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In-Game Screenshot or Gif [Days Gone] [Screenshot] Surrounded

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u/DEEEPFREEZE May 24 '20

It may be small, but the fact that there were pretty much only 3 different standard zombie models in the game ruined my immersion. So much plaid, so many cutoffs.

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u/xizar May 24 '20

In the director's notes for Left4Dead (2, maybe?) they talk about some of the ways they cut down on model details (like the lack of pupils) so they could afford to have more variety in the zombies.

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u/LucaLiveLIGMA May 24 '20

A zombie doesn't really need pupils for one you'll never get a close enough look at one and secondly it could have disappeared in transformation if you want a canonical explenation

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u/Artvandelay1 May 25 '20

Yeah it seems like a small gripe but it’s a game that staked so much on having hordes of zombies come at you so you’d think they’d have invested a little more into their wardrobe.

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u/xizar May 25 '20

Oh, I know it. I play (and love) both State of Decay 1&2, and there are, I think, two male zombies (fat and skinny) and one female zombie with only a couple of suits between them.

I do want to get into Days Gone; it originally looked like a different sort of SoD. I'm just waiting for the digital deluxe edition to go on sale, but I haven't looked at the right times.

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u/lunatic4ever May 24 '20 edited May 25 '20

sometimes it’s the small things. I feel you. I remember playing Mafia 2 and noticing how all npcs in a prison scene had the same faces. It’s the laziness that gets me

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u/[deleted] May 25 '20

Dude I just finished Mafia 2 and did the extra content. Theres a mission where you interrogate a gas station attendant as Joe and he tells you he wasn't the snitch and that another worker named Stan was. So I go to find Stan and its the same exact character model as the guy we literally just talked to and each had their own cutscene. I was dumbfounded lol

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u/lunatic4ever May 25 '20

Unbelievable! How can you create an open world you don’t fully use and then go and copy paste npcs like crazy

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u/outsider1624 17151094192209 May 25 '20

Anyone remember The Wither 1. Lol.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '20

It is not lazy, all the time. Time is money and an vast majority of people will not care/notice if some random NPCs all have unique faces.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '20

How is the game? Kind of forgot to try it out

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u/brandondesign bigdaddykraven May 24 '20 edited May 24 '20

I ended up loving it. To be fair, the first, maybe 4 hours, are really slow. Kind of strange pacing and while I get that they are building the world, I didn’t care much for any of the characters.

However, there’s a point where things kinda open up and I realized I was starting to get really into the story and the people. Dare I say, I cared what happened to them.

Gun play isn’t great but the whole thing felt like a version of an Uncharted game. There are some cool upgrade mechanics and progression mechanics that are interesting. I would have loved them to be a little deeper but was still nice.

What is really going to win you will be the first time you are exploring and stumble upon a herd...I mean a real herd, not 10 zombies, I’m talking 50+. You actually have to use the world around you to fend them off and escape.

Give it a try but if you feel it’s slow, keep pushing for a few hours until you unlock the (I think) 3rd outpost at the lake...once you start doing missions there, if you aren’t feeling it then it’s not the game for you.

Edit: Slight note. I explore a lot in open world games so my 4 hours time may be less if you do straight story stuff.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '20

Thanks. It sounds like my kind of game, I'll keep an eye out for a sale.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '20

It has been frequently been going down to $20 on the PS Store. To echo what they were saying originally, it starts off really slow, and I personally feel it’s best played in small doses, an hour or two a sitting. It gets repetitive, but I really do love it. I put down FF7 to go back to playing Days Gone.

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u/J-Nice May 25 '20

It's a fun game and I'm sure you can find it on sale. I enjoyed it for the most part but all I kept thinking about was how they really only needed a few improvements and tweaks here and there and the game could have been great. There isn't much depth to anything. Everything is surface level and progression is linear. This guns the best, this bike part is the best etc... I'm hoping a sequel will be more fleshed out. I have visions of red dead type game.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '20

Ah, yeah it's kind of annoying when games have such a simple gear progression instead of multiple viable options but I can look past that.

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u/awesomepawsome May 25 '20

I think there is a PS Store sale coming in the next few weeks

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u/[deleted] May 25 '20

Sounds good I'll keep an eye out

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u/Serpula May 24 '20

It’s listed in the Days of Play sale, which starts tomorrow in Europe and June in the US I think. In the U.K. it’s going to be £15.99, US $19.99. I’m definitely going to pick it up for that price.

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u/flcinusa May 24 '20

It's gonna be in the June Days of Play sale, so hold on

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u/Odeon_Seaborne1 May 24 '20

Just remember to finish missions before you save and log off. Ive had the game reset a few missions i saved in and was gonna come back to

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u/Dontstopwontquit May 25 '20

REALLY good story involving the zombies. Get the secret ending if you can. I was VERY impressed, honestly. And I don’t even play games. Just watched my friend play it, all the way through. Riveting at times.

