The last two years have given an amazing view of how two administrations have failed at handling this shit.

It doesn’t help that there are a million zombie games out there, and far fewer good samurai games.  Also, Days Gone suffered from a drab, uninteresting brown and grey world, and GoT was more visually interesting in every respect.  

I love when my elected representatives choose to abdicate their responsibility during a pandemic! It’s so cool. LOVE IT.

lol i stopped playing pretty early on when resources are very scarce. then there were multiple times where i got trapped in a forest only for the horde to find and kill me repeatedly. idk how i ran outta gas but it happened, and it sucked

i so agree with you ! there’s a lot to like about days gone but it almost feels as if days gone doesn’t want you to like days gone. i understand the atmosphere and the worldbuilding, the tense gameplay and evocative nature of the environment. but i grew bored and frustrated during my initial playthrough to the point…

yo i 100% agree with you ! days gone was a mediocre game i wanted to enjoy but couldn’t get past its myriad cumbersome systems. from what i understand the days gone sequel was cancelled but whether it’s been put on the backburner or not is irrelevant when the game itself just wasn’t that fun (for me anyway)

They sold comparably, but Ghost of Tsushima was just a better game.  

Initially it was reviewed as mediocre and unoriginal. So I never played it. Then suddenly it gained this huge following saying the “critics” were all wrong and it was one of the most underrated games of all time and should be played! So I picked it up on a sale, and guess what.

I don’t know about this, man....it’s already been debunked multiple times from at least 2 other sources that DG2 was indeed in development, but was put on the back shelf after this guy left the company. There wasn’t enough internal support in the studio to make it, so they opted to shift to a brand-new IP. It had…

It came across that way to me because (and I’m stealing the words from a commenter above, who put it more succinctly than I could): this feels like this was written without the awareness that the base game was very well received.

I absolutely did. Having the lips not match up with the dialogue at all was a way bigger immersion killer for me than the pretty stellar English voice cast.

I did. It’s made by an English speaking development studio with English dialogue and faces that sync to it pretty darn well for a video game. Switching it to a dubbed language that doesn’t match up and then reading subtitles... THAT is immersion breaking.

I was so excited to play this in Japanese until I saw how shitty the lip sync was. It took me out of it too much so I switched back. I’m glad it’s corrected in this release .

I did! I didn’t love the direction of the English dub, but I’ll tell you why I used it: because the game doesn’t give subtitles to any of the incidental dialogue, such as when you pass by NPCs.

Once you get past the aesthetics of Ghost of Tsushima there really isn’t enough there to separate it from other Big Map Lots to Do games, which is a damn shame. It’s good, don’t get me wrong, but gameplay wise there isn’t much sunlight between it and any of the newer assassin’s creed games.

It was also really…

At least it’s not the GHOSTINITIVE EDITION

The Complete Edition of a game always calls it something cute if they didnt get a game of the year award from somewhere/anywhere. Sometimes its Director’s Cut, sometimes its Ultimate Edition, sometimes its Legendary Edition, or more.

Right? When I saw the headline, I thought “oh man, not as good as the main game then, damn,” but then I read the article and was like “wait what??”

“Ghost of Tsushima is a decent enough open-world game”

Cannot imagine playing or finishing this game without being compelled to see + explore every inch of its map. One of the 5 best games of its generation.  That said, I can hold on the Director’s Cut until actually getting a PS5, probably sometime in 2023 at current pace.