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New PS4 Exclusive Days Gone Goes Gold

It is finished.

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After years of development, Sony Bend has completed production of the new PS4 exclusive zombie game Days Gone. In a post on Twitter, Sony Bend confirmed that the game had reached "gold" status, meaning the team has finished development of the project.

With the game completed, it can now be sent to manufacturers for mass production. In the middle of the shot you can see a developer holding what could be the "gold" master disc.

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Days Gone puts you into the boots of a biker named Deacon St. John, a bounty hunter who travels around the apocalypse on his bike. He fights against zombie-like creatures known as Freakers, among other enemies.

GameSpot's Edmond Tran and Alessandro Fillari recently played the game, and came away with the impression that the game feels familiar--but that might not be a bad thing. For more, you can check out GameSpot's interview with Days Gone's creative director John Garvin and game director Jeff Ross.

Days Gone launches on April 26 exclusively for PS4.

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Greatest game ever!!

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Great. Now they can get started on the day 1 patch.

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so does anyone actually expect this to be good

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Sony going to release their first flop in a long time, so I'll give them a pass on this... Microsoft however haven't released anything worthwhile this Gen, and Nintendo are always hit and miss. So it has been an impressive Gen for Sony since abut 2015, the first couple years they didn't have much, but they really picked up the pace.

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I'm not scared of this sucking im prepared for it to..

Something different then a Skill Tree & campaign is needed..

Think FOB mode in MetalGearSolid V & how you could redo campaign missions or do FOB missions

for the XP & loot needed to unlock higher tier weapons/gear etc...

Something that makes the grind worth it aside from just getting to the end..

*And something to do when said protagonist is jacked w/ skills..

I hate it when you get all uber & quality of life w/ gameplay peaks only for the game to end..

And then DLC doesn't continue w/ main leveled character, it is a separate scenario. ugh!

Crackdown,,,Anthem & Fallout sucking has my hope nerfed.

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Says "game is complete and Finished"

20GB Day-One Patch on launch

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This game has an interesting premise, the surging wave like horde of Zombies is unlike anything I've seen before. Don't know much about it outside of that, some really creepy Zombie designs.

Sony exclusives seem to be gold right now, so I'm sure it will do well.

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I really want that game to be good and do well but i get a bad feeling about this.

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@eli150: Me too Eli me too...

*It's because the video Game market/world is lacking quality..

New IP's that are homeruns like DeadRising-1 & maybe DyingLight are rare and few & far...

I do have waay more faith in games releasing on PlayStation vs Xbox...

Seems like Xbox lacks the same quality control as Sony from it's exclusives...

Sea Of Thieves & Crackdown and State of Decay 2 we're absolute crap..Unfinished & rushed..

**State of Decay/UndeadLabs did nothing for 5 years leading up to SOD2..

Same w/ Crackdown & Sea O Thieves..these games we're in development for years.

Over 5 years and all suffer from lack of content..

**I think of MetalGearSolid V & the whole FOB/weapon/item upgrade aspect..

The game coulda released without that but it woulda been bland..

Seems the publishers/Devs lost interest in achieving greatness vs achieving success...

LahooSahers

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@sippio: We can only hope it turns out as good as we want it to be

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Zombies. Ergo, I will never own or play this game. Enough with the zombie crap. It's nothing but lazy, idea-less, innovation-stifling trash.

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Take a close look at that picture. Just imagine how many families are depending on this game to do well. Almost a decade in development. That guy is not just holding a disc; literally he has their future in his hand. Hope Bend is still around after this

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@lina_baby_doll:

I feel sorry for them, they have probably worked really hard on this. However the previews haven't been very positive and if they are anything to go by, I can see this struggling.

They made a really good Vita uncharted game mind, so fingers crossed

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@barcaazul: I've actually seen the opposite. The majority of previews I have read seem positive with the common theme being there isn't exactly anything ground breaking but the game does suck you in and you have a good time. I don't see this as being a candidate for struggling at all.

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@RicanV:

That's interesting, guess I will wait for reviews to get a broader picture then

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This does nothing for me...

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@chubby170: Alot of people seem to say this. Yet I bet they played Ubisoft games year after year with no complaints...lol

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@willowvale75: For many of us, it's the zombie BS. We absolutely hate it and what it does to gaming.

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This or Rage 2 hmmm (and no I cant get both, need to chill after Sekiro and DMC5)

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I thought gone gold was related to sales or preorders

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@captainwonton:

Well it used to mean a game was ready to be pressed into CD/DVD. Means less now due to day one patches and digital sales.

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Sweet. Now they can start working on that 85GB Day One Patch.

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@jpme226: Those smiles are meant to conceal the great suffering of this realization. Think of all that plastic, unfit even as paperweight! ?

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About time! :) What you waiting for get the game to market already!

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I'm very excited since the gameplay footage released a while back. If they've managed to add to that and perfect it, it might just be amazing...

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Gruff stuff.

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Its gotta suck to do payroll for 200 people for almost a decade with no product produced.

That said, I hope the game does well. If it doesn't, this studio's getting shut down faster than Evolution.

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7/10. Typical B grade open world game.

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@srfilk86: Faith/morale in new games is very low..

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@srfilk86: So what? If ubisoft does it every year, why can't someone else borrow ideas and make their own game. Maybe I want to ride around on my bike, killin zombies. :)

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@srfilk86: You haven't played the game at all, yet you know it's a typical grade b open world and even set a rating of 7/10 for it. Seems legit. The definition of 'baseless opinion' right here lol...

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@livedreamplay: Do you also trot out the same line for those who are predicting 9/10 scores?

Or is it just that they've only predicted a 7/10

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@TTDog: Isn't a 9/10 or 10/10 rating just as unfounded considering you haven't played the game for 1 minute?

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@srfilk86: It looks pretty typical, yeah. Nothing from pre-release material has seemed to stand out, as far as I remember.

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