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Predict the score!

95+ 3 3.26%
 
90 to 94 3 3.26%
 
85 to 89 22 23.91%
 
80 to 84 25 27.17%
 
75 to 79 14 15.22%
 
70 to 74 21 22.83%
 
65 to 69 3 3.26%
 
65 or lower 1 1.09%
 
Total:92
forevercloud3000 on 29 April 2019

The reason behind why a 6 or 7 seems alarming for a decent game is because in grade school those are considered failing scores. A 70 is a D where I'm from and is the bottom of the line before an E failing grade.

When I grade a game that is the kind of metric I am using, it's the only fair way. In school you are graded on meeting specific criteria and median quality compared to those at the time. Yet truly insightful work can often out weigh issues within.

From actually playing Day's Gone, sure it has a few spelling and grammatical errors but the foundation is strong and fun to read. That deserves at least an 8/C.

In comparison I also enjoyed the hell out of the low budget masterpiece that is Vampyr. I would rate that around the same. Games made by fledgling studios do deserve some leeway as their means are limited. Days Gone I think was made with a team of like 50 people at the start. Yet they brought inventive new ideas to the table. RDR2, the critical darling on the other hand did not excite me, I found it's story super dry and it's controls convoluted. I can respect it's extreme attention to detail and build quality. There is something to be said of the contrast tho.



      

      

      

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KLXVER on 29 April 2019
twintail said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

Haven’t played at all since Friday. Tried to play last night and got cock blocked by one of those slow ass updates. Anyone know what the update added?

it isnt an online game so you can still play while the game is downloading an update

I don't think that's a good idea for this game. I did that an the audio disappeared and the cutscenes ran in slow motion.



Cerebralbore101 on 29 April 2019
John2290 said:
In a time where Mortal Kombat gets an 86 with very little critique of its bollachs of a progression system and this game gets a 72. What bonkers world are we living in, I'm so sick of games media. Shit needs an overhaul with new blood in the mix..

Well the average review of all the sites I trust puts MK 11 at 76, and the official opencritic score for MK11 is 83. Days Gone is sitting at 72 officailly on OC, and 73 on by my own trusted reviewers. 

Oh, and MK11 sent out a ton of review copies without having the online store up, so a lot of reviewers just didn't get a chance to see how deep the MTX bs is. Also, if not for the MTX, I bet MK11 would be hailed as much as GoW or BotW. 



Azzanation on 29 April 2019
colafitte said:

Despite having not played Days Gone for myself, i probably agree with you in that RDR2 could be a better overall game, that's why i said it's a 80's game for me. But that's my point. Games like Days Gone that are in 70's are considered bad, because we usually expect a game being really good only if it's high 80's, 90 or more. But grades are completely subjective depending of the player.

I love cinematic driven games, with high production values. In that regard RDR 2 was almost perfect. But there were other things that are objectively bad or average and were shadowed in reviews. With Days Gone it's the opposite. Everything wrong with the game has been put absolute in front and the things that does right not.

I'm not saying Days Gone deserves more score. What i am critizing is how the gaming press changes its criteria depending in if its cool to praise a game or if it's cool to hate it because social media, marketing campaigns or bubble opinions in forums affect that perception. 

And when i made that comment i was still trying to figure out why it was receiving 5's and 6's from important gaming sites if the problems were bad IA (RDR2 has bad and simple IA too), mediocre mission design (RDR 2 have a problem with this too were missions are played without player agency), empty world (RDR 2 is the same, most of the map is empty, just with animals and you can not interact with people more than just to say howdy or get lost) and irregular story (RDR 2 has a great character in Arthur Morgan, but the story in most of the games goes nowhere and the epilogue las way more longer than needed). So i was asking myself....Why is this game then a 72 on metacritic??, what really makes it 25 points worse on metacritic than RDR2??, just bad frame rate and bugs???, some lack of polishness??, that's it?? because i really want to know, because i have not decided yet if i a want to buy it or not. I see most of the same problems critics have with Days Gone as i had with RDR 2. Is this game just as inaccurate reviewed as RDR 2 then, or not?. I can't trust reviews opinions and that's the problem.

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I believe RDR2 scored higher due to it did alot of things right which outweighted the bad. No game is ever perfect so to score high these days, games have to fight harder to overcome the issues and mediocrity in there games.

State of Decay 2 did some good things but not enough to outweigh the frustrating bugs and glitches. Days Gone would be something similar. 



loy310 on 29 April 2019

DG is such a good game. Deserves way more than a 72 meta, its an 80 game imho. I am having a blast.
There are some meh designer choices but overall if they had more time to polish and test i think the game will even better. I feel as tho they launched the game in a beta state.



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LudicrousSpeed on 30 April 2019

Not feeling it so far. Your character moves way too sluggish and the AI sucks. Hopefully later enemies are better.



LudicrousSpeed on 02 May 2019
John2290 said:

Conspiracy? Eh? Pfft. It's not a conspiracy theory when it turns out to be true.

https://youtu.be/8JrEF9CNOd4

Loving this game to bits, it just keeps getting better and more enjoyable as all good games do to keep you interested and hooked. 

So because one guy with a YouTube channel found some stuff he thinks makes the writer an SJW, that means Gamespot was “caught” tanking the score? 

Oh and of course he isn’t even interested in the game. He knows it’s at least a 7/10, but wasn’t interested enough in the game to buy it. 



Peh on 02 May 2019
John2290 said:

Been trying to look for an interactive map, qre these a thing of the past, anyone know? The map is gigantic and I just found out I'm only at about 70 percent unlocked.

Game is absolutely gorgeous, not usually a fan of super realistic games but this is among the most impressive I've seen lately. It looks like a HDR photo from 2010 when we used to patch three RAW files together and that is without filters or any fiddling with photo mode, turn on photomode and get the lighting right and it is mind blowing. Not sure how to get this to show up in the forum but here's a tweet that found those high points.

https://twitter.com/ItsDVP/status/1122577321456746498?s=19

Particularly photo nber two of the road and the moon, if this was a few years ago I'd reckon that was a photograph that someone stitched into HDR, even now it looks real.

Check this out:

https://youtu.be/opgMj6skKo8



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MrWayne on 02 May 2019
John2290 said:

Conspiracy? Eh? Pfft. It's not a conspiracy theory when it turns out to be true.

https://youtu.be/8JrEF9CNOd4

Loving this game to bits, it just keeps getting better and more enjoyable as all good games do to keep you interested and hooked. 

LOL a video from theQuartering or should I say theQuivering

He's the guy who made like 100 videos on captain marvel because "REEEEE FEMINISTS IN MY MEDIA!!", he even admitted that he does all those stupid videos solely for the money.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 02 May 2019
MrWayne said:
John2290 said:

Conspiracy? Eh? Pfft. It's not a conspiracy theory when it turns out to be true.

https://youtu.be/8JrEF9CNOd4

Loving this game to bits, it just keeps getting better and more enjoyable as all good games do to keep you interested and hooked. 

LOL a video from theQuartering or should I say theQuivering

He's the guy who made like 100 videos on captain marvel because "REEEEE FEMINISTS IN MY MEDIA!!", he even admitted that he does all those stupid videos solely for the money.

LMAO I was about to ask if he ever saw the debate The Quartering did with Destiny! It was a joke. He basically went back on any point he's ever made and agreed with everything Destiny said despite saying the opposite on his own videos. Acted like he always thought this way.