I’ve been slowly plugging away at days gone on the back burner for the longest time and I’ve finally finished it! I tried this game a couple years ago and gave up early in because I got stuck on an annoying mission. A while later I decided to give it another shot, but this time slowly and taking breaks to play other games as well. Definitely a mixed bag overall. Way less buggy than when it first launched, but has some performance hiccups here and there still. The combat is fine, it does the job. It has a few too many systems imo. Like its systems are as wide as a lake and as deep as a puddle. So, I really think it would’ve benefitted from some simplification. What’s really cool about the gameplay is the motorcycle riding and exploration are actually really fun and the best part of the game. The hoards are also pretty impressive. It definitely feels like a lot of energy went into making these work. The music is generic MCU orchestral music. There’s really no reason the music needed to be like this. I honestly really didn’t like the story at all. No shade to people who like it, but I can’t stand the most famous game based in Oregon is filled with Redneck bikers. Yes people like this exist in Oregon, but it’s really not the Oregon I know. The dialogues in my humble opinion is dogshit and I hate it. I get it was inspired by sons of anarchy, but redneck biker shit is literally the lamest thing ever. You could’ve made something else so much cooler with a motorcycle. Example being akira. It’s an apocalyptic story with a guy who rides a bike and it’s sick! This is not. Also stuff with rednecks can work look at the red dead games! They have great writing and dialogue as opposed to this game. I hate the relationship he has with that one lady too! Also he helps slaver camps! It doesn’t feel like a critique on slavery either. He just helps them and earns money and sure Oregon just put the final nail on the coffin with slavery in our state legislation and like 42% of the population wanted to not pass it, but I digress. So, I don’t know if I made it clear, but I live in the town this game was made in. Which is why I really wanted to give this game a chance. I figured I owed it that. They tried to base it off of central Oregon specifically and it’s pretty well made, but it’s a bit of a hit and a miss. There’s a couple of noteworthy landmarks from the area, but they literally removed the city and surrounding towns that exist in this area. In a lot of ways it f La more like eastern Oregon in the fact that there’s nothing there. Some of the geography is pretty inaccurate. Like mt. Bachelor is not that close to crater lake. Also central Oregon has more sunny days than San Diego so, there really isn’t that much rain. The valley and the coast which is like 1/3 of the state get a lot of rain, but central Oregon really doesn’t. This game has lots of rain tho. I feel like they were vaguely basing the world off the state rather than being accurate and why do that? Either make it fictional or try to be 100% accurate imo anyways a bit overhated, but has its flaws especially for me and my biggest problem is I just hate the story, dialogue and characters a lot. That being said please try this game out. You might like it and it’s worth giving it a shot to see if it’s for you or not.