Days Gone Not Getting A Sequel Was Studio Bends Decision, The Game Was Cancelled Internally Before A Pitch Could Ever Reach Sony, Despite Selling Over 9 Million Units Days Gone Wasn’t Seen As A Success Within The Studio
Days Gone Not Getting A Sequel Was Studio Bends Decision, The Game Was Cancelled Internally Before A Pitch Could Ever Reach Sony, Despite Selling Over 9 Million Units Days Gone Wasn’t Seen As A Success Within The Studio
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This is some of the most unhinged Tweeting we’ve seen from a game director. I like Days Gone fine but this is not like when Kojima got pushed out of Konami, effectively ending the MGS series. Days Gone was not some icon of gaming. It was a pretty good (after being patched to fix the bugs) open world zombie games with a neat gimmick, The character of Deek was…mostly okay. The tech for the Freaker hordes was pretty awesome. It probably should have gotten a sequel but it didn’t. That happens a lot.
I understand why the game director is upset about this and how it affected his career, but these are issues he should talk about with a therapist or close friends and family, not in public. The public, by and large, doesn’t care about Days Gone. Deek showing up in Astro Bot was a nice little nod to the character. It’s about the same amount of attention as Crash Bandicoot got, and that character was absolutely foundational to PlayStation. It’s not an insult or slight in any way. Calling Astro Bot a “little game” when it will likely outsell Days Gone is a very bad look. Why is he attacking other teams who have done great work?
Someone who loves him needs to delete Twitter from his phone and get him into therapy immediately.
I really liked Days Gone, would have liked a sequel too but this is getting weird
Seriously?After selling 9 million, they still didn’t see it as a success?That’s wild!Maybe their expectations were sky-high or something.
Whoever directed the cutscenes sucked. They were the only real “bad part” of the game. Cutscene script writer is a very close second. The hordes and the bike make this game more fun to play than GoT and HZD. All of em are 7/10 yet this one gets shit on because of the writing. GoTs and HZDs were just as wooden and just as bad.
Capitalizing Every Word In A Headline Makes It Harder To Parse What It Is Saying
After release the writers were like “damn that game was pretty cringe, let’s not do it again”
That’s nuts! 9 million and not a success?! The only thing I can think of is complete delusion from the managers at Bends thinking they’d have GTA V numbers. The game is awesome and deserved a sequel but honestly, with this kind of thoughts inside the team maybe it was for the best not having a sequel.
I liked Days Gone, but I’ve been turned off the game a little by the director. He comes across as such a bitter, self-obsessed little man with a massive chip on his shoulder. I read that he was all upset about Days Gone being referenced in Astro Bot, but it’s a Sony IP, and they can do what they want with it.
He needs to jus shut up and move on.
The nerve of this guy to say his character was used to PROMOTE Astro Bot. Bruh I read the article and already forgot his characters name. His game was honestly forgettable and even more so his character.
If anything, he should be thanking Sony and Team Asobi for putting the character in Astro Bot. It’s more promotion for Dayz Gone than the other way around.
I mean it was mid and riding two trends (biker gangs and zombos) that were already getting mighty stale by the time the first game came out.
In what world do we live in?? 9 million units and not a success? Dead space got cancelled for 2 million.
Gavin’s turning into a tweeting Jaffe.. dudes so unhinged and has lost his marbles about Days Gone.. it’s quite sad..
Holy shit guys we don’t care. Let’s move on.
Damn, I didn’t realize it sold that much. Sad that’s considered ” bad “. I really enjoyed it.
Game director seems like a massive egotist and also asshole, so not surprised
The game was pretty mid,just another open world zombie with tons of repetitive missions,and the story was meh,not a big loss.
This is crazy since the director was placing all of the blame on Sony at the beginning lmao
The first game was terrible and did not deserve any sequel or recognition
Sony isnt known for making good decisions
Why? Days gone took some time to get fun but it deserved a sequel that wrinkled out all it’s fault. Also it really needed a different protagonist. Someone who went to charisma school.