is this game worth it or not?

[jjacco]

if i need to choose between days gone, horizon zero dawn, what is the best choice?

[admiralRus]

Days gone for me. Give the game a chance - a great long adventure, where for me there is everything to enjoy, learn, be surprised, develop, fight and rejoice. Be glad that you managed to survive... again. The game evokes emotions, and it costs a lot.

[Arthur]

Both are great games and I’d go for both, but I’d take days gone if I had to pick only one. Might be recency bias but I enjoyed my time with days gone more than I did with HZD.

[Incarnate]

Never played Horizon ZD. But I think it depends on what you want in an apocalypse game. The two are very different.

Horizon is a fantasy-themed game about giant spongey robot dinosaurs where you always have resources and set up traps. It's almost more like a hack and slash or Monster Hunter game.

The other is a grounded story with resource management. Days Gone is all about giant hordes and group dynamics of different enemy AI. Hordes serve as bosses. You can one-hit zombies to the head but as a group they will surround you in about five seconds.

I might check out Horizon ZD at some point, but this was a no-brainer for me. Get Days Gone if only to watch cougars fighting zombies or mutants bitchslapping a grizzly bear.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Incarnate:

Never played Horizon ZD. But I think it depends on what you want in an apocalypse game. The two are very different.

Horizon is a fantasy-themed game about giant spongey robot dinosaurs where you always have resources and set up traps. It's almost more like a hack and slash or Monster Hunter game.

The other is a grounded story with resource management. Days Gone is all about giant hordes and group dynamics of different enemy AI. Hordes serve as bosses. You can one-hit zombies to the head but as a group they will surround you in about five seconds.

I might check out Horizon ZD at some point, but this was a no-brainer for me. Get Days Gone if only to watch cougars fighting zombies or mutants bitchslapping a grizzly bear.

This is just a very biased post where you try to make Days Gone more hardcore than it is in reality. You barely run out of resources at any point. Most of it is just extra stuff to do. Not a bad thing by any means, but saying you have to carefully manage is just not really true.


Both are good games, but it depends on what you're looking for. I've played both, currently playing through Days Gone and if I consider all aspects, it's a hard choice, depending on what you want.


Story wise, HZD gets the edge for me. I don't dislike Days Gone, but a lot of it is very drawn out. Some of it good, some of it bad with a bunch of fetch quests. It takes a lot to get anywhere in the story and once it does (i've heard it was about half way into the game) you have a quick semi final climax and after that it's the same stuff again. A lot of people said the beginning of Days Gone story is slow but that it eventually ramps up. It ramps up for about 2/3 hours and then goes back to that slow aspect again. It's a really drawn out story and I don't consider that to be good. I still enjoy it, however.

Gameplay wise they're honestly equal. HZD has cool battles with epic robots, feels really good, hit registration feels amazing to me and overall movement and what not is very fluid. Days Gone naturally is more stealthy (at first) where you're just trying to survive, but does this aspect well. Movement is tight for the most part, gunplay feels good, tools available are pretty neat too. You do feel like you're surviving due to all the little additions they've added to the game, like having to refuel your bike, maintain your bike if it gets damaged, stuff like that.

Open world wise, I prefer Days Gone structure. It doesn't all open up at once, it gradually opens up side missions or extra stuff to do without going way overboard with marking everything at once. The world is pretty too, I really enjoy it. Not too small, not too big. But it never overwhelms you.


If you're in it for the story, i'd go with HZD.

[PrinceXavieR™]

Get both if you can. If you like open world stuff, you can hardly go wrong with either of them

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by Dregora:

Originally posted by Incarnate:

Never played Horizon ZD. But I think it depends on what you want in an apocalypse game. The two are very different.

Horizon is a fantasy-themed game about giant spongey robot dinosaurs where you always have resources and set up traps. It's almost more like a hack and slash or Monster Hunter game.

