Days Gone wasn't great but it was alright for what it was. If you didn't find the premise offputting (Biker culture) it was a pretty passable as an open worldish zombie game. It was a great rental type game that unfortunately came out after rental culture died.
It unfortunately suffered heavily for coming out at the end of "cringe culture" too, so people pulled the scene of the wedding which is intentionally filled with bad jokes between a couple who love each other, and then meme'd on it endlessly as "peak cringe."
I didn't get super far into it because the upgrading/customizing your bike thing didn't hook me much (same with the Mad Max game), but yeah it was obvious they were scared to portray actual bikers with all their wrongthink and instead went with some really progressive facsimile.
The same thing happened in GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned. The Lost are a super-progressive, inclusive group with Latinxs, Blacks, gays, and even run by a Jewish guy! Meanwhile the bad bikers are all huwytemans.
Writers these days cannot deny that many of these groups are really fuckin' cool, but refuse to actually portray these ideas with anything approaching reality. So they put on the trappings of them and create an alternate reality about them.
So you end up with Progressive Biker Gangs, serial killers like Dexter, and slasher villains like Chuckie who are super pro-gay.
Days Gone wasn't great but it was alright for what it was. If you didn't find the premise offputting (Biker culture) it was a pretty passable as an open worldish zombie game. It was a great rental type game that unfortunately came out after rental culture died.
It unfortunately suffered heavily for coming out at the end of "cringe culture" too, so people pulled the scene of the wedding which is intentionally filled with bad jokes between a couple who love each other, and then meme'd on it endlessly as "peak cringe."
I enjoyed the gameplay of days gone but couldn't help but laugh that the biker gang was super progressive.
I didn't get super far into it because the upgrading/customizing your bike thing didn't hook me much (same with the Mad Max game), but yeah it was obvious they were scared to portray actual bikers with all their wrongthink and instead went with some really progressive facsimile.
The same thing happened in GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned. The Lost are a super-progressive, inclusive group with Latinxs, Blacks, gays, and even run by a Jewish guy! Meanwhile the bad bikers are all huwytemans.
Writers these days cannot deny that many of these groups are really fuckin' cool, but refuse to actually portray these ideas with anything approaching reality. So they put on the trappings of them and create an alternate reality about them.
So you end up with Progressive Biker Gangs, serial killers like Dexter, and slasher villains like Chuckie who are super pro-gay.