Despite their lengthy runtimes and checklist-like progression systems, there always seems to be an appetite for more open-world games. Be it fantasy RPGs, expansive spacefaring sci-fi stories, or crime dramas with a hint of satire mixed in (okay, maybe more than a hint), this genre never seems to lose its appeal.
However, sometimes there are open-world games that no one wanted in the first place. That doesn't mean they're bad, or bad ideas, but they either missed the boat on their subject matter's popularity, misadvertised themselves, or simply didn't settle on a target audience ahead of time. That's exactly what happened with these next games, and it's a damn shame, because they're all fantastic and well worth a playthrough.
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There was a huge zombie craze that took over pop culture in the late-2000s and early-2010s, largely coinciding with the first few seasons of The Walking Dead and some other notable properties. However, it died out around 2014, and while zombies still had their appeal, it wasn't anything close to what it was. So when Days Gone was announced and promoted with little more than Sam Witwer and the game's patented horde technology—where massive hordes of zombies could appear in-game all at once—people were a bit confused, and mostly uninterested.
Even after some mixed critical reception, word of mouth quickly caught on that Days Gone is actually something pretty special. It was, frankly, a huge surprise. Between the tired zombie formula and the overly-macho main character, few people expected this to be a hit. What they expected even less was that Days Gone's story would have so much heart, that its world would feel so full of life, and that it would present such an interesting and unusual take on the zombie apocalypse. These days, pretty much anyone who's played Days Gone loves it, which was not at all the expectation leading up to its launch.
There were a lot of things working against Sunset Overdrive. It was coming from Insomniac Games, but it wasn't a Resistance or Ratchet & Clank game, which left a lot of people feeling disappointed. It was an Xbox exclusive, even though Insomniac was traditionally a PlayStation studio. Worst of all, it looked like Saints Row was put through a PG-13 filter and had all its absurdity removed, and that just wasn't appealing to anyone.
To be fair, I'm still not sure if Sunset Overdrive has gotten the praise it deserves, because it really is a blast. In many ways, this was Insomniac's proof of concept for Marvel's Spider-Man. The movement and traversal mechanics are top-tier, and the studio's penchant for "weird guns" that dates all the way back to the first Ratchet & Clank is on display again here. It's not genre-defining or anything—the story is pretty bare-bones—but it is a hell of a good time.
To be clear, a lot of people wanted an open-world horror game with Twin Peaks vibes and some solid scares. What people didn't want (at least initially) was the B-movie absurdist slasher satire that Deadly Premonition turned out to be. Many felt that the game's marketing was a bait and switch, and when coupled with some serious technical issues, the game's launch did not go well at all.
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