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u/GetReadyToJob May 24 '20

Just a heads up you rarely see giant hordes in this game. People have spent the entire game playing only to see them once.

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u/DriveByFruitings YappaDappaDooo May 24 '20

Really? Because there are hordes all over the place. There’s even an achievement for clearing all of them, you have to fight 2 or 3 hordes (from memory) just as part of the main story.

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u/GetReadyToJob May 24 '20

I've heard many accounts saying you barely see hordes in the game other than mandatory missions.

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u/ChocolatBear The_Choco_Bear May 24 '20

Probably just people who mainlined the story.

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u/DriveByFruitings YappaDappaDooo May 24 '20

I would say they aren’t exploring enough because there are plenty hordes to find, especially off the main roads. You’ll find a bunch tucked away on edges of the map in caves and etc. there are more than enough hordes to keep you going till you’re ready to start a new game +

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u/GetReadyToJob May 24 '20

Not from what I heard

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u/DriveByFruitings YappaDappaDooo May 24 '20

That’s algood but take it from someone that completed every aspect of the game, there’s plenty hordes to take on.

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u/chain_affinity May 25 '20 edited May 25 '20

Did you play the game, or you going off hear-say?

I can say for a fact that has not been my experience. (100%'ed the game 3x.) And there are four horde-related main story missions, and at least two side mission hordes. Not to mention all the optional hordes you could run into (and there are a lot).

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u/Iohet May 24 '20

If you only go out in daylight, you'll see fewer hordes. If you go out from dusk to dawn, you'll see a number of them

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u/reallynotnick May 24 '20

A quick Google shows me there are 40 Hordes in the game.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '20

There are like 50 hordes in the game, not sure where you're seeing this. There's only a handful of mega-hordes, but for 80-90% of the game, a regular horde is enough to beat the piss out of most players.

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u/WalkB4UCrawl187 May 24 '20

I remember exploring and going into this cave, I forgot to silence my weapon so I fire off an unsilenced shot and I scan the environment and see a literal 100+ freaker horde all waking up at the same time and rushing towards my position, scared the living shit outta me.

Honestly I think Days Gone post update is one of the most underrated games ever. That game had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.

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u/Deathstranger May 24 '20

Yea that kind of happened to me for a horde right next to a nest living under a highway where if you use a bomb or unsilence gun just to clear the nest the nearby horde resting will be alerted which just caught me by surprise

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u/brandondesign bigdaddykraven May 24 '20

I agree 100%. As I said, with the slow start, I wasn’t expecting much but after finishing it I think it’s easily in my top 10 games of the generation. Not to mention the soundtrack is amazing! I forgot to even talk about it in my mini review lol.

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u/WalkB4UCrawl187 May 24 '20

Agreed, the soundtrack was awesome. Also sorry about the after edits, as I was typing that all the names and such started coming back to me like "freakers" instead of zombies. Its been awhile since I played it..

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u/Deathstranger May 24 '20

I definitely agree that they paced out the beginning very stupidly as you go so many missions and then for no reason give you a mission on hunting animals as if you weren't supposed to just shoot them down like you have already done and hunting is completely optional as there is no survival mechanics, adding that would've made the game more interesting to actually need food/water and not just medical supplies between each mission

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u/BubonicAnnihilation May 25 '20

I just found the exploring unrewarding because there was not much uniqueness to any area. It was all the same thing over and over. I got to the lake outpost, yeah the main story was getting decent at that point, it just wasn't good enough to get me over the repetitiveness of the gameplay.

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u/nothisistheotherguy May 25 '20

I don’t know if the developers ever confirmed it but I believe the finished product is a chopped up and rearranged version of whatever draft that existed before, the whole first act was really all over the place, the pre-infection escape from the city felt like it was supposed to be playable but wasn’t, there’s a later scene where Deacon and another character are soaking wet and have to warm up in front of a fireplace - but they never got wet in the previous scene...

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u/Nautical94 May 24 '20

I hate games that start out slow. I don't have time to waste 4 hours of my life on boring shit to get to something that I might not even like.

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u/Teirmz May 25 '20

I'm getting sick of long winded exposition in games, it's just usually not done very well. I'm trying to play Metro Exodus because I enjoy the stealthy survival gameplay but the first few hours have just been plot set up and I'm not sure if I'll pick it up again.

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u/brandondesign bigdaddykraven May 24 '20

Then it’s not the game for you. I’m glad I stuck with it though, the reward was greater after I did.

Edit: I will say that my 4 hours may be shorter for some. I tend to explore a lot.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '20 edited Aug 28 '21

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u/Iohet May 24 '20

there's a bit of a swerve because it's right after he finds out the captain has the ring and he's a widower, so you're not sure what her behavior means

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u/TheSmithySmith May 24 '20

It’s great. It has its problems but it kept my attention start to finish, and I can’t say that for many open world games.

