Gameplay Expansion Potential
Reasons Days Gone Deserves Sequel
While the gameplay in Days Gone is pretty straightforward, as Decon rides around on his bike, shooting enemies, and sneaking around them to get stealth kills, there is a lot of potential for really cool stuff in it.
The bike opens up possibilities for considerable exploration and cool side stories while expanding the crafting could give Decon even more toys to play with. The biggest thing the sequel could expand on even more, though, are Hordes.
Hordes were definitely the coolest thing in Days Gone, as Decon had to fight off large gatherings of Freakers that would group up together in unison to try and kill him. The game really does this mechanic right in comparison to most other zombie games, grouping hundreds of zombies together instead of a handful to make for a terrifying and exhilarating atmosphere.
As the game progresses, though, the mechanics of Hordes becomes a bit easy to figure out, as fights simply become a matter of kiting the group around the area multiple times until you’ve killed them all.
A sequel could help fix these problems thanks to the evolution of the Freakers mentioned at the end of the game. New Hordes could be more intelligent, causing Decon to come up with different ideas to take them down instead of simply running around in circles.
Days Gone 2 could also tweak the groups’ sizes as well, pushing just a bit more quality over quantity to solve the monotony that can come with fighting such a large group.
