Days Gone
Days Gone was no stranger to delays during the late stages of its development cycle, and one of its last delays came in the eleventh hour.
Following a lengthy stretch of development starting in 2015, the PlayStation 4 exclusive was set for a Feb 2019 release until October of 2018 when the game was delayed to Apr 22, 2019.
It was a bummer for those who had been waiting for the game, but given its ambitious premise of allowing players to wander a post-zombie outbreak open world via motorcycle, it was understandable there would be technical kinks to work out.
Likewise, the game followed a string of successful PS4 exclusive releases by Sony’s developers, raising the bar for what Days Gone would have to achieve.
How it Turned Out: While the extra development time most likely contributed to a cleaner, less buggy experience overall, the game itself wasn’t quite the masterpiece it needed to be to stand toe-to-toe with Sony’s other exclusives.
Most of this was due to the design elements of the game. While the size and scope of Days Gone’s world were certainly impressive, traversing across it to do repetitive quests and side missions wore on players quickly.
This was worsened by the game’s length, which critics and players saw as padding to elongate the game’s runtime.
Still though, it managed to provide a solid enough open world action title for those who had the patience to wait out its final delay.
