PS4: Days Gone - New Gameplay [Game Informer]

[Zoombael]

 

 

LuccaCardoso1 said:

CGI-Quality said:

The trailers tell you that it is another 'generic zombie shooter'. For many of the rest of us, it is saying something different. 

What is it saying then? That's what I was asking. What aspects of Days Gone's marketing make you think that it will not be a generic zombie shooter?

LuccaCardoso1 said: 

- "I lost my wife" plot.

 

I didn't know thats a common theme and typical for "generic zombie shooter".

 

LuccaCardoso1 said: 

I'm not saying the game will be bad or anything, it can take those mechanics and polish them a ton, but it doesn't look to be original at all.

 

Why has it to look original? Does it have to be? Ghost Of Tsushima doesn't look original too.

 

LuccaCardoso1 said: 

- "Plot is about surviving". I don't need to tell you how abundant survival games are nowadays.

Zoombael said: 

"Does the world really need another zombie game? "

Right. After a zillion zombie games - and a zillion more to come for sure -, we finally start to pose the question if we need another zombie game. 

Btw. that aint zombies in Days Gone. They re called freakers. :P

How many of those survival games are AAA. Are story driven. Have Open World Aspects. Are complete and beyond average.

 

LuccaCardoso1 said: 

- Zombies not being called zombies.

What do you know about the disease and its background in Days Gone? Would you describe the mushroom people from TloU as zombies? Or the infected in the movie "The Girl with All the Gifts"? Or the creatures in I Am Legend? Would you call an animal with rabies a zombie? How does it make a zombie game generic when zombies are not called zombies, to make a clear destinction where there is a clear difference?

"Zombie" is very defined nowawdays. Reanimated corpse, walking dead, slow moving, decomposing. Although i think to coin the infected "Freakers" isn't the best choice, we see them in a uniform condition, displaying distinct behavior, "instinct driven" behavior. Not the standard re-animated dead people aka Zombies. Zombies don't back off from the living and build nests in selected places.

 

LuccaCardoso1 said: 

- "Survival vision".

What about it?

LuccaCardoso1 said: 

GribbleGrunger said: 

They have made one HUGELY successful infected game before. You asked if Sony are 'really that bad at advertising zombie games?' Clearly not. Yes, Sony do know how to sell a good story game. It's their speciality. I'm still confused why you think stating the obvious is in any way making a stronger case for your 'generic' argument.

If they're good at marketing zombie games, then Days Gone is generic. If they're showing everything the game has to offer, then it is very generic. It's either a bad marketing team or a generic game.

This does not making any sense. I doubt you have any idea what you're talking. Is the games release scheduled for tomorrow?