The drama-filled saga of The Day Before continues with Early Access bugs and negative Steam reviews

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“Quality content draws eyeballs. So do car crashes.”

lol

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Project zomboid is just fine

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Zombie media is trash in general. If you’re a shit writer, zombies are for you. Not surprised when that’s the main selling point.

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There’s a ton of quality zombie media, the subject has nothing to do with the quality of the authors.

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The best ones are more about the human stories.

Chaotic Entropy
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They seem pretty late to the party.

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Zombies are just a sauce on top of the storytelling. Something is not bad just because it has tropes you recognize from other bad things.

Good Zombie Games are aplenty: Left 4 Dead Project Zomboid 7 Days To Die Plants Vs Zombies Day Z State of Decay (ish)

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Agreed but zombies make it too easy for shit writing to succeed. Zombies are slow, fast, smart, brainless, loud, quiet, strong, weak, all at the plot’s convenience.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedant

It was actually a format issue with lemmy. My comment had line breaks after each game name, like a list, but the format didn’t keep. Now get off me nuts

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I almost clicked the buy button, glad I didn’t.

ShadowRam
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Most-Hyped?

Since when?

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It was the most wishlisted game on Steam for almost a year. It was the second most wishlisted at the time of launch.

It’s all very sus, probably inflated by bots

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Which is interesting because I literally have not heard of it before today.

And looking at the current list, I know about the 6 current top wishlisted games.

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The game is “The Day Before”

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I guess a zombie game where you play the 24 hours before patient zero gets sick, like an evil medicine lab simulator who got a 24 hour deadline to produce the first viable zombie or get shut down by the evil investors

R0cket_M00se
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The day before refund.

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First I’ve heard of it lol

Echo Dot
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Yeah well just because you haven’t heard of it and no one’s heard of it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t hyped, It just means it wasn’t typed very effectively.

I accidentally heard about it a month ago and watched a bunch of videos about the studio and the game. Pretty interesting, and i was really looking forward to see how bad it is. I was kinda surprised how big the following of the game is, and most people i know have no idea that the game exists

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222Y

Being called a dumpster fire is being very generous.

BruceTwarzen
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I watched just some gameplay, and it’s still better than i expected. So that’s a plus i guess.

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102Y

9800 reviews so far and only 15% positive

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Why is it “Steam’s”? The article is as bad as the game supposedly is.

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Because it was allegedly the most wishlisted game on steam at one point

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The ‘hype’ was the amount of Steam wishlists it got being insanely high. It’s all very sus, probably inflated by bot accounts

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SwiggitySwole
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I know a handful of people who thought it looked like an impending disaster and gave it a wishlist so they could see the early negative reviews pour in

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Huh, so turns out the game does exist - though it seems it shouldn’t

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