History VideoGame / DaysGone

* ApocalypseHow: A Planetary Societal Collapse as the majority of humans either died or mutated into "Freakers" that left the few surviving humans into communities of make-shift camps.

** In fact, you will often see Freakers attack other types of Freakers. If they are not part of the same group, they will most likely be fighting one another.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Deacon and Sarah's rather strange wedding, with Deacon in his normal biker outfit while she's in a wedding dress and the tongue-in-cheek line "promise to ride me as much as you ride your bike", is actually accurate to weddings in biker culture.

*** Much subtler is Addy's request for a Liston Knife after Deacon and Boozer arrive at Lost Lake camp. Addy mentions it was a tool for operations in the days before modern medicine, most specifically gaining infamy during the American Civil War. What she does not say is that it [[spoiler:was specifically used for amputations]].

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Parodied. In the past Deacon told Sarah that his gang got some black guys to join solely to tick off a rival biker gang who were skinheads. He later admits he was teasing her when she asked if he was being serious.

* HopelessSuitor: It is clear that Jezzy (Copeland Camp Ear Counter) and Blair (Lost Lake Gun Merchant) have crushes on Deacon, with the latter practically ''gushing'' over him every time he approaches her stall. And later on, [[spoiler: Rikki]] develops an attraction to him. But Deacon is still ss focused on his [[spoiler: thought to have been]] deceased wife that he can't move on with any of them.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n95IaELdWDU E3 2016 Announcement Trailer]]

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGej8K1r8KI E3 2016 Gameplay Demo]]

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uED22JERB8 E3 2017 Gameplay Trailer]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: At the end of the game, despite spending the last third finding Sarah and rescuing her, she just vanishes from the game with only some NPC dialogue about her here and there. It became such an issue among gamer complaints that Patch 1.60 made it so she can now be found in Lost Lake sitting next to Boozer.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: At the end of the game, despite spending the last third finding Sarah and rescuing her, she just vanishes from the game with only some NPC Dialogue about her here and there. It became such an issue among gamer complaints that Patch 1.60 made it so she can now be found in Lost Lake sitting next to Boozer.]]

** If you listen to some dialogue when sneaking into Lost Lake, one of the campers mentions Abby's brother. However he is never brought up again.

* RagnarökProofing: Despite not having anyone to do maintenance or repairs for two straight years and hosting nests of freakers, the hydroelectric dam at Little Bear Lake is apparently in perfect working order and just needs its intakes cleared in order to start producing electricity again.

* BlackHelicopter: NERO personnel travel in black helicopters.
* BookEnds: The same place you start the playable portion of the game is also where the story ends: when you complete every other chapter of the story, you get a new mission that takes you back to the Pioneer Cemetery. Also with a cut scene ending with Deacon watching [[spoiler:O'Brian flying off in a Helicopter, like he did the night society collapsed and though he lost Sarah.]]

* HopelessSuitor: It is clear that Jezzy (Copeland Camp Ear Counter) and Blair (Lost Lake Gun Merchant) have crushes on Deacon, [[spoiler: as well as Rikki]], but he still is focused on his [[spoiler: thought to have been]] deceased wife.

* LoveTriangle: Teased, but ultimately goes undeveloped. Rikki and Addy are in a relationship, which Rikki openly states she doesn't view as a serious commitment. About halfway through the game, after spending the day with Deacon doing various missions with him, she makes a pass at him (quipping "It's not like I'm married"). He rebuffs the advance. Addy briefly seems suspicious later of the time the two of them spend together, but it never goes any further than that. Rikki for her part realizes she's more committed to Addy than she thought after [[spoiler:the Ripper assault on Lost Lake]].

* EarlyGameHell: You start out with what could be best described as a Pea Shooters that needs a full clip to kill a Freaker especially in the harder difficulties settings (unless it's a head shot) and [[ATasteOfPower your bike is scrapped]], leaving you with a replacement that breaks down in any collision and has a tiny gas tank constantly making you seek out scrap and fuel. That's also not including your health and stamina being very low as well as being unable to hold many supplies or ammo. It isn't until close to halfway through the game do you start to get any decent fire power, equipment on the bike, some NERO mods to give you extra health and stamina and upgrades that allow you to carry more stuff to take on the Freaks.

