Bend Studio Distances Itself From Former Director After Twitter Rant About Critical Reception - IGN

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Days Gone developer says it doesn’t stock John Garvin’s presumption connected wherefore it was poorly received.

A connection from Bend Studios connected Twitter has addressed the caller outburst from the Days Gone director, who blamed “woke reviewers” for its captious reception.

“We are alert of the comments made by our erstwhile Creative Director connected Days Gone regarding his idiosyncratic presumption connected the captious reception of our intelligence property,” it confirmed. “Bend Studio does not stock his sentiment, nor does it bespeak the views of our team.”

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— Bend Studio (@BendStudio) December 8, 2022

Garvin’s caller Twitter outburst (which has since been deleted) laid the blasted squarely astatine reviewers who “couldn't grip a gruff achromatic biker looking astatine his date's ass”.

Additionally, helium blamed method issues arsenic good arsenic streaming and framework complaint issues.

“Our workplace is immensely arrogant of the enactment we accomplished connected Days Gone and are thankful to each developer who poured their bosom and psyche into it,” continued the studio. “We are incredibly humbled by the enactment of our Days Gone assemblage and we volition proceed to stock your enthusiasm for our satellite and characters arsenic we look toward the future.”

This isn’t the archetypal clip Garvin has expressed immoderate beauteous arguable opinions. In fact, by his ain admission, helium was fired from Bend for being “a disruptive personality”.

Just past year, helium told gamers that if you emotion a game, you should “buy it astatine afloat f**king price. He besides said that radical shouldn’t beryllium upset if they don’t get a sequel to a crippled if they aren’t consenting to wage afloat terms for it.

After departing Bend Studio, Garvin has since teamed up with Michael Mumbauer to motorboat Liithos – a caller workplace that’s presently moving connected a AAA web 3.0 rubric called Ashfall.

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IGN’s ain Days Gone review gave it 6.5/10 and said: “Days Gone feels bloated, similar a movie that goes connected for an hr longer than it needs to oregon should’ve. It’s messy and confused but peppered with genuinely thrilling encounters with rampaging hordes of zombies and occasionally breathless firefights. There’s a bully crippled successful present somewhere, but it’s buried successful a meandering storyline, repetitive missions, and conscionable excessively overmuch obligatory worldly to bash without an oculus connected the smaller details that could person fixed it overmuch much character. Some fine-tuning and editing could person removed the tedium and celebrated what makes this crippled unsocial and interesting, but Days Gone rides strictly down the mediate of the dusty roadworthy and ne'er finds its rhythm.”

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Ryan Leston is an amusement writer and movie professional for IGN. You tin travel him connected Twitter.

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