Bend Studio has been a first-party developer for Sony since 2000 and is known for its work on the Days Gone franchise.
Bluepoint Games was acquired by Sony in 2021 as a first-party studio focused on developing remasters and remakes including Uncharted, God of War, and Demon Souls.
So remasters are one thing, but Days Gone, wasn't that the game that people kinda forgot about but turned out to be good?
This might be more the after effects of Concord and are now scared of doing live service. I wouldn't be surprised if there are moves in the background as both Concord and the actions that kneecapped Helldivers 2 probably got some knives out behind the scenes.
Days Gone wasn't great but it was alright for what it was. If you didn't find the premise offputting (Biker culture) it was a pretty passable as an open worldish zombie game. It was a great rental type game that unfortunately came out after rental culture died.
It unfortunately suffered heavily for coming out at the end of "cringe culture" too, so people pulled the scene of the wedding which is intentionally filled with bad jokes between a couple who love each other, and then meme'd on it endlessly as "peak cringe."
I didn't get super far into it because the upgrading/customizing your bike thing didn't hook me much (same with the Mad Max game), but yeah it was obvious they were scared to portray actual bikers with all their wrongthink and instead went with some really progressive facsimile.
The same thing happened in GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned. The Lost are a super-progressive, inclusive group with Latinxs, Blacks, gays, and even run by a Jewish guy! Meanwhile the bad bikers are all huwytemans.
So remasters are one thing, but Days Gone, wasn't that the game that people kinda forgot about but turned out to be good?
This might be more the after effects of Concord and are now scared of doing live service. I wouldn't be surprised if there are moves in the background as both Concord and the actions that kneecapped Helldivers 2 probably got some knives out behind the scenes.
Days Gone wasn't great but it was alright for what it was. If you didn't find the premise offputting (Biker culture) it was a pretty passable as an open worldish zombie game. It was a great rental type game that unfortunately came out after rental culture died.
It unfortunately suffered heavily for coming out at the end of "cringe culture" too, so people pulled the scene of the wedding which is intentionally filled with bad jokes between a couple who love each other, and then meme'd on it endlessly as "peak cringe."
I enjoyed the gameplay of days gone but couldn't help but laugh that the biker gang was super progressive.
I didn't get super far into it because the upgrading/customizing your bike thing didn't hook me much (same with the Mad Max game), but yeah it was obvious they were scared to portray actual bikers with all their wrongthink and instead went with some really progressive facsimile.
The same thing happened in GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned. The Lost are a super-progressive, inclusive group with Latinxs, Blacks, gays, and even run by a Jewish guy! Meanwhile the bad bikers are all huwytemans.