![]() Nothing comes without a cost, and you can’t rely on any one thing if you expect to survive. Like the Freaker hordes that chase you like a surging flood, everything in Days Gone is aging and decaying. ![]() I mean, sure, you’re a biker, so you could always run those pricks over, but then you’ve gotta fix your bike, especially if you fall into a roadside trap. You better plan on fixing them up regularly, because over two years of neglect hasn’t done any favors for keeping them in shape. Now, you’ve still got handy baseball bats, table legs, machetes, and fire axes to smash in a bandit’s face with. Modern manufacturing goes down in flames, and suddenly the stock runs dry. One problem - it’s so far past the apocalypse that most people are running low on bullets. It’s less Left 4 Dead, more “Red Undead Redemption,” so you’ll face bandits and sadistic cultists as often as you do Freakers. Hiding out in Oregon, you and your buddy Boozer do odd jobs from various survivor camps as society slowly rebuilds itself. John, you enter a world that’s well past the point of a Freaker (see: zombie) apocalypse having played out. Stepping into the biker boots of Deacon St. Several games I’ve covered on this column don’t hold their players’ hand, and it hasn’t led to massive commercial success. All of this is a risky strategy in the current market. It certainly isn’t made for everyone either, throwing you into the deep end to let you sink or swim. Can’t be about demonstrating technical power due to the frame rate hitches. It’s not a prestige piece, humbly presenting its many stories in a casual manner. Meanwhile, Days Gone bets the farm on unrelenting gameplay, offering one of the most gripping, brutal experiences on PlayStation in years.īend Studio’s open-world survival horror game isn’t the typical sort of title Sony publishes these days. Most of those sorts of games rely on narrative and perception to sell the experience. ![]() It’s all in service of giving you the illusion of struggle. They often actively work in your favor on every level, behind the scenes. Most modern Sony games don’t want you to ever fail, Knack notwithstanding.
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