Hopefully this elaboration on my original post will sate you.
I am quite astonished by this game's high ranking on an online anticipation poll, as it seemed very forgettable and dare I say uninspired to me from the very first trailer. It quickly vanished from my memory and did not return until the subject was once again raised in this thread title. As a result of my finding the game so unremarkable, I am likely to swiftly forget about it once again upon the conclusion of making this post.
Try to understand or appreciate things from outside your own subjective bubble. The game is not really any more or less inspired than something like Super Smash Bros Ultimate or Dragon Quest XI, yet you were super excited for and really enjoy both the latter and wouldn't find it astonishing that many others would also be excited for those games. Just as you or I might be excited to play the 20th largely derivative JRPG, some might also be excited to play the 10th largely derivative zombie game.
Saying that, as far as zombies go, there are things Days Gone is doing that are fairly interesting or unique in the genre, eg the high intensity and AI massive zombie hordes, zombie bears and crows, upgradeable bike and huge scale, traversable landscapes etc.
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