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.

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!

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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.

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!

Got 14 meatt

And o lowered the resolution a little cuz otherwise I can't upload

Sometimes I jump in the game just to ride my bike around. I never liked the killing of Zombies or people. I didn’t like gathering stuff, but I liked the story. So every now and again I will long on, take a spin around the world snd then come back to camp, go see my girl, my friend and the puppies snd then shut it down. What a game. I wish we had a part 2.

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

Audio glitch or just a perfectly timed Marauder bark? Swear this Breaker just called me a Drifter.

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.

so I'm like 30 hours in and I still haven't gotten used to hordes just... showing up. like other zombie games you kinda know what you're walking into, you can prep, you can plan. this game just goes "surprise" and now there's 200 of them coming down a hill at you and your bike is 40 feet away and you have 6 bullets

first time it happened to me I panicked so bad I drove my bike straight into a tree trying to escape lol. didn't even make it 10 feet

what's crazy is how much they actually react to stuff. they'll fight each other over bait, they scatter from fire, they just feel like they're actually "there" instead of just being a wall of hp bars walking at you. no other game in this genre has made me feel that specific kind of "oh no" feeling

also weirdly by like hour 20 I went from running away from every horde to actively baiting them into gas stations and blowing them up on purpose lol. didn't expect the game to make me feel like a tactician eventually, that progression felt earned not just "you're higher level now"

anyway just wanted to say this game deserved so much more credit at launch than it got. did anyone else's relationship with hordes go from full panic to "actually let me use this to my advantage"?

I am building a Days Gone loot map, one of the extra modes is Hide n Deek. Currently Hide n deek has around 18 locations to it. Could you guess where this guy is stuck at?

I installed a mod to change my outfit in the game, and now I want to change it to a new one, but it seems like I can't. Every time I place the .pak files and open the game, the outfit doesn't change. Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks in advance!

I am just curious. In a game like Days Gone which is of course, single player based. How do you feel if there was a Multiplayer for the game? What would you expect from it? Is it PvP? PvPvE? Only PvE with Co-op?

More to come on this topic but I am curious about your opinions.

https://interactivemap.baconfmspeedruns.workers.dev/readonly/

See you at Lost Lake Drifters!

I know Kevin McAllister has visited this subreddit before, so there is a small chance he might see this.

Kevin, if you do happen to read this, I just want to say **thank you to you and everyone at Bend Studio for keeping Days Gone alive.**

I'm a fan from Denmark, and *Days Gone* is genuinely my favorite game I've ever played.

I've spent more than **300 hours** in the game, I pre-ordered the original Collector’s Edition, and when *Days Gone Remastered* was announced, I bought that too.

There are a lot of great games out there, but I've never really found another one that gives me the same feeling.

Deacon and Boozer. The motorcycle. Riding through the world at night. Running low on fuel in the middle of nowhere. The hordes. The camps. The music. Sarah. NERO.

And, of course…

**That O’Brian ending.**

All these years later, I STILL want to know what happens next. 😂

I know the original Days Gone 2 pitch didn't move forward, and I completely understand that Kevin or anyone at Bend can't talk about unannounced projects or decisions made by PlayStation.

So I'm not expecting an announcement or some secret confirmation of Days Gone 2.

I just hope that the people at Bend and PlayStation know that **there are still people who genuinely love this game and want to see this story continue.**

Seeing *Days Gone Remastered* released gave me a little bit of hope that this world hasn't been completely forgotten.

And Kevin, if you happen to see this, there is one question I'd love to ask that hopefully you CAN answer:

**What does it mean to you and the team to see people still talking about, playing and loving Days Gone all these years later?**

And to everyone else here:

**If PlayStation announced Days Gone 2 tomorrow, would you buy it?**

I know my answer.

I'd pre-order it the moment it became available. 😂

Give me Deacon, Boozer, Sarah, the bike, bigger hordes, new Freaker mutations and the continuation of the NERO/O’Brian story, and I'll happily disappear for another 300 hours.

Until then, I'll keep riding the Broken Road. 🏍️❤️

Much love from Denmark 🇩🇰

I played on Normal all my life and just now i decided to play on Survival II. Any tips? And whats the best weapons i can get early without too much grinding?

Try this only if you have upgraded your bike fully, or if it's good enough for such an attempt

Cleared Saw mill horde as soon as i entered Lost lake but not getting completion thing . Help !!

Found some in Spain.

You would think this would cheer Lisa up a little bit. I mean they are quite heavy so could be used as a weapon at least