Ross left Bend Studio, the studio behind Days Gone, back in December 2020, alongside creative director John Garvin. But the critics…yeah, that was Normandy Beach.”

“Days Gone has sold more copies than every game the studio has ever made combined,' Ross said regarding the reception of Days Gone. 'So it’s successful in that way, and the community and player response. While he couldn't confirm or deny any cancelation, he heavily implied it with the connotation that the first game reportedly didn't generate the profit Sony wanted to see to merit a sequel. However, he couldn't confirm verbatim of any cancelation due to a Non-Disclosure Agreement (also known as an NDA). No matter what side of the reactionary spectrum you fall on, Days Gone director Jeff Ross recently opened up about what could have been, including what the Days Gone 2 pitch looked like.ĭuring a live stream with former God of War director David Jaffe, Ross confirmed recent reports by Bloomberg that Days Gone 2 was officially pitched to Sony. Some heralded the open-world zombie game as a masterpiece, while others lauded it as a drawn-out adventure that offered a mediocre experience rooted in a genre we've seen a thousand times before. These hordes also gave the open world a significant feeling of danger when they exist-and it feels a lot safer when they’re gone.When Days Gone first released on the PlayStation 4, it was one of those incredibly divisive titles when it came down to critics and peer review. Despite this, the roaming hordes of Days Gone were one of my absolute favorite parts of the game. I mean, I’m not one for gruesome violence for its own sake, but there are so many references to people getting torn apart by hordes, just watching them knock people down to death was disappointing. In fact, if you are overrun by a horde of freakers, or you pull a bunch of freakers into an enemy’s camp (one of my favorite things to do) no one gets torn apart at all.

In fact, the in-lore recordings have people describing the hordes climbing over each other and tearing people apart, much like World War Z style zombies, even though that actually doesn’t happen in-game. Some hordes only have a few dozen freakers in them, but other, larger hordes remind me of something out of World War Z. The freakers move in hordes, and one of my favorite late-game activities was hunting down every horde and eliminating them.

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