Days Gone

I have a very specific complaint here, and it won't apply to everyone, but I know I'm not the only one. When I press a button, I want the thing to happen. I don't want it to happen after holding the button down for a second. I don't want it to happen after holding the button down for half a second. I want it to happen when I press the button. Feeling is something very much unique to video games. Latency is not a concern when reading a book. This game feels awful to me to play, because every single interaction prompt is press and hold. Want to pick something up? Press and hold. Want to interact with this story prompt? Press and hold. Want to craft something? Press and hold two different buttons at the same time. Everything you tell the game to do, it waits a moment to make sure before it actually does it. I've seen a lot of gameplay of this game. What I watched looked good. It looked promising. It looked like a game I wanted to play. Then once I got my hands on the controls, my first reaction was "this feels awful". I have gone through the settings, there is no way to change this in game. I cannot find a mod to fix this either. This is incredibly dissapointing because of how small this is. This is something that (I assume) could be fixed by a single dev at Bend in an afternoon. But how a game feels is important. I don't want to play a game that feels so sluggish and unresponsive. And I'm not holding my breath for a fix to a 4 year old game And hey, if you read all that and are thinking to yourself "I don't give a shit about that", more power to you. Hope you have more fun with it than I did. Outside of that, it seems like a solid enough game

There is no opt-out Unless I missed that part, these things need to be disclosed prior to purchse with a Logo or something recognizable that a game needs your dripfeed! I have blocked the game with my firewall. Apart from that it is very good PC port and playable. The graphics do show their age, though, but still good.

This is the third time I have bought this game: clearly I am biased. Do I like Zombie games: meh, they are fine. Am I into biker culture: flat no. But you put the two together, with an unrepentantly bitter protagonist, and I can't get enough of it ... Which is also my only major complaint: there is not enough of it, and with no DLC after 2 years + Sony rejecting the pitch for a sequel; there never will be. with that said, take your time with this game so that you can make it last & do not rush to clear out every hoard nest (it causes them to not respawn & that greatly diminishes a lot of the game's charm ... something that probably should have been ironed out before launch, but it isn't game breaking).

Played through on PS5 and PC(Steam).. love this game. Plenty of content as well. Might take a couple hours to really get going but it is worth it to stick with it. Will likely start over here on GOG and play again, can not wait!

This game will ask you to consent to getting your data harvested, data way beyond your use of the game. There is no option to not allow this. Helpful reviews from Horizon Zero Dawn highlighted this and that is why I did not purchase it on sale, so I am adding it here for those who did not know the same is happening here.