From USA Today: "“The Walking Dead meets Sons of Anarchy” – that was the original pitch for Days Gone, according to game director Jeff Ross.
“Where The Walking Dead had a great influence on us was the prison season,” he tells FTW. “They’re homesteading within this massively protected fence and boundary. I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s what I would do.’ You want to be secure, go to the secure facilities. I was like, ‘Wow, this is a lived-in world. These guys live here and then they go beyond the gates to find stuff and run into all kinds of trouble.’ There’s a loop there. That’s gameplay. There’s an overworld.”
Seriously another article about this.
Jess ross honestlys needs to move on from this.
He made a decent game which just wasnt well liked or that special.
Sony isnt in the business of just decent, so yea paur the decent game with lukewarm reception, no sequal is understandable.
Dont think to many of us are shedding a tear over it.
Hopefully bend knocks it out of the park with their next game.
Generally games that aren’t financially successful don’t get sequels. Days Gone didn’t perform well enough for Sony to green light and fund a follow up title. Despite, a former director stating Days Gone sold more than Ghost of Tsushima. His methods of estimating sales where flawed, and the sales number he gave were likely inflated.
I highly doubt Days Gone sold more than Ghost of Tsushima. Hence Sony never publicly announced sales figures for Days Gone, unlike their other successful titles (GoW, Horizon and Ghosts).
Sony, knows how well Days Gone performed. As I stated earlier Sony, based on their confidential data, doesn’t consider Days gone to be title that warrants a sequel.
Bend Studio is working on a new IP of their own choice and design. I'm sure it will be better than Days Gone given there is fresh blood at the helm. The writing and characters of Days Gone you could tell were written by someone who thought Road House was the peak of Cinema.
I hate sequels to open-world games. GTA pulls it off by changing the setting drastically, and spacing the sequels out with an immense amount of development time.
I’d prefer to see the studio tackle another IP. Personally, I think Sony could use more sci-fi and multiplayer exclusives. I’d love to see Bend spend 5 years on a new multiplayer or sci-fi IP, and then give us Days Gone 2 at the end of the PS5’s lifecycle. I’d love to see their hordes on ps5 once they understand how to tap into the hardware.
the guy doesn’t seem to be able to move on.