Analog and D-Pad One-Shot #49 (Patreon)

Well 'Days Gone' is a bit of a bummer. It can be fun and interesting, but only for maybe five hours or so. The bit showed off in the E3 demos, the massive hordes of "Freakers" is still pretty cool, and the game's best/most unique feature, but they're actually few and far between. Otherwise I found the game mostly leans hard into some old open-world content treadmills like "communities" that are just chore farms, repetitive missions just in different locations (like EVERY generator thingy in the state has had its fuses removed for some reason), and the need to just collect tons of shit ("scrap" and whatever).

It's not BAD, but it's quite a few steps from great, too.