Another day, another Days Gone article. The director of the original game, Jeff Ross — who left Sony Bend at the end of 2020 — can't stop sharing details surrounding the developer itself, management, and the scrapped plans for a sequel at the moment. After sharing some fairly unreliable stats on how Days Gone sold, he has now appeared in an interview with USA Today detailing his pitch for the rejected Days Gone 2.
Ross saw his plans for a sequel as the "definitive version" where he "didn’t have to necessarily apologize for so much". The follow-up would have explored protagonist Deacon St. John's relationship with his wife Sarah and their dynamics; Ross remarks they may not be happy together. "Well, what can we do with that? Okay, we were married before the apocalypse, but what about the future?" Days Gone 2 would have kept the heavy focus on narrative as well as the bike, but the tone would expand to a bigger scale.