The other is a grounded story with resource management. Days Gone is all about giant hordes and group dynamics of different enemy AI. Hordes serve as bosses. You can one-hit zombies to the head but as a group they will surround you in about five seconds.

I might check out Horizon ZD at some point, but this was a no-brainer for me. Get Days Gone if only to watch cougars fighting zombies or mutants bitchslapping a grizzly bear.

This is just a very biased post where you try to make Days Gone more hardcore than it is in reality. You barely run out of resources at any point. Most of it is just extra stuff to do. Not a bad thing by any means, but saying you have to carefully manage is just not really true.

No, it's not biased. You should read the posts on this forum and the reviews. There are people who say the game sucks because they are constantly running out of fuel. A lot of people seem to be overwhelmed.

I agree it isn't that difficult even on hard. But there will be parts where you will not have enough molotovs to burn certain nests, have to abandon your bike to search out a petrol can to refuel, or have your melee weapon shatter if you don't maintain. You wouldn't believe how many people hate weapon degradation.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Incarnate:

Originally posted by Dregora:

This is just a very biased post where you try to make Days Gone more hardcore than it is in reality. You barely run out of resources at any point. Most of it is just extra stuff to do. Not a bad thing by any means, but saying you have to carefully manage is just not really true.

No, it's not biased. You should read the posts on this forum and the reviews. There are people who say the game sucks because they are constantly running out of fuel. A lot of people seem to be overwhelmed.

I agree it isn't that difficult even on hard. But there will be parts where you will not have enough molotovs to burn certain nests, have to abandon your bike to search out a petrol can to refuel, or have your melee weapon shatter if you don't maintain. You wouldn't believe how many people hate weapon degradation.

I'm not a fan of it either but you find weapons anywhere and one of the first upgrades, the spikes, is great.

Like i said you make the game seem more tough than it is. I don't care for a minority in regards to what they consider too hard. Game is still very positive.

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by Dregora:

Originally posted by Incarnate:

No, it's not biased. You should read the posts on this forum and the reviews. There are people who say the game sucks because they are constantly running out of fuel. A lot of people seem to be overwhelmed.

I agree it isn't that difficult even on hard. But there will be parts where you will not have enough molotovs to burn certain nests, have to abandon your bike to search out a petrol can to refuel, or have your melee weapon shatter if you don't maintain. You wouldn't believe how many people hate weapon degradation.

I don't care for a minority in regards to what they consider too hard.

It's a generation raised on regenerating health and cover shooters, what do you expect?

[GraVe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KG4MBGb92w

See for yourself :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlYYDmOjkog

[-=THe M@TRiX=- [DK]]

Just posted this in your thread in HZD forum.

I had the same question on my mind two days ago. Got both in my backlog now Need to finish Control, then I will start HZD or Days gone.

By the time I finish those, God of war will be on sale and maybe even have implemented a FOV slider and Fullscreen (or borderless with resolution option). Also uncharted is out by then.

[Low Blow]

Get both.

[Sm0k3f47h3r]

if you want to play with 45 fps cause they didn't fix the slow downs then buy it

[Frontier Psychiatrist]

Both games require you to have a pretty good rig if you want avoid frame issues. A lot of the complaints about Days gone bugs such as 40 fps slowdowns etc come from people who simply don't have a good enough CPU/GPU. I've had no real bug issues with the game at all, the worse that has happened to me is the occasional corpse sitting up or ragdolling in a stupid way.
I played Horizon way back on the PS4 and it's pretty good, a lot more creative than Days Gone in terms of setting and storyline BUT they are basically the same when you compare gameplay. Both games follow last gen's fad of open-world gameplay with crafting and tons of collectables.

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by Sm0k3f47h3r:

if you want to play with 45 fps cause they didn't fix the slow downs then buy it

Not saying you have a crap rig ... but I got stable 60 fps on a laptop on high settings.

[Phillip7411]

No problems with the game but they made the lead character a self serving prick. I say get both games on sale because their worth it. Sony did a good all around job with this. Has a long story with quality maps. Have fun with it.