Days Gone Devs Wanted to Make an Open World Resistance Game

During a chat with God of War's David Jaffe, Days Gone Game Manager Jeff Ross mentions that he would have loved to have worked on an open-world Resistance game.

Even though Days Gone was released in April 2009, the post-apocalyptic championship is never as well far from the gaming news headlines. When the game by Bend Studio was initially released, quite a lot of critics didn't take also kindly to it which meant low review scores, pain the press coverage of the championship.

Coming in for another chat with David Jaffe, best known for his contribution to the Twisted Metallic and God of War franchises, Days Gone devs Jeff Ross and John Garvin gave an open and frank account almost their criticism from management at the time and also how an open up-world Resistance game pitch was turned down.

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According to Ross, the local management studio wasn't interested in developing Days Gone 2 just did mention Syphon Filter. Ross, for good reasons, declined that pitch stating "I've zip ideas on how to reboot Syphon Filter".

"Are there whatsoever other IPs that we have that we can utilise? And the simply 1 we had was Syphon Filter. But honestly, I have nothing ideas on how to reboot Syphon Filter, I was not interested in that at all. The pitch I was making was open-world Resistance (which) would be f**rex rad." replied Ross.

Ross continued "All these open-world loops that we figured out. Information technology virtually wrote itself with Resistance or so many aspects of that belongings that lends itself to open-world gameplay. They weren't interested in that either, and I don't know how well it sold. They were interested in nigh anything but a Days Gone 2."

Ross quoted a tweet on Jan 5 regarding Ghost of Tsushima's 8 one thousand thousand copies sold success which spurred on the discussion in question with Jaffe. In the tweet, Ross mentions how Days Gone had sold viii million copies worldwide in just 19 months, despite the fact Sony chiefs had given his team the impression the game wasn't a success which, naturally, felt like a kick in the teeth to Jeff.

At the fourth dimension I left Sony, Days Gone had been out for a year and a half (and a calendar month), and sold over 8 meg copies. It's since gone on to sell more than, and and so a meg+ on Steam. Local studio management e'er fabricated us feel similar information technology was a big thwarting. #daysgone #PlayStation https://t.co/KMZr2pGe9r
— Jeff Ross (@JakeRocket) January 5, 2022

Although it seems extremely unlikely given everything nosotros've heard, Ross replied on Twitter when asked if there would always be aDays Gone sequel, "won't happen someday soon" only that fans should never say never.

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