** Anytime you are near nests, there is bound to be crafting materials nearby to make a molotov.

** Throughout the game you hear about the Deschutes County Militia during the outbreak, how they tried to destroy caves to stop the Freakers from coming in as well as a random radio broadcast about a group under attack. This all foreshadows when you have to deal with them when you head to Crator Lake.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Deacon has found Sarah and got O'Brian to give them an air lift out of the Milita Camp. Only for at that exact moment Colonel Garrett to arrive showing the new recruits the Ark, and one of those recruits being Skizzo. The Milita then scare off O'Brian's chopper and Skizzo falsely claims that Deacon is a criminal to get him executed.]]

* LoveTriangle: Teased, but ultimately goes undeveloped. Rikki and Addy are in a relationship, which Rikki openly states she doesn't view as a serious commitment. About halfway through the game, after spending the day with Deacon doing various missions with him, she makes a pass at him (quipping "It's not like I'm married"). He rebuffs the advance. Addy briefly seems suspicious later of the time the two of them spend together, but it never goes any further than that. Rikki for her part realizes she's more commited to Addy than she thought after [[spoiler:the Ripper assault on Lost Lake]].

* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler: After Deacon joined the Milita and found Sarah, on one of their runs Deacon comments how odd it is with how serious they play military with protocol and ranks. Sarah states she felt the same way with Deacon's biker gang with the titles they gave each other. Deacon admits that she has a point.]]

* RememberTheNewGuy: [[spoiler: Inverted as you are the new guy in the Milita Camp, however several officers you rescue will act like they have known you for quite some time.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Deacon just happened to come across Rikki trying to teach Addy how to ride a bike. It is this moment that has Deacon remember the time he was also trying to teach his, at the time, fiancé how to ride a bike as well. [[spoiler: Only for him to remember that the place she worked at required government clearance, something O'Brian claimed were one of the only groups of people evacuated from the camp. This leads to him getting information about where she was and finding her at Wizard Island.]]

''Days Gone'' is an open world action-adventure survival horror video game released on 26 April 2019 by [[Creator/SonyBend SIE Bend Studio]] for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, with a PC port released two years later on May 17, 2021. It is the first intellectual property created by SIE Bend Studio since ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' in 1999 and the first home console game developed by the studio since ''VideoGame/SyphonFilterLogansShadow'' in 2010. Unreal Engine 4 was used for the game development.

!!Days Gone contains tropes such as:

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: After Deacon joined the Milita and found Sarah, on one of their runs Deacon comments how odd it is with how serious they play military with protocol and ranks. Sarah states she felt the same way with Deacon's biker gang with the titles they gave each other. Deacon admits that she has a point.]]

** The Rock Chuck is ostesively based on the AAC Honey Badger, but with an MLOK handguard similar to its successor, the Q Honey Badger.

''Days Gone'' is an open world action-adventure survival horror video game released on 26 April 2019 by [[Creator/SonyBend SIE Bend Studio]] for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, with a PC port released two years later on May 17, 2021. It is the first intellectual property created by SIE Bend Studio since ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' in 1999 and the first home console game developed by the studio since ''VideoGame/SyphonFilterLogansShadow'' in 2010. Unreal Engine 4 is being used for the game development.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Third degree burns is a serious injury that doesn't heal on its own and requires more than just rest and treating it with bandage. [[spoiler:Without proper treatment, Boozer's burned arm becomes septic and had to be amputated]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: Skizzo, who constantly antagonizes Deacon and bullied his fellow survivors, is very skeptical of Iron Mike's peace treaty with the Rippers, who are completely insane and the very least likely of all people to honor the treaty. Deacon does agreed and shared with Skizzo's sentiment, but he doesn't agreed with Skizzo's idea to "solve" the treaty issue by usurping Iron Mike's leadership.

** The [=US556=] is based on the [=M4A1=] Block II

** The Rock Chuck is based on the AAC Honey Badger.

* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler: When Deacon tries to infiltrate the Militia as a recruit, during the induction ceremony the Colonel speaks disapprovingly of one of the recruit's prison tattoos (including facial markings indicating the number of murders she's committed) and orders her to be sent to the work camp as a laborer. The Colonel moves on to Deacon and take a long look at his many tattoos... and reveals he immediately recognized them as military tattoos, engaging in some friendly banter about his service and warmly welcoming him to the Militia.]]