![]() ![]() It nails the survival aspect of survival horror. But in Days Gone you’re never safe and not very powerful. Sports games and RPGs let us escape from reality and live out our power fantasies. The game’s stress-inducing nature is why I ask what it is that attracts you to playing games. And something terrible can happen to you at any moment. You must think carefully about where you’re going and how you’re getting there. Days Gone is brutal in the sense that you can never EVER let your guard down. And there are brutally tough games like the Dark Souls series games so severe they taunt you into chucking your controller at the wall. There are brutally challenging games like Super Meat Boy that punish you with treacherous maps which demand hundreds of replays. Days Gone pits you and your gruff avatar against an unforgiving world, and tasks you with surviving long enough to repair your wheels, heal your friend, and maybe even uncover the pandemic’s secrets.ĭays Gone is a brutal game. Deacon’s plans get derailed when Boozer falls ill, and some hooligans put his bike out of commission. But before he cuts ties, he must pull off a few more jobs because it wouldn’t be a video game if you didn’t have to level up and take part in fetch-quests. The biker bros’ harsh lifestyle has taken a toll on them, and Deacon thinks it’s time to for a change of location. Their outlaw lifestyle and nimble motorcycles gave them the perfect skillsets to survive an apocalypse. The two of them live together in a safe house, doing small-time jobs for the neighbouring encampments hunting bounties and tracking down medical supplies. But now all that’s left from his past is his chapter bro Boozer. In his old life, he belonged to an outlaw motorcycle club, the Mongrels MC. There’ a strong The Walking Dead vibe to it all. The global pandemic crippled society, and now people live in fortified encampments. The world as we know it is dead and gone. (And please don’t call them zombies or you risk offending the people behind this game). Those who aren’t killed transform into hideous creatures called Freakers. The game takes place in the Pacific Northwest, a couple years after a pandemic kills off most of the world’s population. ![]() You may recognize Witwer from his role as Doomsday on Smallville and as Darth Vader’s secret apprentice in the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed series. In Days Gone, you play as a character with the very adult film industry sounding name, Deacon St. Whether you find the game’s oppressive mechanics thrilling or tedious depends on what you consider fun. Days Gone places you in the aftermath of a global apocalypse, and it’s hellbent on making players fight for their survival. It’s a question you must ask yourself before firing up Days Gone, Bend Studio’s new PS4 exclusive open-world action game. Ask three people why they play Grand Theft Auto, and you get three different answers: the story, the sandbox mayhem, the online multiplayer. This may sound like splitting hairs but asking people why they love video games is a different question than asking them what type of video games they love. ![]()
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