John2290 said:
Finally finished my normal save this evening and enjoyed it so, so much. I played the first half of the game twice, once on Hard mode and then on normal and it was just as enjoyable the second time around because if he great gameplay loop that one falls into but I have to say one thing, the second two third of the game is so, so much better than the first third, after 5 ish hours on normal mod (15ish on hard) it starts to ramp up and doesn't stop getting better until the end with the odd pacing hitch now and then and really hits it's stride around 15- 25 hours in dependig on difficulty level but as long as one isn't rushing it it is near perfect pacing for the most part. It feels really down to earth and I loved that, it's refreshing for an open world game, their is no rags to riches, massive world ending stakes, it's like a journey through few weeks of Deacons life two years after society crumbles. The hoards are just amazing and easily the best part of the game next to it's addicting loop, often felt bad for killing them after some story beats, esspically the "newta" which I won't spoil. I still hold it to an 8/10 with most of the points still holding true and it would be an easy 9 if they fixed the performance, tidied a few things up, increased stunted progression and knee capped systems from the start, shortened loading among a few others. The game never stops opening up too well into end game and even new content continues after the credits roll with new unlocks ontop of the stuff you may have missed.
Not every game needs to be a narrative masterpiece to be sometjing that will hook you and lend you joy, not that this doesn't tell an enjoyable story, it is well above serviceable and often touching and gets emotional reactions it is tryong to evoke thanks to the incredible main cast. After Sekerio (10/10) and REmake2 (9/10), Days gone takes third place for me in 2019 and will probanly be my second platinum because I still have a stong itch to play, still makes a good stretch ahead of Ace combat 7 and Metro Exodus, the latter two I would reckon are solid 7's and the remainder of my top 5 when counting The messanger ps4 as a 2018 release.
Still can't believe reviewers were giving this 5's, or 3's, even the 6's make no sense albiet a little more understandable. It is an anomoly , I am sure had political motivatiosn to some extent with all the right wing stuff said in the game (it is really heavy and even goes into some strong evangelical territory, reviews do not take that stuff kindly as seen with Far cry 5 and unlike that game there is no comic relief to offset it here) and has reminded me not to trust aggregates and gaming media outside of the fun of it.
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