Bend studio's live service game has been cancelled.

[dprog1995]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-16/sony-cancels-two-more-playstation-projects?

If you don't know, they decided to make a new live service game instead of a new single player game or a sequel to syphon filter/Days Gone.

Hope the rumors about Days Gone remaster turn out to be true.

[Gowron'sCrazyEyes]

rumors of a remaster of a 5 year old game that still looks better than 90% if it's contemporaries? Wow. score.

[dprog1995]

Originally posted by Gowron'sCrazyEyes:

rumors of a remaster of a 5 year old game that still looks better than 90% if it's contemporaries? Wow. score.

1.Now it's becoming a 6 year old game lol.

2.At least a remaster of Days Gone can breath some new life into this franchise that has no sequels for it planned.(they can fix remaining bugs, add some new weapons, QOL improvements, new difficulty settings, ability to slide down the ladders etc)

Yeah, maybe they just go the "lazy" route and just add some ray tracing and upscaling settings to it. But a fan can dream that they actually "improve" the gameplay as well.

[passengerabcd]

If you love the studio, sell it to Sony. If you hate the studio, sell it to Sony. Bend has wasted so much time and resources. Hope it can turn over somehow.

[dprog1995]

Originally posted by passengerabcd:

If you love the studio, sell it to Sony. If you hate the studio, sell it to Sony. Bend has wasted so much time and resources. Hope it can turn over somehow.

Maybe they can reuse some assets and mechanics of that cancelled game for their next game.(some pictures for it were leaked a month ago and that can be used for a new 3rd person shooter game I think)

[WeirdScienceX]

It could do with a remaster to fix the known bugs, improve enemy AI, and there are a lot of textures that look terrible when playing at 4K.

[hatta]

FALLOUT Franchise

FALLOUT 4 2015: I hope so much that nobody accepts FO4 as the final result, and that IMMEDIATELY another developer, for example:
Rockstar Games after GTA6,
or Bend Studio after their "cancelled live service game"
does: a remake reboot technical restart with new state of the art assets.
+ with asset from "Sons of the Forest 2024"
This is how you build a shelter and how you become self-sufficient by building a hot air fryer with a battery and solar panel...


Fallout 5
I see the setting as New Jersey, so beteen New York City and Philadelphia


Fallout 6
I see the setting as Nashville Tennessee


Fallout 7
I see the setting as Chicago Illinois


or ANOTHER quasi FALLOUT Spin-Off. The protaganist is another "Raider".
I see rural oregon with Deacon as completed.
I see a "Days Gone 2" as like "Shadow Man: 2econd Coming 2002", so only negative.


I think that Bend Studio, with a Fallout game, can therefore tell the most interesting topics in contemporary history.
With the metaphors:
- Pip-boy Personal Information Processor
- V.A.TS. Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System
- holotapes tape holography technology, storing their information safely for extended periods of time

- outdoors, translate all the "Raider" languages,
with "itourtranslator" intelligent voice translator glasses, 137-language translation.

- Stunts with TTS self-therapy,
WIN+H, pdf-file, Edge Browser

- scan through all population,
with GoPro Cloud or camera glasses Cloud

-ect.


AND ESPECIALLY:
I hope to get from Bend Studios, which I wish most about a new FALLOUT Game.

For me 1st place: Play time ia a maximum of 60 hours (with Open World explore everything twice as long).
No more 200+ hours of Mannerism over-complicatedness.

For me 2nd place: Narrative design
The "Geisterfahrer" (Wrong-way driving, contraflow driving) protagonist can also understand the non-connoisseur.

[SoulSteppe]

Apparently the cancellation is partly influenced by the failure of Concord.

[dprog1995]

Originally posted by SoulSteppe:

Apparently the cancellation is partly influenced by the failure of Concord.

Lol. And fun fact : Bend studio tried once to make an online focused game and that failed horribly.(Syphon Filter:Omega strain on PS2 which flopped and it ended up turning the next syphon filter games into psp games.)

[Maviba]

Originally posted by dprog1995:

Hope the rumors about Days Gone remaster turn out to be true.

What would you expect from a remaster other than new textures?

Its a remaster, not a remake, and AFAIK it's planned for PS5 only, since the Ps4 graphics look pretty ugly on it now.

PC version however got better textures already and still looks good .
So I don't see any benefit from it.

[WeirdScienceX]

Originally posted by Maviba:

Originally posted by dprog1995:

Hope the rumors about Days Gone remaster turn out to be true.

What would you expect from a remaster other than new textures?

Its a remaster, not a remake, and AFAIK it's planned for PS5 only, since the Ps4 graphics look pretty ugly on it now.

PC version however got better textures already and still looks good .
So I don't see any benefit from it.

Textures at higher resolutions aren't great. It needs fixes as well.

As to it being PS5 only, that wouldn't explain all the activity and a hidden branch being added during Dec/Jan on Steam.

[novi27.hill]

I really hope Bend and Sony see there is a real demand for a Daysgone 2.

[MooP]

Originally posted by SoulSteppe:

Apparently the cancellation is partly influenced by the failure of Concord.

Yep. 100%

Also reason this game didn't get a sequel because of lackluster "day one" sales & bugs that have been improved upon release. Even the creator of the game was very vocal about not getting a sequel. This came at a time when Sony was leaning towards the Last of Us franchise being their main zombie IP seller.

Maybe one-day we might see a sequel, PC sales seemed to help & with Sony shifting away from live service projects because of Concord.

It's a decent game coming from a newer studio with different twist to zombie genre just the story/dialogue between characters appears a 16 year old who likes motorcycles wrote it...

[Vigilence]

A division 2 like gameplay experience but mixed in with days gone would have been a great game.

[dprog1995]

Originally posted by Maviba:

Originally posted by dprog1995:

Hope the rumors about Days Gone remaster turn out to be true.

What would you expect from a remaster other than new textures?

Its a remaster, not a remake, and AFAIK it's planned for PS5 only, since the Ps4 graphics look pretty ugly on it now.

PC version however got better textures already and still looks good .
So I don't see any benefit from it.

They can fix bugs.(The game still has some annoying bugs. One time my game got bugged and it couldn't save my progress. I lost 1-2 hours of progress because of that.)

They can improve the gameplay.(For example adding the ability to slide down the ladders, or allowing you to use bike nitro in camps)

They can also add some new content.(Give us the flamethrower weaponwhich was a cut weapon, extra challenges, extra difficulty settings, extra dialogues/cutscenes, extra missions.)

And if they don't want to ever make a Days Gone 2, they can Change that final O'brian cutscene. and wrap up the story completely which will be a much better way to retire the franchise than leaving it in a cliffhanger.

[Nussy Snake]

You know they can fix bugs, add new content, and improve the gameplay without the need of a Remaster right? It's called a game update. How do you think they would "fix" it for the "Remaster"? I hate how delusional some people are.