PS4, i think, but it's hard to dedicate yourself to that. I think you can have an open world game that has that stuff, but it gets initiated upon certain harder-to-accidentally-trigger events, like, I don't know, getting abducted when you go to bed? If i was such a problem, why couldn't these things take effect before i really wrecked their territory? If i'm the only one that keeps escaping all their traps, why not just put me in higher security than everyone else? It's not like they don't have enough foot soldiers out there (from where they keep getting these people, i have no idea) to have 20 of them keeping watch with a gun pointed at me at all times. Maybe some better thing to keep me in place, too, like hand cuffs, straight jacket, etc. It's not like they're dealing with some government regulations on what they can and can't do with me. It's better in the story-gameplay interactions. It's more woke, but it doesn't have that weird, cringy, corporate, lefty, mobile-game-like cutscenes for every successful outcome. HZD still isn't even all that woke, compared to what some will tell you. The story is certainly, though, one of those where the real plot isn't the current events, though, but the lore, kinda like elder scrolls: you got real shit happening now, but the twists are all in what happened to get you to this cataclysmic point. And, it's a small spoiler, but the primary antagonist according to the lore is never actually revealed in any of the media, so there's plenty more that can go wrong in a sequel.

My issue is with the gameplay loop. Unlike far cry 5, your ammo and resources are far, far more sparse. There's much, much higher emphasis on stealth: in Far Cry 5, it was advised and usually almost necessary to go in quiet. HZD, run-and-gun is not going to work, unless on the easiest difficulty, and even then you'll probably find yourself not wanting to do that (except in bandit camps). I switched to easy because i got sick of some of the ridiculous setups and enemy health while dealing with the resource shortage. It's not like it can't be done, but the game does try to use such mechanics to overstay it's welcome. The fun of the game is it's lore, not it's gameplay (which actually is fun at first, until you realize how little enemy variety there really is). Speaking purely of gameplay, it's Metal Gear (Stealth emphasis), Resident Evil (low ammo), and Monster Hunter (high enemy HP, low player HP) got together and had a baby. At least in monster hunter, I don't feel like i'm going to run out of ammo for the only weapon I have that does any damage (bow, because melee kills against machines are like guns kills in a modern jet fighter: it's only likely in some hypothetical scenario), nor do i feel like the game hates me (it could be a timing issue, but I don't recall actually getting iframes from rolling like you do in monster hunter).

Allow me to defend poor HZD a little bit. While the story is a bit generic and none of the characters are particularly memorable, and the game generally tries a bit too hard to be a simpler Witcher 3 (perhaps also borrowing from what little was known of BoTW at the time of development), the worldbuilding is amazing and unlike any other I've seen, at least in gaming; and I think that the battle system is brilliant, each type of weapon feels very different, and fighting machines is great, once you learn ways to expose their weakpoints, deprive them of weapons, and trap them.

It's not a masterpiece and it definitely is too long for its own good, but it's a memorable experience in its own way.

Honestly I don't think it's particularly "political" - the fictional tribes are not particularly defined in terms of political structure, and the bad guys are... well, bad. Perhaps a couple elements in the backstory of the world could be defined political, but don't expect Papers, Please or Deus Ex.

From what I gather from a few videos, it seems to be a hybrid of Left 4 Dead's "pursuing flood" zombies and Fuel's "takes a few real hours to cross" giant map. Though Days Gone's map shouldn't be as extreme, you'll be slowed down by gasoline concerns and zombie encounters.

Days Gone always caught my attention and knowing that it will be released for PC makes me quite happy, I will no longer have to worry about getting or borrowing a PS4 to play Sony exclusives.

I really hope Sony releases God Of War trilogy on PC someday. I love those classics more than the 2018 one.

I'd love to see the old Gold of War Trilogy and also God of War Reboot hit the PC.
Bring 'em all here.

Weren't there some portable God of War titles for PSP and/or Vita too?

And this is precisely why I hate most consoles with every fiber of my being.

They are not making anything revolutionary. They are just packaging their own rather ordinary hardware with a walled-off user-friendly ecosystem, some savvy marketing and brand recognition.

They are getting people to buy yet another piece of hardware to:
- Benefit from a user-friendly package that could have been built on top of existing PC ecosystems
- Have access to games that are imprisoned in the console's ecosystem

And of course, whatever games people buy on the previous console will not run on the next gen one so they have to buy a re-release... awwww, what a shame.

Does this mean we might have a shot at Uncharted?

That one is a GoW game only in name imho.
Anyway, the trilogy would be amazing, but I think it'll be more recent stuff that they release.

Yes! God Of War Chains of Olympus and Ghost Of Sparta were both released for PSP. Don't know about Vita though.
Yeah it doesn't feel like a GOW game but I still would be very happy if Sony does release it on PC.

Both, God of War and God of War 2 are in a collection for VITA:

https://www.amazon.com/God-War-Collection-PlayStation-Vita/dp/B00G237L7Y

I believe you can play PSP games on Vita too?