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I finished the game Wednesday when they had just dropped a new patch. I’d say if you want to play it on a base PS4 to wait on it. I feel like it could have used at least 3 more months in development. Like what Brad said in the podcast/quick look. Most of the jank isn’t bad but it all adds up to become really annoying.

War for the Planet of the Cats.

That was funnier before I read any of the posts on here.

Dead Star (game)

Deathstalker

Dolby sound

Dwarf star

Dumb sod

DiabeteS??

Never played the first The Darkness but I did play and love the second one. I don’t know how it’s aged but you should give it a try. It’s a great game. It’s a shame we won’t ever get a third game. The ending to The Darkness 2 is nuts. This also makes me realize that most publishers played it very safe this gen. If it weren’t for Sony’s first party studios, this gen would’ve sucked.

@nutter: That’s what I did when I read the guide. Knowing that earlier would’ve made fights a lot simpler with the flying guys. I just didn’t like using pierce though, which is why I didn’t.

@bybeach: I felt the same way. I loved the first half of the game but at the midway point, it just got unnecessarily difficult because they’d throw so many different enemy types at you and I’d just get blasted from all sides. The flying enemies that can launch things at you were the worst. I didn’t figure out how to beat them until I looked for a guide on how to beat that flying boss dude you can fight after you finish the story. The boss fights were awful in this game. They pissed me off as well but I tried to keep my anger contained so my roommates wouldn’t think I’m crazy. Also, I have a base model PS4 so it ran like shit during most of my playthrough.

Despite that though, the game is awesome. I’m excited for the expansions next year but hopefully they fine tune the hell out of the game. Some things about it need extra work.

@shiftygism: I got the platinum for Horizon, God of War, and Spider-Man before they sent out the emails for those themes. Never got an email for any of them. :) Sony’s email system sucks.

Edit: someone at Sony must’ve saw my post because I just received an email for the platinum theme. Woot!

@ntm: A few days have gone since I finished Days Gone (sorry). Using the giantbomb review scale, it’s a solid 3 out of 5 for me. Probably put over 60 hours in it by the time I finished it. I ended up following a guide and getting the last 20% of collectibles in the game and ended up getting the platinum trophy too. I didn’t delete it from my PS4 just in case they decide to drop a DLC later in the year. Question. Did you get the LAST cutscene? There’s one more after the credits roll. I think you have to finish the other missions that pop up for it to show up, I’m not sure. But you get a call from O’Brian to meet him and he drops a bomb on you(not literally, obviously). It was very interesting and actually got me excited for a sequel.

@ntm: finally found the time to play and ended up playing all day Saturday to finish the game. I ended up doing all the hordes that got pointed out on the map but there are still More. I wish there was a way to get everything shown on the map because I still have a bunch of camps, NERO stuff, hordes, etc. to do. I would like to play more of it but that frame rate is just so so so bad on the base PS4. So I’m just going to wait it out for patches to finish the rest of the stuff you can do after the credits roll. I ended up getting loyalty maxed out for all the camps but the first militia just by taking out camps and hordes toward the end of the game. Using the giantbomb rating system, I’d give it a 3 out of 5. So many weird design choices and the bugs/frame rate really hold it back. Hopefully with a sequel, they can learn from their mistakes and how other games do things because a lot of things this game does is just baffling.

Side note: I thought Far Cry 5 was so bad I didn’t even finish it so I wouldn’t touch New Dawn with a 10 foot pole.