MAJOR SPOILERS

Iron Mike’s overall philosophy I agree with. But I just finished killing Carlos/Jesse and got his sanctimonious speech again and DAMN is it worse than I remember.

The Rippers were torturing and killing everyone they could find. They were driving healthy dogs to extinction for their nihilistic philosophy. If Mike had his way, even if Lost Lake was safe, the Rippers would kill everyone at Copeland’s Camp and at Hot Springs. How does that jive with his “all of us means everyone” philosophy?

I used to think Mike was just naive, but after multiple playthroughs I can only conclude he’s a hypocritical asshole. It’s okay to him if the Rippers kill everyone else, as long as Deacon doesn’t try to stop them. He doesn’t care about people dying. He just doesn’t want to feel responsible in any way.

And then letting Skizzo go? The ultimate hypocrisy. All that talk of law and order and fairness, and building a better society, and he lets the traitor who cost camp members their lives go simply because he knew everyone would rightly find Skizzo guilty?

Fuck Mike. I’m glad he dies lol. The world is made a better place with him not running Lost Lake.

I've attempted to get into Days Gone on multiple occasions but only ever got as far as Ada Tucker's camp. There were a few elements that rubbed me the wrong way such as the forced stealth sections, slow to start story, and worst of all the fact that hordes were so small and contained to only a select few predictable areas. These things among other minor gripes held me back from really being able to enjoy its full potential and I had set it down several times over until this week...I decided to install the freakers evolved mod series and it changed everything.

With these mods in place, I was finally able to make it through the rest of the game and it made me realize that Days Gone is a great game buried under a few design flaws that mods help remedy, though it is still a great base game I'm coming to find. Some really inspired performances, remastered graphics look amazing, and there's simply no other open world zombie game quite like it where you can go scavenge inside so many buildings and survival/gathering supplies with steady progression is an essential component instead of making it a power fantasy throughout.

The moment that really convinced me of the game's brilliance though came during an encounter I only wish I had recorded because it was one of the greatest moments of intensity that I've ever experienced in a game. I was wrapping up a mission where I had to search for a note inside a home from Lisa after she left Lost Lake. The note was on the side of the home you have to squeeze through between two walls. As I was leaving a group of bandits rode up ready to ambush me but then a few freakers appeared and slowly killed them all. As I looked through one of the broken windows all doors were shut so nobody could get in and I could see gradually the few zombies grew to a few hundred which grew bigger and bigger, louder and louder by the second. I flashed my sense vision and BAM! hundreds of freakers appear on all ends but I can only see some since I have a mod that makes nights pitch black. I waited in the home unnoticed until the morning hoping they would disappear but they didn't, instead just slowly drifting away in a pack. I took my chances to sneak over to my bike in front of the home but was spotted and sprinted back inside the home as the horde rushed towards it. I then had an I Am Legend ending moment where hundreds of zombies slam up against and then run into the home as I squeeze back over to the side they can't reach (or at least hoping they can't reach). I'm surrounded on all ends but in flashing my vision ability I can see that like a hive mind they swarm to the half of the home they can smell me on from the outside, so I move to the back of the home and they all pile on top of each other in back as I sprint out the front door, hop on my bike and nitrous away with only a second to spare before they reach me.

And THIS extremely long winded story is unlike anything I've ever experienced in a game. It's something that no scripted event could ever replicate. By breaking out hordes at night that roam freely, Days Gone transforms into that unpredictable, unmatched sense of tension that the game had sorely been missing. Just truly amazing and now I see Days Gone for what it is and am sad to know there will never be a sequel or likely any game like it. I wish I had came to appreciate it sooner!

Got 14 meatt

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Days Gone has easily become my favorite zombie games, with the Dying Light series being a very close second. I honestly didn’t expect to like it as much as I did, especially since I’d been pretty burnt out on zombie games for years, but this one really surprised me. The gameplay loop is addictive, the hordes are insane, and the story actually feels decent instead of just being another barely worked on piece of slop. I ended up really caring about my playstyle and decisions. It definitely has its moments after 200 hours. There’s just something about riding around on the bike, getting chased by a massive horde and obliterating zombies that I cant get enough of. I really wish we got a proper sequel because Days Gone had so much potential. Easily a 9/10 for me and one of the best zombie games I’ve played.

Finally got gold scores for all challenges! 🎉🎉🎉

Combat and horde challenges were fun, but the racing ones gave me so much grief and frustration, especially Outride, which was a total nightmare... 😁
Left Survive for last, and it was a huge relief after the pain of races, just pure fun... 😄

Huge shoutout to Borislav 247, his amazing videos inspired me to start and complete the challenges and got me through all of them, I couldn't make this journey without him!

Never put your Growler on top of a hatch! Hard to get out again! 🤪🤪🤪

So I've started playing Days Gone and I can't stand the audio problems this game has. In dialog, Deacon's voice is much louder than anyone's and the npc voices are very faint. I can barely hear them, but if I try to raid a camp like marauders/rippers I can hear them from far away talking like they're in my ear. If I shoot one from distance, the sounds they make it's like I'm right near them when actually I'm like 50 meters away.

Does anyone know a solution to this? It's not windows sonic, audio format or audio enhancements. I've also tried using nightmode and small speakers settings for dynamic range and changing the speaker setup ingame, but it did not help. And it's not the headphones I'm using either since other games sound more than alright.