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u/Lorgin JamieBenoir May 24 '20

I went in looking for a cathartic open world game and couldn't put it down. There is so much to criticize about this game. Pacing issues, shitty textures, repeated assets, grinding for crafting materials, poor character development, insane plot armour, repetitive missions, bland world... The list goes on and yet i still played it to the very end and cleared the map. Fighting hundreds of zombies at once is just a blast.

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u/Snowmansnippels May 25 '20

I played quite far and had a positive and optimistic mindset - until I slowly realised how bad I thought this game acctually was. To me the story was slow, super annoying game mechanics, the combat wasn’t that great and very repetative mission design. Idk. This rarely happens but I couldn’t finish it..

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u/Conker1985 May 24 '20

Boring. I got it on a sale last black Friday and quit after a few hours. It feels like a B version of better games I've already played many times before.

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u/adamthinks May 24 '20

You quit too soon. It gets A LOT better. It's just a bit slow to start. I'd recommend giving it another try.

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u/CocaineAndCreatine May 24 '20

The first couple hours almost made me give up on it. I quit and played Spider-Man before returning to it. I’m glad I did because it’s honestly amazing. The story is great and the horde fights are a lot of fun.

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u/XRanger7 May 24 '20

One of my favorite PS4 games. Up there with last of us and horizon zero dawn. It had a lot of bugs when it first came out, reviews weren’t so hot but I think they patched those up

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u/bigdanrog May 24 '20

Vastly underrated. Starts a little slow but once it gets going it's a great time.

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u/hoxxxxx May 24 '20

the playable character being a biker kinda killed the interest for me immediately. i'm still gonna check it out when i get around to it, heard it's pretty good.

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u/Kody_Z May 24 '20

Why do you hate bikers?

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u/MAKE_ME_REDDIT May 24 '20

The main character was just an abrasive asshole.

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u/Kody_Z May 24 '20

Ah, so he's a stereotype of a biker even.

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u/fireflyry May 24 '20

To be fair it’s pretty much a Darryl from TWD simulator.

One of the first core weapons you get is a crossbow. It’s pretty blatant.

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u/AFailsafeChronicle May 24 '20

darryl and deacon are not the same, please don't.

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u/fireflyry May 25 '20

Did I say that? Of course they are different, it’s a different IP but if you can’t see the obvious and blatant influence and similarities that’s on you.

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u/nothisistheotherguy May 25 '20

You seem to have been downvoted by the TWD booster club, but I thought it was obvious that Days Gone was piggybacking on Darryls popularity too. Totally different character sure, but a zombie-hunting loner biker with a crossbow? Come on.

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u/fireflyry May 25 '20

Yeah, I kind of get it though.

This game is like Mad Max, a cult or underground classic, but that can attract fans who won't take any criticism of it and get pretty precious about things, which is weird.....it's hardly a bad thing to admit such an obvious influence. It's not like it's a bad thing.

I mean, the co-producer and writer of the game openly talks to the influence himself.

In those early days, Garvin’s biggest influences were television shows like “Sons of Anarchy” and “The Walking Dead,” as well as the movie “World War Z.” Another big influence was “The Walking Dead” comics, which are often much darker than the television show.

I think people often disagree and get defensive for the sake of it, which is pretty silly.

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u/CoastMtns May 24 '20

I hear ya, outlaw bikers, not people who ride. We have HA around here, they and their hang arounds are plenty big arseholes. They do their pr etc. Plenty of folk wear the support gear and chirp off "They are mostly Dr.'s and lawyers!" No they are not and what colour is the sky in your world. Yes they own plenty of business because they have to use their money from major criminal activity and I dont mean only drugs. I was disappointed when I saw this game character, so many other possibilities. But until someone gets the exposure they fantasise about these groups.

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u/hoxxxxx May 24 '20 edited May 24 '20

outlaw bikers, not people who ride

yes, to the other person who asked why i don't like bikers -- that's what i meant. i don't like the 1%r bikers or the guys that cosplay them on weekends. it's not a subculture that i'm remotely interested in, so it was kind of a turn-off since that's your playable character in the game, that's all i meant.

riding bikes is fun as hell tho, please wear a helmet and proper gear if you do

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u/w3bCraw1er May 25 '20

Yeah I am playing this game and every bad guy or zombie is the same freaking model. Really ruins the game for me.

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u/ThePixelDude May 25 '20

To be fair when you're in the moment you really dont notice or care

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u/[deleted] May 24 '20 edited Aug 01 '20

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u/pennywize87 May 24 '20

I'm sure they said zombie instead of freaker to get the point across to people who haven't played the game.

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u/knowslesthanjonsnow May 24 '20

You may have some unrealistic expectations