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Days Gone 2: What’s Happening With The Sequel?
16.04.2024 - 18:45 / fortressofsolitude.co.za / Sony
If you’re a PlayStation fan, you’ve probably heard about Days Gone. And if you’ve played the open-world survival game, you’re probably wondering why there hasn’t been a Days Gone 2 yet. Well, you’re not alone. A petition for a sequel launched in 2021 now has close to 250,000 signatures. Sadly, Sony still hasn’t greenlit Days Gone 2.
Days Gone is an action-packed zombie adventure game that was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment and developed by Bend Studio. It was the gaming company’s first open-world game as well as the first game they had released for home consoles since 2007 — when they gave the world Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow.
The game was inspired by several popular shows and movies of the time, such as Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead, and World War Z. It follows the protagonist, Deacon St. John, previously an outlaw, now a drifter and a mercenary, as he travels through a post-apocalyptic Oregon looking for his wife Sarah, whom he had assumed was dead.
Upon initial release back in 2019, Days Gone actually did really well, but with so many in the gaming community (critiques and players alike) complaining about various things in the game — from the poor story to the extensive bugs (which is usually expected in the first-time release of a game) to the repetitiveness of game missions — the love and support for action-adventure zombie title very quickly decreased. There was still some praise for the brilliant graphics and amazing voice acting done by Sam Witwer (who did the voice and motion capture for Deacon) and others, but that did nothing to quell the many negative reviews.
However, despite the negative response, Days Gone still managed to become one of Bend Studio’s best-selling titles, with over 8 million copies of the game since having been sold. In 2019, it sold more than any of the studio’s previous games and became the 19th best-selling game in the US, the 8th best-selling game of the year, and, at launch in Japan, it far exceeded the launch sales figures of both God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn.
All of that, combined with the many awards won by the game and the secret ending during the credits, had fans assuming that there was going to be a Days Gone 2 despite its critical reception. Let’s take a look at why that doesn’t look to be the case.
Everyone in the gaming community had something to say about Sony Bend’s open-world zombie game, and not many of them were positive.
The most frustrating thing for a lot of players was the technical problems throughout Days Gone. They had to deal with plenty, from audio not syncing with the movement of the character or, at times, completely dropping out during cut scenes to graphics that were unable to keep up with the speed at which the
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