Days Gone 2 would've featured a "shared universe with co-op play" says former game director - hamiltondageter

The director of Years Gone Jeff Betsy Ross has opened up on reports from late last week that a sequel to the open-world living dead adventure was indeed in the idea stage before his departure, but couldn't confirm the fate of the project.

Speaking to fellow former Sony stamp and God of War creator Jacques Louis David Jaffe on the latter's livestreamed podcast (as written by Video Games Chronicle) Ross said that development studio apartment Sony Bend's pitch included "the musical theme of a shared universe with cooperative play" — and, interestingly enough, was something the team had considered for the first crippled.

"We wanted co-op from the beginning [in Days Foregone], only manifestly you give birth to make concessions for what you're not going to represent able to do. It would've been a secondary mode if we'd have done it in the first one, or even in another one. I wouldn't have complicated the main narrative… because that's really what we're well behaved at. That was the strength of the prototypal title, thusly build on that and make IT better."

"Just then take this humankind that you've built, and all these assets and systems, and repurpose them for some kinda likewise themed multiplayer version of this universe. So [it] would be with guys the likes of Deacon trying to come through, edifice up a clubhouse or a crew. I remember it would be fun to be in that world cooperatively and realize what horde battles could Be like."

However, on the self-satisfied of the report itself which alledged the project had been rejected by Sony, Ross couldn't give much in the way of confirmation receivable to NDAs — though He did retweet the author of that report following his interview with Jaffe. Helium also denied that Bend was being positioned as a support studio to Risque Dog on their rumoured, unexpected multiplayer project, but was unable to confirm or traverse whether the Days At rest sequel was off aside Sony or non.

He did however, also state that his departure in December of last year was not related to the status of Days Away 2, saying "It had nothing to do with the status of the sequel Oregon anything else that the studio apartment was doing. IT just kind of got pertinent where I realised that I'd peaked and I was probably non going to go any further."

It looks American Samoa though for now, Days Gone will remain a one and only-and done. The game is currently visible on PS Plus this month on PlayStation 4, and we by all odds reccomend you receive on it if you haven't already.

Thanks to everyone who attended the podcast with Jaffe. I wish I could deliver been more forthright with some questions. Scarce retrieve @jasonschreier is a diarist who takes his slyness seriously. And he has the luxury of being able to be more trusty than I'm allowed. https://t.co/MCbvItFwvs

— Jeff Betsy Griscom Ros (@JakeRocket) April 11, 2021